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[Torrent Maniak]

Fourpenny Bus Ride

Fourpenny Bus Ride
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In...an age...when peeeeeople say,..."I...can't face...another day."

A fourpenny bus ride can take
One hour away
Out of his life
'Cause Johnny's a worker;
He works from nine to five
And home to the wife

From his boring day
He is far away...

The same little bus ride
Provides him with a way
To face his day
From Tooting to Chiswick,
His mind is free to roam
Far from his home

In the land of smiles
He rides for miles and miles...

He looks out the window
And dreams of days in the past
He knew wouldn't last
The standing conductor is there,
Asks him for his fare
And gives him a stare

Millions every day
Have to get away...

So take a fourpenny bus ride to where
People don't stare
Or get in your hair
There' a million and one things to be
When you learn how
To be free

Living day to day,
Each must find his way...​

 

[Torrent Maniak]

Frame Of Mind

Frame Of Mind







Oh, let us adore him
We need his sacrifice
Oh, let us adore him
We need all he has
We need him to help
We need all he has
We need our God, we know
Won't someone help me?
We need our God
We need our God, we know
Won't someone help me?
We need our God, we know
Won't someone help me?
Let me reach for him
For we are his
Oh, please let me hold him
He wept for his kingdom

Oh, let us adore him
We need his sacrifice
We need all he has, o God
Let him heal us

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[Torrent Maniak]

Gemini-the Madman

Gemini-the Madman





[Zoot Money]
Sometimes I'm old
Sometimes I'm smiling
I'm ever-changing,
Turning like the sky

[Eric Burdon]
Sometimes I'm young
Sometimes I frown


[Zoot and Burdon]
Well, sometimes I'm bold
Sometimes I'm shy
I never seem
To compromise
I'm always there
And I always try
And if one can tell...
Aaaaa...








That I'm a Gemini...


[Zoot Money]
'Cause I'm a Gemini (Gemini), yeah
You know that I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
But I, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Yes, now I'm a Gemini (Gemini)


I have two sides,one dark and one light
One is white
And they're as different
As day or night

[Eric Burdon]
I've got two minds,baby. One is black and


[Zoot and Burdon]
Well, I love today
But I hate tomorrow
I don't spend time;
I only borrow
Don't blame me
For the way things are
Because I can't control...








What is in the stars...


[Zoot Money]
'Cause I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Well, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Don't you know that I'm a Gemimi? (Gemini) Hey,
You've got to believe a Gemini (Gemini) Yes


[Eric Burdon]: Here comes side two.
[Zoot Money]: Funny, I can only see one side.
[Eric Burdon]: That's because you are biased, Gemini.
[Zoot Money]: I is not.
[Eric Burdon]: It must be, if you can only see one side.
[Zoot Money]: There is only one side.
[Eric Burdon]: No, there are two.
[Zoot Money]: There's only my side.
[Eric Burdon]: There is my side, too.
[Zoot Money]: But if there are more than two of us,
Then there are three sides.
[Eric Burdon]: No, there are two sides.
[Zoot Money]: There MUST be more than two.
[Eric Burdon]: There is wrong.
[Zoot Money]: There IS more than two.
[Eric Burdon]: There is right.
[Zoot Money]: There is wrong.
[Eric Burdon]: Right.
[Zoot Money]: Wrong!
[Eric Burdon]: And right.

[Eric Burdon]: Heh, heh.
[Zoot Money]: Heh, heh.
[Eric Burdon]: And light.
[Zoot Money]: Right.
[Eric Burdon]: Right.
[Zoot Money]: I can see again.
[Eric Burdon]: Day
[Zoot Money]: Night?
[Eric Burdon]: And night.
[Zoot Money]: Ah.
[Eric Burdon]: Two sides.
[Zoot Money]: Two sides.
[Eric Burdon]: Gemini.
[Zoot Money]: Gemini.
[Eric Burdon]: Gemini.
[Zoot Money]: Gemini.
[End of dialogue]

[Zoot and Burdon]:
Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini
Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini Gemini
Day and night
Wrong and right
Day and night
Wrong and right
Day and night
Wrong and right
Day and night
Day and night
Day and night
[voices fade out]



[Zoot Money]
I have two sides,one dark and one light
One is white
And they're a different
As day or night

[Eric Burdon]
Well, I got two minds, baby, one is black and


[Zoot and Burdon]
Well, I love today
Gut I hate tomorrow
I don't spend time;
I only borrow
Don't blame me
For the way things are
Because I can't control...
Aaaa...








What is in the stars...


[Zoot Money]
'Cause I'm a Gemini. (Gemini) Yes, I am
Don't you know that I'm a Gemini? (Gemini) Yeah
Oh, yes, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Do you believe that I'm a Gemini? (Gemini)
Well, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Well, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Well, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)
Well, I'm a Gemini (Gemini)

[Burdon]
Two face
[End Part I]

[Part II:The Madman]
[Exactly the same as "The Madman Running Through the Fields",
Except "There is a way out" is changed to "Is there a way out?"
And "Time has gone by" to "Time has gone blind".]
[End Part II]

[Part III: Gemini (instrumental reprise)]
[End Part III]

[Part IV: The Madman (reprise)]
You ask me how
I've become mad now [fade out]

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[Torrent Maniak]

Heaven (never Seemed So Far Away)

Heaven (never Seemed So Far Away)




Good friends and I'm a stranger
So hard to circulate
Crowded streets, I see no faces
No place for a changing soul
Like a ship on an angry ocean
Ferris wheel that spins too fast
For a dog, snarling in a corner
Heaven never seemed so far away

Maybe the game is someone else's
Too tired to play along
Go on your way takin' chances
Your way is yours alone
For an artist in a hungry basement
Or a rain on a lonely man
Or a kid, fightin' with his father
Heaven never seemed so far away

Good friends and I'm a stranger
So hard to circulate
Crowded streets, I see no faces
No place for a changing soul
Like a ship on an angry ocean
Ferris wheel that spins too fast
For a dog, snarling in a corner
Heaven never seemed so far away

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[Torrent Maniak]

High-flying Bird (an Ode To San Francisco)

High-flying Bird (an Ode To San Francisco)





Four thousand people with flowers in their hair
Walking around, just feeling the air
People who looking for a new world
Can't understand that it's here
Can you imagine a world without love?
No distant star or sky up above,
No one to hold when the night becomes cold,
No one with whom to grow old

People just moving to sight and sound
After this life, they're eternity-bound
You must believe, or you will find
You will be left far behind
San Francisco is losing it's hate,
And all the love flows out through the Golden Gate
Into the ocean that flows 'round the world,
Hoping it's never too late

Love is like a flying bird
Love is like a bird

Love is like a bird
Love is like a bird
It must be allowed to flow free
And fly away
It must be allowed to fly free
Never put your love in a cage or it will die
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[Torrent Maniak]

How Insensitive (insensatez)

How Insensitive (insensatez)





How insensitive
I must have seemed
When she told me that she loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When she told me so sincerely

Why she must have asked
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to say
What can you say
When a love affair is over


Now she's gone away
And I'm alone
With a memory of her last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still
All her heartbreak in her last look
How she must have asked,
Could I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to do
What can one say
When a love affair is over
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[Torrent Maniak]

I Am The Sun

I Am The Sun
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I'm stupid for you
inner space man angel
I should have cut the crap out
but I was drinking too much

Then she said

Joan of arc was cool
but she got burned
like I'm burning after you
I'm centrifugal

I am the sun
I am the sun
I am the sun
I am

we had a minor adventure
took a ride in the car
ended up in a forest somewhere

she took my keys and threw them in the ditch
disappeared into the mud and pitch
I must have walked the world that night
until dawn, but she'd gone

and she'd said

Jesusu was my age
when he got nailed
yeah I'm coming back to you
I'm paranormal

I am the sun
I am the sun
I am the sun

Ride on, ride on it's not over
Shine on, shine on it's not over
Ride on, ride on it's not over
Shine on, shine on it's not over​

 

[Torrent Maniak]

I Shall Be Released

I Shall Be Released



They say ev'rything can be replaced
Yet every distance is not near,
So I remember every face
Of everyman who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now any way now,
I shall be released.

They say ev'ry man needs protection
They say ev'ry man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall
I see my light come shining

From the west unto the east
Any day now any way now,
I shall be released.

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
All day long I hear his voice shouting out so loud
Crying out that he was framed
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now any way now,
I shall be released.
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[Torrent Maniak]

I'm An Animal

I'm An Animal




(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)
(I'm an animal)
(I'm an animal)
(I'm an animal)
(I'm an animal)
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

(I'm an animal,)
Here to blow your mind
(I'm an animal,)
The English kind
(I'm an animal)
Gonna flip your wig
(I'm an animal)
Behave just like a pig
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

Let me be your best friend,
And I won't muck around with you

(I'm an animal)
I'll eat your body and your soul
(I'm an animal)
Tuned to rock and roll
(I'm an animal)
I'm a thoroughbred
(I'm an animal,)
Come to give your head
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

(I'm an animal)
A woman is my prey
(I'm an animal)
Eat 'em night and day
(I'm an animal)
I've got to satisfy
(I'm an animal)
I'll be known to lie,I say
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)


(I'm an animal)
Animal life
(I'm an animal)
Animalism
(I'm an animal)
Human system
Breath, flesh
Flesh and blood
Physique
Strength
Power, vigor, force
Spring elasticity
[heavy breathing begins]
Tone and grace
Animal kingdom
Human, brute, creation
Animal creature
Creature, being, living thing
Dumb animal
Dumb friend
Dumb creature
Brute!
[heavy breathing ceases]

(I'm an animal)
Of the English kind
(I'm an animal,)
Come to blow your mind
(I'm an animal)
Act like a pig
(I'm an animal)
You're gonna flip your wig, I say
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)
(Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!)

Oh...yeah...
I'm an animal!
I'm an animal!
(Let me be your best friend)
I'm an animal!
(Let me be your best friend)
[repeat above two lines eleven times]
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[Torrent Maniak]

If You There

If You There





Your beauty pulses like a distant star
Once you were so near to me and now you've gone so far
Wretched and asphyxed the word is in his stone
(Rigid and as fixed, the words, as any stone?)
Lying now - no move, nor speak no statue here alone
(Lying now, don't move or speak ... alone?)
Living here just with a memory
A simple recollection that's so dear to me
You said it's logical that we should part
What's pleasing to my intellect, must surely break my heart

Man will always want what he can't have
It's more than he can do just to be brave
He seeks perfection in a thousand ways
Just throw another shovel on his grave

Born to live
Born to die
Born to wonder
Why, why, why, why

If you there
Would you leave me wondering
If you there
I am one man under (I am one man only?)
If you there
Don't leave me wondering
If you there

You say that all we have is what we see
Baby, all you understand is a little part of me
You said that I could never be the one
Promises evaporate in the angle of the sun
If the only certain thing is death
Walk a little nearer to it now with every breath
And if this time must wear a velvet glove
Then kindness and lies are the true friends of love
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