Based on the desire for total mobility and the serious physical pursuit of religious freedom, the auto drove mankind further than the wheel and in remote areas, even today, is forbidden as a device too suspect for human conveyance. This articulate conception has only brought us all more of the same. Thoughtlessly locked into phase two of gridlock, keyed up, on its rims and abandoned on the expressway.

Your old lover's lying in the gutter, he used to be such an all-night strutter
"Oh my heart," I heard him mutter, "Oh my dear, it seems to flutter."
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

It's so hard to say you know when the deck is stacked to only go slow
It's easy, sweet, to live it up in Easy Street when you've had enough
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Darkened night, splash of light, soft and white and so polite
Let him in beneath the rim, beneath the skin, your next of kin
Cleansing fire, funeral pyre, broken wire thrown inside her
Secret hunch, swollen lunch, it's soft and plush, it's so lush

You know it's so passй to sleep without you every day
So easy to do your stuff, so easy to live it up
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

As I sit staring into this liquid amber, ripples move out to the edge of the glass. Is that really your reflection in there? I just want to jump into the warm depth and be there with you, one more time. Aw, all right. Hit it boys!
My initials sprayed across the pavement cut into your private interview
Talk to me now, step into my room, we'll have a word or two
If I ever had a million dollars, if I didn't give it all to you
Would you lose interest, show me indifference, foot in another shoe

Not very high heels, not wearing sneakers too
A magazine ad, a printed canvas, a basic new shade blue suede shoe
Thought I'd like to have a little party, thought I'd like to have a little do
Sure I stopped drinking but for the moment honey, here's looking at you

I'll stop my drinking, give you my promise true
Clean out the closet, be existential and cast the vote for president too
But for the action of the moment nothing does what it ought to do
Instant depression, I learned my lesson, nothing that I'd rather do
Come on over my place, can't see me sideways
Honey, here's looking at you
Oh …

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that, oh no

It's not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that, oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one

Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait, my dear, 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that, oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one

Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait, my dear, 'til it's my turn
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that, oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one, number one

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high, I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high, I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one, your number one

Afterglow in a distant row
The door is open and the lights are cold
The children come in here and they dare the ghost
Like a fire burning in a stone

Silent light in the fearless sky
Phantom cigarette and a silent cry
The door swings open and it's cold outside
Run and hide, run and hide

They can still see him singing on the corner
Singing songs that never fade away
Fade into the kids that come along

Memory on a silent seek
Melody on a long retreat
Like an angel on a balcony
Like an angel on a balcony

She knew it about Route Three
Oh-oh she blew it, you know she could have told me
He can't say no, he can't ask why
Go through it, highway bride

He delivers, he's a roadsider
He gets no road from a back seat driver
Away we go, yes or no?
I love you honey, gimme a beer

But just like Jerry Lee she's tuning in on me
And I've got no defence but it makes no difference
'Cause just like Jerry Lee she's tuning in on me
She does it easy, like a CB

He's hard to hold on the rolling road
He knows his rig's hot, get through that roadblock
Ten miles to go, oh radio
She knew it, now so does he
Ah I love you honey, gimme a beer
Ooh go through it, come sit right here

There you are giving candy
Making confidence with an easy eye
Easy words, oh what a dancer
Dance you right into the corner of the fire

Do the dark apostle
Do the sidewalk hustle
Do the invisible dance in the fire, fire, fire, fire

Walk on glass with the master
There's no question he can't answer with his eyes
What a stage, oh what a dancer
Looks like a baby with an old man's eyes

When you break a move and you burn your bridges
And your fingers itch and they're getting wet
When you look at her
Do the dark apostle
Do the sidewalk hustle
Do the invisible dance in the fire, fire, fire, fire

Walk on glass, walk on fire
Walk on glass, walk on fire
Walk on glass, walk on fire
Walk on glass, walk on fire
Walk on glass, walk on fire
Walk on glass

Toe to toe, dancing very close
Body breathing, almost comatose
Wall to wall, people hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in rapture

Back to back, sacroiliac
Spineless movement and a wild attack
Face to face, sightless solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four-hour shopping in rapture

Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly
DJ spinning, I said "My, my."
Flash is fast, flash is cool
Fransoir, ce pa Flashe' no deau
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground
And out comes the man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night eating cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don't stop, you keep on eating cars
Then when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe, don't move too slow
'Cause the man from Mars is through with cars
He's eating bars, yeah wall to wall
Door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour through the sewer
Don't strain your brain - paint a train
And you'll be singing in the rain
Said don't stop, do punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars where the TV's on
Now he's gone back up to space where he won't have to hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars
And now he only eats guitars
Get up!

Faces cracked for reasons beyond recognition
His space is at the Palace, he sleeps for twenty-five cents
Now he's wiping headlights, windshields with an old rag
It ain't nine-to-five
Down and dirty, he's an old tramp, he poses like a dead man
The night train passes by

Money's not the answer for princes and dancers
He's standing under streetlights, he's thinking of his old life
He lost his pretty young wife, the corner is his big plan
His brunch with Jim and jitters, Boston blue laws ain't for shitters
The newsprint is for cheaters, cement mattress for believers

You dirty old bum, you dirty old bum
You can't stay here, you have to go
You dirty old bum

Now he's shooting power curves, his buddies think he's got some nerve
Missus Face had other lovers, her arms smothered other numbers

He freezes, Christmas season, All Saints protect him
His face is cracked for reasons beyond recognition

Circle high, circle low
Jammers fly, T-Birds
You show, you show, whiplash go
You show, you show, T-Birds
Mighty bird
T-Bird, my mighty bird

On the dot, in the slot, tie the knot
On the dot timed kisses
In the slot, on the dot, tie the knot
In the slot, no misses
Mighty bird
T-Bird, my mighty bird
T-Bird, mighty bird
Black sun conquerer

Two thousand years ago a great race of … warriors lived in … They had many Gods … Mayans … Gods … Mazatlan
Black sun worshipper

Coil it up, wind it out, strike it hot
Coil it up plumed serpent
Coil it up, wind it out, strike it hot
Coil it up, my T-Bird
Serpent curl
T-Bird, rule the world
T-Bird, mighty bird
Black sun born again

Oh I love my T-Bird, T-Bird
Oh I love my T-Bird, T-Bird
Oh I love my T-Bird, T-Bird
Oh I love my T-Bird, T-Bird
Oh I love my T-Bird, T-Bird

We don't wear that uniform, paper men from pages torn right off the press
It could be Tass, suits for the regime
The media's gone had a baby, seventh wave, another maybe
I live in America - gridlock on the streets
Tell that girl you like her badge, tell that man that you're the Nazz
Tell them that they're not the last, walking in parade
Dressed to test you up the road, tighter than the lightest clothes
Close the circle, walk in rows, walking in parade

Why don't you walk like me?
Walk like me
Walk like me

Carrying the standard stick and marrying the politic
You won't know tomorrow what went down today
Look at me, I'm in tune, references around my room
Just another secret school, another cycle going by and you
You never looked like that, don't look like me, don't take it back
You never had a name like that, never had a colour
Walking like a millionaire, walking on imported air
Change the way you comb your hair and watch what you walk under

Why don't you walk like me?
Walk like me
Walk like me
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

Hey
Why don't you, why don't you walk like me?
Walk like me
Walk like me
Walk like me
Hey, hey

Far from day, far from night
Out of time, out of sight
In between earth and sea, we shall fly
Follow me

Dry the rain, warm the snow
Where the winds never go
Follow me, follow me, follow me

To a cave by a sapphire shore
Where we'll walk through an emerald door
And for thousands of breathless evermores my life you will be

Only you, only I
World farewell, world goodbye
To our home 'neath the sea, we shall fly
Follow me

Follow me
Follow me
Follow me
Follow me
Follow me