Joe Jackson

[fox69]

"Enough Is Not Enough"

"Enough Is Not Enough"



Slow down, you know you're leaving me behind
You seem to think that you can read my mind
You think I'm rich, you think I'm free
You wanna change your place with me
Be a leader then the blind can lead the blind
Happens all the time

Can't you understand...
Enough is not enough, it's not enough...
It's not enough

I've been filled with culture, I've been filled with lies
And compliments from people I despise
Shake my hand and sing along
Always getting one line wrong
Shout for more when I know I just died
Died...

Can't you understand...
Enough is not enough, it's not enough...
It's not enough

So - when I think I know my way around
I'm gonna take a bus to the other side of town
I'm gonna stay out all night long
Gonna sing some strange new song
Lose myself and hope I don't get found
Don't ask me how

Can't you understand...
Enough is not enough, it's not enough...
It's not enough

 

[fox69]

"Ever After"

"Ever After"



Now that you're gone
Nothing is wrong
But everything's changed
Words in your hand
Do I set them in stone
Or throw them away
Now everything we did
Like photographs that always moved
(and that wasn't strange)
Now they're in the can
Let's put them on a shelf
Let's put them in the ground
They'll never move again

Ever after
Ever after
Ever after

Over and done
All of the fun
And all of the pain
Why don't I laugh
Why don't I cry
It ends up all the same
Now that you're gone
Everything is wrong
Though nothing has changed
And everything we said
Is there on a tape
For the future to play
Let's put it in the ground
That's where it ought to stay

Ever after
Ever after
Ever after

And it'll be all right...

 

[fox69]

"Evil Empire"

"Evil Empire"



There's a country where no one knows
what's going on in the rest of the world
There's a country where minds are closed
with just a few asking questions

Like what do their leaders say
in sessions behind closed doors
and if this is the perfect way
why do we need these goddamn lies

This doesn't go down too well
"We give you everything and you throw it back
Don't like it here you can go to hell
You're either with or against us..."

There's a country that's great and wide
It's got the biggest of everything
Try to attack it and you can't hide
Don't say that you haven't been warned

You can't hide in a gunman's mask
or kill innocent folks and run
But if you're good at it they might ask -
come on over to the other side

There's a country that's tired of war
There's a country that's scared inside
But the bank is open and you can draw
for guns to fight in their backyard

I could go on but what's the use
You can't fight them with songs
But think of this as just
another tiny blow against the Empire

Another blow against the Evil Empire

Just another blow against the Evil Empire

 

[fox69]

"Fairy Dust"

"Fairy Dust"



Here
See the little queer
There's a volunteer
Don't you think that he should get haircut
Now
Like in the Marines
All the magazines
Got a way for everyone to shape up

You don't wanna fall behind
Choking on a cloud of fairy dust - fairy dust
Now it's only greed and lust
And pride and lust
And a few other sins

No
See the cherry lips
Hands on the hips
Anyone would think your name was Oscar
Wilde
Think you're pretty smart
Poetry and art
Put him on testosterone and vodka

Calling for the man of steel
To blow you faggots into fairy dust - fairy dust
Now it's only greed and lust
And pride and lust
And a few other sins

We're
Happy to be gay
Showing you the way
Gotta get your head your heart your torso
Hard
Join another gym
Lose your pseudonym
Soon we'll all be straight but only more so

Tell me who you're gonna find
To sprinkle on a little fairy dust - fairy dust
Now it's only greed and lust
And pride and lust
And a few other sins

 

[fox69]

"Fifty Dollar Love Affair"

"Fifty Dollar Love Affair"



Oh the romance of these harbour towns
Lights that shimmer on canals
And in the bottom of your glass
The air buzzing with foreign tongues
And the occasional cries
Of sailors, tramps and rock 'n' rollers...
(Hey babe you look so hot tonight
Hey come over here I'll treat you right)
'Cause...

A man's a man all right
Just like any other man
He'll search the town tonight
For a fifty dollar love affair

And another taste of cheap delight
Street food sizzling outside
Washed down with the local poison
These back alleys with their pinkish lights
And the occasional cries
Of smugglers, bums and credit card holders...
(Hey babe I feel so good tonight
I got shore leave and I sure ain't leavin' here till I prove that...)

A man's a man all right
Just like any other man
He'll search the town tonight
For a fifty dollar love affair

 

[fox69]

"Fit"

"Fit"



Don't laugh - but there are people in this world
Born as boys - and fighting to be girls
People standing in their way
Some are straight and some are gay
Calling them the drag queens
Say you can't be one of us
You only have yourself to blame
You don't fit

Don't laugh - but there are people in this town
Be polite say a whiter shade of brown
People that they gotta fight
Some are black and some are white
Calling them the half-breeds
Say you can't be one of us
You only have yourself to blame
You don't fit

That's what you're there for - square pegs in square holes
Round pegs in round
You get too big then they can't make new holes
So they'll cut you down
All ugly sisters must wear glass slippers
Or get out of town

But don't cry - If the people in your street
Lead a life that's more or less complete
Little problems every day
Little problems go away
Kid yourself you're fighting for life
Kid yourself you fight for love
But maybe in some other lifetime
You won't fit
And if you don't fit
You're fit for nothing at all

 

[fox69]

"Five Guys Named Moe"
(originally by Louis Jordan)

"Five Guys Named Moe"
(originally by Louis Jordan)



I gotta tell you a story from way back
Truck on down and dig me Jack
There's Big Moe, Little Moe, Four-Eyed Moe, No Moe,
Look at brother, look at brother, look at brother Eat Moe
Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe, Moe

Who's the greatest band around
Makes the cats jump up and down
Who's the talk of Rhythm Town
Five guys named Moe

When they start to beat it out
Everybody jump and shout
Tell me who do the critics rave about
Five guys named Moe

They came out of nowhere
But that don't mean a thing
They rate high and you'll know why
When you hear them sing

High brow, low brow, all agree
They're the best in harmony
I'm telling you folks you just got to see
Five guys named Moe

There's Big Moe...
Little Moe...

One guy... Big Moe
Two guys... Little Big Moe
Three guys... Four-Eyed Moe
Four guys... No Moe
Five guys... Eat Moe
Five little guys named Moe

 

[fox69]

"Flying"

"Flying"



The older I get the more stupid I feel
I don't know what's going on
Tired of trying to be strong
When I should be crying

The further I go the less distance I see
Leave behind another home
The harder I try the less people I please

The older I get the more lucid I feel
Let it go and let it come
Tired of trying to belong
When I could be flying

 

[fox69]

"Forty Years"

"Forty Years"



(On the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II)

Here in Berlin - people line up to get in
To wait for the end - living in glorious sin
They've looked around - and now there is no looking back
To when rivers ran red - now it's the sky that grows black
Shadows are cast as two giants roam over the earth
We light a match - but what is that little flame worth

Once allies danced and sang
But it was forty years ago

Here in D.C. - they talk about 'Euro-disease'
And how the French are always so damn hard to please
otions are passed in Brussels but no one agrees
And no one walks tall - but no-one gets down on their knees

Once allies laughed and drank
But it was forty years ago

Where I come from
They don't like Americans much
They think they're so loud, so tasteless, and so out of touch
Stiff upper lips are curled into permanent sneers
self-satisfied
Awaiting the next forty years

Once allies cried and cheered
But it was forty years ago

 

[fox69]

"Friday"

"Friday"



Lazy Gilly was a flower child
All the summer
Calmly running wild
She'd be silly and her friends just smiled
Pass the bottle
Wash the pills down - what went wrong
What went wrong

She don't care no more
She don't need to fight it
She don't care no more
She gets paid on Friday

Cooler weather it's not cool to smile
Pretty colours
Going out of style
It ain't so bad when you get used to it
Once you clock in
You'll take any shit - all right
Ain't that right

She don't care no more
She don't need to fight it
She don't care no more
She gets paid on Friday

Monday morning
Friday's far away
Pray you'll make it
It's a magic day
Bells will ring and you'll go out to play
Spend your money
Pass the bottle
Friday rules
Friday rules OK

Ain't talking 'bout Monday
Ain't talking 'bout Tuesday
Ain't talking 'bout Wednesday
Ain't talking 'bout Thursday
I'm talking 'bout...

She don't care no more
She don't need to fight it
She don't care no more
She gets paid on Friday

She gets paid on Friday, Friday, Friday...