All Hands on the Bad One

you went down in the very first round

sitting ringside in a tiny town
knock out, knock out
first round, first round

this could be our very last stand
the monitor and the merrimac
too bad, too bad
you're ironclad, ironclad

oooh when you call, you will call the loudest
oooh when you fall, you will fall the hardest

(who do you love? who do you love? )
who do you love?
(what would you kill? what would you kill?)
what would you kill?
(to make a heart stand still, heart stand still)
heart stand still
(and what would you pay? what would you pay?)
what would you pay?
(to make the hate go away, hate go away?)
hate go away

oooh when you call, you will call the loudest
oooh when you fall, you will fall the hardest

why battle-cry? dry your eyes
no one can hear you
once iron made
heart or spade
no one can steal you

bearer of the flag from the beginning

now who would have believed
that this riot grrrl's a cynic
but they took our ideals to their marketing stars
and now i'm spending all my days at girlpower.com
trying to buy back a little peice of me
(everywhere i go they say hello
weren't you the one who sold your soul?
every time you leave they say
"Oh no, why did you ever let us go?")

and i think that i sometimes might have wished
for something more than to be a size six
but now my inspiration rests
inbetween my beauty magazines
and my credit card bills

I've been crawling up so long
on your stairway to heaven
and now i no longer believe
that i want to get in
and will there always be concerts
where women are raped?
watch me make up my mind instead of my face
the number one must have is that we are safe

(Everywhere you go teenage is the rage
inside your pants and on the front page
everywhere you go it's die or be born
if you can't decide then it's your own war)

no more
no more

and for all the ladies out there i wish
we could write more than the next marketing bid
culture is what we make it, yes it is
now is the time, now is the time to invent
invent invent

14 Rue de Savoy

that's where the flat was let
shacked up in Paris
two days after we had met
18 bars of the sonata and you were mine
this music gig doesn't pay that well
but the fans are alright

darling come home
i can't take the apartment alone
you left your beret behind
and your croissant is getting cold

visa, mastercard, discovered that i was spent
took my heart, my best jeans
and left me with paying the rent
user, abuser, a loser but i didn't care
i've always been a guy with a sweet tooth
and that girl was just like a king-sized candy bar

pick up the phone
meet me at the Sorbonne
you keep on turning me on
with those french words that i can't pronounce

milkshake and honey, yeah...
milkshake and honey, yeah...
(ma petit comment ca va)
milkshake and honey, yeah...

acid tooth

it's got nothing to do with you
if you wanna watch me chew
my teeth are cutting you out

stomachache
well it must be in your head
it must be something that i did
food just doesn't seem to work out

am i rotting out?
daddy says i've got my momma's mouth
i'm all about a forked tongue and a dirty house

mom has said
yes this happened to me long ago
and i've got the same hurting oh
but no one would believe me when i said
close my mouth
was i born to accomodate
i'm so good at playing dead
words just don't seem to come out

am i rotting out?
daddy says i've got my momma's mouth
i'm all about a forked tongue and a dirty house

should i eat something sweet instead
wash away all these things we said
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,
how many doctors

he's got a perfect face

turn away before you go and turn me on
i cannot look away
i'm stunned
it's that je ne sais quoi, uh huh
he talks to me in my sleep
does he write my songs for me?
should i try to play just like him?
kick it out, could you show me your riffs?

you always measure me by him
don't get me wrong,
i'm not opposed to something big

i'm so sick of tests
go ahead and flunk my ass!

you don't own the situation, honey
you don't own the stage
we're here to join the conversation
and we're here to raise the stakes
now do you hear that sound as the model breaks?
take the stage

let the image of him fade away
go back and tear the pictures from the page
it's time for a new rock and roll age
history will have to find a different face
and if you're ready for me
i just might be what you're looking for

you don't own the situation, honey
you don' t own the stage
we're here to join the conversation
and we're here to raise the stakes
now do you hear that sound as the model breaks?
raise the stakes

you're no rock 'n' roll fun

like a party that's over before it's begun
you're no walk in the park
more like a shot in the dark
with clues left for no one

and all the boys in the band
know how to get down
fill our christmas socks
with whiskey drinks and chocolate bars
when the evening ends
we won't be thinking of you then
and even the best man
won't hang out with the girl band
(the girl band)

you're no rock 'n' roll fun
like a piece of art that no one can touch
you're head is always up in the clouds
writing your songs
won't you ever come down?

and all the boys in the band
know how to get down
fill our christmas socks
with whiskey drinks and chocolate bars
when the evening ends
we won't be thinking of you then
even if your song is playing on the jukebox
(the jukebox)

you like to party with the lights on
(c'mon, i like the dark)
you always want to hear the same old songs
(c'mon, play another song)

'cause you're no rock 'n' roll fun
like a party that's over before it's begun
you're no walk in the park
more like a shot in the dark
with clues left for no one

you're no rock 'n' roll fun
you're no rock 'n' roll fun
you're no rock 'n' roll fun
you're no ROCK 'N' ROLL FUN!