Flesh & Blood
Album - 1990 - Debaser id 23314

(Instrumental)

I hit the highway
Touch life barely sixteen
No angel of mercy
Coming down to save the soul of me

I took a Greyhound limousine
Straight to grand central NYC
It was ass, gas, or grass, living fast
Nobody rides for free

Chorus:
Living it up, giving it up
Living in the valley of lost souls
Wanting it all, taking the fall
Living in the valley of lost souls

Miss Misery come ride me
How I love her company
She did Boston justice
And wronged all the right out of me

The devil wears a black suit
He says I'm livin' like a bum
So what I'm looking like I'm half dead
A gypsy on the run

Chorus

Feels like time's running out on me
But I wasn't born to play nobody's fool
Ain't nobody gonna hold me down to play nobody's fool
Ain't nobody gonna hold me down
I've gotta roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll

Solo

Somebody save me

Like animals tonight we make it
You give me an inch I'm gonna take it
I'll steal your love like a thief
To be as one is my belief
Don't look back have no regrets
Like beasts of prey we must feed on it
I'll be your one, your one and only
To feel me burn come close and hold me

Flesh and blood sacrifice
Melts the heart like fire and ice
Flesh and blood like fire to ice
Are you willing to sacrifice

There's no more time don't think about
The flames will die if you doubt
It's a game of love and hate
To lose it all is a chance we take
Come to me and take my hand
It's in the fire that we must stand
I'll take you down under my gun
Our flesh and blood will be as one

Flesh and blood sacrifice
Melts the heart like fire and ice
Flesh and blood like fire to ice
Are you willing to sacrifice

Our blood runs deeper than a river
The less you need the more I'm going to give you
And give you but good

Solo

Flesh and blood sacrifice
Melts the heart like fire and ice
Flesh and blood like fire to ice
Are you willing to sacrifice

a bop got you so jumpy
Why can't you sit still yeah
Like gasoline you wanna pump me
And leave me when you get your fill yeah

PRE-CHORUS:
Everytime I touch you and you get hot
I wanna make love, you never stop
Come up for air you pull me to the floor
Just what's been going on in that head of yours

CHORUS:
Unskinny Bop
Just blows me away
Unskinny Bop, bop
All night and day
Unskinny Bop, bop, bop, bop
She just love to play
Unskinny Bop nothin' more to say

You look at me so funny
Love bite got you acting oh so strange
You got too many bees in your honey
And I'm just another word in your page yeah, yeah

PRE-CHORUS

CHORUS

You're saying my love won't do ya
But that ain't love written on your face
Well honey I can see right thru ya
Well whose riding who at the end of the race

SOLO

What's right, what's wrong, what's left, what the hell is going on

CHORUS

Did you ever get up on the wrong side of bed
With an achin' head and just fall apart?
You're running late, the boss is bitchin',
It's cold outside, and the car won't start

Well I don't mean to bitch I swear
Cause we all got our cross to bear

Chorus:
But when I hear the music
All my troubles just fade away
When I hear the music
Let it play, let it play
When I hear the music
Sure as darkness I can see the day
When I hear the music
Let it play
Let it play

Life's just rented space getting laid to waste
When the lines on my face say I'm growing older
Just a stitch in time gonna save my mind
When the weight of the world lies on my shoulders

Soon I won't have a place to fit
But I'll cross that bridge when I come to it

I've felt this before
Now I feel it again
No matter how hard I try
This feeling won't end
So I pretend you're here by my side
Tonight on this lonely ride
I keep telling myself that...

Chorus:
Life goes on
While your miles away
And I need you
Time rolls on
As night steals the day
There's nothing I can do

You healed up my wounds
I tasted your tears
You spilled out your heart
So I let out my fears
But one fear I kept to myself
How I prayed that you loved no one else
Like you're saying you love me...

Chorus:
Life goes on
While your miles away
And I need you
Time rolls on
As night steals the day
There's nothing I can do

If you only knew
How much I miss you

Solo

When my mind plays it's tricks on me
It shows me things I don't want to see
That's why I tell myself now
I keep telling myself now
Just take another piece of me...

Chorus:
Life goes on
While your miles away
And I need you
Time rolls on
As night steals the day
There's nothing I can do

Love goes on
While your still miles away
And I miss you
And this last mile
I travel with you
Yeah, Yeah

I've got no worries
I've got no regrets
Who they think they're kidding
They ain't seen nothin' yet
You point your finger try to tell me I'm wrong
That never stopped me from singing my song
I got the last laugh at the things they do
Eliminate them at the turn of a screw

Pre-Chorus:
I never lived by nobody's rules
I won't be sinking on their ship of fools
Can't push me no matter how hard they try
Stand back this is my turn to fly

Chorus:
Come Hell, Hell or High water
Ain't nothin' going to hold me down
Come Hell, Hell Or High Water
Ain't nobody messin' me around

I see their wicked ways
And miles of endless lies
I see their jaded lives couldn't erase my smile
But what's this shit that I've just heard
Son of a bitch you're working on my nerves
I'll watch you choke on your last words
It's about time you get what you deserve

Pre-Chorus:
I never lived by nobody's rules
I won't be sinking on their ship of fools
Can't push me no matter how hard they try
Stand back this is my turn to fly

Chorus:
Come Hell, Hell or High water
Ain't nothin' going to hold me down
Come Hell, Hell Or High Water
Ain't nobody messin' me around

I've got something that's been on my mind
Come close I'll tell you the problem I find
I'm sick and tired of damage you've done
Don't blame me I ain't the one
Blame yourself for the ghosts in your past
And kiss my ass

Solo

Chorus:
Come Hell, Hell or High water
Ain't nothin' going to hold me down
Come Hell, Hell Or High Water
Ain't nobody messin' me around

Come Hell, Hell or High water
Ain't nothin' going to hold me down
Come Hell, Hell Or High Water
Ain't nobody messin' me around

Hearts of fire
Streets of stone
Modern warriors
Saddle iron horses of chrome

Taste the wild
Lick the wind
Like something they never saw before
Their jaws dropping to the floor
Steel made of soul and sin

Rebels born without a care
And the day he listens
Only to fly where eagles dare
And the night she whispers

Chorus:
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun
Ride the wind
Never coming back again
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun

Painted flesh
Loyalty
Humble pride
Just as far as the eye can see

Stories told
Two old friends
Of battle scars and lonely bars
And nights the rain wouldn't end

Here's to withered eyes wearing gypsy smiles
And the day he listens
Here's to lovely ladies and a million miles
And the night she whispers

Chorus

Ride the wind
I'm still the bravest soul in sin,
Burning till the night is done.

Solo

Of all the truths and lies
And stories of riders in the sky
They say only the bravest try
Where eagles and angels dare to fly

Chorus

Well I see him on the TV
Preaching about the promised lands
he tells me believe in Jesus
steals the money from my hands
some say he was a good man
Lord I think he sinned.... yeah

Twenty two years of mental tears
cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war
on a foreign shore
to find his country didn't want him back
their bullet took his best friend in Saigon
our lawyers took his wife and kids no regrets
In a time I don't remember
in a war he cant forget
he cried "forgive me for what I done there
Cause I never meant the things I did"

Chorus
and give me something to believe in
if there's a lord above
and give me something to believe in
oh, lord arise

My best friend died a lonely man
in some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
and they told me the news
I tried all night not to break down n cry
as the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold n empty
like a lost soul out of place
and a Mirror mirror on the wall
sees my smile it fades again

Chorus
and give me something to believe in( I give me something to believe in)
if there's lord above
and give me something to believe in ( I give me something to believe in)
Oh, lord arise

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
things I did know then,
Road you gotta take me home

Solo

I drive by the homeless
sleepin' on a cold dark street
like bodies in a open grave
underneath the broken old neon sign
used to read "Jesus saves"
A mile away way live the rich folk
and I see how they're livin' it up
but while the poor they eat from hand to mouth
the rich are drinkin' from a golden cup
and it just makes me wonder
how so many lose and so few win

Ha give me something to believe in
give me something to believe in
I said the lord above
give me something to believe in
oh lord arise
give me something to believe in
you take the high road
give me something to believe in
and I'll take the low road
give me something to believe in
you take the high road
and give me something to believe in
and I'll take the low road

there's some times I wish I didn't know now
things I did know then

and give me something to believe in

Come on, come on
Get on your dress and put on a smile
Lets lose this place
and get out awhile, awhile, awhile

You don't need nothin' fancy
Just a whole lot of attitude
I'll be your man now baby
If you're doing what I want you to do

I keep on tellin' ya
Chorus:
She's my ball and chain
My lock and key
And I'm liking it baby
She's my ball and chain
My lock and key
And I'm liking it good

I'll t-t-t-tell ya
Momma always said
There was plenty of fish in the sea
So I baited my hook but good
And caught one for me, just for me

She'll set you up with her body
And then knock you out with charm
She's just a little too nasty baby
But that never did me no harm, no
I keep on telling ya

Chorus
And she'll always be wrapped tight around me
I t-t-t-tell ya

My daddy said
""Son, don't you come to me cryin'
Cause money don't make you a happy man""
He said the grass is always greener
Any place except where you stand

He said some are born to win
And some born to lose
And sing them poor boy blues

Watch out

I've lived uptown, downtown
Lord I've lived everywhere
Almost drowned in the puddle of my own sweat I swear
I believe it's due time I get my mansion in ole Bel Air

Chorus:
But I'm still singin' those poor boy blues
Poor boy blues
You don't know how I'm feeling baby
Until you're wearing my shoes
Sure as I'm standing here
I got them poor boy blues

Friday night I get tanked up
And tossed in the local slam
At least I get three square meals
Until someone gets me out of this jam
In the meanwhile all my green
Is going to Uncle Sam

Chorus:

Walk this dog