Death Menace's definitions

Temptation

I've never been closer
I tried to understand
That certain feeling
Carved by another's hand, no
But it's too late to hesitate
We can't keep on living like this
Leave no track
Don't look back
temptation
(Keep climbin' higher and higher) temptation
(Adorable creatures) temptation
(With unacceptable features) temptation
(Trouble is coming) temptation
(It's just the high cost of loving) temptation
(You can take it or leave it) temptation
(But you'd better believe it)
You've got to make me an offer
That cannot be ignored
So let's head for home now
Everything I have is yours, oh
Step by step, and day by day
Every second counts, I can't break away
Leave no trace
Hide your face
temptation
(Keep climbin' higher and higher) temptation
(You can take it or leave it) temptation
(But you'd better believe it)
Keep us from temptation
Keep us from temptation
Keep us from temptation
Lead us not into temptation
temptation
(Keep climbin' higher and higher) temptation
(Adorable creatures) temptation
(With unacceptable features) temptation
(Trouble is coming) temptation
(It's just the high cost of loving) temptation
(You can take it or leave it) temptation
(But you'd better believe it)
You've got to make me an offer
That cannot be ignored
So let's head for home now
Everything I have is yours, oh
Step by step, and day by day
Every second counts, I can't break away

Leave no trace
Hide your face
temptation
(You've got to get up behind it) temptation
(Put your dime in the hot slot) temptation
(But it's a million to one shot) temptation
(You think that you're right now) temptation
(You're gonna face it tonight now) temptation
(Ooh, give me a breakdown) temptation
(Because it's time for a shakedown) temptation
Temptation (temptation)
Temptation
Temptation (temptation)
Temptation
Temptation (temptation)
Temptation
Temptation
It's just temptation (trying to find it)
Temptation (get up behind it)
Temptation (dime in the hot slot)
Temptation (million to one shot)
Temptation (think that you're right)
Temptation (you're gonna face it tonight now)
Temptation (give me a breakdown)
Temptation (time for a shakedown)

by Death Menace February 3, 2023

Pretty in Pink

Caroline laughs and it's raining all day
She loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
Where nothing is ever put straight
She turns herself round and she smiles and she says
This is it, that's the end of the joke
And loses herself in her dreaming and sleep
And her lovers walk through in their coaches

Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
All of her lovers all talk of her notes
And the flowers that they never sent
And wasn't she easy?
Isn't she pretty in pink?
The one who insists he was first in the line
Is the last to remember her name
He's walking around in this dress that she wore
She is gone but the joke's the same
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Caroline talks to you softly sometimes
She says, I love you and too much
She doesn't have anything you want to steal
Well, nothing you can touch
She waves, she buttons your shirt
The traffic is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She gives you her clothes
These cars collide
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?

by Death Menace February 10, 2023

Lady

Folks, we have had an incredible time tonight
Thank you for coming out
But we gotta go home
This one is for the ladies
The beautiful, lovely ladies of Mississippi
And maybe Memphis, and maybe Tennessee
You guys have been fantastic
If you've had too much to drink, please don't drive home
We want you safe and sound
So you can come back here for year number 27, next year
Look around you, look up here
Take time to make time, make time to be there
Look around, be a part
Feel for the winter, but don't have a cold heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest (c'mon, sing it out)
(You're there when I need you)
(You're there when I need-)
(I'm gonna need you)

A long time ago, I had a lady to love
She made me think of things I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song, it was there all the time
So, lady, let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor making me want you somehow
So, lady, I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
Maybe, I do
Look around you, come to me
I have no answers, but know where I wanna be
I look around, play a part
I was born in the winter and cooled by a warm heart
And I love you best
You're not like the rest
You're there when I need you
You're there when I need-
I'm gonna need you, yeah
So, lady, let me take a look at you now
You're there on the dance floor making me want you somehow
So, lady, I think it's only fair I should say to you
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
Maybe, I do
Don't be thinkin' that I don't want you
Lady, I do
I want a lady
I want a lady
I want a Mississippi lady
Oh, oh, I want a Sam's Town, lady
Self stars, you've been fantastic
Thanks very much for being in the live part
We'll see you next time

by Death Menace September 25, 2023

Laugh, Laugh

I hate to say it, but I told you so

Don't mind my preachin' to you
I said, don't trust 'em, baby, now you know
You don't learn every thing there is to know in school
Wouldn't believe me when I gave advice

I said that he was a tease
If you want help you better ask me now
So be sincere, convince me with a pretty please

Laugh, laugh, I thought I'd die
It seemed so funny to me
Laugh, laugh you met a guy
Who taught you how it feels to be
Lonely
Oh-so lonely

Don't think I'm being funny when I say

You got just what you deserve
I can't help feeling you found out today
You thought you were too good, you got a lot of nerve
Won't say I'm sorry for the things I said

I'm glad he packed up to go
You kept on bragging he was yours instead
Found you don't know every thing there is to know

Laugh, laugh, I thought I'd die
It seemed so funny to me
Laugh, laugh you met a guy
Who taught you how it feels to be
Lonely
Oh-so lonely

Before I go, I got to say one thing
Don't close your ears to me
Take my advice and you'll find out that being
Just another girl won't cause you misery
Don't say you can't get any boy to call

Don't be so smug or else
You'll find you can't get any boy at all
You'll wind up an old lady sitting on the shelf

Laugh, laugh, I thought I'd die
It seemed so funny to me
Laugh, laugh you met a guy
Who taught you how it feels to be
Lonely
Oh-so lonely

by Death Menace May 23, 2023

Alley-Oop

There's a man in the funny papers we all know
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He lives way back a long time ago
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well, this cat's name is Alley-Oop
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He got a chauffeur that's a genuine dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
And he can knuckle your head before you count to four
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He got a big ugly club and a head full of hair
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like great big lions and grizzly bears
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wearin' clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go) (Scream)
He rides through the jungle, tearin' limbs off of trees

(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Knockin' great big monsters dead on their knees
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
The cats don't bug him 'cause they know better
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
'Cause he's a mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wears clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go) (Scream)
There he goes
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Look at that cave man go
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He sure is hip, ain't he?
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like what's happening
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He's too much
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Hi-yo, dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Get 'em, man
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like hips ville
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

by Death Menace August 31, 2023

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

We both lie silently still
In the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
We feel miles apart inside
Was it something I said or something I did
Did the words not come out right
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that's why they say
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Yeah it does
I listen to our favorite song
Playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say loves a game of easy come and
Easy go

But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you'd be here right now
If I could have let you know somehow I guess
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Though it's been a while now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you the wound heals
But the scar, that scar remains
I know I could have saved a love that night
If I'd known what to say
Instead of makin' love
We both made our separate ways
And now I hear you found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife I guess
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

by Death Menace February 25, 2023

Refugee

We did somethin' we both know it
We don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it
Listen it don't really matter to me, baby
You believe what you want to believe
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there
Revel in your abandon
Honey, it don't make no difference to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
Now baby, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee) No

Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom, honey
It don't really matter to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
No, you don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)
You don't have to live like a refugee (don't have to live like a refugee)

Oh, oh, oh

by Death Menace August 13, 2023