PERMANENT VACATION (Geffen - 1987)

 

HEART'S DONE TIME (Perry/Desmond Child)

yakakakakaka...

Met a woman, she had a man
Couldn't help it, I had a plan
Right around midnight he was gone
Saw her red light, she left it on
And oh my heart's done time
And oh, now she's mine
now she's mine, yeah

If there's a reason for these chains
It's like we suffer to ease the pain
Now I got this feelin' inside of me
My heart's in jail and I can't can't can't get free
And oh my heart's done time
And oh now she's mine
Now she's mine, yeah yeah
Now she's mine
Now she's mine...
Now she's mine

And oh my heart's done time
And oh now she's mine, yeah
Now she's mine, yeah
Now she's mine, yeah
Now she's mine...
yeah yeah yeah...


MAGIC TOUCH (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance)

 

Somebody better call a doctor, doctor
Or wake me up with a shove
I'm gonna knock you off you're rocker, rocker
Cause I think I'm in love
I tried to get a message to ya
But you walked the other way
I need your magic touch, don't you know
I got a habit and I can't let go
Feel the fire burnin' slow
You better get it while it's hot now babe
Cause I can't let go, yeah

Don't need no wedding with a shotgun, shotgun
So don't you push me too far
Don't try to take me for a fool child, who child
Do you think that you are
You really got it coming to ya
It's gonna come as no surprise
I need your magic touch, don't you know
I'm after you and now I can't let go
Take me easy, take me slow
You better get it while it's hot now babe
Cause I can't let go

ooh can't can't can't can't c-can't let it go

You never know what you got
Till they take it away
I'm comin ready or not
Gonna get you some day
I need your magic touch, don't you know
I'm after you and now I can't let go
Feel the fire burnin' slow
I got a habit and I'm back for more
Your magic touch don't you know
I'm after you and now I can't let go
Feel the fire burnin' slow
You better get it while it's hot now babe
Cause I can't, can't, can't let you go


RAG DOLL (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance/Holly Knight)

 

Rag doll, living in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

I'm feelin' like a bad boy
MMM Just like a bad boy
I'm rippin' up a rag doll
Like throwin' away an old toy
Some babe's talkin' real loud
Talkin' all about the new crowd
Try and sell me on a old dream
A new version of the old scene
Speak easy on the grape vine
Keep shufflin' in the shoe shine
Old tin lizzy do it till you're dizzy
Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery
Rag doll, living in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before

Yes, I'm movin', Yes, I'm movin'
Get ready for the big time
Tap dancing on a land mine
Yes, I'm movin', Yes, I'm movin'
Old tin lizzy do it till you're dizzy
Give it all ya got until you're put out of your misery
Rag doll, living in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag doll, baby won't you do me, baby won't you do me
Baby won't you do me like you done before, ooh ooh

Yes, I'm movin', Yes, I'm movin'
Get ready for the big time
Get crazy on the moonshine
Yes, I'm movin', I'm really movin'
Sloe gin fizzy
Do it till you're dizzy
Give it all you got until you're put out of your misery
Rag doll, living in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before
Rag doll, living in a movie
Hot tramp, Daddy's little cutie
So fine, they'll never see ya
Leavin' by the back door, man
Hot time, get it while it's easy
Don't mind, come on up and see me
Rag doll, baby won't you do me
Like you done before


SIMORIAH (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance)

 

Walkin' the line of a razor's edge
Take it as far as she goes
Slice of the sky on a silver wedge
Higher and higher we go, let's go

Ladies in black put a spell on me
Feels like my head is going round and round
And round and upside down
Ladies in white ain't my cup of tea
So be it, I need it, long legs, big eyes
Ooh, she drives me crazy
OOO Simoriah
OOO Simoriah

Countin' the eyes of the dragonfly
Callin' on dreams from within
She knows the way and she makes me high
So be it, I need it
Long hair, blue eyes
Ooh, she drives me crazy
OOO Simoriah
OOO Simoriah


DUDE (LOOKS A LIKE A LADY) (Tyler/Perry/Desmond Child)

 

Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady

Cruised into a bar on the shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She a long lost love at first bite
Baby maybe you're wrong, but you know it's all right
That's right

Backstage we're having the time
Of our lives until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out her gun
Tried to blow me away

Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
So never judge a book by it's cover
Or who you're gonna love by your lover
Say, love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a venus
Lord imagine my surprise

Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Baby let me follow you down
Let me take a peek dear
Baby let me follow you down
Do me, do me, do me all night
Baby let me follow you down
Turn the other cheek dear
Baby let me follow you down
Do me, do me, do me, sue me

Ooh what a funky lady
Ooh She like it like it like it like that
Ooh he was a lady, yow yakakakaw

Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady

Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady
Dude look like a lady

Dude dude dude dude look like a lady
Dude dude dude dude look like a lady
Dude dude dude dude look like a lady
Dude dude dude dude look like a lady
yow yakakakaw yow...


ST. JOHN (Tyler)

 

C'mon boy, the tape is rollin'
One two, one two three, two
John was bad
He gave it everything he had
John he prayed
For all the people ever made
John was cool
He never did no after school, yeah
Late at night when he praised the Lord
He laid his hands down upon the bloody sword

John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
Late at night when he praised the Lord
He lay his hands down upon the sword
Lay down upon the sword
Lay down upon the sword
Lay down upon the sword
Lay down your bloody sword

John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
Late at night when he praised the Lord
He lay his hands down upon the bloody sword
Laid down upon the sword, down, down upon the sword Laid down upon the sword, gettin' down upon the sword
Laid down upon the sword, laid it down upon the sword
Laid down upon the sword, Late Night TV Roared
(heal me Jesus, heal me Jesus)
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(heal me Jesus, heal me Jesus)
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John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
John St. John be cool
Tell the people they'll follow you
follow you...


HANGMAN JURY (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance)

 

Me and my old lady sittin' in the shade
Talkin' about the money that I ain't made
Singin' o boy dontcha line the
Track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

If I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock that Moses stood
singin' o boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

Drank so much hooch
It made my eyes be gettin' blurry
They say I nailed her to the wall
A stitch in time don't mean a thing
No hangman jury could make me crawl
Cause I'm a poor boy
Dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
OOO
Whacha do with a gun that's loaded
Oh, shot her dead and her heart exploded
Oh, tell me baby now d-dontcha worry
Oh, like lying to a hangman jury
Oh, I swear I didn't know that 45 was loaded
In fact my memory ain't too clear
That's not to say she didn't get what she deserved
Least that's the way it looked from here
Boy when you line the track a lack a
Hey boy when you line the track a lack a
Hey boy dontcha line the track
OOO my love came tumblin' down, yeah
OOO love come tumblin' down
OOO (Let's get outta here)
Love come tumblin'

And every night she take her thing
Into the city and in the mornin' make me beg cause
Cause if I'd taken all her real titty gritty
I'd smack her right upside the head boy
Dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track
OOO my love came tumblin' down
OOO love come tumblin' down
OOO love come tumblin'

Poor boy sweatin' in the hot summer night
Hangman waitin' for the early morning light
Singin' O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track

If I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock that Moses done stood
Singin' O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track
O boy dontcha line the track a lack a
O boy dontcha line the track


GIRL KEEPS COMING APART (Tyler/Perry)

 

She was a 42nd street walker
Coming out down by the ?prick? hotel
See the old floozy, flapping in the wind
Titties and all, that's right

She's right peculiar
She'll try and fool ya
But the girl keeps coming apart
She's so appealing
Right off the ceiling
Yeah, the girl keeps coming apart
What did I tell ya
She buy and sell ya
'Cause the girl keeps coming apart
She's so affected
I'm so rejected
And the girl keeps coming apart
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't let it get me down Down down down down

She's just a screamer
A nightmare dreamer
Yeah the girl keeps coming apart
She's like a call girl
Loose ends and all girl
But the girl keeps coming apart
White lace and leather
She's so together
But the girl keeps coming apart
I feel sedated
Boxed up and crated
'Cause the girl keeps coming apart
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
Let it get me down
Don't let it get me down

So there she was, heh heh
Buns up and kneelin'
I was wheelin' and a dealin'
My ace in the hole so to speak, heh heh


ANGEL (Tyler/Desmond Child)

 

I'm alone
yeah I don't know if I can face the night
I'm in tears
and the cryin that I do is for you
I want your love let's break the wall between us
Don't make it tough, I'll put away my pride
Enough's enough, I've suffered and I've seen the light

Baby, you're my angel come and save me tonight
You're my angel come and make it alright

Don't know what I'm gonna do about this feeling inside
Yes, it's true loneliness took me for a ride, yeah, yeah yeah
Without your love, I'm nothin but a beggar
Without your love, a dog without a bone
What can I do, I'm sleepin in this bed alone

Baby, you're my angel come and save me tonight
You're my angel come and make it alright
Come and save me tonight

You're the reason I live
You're the reason I die
You're the reason I give when I break down and cry
Don't need no reason why
Baby, baby, baby you're my angel come and save me tonight
You're my angel come and make it alright
You're my angel come and save me tonight
You're my angel come and take me for a ride
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight
Come and save me tonight


PERMANENT VACATION (Tyler/Whitford)

 

I got a letter from a friend the other morning
He say it's hot down by Montego Bay
I got the point and now I think it's finally dawning
Yeah, yeah, I got to get away
I got to take myself a permanent vacation
The sky's the limit but my plane won't fly
My nose is clean and lordie don't need no sedation
Yeah, yeah, and that's the reason why

I really need it, really, really need St. Tropez
I want a tan where the sun, it never shines
I really need it, really, really need St. Tropez
You best believe it that I go to get away

Ha, I got a sister man she really got a pin head
She think she kinky but she can't get straight
She say she livin' but I kinda think she's brain dead
Just excess baggage on a late night freight, yeah
I really need it, really, really need St. Tropez
I want a tan where the sun, it never shines
I really need it, really, really need St. Tropez
You best believe it that I go to get away
Oh my my my my my

I gotta take me on a permanent vacation
The girl's be cummin' down in Cayman Brack
I gotta hand it to a firm situation
Yeah, yeah, I got to cut me some slack
I really need it, really, really need St. Tropez
I want a tan where the sun, it never shines
I really need it, really need it, really really need it, really need it... yow


I'M DOWN (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

 

You telling lies thinking I can't see
You can't cry 'cos you're laughing at me
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) when you know I'm down
Man buys ring woman throws it away
Same damn thing happens every day
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) when you know I'm down, ow

We're all alone and there's nobody else
You still moan: "Keep your hands to yourself"
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (down on the ground)
I'm down (I'm really down)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down
(How can you laugh) when you know I'm down, ooowww
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down (Down on the ground)
Don't you know that I'm down down down down down down down
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down (I'm really down)
Don't you know that I'm down down (Down on the ground)
Don't you know that I'm down down down down down down down on the ground