Inevitable

There's a flu bug getting passed around
And it's spreading like fire through the town
There's a virus holing up inside us
Everyone that i know is coming down
There's an asian influenza
Infecting us all by the score
And it's turning into pneumonia
We must go out once more
There's a fool moon howling at the night
And it's bark is much worse than it's bite
So we must go out and dance around
Yes we must go tonight
So the doctors came on the evening train
With their flasks and their caskets and vials
Mass psychosis was their diagnosis (yes)
So we all cashed our checks and went wild
There's a fool moon howling at the night
And it's bark is much worse than it's bite
So we must go out and dance around
Yes we must go tonight
La grippe!, salsa!

I wished on a star "send me down a lover
Don't want any other kind of love."
Wished on a star "save my heart from sadness
Save my mind from madness from afar."
Used to sit and cry all day
Wonder why my love would fade.
Used to while away the hour
Cannot go on, cannot go on
Without you.
Now i don't do the things i used to do
Ever since the day i wished for you.

Broadway really ain't quite the same
Since you and i found lover's lane.
Standing on the corner fourth and main
Dreaming of you, way downtown in lover's lane.
The sun is down the moon is bright
Lover's want to stroll all night.
Way downtown in lover's lane.
Well, getting high on bourbon and champagne
Just can't compare to what we share
Down on lover's lane
Standing on the corner fourth and main
Still it cannot match the thrill of lover's lane
When all the world is fast asleep,
She'll be jumping off lover's leap
With some other fella down in lover's lane.

Danny diamond, she was a star
She took the stage every quarter hour
She was the hottest gig in town, in fact
He was the hottest girl around.
She had the strut, she had the lines
To make a man's heart go 'round about...
She put it all into her act until
One night after the show.
Danny gyrated, wouldn't you know
Something had to go
Down she smack- it was her back
Completely crack- so fade to black...
So ends the act of danny diamond
She was a star.

[instrumental]

You left me sad and lonely,
Why did you leave me lonely?
I have a heart that's only
For nobody but you.
I'm burning like a flame, dear.
Won't ever be the same, dear.
I always put the blame, dear,
On nobody but you.
Yes, you, you're drivin' me crazy!
My tears for you make everything hazy,
They cloud the skies of blue.
I do! i have friends who would hear me
And cheer me, believe me, if they knew
That you were the kind who would hurt me,
Desert me when i needed you.
Yea, you, you're drivin' me crazy!
What did i do to you?

If it's good enough for granddad
It's good enough for me.
The way it was that's the way it's got to be.
He told me all about the good times that he had.
Even when the times were sad.
What's good enough for grandad.
He's been to all kinds of places
Been to every old foreign land
Ain't a man alive shuck and jive
Better than granddad can!
All the good times that he had.
If they were good enough for granddad,
They're good enough for me.