Built in love

Built in love

There was an old grate soft as a bold mate shaped like a zebra sofa

There was a pervert – we called him herbert picking up his favorite school girls

Late in the evening, dangerous repeating variated gauging thumb-drums

Porcelain fox – over heated box waiting for the ship to come in

She went with Randy – they ate some candy

And I can’t explain why I feel no pain and the doctor ever gets the fever

And another Joe Stark just lost his park

Doot doot doo – Dat dat da – Doot doot doo – Dat dat da

Built in love – built in love – Built in love – built in love

Jennifer did wake up sporting runny make-up – fussy in a racy prom dress

Across sits the Captain – initials on his napkin – quoting from a Reader’s Digest

Thinking of his villa – tasty with vanilla, whipped cream and chocolate syrup

When he retires – gonna start some fires with the ladies at the postal pick-up

Jenny and the Captain – lazy summer nappin’

And I can’t explain why I feel no pain and the doctor ever gets the fever

And another Joe Stark just lost his park

Doot doot doo – Dat dat da – Doot doot doo – Dat dat da

Built in love – built in love – Built in love – built in love

You drift above me – sequined and lovely – luminesce in the morning ether

The fungus and the rabbit are giving me a habit

’cause they think I’ve been to straight-laced lately

The fungus has a plan – the rabbit lends a hand the on-lookers – adulation

enlisted me a subject to their little project – entitled it “a love insertion”

Fungus and the rabbit giving me a habit

And I can’t explain why I feel no pain and the doctor ever gets the fever

And another Joe Stark just lost his park

Doot doot doo – Dat dat da – Doot doot doo – Dat dat da

Built in love – built in love – Built in love – built in love

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Words and music by Tommy Von

© 2012 BMI Artist # 872451

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Perfect Ska

Perfect Day

Words and music originally by Lou Reed

Such A Perfect Day,

Drink Sangria In The Park,

And Then Later, When It Gets Dark,

We Go Home.

Such A Perfect Day,

Feed Animals In The Zoo

Then Later, A Movie, Too,

And Then Home.

Oh It’s Such A Perfect Day,

I’m Glad I Spent It With You.

Oh Such A Perfect Day,

You Just Keep Me Hanging On,

You Just Keep Me Hanging On.

Such A Perfect Day,

Problems All Left Alone,

Weekenders On Our Own.

It’s Such Fun.

Such A Perfect Day,

You Made Me Forget Myself.

I Thought I Was Someone Else,

Someone Good.

Oh It’s Such A Perfect Day,

I’m Glad I Spent It With You.

Oh Such A Perfect Day,

You Just Keep Me Hanging On,

You Just Keep Me Hanging On.

You’re Gonna To Reap Just What Ya Sow,

Yeah, You’re Gonna To Reap Just What Ya Sow,

Reap, Reap, Reap, Reap, Reap, Just what ya, Just what ya,

You’re Gonna To Reap Just What Ya Sow,

You’re Gonna To Reap Just What Ya …

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What a day…

What a Day

Anticipation numbing up his head

Giddy at the prospects of sharing someone’s bed

Of all the world’s problems, he can think of none

Life revolves around him and he is having fun

Fat and lazy, not a thing to do

Guess I’m crazy, but baby, so are you

Do you think much? Stop and think my friend

What a day it would be if people thought again

What a day it would be, oh what a day it would be

I am woken up by a traffic jam

It’s outside my window – it starts at 3 am

There’s too many people living in this place

So when I’ve trashed this planet I’ll head for outer space

Fat and lazy, not a thing to do

Guess I’m crazy, but baby, so are you

Do you think much? Stop and think my friend

What a day it would be if people thought again

What a day it would be, oh what a day it would be

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Words and music by Tommy Von

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The Ballad of One Hand Clapton

 

Sittin’ alone on a Sunday night

Nothin’ to watch on the TV

Nothin’ but hits on the radio

So I called up my very best friend, Joe

I said, “hey Joe”

He said, “hey”

I said, “what’s doin’ ?”

He said, “nothin’ – what’s doin’ with you?”

I said, “thinkin’ about doin’ somethin’….”

He said, “how ’bout we go down to the roadhouse – I hear old One Hand’s playin’ all night”

I said, “sounds good” and that’s what we did

Now this is the ballad of One Hand Clapton – that’s right

You see old One Hand – before he was one handed

Fell asleep drunk one night on the railroad tracks

And lost his pickin’ arm as a result

Now when he plays, he just frets the chords

To the most beautiful music you never heard –

The sound of One Hand Clapton

His chords are placed with knowing precision and when he soloes

The notes come so fast, his one hand is a blur

Actually, it does make a sound

It’s the soft rhythmic taping of the hard pads of his fingers

Keeping time to the most beautiful music you never heard

we’d just sit there all night – listening to the sound of One Hand Clapton

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Tell Me

Everybody lies, so tell me who you are

It’s alright you can tell me

Tell me who you are

It’s alright I won’t tell them

Tell them who you are

When you go, it’s like a shooting star

I can get there, even if it’s far

Everybody lies, so tell me who you are

You can shake it, and make it in your car

I won’t take it very far

Everybody lies, so tell me who you are

Tell me who you are

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