Jerusalem Slim
Lyrics reproduced by kind permission of Michael Monroe & Jude Wilder
ROCK'N
ROLL DEGENERATION
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder)
Well, the graveyard
shifted back in '55
The rebel rousers brought the threat to life
You were just a sparkle in your daddy's eye
Elvis joined the army and Buddy Holly died
Every eleven
years
The dam breaks from our tears
The next endagered species fades away
and disappears
It disappears
REPUTATION
IT PRECEDED YOU
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EVIL THAT GOOD MEN DO
CORPORATIONS GOT MIND CONTROL
THE DEGENERATION OF ROCK N' ROLL
66' we got
tragically hip
The kiss of Judas blessed the politics
'77 no day at the beach
Rude awakening of the nouveau riche
Every eleven
years
The dam breaks from our tears
The next endagered species fades away
and disappears
We disappear
REPUTATION
IT PRECEDED YOU
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EVIL THAT GOOD MEN DO
CORPORATIONS GOT MIND CONTROL
THE DEGENERATION OF ROCK N' ROLL
GOD IS GOOD
BUT HEAVEN CAN WAIT
MAKE YOUR CASH WHILE THE GREED IS GREAT
CORPORATIONS GOT MIND CONTROL
THE DEGENERATION OF ROCK' N ROLL
Now it's way
past '88
No one dares to deviate
Find a cause the guilt is great
Intelligence is gone
I've got a
New Years resolution
Start a revolution for rock' n roll
REPUTATION
IT PRECEDED YOU
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE EVIL THAT GOOD MEN DO
CORPORATIONS GOT MIND CONTROL
THE DEGENERATION OF ROCK N' ROLL
The degeneration
of rock n' roll
The degeneration of rock n' roll
Degeneration
Degenerate, degenerate
The degeneration of rock n' roll
DEAD
MAN
(Michael
Monroe, Martin Briley)
You know you
got me all mixed up
How'd it ever get this way
Don't know why, but I just can't stop
I know I can, but not today
Ain't quite
ready for the ultimate defeat
Feel the pressure, I can feel the heat
I'M A DEAD
MAN, IF YOU DON'T COME THRU
I'M A DEAD MAN, IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU
I'M A DEAD MAN
WHAT AM I GONNA, WHAT AM I GONA DO
YOU'LL BE MY SAVING GRACE
AND THE DEATH OF ME TOO
Another sleepless
night
Are you gonna let me down?
I'm getting mighty tired of waiting
You're giving me the run around
Always hangin
out on a limb
Now or never, it's sink or swim
I'M A DEAD
MAN, IF YOU DON'T COME THRU
I'M A DEAD MAN, IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU
I'M A DEAD MAN
WHAT AM I GONNA, WHAT AM I GONNA DO
YOU'LL BE MY SAVING GRACE
AND THE DEATH OF ME TOO
Don't know
how you got under my skin
Fatal attraction I can't shake
Ain't no doubt about it just can't live without you
How'd you get to be a habit I can't break
Always hangin
out on a limb
Now or never, it's sink or swim
I'M A DEAD
MAN, IF YOU DON'T COME THRU
I'M A DEAD MAN, IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU
I'M A DEAD MAN
WHAT AM I GONNA, WHAT AM I GONA DO
YOU'LL BE MY SAVING GRACE
AND THE DEATH OF ME TOO
ATTITUDE
ADJUSTMENT
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder)
My brain came
back from the laundromat
But nothing comes clean in the wash
Behind the front of the backest lash
someone's selling out with my trash
What's wrong
with this dreamland picture?
My crayons just ain't the same
A little Van Gogh goes a long long way
'Cos any bad habit's worth giving away
This is the
porning of America
And it's sucking the life out of me
It's only twelve steps to conformity
Or have you become too blind to see
ATTITUDE ADJUSMENT
GOTTA GET A LITTLE BIT OF THERAPY
TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
BETTER GET YOUR HEAD
RIGHT OUT OF THE CLOUDS
If you're not
part of the pleasure
You must be part of the pain
The wide eyed had their inocence
Beaten into submission again
With all this
male macho bondage crap
All you hypocrites come on down
I'm left to hang in this infinity
And judgemen's the man wearing the crown
ATTITUDE ADJUSMENT
GOTTA GET A LITTLE BIT OF THERAPY
TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
BETTER GET YOUR HEAD
RIGHT OUT OF THE CLOUDS
GOTTA GET SOME
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
GOTTA GET A LITLE BIT OF AA
TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
BETTER GET YOUR HEAD
RIGHT OUT OF THE GOD DAMN CLOUDS
HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder, Jim Vallance)
It's happy
hour, but no one's laughing
Such a sobering scene
This nightmare's just a stale runnin' dream
Intoxicating me
Beauty is only
skin deep
So let's get under the skin
Liquor is quicker but truth of the matter
Is slowly wearing thin
Been giving
so much lately
Compassion fatigue
No drinking to forget
Is gonna rescue me
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
I NEED A HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
IS IT HELL OR HIGH WATER ROLLING OVER ME
I COULD DROWN IN MY MISERY
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
POUR ME THE HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
AND I CHASE MY DEMONS DOWN OFF THE ROCKS
'COS I'M HANGING ON AND ON
Like a full
time saint, a visionary
I can shock right through the jive
No method missionary
Could pull the wool over my eyes
Radical departure
From the way that you add vice
To the vigilante vanguard of the artificial life
Been fighting
so much lately
The war of nerves
It's not about morality
It's how you take the curves
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
IT TAKES A HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
IS IT HELL OR HIGH WATER ROLLING OVER ME
I COULD DROWN IN MY MISERY
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
STRAIGHT UP THE HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
I SAVE MY STRENGHT FOR THE HARDEST KNOCKS
'CAUSE THERE'S NO SURRENDER
NO CONDITIONS, HURTING FOR HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
Been giving
so much lately
Compassion fatigue
No drinking to forget
will ever rescue me, no
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
FIND ME A HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
IS IT HELL OR HIGH WATER ROLLING OVER ME
I COULD DROWN IN MY MISERY
ONE HUNDRED
PROOF LOVE
GIMME A HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
I CHASE MY DEMONS DOWN OFF THE ROCKS
'COS THERE IS NO COMMON TOUCH
WITHOUT A HUNDRED PROOF LOVE
CRIMINAL
INSTINCT
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder)
There's a price
war at the cut throat drugstore
More than a little guy could ever afford
No over the counter cures for the
non prescription blues
More than just substance is being abused
This pit just
won't quit there's no bottom to it
Just one way down that is hard to resist
Look who's
coming to dinner
Your skeletons have arrived
- LOWDOWN,
LOWDOWN - I SEE IT FLOAT IN THE OCEAN
- LOWDOWN, LOWDOWN - WASHING UP ON THE BEACH
All the garbage
is turning to gold
In a real dark night of the soul
Criminal instinct has surfaced below
Worn and torn
never asked to be born
Unfortunate product of my folks' scorn
How'd you like your dreams rare or well done
There ain't no feast when you are out on the run
Stonecold dead
in the market of doom
They're saving your place and
there's plenty more room
Look who's
coming to dinner
Your skeletons have arrived
- LOWDOWN,
LOWDOWN - I SEE IT FLOAT IN THE OCEAN
- LOWDOWN, LOWDOWN - WASHING UP ON THE BEACH
All the garbage
is turning to gold
In a real dark night of the soul
Criminal instinct just won't let you go!
- LOWDOWN,
LOWDOWN - I SEE IT FLOAT IN THE OCEAN
- LOWDOWN, LOWDOWN - WASHING UP ON THE BEACH
All the garbage
is polluting me
The one thing you need
You'll miss the most
In that real dark night of the soul
Criminal instinct has surfaced below
LETHAL
UNDERGROUND
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder)
It's panic
time
In the tale of two cities
Such a crime
the needy and the greedy
Downtown is
deadly
The nerve of the killer elite
Home street home, a place of no retreat
Life on antisocial
insecurity
A great performance in the most extreme cruelty
ON THE MEAN
STREETS THE HEART IS STAINLESS
THE MAINLINE IS FIXIN' FINE
ON THE MEAN STREETS THE WIRE IS PAINLESS
GONNA TURN YOUR WORLD AROUND
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN
THE LETHAL UNDERGROUND
Kiss and sell
The passion of treason
The candy's bad
And plenty every season
Hate it or
leave it
You gotta see it to believe it
The only high is going down the drain
Ain't no ordinary
angel falling from disgrace
It's just the darkness
Always leaving tracks across the face
ON THE MEAN
STREETS THE HEART IS STAINLESS
THE MAINLINE IS FIXIN' FINE
ON THE MEAN STREETS THE WIRE IS PAINLESS
GONNA TURN YOUR WORLD AROUND
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN
THE LETHAL UNDERGROUND
ON THE MEAN
STREETS THE HEART IS STAINLESS
THE MAINLINE IS FIXIN' FINE
ON THE MEAN STREETS THE WIRE IS PAINLESS
GONNA TURN YOUR WORLD AROUND
ON THE MEAN
STREETS YOU GOTTA BE CRAZY
TO MAINTAIN YOUR SANITY
ON THE MEAN STREETS THE BOUNDARY IS HAZY
GONNA TURN YOUR WORLD AROUND
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN
THE LETHAL UNDERGROUND
YEAH THE TORTURE
GARDEN
IS GROWING UPSIDE DOWN
MURDER AND
MAYHEM
THE FURY WITHOUT A SOUND
THEY DON'T CARE
THEY'RE SHUTTING DOWN
THE LETHAL UNDERGROUND
TEENAGE
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
(Lowell
George)
Well, some
contend this rock'n roll
Is bad for the body, bad for the soul
Bad for the heart, bad for the mind
Bad for the deaf and bad for the blind
It makes some men crazy
And then they talk like fools
Makes some man crazy
And they start to drool
IT'S A TEENAGE
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
I SAID A BREAKDOWN
Unscrupulous
operators could confuse
Could exploit and deceive
The conditional reflex theories
Change the probabilities
I said it's a crass and rancous crackass place
With Pavlov on the human race
It's a terrible illness, a terrible case
Usually permanent when it takes place
IT'S A TEENAGE
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
I SAID A BREAKDOWN
GOTTA
GET A HOLD
(Michael
Monroe, Martin Briley)
Maybe all these
years there's been an angel on my shoulder
Coulda been you up here and me down there
Saw a face in a passing train who looked just like you today
So much still left undone, so much left to say
I've tried
in vain to picture you
In a place beyond the clouds
But if I believed we'd meet again
I swear that I'd be there with you by now
GOTTA GET A
HOLD OF MYSELF
GOTTA GET A GRIP ON THE SITUATION
EVER SINCE I'VE HAD TO LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU
GOTTA GET A HOLD OF MYSELF
GOTTA GET THE BEST OF THE DESPERATION
GOTTA KEEP MYSELF TOGETHER
WHATEVER I DO
It's a lonely
road when you've nothing to believe in
There's just one too many things you can't explain
Is someone moving things, is my mind playing tricks on me
Is it a sign from behind the shroud of mistery
They say you're
up there waiting
Still I don't see how
'Cos if I believed we'd meet again
I swear that I'd be there with you by now
GOTTA GET A
HOLD OF MYSELF
GOTTA GET A GRIP ON THE SITUATION
EVER SINCE I'VE HAD TO LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU
GOTTA GET A HOLD OF MYSELF
GOTTA GET THE BEST OF THE DESPERATION
GOTTA KEEP MYSELF TOGETHER
WHATEVER I DO
THE
WORLD IS WATCHING
(Michael
Monroe, Steve Stevens, Jude Wilder, Martin Briley)
Blood is on
your hands
Seen by popular demand
Better scrub it off the prision walls
Smile for the
cameras
For the folks at home
Better look around
Before you break those bones
The miracle
of satellite
The world is watching you tonight
Your days are
numbered
Who would'a guessed
TV is God and your show is on next
LIKE A SHOT
RINGING 'ROUND THE WORLD
TOO MANY THINGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD
FROM MOSCOW TO MANILA
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
THE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU
Got some footage
of the boys in blue
Letting off steam on the evening news
It's your turn
to learn how to live in fear
Now all your sins just won't disappear
The miracle
of satellite
The world is watching you tonight
Your days are
numbered
Who would'a guessed
TV is God and your show is on next
LIKE A SHOT
RINGING 'ROUND THE WORLD
TOO MANY THINGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD
FROM MOSCOW TO MANILA
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
LIKE THE BOMB
DROPPING ON THE WORLD
TOO MANY FLAMES ARE LEFT TO BURN
FROM SAIGON TO SUBURBIA
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU
Closing in
tighter on the soldier's face
The sport of war played for the network race
Media thriving on someone's disgrace
Would you believe it's true
And is there anything you can do
The miracle
of satellite
The world is watching you tonight
Your days are
numbered
Who would'a guessed
TV is God and your show is on next
LIKE A SHOT
RINGING 'ROUND THE WORLD
TOO MANY THINGS WE'VE NEVER HEARD
FROM MOSCOW TO MANILA
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
LIKE THE BOMB
DROPPING ON THE WORLD
TOO MANY FLAMES ARE LEFT TO BURN
FROM SAIGON TO SUBURBIA
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
THIS WORLD IS WATCHING
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU
