We're An American Band

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
A feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight

Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, "Come on dudes, let's get it on!"
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

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We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band (whooo)
We're an American band (whooo)
We're an American band (whooo)

There Is a Bed

There is a bed where I can end my days
And think about the roads I've run the miles I've come
There is a bed where troubles melt away
My lonely hours or hours with you
The times that we've come through

There is a bed where we shared times of love
And out of love those nights are memories best forgot
We argued about trivial things
And slept apart a wall we built among the sheets

There is a bed where sickness left its touch
And fever damped the sheets where I would shake all night
Cold burning on my brow
Hallucinations here and now
A fight to live or die

There is a bed where first we both made love
And left the marks, reminders of how good it felt
The hard, the soft, the sweat in midnight's hour
We built the fort, we climbed the tower

There is a bed where years will make us wise
Truth and lies defeat, despise and forgiving
The sheets our cradle birth to death
The twists and turns of love, the life we're living

There is bed where nights I lay awake
To think about my future to forget my past
My bed a boat to sail the seas
To land where safety finds me gripping to the mast

And though I feel the years slip through my fingers
Sorrow lingers and won't go away
There is a bed that is my sanctuary
A bed where I can end my days

The Yard Went on Forever

Is everybody safe?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody warm inside?

Hear them singing
All the women of pompeii
Standing with the kansas city housewives in doorways
In volcanoes and tornadoes on doomsday

De profundis clamavi ad te domine
Donae nobis pacem
[out of the deep have i cried to you, lord
Grant us peace.]

There were houses, there were hoses
There were sprinklers on the lawn
There was an ironing board
And she would stand and made her understand him
And ask the children what they'd done at school that day
And the yard went on forever

There were blouses with print roses, checkered shirts and white levis
There was a frying pan and she would cook their dreams while they were dreaming
And later she would send them out to play
And the yard went on forever

Is everybody safe?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody warm inside?

Hear them singing
All the women of pompeii
Standing with the nagasaki housewives in doorways
In eruptions and destructions on doomsday

De profundis clamavi ad te domine
Donae nobis pacem

Crestfallen

Who am I to need you when I'm down?
Where are you when I need you around?
Your life is not your own

And all I ask you
Is for another chance
Another way around you
To live by circumstance, once again

Who am I to need you now?
To ask you why, to tell you no
To deserve your love and sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me

And you may go, but I know you won't leave
Too many years built into memories
Your life is not your own

Who am I to need you now?
To ask you why, to tell you no
To deserve your love and sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me

Who am I to you?
Along the way
I lost my faith

And as you were, you'll be again
To mold like clay, to break like dirt
To tear me up in your sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me
You were never meant to belong to me
You were never meant to belong to me

Who am I?

Work Song

Just a Little Loving

(Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil)
Dusty Springfield - 1969
Carmen McRae - 1970
Barbra Streisand - 1971
Barbara Lea & Keith Ingham - 1996
Dianne Reeves - 1997

Just a little lovin', early in the mornin'
Beats a cup of coffee for startin' off the day.
Just a little lovin', when the world is yawnin',
Makes you wake up feelin' good things are coming your way

This old world wouldn't be half as bad,
It wouldn't be half as sad,
If each and ev'rybody in it had
Just a little lovin', early in the mornin'
A little extra somethin' to kinda see them through.
Nothin' turns the day on, really gets it dawnin',
Like a little bit of lovin'
From some lovin' someone like you.

This old world wouldn't be half as bad,
It wouldn't be half as sad,
If each and ev'ry body in it had
Just a little lovin', early in the mornin'
A little extra somethin' to kinda see them through.
Nothin' turns the day on, really gets it dawnin',
Like a little bit of lovin'
From some lovin' someone like you.

Just a little lovin', early in the mornin'

Paris at 21

Paris in 21, at 21
Paris in 21, at 21
Paris in 21, at 21
Sweet mirrored illusions,
Keeping on rolling along
Between the past and the present
All that's felt in an old song
Then lovers were younger than i
They never let their chance go by
They believed what we would call a lie
(chorus)
Would have been there
But i wasn' born
Would have had the time of my life
Would have sinned there
'cause that's when sin
Was cheating on your wife
Not like today, it's all, o.k., olé, olé
Sweet mirrored illusions
On an old mirrored bed
In a hotel in paris
Wishing time wasn't dead
Took a train instead of speed
Took colette and proust to read let down my guard and made friends with loy reed
(repeat chorus)
Paris in 21, at 21
Paris in 21, at 21
Sweet mirrored illusions
They all end here
Some settle for champagne
Some hunger for beer
Boats sail for distant shores
You always want what isn't yours
Off to see the wizard because
Because, just because
Because would have been there
But i wasn't born
Would have had the time of my life
Would have sinned there
'cause that's when sin was cheating on your wife
Would have been there, but i wasn't born
Would have been the toast of the town
Would have sinned there
'cause that's when sin was...

Rise

I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday

My love
Wherever you are
Whatever you are
Don't lose faith
I know it's gonna happen someday
To you
Please wait
Please wait

Wait
Don't lose faith

You say that the day
Just never arrives
And it's never seemed so far away
Still I know it's gonna happen someday
To you
Please wait
Don't lose faith

I Want You But I Don't Need You

I like you, and I'd like you to like me to like you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to want me to like you
Because if you didn't like me
I would still like you, you see
La la la
La la la

I lick you, I like you to like me to lick you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to like me to lick you
If your pleasure turned into pain
I would still lick for my personal gain
La la la
La la la

I fuck you, and I love you to love me to fuck you
But I don't fucking need you
Don't need you to need me to fuck you
If you need me to need you to fuck
That fucks everything up
La la la
La la la

I want you, and I want you to want me to want you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to need me to need you
That's just me
So take me or leave me
But please don't need me
Don't need me to need you to need me
Cos we're here one minute, the next we're dead
So love me and leave me
But try not to need me
Enough said
I want you, but I don't need you

La la la
La la la

I love you, and I love how you love how I love you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to love me to love you
If your love changed into hate
Would my love have been a mistake?
La la la
La la la

So I'm gonna leave you, and I'd like you to leave me to leave you
But lover believe me, it isn't because I don't need you (you know I don't need you)
All I wanted was to be wanted
But you're drowning me deep in your need to be needed
La la la
La la la la la la la la la

I want you, and I want you to want me to want you
But I don't need you
Don't need you to need me to need you
That's just me
So take me or leave me
But please don't need me
Don't need me to need you to need me
Cos we're here one minute, the next we're dead
So love me and leave me
But try not to need me
Enough said
I want you, but I don't need you