Menlove Avenue


Here We Go Again
Rock and Roll People
Angel Baby
Since My Baby Left Me
To Know Her Is To Love Her
Steel and Glass
Scared
Old Dirt Road
Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)
Bless You




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Here We Go Again

(Lennon-Spector)


Here we go again
Here we go again and again,
Wonderin' how it all began,
Wonderin' will it ever end
 
Round and round we go,
Where it's going, nobody knows
Though I know we've seen this place before,
Someone keeps on moving the door
 
Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again
 
So I say hello again
And nobody gives a damn
And nobody wants to hold your hand
Everyone is an also-ran
 
Round and round we go,
Where it's going, nobody knows
Though I know we've seen this place before,
Someone keeps on moving the door

Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again
 
Round and round we go,
Round and round we go,
 
Here we go again
Here we go again
 

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Rock and Roll People

(Lennon)


Two, three, four!
 
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
Born to pick the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
Don't tell me where your head is, man
I can see your shinin' shoes
Don't play the Virgin Mary,
We all know you've been screwed
 
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
Born to be the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
My father was a mother
My mother was a son
Don't play the dog for dinner
We all been twenty-one
 
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
Born to be the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
Don't ask me what the time is
Or how much space I need
Don't play the Mona Lisa
You'll know where she's been
 
Well, rock and roll people
Born to be the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Rock, rock, rock and roll
Rock, rock, rock and roll
Rock, rock, rock and roll
Rock, rock, rock and roll
 
Two, three, four!
 
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
Born to pick the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
Don't tell me where your head is, man
I can see your shinin' shoes
Don't play the Virgin Mary,
We all know you've been screwed
 
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
Born to be the news
Yeah, we're rock and roll people
I just couldn't change it if I would choose to
 
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet rock and roll
Sweet sweet
 
Okay!
 

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Angel Baby

(Hamlin)


"This tune is one of my all-time favourite songs.
Send my love to Rosie where she may be."


It's just like heaven
Being here with you
You're like an angel
Too good to be true
But after all, I love you, I do
Angel baby, my angel baby.
 
Uh, Uh, I love you
Uh, Uh, I Do,
No one can love you like I do
 
When you are near me
My heart skips a beat
I can hardly stand on
My own two feet
Because I love you, I love you, I do
Angel baby, my angel baby
 
Uh, Uh, I love you
Uh, Uh, I Do,
No one can love you like I do
 
Please never leave me
Blue and alone
If you evr go
I'm sure you'll come back home
Because I love you, I love you, I do
Angel baby, my angel baby
 
Uh, Uh, I love you
Uh, Uh, I Do,
No one can love you like I do
 

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Since My Baby Left Me

(Crudup)


Okay! Okay! This is it, children!
 
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey - Hey!
 
That's nice!
 
The story 'bout all of us
Not one missing
She leaves you,
Ain't got no sweet, no, no, no
 
Yeah!
 
Since my baby left me(since my baby left me)
Never said a word. (never said a word)
Was it something I done, (was it something I done)
Something that she heard? (something that she heard?)
You know she left me (yes, she left me)
Yes she left me (yes, she left me)
My baby even left me, never said a word
 
Tra la la, (tra la la)
Tra la la. (tra la la)
 
Now I stand at my window(now I stand at my window)
Wring my hand and cry(wring my hand and cry)
I hate to lose that woman (I hate to lose that woman)
Hate to say goodbye (hate to say goodbye)
You know she left me (yes, she left me)
Yes she left me (yes, she left me)
My baby even left me, never said goodbye
Never said goodbye!
 
One of these mornings, (one of these mornings)
Lord it won't be long (Lord, it won't be long)
You look for me baby(you look for me, baby)
Aand daddy will be gone (daddy will be gone)
You know she left me (yes, she left me)
Yes she left me (yes, she left me)
My baby even left me, never said a word
 Not a word!
 
Oh, so sad,
So sad,
So, so sad,
So, so, so, sad.
 

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To Know Her Is to Love Her

(Spector)


To know, know, know her
Is to love, love, love her
Everyone said there'll come a day
When I, I walk alongside of her
Yeah, just to know, know, know her
Is to love, love, love her
You know that I do
You know that I do
Yeah I do, oh, I do
 
Why, why can't she see?
Oh, how, how blind can she be?
Some day she'll see
That she was meant just for me, oh yeah
 
To know, know, know her
Is to love, love, love her
Just, just to see her smile
Makes my life worthwhile.
Yeah, just to know, know, know her
Is to love, love, love her
You know that I do
You know that I do
You know that I do
Yeah, I do
 

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Steel and Glass

(Lennon)


There you stand with your L.A. tan
And your New York walk and your New York talk
You're mother left you when you were small
But you're gonna wish you wasn't born at all

Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass

Your phone don't ring no one answers your call
How does it feel to be off the wall

Well your mouthpiece squawks as he spreads your lies
But you can't pull strings if your hands are tied
Well your teeth are clean but your mind is capped
You leave your smell like an alley cat

Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass
Steel and glass

There you stand with your toilet sand
And your Mickey Duck, and your Donald Duck
 
Your daddy left when you was small
You're gonna wish you wasn't born at all
 
Steel and glass
Steel and glass


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Scared

(Lennon)


I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared
As the years roll away
And the price that I paid
And the straws slips away

You don't have to suffer
It is what it is
No bell book or candle
Can get you out of this, oh no!
 
I'm stoned, I'm stoned, I'm stoned,
I'm stoned,
I'm stoned, I'm stoned, I'm stoned,
Every day of my life
I just manage to survive
I just wanna stay alive

You don't have to worry
In heaven or hell
Just dance to the music
You do it so well, well, well!

Hatred and jealousy, gonna be the death of me
I guess I knew it right from the start
Sing a lot about love and peace
Don't wanna see the red raw meat
The green eyed goddamn straight from the heart

I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired
I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired
Of being so alone
No place to call my home
Like a rollin' stone


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Old Dirt Road

(Lennon-Nilsson)


Ain't no people on the old dirt road
No more weather on the old dirt road
It's better than a mudslide mamma when the morning come, yeah
Oh oh oh old dirt road

Ain't no difference on the old dirt road
Tarred and feathered on the old dirt road
Trying shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind

Breezing thru the deadwood on a hot summer day
I saw a human being lazybonin' out in the hay
I said uh, hey Mr. Human can ya rainmaker too?
He said I guess it's O.K. ya know the only thing we need is water
Cool, clear water, water

Ain't no people on the old dirt road
No more weather on the old dirt road
Better than a mudslide mamma when the morning comes, yeah
Oh oh oh oh old dirt road

Ain't no difference on the old dirt road
Tarred and feathered on the old dirt road
Trying shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind

Breezing thru the deadwood on a hot summer day
I saw a human being lazybonin' out in the hay
I said uh, hey Mr. Human can ya rainmaker too?
He said I guess it's O.K. ya know the only thing we need is water
Cool, clear water, water

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Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)

(Lennon)


Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine

I've been across to the other side
I've shown you everything, I got nothing to hide
And still you ask me do I love you, what it is, what it is
All I can tell you is it's all show biz
All I can tell you is it's all show biz

Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine

I've been across the water now so many times
I've seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
And still you ask me do I love you, what you say, what you say
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
What you say? What you say? What you say?

Well I get up in the morning and I'm looking in the mirror to see, ooo wee!
Then I'm lying in the darkness and I know I can't get to sleep, ooo wee!

Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
Nobody needs you when you're upside down
Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground


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Bless You

(Lennon)


Bless you wherever you are
Windswept child on a shooting star
Restless Spirits depart
Still we're deep in each other's hearts

Some people say it's over
Now that we spread our wings
But we know better darling
The hollow ring is only last year's echo

Well now, bless you whoever you are
Holding her now
Be warm and kind hearted
And remember though love is strange
Now and forever our love will remain

Some people say it's over
Now that we spread our wings
But we know better darling
The hollow ring is only last year's echo

DIDDLE-DEE-BOP-BOP.
 

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