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ALCATRAZZ LYRICS
"Power Live '85" (1985 Video/VHS)
1. Breaking The Heart Of The City
2. Jet To Jet
3. Skyfire
4. Sons And Lovers
5. Hiroshima Mon Amour
6. God Blessed Video
7. Will You Be Home Tonight
8. Kree Nakoorie
9. Since You've Been Gone
10. Painted Lover
11. Suffer Me
12. Jack The Ripper
13. Too Young To Die, Too Drunk To Live
14. Night Games
15. All Night Long
1. 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
2. Jet To Jet
On a short trip we made a landing
Then we were strangers in town
How they stared as we made our exit
We're white they're all brown
Dr. Livingstone where are you when
we need you the most
We're white as ivory on the ivory coast
[1/2CHORUS]
Jet into jet
Eat their poison like true ambassadors
We will drink up their beer
So predictable washed out white
Men foreigners are here
Call me master I'll call you boy
If that's all that you need
How that wounds me just leave me here
to bleed
[SOLO]
Black mans burden is on his shoulder
and keeps him well in his place
Two hundred pounds worth of
megawatts
That smack him in the face
There's no reason to take the weight
Life's not strapped to your head
Don't wear the token till the token black
is dead
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Hiroshima Mon Amour
It was newborn and ten feet tall,
But they called it little boy,
And C7, H5, O6, N3 they called him
T-N-T.
The fireball would dim the sun,
Promising death in its cruelest form.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
As we beg to be forgiven do you spit,
In our face and curse us all.
The fireball that shamed the sun,
Burning the shadows on the ground,
As the rain falls to dry the land,
Leaving desert for the thirsty man.
They all said it would end the war,
And we thanked Christ for the bomb,
And the priests and witches all agreed,
They should die to keep them free.
The fireball that shamed the sun,
Burning the shadows on the ground,
As the rain falls to dry the land,
Leaving the desert for the thirsty man.
HIROSHIMA!!!
6. 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
7. 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
8. Kree Nakoorie
Masters of the world hidden from our eyes
In the sun we grew sharing the same light
Elegant warrior my gun and your spear
Killers that keep our lives apart
Pictures from the air stole away your souls
Aerobatic thieves photographic freeze
Lead by the legend of Kree Nakoorie
The man that hides away from man so
hard to understand
9. Since You've Been Gone
I get the same old dreams same time every night
Fall to the ground and I wake up
So I get out of bed, put on my shoes and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the breakup
These four wall are closing in
Look at the fix you put me in
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Since you been gone
So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon, the night time comes around
too soon
You can't know what you mean to me
Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Since you been gone
If you will come back
Baby, you know you'll never do wrong
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Ever since you been gone
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
10. 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
11. Suffer Me
The cold December day I came
You knew me well but I was a stranger
You suffer me, oh oh you suffer me
Oooo suffer me
Why you suffer me
I touched you
You felt me heart
Oh how you suffer me oh you suffer me
Oh suffer me
Why did you suffer me
[SOLO]
Oh suffer me why did you
How could you suffer me
Suffer wo oa oh
12. Jack The Ripper
13. Too Young To Die, Too Drunk To Live
Chemical kids lost in the street, looking
for some kind of saviour
Perverted minds lead them like sheep
into the slaughter they have to face
[CHORUS]
Too young to die, too drunk to live
As they follow in the path of believers before them
Too young to die, but there won't be too long to live
Daddie's princess fixes her hair, powders
her nose from the inside
Smokes in the car, drinks her last beer,
soon she'll be ready for one more day
Head for the classroom and to hell but
the clock up on the wall hold the
blind face of freedom
[CHORUS CONT.]
There's time to die but she just needs
more time to live
[SOLO]
Years from now
Look how they change
They're so mature and respected
Makes them laugh
They were such fools
So unaware of the real live world
Honey I'm home, fix me a drink
It's been a long hard day and the boss
drove me crazy
Watching the clock on the wall for
the happy hour
14. Night Games
15. All Night Long
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