The Good Vinyl

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long Like a worn out recording of a favorite song So while she lay there sleepin' I read the paper in bed And in the personal columns, there was this letter I read If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean But me and my old lady had fallen into the same old dull routine So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad Yes, I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape At a bar called O'Malley's where we'll plan our escape So I waited with high hopes and she walked in the place I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face It was my own lovely lady and she said, "oh, it's you." Then we laughed for a moment and I said, "I never knew." That you like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain And the feel of the ocean and the taste of champagne If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape You're the lady I've looked for, come with me and escape If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape Yes I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape At a bar called O'Malley's where we'll plan our escape

I'm not in love So don't forget it It's just a silly phase I'm going through And just because I call you up Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made I'm not in love, no no, it's because.. I like to see you But then again That doesn't mean you mean that much to me So if I call you Don't make a fuss Don't tell your friends about the two of us I'm not in love, no no, it's because..   I keep your picture Upon the wall It hides a nasty stain that's lying there So don't you ask me To give it back I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me I'm not in love, no no, it's because.. Ooh you'll wait a long time for me Ooh you'll wait a long time Ooh you'll wait a long time for me Ooh you'll wait a long time I'm not in love So don't forget it It's just a silly phase I'm going through And just because I call you up Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made I'm not in love I'm not in love

[First Girl:] Ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba Ba-ba-ba ba-da-ba-da-ba Ba-ba-ba ba [First Girl:] I think about that day I left him at a Greyhound station West of Santa Fé We were seventeen, but he was sweet and it was true Still I did what I had to do 'Cause I just knew Summer: Sunday nights We'd sink into our seats Right as they dimmed out all the lights A Technicolor world made out of music and machine It called me to be on that screen And live inside each scene [First Girl & First Man:] Without a nickel to my name Hopped a bus, here I came Could be brave or just insane [First Girl, First Man & Second Man:] We'll have to see [First Girl:] 'Cause maybe in that sleepy town He'll sit one day, the lights are down He'll see my face and think of how he... [First Girl, First Man, Second Man & Dancers:] ...used to know me [All:] Climb these hills I'm reaching for the heights And chasing all the lights that shine And when they let you down You'll get up off the ground 'Cause morning rolls around And it's another day of sun [Young Man:] I hear 'em ev'ry day The rhythms in the canyons That'll never fade away The ballads in the barrooms Left by those who came before They say "you gotta want it more" So I bang on ev'ry door [Second Girl:] And even when the answer's "no" Or when my money's running low The dusty mic and neon glow Are all I need [Young Man:] And someday as I sing my song A small-town kid'll come along [Second Girl & Young Man:] That'll be the thing to push him on and go go [All:] Climb these hills I'm reaching for the heights And chasing all the lights that shine And when they let you down You'll get up off the ground 'Cause morning rolls around And it's another day of sun [Instrumental Break] [First Girl:] And when they let you down The morning rolls around [All:] It's another day of sun It's another day of sun It's another day of sun It's another day of sun Just another day of sun It's another day of sun Another day has just begun It's another day of sun It's another day of sun

We're all gonna die We're all gonna die We're all gonna die We're all gonna die We're all gonna die We're all gonna die We're all gonna die

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh... Jungle life, I'm far away from nowhere On my own like Tarzan Boy Hide and seek, I play along while rushing 'cross the forest Monkey business on a sunny afternoon Jungle life, I'm living in the open Native beat that carries on Burning bright, a fire that blows a signal to the sky I sit and wonder, does the message get to you? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh... Night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other Chance tonight Gimme the other, gimme the other Night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other world Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh... Jungle life, you're far away from nothing It's all right, you won't miss home Take a chance, leave everything behind you Come and join me, won't be sorry It's easy to survive Jungle life, we're living in the open All alone like Tarzan Boy Hide and seek, we play along while rushing 'cross the forest Monkey business on a sunny afternoon Night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other Chance tonight Oh, yeah Night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other Night to night You won't play Night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other Chance tonight Oh, yeah Night to night, night to night Gimme the other, gimme the other world Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh...

I'm happy for you I'm smiling for you I'd do anything For you for you It's always for you And never for me I need it to stop So let me tell you, please I'm always sad And I'm always lonely But I can't tell you That I'm breaking slowly Closed doors Locked in, no keys Keeping my feelings hidden There is no ease I need it to stop And I want to be able To open up but, My feelings are fatal (My feelings are fatal) How many times Must I keep it inside I need to let go And I swear that I've tried But opening up Means trusting others And that's just too much, I don't want to bother So I'll keep it inside And bury it deep I know it's not healthy But you won't hear a peep Though I'm always sad And I'm always lonely I could never tell you That I'm breaking slowly Closed doors Locked in, no keys Keeping my feelings hidden There is no ease I need it to stop And I want to be able To open up but, My feelings are fatal (My feelings are fatal)

Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? The Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But Honey Pie, you're not safe here So you run down To the safety of the town But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle Dublin, Dundee, Humberside I wonder to myself Burn down the disco Hang the blessed DJ Because the music that they constantly play IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE Hang the blessed DJ Because the music they constantly play On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down Provincial towns you jog 'round Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ HANG THE DJ

Calling the world from isolation 'Cause right now, that's the ball where we be chained And if you're coming back to find me You'd better have good aim Shoot it true, I need you in the picture That's why I'm calling you I'm the lonely twin, the left hand Reset myself and get back on track I don't want this isolation See the state of me now Calling the hunter with the rifle 'Cause right now, that's the ball where we be chained Shoot it true, I want you in the picture That's why I'm calling you I'm the lonely twin, the left hand Reset myself and get back on track I don't want this isolation See the state I'm in now If I pick it up when I know that it's broken Do I put it back? Or do I head out onto the lonesome trail And let you down? I'm the lonely twin, the left hand (If I pick it up when I know that it's broken Do I put it back?) I don't want this isolation (Or do I head out onto the lonesome trail) See the state I'm in now (And let you down?) If I pick it up when I know that it's broken Do I put it back? Or do I head out onto the lonesome trail And let you down?