Todd Rundgren

[fox69]

"Panic"

"Panic"


You like to push the envelope
If you're gonna stick out your neck
Everybody's sure to give you plenty of rope
So who am I to object?
Don't know what it means to fail
You like walking along the edge
Feel like you got a guardian angel
Follows you around the ledge
Everything's a different size
When you're totally adrenalized
It's a very thin line
The room is on fire but it
Won't help to panic
And the floods rise higher but it
Don't help to panic
You lost you're voice but it
Won't help to panic
And you got no choice so it
Don't help to panic
Yea it's a very thin line
It don't take much to lose it
One moment everything is going just fine
Then something takes your head and screws it
You can never lose your cool
Though you've got no course of action
You may just wind up looking like a fool
Or some other social infraction
Everyone expects to be
At a level of anxiety
It's a very thin line
You're in a strange town but it
Won't help to panic
And the power goes down but it
Don't help to panic
The zombies awake but it
Won't help to panic
And the earh is aquake but it
Don't help to panic
Yea, the wings fall off but it
Won't help to panic
And your boner goes soft but it
Don't help to panic
All the liquor's gone but it
Won't help to panic
The bars closed at one but it
Don't help to panic
We all think we'll do what's right
Though we're half as high as Franklin's kite
When it all comes down to fight or flight
It's a very thin line
Yea, the wheels just spin but it
Won't help to panic
And the roof caves in but it
Don't help to panic
And you just made a stinky
Won't help to panic
Then you cut off your pinky
Don't help to panic

 

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"Parallel Lines"

"Parallel Lines"


Kindred spirits moving along the spiral
I can see you up on another level
It's too great a fall
And I can't reach you to pull me higher
But I don't seem to get much closer or any more far

What would you tell me, if I could hear you speaking?
If you could touch me, how would I know the feeling?
I just can't imagine
But I try to do it anyway
I wish I was moving faster, I wish you'd drift back
But it just wasn't meant to happen
Very soon I'll have to

Face the fact
Some things never come together
Parallel lines running on forever
And you can't turn back
There is never any starting over
Parallel lines never do cross over

It's a challenge
Gotta make myself remember

Facing the truth, well, that doesn't mean surrender
What is bravado and how much is a force of will?
I know that the world is full of opposites that attract
But unless we ignore the physics
Very soon we'll have to

So I send you the gift of empathy
If you'd once in your life acknowledge me
I have visualized so thoroughly
That when I think of me I think of we

Can't face the truth
It means that we must surrender
Understanding won't satisfy the hunger
It whittles away at the destiny we fulfill
And like an animal running wild
You can't call it back
And it's just gonna make it harder
When it's finally time to

It's like a train that's stuck running on a track
Parallel lines running on, running on, running on

 

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"Parole"

"Parole"


Put down that phone and listen
Baby how can you be so unkind
If they catch me out of line only one more time
I'll be down in the slammer 'fore you count to nine
I didn't mean to step out without you
And I'm sorry way down in my soul
But it ain't easy being on
Parole with you baby
Before they throw me in the hole
I got to get my dose of rock and roll
And it ain't easy being on

Parole with you baby, let go
Put down that gun and listen
If you shoot it would be such a waste
'cause any one of these days I just might change my ways
And I won't be around to see the look on your face
I know that it might make you happy
To fill my body full of holes
But you know it ain't easy being on
Parole with you baby
Put down the phone and put down the gun
Please let me know you still believe in me, hon

 

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"Party Liquor"

"Party Liquor"


There is this party
They say I should come by
I'm not good with strangers
but I may give it a try
Sittin in the corner
and I'm feelin kinda shy
I see someone but
I'm afraid to catch their eye
And in my mind
We'll have a nice time
Drinkin' fine wine
Then somebody yells wake up!
and smell the moonshine
And the lights got dimmer
and began to flicker
Then they broke out the party liquor
When the moment came I didn't have to trick her
She just threw back that party liquor
This shit gets crazier
with every passing hour
I should slow down
but I don't seem to have the power
I'm drinkin' everything
including grape and grain
I'm thinkin' thoughts
that I should never entertain
And in my brain
We are so perfect
Oysters and champagne
Then somebody yells wake up!
You must be insane
And the loudmouth boozin'
and they begin to bicker
Over who holds their party liquor
And we all find out just who can get sicker quicker
When they break out the party liquor
While the trash piles higher
and the floor gets slicker
'cause they spilled so much party liquor
and the TV's blaring 'cause they can't find the clicker
Things get so lost on party liquor
And the noise grows louder and the plot get's thicker
As they run out of party liquor
Then I look right at her and begin to snicker
Things get so strange on party liquor
'Cause if I was sober I would never pick her
You do weird things on party liquor
And the rude boys line up to get in her knickers
When she's face down on party liquor
So everybody sing
It's party liquor time!

 

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"Past"

"Past"


I saw you on the street today
I could not catch your eye or you'd have heard me say
That you look just the same
But then I realized
We are not even friends and I was so surprised
When the teardrops came

I'm living in the past
Living in the past
Living in the past, I know
But the past is gone

I can't remember when
You didn't cross my mind and pull me back again
Into my reverie
And that's why I'm living in the past

And I gaze out the window as the world drifts by
And my eyes will glaze and I slip away

And my todays are gray, the seconds tick away
But if I close my eyes it's only yesterday
And I see rainbows surrounding you and me
But that was in the past
I know it was the past

 

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"Personality Crisis"

"Personality Crisis"


Well we can't take it this week
And her friends don't want another speach
Hoping for a better day to hear what she's got to say

All about that Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got
(That's why they talk about Personality)

But now your tryin to be some no you got to do some
Wanna be someone who cow wow wows
But you think about the times you did they took every ounce
When it sure got to be a shame when you start to scream and shout
You got to contradict all those times you were butterflyin about
(You were butterflyin)

All about that Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got

And your a prima ballerina on a spring afternoon
Change on into the wolfman howlin at the moon hooowww

All about that Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got

Now with all the crossin fingers that mother nature says
Your mirrors get jammed up with all your friends
That personality everything starts to bend
Personality when your mind starts to bend
Personality impression of a friend,
Of a friend, of a friend, of a friend, of a friend
Personality wonderin how celebrities ever met
(Look and find out on television)

Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot
Frustration and heartache is all you got don't you worry

Personality Crisis please don't cry
It's just a Personality Crisis please don't stop

Because you walk a Personality
Talk a Personality

 

[fox69]

"Ping Me"

"Ping Me"


I know it isn't fair to ask for something
that I may not return
sometimes I get so absent-minded
I come off unconcerned
I guess it's true I may have volunteered
I never dreamed that I would end up here
I wouldn't want to take up any time
just let me know that I have crossed your mind
And ping me
You don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
No song that you should sing me
Just ping me
When so much time has passed you'll wonder
are things really the same
and if my expectations are a burden
then I will take the blame
it doesn't bother me to be alone
I've gotten used to being on my own
a little sustenance is all I need
a small reminder that you think of me
So ping me
You don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
Not a song you that you should sing me
Just ping me
I thought I'd never have a friend like you
someone who loves no matter what I do
I hope you know I feel the same way to
And I will be there if your need is true
But I have always been a solitary man
I try to change but find I never can
So please forgive
my distance silence is my friend
you're in my heart until the very end
Just ping me
You know you don't have to ring me
There's no gift you need to bring me
There's no song you need to sing me
Just ping me

 

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"Piss Aaron"

"Piss Aaron"


If it's stupid enough, it's cool
A1-a2-a3

We figure, my daddy and me
Things are still the same, it seems
As when he lived it in his teens
As a kid in school

Aaron was a junior, the class of '32
His momma called him angel
But everybody knew he was the
King king, the gross out king

They called him Piss Aaron
They always caught him pissin' in the hall
Piss Aaron, he never would refuse
When nature called

Dumb Larry from Homeroom 9
Kept his locker full of weeds
Just to satisfy his smoking needs
And his love of fire

Went to a game and lit
A stink bomb in the bleachers
The coach, the cheerleader and the
The chem teacher, and the dean
The dean, duh, dean dean was after

Dumb Larry, they always caught him
Smokin' in the john
Dumb Larry, you never would have
Missed him when he's gone

Chuck Biscuits, conservative-jive
The biggest pig in all the school
He would sit and smack his lips and drool
As he eyed your lunch
I left a bag in his desk one night

A raw egg sandwich and
When Hungry took a bite
He had to up chuck
Uh up up-chuck, a-pukin'

Chuck Biscuits, they always
Caught him eatin' in the class

Dumb Larry, they always caught him
Smokin' in the john

Piss Aaron, they always
Caught him pissin' in the hall

 

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"Pissin"

"Pissin"


I didn't notice you there
Til I felt your breath on my neck hair
Now you put me through my paces
You don't know what personal space is
And not a soul in the room
Seems to have your need to share
Did you ever stop to wonder
Does anybody care?
Maybe the ladies are impressed
But I don't think so, let's be honest
Why don't you give that thing a rest
You're just a one-man pissin contest
This used to be a nice place
And now your dick is in the mayonnaise
How does one vent one's sense of sickness
At skull and skin of such vast thickness?
Of everybody at the party
Your target had to be me
I really hate to disappoint you
But I ain't got the need
'Cause it's the thing you do the best
The kind of fight of which you're fondest
You wanna brag, well be my guest
You won a solo pissin contest
I think by now we know better
You can't get blood from a bore
We gonna find that stupid sucker
Who let you through the door
None of the ladies were impressed
Our recollection may be jaundiced
We all recall with special zest
We saw a solo pissin contest

 

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"Pretending To Care"

"Pretending To Care"


Today I am your chariot horse
Tomorrow I'm your albatross
Suspended by the finest thread
No one could ever see
And when there's breathing in your ear
You put your faith in all you hear
But just how deep those feelings go
I have no way to know
I'll never know

If I was blind
Would you still be my eyes
Or hide everything you see
Pretending to care about me

When all the time
You're just wishing I'd fade away
You just can't bring yourself to

Say out loud the reasons why
You won't admit you realize
The promise you've been living by
Is just an empty shell
You'll come to bear it like a cross
Then start to tear it like frayed gauze
Though I'm ashamed to be afraid
I just can't help myself
Can't help myself