Compilations, Singles & B-Sides
A-A-A (and after all)/
Answer the Phone, Dummy/
Beaujolais' the Beat/
Fanfare/
For Tomorrow/
Hot Rods To Heaven/
I Can't Win/
I'll Return/
It's Your Birthday/
Now Is the Time/
Out of the Charts/
Sometimes/
Time Passes/
Was Late/
Yesterday the Sun Came Out at Midnight/
You Can't Be Happy/
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A-A-A (and after all) (2:21)
And after all
They promised me the sun to show through
And actually
There's nothing that I'm really trying to prove
Except you never know how foggy it can be outside
Until you go there
You still don't care
And after all
How can you tell me what comes around and
Goes there end where
You will stay there
And afterall
I don't remember hearing that from you
And after all
They promised me the world delivered too!
And actually
It isn't what I asked for them to do
Except that he insisted I was the one who called
The order in there
This wasn't fair
In fact I made it clear to everyone this conversation
Has gone nowhere
Don't know or care
Answer The Phone, Dummy (0:52)
(instrumental)
Beaujolais' the Beat (2:24)
Went out last night
Loud music bar sat alone
At a table for two
Time wasn't right
Got in my car
I went home and I stayed there for a week
Sing to the new beat
Beaujolais' the beat
Here's to our new treat
Beaujolais' the best we drink to
Gamay Beaujolais
Gallons every day
You're with me all the way
Beaujolais' the beat we drink to now
Don't send requests
Don't send requests a bag of Red Man
Or a ticket to LA
No I've got to stay
Mr. Kato's on his way
And I know just what he's got to say
Drink to the new beat
Beaujolais' the beat
Here's to our new treat. . .
Fanfare (3:43)
I gave up yesterday
Believing I can make a difference here
Sleeping twelve hours a day
No one cares anyway
Come whatever may
Ask me what I think and I would say
"I gave up half a chance
To change the way the world turns today."
Waiting 'round for the call
Nobody phoned at all
The final curtains fall
And I'll be writing on your wall like this
Chop down the money tree
A thorny bush will grow before you know
Money is what I've not
Mean more than what I've got
Steal it and you're caught
My dad might say he always says a lot
That don't sit well with me
The plates are cleared the dinner time coffee
The answers are plain to see
I always disagree
What do you mean we?
It might seem right to you but not to me
For Tomorrow (3:40)
Another year is winding down
I can't imagine where it could have gone
Listen to me ramble on and on
And try to think of one good thing I've done
For tomorrow
For anyone's good
For anyone else but me
It's tomorrow, and it's already gone
It's too late to wait and see
Lots of me complaining about
Dumber things that I can figure out
Apologizing doesn't count
It's never really helped anybody out
Hot Rods To Heaven (2:00)
(Instrumental)
I Can't Win (1:28)
Always think too much, never can decide
Give me anything, can't make up my mind
Looks like I go on, along just for the ride
Well let's take a walk, on the rebel side
Sure there are no rules
But where are all the clues
I can't win
I can't win
I can't win
I can't win
Pleased to see the king, must sit by his side
I don't understand, I was next in line
I'll Return (4:10)
And then my friend the end is near
With it comes another year
Don't spend your next few days in here
Get away now, disregard the endless fear
I'll always be unsure of things
I'm sure you've heard it here before
I won't pretend to know the answer
Or have heard the question right
I may be gone a long long time
It's ok now, I'll return
Don't waste away your life in line
I'll write you soon from the catastrophe
It's Your Birthday (2:03)
Good-bye I know your last years gone
Do you think anything went wrong?
Next year should be a different story
You'll have a chance to relive glory
Please make a wish it's your birthday
You know it's your second one today
See if you can tell me what it is that makes you older today
Than you were yesterday
Now that I live in the city
I'll see your birthday show on t.v.
You know - who knows - who can see?
Now Is the Time (2:56)
Now is the time
For being sure of what we're doing with our lives
Now is the time
To take a look at what's at the end of the line
Now things aren't so wonderful
Things aren't so good
But not unsolvable
It's just that no one wants to say that they're responsible
Now is the time
To make sure every idea has a chance to be heard
Old ideals resisting a change
New voices start for an attempt to keep things the same
We'll never get back to the way things used to be
You waste your time trying if you want to disagree
Accept the fact and move ahead
If you think that now is the time to keep it lit free
Out of the Charts (7:35)
Tripped upon a wire laid
By nameless men who have no name
Cruising in the passing lane
Passengers will please refrain
Outside, the smell of lightening rain
Tunnels make the mountains plain
So many they don't have a name
Diesel in the water main
Water in the power main
Well one thing always stays the same
Mosquito coast, lake and train
Return again to where it came
Sometimes (2:53)
Sometimes I sit at home for hours out of site
Sometimes I wonder what is really on my mind
Life so strange one day you're feeling like you can't go on
If you had the chance you'd end it here and now
And in the morning
When you awake you see things in a very different way
Sometimes I worry about what's in-store for me
Sometimes I know that worrying cannot help you see
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing what I should
Sometimes I feel its been so long since I felt good
Life so strange one day, life so strange one day
Time Passes (4:24)
Time it passes slow
When you’re home alone and have nowhere to go
You have nowhere to go
Where did that time go?
When you’re almost there it’s over before you know
It’s over before you know!
Yesterday is gone, time has passed
Tomorrow’s here and gone so fast
Time goes by so fast
When you live each day as if it were your last
As if it were your last
Our history is past
I wish I could re-live
Time has already past, time has already past!
I never really saw the time because
I never really knew what it’s like to be losing time
I really didn’t know what time it was
I really didn’t know what it’s like to be losing time
Was Late (3:25)
I get up early almost everyday
I try to be perfect in every way
Alarm didn't ring
Birds didn't sing
I didn't hear a thing
So I didn't get to work
It was so cold outside I couldn't get up
The dream I had was too good to interrupt
I watched all I could
Late show was good
It made it later than it should
So I didn't get to work
I was late
Late
Late
Oh and it won't happen again
"Sorry, Mr. Smith but I missed the bus."
Won't happen again if you let it go just this once
The tire was flat
Forgot about that!
The keys - where are they at
So I didn't get to work
I get up at noon and I don't even care
I fix my lunch and then I go nowhere
I'll never work again
Don't think that I even can!
I'll go out now and then
But I'll always come back when I was late
Yesterday At Midnight (4:47)
Where were you late last evening?
What did you do yesterday?
I saw the sunrise and shine with the stars there
I thought that I might be sleeping
Imagining what couldn't happen
I saw the sunshine light up the dark sky
Sometimes I wonder what I really know
But I can't deny the sight
Yesterday the sun came out at midnight
Yesterday the sun fell out of the midnight sky
Yesterday the sun came out at midnight, o.k.?
I can't blame you for thinking there must be some explanation
Why I thought sunshine lit up the night
Come with me this time tomorrow
Sit with me under the stars
I'll wait forever to prove I was right
You Can't Be Happy (2:05)
You always try your little games
But you know they won't work
I can't see through but know what you're doing
I see you walking all around with a smile from a box
A quick change of clothes
But you'll still disclose the feeling you've got
Try as you might to conceal it
You know you can't be happy
You won't even try
You know you won't be happy
You just wonder why
You always listen but don't hear
When they're only trying to help
Think you know exactly what you're doing
You know you just can't be happy till you make up your mind
Change the way you think
You're not always the one who's right
Things don't always get better left alone
