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So you went to a party at jacqueline onassis
If you're so amart why don't you wear glasses
So you can see what you're doin' to me
So you can see what you're doin' to me
So you can see what tomorrow might bring

Underneath your breath you know i heard you cussin'
You were talkin' to my second cousin
Were you talkin' about me
Were you talkin' about me
You better put on your glasses so you can see
So you can see what tomorrow might bring

Can your daddy get us backstage passes
You know that we love to dance
Can your daddy give us backstage passes
With all his political power
With all his political power
It seems to me like you could dance better than you do

So you went to a party at jacqueline onassis
If you're so smart why don't you ear glasses
So you can see what the future might bring
So you can see what tomorrow might be

Some of us spend hours
In front of a friday night mirror
Trying to understand the kinda world
Where the beautiful prosper
Slicking up the kinda hair
That the magazine's say's a lost cause
Picking out the kinda girl in your mind
To go walking with you

Yesterday i met a girl
She made marilyn monroe look like . . . me
All she had to do was walk in the room
And my problems were starting
Then she'd at me and she'd smile
And i feel feel such a pain in my heart
Wanting her to come and whisper to me
"you're the man of my dreams"

Beautiful world, beautiful world
Sending me dreams, touching my hair
Making me cry . . . so i feel alive
Beautiful world, why do i hide?

I dunno why
I should spend so much time feeling so bad
I got everything a sinner could hope to get
This side of eden
Maybe some day i'll wake up
And i'll do what i should
Write a song to make heaven and earth
Go waltzing in time

Repeat chorus

You've heard about the dirty dozen and the tales of the green beret
The men that sank the bismarck and the fighting c.i. a.
But if you're talkin' danger then one name comes to mind
Make an unwise decision call the wonderful 99

It was way back in the nineties a dollar still was worth a dime
An international coincidence made newsweek and time
A hundred brave men or women, give or take a few
Got started on a friday night by monday they were back in school

Two kings, a pope, and the president of the denver savings and loan
Made and unwise decision, wished they'd stayed at home
A missile launching pad didn't go as planned
The wonderful 99 were called to deliver it by hand

99 brave soldiers in 99 pair of keds
Lookin' for a motel 6 with 99 twin beds
A place to park a missile an watch some cable news
Maybe rent the top gun video and grimace like tom cruise

Now there's 99 yellow ribbons around the old oak tree
Most of it's top secret, the rest is history
It's been a couple weeks now, how the memory fades with time
Of an unwise decision and the wonderful 99

Taken from the o.s.t. "falling from grace" and starring john mellencamp and mariel hemingway and john prine. the song was written by john mellencamp and sung by "the buzzin' cousi
Ot; (john prine, john mellencamp, dwight yoakam, ):

Now, right now, look at the place i'm in
When i think about things that i could have done
It's impossible for me to pretend

Chorus
But i see it now as the lights grow dim
And the world starts to close it's eyes
I just wanted to say goodnight, sweet suzanne
I hear the music playing, but i no longer understand
Around the corner, down the street
It's got to better than where i am

Repeat chorus

I just wanted to say goodnight
Just wanted to see if everything was all right
Just wanted to say goodnight, sweet suzanne
Time goes by, oh so quietly
Hazy days and memories
And in the end there was only me
Wouldn't have been, i ask sometimes
But i see myself inside this rhyme
Enjoyed what i had back then
Would i do it again?

Well i see it now, as the light grows dim
I just wanted to say goodnight, sweet suzanne
I just wanted to say goodnight
I just wanted to seee if everything's all right
Just wanted to say goodnight, sweet suzanne

(repeat last verse)

Dear penthouse,
I never did believe anything i ever read in your magazine until just the other night.

When something happen to me that was so strange that i felt compelled to share it with your readers.

I'm a student at state-u.

Maybe i'm getting ahead of myself. it was one year ago tonight that my room mate "stupendous dork" and i were sittin' around the dorm poppin' a few frosty's and burning some rope, and boning up for the speech therapy midterm exam the next day, by reading back issues of your magazine out loud to each other.

I looked at "stu" and he looked at me and we both knew neither of us was going to get a real good grade on that exam anyway. we hopped out of the dorm and went across the street to herbie's tumble inn.

Right across from the dorm there, we came through the swinging doors and i couldn't believe my eyes, there they were, sitting at the bar, these two luscious babes, and they were siamese twins

I looked at "stu" and he looked at me and we looked at them and they looked at us and then one of the twins said "won't you join us?" and i just laughed and we went and sat down at the bar.

Turns out, one if the ladies was a speech therapy major and her sister said she had some rope in her purse there, and a big light bulb went off in my head and i said "what the heck, why don't we all go back to the dorm?"

Came out of the swingin' doors at herbie's and couldn't get across the street.

There was these 30 bikers with jackets that said "harley aristocrats" on the back. there was an aerobic dance class and there was the commanding officer of the campus rotc pushing a nautilus machine right down the double yellow line. i said "what the heck, why don't we all go back to the dorm?"

The last thing i remember is one of the twins screaming, "hey general put your big heat seeking missile in my love silo!"

I got my degree in spite of failing speech therapy that quarter. last night for the first time in a year, my room mate stupendous dork went back to herbie's to toast our commencement. came thru the swingin' doors and there they were at the bar, the same two siamese twins and i said "oh no" and i went and sat down a table.

The twins came over to the table and the one that was a speech therapy major looked my right in the eye and said: "excuse me you probably don't remember us."

Name and address withheld by request.

Back in 1899, when everyone was singing "auld lang syne"
A century took a long, long time for every boy and girl.
Now there's only one thing that i'd like to know
Where did the 20th century go?
I'd swear it was here just a minute ago
All over this world.

Chorus:
And now the 20th century is almost over,
Almost over, almost over
The 20th century is almost over
All over this world.
All over this world, all over this world
The 20th century is almost over, all over this world.

Does anyone remember the great depression?
I read all about it in true confession
I'm sorry i was late for the recording session
But somebody put me on hold.
Has anybody seen my linoleum floors
Petroleum jelly, and two world wars?
They got stuck in the revolving doors
All over this world.
And now...

The winter's getting colder, summer's getting hotter
Wishin' well's wishin' for another drop of water.
And mother earth's blushin'' 'cause somebody caught her
Makin' love to the man in the moon.
Tell me how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm
Now that outer space has lost it's charm?
Somebody set off a burglar alarm
And not a moment too soon.
Because...

Old father time has got his toes a tappin'
Standing in the window, grumblin' and a rappin'
Everybody's waiting for something to happen.
Tell me if it happens to you!
The judgment day is getting nearer
There it is in the rear view mirror.
If you duck down i could see a little clearer
All over this world!
And now...