Lyrics
All lyrics by Lionel De Leon except
"The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost) and "Solitude" (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
"The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost) and "Solitude" (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
1. The Road Not Taken
(Robert Frost)
(Robert Frost)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
2. TELL ME
One minute you're on to me the next minute you're off,
I don't know if I'm coming or I'm going,
Baby, don't be cruel to me, you gotta let me know,
Lay down on the table what you're showing.
I'll give it to you straight, I ain't got time to wait,
You better tell me.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
Last night you were talking to me heavy on the phone,
Today you say you wanna be by yourself,
Once you get me walking babe, I won't be back no more,
I ain't just a knick-knack man on your shelf,
So give it to me straight, I ain't got time to wait
You better tell me.
Today you say you wanna be by yourself,
Once you get me walking babe, I won't be back no more,
I ain't just a knick-knack man on your shelf,
So give it to me straight, I ain't got time to wait
You better tell me.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
One day I'm your lover on the next I'm just a friend,
I feel just like a yo-yo on a string,
First you pull me toward you, then you're pushing me away
I don't know what any day is gonna bring.
So tell it to me straight? Is this love or is it hate?
You better tell me.
I feel just like a yo-yo on a string,
First you pull me toward you, then you're pushing me away
I don't know what any day is gonna bring.
So tell it to me straight? Is this love or is it hate?
You better tell me.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love,
Tell me if you want it, tell me if you want my love.
3. BAD NEWS
I lost my job,
my wife is gonna leave me,
Ain't got no money
and I need a tube of glue.
Oh man, what am I supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
my wife is gonna leave me,
Ain't got no money
and I need a tube of glue.
Oh man, what am I supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
I saw a girl,
I thought I'd make a try,
Her muscle lover
Fisted up my eye.
Oh man, what's a guy supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
I thought I'd make a try,
Her muscle lover
Fisted up my eye.
Oh man, what's a guy supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
Went to the track,
won a bet on number four,
But soon the taxman
was knocking at my door
Oh man, what's a bum supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
won a bet on number four,
But soon the taxman
was knocking at my door
Oh man, what's a bum supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
A painted lady
asked “Do you want some tail?”
She was undercover
so I spent the night in jail.
Oh man, what's a John supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
asked “Do you want some tail?”
She was undercover
so I spent the night in jail.
Oh man, what's a John supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
I'd hitch a ride,
but cars just pass me by,
I may as well
just curl right up and die.
Oh man, what's a Joe supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
but cars just pass me by,
I may as well
just curl right up and die.
Oh man, what's a Joe supposed to do?
Cause it seems like everything I do, keeps turning into bad news.
I went to church
I fell down on my knees,
I asked the Lord,
“If you're up there, please
Won't you please, please, please, please, please, please
Take care of these blues?”
Cause I'm tired of everything I do keep turning into bad news.
I fell down on my knees,
I asked the Lord,
“If you're up there, please
Won't you please, please, please, please, please, please
Take care of these blues?”
Cause I'm tired of everything I do keep turning into bad news.
4. SOLITUDE by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth
Must borrow its mirth,
It has trouble enough of its own.
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth
Must borrow its mirth,
It has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound
To a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound
To a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure
Of all your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure
Of all your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline
Your sweet nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline
Your sweet nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give,
And it helps you live,
But it cannot help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train;
But one by one
We must all file on
through the narrow aisles of pain.
5. LET'S PLAY HOUSE
Hey, pretty mama,
do you wanna play house with me?
do you wanna play house with me?
Hey, pretty mama,
do you wanna play house with me?
do you wanna play house with me?
You can be my bride,
And we'll start our family tree.Hey pretty mama,
do you wanna play doctor, too?
Hey pretty mama,
do you wanna play doctor, too?
Get on my table,
gonna operate on you.
do you wanna play doctor, too?
Hey pretty mama,
do you wanna play doctor, too?
Get on my table,
gonna operate on you.
You look good, mama,
the way you shake that thing.
You look good, mama,
the way you shake that thing.
Gonna rattle your cage
and teach your bird to sing.
the way you shake that thing.
You look good, mama,
the way you shake that thing.
Gonna rattle your cage
and teach your bird to sing.
Hey pretty mama
do you wanna come dance with me?
Hey pretty mama
do you wanna come dance with me?
You be a bad baby,
I 'll bounce you on my knee.
do you wanna come dance with me?
Hey pretty mama
do you wanna come dance with me?
You be a bad baby,
I 'll bounce you on my knee.
6. BAD WOMAN
A woman knows how to make her man behave (with every move she makes)
A woman knows how to make her man behave (she can wrap you around her baby finger)
Good woman make you feel like her lover
Good woman make you feel like her lover
Bad woman make you feel just like her slave
(and that ain't right)
(and that ain't right)
The Lord made a woman
to be right by her good man's side
(the two shall become one)
The Lord made a good woman,
to be right by her good man's side
(they will face the world together)
But beware of the bad woman,
cause you'll be cheated on and lied
(straight to your face, son)
Be good to me woman,
and I'll be good to you
(I'll bring you the world on a silver platter)
and I'll be good to you
(I'll bring you the world on a silver platter)
Be good to me woman,
I'll be a very good man to you
(I'll give you love you always dreamed of)
I'll be a very good man to you
(I'll give you love you always dreamed of)
But if you're bad to me woman,
you'll be sorry for what you put me through
when I'm gone gone gone
you'll be sorry for what you put me through
when I'm gone gone gone
When a man loves a woman, it's sure to be good news ain't it just a beautiful thing?
But if you got a bad woman, you best put on your walking shoes and never look back, son
Because a bad woman brings you nothing, nothing but the blues.
Because a bad woman brings you nothing, nothing but the blues.
7. RIDE THIS TRAIN
Gonna ride this train all night long
From the edge of dusk to early dawn
I'll embrace those stars across the sky
While this train rolls all through the night
Taking me on the ride of my life
When the whistle blows I'll turn to see
All the beauty set there before me
Every curve of this land steals my soul
While the clacking tracks take their toll
On these worn old metal wheels that roll
All the beauty set there before me
Every curve of this land steals my soul
While the clacking tracks take their toll
On these worn old metal wheels that roll
There's an old song men used to sing
About this train and the joy that it would bring
Well now that I can feel this on my own
I can see what those hobos had known
How the seeds of love are sown
About this train and the joy that it would bring
Well now that I can feel this on my own
I can see what those hobos had known
How the seeds of love are sown
Gonna ride this train all night long
Feel the steel beneath my barefeet rigid strong
The conductor smiles cause she knows
All about those adventures that flow
When this old train's whistle blows
8.THE GIRL DOWN THE STREET
Well there's a girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet,
She's so doggone sweet,
The girl down the street.
Well there's a girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet,
She's so doggone sweet,
The girl down the street.
Well let me tell you she looks so fine,
And I've known her for a long-long time,
Someday I'm gonna make her mine,
So don't you tell me that my love is blind!
I went down to the corner store,
I bought a card, candy and flowers for,
The girl I love, to ask for her hand,
But when I turn around, she's with another man!
Well my heart just broke in half,
But looking back I gotta laugh,
Cause I ate the candy and burned the card,
And I planted the flowers in my back yard.
Well they look so pretty now,
But they take me back, somehow
To that girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet,
The girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet.
But they take me back, somehow
To that girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet,
The girl down the street,
The kind you like to meet.
9. DAN'S FALLING BACK
Hey, people, have you heard the news?
Dan's got the blues and he's not coming back,
He's kicking off his shoes, diving deep into the booze
Till he's flat on his back
Dan's falling back
Dan's got the blues and he's not coming back,
He's kicking off his shoes, diving deep into the booze
Till he's flat on his back
Dan's falling back
He said it's not his fault,
He's worth his salt, unjustly attacked.
He's heading to his vault, for an alcohol assault,
Where gray turns to black
Dan's falling back
He's worth his salt, unjustly attacked.
He's heading to his vault, for an alcohol assault,
Where gray turns to black
Dan's falling back
Hey Danny, what can you do
When the best of you runs right off the track?
I've got some news for you: unto yourself be true
Cause there's no turning back
Dan's falling back
When the best of you runs right off the track?
I've got some news for you: unto yourself be true
Cause there's no turning back
Dan's falling back
Hey, people, have you heard the news?
Dan's got the blues and he's not coming back...
Dan's got the blues and he's not coming back...
10. THE KEEPER
I'm as cold as stones, I never cry
I place the wicked thoughts inside your mind
You like the things that I do, I can tell
You are a victim of my evil spell,
I am the Keeper of the gates of Hell.
I'm as cold as stones, I never cry
I place the wicked thoughts inside your mind
You like the things that I do, I can tell
You are a victim of my evil spell,
I am the Keeper of the gates of Hell.
I am the serpent who tempted Eve
I am the father of lies whose lips deceive
You are my easy prey whose soul I take
You will soon join me in my fiery lake
I am the Keeper of the nether gate.
I am the father of lies whose lips deceive
You are my easy prey whose soul I take
You will soon join me in my fiery lake
I am the Keeper of the nether gate.
Find your friends and your lovers
Choose one side or the other
Because the Armaggedon is now.
Choose one side or the other
Because the Armaggedon is now.
I am Lucifer, the morning star
The bearer of light who's cast into dark
You cannot resist to play with fire
You are a slave to your sinful desire
I am the Keeper of the funeral pyre
The bearer of light who's cast into dark
You cannot resist to play with fire
You are a slave to your sinful desire
I am the Keeper of the funeral pyre
Narrow is the loving gate that leads away
Wide is the bitter path of those who stay
Ooh feel the fire ripping at your flesh
The gnashing of teeth and wailing in total darkness
I am the Keeper of your emptiness.
Wide is the bitter path of those who stay
Ooh feel the fire ripping at your flesh
The gnashing of teeth and wailing in total darkness
I am the Keeper of your emptiness.
Find your friends and your lovers
Choose one side or the other
Because the Armaggedon is now.
Choose one side or the other
Because the Armaggedon is now.
"Poets, Rhythm
& Blues"
& Blues"