GET A GRIP (Geffen - 1993)

  • INTRO 
  • EAT THE RICH 
  • GET A GRIP 
  • FEVER 
  • LIVIN' ON THE EDGE 
  • FLESH 
  • WALK ON DOWN 
  • SHUT UP AND DANCE 
  • CRYIN' 
  • GOTTA LOVE IT 
  • CRAZY 
  • LINE UP 
  • AMAZING 
  • BOOGIE MAN 

  • INTRO

    Wake up kids it's half past the youth
    Ain't nothin really changin but the date
    You a grand slammer, but you're no Babe Ruth
    You got to learn how to relate, or you'll be swingin from the pearly gate
    I got all the answers, lo and behold you got the right key baby But the wrong key hole yo


    EAT THE RICH (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance)

     
     

    Yeah

    Well I woke up this morning
    On the wrong side of the bed
    And how I got to thinkin'
    About all those things you said
    About ordinary people
    And how they make you sick
    And if callin names kicks back on you
    Then I hope this does the trick
    'Cause I'm sick of your complainin'
    About how many bills
    And I'm sick of all your bitchin'
    'Bout your poodles and your pills
    And I just can't see no humor
    About your way of life
    And I think I can do more for you
    With this here fork and knife
    Eat the Rich: there's only one thing that they're good for
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now - come back for more
    Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now, spit out the rest, uh huh

    So I called up my head shrinker
    And told him what I'd done
    He said you best go on a diet
    Yeah I hope you have some fun
    And a don't go burst a bubble
    On rich folks who get rude
    'Cause you won't get in no trouble
    When you eats that kind of food
    Now they're smoking up their junk bonds
    And then they go get stiff
    And they're dancing at the yacht club
    With Muff and Uncle Biff
    But there's one good thing that happens
    When you toss your pearls to swine
    Their attitudes may taste like shit
    But go real good with wine
    Eat the Rich: there's only one thing that they're good for
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now - come back for more
    Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now, spit out the rest

    Believe in all the good things
    That money just can't buy
    Then you won't get no bellyache
    From eatin' humble pie
    I believe in rags to riches
    Your inheritance won't last
    So take your Grey Poupon my friend
    And shove it up your ass!
    Eat the Rich: there's only one thing that they're good for
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now - come back for more
    Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now, spit out the rest
    Eat the Rich: there's only one thing that they're good for
    Eat the Rich: take one bite now - come back for more
    Eat the Rich: don't stop me now I'm goin' crazy
    Eat the Rich: that's my idea of a good time baby
    (burp)


    GET A GRIP (Tyler/Perry/Jim Vallance)

     
     

    Got to get a grip
    Skin and bones it ain't such a pity
    If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip
    I can't explain how to be fat city
    You gotta live large, gotta let it rip
    Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
    Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
    Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
    If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip rip

    Once upon a crime I thought I was cool but I don't want to brag
    Once I crossed the line I think I musta zigged when I shoulda zagged

    Got to get a grip
    Skin and bones it ain't such a pity
    If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip
    I can't explain how to be fat city
    You gotta live large, gotta let it rip

    Same old same old every day if things don't change you're just gonna rot
    'Cause if you do what you've always done you'll always get what you always got
    uh, could that be nothing
    Got to get a grip
    Skin and bones it ain't such a pity
    If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip
    I can't explain how to be fat city
    You gotta live large, gotta let it rip
    Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
    Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
    Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
    If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip
    Who knows for sure yeah without a doubt
    What goes on when the lights go out (what goes on when the lights go out)
    Or who pulls in when I pull out (or who pulls in when I pull out)
    And what is a one-eyed trouser trout?

    (Breaker, breaker, come in now forty-niner)
    (We have you on approach, do you read me, over)
    (Forty-niner, we have you on approach)
    (Forty-niner, do you read me)
    (You're losing altitude, forty-niner)
    (Forty-niner, Mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday)
    da da da...
    I was so shortsighted
    Now the wrong been righted
    I feel so delighted
    I get so excited

    Skin and bones it ain't such a pity
    If you think I'm vain, better shut ya lip
    I can't explain how to be fat city
    You gotta live large, gotta let it rip
    Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
    Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
    Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
    If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip
    You wanna get high in a New York minute
    Choke that smoke, honey crack the whip
    Your head gets dead
    As long as you're in it
    You wanna hang loose, gotta get a grip
    Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity
    Don't cha gimme no flack, honey shut ya lip
    Ya gotta have stones if you're living in the city
    If ya wanna hang loose gotta get a grip


    FEVER (Tyler/Perry)

     
     

    hey hey hey hey hey hey yeah

    I got a rip in my pants and a hole in my brand new shoes
    I got a Margarita nose and a breath full of Mad Dog Booze
    I got the fever, fever, fever, fever
    Yeah they threw me outta jail I tell ya it ain't fair
    I tried to kiss the judge from the electrica' chair
    Yeah we're all here 'cause we're not all there tonight

    The guitar's cranked and the bass man's blown a fuse, hee hee
    And when the whole gang bangs tell me then what's your excuse?
    We got the fever, fever, fever, fever
    Fever gives ya lust with an appetite
    It hits ya like the fangs from a rattlesnake bite
    We're all here 'cause we're not all there tonight

    We can't run away from trouble
    There ain't no place that far
    But if we do it right at the speed of light
    There's the back seat of my car, caviar, hah hah

    I was feelin' so high I forgot what day
    Now I'm feelin' low down even slow
    Seems way to fast, ai yeah
    And now the booze don't work
    'Cause the drugs ran out of gas
    I got the fever, fever, fever, fever
    The buzz that you be gettin' from the
    Crack don't last
    I'd rather be O.D.in' on the
    Crack of her ass
    Yeah we're all here 'cause we're not
    All there tonight

    My first time ever lover
    We fell asleep out on the lawn
    And when I woke up I was all alone
    Makin' love to the Crack of Dawn
    So yo, I beg yo pardon sir,
    The gangster of love rides again

    ah ah ah ah ah ah
    I got the fever - you know I gotta chill
    Fever - it gimme such a thrill
    Fever - like a burnin' plague
    Fever - yeah get outta my way
    Fever may be Hell and a cross to bear
    As long as I'm in heaven honey I don't care
    You look so good baby look so fine
    I tell you you're the image of the perfect crime
    You get so tired holdin' on so tight
    If you think you're goin' crazy
    Well you may be right
    Yeah we're all here 'cause we're not
    All there that's right


    LIVIN' ON THE EDGE (Tyler/Perry/Mark Hudson)

     
     

    There's something wrong with the world today
    I don't know what it is
    Something's wrong with our eyes
    We're seeing things in a different way
    And God knows it ain't His
    It sure ain't no surprise, yeah
    We're livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge

    There's something wrong with the world today
    The light bulb's getting dim
    There's meltdown in the sky
    If you can judge a wise man
    By the color of his skin
    Then mister you're a better man than I, oh
    We're livin on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge

    Tell me what you think about your situation
    Complication-aggravation
    Is getting to you, yeah
    If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
    And even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
    Back again?
    I bet you would my friend
    Again & again & again & again & again

    Yeah, tell me what you think about your situation
    Complication-aggravation
    Is getting to you, yeah
    If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
    And even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
    Back again?
    I bet you would my friend
    Again & again & again & again &
    Something right with the world today
    And everybody knows it's wrong
    But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go
    But I would rather be a hanging on

    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't stop yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself
    You can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself at all
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself
    You can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself
    You can't help yourself
    Livin' on the edge
    You can't help yourself from fallin'
    Livin' on the edge, yeah yeah yeah...


    FLESH (Tyler/Perry/Desmond Child)

     
     

    ...and actually, put her hand, on mine
    and as she touched me, I remember thinking
    wonder why she ??? me
    she took my hand ????????????????????? round and round and upside-down
    and with her hand high, she put ??????????????
    ????????????????????????????????

    na na na na na... na na na na na...
    The day rolls in, the night rolls out
    Desire rules without a doubt
    The heart beats fast, you salivate
    And when you come it won't be late
    I guess by now you got the score
    A little taste you want it more
    From San Antone to Marrakesh
    Yeah when the night comes
    Everybody gotta have FLESH
    You got me all soakin' wet
    FLESH- the only thing that's worth the sweat
    From the day that Eve did Adam
    Down to Romeo and Juliet
    Everybody gotta have . . .

    The prince of lust has met his match
    The witch has brewed her baddest batch
    His sword is sharp and hard as stone
    Her cauldron begs for one more bone
    And so my love, this story's told
    From modern times to days of old
    From Boston Mass, to Bangladesh
    Yeah when the night comes
    Everybody gotta have FLESH
    It's got me all soakin' wet
    FLESH- the only thing that's worth the sweat, yeah
    From the Mississippi River
    To the highest mountain in Tibet
    Everybody gotta have . . .

    FLESH - you got me all soakin' wet
    FLESH - the only thing that's worth the sweat
    FLESH - you got me all soakin' wet, ah ah ah ah ah
    FLESH - the only thing, the only thing, the only thing ahh
    From a Sufi in a rickshaw to a bimbo in a pink Corvette
    Everybody gotta have . . .
    Flesh


    WALK ON DOWN (Perry)

     
     

    Yeah yeah

    You wonder why you got holes in your shoes
    You wonder why they got more money than you
    You wonder why you got nothin' to lose
    It makes no sense, don't try to figure it out
    You gotta walk on down
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's
    Yeah

    Well, she says that she loves ya
    In your mind there's no doubt, but
    You feel like a stranger
    When the lights go out
    As you lie there awake
    You think this ain't no gift
    Don't try to figure that weight's too heavy to lift
    You gotta walk on down
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    'Cause I got no time to lose
    It's my life if I choose
    Put on my walkin' shoes
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's

    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's
    Walk on down
    Walk on down (down down down down)
    Walk on down
    When you're shit outta luck
    There's just one thing to do and that's
    Walk on down


    SHUT UP AND DANCE (Tyler/Perry/Jack Blades/Tommy Shaw)

     
     

    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance
    Love has got me down
    A tear just hit the ground
    So I started writing you this song
    But the words I wrote came out all wrong
    Yeah, but it's alright

    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance
    When you can't define the crime
    Then life ain't worth a dime
    When they take away everything you've got
    And they rub your nose in the funky spot
    Not without a fight

    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance, yeah
    When you work your fingers to the bone
    Now what does that get you--nothing
    In a crowd of people
    You're still alone
    You hope that tells you something
    The road to heaven is paved in hell
    And it makes you wonder
    Why we're here at all
    Check out the shape of your circumstance
    He wears the dress and she wears the pants
    Here comes Jill and she needs romance
    But you can't do jack so shut up and dance!

    Sex is like a gun
    You aim, you shoot, hah hah, you run
    When you're splittin' hairs with Mr. Clean
    It's like getting head from a guillotine
    And the night has just begun

    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance
    Oh shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance
    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance, yeah
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance
    Talk is cheap, shut up and dance
    shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
    Don't get deep, shut up and dance, ah yeah


    CRYIN' (Tyler/Perry/Taylor Rhodes)

     
     

    There was a time
    When I was so brokenhearted
    Love wasn't much of a friend of mine
    The tables have turned, yeah
    'Cause me and them ways have parted
    That kind of love was the killin' kind, so listen
    All I want is someone I can't resist
    I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed
    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do-down on me, yeah
    Now there's not even breathin' room
    Between pleasure and pain
    Yeah you cry when we're makin' love
    Must be one and the same
    It's down on me
    Yeah, I got to tell you one thing
    It's been on my mind
    Girl I gotta say
    We're partners in crime
    You got that certain something
    What you give to me
    Takes my breath away
    Now the word out on the street
    Is the devil's in your kiss
    If our love goes up in flames
    It's a fire I can't resist
    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do to me, yeah

    'Cause what you got inside
    Ain't where your love should stay
    Yeah, our love, sweet love, ain't love
    'Till you give your heart away, yeah ahh
    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was cryin' just to get you
    Now I'm dyin' to let you
    Do what you do what you do down to me, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby...

    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm tryin to forget you
    Your love is sweet misery
    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm dyin' 'cause I let you
    Do what you do down to, down to, down to, down to, down to... ahh
    I was cryin' when I met you
    Now I'm dyin to forget you
    Your love is sweet
    I was cryin' when I met you


    GOTTA LOVE IT (Tyler/Perry/Mark Hudson)

     
     

    Shocking

    Psychedelic sandwich, yeah

    Any way you can feel it
    You shouldn't try to conceal it baby
    You got to make up your mind (yeah yeah yeah)
    Any way I can steal it
    Any way you can deal it to me
    You know the pleasure's all mine (yeah yeah yeah)
    You gotta love it
    You better own it
    You gotta love it
    And God knows it
    You gotta shu uh shove it
    I'm gonna make things happen
    Goin' round, n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round,
    n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round that's right

    I wanna say you're a fire cracker
    I wanna say you're a switch blade knife
    You make your sex a career, (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
    Comin' down from an all night tripper
    Pull your foot from the ruby slipper
    'Cause you can't get there from here (yeah yeah yeah)
    You gotta love it
    You better own it
    You gotta love it
    And God knows it
    You gotta shu uh shove it
    I'm gonna make things happen
    Goin' round, n'round, n'round...

    I got this feeling deep inside my gut
    Overwhelming feeling of I know not what
    One thing's for sure I ain't got time for those who cant relate

    You gotta learn to love the midnight madness
    You gotta revel in the good and badness
    If yin 'n yang is your thing (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
    What I gotta do to try and reach ya
    Is it for real or just a double feature
    So let's go throw the I Ching (yeah yeah yeah)
    You gotta love it
    You wanna own it
    You gotta love it
    And God knows it
    You gotta shu uh shove it
    You gotta make things happen
    Goin' round, n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round,
    n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round, n'round
    You gotta love it...


    CRAZY (Tyler/Perry/Desmond Child)

     
     

    Come 'ere baby
    You know you drive me up the wall
    the way you make good on all the nasty tricks you pull
    Seems like we're makin' up more than we're makin' love
    And it always seems you got somthin' on your mind other than me
    Girl, you got to change your crazy ways
    You hear me
    Say you're leavin on a seven thirty train
    and that you're headin' out to Hollywood
    Girl you been givin me the line so many times
    it kinda gets like feelin bad looks good, yeah
    That kinda lovin'
    Turns a man to a slave
    That kinda lovin'
    Sends a man right to his grave
    I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
    You turn it on
    Then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    What can I do, honey
    I feel like the color blue

    You're packin up your stuff and talkin like it's tough
    and tryin to tell me that it's time to go, yeah
    But I know you ain't wearin' nothin' underneath that overcoat
    And it's all a show, yeah
    That kinda lovin'
    Makes me wanna pull
    Down the shade, yeah
    That kinda lovin'
    Yeah, now I'm never never never never gonna be the same
    I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
    You turn it on
    Then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    What can I do, honey
    I feel like the color blue
    I'm losin my mind, girl
    'Cause I'm goin' crazy

    I need your love, honey yeah
    I need your love
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    I'm losin my mind, girl
    'Cause I'm goin' crazy
    Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
    You turn it on, then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me
    ooh ooh ooh ooh...
    ooh ooh ooh ooh...
    yeah yeah yeah yeah...
    ah ah ah ah yeah yeah yeah...


    LINE UP (Tyler/Perry/Lenny Kravitz)

     
     

    If you think that you're strong
    Wanna fight well come on
    And line up (line up)
    When the going gets tough
    And your talk ain't enough
    Line up (line up)
    We gotta get up, get out before they get us down
    'Cause livin' up against the wall, yeah
    Has got us locked up
    Come on and line up (line up)
    So don't be surprised when they pull the wool over yo eyes
    Yeah don't get funked up

    Yeah, if you all got the stuff
    And you can't get enough
    Then line up (line up)
    If you're out on a limb
    And you wanna come in
    Then line up (line up)
    Yeah, your head's down, sittin' round
    Pick yo face up off the ground
    And get yo self together baby
    And learn to stand tough, heh heh
    Come on and line up (line up)
    We better get to it instead of
    Just standing around
    It's time to get down
    (Come on Joe)
    (ohh yeah)

    If you're playing to win
    And your only way in
    Is line up (line up)
    If we all wanna live
    Then we all gotta give
    Line up (line up)
    We gotta get up, get out
    Before they get us down
    'Cause livin' up against the wall
    Ah, has got us locked up
    Come on and line up (line up)
    You better get to it
    Instead of just standing around
    Yeah, it's time to get down

    If you got all the stuff
    And you can't get enough
    Line up (line up)
    Line up (line up)
    If you think that you're strong
    Wanna fight well come on
    Line up (line up)
    Line up (line up)
    (line up, line up)
    You gotta get yourself together...
    You gotta stand up and be counted
    You gotta ...


    AMAZING (Tyler/Richie Supa)

     
     

    I kept the right ones out
    And let the wrong ones in
    Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins
    There were times in my life
    When I was goin' insane
    Tryin to walk through
    The pain
    When I lost my grip
    And I hit the floor
    Yeah, I thought I could leave, but couldn't get out the door, heh heh
    I was so sick and tired
    Of livin' a lie
    I was wishin that I
    Would die

    It's Amazing
    With the blink of an eye you finally see the light
    Oh, it's Amazing
    When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright
    Yeah, it's Amazing
    And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight

    That one last shot's a Permanent Vacation
    And how high can you fly with broken wings?
    Life's a journey not a destination
    And I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings, yeah
    You have to learn to crawl
    Before you learn to walk
    But I just couldn't listen to all that righteous talk, oh yeah
    I was out on the street
    Just tryin' to survive
    Scratchin' to stay
    Alive
    It's Amazing
    With the blink of an eye you finally see the light
    Oh, it's Amazing
    When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright
    Oh, it's Amazing
    And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight
    desperate hearts, desperate hearts ????...

    So from all of us at Aerosmith
    To all of you out there wherever you are
    Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you, goodnight


    BOOGIE MAN

     

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