You’ve been asking everyone you know
’bout my life and where I go
Such an effort doesn’t have to be
Grab your things, come and see

COME AND SEE
COME AND SEE

What’s been squirming in your dreams
Some desires just ain’t so clean
Late at night you know where I’ll be
Grab your things, come and see

CHORUS REPEAT (X2)

(ahs)

CHORUS REPEAT (X2)

Come and See!

Some only see darkness in life
They spend there days mired deep in strife
They watch the news and see only woes
But I’ve never been one of those

I’M ONE WITH THE SUN
I’M ONE WITH THE SUN

I SPLIT THE NIGHT AND I WASH IT AWAY
I LEAVE THE STARS WITH NOTHING TO SAY

You’ll get a tan when I come in the room
Your spirits soar, your prospects bloom
I’m hell on wheels in a bar room fight
No one can touch me, I’m too damn bright

CHORUS: REPEAT

Round and round, day to day
Smiling like a fool
Never know quite why

(solo)

There’ll come a day when my light will fade
My spirit’s gone, my body decayed
But don’t you worry, I’ll not be far
Just take a glance at the closest star

Round and round, day to day
Smiling like a fool
Never know quite why

I’M ONE WITH THE SUN (x6)

WHAT DO I GET BUT NOTHING?
WHAT DO I GET BUT NUH -UH OTHING?
WHAT DO I GET BUT NOTHING?
WHAT DO I GET BUT NOTHING?

I take you out, you wander off in the crowd
A bar tab is the company I’m allowed

I give you all the pretty things
I’m always there when the telephone rings
I do just about everything
Its true
Its true!

CHORUS: repeat

I pay your tickets when you run a red light
But come my birthday there’s no celebration in sight

I give you all the pretty things
I’m always there when the telephone rings
I do just about everything
Its true
Its true!

CHORUS: repeat

(bridge)

CHORUS: repeat

The world is turning down
That’s what she said
Shakin’ her head

In politics we’ll drown
Gored on shores

Of of this golden age

How can this be!
Why can’t they see!
That nobody cares?

TAKE A NUMBER BABY
PUT IT IN YOUR OVERCOAT YEAH
JUST TAKE A NUMBER BABY

PUT IT DEEP INSIDE YOUR BAG

The freaks are in the street
Hunting us down
That’s what he said

I just can’t compete
With leather and chains
And that crazy hair

Prehook: Repeat

CHORUS REPEAT (plus)
TAKE A NUMBER
JUST TAKE A NUMBER
TAKE A NUMBER
JUST TAKE A NUMBER…

(bridge)

The world is turning down (X4)

CHORUS: REPEAT (2nd Chorus)

Send a card out
Wash it away
Just words with nothing to say
Empty nights stretch endlessly
That’s all, all you mean to me
All you mean to me
All you mean to me

Years go by
Where do I go?
I Stalk the city like a faint shadow
Empty nights stretch endlessly
That’s all, all you mean to me
All you mean to me
All you mean to me

Lovers come and lover go

They last as long as the summer snow
A different face and a different name
But to me they’re all the same…

(solo)

The day ends
The sun hangs low

I share my dinner with a TV show
Empty nights stretch endlessly
That’s all, all, that’s all you mean to me

All you mean to me
All you mean to me
All you mean to me
All you mean to me…

Rundown streets, seaside bars
Mermaids stacked in glassy jars
Dark arcades where dealers sleep
Calling out with dreams they keep

Out on boardwalks lovers creep

Over rickety piers, water so deep
Thru museums filled with wax
Sinister figures never relax

GIVE ME A RIDE TO NEPTUNE CITY
WHERE LIFE’S ELECTRIC AND PEOPLE PRETTY
NEPTUNE CITY WHERE SHADOWS CALL
JUST CAN’T SEEM TO FIND MY WAY AT ALL

Beneath the waves, sirens sing
Beautiful songs, beautiful dreams
A sailor that drowns in their embrace
Dies with a smile on his scruffy face

CHORUS: REPEAT

(bridge)

Thanks for stopping, I could use the ride
I’ve been trapped in the strangest tide

The closer I get to being free
The further I’m drawn
The further I’m drawn… out to the sea

Out to the sea
Out to the sea
Out to the sea

Out to the sea…

none (instrumental)

Sandy Strange bought a house
Four doors from my own
A ramshackle rotting place
Once a palace home

She sits up in the window
Bathed in candle light

A pixie smile across her face
Casting thru the night

Leaves swirling at her feet
The coldness of the air
Wind across her pale face
The darkness of her hair

QUITE A CHANGE, QUITE A STRIDE
SOMETHING YOU CAN FEEL INSIDE
MIDNIGHT TAKES ANOTHER BRIDE
WHEN SANDY STRANGE …
PASSES BY

Sandy shops downtown
In weird little stores
She buys the oddest clothing
The kind you can’t ignore

In them she’s cuts quite a form
Hovering down the street
Her snakey shape an opium
To every eye she meets

PREHOOK: REPEAT

CHORUS: REPEAT

(bridge)

PREHOOK: REPEAT

CHORUS: REPEAT

SHE’S THE QUEEN OF THE CATHODE RAY

PRETTY TO LOOK AT, NOT MUCH TO SAY
QUEEN OF THE CATHODE RAY
PRETTY TO LOOK AT, NOT MUCH TO SAY

Since she left high school
She’s never missed a beat
She’s an avalanche of photographs
With the fans all at her feet

The cameras flash, crowds amass
Don’t seek a reason why
As shallow as a contact lense
But such a tempting lie

CHORUS: REPEAT

When eloquence escapes her
She wears a fancy dress

When critics denigrate her
She’ll be posing for the press

She’ll last five years, maybe ten
Unless she dies quite young
If so you’ll hear how great she was
For all the years to come

Ahs

(bridge)

CHORUS: REPEAT

Dance across a dark roof top
Girders, vents, you never stop
Looking down on those below
They don’t see, me they don’t know
They don’t know, don’t know

Midnight battles in the air
Blows and strikes from everywhere
Never run it thru your mind
Life up here leaves no time
To think, To think

AND YOU KNOW JUST WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG
AND YOU KNOW JUST WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG

AND YOU KNOW JUST WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG
AND YOU KNOW JUST WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG

Race across an endless night
Jumping ledges taking flight
Duck under a shining moon
Find yourself a little room
To hide, To hide

Dance across a dark roof top
Girders, vents, you never stop
Looking down on those below
They don’t see, me they don’t know
They don’t know, Don’t Know
Don’t know!

(bridge)

CHORUS: REPEAT

Dance across a dark rooftop
At this pace you’ll never stop
Years and years go racing by
Still you stand up on high
And smile, And smile, and smile

CHORUS: REPEAT