Take Your Flunky and Dangle

Would you like to see me do my best impression?

of animated dreams and understated self-expression?

Isn't it just enough to know that he was there?

Since when did sincerity get you anywhere?

Would you like to hear another explanation

of elevated love and phantom degradationA man like me, never likes to plead

Tell me anything, everything you needWhen I fill in the colorsfill in the colors

You can see the wayyou always looked to meWhen I fill in the colors

fill in the colorsYou'll only seewhat I want to let you seePull down the sheet

that keeps you on your sideI'll paint your faceif you really want to hide

When I fill in the colorsfill in the colorsYou can see the way

you always looked to meWhen I fill in the colorsfill in the colors

You'll only seewhat I want to let you see

The lion and the monkeywere walking through the jungle

till the light they were seekingwasn't there no more, hey-hey hey-hey!

The monkey said:"Leo we're a team that's right"The lion licked his chops

and then he set to bite, hey-heyhey-heyIt's all been said before

I don't take it as gospel no moreThe lady and the lover

were talking to each otherwith satin kissesand candy corn, hey-hey,hey-hey

Five years laterthere's pain and resentmentand a stony silence

about as thick as mud, hey-heyhey-heyIt's all been said before

I don't take it as gospel no moreMe and the governorwere talking with each other

about the power of one manto change the world, hey-heyhey-heyTwo months later

I was taken by surprisewhen the governor put his vote on the other side, hey-hey

hey-heyIt's all been said beforeI don't take it as gospel no moreno more

I don't take it no more

Recognition stains your eyesMy, it's funny how time fliesMaybe it's the liquor

and nothing but a flickerHow's my little girl?Is it really better now?

underneath the lines,underneath the sighs,underneath the curls

How's my little girl?Make the mark in borrowed timewords can soften any crime

never mind the scandalsthe lotions or the candlesAh, How's my little girl?

Is it really better now?underneath the lines,underneath the signs,

underneath the curlsHow's my little girl?And there's nothing in your eyes

And there's nothing,well, there's nothing you can hide

yeah, there's nothing you can hideah, there's nothing you can hide

yeah, there's nothing you can hideyou know there's nothing you can hide anymore

The temptation of a second lookto take back the chances that you took

But maybe if for liquor,but nothing could be quickerNow, how's my little girl?

is it really better now?underneath the lines,underneath the signs,

underneath the curlsHow's my little girl?Is it really better now?

underneath the lines,underneath the signs,underneath the curls

How's my little girl?

She is too strong to take any shitto weak to give it outNever ever saw her cry

and never made her shoutSo it turned into a lifetimewhat started as a phase

We sit calmly and quiet alone and in lovewaiting and counting the days

Her father was a dockworker my father drank and fought

She searched for something betterand that's just what we got

Though we still see "On the Waterfront"everytime it plays

We sit calmly and quiet alone and in lovewaiting and counting the days

Counting the daysCounting the daysCounting the daysCounting the days

As she thinks of the futureI dream of the pastLate at night we dream aloud

until the die is castConspirators, combatantsoh let me count the ways

We sit calmly and quiet alone and in lovewaiting and counting the days

We sit calmly and quiet alone and in lovewaiting and counting the days

We sit calmly and quiet on the verge of a riotwaiting and counting the days

Somebody slammed on the table to say we was finished

Well, that was alright 'cause our good sense had long since diminished

And everyone was blind from staring way down past their noses

The old times were swinging again, the subject was roses

The newspaper man said you're crazy to let it go sour

He said I was singing your praises last night in the shower

But a fool is a fool when he starts believing his poses

The glasses were drained again, the subject was rosestwo-three-four

He reached for his wallet and started to show me a picture

I reached for my bible and started to read from "Scripture"

Yeah, but he didn't laugh, I guess I stepped on his toe-ses

The peak was passing us by, the subject was rosesand they say:

A fool and his money soon got to say goodbye

But a drunk and his memories splits when he starts getting high 

There's nothing to worry from the past when you get right down to it

You'll do what you do and you do so you just got to do it

and I'll do whatever the situation proposes

and I'll call it a night the next time the subject is roses

Yeah, I'll call it a night the next time the subject is roses

Yeah, I'll call it a night the next time the subject is roses

Are you still telling people you're better off dead?

Well, I don't know what to say, that hasn't already been said

You say you're beaten and I don't doubt itWhy do you still wanna talk about it?

I know you're not stupid, I know you're not blind

You were brought to your knees, till you started to doubt your own mind

I'm not above suspicion, confusion nor derision

But if you come a little closer to my heart honey

I'll tell you what I'm dreaming of.

The darkness that fell on your eyes, it comes back to me now

And the scars that you show, I realize they seem to mark me somehow

I'm not above suspicion, confusion nor derision

But if you come a little closer to my heart honey

I'll tell you what I'm dreaming of

But if you come a little closer to my heart honey

I'll tell you what I'm dreaming of

I'm not above suspicion, confusion nor derision

But if you come a little closer to my heart honey

I'll tell you what I'm dreaming of

But if you come a little closer to my heart honey

I'll tell you what I'm dreaming of

But if you come a little, come little closer …

Johnny 'whooped' and threw up his hands

and said it doesn't get much better than thisJaney found a tarnished heart

and threw me a desparate kissAnd I was trying every lock

to try to find a key that would fitI grabbed my hat, picked up my shoes

collected everything I could use

and I made my way out alive with the Woodshed Blues

Johnny kneeled and measured his feetfor the idiot's hall of fame

Janey shined a tarnished heartand told Cupid to take game

and I raised a toast to Peggy Lee'cause there had to be more to this game

I grabbed my hat, picked up my shoescollected everything I could use

and I made my way out alive with the Woodshed Blues

I grabbed my hat, picked up my shoescollected everything I could use

and I made my way out alive with the Woodshed BluesJohnny finally got a clue

and he headed far around the bendand Janey put away her heart

and moved in with a very good friendand I put my toes in the water

and I jumped back in againI got my hat, picked up my shoes

collected everything I could use

and I made my way out alive with the Woodshed Blues

Joe Louis, Gene Tonney,hard knocks, easy moneytook 2 million to take a dive

and Las Vegas paid out eleven to fiveJerry Cooney, Sonny Liston

wasn't firing on every pistontook five and threw in the towel

and another wrong taken from ValhallaGo down, go down, go down, go down

Go down, go down, go downain't no mistaking, everybody's taking a dive

Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin,the line judge wasn't all that charming

took 2 million to fall downand Las Vegas set the word all over town

Go down, go down, go down, go downGo down, go down, go down 

ain't no mistaking, everybody's taking a diveJoe Louis, Gene Tonney,

hard knocks, easy moneytook 2 million to take a dive

and la la la la la Las Vegas paid a million to five

Go down, go down, go down, go downGo down, go down, go down, go down

ain't no mistaking, everybody's taking a divewalking home ah ha ha ha

He shacked up with a girl that he met down at the AA

She used to be a dancer by the San Francisco Bay

Shaking and grinding for 27 dollars a day

and he shacked up with a girl that he met down at the AA

Every night they're fighting the neighbours just sit and pray

Waiting for the day when they finally move away

The landlord doesn't care, the cops have little to say

and he shacked up with a girl that he met down at the AA

No no no, no one wants to die, no one wants to fade away

He thinks of all the things that he can't recall today

The silence is deafening, the walls have nothing to say

just him and the girl that he met down at the AA

He shacked up with a girl that he met down at the AA

She used to be a dancer by the San Francisco Bay

Now she was shaking and grinding for 27 dollars a day

He shacked up with a girl that he met down at the AAHey heyna na na na na

I said: my my, hey hey, my my, hey hey, my my, the AA

I know it's time for leavingI don't wanna look in your eyes

You say: "I never noticed you anyway"So it should come as no surprise

I can hear you leaveI guess it's alrightYou say that I got no heart

but it only comes at nightThey say, don't know what you have

Today it ain't what you've gotThey say I'll find out how much I miss you

But you know that I'd rather notNow it's time for leavingIt's gonna be alright

You say that I got no heartbut it only comes at night

You say I'll never find anotherto love me like you do

But what good is some kind of loverWho would do, do those things to you?

Don't go by that doorI'll get it myselfsoon as you're leaving

is replaced by someone elseI don't wanna see youdon't turn on the lights

You say that I never saw anythingbut it only comes out at night