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RADIO BIRDMAN

 

LIVING EYES
 

 

HANGIN ON
 

Shelter is collapsing all around my head

Five more minutes we can all be dead

We tried too hard and we went too far

Now the night is closing in

 

Closin' in Closin' in Closin' in

 

Reptile shadows waiting for us outside

Understand it's just a matter of time

Our brothers' blood mixed on the floor

Darkness closin' in

 

Closin' in Closin' in Closin' in

 

Sky's all ripped and the sun's insane

Ground is burning our house is flamed

Our flag is gone spirit hanging on

But the night is closin' in

 

Hangin' on

 

 

 

455 SD
 

I got a dream machine from the Promised Land

Got a '71 Trans Am

Got a Hurst T-stick in my hand

Borg Warner 4 speed says I can

 

Do the standing 1/4 mile in 12.5

Run it through bring tears to your eyes

Edelbrock high rise manifold

Zero to 70 in seven point 0

 

Hit the road late at night

Deserted highway cold moonlight

Gotta keep driving,we gotta stay young

Drive on in the risin' sun

 

455 SD 455 SD Mystery

 

 

 

DO THE MOVIN' CHANGE
 

Do you want to dance,do the Moving Change

We're gonna rearrange we never stay the same

 

You just shift around you move your eyes

Like Egyptian bird god you gotta slip and slide

 

Do the Moving Change Don't you wanna dance with me

Do the Moving Change You can come along with me

 

Skull in flames on a field of ice

In another dimension land of living eyes

 

TPBR COMBO

On a 727

And I need a TPBR

Now we're getting loaded

In an all night cocktail bar

Don't wanna go

But we don't want to miss that plane

Dean Martin on the tape

He's driving me half insane

Better hold on now

It's getting serious

 

Back off Jack

If you don't wanna get shot down

I got a V8 fist

And I don't wanna mess around

(Mess your face)

You got a skullbone head

And a razor on your tie

I got a skull on fire

And a laser on my mind

 

Give me a chilli dog

With lots of onions

Mustard and grease

All oozin out the side

 

Do the TP Do the TPBR

All the kids are doing the TPBR

Sol and Tanya are doing the TPBR

Down in Pittsburg they're doing the TPBR

 

Hold on now

Hold on now

It's getting serious

 

 

 

1-94
 

I gave you my last box of matches

Do you remeber when

We were living up in the Klondike

And you had run out of gin

Truck driving friend of mine said

You was in the noose

Director of the asylum

Decided to turn you loose

 

Eskimo Pies comin' to you aha yeah

Eskimo Pies comin' to you

Yeah burning to you straight from hell

 

22 years of Motor City madness

Living in Lincoln Park

Working up at Willow Run

Driving through the dark

1-94 so full of holes

I seem to hit every one

Tranq city makes me feel the rain

Under cold grey sun

 

Eskimo Pies comin' to you aha yeah

Eskimo Pies comin to you

Yeah burning to you straight from hell

 

I gave you a six pack of Stroh's

You never drank 'em down

You keep drinking Rolling Rock

You know I can't hang round

You got Garland Jeffreys on the car radio

You know I don't need you

You can go to Europe with Jean-Paul

Or anything you you want to do

 

Eskimo Pies comin' to you aha yeah

Eskimo Pies comin' to you

Yeah burnig to you straight from hell

 

 

 

ISKENDER TIME
 

I got to go out yeah out for one

After that we can hit the bar

Ain't had nothing all day long

We can take the car

 

Go for the one on Gearge

See the Main Man and the Kid

He's been working on the midnight shift

 

Now we've got a bunch of veebs

It's time to have our fun

Now's the time to feel alright

Cos the night has just begun

 

Iskender Time

Got to stay alive

 

 

 

BURN MY EYE 78

 

Kenworth rolling upside my head

88 spitting out burning lead

Had to get myself right out of town

Don't wanna see skulls flyin' around

 

Burn my eye

Burn my mind

Couldn't beleive it

I'm not lying - no

 

Quadra-jet carb and a shaker scoop

SD baby take a ride with you

Tuned hooker headers sure sounds fine

I'm burning rubber and I'm making time

 

Burn my eye

Burn my mind

Couldn't beleive it

I ain't lying - yeah

 

Burning hole in the nor nor west

Fist against tank in Budapest

Pyramid eye cruising US1

Planets circling round sinking sun

 

Burn my heart

Burn my eye

Couldn't beleive it

I ain't lying - no

 

 

 

TIME TO FALL

 

Woke up alone,I ain't got nothin' to lose

Over at your house,nothin' on nothin' to do

Take the back off the T.V,circuits there for you

Run dry fingers between the dusty tubes

 

You try to forget it and once again you'll see

A man from the east is gonna have to leave

The tubes glow and then they come alive

The tubes glow across a million miles

 

You try to get away but they turn on the heat

First you burn and then you're gonna freeze forever

But I will not give,I will not give,I will not give in for them

Oh no

 

Abandoned by men they lived and died

Alone half dead and crazy left behind

Sun's all dying up in darkened skies

Land of truth,land of eternal ice

 

You know the living eyes are still up there

They watch forever with endless frozen stares

And you ask me why I'm not hanging round

My heart is lying up on Arctic ground

 

You try to get away but they turn on the heat

First you burn and then you're gonna freeze forever

But I will not give,I will not give,

I will not give in

For them Oh no

 

 

 

SMITH & WESSON BLUES

 

I went downtown

For something to do

Couldn't find nothing,said I

Couldn't find nothing to do

I was hanging round in bars

I was wasting time

Your face made my past

Look like a lousy dime

 

Cos you're never alone with a Smith & Wesson baby

You're never alone when you come round here

Wild kinetic rivers of sorrow

Riding to hell on rails of fear

 

Sitting in restaurant

Waiting for 6 A.M

The waitress was rough

And the milk was skim

Sunlight blasting throgh the window

Nearly drove me blind

Just like the light

On the front of that 12.05

 

Cos you're never alone with a Smith & Wesson baby

You're never alone when you come round here

Wild kinetic rivers of sorrow

Riding to hell on rails of fear

 

Night eyes shining

Like Valparaiso street lights

Wasted dogs were hanging round the dawn

Visions fading down

The streets of science

Lizard king is

Leading me on

 

Cos you're never alone with a Smith & Wesson baby

You're never alone when you come round here

Wild kinetic rivers of sorrow

Riding to hell on rails of fear

 

 

 

CRYING SUN

 

Strange proliferations growing like the trees on the groung

Crazed abberations blowing like the snow all around

Sun up in the sky is crying and it just won't quit

Sun seen to much and it's seen a good man get hit

 

And it's a cry,cry,cryin' sun

Cryin' ten million years

Cry,cry,cryin' sun

Raining ten million tears

 

Theatre of cruelty,fish and a giant bird

Lizard man songs of glory like you never have heard

Styphane Sist says it's coming out of the nor nor west

Man with the wry smile says he intends to do the rest

 

And it's a cry,cry,cryin' sun

Cryin' ten million years

Cry,cry,cryin' sun

Raining ten million tears

 

 

 

IF I WANTED TO

 

Sometimes I feel I can kick them all in the teeth

Girls on the street they take a glance an turn away from me

They're afraid my eyes will penetrate their minds

And if it happens I know I could make them mine

 

If I wanted to

If I wanted to

Girl you know it's true

If I wanted to

 

They plot and scheme thinking ways to bring you to your knees

Afraid to face the fact they'll never be as good as me

They talked about me when they was trading lies

But now they smile and try to make love with their eyes

 

But it ain't true

No it ain't true

Don't let them lie to you

Cause they'll hurt you

 

Ah C'mon

 

If I wanted to

And I don't want to

Girl you know it's true

Girl I don't need you

 

 

 

BREAKS MY HEART

 

Did she forget to write or she just had nothing to say

Did she forget you is this a whole new age

Three years was like forever deep in exile

Three months was just one day

 

It breaks my heart

When I remember that cruel night

 

Rain falling down on the street outside

And where you are it's nighttime

I hope it keeps raining all day long

Cos misery is mine

 

It breaks my heart

When I remember that cruel night

 

Cross of iron,spirit within remembers

40 below in mid December

Radio disc looking up to the sky

Trying to understand the unknown sender

 

It breaks my heart

When I remember that cruel night

 

I still love you

 

 

 

MORE FUN

 

More Fun/You know it's too damn cool

More Fun/I'm comin' over after school

More Fun/all of the other girls

More Fun/and I'm shootin' the curl

 

We're gonna have a ball

Do anything at all

It's gonna be so fine

It's borderline

 

More Fun/I'm drivin' in my 'chine

More Fun/you shoulda heard just what I seen

More Fun/you know she is a doll

More Fun/she'll never be my all

 

We're gonna have a ball

Do anything at all

It's gonna be so fine

It's borderline

 

ALONE IN THE ENDZONE

Alone over burning desert sands

Got living eye right in my hand

One last chance to get to the end

Locked on target gonna bring it in

 

All alone,all alone,all alone

I'm in the endzone

 

Last one alive out of all my men

Never see any of them again

Not enough fuel to make it back home

I'm gonna be alone in the endzone

 

All alone,all alone,all alone

I'm in the endzone

 

 

 

DIDN'T TELL THE MAN

 

I saw your picture in a magazine

Your talking about the places that you'd been

With some other guy that I know

You left me all alone

 

You didn't tell the man

 

I gave you money I gave you everything

When I tried to touch you you started such a scene

Then there was that note on your door

It said you weren't there no more

 

You didn't tell the man

 

You kill me

You kill me

With your wicked smile and the way you can get me to do

Anything you want me to

 

You didn't tell the man

 

Breaking up my heart girl burning out my eyes

Looking at your picture telling all those lies

There's a thing or two you'd agree

You'd say if it was me

 

You didn't tell the man

 

 

 

DARK SURPRISE

 

Stay awake for days

And I start to see through the haze

Stay alive everytime and I got no time to waste

Stay alone in the city

Cause I get around better that way

 

The eyes narrowed down

Behind Saigon Mirror shades

Reflect the death of the sun

And nothing more to say

Drowned in blood radiation

As it fades and seeps away

 

The night is comin'

And it's filled with Dark Surprise

Nights all oozin

Like oil in the neon sky

Tonight's the one

We've waited all our lives

 

 

 

 

RADIO BIRDMAN - "RADIOS APPEAR" 
 

 

MURDER CITY NIGHTS

 

Moving to the sound of the midnite masses
Fighting off terminal seventies stasis

Cruising down Woodward gotta find me some action

Looking for a lover with a power reaction

 

Murder city nights, oh yeah

Murder city nights, oh yeah

Murder city nights, all right

 

Hanging on the edge of my self control

Looking in the mirror for the highway patrol

My brain is wired down to my hand

Gotta keep movin' 'cos I know I'm a man

 

Murder city nights, oh yeah

Murder city nights, oh yeah

Murder city nights, all right

 

 

 

ANGLO GIRL DESIRE

 

When you're walking down the street

You never know I'm around

But I am there and I'm watching

Everywhere you go

I'm the eye from outer space

And my hand is on your life

Your eyes reflect reflections

Of fires burning in my heart

 

Hey Dog

At night you hear my screams

From my distant lonely world

You feel my eyes touch yours

So lightly now

You can't be there where I am

Cos I'm there all by myself

Location 999

End of the night

 

Hey girl I watched you dancing

To the rocking bands

I have seen you do the Pop

And the moving change

You will never be the same

When your eyes meet mine

I'll be ready to show you

What You need to live

 

 

 

MAN WITH GOLDEN HELMET

 

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

 

Stares across the hall

At the pictures on the wall

Of hieroglyphic scrawl

And no one cares at all

That he is waiting

 

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

 

Walks on down the street

Leather boots, leather coat

Gloves of shining leather

Sidewalks and gutters and freezing weather

Empty streets full of no one

 

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

Man with Golden Helmet

Drinks water from the faucet

 

Plays with tiny children

On his way home from work

He doesn't wear a smirk

He can't revive it

Having different kinds of fun

With fourteen ancient nuns

Under circling sun

And his wonderful collection of guns

He's the top man in the language department

 

 

 

DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM

 

Took a ride on the ocean

Started swimming out

Lost sight of land

Time ran out

Arms getting heavy

Exhaustion's setting in

Waves getting bigger

Life's getting thin

My brain was screaming

My mind said no

My mouth was bleeding

Said you gotta go

 

Hit the high side

Monster/wave

Buried at sea

In an early grave

Free fall dive

Thousand foot pit

Cliffs of water turning

Adrenachrome hit

 

Death-like animals

The death of slaves

The death of humans

Getting sucked away

Ships trucks and planes

A million screaming heads

Agonised moaning

From the island of the dead

 

I'm going down

Into the maelstrom

Going down

Gonna drown

 

Alive alive alive

 

I'm alive

 

 

 

MONDAY MORNING GUNK

 

I was lying on my bed

Feelin' like I was nearly dead

Got my soul on fire

Mama you can't mean it

 

I was bleeding from my pride

I was bleeding from my eyes

Got my soul on ice

Mama you can cream it

 

Early morning rise

Got my guts in my eyes

Got my soul on fire

All right

 

DO THE POP

Come on baby it's time to move

You been saying there's nothing to do

Don't be afraid of bustin' out of your cage

Gonna cruise around gonna burn up the stage

 

Do the Pop

 

Come on baby I said squeeze the weez

On your feet or on your knees

So messed up I'm gonna do some dives

Gonna do the Pop gonna burn alive

 

We saw the Stooges and the MC5

Drove themselves insane alive

Nova, blow torch, A-bomb eyes

The Pop's the way, the truth and the light

 

 

 

LOVE KILLS

 

She smokes long cigarettes

Ashes on her jeans

Came out of Chicago

Looking cold and mean

She said nothing's there

Nothing left to try

Drinking down at the old Town Bar

I told her when I lied

 

Drove out to her sister's place

Out on Island Park Drive

 

Love kills your mind

Love kills your time

Love kills the film on your eyes

 

Sinking in her grey eyes

Singing 'We Will Fall'

Staring out the hotel window

At the pictures in the hall

Driving out to Detroit Metro

The snow driving on the wind

The sky was grey and white

The road was to the end

 

Ice was flying through my eyes

My heart was cold as sin

 

Love kills your mind

Love kills your time

Love kills the film on your eyes

 

 

 

HAND OF LAW

 

Fear and terror, watch out boy

The sun is getting low

After sundown we'll be ready

And who could ask for more

 

On the third day of the seventh month

Is when we'll ride the highway

Night descends, daylight ends

And like the light we'll fly

 

Hand of law is coming down

Hand of law is coming down

Hand of law is on us now

Hand of law is on us now

 

Black Killers, Earl Flinns,

Demons from the sea

Midnight train, self insane

Man of mystery

 

Gonna all burn now, do you hear

In a nuclear flame

You're gonna never be the same

Cos you're gonna be rearranged

 

All the mirrors sucking people through

Down to an unknown world

All the fears that you ever knew

Are alive in that world

 

It's coming from the nor nor west

The endless eye warns

A hole in the sky mirrors (pronounced 'meres')

And the light that never never warms

Hand of law is on us now

 

 

 

NEW RACE

 

There's gonna be a new race

Kids are gonna start it up

We're all gonna mutate

Kids are saying yeah hup

 

Yeah hup

Really gonna punch you out

 

We're sick of waking up late

Gotta get some control

The kids are gonna mutate

From an endless roll

 

Scared of circular time

It keeps faking us out

Kids are gonna eject

Cos now it's time to punch out

 

 

 

WHAT GIVES

 

My heart rips open 'cause you're my all

Staring at my blank white wall

The old clock is getting heavy-handed

Waiting for a plane that never landed

 

What gives

That you gonna do

 

Feel my hand across your lips

Got a P38 with a loaded clip

I'll do anything that I could

I'd go running out in the frozen woods

For you

 

So What gives What gives What gives

What you gonna do

 

 

 

NON-STOP GIRLS

 

Seven Four, taking me away

I'll never make it back to the USA

50 million horsepower J-84

Slammed my head through a one-way door

 

Oh no I can't use non-stop girls

Oh no I just can't use you

Cos all my love is gone

To another world

Oh no I can't use non-stop girls

 

Non-stop girls

Flashing in our lives

Non-stop girls

Burning in our minds

Non-stop girls

You just can't be beat

Bleeding heart

In a window seat

 

 

 

ALOHA STEVE AND DANNO

 

McGarrett's on the line to Danno

We gotta pick up this guy

Put out an APB

Not much time to tell you why

 

Governor says it's top priority

Washington says so too

Tell Chin to get here fast

5-0 is on the move

 

Steve I want to say thank you

For all you've done for me

My night is dark and empty

When you're not on TV

 

There's an agent in the field

I want to have him tailed

He's been staying at the Hilton

Yeah should be staying in the gaol

 

He's working for the KGB

And here's his dossier

Those Reds won't be happy

Till this guy gets his way

 

Chorus

 

Dark spectre of espionage

Hangs over fair Hawaii

McGarrett's one cool guy

The guilty will not go free

 

Steve and Danno they made the scene

The agent had done his deed

Caught with a stiff and a silenced gun

Said Book him Danno Murder One

 

 

 

HIT THEM AGAIN

 

Manipulations flashing out my hands

I can't show you all my plans

Until I activate you, you can't see

That's all right, all right by me

 

It's all right It's all right

Let's hit and run again tonite

 

40 strikes come over every day

Death from the skies blowing us away

Fire melts helmet and skull within

We gotta go behind the lines and hit 'em again

 

It's all right, it's all right

Let's hit and run again tonite

 

Now if you run babe you ain't got a chance

That Laser eye will freeze you with one glance

Burnin' wind howlin' at my door

Like Hamburg babe circa '44

 

It's all right, it's all right

Let's hit and run again tonite