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Side one
"Flight of the Phoenix" – 3:38
"Trying to Get Away" – 4:11
"Someone" – 4:04
"She Got to Move Me" – 4:48
"Rain Keeps Fallin'" – 3:25
Side two
"I Just Gotta Know" – 3:52

Hey ...

Ohhhh ...

Oh, happy birthday America.
Lord knows you ain't no sweet sixteen.
But, we love you 'cause you're beautiful America.
We still beleive in the American dream.

Aimless lady, is this your home town?
Tell me baby, tell me where you're bound.
When our eyes met, you were in the very first row.
I couldn't even guess your name, but I just had to know.

You were meant for me, would you grab your coat and flee?
You were a mystery, but you just had to be ...
An aimless lady.

If you find yourself looking for someone
To make good the bad things that you've done
Now do you think you're looking straight ahead?
And will you find the answer when you're dead?
Well then you should listen now to me
And I'll tell you how I think it should be
No one tells you why you're here to live
Ane this is why it's you who must forgive

Are you ready? you can trust me all the way.
Are you ready? well, then let me hear you say
That you're ready, and the world will know it's right.
Yes, you're ready, and you know it's out of sight.
Now you're ready, well, then what you waitin' for?
If you're ready, you just open up your door
cause i'm ready, for everything you got.
Yes, i'm ready, come and get it while it's hot.

I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about,
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without.
I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time ...
To be in love, to be in love.

Well, let her be somebody else's queen,
I don't want to know about it.
There's too many others that know what I mean,

I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about,
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without.
I'm in love but I sure picked a bad time ...
To be in love, to be in love.

Well, let her be somebody else's queen,
I don't want to know about it.
There's too many others that know what I mean,

Whooo ... wheee!

You there, comin' up the stair, the feelin' is ice-blue cold.
Shake, it's more than I can take, I'm startin' to lose control.
Watch out, what's that noise, there's somebody at the door.
It must be Black Licorice, she come back to make me cry some more.

Time, ain't on my side, I'm losin' it more each day.

Life is too short now, to live it half way.
I’m cryin’ for my cousin, who died yesterday.
He never had a chance, no, not to express his views.
I swear that he’s leaving it, to the rest of you.

Oh he lived his life of freedom, exactly the way that he wanted to.
But there’s always that one thing, we never do count on.
You was born for it to happen to you...

Everybody's laughin', loud as it can be,
But please don't point your finger, especially not at me.
'cause I'm not tryin' to be somebody, I just do what I can,
But you just keep on laughin', call yourself a man!

I'm not lookin' for somebody, to defend my case.
I've been scorned by more than one, so stop this paper chase.
If you can't accept me, just for what I am,

(Open mike in the studio ...)
LSD Duckblind.
Alright. Wait a minute ...
(False start ...)
I ...
(Starting over ...)
One, ... ... Two, ... ...
One, ... Two, ...

I can't be with you tonight
It couldn't be right
And the further from sight the better

I can't be with you tonight
And there ant no use pretendin
Cause it couldn't be right
At least not from this end girl

Goin' down that country road,
Leavin' behind that heavy load.
Gettin' away from the city life,
Society causes too many fights.

CHORUS
Down my country road.
Down my country road, oh.

Hey, everybody won't you lend me your ear,
There's something to fear, it's here, and that's clear.
Men gettin' rich off rapin' the land,
I can't understand, why we don't take them in hand.

Woah, oh ... Lord, I don't want to be their fool no more.
I don't want to be their fool no more.
Open eyes, but you're sleepin',

Hey, everybody won't you lend me your ear,
There's something to fear, it's here, and that's clear.
Men gettin' rich off rapin' the land,
I can't understand, why we don't take them in hand.

Woah, Lord, I don't want to be their fool no more.
I don't want to be their fool no more.
Open eyes, but you're sleepin',

Ohhh, people why don't you come in here and let me talk to you a while.
That's right, step right up and listen to a concerned citizen speak his piece.


I'll tell you a little something that my daddy told to me.
My basic fundamentals if you want to be free.
'cause son, there's somthing wrong internally.
So, if you want your freedom son.

I think i'm headed for a terrible accident.
Made more plans than anyone who ever paid their rent.
I'm not stupid and i might be havin' too much pride.
Surgeon general has determined that i may as well die.

Jesus are you watching or have you gone blind.
Evil souls are upon us and we're surely runnin' out of time.

Seems I got to have a change in scene,
'Cause every night I have the strangest dreams.
Imprisoned by the way things used to be, yeah,
Left here on my own or so it seems.
I got to leave before I start to scream,
'Cause somebody locked the door and took the key.

Feelin' alright? I'm not feelin' too good myself.

Come on everybody, we're gonna' have a good time, yeah
Gimmie' all the love that's in ya', I'm gonna' give ya' mine
I wanna' hear some hand clappin'
I want you to get in the groove
We're gonna' play this footstompin' music, everybody get up and groove, yeah
Oooo-oooo, oooo-oooo
Oooo-oooo, oooo-oooo
Oooo-oooo, oooo-oooo

I wrote the words of freedom,
I've even sung the song.
But freedom is for children,
'cause they don't understand what's wrong.

The children are so very lucky,
'cause they're not old enough to know.
Not old enough to realize,

Американская хард-роковая группа создана в 1968 году. Марк Фарнер – вокал, гитара; Мэл Шачер – бас; Дон Брюер – ударные. Первый диск «On Time» стал «золотым». В 1970-м году группой выпущено четыре альбома ("Grand Funk", "Closer To Home", "Live" - 2 пл., "Survival"). В 1973-м пришел органист Крейг Фрост. В 1976-м группа распалась. (С) Алексеева

Come on over to my side, it's where you wanna' be.
Come on over to joy ride, and let your morals be.
Ain't no way to deny it, if it's in your soul.
You don't know 'till you try it, baby, let the good times roll.

Let me taste your life. let me fill your stream.
Let me make you feel it right now, just lay back and dream.
Got this thing on the move, it's beginin'.

Come on over to my side, it's where you wanna' be.
Come on over to joy ride, and let your morals be.
Ain't no way to deny it, if it's in your soul.
You don't know 'till you try it, baby, let the good times roll.

Let me taste your life. let me fill your stream.
Let me make you feel it right now, just lay back and dream.
Got this thing on the move, it's beginin'.

Tell me how you're doing in your eyes now?
Well, tell me what you see, tell me why now?
Do you see what's happening in your home land?
Do you feel, do you hear, do you know, man?

Well, I don't understand, there's no rhyme or reason
I know the greed of man has no season
He never stops to think about the outcome

Once I had a little girl,
sometimes I think about her,
But, buddy, you know she's not really there.

When memories do call, I just,
I just can't live without her
But tryin' all the time is so hard to bear.

Well, did you ever have something, you want the whole wide world to know about?
Its that something I must tell you, that you just cant live without.
Ten times your fingers, and double your toes,
Thats how much I love you and how much it shows.

Chorus
You know that I am ... hooked on love.
Ill tell you what I am ... hooked on love.

Child 1:
He kind of started all the plants growing, and he started people. well, I guess he’s kind of big and fat.
Child 2:
He can see us wherever we do ... whatever we do. he has such powerful eyes -- he has to have millions and thousands and billions. and he can still see us when we’re bad.
Child 3:
He could be sitting on the table right now, but you can’t see him.
Child 4:
He can’t be everywhere at once doing everything for everybdy. everybody can’t get what they want.

’ve got this good lookin’ woman back home, let me tell ya’
She cooks good and she looks good, and she just can’t do no wrong.
She cooks me cornbread in the morning, she’s my dinner and my midnight snack.
She sits up and she begs, and she even rolls over on her back.

Chorus
Please don’t tell me that’s the way that it goes, ’cause I’ve tried hard and I know.
I ain’t been playin’ in your back yard, ’cause I got my baby and she loves me so.

Don: mel, hit that on the second intro.
Mel: (muffled)
Don: yeah, I think it sounds better to stop it quick.
Mel: (muffled)
Don: yeah.
Mel: (muffled)
Don: okay, like you did, (noise) like you did, (noise) like you did, I'll stop my cymbal quick, then, on the second intro.
Mel: (muffled)

Everybody, listen to me,
And return me, my ship.
I'm your captain, I'm your captain,
Although I'm feeling mighty sick.

I've been lost now, days uncounted,
And it's months since I've seen home.
Can you hear me, can you hear me,

Американская хард-роковая группа создана в 1968 году. Марк Фарнер – вокал, гитара; Мэл Шачер – бас; Дон Брюер – ударные. Первый диск «On Time» стал «золотым». В 1970-м году группой выпущено четыре альбома ("Grand Funk", "Closer To Home", "Live" - 2 пл., "Survival"). В 1973-м пришел органист Крейг Фрост. В 1976-м группа распалась. (С) Алексеева

I'm sitting here lonely like a broken man.
I serve my time doin' the best I can.
Walls and bars they surround me.
But, I don't want no sympathy.

No baby, no baby,
All I need is some tender lovin'.
To keep me sane in this burning oven.

Rising, setting, been trying to get into the sun, yeah.
Wanting, getting, gonna' get more, baby, when I'm done.

All my life I had been waiting, then you turn me on.
Now there'll be no hesitating, I'm getting into the sun.

Growing, knowing, you learn more everyday, yeah.
Needing, succeeding, sun, don't go away.

Oh, I'm gonna tell you a story 'bout a little boy.
Oh, a sad little boy.
I'm talkin' 'bout Little Johnny Hooker.

Little Johnny Hooker was a sissy on the street all his life --
All his natural born life.
Until his daddy took him aside and said,
"Son, now here's your switchblade knife boy."

Everybody’s doin' a brand new dance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
I know you’ll get to like it If you give it a chance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It’s easier than learning your a b c’s
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me You gotta swing your hips now

Loneliness cries deep from my soul,
Keeps trying to tell me
about the world growing so cold.
Too many people trying to take from my earth,
But we can't live without controlling our birth. Deep inside a voice cries out for you,
It's not alone 'cause, people, i been cryin' too.
If we don't stop what we all see is wrong,
I guarantee you mankind won't live long.

You say that this is the end,
And I feel the knife cut off my right hand.
You may not care right now,
But if it's over, it's done and I won't turn around.

Love is dyin'.
There ain't no use in cryin'.

Mean mistreater, you make me cry,
You lay around, and watch me die.
Mean mistreater, can't you see I'm real?
Are you satisfied, with the way you feel?

I've tried hard to live without you, in so many ways.
I just can't help myself from thinking of you, for the rest of my days.
Heartache is at my door step, won't leave me alone.

Mean mistreater, you make me cry,
You lay around, and watch me die.
Mean mistreater, can't you see I'm real?
Are you satisfied, with the way you feel?

I've tried hard to live without you, in so many ways.
I just can't help myself from thinking of you, for the rest of my days.
Heartache is at my door step, won't leave me alone.

Mean mistreater, you make me cry,
You lay around, and watch me die.
Mean mistreater, can't you see I'm real?
Are you satisfied, with the way you feel?

I've tried hard to live without you, in so many ways.
I just can't help myself from thinking of you, for the rest of my days.
Heartache is at my door step, won't leave me alone.

I'm thinkin' 'bout my baby right now,
And I'm feelin' sentimental.
She's all I got in my memory,
But it really isn't accidental.

All I have are these memories,
Memories keep haunting me.
All I have are these memories,

I'm sitting here sad and lonely.
Thinkin' 'bout my one and only.
I been sittin' here cryin' my eyes out.
Feelin' sorry for myself 'cause I just don't know what it's all about.
No, I just don't know.

But, I miss my baby.
I'm lookin' for a lady.

Hey, Mr. Limousine Driver
Can I ask you a favor, please?
Let her in my door and don't look back here no more
I know you can do it with ease

Although we're on our way from the show
And you don't like to get off the track
Please, Mr. Chauffeur, let's talk things over

You ain't gonna live
As long as you figured
'Cause somebody's got a gun
And their finger's on the trigger

You gave 'em a bad time
And you went down for the very last time
You wanted to live, somebody wants you to die

When I was feeling 'bout sixteen, I never had no idea.
Listen to me if you want to know what I mean, your expression will let me see.
I never knew what I was looking for, I never had the time.
And now that time has opened up my door, now I'm looking forward just to see what, just what's mine.

When I was feeling 'bout eighteen, it's then when I began to see.
No matter how hard you push on the door, it won't open without the key.
Opportunity only knocks once, if you shut it out it's a sin.

Woo ... woo ...
Yeaahhh ...

Ahhhh ... yeow.
Baby, baby, baby.
We're out to get you.

Yeah ... ow.

Pass It Around


I wish I had a place to stay in L.A. for a week or so.
I feel like bein' jive, hangin' out, maybe go to Mexico.
'Cause dreamin', baby, that's the way I want to' be.
Just want to' sit in a tree, sail out to sea, live like some fantasy, ahh baby.

Phoenix-1972

1. Flight Of The Phoenix
2. Trying To Get Away
3. Someone
4. She Got To Move Me
5. Rain Keeps Fallin'
6. I Just Gotta Know

If somebody tells you look out boy,
That stuff you're doin' is way too strong.
Pay them no mind, just give 'em time,
Keep your head, you can't do no wrong.

Chorus
Please don't worry, 'bout no jury,
There's so many, of us anyway.

Five million guys have tried to reduce her,
To another girl out in the street.
All those pretty eyes, have lied to seduce her,
But they come crawlin' back at her feet.


Too many times, I've seen them abuse her,
Just like the times I've been deceived.

[CHORUS]
Mr. Politician please don't deceive us.
Mr. Politician you're there to relieve us.
Just how can we tell, mister,
When to believe in you.

Oh won't you tell me oh who we're lookin' out for?
Mr. Politician could be perfect but people it's doubtful.

Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Eee,
Into My Life Came Responsibility
She's Got Some Shakin', Kickin', Sailin', Long Blonde Hair,
And When I Want To Get Off You Know She'll Take Me There
I'm Talkin' 'bout...

Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Ooo-Eee,
She Fill Me Up With Responsibility

Oh little sally, you know I love you baby.
Sally, I said I love you baby.
Sally ... it’s alright, it’s alright.

Remember girl when we both was younger.
It was the days we had so much fun girl.
Rememberin’ all of our childhood days, yeah.
We had our fun in so many ways.

I don't need a whole lots of money,
I don't need a big fine car.
I got everything that a man could want,
I got more than I could ask for.
I don't have to run around,
I don't have to stay out all night.
'Cause I got me a sweet ... a sweet, lovin' woman,
And she knows just how to treat me right.

We are winners and losers, bed fellow choosers,
Put here to pass by the times.
We are space-age sailors, all had our failures,
Now everybody gonna' shine.

Keep it shinin' on.
Keep it shinin' on.

Ain't seen a night, things work out right, go by.
Things on my mind, and I just don't have the time, and it don't seem right.
Ain't seen a day, that I don't hear people say, they know they're
gonna' die.
This may seem a little bit crazy, but I don't think you should be so lazy.
If you think you've heard this before, well, stick around I'm
gonna' tell you more.

The way of life is tough these days, it’s hard to get along.
But jesus came and he talked to me, and that’s why I wrote this song.
He told me of my brothers in a far and distant land.
He said that it’s gettin’ crowded on earth, and it’s time we made some plans.
Time we made some plans.

He said overpopulation is the problem of today.
There’s too many children on the earth, and more on the way.

I don't need a whole lots of money,
I don't need a big fine car.
I got everything that a man could want,
I got more than I could ask for.
I don't have to run around,
I don't have to stay out all night.
'Cause I got me a sweet ... a sweet, lovin' woman,
And she knows just how to treat me right.

"Someone"

Why, oh why, oh why should I care for someone,
Who doesn't care for me?
I played the game I was subject of, it was all in vain 'cause I fell in love with someone,
Who doesn't care for me, for me.
I hate the game and what it costs, to feel the pain for the love I lost to someone,

You're sittin' home all alone
Tryin' to make excuses
It's so hard to open up the door

You're still tryin' to hide
Always find a reason
I can't understand what you're waitin' for

Stuck in the county jail,
Nobody here gonna' pay my bail.
Thirty days with a smelly drunk,
A turn-key callin' me a dirty punk.
I got to pick myself up, and stop lookin' back.
And I've got to move straight ahead, stop lookin' back.

CHORUS

You won't find me, knockin' at your door
I've known forever, you don't love me no more
If you don't want to lay there, with your mouth shut tight
I'm gettin' myself together, yes I'm leavin' tonight
You ain't gonna' find nobody, to treat you like I do
I bend down on my knees, you treat me like a fool
Now I know what you're tryin' to do, awww it ain't gonna happen
'Cause I just done got hip to you, I'm a walk out laughin'

Come and dance with me, take me all the higher.
Put your arms around me, make me feel much righter.
Come and love with me, we can move real slow to the music.
Come make love with me ...

Oh ...

Chorus
Talk to the people, but they just don’t listen, no.
Talk to the people, but they just don’t listen.
Talk to the people, but they just don’t listen, no.

Talk to the people ...

Why won’t they listen to rhyme or reason?

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance, now
Come on, baby, do the Loco-Motion
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance, now
Come on, baby, do the Loco-Motion
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier to learn than your ABC's
So come on, come on, and do the Loco-Motion with me

Everybody's doin' a brand-new dance, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with me;
It's easier than learning your A-B-C's,
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me.
You gotta swing your hips, now. Come on, baby.

Up each morning at five o'clock,
Seem like the noon-day sun ain't never gonna' stop.
The work is hard in a railroad yard,
Hey, hey, gotta' make it today to punch a time card.
Workin' on the railroad.

CHORUS
Oh, you know, the railroad is a mighty good line,

Well a-hey there baby, do you want to make the scene?
I said a-hey there baby, do you want to make the scene?
Awww, well come on over baby, step into my time machine.

You better jump into my action, I'm gonna make you feel right
Awww, jump into my action, I'm gonna make you feel right
Don't worry 'bout tomorrow 'cause I'm gonna love you tonight.

I been out on the road with my thumb in the air,
I'm a long way from home but I just don't care.
The dust from the road makes it dry in my mouth,
When it's cold up north, that's when I head south.


'cause I been tryin' to, tryin' to get away, yeah.
Tryin' to, tryin' to get away, yeah.

If you can't feel it keep on tryin',
'cause that's the way it's got to be. yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's comin' down and I ain't buyin',
It's gonna' take a long time, to catch up with me.

And when you notice your condition,
Maybe you'll want to stay with me. yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then we can find the true definition,

She's a real upsetter,
Least she's tryin' to all of the time, yeah.
You know I just won't let her,
Break this heart of mine.

I got hip to her, yeah, right away boys,
But my heart just led me along, yeah.
I'm gonna' slip right away boys,

Walk like a man
And talk like a man
Walk like a man baby
You can call me your man

A little girl asked me what am I gonna do
When I get old and blue and worn clear through
And I said by that time I'm gonna be in my prime

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right

In the dirtiest part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in tryin'

My love, you're so young and pretty
One thing I know is true
You're gonna die before your time is due

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right