Marc Bolan - 20th Century Boy

The Wizard

Walking in the woods one day
I met a man who said that he was magic
Wonderful things he said
Pointed hat upon his head
Knew why people laughed and cried
Why the lived and why the died

Shadows followed him around
He walked the woods without a single sound
Golden eagles at his door
Cats and bats played on the floor
Silver sunlight in his eyes
The wizard turned and melted in the sky.

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Beyond The Risin' Sun

You've heard about the fairy land
Where people walk hand in hand
I tell you, I know where it is

It's past the apples of the sun
Near the land of the Golden One
Far beyond the rising' sun

You pass the oceans of this land
Past the man with a golden hand
Who smiles as you watch the dragons fly

And play upon the golden shore
And bang upon the magic door
Behind, where some people never die

When finally you make the scene
You see things you never dream
You thought they were only in you mind

Where unicorns and young gods play
From the break of dawn till the end of day
Always happy and kind, in their minds

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The Third Degree

Everywhere I go people question me
She read my head and I can see
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Closing of my mind in darkness
Beware of the third degree.

Everywhere I go people follow me
They look, they smile, they cannot see.
I am too much for them to take in
The only say that I am faking
Beware of the third degree.

Everywhere I go people always say
It's sad to see him act this way
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Just closing of my mind in darkness
Beware of the third degree, yeah

Sanity baby is all I got
I'm as sane as you believe it or not
Philosophizing mad psychiatrist
Just closing of my mind in darkness
Everywhere I go people laugh at me.

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San Francisco Poet

His schooling days were ruling days to show it
To all the people eagerly wanting to blow it
Crazy just to see how foolish I can be
If he happens to be a San Francisco poet

Hey there Frisco poetically speaking
The days of the beatniks are gone
Hey there Frisco poetically speaking
The Bible's all written wrong.

His schooling days were ruling days to show it
To all the people eagerly wanting to blow it
Crazy just to see how foolish I can be
If he happens to be a San Francisco poet

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Hippy Gumbo

Met a man, he was nice
Said his name was "Paradise"
Didn't realize at the time
That his face and mind were mine

It seemed good, and it seemed right
That I should dig him on the night
But in the morning with the sun
He pulled an automatic gun
He blew my soul he blew my brain
He split, I could not do the same

Hippy Gumbo he's no good
Chop him up for firewood
Hippy Gumbo he's no good
Chop him up and burn the wood

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Jasper C. Debussy

Jasper was fine but he had glass eyes
He crucified me with his pixie colored lies
His hair was black, he had a bend in his back
He tied my cousin Eddy to the railroad tracks
The train it come, he started to run
Jasper C. Debussy that's his kind of fun
Jasper was born with a moth in his mind
The moth was too soft on the curtain behind
He startled the face of a friend of my girl's
He cut out her eyes and he wore them with furs
I get half the dues, wear my shoes
Tonight you might laugh while crying the news
'Cos Jasper C. Debussy, that's his kind of blues

Mama

Jasper he dressed in the darkest of clothes
He wears scarlet pantaloons and five foot one inch hose
His face is like a rock and his eyes like the night
He's like a grim faced dog that's looking for a fight
Silhouette looks like a furry Persian rat
When you see him coming mama, you'd better run
Because Jasper C. Debussy that's his kind of fun

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Hot Rod Mama

Hot rod mama moving
like a motor cycle devil in a race
Blown out my mind, I can't keep up the pace

I'm selling all my midnight
still broke and living on the ground
My gone little mama cut out without a sound

With my greased-up levis
baseball boots above my head
If it wasn't such a tragedy I might wish I was dead

She took my ice-cream mustang
and my purple colored Dodgeville
She even took my panpipes and my elixir of life pill

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Mustang Ford

M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Mustang Ford

My Baby she knows I'm on a scene
My baby keeps asking where I've been
My baby's guessing that I'm messing
It's all put together with alligator leather.

My Baby she knows I'm no fool
My baby she says hey keep cool
My baby don't realize I'm hypnotized
It's all put together with alligator leather

M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Mustang Ford

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Desdemona

Desdemona just because
You're the daughter of a man
He may be rich.
He's in a ditch.
He does not understand
Just how to move or rock and roll
To the conventions of the young

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.

Just because my friend and I
Got a juke joint by the Seine
Does not mean
I'm past fourteen
And cannot play the game
I'm glad I split and got a pad
On Boulevard Rue Fourteen

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and fly.

Just because Toulouse Lautrec
Painted some chick in the rude
Doesn't give you the right
To steal my night
And leave me naked in the nude
Well just because the touch of your hand
Can turn me on just like a stick.

Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Desdemona, Desdemona, Desdemona
Lift Up your skirt and speak.

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Sara Crazy Child

Sara Crazy Child is devouring all the street
With her pastel tortured dress
And her seductive bongo beat
Her skin's wild like the olives
And her Body's bitter sweet
Still she's only just thirteen
And she's forgotten how to dream.

Her brother the Juke Box King
With his venom mouthy sting
And his knowledge twisted hair
And his 1920's stare
He lives beneath the roadway
In a Minotaur's lair
In summer he's a young boy
But in winter he's a bear

Broken dusty mother
Her face melted just like wax
Her once gazelle like features
Bloodied by the age axe
Sepia picture postcard
Of the twosome of their home
Soulessly they submitted to
The guillotine of their own.

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Midsummer's Night Scene

Petals and flowers
Petals and flowers
Petals and flowers
In the park getting dark eating the heat
there's an eye in the sky melting your feet
you see a chick who starts to nick the petals and flowers
She starts to joke and then provoke the dance of the hours
It's all down to a midsummer's night scene
It's all down to a Shakespearean dream
Get her face there's a place disfigured with love
Her hands are white like the night encased in a glove
She starts to swing and watches you nick petals and flowers
She starts to joke and then evokes the dance of the hours
Its all down to a midsummer's night scene
Its all down to a Shakespearean dream
Its all down to a midsummer's night scene
Its all down to a Shakespearean dream.

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Child Star

Mountain eyes, peeping out of his head ah...
Sipping tea composing in his bed ah...
A hundred hands
working on a musical of old
Debussy and Mendelssohn Handel and Dvorak of old

Child star, protégé of Mister Gormez
Who said you'd go far
Child star, they do not see just what a precious
gem you'd be
Sad to see them watching you
fade into in-ah in-ah-visibility

Twelve years old, your elfish fingers kiss your
Beethoven hair, The awesome people stare they're
Unaware of all the angel sounds they see and hear
Debussy and Mendelssohn Handel and Dvorak they hear

Child star, protégé of Mister Gormez
Who said you'd go far
Child star, and when you died at just thirteen
they wept and wrung their hair
Sad to see them mourning you when you are
there Within the flowers and the trees

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O Debora
You look like a zebra
Your sunken face is like a galleon
Clawed with mysteries of the spanish maine
O Debora

O Debora
Always dressed like a conjurer
It's fine to see your young face hiding
'Neath the stallion that I'm riding
Debora.

O Debora
You look like a stallion
O Debora
You look like a stallion

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Demon Queen

Demon Queen of Voodoo Sun
In you vales of blue
Evil-eyed with the dwarves of Alabar
Children's payers of life
Niceness is a golden gown
Seated on the planets round

[Repeat verses twice]

Hoo-la-la-la, Hoo-la-la-la-lala, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-laaaa...

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One Inch Rock

Met a woman she's spouting prose
She's got luggage eyes and a roman nose
Her body is slung from side to side
Need a lift she said much obliged
I'm riding piggy-back
Then I come to her shack
We go inside the place is a mess
She said my name's the liquid poetess
She unties her mouth
And her buckskin dress
She drinks from a bottle
labeled tenderness
I'm in one hand in the other's a can
She puts me in the can
And smiles through the wall
I got the horror's cos I'm one inch tall
Next thing I know's a girl by my side
Dressed in a bay leaf she's trying to hide
I asked her name she said Germaine
Do the rock do the one inch rock.

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Cat Black (the Wizard's Hat)

Catblack the wizard's hat
Spun in lore from Dagamoor
The skull of jade was pearl inlaid
The silks, skin spun, repelled the Sun
A tusk of boar with dwarfish awe
Sobs on the door where stood before
A mountain man with sky-blue teeth
Upon his head a python's wreath
A deer he slew in the dawning's dew
Her heart was a dagger for a murderer's brew.

A toad of jet on a sill cast in brass
Portrayed for his sight mysteries of the past
A yellow orphan dancer rich in Nature's costly gold
Wept for the jailer of time to bless her old
But his kiss he held and shadowed for the spell of nights are strong
And spiralled like a whirlwind in the childhood of a song

Catblack the wizard's back
Daubed in doom in his tounge tombed room
We of the wind must rejoice and speak
And kiss all our starbrowed brothers on the cheek.

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Pewter suitor tangled in the bracken
Dancing daily with his gaily wavy baton
The wild cat wishing of
The hissing wheels of fortune that are known
To rise beside us like
A picture painted heartache of the home

King Of The Rumbling Spires

Light all the fires
It's the King of the Rumbling Spires
Light all the fires
It's the King and he's coming home wo-ow

We're so windy fair
Portrait of my young soul
Mighty eagles pair
On the peace of your hair

Light all the fires,
It's the King of the Rumbling Spires
Light all the fires,
It's the King and he's coming home wo-ow

Do You Remember

Her face was like a cult to me
Her limbs were fierce in symmetry
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

And away she goes, her toes leave gold
Her horn of youth has passed behold
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

The voice of light denounce the night
Sweet pilgrims climb the chilly heights
It throws me into song
The throng have done us wrong

Do-oo you remember?
Do-oo you remember?
Pleasures of love
Treasures of love

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By the Light of the Magical Moon

I'm gonna dance with my princess
By the light of a magical moon
As I go along my way
I say hey-hey

I'm gonna talk with the elders
And tell all of our hearts
That is good I'll barefoot dance with my baby
By the light of a magical moon

When I slay the darkest day
Then we can play
'Till that deep and joyous day
We'll dance and pray.

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Once upon the Seas of Abyssinia

Once upon the Seas of Abyssinia
A cultured man with rings
Within his ear-lobes
Locked the door
From which the sun arose
A man at noon
With shadows on his cheek bone
Singed for sleep
To use him as a pillow
His robes of chintz were melting
In the snows

The stars with eyes
Embedded in his footprints
Wept sweet words
From his remembered childhood
Poets of the skies
Look long and hard

Once upon the Seas of Abyssinia
A cultured man with rings
Within his ear-lobes
Locked the door
From which the sun arose

La, la, la, la, da, da, da, da, la, la, la, la....

(repeat til fade)

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Blessed Wild Apple Girl

Gypsy Girl, oh twisty pearl
Sat upon the stoney pale mare
Beltane Eve, by the fires you grieve
With your deep Babylonian hair

(chorus)
Blessed Wild Apple Girl move along now
Blessed Wild Apple Girl move along now
Blessed Wild Apple Girl

Gypsy girl, oh twisty girl
Your hands are dangled with flowers
Tangled torn, so stately born
For a throne in the (hill) halls of Ireland

(chorus)

Fools have said the gills are dead
But her nose is a rose of the Shee
A silver sword by an ancient ford
Was my gift from this child of the trees

(chorus to end)

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Find A Little Wood

Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Find a little wood
And have a little sleep sleep there
Like the sun and the sea
You soon wash away all cares

Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Find a little stream
And have a little dream dream there
Like the windy moon
You'll soon shed all your cares ah

Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you
Love is like a beautiful girl
Who smiles for you

Oh Baby

Oh baby, ooh, oh baby, oh baby baby
Oh baby baby, oh baby baby
Ahh, I want you for my woman
Oh baby baby, oh baby baby, oh

Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life
Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life
And I'm singing

Oh baby baby, oh baby baby
Oh baby baby, Ahhh
I want you for my woman
Oh baby baby, Oh baby baby, yeah

Well I saw a girl yesterday
Thought my life that she was my wife
Once in my life

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Beltane Walk

Trucking down by the roadside
Met a man with starhide
He said boy wouldn't you like to look
But could it give me love
Give me little love from her heart
Bopping down by the whirlpool
I met a girl she was god's tool
I said girl wouldn't you like to rock

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Ride A White Swan

Ride it on out
Like a bird in the sky ways
Ride it on out
Like you were a bird
Fly it all out
Like an eagle in a sunbeam
Ride it all out
Like You were a bird

Wear a tall hat
Like a Druid in the old days
Wear a your hair long babe
You can't go wrong
Catch a bright star and place it on your
forehead
Say a few spells and a-there you go

Take a black cat
Sit it on your shoulder
And in the morning you'll know all you know.
Da da dee dee da (repeated 6 times)

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Hot Love

Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old u-huh-huh
Well she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old u-huh-huh
I don't mean to be bold
But may I hold your hand

Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
I'm a laborer of love
In my Persian gloves u-huh-huh

Well she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast u-huh-huh
Well she's faster than most
And she lives on the coast u-huh-huh
I'm her two-penny prince
And I give her hot love u-huh-huh

Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
Well she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch u-huh-huh
I'm her two-penny prince
And I give her hot love

La la la, la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la

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Get It On (Bang A Gong)

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in Black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yea.

Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the Hydra upon you.
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl.

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yea.

You're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Well you're windy and wild
You got the blues
I'm your shoes and your stockings.
You're windy and wild
Oh yeah.

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a car
Oh yea.

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Jeepster

You're so sweet
You're so fine
I want you all and everything
Just to be mine

You slide so good
With bones so fair
You've got the universe
Reclining in your hair

Just like a car
You're pleasing to behold
I'll call you Jaguar
If I may be so bold

The wild winds blow
Upon your frozen cheeks
The way you flip your hip
It always makes me weak

Planet Queen

Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
like an exploder
The Planet Queen

The worlds the same
I am to blame
She used my head
like a revolver
The world's the same

Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter

Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
like a revolver
The world's the same.

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Purple Pie Pete
Purple Pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat

Bobby's all right
Bobby's all right
He's a natural born poet
He's just out a sight

Jungle faced Jake
Jungle faced Jake
I say make no mistake
About Jungle Faced Jake

Metal Guru

Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Sitting there in your armor plated chair

Metal Guru could it be
You're gonna bring my baby to me
She'll be wild you know
A rock and roll child

Metal Guru has it been
Just like a silver-studded saber-tooth dream
I'II be clean you know
Pollution machine
Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you

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Chariot Choogle

Girl you are a groove
You're like the planets when you move
See the winter's coming
In a two finned caddy
Gonna walk upon the waters
Go ooh yea

Girl you gotta cook
You got the chariot by the hook
I'm riding in the rain
Got my blue suede shoes
Gonna give up all my pain
And go ooh yea

Standing on your porch
You wear your pleasure like a torch
Hiding in the road
Like a Pasolini toad
Gonna give up all my load
And go ooh yea

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Baby Strange

I see you walking
I see you talking
With all my friends
I'm shadowed under
You're like some thunder
I wanna be your friend

I wanna call you
I wanna ball you
All night long
In winds of passion
My whip is lashing
I wanna get you and then

OOO you're strange
Don't lame me baby strange
Don't lame me baby

The city's shaking
I ain't faking
Baby this is the end
I'm overloaded
My head's exploded
I wanna get you and then

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Children Of The Revolution

Yeah
Well you can bump and grind
If it's good for your mind
Well you can twist and shout
Let it all hang out

*Chorus
But you won't fool
The children of the revolution
No, you won't fool
The children of the revolution
No, no, no

Well you can terraplane
In the falling rain
I drive a Rolls Royce
'Cos it's good for my voice *

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Jitterbug Love

Yeah
We've got to get together
We've got to get together
Oh yes we have
Oh yes we have

Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Here it comes again

We'll rock and roll together
We'll even stroll together
Oh yes we will
Oh yes we will

Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Jitterbug love has got me on the run now
Here it comes again
Yeah

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Sunken Rags

It's a shame in sunken rags
The way you lay me down (play me down)
It's a shame the way you hide me
Back at schoo-oo-ool
I was brave to call you names
Out in the alley-way (alley-way)
It's a shame the way you treat me
Like a fool (like a fool)

So ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your sins
Ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your sins
Oo-Ooh
Oo-Oo Oo-Oo Oo-Ooh

It's a game with broken brain
The way you smile on me (smile on me)
I'm a bird that rides upon
The wind of fools
It's a shame how you unzip my
Winters poetry
It's a shame the way you treat me
Like a foooo-ool

So ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your sins
Ride on fight on
Love is gonna win it's gonna beat your sins
Oo-Ooh
Oo-Oo Oo-Oo Oo-Ooh

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Life is the same and it always will be
Hey hey hey
As easy as picking foxes from a tree
Hey hey hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

A stud is a lamb with thoughts of a tiger
Hey, hey, hey
He moves like a cat and knows how to ride her
Hey, hey, hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey

Stroll On
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey

A woman from the east with her headlights shinning
Hey, hey, hey
Eased my pain and stopped my crying
Hey, hey, hey
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey

And all my hair will keep her smiling
With my wondrous walk and my telephone dialing
But I can't get no satisfaction
All I want is easy action
Hey, hey, hey

I know you're shrewd
And she's a dude
But all I want is easy action
I know you're shrewd
And she's a dude
But all I want is easy action baby
Hey, hey, hey

Born to Boogie

Baby baby I was born to boogie,
Baby baby l was born to boogie,
Spend some time with you, I wanna do all I wanna do.

Baby baby I was born a motivation,
Baby baby l was born a motivation,
Spend some time with you, l wanna do all I wanna do.

Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah,
Boogie children, uh ah

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20th Century Boy

Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock 'n' roll
I move like a cat
Charge like a ram
Sting like a bee
Babe, I wanna be your man

Well it's plain to see
You were meant for me
Yeah, I'm your toy
Your 20th Century boy

Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock 'n' roll
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Ball like a hound
Babe, I wanna be your man

Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like rock 'n' roll
I move like a cat
Charge like a ram
Sting like a bee
Babe, I wanna be your man

20th Century boy
I wanna be your toy
20th Century toy
I wanna be your boy

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Highway Knees

She could have laid, could have stayed, on the highway,
I could have loved her, O yes I could.
Her children stayed, could have played, on the highway,
I could have known them. O yes I could.

She could have laid, could have stayed, on the highway.
I could have loved her, O yes I could.

On my knees I'm begging please uh huh,
On my knees I'm begging please uh huh,
On my knees I'm begging please uh huh.

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Some call me Arnie, some name me Slim
It don't make no difference
'Cos I move right in

They call me the groover
When I'm on the floor
The kids yell for more, more, more

Some call me Starkey, some name me Stud - Yes they do
It don't make no difference
'Cos I move in the mud

Well some call me Jeepster, and some name me Lane
It don't make no difference
Man you know I ain't dim
I'm a groover, 'cos i move right in
Well they call me the groover
When I'm on the floor
The kids yell for more, more, more

Truck On (Tyke)

Truck on, truck on, truck on, truck on tyke, yeah
Truck on, truck on, truck on, truck on tyke, yeah

Got electric deep in me
I'm a space-age cowboy
Ride dinosaurs, yeah
Like a song I truck on

People put you down
'Cos you're too low on the ground
They can't hurt you though
'Cos you're cosmic
Like a song I truck on

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Teenage Dream

Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream
Surprise surprise, the boys are home
My guardian angel's rung down my telephone
The heat's on mister, can't you hear them scream
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream

The curfew comes at the crack of light
The sad old wino aches to dissipate the fright
The jet junk jiver speeds past in his machine
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream

A broken god from a musty world
Sweetly mouthed touched an onyx girl.
His prison bars were very hard to clean
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream
-Yeah

The Wizard of Oz and the bronzen thief
Ruled my girl with Teutonic teeth
But all was lost when her mouth turned green
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream

Silver Surfer and the Ragged Kid
Are all sad and rusted boy, they don't have a gig
Believe me Pope Paul my toes are clean
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream

Black is black and white is white
Some go to Heaven and some get it light
Nobody disapproves but his wicked screams
Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream
-Yeah

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Venus Loon

Goin' to see my baby in the afternoon,
Goin' to take my baby on a Venus loon.

Slipshod gymslip in my neighborhood,
Empty head, steel bed, Dipseys no good.
All alone, no telephone, to hype up my baby,
Goin' to see my baby in the afternoon,
Goin' to take my baby on a Venus loon.

Bent spent, psychedelic mailman's head,
Gorging up my spokes like the ghostly dead.
Ally pally angel chewing up my blues,
Goin' to see my baby in the afternoon,
Goin' to take my baby on a Venus loon.

Oh my Venus loon it'll make you swoon,
It'll make you feel good.
It'll make you feel good.
Oh my Venus loon it'll make you swoon,
It'll make you feel good.
It'll make you feel good.

First girl I ever met I don't recognize
Her nose is smashed her frame is bent
She's covered in flies.
Everyone I ever loved,
I'll love 'till I die.
Goin' to see my baby in the afternoon,
Goin' to take my baby on a Venus loon.

Oh my Venus loon it'll make you swoon,
It'll make you feel good.
It'll make you feel good.
Oh my Venus loon it'll make you swoon,
It'll make you feel good.
It'll make you feel good.

Oh won't you burn,
Won't you burn for me
Won't you burn for me,
The light of love

Oh the light of love,
Won't you let it shine,
Won't you let it shine,
The light of love

Oh the fire of love,
Won't you let it burn,
Won't you let it burn,
The light of love ***

Oh light of love,
Won't you shine for me,
Won't you shine for me,
The light of love

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Think Zinc

People passing by, all through the night
They use my senses in strange ways
She knows just what you are, like a fading star
And she uses my senses in strange ways *

You've got to think zinc
Think a, think a
Think a, think a
Think a, think a
Ooh **

You've got to think zinc
Think a, think zinc
Think a, think zinc
Zinc, zinc
Ooh **

People passing by, all through the night
They use my numbers in strange ways
Over the telephone, you should hear them groan
I crossed his wires in strange ways *

All my favorite people child, you gotta think zinc
All my favorite people child, you gotta think zinc

Zip Gun Boogie

Have you ever seen anyone do the low slung boogie
Oh no, oh no
Have you ever seen anyone do the low slung boogie
Oh no, oh no

The zip gun boogie's comin' down to get ya, people
The zip gun boogie's is comin' on strong
Zip gun boogie's comin' to get ya people
The zip gun boogie's is comin' on strong.*

Have you ever seen anyone do the back street boogie
Oh no, oh no
Have you ever seen anyone do the back street boogie
Oh no, oh no

Have you ever seen anyone do the zip gun boogie
Oh no, oh no
Have you ever seen anyone do the zip gun boogie
Oh no, oh no

New York City

Did you ever see a woman
Coming out of New York City
With a frog in her hand

Dreamy Lady

O dreamy lady
Won't you come
To my bed
Night is the right time
To get acquainted with my head
In my bed
Yeah *

Star light is shinning
Silver baby hold me tight
Moon beams are twining
In the portals of my sight
You're so right

London Boys

Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys

Do you remember going to Petticoat Lane
With all the conceptions moving' in your brain?

Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Don't you remember that we're just the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys

The Mighty Mean a mod king dressed like fame
London to Brighton and back again, but then

Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Don't you remember that we're just the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys

Changing life's patterns to get to the top
And when you get up there
You dunno if you're there or what, because...

Don't you remember that we're just the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys
Oh yeah, we're the London Boys

Solid Baby

Oh baby who's the solid baby
Who's gonna love me tonight
Oh baby who's the solid baby
Who's gonna love me tonight
Tonight, who's gonna love me tonight

Ooh baby, I'm the gentlest baby
I'll be stroking tonight
Ooh baby, I'm the gentlest baby
I'll be stroking till light
Tonight, yes tonight

(Oh baby, who's the solid baby)
Well don't you know that I am
(Oh baby, who's the solid baby)
Can't you hear me cryin'
(Oh baby, who's the solid baby)
Ooh it's got to be me *

Solid baby who's the solid baby
Who's gonna love me tonight
Solid baby who's the solid baby
Please treat me right
Tonight, yes tonight

We love to boogie, we love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, Bolan pretty boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night

Belinda Mae Fender's got a Cadillac Bone
Jenny's lost her cherry walking
all the way home
The passions of the Earth blasted it's mind
Now it's neat sweet ready for
the moon based grind

We love to boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night
We love to boogie
High school boogie, jitterbug boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night

You rattlesnake out with your tail feathers high
Jitterbug left and smile to the sky
With your black velvet cape
We love to boogie, we love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, Bolan pretty boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night
and your stovepipe hat
Be-bop baby the dance is where it's at

I love to boogie
Yes I love to boogie on a Saturday night
I said I love to boogie, I love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, I love to boogie
I love to boogie on a Saturday night
I love to boogie

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Gold mouthed lady mix a drink for me
Lay beside me solid company
You move on up, you move on back
Your Laser Love is like a heart attack

Lean, clean woman lay a kiss on me
My love is so strong, like a raging sea
You move on up, you move on back
Your Laser Love is like a heart attack

Dance, dance, dance, till the crack of dawn
Dance, dance, dance, till you shoes are worn
You move on up, you move on back
Your Laser Love is like a heart attack

You move on up, you move on back
Your Laser Love is like a heart attack

[Back to Side Six]

I went to the city port
City port took my blues away
I went to the city port
City port took my blues away, yes they did

I lost all my city cool
When I bought your midget show
I grew all debonair
When I had the 1980's scare, no hair

I went to the city sight
A young love took my soul away
Peering eyes and Persian skies, removed my eyes
And took them right away, took them all away
Just like [guitar riff]

And it took them, took them all away
And it took them, took them all away
City Port

[Back to Side Six]

The Soul of My Suit

Well you damaged the soul of my suit
You pulled my love out by the roots
But I'm not such a bad boy- oh no *

You ravished the runes of my tunes
You put on the gloves of my loves
But you're not such a bad girl- oh no

Rock and rolled it even strolled it, baby
Rock and rolled it, yeah
Rock and rolled it even strolled it, baby
Rock and rolled it, yeah

Dandy in the Underworld

A Bolanic revision of Orpheus Descending

Prince of Players, Pawn of none
Born with steel reins on the heart of the Sun
Gypsy explorer of the New Jersey Heights
Exalted companion of cocaine nights **

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld
Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air,
Will anybody ever care *

At an old eighteen exiled he was
To the deserted kingdoms of a mythical Oz
Distraction he wanted, to destruction he fell
Now he forever stalks the ancient
Mansions of hell

Now his lovers have left him
And his youth's ill spent
He cries in the dungeons and tries to repent
But change is a monster and changing is hard
But he'll freeze away his summers in his
Underground yard

Celebrate Summer

Hey little girl would you like a dance
Hey little girl want a quick romance
Hey little girl won't you take a chance
And celebrate summer with me
Hey little chick where did you learn that trick
Hey don't you know you got rock and roll
Hey little punk forget all that junk
And celebrate summer with me
Summer's not a bummer
This is summer
And it's now
Summer is heaven in '77
Hey little girl would you like a dance
Hey little girl want a quick romance
Hey little girl won't you be the one
To celebrate summer with me

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Hey little girl you move so fine
All I want to do is melt your mind**
Under the crimson moon
Under the crimson moon
I wanna feel your heat under the crimson moon
I wanna feel your heat under the crimson moon

You can shake your torpedoes
You can shoot your gun
You can mix your martinis
From the blood of the sun

Teen Riot Structure

Teen riot structure, ankle deep in fear
Babies lost in bellies and the oracle can't hear
A demon angel demi-god blasted
through the night
Me and Lucy Lightning holding on real tight

An ancient Lord in wonder rung upon my bell
I fed him with my nightmares
And he ate my dreams as well
All London was in blazes burning to the sound
Of deep galactic tragedies
In stereophonic sound

A tempest teen of stature in
Gatsby hat and cloak
Licked upon my lollipop,
but I didn't get the joke
As devastation mounted
my wardrobes almost burned
The teens held hands on shifting sands
and wonder what they learnt
Repeat in toto