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Stood Up to Your Love

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I STOOD UP TO YOUR LOVE

ya said its hard to love you
and I useta find that true
but now its impossible
no matter what I do (but)

I stood up to your love
I stood up like a man
I gave and gave and gave
until I didn’t give a damn

if this is the best love
ya can shove into my face
maybe you should shine/save it
caus I seemta lost the taste
(cause I no longer have the taste)

I used to see ya
in your fishnets and mini skirt
I just wanted to know ya
not roll with you in the dirt

but thats your idea of love baby
no matter who gets hurt
you wanna do what you wanna do
you get yours first

well im here to tell ya
better not want me truly yours
cause party of the second part
just ran around the world

I don’t know how ya lost control
but one day I just woke up
one day I was a zombie
a slave to this thing you call love

the next day the fever broke
the mirror was icy still
I looked for your reflection
as you sat on the window sill
For the first time I saw your eyes
the icey timeless calm
I knew I was almost lost
and my soul was almost gone
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Notes/Memo

[just aint got the taste/faith/patience/time to waste]-

 

Stupid Shoes

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STUPID SHOES

Hey pretty mama
have you heard the news
Daddy’s gonna buy you
some stupid shoes

Hey pretty baby
can you believe
Daddy’s gonna part with
some of his green

Go down to K-Mart
Buy whatever you chose
Cause Daddy’s gonna buy you some
stupid shoes

Hey sweet darlin
have you heard
Daddy’s gonna buy you a
stupid bird

And if that stupid bird can’t sing
Daddy’s gonna break both of his wings
and if that stupid bird cand Do the King
Dadd’ys gonna do something terrible to that poor thing

Hey there shnookums
have you heard the word (heard the word, heard the word)
Daddy’s gonna buy you a
stupid T-Bird

Computer assisted aerodynamic design
and Dady can pay for it on time

And if they recall the Ford T-Bird
Daddy’s gonna kidnap Henry Ford the III

Copyright 1986
T.K. Major
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Tell It to Me in a Language That I’ll Understand

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tell it to me baby in a language that I’ll understand

tell it to me baby
in a language that I’ll understand
I don’t speak french italian
hollandaise or hindustan
look like a straight talkin woman
why dont ya give it to me like a man

don’t put it between the lines
I won’t get the inference
dont make some dialectical comparison
cause I don’t know the difference
just come right out and say it
and then lets see the evidence

I know ya got something to say to me doll
don’t bother  putting it in words
I think I know what youre thinking
only I think I thought of it first
i guess the question is
do you want to fall in love [right now]
or do we gotta talk all night first

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Without Warning

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Y O U C A M E W I T H O U T W A R N I N G

You came without warning
on a monday morning
the day was all shot through
by shadows from the past
afterimages of the last
time that I was with you

and it didn’t take nothing
to see that I was something
that you just had to do
Well it mighta been right
on a Monday night
to release a little energy with you
— it mighta been right
in the end it came down to you

And I didn’t mean maybe
when I put it to you baby
There’s just time space and nothing more
But instead of pain
we could have pleasure again
just like before you heard about the fall

so when you come come
come come come around me
please take some form
take some from I can see
Well ghosts are fine
but I like some flesh on mine
Ya can’t steal my love
Ya can’t have my love for free

Copyright 1974
T.K. Major
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Notes/Memo

 

There Ain’t No Heart in My Heart No More

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THERE AIN’T NO HEART IN MY HEART NO MORE

There ain’t no heart
in my heart no more
I don’t know where it’s gone
but it’s gone for sure
Maybe it went with you
when you went out that door
but there just ain’t no heart
in my heart no more

i feel like giving up and maybe I should
I cant go on and I know it’s no good
There aint no meaning
in life any more
no there aint no heart
in my heart anymore

The end just means
we begin again
where did you say I signed
I’ve lived this life
one two many times
I don’t think I can take it twice

Too many loves
too many lies
too many broken lives

too much night
and way too little love
and nothing to show for a life
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Notes/Memo

 

Bankruptcy Court No. 9

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Takin All the Plastic (Leavin’ All the Bills Behind)

my baby left me
left me sad and cryin (high & dry)
x2
she said I’m takin the plastic
leaving all these bills behind

I got a hearing monday down in
bankruptcy court number nine
2x
My baby won’t be there with me
an neither wil my credit ine

>Oh baby those checks you wrote
to the dress and jewelry stores
You hung so much bad paper
they won’t take my (dough) cash no more
>Telecredits got a file on you
takes ten thousand floppy disks
TRW blew a main frame
just counting your bad checks
>You drove me to the poorhouse
and shoved me thru the door
but first ya picked my pocket
to make sure they was no more

alternate verse 2:

I got a hearing monday down in
bankruptcy court number nine
My baby won’t be there with me
an neither wil my credit ine

I got a hearing monday down in
bankruptcy court number nine
x
x
My baby won’t be there with me
an neither wil my credit ine
x
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Notes/Memo

 

Baby’s On TV

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Baby’s On TV

Send for the doctor
send for the priest
The End must be coming
’cause Baby’s On TV
She’s talking with her eyes

She couldn’t hold a job
could hardly spell her name
now she’s lunching at the polo lounge
and wintering in spain
(she’s speaking from her heart)
she’s talking with her eyes

I’d been expecting
to be surprised
but when I saw that advert
the sun fell from the sky
she’s talking with her eyes
saying what a fool I’ve been to never realize

just an average girl next door
without an ounce of style
now she’s a jetset darling
soul-kissing me good-bye
shes talking with her eyes

[bridge]

I met her in a cross-dress bar
down in San Antone
She was draped across some gigolo
and most of her clothes were gone

Her eyes were blue her hair was green
and her legs were impossibly long
but most of all it was her blank-eyed stare
that really turned me on

I knew right then
she was the only one
who would ever break my heart
I took her home and we settled down
in the Camelot Trailer Park

But Fate intervened in the mall that day
at the Spokesmodel Try-Out Fair
they loved her look they loved her legs
they loved here blank-eyed stare

[bridge ends]

send for a doctor send for the priest
the End must be coming ’cause Baby’s On TV
Shes talking with her eyes

Shes got clothes She’s got cars
she’s seen with politicians
she’s seen with handsome stars
I’m sitting home watching baby on TV

Babys on TV
Babys on TV

she’s talking with her eyes
saying what a fool I’ve been to never realize
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Notes/Memo

 

Daddy’s Rented Cadillac

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DADDY’S CADILLAC

When I left the high school dance A7
in my daddy’s rented Cadillac
I didn’t know what trouble was Dmin
I didn’t know there was no way back A7

The moon was a hole in the night sky Dmin
heaven knows who was looking in A7
The night was a hole in my life Dmin
and I didn’t know I was falling in A7

I made it past dead man’s curve
and the cliff at the top of the hill
I glided deftly through the hairpin turns
past the old graveyard that’s not quite full

I drove up that twisted mountain road
straight up into the night
Now I was totally all alone
drving through a hole in my life

My heart was pounding but my hands were dry
The engine was throbbing and the gears whined
My mind was racing at the speed of light
and my knuckles on the wheels glowed ghostly white

My life was the road and the road was my life
as it twisted and turned into the night
The road was the world and the world was night
as I rounded the bend and drove straight into the light

My eyes were shadows in the back of my brain
My mind was unravelling and my soul was in flames
The car was gone I was cut loose in space
Dogs from heaven laughed in my face

I was spinning I was falling I was going down
fallilng through a world without light or sound
I was watching from a hill from far away
when the Caddy hit the gas truck —

G r e a t B a l l s o f F l a m e !

©1981,TK Major
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They Own the Judges

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T H E Y O W N T H E J U D G E S

They own the judges
they own the congress
they own the papers
and the magazines

they own the cops
they own the armies (and)
the think that they own
you and me

They own the doctors
they get rich from our suffering
they own the churches
and the sinners inside

they own the colleges
the print-outs of knowledge
they own and use history
to their own ends

they own the farms
they own the farmers
they own the factories
and the workers lives

they own the gangsters
and they run the wores
they own Vegas
and the gamblers (trapped) inside

they move in the shadows
of presidents and corporations
the means of production
in a handful of hands

you can’t live without money
they enslave us with wages
they pull the strings
that make you and me dance.

1976 (?)
Revision May 1986
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Notes/Memo

1976 (?)
Revision May 1986

The phrase “print-out of knowledge” is from the original song. I was taking computer classes in 1973 and 1980 and was fascinated with technological terminology, sometimes to the detriment of my songwriting.

 

 

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Blue Recollection

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BLUE RECOLLECTION (I) [original – rewritten incorporating war on alcohol]
Now the last thing I remember
You were walking out the door
Yes the last thing I remember
You were walking walking out that door
My hand reached for the bottle
and then there ain’t no more

you’re just a blue recollection
I swear y’ain’t nothing more

I wake up at nite
but it ain’t because of you
Oh yeah I wake up at nite
but it sure ain’t because of you
I’m just listening to the plaster crack
and the clock tick in the next guy’s room

you’re just a blue recollection
but that ain’t nothing new

Maybe ya gave me a rough time baby
but lya didn’t tear my world apart
I been kicked around by bigger than you baby
Ya didn’t tear my world apart
In fact I knew you’d be trouble
Way back at the Start

You’re just a blue recollection
it ain’t like ya broke my heart

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BLUE RECOLLECTION

Now the last thing I remember
You were walking out the door
My hand reached for the bottle
then there ain’t no more

you’re just a blue recollection
I swear that ain’t nothin’ new
I been having trouble forgetting to remember that I don’t still love you

I wake up at nite
but it ain’t because of you
I’m just listening to the plaster crack
and the clock tick in the next guy’s room

you’re just a blue recollection
I swear that ain’t nothin’ new
I been having trouble forgetting to remember that I don’t still love you

Now the last thing I remember
You were walking out the door
My hand reached for the bottle
then there ain’t no more…
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Notes/Memo

alt/reject:

Maybe ya gave me a rough time baby
but lya didn’t tear my world apart
I been kicked around by bigger than you baby
Ya didn’t tear my world apart
In fact I knew you’d be trouble
Way back at the Start

You’re just a blue recollection
it ain’t like ya broke my heart