- Bad America
{The Las Vegas Story - 1984}
I thought I heard you
in my room last night
lonely lemur calls
in my walls last night,
when I was all alone, in the palm drunken night
- Emily's Changed
Your bus just broke down
Must have been 12th and A
You ran in a bar
This must be Emily's place
One foot in the light
The other foot in the dark
The eyes of a bat
- Fire Spirit
I can see clearly
from my diamond eyes,
I'm going to the mountain with the Fire Spirit
no-one will accept all of me
so the Fire...will stop
Up through the streets
- For the Love of Ivy
You look just like an Elvis from hell
My heart is broken, so I'm gong to hell
Bury me way down deep in hell
I'm a steel drivin' man, I want to go to hell
Then go tell Ivy
Oh-oh
For the love of Ivy
- Hearts
If you din't look
you won't know
that outside it's not 4 AM
those trucks won't be there
around, around again
but, it is alright
it was just a night
- Humanesque
Winter on the Americas
catch you in the snow winter's day
who would think fires burning out
would ever go to the same place,
but, the sadness
slightly of your face
I didn't mean it that way
- Moonlight Motel
Las Vegas Story - 1984
_______________________
I'm a thousand miles below
I'm in a hole waiting for you,
with filthy streets and trucks, outside
I dress, then I undress, and look, outside
- Mother Of Earth
I've gone down the river of sadness
I've gone down the river of pain
In the dark, under the wires
I hear them call my name
I gave you the key to the highway
And the key to my motel door
And I'm tired of leaving and leaving
- Preaching The Blues
I was up this morning, blues walking like a man
I was up this morning, blues walking like a man
worried blues, give me your right hand
And the blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
travel on ol' Jeffrey Lee, ya know, can't seem to turn him around
- Promise Me
Promise me,
outside in the trees, they're waiting tonight
Promise me,
while the searching light moon has found me
you know it feels like the very last time again
Promise me,
- She's Like Heroin To Me
I cannot get a look at it
so, I'm burning them on the deal anyway
I see her come down from the top of the stairs
I guess that I'd be cool, but there's a tickle in my veins
I've been a real good tombstone, but now I'm blowing away
She is like an eye-blue swimming pool
- The Fire of Love
The fire of love is burning deep
The fire of love won't let me sleep
Oh my love, hear this my plea
Because of you, it's burning me
The sun beats down with its fiery glow
Knows I won't see my love no more
I'm sorry for the things I've done
- The House on Highland Ave.
Were you ever thinking
When you met that girl uptown
And were you ever thinking
When you pulled her underground
There is no fire in your glass eye
There is no feeling when you're done
And one day you will find out
- The Stranger in Our Town
There's a stranger in our town
he's got a burning eye
he wants to get off on you...
The last time that he was here
he had a roving eye
he smiled as he got off on you...