New York Dolls Album

We're all in love!
We're all in love!
We're all in love!
We're all in love!

We all sleep in one great big bed
People like to think we're seekin' a head
Everything to them is just a functional fit
Got a bad reputation, just won't quit
Defame with great suspicion, hostility
Despisable, phenomenal, illusory
Pretty fancy words for not really real
Love ain't pretty, it's the way that we feel because

We're all in love!
We don't care!
We're all in love!
What could they do to us?
We're all in love!
You can do whatcha wanna but
We're all in love!

Jumpin' round the stage like teenage girls
Castin' our swine before the pearls
Don't fuck with us, what people say
They go to work, we go to play!
Drunk on the joy, a-singin' a song
Lovin' hard as the day is long
Excommunicated, then canonized
When love is strong, life intensifies because

We're all in love!
We're all in love!
We're all in love!
We're all in love!

We love fightin' like lovers do
Love makin' up in a hour or two
A kiss on the lips, unseemly for a man
Least we don't go around holdin' hands
Most times we don't, but don't stop tryin'
With the music we got to manifest the divine
To beam it up with love and let it rock on down
Til every creature hip to the ultimate ground because

We're all in love!
What do we care?
We're all in love!
It's our life!
We're all in love!
You can do whatcha wanna, but
We're all in love!
We don't care!

We're all in love!
(in love)
We're all in love!
(in love)
We're all in love!
(in love)
We're all in love!

Love! Love! Love!

(INTRO)
Whoo!
All right!
Yo!
(wolf whistles)
All right, boys, here we go now..

Why should gay boys get all the good seats?
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Little girl, god gave ya two good feets for
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Your legs are crossed and your shoe is danglin'
Yo!
(???)the shape I'm in
Come on baby, let's get over the street
So goddamn great, I wanna kiss your feet!

Since I was a boy, loved them high-heeled shoes
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Just lookin' at you in 'em takes away my blues
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
I'm right behind ya, flyin' up them stairs
Yo...
What we do up there, I don't care
I be lovin' what I seen from here
You got flesh-colored underwear!

Let's play secretary, let's have a little fun
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
I'll take dictation, you're the bossy one
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
On a desk that's just yea-high
Duh.....
You spread your wings just like a butterfly
My god, it's almost made ya deified
I love you, baby, cause you ain't shy
Taste so sweet, feel I been glorified!

Sexless Italian actress at the Vatican
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Confessin' to a demented clergyman
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Esmerelda and the Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Beauty and the Beast, Cocteau is to blame!
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
Who cares what the neighbors say?
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
They gonna talk about us anyway!
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
The young gravedigger and the corpse
(Runnin' around, runnin' around)
I love you, baby, you're so warped!

Feeling a great sadness today
Don't wanna indulge it or shoo it away
It belongs to the whole world
The boys and girls
It ain't just mine

Like joy and love, it's always there
Don't know how I tune in, don't know why that I care
But I can't pretend
This don't feel like the end
And everything is fine

Feel exiled from the divine
Me and these sad friends of mine
Just waitin' down here
Drinkin' beer
And losin' time

I hear plenty of music
I see superfluous beauty
Everywhere
Why should I care?
What does it matter to me?

The myth of life is a song
Nature, too, is the song
Don't you destroy the song
Cause when the song is gone
You'll be gone too

Don't know how it went astray
Seem like the whole world is an ashtray
Just floatin' around
A broken-down
Low-end galaxy

Don't know what I did to get sent here
Must have been something bad that I done
There in a world gone mad
Feelin' sad
I guess I'm sorry

Don't need no one to love me
Oh please, dance up above me
What does it matter?
Don't need a ladder
What's it to me?

I hear plenty of music
I see superfluous beauty
Everywhere
Why should I care?
What does it matter?

I hear plenty of music
I see superfluous beauty
Everywhere
Why should I care?
What does it matter to me?
What's it matter to me?
It don't matter to me
Nothing matters to me...

Your design's so intelligent
Ain't no way that was an accident
Come on shake your monkey hips
My pretty little creationist
Oh yeah
Ain't gonna anthropomorphize ya
Or perversely polymorphosize ya
Oh yeah

Little girl you look so sweet
(you got hips like a monkey, hips like a monkey)

You just started ten thousand years ago
Presto, Adam and Eve, but go man go
Abel died, Cain took his life
And headed straight for the jungle to find a wife.
(Wow)

Nonbelievers running out on apes
This monkey time I want to see you shake

Evolution is obsolete
(you gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey, child)
Stomp your hands and clap your feet
(you gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey, child)

Oh one more time, yo
It's monkey time!

Come on pretty baby won't you take a chance
Be my natural selection, dance dance dance
Exorcise your demons with that monkey friend
Because we're gonna inherit the wind

Let them fight it out in the Supreme Court
That's such a mad lame indoor sport
Wave your arms and legs in the air
Rock it like a monkey, like you just don't care

Evolution is so obsolete
Gotta stomp your hands and clap your feet
(you gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey
you gotta dance like a monkey, dance like a monkey...)

Universe is drama and it plays this game
Got so involved, forgot we're all the same
Appears so real and it does it so well
Some of us in heaven, some are in hell
On the edge of our seat, don't know where it's gonna go
'Til we're all throwin' bombs, screamin' "On with the show!"

In a
Punishing world
Incredibly
Punishing world

Vortex of defensiveness in which I quip
Escaping conflicted, the conflict I try to escape
Try to find some comfort, what i find instead
Like changing my position on a cement bed
A mess of anxiety that lusts and loathes
Livin' in terror of debt, and in the misery I know

In a
Punishing world
Incredibly
Punishing world

Subterfuge, Orwellian doublespeak
A consciously awarin' little ego-freak
So much bullshit everywhere I go
Amazing how many things there are that aren't so

In a
Punishing world
Incredibly
Punishing world

Punishing world
Punishing world

Instead of compassion, lots of love and joy
A vast competition, compulsion to destroy
Further from line I get in spirit and mind
Selfishness makes stronger all the ties that bind
I laboriously make em with my words and thoughts
'Til they're impossible to break
I'm stuck, I'm done

In a
Punishing world
Incredibly
Punishing world
It's a punishing world
Punishing world
Such a punishing world
Punishing world
What a bummer
Punishing world
All summer
Punishing world
Man it's a punishing world
Punishing world
Yeah, a punishing world
Punishing world
It's a punishing...

It's a maimed happiness
I keep trying to acquiesce
It's like a tempestuous child
You play with and humor to keep
Quiet as you possibly can
Til finally it goes to sleep
Life takes a lot of finesse
It's a maimed happiness

Keep myself to every way
Both refined and uncouth
Then maybe once in a while
I can be with the truth

Don't know if there's that much to be said
For this world, or the time that we spend
I doubt that I'd wanna live
This wasted life over again

Yeah I been to the doctor
Said there ain't much he can do
"You got the human condition
Boy, I feel sorry for you."
There's a sorrowful joy
I known since hours ago
Joyful sorrow, I guess
It's a maimed happiness.

I was sittin' there all alone
I was prayin' you would come home
I was listenin' to an old blues song
You see, I'm wounded, wounded and bleeding
Won't you ease my pain?

You're gettin' a little impatient
Smokin' like a mental patient

Happiness, fishnets and cigarettes
A pagan monkey in a dress
Tell me who can arrest
A mind ensnared by love?

A rogue elephant for a mind
And it's treatin' me so unkind
But in my heart it's an old blues song
Playful and bitchin', mischievous and earthy

Happiness, fishnets and cigarettes
A pagan monkey in a dress
Tell me who can arrest
A mind ensnared by love?

Talk about slayin' a snake
You got my heart bound up in shame
But in my soul it's an old blues song

This life can be so tragic
Until you see the magic

Happiness, fishnets and cigarettes
A pagan monkey in a dress

I'm talking 'bout
Happiness, fishnets and cigarettes
A pagan monkey in a dress
Tell me who can arrest
A mind ensnared by love?

Howdy baby, hey baby
Please stay with me, I pray
Hey baby, hey baby
Don't let me cry in vain

Tommy's got a brother named Thomas
And another brother named Tom.
His father is a professional fighter
And I think so is their Mom.

Gotta get away, Gotta get away
Get away from Tommy
One time and won't get away
Won't stay away from me, get away from me, Tommy

Tommy gets his wisdom through excess
Tommy don't hold no scorn
Transcends limits of his culture
The very one from where I was born

Gotta get away, Gotta get away
Get away from Tommy
One time and won't get away
Won't stay away from me, get away from me, Tommy

Tommy don't follow no tradition
The song that he sings is his own
I can hear the machine(?) bells ringing
I don't wanna die alone.

Gotta get away, Gotta get away
Get away from Tommy
One time and won't get away
Won't stay away from me
Gotta get away, Gotta get away
Get away from Tommy
One time and won't get away
Won't stay away from me, Get away from me, Tommy!

Been cravin' more life and more love
That lives in the soul of my heart
Don't wanna be no artist
I'm a dancin', singin' work of art

You lit my heart with fiery aggression and you showed me
The fury of love, sex and affection that ya owed me

(In danger)
But I ain't scared
(In danger)
I found the splendor there

(Dancin')
Atop a flamin' pit
(We're dancing)
We are creating it
(We're dancing)
Right on the lip of a volcano

Nature with its true voice cries out, undissembled, "Be as I am!"
Revealed in its wildest, most generous incarnation

(In danger)
Devil-may-care
(In danger)
The fire's everywhere

(We're dancing)
So let the fire lick
(We're dancing)
We are creating it
(We're dancing)
On the lip of a volcano
Let's dance!

In the center of action of my psyche's need for love
I want liberation and joy
In a paroxysm of intoxication, inspiration
Ain't no way to be coy

(In danger)
A blazing glare
(in danger)
I found the splendor there

(Dancing)
Won't letcha slip
(We're dancing)
Let the lava rip
(We're dancing)
On the lip of a volcano

(Dancing)
We are creating it
(We're dancing)
So let the fire rip
(We're dancing)
Right on the lip of a volcano
A volcano
A volcano

Thrown in the dance with the mystics
Burning me up with its music
Sensualistic
Ritualistic
Alchemistic
Polytheistic

When I come down and all my money is spent
Try as I may, I don't know where it went
For the good times and all the fun that I had
Just can't remember when I felt so bad

It don't make no sense and it seems so odd
And it makes me wonder if there's a God

I ain't got nothing after the fall
I ain't got nothing, I got no one to call
I ain't got nothing, feeling so small
I ain't got nothing, nothing, nothing at all

This is not how the end should have come
Who could imagine this when I was young?
Where is everybody?
It's not the way I wanted it to be

But the path I took, they all have outgrown
The party's over, I'm all alone

I ain't got nothing after the fall
I ain't got nothing, feeling so small
I ain't got nothing, I got no one to call
I ain't got nothing, nothing, I got nothing at all

All the magic I swore that I knew
Just disappeared, it hasn't left a clue
No one's talking on my behalf
Here in the silence as I force a laugh

There was a time I could'a cried
Even my feelings have crawled up and died

I ain't got nothing after the fall
I ain't got nothing, I got no one to call
I ain't got nothing, against the wall
Now, ain't that something, nothing, I got nothing at all?

Seen you rocking the Rainbow store
That pretty little doll that I'd seen before
Stayed too long with the borderline
My emotional landscape one street mind
Was lifting my heart to not cause a stir
She knew I was watching her
Looking like the lover that gave all things for
Starting getting glad that I was born

She walked right up to me
Said "What's it gonna be?"
At the Rainbow Store

She came over and she pulled my hair
Said hey boy "What cha doing here?"
Just shopping for my sister, it's a birthday suit
She knew it wasn't true but whe was cool.

Pushed my neck up against the elevevator door
Kissed me like I've never been kissed before
Made a face so sweet in me,
I went down like a submarine

She walked right up to me
Said "What's it gonna be?"
At the Rainbow Store

Went all the way down to New York this (?)
It felt like almost happiness
Never thought I'd find myself here
Without guilt and without fear

I never knew it could be alright
I never knew bliss that could be all night
You never know ___ spare all the language says
Was a lifteing complete was an illusion to me

She walked right up to me
Said "What's it gonna be?"
At the Rainbow Store

She walked right up to me
There went my ennui
At the Rainbow Store

Something has shot me through
Just like the livin' truth
Gimme luv and turn on the light

How long has it been dark
Without the slightest spark
Gimme luv and turn on the light

All light shines in darkness
Where else could it shine?
Could it?

We're the proper troglodytes
Everybody loves a fight
Gimme luv and turn on the light

This is infinity
This is eternity
This is my destiny!

Foolishness and wisdom are practically the same
Different two opinions of the world
Of the world
Of the world!

Jumpin' out of room and life (?)
It's all struggle and strife
Gimme luv and turn on the light

When I come over the hill
With a folded dollar bill
It's "Baby where you been so long?"

Our shortcomings may be more
Than merely human after all
After all... after all... after all...

After all.

Spirit slumbers in nature
And awakens in mind
And finally recognizes
Yourself in time

Call us what you will but
Love made us like this
So what? Yeah, this whole world is just
Artifice

Take a good look at my good looks
Then close your eyes
Keep the picture in your mind 'cause
I'll be gone

One rainy day, I saw ya smiling
You let me stay awhile
And it was all right
Living with you, not even trying
The pain is long gone
And it's all right!

Take a good look at my good looks
Then close your eyes
Keep the picture in your mind 'cause
I'll be gone

Hellishly transparent
Utterly divine
Every little timeless gesture of
Valentine

Memories hold onto illusion
Cause we're just human
And that's all right (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)
Duality is so confusin'
You think you're not dreamin'
Then you open

There's no foundation
No final resting place
Only emptiness and
Hellish grace

Some rainy day, I'll find ya crying
With love and animus
Sparkling in your eyes (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)
But you'll be the one to recognize me
You'll all get lost
Every time I fall (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)

Nothing you say will scandalize me
You'll be all right
You're just like it is (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)
It's all right, it's all right!

Our noisy years will seem like moments
In a film of
Eternal tears (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)
Seems so long to have romance
(fade out...) (Take a good look at my good looks, baby)

I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this
can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this
can't be happening.

At twenty-one I thought,
this is fine, but is this all there is?
At twenty-five I didn't feel alive
But I said that I'd get used to it.

I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this
can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this
can't be happening.

La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la

let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi

At thirty-one, I'm told,
I'll feel old, but I'd understand it.
At thirty-two I came unglued,
Now maybe I'd live.

I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this
can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm only seventeen years old,
this can't be happening.

La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la

let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi