River

Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa and i'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take them down to the cadillac ranch

Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when i die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my cadillac

Cadillac, cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur

James dean in that mercury `49
Junior johnson runnin' through the woods of caroline
Even burt reynolds in that black trans am
All gonna meet down at the cadillac ranch

Cadillac, cadillac...
Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin' alone through the wisconsin night
You're my last love you're my last chance
Don't let `em take me to the cadillac ranch

Cadillac, cadillac...

Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that i can't
And that no matter what i do it's all over now between me and you girl
But i can't believe what you say
No i can't believe what you say
'cause baby

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I don't wanna fade away
Oh i don't wanna fade away
Tell me what can i do what can i say
Cause darlin' i don't wanna fade away

Well now you say that you've made up your mind it's been such a long,
Long time since it's been good with us
And that somewhere back along the line you lost your love and i lost your trust
Now rooms that once were so bright are filled with the coming night, darlin'

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You say it's not easy for you
And that you've been so lonely
While other girls go out doing what they want to do
You say that you miss the nights when we'd go out dancing
The days when you and i walked as two
Well girl i miss them too
Oh i swear that i do
Oh girl

Now baby i don't wanna be just another useless memory holding you tight
Or just some other ghost out on the street to whom you stop and politely speak when you pass on by vanishing into the night
Left to vanish into the night
No baby

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My feets were flyin' down the street just the other night
When a hong kong special pulled up at the light
What was inside, man, was just c'est magnifique
I wanted to hold the bumper and let her drag me down the street

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Ooh, ooh, i gotta crush on you
Ooh, ooh, i gotta crush on you
Ooh, ooh, i gotta crush on you tonight

Sometimes i spot a little stranger standing 'cross the room
My brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room
For one kiss, darling i swear everything i would give
Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live

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Well now she might be the talk of high society
She's probably got a lousy personality
She might be a heiress to rockefeller
She might be a waitress or a bank teller
She makes the venus de milo look like she's got no style
She make sheena of the jungle look meek and mild
I need a quick shot, doc, knock me off my feet
Cause i'll be minding my own business walking down the street... watchout!

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Yesterday i went shopping buddy down to the mall
Looking for something pretty i could hang on my wall
I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor i caught it
A salesman turned around said "boy you break that thing you bought it"

You can look but you better not touch boy
You can look but you better not touch
Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy
You can look but you better not no you better not no you better not touch

Well i came home from work and i switched on channel 5
There was a pretty little girly lookin' straight into my eyes
Well i watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen
She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean

You can look...

Well i called up dirty annie on the telephone
I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone
I found a lover's rendezvous the music low set to park
I heard a tappin' on the window and a voice in the dark

You can look...

Your mamma's yappin' in the back seat
Tell her to push over and move them big feet
Every monday morning i gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency
Well this morning i ain't fighting tell her i give up
Tell her she wins if she'll just shut up
But it's the last time that she's gonna be ridin' with me

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You can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop
She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block
She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight
Well i got some beer and the highway's free
And i got you, and baby you've got me.
Hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'

Now there's girls melting on the beach
And they're so fine but so far out of reach
Cause i'm stuck in traffic down here on 53rd street
Now sherry my love for you is real
But i didn't count on this package deal
And baby this car just aint big enough for her and me

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So you can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop
She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block
She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight
Well i got some beer and the highway's free
And i got you, and baby you've got me.
Hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain
Let the brokenhearted love again
Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide
To all the girls down at sacred heart
And all you operators back in the park
Say hey, hey, hey whataya say sherry darlin'
Hey, hey, hey, whataya say sherry darlin'

Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night
Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright
But tommorow's fall in number in number one by one
You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from

Well they shot you point blank you been shot in the back
Baby point blank you been fooled this time little girl that's a fact
Right between the eyes baby, point blank right between the pretty lies that
They tell
Little girl you fell

You grew up where young girls they grow up fast
You took what you were handed and left behind what was asked
But what they asked baby wasn't right you didn't have to live that life,
I was gonna be your romeo you were gonna be my juliet
These days you don't wait on romeo's you wait on that welfare check and on all the pretty things that you can't ever have and on all the promises

That always end up point blank, shot between the eyes
Point blank like little white lies you tell to ease the pain
You're walkin' in the sights, girl of point blank
And it's one false move and baby the lights go out

Once i dreamed we were together again baby you and me
Back home in those old clubs the way we used to be
We were standin' at the bar it was hard to hear
The band was playin' loud and you were shoutin' somethin' in my ear
You pulled my jacket off and as the drummer counted four
You grabbed my hand and pulled me out on the floor
You just stood there and held me, then you started dancin' slow
And as i pulled you tighter i swore i'd never let you go

Well i saw you last night down on the avenue
Your face was in the shadows but i knew that it was you
You were standin' in the doorway out of the rain
You didn't answer when i called out your name
You just turned, and then you looked away like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away

Point blank, right between the eyes
Point blank, right between the pretty lies you fell
Point blank, shot right through the heart

Yea point blank, you've been twisted up till you've become just another part of it
Point blank, you're walkin' in the sights
Point blank, livin' one false move just one false move away
Point blank, they caught you in their sights
Point blank, did you forget how to love, girl, did you forget how to fight.
Point blank they must have shot you in the head
Cause point blank, bang bang baby you're dead.

You been hurt and you're all cried out you say
You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way
You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride,
You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side
You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind

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The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch
You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch
You're so afraid of being somebody's fool
Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool
You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line
And face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes i would darlin',
Than know the emptiness your heart must hide,
Yes i would darlin', yes i would darlin',
Yes i would baby

You sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain
Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet the pain
It's a long dark highway and a thin white line
Connecting baby, your heart to mine
We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time
To face the ties that bind
The ties that bind
Now you can't break the ties that bind
You can't forsake the ties that bind

Put on your best dress baby
And darlin', fix your hair up right
Cause there's a party, honey
Way down beneath the neon lights
All day you've been working that hard line
Now tonight you're gonna have a good time

I work five days a week girl
Loading crates down on the dock
I take my hard earned money
And meet my girl down on the block
And monday when the foreman calls time
I've already got friday on my mind

When that whistle blows
Girl, i'm down the street
I'm home, i'm out of my work clothes
When i'm out in the street
I walk the way i wanna walk
When i'm out in the street
I talk the way i wanna talk
When i'm out in the street
When i'm out in the street

When i'm out in the street, girl
Well, i never feel alone
When i'm out in the street, girl
In the crowd i feel at home
The black and whites they cruise by
And they watch us from the corner of their eye

But there ain't no doubt girl, down here
We ain't gonna take what they're handing out
When i'm out in the street
I walk the way i wanna walk
When i'm out in the street
I talk the way i wanna talk
Baby, out in the street i don't feel sad or blue
Baby, out in the street i'll be waiting for you

When the whistle blows
Girl, i'm down the street
I'm home, i'm out of my work clothes
When i'm out in the street
I walk the way i wanna walk
When i'm out in the street
I talk the way i wanna talk

When i'm out in the street
Pretty girls, they're all passing by
When i'm out in the street
From the corner, we give them the eye

Baby, out in the street i just feel all right
Meet me out in the street, little girl, tonight
Meet me out in the street
Meet me out in the street

You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take
You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks
Out on to an open road you ride until the day
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

Now with their hands held high, they reached out for the open skies
And in one last breath they built the roads they'd ride to their death
Driving on through the night, unable to break away
From the restless pull of the price you pay

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Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long
Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong
Where the dark of night holds back the light of day
And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay

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Little girl down on the strand
With that pretty little baby in your hands
Do you remember the story of the promised land
How he crossed the desert sands
And could not enter the chosen land
On the banks of the river he stayed
To face the price you pay

So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart
You can run through all the nights and all the days
But just across the county line, a stranger passing through put up a sign
That counts the men fallen away to the price you pay,
And girl before the end of the day,
I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away