Lyrical Response

[PastaJoe]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Ooh, look out, you rock 'n' rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

 

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange

[Gray Beard]

Out of work, I'm out of my head
Out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm underloved, I'm underfed, I want to go home
It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours

[Bill from NYC]

And he plays at stocks and shares,

And he goes to the regatta,

He adores the girl next door,

Cause he's dying to get at her,

But his mother knows the best about,

The matrimonial stakes.

 

Cause he's oh so good,

And he's oh so fine,

And he's oh so healthy,

In his body and his mind.

 

He's a well respected man about town,

Doing all the best things so conservatively.

 

 

[WhoTom]

Mother do you think she's good enough
For me?
Mother do you think she's dangerous
To me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Ooh ah,
Mother will she break my heart?

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Do-lang, do-lang, do-lang
Do-lang, do-lang

He's so fine
(Do-lang, do-lang, do-lang)
Wish he were mine
(Do-lang, do-lang, do-lang)
That handsome boy over there
(Do-lang, do-lang, do-lang)
The one with the wavy hair
(Do-lang, do-lang, do-lang)

[Gray Beard]

It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me, Do I look all right?
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight
 

We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that's walking around with me
And then she asks me, Do you feel all right?
And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight"

[WhoTom]

Then I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a "J"
And when I came back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away

 

[SinceThe70s]

And we play from ten to two, but we work from noon to four
Try to make a guarantee, try to make points on the door
No one tells us what to do, no one tells us where to go
 

One more bottle for this happy hour hero

One more bottle
One more bottle
One more bottle for this happy hour hero
One more bottle
One more bottle
One more bottle for this happy hour hero

 

And Charlotte's a long way to go, just to show 'em what you got
And I hear it's worth the trip, the room gets burning hot
Let me jot down one more thing, just one more thing before I go
One more bottle for this happy hour hero

[Gray Beard]

It's quarter to three
There's no one in the place 'cept you and me
So set 'em' up joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta know
 

We're drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road

[SinceThe70s]

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?

[WhoTom]

Don't get out
Hit upon 'em, Joe
You can raise the barn yourself
As you're kickin' in the sun, yeah
Hit upon 'em, Joe
You can raise the barn yourself
As you're kickin' in the sun, yeah

 

[Gray Beard]

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

 

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

[Bill from NYC]

Line up a long shot
Maybe try it two times, maybe more
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor
Why hold out for more?

Here comes sunshine
Here comes sunshine

[Gray Beard]

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
 

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

 

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

[WhoTom]

Then one fine morning, she turns on a New York station
She doesn't believe what she hears at all
Ooh, she started dancin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock and roll, yeah, rock and roll

Despite all the computations
You could just dance to that rock and roll station
And it was all right (It was all right)

[KD in CA]

New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three

When they play their music, ooh that modern music
They like it with a lot of style
But it's still that same old back beat rhythm
That really, really drives 'em wild

[Gray Beard]

New York, New York, a wonderful town
The Bronx is up and the Battery's down
The people ride in a hole in the ground
New York, New York, it's a wonderful town!

We've got one day here and not another minute
To see the famous sights
We'll find the romance and danger waiting in it
Beneath the Broadway lights
But we've hair on our chests
So what we like the best are the nights

[KD in CA]

Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighborhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood
But I'm takin' a Greyhound on the Hudson River line
I'm in a New York state of mind

I've seen all the movie stars
In their fancy cars and their limousines
Been high in the Rockies under the evergreens
I know what I'm needin'
And I don't want to waste more time
I'm in a New York state of mind

[Doc]

Everybody have fun tonight.  Everybody Wang Chung tonight.