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| Ballad of the Ladyman Eye cream and thigh cream
 how 'bout a get high cream?
 Nothing  do smoothes out the feelings
 of being used
 The Ballad of a Ladyman
 
 Freak that I am
 Live in Japan
 Let's rock with the tough girls
 in this part of the world
 Take a photograph
 Portrait of a Ladyman
 
 Are we holding on to our pride a bit too long
 Are we breaking you apart
 Are we breaking on guitars
 
 They say I've gone too far
 with the image I've got and
 they know I'd make a mint
 with new plastic skin
 and a hit on the radio!
 Oh, tempations of a ladyman
 
 I could be demure like
 girls who are soft
 Or boys who are fearful of
 getting an earful
 but I gotta rock!
 I'd rather be a ladyman
 
 how many times will you decide
 how many lives will you define
 how much control should we give up of our lives
 (You sit at home with an alibi
 in case they call and ask you
 why all you do is go
 "ooh ahh ohh"
 you're out of control but saying
 "ooh ahh ooh")
 
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| Ironclad You went down in the very first round
 sitting ringside in a tiny town
 Knock out, knock out
 First round, first round
 
 This could be our very last stand
 The Monitor and the Merrimac
 too bad, too bad
 You're ironclad, ironclad
 
 When you call you will call the loudest
 When you fall you will fall the hardest
 
 Who do you love?
 What would you kill
 to make a heart stand still?
 What would you pay
 to make the hate go away?
 
 Why battle-cry, dry your eyes
 no one can hear you
 Once iron made heart or spadeno one can steal you
 
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| All Hands on the Bad One You can't get to heaven in a silver spoon
 You can polish everything
 except for the mark on you
 
 Come be the first in line
 To shake the hand of mine
 (They call you out and up)
 
 All Hands on the Bad One
 We would be no better
 
 You can't get to heaven in your Sunday best
 When the night before they were calling it
 your cocktail dress
 
 You can't get to heaven with a three chord song
 They called you a sinner
 but the people want to sing along
 
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| Youth Decay Acid tooth
 It's got nothing to do with you
 but if you wanna watch me chew
 My teeth are cutting you out
 
 Stomachache
 Well it must be in your head
 It must be something that you did
 Food just doesn't seem to work out
 
 Am I rotting out?
 Daddy says I got my mama's mouth
 I'm all about
 a forked tongue and a dirty house
 
 Mom has said
 Yes this happened to me long ago
 But no one would believe me when I said:
 Close my mouth
 Was I born to accommodate
 I'm so good at playing dead
 words just don't seem to come out
 
 Should I eat something sweet instead
 Wash away all those things we said
 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
 Hhow many doctors
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| You're No Rock'n Roll Fun You're no rock n' roll fun
 like a party that's over
 before it's begun
 You're no walk in the park
 more like a shot in the dark
 with clues left for no one
 
 And all the boys in the band
 know how to get down
 fill our Christmas socks
 with whiskey drinks
 and chocolate bars
 And when the evening ends we won't
 be thinking of you then
 Although the best man
 won't hang out with the girl band!
 
 You're no rock n' roll fun
 like a piece of art
 that no one can touch
 Your head is always up in the clouds
 writing your songs
 Won't you ever come down?
 
 And all the boys in the band
 know how to get down
 fill our Christmas socks
 with whiskey drinks
 and chocolate bars
 And when the evening ends we won't
 be thinking of you then
 Even if your song
 is playing on the jukebox
 
 You wanna party with the lights on
 Come on	I like it dark!
 You always wanna hear the same old song
 Come on play another song!
 
 You're no rock n' roll fun
 
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| #1 Must Have Bearer of the flag from the beginning
 Now who would have believed this riot grrrl's a cynic
 But they took our ideas to their marketing stars
 and now I'm spending all my days at girlpower.com
 Trying to buy back a little piece of me
 (Everywhere you go they say "Hello,
 weren't you the one that sold your soul?"
 Every time you leave the say "Oh no,
 why did you ever let us go?")
 
 And I think that I sometimes might have wished
 for something more than to be a size six
 But now my inspiration rests
 in-between my beauty magazines and my
 credit card bills
 
 I've been crawling up so long on your
 stairway to heaven
 And now I no longer believe that I wanna get in
 And will there always be concerts where
 women are raped
 Watch me make up my mind instead
 of my face
 The number one must have is
 that we are safe
 (Everywhere you go teenage
 is the rage
 inside your pants
 and on the front page
 EVerywhere you go it's die or be born
 if you can't decide then
 it's your own war)
 
 No more
 
 And for the ladies out there I wish
 we could write more than the next
 marketing bid
 Culture is what we make it
 Yes it is
 Now is the time
 to invent
 
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| The Professional There is a sound
 they don't want you to own
 Arrest every word
 that escapes from your throat
 They hand you the world's smallest microphone
 It's still too loud and you're asked to go home
 
 She can stay as long as she swears
 that when she breathes it will be
 her own air
 She'll state her case and take up space
 and that suffocates-
 The professional
 
 There is a sound that they want
 you to hear
 To drown out the voice
 that plays in your ear
 They hand you the world's biggest razor blade
 an amateur bleeds
 but she hardly gets paid
 
 She can be mad but they'll let her know
 the scorched earth
 allows nothing to grow
 and she'll be blamed but feel no shame
 'Cuz she'll have stopped-
 the professional
 
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| Was it a Lie? The yard was cold and dark
 the tracks were clearly marked
 But she was tired/ she didn't see
 She was just out alone
 She wasn't going home
 she was going somewhere far away
 
 The train was moving through
 as we know the world has to do
 Everyone will say it was her fault
 Somewhere a camera is placed
 inside this awful place
 The accident is about to start
 
 Was it a lie?
 Did it fill you head
 Did it entertain?
 Will you feel alive
 at the end of it?
 
 When the collision came
 she died right away
 her body flung almost sixty feet
 and as she split in two
 was she coming straight for you
 and do you have a camera for a face?
 was she your TV show
 Was she your video
 
 A woman's pain never private,
 always seen
 I want to close my eyes
 I want to cut the wires
 I want a day not made for you to see
 
 When you play it back to me
 it feels more like a parody
 And that's all I will ever be
 It's all I will ever be
 I really dont' care about it
 I dont care if it's cold
 I really want to be the prettiest wreck
 you've seen
 (You broadcast it in 50 states
 looped her death on the internet
 and a woman's life got cheaper that day
 a woman's life got cheaper that day)
 
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| Male Model He's got a perfect face
 Turn away before you go
 and turn me on
 I cannot look away
 I'm stunned
 it's that Je ne sais quoi
 uh huh
 He talks to me in my sleep
 Does he write my songs for me?
 Should I try to play just like him?
 Kick it out, could you show me your riffs?
 
 You always measure me by him
 Don't get me wrong
 I'm not opposed to something big
 
 I'm so sick of tests
 Go ahead and flunk my ass
 You don't own the situation, honey
 You don't own the stage
 We're here to join the conversation
 and we're here to raise the stakes
 Now do you hear that sound
 as the Model breaks
 Take the stage
 
 Let the image of him fade away
 Go back and tear the pictures from the page
 It's time for a new rock n' roll age
 History will have to find a different face
 and if you're ready for me
 I just might be what you're looking for
 
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| Leaving You Behind I wonder how you looked the day you were erased
 To look down at your heart and watch it fade
 Did you disappear or were you just misplaced
 Left behind with no one else to blame
 
 It's all gone but something lingers on
 a place I used to call home
 Now me, you, and the ghost
 Looking for thing we lost
 Laughing at the way it was,
 Looking for the one we lost
 (are you letting go?
 Thinking clearer now that it's over
 There's no one to blame
 As we walk away
 Why is it I just feel so heavy
 What do i take away?)
 When you're in a room
 it's all that I can feel
 Get so used to loving
 what's not real
 There's nothing I can hold,
 No real tears to cry
 You can't breath life back into lie
 
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| Milkshake'n Honey 14 Rue de Savoy
 is where the flat was let
 We shacked up in Paris two days
 after we had met
 
 Eighteen bars of the sonata
 and you were mine
 This music gig doesn't pay that good
 but the fans are alright
 
 Darling come home
 I can't take the apartment alone
 You left your beret behind
 and your croissant is getting cold
 
 Visa, Mastercard, discovered
 that I was spent
 Took my heart, my best jeans, and left me
 with paying the rent
 A user, abuser, a loser
 but I didn't care
 I've always been a guy with a sweet tooth
 and that girl was just like a king-sized candy bar
 
 Pick up the phone
 Meet me at the Sorbonne
 Keep turning me on
 With those French words I can't pronounce
 
 Milkshake n' honey yeah
 Milkshake n' honey yeah
 
 Ma petite, comment sera?
 
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| Pompeii And then one fine morning
 she woke, she knew
 one long look at her life
 It was you
 (What you want you might never have
 Wait for it until it forms a scar)
 
 Come hell or high water
 Her heart was made
 No friend and no love
 Will get in the way
 
 For size long years happiness spoke
 but then the time was up
 the spell was broke
 (Take your time, no hurry up
 Change your mind, go back to the start)
 
 She said that I have done
 to get my way
 What I have done
 to get this day
 
 You're gonna find out
 You're gonna get low
 It's time to darken your soul
 Fortune weary love
 Fortune weary love
 Baby don't you dare give up on me now
 
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| The Swimmer The swimmer is so far from the distant shore
 The only time she never feels alone
 On the land her body distorts
 In the water lines are true to her mind
 I can hardly see you now
 Are you getting closer and
 Do you know yo're the one?
 They will never understand
 How washed up you feel on the land
 The sport light of the sun, it shines on
 
 The Swimmer knows she'll never touch the floor
 She can float unharmed by murky wars
 And the land is as plain as her skin
 But the water shines like the star in her mind
 
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