Golden Ballads '99

Watch out sister watch out brother
Watch our children while they kill each other
With a gun they bought at Walmart discount stores
Welcome to the hallway metal detector just been installed...hey

Isn't cops and robbers gettin' to be a big bore
Mary Mary quite contrary close the door now it's much too scary
And you might see something you wish you hadn't seen
Out of sight out of time out of patience, and I'm out of my mind

Governor, tell me what does it mean
Dance children, dance to the beat,
Want to be a hippy cause life was so sweet
Good-morning hate

Dance children, dance to the beat,
Want to rock and roll up and down the street,
I've got a message
Love is a good thing
Love is a good thing
Love is a good thing

Politicians on a mission, build them up, bring them down
For the good of the "system",
Well we don't like the way you live your life
I got one thing I must express, we try our criminals in the press
Justice is a fading light

Mary, Mary quite contrary, close the door now, it's much too scary
And you might see something you wish you hadn't seen
Out of sight, out of time, out of patience, and I'm out of my mind
Governor, tell me what does it mean

Dance children, dance to the beat,
Want to be a hippy cause life was so sweet
Good-morning hate
Dance children, dance to the beat,

Want to rock and roll up and down the street,
I've got a message
Love is a good thing
Love is a good thing
Love is a good thing

Here she comes she's all dressed up in daisies
Half the time you'd swear that she is crazy
Flowered drinks and a low cut dress
That's the way I know her best

She says she's lonely how could she be?
Every night she's got company
Oh Marie
I sure hope you're happy

Oh Marie
What about me Marie

She likes the way she looks in her Camaro
She likes lingerie but he prefers the sombrero
She's so famous on the block
She stumbles home around four o'clock
She claims the guys are hard to please
She wears teen perfume behind her knees

Oh Marie,
I sure hope you're happy
Oh Marie,
What about me, Marie

All day long she fills me up with dogma
She's all magazines and benzedrine and vodka
There was one man she truly loved
He took everything but her bear-skin rug

And now and then it's clear to me
That need is love and love is need

Oh Marie,
I sure hope you're happy
Oh Marie,
What about me, Marie
Oh Marie,
What are you looking for
Oh Marie,
Always an open door
What are you looking for

God I feel like hell tonight
The tears of rage I cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand

Are you strong enough to be my man
My man

Nothing's true, and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
'Cause you can't change the way I am

Are you strong enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
Just try and love me if you can

Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough
My man

When I've shown you
That I just don't care
When I'm throwing punches in the air
When I'm broken down and I can't stand

Would you be man enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

It's obvious the trouble we're in
When your father pulls up in a Mercedes Benz
He says he just happened to be in the neighborhood
But before he leaves he slips the landlord the rent

You say "It's just a question of eliminating obstacles"
As you throw your dinner out the kitchen door
You say "I know how you try"
But honey let's eat out tonight

[Chorus]
No one said it would be easy
But no one said it'd be this hard
No one said it would be easy
No one thought we'd come this far

You can't seem to ever fold up a shirt
I bring it up and you think I'm a jerk
But I think we're here to stay
I can't imagine it any other way

[Chorus]

Sometimes I wonder who he's picturing
When he looks at me and smiles

No one said it would be easy
No one said it'd be this hard
No one said it would be easy
No one thought we'd come this far
Oh, and look we've come this far

Life springs eternal
On a gaudy neon street
Not that I care at all

I spent the best part of my losing streak
In an Army Jeep
For what I can't recall

Oh I'm banging on my TV set
And I check the odds
And I place my bet

I pour a drink
And I pull the blind
And I wonder what I'll find

I'm leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good

Used to be I could drive
Up to Barstow for the night
Find some crossroad trucker

To demonstrate his might
But these days it seems
Nowhere is far enough away

So I'm leaving Las Vegas today

I'm leaving Las Vegas
Oh, lights so bright
Blackjack on a Saturday night
I'm leaving Las Vegas
I'm leaving for good, for good

I'm standing in the middle of the desert
Waiting for my ship to come in
But now no joker, no jack, no king
Can take this loser hand
And make it win

I'm leaving Las Vegas
Oh, I'm leaving Las Vegas
For good, for good
Leaving Las Vegas

I quit my job as a dancer
At the Lido des Girls
And we're dealing blackjack until one or two

Such a muddy line between
The things you want
And the things you have to do

Oh, leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
I'm leaving for good
Oh, I'm leaving Las Vegas
And the lights so bright
Palm sweat blackjack
On a Saturday night
I'm leaving Las Vegas
I'm leaving for good, for good
Oh, I'm leaving Las Vegas
And the lights so bright
Leaving Las Vegas
And I won't be back
No, no
No, I won't be back
Not this time

Old James Dean Monroe,
Hands out flowers at the Shop-N-Go,
Hopes for money but all he gets is fear.
And the wind blows up his coat,
And this he scribbles on a perfume note,
"If I'm not here, then you're not here."

And he says,
"Call me Miscreation,
I'm a walking celebration."

And it's hard to make a stand,
And it's hard to make a stand,
Yeah, It's hard to make a stand

My friend, O' Lawdy,
Went to take care of her body,
And she got shot down in the road.
She looked up before she went,
Said, "This isn't really what I meant."
And the Daily News said, 'Two with one stone'

And I say,
"Hey there, Miscreation,
Bring a flower, time is wasting."

And it's hard to make a stand.
And it's hard to make a stand.
Yeah, It's hard to make a stand.
Yeah, It's hard to make a stand.

Yes it is.

We got loud guitars and big suspicions,
Great big guns and small ambitions,
And we still argue over who is God.

And I say,
"Hey there, Miscreation,
Bring a flower, time is wasting."
I say,
"Hey there, Miscreation,
We all need a celebration."

And it's hard to make a stand,
And it's hard to make a stand,
Oh, It's hard to make a stand
Yeah, it's hard to make a stand,
I think it's hard to make a stand,