Electric Six Album

You want to reach your destination
There is a road and it's paved with saying "no"
You need to find your motivation
And you need to know all the minefields to avoid

They're trying to kill your reputation
You got control, but still you get annoyed
Players deal in desperation
They come and go, they can't kill Detroit

The time has come today
The time is coming now
Everybody be like (who they)
Everybody goin' (wow)

They tryin' to play the game
They tryin' to live the life
You can cut the desperation with a knife

You feel it in the air
You feel it in your gut
I'm the director
And this is the director's cut

Show the whole world what your body's got
Step into the body shot
Come on now, girl, get your body hot
Step into the body shot

Show the whole world what your body's got
Step into the body shot, body shot
Come on, now, girl, get your body hot
Step into the body shot, the body shot

You want a little more information
And you want to know where to stick your knife and fork
You gonna make your habitation
In a bungalow on the west side of East New York

Your star's about to shine
Your shit's about to blow
Everybody be like (oh yeah)
Everybody goin' (ho)

Because demand is high
They do demand supply
Do something with your life before you die

You gonna feel the love
You feel the satisfaction
I'm the director
Lights, camera, action

Show the whole world what your body's got
Step into the body shot
Come on now, girl, get your body hot
Step into the body shot

Show the whole world what your body's got
Step into the body shot, the body shot
Come on, now, girl, get your body hot
Step into the body shot

The body shot

Once I saw the galaxies in your Jack and Coke eyes
And the sacrificial temple where your monster always dies
Once I wrote a gospel out of every word you say
And now you're on the front page of the USA Today

Cutting to the front of the line
I find my mind
Is no place to raise a family
And I was looking all over for you, baby
You were always right in front of me
And tonight I'm declaring your love
To be a waste of time and money

Once I raised alpacas with your pet Komodo dragon
While I was eating cardboard in my father's station wagon
Once I sold everything I owned to buy you a diamond ring
And now you're over at CNN sitting down with Larry King

After five bottles of wine
My friends opine
That I should consider therapy
But they've clearly never been with you, baby
They don't know about the things that you've done to me
And tonight I'm declaring my life
Is a joke nowhere near funny

All publicity is good publicity
When you sell your conscience in this city
Achieving high elasticity
Shock resistant with electricity

All publicity is good publicity
When you sell your conscience in this city
Achieving high elasticity
Shock resistant with electricity

Strange raves on a Detroit beach
I was reaching for the rhythm but it's out of reach
She was talking to the Buick
She was cutting her tequila with bleach
And she said to me

There's no such thing as an Egyptian cowboy
Your pretty haircut can't help you now, boy
There's nothing we can do for you unless you're willing to kill
Hey, come on and kill.

I think this city could have used a woman's touch
As I'm wading through the toxic waste and such
Cuz everybody here said I won't amount to much
Everybody here said I won't amount to much
When I go from point A to point B I want thrills and chills and blood to spill

But there's never any people on the people mover -
Public transit equivalent of Herbert Hoover
You're never gonna get anywhere because you're standing still
standing still!

These songs don't write themselves
I've got a music workshop run by elves
Making dozens of records by the trends
Stocking our product on Ikea shelves

Let me state that
My state of mind, mind, mind
is just fine.

Baby, that's the sound of the years going by
You can find me on the same bar stool just waiting to die.
Three cheers to me, here's mud in your eye.
I said, "Cheers to me, here's mud in your eye"
She came to close out my tab, so I was troubled and she took a stab
and she said to me

There's no such thing as an electric tuba
The Detroit River's not a good place to scuba
The only reason you're here today is cuz we need you to kill
Yeah, kill!

My songs are tasty pies,
fresh oven-baked and filled with lies
Gobbled up by the dozen by Neanderthal guys
Inhaling the aroma of Canadian lies
Oh my, why you got quite a lot of problems, don't you?

Shake that tambourine!
Shake that shaker machine!
Shake it, low.
Shake it, high.
Shake it.
Shake it.

There were twenty, maybe, twenty-five of us
Drivin' out to California in a bus
We were looking for a good time
and a radio station we could trust.

Suddenly we heard an angry thud
And our mighty chariot turned into a dud
We were stopped there in our tracks, man
Adjacent to some cows chewing their cud.

Lord, please send some mercy down to me.
50 miles south of Bowling Green...
This will clearly never be my scene.
Why does every city start with 'C'?
There's only one sure thing that I know:
I've got to get out of Ohio!
'Til then I'll never feel love.

They say that what you give is what you're gonna get
It's no wonder everything's gone to shit.
Because they've given us John Boehner,
you better believe they've given us chicken shit!

And the floodgates of hell have opened wide
It's better to get all politics aside.
They're gonna roll out Joe the Plumber
Just to make sure our minds get properly fried.

Lord, be merciful and let me die.
50 miles south of Lodi.
Round on both ends and the middle's high.
What's so great about a buckeye?
Whose might is riptide and undertow
There's no escaping from Ohio.
I'll never get to feel love.

Hey!
The walls they are closing in,
but I'm just inside of Michigan.
The only way that I'll obtain ya,
is if I get over to Pennsylvania.
Except for GBV and DEVO
nothing seems to redeem Ohio.
It is the state that killed my love.

Hey!
Don't you want to come with me
Hey!
and make a break for Kentucky
Hey!
I still got something to put in ya
Hey!
but we'll have to go to West Virginia.
And I've heard great things about Indiana, too.

Take a picture of this moment with me.
Is it everything you want it to be?
Cause when they go to blow it up,
you always fill my cup
with figurines and dishonesty.

And you're rubbin' me the wrong way.
You're jerkin' me around when we hit the club.
Doin' me the hard way.
Always shootin' me down before I get back up.

Why you acting a fool now darling?
Step into to my hand, we'll see some light.
Cause Heaven rents a space in Harlem.
And baby we can go there tonight.
You just gotta come over and rub me right.
Oh I sing...

Save your drama for a rainy day
and just forget what all your girlfriends say.
Before the evening can explode,
you gotta kiss that toad
and activate his charming princely ways.

So quit rubbin' me the wrong way.
Quit jerkin' me around when we hit the club.
Quit doin' me the hard way.
Quit shootin' me down before I get back up.

Why you looking to slow this night down?
You're sucking all of the venom out of my bite.
Heaven is my place in Me-Town.
And baby we can go there tonight.
Ahh you gotta rub me right!

Oh I sing,
Come on and rub me right.
Come on and rub me right.
Come on and rub me right.

Na na na, na na na.
Na na na, na na na.
Na na na, na na na.
Na na na, na na na.

I just bought a gun, and I'm one sick puppy
I'm always having fun 'cause I'm one sick puppy
And every barracuda gets started as a guppy
Needing words of wisdom when you're one sick puppy

But I can still turn it on
Launching ICBMs, launching 'em long
Baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah
Karma is a big, mean, animal looking for its next meal in your bedroom while I'm on top of you
Demonstrating the latest positions

A baby is born and I'm one sick puppy
A helmet is worn and I'm one sick puppy
And every impressario starts as a yuppy
They're looking to control me 'cause I'm one sick puppy

But I never saw the lights change
Every face can be re-arranged
Baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah
Jesus was a guy who said some stuff long ago
And he had a rich dad who wouldn't chill or let him go over to see what Mary is doing tonight.

This is the sound, of my sound breaking down
This is the sound, of my sound breaking down
No chance in hell of turning it around
My sound...is going down

I'm just around the corner and I'm one sick puppy
I'm done with law and order cuz I'm one sick puppy
And if you want to see me all you do is say "suppy".
I got into rock and roll 'cause I'm one sick puppy

Come over a little closer
Be my Kenny Rogers' Roaster
Baby, baby, it's a nightmare
I don't have much to offer you, but wait a minute what's this?
A free membership to the sisterhood of things that taste good when cooked in their natural juices.

We fear what we're becoming,
But look what we've become.
Truth can be somewhat numbing
When we see that we've been so dumb.
To enjoy your survival,
I need you dead upon arrival.

And I will love you forever,
Though you surely won't remember
Everything I did to make you love me.
You are the friend of mine
And when you die I'm gonna steal your bones.
You are a space in time
And when you rise I'm gonna feel your clones.
Oh, your colored love light shines as you outnumber me.

They said we should never go here,
That it should never be done,
But smile your thousand faces
For all their fear they merely won?
And then we'll abandon wrong for right
And hear the heartbeats of the dead tonight.

And I love you forever
And you never will remember
Everything I did to make you love me.
You are a friend of mine
And when you die I'm gonna steal your bones.
You are a space in time
And when you rise I'm gonna feel your clones.
Oh, your colored love light shines as you owe everything to me.

And I declare where there's a way, there's a will
And have you ever seen the boys from Brazil?
Evolution rolls the dice
We can be so much more precise.

And I love you forever,
Though, you surely won't remember
Everything I did to make you love me.
You are a friend of mine
And when you die I'm gonna steal your bones.
You are a space in time
And when you rise I'm gonna feel your clones.
Oh, your colored love light shines as you outnumber me.

My idea of fun is watching you come undone
Watching all of your allies begin to run
Flashbulbs begin to pop as I bitchslap my way to the top,
And you've no idea what's hitting until it's nearly done.

Game over
?
Game over
?

My idea of a good time is you losing your mind
Watching all of the threads in your tapestries unwind
Riding the penthouse elevator, applying the smackdown on all y'all haters
And leave you wondering how life could ever be so unkind

Game over
?
Game over
?

Behold this chair where the victor sits
This game can make one lose his wits
And your confidence has been smashed to bits
And your only move is to call it quits and start over!

?
Game over
?
Game over
?
Game over
?

Life in 360 degrees
I'm just one of the busy bees
Buzzing in time to the one two threes
Doing heavy lifting that destroyed my knees
Kids today they never say please
But today's angry youth ain't angry enough for me
I'm being all I can be
On a working man's salary

I belong in a factory
Maybe one day I'll take a day off or three
And I'll build you a house in a tree
So you can look down at the factory
Con-sume me

In due time you will come to see
There is nothing wrong with you
That's not wrong with me
With everybody here stepping on my feet
It's a wonder that both ends always meet
But we separate the chaff from the wheat
Today's middle class is just so bourgeoisie
And I'm picking up my disease
On a working man's salary

I belong in a factory
Maybe one day I'll get my foreman to see
That productivity is going way up in the factory
Be-cause of me

Once I was led to believe
That you'd return and come back to me
Working the earth and planting our seeds
Growing alfalfa, carrots and peas
Now my heart it just bleeds
And bleeds and bleeds
Ever since you felt the need
To open your mouth and sneeze
All over my working man's salary

I belong in a factory
Maybe one day when it's under lock and key
We can start a colony
For people who used to be people in a factory
Like me

Let's hear it for the factory
The only thing that's understood me truly
Made a factory man out of me
Three cheers for the factory
Go factory!

Shake and bake your turkey to the left
Move your doggie to the right
Move your feet into the fire
Foam at the mouth all night
Washing rinsing repeating
Until it's done
And it's about as much fun, baby
As being a nun

Here's the time everybody breaks into song
It doesn't matter how you sing along just sing along
It doesn't matter how you turn it on just turn it on
It doesn't matter how you get it right just don't be wrong

The sheik he don't lie
He drive a Mercedes Benz
The sheik he build a big house
In Dubai for his sheik friends
The sheik sometimes he needs to go
A million miles an hour
When he plays his sheik guitar solo
He soak up all the power

Here's the time everybody breaks into song
It doesn't matter how you sing along just sing along
It doesn't matter how you turn it on just turn it on
Fifty million screaming China men just can't be wrong

Oh we gonna bounce
Two times tonight
Five times tonight
Eight times tonight
Ten times a night

And my momma say Miguel Bosé
Ain't the same without Bimba Bosé
And the sound of the night tonight
You can't deny

It's an oldie but a goodie
It's the Newark Airport Boogie

My momma say Miguel Bosé
Ain't the same without Bimba Bosé
My momma say Miguel Bosé
Ain't the same without Bimba Bosé
My momma say Miguel Bosé
Ain't the same without Bimba Bosé
My momma say Miguel Bosé
Ain't the same without Bimba Bosé

Everybody stand and scream “Bosé! Bosé!”
Even though he ain't got nothing going in the USA
His tight pants and his eyeliner will surely blow you away
He always kills the night in the same way night kills the day

Oh we gonna bounce
Two times tonight
Five times tonight
Eight times tonight
Ten times a night

And the sheik don't lie
Oh my my my my
And the sheik don't lie
Oh my my my my
And the sound of the night tonight
You can't deny

It's an oldie but a goodie
It's the Newark Airport Boogie

You are the bad girls
Have you done a little work in the movies?
You got a manager,
And he sends a couple copies of you to me.

But you don't come with instructions,
You're wearing too many clothes
I'd like to show you my suction, but I don't know where it goes.
Cuz we are human dust bunnies,
Waiting for the vacuum
To come and pick us up, honey
Whistling along to the hollow tune of

Simulated love
Simulated love
Simulated love
Simulated love

You are the parasites
Always biting the host that feeds you
You've got the sight, sight
But you don't recognize when they're trying to bleed you.

You don't come with instructions,
You're wearing too many clothes
I'd like to show you my suction, but I don't know where it goes
Cuz we are human dust bunnies,
Waiting for the vacuum
To come and pick us up, honey
Whistling along to the hollow tune of

Simulated love
Simulated love
Simulated love
Simulated love

Oh sweet love, what does it mean?
Cuz everything's never quite as it seems
Pretty, pretty pictures in a magazine
Selling me tickets for the fuck machine
No U-turn on the road of life
Today's girlfriend is tomorrow's wife
The meeting of the flesh and the knife
Taking color photographs in black and white
And when your piggies start to squeal
It's impossible to keep an even keel
I'd drive a thousand miles just to cop a feel

Love isn't real, unless it's not real
Love isn't real, unless it's not real
Love isn't real, unless it's not real
Love isn't real, unless it's not real
Love isn't real, unless it's not real

Oh sweet love, what does it mean?
Oh sweet love, what does it mean?
Oh sweet love, what does it mean?
Oh sweet love, what does it mean?

You're bored
You're bored
I hate the look on your face when you're bored
You're bored
You're bored
I hate the look on your face when you're bored
You're bored
You're bored
I hate the look on your face when you're bored
You're bored
You're bored
I hate that look on your face when you're bored

Fast forward or rewind
the doctor's in and I push record
My guitar testifies
I hate the look on your face when you're bored

The scythe, the sword
The benevolence of my Lord
The signs ignored
The anti-christ adored
And the world goes down in flames before they can even cut the cord
While you just stare and stare
I hate the look on your face when you're bored

I shot! I scored!
I put some points on the board
I slept! I snored!
While you snuck around and whored
God damn your golden compass and the direction it points me toward
I swear on my mother's eye
I hate the look on your face when you're bored

You're bored
You're bored
I hate the look on your face when you're bored
You're bored
You're bored
I hate the look on your face when you're bored
You're bored
You're bored
God damn the look on your face when you're bored
Na na
Na na
Na na na na na na na na

Living in the basement and losing my mind
Smoking mother nature until I go blind
And if you live long enough you're bound to see it all
For example, take the girlie apparition in my hall
Shaking her finger and looking at me,
But there's something not right about the way she sees

She got white eyes
She say everybody here gonna have white eyes...
She got white eyes
...unless
Under three pairs of glasses there's some glass, some glass, some glass

Now a week in the country is just what I need
It gets so quiet I can hear myself bleed
And there's a moon on the mountain
A wind through the trees
And I still couldn't tell you how that ghost girl sees
She seems to be committing an optical crime
She is a spectral spectacle looking at me all the time

With white eyes
She say everybody here gonna have white eyes...
She got white eyes
...When they die
And if you've got those baby blues, baby, get ready to kiss 'em goodbye.

Things are no longer what they seem
When her freight train picks up its head of steam
There's no clear line between death and dream and the ferocious haze of love.

Now the gates are swinging open
And I'm coming through
And I can hear the choir start singing their tune
As I take my last steps toward that guiding light
I can hear that ghost laughing as my eyeballs turn white

I got white eyes
I say everybody here gonna have white eyes...
I got white eyes
...like me
It ain't until you lose your sight that you know just what it means to see.