You walk out on the high wire You're a dancer on thin ice You pay no heed to the danger And less to advice Your footsteps are forbidden But with knowledge
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and chicks
These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms
Can't get no sleeves for my records Can't get no laces for my shoes Can't get no fancy notes on my blue guitar I can't get no antidote for blues, oh yeah
A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streets of serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Find a streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something
It's a mystery to me - the game commences For the usual fee - plus expences Confidential information - it's in a diary This is my investigation - it's
All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their belles Prehistoric garbage trucks Have the city to themselves Echoes roars
One, two One, two, two She gets the sun in the daytime Perfume in the dusk And she come out in the night time With the honeysuckle musk Because she
I seen a girl on a one way corridor Stealing down a wrong way street For all the world like an urban toreador She had wheels on, on her feet Well, the
Well now take a look at that I made a castle in the sand Saying this is where castle Couldn't understand now And if I realized that the chances were slim
The sky is crying the streets are full of tears Rain come down wash away my fears And all this writing on the wall Oh I can read between the lines Rain
I'm just an aging drummer boy and in the wars I used to play And I've called the tune to many a torching session Now they say I am a war criminal and
I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man We are the chosen, we're the partisan alright The cause it is noble and the cause it is just We are ready
Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll
Les boys do cabaret Les boys are glad to be gay They're not afraid now A disco bar in Germany Les boys are glad to be Upon parade now Les boys got leather
Southbound again don't know if I'm going or leaving home Southbound again don't know if I'm going or leaving home Boy got to be moving, seems like the
You get a shiver in the dark It's raining in the park but meantime South of the river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double
Last time I was sober, man I felt bad Worst hangover that I ever had It took six hamburgers and scotch all night Nicotine for breakfast just to put me