World Racketeering Squad lyrics

Bill Says

reedoliver@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:14:56 -0500

And if Bill says it's a classic blunder,

You'd best believe it's true.

Though there might be alternatives to going under,

There's none that you would choose.

'Cause when Bill says it's a classic blunder,

You'd best believe it's true.

Though there might be alternatives to going under,

It's nothing you would do.

You're going down, toiling in your mock obscurity,

In your home town, drunk upon the dead-end surity.

Look in their eyes, see the glimmer of light,

Rocket is rising, but just not tonight,

By next week you'll be sure.

Flirting with time, making out around the corner walk,

The honest man's crime, wanting to believe your doubletalk.

Making your bed in sincerity's shoes,

Talking the talk, but you're fighting to lose,

When Verity gets out.

It's the way of the world,

It's your way out of time,

If you're not on the map,

Then your path is a lie.

In the kingdom you choose,

All you have is your vote,

That's when your drunken Earl takes note.

Walking around, full of all the rock idolatry,

In every new town, selling off the pre-teen poetry.

Getting a buzz off the glamor of youth,

We are the new men, declaring the truth,

That shapes before your eyes.

Dreams of Svengali

reedoliver@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:37:42 -0500

Sweet tea and my pocket recorder,

On the front porch writing my next song,

First time I saw her walking by.

Tight shorts and a bob like a mod bird,

Belting out "Be My Baby, Please"

And that vision took over my eyes.

CHORUS:

These dreams of Svengali

Always seem to cloud my mind.

Am I under the table,

Or is it your back I'm behind?

Did you lose me forever,

The first time the lady sighed?

Until she sings my song,

I won't be satisfied.

***

Tight skirts and a towering Marshall,

Lipstick on the microphone,

2 girls on guitar and 1 on keys.

Crowds scream as they roar into action,

Big hits with a tight back beat.

In the dark I'm pulling all the strings.

CHORUS

BRIDGE:

Oooh

Trust in me baby,

Wah oooh

I've got what it takes,

Wah wah oooh

I'll make her a star,

And I don't care

how many little hearts have to break!

Bags packed and you tell me you're leaving,

Don't care where the money went.

Never thought that you could be so blind.

Two weeks and we'll have a hit single,

Days more we'll be on TV!

Didn't dream it's you I'd leave behind.

LAST CHORUS:

My dreams of Svengali

Always clouding up my mind.

Cause I'm under the table

And it's your back I'm behind.

Guess I lost you forever,

The first time the lady sighed.

But when she sings my song,

I'll finally be -- satisfied.

Satisfied.

Going Out!

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:47:24 -0500

I guess everybody has had a few struggles,

Well, I'm sad to report that we are just the same.

Some folks been telling us no, hell no, get out, we don't want you!

Got us pointing fingers trying to work out who's to blame.

Other folks say it's time to make some changes,

You know how hard it is to keep 'em satisfied,

This fellow stood up hollered the guitar was Too Damned Loud

You know that just stuck in Isaac's pride.

We're going out!

We're going out!

We got a plan to make happen this very Wednesday night.

We're going out!

We're going out!

We'll keep going till we can't even see the lights.

Gonna head out with a posse, go drinking,

See some friends, find trouble, maybe at de Ville.

Gonna find some hole in the wall we can curl up in.

And we have no intention of ever getting our fill.

We're going out!

We're going out!

We got a plan to make happen this very Wednesday night.

We're going out!

We're going out!

Sorry baby if I don't recognize you tomorrow night..

SOLO

We're going out!

We're going out!

We got a plan to make happen this very Wednesday night.

We're going out!

We're going out!

We'll keep going till everybody sees the light.

All these people telling me Reed, you can't just keep going ...

Summer

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:46:06 -0500

Summer, Summer

You always come around for such a short time.

And when you leave, I fall in such a cold place in my heart.

Summer Summer,

I find myself myself just waiting for another season,

Without your light and warmth I don't think that I can go on.

CHORUS:

I know that you're much more than

a killer from the future.

[But I just want your lovin' here and now]

Summer Glau.

Summer Summer,

I always liked the crazy girls in high school,

The ones who weren't afraid

to get lost in the games that

only two can play.

Summer Summer,

Are you like that,

Or maybe light and laughing,

Annoyed by one more

lovesick fool typecasting you again?

CHORUS: [I'll make you my destiny somehow]

Summer Summer,

I wouldn't care if you could read my mind,

I'm not intimidated by a woman who knows,

more than I do.

Summer Summer,

I know you're itching

For a role that spreads your wings.

If I direct another film,

My romantic lead would be you, 'cause ...

CHORUS: [But right here in my arms you can stand down]

Summertime,

Living with you is easy,

My heart's jumping,

In your gaze I feel so high.

I ain't rich,

But man we're both good-looking,

Say the word,

'Cause no one has to cry.

CHORUS: [But dance with me this once girl 'cause I vow,

A damn good time for Summer Glau]

Solo

CHORUS: [I know someday well take that vow,

Mr and Mrs Summer Glau]

Summer X5

Some are right,

Some are wrong,

Some will never

Hear this song.

Some are tops,

I will allow,

But no one's

above Summer Glau

CHORUS: [I've laid my heart bare, it's your turn now.

Take me home - Summer Glau!]

Make You Easy

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:44:18 -0500

When I come home at 3AM you're waitin' there,

To let me know that you're around.

But how am I supposed to take that steady hand?

I can't let go of this mad clown.

CHORUS

You come at me with your arms thrown open wide,

it looks to me you're out for blood.

You raise your voice about my diet one more time,

I swear to God enough's enough!

CHORUS:

I don't always make you easy,

Thought it's all that you can be.

I don't always make you easy,

Hard work being you round me.

BRIDGE

I want you to know

I want you to know

I'm building 'em up,

You're tearing 'em down,

A fight for your life when I'm around.

Our bed in the dark,

you're calling my name,

I'm lost in this cocktail laced with shame.

I want you to know that I understand.

LAST CHORUS

I don't always make you easy,

Inside my dark reality,

I don't always make you easy,

Hard work being you round me.

I don't always make you easy,

thought I'm sorry as a man can be,

I don't always make you easy,

Hard work being you round me.

Though I don't always make you easy,

Always want you close to me.

Omega on Mars

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:41:53 -0500

We did not understand,

From whence came the demand,

of Xian Xiaoping.

(Xian Xiaoping)

'Cross vast and empty space,

To this dry dusty place,

of Xian Xiaoping.

(Xian Xiaoping)

But he was not alone,

Beneath red planet's done,

Ruled Xian Xiaoping.

(Xian Xiaoping)

A clan 100 strong,

Escaped the earthly throng,

for Xian Xiaoping.

(Xian Xiaoping)

********************

It's mighty lonely,

When you've just 100 neighbors,

And the nearest town's 5 million miles away!

You sent a shout out to the night,

Cause just one band could get it right.

And when there is demand,

Omega and the Just in Times must play!

Like we are today!

Blow your minds away!

*******************

Welcome to the first concert on Mars,

You bring the love, we the guitars,

Salute New Venice from on high,

The dark wines sweet, the canals dry.

You cannot even breathe the air,

That gently tosses round your hair,

I know of no hubris more grand,

The planet Mars at your command!

House of 1,000 Tears

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:32:48 -0500

A:

She's the kind of a girl who makes you do things that you shouldn't.

You'd think I'd know better than to go back again, but I wouldn't.

The songs about love paint an honorable vice,

But the client in love always has to pay twice.

I told myself easy to just walk away but I couldn't.

B:

So watch how you spend,

And mark what you say,

Or you'll be chained here

for a year and a day.

La Dame de Maison

She always gets her way,

So keep playing.

Play! Play! Play!

A:

Ha! Do I keep you entertained?

There on your lofty plane?

Know what rises soon falls again,

Markets hungering for your pain.

What have you to exchange?

It's the kind of a job where a girl take her heart and she hides it,

Cause she knows that some sweet man who really means well might just find it.

And as soon as he does, she knows that their both doomed,

No man can afford to keep booking her room,

You ask does she love him, she might know the truth but she'll hide it.

So watch what you take,

And mark what you've said,

Your lover chained up

Till he's halfway to dead.

La Dame de Maison

Always ends up ahead.

So keep working.

Earn your bread!

Ha! Don't try to obscure,

You're someone else's belle du jour,

For your lover there is no cure,

Watching you acting so demure,

What else can he endure?

C:

La Maison de mille Larme,

Ladies gaily arm in arm,

The House of 1,000 Tears,

She is waiting.

The House of 1,000 Tears,

She is waiting.

Surf's Up!

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:31:21 -0500

Albert Gore is so upset,

'bout what hasn't happened yet.

Bye New York, so long Shanghai,

While our house sits high and dry.

Though some fools may lose and drown,

We will all be getting down.

Claim the Beach Boys as our own,

Big Kahuna on our throne.

CHORUS:

We'll go surfing from my yard,

And it will not be so hard.

When the beach reaches my door,

Won't be driving any more.

When the water eats this turf,

Everyone will have to surf,

Though the Elders hate the stuff,

You and I will scream "SURF'S UP!"

(Even they will scream "SURF'S UP!")

Ooh Ooh - bah bah

Even from Orion's Belt,

You can see the glaciers melt.

All denial fades away,

And the oceans come to stay.

Some may try to build a dike,

Tell those fools to swim a hike.

Nothing stops what I crave most,

'Cause my neighborhood's the coast.

I'm Not Dead

reedoliver@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:26:37 -0500

CHORUS:

I'm not dead, I'm not dead,

I'm not saying that I'm sad about it,

Shouting down the judgements,

Of the voices in my head.

I'm not dead, I'm not dead,

Oh my folks and friends seem glad about it,

Guess until a madman,

holds a gun up to my head,

I'm stuck not dead.

VERSE:

Now I've got that high-tech job,

Moved into my new place.

All my parties grow so large,

You can see the fun from space.

Call it what you will,

But this rat's set to win the race.

Would I trade it all in,

For a ticket to my final resting place.

BRIDGE:

Not Dead Not Dead (5X)

See you in the shadows,

Not dead not dead,

See you in the stars,

Not dead not dead,

Until I stop breathing,

This crazy world is ours!

Soundcheck

reedoliver@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:40:25 -0600

1-2-3-Check! (4X)

Baby can you hear me?
I'm calling for you.
Baby can you hear me?
Am I coming through?

CHORUS:
This is just a soundcheck for my
This is just a soundcheck for my
This is just a soundcheck for my love.

Can you hear the guitar?
Is the bass too loud?
Can you feel my heartbeat,
In this noisy crowd?

CHORUS

1-2-3-Check! (4X)

BRIDGE:
I can tell that you don't get it,
I can tell that it's all wrong,
I can tell if we don't mix this right,
You're gonna say so long.

Baby can you hear me?
I'm calling for you.
Baby can you hear me?
What else can I do?

CHORUS 2X
For my love.

Got to thank God

progressions@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:06:45 -0600

Smile off to sleep now pretty baby cause your daddy's gonna bring you home
Smile off to sleep now pretty baby
cause you're gonna wake up in a world of your own
Smile off to sleep now pretty baby cause your daddy's gonna bring you home
Smile off to sleep now pretty baby bye bye

Waking up in the morning pretty baby with your daddy laying by your side
Waking up in the morning got to thank god,
I don't know why but today's kinda odd
Waking up in the morning pretty baby with your daddy laying by your side
Waking up in the morning got to thank god

Potential

progressions@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:44:52 -0600

You know I'd never push you into anything baby
think of yourself as totally free,
but when I see all the potential there behind your eyes
I can't help myself thinking what you'll be.

Not everybody has the gifts that you do
they'd kill you for your intellect alone
and when it's mixed with all your charm and sexy
can't wait to see the great things you'll get done.

It breaks my heart to see you selling cell phones
or that substitute teaching gig last year
whatever happened to that novel you were writing?
What you described had me in tears.

No no never let others judge you
You're perfect just the way you are
And never think I love you less for wasting yourself
It's just I'll love you more when you're a star.

Write a book, write a play, make a film that would blow them all away
Run for office, rule the state, get a doctorate while you wait,
build a rocket, build a dream, make a metal no one's seen,
fix the schools, stop the war. Use your power. What's it for?
be much more than just a girl, be a rockstar, change the world!

The World Revolves Around Her

reedoliver@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:20:34 -0600

The world revolves around her,
sometimes fast
sometimes slow,
The world revolves around her,
don't pretend you didn't know.
She tries not to toy with your emotions,
but you see,
She plays a bigger game.
The world revolves around her,
And you,
You're just the same.

She calls out your name,
You'll never be the same,
Though you've known her,
Since she was a babe.

She'll shift all your dreams,
And you know she'll pass right in between,
All the stone that's
walled your heart away.

You've got no control,
Cause you know she's got you heart and soul,
And she makes the sun rise
every day!

BRIDGE:
Let yourself fall into the blue,
If you can fill her eyes,
The world turns into you.

Never ever

progressions@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:20:24 -0600

I never ever thought I'd miss you
or your company
I never ever thought you could mean
anything to me

I never ever thought I'd kiss you
more than shamefully
But what a crazy thing never ever
turned out to be!

Since you went away what can I say?
It's been most peculiar
I've been thinking fondly of those days
when I had to endure you

I never ever thought I'd want to
sachay hand in hand
I never ever thought I could
be this kind of man

But since you went away I've had time to think
it was either give in or turn to drink
And I'm never ever gonna
let you out of my sight again

Feel so lost

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:26:35 -0600

Don't come knocking at my door
Cause I don't live here any more
My heart moved out along with you and all your bags
and didn't even tell me why

I didn't know that home was you
and all the things you used to do (and all the little things you do)
Strangers crowd around and laugh at all my jokes
somehow I manage not to cry

CHORUS:
And I feel so lost I don't know if I'll ever get home again

It wasn't you there yesterday
If it were I would have stayed
Out in the rain all night just waiting for that smile
I guess I'll never see again

BRIDGE
I can't remember how we got here
your loving took me off the map
without your eyes to be my compass
each road's the same
they have no names
and nothing leads me back

CHORUS:
And I feel so lost I don't know if I'll ever get home again

It's like a family in the streets
Everybody kin but me
They speak a language that I can't pretend to know
the one that says they're not alone

CHORUS:
And I feel so lost I don't know if I'll ever get home again

9 1/2 Tears

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:25:43 -0600

I don't mean to bring you down
but I notice that you're
not coming around as much

I don't mean to make you think
but what were you thinking?
I can see that you thought that I wouldn't see
I can hear that you thought that I wouldn't be here
That I wouldn't be here

CHORUS
I could cry for you
if you want me to
the least I can do after
so many years with you

if I could count on you
you'd be worth it too and
if you were here you could
get more than 9 1/2 tears

Is it always gonna hurt
that it never seems to hurt
that you never seem to need me

Am I always gonna care
that you couldn't care less?

Do you really need to know that I need you
Does it really go to show now you're going away
You're going away

CHORUS
I could cry for you
if you want me to
the least I can do after
so many years with you

if I could count on you
you'd be worth it too and
if you were here you could
get more than 9 1/2 tears

Out of the fire

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:24:36 -0600

How many times must I wake up to your crying eyes?
How can I tell you the truth when you hear only lies?
The life you say I've stolen
has fallen from your hands.
And no god, you call upon,
can sate your shrill demands.

Chorus:
What if it all just worked out?
How would you pull your hand out of the fire?
To quench your mean desire,
and find you're free?
But not from me.

How many nights will I lie wide awake on your pillow?
How many dreams can I kill and still say I'm alive?
The heart that you protected,
has gently turned to dust,
the anger twisting in my gut,
become all I can trust.

Chorus:
What if it all just worked out?
How would I pull my hand out of the fire?
To quench my mean desire,
and find I'm free?
But not from me.

Bridge:
Promised once
Near forgotten love
Is the spark still in your eyes?

Chorus:
What if it all just worked out?
How would we pull our hands out of the fire?
To quench our mean desire,
and find we're free?
You and me.
You and me.

My next mistake

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:23:03 -0600

Sleeping on my father's chest,
infant hopes within my breast,
if I knew then what I know now,
would I have lived on anyhow?
Anyhow?

Years of dreams up in the sky
close at heart passing me by
always never always soon
blindly forging my own doom,
my own doom.

Sweet despair
Years to learn
Passions smolder
Hopes just burn
too late to drown
too late to sleep
(too late to cut a decade's strings)
too late to cut a dead man's strings

Thought at once that I was free
of the shackles that were me,
till my boots began to quake
fearing for my next mistake.
My next mistake.

My last mistake.

My ... take.

Omega In Love Vs The Supermonsters

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:22:29 -0600

CHRISTINA:
Hey Omega won't you look at me
I've got eyes for only you
Don't you know that I can set you free
like the others never do

Let the Just in Times fade out today
Find a new place in my heart
I swear that I'll never look away
and we'll never have to part.

SUPERMONSTER:
What's this I see? That girl is looking at Omega
His band begins to fade away.
Come Supermonsters, now's the time to make our move
We know today is gonna be our day.

SOLO

OMEGA:
Sweet Christina when you look at me,
I feel the love begin to flow,
But I can't be the man I want to be,
I've got this curse oh don't you know!

For tonight I'll hold you in my arms,
And your sleepy eyes will close,
All at once I will be far away,
And the truth you'll never know - I love you!

SOLO

OMEGA:
I feel the gaze of others who are they?
No! The Supermonsters hold me fast!
Run sweet Christina you must get away,
This one sweet kiss will be our last.

SUPERMONSTER:
We've got you now, you're helpless in our grasp
Your rock career is at an end
I've waited so long for this this final moment
Hold on, I've got to call a friend!

Hey Fred, it's Rex. Yeah, I've just captured Omega of the Just In Times. We finally got him. Um ... well, sorry I missed you. Give my love to Carol.

CHRISTINA:
Oh, what have I done to you?
Sweet Omega,
My Omega,
Only one thing I can do
demand the Just in Times.

O - My strength is failing! Wait, what's this I feel?
A mighty thrumming starting low,
The Just in Times! What audience wants us here?
Aha! Christina, on demand, we play your private show!

Last verse (all voices):
We are Omega and the Just In Times,
We are here to save the day!
Supermonsters you'll pay for your crimes,
Our fans command that we must play.

Chorus (all voices):
Omega and the Just In Times
Omega and the Just In Times
(continues throughout)

CHRISTINA:
You'll never know how much you mean to me
You're my one and only
You're my one and only

OMEGA:
Our love transcends both time and space.
My heart will never leave this place.

SUPERMONSTER:
We'll bring you down Omega
You can't stop the Supermonsters
We'll bring you down Omega
Supermonsters will succeed!

(all voices:)
Let's save the day!

When I'm next 2 U

progressions@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:21:32 -0600

Like mighty oak,
growing through solid stone,
Like a river rushing,
carving out a home,
Like a wildfire raging,
burns through solid steel,
Like the sun and moon,
a'turnin' on their wheel.

Lord, you know it's true.

CHORUS
I'm no superman,
when I'm on my own,
Babe, ain't nothing I can't do,
when I'm next 2 U.

Sweating hard all day,
make myself a life,
Buy you the Hope Diamond,
to ask you be my wife,
Raising up the peoples,
to freedom in their souls,
Making love all night,
until that rooster crows.

Look at what you do.

CHORUS

Babe, ain't nothing I can't do,
when I'm next 2 U.

When I'm next 2 U.

Baby, let me curl up with you.