Yeah!
- 20th Century Boy
- Rock On
- Hanging On The Telephone
- Waterloo Sunset
- Hell Raiser
- 10538 Overture
- Street Life
- Drive-In Saturday
- Little Bit Of Love
- The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll
- No Matter What
- He's Gonna Step On You Again
- Don't Believe A Word
- Stay With Me
Extra Tracks & B-Sides
Yeah! includes extra tracks when purchased at select retailers.
- American Girl
- Backstage Interview #1
- Search & Destroy
- Backstage Interview #2
- Space Oddity
- Backstage Interview #3
- Dear Friends
- Heartbeat
Album Information
Lyrics
20th Century Boy
Oow
Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good
Ev'rybody says it's just like rock'n'roll
I move like a cat, charge like a ram
Sting like a bee, babe I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were meant for me, yeah
I'm your boy, your 20th century toy
Friends say it's fine, my friends say it's good
Ev'rybody says it's just like rock'n'roll
Fly like a plane, drive like a car
Ball like a hen, babe I wanna be your man - oh
Well it's plain to see you were meant for me, yeah
I'm your toy, your 20th century boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good
Ev'rybody says it's just like rock'n'roll
Move like a cat, charge like a ram
Sting like I feel, babe I wanna be your man
Well it's plain to see you were meant for me, yeah
I'm your toy, your 20th century boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your boy
20th century toy, I wanna be your toy
20th century boy, I wanna be your toy
Rock On
Hey kid, rock and roll
Rock on, ooh, my soul
Hey kid, boogey too, did ya
Hey shout, summertime blues
Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes
Hey kid, rock and roll, rock on
And where do we go from here
Which is the way that's clear
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen
Prettiest girl I ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
(James Dean)
[Instrumental Interlude]
And where do we go from here
Which is the way that's clear
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen
Prettiest girl I ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean
Rock on
Rock on
Rock on
Hey, hey
Rock and roll
Rock on
Rock on
Hey, hey
Rock and roll
Rock on
Rock on
Hey, hey
Rock and roll
Rock on
Rock on
Hey, hey
Rock and roll
Rock on........
Hanging On The Telephone
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long
If I don't get your call then everything goes wrong
I want to tell you something you've known all along
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I'd like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh I can't control myself
Oh I can't control myself
Oh I can't control myself
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah oh oh oh run to me
Waterloo Sunset
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, makes me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I dont need no friends
As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunsets fine
Terry meets julie, waterloo station
Every friday night
But I am so lazy, dont want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I dont feel afraid
As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunsets fine
Millions of people swarming like flies round waterloo underground
But terry and julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And the dont need no friends
As long as they gaze on waterloo sunset
They are in paradise
Waterloo sunsets fine
Hell Raiser
Look out!
Mama let me out on a saturday night, she said now
Go out and get her go and hold her tight
I said now Mama, you don't understand
Ev'ry time I touch her hand
It's like I'm burning in the fires of hell
And if I hold her too long
You never can tell what'll happen to me
I wouldn't want you to see
Look out
She's a hell raiser, star chaser, trail blazer
Natural born raver, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
She's a hell raiser, star chaser, trail blazer
Natural born raver, yeah, yeah, yeah
Look out!
She's like a live bomb shell
Like a flash out of hell
And when she's shaking her ooh
Everyone fell at her feet
And that's neat and she took me completely
By surprise with her ultra sonic eyes
That were flashing like hysterical danger signs
That said beware where you tread
Or you'll go out of your head
Look out
She's a hell raiser, star chaser, trail blazer
Natural born raver, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
She's a hell raiser, star chaser, trail blazer
Natural born raver, yeah, yeah, yeah
Look out!
Hell raiser, hell raiser, hell raiser
Hell raiser, hell raiser, ooh
Now Mama, you don't understand
Ev'ry time I touch her hand
It's like I'm burning in the fires of hell
And if I hold her too long
You never can tell what'll happen to me
I wouldn't want you to see...
10538 Overture
Did you see your friend crying from his eyes today
Did you see him run through the streets and far away
Aah
Did you see him run, did you see him fall
Did his life flash by at the bedroom door
Did you hear the news it came across the air today
Someone has been found on the rocks down in the bay
Ahhh
Did you see him hide, did you see him crawl
Does his life mean more than it did before
Did you see that man running through the streets today
Did you catch his face, was it 10538
Ahhhh
Street Life
Wish everybody would leave me alone -yeah
They're always calling on my telephone
When I pick it up there's no one there
So I walk outside just to take the air
Come on with me cruising down the street
Who knows what you'll see, who you might meet
This brave new world's not like yesterday -
It can take you higher than the milky way
Now I'm blinded I can't really see - yeah
No more bright lights confusing me - no
Don't ask me why I'm feeling blue
'Cause loving you is all I can do
Hey good-looking boys - gather around
The sidewalk papers gutter-press you down
All those lies can be so unkind,
They can make you feel like you're losing your mind
Street Life
Street Life
Street Life
What a Life
Back to nature boys - Vasser girls too
Watch what you say, or think, or do
Continental-style strasse girls might
But you know exactly if it�s wrong or right
Education is an important key - yes
But the good life's never won by degrees - no
Pointless passing through Harvard or Yale
Only window shopping - it's strictly no sale
Week end starts Friday soon after eight
Your jet black magic helps you celebrate
You may be stranded if you stick around
- And that's really something...
Drive-In Saturday
Let me put my arms
around your head
Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed
Don't forget to turn on the light
Don't laugh babe, it'll be alright
Pour me out another phone
I'll ring and see
if your friends are home
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome
Can lend us a book we can read up alone
And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes
and scored
Like the video films we saw
His name was always Buddy
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
Jung the foreman prayed at work
That neither hands nor limbs would burst
It's hard enough to keep formation
amid this fall out saturation
Cursing at the Astronette 8
Who stands in steel
by his cabinet
He's crashing out with Sylvian
The Bureau Supply
for ageing men
With snorting head he gazes to the shore
Which once had raised a sea
that raged no more
Like the video films we saw
His name was always Buddy
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away
She's uncertain if she likes him
But she knows she really loves him
It's a crash course for the ravers
It's a Drive-in Saturday
It's a Drive-in Saturday
It's a Drive-in Saturday
It's a Drive-in Saturday
It's a Drive-in Saturday
Little Bit Of Love
I believe
If you give
A little bit of love
To those you live with
A little bit of love
Oh oh oh
Has gotta come your way.
Well in my mind
It's easy
To lose sight of the truth
But in my heart
I can't deny
My feeling inside
'Cos I believe
If you give
A little bit of love
To those you live with
A little bit of love
Oh oh oh
Has gotta come your way.
Man in the sky
You say you are flying
To lose sight of the world
You wanna stay high
Then don't deny
Your feeling inside
'Cos I believe
If you give
A little bit of love
To those you live with
A little bit of love
Oh oh oh
Has gotta come your way.
Yeahh!
Whooo!
I believe
If you give
A little bit of love
To those you live with
A little bit of love
Oh!
Has gotta come your way.
I believe
If you give
A little bit of love
To those you live with
A little bit of love
Whooooo
Has gotta come your way
The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The golden age of rock and roll....
Everybody hazy, shell-shocked and crazy.
Screaming for the face at the window.
Jeans for the genies, dresses for the dreamies,
Fighting for a place in the front row.
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh
It's good for your body, it's good for your soul
Ohhh, Ohhh, let's go!
It's the golden age of rock and roll.
Well you getta little buzz, send for the fuzz,
Guitars getting higher and higher.
The dude in the paint thinks he's gonna faint,
Stoke more coke on the fire.
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh
You gotta stay young, you can never grow old
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
It's the golden age of rock and roll.
The golden age of rock and roll will never die,
As long as children feel the need to laugh and cry.
Don't wanna smash - want a smash sensation,
Don't wanna wreck; just recreation,
Don't wanna fight - but if you turn us down
We're gonna turn you around gonna mess with the sound.
The show's gotta move, everybody groove
There ain't no trouble on the streets now.
So if the going gets rough,
Don't you blame us
You ninety-six decible freaks
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh
Its good for body, its good for your soul
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
It's the golden age of rock and roll.
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh
(You gotta stay young, you can never grow old)
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
(Its good for body, its good for your soul)
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
(It's the golden age of rock and roll)
Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh
(You gotta stay young, you can never grow old)
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
(Its good for body, its good for your soul)
Ohhh, Ohhh, Whoooa
(It's the golden age of rock and roll)
That's all
No Matter What
No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
oh girl with you
No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl
oh girl won't you
Knock down the old brick wall
and be a part of it all
Nothing to say
nothing to see
nothing to do
If you would give me all
as I would give it to you
Nothing would be
nothing would be
nothing would be
No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can't you see in my face girl
oh girl won't you
Knock down the old brick wall
and be a part of it all
Nothing to say
nothing to see
nothing to do
If you would give me all
as I would give it to you
Nothing would be
nothing would be
nothing would be
No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
oh girl want you
Oh girl, you girl, want you
Oh girl, you girl, want you
He's Gonna Step On You Again
(He's gonna step on you again)
(He's gonna step on you again)
Hey, rainmaker, come away from that man
You know he's gonna take away your promised land
Hey, good lady, he just want what you got
You know he'll never stop until he's taken the lot
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
You're a man, he's a man!
Hey, rainmaker, he got golden plans, I tell you
He make you a stranger in your land
Hey, good lady, he got God on his side
He got a double tongue, you never think that he'd lie
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
You're a man, he's a man!
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
Hey, rainmaker, come away from that man
You know he's gonna take away your promised land
Hey, good lady, he got God on his side
He got a double tongue, you never think that he'd lie
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire
Don't you know that he can make you forget you're a man?
You're a man, he's a man!
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
He's gonna step on you again
Don't Believe A Word
Don't believe me if I tell you
Not a word of this is true
Don't believe me if I tell you
Especially if I tell you that I'm in love with you
Don't believe me if I tell you
That I wrote this song for you
There might be some other silly pretty girl
I'm singing it to
Don't believe a word
For words are only spoken
Your heart is like a promise
Made to be broken
Don't believe a word
Words can tell lies
And lies are no comfort
When there's tear in your eyes
Don't believe me if I tell you
Not a word of this is true
Don't believe me if I tell you
Especially if I tell you that I'm in love with you
Don't believe a word
No don't believe a word
Don't believe me, don't believe me
Not a single word
Hey dontcha
Stay With Me
In the morning
Don't say you love me
Cause I'll only kick you out of the door
I know your name is Rita
Cause your perfume smelling sweeter
Since when I saw you down on the floor
guitar
Won't need to much pursuading
I don't mean to sound degrading
But with a face like that
You got nothing to laugh about
Red lips hair and fingernails
I hear your a mean old jezabel
Let's go up stairs and read my tarot cards
Come on yeah
Stay with me
Stay with me
For tonight you gonna stay with me
Stay with me
Stay with me
For tonight you better stay with me
Come on
So in the morning
Please don't say you love me
Cause you know I'll only kick you out the door
Yea I'll pay your cab fare home
You can even use my best cologne
Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up
Come on yeah
Stay with me
Stay with me
Cause tonight you better stay with me
Sit down, get up, get down
Stay with me
Stay with me
Cause tonight you're going stay with me
Hey, whats your name again
oh no, get down, wooo
Action (live)
So you think you'll take another piece of me
To satisfy your intellectual need
Do you want, do you want...Action?
Gonna bring you down cause you're pushin' me
You gotta recognize my superiority
Liar, liar
You know you believed it
Liar, liar
Cause I'm the main man
And that's why...
Everybody wants a piece of the action
Everybody needs a main attraction
I got what everybody needs
Satisfaction guaranteed
Everybody wants a piece of the action
I was suicidal cause she was my idol
Baby baby baby bring it to your knees
Well there was a time I would have walked the line
Don't you bring me down with your insatiable greed
Repeat Bridge
Repeat Chorus
Do you want... Action!! Action!!
Everybody wants, everybody needs
Everybody wants, everybody needs
Repeat Bridge and Chorus
When I'm Dead And Gone
Ohhh I love you baby
Love you night and day
When I leave you baby don't you cry the night away
When I die don't you write no words upon my tomb
I don't believe I wanna leave no emptied if I do
Ohhh when I'm dead and gone
I want to leave some happy woman livin on
Ohhhh when I'm dead and gone
I don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave
Ohhh Momma Linda she's out to get my hide
She's got a shotgun and a daughter by her side
Hey there ladies Johnson free
Whose got the love whose got enough to keep a man like me
Ohhh when I'm dead and gone
I want to leave some happy woman livin on
Ohhhh when I'm dead and gone
I don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave
Music...
Ohhh I love you baby
Love you night and day
When I leave you baby don't you cry the night away
When I die don't you write no words upon my tomb
I don't believe I wanna leave no emptied if I do
Ohhh when I'm dead and gone
I want to leave some happy woman livin on
Ohhhh when I'm dead and gone
I don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave
Ohhh when I'm dead and gone
I want to leave some happy woman livin on
Ohhhh when I'm dead and gone
No Matter What (live)
No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
oh girl with you
No matter what you do
I will always be around
Won't you tell me what you found girl
oh girl won't you
Knock down the old brick wall
and be a part of it all
Nothing to say
nothing to see
nothing to do
If you would give me all
as I would give it to you
Nothing would be
nothing would be
nothing would be
No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can't you see in my face girl
oh girl won't you
Knock down the old brick wall
and be a part of it all
Nothing to say
nothing to see
nothing to do
If you would give me all
as I would give it to you
Nothing would be
nothing would be
nothing would be
No matter what you are
I will always be with you
Doesn't matter what you do girl
oh girl want you
Oh girl, you girl, want you
Oh girl, you girl, want you
Winter Song
When Winter's shadowy fingers first pursue you down the street
And your boots no longer lie about the cold around your feet
Do you spare a thought for Summer whose passage is complete
Whose memories lie in ruins and whose ruins lie in heat
When Winter.... comes howling in
When the wind is singing strangely, blowing music through your head
And your rain-splattered windows make you decide to stay in bed
Do you spare a thought for the homeless tramp who wishes he was dead
Or do you pull your bed-clothes higher, dream of Summertime instead
When Winter.... comes howling in
The creeping cold has fingers that caress without permission
And mystic crystal snowdrops only aggravate the condition
Do you spare a thought for the gypsy with no secure position
Who's turned and spurned by village and town and the Magistrate's decision
When Winter.... comes howling in
When the turkey's in the oven and the Christmas presents are bought
And Santa's in his module - he's an American astronaut
Do you spare a thought for Jesus, who had nothing but his thoughts
Who got busted - just for talking, and befriending the wrong sorts
When Winter.... comes howling in
When Winter.... comes howling in
American Girl
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, an d if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Search & Destroy
I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear a-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby detonate for me
Look out honey, 'cause i'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby penerate my mind
And i'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey i'm the world's forgotten boyt
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy said hey forgotten boy
Space Oddity
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five,
Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much... she knows
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.
Dear Friends
So dear friends
Your love has gone
Only tears to dwell upon
I dare not say
As the wind must blow
So a love is lost
A love is won
Go to sleep and dream again
Soon your hopes will rise
And then from all this gloom
Life can start anew
And there'll be no crying soon
Heartbeat
You're a voice
on the street
You're the faces
that I meet
All day my life
is keeping time
time with your heartbeat
time with your heartbeat
every day.
It's no use
to run and hide
You'll be running running running
By my side
All day my life
Is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day.
Like children we have laughed
and played the game you and me
But have you seen me cry?
Once I believe I saw you dying yet you still remain
To me the same mystery
Only closer
Much closer
To my heart
And so you see
I couldn't let you
Leave me be
All day my life
is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day
All day my life...ahhh...
is keeping time
time with your heartbeat
time with your heartbeat every day.
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