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ALCATRAZZ LYRICS
"Disturbing the Peace" (1985)
1. God Blessed Video
2. Mercy
3. Will You Be Home Tonight
4. Wire and Wood
5. Desert Diamond
6. Stripper
7. Painted Lover
8. Lighter Shade of Green
9. Sons and Lovers
10. Skyfire
11. Breaking the Heart of the City
1. God Blessed Video
Lets take a plane and go somewhere exotic
To play with a non-descript song
We'll shoot all the crotch shots for 12 year old hopefuls
To make you a real man my son
Some cheap kid from Birmingham
Blessed with an accent
That pours like the darkest brown ale
Just one more puppet, piss elegant marionette
He's just a fast buck for sale
Don't you know that God blessed video
We know that God blessed video
Break out the cameras that re-shape my face
And get someone to carve up my hair
If you can't beat them, you might as well join 'em
And be glad to say you were there
2. Mercy
Sister moon and brother sun
Shining down on my India
Spreading your light across the ground
Guiding the executioner
Great white warrior, you are the lonely hunter
Killing the prince of india
Killing the king in africa
Tiger burning brightly crying tears of fire
Mercy, mercy, mercy
Chand bahen ar suray bhy
Shining down on my India
Chamakta hey mana barat ka upar
Guiding the lonely preditor
Tiger burning brightly crying tears of fire
Mercy, mercy, mercy
3. Will You Be Home Tonight
He's just a kid and loves to ride
Taking the freeway, driving blind
Just like a loaded gun, he pushes down the hammer
Hard to fire
In the embrace of his gasoline lover
Her sleek body wraps all around
Turns on the radio, lights up his cigarette
Takes the lights up, dims them down
A silent Geisha, the perfect seducer
Knows someone is waiting too long
Oh will you be home tonight
Oh please say tou'll be there
He's just a kid who loves to drive
To get out of sight out of his mind
He pushed the hammer down
And shot just like a bullet from a gun
Drunk on the fix of the powerful kick
As he shoots up from zero to speed
Has one more drink of the cold liquid courage
To keep on the level he needs
Soothed by the sound of the wheels on the ground
But he won't hear the tires when they scream...
Oh will you be home tonight
Oh will you be home tonight
Oh will you be home tonight
Oh will you be home tonight
4. Wire and Wood
Down the street a snake of leather sliding off to war,
Out to fight the battle with the boys upon the boards,
Up against the disciples with their backs up to the walls,
They don't care, 'cos they can take the blast
They're just out to bust their balls!
In the arena the battle begins
They're eye to eye face to face...
They come back to feel the smack from the wire and the wood,
Pack that slap, don't take no crap from the wire and the wood.
Crushed against the barricades
And worked up to a rage
How hot it gets, and how the leather sweats,
As they reach to claw the stage
In an hour or two,
The battle will be done
No one leaving in defeat
Both sides having won
Blinded by the silence calling them back home.
5. Desert Diamond
Lie in Egyptian sands, Ethiopian overlord
Royal mountains stand
Guardian of the Kings
Sleep in your dusty sea
Silent shining desert diamond, sleep eternally.
Eyes of a blinded lion, saw the age of the Pharoah come,
And return to sand,
Gold and silver gone stripped from your virgin stone
Still you stand so strong and silent
Frozen by the sun
Desert diamond
Stone leonine
Desert diamond
Stone leonine
Silent shining
Desert giant
Ethiopian sons-diamond
6. Stripper
A dark and crowded room
Warm beer that's stale
Nobody seems to care, there's more for sale
She walks on the stage
Strokes her hips, shakes her mane
Her sweet cheap perfume, reminds them that
She's why they came.
Oh she's the stripper, she'll strip your soul
Oh she's the stripper, she'll eat you whole.
Assembled in Mexico, dark Spanish eyes,
She'll tell you where to go, if you get wise
She's your fantasy, but she won't go too far
Oh she has to be, in league with the guy at the bar
7. Painted Lover
Street wise, smooth thighs, dress for your pleasure
Your old man says, "Young man, stand and deliver"
She just wants that hard stash, hot from your pocket,
She don't need your credit card
So shove it, if you've got it.
Sailing on her waterbed
Side by side and head to head
Painted love, painted love, painted lover
Painted love, painted love, painted lover
Pin striped city tyke has a soft underbelly,
He's transfixed by the heel clicks
And he ducks down the alley
Silken legs stiletto spurred
Pulls you in to make you hers
8. Lighter Shade of Green
9. Sons and Lovers
One more hotel it's 12 o'clock we're checking out
Still confused and slow to move to get on the bus,
The driver keeps that Memphis smile for his good old boys
He's loaded them up and heads them out in the void.
We drive -- pass those trailers and trucks
We'll make good time with some kind of luck
Another victory, for sons and lovers
You gave us the power, you gave the power
It's not just one more show we know it's gotta be right
We work the songs then kiss the road a warm good night
10. Skyfire
Just one more of those 82 nights
We were all cowboys ready to ride
Fire the gun, turn your eyes to the sea
Through that night, riding your trigger with me.
Your local station gives out the news
"The sky is burning, in Malibu"
As the beach turns an ominous green
Bathed in light from the shape in the sky
We all tanned, in a new kind of sun
Something's wrong and we're getting ready to run
Your local station knows what to say
It's just a fuel burn so its o.k.
Please hold the phone calls there's no more news
It's just a skyfire in Malibu.
Pros to cons from diplomats-liars
Words designed to tranquilize-fighters
Your local station screams out the news
The sky is burning in Malibu
Please hold the phone calls
There is no need for alarm
It's just a skyfire, skyfire burning in Malibu.
11. Breaking the Heart of the City
In the London rain the sun called "go west",
The American loves the way you speak English
And they watched you growing as their son for so long
How they long to embrace you, tell you, `This is home'.
Beloved foreigner this your America
Wants you to stay forever
Beloved foreigner this your America
Wants you to stay forever
As you look down on the New York skyline
There's someone waiting for you among the crowd
He wants to be just like you, he wants to be a friend to you,
Reach inside, and just be part of you
He saved the photographs, he read the magazines
Making you part of the city
Beloved foreigner someone to crucify
Breaking the heart of the city.
In the London rain the sun called "Go West"
The Americans love to hear you speak English
He took your autograph
Spit out the magazine
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