Exile On Main Street

I hear you talking when I'm on the street, 

your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak. 

What's the matter with the boy? 

He don't come around no more, 

is he checking out for sure? 

Is he gonna close the door on me? 



And I'm always hearing voices on the street, 

I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak. 

I was making love last night 

to a dancer friend of mine. 

I can't seem to stay in step, 

'cause she come ev'ry time that she pirouettes over me. 



And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, 

I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping. 



I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed. 

Plug in, flush out and fire the fuckin feed. 

Heading for the overload, 

splattered on the dusty road, 

kick me like you've kicked before, 

I can't even feel the pain no more. 



But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, 

I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping. 



Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene. 

Feel so mesmerized all that inside me. 

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. 

Chasing shadows moonlight mystery. 

Headed for the overload, 

splattered on the dirty road, 

kick me like you've kicked before, 

I can't even feel the pain no more. 



But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, 

I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping.

Mama says yes, Papa says no, 

make up you mind 'cause I gotta go. 

I'm gonna raise hell at the Union Hall, 

drive myself right over the wall. 



Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, 

round and round and round we go. 

Roll this joint, gonna get down low, 

start my starter, gonna stop the show. 

Oh, yeah! 



Mister President, Mister Immigration Man, 

let me in, sweetie, to your fair land. 

I'm Tampa bound and Memphis too, 

Short Fat Fanny is on the loose. 

Dig that sound on the radio, 

then slip it right across into Buffalo. 

Dick and Pat in ole D.C., 

well they're gonna hold some shit for me. 



Ying yang, you're my thing, 

oh, now, baby, won't you hear me sing. 

Flip Flop, fit to drop, 

come on baby, won't you let it rock? 



Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! 

From San Jose down to Santa Fe, 

kiss me quick, baby, won'tcha make my day. 

Down to New Orleans with the Dixie Dean, 

'cross to Dallas, Texas and the Butter Queen. 



Rip this joint, gonna rip yours too, 

some brand new steps and some weight to lose. 

Gonna roll this joint, gonna get down low, 

round and round and round we'll go. 



Wham, Bham, Birmingham, Alabam' don't give a damn. 

Little Rock fit to drop. 

Ah, let it rock.

I wanna tell you 'bout a dance 

that's goin' around 

everybody's doin' it 

from the grownups down 

Don't move your head 

don't move your hands 

don't move your lips 

just shake your hips 

Do the hip shake, babe 

do the hip shake, babe 

shake your hip, babe 

shake your hip, babe 



What you don't know 

don't be afraid 

just listen to me 

and do what I say 

Don't move your head 

don't move your hands 

don't move your lips 

just shake your hips 

Do the hip shake, babe 

do the hip shake, babe 

shake your hip, babe 

shake your hip, babe 

well ain't that easy 



Well, I met a little girl 

in a country town 

she said, "What do you know 

there's Slim Harpo!" 

Didn't move her head 

didn't move her hands 

didn't move her lips 

just shook her hips 

Do the hip shake, babe 

do the hip shake, babe 

shake your hip, babe 

shake your hip, babe 

well ain't that easy

No good, can't speak, wound up, no sleep 

Sky diver insider her, skip rope, stunt flyer 

Wounded lover, got no time on hand 

One last cycle, thrill freak Uncle Sam 

Pause for bus'ness, hope you'll understand 

Judge and jury walk out hand in hand 

Dietrich movies, close up boogies 

kissing cunt in Cannes 



Grotesque music, million dollar sad 

Got no tactics, got no time on hand 

Left shoe shuffle, right shoe muffle 

sinking in the sand 

Fade out freedom, steaming heat on 

Watch that hat in black 

Finger twitching, got no time on hand

People think I'm crazy, they're always tryin' to waste me 

make me burn the candle right down, 

but baby, baby, I don't need no jewels in my crown. 

'Cause all you wimen is low down gamblers, 

cheatin' like I don't know how, 

but baby, baby, there's fever in the funk house now. 

This low down bitchin' got my poor feet a itchin', 

don't you know that duece's stay wild. 



Baby, I can't stay, you got to roll me 

and call me the tumblin' dice. 



Always in a hurry, you never stop to worry, 

don't you see the time flashin' by. 

Honey, got no money, 

I'm all sixes and sevens and nines. 

Say now, baby, I'm a rank outsider, 

you can be my partner in crime. 



But baby, I can't stay, 

you got to roll me and call me the tumblin', 

roll me and call me the tumblin' dice. 



Oh, my, my, my, I'm the lone crap shooter, 

playin' the field ev'ry night. 



Baby, can't stay, 

you got to roll me and call me the tumblin' , 

roll me and call me the tumblin' dice. 

Got to roll me. Got to roll me.

Wading through the waste stormy winter 

And there's not a friend to help you through 

Trying to stop the waves behind your eyeballs 

Drop your reds drop your greens and blues 



Thank you for your wine, California 

Thank you for your sweet and bitter fruits 

Yes, I've got the desert in my toenail 

And hid the speed inside my shoe 



But come on come on down Sweet Virginia 

Come on honey child I beg of you 



Come on come on down you got it in you 

Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes

Hey let him follow you down, 

way underground wind and he's bound. 

Bound to follow you down, 

just a dead beat right off the street. 

Bound to follow you down. 

Well the ballrooms and smelly bordellos 

and dressing rooms filled with parasites. 

On stage the band has got problems, 

they're a bag of nerves on first nights. 

He ain't tied down to no home town, 

yeah, and he thought he was wreckless. 

You think he's bad, he thinks you're mad, 

yeah, and the guitar player gets restless. 



And his coat is torn and frayed, 

it's seen much better days. 

Just as long as the guitar plays 

let it steal your heart away, 

let it steal your heart away. 



Joe's got a cough, sounds kind a rough, 

yeah, and the codeine to fix it. 

Doctor prescribes, drug store supplies, 

who's gonna help him to kick it? 



Well his coat is torn and frayed, 

it`s seen much better days. 

Just as long as the guitar plays 

let it steal your heart away, 

let it steal your heart away

Got a sweet black angel, 

got a pin up girl, 

got a sweet black angel, 

up upon my wall. 

Well, she ain't no singer 

and she ain't no star, 

but she sure talk good, 

and she move so fast. 

But the gal in danger, 

yeah, de gal in chains, 

but she keep on pushin', 

would ya take her place? 

She countin' up de minutes, 

she countin' up de days, 

She's a sweet black angel, woh, 

not a sweet black slave. 

Ten little niggers 

sittin' on de wall, 

her borthers been a fallin', 

fallin' one by one. 

For a judges murder 

in a judges court, 

now de judge he gonna judge her 

for all dat he's worth. 

Well de gal in danger, 

de gal in chains, 

but she keep on pushin' 

would you do the same? 

She countin' up de minutes, 

she countin' up de days, 

she's a sweet black angel, 

not a gun toting teacher, 

not a Red lovin' school mom, 

ain't someone gonna free her, 

free de sweet black slave, 

free de sweet black slave.

I'm the man on the mountain, come on up 

I'm the plowman in the valley with a face full of mud 

Yes, I'm fumbling and I know my car don't start 

Yes, I'm stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar 



Give me little drink from your loving cup 

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk 



I'm the man who walks the hillside in the sweet summer sun 

I'm the man that brings you roses when you ain't got none 

Well I can run and jump and fish, but I won't fight you 

if you want to push and pull with me all night 



Give me little drink from you loving cup 

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk 



I feel so humble with you tonight, 

just sitting in front of the fire 

See your face dancing in the flame, 

feel your mouth kissing me again, 

what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz, 

what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz 

Oh, what a beautiful buzz, what a beautiful buzz 



Yes, I am nitty gritty and my shirt's all torn, 

but I would love to spill the beans with you till dawn 



Give me little drink from you loving cup 

Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk

Well, I never kept a dollar past sunset 

It always burned a hole in my pants 

Never made a school mama happy 

Never blew a second chance, oh no! 



I need a love to keep me happy 

I need a love to keep me happy 

Baby, baby keep me happy 

Baby, baby keep me happy 



Always took candy from strangers 

Didn't wanna get me no trade 

Never want to be like papa 

Working for the boss ev'ry night and day 



I need a love to keep me happy 

I need a love to keep me happy 

Baby, baby keep me happy 

Baby, baby keep me happy 



Never got a flash out of cocktails 

When I get some flesh off the bone 

Never got a lift out of lear jets 

When I can fly way back home 



Happy, baby won't you keep me... 

Happy, baby won't you keep me... 

Happy...

Grabbed hold of your coat tail but it come off in my hand, 

I reached for your lapel but it weren't sewn on so grand 

Begged, promised anything if only you would stay, 

well, I lost a lot of love over you. 

Fell down to my knees and I hung onto your pants, 

but you just kept on runnin' while they ripped off in my hands 

Diamond rings, vaseline, you give me disease, 

well, I lost a lot of lover over you 

I boogied in the ballroom, I boogied in the dark 

Tie you hands, tie you feet, throw you to the sharks 

Make you sweat, make you scream, make you wish you'd never been, 

I lost a lot of love over you

When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake, 

heart is bursting and you butt's gonna break. 

Your woman's cussing, you can hear her scream, 

you feel like murder in the first degree. 

Ain't nobody slowing down no way, 

ev'rybody's stepping on their accelerator, 

don't matter where you are, 

ev'rybody's gonna need a ventilator. 

When you're trapped and circled with no second chances, 

your code of living is your gun in hand. 

We can't be browed by beating, we can't be cowed by words, 

messed by cheating, ain't gonna ever learn. 

Ev'rybody walking 'round, 

ev'rybody trying to step on their Creator. 

Don't matter where you are, ev'rybody, ev'rybody gonna 

need some kind of ventilator, some kind of ventilator. 

What you gonna do about it, what you gonna do? 

What you conna do about it, what you gonna do? 

Gonna fight it, gonna fight it?

That's all right, that's all right, that's all right. 

Sometimes you feel like trouble, sometimes you feel down. 

Let this music relax you mind, let this music relax you mind. 

Stand up and be counted, can't get a witness. 

Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to love. 

Sometimes you ain't got nobody and you want somebody to love. 

Then you don't want to walk and talk about Jesus, 

you just want to see His face. 

You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus, 

you just want to see His face.

Who's that woman on your arm all dressed up to do you harm? 

And I'm hip to what she'll do, give her just about a month or two. 

Bit off more than I can chew and I knew what it was leading to, 

some things, well, I can't refuse, 

one of them, one of them the bedroom blues. 

She delivers right on time, I can't resist a corny line, 

but take the shine right off you shoes, 

carryin', carryin' the bedroom blues. 

Oo... 



In the bar you're getting drunk, I ain't in love, I ain't in luck. 

Hide the switch and shut the light, let it all come down tonight. 

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger, 

some face you'll never see no more. 



Let it all come down tonight. 

Keep those tears hid out of sight, let it loose, let it all come down

Yeah, heard the diesel drumming all down the line. 

Oh, heard the wires a humming all down the line. 

Yeah, hear the women sighing all down the line. 

Oh, hear the children crying all down the line. 



(All down the line) We'll be watching out for trouble, yeah. 

(All down the line) And we'd better keep the motor running, yeah. 

(All down the line) Well, you can't say yes and you can't say no, 

just be right there when the whistle blows. 

I need a sanctified girl with a sanctified mind to help me now. 



Yeah, all the people singing all down the line. 

Mmmm, watch the men all working, working, yeah. (All down the line) 



(All down the line) We're gonna open up the throttle yeah. 

(All down the line) We're gonna bust another bottle, yeah. 

(All down the line) 



I need a shot of salvation, baby, once in a while. 

Hear the whistle blowing, hear it for a thousand miles. 



(All down the line) We're gonna open up the throttle, yeah. 

All down the line, We're gonna bust another bottle, yeah. 

Well you can't say yes, and you can't say no, 

just be right there when the whistle blows. 

I need a sanctified mind to help me out right now. 



Be my little baby for a while. 

Won't you be my little baby for a while?

Ev'ry time I'm walking all down the street 

some pretty mama start breaking down on me. 

Stop breaking down, baby, please, stop breaking down. 

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby, 

gonna make you lose your mind. 



You Saturday night women, now, you just ape and clown, 

you don't do nothing but tear my reputation down. 

Stop breaking down, mama, please, stop breaking down. 

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby, 

yeah, it's gonna make you lose your mind. 



I love my baby ninety nine degrees, 

but that mama got a pistol, laid it down on me. 

Stop breaking down, baby, please, stop breaking down. 

Stuff is gonna bust you brains out, baby, 

yeah, gonna make you lose your mind. 



Ev'ry time I'm walking all down the street 

some pretty woman start breaking down on me. 

Stop breaking down, mama, please, stop breaking down. 

Stuff is gonna bust your brains out, baby, 

gonna make you lose your mind.

Saw you stretched out in room ten-o-nine 

With a smile on your face 

And a tear right in your eye 

Couldn't see to get a line on you 

My sweet honey love 

Berber jew'lry jangling down the street 

Make you shut your eyes at ev'ry woman that you meet 

Could not seem to get high on you 

My sweet honey love 



May the good Lord shine a light on you 

Make every song your favorite tune 

May the good Lord shine a light on you 

Warm like the evening sun 



Well, you're drunk in the alley, baby 

With your clothes all torn 

And your late night friends 

Leave you in the cold grey dawn 

Just seemed too many flies on you 

I just can't brush them off 



Angels beating all their wings in time 

With smiles on their faces 

And a gleam right in their eyes 

Thought I heard one sigh for you 

Come on up, come on up, now 

Come on up, now 



May the good Lord shine a light on you 

Make every song you sing your favourite tune 

May the good Lord shine a light on you 

Warm like the evening sun

When the waters is rough, 

the sailing is tough, 

I'll get drowned in your love 

You've got a cut throat crew, 

I'm gonna sink under you, 

I got the bell bottom blues, 

it's gonna be the death of me 

It's the graveyard watch, 

running right on the rocks, 

I've taken all of the knocks 

You ain't giving me no quarter 

I'd rather drink sea water, 

I wish I'd never had brought you, 

it's gonna be the death of me 



Soul survivor, soul survivor 

Soul survivor, soul survivor 

Soul survivor, soul survivor 

Soul survivor, soul survivor, 

gonna be the death of me, 

it's gonna be the death of me 



When you're flying your flags 

all my confidence sags, 

you got me packing my bags 

I'll stowaway at sea, 

you make me mutiny, 

where you are I won't be, 

you're gonna be the death of me