Ceremony

[Verse 1]
This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story
Notice whom for wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she ask’s the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
Word will travel, oh so quickly
Travel first and lean towards this time

[Verse 2]
Oh, I’ll break them all, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it’s got to be this time
Watching her, these things she said
The times she cried
Too frail to wake this time

[Verse 3]
Oh, I’ll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it’s got to be this time
Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever

[Outro]
Forever, watching love grow
Forever, letting me know
Forever

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Wave of Mutilation

[Verse 1]
Cease to resist, givin’ my goodbye
Drive my car into the ocean
You think I’m dead, but I sail away

[Chorus]
On a wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave, wave

[Verse 2]
I’ve kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño
Walked the sand with the crustaceans
Could find my way to Mariana

[Chorus]
On a wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave, wave

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Search and Destroy

[Verse 1]
I’m a street-walking cheetah
With a heart full of napalm
I’m a runaway child of the nuclear A-bomb
I am a world’s forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

Honey, gotta help me, please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, detonate for me!

[Verse 2]
Look out, honey, ’cause I’m using technology
Ain’t got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a firefight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

[Chorus]
And I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy
And honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’ only to destroy
Hey!

[Verse 2]
Look out, honey, ’cause I’m using technology
Ain’t got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a firefight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

[Chorus]
And I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy
And honey, I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy

[Outro]
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy, said, uh
Hey, forgotten boy, said
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Baby, baby, babe, hey, yeah
Aw, baby, baby

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Boys Don’t Cry

[Verse 1]
I would say I’m sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I have said too much, been too unkind

[Chorus]
I tried to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I tried to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
‘Cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry

[Verse 2]
I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness, plead with you
But I know that it’s too late
And now there’s nothing I can do

[Chorus]
So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
‘Cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry
[Verse 3]
I would tell you that I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it’s no use
And you’ve already gone away

[Bridge]
Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more, more, more

[Chorus]
Now I would do ‘most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
‘Cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry
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Gouge Away

[Verse 1]
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to

[Chorus 1]
Missy aggravation
Some sacred questions
You stroke my locks
Some marijuana if you got some

[Verse 2]
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to

[Chorus 2]
Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms
You spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers

[Verse 3]
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to

[Chorus 3]
Chained to the pillars
A 3-day party
I break the walls
And kill us all with holy fingers
Gouge away (La la)
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to

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Sheena Is a Punk Rocker

[Verse 1]
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They’re ready to go now
They got their surfboards
And they’re going to the Discotheque Au Go Go
But she just couldn’t stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

[Chorus]
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
She’s a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now

[Verse 2]
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They’re ready to go now
They got their surfboards
And they’re going to the Discotheque Au Go Go
But she just couldn’t stay
She had to break away
Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

[Chorus]
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now.
She’s a punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker
Punk punk, a punk rocker.
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker
Sheena is a punk rocker now

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Time For Heroes

[Verse 1]
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?
Shoveled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed
Truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you, my love

[Verse 2]
But there’s a rumour spreadin’ nasty disease around town
You’re caught around the houses with your trousers down
A headrush hid in the bush
You know I cherish you, my love
Oh, how I cherish you, my love

[Chorus]
Tell me, what can you want, now you’ve got it all?
The scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
Oh, Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean

[Verse 3]
He knows it’s eating, it’s chewing me up
It’s not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
Then it’s all
It’s all in my hands
And it’s all up the walls

[Verse 4]
So the stale chips are up and the hope stakes are down
It’s all these ignorant faces that bring this town down
And I sighed and sunken with pride
Well, I passed myself down on my knees
Yes, I passed myself down on my knees

[Chorus]
Now tell me what can you want now you’ve got it all?
The scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean

[Verse 5]
It was a few or more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
And we’ll die in the class we were born
Well, that’s a class of our own, my love
A class of our own, my love

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 6]
Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?
Shoveled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed
Truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you, my love
Yeah, I cherish you, my love

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Up The Bracket

[Verse 1]
I saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road
Said they’d pay me for your address
Oh I was so bold

I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You’s a way to mean no

Well they didn’t like that much I can tell you
Said «sunshine I wouldn’t wanna be in your shoes»
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
Hello, ’cause you’re impossible

[Chorus]
But it’s just like he’s in another world
He doesn’t see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph bloody in a hole

And it’s just like she’s in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It’s impossible

[Verse 2]
Saw the same two men on the Cally road
Said now they’d double their offer
I was so bold

To say you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you’s a way to mean no

[Chorus]
But it’s just like he’s in another world
He doesn’t see the danger on show
He’ll end up like Joseph bloody in a hole

It’s just like she’s in another world
How they suit each other oh no
But you never get close
It’s unstoppable

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
But it’s just like we’re all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
That’s close enough now.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go

[Verse 1]
Darling, you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I’ll be here ’till the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?

[Verse 2]
It’s always tease, tease, tease
You’re happy when I’m on my knees
One day it’s fine and next it’s black
So if you want me off your back
Well, come on and let me know
Should I stay or should I go?

[Chorus]
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go, there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know

[Verse 3]
This indecision’s bugging me 
If you don’t want me, set me free
Exactly whom I’m supposed to be
Don’t you know which clothes even fit me?
Come on and let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?
Split

[Bridge]

[Chorus]
Should I stay or should I go now? 
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double 
So ya gotta let me know 
Should I cool it or should I blow? 
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double 
So ya gotta let me know 
Should I stay or should I go?

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Last Nite

[Verse 1]
Last night, she said
«Oh, baby, I feel so down
Oh, it turn me off
When I feel left out»
So I, I turned ’round
Oh, baby, don’t care no more
I know this for sure
I’m walking out that door
Well, I’ve been in town for just ’bout fifteen, oh, minutes now
And, baby, I feel so down
And I don’t know why
I keep walking for miles

[Chorus]
And see people, they don’t understand
No, girlfriends, they can’t understand
Your grandsons, they won’t understand
On top of this, I ain’t ever gonna understand

[Verse 2]
Last night, she said
«Oh, baby, don’t feel so down
Oh, it turn me off
When I feel left out»
So I, I turned ’round
Oh, baby, gonna be alright
It was a great, big lie
‘Cause I left that night, yeah

[Chorus]
Oh, people, they don’t understand
No, girlfriends, they don’t understand
In spaceships, they won’t understand
And me, I ain’t ever gonna understand

[Verse 1]
Last night, she said
«Oh, baby, I feel so down
See, it turn me off
When I feel left out»
So I, I turned ’round
Oh, little girl, I don’t care no more
I know this for sure
I’m walking out that door, yeah

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Cheated Hearts

[Verse]
Cheated by the opposite of love
Held on high from up, up, up above
Kept my high from the second one
Kept my eye on the first one

Now, take these rings and stow them safe away
I’ll wear them on another rainy day
Take these rings and stow them safe away
I’ll wear them on another rainy day

[Pre-Chorus]
Well I’m
Taka-taka-taka-taka-takin’ it off
And she’s
Taka-taka-taka-taka-takin’ it off
And he’s
Taka-taka-taka-taka-takin’ it off
And we’re
Taka-taka-taka-taka-takin’ it off

[Chorus]
Sometimes, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound

[Bridge]
She’ll take on high
She’ll take on high

[Chorus]
Well sometimes, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound
Well, I think that I’m bigger than the sound

[Verse]
Cheated by the opposite of love
Held on high from up, up, up above
Kept my high from the second one
Kept my eye on the first one

Now, take these rings and stow them safe away
I’ll wear them on another rainy day
Take these rings and stow them safe away
I’ll wear them on another rainy day

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Teenage Kicks

[Verse 1]
A teenage dream’s so hard to beat
Every time she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighborhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good

[Chorus]
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

[Verse 2]
I’m gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over ’cause I’m all alone
I need excitement, oh, I need it bad
And it’s the best I’ve ever had

[Chorus]
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
All right!

[Verse 1]
A teenage dream’s so hard to beat
Every time she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighbourhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good

[Chorus]
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night

[Verse 2]
I’m gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over ’cause I’m all alone
I need excitement, oh, I need it bad
And it’s the best I’ve ever had

[Chorus]
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
All right!

[Instrumental Break]

I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
All right!

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Gigantic

[Verse 1]
And this I know, his teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her every day into a shady place
With her lips she said, she said

[Pre-Chorus]
«Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let’s have a ball»

[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love

[Verse 2l]
Lovely legs, they’re a…
What a big black mess, what a hunk of love
He’d walk her every day into a shady place
He’s like the dark, but I’d want him

[Pre-Chorus]
«Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let’s have a ball»

[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
A big, big love
A big, big love, a big, big love

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Don’t Look Back Into The Sun

[Verse 1]
Don’t look back into the sun
Now you know that the time has come
And they said it would never come for you

Oh my friend you haven’t changed
You’re looking rough and living strange
And I know you got a taste for it too oh oh oh

[Chorus]
They’ll never forgive you but they won’t let you go, oh no
She’ll never forgive you but she won’t let you go, oh no

[Verse 2]
Don’t look back into the sun
You’ve cast your pearls but now you’re on the run
And all the lies you said, who did you save?

But when they played that song at the Death Disco
It started fast but it ends so slow
And all the time it just reminded me of you

[Chorus]
They’ll never forgive you but they won’t let you go (let me go!)
She’ll never forgive you but she won’t let you go, oh no

[Chorus]
They’ll never forgive you but they won’t let you go (let me go!)
She’ll never forgive you but she won’t let you go, oh no..

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Y Control

[Verse 1]
Oh, so all my lovin’ goes
Under the fog, fog, fog
And I will leave them all
Well, I’m just a poor little baby
‘Cause, well, I believe them all

[Verse 2]
Oh, so while you’re growing old
Under the gun, gun, gun
And I believe them all
Well, I’m just one poor baby
‘Cause, well, I believe them all

[Pre-Chorus]
I wish I could buy back
The woman you stole

[Chorus]
Y-control, Y-control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, out of control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, high control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, out of control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners out
Oh, so all my lovin’ goes
Under the fog, fog, fog
And I believe them all
Well, I’m just a poor little baby
‘Cause, well, I believe them all

[Pre-Chorus]
I wish I could buy back
The woman you stole

[Chorus]
Y-control, Y-control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, out of control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, high control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
Out of control, out of control
You walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners out

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Future Starts Slow

[Verse 1]
You can holler, you can wail
You can swing, you can flail
You can thump like a broken sail
But I’ll never give you up
If I ever give you up my heart will surely fail

[Verse 2]
And after all God can keep my soul
England have my bones
But don’t ever give me up
I could never get back up when the future starts so slow

[Pre-Chorus]
No longing for the moonlight
No longing for the sun
No longer will I curse the bad I’ve done
If there’s a time when your feelings gone, I wanna feel it

[Chorus]
You can holler, you can wail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
You can swing, you can flail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
(I don’t mind)

[Bridge]
There’s a time for the second best
And there’s a time when the feeling’s gone
But it’s hard to be hard I guess
When you’re shaking like a dog

[Chorus]
You can holler, you can wail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
You can swing, you can flail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind

[Chorus]
You can holler, you can wail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
You can swing, you can flail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
(I don’t mind)

[Outro]
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
You can blow what’s left of my right mind
You can holler, you can wail
You can blow what’s left of my right mind

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Disorder

[Verse 1]
I’ve been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
Lose sensation, spare the insults, leave them for another day
I’ve got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away

[Verse 2]
It’s getting faster, moving faster now, it’s getting out of hand
On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, into no man’s land
Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now
I’ve got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow

[Verse 3]
What means to you, what means to me and we will meet again
I’m watching you, I’m watching her, I’ll take no pity from your friends
Who is right, who can tell and who gives a damn right now?
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know

[Outro]
I’ve got the spirit
But lose the feeling
I’ve got the spirit
But lose the feeling
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling
Feeling, feeling, feeling

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Gold Soundz

[Verse 1]
Go back to those gold sounds
And keep my advent to your self
Because it’s nothing I don’t like
Is it a crisis or a boring change?
When it’s central, so essential
It has a nice ring when you laugh
At the low-life opinions
And they’re coming to the chorus now

[Chorus 1]
I keep my address to yourself ’cause we need secrets
We need secret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –crets back right now

[Verse 2]
Because I never wanna make you feel
That you’re social, never ignorant soul
Believe in what you wanna do
And do you think that is a major flaw
When they rise up in the falling rain?
And if you stay around
With your knuckles ground down
The trial’s over, the weapon’s found

[Chorus 1]
Keep my address to myself because it’s secret
‘Cause it’s secret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –cret
–Cret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –cret, –cret back right now

[Verse 3]
So drunk in the August sun
And you’re the kind of girl I like
Because you’re empty and I’m empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December
That I won’t need you when I’m gone?
And if I go there, I won’t stay there
Because I’m sitting here too long

[Chorus 2]
I’ve been sitting here too long
And I’ve been wasted, advocating that word for the last word
Last words come up, all you’ve got to waste

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Holidays In The Sun

A cheap holiday in other people’s misery!
[Verse 1]
I don’t wanna holiday in the sun
I wanna go to the new Belsen
I wanna see some history
‘Cause now I got a reasonable economy

[Hook]
Oh, now I got a reason, now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I’m still waiting
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall

[Verse 2]
In Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
I was waiting for the communist call
I didn’t ask for sunshine and I got World War III
I’m looking over the wall and they’re looking at me

[Hook]
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I’m still waiting
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall

[Bridge]
They’re staring all night and they’re staring all day
I had no reason to be here at all
And now I got a reason, it’s no real reason
And I’m waiting at Berlin Wall

I gotta go over the Berlin Wall
I don’t understand this bit at all
I’m gonna go over and over the Berlin wall
I gotta go over the Berlin Wall
I’m gonna go over the Berlin wall

[Hook]
Claustrophobia, there’s too much paranoia
There’s too many closets I went in before
And now I got a reason, it’s no real reason to be waiting
At Berlin Wall

[Outro]
I gotta go over the wall
I don’t understand this bit at all
This third rate B-movie show
Cheap dialogue, cheap essential scenery
I gotta go over the wall
I wanna go over the Berlin Wall
Before me, come over the Berlin Wall
I don’t understand this bit at all
I gotta go over the wall
I wanna go over the Berlin Wall
I gotta go over the Berlin Wall
Before me, come over the Berlin Wall
I don’t understand this bit at all
Please don’t be waiting for me

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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

[Verse 1]
Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see lights
Driving in your car, oh, please don’t drop me home
Because it’s not my home, it’s their home
And I’m welcome no more

[Chorus]
And if a double-decker bus crashes into us
To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten tonne truck kills the both of us
To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

[Verse 2]
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere
I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought «Oh God, my chance has come at last»
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn’t ask
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere
I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care
Driving in your car, I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one
I haven’t got one

[Chorus]
And if a double-decker bus crashes into us
To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten tonne truck kills the both of us
To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

[Outro]
Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out

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Rock’n’Roll Star

[Verse 1]
I live my life in the city
And there’s no easy way out
The day’s moving just too fast for me
I need some time in the sunshine
I’ve gotta slow it right down
The day’s moving just too fast for me

[Chorus]
I live my life for the stars that shine
People say, «It’s just a waste of time»
Then they said, «I should feed my head»
That to me was just a day in bed
I’ll take my car and drive real far
They’re not concerned about the way we are
In my mind my dreams are real
Now you concerned about the way I feel
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star

[Verse 2]
I live my life in the city
And there’s no easy way out
The day’s moving just too fast for me
I need some time in the sunshine
I’ve gotta slow it right down
The day’s moving just too fast for me
[Chorus]
I live my life for the stars that shine
People say, «It’s just a waste of time»
Then they said, «I should feed my head»
Oh, that to me was just a day in bed
I’ll take my car and drive real far
You’re not concerned about the way we are
In my mind my dreams are real
Now you concerned about the way I feel
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star

[Bridge]
You’re not down with who I am
Look at you now, you’re all in my hands tonight

[Chorus]
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star
Tonight I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star

[Outro]
It’s just rock ‘n’ roll
It’s just rock ‘n’ roll
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