1. Egg cream
2. Hang on to your emotions
3. Set the twilight reeling

1. Egg cream

When I was a young man - no bigger than this
A chocolate egg cream was not to be missed
Some U Bet's chocolate syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk
Stir it up into a heady fro - tasted just like silk

Now you can go to Junior's, Dave's on Canal St.
And I think there's Ken's in Boston
There must be something in L.A..
But Becky's on Kings highway
Was the egg cream of choice
And if you don't believe me
Go ask any of the boys

The only good thing I remember about P.S. 92
Was the egg cream served at Becky's
It was a fearsome brew
For fifty cents you got a shot - chocolate bubbles up your nose
That made it easier to deal with knife fights and kids pissing in the street

So the next time you're in Brooklyn - please say hello for me
At Totonno's for pizza and ice cream at Al and Shirley's
But mostly you go to Becky's - sit in a booth and say hello
And have two chocolate egg creams - one to stay and go

You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream

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2. Hang on to your emotions

When your imagination has too much to say
When the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day
And you have trouble understanding what other people have to say
You'd better hang on to your emotions

When a demagogue inside your head has taken charge
And by default what you say or do is criticized
And this litany of failures is recited a thousand times
You'd better hang on to your emotions

Could it be you've never felt like that
That your mind's a cage - inside the cage a cat
That spits and scratches all it can get at
And that's you
And your emotions

Could it be you've never felt like that
Your mind's a cage - inside the cage a rat
Rabidly trying to get at
You and your emotions
You and your emotions

When your imagination has too much to say
When that facile voice inside your head says give your life away
You might think to ask - how it got that way
What books it has read - that make it that way
And where it got the right - to speak to anyone that way
You'd better hold on to your emotions
Hold on to your emotions

When a night city's breeze blows across the room
And a 5am moon and sun start their swoon
You hear your lover's breath
And not a moment too soon
You get to release all your emotions

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3. Set the twilight reeling

Take me for what I am... A star newly emerging
Long simmering explodes... Inside the self is reeling
In the pocket of the heart... In the rushing of the blood
In the muscle of my sex ... In the mindful mindless love
I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling

At 5 am the moon and sun... Sit set before my window
Light glances off the blue glass we set... Right before the window
And you who accept ... In your soul and your head
What was misunderstood...what was thought of with dread
A new self is born... The other self dead
I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling

A soul singer stands on the stage... The spotlight shows him sweating
He sinks to one knee... Seems to cry... The horns are unrelenting
But as the drums beat he finds himself growing hard
In the microphone's face he sees her face growing large
And the swelling crescendo no longer retards
I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling

As the twilight sunburst gleams
As the chromium moon it sets
As I lose all my regrets and set the twilight reeling
I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling

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