where do the drugs go after you do them? do they go to heaven or a halfway house? where do your friends go after you abuse them? first you lose them, then you're by yourself.

hop a plane and i'm outta the states see these funny talk girls you know they're driving me crazy hit the strip and we're ready to land i see five hundred chicks, we're like the liverpool band this is has been one hell of a ride but you don't know what you're missing i gotta get you back stateside gotta deal with press and girls and bags, gotta deal with girls and press and bags gotta deal with bass and drums and guitars we're gonna play every bar in the world jumbo jet sittin' right outside, come on with me girl we're goin stateside i met this girl she said "you're my kind of bloke" i said "roll over baby and light up that smoke" we lit em up and we went down to the chippy the man said "i dont serve no american hippy" well thats alright, wait, whatchu say? fuck this place anyway! i'm goin stateside!

it's a rager and everybody's invited its a rager and even your mom can come and you don't have to pretend to be so goddamn excited if you don't want to come then you don't have to come its a rager and the gangs all here all the old faces and some of the new ones too and you dont have to worry about what your boyfriend says or what anybody says cause we're gonna see what kind of trouble we can get into its a rager and we're gonna get the band together we're gonna go out we're gonna have ourselves a whole lot of fun and you don't have to worry about changing or nothing we're gonna try to get some real damage done its a rager and everybody's invited its a rager and everybody's invited its a rager and the gangs all here

it's the way it is it's the way it goes days are getting colder and the nights are so long the way that things need to be i need somebody to stay with me stay with me stay with me i need somebody to stay with me hold on now baby because you got me confused with someone who cares im just someone who used to and i guess i never was in control all that much but at least i had love and that was enough but i let it slip away from me now it won't stay with me no, no it won't stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me i can't let you get away from me no, no you gotta stay with me stay with me stay with me cause anywhere you want to all you gotta do is say we don't have to stay here, we can go anywhere cause wherever you are i want to stay wherever you are i'm gonna stay stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me stay with me stay!

get on your black jacket and your stompin boots get your evenin shades and all your saved up loot get an idea about what we're gonna do you know your lover man, lover man comin for you baby please i'm not a man of ease i got a teenage heart and a old man's disease gonna take you upstairs and get you pleased please please you know you're lover man lover man, beggin you please you know i told you right the night time is the right time gonna stay awake all night you gotta come clean if you want to make it right said baby i told you right the night time is the right time the night time is the right time gonna stay awake all night you gotta come clean if you want to make it right you gotta come clean if you want to make it right you gotta come clean if you want to make it right make it right

i'm goin down to alcohol city cutty sark smooth and a dirty martini you know there ain't nothing like firewater cut me to my heart i'm gonna bleed a cape codder im gonna set the tinsel to the tree on fire lookin all at me like razorwire then we gonna party with the flor de cana gettin way down in managua nicaragua drink like a dog, drink up the sea drink so that lazy eye quits followin' me drink like a saint in a shitstorm of sin drink up the wind bark so you feel, bark right out loud howl so the werewolves of london are proud we won't mix the wine with the water tonight cause i got the spirit gonna make things alright you been talkin so loud about a girl in the bush everybodys gonna know that you're a one touch push you got girls so poor they can't afford to wear sandals humpin all night for another pack of camels im goin' down to alcohol city where the liquors top shelf and the beers are chilly me and rotgut are gonna go on a bender he'll sell his gibson and i'll sell my fender i'm goin down to alcohol city i'm goin down to alcohol city i'm goin down to alcohol city i'm goin down to alcohol city

it's no good the way we're treating each other baby its nothing but lies between these sheets and i ain't even seen you lately but we could be so good if you stop tellin' everybody "aw, he's just some friend" well i guess i am i guess i am you can use me yes you can save your love for someone else you know i understand you can use me yes you can save your love for someone else i understand its less than cool the left of center view that you're taking in the situation and why can't you be true or at least pretend to be it aint nothing but guff and kisses and i can't take it any longer the strengthening feeling of hate is filling me but you can use me yes you can save your love for someone else i understand you can use me no, i don't mind just come on back and see me some long and lonesome time i'm not gonna tell you who i was but i am gonna tell you that i fight for the new cause for the just cause, for the right cause and i'm not gonna tell you what to do but i am gonna tell you what you got a right to you got a right to it all, a right to it all we don't gotta talk about surrender cause we have the spoonbenders and the mystics with us sharp collars and fat dollars aint gonna catch no ride on our psychedelic bus and just because its a big mystery dont get confused and miss your chance to be a part of we you can't believe in what you touch from wonder into wonder existence opens up i gotta mind that must be destroyed if we're gonna take a trip on a transmental voyage i saw the eye of the infinite void and i cast myself down i gotta mind that must be destroyed if we're gonna take a trip on a transmental voyage i saw the eye of the transient void and i cast myself down, down, down

one of these days i'll sweep you off your feet with the tools that i learned from my job cleanin streets cause they gave me a broom and a subsidized room and a meal ticket baby for two in this great future they all say awaits will there be free whiskey and chicken fried steak? or will even true love be taxed by the state? finish yer pints and say goodbye by night we live, by day we die heaven isn't goin anywhere so kiss goodbye yer lover an write home to yer mother yer ship is sailing, god, to who knows where i got a good life baby and it treats me well i can thank my great grandma who left donegal with her heart in her hand and a dream of a land where she could be with the one that she loved one of these days we're gonna see whats in store when the stories we've told will be stories no more we'll fly from this earth to the very top floor and break through the glass ceiling, the glass ceiling finish yer pints and say goodbye by night we live, by day we die heaven isn't goin anywhere so kiss goodbye yer lover an write home to yer mother yer ship is sailing, god, to who knows where