Альбом John Cale

Letting the cat outta the bag
you're gonna find a good home
Letting the cat outta the bag
You can't always have it your way
Letting the cat outta the bag
I know it wasn't what you wanted to hear
You got yours I got mine, you gotta be careful
Look what what happens when you smile
It's an object lesson
Nothing ever works the same way twice
You've seen it all before
Everytime I see you coming around
I can't stop you anymore
Letting the cat outta the bag
you can't always have it your way
Gonna be here, everytime the dogs bark
Gonna be here, when you call my name
Gonna be here when the night time comes
OOOH HOO HOO cat's outta the bag
The birdies sing

I love to drive you 'round Paris and Rome
Take you shopping, then drive you home
Show you The Lowlands and The Highlands
No way we can get from here
Someone wants to take you for a ride
Someone wants to take you for a ride
I'm gonna meet you on the midnight train
Gonna hold you in the driving rain
Look out for me in the fast lane
Gonna be moving with my lover again
Someone wants to take you for a ride
Yeah, someone wants to take you for a ride
(Want you to show me how to ride ride ride
want you to show me how to ride ride ride)
Take it for a ride ride
take it for a ride ride
T-T-T-take it for a ride ride
Someone, someone, someone wants to take you
Take you for a ride
Someone gonna take you
Gonna take you for a ride…
for a ride…
for a ride…
for a ride…

I write reams of this shit every day,
I'm not the only one either!
Where the hype comin' from Brotherman Brotherman
Where the hype comin' from Brotherman Brotherman
Sitting in the courtyard with Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
Where the heat comin' from Brotherman Brotherman
Uncle Sam
Here in the courtyard with Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
You're just feeling some of the magic
But you're feelin' it
This is just some of the magic
I write reams of this shit every day
But you're feelin' it
Where's the heat coming from Brotherman Brotherman
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
Very uncomfortable… but you're feelin' it
Very uncomfortable… but you're feelin' it
Where the hype coming from Brotherman Brotherman
Out there in the courtyard with Uncle Sam
Where the heat coming from Brotherman Brotherman
An' is it gonna get me
It's just part of the magic
Very uncomfortable…but you're feeling it
Very uncomfortable…but you're feeling it
I write reams of this shit every day
Is it gonna get me
Is it gonna get me
When is it gonna get me

There's been a nightly visit for such a long time
Because of you
It's got all the hallmarks of a classic affair
That we all know
It may suprise us still – for both of us until
You'll be wondering at it
I'll be standing by
You'll be smiling at it
I'll be wondering why
It will remind us of what's inside us
How closely things we feel
will touch and make us whole
It may suprise us in the end
You'll be wondering at it
I'll be standing by
You'll be smiling at it
I'll be wondering why
Will it stand the test of time
It will stand the test of time

You thought you
had it covered
but you didn't
The best you had
to offer went
up in smoke
I heard from other
people where
you went
Down the
Mississippi
in a flood
Somewhere
south
of
Santa Fe it started
sinking in
The sweetness you were missing you were wishing
Would come back again was Lost in the shuffle
along the way
Down the Mississippi in a flood
Swallowed in a storm
you had us worried all along
Tying up the lines to
the State Police
Covered all over in grease
What was under the hood was alright
You would have made it down
the Mississippi in a flood

Hush, hush hush
Put your lips on mine
Put your lips on mine
Hush, hush hush goodnight
Hush, hush hush goodnight
Hush, hush hush goodnight
Hush
Put your lips on mine
And don't tell a soul
Put your lips on mine
Give it up
Let it go
Hush, hush hush goodnight
Hush, hush hush goodnight
I can feel your body
(give it up)
I can feel your mine
(let it go)
Take me up to heaven
(give it up)
Never go home again
Hush hush goodnight (repeat)

You're going away again
It's almost as if you never came
I'm tired and helpless
and midnight's here
leave me something
something that will make me smile
Someone is calling from the den
"when does survivor come on"
I hear the car door slamming
footsteps on the gravel drive
take me with you
take me away
leave me a piece of your smile
journeys of a lifetime
leaving from here
travelling the edges
like footsteps on a gravel drive

I can't help it
You're perfect for me
I couldn't care less
You're perfect for me
I've been waiting
You're perfect for me right now
In the moment
You're perfect for me
I've been waiting
You're perfect for me
I'm not perfect
But you're perfect for me right now
I've been waiting for the moment
I'm not perfect
But you're perfect for me
I couldn't care less
You're perfect for me
From a distance
You're perfect for me right now
And I'm sitting next to you
In a corner of a room
Getting writers block
From calling you is all I want to do
I can't help it
But you're perfect for me
I'm not perfect
But you're perfect for me
From a distance
You're perfect for me right now
Its a different kind of love (repeat)
I'm not perfect
But you're perfect for me
From a distance
You're perfect for me
In pyjamas
You're perfect for me right now
Its a different kind of love
Perfect for me (repeat)

Sold in a motel
engraved in the dark
The hilfiger needle stabbed
me twice in the back
ooh – good nite
A shadow crawls
across my face
Blurring my vision
in the usual way
ooh – good nite
Sold motel on the boulevard
something for nothing
in the inner mind
ooh – get up
Beach blanket bourgeois
sunning themselves
miles of logic and nonsense
ooh – get up

Send out the messenger
pick up the word
wild Tchapoutoulas
have you heard

Make it a journey
from here to there
send back the mail
from the ionosphere
ooh - shut up
Mark down the laws
that we broke tonite
the judge wants you
back in court to fight
ooh – shut up

Send out the messenger
pick up the word
wild Tchapoutoulas
have you heard
Send out the messenger
pick up the word
General Custer
have you heard

(I hear you calling…
I hear you call…)

Down that way they see
death every day
in one form or another
ooh – give up
They're no different
there than here
they're just learn to
handle the fear
ooh – give up

Send out the messenger
pick up the word
wild Tchapoutoulas
have you heard
Send out the messenger
pick up the word
General Custer
have you heard

You're ignorant, you're cool
You never learnt to say you're sorry
A woman in my past
is living on pins and needles

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Its all my fault
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
What's a fool to do

A woman in my past
A woman in my present
A woman in my past
A woman in my present

I know your style
Smile when you're angry
that's no way
To get my attention

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Laughing at me
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
All those memories

A woman in my past
A woman in the present
A woman in my past
A woman in the present
(repeat to fade)

We're living in
a wasteland
The soil is
cold and damp
Volcanoes in
the distance
Riverbeds run dry

You comfort me
hold me
in the dark

A black sea
a wind blows
The dinosaurs
are gone
Gave up the
ghost of yesteryear
Nothing could
be done

you comfort me
hold me
in the dark

A shadow
Living in between the me you
A gambler
Betting we'll be fine in the end

Once in a while you'd be wrong
Putting your feelings across
Freaking me out in the dark

Turn the lights on
When you see me coming
Turn the lights on
When you see me coming

Dreaming
Seeing things appear in my head
Sleeping
Listening to what's there in stead

Make sure the reason for that
isn't the same as the last
Foolish thing thing sent
from the past

Turn the lights on
When you see me coming
Turn the lights on
When you see me coming

Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on
Turn the lights on…

When you see me coming…
When you see me coming…

I didn't
draw
first
blood

You put
a crown in
my thorn

There's a
prisoner in
this song
but its
not me
I lied
about
the
prisoner

it isn't me
it's you
it isn't you
it's me