The Lyrics to the full Wild Wild West Album by the Escape Club
WILD WILD WEST
forty seven dead beats
living in a back street
north east west south
all in the same house
sitting in a back room
waiting for the big boom
i’m in a bedroom
waiting for my baby
she’s so mean
but i don’t care
i love her eyes
and her wild wild hair
dance to the beat
that we like best
heading for the nineties
living in the wild wild west
mandy’s in the back room
handing out valium
sheriff’s on the airwaves
talking to the dj’s
forty seven heart beats
beating like a drum
got to live it up, live it up
ronnie’s got a new gun
she’s so mean
but i don’t care
i love her eyes
and her wild wild hair
dance to the beat
that we like best
heading for the nineties
living in the wild wild west
put your flags in the air
and march them up and down
you can live it up, live it up
all over the town
turn to the left
turn to the right
i don’t care as long as she comes tonight
she’s so mean
but i don’t care
i love her eyes
and her wild wild hair
dance to the beat
that we like best
heading for the nineties
living in the wild wild west
heading for the nineties
living in the eighties
screaming in a back room
waiting or the big boom
give me give me wild west
give me give me safe sex
give love, give me love
give me time to live it up
JEALOUSY
tonight i lie in bed
dreams running round
and around my head
i feel so hot
i feel so low
seems those dreams
won’t let me go
won’t fade out
won’t let me
be so bad it’s killing me
dragging me down
my jealousy
love is cruel and love is blind
love is creeping from behind
hot nights full of flames
burning me up
with her free fall games
i feel so hot
i feel so low
when those memories
won’t let me go
won’t fade out
won’t let me be
so bad it’s killing me
dragging me down
my jealousy
SHAKE FOR THE SHEIK
all around the big bad world
on the CIA machine
ten ten the president’s men
in a big black limousine
there’s and ICBM flying by
get down and get to work
high, high, we’re high and dry
and we’re dancing in the dirt
i’m going to shake for the sheik
’till i feel my body break
i’ve got reds in the bed
hear them dancing in my head
going to shake for the sheikh
’till i feel my body break
i’ve got the blues – bad news
my heart’s dropped down to my shoes
yeah yeah
from the holy temples of beirut
to the factories of japan
got to shine your shoes and hide your loot
and get rich while you can
there’s a red neck rapping at my door
with bibles and grenades
out fighting for a one man war
in bad black mirror shades
i’m going to shake for the sheik
’till i feel my body break
i’ve got reds in the bed
hear them dancing in my head
going to shake for the sheik
’till i feel my body break
i’ve got the blues – bad news
my heart’s dropped down to my shoes
yeah yeah
fat cats bit as rats
jumping to the beat
black black oil
and crack
in a big black limousine
WALKING THROUGH WALLS
some things will never change
some things we’ll never know
walking down the rocky road
down and out
with so far to go
without you on my mind
i’d never make it
without the stars in the sky
well love is love
and one is one
so i turn around
to head for the sun
and now i’m on my way
without any hope
without you on my mind
without any dreams
without the stars in the sky
without any love
there’s nothing at all
so i’m on my way home
and i’m walking
walking through walls
some days just never end
some days go too slow
walking down the rocky road
down and out
with so far to go
without you on my mind
i’d never make it
without the stars in the sky
well love is love
and i lost the fight
so i turn around
and head for the light
and now i’m on my way
without any hope
without you on my mind
without any dreams
without the stars in the sky
without any love
there’s nothing at all
so i’m on my way home
and i’m walking
walking through walls
THE LONGEST DAY
driving down the road
in a foreign town
and the streets and the sun
making my head go round
one eye in the mirror
for the sleeping low
and i’m driving down the road
with my foot on the floor
well it seems like i’ve
been running for a week
and i hardly know my name
i can’t stand the heat
running under cover
i’m running alone
and i’m running from the mess
that i left at home
so far away
on the longest day
so far, so far away
on the longest day
well i never never wanted
to know your name
and i never thought
i’d see your face again
but i’m looking for a bed
or a place to sleep
for a friend at the end
of a dead end street
so far away
on the longest day
so far, so far away
on the longest day
i’ve been drinking on my own
and sleeping in my car
and i never knew the road
could go so far
all the way to heaven
it’ll turn you cold
if your dreams always die
by the side of the road
WHO DO YOU LOVE?
got the whole of the world
in your fingers
got the whole of the world
in your hands
in your hands
got the whole of my world
in your hands
it’s the same as they played
in the movies
it’s the same as you hide
underground
if you could be there
you’d like to be there now
now now now
tell me
who do you love
do you
who do, do you love
got the whole of the world
in your fingers
got the whole of the world
on the run
see the world
through the sights
of a gun
now now now
tell me
who do you love
do you
who do, do you love
where are the good guys
where are they
now now now
where are the good guys
waiting till the sun
comes down
where are the good guys
where are they
now now now
now now now
tell me
who do you love
do you
who do, do you love
STARING AT THE SUN
Sitting on a wire fence
Staring at the sun
Fighting don’t make no sense
Staring at the sun
We are only poor men
Nowhere left to run
We are only tall men
Staring at the sun
Walking through the dust again
Staring at the sun
Waiting to feel the rain
Staring at the sun
We are only poor men
Nowhere left to run
Warriors and tall men
Staring at the sun
Dancing for rain
Walking in the dust again
Dancing for rain again
Dancing for rain
Until the river runs again
Dancing for rain again
Looking out through iron bars
Staring at the sun
All eyes in Africa
Staring at the sun
We are only poor men
Nowhere left to run
Warriors and tall men
Staring at the sun
ONLY THE RAIN
It’s Midnight and the stars
And the bright lights
Shine onto my wall
And in a distant bar
Someone’s blowing
A blue serenade
But only the rain
Will stay with me tonight
Only the rain
And only the rain
Will keep me company now
Since you went forever
I’ve been around
And around all the bad times
That you cried in my arms
That night you never came
Out on the old lines
Thought I heard your train
Now only the rain
Will play it’s song for me
Only the rain
And only the rain
Will keep me company now
Till I get my feet back
On the ground
GOODBYE JOEY RAE
Dream on little brother
Let your conscience sleep
Dream on now, this time the cut
Is far too deep
Dream away, run with the gun
But the war is over now
And they’re going to track you down
Goodbye Joey Rae,
I’m writing you this message in the rain
Goodbye Joey Rae
Though I know that we may
Never meet again
Memories of strange things
In a distant land
Innocents and children
Chase the yellow man
Far away
They sent us then
And you want to shoot them down
But the war is over now
Goodbye Joey Rae,
I’m writing you this message in the rain
Goodbye Joey Rae
Though I know that we may
Never meet again
Even now the memory
Is haunting me
You took a gun today
And set your madness free
I’m breathing on the window pane
And I’m writing in the rain
I won’t be coming back again
Goodbye Joey Rae,
I’m writing you this message in the rain
Goodbye Joey Rae
Though I know that we may
Never meet again
WORKING FOR THE FAT MAN
every day is monday
in the house up on the hill
they’re taking out the windows
but we’re working up there still
till the sun goes down
you can hear the wheels go round
and i’ll slave away
saving all i can
till then i’m working
working for the fat man
looking out the window
as i dream my coloured dreams
swaying to the rhythm
of the sound of the machines
till the sun goes down
you can hear the wheels go round
between you and me
i’ve taken all i can
but i’m still working
working for the fat man
i’m never going to work
i’m never going to work for that man again
but i’m stuck on the line
stuck on the line till i’m sixty five
hey look out jack
going to break your back
and your face will sag
and your bones will crack
till they send you down
for a couple of years
in shadow town
living without breathing
isn’t everything it seems
swaying to the rhythm
of the sound of the machines
till the sun goes down
you can hear the wheels go round
and i’ll save away
saving all i can
till them i’m working
for the fat man
