L Y R I C S
Lo Fi Hi Fives (A Kind Of Best Of) ~ R. Stevie Moore (6 AUG 2012)
Compilation with/by/for Tim Burgess, OGenesis Recordings OGEN 021 (UK) 2LP + CD
[01] Pop Music
[02] Show Biz Is Dead
[03] Why Should I Love You
[04] Dutch Me
[05] Big Mistake
[06] The Winner
[07] Here Comes Summer Again
[08] Hurry Up
[09] I Go Into Your Mind
[10] Another Day Slips Away
[11] You And Me
[12] Sentimental Ties
[13] Little Man
[14] Find Any
[01] Pop Music if you see a change yes, it's true i'm a useful man in these shoes (down down down) and you know by heart pop music makes you smart like me when you see the wind blow my way i'm here tomorrow not today and you like the style pop music makes you smile at me i was a little bit nauseous, see i couldn't find sign of a cause, so slowly my ears were curing me easily listening pause come onto my stage play your head you can call your friends tell what i said and you know by heart pop music is the start. ©1974 r.stevie moore [02] Show Biz Is Dead music how much music does it take (in terms of running time) how much longer until even you become exploited into a star? show biz is dead movies how many films have you seen how many do you think i've seen (about 3) aren't we, after all all better actors than even marlon brando? show biz is obsolete look at me i'm singing a song that don't sound like any other look at me i'm telling you to look at me instead of them books how much reading does it take how many pages are necessary are you truly inspired are you reading right, are you writing? show biz ain't art stamps and coins how much of all of this can we take what are you doing right now i mean besides listening i mean for a living? show biz is not living show biz is dead show biz is dead show biz is dead show biz is dead show biz kill show biz kill show biz ©1981 r.stevie moore [03] Why Should I Love You i am stuck here with a bottle of beer and i love you you have been gone with him far much too long and i care why should i love you asthma chazza do, i wanna sing why should i love you yeah uh huh alright come on nobody told me that you could be cold so i loved you just how you talked to me, just how we walked as a pair why should i love you now you're never true, i wanna sing why should i love you yeah uh huh alright come on every night of lies i wanna cry falling my friend she won't compromise i wanna die suicide won't do, so i'll go away so you can't hear me say that i love you then you will see what it's like without me in your hair ©1975 r.stevie moore [04] Dutch Me Dutch me, Dutch me, baby Release me, release me Touch me, Dutch me, baby Cause it's not love Don't want nobody depending on me Please don't turn me down I want you bad ©2011 ariel pink/r.stevie moore [05] Big Mistake I just had to know what your sign was I just had to know what your age was Come inside and take me far away from here I don't wanna stay here anymore Please somebody to take me back to Madison, Tennessee Fantasy I don't wanna know what your height was I don't wanna know what your weight was I don't wanna know this is impossible I don't wanna know where I'm going I don't wanna know where I was then Take me back to Madison right now, girl Took me 25 years to find out now All been a big mistake I just had to know All been a big mistake I just had to know Where I'm finished I just wanna know Why I'm finished It's all been a big mistake It's all been a big mistake ©2004 r.stevie moore/ray carmen [06] The Winner who is the man doing everything he can the winner the winner at the finish line first one every time the winner the winner he spends his life in a box of ideas he can use but every night you can find him alone a loser now he's won himself but he's getting nowhere else the winner the winner and he needs a friend cause it's getting near the end the winner the winner he sits at home with the toys that he has to amuse just hear his moans he's so sad who he is a loser the winner is a sinner has a minnow for his dinner the winner is a sinner has a minnow for his dinner who is this man doing everything he can the winner it happens every time when he wins he knows he's lying the winner the winner a winner ©1975 r.stevie moore [07] Here Comes Summer Again laying by the poolside baby's gettin' tan lots of girls around here layin' in the sand i don't wanna ever see the day summer is gone drinking old milwaukee ocean is so blue listening to a.m. and skywriting too i don't wanna ever see the day that summer is gone (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again it's here riding over highways in my friend's g.t. good experiences cruising by the sea i don't wanna ever see the day that summer is gone (y'know i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again it's here laying by the poolside baby's gettin' tan lots of girls around here layin' in the sand i don't wanna ever see the day summer is gone i don't wanna ever see the day summer is gone (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again here comes summer (i dig the summertime) here comes summer again it's here! ©1977 r.stevie moore [08] Hurry Up Hurry up Why you take so long? You think I got all day? Let's go! Move it! Hurry up Why you take so long? You think I got all day? Let's go! Move it! Twiddling my thumbs Glancing at my watch Pacing down the hall Careful not to fall HURRY UP! You think I got all day? Turtle pace Snail's race Turtle race Snail's pace Twiddlin' my thumbs Glancin' at my watch Pacin' down the hall Careful not to fall Wrinkle face In outer space Hurry up. ©2010 r.stevie moore [09] I Go Into Your Mind i go into your mind i open up the door i come inside your hair i sit down on the floor and i just look up around the room looks like you're without whom your brain wants your brain gets and i travel through your head i move from ear to ear i go into your mind i swim upon your tears and i'm just floating out of the room looks like you're without whom your brain wants me ©1978 r.stevie moore [10] Another Day Slips Away New Sun . Get Up . Get Out . Go Hard Hook Up . Get Down . Go Home Sit Back . Eat Up . Tune In . Retire Impress the memory foam Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away Again . Arise . Light Out . Look Sharp Think Fast . Spend Save . and Earn Give Up . Go Home . Make Out . Make Art In spite of no return Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away Days rushing by, Moving at the speed of Light, Like a dream, like a vapor Winter Days, Summer Nights Whirling Past much too Soon Setting Suns, Rising Moons Seasons Come Say Hello, Say goodbye people go Say goodbye people go, Say goodbye people go Another Sun . Take Off . Chill Out Breathe In . Relax . Just Be Get Right . Turn Left . Eat Out . Get Back Enjoy the scenery Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away Sleep and eat, love, work and play Another day slips away! ©july2006 james roger ferguson words/r.stevie moore music [11] You And Me you and me at eleven o'clock try to lengthen the time cause i love you and i love you and i really hate to go but at least by now you know i'm your boy you and me at eleven o'clock listen to our last song cause i love you and i love you and i really hate to go every day i love you more, lovely chicken i wish that i could stay all the day you and me at the curfew hour i don't want you to cry cause i love you and i'll miss you cause i really hate to go but at least by now you know i'm your boy he's your boy don't want to get you in trouble oh no no don't want to see you in shambles standing up at eleven o'clock wipe the tears from your eyes cause i love you and i love you andi really hate to go cause i realize it so you and me ©1975 r.stevie moore [12] Sentimental Ties (Steinberg/Moore) When a cell divides The replicators rave about the change Yet no ones taking sides You walk around the zoo And throw a piece of meat inside the cage It’s where you’ll soon reside Papers on the floor and, yes, the doors are open wide You can see the hips revolving As the sunset slowly dies Patients in their rooms The orderlies are burning up the trays They wave a fond goodbye Lunch will now be served An empty bowl of nothing with your name And mirrors to remind We attempt to fill the cupboard As the china fell So they cut the lines of credit And we tumble into hell Oh, sentimental ties! (2X) Keep the liquor pourin’, baby, oh! Keep that champagne flowin’, baby, oh! Towers shining lights The guards are paid to keep you in the stands You’re always in their sights One time long ago You told them you liked working with your hands Much to their delight The sentimental fools The sentimental hides The sentimental loops The sentimental ties Time to crack the whip The buggy ride was bumpy to the end The travel agent lied The sentimental tick The sentimental tock The sentimental talk The sentimental walk The sentimental ties! ©2009 words-melody by Lane Steinberg/music by R. Stevie Moore [13] Little Man where you going so fast? bet you wish it would last (you won't last) all the years in the past while the train at the edge of the bed blows its final whistle, because you're still as little as a little ant gazing up at a redwood tree man little man little man little man little man little man little man little man where you going so pale? bet you hope it's not jail (go to jail) put your house up for sale while you and your wife lay in bed i play why you growing so small? bet you wish you were tall (i'm too tall) bet you wish i would fall while the bus under your bed skids away and overturns killing your little son and 27 of his little mates on their way to the Beatle concert that will never be ©1976 r.stevie moore [14] Find Any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about love, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about skin, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of dreaming about things, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, when I can’t find any You’ll have to make an appointment I’m sick of singing about trucks, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about trucks, cause I can’t drive any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about me, since you won’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t drive any You’ll have to make an appointment Find any, find any, find any, find any ½ time (Eeef Iiiif, gimme piece of pie) I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, since I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t drive any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about girls, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about boys, cause I can’t find gettyup I’m sick of singing about cats, cause I can’t find any I’m sick of singing about news, cause I can’t find any (snare***3) Singing about singing about singing about singing about ©2010 r.stevie moore