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Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop


Background information
Birth name James Newell Osterberg, Jr.
Born April 21, 1947
Born place Muskegon, Michigan, United States
Genre(s) Garage Rock
Hard Rock
Glam Rock
Years active 1967—present
Label(s) RCA Records
Virgin Records
Elektra Records
Associated acts Slash
David Bowie
The Stooges
The Iguanas
The Trolls
The Nymphs
Website Website



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Iggy Pop Album


New Values (1979)
1979
1.
Tell Me a Story
2.
3.
4.
5.
Don't Look Down
6.
7.
8.
How Do Ya Fix a Broken Part
9.
Angel
10.
11.
African Man
12.
. . .

Tell Me a Story

[No lyrics]

. . .


I'm healthy as a horse
Ahh, but everything is spinnin'
And if I use a gun I'm sure to go to prison
I'm stubborn as a mule
and nobody breaks my rules
Ahh, but nothin' comes my way.

I've got a hard-ass pair of shoulders
I've got a love you can't imagine
Yeah, and what I got I double
I swear I'm keepin' out of trouble.

I'm lookin' for one new value
I'm lookin' for one new value
but nothing comes my way.


We live in the same world..
We were young in the 20th century...

Ahh, but nothin' comes my way.

. . .


I love girls
There all over this world
Hah!
Like to look at ya

Well I'm gonna tell you about girls.
They're all over this world
Some have beautiful shapes
I wanna live to be ninety-eight

Yeah, somebody to talk to
And I like to look at you
Yeah, somebody to talk to
And I love to look at you

'Cause you're a real fin&#

. . .


I'm bored.

I'm the chairman of the bored,
I'm lengthenin' my log,
I'm livin' like a dog.

I'm bored.

I bore myself to sleep at night,
I bore myself in broad daylight,
'Cause I'm bored,
Just another slimey bore.

I'm free to bore my well-bought friends,
And spend my cash until the end,
'Cause I'm bored,
I'm bored,
I'm the chairman of the board.

I'm sick,
I'm sick of all my kicks,
I'm sick of all the stiffs,
I'm sick of all the dips,
I'm bored.

I bore myself to sleep at night,
I bore myself in broad daylight
'Cause I'm bored,
I'm bored,
Just another dirty bore.

All right doll-face,
Come on and bore me.

I am sick,
I am sick of all my kicks,
I am sick of all the stiffs,
I'm sick of all the dips,
I'm sick.

I'm sick when I go to sleep at night,
I'm still sick in the broad daylight,
'Cause I'm bored!,
I'm bored,

I'm the chairman of the... bored!

. . .

Don't Look Down

[No lyrics]

. . .


Oh baby, what a place to be
In the service of the bourgeoisie
Where can my believers be
I wanna jump into the endless sea

Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
I wanna jump into the endless sea
Let it wash all over me

Above us is a dirty sky
Full of youths and liquors
A little girl, a little guy
This air can't get much thicker

Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
Oh, oh the endless sea
Let it wash all over me

And when you're tight for the rent
You think you're gonna break
But you know it's no damn good
Just one more phony on the take

You better go home, buddy
I really think,
You better go home, buddy
You better go home, buddy

The endless sea

. . .


Yeah, I like it
Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

I'm only five foot one
I got a pain in my neck
I'm looking up in the city
What the hell what the heck

I stare at the concrete
The girders eye high
The steel's above me
There's love in my eyes

And I'm doing the things
A five foot one man can do

I'm only five foot one
I got a pain in my heart
All the night I'm working
In the amusement park

With a bottle of aspirin
A sack full of jokes
I wish I could go home
With all the big folks

And I wish life could be
Swedish magazines
I wish life could be
Swedish magazines
I wish life could be
Anything
Ugh! Aie! Aie! Aie!
Ugh!

I'm only five foot one
Unless the time has come
I won't grow anymore
Anymore, anymore, anymore

'Till I'm losing my head
I'm checkin' it twice
I'm gonna find out who's naughty and nice

And I'm doing the things a five foot one man can do

I wish life could be Swedish magazines (x3)
I wish life could be
Yeah, I wish life could be
Oooooooooohhh
I wish life could be

I wish life could be Swedish magazines
I wish life could be Swedish magazines
I wish life could be

I won't grow anymore (x3)
Anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore

I'm only five foot one (x3)
I'm five foot one

. . .

How Do Ya Fix a Broken Part

[No lyrics]

. . .

Angel

[No lyrics]

. . .


Because of curiosity
All the Vandals had to see
The golden throne
Of Ancient Rome
And brought the city to its knees

Because of curiosity

Because of curiosity
I'm just riddled with anxiety
I'm the lowest level
As a matter of fact
I often dwell for days on this

But when I see your smiling face
I'm so disgraced
And if you're holding out on me
I get curious
As curious as I can be

Curious
Because of curiosity

Curiosity killed the cat
But satisfaction brought it back
In terms of this cat
As a matter of fact
I'll meet you at the old mouse hole
I'll meet you at the old mouse hole

When I see your smiling face
I'm so disgraced
If you're holding out on me
I get curious
As curious as I can be
Curious as I can be
Curious as I can be

Yeah, curiosity

. . .

African Man

[No lyrics]

. . .


Billy was a Bird dog
He pulled up in a Bonneville
I went to see my manager
He usually handles these things

Billy pulled his wallet
Full of hundred dollar bills
Took me for a joyride
Talkin' 'bout the stereo
Drivin' in the left lane
I'm thinkin' 'bout my burial

We pulled into the liquor store
And he was underage
And all he said to me was
Put your money away

'Cause Billy is a runaway

Billy's got a Family
Gonna skin him alive
His dope dealing sister
Wants him to join the enterprise

I leave him at the motel
They can talk it all over
His sister's got a baby now
And Billy hardly knows her

Well I'm a friendly kind of guy
And I had to have him over
I gave him a drink
What do you think
His hands start shakin'
His boots start quakin'

Billy is a runaway (x4)

Runaway (x3)

His hands start shakin'
His boots start quakin'

Runaway baby

Billy is a runaway (x2)

. . .


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