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VALENTINE'S NIGHT DRIVE

from DOMESTIC BLISS by guano poundhammer

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lyrics

I'm Your Car

Mustang sky, Cadillac moon
Look coupe but I feel saloon

My body is rusty but my engine's O.K.
Got enough gasoline I can drive all day

I'm your car
And you drive me
I'm your car
You drive me crazy
You drive me crazy
Just the way you are

Pontiac sunset, redder than a Corvette
It feels like leather but its only leatherette
I got four on the floor but I feel automatic
Turn on the radio, I just get static

I’m your car…

Celluloid lips, heart attack hips
She flash in the dark and my headlight dips
Can you hear me knocking I could use some oil
Drive so hard make my radiator boil

It gets so you can't tell day from night
Shining like a shark in the swimming pool lights
You drive me crazy just the way you are
I'm your car
I’m your car

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Electric Flowers

Don't step out of line
Whatever you may do
Cause you know where they'll send you
Straight to the back of the queue

Electric Flowers
Mutated birds
Miming to records
Voices unheard

Brothers and sisters
Selling out your soul
Do you think that you can handle
Twenty years without a goal

Electric Flowers
In blind alleyways
Grinding
For the rest of your days

Here in this jungle
You must know your place
Don't look in the mirror boy
Lately you aint got no face

Electric Flowers
In acid rain
Sleeping with androids
Cerebral pain
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Diamonds

Casanovas and gold diggers
are only poor relations.

For the Koh-in-noor brings strife
wherever it goes.

Women quarrel for the biggest cut
as Landlords complain
it's not pounded or polished smooth
like yesterday.

I'm talking of............
Diamonds.

It is the diamond in my soul
that keeps me going.

They wait on me to arrive.

I pose for photos
on the street, in clubs or at the stadium.
In fact every place I might be missed.

I don't want to be president
or royalty or an actor;
I just want to be up there.

Serious,
Solitaire
and beyond
Compare.

As I stroll down the avenue
past shops and hospitals,
theatres and cafes,
people see the diamonds
and wonder if I'm a star.

Some stop to ask
how I do it ?
My reply is
"Don't look further than your nose
and remember this;
if dust be diamonds
and water be wine
you too would be happy,
happy all the time."

C'est magnifique,
exquisite,
surpassing prime,
superfine.

Light in your life.
Strobe in your lobe.
Gem on your hem.

You know I may not be a living God
but I'm truly alive.
When I bring my hand down
from lighting a cigarette
I often catch them looking into my eyes,
tryin' to catch a glimpse of the
diamond light that shines within.

I don't return the glare
for the stare of envy
is but a reflection of themselves.

I'm up there
and will be forever
like diamonds are forever.

Diamonds.............

Rubbin' up a Ruby
can relieve your stress.
Pearls are perfect
with a little black dress.

Gold and silver
are a means to an end,
but I still say diamonds
are a girl's best friend.

Rings on your fingers
look so pretty,
powering the neon
of Jo'berg City.

Dead men standin' in
a long black line,
bringin' you diamonds
from an African mine.

Diamonds................
Diamonds...............

I put my diamonds to bed
in a safe
and dream of money they will
make.

Because after you've planted
yourself on top of a very rich
man, what else is there to do Huh ?

seX marks the spot.
He sought and he found
God's Ice from heaven
under the ground.

Blood sweat and tears
and what's for sale
on New Years Day
at Bloomingdale’s.

Ten men dead in
a caved in roof
for a gem stuck in
a rock stars tooth.

It's razzle dazzle
and cute tom foolery,
'cause love don't last
as long as jewellery.

Diamonds...............

Kruger Rand
The Zulu lands
The ultimate act
it's a fact
Slavery
not bravery
Death on the rocks

Cecil Rhodes roughshod
over Africa
in search of diamonds
mining monstrosities
and atrocities
the dear departed
The bottled up anger
pluck doesn't beat luck when there's
chains around your ankles
Constant reminders
digging for diamonds.
No Saturday night or Sunday
morning for miners
For the township jurors and jivers
white men have the rule of the country
No escape
the trial of blood and tears.
You work, you rest
but you don't play.
Road to riches - jewellery for the bitches
Uneconomic collapse
where angels fear to tread
Mercenaries count the diamond dead

Diamonds............
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Sirius Moon

When we were alone She called me ‘Cherie’
She was the most beautiful woman in Paris
And She only had eyes for me
Each night we would cuddle on the left bank
Wishing upon some distant star
Afterwards she would slip on my collar and lead
And promenade me all the way home
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Is This All There Is?

Is this all there is?
Giving 'til it hurts.

You see her,
you want her
and so you buy her
with a cheque that
bounces.

This is what I saw.

The piano music shredded.
Her ballet shoes stained.
Her future chucked at the back
of the wardrobe.

After a while
they took her away
She had a private bed;
which you paid for.

It made me realise:
most of life -
perhaps all of it
is fake.

And that seeming
can be just like being
but only for a while.

Is this all there is?

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Diamante
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Love Outgrows the Affair

Tattooed wedding ring
oh' the joy that passion brings
love outgrows the affair

Back drinking with the boys
Bleeding Hearts and broken toys
Love outgrows the affair

You can't stop him
If he wants to
Pack his bags
and head home

If he can't finish
what he started
Then he's best
left alone

Tangled up in blue
At sorrows secret rendezvous
Love outgrows the affair
Love outgrows the affair
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Poison People

Poison people, people poison
gonna mess up on your scene
It's danger danger from people poison
man their spirit is so mean

They got sleaze
disease
knock knees
and scandalese

they take my psyche and grind it down
slap a mask on my face when they come around
slash the muscles that make me strong
force the drug up my nose where it does
not belong

those poison people are the pits

'cause deep down they're so shallow
bullshit brains
they're straight and narrow

You've met 'em
don't let 'em

Fuck with your head
they like to see you bled
or blind your eyes
with their brainless lies

'til the hate they bring
and the shit they sling
with their dirty minds
getcha all the time
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The Holy Goalie's Fall From Grace

Both on the field and off the field
His attitude was 'holier than thou'

If he wasn't saving penalties,
He was saving souls.

One night, when the club was on tour,
He scored twice - with a whore.

Our Leading striker remarked,
"I wouldn't put it past him if he caught something"
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Trivial Pursuits

Why did Eddie Fontaines Mama
Tell him there’d be times like these
That there would be nothing shaking
Except the leaves upon the trees

Why did Bobby Darrin sing of
Sidewalk bodies oozing life
He want to put the blame upon
That cool cart called Mack the Knife

Say you mean much more to me
Than trivial pursuits

I know the answers to the questions
But I. Aint so smart I aint so cute
Because I don’t know why you don’t love me
And my trivial pursuits

Why did Jet Harris leave the Shadows
To play man with the golden arm
Why did Robert Zimmerman say
I aint gonna work on Maggie’s Farm

Say you mean much more to me
Than trivial pursuits

I know the answers to the questions
But I aint so smart aint so cute
Because I don’t know why you don’t love me
And my trivial pursuits
And my trivial pursuits

Why? What? Where?
You know where
When?
I’ve told you when
Who?
You know who
How?
How could you
Why?

I know the answers to the questions
I aint so smart I aint so cute
Because I don't know why you don’t love me
And my trivial pursuits
And my trivial pursuits

You know why
What
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A Rainy Night in Cattlewash

Listen to the radio.
Listen to the wind blow
all the way from Africa.

Step inside a heart so warm.
Shelter from the tropic storm
that's rolling in from Africa.

It's spirit sings through flesh and bone
happy in this Island home,
on a rainy night in Cattlewash.

Karie phoned me up to say
she's on her way.
And if it's OK
she'd like to stay the night with me.

And I say OK

I guess the barbecues a miss.
Hear the hot coals hiss.
Puddles on the east coast road.

Warm and tender falls the rain,
washing clean the soul again.
Rainy night in Cattlewash.

Feel the peace.
Feel the peace.
Can't you feel the peace.
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Valentine's Nigh Drive

Dig it dig it
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Drive on baby drive on
Yeah yeah yeah

Valentine’s night drive
Lost on a road of love
Moonlight over the mountains
Stars in the heavens above

We saw the sign
But we don’t need direction
On a long and winding road
Of love and affection

Let your love run free
Drive in baby Drive on
Let it all hang out
Dig it

You look so sweet good enough to eat
I don’t need sugar now in my tea
I’m your boy and you’re my girl
We could go the whole wide world

Valentine’s night drive
Lost on a road of love
Moonlight over the mountains
Stars in the heavens above

Then your eyes look into mine
I steal me a kiss for the good times
Can’t you feel this heart of mine
Go boom boom boom

Drive on baby drive on
Drive on baby drive on
Drive on baby drive on
Yeah yeah yeah

Steal me a kiss for the good times
Dig it
Yeah yeah yeah

You look so sweat good enough to eat
Can’t you fell this heart of mine
Go boom boom boom

Dig it
Drive on baby drive on

Valentine’s night drive
Lost on a road of love
Moonlight over the mountains
Stars in the heavens above
We saw 5he sign
But we don’t need direction
On a long and winding road
Of love and affection

Let your love run free
Let your love run free

Cupid moon look down below
Stupid moon how could he know
We’re unaware don’t even care
Because were happy in the afterglow

You are beautiful you sparkle and shine
You are beautiful #you sparkle and shine
You are beautiful you sparkle and shine
You are beautiful
You’re my Valentine

Roses are red, Violets are blue
Last night I dreamt of the car and you
Tonight my dreams have all come true
You love me and I love you

Now what’s the time? – yours and mine
Now what’s the day? – everyday
What’s the night? – every night
What’s the line? – valentine

Clouds up high in a sunset sky
A love light shines in suspended time
Take me out for a spin where to begin?
Look out hill it’s such a thrill
A moonlight mile – the shadow of your smile
Two night lovers made for each other
Valentine’s night drive

Drive on baby drive on
Drive on baby drive on
Drive on baby drive on
Let it all hang out
Drive on baby drive on

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from DOMESTIC BLISS, released September 21, 1999
©COLIN GIBSON/JACK POUND/CLIVE GARDNER PRS MCPS all rights reserved

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