American Grafishy

Now when i´m sick and tired and i´m far away from home
I need to hear your voice on the telephone
That´s just what i need to feel at home
No matter how far away i am, how bad i feel
`cause there´s no greater thrill in my life
Than to hear your sweet voice in my ear, it´s nice
It makes the miles apart not so far
Brings hope to me like a shining star

I get so tired out when i reach over and dial out
And all i get is the stupid machine it says
"i´m not at home right now
If you know what i mean
So if you will leave your name and number
Sometime i´ll give you a call back and if you don´t
I won´t make time for you no more, jack"

See i´m sick and tired of layin´ alone
I get these cold sweats when i´m far away from home
And if i could just hear your voice one more time
I might have a little inspiration to continue
My life in a way that i can that doesn´t seem
So destructive as i am but it´s ok if i don´t
Get you today, i´ll just listen to your
Answering machine ok fucked up piece of
Shit 30 seconds and i´m cut off
No return calls (once a week)

And i say
Oh oh oh you never know which way to go

And i say
Oh oh oh the flipper twist is in my soul

Now all the time we spent runnin´ around
City to city, any club, any town
We got a taste of the audience zeal
What makes them hop and bop and feel
They wanna dance and have a good time
We gotta keep the tempo upbeat all the time
But we are trying to do something new
Playing discord in theory and that chord too
Abundant vibrations so pure and true
Move about betraying me and you

The nation´s taste changes from day to day
First it´s humor becoming ultra violence decay
It´s just a game of the rat eats the dog
Lead the pack or be forever lost
So many kings to rule just one hill
To me it´s crap, i say just be real
I have to stand out from the rest
Vocational noise puts myself to the test

The music squeaks, squawks and drones on
A magic feeling where nothing can go wrong
I lift my head proud, the feeling is bliss
My body starts a motion and i start to twist
Scream and shout but never resist
Even though there´s no control
Until falling down makes it´s cycle whole

And i say
Oh oh oh the flipper twist is in my soul

And i say
Oh oh oh you never know which way to go

Full speed ahead, that´s what i said
He didn´t think about tomorrow
Full speed ahead, that´s all he wanted
Another line or two would do him fine
He had his brains all out of time
He kinda liked it that way
Kinda relieved it every day
He went full speed ahead
Full speed ahead, that´s what i said
Things became rather repetitious
He didn´t know how to handle it, he dis it
He couldn´t figure out what it was about
He didn´t stop in time or shout
Whenever there was too much inside
He just felt everything and died
He didn´t know what else to do
He went full speed ahead
He didn´t know everybody he knew
And his body said full speed ahead
Gotta get out that vacuum cleaner
Full speed ahead, that´s what it said (repeat)
That´s all he wanted, that´s all he knew
And then he crashed for a million years

Now what i want to know is how
Your feelings show way deep down inside of
You when you know your mind is twisted
And untrue it seems so strange the range
You claim to have to show when all your actions
Take on a surrealistic threatening glow acting
The way you do fuck that well you know what
Does it show what does it prove you´re in some
Groove workin´ through the stages now toward
Something new but what does it show and what
Do you know well it pays to know it pays to know

Now in the time you spent so well figure yourself
Out to tell did you ever wonder why some
Things turned out to be such lies did you look
Deep way within and figure out where lies the sin
Could there be a clue left out overlooked and
Thrown about i want to know what can you show
One thing for certain it pays to know it pays to
Know which way you´re going yes it pays to know
It pays to know set your sail in the direction
The wind´s blowin´ ohh it pays to know what can
You show and what does it prove

Once it starts you never see them
Once it starts there goes your freedom
Now you´re standin´ by the front door
You want it back and even more

Chorus:
It was once written that those
Who give the truth
Become the slaves of the receivers

Once it starts you can´t believe it
Once it starts you cannot see it
Stripped of all but left with your senses
All tangled up in a useless adventure

Chorus

Once it starts you never see them
Once it starts you cannot believe them
You´ve torn my heart right from my chest
It´s time to give that subject to a rest

Chorus

Once it starts you cannot forgive them
Once it starts you don´t want to live then
All we needed was a little trusting love
We´ll stand proud and rise above

Chorus