Robert Keen
Blow you away.

You take off from work a bit early
The boss doesn't care if you stay
The guard with the key has to check your ID
But he'd just as soon blow you away

The cops have stopped ten miles of traffic
They're sorry for all the delay
No need for alarm as they're waving their arms
But they'd just as soon blow you away


Two pretty blondes in a Porsche
Their bumper says We Love L.A.
They look pretty fair but they're crazy out there
They'd just as soon blow you away


You got in some trouble in high school
But you feel like a new man today
You keep to yourself because anyone else
Would just as soon blow you away


You're standin' in front of the teller
She's countin' out all of your pay
There's twenties and ones and there's guards with their guns
And they'd just as soon blow you away


And one old ex-con at the station
Fixes flats in the back of the bay
He winks and he jokes and he borrows a smoke
But he'd just as soon blow you away


You like the new girl at the hotel
She drops your room key in the tray
No words will pass through the buttet-proof glass
Cause she'd just as soon blow you away


You climb up the stairs every evening
To your room right above the café
There ain't much mystique but you pay every week
Cause they'd just as soon blow you away


And you turn out the light that you read by
You pray that you're one of the few
When you're one with the Lord there's just one reward
And they'd just as soon make it come true


The matress is mildewed and lumpy
But you fall asleep where you lay
Under the lump there's a twenty gauge pump
Cause they'd just as soon blow you away

Muskrat Love

Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'

Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she say yes
With her kisses

And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes
As they wriggle, and Sue starts to giggle

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

La da da da da ...

[;D]Coma Coma down doobie down down (repeat)
Breaking up is hard to do.

Don't take your love away from me.
Don't you leave my hear in misery.
If you go, then I'll be blue
`cause breakin' up is hard to do.

Remember when you held me tight,
and you kissed me all through the night.
Think of all that we been trough,
`cause breakin' up is hard to do.

They say that breain' up is hard to do;
now I know, I know that it's true.
Don't say that this is the end.
Instead of breakin' up
I wish that we were makin' up again.

I beg of you don't say good-bye;
can't we give an other try?
Come on baby, let's start anew,
breakin' up is hard to do.

I beg of you don't say good-bye;
can't we give an other try?
Come on baby, let's start anew,
breakin' up is hard to do.
Yeah, breakin' up is hard to do.

Louie Louie
Me gotta go
Louie Louie
Well me gotta go

Fine little girl
She waits for me
I catch a ship
And cross the sea
Sail that ship
Well all alone
And never think
IÕll make it home

Louie Louie
(Well me gotta go
Louie Louie
Well me gotta go

Three nights and days I sail the sea
Me think of girls a-constantly
IÕm on the ship me dream she there
Me smell the rose a-in her hair

I said Louie Louie
Oh baby now me gotta go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Louie Louie
Oh baby now me gotta go

Word
I see Jamaica
Beautiful
It wonÕt be long
Til I see my love
IÕll take her in
My arms again
IÕll tell her I
Will never leave again

Did the 70's suck or what!

[b]Billy Don't Be A Hero[/b]
( Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods )

The marchin' band came down along Main Street
The soldier blues fell in behind
I looked across and there I saw Billy
Waiting to go and join the line
And with her head upon his shoulder
His young and lovely fiancee
From where I stood I saw she was cryin'
And through her tears I heard her say

Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife
And as he started to go she said, Billy, keep your head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me

The soldier blues were trapped on a hillside
The battle raging all around
The sergeant cried, We've got to hang on, boys!
We've got to hold this piece of ground
I need a volunteer to ride up
And bring us back some extra men
And Billy's hand was up in a moment
Forgettin' all the words she said

She said
Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife
And as he started to go she said, Billy, keep your head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me

I heard his fiancee got a letter
That told how Billy died that day
The letter said that he was a hero
She should be proud he died that way
I heard she threw that letter away ...

[b]San Diego Serenade[/b]

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night
I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light
I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long
I never heard the melody, until I needed a song.

I never saw the white line, 'til I was leaving you behind
I never knew I needed you 'til I was caught up in a bind
I never spoke 'I love you' 'til I cursed you in vain,
I never felt my heartstrings until I nearly went insane.

I never saw the east coast 'til I move to the west
I never saw the moonlight until it shone off your breast
I never saw your heart 'til someone tried to steal,
tried to steal it away
I never saw your tears until they rolled down your face.

One of the all time greats! Tom Waits [beer]

"I'm shining like a new dime..."

[;)]

O you beautiful babes from England
  For whom we have traveled through time
Will you go to the prom with us in San Dimas?
  We will have a most triumphant time

[b]Nobody Knows Me
(Lyle Lovett)[/b]

And I like cream in my coffee
And I like to sleep late on Sunday
And nobody knows me like my baby
And I like eggs over easy
With flour tortillas
And nobody knows me like my baby

And nobody holds me
And nobody knows me
Nobody knows me like my baby

But it was a dream made to order
South of the border
And nobody knows me like my baby
And she cried man how could you do it
And I swore that there weren't nothing to it
But nobody knows me like my baby

And nobody holds me
And nobody knows me
Nobody knows me like my baby

And I like cream in my coffee
And I hate to be alone on Sunday
And nobody knows me like my baby

Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
and he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the Home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy

Ok... Here's my shot:

Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
Motley Crue
___

We could sail away
Or catch a freight train
Or a rocketship
Into outer space

Nothin' left to do
Too many things were said
To ever make it feel
Like yesterday did

Seasons must change
Separate paths - separate ways
If we blame it on anything
Let's blame it on the rain

I knew it all along
I'd have to write this song
Too young to fall in love
Guess we knew it all along

That's alright, that's Okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, that's Okay
Let's turn the page

My friends called today
Down from L.A.
They were shooting pool all night
Sleeping half the day
They said I could crash
If I could find my own way
I told them you were leaving
On a bus to go away

That's alright, that's Okay
We were two kids in love
Trying to find our way
That's alright, that's Okay
Held our dreams in our hands
Let our minds run away
That's alright, that's Okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, let's turn the page

And remember what I say girl
And it goes this way:

Girl, don't go away mad
Girl, just go away!

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Of course, for something more in-line with the first post, there's...

'I Used to Love Her, but I Had to Kill Her', and 'Live & Let Die', both by Guns N Roses...

And I might add some Metalica, but that's enough for now...

KANSAS

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I can hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
No!
Carry on
You will always remember
Carry on
Nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Juggernaut

"Carry On My Wayward Son" is ok at 33rpm, but a real hoot at 45!