Another Night

(clarke / sylvester / hicks)
Shook my head out of dreams
Reality's calling
The early bird's been up all morning
But i've got no notion of moving from where i am

Though my legs won't move
I feel disabled
I'm on a shelf an article labeled
Waiting for someone to fetch me from lost and found

I'm down no one to hear me calling
I'm down no one to see me falling
I'm down

Had my ways
With days of sunshine
Life came easy it all fell in line
But then again i didn't realise

When you're used to one thing
It's hard to accept another
Like the woman who brought you up
Well she ain't your mother
How do you cope
With a thing like that

Chorus

I always thought it was my dad who went to war
Thought it was my sister who fell off the wall
My pseudo-brother billy emigrated long ago
Someone went through pain to have me
Someone i should know

I'm down
I'm down

To the folks who brought me up
I'm not ungrateful
Kept the secret from me
They thought it was shameful
It hurt me so
To be the last one to know

Maybe someone's out there
Looking for me
Left on their own
Couldn't afford to clothe me
And i i don't even know my real name

Chorus

I'm down
I'm down
I'm down

(sylvester / clarke / hicks)
It's been such a long time
Since i had words with you
Tell me what you've been doing
Tell me baby what's new

I've been hanging 'round with our old friends
Getting a line on what's happening with your game
They all know something about you
But their stories all are the same

Look out girl you're gonna get caught ooh
Getting caught means i'm gonna lose you
Get on the right track
Then i'll have you back

Second hand hangups don't get me down
This ain't my first time around
I'm not disillusioned
I'm a member of the union
Membership paid done my dues

Chorus

Verse 1

Tell me baby what's new

(sylvester / clarke)
Heading out on my way to nowhere
Just a traveling man
Hitching rides along the highway
From whoever i can

Gotta stop someplace somewhere
And put some leather on my shoes
They're the only pair that get me there
Any horizon that i choose

I know when the cold wind blows
My coat will keep me warm
I've got no woman's love
To call my own

I saw you lying there
A cast-off from another man
So i picked you up took you home
And home is on my back

Lonely hobo lullaby is my song
Lonely hobo lullaby gets me along
My shoes my coat my jeans
And anything else i own
We're a family without a tree
No roots to hold us down

Verse 1

Verse 2

(sylvester / clarke / hicks)
Time machine jive time machine jive
Time machine jive time machine jive

You better look out
Look out your window tonight
There'll be a hot cat on your tin roof
Layin' it loose

There'll be a full band
To give me a hand
The moon will be a spotlight
For this one-night stand

You better look out
Look out your window tonight

Chorus

You gotta reach out
And try to grab my glitter suit
Snatch your hand full of stars
Take a trip in my seven league boots

Come silver surfin'
You'll know you had a ride
My star-treck music's gonna take me high
You better look out
Look out your window tonight

Time machine jive time machine jive

Dimensional intentional sensual
Immeasurable pleasurable hitch a ride

Chorus x2

Don't leave it too late
Or you won't get a ticket on my cruise
Don't be the last one
Or else you'll have to light the fuse

You can't afford not
To be on board
Come on baby
Hear the music that's calling
And look out look out your window tonight (time machine jive time machine jive)
You better look out look out your window tonight(time machine jive time machine jive)
Look out look out your window tonight(time machine jive time machine jive)
You better look out look out your window tonight (time machine jive time machine jive)

(sylvester / clarke / hicks)
Johnny was a pusher on the east side
Pushing anything to be pushed
Laid something on a guy who didn't get high
Didn't know the guy was a hood

Wheeling-dealing johnny got frightened
Thought the best place was out of town
Packed up his bags and threw them in the back
Packed up his bags and threw them in the back
Of his chevy put his foot flat down

Look out johnny there's a monkey on your back
You better beware there johnny
'cause the monkey's packin' a gat
Drivin' over red lights speeding down the freeway
Johnny johnny get away

You better beware there johnny
There's a monkey on your back

Johnny thought he'd do something clever
Turning south on the old coast road
Pushing 94 swerving leaning on the door
Trying to shake off his heavy load

Crossed the state line feeling safer
Drinking in the corner of a bar
In walked a guy looked the barman in the eye
Said "hey is johnny in here"

Chorus

You better beware there johnny
There's a monkey on your back
Be good

You better beware there johnny
There's a monkey on your back
Look out johnny 'cos the monkey's packin' a gat
Drivin' over red lights speeding down the freeway
Johnny johnny get away

You better beware there johnny
There's a monkey on your back
Look out johnny there's a monkey on your back

(repeat)