Tenement Funster/Flick of the Wrist/Lily of the Valley [*]

Tenement Funster 2:47

My new purple shoes been amazin the people next
door
And my rock n roll 45's, been enragin the folks on the
lower floor

I got a way with the girls on my block
Try my best to be a real individual
And when we go down to Smokies and rock
They line up like it's some kind of ritual

Oh, give me a good guitar, and you can say that my
hair's a disgrace
Or, just find me an open car, I'll make the speed of
light out of this place

I like the good things in life
But most of the best things ain't free
And this same situation, just cuts like a knife
When your young, and you're poor, and you're crazy
Young and you're crazy (4 times)

But oh, give me a good guitar, and you can say that my
hair's a disgrace
Or, just find me an open car, I'll make the speed of
light out of this place

Flick of the Wrist 3:19

Dislocate your spine if you don't sign
He says I'll have you seeing double
Mesmerize you when he's tongue tied
Simply with those eyes
Synchronize your minds and see the beast within him
rise

Don't look back, don't look back
It's a rip off
Flick of the wrist and your dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad
Flick of the wrist, he'll eat your heart out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
He's taken an arm, he's taken a leg
All this time honey, baby you've been had

Intoxicate your brain with what I saying
If not you'll lie in knee deep trouble
Prostitute yourself he says
Castrate your human pride
Sacrifice your leisure days
Let me squeeze you till you've dried

Don't look back, don't look back
It's a rip off

Work my fingers to my bones, I scream with pain
I still make no impression
Seduce you with his money-make machine
Cross collaterize (big time money money)
Reduce you to a muzak fake machine
Then the last goodbye
It's a ripoff

Flick of the wrist and your dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad
Flick of the wrist, he'll eat your heart out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
He's taken an arm, he's taken a leg
All this time honey, baby you've been had

Lily of the Valley 1:43

I am forever searching high and low
But why does everybody tell me no
Neptune of the seas
Have you an answer for me please
And the lily of the valley doesn't know

I lie in wait with open eyes
I carry on through stormy skies
I follow every course
My kingdom for a horse
But each time I grow old
Serpent of the Nile
Relieve me for a while
And cast me from your spell and let me go

Messenger from the Seven Seas has flown
To tell the King of Rhye he's lost his throne
Wars will never cease
Is there time enough for peace
But the lily of the valley doesn't know