ALICE COOPER - 1977
"Lace and Whiskey"
Track List:
1. It's Hot Tonight
2. Lace And Whiskey
3. Road Rats
4. Damned If I Do
5. You And Me
6. King Of the Silver Screen
7. Ubangi Stomp
8. (No More) Love At Your Convenience
9. I Never Wrote Those Songs
10. My God
1. It's Hot Tonight
+++++++++++++++++++
It's hot tonight
Too hot for talking
It's hot tonight
I sweat tonight
I sweat no sleeping
It's too hot tonight
Dogs are barking
Cats are screaming
Streets are steaming
Gods own heats the devil' demon
My turn tonight
To burn with fever
I burn tonight
I smoke tonight
I'm all on fire
It's damn hot tonight
Summer nights they
Make me crazy
Make me all hazy
It's hot tonight
It's too hot for talking
It's hot tonight
I sweat tonight
I sweat no sleeping
It's too hot tonight
Dogs are barking
Cats are screaming
Streets are steaming
Gods own heats the devil' demon, yeah
2. Lace And Whiskey
+++++++++++++++++++
I find myself running in circles
Lost and half insane
And I need a cure sometimes
To knock out the pain
So I yell out for some kind of angel
To come down and rescue me
Be as soft as you can
Put a drink in my hand
I'm as scared as I ever could be
Gimme lace and whiskey
Mamas home remedy
Double indemnity
Fills me with ecstasy
La-aa-aace and whiskey
Lots of things I really want here
Lots of things I really need
There's an animal soul inside
That I've gotta feed
My hot mamas feminine body
Always gets a rise from me
She's so soft in my hands
I give her all she can stand
Make a full fledged man outta me
Gimme lace and whiskey
Mamas home remedy
Double indemnity
Fills me with ecstasy
La-aa-ace and whiskey
La-aa-ace and whiskey
I ain't hard assed
So babe don't make me mean
I want a hot place
To go and show you things
Gimme lace and whiskey
Mamas home remedy
Double indemnity
Fills me with ecstasy
La-aa-ace and whiskey
I'll end up a broken old hobo
With red and yellow eyes
Swear' and drunk and dying
But no ones surprised
That's a long long way from today babe
As far as I can see
So shake off your shoes
Go and get me my booze
Lay your love and your laces on me
Gimme lace and whiskey
Mamas home remedy
Double indemnity
Fills me with ecstasy
La-aa-ace and whiskey
La-aa-ace and whiskey
La-aa-ace and whiskey
La-aa-ace and whiskey
3. Road Rats
++++++++++++
We work this band cause they make it rock
but we're the guys that make it roll
We move the drums and amps and junk
Road rats:
We're a pack and the road's our home
On the road half my young man's life
I spend a lot of time
Ain't got no bread to show for it
Road rats
All the cash spent on whites and wine
We're the men behind the man
We're the backbone muscle clan
We do a thousand one night stands
If the stars can make it
If the band can shake it
Well, if those guys can take it
We can…yeah
We work this band cause they make it rock
But we're the guys that make it roll
We move the drums and amps and junk
Road rats:
We're a pack and the road's our home
Road rats:
We're a pack and the road's our home
Road rats:
We're a pack and the road's our home
Road rats:
We're a pack and the road's our home
We're the men behind the man
We're the backbone muscle clan
We do a thousand one night stands
If the stars can make it
If the band can shake it
Well, if those guys can take it
we can…yeah
4. Damned If I Do
+++++++++++++++++
I'm gonna sign my name
to full confession
It seems the woman I loved last night
belongs to another man
They like to take you home
they like to purr and tease you
but I'm a passionate man
and I couldn't leave her alone
Cause you are damned if you do
damned if you don't
damned if you will
damned if you won't
Sometimes they look so good
but don't you let'em deceive ya
Cause then you find out that they got
some kind of a venomous mind
And the thing that's worse
is that it all seems worth it
I'm still a passionate man
and she wouldn't leave me alone
If you think that being a stud is easy
well, now don't ask me, boys
I wouldn't know
I'm a little slow
And you are damned if you do
and damned if you don't
you are damned if you will
and your damned if you won't
If you think that being a stud is easy
well, now don't ask me, boys
I wouldn't know
I'm a little slow
Gonna sign my name
to full confession
It seems the woman I loved last night
belongs to another man
They like to take you home
they like to purr and tease you
and I'm a passionate man
and I couldn't leave her alone
Cause you are damned if you do
damned if you don't
damned if you will
damned if you won't
damned if you do
damned if you don't
damned if you will
damned if you won't
I'll be damned
5. You And Me
+++++++++++++
When I get home from work
I wanna wrap myself around you
I wanna take you and squeeze you
till the passion starts to rise
I wanna take you to heaven
That would make my day complete
But you and me ain't no movie stars
What we are is what we are
We share a bed, some loving
and TV, yeah
And that's enough for a working man
What I am is what I am
And I tell you, babe
well that's enough for me
Sometimes when you're asleep
and I'm just staring at the ceiling
I wanna reach out and touch you
but you just go on dreaming
If I could take you to heaven
that would make my day complete
But you and me ain't no movie stars
What we are is what we are
We share a bed, some loving
and TV, yeah
That's enough for a workin' man
What I am is what I am
And I tell you, sweetheart
that's just enough for me
You and me ain't no super stars
What we are is what we are
We share a bed, some popcorn
and TV, yeah
And that's enough for a workin' man
What I am is what I am
And I tell you, babe
you're just enough for me
When I get home from work
I wanna wrap myself around you
I like to hold you squeeze you
till the passion starts to rise
I wanna take you to heaven
That would make my day complete
You and me ain't no movie stars
What we are is what we are
We share a bed, of loving
and TV, yeah
And that's enough for a workin' man
What I am well that's what I am
I tell you, baby
that's just enough for me
6. King Of the Silver Screen
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
By day I'm a working man
laying brick or laying pipe
I don't stand out in a crowd
just look like one of the guys
Little do they know
when I'm alone in bed at night
I become the King of the Silver Screen
I stare at the ceiling there
I know where I belong
I two step with Fred Astaire or
fighting old King Kong
I can be any hero at all
Zorro or Don Juan
I know I'm the King of the Silver Screen
Hollywood movies keep flashing across my mind
I could've been Valentino if I was born in another time
I might be solving a case or swinging from a tree
Share a joke with Crosby and Hope
We're such good friends, you see
Even dazzle the Academy with my versatility
Cause I'm the King of the Silver Screen
Hollywood movies keep flashin' across my mind
I could've been Errol Flynn
if I was born in another time
I could've been a star
I could've been a star
I could've played that part
But Hollywood movies keep flashing before my eyes
I could've been Greta Garbo if I was born in another time
I wake the very next day go on back to work
I'm just a face in a crowd another average jerk
And all the guys on the building site look at me flirt
Because I'm the Queen of the Silver…
Yes, I'm the Queen of the Silver Screen
I admit it to all my fellow workers
I don't care any more. I'm tired of closets
I'm gonna eat my makeup for lunch today
Just stop hitting me again. All right guys?
I'm going to Hollywood to be a starlet
I know I'm 240 pounds and play center for the Detroit Lions
I don't care any more
I like makeup and dresses and Hollywood
I'll make somebody a great little wife
"Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn"
7. Ubangi Stomp
+++++++++++++++
Well, I rocked over Italy and I rocked over Spain
I rocked in Memphis it was all the same
till I rocked to Africa
I rolled off the ship
I seem them natives doing an odd looking skip
I parted the weeds and I looked over the swamp
and I seen them cats doin' the Ubangi Stomp
Ubangi Stomp is a rock and roll
It beats anything that's ever been told
Ubangi Stomp, Ubangi style
when it kicks it drives a cool cat wild
Well I looked up the chief he invited me in
He said, "A heap big jam session's 'bout to begin"
I grabbed up a tom and I picked up the beat
That crazy thing sent shivers to my feet
I rocked and I rolled and I skipped with a smile
I did the Ubangi Stomp with a Ubangi style
Well, we rocked all night and part of the day
Had a good, rock-in' time
with the chief's daughter Mae
I'm making good time and I'm getting in the know
when the captain said, "Son, we've gotta go"
I said, "That's all right
You go right ahead
I'm gonna Ubangi Stomp till I roll over dead"
Ubangi Stomp is a rock and roll
It beats anything that's ever been told
Ubangi Stomp, Ubangi style
when it kicks it drives a cool cat wild
Ubangi Stomp, thank you!
8. (No More) Love At Your Convenience
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Your childish game is over now
Lost your power over night some how
Better see it ain't gonna be like it used to be
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your command
No more love at your convenience
Lots of time late at night, I really needed you
I'm telling you tonight's, the night
Close your mouth turn off the light
Pull me babe
Pull me down closer on you
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your command
No more love at your convenience
Lots of time late at night, I really needed you
I really needed you
I really needed you
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your command
No more love at your convenience
Quit your tears and dry your eyes
You know I hate to see you cry
Don't you see
things gotta be what they got to
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your convenience
No more love at your convenience
9. I Never Wrote Those Songs
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My tape recorder, it must be lying
cause this I just can't believe
I hear a voice that's crying
that's not me
The wheel goes round
I hear a sound
It's coming out all wrong
And I swear to you, I never wrote that song
I been living in my own shell so long
The only place I ever feel at home
And oh, that music
I hate those lyrics
It stayed inside me so long
And I swear to you I never wrote that song
But pardon me
I'm not looking for sympathy
Not sympathy
I'm just thinking out loud
The melody
it goes nowhere pointlessly
Silence please
I been living in my own shell so long
the only place I ever feel at home
And oh, that music
I hate those lyrics
It stayed inside me so long
And I.. swear to you.. I never
10. My God
++++++++++
If I should find myself in blackest night
and fear is stabbin' me all over
a tiny prayer cracks the dark with light
and I here sounds behind my wall
Inside, a still, small voice, it calls and calls
Then like a thunder bolt
it falls and falls
My God!
When life becomes more real than children's games
or we've become too old to play them
We'll grow old gracefully
we'll hide our shame
but there's that voice behind the wall
And like my conscience
it is still and small
Each word is mercy
protects us all
My God!
(The Choir singing. I think it may be in Latin or it's just inaudible I
can't hear it. But I think it's
"And like my conscience, it is still and small
Each word is mercy, protects us all
Since it's has the same tempo to it. What do you think?)
I was a boy
when tempted
fell sometimes
and fell so low
no one could see me
save for the eyes of Him that sees my crime
When sheep
like me, have drifted lost
all frightened children who are tempest tossed
down flies His wrath like an albatross
My God!
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