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(1988) |
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| Can I Play With Madness | ||
| Black Bart Blues | ||
| Massacre |
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(Smith/Dickinson/Harris) |
| Can I play with madness |
| Give me the sense to wonder, to wonder if I'm free |
| Give me a sense of wonder, to know I can be |
| Give me the strength to hold my head up, spit back in their face |
| Don't need no key to unlock the door, gonna break down the walls |
| Break out of this bad place |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball |
| Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet looked and laughed at me |
| Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see |
| I screamed aloud to the old man, I said don't lie don't say you don't know |
| I say you'll pay for your mischief, in this world or the next |
| Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance, and the hell fires raged in his eyes |
| He said do you want to know the truth son - I'll tell you the truth |
| Your soul's gonna burn in the lake of fire |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball |
| Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet looked at he laughed at me |
| Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball |
| Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all |
| Can I play with madness - the prophet looked at he laughed at me |
| Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see |
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(Harris/Dickinson) |
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IM |
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"What the fuck is that?" |
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IM |
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"Hi, guys, are you in a band or something? |
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I mean it would be so cool |
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If you were in a band 'cos you're |
| Driving a big bus with band on the front of it" |
| IM |
| "Why don't you shut up and get on board will ya?" |
| IM |
| "Wow! I have it here you got a stereo and a microwave |
| And, and you got a beer |
| I'd like a Heineken if you've got one |
| That's real cool, that's great, yeah!" |
| IM |
| "Would you like to see Black Bart?" |
| IM |
| "Who's Black Bart?" |
| IM |
| "Let me introduce you" |
| IM |
| Black Bart's seen it |
| Black Bart knows |
| Black Bart's done it |
| The Black Bart blues |
| Suspended in suspension |
| Medieval nights in Tennessee and elsewhere |
| We all got to try the Black Bart blues |
| Black Bart's truckin' ain't what it seems |
| Black Bart's lookin' |
| Don't know where she's been |
| Maybe she's an acrobat |
| Spends her evenings dancing on a pole |
| We all got to try the Black Bart blues |
| IM |
| Black Bart tried most anything |
| Black Bart liked it but he couldn't sing |
| So he asked me to tell ya |
| Try it for yourself and you will see |
| We all got to try the Black Bart blues |
| IM |
| "What did you do that for?" |
| IM |
| "I'm sorry... I just... I guess... I'm not used to..." |
| IM |
| "Shut up and get on with it will you" |
| IM |
| Black Bart's livin' across the ocean now |
| Black Bart's lookin' to come back somehow |
| So if you are a dancer |
| You could dance around his pole in May |
| That's a maypole |
| IM |
| Black Bart's coming |
| Now Black Bart's gone |
| Black Bart did it so I wrote this song |
| Whatever and however |
| In and out or several at a time mmm yes! |
| We all got to do the Black Bart blues |
| Here comes the guitar solo |
| IM |
| We all got to try the Black Bart blues |
| Yowsa! Yowsa! Yowsa! |
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(Lynott/Gorham/Downey) |
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IM |
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At a point below zero |
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There's no place left to go |
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Six hundred unknown heroes |
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Were killed like sleeping buffalo |
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IM |
| Through the devil's canyon |
| Across the battlefield |
| Death has no companion |
| The spirit is forced to yield |
| IM |
| There goes the bandolero |
| Through the hole in the wall |
| He's a coward but doesn't care though |
| In fact, he doesn't care at all |
| IM |
| The general that's commanding |
| He's defending what he fears |
| While the troops they are depending |
| On reinforcements from the rear |
| IM |
| If God is in the heavens |
| How can this happen here? |
| In His name, they used the weapons |
| For the massacre |
| IM |
| There is a point below zero |
| Where the sun can see the land |
| Six hundred unknown heroes |
| Lay dead in the sand |