Lyrics - Cinema Verite
Visiting The Zoo
Someone told me that you'd gone astray
What am I supposed to say?
Shouldn't I care?
Said you said I'm strictly second rate
Can I reciprocate?
Isn't it fair?
And I haven't got a dime
And I haven't got the time
All the same I'm glad I came
I'm just visiting the Zoo
Cause it makes me think of you
Here's hoping you can do the same.
Teenage fever, now you've got it bad
All the old toys you had
Throw them away
Go to college put on high heeled shoes
Get friends that buy you blues
Stay up all day
And I haven't got a dime
And I haven't got the time
All the same I'm glad I came
I'm just visiting the Zoo
Cause it makes me think of you
Here's hoping you can do the same.
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Questions?
How's it going, how you doing,
Are you feeling good tonight?
Do you mind if I ask questions
Do you think it'd be alright?
Did she tell you we went out once?
Did she say she loved me too?
Did she tell you that I laughed
when I found out she was with you?
Does she make you buy her jewelry?
Does she make you speak in tongues?
Does she tell you about her brother
who's got liquid in his lungs?
Does she buy you clothes for christmas?
Does she teach you to make sense?
Does she let you read her poems
'bout the art of self-defense?
Have you ever seen her cry
or heard her listen to my songs?
Does she ask you to apologize
when you've done nothing wrong?
Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?
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Scenario
This is my scenario
Phonograph and radio
I've written everything I know
that I have ever seen.
Get it started with a bang
meet a pretty girl who sang
a famous song of love
at seventeen.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
Sister's in the everglades
Mother swallows razor blades
Father makes the flags for all
the Labor Day parades.
She hangs out at the five and ten
She dates a lot of married men
They take her out and wonder when
She'll sing that song again.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
This is my Scenario
Phonograph and radio
I've written everything I know
that I have ever seen.
Get it started with a bang
meet a pretty girl who sang
a famous song of love
at seventeen.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
alone in a bar room.
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Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)
Okay, what is it tonight?
Please just tell me what the hell is wrong!
Do you wanna eat?
Do you wanna sleep?
Do you wanna drown?
Just settle down, settle down, settle down!
I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills
give you anything you want--
hundred-dollar bills
I'll even let you watch the shows you wanna see
just marry me marry me marry me!
I'm so sick of you tonight
You never stay awake when I get home
Is something wrong with me?
Is something wrong with you?
I really wish I knew wish I knew wish I knew!
I'll give you candy, give you diamonds, give you pills
I'll give you anything you want--
hundred-dollar bills
I'll even let you watch the shows you wanna see
Because you marry me marry me marry me!
Marry me marry me marry me!
I was young, I learned a game
And love and happiness were the same
Now I'm older and I don't play--
I found out the hardest way.
I got wasted she got mad
Called me names and she called her dad
He got crazy and I did too
Wondered what I did to you.
I gave you candy, gave you diamonds, gave you pills
Gave you anything you want--
Hundred-dollar bills!
I even let you hear the songs I want to sing
I'll give you anything anything anything
I'll give you anything anything anything
I'll give you anything anything anything
anything
anything
anything
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Femme Fatale
Here she comes
Better watch your step
She's going to break your heart in two,
yeah, it's true.
It's not hard to realize
Just look into her false colored eyes
She'll bring you up just to put you down
Oh, what a clown.
Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)
See the way she walks
and hear the way she talks.
You're written in her book
You're number 47 have a look
She's going to play you for a fool
Yeah, it's true.
Little boy, she's from the street
Before you start, you're already beat
She'll use her smile just to make you frown
Oh, what a clown.
Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)
See the way she walks
(wolf whistle)
and hear the way she talks.
Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)
See the way she walks
and hear the way she talks.
Cause everybody knows...
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Candidate
I'll make you a deal
Like any other candidate
With the tale walking home
Cause your future's at stake
My cities amaze you
And even smells like the street
There's a bar down at the end
Where I can meet you and your friends
So I scrawled on the walls
In the blood of the tree-cutters
Rolled up scandals and
other boys
And having so much fun with the poisonous peoples
Spreading rumors and lies, and stories they made up.
Some make you sing
and some make you scream
And some make you wish
That you'd never been seen...
There's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache
Making bullet-proof faces, join and dance with Casius
Clay
And if you want it,
boy,
Get it here babe!
So you scream out a lie:
"I want you! I need you!
Anyone out there? Anytime?"
You said: "kiss me, I'm the one"
I said: "Daddy, I want you when it's
Good it's really good, and when it's bad I'm not abusive"
And if you want it, boy,
Get it here babe!
So on the street where you live
I put the hole on my hand
Before I put all I had into another man
On the leather floor, in the back of a car
In the center like a church with the door ajar
Well I guess we must be looking for a different kind
But we can't stop trying to make up our minds
When the sun drips down on the city at night
Flashin on the ground and kicking in fright
I guess we could cruise down one more time
With you by my side it should be fine
We'll buy some drugs and watch a band
And jump in the river holding hands
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Some Crazy Dame
She's fantastic, she says "Man, it's great"
She shakes hands, she's like a candidate
She's so happy it's a carnival
She gets snappy, she's an animal
And she was
She's on camera she's an actress now
Such charisma on the mattress now
I'm no film star I'm no modern saint
I can't draw but I know how to paint
And she was
Oh, she's so political
she's oh so critical
Oh, she's hardly sociable
she's non-negotiable
Oh, she's so subliminal
she's such a criminal
SOME CRAZY DAME!
She's fantastic, she says "Man, it's great"
She shakes hands, she's like a candidate
She's so happy it's a carnival
She gets snappy, she's an animal
And she was...
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Etc
13 men stand on 13 hills
In their pockets they each hold 13 dollar bills
13 women in 13 cells
At the 13th hour they each ring 13 bells
I've got something, and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Ha ha ha!
7 million in 7 banks
Yield 7 words of english more than thanks
7 soldiers drive 7 tanks
To the 7th place where everyone gives thanks
I've got something, and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Ho ho ho!
Cause if you think
that it all makes no sense
it's the song for the dense
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
30 million in 30 states
They all earn more so they get charged higher rates
30 biscuits on 30 plates
Different colors cause they were made on different dates
I've got something, and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Hee hee hee!
Cause if you think
that it all makes no sense
it's the song for the dense
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, whoa whoa whoa-oh-whoa....
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Transformation
Maybe it's me, but I don't feel like waiting
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't be afraid of the things that I'm stating
I'm so amazed that I made them so well
I...
Feel much better than I felt
I...
Think I'm turning into someone else
Maybe you're right but I don't feel like fighting
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't be afraid of the phrases I'm writing
I'm quite amazed that I hide them so well
I...
Feel much better than I felt
I...
Think I'm turning into someone else
Maybe it's late but I don't feel like sleeping
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't amazed by the secrets you're keeping
Are you amazed that you're sleeping so well?
I...
feel much better than I felt
I think I'm burning
I think I'm learning
I think I'm turning into someone else
I think I'm burning
I think I'm learning
I think I'm turning into someone else...
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All I Want
All I want is a big black car
All I want is a minnow in a jar
All I want is a diamond ring
All I want is a picture of the king
All I want is a life size photograph
of Edith Sedgewick Post
you know I wish I had her autograph
Ba ba ba ba, baba ba baa!
All I want is a one night stand
All I want is every finger on your hand
All I want is some second date
All I want is a glass of lemonade
All I want is my picture in a magazine
or maybe see my face up on the silver screen
na na nana, na nana naaaa
ya ya yahyah, yah yahyah yaaaaah
ta ta tata, ta tata taaaaa
ba ba baba, ba baba baaaa
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Emerald City
I've finally found it
I'm feeling my way all around it
I'm going to surround it
Soon everything's going to be fine
Hey hey
I can do what I say
I'm lost in a sweet dream
I'm living on chocolate ice cream
I'm letting off my steam
Now everything's going to be fine
High high
I think I'll learn how to fly
I went for the rental
Those costumes were so continental
How coincidental
They said everything would be fine
Ho ho
I think I'm ready to go, go, go...
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