1. Up Around The Bend

оригинал: Creedence Clearwater Revival

There's a place up ahead and I'm goin'...
Just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away if you're goin'...
Leave the sinkin' ship behind

Bring a song and a smile for the banjo
Better get while the gettin's good
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway...
Where the neons turn to wood

Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend
Yeah

Yeah

You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crystal day
Always time for a good conversation
There's an ear for what you say

Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend
Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend
Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend

Yeah...

2. High School

All the times I spent suffering in school, y'know
Thinking I was so supercool, and baby
All the teachers gave me so much grief
I wanna blow 'em up just to get some relief

Sister, sister, they call me a parasite
Sister, sister, they wanna bury me alive
All day, all week, all term long
They'd come for me... hoping I'd be gone

Time made me realize...
Why should I be victimized?
So I took control... and decided to teach

I wanna teach highschool
Highschool, yeah

Listen!

I tell the little buggers what to wear you know
I show 'em how to set and dye their hair, and baby
There'll be no costumes at our swimming pool
There'll be no ugly girls at my highschool

Girls... who are very bright...
Must stay in class all night...
And practice their biology

I wanna teach highschool
Highschool
I love to teach highschool
Highschool

1, two, 3, four, 5, six, 7
One, 2, three, 4, five, 6, seven
1, two, 3, four, 5, six, 7
One, 2, three, 4, five, 6, seven, 8

Time made me realise...
That I could brutalise...
And get revenge with impunity

If I could teach highshool...

A, B, C, D, E, F, G
How I love anatomy – highschool
2+2 and 3+3
Students have a ball with me – highschool

A, B, C, D, E, F, G
How I love anatomy – I don't teach highschool
2+2 and 3+3
Students have a ball with me – highschool

A, B, C...

3. I Can't Get It

So many things that mean a lot
So many things that I... never got
You can look boy... but you can't touch
What I don't have seem to mean so much

A beat up Chevy or a Mercedez Benz
Should make no difference in the end
But I get mad, baby real upset...
'Cos what I want I can never get

They're just like cattle walking down the street
Some get so fat while others never eat
I may be shut out but I ain't finished yet

My mind is blank, I take another drink
I'm not destroyed... but I'm right on the brink
I sit and count them shot by shot
The little things that I never got

Those uptown ladies on 5th Avenue
It's like I hate them but I want them too
I may be shut out but I ain't finished yet

I don't get it, I don't get it at all
I don't get it, I don't get it at all
Why I can't get it
Why it's a thing I'll never get
I said... I can't get it
Why it's a thing I'll never get

I can't get it, I can't get it, I can't get it, I can't get it
Oh you don't understand
All that's going all over my head
Try to get it
I can't get it at all

A yacht and a Rolls and a private jet
A dirty blonde in a red Corvette
Wife and kids and a house and a pet
Those are the things that I can't get

4. Underwater World

Beneath the streets in the cars, on the trains, or in the underground I'll be waiting
You can spare a dime or you're be mine and we're going dancing tonight
In the tunnels underground the subway rats run all around and hungry
So come and hide, step inside, we're going on a midnight ride

On the subway underground it gets a little rough
This ain't no tunnel of love
Hurricanes running through my veins
I know that you're lost and alone

And I feel no pain...
In my sea of drains...
In my, my underwater world

Welcome to the ocean
Welcome to the sea – yeah yeah
Welcome to the jungle... deep inside of me – yeah yeah

Sink or swim, you dive right in and you know this ain't no place to mess around in
In my swamp, underground, the quicksand slowly sucks you down
Down here... I call the shots, like it or not what you got I'm getting
You have to come down to my slum, well welcome Chum, now sit down and listen

So welcome to the ocean
Welcome to the sea – yeah yeah
Welcome to the jungle... deep inside of me – yeah yeah
I lay you wide open... for all the world to see – yeah yeah

My, my, my underwater world

5. Don't You Ever Leave Me

The nights are wearing me down... and it's hard getting through the day
'Cos I need you right now, and right now you're so far away

I guess that I should have known... that I'd end up this way
But I swear I'll come home and then nothing will drag me away

Don't you ever leave me baby
Don't you ever leave me now
Don't you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now

The lights are slowly going down
On Lexington Avenue
And me, I'm all alone feeling the tears falling down from my eyes

A subway train is passing by... driving into the darkness
I jump inside 'cos I ain't got nowhere to sleep tonight

6. Million Miles Away

Took too much of this
Had too much of that
But with you I never got enough
I thought there'd never be a love in my life
And that's sad 'cos when I think what I could've had
It makes me feel so bad

I smoked a lot of sky
I drank a lot of rain
Anything to ease my pain
But now your touch is all it would take
And that's a shame 'cos I can never come home again

And you're a million miles away
I'll never get a chance to hold you
So my message is the wind
I pray that it gets through to you

Loving you was so easy
And leaving you was so very hard
And now I'm living in this ocean of blue
In the corner of a prison yard I should have listened to you

And you're a million miles away
I'll never get a chance to hold you
So my message is the wind
I pray that it gets through to you

Please don't be thinking of me
Please just forget about me

7. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

All these broken dreams... have made me see...
That I am strung out, somebody rescue me
Well, do I have to tell you that I love you
Do I have to tell that I care
Do I have to tell you that I need you to be there

'Cos in the middle of the night... when I'm much too weak to fight
You know you're such a welcome sight... in the middle of the night
Yeah

On the boulevard of broken dreams
Yeah I talk so bad and I act so mean
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I gotta get back on my feet

And was it only yesterday... you came my way...
Or was it just a while ago
And do I have to tell you you're my lover
Do I have to tell you I'm your slave
And so we have to dance until you're dancing on my grave

And my lips are turning white
And my jaw is getting tight
And the sun is burning bright
In the middle of the night
YEAH

On the boulevard of broken dreams
She'll eat your heart and she'll eat your face
On the boulevard of broken dreams
And I gotta get back on my feet

Do I have to tell you that I need you
Do I have to show you that I care
Do I have to lie and steal to have you
Do I have to sell myself somewhere
Then we can dance all night together
You'll be my queen I'll be your slave
And we can stay awake forever
Until we're danicing on my grave

On the boulevard of broken dreams
Boulevard of broken dreams

8. Boiler (My Boiler'n'Me)

My boiler's walking down the street
High heels, lips of a beauty queen
When I look her in the eyes
I never tell no lies
No, no, no, no, no

Life took a sudden turn
When she made my poor heart burn
I used to be a lonely bloke
I thought romance was a joke
Yeah, yeah, ye, ye, yeah

She's my boiler and I love her so
Never ever gonna let her go
I'm her boy and her toy's in my pants

Ronettes are on the radio
And we always sing along
She's the first bird on me list
She makes me have one off the wrist
Yeah, yeah, ye, ye, yeah

When my boiler starts to scream and shout
I whisper "Doll, do leave it out"
I have a booze-up with me mates
And I don't come home 'till late

My boiler and me

9. Futurama

My little lover's gonna be another
Copy of Raquel Welch
I'll build her a house and a maid named Jill
And spend tha rest of my life down in Beverly Hills

I'll never have to feed her
And she'll stay pretty all the time
(Oh, yes she will...)

I love the way she's gonna rock and roll
From the early morning'til late at night
Non stop rock'n'bop and she'll never ever die

When I want money she can go to work
As a roadie for Adam Ant
And if he comes on strong he'll be in for a shock
'Cos she'll open his face and clean his clock

I'll never have to feed her
And she'll stay pretty all the time

Rock'n'roll

My little girl, the best in the world
Softer than steel, she's alarmingly real
My mechanical girl, my satanical pearl
You the best in the world
Wild thing, I think I love you

My little lover's gonna be another
Copy of Raquel Welch
I'll build her a house and a maid named Jill
And spend tha rest of my life down in Beverly Hills

I'll never have to clean her
And she'll stay pretty all the time (Oh yeah)

10. Cutting Corners

London is grey but it's great in it's way
If you're just barreling through
You find some first class boiler and she
Boils your cares away

Well life is a gas, but the laughs never last
So you add a handful of blues
Now that's a first class ticket if you wanna get away

'Cos if you hang around the greys and brown
They'll just bring you down
Well it's a useless rap you gotta cut the crap go
Directly to the things that matter to you

Have to cut corners of fade away

Going through channels in ties and grey flannels
Just slows everything down
And when I want a thing, I want it right away

Going straight for a heart, tears your wardrobe
Apart, butit weara the other guy down
I may look a mess but I'm dressed to get my way

'Cos if you hang around the greys and brown
They'll just bring you down
Well it's a useless rap you gotta cut the crap go
Directly to the things that matter to you

Have to cut corners of fade away