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Three Steps To Heaven* Tomorrow We'll See Too Much Information Towers Tumbled* Truth Hits Everybody Tutti Frutti* Twenty Five To Midnight --------------------------------------------------------------------- Three Steps to Heaven Now there are three steps to heaven Just listen and you will plainly see And as I travel on and things go wrong Just call it steps one, two and three. The formula for heaven's very simple. Just follow the rules and you will see And as I travel on and things go wrong Just call it steps one, two and three. Step one, you find a girl to love. Step two, She falls in love with you Step three, you kiss and hold her tightly Yeah! that sure seems like heaven to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow We'll See The streets are wet The lights have yet To shed their tawdry luster on the scene My skirt's too short My tights have run These new heels are killing me My second pack of cigarettes It's a slow night, but there's time yet Here comes john from his other life He may be driving to his wife But he'll slow down take a look I've learned to read them just like books And it's already half past ten But they'll be back again Headlights in the rainy street I check, make sure it's not the heat I wink, I smile, I wave my hand He stops and seems to understand The small transaction we must make I tell him that my heart will break If he's not a generous man I step into his van They say the first is the hardest trick And after that it's just a matter of logic They have the money I have the time Being pretty's my only crime You ask what future do I see I say it's really up to me I don't need forgiving I'm just making a living Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances And tomorrow we'll see A friend of mine, he wound up dead His dress is stained the color red The next of kin, no fixed abode Another victim on this road The police just carted him away But someone took his place next day He was home by Thanksgiving But not with the living Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances I know it's just not in my plan For someone to care who I am I'm walking the streets for money It's the business of love, "hey honey," C'mon, don't leave me lonely, don't leave me sad It'll be the sweetest five minutes you ever have Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances And tomorrow we'll see --------------------------------------------------------------------- Too Much Information Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh Overkill Overview Over my dead body Over me Over you Over everybody Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Oh Overkill Overview Over my dead body Over me Over you Over everybody Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane --------------------------------------------------------------------- Towers Tumbled Towers tumbled - all the buildings crumbled Volcanoes rumbled Insurance salesman mumbled Ballerians bumbled - all the heroes stumbled Politicians fumbled Suddenly a hand held out - take a ticket tout It was a chart - it was a card And those are your instructions And what he offered in his hand It was a diagram - master plan A secret plan for your deduction Crystals shatter - all the singers chatter While the drums just clatter Your silken raiment's tatter While all the poets chatter - "Oh, it doesn't matter" Please ignore the latter Settle back you're growing fatter Oh you know you've got no conception Well, you're far out in space I see you trying to trace a design Of your heart on the stars On the open ocean - like an open book See the feeble fumble for a better look See the sheep shake In their sleep wake Not an earthquake Or a death wake And all the while - through the testing and the trials She smiles Eternity smiles... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Truth Hits Everybody Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold You lay there sleeping like an open doorway I stepped outside myself and felt so cold Take a look at my new toy It'll blow your head in two, oh boy Truth hits everybody Truth hits everyone Oh, oh, oh Truth hits everybody Truth hits everyone Truth hits everybody Truth hits everyone I thought about it and my dream was broken I clutch at images like dying breath And I don't want to make a fuss about it The only certain thing in life is death --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutti Frutti A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom I got a gal her name's Sue, She knows just what to do I got a gal her name's Sue, She knows just what to do I've been to the East, I've been to the West But she is the gal I love the best Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom I got a gal, her name's Daisy, She almost drives me crazy I got a gal, her name's Daisy, She almost drives me crazy She's a real gone cuckoo, yes sirree But pretty little Suzy's the gal for me Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti Tutti frutti au rutti A bop bop aloom op a lop bop boom --------------------------------------------------------------------- Twenty Five to Midnight Train I ride don't be slow If your whistle can blow Fifteen miles down the track Tell them I'm coming back Counting poles counting sheep Don't be slow I won't weep If your wheels on the line Were to put me on time Just a year to the day Since I went upon my way To seek my fortune and fame Be a star, change my name And that's it more or less 'Til this midnight express I know I can't be late 'Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight And fifteen miles of track Band I had got a break Just one chance we had to take Told my girl I'd be back Left her with my friend Jack New York City for a spell Things didn't turn out so well Every dive that we played We were lucky we got paid Mr. Train driver please If your speed you increase Every cent I have now Will be yours this I vow And that's it more or less 'Til this midnight express I know I can't be late 'Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight And fifteen miles of track We called ourselves The Latino Lovers Hawaiian shirts and top forty covers I didn't think I could sink this low When drugs and booze ate all my dough This isn't how it was meant to be There's no such thing as a meal that's free If I was ever to get out alive I have to get home on time Train I ride don't be slow If your whistle can blow Fifteen miles down the track Tell them I'm coming back And that's it more or less 'Til this midnight express I know I can't be late 'Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight And fifteen miles of track And it's 25 to midnight And fifteen miles of track |