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Janey Todd Lyrics
All words and music by Janey Todd ©2006-8 (BMI)

dreamland drove home another nail in my coffin today shiny steel politely waiting to take me away people take me for cute but I'm a bad poker hand too many chips in my corner too many crops on my land I pray god forgives me when I stand at the gates of dreamland on a road map in my head I scratch a pin to the place of your dull forgivenes and my unbelievable grace burning in the dead zone like the flame of a candle like the fire of my desire too long and hot to handle in the still, silent breakdown it's easy to gamble on dreamland I care not at al for the trouble I make if it pleases you baby, let the sky fall let the Earth quake I swear that I'm right and I know where I stand I reach out into the night and I can't find your hand but I know it will take me to all that's left of dreamland so I send out my letters and I await your reply paint angels on the ceiling make 'em dance then teach 'em to fly play the siren and the savior and the virgin and the bride sweep confetti in the gutter while the parade passes by no, I never had a problem planning Christmas in July just in case it turns out there's a place called dreamland the man downstairs he was talkin to the man downstairs yeah, talkin to the man downstairs he had a metal rod in his pants he didn't seem to notice that I was so precocious and after all why should he care he was talkin to the man downstairs rent-a-boys and drummers scam on me at will will they won't they will I won't I you never can tell I've got my feminine bracelets, my super-platinum sheathes I got a whole lot of things I really like to do that nobody ever believes they say no man, no life, I say "excuse me?" yeah, talkin to the man downstairs yes, of course I'm hungry, sometimes it's really bad it just seems kinda pointless to force myself to be sad he acted like he couldn't for the life of him remember my name I felt just like a little crushed prom girl flower but I burned him just the same'cause he was sayin no man, no life, I said "are you kiddin with that stuff?" talkin to the man downstairs he had a metal rod in his pants he didn't seem to notice that I was so precocious and after all why should he care he only talks to the man downstairs I'm talkin to the man downstairs serpentine serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he likes to watch me like tv, he likes to watch me serpentine the yin! the yang! oy! the ming! the mang! he's a cartographer, a scientist, afraid to touch afraid to kiss, he waits for me, to make up his mind he might be sadistic, he might be unkind serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he baits me he rates me, I should care but I go upside down, I go anywhere I like to swim around in the cavern of his brain there are pictures on the stone I'll never see again in the same way and so I serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine I should focus on my own desire I should object I should make a bonfire I should call my own line of shot but he pulls tender tricks and it makes me hot serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine stalagmite, stalag 17, everybody got some kind of mixed up scene I like the dew that drips down his walls I could have the biggest big, I want the smallest small little tiny stick of a man and so I serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he likes to watch me like tv, he likes to watch me serpentine sidestep sidestep, that's it, sidestep how much? hotel restaurant, wine glasses, dead father drunken auto mechanic, bringing rusty water serve you with a smile, just for a while, when I'm done how much have you got? life holds constraints, that's just the way it is you scratch and you scramble, just to live like a chicken in the barnyard, you don't know what it is patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got? supermarket, movie theatres, drug stores, dry cleaners, business lies, diplomatic undercuts, misdemeanors no time for manicures, no reason to be poor ust a little phoniness, how much have you got? I didn't make the rules, sweetheart, that's the way it is this isn't something else, this is this once you leave the bar, you can't come back in you can't go to your car, to get your coat can't step out for a minute, to have a smoke you think you know what's going on, but you don't patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got? what is your take on happiness, why don't you spit it out what do you want from me, and how much will you put out nothing comes from nothing, you can't whisper you gotta learn to shout keep your sense of humour, keep your feet on the ground pay attention when it's your turn to buy a round don't be a cheapskate, that's the worse way to go down patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got? alcatraz I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz I did time in Alcatraz the warden was a dominatrix she liked me a bunch the prison guard was a neo-nazi she ate me for lunch my cellmate sold Mary Kay and cigarettes on the side she gave me seven scars as souveniers well, how many lipsticks can you buy? I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Acatraz, I wouldn't give you no razz I did time in Alcatraz, you wanna bullshit me? I don't go for that jazz I did time in Alcatraz you can't hold me I dug out with a Tampax applicator I swam through swamps of sewerage and hot blood alligators I dyed my hair and changed my name I got a license with my picture on it got a face lift and a boob job just like I always wanted I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz, I did time in Alcatraz so I did all that stuff and I'm free and I'm clean I seen the light that's-a what I mean I'm gussied up and I'm hungry too but I wanna go right back when I listen to you I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz, I did time in Alcatraz you wanna bullshit me? I don't go for that jazz, I did time in Alcatraz me & frankie me and frankie we party hard, me and frankie in my back yard me and frankie we don't think of you, me and frankie we're thick as glue me and frankie, me and frankie, we got it made me and frankie we think alike, me and frankie we drink all night me and frankie keep our cigarettes lit, me and frankie we don't give a shit me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah me and frankie, we got it made I call him the chairman of the board he tells me I'm much more than a whore, oh me and frankie me and frankie talk stocks and bonds, me and frankie don't take anything hard me and frankie we're the better half, me and frankie we like to laugh me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made me and frankie we look at the stars, me and frankie we stay out of bars me and frankie we have our views, we don't care if they impress you me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made I call him the chairman of my board he tells me I'm much more than a whore, oh me and frankie me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made mighta coulda had oh man, look at those legs, you know they make me wanna shake they're just as long as a drink of water, just as cool as lemonade I start to think all kinds of things, things to turn a good girl bad I start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had I see this guy on a record leaning on a cadillac looks like his pants was painted on well, you know, it takes me back you were walking on the concrete all you got out in the yard pants so tight they look illegal but pretty as a glossy shot I start to think all kinds of things, things to turn a good girl bad I start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had maybe I coulda if I'd think quick enough maybe I wouda if I'd only get tough I'm throwing cold water on a burning torch what a fool, girl, don't you know life is short, life is short! I left you with your prayer book 'cause you said you're spoken for still, I wonder what it sounds like when you recite those baseball scores I start to think all kinds of things things to turn a good girl bad start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had bones in the clean, white room where the fallen angels screw where the previous notions are hungrily consumed where the head of the class falls fast into doom I drew a beautiful picture of you in the big, black hole where the red devils go you see the neon glow, you count all the ghosts you leave behind your car keys and your condoms and your clothes you slitther up for manna and they throw you some bones them bones them bones they take what they want they do what they do and they don't what they don't you can protect your witness but your cover is blown because you can't ever get away from them bones you bite off the head, blood squirts from the ncek you gouge out the eyeballs, the maggots make a nest you wanna save what's left for dinner but the vultures rule the west and in the blink of an eye you're emotionally bereft you said, "well, maybe later" but your good time came and went you thought you could win but you lied when you bet the acrobat flew on while you humped the safety net and now all of your friends are the ones you just met them bones them bones they take what they want they do what they do and they don't what they don't you can protect your witness but your cover is blown because you can't ever get away from them bones and in between a way to dream away the things you didn't mean you're a beggar to the wisdom in the marrow of these old bones my heart, my soul my loss of control my sighs, my thighs my crazy jelly roll do you really wanna rattle around with these old bones? snakeskin boots you like my open breasts, you like my black bean soup you like the front you like the back, you like my guitar loops you're always saying that there's nothing that you wouldn't do then you go ramblin 'round the town, in your snakeskin boots they're rough and they're ready, and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but honey, I just love them snakeskin boots well, I wish I could say that I didn't need you I wish I could take you, I wish I could leave you Pope John Paul couldn't reprieve you but it is what it is, what it is, what it is oh, you know I love you like a heart attack like an ax murderer who misplaced the ax you ride me and you roll me and you try to control me but you take me to places where I can't look back ooh, they're rough and they're ready and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but I got a thing for them snakeskin boots I can see you right now loading cases in your truck trembling like a harp string that the angels just plucked the last thing I'll be thinking as the sound fades Christ, they even look good when they're walking away ooh they're rough and they're ready and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but honey, I just love them snakeskin boots well, I wish I could say that I didn't need you I wish I could take you I wish I could leave you even God couldn't reprieve you but it is what it is, what it is, what it is whistle dixie I pay my cover charge, I check my pheremones at the door I try to clean them out, but somehow there's always more the bouncer says, hey, howya doin?, whatd'ya know? whaddya hey? I chat him up but I'm afraid he's just too nice to say you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shameless slut you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service you know what to do when the sky begins to snow just put your lips together and blow, baby, blow! Iggy won't watch tv he says there's too many lies pulled his magnum out and shot the screen right between the eyes his friends say, but it's funny don't you ever like to laugh? dude, you done had too many nights with more than time on your hands and you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shamelss dog you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you oughta whistle dixie quick if only for a public service I heard of being mannerly, I must say, I'm appreciative but I'm starting to wonder if this guy knows how to live he holds the door, he pays the check, he swallows before he speaks it's polite to try to jump my bones, I wanna tell him, please you're annoying me with your celibacy I wish you'd be the animal I want you to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making me nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service you know what to do when the sky begins to snow just put your lips together and blow, baby, blow cause you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shameless snake you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service everybody's right pieces of my heart scattered all along the sand broken down pedestrians trying to understand somebody said that Sea Girt was the place to feel alive twenty miles and twenty bucks to find somebody lied everybody crashes and everybody flies and everybody's wrong and everybody's right some say this is hell some say heaven's here and now some they wanna reap rewards and some just like to plow some say we're all corrupted sinners or we all contain the light I feel like the whole world is on my radio tonight everybody curses truth everyone embraces lies and everybody's wrong and everyboy's right some say I'm the Virgin Mary they wanna plead my cause I never had one anyway but thanks for your applause some say I'm wicked and I'm careless, take you down with one quick shot but either way, you call my name I gotta give you all I got everybody reaches out and everybody shies and everybody's wrong and everybody's right some day, like a slippery snake you're gonna shed your skin you're hoping God will be there smiling sayin' baby come on in right now we wanna see the way you take it on the chin 'cause we're all a bunch of losers, here that's why we like to win everybody falls down but everybody fights and everybody's wrong and everybody's right yeah, you think you know, you probably don't but say what's on your mind 'cause everybody's wrong and everybody's right

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the man downstairs he was talkin to the man downstairs yeah, talkin to the man downstairs he had a metal rod in his pants he didn't seem to notice that I was so precocious and after all why should he care he was talkin to the man downstairs rent-a-boys and drummers scam on me at will will they won't they will I won't I you never can tell I've got my feminine bracelets, my super-platinum sheathes I got a whole lot of things I really like to do that nobody ever believes they say no man, no life, I say "excuse me?" yeah, talkin to the man downstairs yes, of course I'm hungry, sometimes it's really bad it just seems kinda pointless to force myself to be sad he acted like he couldn't for the life of him remember my name I felt just like a little crushed prom girl flower but I burned him just the same'cause he was sayin no man, no life, I said "are you kiddin with that stuff?" talkin to the man downstairs he had a metal rod in his pants he didn't seem to notice that I was so precocious and after all why should he care he only talks to the man downstairs I'm talkin to the man downstairs	serpentine serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he likes to watch me like tv, he likes to watch me serpentine the yin! the yang! oy! the ming! the mang! he's a cartographer, a scientist, afraid to touch afraid to kiss, he waits for me, to make up his mind he might be sadistic, he might be unkind serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he baits me he rates me, I should care but I go upside down, I go anywhere I like to swim around in the cavern of his brain there are pictures on the stone I'll never see again in the same way and so I serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine I should focus on my own desire I should object I should make a bonfire I should call my own line of shot but he pulls tender tricks and it makes me hot serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine stalagmite, stalag 17, everybody got some kind of mixed up scene I like the dew that drips down his walls I could have the biggest big, I want the smallest small little tiny stick of a man and so I serpentine serpentine, he likes to watch me serpentine he likes to watch me like tv, he likes to watch me serpentine sidestep sidestep, that's it, sidestep
how much? hotel restaurant, wine glasses, dead father drunken auto mechanic, bringing rusty water serve you with a smile, just for a while, when I'm done how much have you got? life holds constraints, that's just the way it is you scratch and you scramble, just to live like a chicken in the barnyard, you don't know what it is patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got? supermarket, movie theatres, drug stores, dry cleaners, business lies, diplomatic undercuts, misdemeanors no time for manicures, no reason to be poor ust a little phoniness, how much have you got? I didn't make the rules, sweetheart, that's the way it is this isn't something else, this is this once you leave the bar, you can't come back in you can't go to your car, to get your coat can't step out for a minute, to have a smoke you think you know what's going on, but you don't patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got? what is your take on happiness, why don't you spit it out what do you want from me, and how much will you put out nothing comes from nothing, you can't whisper you gotta learn to shout keep your sense of humour, keep your feet on the ground pay attention when it's your turn to buy a round don't be a cheapskate, that's the worse way to go down patience, kindness, tolerance, blindness or wisdom, how much have you got?	alcatraz I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz I did time in Alcatraz the warden was a dominatrix she liked me a bunch the prison guard was a neo-nazi she ate me for lunch my cellmate sold Mary Kay and cigarettes on the side she gave me seven scars as souveniers well, how many lipsticks can you buy? I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Acatraz, I wouldn't give you no razz I did time in Alcatraz, you wanna bullshit me? I don't go for that jazz I did time in Alcatraz you can't hold me I dug out with a Tampax applicator I swam through swamps of sewerage and hot blood alligators I dyed my hair and changed my name I got a license with my picture on it got a face lift and a boob job just like I always wanted I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz, I did time in Alcatraz so I did all that stuff and I'm free and I'm clean I seen the light that's-a what I mean I'm gussied up and I'm hungry too but I wanna go right back when I listen to you I did time in Alcatraz, I did time in Alcatraz I wouldn't give you no razz, I did time in Alcatraz you wanna bullshit me? I don't go for that jazz, I did time in Alcatraz
me & frankie me and frankie we party hard, me and frankie in my back yard me and frankie we don't think of you, me and frankie we're thick as glue me and frankie, me and frankie, we got it made me and frankie we think alike, me and frankie we drink all night me and frankie keep our cigarettes lit, me and frankie we don't give a shit me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah me and frankie, we got it made I call him the chairman of the board he tells me I'm much more than a whore, oh me and frankie me and frankie talk stocks and bonds, me and frankie don't take anything hard me and frankie we're the better half, me and frankie we like to laugh me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made me and frankie we look at the stars, me and frankie we stay out of bars me and frankie we have our views, we don't care if they impress you me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made I call him the chairman of my board he tells me I'm much more than a whore, oh me and frankie me and frankie, yeah yeah yeah yeah, me and frankie, we got it made	mighta coulda had oh man, look at those legs, you know they make me wanna shake they're just as long as a drink of water, just as cool as lemonade I start to think all kinds of things, things to turn a good girl bad I start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had I see this guy on a record leaning on a cadillac looks like his pants was painted on well, you know, it takes me back you were walking on the concrete all you got out in the yard pants so tight they look illegal but pretty as a glossy shot I start to think all kinds of things, things to turn a good girl bad I start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had maybe I coulda if I'd think quick enough maybe I wouda if I'd only get tough I'm throwing cold water on a burning torch what a fool, girl, don't you know life is short, life is short! I left you with your prayer book 'cause you said you're spoken for still, I wonder what it sounds like when you recite those baseball scores I start to think all kinds of things things to turn a good girl bad start to thinking of something I mighta coulda had
bones in the clean, white room where the fallen angels screw where the previous notions are hungrily consumed where the head of the class falls fast into doom I drew a beautiful picture of you in the big, black hole where the red devils go you see the neon glow, you count all the ghosts you leave behind your car keys and your condoms and your clothes you slitther up for manna and they throw you some bones them bones them bones they take what they want they do what they do and they don't what they don't you can protect your witness but your cover is blown because you can't ever get away from them bones you bite off the head, blood squirts from the ncek you gouge out the eyeballs, the maggots make a nest you wanna save what's left for dinner but the vultures rule the west and in the blink of an eye you're emotionally bereft you said, "well, maybe later" but your good time came and went you thought you could win but you lied when you bet the acrobat flew on while you humped the safety net and now all of your friends are the ones you just met them bones them bones they take what they want they do what they do and they don't what they don't you can protect your witness but your cover is blown because you can't ever get away from them bones and in between a way to dream away the things you didn't mean you're a beggar to the wisdom in the marrow of these old bones my heart, my soul my loss of control my sighs, my thighs my crazy jelly roll do you really wanna rattle around with these old bones?	snakeskin boots you like my open breasts, you like my black bean soup you like the front you like the back, you like my guitar loops you're always saying that there's nothing that you wouldn't do then you go ramblin 'round the town, in your snakeskin boots they're rough and they're ready, and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but honey, I just love them snakeskin boots well, I wish I could say that I didn't need you I wish I could take you, I wish I could leave you Pope John Paul couldn't reprieve you but it is what it is, what it is, what it is oh, you know I love you like a heart attack like an ax murderer who misplaced the ax you ride me and you roll me and you try to control me but you take me to places where I can't look back ooh, they're rough and they're ready and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but I got a thing for them snakeskin boots I can see you right now loading cases in your truck trembling like a harp string that the angels just plucked the last thing I'll be thinking as the sound fades Christ, they even look good when they're walking away ooh they're rough and they're ready and they're shiny too kinda mean, kinda wrinkly, kinda just like you you're a dirty white boy with a bad attitude but honey, I just love them snakeskin boots well, I wish I could say that I didn't need you I wish I could take you I wish I could leave you even God couldn't reprieve you but it is what it is, what it is, what it is
whistle dixie I pay my cover charge, I check my pheremones at the door I try to clean them out, but somehow there's always more the bouncer says, hey, howya doin?, whatd'ya know? whaddya hey? I chat him up but I'm afraid he's just too nice to say you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shameless slut you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service you know what to do when the sky begins to snow just put your lips together and blow, baby, blow! Iggy won't watch tv he says there's too many lies pulled his magnum out and shot the screen right between the eyes his friends say, but it's funny don't you ever like to laugh? dude, you done had too many nights with more than time on your hands and you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shamelss dog you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you oughta whistle dixie quick if only for a public service I heard of being mannerly, I must say, I'm appreciative but I'm starting to wonder if this guy knows how to live he holds the door, he pays the check, he swallows before he speaks it's polite to try to jump my bones, I wanna tell him, please you're annoying me with your celibacy I wish you'd be the animal I want you to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making me nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service you know what to do when the sky begins to snow just put your lips together and blow, baby, blow cause you're annoying us with your celibacy you oughta get back to the shameless snake you used to be you're like a piece of wet spaghetti and you're making us nervous you'd better whistle dixie quick if only for a public service	everybody's right pieces of my heart scattered all along the sand broken down pedestrians trying to understand somebody said that Sea Girt was the place to feel alive twenty miles and twenty bucks to find somebody lied everybody crashes and everybody flies and everybody's wrong and everybody's right some say this is hell some say heaven's here and now some they wanna reap rewards and some just like to plow some say we're all corrupted sinners or we all contain the light I feel like the whole world is on my radio tonight everybody curses truth everyone embraces lies and everybody's wrong and everyboy's right some say I'm the Virgin Mary they wanna plead my cause I never had one anyway but thanks for your applause some say I'm wicked and I'm careless, take you down with one quick shot but either way, you call my name I gotta give you all I got everybody reaches out and everybody shies and everybody's wrong and everybody's right some day, like a slippery snake you're gonna shed your skin you're hoping God will be there smiling sayin' baby come on in right now we wanna see the way you take it on the chin 'cause we're all a bunch of losers, here that's why we like to win everybody falls down but everybody fights and everybody's wrong and everybody's right yeah, you think you know, you probably don't but say what's on your mind 'cause everybody's wrong and everybody's right