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I thought I had a problem, I got these visions in my head
So I went to see a doctor, and this is what he said.
He said “I'm glad you came to see me. You're just run down physically.
Take these and call me in the morning, don't read the side effect warning.”
But I still didn't feel better so I went to see a shrink
I said, “Tell me what the problem is...” and she said, “What do yooou think?
I'm afraid the diagnosis is a serious psychosis
So come back twice a week to see me. Relax. You’ll need twenty years therapy.”
I don't know what to believe, everybody's got a different truth for me
So forgive me for my ignorance, but what you said did not make sense
So I'll continue searching for the truth that works for me.
Twenty-two years later, I still had visions in my head
So I went to see a psychic and this is what she said
“I see a lot of bad energy, you've been sabotaged psychically.
Could be past life memories. Or maybe spirit world enemies.”
But I didn't really buy it, so I went to see the Pope.
Oh holy man help me, I'm running out of hope.
And he said, “ If I had to guess, I'd say your soul has been possessed.
Repent and maybe God will save you. Repent or pay the devil his due!”
I don't know what to believe, everybody's got a different truth for me.
So forgive me for my ignorance, but what you said did not make sense
So I'll continue searching for the truth that works for me
So I climbed the highest mountain seeking council with a wise man
He was smiling when I found him and he looked into my eyes
I told him of my problem and he soaked it up in silence
And this is all he said and how he opened up my mind
He said: “I've been sitting here waiting on this mountain meditating
For ten years waiting for a vision, now you're here to ask me how to get rid of them!”
Now I know what to believe though everybody's got a different truth for me
So the world can kiss my ignorance cause what that wise man said made sense
So I'll accept my visions as the truth that works for me
Yes I’ll accept my visions as the truth that works for me.
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Vicki
04:37
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Vicki was a bad girl, she was the wrong kind of crowd
Her father and her brothers and her sisters were all crazy
Her Mom was nowhere around
A very young girl of very easy virtue
A wild little tart who never had a curfew
It was a small town and Vicki got around and around and around
I saw Vicki late last year
She burst into the bar all covered in tears
Dried her eyes and conjured up a smile
And though we hadn't socialized in more than a while
Suddenly poured out her heart to me
And something in her eyes still haunts me
Poor Vicki, poor little Vicki
Vicki's got a ghost in her eyes...
Poor Vicki, poor little Vicki
She left home and ran into the Boogie Man
Where bad things go bump in the big city nights
I remember Vicki loose as a rug on the floor
Cigarettes, kinky sex, boozin’ with the grownups
Was what she lived for
Always runnin' 'round with guys a whole lot older
I doubt that she believed the lies they probably told her
If it was a good time, Vicki got in line and she didn't seem to mind
But I saw Vicki late last year
A shadow of herself all smothered in fear
Told me that she spent some time in jail
Her marriage and her Motherhood were doomed to fail
A victim of police brutality
And something in her eyes said why me...
Chorus
Vicki's all alone now
Talks to the flys on the wall
Her Father and her brothers and her sisters come to see her
She doesn't recognize them at all
It's a bright white place with nurses speaking softly
She stares into space and curses over coffee
It was a rough ride somewhere along the line
Little Vicki lost her mind
But I still picture Vicki when she was twelve and I was ten.
I'm sorry there's no moral to this song
It's just the story of a girl who's life went wrong
And even if one day she finds some peace
All my life her eyes will haunt me
Chorus
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3. |
Step Right Over You
05:09
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I won’t change my plans to try to avoid you
And I won’t stay away from the places you go
And it’ll be too bad if my presence annoys you
cause it’s a one horse town that ain’t likely to grow
So I won’t even step aside when I see you walk my way
And no I won’t avert my eyes, there’s no reason why
I should try to hide anyway
Cause I can step right over you.
Step right over you.
I won’t ask anyone if you’re talking about me
I won’t star 69 just in case it was you
What’s done is done, and you’re happy without me
We were a bad idea and it’s good that we’re through
So I won’t even change a single detail of my day
And all the things I used to do that included you
I’m gonna still do anyway
Cause I can step right over you, step right over you
Like a rock in my way.
Step right over you, and then I’ll get past you
Step right over you.
And you might have noticed that I’m walkin’ pretty fast these days
And you might have noticed that I’m not always alone.
I know, I know, we can’t steer clear cause there ain’t nowhere to disappear here
If you and me are history than my next move is clear to me...
Oh, I’m gotta step right over you, step right over you like a rock in my way.
So don’t change your plans to try to avoid me
And you’re welcome to be any place that I go
And I’ll understand if it makes you uneasy
But it’s a one horse town, never ever ever gonna grow.
So please don’t change a single detail of your day
And all the things you used to do that I did with you
Go on and do ‘em all anyway
Cause I can step right over you, step right over you like a rock in my way.
Step right over you, any time, any day.
Step right over you and to my course I shall be true.
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Unreachable Peach
04:32
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There’s really no reason, and no one’s to blame
Whatever we needed it just wasn’t the same
Still I wanted to breathe you and live in your skin
But I couldn’t read you or find a way in
‘Cause your love seemed to live in unreachable realms
With reluctance to give it away
And I’m needy and greedy a bottomless pit
I was starving for you every day
I was starving for you
But you were always right here
Like a peach in a glass case that was perfectly clear
I needed your sweetness but I could not reach
The place where you keep this
Unreachable peach
When there’s no way around it and no way to stay
What’s left is surrender by walking away
But I still sense your shadow
And your place in my bed still holds the shape of you
And the scent of your head
But your heart seemed to stay someplace so far away
From whatever you offered to me
And I’m burning and yearning my ribs sticking out
Starving but you couldn’t see
How I was starving for you
But you were always right here
Like a peach in a glass case so temptingly near
I needed your sweetness but I could not reach
The place where you keep this
Unreachable peach
Yes I needed your sweet kiss
But I could not reach
The place where you keep this
Unreachable peach
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5. |
The Best Bad Idea
04:18
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Everything’s groovy, everythings fine
You go your way and I’ll go mine.
Everything’s groovy everything’s cool
I won’t miss a beat and I won’t miss you.
Sure I’ll be lonely, yeah I’ll be sad,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve had,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve ever had.
I guess it’s a lesson I still have to learn
I keep playing with fire and I keep gettin’ burned.
Stand on the tracks and wait for the train
And hope it comes fast and there ain’t much pain.
But everything’s groovy, everythings fine
You do your thing and I’ll do mine.
Everything’s groovy and it’s all good,
You just moved on like I knew you would.
Sure I’ll be lonely, yeah I’ll be sad,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve had,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve ever had.
So you measure the pleasure and measure the pain,
And pretend in the end it comes out about the same,
Jones like a junky cravin’ a hit,
I know you’re no good but I just can’t quit.
But everything’s groovy, everything’s fine,
I ain’t yours and you never were mine.
Everythings groovy everything’s cool
You ain’t my bitch and I ain’t your fool.
Sure I’ll be lonely, yeah I’ll be sad,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve had,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve ever had.
I can’t fight the feeling I’ve been here before
Broke down, beat up and beggin’ for more
Rip out my heart and hand it to you
Just to make sure ya got somethin’ to chew.
But everything’s groovy, everythings fine
You go your way and I’ll go mine.
Everything’s groovy everything’s cool
I won’t miss a beat and I won’t miss you.
Sure I’ll be lonely, yeah I’ll be sad,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve had,
You’re still the best bad idea I’ve ever had.
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6. |
Seems to Me
03:23
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Seems to me she’s mean to you, all your friends and family too.
It seems to me she treats you bad.
So it seems like you’d be missin’ what we had.
Seems to me she’s changing you, and all the things you like to do.
You seem to be a little sad,
so it seems like you’d be missin’ what we had.
What we had... the good and bad.
What we both took so for granted was what we had.
When I see moonlight on my bed, I hear the tender things you said
and it seemed to me that you spoke your heart.
So it seems like you’d be sad that we’re apart.
Cause it was all good til it was all gone.
And it was all right, though at the time it seemed all wrong.
And it was all I wished, and all I need
cause it was all about you saying you were all in love with me.
Seems to me she’s mean to you and treats you like I’d never do,
it seems to me, I love you more.
So I’ll be standing by while you make sure.
Yeah I’ll be right here standing by until your sure...
I’ll be right here standing by until your sure.
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7. |
Private Island
05:19
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I got a great big list of all the things I’ve wished.
I’ve got a million reasons more than I need for leavin’
Been drifting through my days like a cast away,
& I only know I don’t wanna go where I’ve been.
I might be close to finding a lovely little island
with skies of blue & room for two & a pineapple wind.
All I need is a private island,
you could keep me company if I’m in the mood.
All I need and I’ll be stylin’.
A little slice of paradise is all I ever need to make my life just right.
I got a great big list of things I can’t resist.
I’ve got a fascination with giving in to my temptation.
And if I give in once, I’ll probably give in twice,
cause I’ve been by myself, sittin’ on a shelf, packed in ice.
But I might be close to finding a lovely little island
With skies of blue to welcome you to my paradise.
All I need is a private island.
You could keep me company if I’m in the mood.
It’s all I need and I’ll be stylin; a perfect love in paradise is all I ever need to make my life just right.
And I got a great big list of all the fun I’ve missed oh no, no,no.
It takes determination to make each day a celebration
Been spending too much time trying to make a dime,
with not enough of the happy stuff to occupy my mind.
But I might be close to finding a lovely little island with
skies of blue and room for two and the sun always shines!
All I need is a private island,
you could keep me company if I’m in the mood.
All I need and I’ll be stylin’.
A little slice of paradise is all I ever need to make my life just right.
All I need is a private island. You could keep me company if I’m in the mood. It’s all I need and I’ll be stylin; a perfect love in paradise is all I ever need to make my life just right.
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8. |
Never Understand
04:09
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You made me more forgiving than I thought that I could be
Cause I couldn’t give you up no matter what you did to me
You showed me I had patience I never knew that I possessed
And Honey how you put it to the test.
chorus:
And now you are the you in all my songs
And you’re what makes these winter nights so long
You’re the love that slipped right through my hands
And you’re the one I’ll never understand
do do do do do doot doot doo a wooe-oh
You’re the one I’ll never understand
Impossible puzzle pieces never meant to fit
The square peg in the round hole the epitome of it
I can’t think of a single thing on which we could agree
But being with you meant the world to me
chorus
And even now, I don’t know why
I still hang my head and cry
When I think of how you said good-bye
Right after we made love
And the sentimental things you said to me
Just intensify the mystery
But I can see that I can’t be the she you’re dreaming of
Although you are the you in all my songs.......
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The Cricket
03:41
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Well I’m really runnin’ out of headroom on my someday
I’ve been fiddling like a cricket with winter comin’ on
And now the leaves start to fall, but I don’t care at all
I’ll just pick up my guitar & rock on
Pick up my guitar & rock on
Now the Cricket doesn’t care too much which way the wind blows
And there ain’t no doubt about it summer soon be gone
But when the snow starts to fall, I won’t care at all
I’ll just pick up my guitar & rock on
Pick up my guitar & rock on
I’ll rock on
What I got fits in a little napsack & I sleep in the back of an old cadilac
I got nothin, but I feel fine
Cause it ain’t too cold an’ I ain’t too old
I gotta whole lotta rock n’ roll in my soul
I got nothing baby, but it’s all mine
I got a great big bunch of nothin’ but it’s all mine!
Well everybody wants to be the one for someone
And nobody wants to grow old all alone
But if I get old alone, broke & without a home
I’ll just pick up my guitar & rock on
Pick up my guitar & rock on
I’ll rock on
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10. |
Queen of Extreme
04:19
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They call me the Ocean of Emotion, the Queen of Extreme
But I know I’m alive
‘Cause I laugh, & I cry & if you make me mad I’m gonna tell you why
But I’ve got so much love
That’s the flip side; I’ve got so much love
I’m needy & much too sentimental, some even swear I’m semi-mental
But I know I’m alive (yes I know yes I know).
Cause I laugh, & I cry, my lows are low & my highs are high
But I’ve got so much love. That’s the flip side; I’ve got so much love.
Too much too much too much too much my mama always said too much emotion
Too much too much too much, mama said
She’d say, “Calm down baby, calm down sugar, calm down cause you know you show too much emotion.” She’d say “Shhhhh..... don’t cry.
Toughen up girl, it’s a rough world
Toughen up girl, it’s a rough world & you know you show too much emotion
Too much too much too much too much.
Toughen up girl it’s a rough world, toughen up! Toughen up, toughen up, toughen up, toughen up!!!”
But oh, my mama didn’t know
She didn’t know what it means to be the Queen of Extreme
That’s why they call me the Grande Dam of Dramatic, from Ecstatic to Traumatic
But I know I’m alive
Cause I laugh, & I cry, if you make me mad I’m gonna tell you why
But I’ve got so much love.
That’s the flip side; I’ve got so much love.
And that’s why they call me the Ocean of Emotion. I am the Queen of Extreme but I know, I know I’m alive Yes I know! Yes I know!
Cause I laugh, how I cry, my lows are low and my highs are ridiculous!
But I’ve got so much love, that’s the flip side.
I’ve got so much love!
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