FIFTY FIFTY
I’m holding on to what I’ve got
I’ll take the pain and dodge the shots
I’ll kick the pricks, I’m fighting back
I’m gonna shake that monkey off my back

There’s no remorse, there’s no regrets
So step right up and place your bets
Fifty fifty’s half a chance so come on down and join the dance

I’m going to sell it to you straight, sometimes baby all you need is hate
Love is real it won’t fade away but sometimes there’s another way

Without the rock, there is no roll
Without the funk you’re gonna lose your soul
So keep on banging on that door cos you know what you’re fighting for

Give me a boogie tune and a guitar lick
A rockabilly boom and a bass drum kick
Turn it up now hit the floor, let’s move it like a dinosaur

LET IT ROCK
Everybody loves a little rock and roll
everybody wants to get it on
It’s the closest thing to heaven when the radio
Is blasting out your favorite song

Let it rock, let it roll, let it rock
You gotta feel it in your heart and soul

Doctor boogie said to sister jive
Where the hell did you spring from?
Little sister said mister just shut up and drive
I think we’re gonna get along

Down down, you know you got to break it
Down down, no need to complicate it
Down down, everybody shake it now pick it up and turn it around

I’m sick to death of hearing that synth pop funk
Cos you trashed it with some plastic soul (oh yeah)
Zip it up, kick it out, stick it with the junk
Now hit me with some rock & roll…

SHE’S TOO TOUGH (FOR THE BOYS)
She don’t need no alibi, she got a rock ‘n roll heart
Maybe that’s the reason why, she’s trouble from the start
She’s too tough, she’s too tough
She’s too tough for the boys

She used to be a runaway, she played a rebel song
Till someone took her gun away, so she made a cherry bomb
She’s too tough, she’s too tough
She’s too tough for the boys

She’s like the sound of distant thunder
Here comes the flood and you’re going under

She’s too tough for the boys, kickin up a hell of a noise
With her rock-chick swagger and poise
She’s too tough for the boys

She loves rock n roll, ain’t that a fact
If her reputation takes its toll, well she likes it like that
She’s too tough, she’s too tough
She’s too tough for the boys

BRIGHTER DAY
I’m gonna stop messing around
Put my feet right back on the ground
Tune in but don’t drop out
I’m gonna say what I want
And I’ll tell you what I’m talking about

You see I don’t care what they say
Nobody’s ever gonna get in the way
Of my dreams but I know all my schemes
Won’t ever come to nothing
If they’re falling apart at the seams…
Like my old blue jeans

I’m just waiting for a brighter day
When they put me in the water and wash my sins away
I’m just waiting for a brighter day
They’re gonna put me in the water and wash my sins away
They’re gonna put me in the holy water, holy water
Holy water,cover me

Now I’m in way too deep
You gotta sow the seeds before you can reap
You know I’m right when I say
The tide is turning and it’s turning to a brighter day

I’m gonna pop my suit, dust my broom
A change is coming and I think it’s gonna get here soon
I don’t know how or when but
I know it’s coming cos I got that crazy feeling again
Can I get an amen?

Holy water’s gonna wash my sins away

FRANKENSTEIN
I’m your creature, your main feature
Bound with leather, stitched together again
Frankenstein

Please don’t hurt me, don’t desert me
I’ll be there for you, my soul laid bare for you now
Frankenstein

Hear the dead talk, boots of lead walk
Nowhere to hide, where is my bride?

She recoils from me, needs psychotherapy
I’m a freak not a man, was this part of your plan?
Frankenstein

There’s one way out, no room for doubt
You gave me life, now pay the price
Frankenstein.

I’M CRYIN’
You trip me up, you run around
You’re breakin my heart all over town
And I’m cryin, I’m cryin

I can’t believe, the things you do
You promised me that you’d be true
I’m cryin, I’m cryin

Tears may come and tears may go
But I don’t want the world to know
I’m cryin, I’m cryin

You took my name, you stole my heart
And then you ripped my mind apart
And I’m cryin, I’m cryin

There’s some things baby I just can’t take
My heart was true, your love was fake
And I’m cryin, I’m cryin

Sometimes when I look at you
I see the girl I thought I knew
And I’m cryin, I’m cryin

I know that time will heal this wound
But underneath this bebop moon
I’m cryin, I’m cryin

If you keep on playin’ those games you play
You just might lose yourself one day
So long baby maybe see you around
I’m gonna pick myself up off the ground
And stop cryin, stop cryin – oh but I can’t stop!

BACKS AGAINST THE WALL
You know, I know, this goddamn universe is dying
Deep down I hear the sound of mother nature crying
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground

Inside my head black visions tearing up my mind
One day, someday, we have to pay for all these crimes
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground

We’ve been misled, now retribution is gonna fall
Don’t care what you read, we got our backs against the wall
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground
Too late to turn around, earth ship has gone to ground
It’s too late, can’t turn around, earth ship has gone to ground
There’s a new age coming round, earth ship has gone to ground

BRAND NEW SHOES
Baby got the blues
I said I’d take her down town to buy some brand new shoes
Then I bought her a hat
A platinum ring and a Siamese cat
I got down on my knees, I said won’t you please
Marry me baby, don’t you be such a tease
Because for once in my life I think I’m in love
And you were sent to me from heaven up above
But she put on that new pair of shoes
And walked out on me
Yeah she put on that new pair of shoes
And walked out on me

So baby got the blues
She lost my loving but she kept those shoes
Cos everybody knows, you need a nice place to keep your toes
And they were made from the finest lizard skin
Hand stitched and everything
They cost me a fortune oh man you wouldn’t believe
But now I’ll never again wear my heart on my sleeve
I bought her a new pair of shoes
She walked out on me
Yeah I bought her a new pair of shoes
She walked out on me

I think I mentioned they were made from the finest lizard’s skin
Pointed toes that were sharper than a pin
A diamond studded leather clasp, two inch heels and since you ask
They cost me so much I even lost my soul
And all I’ve got left is my rock & roll…
I bought her a new pair of shoes
She walked out on me
Yeah I bought her a new pair of shoes
She walked out on me

So if your baby gets the blues
Don’t take her down town to buy some brand new shoes
You can buy her a hat, a platinum ring or a Siamese cat
Buy her some exotic lingerie
Make sure that you ain’t got the devil to pay
You could go to a movie or a trip to the zoo
Maybe a candle-lit dinner but whatever you do…
Don’t ever by your baby a new pair of shoes
Cos you know what’ll happen – she’ll walk out on you.
(Oh yes she will…)

ANNABELLA
Winter mists are forming round me
Rising from the surface of the sea
A ghostly shape in the evening twilight
Crawling from the shadows of my dreams
And it seems like she’s calling me, seems like she’s there
It seems like she’s calling me home

Annabella stands before me, shrouded in the colours of the dark
Caught between two worlds she hovers, moonlight frames her body like an arc
And it seems like she’s calling me, seems like she’s there
It seems like she’s calling me home

Annabella, Annabella
It seems like she’s calling me home.

Should I stay here should I join her, should I take her hand to lead me on?
Filled with fear and indecision, suddenly I look – Annabella’s gone

Annabella, Annabella
It seems like she’s calling me home.

MY DREAMS DON’T KNOW YOU’RE GONE
My friends they ask me how I’m doing, do I sleep okay at night?
Or do I wake up weeping, blindly reaching for the light?
I don’t miss you in the night time, though you’re far away from home
I sleep alright without you, cos my dreams don’t know you’re gone

I see a shadow in the basement but the moon is rising high
I can see your face reflected on the stars up in the sky
And I know there’ll be another day so I’m sending you this song
And I’ll sleep alright without you, cos my dreams don’t know you’re gone

And now our song is sadly over, though the melody remains
But in the depths of winter, spring must once more take the reigns
I never wanted you to go but still you slipped away
I sleep all right without you but I miss you every day