phil judd: lyrics

the swingers
practical jokers

 1. practical jokers
2. one track mind
3. lovesick
4. true or false
5. more
6. counting the beat		 7. it ain't what you dance
it's the way you dance it
8. ayatollah
9. five o'clock shadow
10. funny feeling
11. distortion
12. hit the beach
Practical Joker

I'm just a practical kind of joker, jester joker
Hey!
Hey-ey-ey-ey, ha hey-ey, ooh ooh ooh!
Do you remember the time I tied your shoelaces together and you tripped over and fell flat on your face and how we all laughed!
Ha ha hey!
I don't believe in doing things by halves
People think I'm crazy but I'm really daft
I'll do anything to get a laugh
Day time, night time, yeah I'm,
Practical joker, oooh ooh

I'll pull your leg if you pull mine
I'll laugh at your jokes if you'll laugh at mine
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha ha, wooh!
I do believe I'm a bag of tricks
I'll do anything to get my kicks
Everybody in laughing fits
Day time, night time, yeah I'm
Practical joker
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin na na
Ooh ooh ooh
Come on now, join in, come on
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin na na
Ooh ooh ooh
I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine
I'll climb your tree if you climb mine
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, ha hey!
Okay, who's the wise guy?
I'm just a practical kind of joker, jester joker...
I'm just a practical kind of joker, a regular bloke yeah...!
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha, hahaha ha ha
Ooh ooh ooh

Hey Killjoy!
Do you remember the time your cigarette stuck in the gap in your front teeth and I put it out with a fire extinguisher and a cup of hot coffee?
Ha hey!
Come on now!
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin
Nin nin ni-ni-ni-nin nin ni-nin nin na na
Ooh ooh
Day time, night time, yeah I'm,
Practical joker
Day time, night time, yeah I'm,
Practical joker
Ooh ooh ooh...


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One Track Mind

She's insane, living on a different plane
Spinning till she's dizzy again
Just look at her go, fizz pop whizz bang...
She's obsessed, you can tell by the way she's dressed
What she want is anybody's guess
She lives in a dream, oh

She can't see the forest for the trees
Can't see the water for the stormy seas
She don't understand, she got a one track mind
A one track mind

Deep in her heart, there are two parts
Sharing the loneliness
Oh oh oh, live for desire, love is for hire
All she thinks about is sex
One track mind...

There he goes, following the end of his nose
Exploring on tippy toes
Oh just watch him go fizz pop whizz bang...
One of the few, possesses a very loose screw
Only got one point of view, he thinks he's Buck Rogers

Can't see the forest for the trees
Can't see the water for the stormy seas
He don't understand, he got a one track mind
A one track mind

Deep in their hearts there are two parts
Sharing their loneliness
Oh oh oh, they can't define, there is no line
Things are one hell of a mess
Oh oh oh, live for desire, love is for hire
All they think about is sex
A one track mind

One track mind....
One of a kind, clearly defined
A one track mind
She got a one, one, one track mind
Spinning around, lost and found
A one track mind

A one track mind, a one track mind, a one track mind, a one track mind...

A one track mind....


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Lovesick

Caught up in a haze of loneliness
In the pursuit of happiness
Ain't it just like you,
it's just like me.

Love is obsession, lovers pine
always working against the brain
but it's always there, there for always

Deserted in the ruins, of your own building
it seems like there's no hope of repair(?)
Standing in the rubble, no roof above you
no walls around you to keep the world at bay

Need a remedy
I need an elixir
I'm feeling lovesick
Need a remedy
I need an elixir
to fix the light

No way out of this nothingness
Nothing can replace the emptiness
But it's just like you,
it's just like me

Oh-oh
Love is a poison in my veins
A part of me that waxes and waves
But it's inside of you,
inside of me

Amidst the devastation, or was it sabotage
concrete foundations - all that remains
Standing in the rubble, no roof above you
No walls around you to keep the world at bay

Need a remedy
I need an elixir
I'm feeling lovesick
Need a remedy
I need an elixir
to fix the light

Hold on to your love, hold on to your love
Hold on to your love - it's all that you've got
[repeated...]
lovesick.


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True Or False?

Sometimes I look forward to, finding the line
Pulling it in to find, there is no end to time
Waiting for judgement day, Marching away
Staring into our face

I can see Human race bent on destruction
But I believe in reconstruction

Is it true, or false is it true, or false,
Tell me someone please, cause I need to know

I see good ol' Thomas Edison
Science and medicine
There goes Albert Einstein
Never learn their lesson

Fuel to the flame
Since man discovered Fire
It will be the same, always the same.
For all time... whoa lunchtime... for all time

Sometimes I look backwards to
Dig up the past
Finding myself in the dark
Heading nowhere, fast

And sometimes we still fail to see
Beyond the heart
what was is and will always be
worries me

oh my I turn the pages
the hands of time, the dust of ages

Is it true, or false is it true, or false,
Tell me someone please, cause I need to know

I see the whole world, tossing and turning
the whole world, killing and burning
the whole world, never learning

All the land will ??
? sight of blood
there goes Issac Newton
We never learn our lesson


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More

People are always wanting
All the things they never had
Temptation makes it so
I know, I know I know
When you had a Cadillac you don't want no Ford
Everybody's saying:

Gimme some more, I want some more
Gimme some more, got to have some more
Gimme some more, just a little bit more...

Can't always be Christmas
You can never get too much of anything
There's no such word as ample, for example
Housewife wants more gadgets
The Russians want the world

Everybody's wanting
So much more of this
A little bit more of that
There's so much more than there is
There's so much more...
There's so much more of this
A little bit more of that
There's so much more...

Gimme some more, I want some more
Gimme some more, got to have some more
Gimme some more, just a little bit
More of this
A little bit more of that
There's so much more than there is
There's so much more
There's so much more of this
A little bit more of that
There's so much more....

So gimme some more, got to have some more
Gimme some more, (just) got to have some more
Gimme some more, just a little bit more...


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Counting The Beat

Look at the sunrise
I look at it burn
I look into your eyes
Don't know where to turn
I'm gonna drift into that void
I'm flying through space, I'm an asteroid
Time doesn't take place when you're paranoid
I'm thinking about you, and nothing else

Thinking about you, you're thinking about me
Thinking about you, I'm counting the beat
Thinking about you
Thinking about me
Thinking about just you and me, la da de de, there ain't no place I'd rather be
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

I'm bleeding to death
On a cloudless day
A three, a four heartbeat
A waltzin' away...
Oooh ooh, oo oo
Oooh ooh, oo oo
Oooh ooh, oo oo
Oooh ooh, oo oo

I'm counting the beat 2 3 4 5, I'm feeling the heat to be alive
I'm counting the beat 6 7 8 9, I'm wishing that you,
That you were mine

Thinking about you, you're thinking about me
Thinking about you and counting the beat
Thinking about you
Thinking about me
Thinking about you...
Thinking about me...
Thinking about you.....
Thinking about,
Just you and me, la da de de, there ain't no place I'd rather be

La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da
La da de da, la da de da, la da de da, la da de da


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It Ain't What You Dance It's The Way You Dance It

It Ain't What You Dance It's The Way You Dance It
Well my knees are knocking, my feet are hot
I'm a-shaking all over, on the spot
I said one step, two step, three step fou
r Shuffle our way across the floor
Takes two to tango
Up and down, pogo
Flamenco or limbo
On your marks, get set, go go

Well it ain't what you dance, it's the way you dance it
It ain't what you move, it's the way you move it
I said "oh no, let's go
Dance all night at the disco"

Moving around, like a night on the town
Well it ain't what you dance, it's the way you daaaance it!

Well my toes are twinkling, hop skip and jump
Do the charleston, do the bump
Dance the old, dance the new
Waltz to the schmaltz and soft-shoe
Cha-cha, rrrhumba!
Bossanova and polka
Do the swim, watusi
Let those feet go free

It ain't what you dance, it's the way you dance it
It ain't what you move, it's the way you move
I said "oh no, don't stop
Biddley a bee bop, bee bop"

Moving around, like a night on the town
Well, it ain't what you dance, it's the way you daaaance it!

Oh, I couldn't live if the music ever stopped
I'll still be dancing till the day I drop
I'll never stop, nooo!

Shake around, jump and jive
Hang five, do the dive
Twishing and swinging
Keep on dancing

It ain't what you dance it's the way you dance it
It ain't what you move it's the way you move it
It ain't what you dance it's the way you dance it
It ain't what you groove it's the way you groove it

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!


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Ayatollah

The Shah of Iran, he ran from terror
People's revolution taking over th land
It wasn't always like that

There's a new superman - Ayatollah Khomeini
Put a spell on Iran - a dark eye genie
Oh Ayatollah man - he rules the way

He's got a head the size of Hitler
And they call him Ayatollah
He's just another Mussolini
And his name is Khomeini
I'm singing
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ay-oh-oh tollah Khomeini
Aye-oh-aye

He does what he does in the name of religion
There are no answers, there are no questions
Makes his own rules, just another dictator
A game for fools of the gambling nature
Oh Ayatollah man - he rules the way

He's got a head the size of Hitler
And they call him Ayatollah
He's just another Mussolini
And his name is Khomeini
I'm singing
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ayah, Aya-tollah Khomeini
ay-oh-oh tollah Khomeini
Aye-oh-aye

Ayatollah, Ayatollah, Ayatollah, Khomeini!
kho-kho-kho-meini

He's got a head the size of Hitler
And they call him Ayatollah
He's just another Admiral Tojo
and this is how the song goes
singing ayah, Aya-tollah [etc...]


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Five O'clock Shadow

Alarm bell rings, the kettle sings
And you don't know what's happening
The night before is just another blur

The water's cold, the bread has mold
How many times have you been told
or, is it simply never occurred

Can't get no job
'Cos you look like a slob
They took one look at you
Get out of my life!
Get out of my head!

You're a no-hoper, a no-coper, a real moper
There's no hope for you

I get a feeling that, You need someone to pull you through

You take a dip in the dark
Under the moonlight
A walk in the park, following
You take a jump in the lake
It'll be alright
You live in a Five O'Clock Shadow
Because you live in a Five O'Clock Shadow

And then they find some work for you
Collecting down at city zoo
Hate to see their cash in your palm
Comtemplate Suicide
But you're already died inside
Need another shot in the arm

You find a girl, she's a regular pearl
She takes two looks at you
Get out of my life!

I get a feeling that, You need someone to pull you through

You take a dip in the dark
Under the moonlight
A walk in the park, following
You take a jump in the lake
It'll be alright
You live in a Five O'Clock Shadow
Because you live in a Five O'Clock Shadow
Because you live in a Five O'Clock Shadow

Come the end another day
You follow the Five O'Clock Shadow
Look into the mirror
See a face, a Five O'Clock Shadow
Shadow, Five O'Clock Shadow, Five O'Clock Shadow [repeat]
da-la-la-la-la [repeat]


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Funny Feeling

hey hey!
la-la-la!

Hey!
What's that you say?
A little black blind
It's all in your mind

And I say "oo-ooh! what's that you do?"
When explodes inside of you

And it's so easy - so ea - so ea - so easy you can do
???
fortunes come and go
?
?
funny feeling inside
You still got two kids running
Up and down your spine

Oh it must be that Funny Feeling inside
A feeling you just can't hide
??????? get burned away

Oh... you don't know-o-oh
What you feel - you just can't show

And it's so easy - so ea - so ea - so easy you can do
???
???
Funny think h(?) yeah(?)
funny - ho-ho-ho

Oh it must be that
Funny Feeling inside
A feeling you just can't hide
??????? get burned away

And still it makes no difference
I can see it in your eyes
It's that Funny Feeling inside
It's that feeling you just can't hide
It's that Funny Feeling inside
It's that feeling you just can't hide
OI!

Funny feeling
Funny feeling

Hey-hey! hey! hey! hey!...

Keep it away! keep it away
Keep it away, keep it away
Keep it away, keep it away

Funny feeling,
Funny feeling, fah-fah-feeling
Funny feeling, baby peculiar
Funny feeling...


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Distortion

Sitting in your bedroom, ha!
In your private cell, hell!
trying not to worry
you don't look too well

oh it goes in one ear and out the other yak!
writing fingernails and pulling out your hair

it was just this morning, bing! a-ing!
hurting in your head
took a sleeping pill
spend teh day in bed, ay

Distortion!
So out of proportion
Twisted and contortion
Talking about Distortion...

Sitting on your doorstep, yep
Watch the welcome mat
Great Imagination
Make you break down and cry

Everything you do
Seem to turn out wrong
No matter how hard you try
The agony so strong

oh it goes in one ear and out the other yak!
writing fingernails and pulling out your hair

Distortion!
So out of proportion
Twisted and contortion
Talking about Distortion...

oh sometimes you don't act, and then you do
this times I get it mirrors is bliss
eyes right!
burn white!
in sight!
eyh-light
bu-ah!
Distortion!
whoa-ah!
Distortion!

Di-di-di-di-distortion
So out of proportion
Twisted and contortion
Talking about Distortion...

Distortion!
So out of proportion
Twisted and contortion
Talking about Distortion...


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Hit The Beach

Sixth of June, Nineteen Fourty-Four
We're off the coast, we're off the shore
Of Normandy!
We're going to hit the beach

Men and machines, and ships of war
Hoping to blast their way through the door
To liberty - Allied Victory

la-la-lala la-da-genie, la-la-lala la-da-genie
Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach!
oh oh Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach!

Men around me, men I know
Got their stomachs in the throats
But they don't let it show, no-no-no!

I got my carbine, I got my bayonet, I got my hand grenades
And my steel helmet
And a picture of my girl, and a picture of my girl

la-la-lala la-da-genie, la-la-lala la-da-genie
Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach!
oh oh Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach! Hit the Beach!

And now we're going in, we wanna get blown away
don't wanna die
It's too late now, the ramp goes down
No turning back, we're going in

All around me I see death and destruction,
and the sea is red with blood

Pushing through the waves, through the blinding smoke
God it's raining steel
Soldier in front of me is terrified, he doesn't want to die
I don't want to die!

Three seconds later, shrapnel wipes off his face,
and it goes floating by

whoa-oh-oh, oh, oh Hit the Beach!
oh-oh-oh, oh oh-o Hit the Beach!

there are bodies and there are bullets
but they're exploding into little bits
god I mean it, oh god I mean it
Hit the Beach!
I Hit the Beach...

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