I tell you sweetly now
Why I can’t come to bed
I’m listening to the music
That’s playing in my head
While you’re filled with sleepy dreams
I’m moving to the sounds
The beat keeps driving
In my brain and the words go
Round and round
I see myself up on the stage
And holding my Guitar
And I can’t tell
If it’s Carnegie hallo
Or just a local bar
But the hands are clapping
And the place is moving
And I feel it in my soul
It’s late at night And I can’t sleep
I gotta write some rock and roll
It drives me crazy
about twenty-four hours a day
Ouu, It’s bouncing all around
In my brain, I’ve just got to play

Well the world outside is quiet
And the children are fast asleep
Yeah, But here inside
I’m rockin’ ‘n rollin’
To a crazy beat
So come on come on come on come on
boys let’s play
Yeah we gotta do it, do it, do it
Twenty-four hours a day

Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
Listen baby what I say
Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
Party, party everyday

Ouu baby let me tell you sweetly
Why I can’t come to bed
I’m listening to the music
Playing in my head
And while you’re filled
With the sleepy dreams
I’m moving to the sound
The beat keeps driving
In the back of my brain
And the music goes round and round

So come on come on come on come on boys let’s play
Yeah we gotta do it, do it, do it
Twenty-four hours a day

Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
Listen baby what I say
Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
Party, party everyday

Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
Come on boys let’s play
Everybody party
Twenty-four hours a day
Everybody party
We party, party everyday

I want to tell you a little story
I want to whisper in your ear
I wanna get your engine running
I wanna slip you into gear

I got a present in my pocket
All I’ve gotta give
A little present from the rocket
All I’ve gotta give

Chorus
Come on and be my lover
I’ll take you under cover, yeah
Come and be my lover
And I’ll be your lovin’ man

You’ve got to feel it deep inside girl
You got to take it when it comes

You’ll never know until you’ve tried girl
Please don’t stop what’s just begun

I’ve got a burning in my body
Baby I’m on fire
I ain’t asking nothing naugty
But won’t you get me higher

Chorus x2

I know there’s a time for living
I’m aware that we all must die
But why must my young life end so soon
Such a shame to weep and cry
In the night someone is calling
And in my mind a picture remains
People say I’ve gone half crazy
People say that I’m insane

Chorus
Don’t take my life
Away from me
Don’t take my life
Set me free
A fire is burning
And time is driftin’ away

They say that I killed
My dear brother
This terrible crime I didn’t do
Even my very own momma says
Oh baby what came over you
People judging and peer down at me
As tears stream down my face
I can’t find a reason or any rhyme
I think there must be some mistake

Chorus

As only I stand witness
To my plea
People shake their heads and pity me
Sentencing has dealt the final blow
To live my life remaining on death row

Chorus
Don’t take my life
Away from me
Don’t take my life
Set me free x2

A fire is burning
And time is driftin’ away

Street fighting man
He’s a hard one yes indeed
Just got in from Houston
Who knows when he’ll leave
Made his reputation
In small town southern bars
Everyone respects him
Treats him like a star

Chorus
Street fighter
Street fighting man x2
You got to watch yourself today
While you’re on the run
Cover the tracks that you lay down
Your day is gonna come
(yes it is)

He’s got a lady waiting
Back home in New Orleans
A Louisiana sweetheart
They call the southern queen
He promised her
They’d settle down
And make a home some day
But he said babe
You’ve to wait awhile
I’ve got one last debt to pay

Chorus

Met his man at Steeler’s inn
Where they play cards for pay
In a flash two shots were fired
And one man rode away

Crowd began to circle him
As he lay there dying
And in the night
He thought he heard
His sweetheart lady crying

Chorus

Far away over the hills
And over the plains
Lawmen search for the man
With no last name
A Killer killed a killer
And a killer got
To take the blame
Life seems wasted on some
It seems such a shame

Street fighter man
You got to run while you can x3

We’ve been five years working
In a Rock and roll band
Blasting heavy metal
Right across the land

I know if we’re good
And we see the light
We could tour the U.S.A.
I think we might
Playin’ really loud
To overflowing crowds
Every night
Party with the people and rock until
The morning light

Chorus
It’s taken so long
To make it this far
What’s another day
Of rock ‘n’ roll x2

Well my friends try to tell me
That we’re wasting our time
But I’ll put our rockin’
Music on the line
We’re gonna make it big
Just you wait and see
I ain’t letting people
Get the better of me
We’re making heavy records
We’re gonna make the people get higher
Yeah I know any moment
We got to set the world on fire

Chorus

Now people got to line up
Wherever we go
Trying to get a ticket
To our headline show
We’re packing screaming crowds
In right to the doors
15,000 people watch them
Yell for more
Now everybody calls us
Trying to get a minute of our time
Well I think it’s safe to say
Nowadays we’re doing fine

Chorus

Life goes by
And things get slower
Every day I get a little lower
Need some time to get me moving
I need a woman to give me some soothin’
Easy life easy times
Got no reasons got no rhyme

I’ve been  up and down
Three times now
Got to find a place to hide now
Easy life slipped through my hands
Easy women and rock and roll bands

Easy life easy times
Got no money or got no lines

Lookin’ for a better way
Got to cash in on the dues that I pay
Had a woman I didn’t understand
I showed her where it’s at
With the back of my hand

Easy life slipped through my hand

Easy life, easy times x4

Come on pretty baby
Put your party dress on
Come on won’t you rock-it
With me all night long
Can we lovey-dovey like the
Way we use to do before, before
That’s what I like, baby, that’s what I like, yeah!

Chorus
Let me take you home tonight
Everything will be alright
Baby, let me get next to you

Don’t you try and tell me
That I’m not your style,
Come on and get to know me
For a little while
Can we lovey-dovey like the
Way we use to do before, before
That’s what I like, baby, that’s what I like, yeah!

Chorus

The way you shake and shimmy
Girl, you drive me wild
When you touch me girl
You set my soul on fire
Can we lovey-dovey like the
Way we use to do before, before
That’s what I like, baby, that’s what I like, yeah!

Chorus

And from where I stand
I reach my hand
To catch a love blow
But the selfish stare
Through electric air
Is a blinding light show

I see the face
That has no place
But somehow knows
The truth is clear
But hiding here
In the blinding light show
The blinding light show

The place is strange
The colors change
The dancer slows
A shifts his pace
And lifts his face
Into the blinding light show
A naked heart is quickly torn apart
And the burning grows
When you try to think
It only makes you sink
Into the blinding light show
The blinding show x2

And while the crowd keeps
Calling out hoorah
Their greedy hands keep clutching out
Hoorah hoorah hoorah
The aimless mob is calling out
Hoorah
an unseen candles
Burning out
Hoorah hoorah hoorah
The blinding light show x2

And the sounds of truth ring hollow
In this pretense world of show
And the footlights
Burn their pathways
As the profits come and go
And the seeming some-day singer
Lives the Carney Barker’s dream
Selling all by saying nothing in
The language of a scream x2

And the blind shall
Lead the sighted
As we lose the candle glow
No one knows tomorrow
In the blinding light show
The blinding light show x2