Well, I'm stranded in the city that never sleeps Some of these women they just give me the creeps I'm avoidin' the south side, the best I can These memories
Man came to the door, I say, "For whom were you lookin'?" Says, "Your wife", I say, "She's busy in the kitchen cookin''' Po' boy, where you been? I already
Well, I had to go down to see a guy named Mr. Goldsmith Nasty, dirty, double-crossin', back-stabbin' phony I didn't have to, want to have to deal with
Highwater risin', rising night and day All the gold and silver are being stolen away Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind
Well, today has been A sad and lonesome day Yeah, today has been A sad and lonesome day I'm just sitting here thinking With my mind a million miles away
The seasons they are turning And my sad heart is yearning To hear again the songbird's sweet melodious tone Won't you meet me out in the moonlight alone
I've got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense I can see what everybody in the world is up against Can't turn back, you can't come back,
Every step of the way, we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is piling up, we struggle and we stray We're all boxed in, nowhere to
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee They're throwin' knives into the tree Two big bags of dead man's bones Got their noses to the grind stone Livin' in the Land
Summer days, summer nights are gone Summer days and summer nights are gone I know a place where there's still somethin' going on I got a house on the
By and by, I'm breathin' a lover's sigh While I'm sittin' on my watch, so I can be on time I'm singin' love's praises with sugar coated rhyme By and by
Down over the window From the dazzling sunlit place Through the back alleys, through the blinds Another one of the Memphis days Honey bees are buzzing
We're punked up, funked up Dead from the neck up We've hijacked the decks The world is gonna be next We wanna wreck the town With the infidel rocket
It's a new dawn now gotta real cold shower to greet me It's the same fake smile makes it all worthwhile believe me I gotta new plan now, gonna use this
Here's the sucker punch, your mind is out to lunch In everything you do, your poison attitude Takes your breath away, blackens everyday There's nothing
Everybody in the crowd check it out Watcha wanna do? Rok the house We come to bring you the noise Yeah all the girls and boys Tonite we're gonna party
We want it, let's take it We're going deeper inside To change the pattern, let's make it happen You know it's only a ride This time there's no mistaking
Well, I've been somewhere in the middle Drowning in the drivel, whatever it's all out of my hands And I've been choking on the ashes of the burnt out
