Boz Scaggs

[fox69]

"Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl"
(originally by Mink DeVille)

"Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl"
(originally by Mink DeVille)



Candle lit, and my eyes are slits
Jumpin' now, paper clip
Make a move, sail a ship
Tap it in, tap it in, ruby lips

She's a mixed up, shook up girl
Got me so strung out
I don't know what to do
She's a mixed up, mixed up, shook up girl

Take a breath, in the night
Hurry over, she said
But there was no one in sight
Now break away, is in her eyes
You know that little girl, she cut me deep
Inside out

She's a mixed up, shook up girl
Got me so strung out
I don't know what to do
She's a mixed up, mixed up, shook up girl

Hey, you, I remember
All the empty streets
Fill me now
And though you're gone away
I know not forever
Why don't you just come over here and tell me, baby
Is it over now?

She's a mixed up,shook up girl
Got me so strung out
I don't know what to do
She's a mixed up, mixed up, shook up girl
She's a mixed up, shook up girl
She's a mixed up, shook up girl
And she got me so strung out...
She's a mixed up, shook up girl...

And she got me so strung out...

She's a mixed up, shook up girl...

 

[fox69]

"Moments"

"Moments"


Was it for a moments pleasure
That brought me to your door
Was it for your darkest treasure
Could I have loved you more

Did I take the time to tell you
I'd seen you once before
You were standing in my garden
And I was on the floor

You came around that evening
You came around that fall
My heart went out that evening
Never came back at all...Oh

And so I came to know you
As keeper of my heart
It saw me search and saw you
It showed me from the start

Time and again I've held you near me
I wonder if you've ever known
How I hold you near me
Is not exactly shown

I'm coming around to know you
I've come to find my place
And someone there to go to
It's come to be my fate

Like a fire holds its heat in
Like the winter holds its cold
Like a question holds its answer
That's the way you hold

I came around that evening
I came around that fall
My heart went out that evening
Never came back at all

Coming around to know you
I've come to find my place

 

[fox69]

"Monkey Time"

"Monkey Time"


Back in '64 I was feeling 63
The strangest sort of feeling
Started creeping over me
It's not the kind of feeling
You would easily forget
My head started burning
And my knees began to sweat

I figured I was crazy
So I went back to my chair
But I looked into my mirror
And I just wasn't there
Just then the window shattered
And a monkey hit the floor
Looked like it was time for me
To make it to the door

But the monkey grabbed my coat
And took away my hat
And I don't remember
What happened after that
Except my friends hear the story
About how I left it all behind
Seems ever since that day
I've had that monkey on my mind
Tried to do my best
And make something of my life

So I cut off all my relatives
And then I left my wife

I've tried a hundred cures
Anything that I could find

But you know life ain't easy
With a monkey on your mind

Every time I make my mind up
I'm really gonna try
Well that monkey starts jumping
And looks me in the eye

Oh dig the monkey

Well something exploded
When the monkey got loaded
And we went out on the town
The monkey got so drunk
He started getting funky
It was hard to hold the poor boy down

He did the boogaloo the shoogaloo
The Eskimo the Hindu
He even made the teenage queen
Oh the joint started leaping
Everybody was a-freaking
The greatest show they'd ever seen
Then someone started screaming
And I woke up from my dreaming
Tried to get myself realigned

But it's all right
And it all comes easy
When you got a monkey on your mind

Dig the monkey
Oh one more time
Dig the monkey

 

[fox69]

"My Funny Valentine"

"My Funny Valentine"


My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than Greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart

Don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is Valentine's Day

Is your figure less than Greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart

Don't you change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is Valentine's Day

 

[fox69]

"My Time"

"My Time"


Far away
I may just stay away
Like some folks holiday
That's my time

On any other day
May come a Saturday
Or might just stay this way
It's my time

Moments come and go
Like the winds blow
Empty like a fool
I'm laying cool anyway

Anyway
Just have to do today
Like some folks holiday
It's my time

Hmmm hmmm

It's my time

 

[fox69]

"Near You"

"Near You"


(I want to be near you)
I want to hear what you have to say
(As long as I'm near you)
Nothing will seem to pass away
Long as I'm near you
Longing to hear you
Long as I'm near you

(I want to believe you)
When you say the things you do
(And so I believe you)
You make it all appear so true
Glad that I found you
It's good to be around you
Good to be near you

When it comes to making time
Little girl you sure made mine
You made my day
You made my way to stay

(I want to be near you)
You're my all you're my everything
(As long as I'm near you)
There's a song in my heart to sing
The song of your laughter
Is all that I'm after
I want to be near you

Love is such a happy song
And when love comes along
It's good to be alive
It's good that you arrived on time

I want to be near you
I want to be near you
I want to be near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you

I want to believe you
I want to believe you
I want to believe

And so I believe you
And so I believe you
And so I believe

I want to believe you
I want to believe you
I want to believe

As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near you
As long as I'm near
Oohhh
I want to believe you

 

[fox69]

"Never Let Me Go"

"Never Let Me Go"


Never let me go
Love me much too much
If you let me go
Life would lose its touch
What would I be without you
There's no place for me without you

Never let me go
I'd be so lost if you went away
There'd be a thousand hours in the day
Without you I know

Because of one caress
My world was overturned
At the very start
All my bridges burned
By my flaming heart
You'd never leave me would you
You couldn't hurt me could you

Never let me go.. never let me go

Because of one caress
My world was overturned
At the very start
All my bridges burned
By my flaming heart
You'd never leave me would you
You couldn't hurt me could you

Never let me go.. never let me go

 

[fox69]

"Nothing Will Take Your Place"

"Nothing Will Take Your Place"


Maybe you've got your mind made up
Don't know where to start
Or maybe you hold your painted cup
Too close to your heart
What about what you said today
That was all you ever had to say
No one else ever made it sound just that way

Take your places
Show your faces

Days break with out takes and accidents
Your baby cries your lovers lie
You must make sense
But all you ever had to do
Is do what you have to do
And you're the only one who knows
Just exactly what that is

Take your places
Show your faces

Without you dear there's nothing here
It's all a mystery
So stay right there and take good care
Just for me

Nothing will ever take your place
Nothing will ever take your place

Thoughts and day dreams fill the air
They fly around like birds
And I can sing you melodies
And they just sound like words
Wanna know what they say
You overhear it everyday
You're the one we've been hearing all about

Take your places
Show your faces

Without you dear there's nothing here
It's all a mystery
So stay right there and take good care
Just for me

Nothing will ever take your place
Nothing will ever take your place

 

[fox69]

"Now You're Gone"

"Now You're Gone"


Lying there beside you in the dark I could not see
Past the light you had set there for me
Oh that night had it's meaning
And the flame shook your room
From the walls to the beating of my heart

But now you're gone and I won't worry any more
Yes now you're gone and I won't worry any more

Oh your sighs screamed with loneliness
Your eyes traced broken dreams
And your touch held a warning of goodbye
Oh many's the times I've reached for you
More's the times I've failed
I'm the reason I'm the cause of it all

But now you're gone and I won't worry any more

Why you begged me must we stay here
But to wait a bitter end
Than the silence this dimming light foretells
Why the future why the past
Why this moments cold retreat
How do I know there's no relief you can bring

And I was lost I could not answer
No I could not shed a tear
To the ghost of a love that could have been
Well I see them all just coming
And I know that they're all gone
But as you're near I won't worry any more

And now you're gone and I worry anymore
Yes you're gone and I won't worry any more

 

[fox69]

"Old Time Lovin'"

"Old Time Lovin'"


Give me that old - time - old time lovin'
Give me that old - time - old time lovin' yeah

It was good enough - for dear old mother and father
That's how I know - that it's alight for me

What I need is that good old - time - old time lovin' yeah
It's got to be rockin' - reelin' - yeah yeah

Music will make you make you - make you move your feet yeah
Keep tryin to love you baby - and you're out in the street

But what I need is that good old - time - good old time lovin' yeah
It's got to be rockin' yeah and reeling

Yeah and the only thing I want you to do is come on home - come on home
Yeah don't let your friends turn your back on me baby

Come on old - time - old time lovin yeah
Waitin' for a better day
Waitin' for another day
Come on home