Live recording lyrics may vary from originals
Power To The People
POWER TO THE PEOPLE   CAN'T BRING ME DOWN   THE LAST SONG   STRANGE
I HATE EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY BUT MINE   INTRO   LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN   I WANT ACTION   SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN   LOVE ON THE ROCKS   C.C. SOLO   FALLEN ANGEL   LET IT PLAY   RIKKI SOLO   EVERY ROSE HAS IT'S THORN   UNSKINNY BOP   NOTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME   TALK DIRTY TO ME
CAN'T BRING ME DOWN

My chick is driving me crazy
She thinks that I'm lazy
Just because I'm good at nothing all day

My baby don't get it
So my job, I quit it
Bust my ass
Hell, I barely get paid

People like to put me down
And just because I hang around
Don't they understand, it's my way?

CHORUS:
Everybody tries to break me
Say they love me when they hate me
Baby, you just can't bring me down
I've seen long and lonely days
And I have lost and found my way
So baby, you just can't bring me...down

Yeah, bring me down

Baby I'm leaving
You got my heart bleeding
So I'm taking the easier way out

The angel in my head
Is now the devil in my bed
If my walls could talk, they would shout

Baby, you can talk and talk
The hurt you caused, it just don't stop
I think I'm going out of my brain

CHORUS

SOLO

I got a car, it go fast
Cute fuzzy dice up on the dash
Got a bumper sticker, just say peace
Keep a gun under my seat
To protect me from the pain
Should your words get in my brain
Can't you love me just the same
Can't you love me just the....

CHORUS
POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Power to the......

Good evening people, welcome to my party
Bring on the night, let's get it started
You want blood on the stage, well baby you've got it
I welcome all of the people who have truely been my friends
Fuck all the bitches who broke my heart again
Love all the women who made my head spin

Baby, because they love me
I can make the sun go down
And I say give the power to the...people...people

Bossman, somebody's always trying to break me
Slick mo-fo, he's always trying to take me
In this arena only you can make me

Sex and violence, a love in a rage
I'm pacing like a beast locked in a cage
I'm a comin', I'm a comin', I'm a comin' of age

But I know you want me, right
I can make the sun go down
And I say give the power to the people

SOLO

I am the sound and I am the light
You are the power that gives the right
Together we own the night

Good evening people, welcome to my party
Bring on the night, we can get it started
You want my blood on the stage, well baby you've got it

Yes we know we love this
Yes we know we want this, right
I can make the sun go down
And I say give the power to the people

I can make the sun go down
And I say give the power to the.....
THE LAST SONG

When I lost my way
You were my light
When the others wronged me
You did me right

When I look in your eyes
Don't tell me lies
You tell me the truth
Your words, they get me through

This is all I've got
This is all I'd say
If this were my last day

This is my last song
It's all I got
If I bare my soul
Don't you break my heart
Won't you sing along
This is my last song
It's all I got
So don't you break my heart

Wrote down these words
Put them in this song
I play it for you
Pray they don't come out wrong

Cause all I've got's my word
I give it to you
Now it may not be much
It's the best that I can do

This is all I got
This is all I say
So please don't walk away

This is my last song
It's all I got
If I bare my soul
Don't you break my heart
Won't you sing along
This is my last song
It's all I got
So don't you break my heart

SOLO

If this were my last breath
Of my last day
My last chance
This is what I'd say

I thank you for the laughter
Sorry for the tears
Time to say goodbye
I say goodbye
After all these years

CHORUS

You shouldn't have broke my heart
STRANGE

I was heading down the highway
She's going my way
She climbed in, the next thing I knew

We started laughing and smoking
We got to talking
Yeah, we'd both been hurt a time or two

I knew she didn't love me
But I didn't think she'd want me, no
Right there she took me
Underneath that sun, we became one

She said...
life's a little strange
We all need a little strange somethings
I'm a little strange
A lot like you....

Let's ride

Halfway to Boston
She turned down the radio
Asked what I was looking for

Then I looked into her eyes
And for the first time I realized
I really didn't know anymore

Sometimes I think I want true love
Most times I feel like there's no one
But in the mean time hold me tight
Things will be alright

I said..
Life's a little strange
We all need a little strange sometimes
I'm a little strange
A lot like you...

Let's Ride

SOLO

I pulled along the highway
The time had come to go our way
She took my hand, looked into my eyes
and said won't you hold me one more time

She said...
Life's a little strange
We all need a little strange sometimes
I'm a little strange a lot
Oh, a lot like you...
INTRO~LIVE
LIVE RECORDING
I HATE EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY BUT MINE

In one ear and out the other
Told myself this girl is trouble, yeah
Everyone that looks at her
Is tragically struck in love

BRIDGE:
Wait a minute
The chick's got me addicted
I hate her even though I wish she was my girl

CHORUS:
I hate every bone in your body but mine
I can't wait til I can hate you tonight

Never thought I'd understand
But she's too good for just one man, yeah
Round and round and round she goes
Who she's with, don't wanna know

BRIDGE

CHORUSx2

SOLO

In one ear and out the other
Told myself this girl is trouble
Round and round and round she goes
And who she's with, don't wanna know

Yeah, yeah, yeah
LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN
LIVE RECORDING

I went to bed too late
and got up too soon
My poor head still spinnin'
from too much booze
I got a foot in the gutter
a foot in the grave
I ain't seen home
in the last three days

Chorus:
Oh my God! Look what the cat dragged in
Living my life sin after sin
Night rolls up and I do it again
Oh my God! Look what the cat dragged in

No tell, motel, hotel bed
If it wasn't for the sunlight
I'd swear I was dead
I got a girl on the left of me
a girl on the right
I know damn well,
I slept with both last night

Chorus

I'm late for work on Monday
and my boss is bitching
Can't get out of bed
'cause my head's still spinning
My hairs in a rat's nest
I look like hell
Am I half alive or half dead?
I just can't tell

Chorus
I WANT ACTION
LIVE RECORDING

I want action tonight
Satisfaction all night

I grab my hat and I
grab my shoes
Tonight I'm gonna hit
the streets and cruise

Down the main strip and
check it out
With all those schoolgirls
a hangin' around

Now I'm a sucker for a pretty face
I don't care if she's leather or lace
'cause I'm just lookin' for a kiss

Chorus:
I want action tonight
Satisfaction all night
You've got the love I need tonight

Long legs and short skirts
These girls hit me where it hurts

I can't wait to get my hands on them
I won't give up til they give in

Now I'm not looking for a love that lasts
I need a shot and I need it fast
If I can't have her, I'll take and make her

Chorus

Solo

Hey Sweetheart, slide on in here
No, not in the front, jump in the back
Why?
'Cause there's something back there I wanna show ya
I want action tonight
Satisfaction all night
Ah, come on honey, I wasn't that bad!
Oh well

Chorus
SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
LIVE RECORDING

Well I see him on the TV
Preachin' 'bout the promised land
He tells me believe in Jesus
And steals the money from my hand
Some say he was a good man
But Lord I think he sinned, ya, ya
Twenty two years of metal tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country did not want him back
Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife, his kids no regrets
In a time I don't remember
In a war he can't forget
He cries forgive me for what I done there
Forgive me for the things I did

Chorus:
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
Give me something to believe in
Oh Lord arise

My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
and they told me the news
i tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
like a lost soul out of place
And the mirror, mirror on my wall
Sees my smile, it fades again

Chorus

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
Things I didn't know then
Road you gotta take me home

Solo

I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
like bodies in an open grave
Underneath an old broken down neon sign,
use to read Jesus Saves
A mile away live the rich folk
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich drink from the golden cup
And it just makes me wonder why so many lose and so few win

ChorusX3

You take the high road and I'll take the low road

Chorus

You take the high road and I'll take the low road

Chorus

You take the low road and I'll take the low road

Chorus

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
Things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in
LOVE ON THE ROCKS
LIVE RECORDING

She goes down slow like a shot a gin
She's got an angel's face and the devil's grin
She kinda stared me down as I looked her up
She says, "I'm your poison now drink a cup"

In the heat of the night is when she comes alive
She's gonna push you, push you, til she's satisfied
I watched the ice melt fast on her red hot lips
She whispers, "If ya wanna taste my love
why don't ya swallow this"

Chorus:
Love on the rocks
Love on the rocks
She's my shot
Love on the rocks

Solo

She gets so close you can feel her breath
Just the way she moves, soft and slippery
She lives just around the corner
Just down the street
All night we play the horizontal bop
right between the sheets

ChorusX2
FALLEN ANGEL
LIVE RECORDING

She step off the bus out into the city streets
Just a small town girl with her whole life
packed in a suitcase by her feet
But somehow the lights didn't shine as
bright as they did
on her mama's TV screen
And work seemed harder
the days seemed longer
then she ever thought they'd be

But you know you gotta stick to your guns
when it all comes down
'Cause sometimes you can't choose
It's like head they win, tails you're gonna lose

Chorus:
Win big, mama's fallen angel
Lose big, livin' out her lies
What's it all, mama's fallen angel
Lose it all rollin' the dice of her life

Now she found herself in the fast lane
livin' day to day
Turned her back on her bestfriend, yeah
And watched her family slip away
Just like a lost soul
caught up in the Hoolywood scene
All the parties and the limousines

Such a good actress
Hiding all her pain
Trading her memories for fortune and fame
Just a step away from the edge of the fall
Caught between Heaven and hell
Where's the girl I knew a year ago?

Chorus

Too much too soon
or just a little too late
'Cause when her ship came in
she wasn't there
it just wouldn't wait

Solo

Chorus
C.C.'s SOLO
Live Instrumental Guitar
LET IT PLAY
LIVE RECORDING

Did you ever get up on the wrong side of the bed
With an achin' head and just falling apart
You're running late and your boss is bitching
It's cold outside and the car won't start
Well I don't mean to bitch I swear
'Cause everybody's got their cross to bear

Chorus:
But when I hear the music
All my troubles just fade away
When I hear the music
Let it play, let it play
When I hear the music
Sure as darkness I can see the day
When I hear the music got to let it play, let it play

Life's just a rented space getting laid to waste
When the lines on my face say I'm growing older
Just a stitch in time gonna save my mind
When the weight of the world lies on my shoulders
Soon I won't have no place to fit
But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it

Chorus

Solo

ChorusX3
RIKKI's SOLO
Live Instrumental Drums
EVERY ROSE HAS IT'S THORN
LIVE RECORDING

We both lie silently still in the
dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
we feel miles apart in sight
Was it something I said
or something I did
Did my words not come out right
Tho' I tried not to hurt you
Tho' I tried
But I guess that's why they say

Chorus:
Every rose has it's thorn
Just like every night has it's dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has it's thorn

I listen to our favorite song
playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say love's a game of
easy come and easy go
But I wonder, does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you'd be here right now
If I could of let you known somehow, I guess

Chorus

Though it's been awhile now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you the wound heals
But the scar, that scar remains

Solo

I know I could have saved our love that night
if I'd only let you know
Instead of making love
We both made our separate ways

Now I hear you found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see cuts me like a knife

Chorus
UNSKINNY BOP
LIVE RECORDING

What's got you so jumpy
Why can't you sit still
Like gasoline you wanna pump me
Then leave me when you get your fill ya

Pre-Chorus:
Every time I touch you, you get hot
I want to make love, you never stop
Come up for air you pull me to the floor
Just what's been going on in that head of yours

Chorus:
Unskinny bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
She just loves to play
Unskinny bop nothin' more to say

You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
Am I just another word on your page, ya, ya

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

You're saying my love won't do ya
But that ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right through ya
We'll see whose ridin' who at the end of the race

Solo

What's right, what's wrong, what's left, what the hell is going on

Chorus
NOTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME
LIVE RECORDING

Now listen
Not a dime, I can't pay my rent
I can barely make thru the week
Saturday night I'd like to make my girl
but right now I can't make ends meet

Pre-Chorus:
I'm always workin', slavin' everyday
Gotta get a break from the same old, same old
I need a chance just to get away
If you could hear me think this is what I'd say

Chorus:
Don't need nothin' but a good time
How can I resist
Ain't looking for nothin' but a good time
And it don't get better than this

They say I spend my money on women and wine
I couldn't tell you where I spent last night
I'm real sorry 'bout the shape I'm in
I just like my fun every now and then

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

You see I raise a toast to all of us
who are breaking our backs every day
If wanting the good life is such a crime
Lord then put me away

Solo

ChorusX3
TALK DIRTY TO ME
LIVE RECORDING

Intro:
Oh Bret, I just can't wait to get my hands all over you
Hit it, C.C.

Solo

You know I never
I never seen you look so good
You never act the way you should
But I like it
And I know you like it too
the way that I want you
I gotta have you
Oh yes I do
You know I never
I never ever stay out late
You know that I can hardly wait
just to see you
And I know you cannot wait
wait to see me too
I gotta touch you

Chorus:
'Cause baby we'll be
at the drive-in
In the old man's Ford
Behind the bushes
til I'm screamin' for more
Down in the basement
Lock the cellar door
And, baby
talk dirty to me

You know I call you
I call you on the telephone
I'm only hoping that you're home
so I can hear you
When you say those words to me
and whisper so softly
I gotta hear you

Chorus

C.C. pick up that guitar and talk to me

Solo

Chorus
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