Old 97's

[fox69]

"Every Night Is Friday Night"

"Every Night Is Friday Night"


Every night is Friday night
Without you
Every night is Friday night
Without you

When I was young
I was dumb as a rock
I could not read a clock
And nothin' didn't mean nothin' to me

Now I'm no saint
But I ain't such a freak
On the days of the week
I work hard, hard

Every night is Friday night
Without you
Every night is Friday night
Without you

Kids, clap your hands
If you can be real
Got to say what you feel
If you feel anything, anything, anything, anything

Every night
Is Friday night without you
Every night
Is Friday night without you

Every night
Is Friday night without you
Every night
Is Friday night without you
You, you, you

 

[fox69]

"Everybody But Me"

"Everybody But Me"


All the best-dressed boys
Are looking twice at you this year
All the best-dressed boys
Are wishing I would disappear
I can't blame them
Who could blame them?
Well, I'm a lucky guy
You're so pretty
Shake your rattle
Make your shadow cry...
Everybody knows
About the girl with the ring in her nose
And everybody sees
Everybody but me
Everybody but me
Every creek bed
Every street lamp
Every alley way
Everywhere I look
You're hiding
Please go away
I don't know you
I don't want to
Don't come around
I'll sing purty dead beat love songs
Make that hollow sound
Everybody knows
About the girl with the ring in her nose
And everybody sees
Everybody but
Everybody knows
About the girl with the ring in her nose
And everybody sees
Everybody but me
Everybody but me
Everybody but me
Everybody but me

 

[fox69]

"Eyes For You"

"Eyes For You"


I've got eyes for you
And I keep them in a jar up in my room
When you walk in they open wide
Lids are gone, no place to hide
I've got eyes for you
I've got eyes for you
I've got lips for you
Some of what they say just might be true
Well it's a scary thought I must confess
You're an ice cream cone in a mini-dress
I've got lips for you
I've got lips for you
[Chorus:]
Oh well I think I'm going crazy
I'm feeling pretty good
This isn't love
It's just I think my body likes you
More than any body should
Your body likes me too
That's why I've only got eyes for you
I've got a nose for you
And the way you smell I wish that I had two
Ah well you always smell a bit like gin
You're gonna make me take to drinkin' again
I've got a nose for you
I've got a nose for you
[Chorus]
I've got eyes for you
And I keep them in a jar up in my room
When you walk in they open wide
Lids are gone, no place to hide
I've got eyes for you
I've got eyes for you
I've got eyes for you
I've got eyes for you

 

[fox69]

"Five Years"
(originally by David Bowie)

"Five Years"
(originally by David Bowie)



Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much, his face was wet
And I knew he wasn't lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melody
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat and skinny people
And all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't-a pulled her off
Well, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And the queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milkshakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years, that's all we've got

 

[fox69]

"For The Girl"
(originally by The Fratellis)

"For The Girl"
(originally by The Fratellis)



Well she said I know, but I just can't tell
Everything that you've just been saying
Lucy was there as well in the dark
When the kids in the band were playing
No one can hear a word or tell
What the girl was singing
See, she must've been 16 or 18
I'm just past caring

She was into the Stones when
I was into the Roses
She was breaking my bones when
I was busting their noses
She would tell me a secret
I would lose it the next day
You're not pleased that you're easy
Makes you sick in a bad way

And all the while the girls sang
La la la la and she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss
And she said, I can't love you any more than this

Ah, she said, she said, no, no, no, no
Oh then again, yes, why don't you kill me
I said when I'm messed up like this
Sweetheart you know that don't thrill me
Said I would've been there for you if you'd just been a little bit nicer
I was dead by Sunday half dead, scared just trying to please her

She was getting me pills when
I was into her best friend
She was chasing the thrills
And living down at the West End
She was pretty in braces
I lived under of her window
She said, take me to London
Tell me something I don't know

And all the while the girls sang
La la la la and she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss
And she said, I can't love you any more than this

She was into the Stones when
I was into the Roses
She was breaking my bones when
I was busting their noses
She would tell me a secret
I would lose it the next day
You're not pleased that you're easy
Makes you sick in a bad way

And all the while the girls sang
La, la, la, la, and she sang
Kickings for my sweetheart
Bruises that I just don't miss
And she said I don't like you, you can't stand me
I can't love you anymore than this

 

[fox69]

"Four Leaf Clover"
(with Exene Cervenka)

"Four Leaf Clover"
(with Exene Cervenka)



I got a four-leaf clover
It ain't done one single lick of good
I'm still a drunk, I'm still a loser
Living in a lousy neighborhood
I got a real live horseshoe
And I hung it upside down above my door
But it don't do nothing to attract you
So I don't know what the hell it's for
Why don't you come over?
I'll show you my four-leaf clover
Who'm I trying to kid?
I'm not the kind of guy you'd go for
I got a four-leaf clover
But I ain't got no hope of getting you, wow
I got a…ou…
I got a lucky silver dollar
My granddad gave it to me, now he's dead
At times like this, I wish that I could join him
It might just stop this pounding in my head
Why don't you come over?
I'll show you my four-leaf clover
Who'm I trying to kid?
I'm not the kind of guy you'd go for
I got a four-leaf clover
But I ain't got no hope of getting you
I ain't got no hope of getting you
I ain't got no hope of getting you, ow

 

[fox69]

"Friends Forever"

"Friends Forever"


I was a debater
Was not a stoner nor an inline skater
Was not a player nor a player hater
I was just a bookworm on a respirator
Who's to say that's wrong

I was in the chess club
Didn't have a swimming pool much less a true love
Didn't have a dalliance much less a hot tub
I was just a brain whose brain never let up
Who's to say that's wrong

The twelve years after five
Are years we're lucky to survive
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away

Went out for the football team
Found out the hard way that you can't live your Dad's dream
Had pretty thin skin to be in the machine
Then I found a guitar and the rest's a fanzine
Who's to say that's wrong

The moral of the song
Is that the high school kids are wrong
You know they have been all along
Come graduation day you'll be gone
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away

 

[fox69]

"Give It Time"

"Give It Time"


When I saw you for the first time
I thought I might be sick
That combination of joy and compulsion
And you were the reason for it
And in the blink of an eyelid
You were in my ride
I was wasted thought you'd laugh when I kissed you
Though I guess it makes sense that you cried

Give it time give it time give it time
It will break you

From our house I heard voices so far away
There's no difference between ropes and roses
When you've got nothin' good to say
And in the blink of an eyelid
You become someone else
I try to find you but you are on a island
And I guess I have to tell myself
Give it time give it time give it time
It will break you

When I saw you for the last time
I sweat right through my shirt
I'm no professional heartbreak's just a pastime
But that don't mean it don't hurt

Give it time give it time give it time
It will break you
Give it time give it time give it time
It will break you
Give it time give it time give it time
It will break you
It will break you
It will break you

 

[fox69]

"Goin' Goin' Gone"

"Goin' Goin' Gone"


Gettin' out of the house.
I'm gonna go for a ride,
'Cause I got me a five-o Ford
and the good Lord knows I tried
to make friends with you
and everything went wrong.
Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

Goin' down to the tracks.
I'm gonna hide out for a while.
Gonna have me some ranch-style beans
From a tin can hobo-style,
Forget your face,
If that can be done.
Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

And you'll find you a boyfriend
And he won't like my cat.
And you'll try to
Pretend that you don't want me back.
Right now I'm leavin'
So you'd better say, so long.
Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

Gonna find me a boat
And a brand new name.
I'm gonna find some wall-eyed,
Weak-kneed European dame.
She'll be my wife
And you'll only be a song.
Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

And you'll find you a boyfriend
And he won't like my cat.
And you'll try to
Pretend that you don't want me back.
Right now I'm leavin'
So you'd better say, so long.
Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

Yeah, I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm goin' I'm gone.

Jesus!
Well, what do ya do about a string breakin'?
Oh, nothin'.

 

[fox69]

"Good With God"
(feat. Brandi Carlile)

"Good With God"
(feat. Brandi Carlile)



I'm not afraid, I'm good with God
I got my sins, in fact I got a lot
I got a soul that's good and flawed
I'm good with God, I'm good with God
I'm not afraid, got no regrets
I paid my dues, I paid my debts
I made a mess but it's my bed
No regrets, no regrets

Goodness knows I've done you wrong
I'm not too gone to see
All's I knows I'm good with God
I wonder how she feels about me
I wonder how she feels about me

[Brandi Carlile:]
You should be scared, I'm not so nice
Many a man has paid the price
You're pretty thick, so I'll tell you twice
I'm not so nice, I'm not so nice
I made you up and I'll break you down
I'll do it slow how does that sound?
You're just a joke that's going round

Goodness knows you've done me wrong
I'm not too blind to see
You might think you're good with God
We're gonna have to wait and see
I guess we'll have to wait and see

Oh hell no, say it ain't so
Is it too late to save my soul
Where do the busted angels go

Goodness knows I've done you wrong
I'm not too gone to see
I can only hope I'm good with God
I wonder how she feels about me
I wonder how she feels about me
I guess we'll have to wait and see