1. Young Americans
2. Win
3. Fascination
4. Right
5. Somebody Up There Likes Me
6. Across the Universe
7. Can You Hear Me
8. Fame

   

Young Americans

They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, she frowns
Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows she'd have taken anything

CHORUS:
All night, she wants the young American
Young American, young American
She wants the young American
All right, she wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang
Heaven forbid she take anything
But the freak and his type, all for nothing
Misses a step and cuts his hand
Showing nothing he swoops like a song
She cries, "Where have all papa's heroes gone?"

CHORUS

All the way from Washington
Her breadwinner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more"

CHORUS

Do you remember your President Nixon?
Do you remember the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

Have you been an un-American
Just you and your idol singing falsetto
'Bout leather, leather, everywhere
And not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In the case, just in case of depression?
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-sheeners
Ain't that close to love?
Well ain't that poster love?
Well it ain't that barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

CHORUS

You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady's got a Chrystler
Black's got respect and white's got a soul train
Mama got cramps and look at your hands ache
I heard the news today oh boy
I got a suite and you got defeat
Is there a man who can say no more?
And ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't htere one damn song that can make me brake down and cry?

CHORUS

Win

Me, I hope that I'm crazy
I feel you driving and you're only the wheel
Slow down, let someone love you
I never touched you since I started to feel
If there's nothing to hide me
Then you've never seen me hanging naked and wired
Somebody lied but I say its hip
To be alive

CHORUS:
Now your smile is spreading thin
Seems you're trying not to lose
Since I'm not supposed to lose
All you've got to do is win

Me, I'm fresh on your pages
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud
Life lies dumb on its heroes
Wear your wound with honour, make someone proud
Someone like you should not be allowed
To start any fires

CHORUS TWICE

Fascination

We goto use her

Everytime I feel Fascination
I just can't stand still
I've got to use her
Every time I think of what you pulled me through dear
Fascination moves sweeping near me
Still I take ya

CHORUS:
Fascination
Sure 'nuff
Takes a part of me
Can a heart beat
Live in the fever
Raging inside of me
Fascination
Oh yeah
Takes a part of me
I can't help it
I got to use her
Everytime
Fascination comes around

Your soul is calling when I'm walking
Seems that everwhere I turn I hope you're waiting for me
I know that people think that I'm a little crazy
But pleasure seeks this thing, I think I like fascination
Still, tick

CHORUS TWICE

Right

Taking it all the right way
Keeping it in the back
Taking it all the right way
Never no turning back
Never need no
Never no turning back

Flying in just a sweet place
Coming inside and sail
Flying in just a sweet place
Never been known to fail
Never been no
Never been known to fail

Wishing you, wishing that sometimes
Doing it, doing it right, 'til one time
Gets you when you're down
Ahhh, sometimes, doing
Wishing sometimes
Up there, up there
Oh, my darling
Ah, my darling, ah why?
Gimme, gimme, up there, gimme, doing
Taking with me
Loving it, doing it 'til one time
Gimme

Somebody Up There Likes Me

He's everybodys token on eberybody's wall
Blessing all the papers thanking one and all
Hugging all the babies, kissing all the ladies
Knowing all that you think about
From writing on the wall

He's so divine
His soul shines
Breaks the night
Sleep tight

His ever lovin' face smiles on the whole human race
He says "I'm Somebody"
He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on your heart
He siad "Don't hurry baby
Somebody up there likes me."

He's the savage son of the TV tube
Planets wrote the day was due
All the wisest men around
Predicted that a man was found
Who looked a lot like you and me, yeah
Anyone with sense could see
That nothing left his eye unmoved
He had the plan, he had to use

He's so divine
His soul shines
Breaks the night
Sleep tight

Across the Universe

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away
Across teh Universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me

CHORUS:
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on
Across the Universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the Universe

CHORUS

Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing
Through my opened ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a Million suns
It calls me aon and on and on
Across the Universe

CHORUS

Can You Hear Me

Once we were lovers, can they understand?
Closer than other I was your- I was your man
Don't talk of heartaches, I remember them all
And I'm checking you out one day
To see if I'm faking it all

CHORUS:
Can you hear me?
Can you fell me inside?
Show your love, love
Take it in right, take it in right

There's been many others, so many times
Sixty new cities and what do I
What do I find?
I want love so badly, I want you most of all
You know it's harder to take it from anyone
It's harder to fall
Can you hear me call you?

CHORUS

Right to your love life baby!
Take it in right

Fame

Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets himloose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow
Fame

Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame

Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame

Fame, nien, it's mine, is just the line
To bind your time it drives you to crime
Fame

Could it be the best, could it be
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really? Really?

Is it any wonder, I reject you first
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder, you are too cool to fool
Fame

Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Gotta get a raincheck on pain
Fame