Mister America
Walk on by
Your schools that do not teach
Mister America
Walk on by
The minds that can't be reached
Mister America
Try to hide
The emptiness that's you inside
When once you find the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide
Of hungry freaks, daddy

They won't go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store philosophy
That turns away from those
Who aren't afraid to say what's on their minds
The left-behinds
Of the Great Society

Mister America
Walk on by
Your supermarket dream
Mister America
Walk on by
The liquor sore supreme
Mister America
Try to hide
The product of your savage pride:
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes and then you cried.
Those hungry freaks, daddy
They won't go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store philosophy
That turns away from those.
Who aren't afraid to say what's on their mind
The left-behinds
Of the Great Society

Ain't got no heart
I ain't got no heart
To give away
Girl I don't believe'
Girl I don't believe
In what you say

I sit and laugh
At fools in love
There ain't no such thing
As love
No angels singing
Up above today.

You say your heart
Is only mine
I say to you
You must be blind
What makes you think
That you're so fine
That I would throw away
The groovy life I lead?
Baby what you've got
It shure ain't what I need

Girl you'd better go
Girl you'd better go away

I think that life with you would be
Just not quite the thing for me
Why is it so hard to see my way?
Why should I be stuck with you
It's just not what I want to do
Why should an embrace or two
Make me such a part of you?
I ain't got no heart to give away.

What will you do if we
Let you go home
And the plastic's all melted
And so is the chrome - - -
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

What will you do when the
Label comes off
And the plastic's all melted
And the chrome is too soft - - -
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

What will you do if the
People you knew
Were the plastic that melted
And the chromium too?
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

Go cry
On somebody else's shoulder
I'm somewhat wiser now, n'
One whole year older
I sure don't need you now, n'
I don't love you any more

You cheated me, Baby
And told some dirty
Lies about me
Fooled around with
All those other guys
That's why I had to
Set you free
I sure don't need you now, n'
I don't love you any more

A year ago today
You went away
Now you come knocking
At my door
I don't need you
I don't love you
So dry your eyes
Go cry someplace else - -
Who needs you?

Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
That brotherly and otherly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mother's gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

Mothers got love
That'll drive ya mad
They're ravin' 'bout the way we do
No need to feel lonely
No need to feel sad
If we ever get a hold on you, what you need is

Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
That brotherly and otherly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mother's gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

Nature's been good
To this here band
Don't ever think we're shy
Send us up some little groupies
And we'll take 'em by the hand
And we'll rock 'em till they sweat and cry

Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
That brotherly and otherly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mother's gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

We can love ya
Till ya have a heart attack
You'd best believe that's true
We'll bite your neck
And scratch your back
Till you don't know what to do

Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
That brotherly and otherly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mother's gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

When I won your love
I was very glad
Every happiness in the world
Belonged to me
Then your love was lost
And you went away
Now I shed my tears
In lonely misery

I know now that you never
Ever really loved me
It hurts me now to think you never
Ever really cared
I sit and ask myself a thousand times
To try and find
What really happened to the love
That we shared

How could I be such a fool
How could I believe
All those lies you told me
How could I be taken in
By your sweet face
You spoiled our love
You ruined my life
I'm so tore down
I'm a terrible disgrace
But there will come a time
When you'll regret the way

You treated me
As if I was a fool
And didn't know
The many times you lied
About your love for me
Someone else is gonna know
That your love was just a show...

How could I be such a fool?

Wowie Zowie, babe
Your love's a treat
Wowie Zowie, babe
You can't be beat
Wowie Zowie, baby
You're so neat
I don't even care
If you shave your legs

I dream of you each mornin'
I dream of you each night
Just the other day I got so shook up
I dreamed of you in the afternoon

Wowie Zowie, baby
You're so fine
Wowie Zowie, baby
Please be mine
Wowie Zowie
Up and down my spine
I don't even care
If you brush your teeth

I dream of you each mornin'
I dream of you each night
Just the other day I got so shook up
I dreamed of you in the afternoon

Wowie Zowie, baby
Love me do
Wowie Zowie
And I'll love you too
Wowie Zowie, baby
I'll be true
I don't even care
If your dad's the heat

I dream of you each mornin'
I dream of you each night
Just the other day I got so shook up
I dreamed of you in the afternoon

You didn't try to call me
Why didn' ya try, didn' ya try
Didn' ya know I was lonely?
No matter who I take home
I keep on callin' your name, and you
I need ya so bad
You're the one babe

Tell me, tell me
Who's lovin' ya now
'cause it worries my mind
And I can't sleep at all_
I stayed home on Friday
Just to wait for your call
And you didn't try to call me
Why didn' ya try, didn' ya try
Didn' ya know I was lonely?
No matter who I take home
I keep on callin' your name at you
I need ya so bad
You're the one babe

Tell me, tell me
Who's lovin' ya now 'cause it worries my mind
And I can't sleep at all
I stayed home all Friday
Just to wait for your call

I can't say what's right or what's wrong
But I love you
All ya gotta do is call me, babe
'cause I want you
You make me feel so excited, girl
I got so hung up on you
From the moment that we met,
That no matter how I try
I can't sweep the tears
From running down my face
I'm all alone in my place

Any way the wind blows
Is-a fine with me
Any way the wind blows
It don't matter to me

'Cause I'm through with-a fussin'
And-a fightin' with-a you
I went out and found a woman
Who is gonna be true
She makes me oh so happy
Now I'm never ever blue

She's my heart and soul
And she loves me tenderly
Now my story can be told
Just how good she is to me

'Cause she treats me like she loves me
And she never makes me cry
I'm gonna stick with her
Till the day I die
She's not like you, Baby
She would never ever lie

Now that I am free
From the troubles of the past
Took me too long to see
That our romance couldn't last

Now I'm gonna go away
When you are standing at the door
I'll tell you, pretty baby,
I won't be back no more

Got no place to go
No love left for me to give
Why should I pretend to like
To roam from door to door
Maybe I'll just kill myself
I just don't care no more
Because
I'm not satisfied
Everything I tried
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me

Who would care
If I was gone
Who needs me
To care for them
Why should I just sit and watch
While the others smile
I just wish that someone cared
If I was happy for a while
Because
I'm not satisfied
Everything I tried
I don't like the way
Life has been abusing me

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am I
So am I

Just as much as you wonder
'bout me bein' in this place
That's just how much I marvel
At the lameness on your face
You rise each day the same old way
And join your friends out on the street
Spray your hair
And think you're neat
I think your life is incomplete
But maybe that's not for me to say
They only pay me here to play
You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am I
So am I

Just as much as you wonder
'bout me starin' back at you
That's just how much I question
The corny things you do
You paint you face and then you chase
To meet the gang where the action is
Stomp all night
And drink your fizz
Roll your car and say gee whiz
You tore a big hole in your convertible top
What will you tell your Mom and Pop?

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am I
So am I

Just as much as you wonder
If I mean just what I say
That's just how much I question
The social games you play
You told your Mom you're stoked on town
And went for a ride in Freddie's car
Tommy's asking
Where you are
You boogied all night in a cheesie bar
Plastic boots and plastic hat
And you think you know where it's at

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
(Not that it makes
A heck of a lot of difference to ya)

Well, I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friends,
Is anybody's guess

So I'm watchin' and a-waitin'
And a-hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Everytime I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot
I seen the cops out on the street
I watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
I listened to the reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
I seen the smoke and fire
Of a market burnin' down
I watched while everybody
On the street would take his turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn

So I'm watchin' and a-waitin'
And a-hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Everytime I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well you can cool it
You can beat it
'Cause, baby, I don't need it
Take you TV tube and eat it
And all that phony stuff on sports
And all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watch that rotten box
Until my head begins to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsman say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place
Blows up today
We'll be the first to tell
'Cause the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street
They say that no one gets it faster
And their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machinegunned from her seat
They'll send a joker with a brownie
And you'll see it all complete

So I'm watchin' and a-waitin' hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Everytime I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well, I seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell them brooms and mops
And every household item
Watch the mob just turn and bite 'em
And they say it serves 'em right
Because a few of 'em were white
But it's the same across the nation
Black and whte, discrimination
They're yellin' "you can't understand me!"
And all the other crap they hand me
In the papers and TV and
All that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some nitwit say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the colour of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
No matter if it's black or white
Because he's out for blood tonite

So I'm watchin' and a-waitin'
And hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Everytime I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Help, I'm a Rock

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