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The Great Radio Controversy
by Tesla
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The Great Radio Controversy Lyrics
Lyrics
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- Took a shot to the chin.
- Looks like you just can't win
- In this do or die situation.
- And it's harder than it seems
- To survive, keep alive and make your dreams,
- Make your dreams all come true.
- You gotta, you gotta give it your best shot.
- Give it ev'rything you got.
- Oh, you gotta hang tough.
- Hang tough. Hang tough.
- Sometimes love can make you blue.
- A heartache made just for you.
- But you can't let it bring ya down.
- If you should stumble, if you should fall,
- Pick yourself up off the floor.
- Fight for what's right and stand your ground.
- You gotta give it your best shot.
- Give it ev'rything you got.
- Oh, you gotta hang tough.
- Hang tough. Hang tough.
- When the goin' gets rough.
- Hang tough. You got to give it all you've got.
- Hang tough. Keep your head above the ground.
- Don't you let it get you down.
- Oh, you gotta hang tough.
- Hey! Oh! Hey! Oh!
- You stay locked away inside your room
- 'Cause you don't know what this world is comin' to.
- Hummingbird hums 'cause he don't know the words
- And the piper will play 'cause he don't know what to say.
- He's alot like you, yeah. Oh, he's alot like you, yeah.
- He tries hard ev'ry day to be free and fly away. Yeah!
- Hang tough, oh, when the goin' gets rough.
- Hang tough. You've got to give it all you got.
- Hang tough. Keep your head above the ground.
- Don't you let it get you down.
- Oh, you gotta hang tough.
- Hang tough. Oh, you got to give it all you got. You gotta
- Hang tough. Don't you let it get you down.
- Hang tough. No! Oh, you gotta hang tough.
- Hang tough.
- Hang tough!
- With a snap in her style and a click in her heels.
- In seconds flat my heart she could steal.
- Lookin' ev'ry bit of a where it's at.
- More like breakfast, lunch and dinner, as a matter of fact.
- Mm. There she stood in living color, standin' all alone.
- So I walked up to her, I say, "How do you do?"
- And she said, "I don't".
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- When all I wanted was some company.
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- You know she walks right out on me.
- Hard as it seems, but not as hard to believe.
- What can it be?
- I guess I'm on a losin' streak.
- And I know it's true, I got a bad attitude.
- But I'm down on my luck. Bitch, tell me, what's your excuse?
- Tell me now.
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- When all I wanted was some company.
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- You know she walks right out on me.
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- When all I wanted was some company.
- Lady Luck took a walk.
- You know she walks right out on me.
- Lady Luck (Lady Luck) took a walk. (took a walk)
- [Fade Out]
- (Keith, Skeoch)
- You know I'm on a slick trip, I'm always ready to kick ass
- Up on the stage I'm in a rage, I'm havin' the time of my life
- Yes, indeed, what a sweet, sweet life it is
- Until some loco two-bit floosie with a Louie Le-Strange
- Ain't good for nothin' but trouble
- They're just two fools livin' up to their names
- And now it's startin' to rain on my parade
- You know there's nothin' like the real world to get me down
- There's nothin' like the world outside that turns me upside down
- It makes me feel like I'm headin' down a one-way, dead-end street
- [Chorus:]
- There's no way out, no way out of this living hell
- No way out, no way out, unless you walk heaven's trail
- No way out, no way out of this living hell, livin' hell
- You know I had it made in the shade, thinkin' that it's not so bad after all
- That's when I woke up, smelled the coffee, I'm back where I started again, yes
- And now it's pourin' rain on my parade
- No there's nothin' like the real world to get me down, no
- One is there to lift you up, one to drag you down
- Now, don't you see that we're heading down a one-way, dead-end street
- [Chorus]
- [Solo]
- There's no way out, no way out of this living hell
- No way out, no way out, unless you walk heaven's trail
- No way out, no way out of this living hell - I guess I'll live in hell
- [Chorus]
- Yes, it's a beautiful thing
- You know, I'm on a slick trip, I'm always ready to kick ass
- Hey! yeah, yeah. Uh huh.
- Bustin' ass all day
- Just to put food on the table.
- And I always will for as long as I am able.
- Done all I could,
- Ev'rything that a man should do.
- Still they refuse to call me,
- Call me what I am. Hey!
- Do you know what it takes to be a man?
- Don't take a whole lots of money,
- Diamond rings upon your hand, no.
- That ain't what it takes to be a man.
- Do right by the ones you love,
- Always give a helpin' hand. Yes, I do.
- Now I've been through it all
- Seen the good, the bad, the ugly.
- Always take care of my share of responsibilities.
- Now, just because I grow my hair
- And play in a rockin' band,
- Old folks are always telling me,
- "Boy, why don't you grow up
- And be a man." Hey!
- I know what it takes to be a man.
- It ain't the way you look
- Or the clothes that you wear.
- That ain't what it takes to be a man.
- Do right by the ones you love,
- Always lend a helpin' hand.
- I know I got what it takes,
- I know I got what it takes to be a man.
- So go ahead and say what you will.
- Because I know what I am,
- Just what I am. Ow!
- Alright. Ow! Hey!
- I know what it takes to be a man.
- I've got what it takes
- And you know I know what I am.
- I know what it takes to be a man.
- So go ahead, say what you will
- 'Cause I know what I am.
- I'm a man.
- Hoo hoo hoo hoo. I'm a man.
- I know I got what it takes,
- I know I got what it takes, ow!
- Down on the corner, walkin' the streets.
- She smiles for ev'ryone she meets.
- He's not a man, no, he's just another trick.
- She'd do it all just to get that fix.
- Did you do it for love?
- Did you do it in the name of love?
- No, it ain't love she's gonna find.
- She's got just one thing on her mind:
- Money. She did, she did it for the money.
- All in the name of money.
- All for the dirty green.
- Cold in the city with the traffic slow.
- He's got nobody, no place to call home.
- Takin' hard earned money from a poor, helpless soul.
- Didn't do it for love.
- Didn't do it in the name of love.
- No, it ain't love he's out to find.
- He's got just one thing on his mind:
- Money. He did, he did it for the money.
- All in the name of money.
- All for the dirty green.
- [Bridge]
- And the young girl, she gets down on her knees, she's there to please.
- She wants her money.
- And then the young man says, "Now, put your hands in the air.
- Give me what I want, Give me what I need. Now don't you see?
- All I want, all I want, all I want is your money, yeah. Give it to me!"
- He's got the money, left the scene of the crime.
- Not a clue would he leave behind.
- One's bad misfortune make for another's eats.
- And now the young girl's trick's his treat.
- Money. He did, he did it for the money.
- All in the name of money.
- All for the dirty green.
- For the money. He did it, did it for the money.
- All in the name of money.
- All for the dirty green.
- Oh.
- Yesterdaze gone.
- Why did she go, where'd I go wrong?
- Is it somethin' that I said
- That made you walk away?
- Yesterday is gone
- Why did she go and leave me lost in yesterday?
- It's gonna be alright.
- It's gonna be O.K.
- All I need is somebody to squeeze
- To forget about yesterday. And I
- Try (try, try) to forget her.
- And I'm told
- The sooner the better
- Yesterdaze gone
- Why did she go, where'd I go wrong?
- Is it somethin' that I said
- That made you walk away?
- Yesterday is gone
- Why did she go and leave me lost in yesterday?
- Day after day,
- Night after night,
- I'll keep on lookin' till I find a way
- To get her off my mind. And you know I
- Try (try, try) to forget her.
- And I'm told
- The sooner the better
- Yesterdaze gone
- Why did she go, where'd I go wrong?
- Is it somethin' that I said
- That made you walk away?
- Yesterday is gone
- Why did she go and leave me lost in yesterday?
- It's gonna be alright.
- It's gonna be O.K.
- All I need is somebody to squeeze
- To forget about yesterday. And I
- Try (try, try) to forget her.
- And I'm told
- The sooner the better
- Yesterdaze gone
- Why did she go, where'd I go wrong?
- Is it somethin' that I said
- That made you walk away?
- Yesterday is gone
- Why did she go and leave me lost in yesterday?
- Why did she go and leave me lost,
- Why did she go and leave me lost, lost in yesterday?
- Somehow, someway, you know I'll make it through another day.
- Now, I don't wanna waste your time,
- I only want to satisfy.
- So wind me up and watch me go,
- I'm gettin' crazy as the night unfolds.
- Gimme, gimme what I want,
- Keep it up now, don't stop,
- And I will do the same for you.
- I'm gonna take it over the top.
- What you see ain't what you get,
- There's more than meets the eye.
- 'Cause you ain't seen nothin' yet.
- It's up to us, me and you,
- Together we can fly high, high.
- I got you, now you got me.
- Feels so good to be
- Makin' magic, makin' magic,
- It ain't no mystery. Come on!
- Get down, way down low.
- C'mon let's get on with the show.
- And let the music set you free.
- Like a leaf in the wind, let it be.
- Gimme what I need to satisfy
- This dirty one-track mind.
- You know I ain't got nothin' but time
- To burn with you tonight.
- Now anything you see is everything you get
- At your desire.
- I know it's makin' you hot and know it's soakin' me wet.
- Higher and higher, feedin' the fire,
- Let it burn.
- He's got her and she's hot and you got me.
- Don't it taste so sweet!
- Makin' magic, makin' magic,
- It ain't no mystery.
- Now, when I get into you, get into me.
- The rest is history.
- Makin' magic, makin' magic,
- Let's get it together. C'mon.
- Ready, get set, just like one two and three!
- Now it's taking me away to that magical land.
- Many will search and never find what's yours and mine.
- You got me burnin' hot, now you're soakin' me wet.
- Even better thana lick and a kiss.
- Makin' magic, makin' magic,
- It ain't no mystery.
- Now, you think you've seen it all.
- You ain't seen nothin' yet.
- It sure beats the rest.
- Makin' magic, makin' magic,
- It ain't no mystery.
- (Keith, Luccketta, Skeoch, Hannon)
- Doesn't matter who gets the best of who, or who can hurt who the most, no
- It never was meant for it to be that way, never should be that way at all
- [Chorus:]
- The way it is, that's the way that it goes, happenin' day after day, yes
- That's the way it is, that's the way that it goes
- Workin' in the strangest ways
- Even though we could never seem to work things out
- I still love you just the same, I do
- I miss your smile and that sparkle in your eyes
- You're so beautiful, never change!
- [Chorus]
- What it is, and what it was, what shall be shall be, yeah
- Sometimes it happens in the strangest ways
- Sometimes it's hard to believe (do you believe?)
- Do you believe, can you believe?
- The way it is, that's the way that it goes
- Workin' in the, workin' in the strangest ways
- [Solo]
- Now it really don't matter who, who gets the best of who
- It never did and it never will, no
- It never was meant for it to be that way, why must it be that way at all?
- The way it is, that's the way that it goes, happenin' day after day, yeah yeah
- That's the way it is, that's the way that it goes
- Workin' in the, workin' in the strangest ways
- That's the way it is, that's the way it is
- That's the way it is, that's the way it goes, yeah
- Yeah, that's the way it is, that's the way it goes
- That's the way it is, that's the way it goes
- I see it happen day after day, yeah, yeah
- Now I'm workin' in the strangest ways
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
- [Solo]
- Can you believe, do you believe? Do you believe, can you believe?
- That's the way it is, that's the way it is, yeah yeah yeah
- That's the way it is, that's the way it goes, yes it do
- Alright!
- "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Tommy Skeoch"
- Look at me, I'm young and bold.
- Even though I may be growin' old,
- I'm never slowin' down.
- No, I won't slow down.
- I feel like dynamite, I'm ready to explode.
- Amplifier pushin' overload.
- Outta touch with reality
- To the point of insanity, yeah.
- Goin' down on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, gettin' nowhere fast.
- Goin' down, I'm on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down.
- Opinion is a piece of mind.
- Some are good, some are just like
- Where the sun don't shine.
- You know sometimes they can stick out loud, yeah.
- Now, the more you look, the more you're gonna find.
- More than enough to blow your mind.
- It's such a mess, it's a cryin' shame.
- And we've only got ourselves to blame.
- Goin' down on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, gettin' nowhere fast.
- Goin' down, I'm on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down.
- So just stop, let me off.
- Seems that I can't get my point across to you.
- I know you're listening,
- But I'm just not getting through, yeah, yeah.
- Now there's one more thing I would like to say:
- This is everybody's world and everybody's
- Gonna live it their own way,
- No matter what we say, yeah!
- Now the headlines read all across the lands
- 'Bout the motherfuckers gettin' way outta hand.
- Troubled minds are full of hate,
- Willin' to destroy the human race.
- Goin' down, I'm on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, gettin' nowhere fast.
- I'm goin' down, I'm on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, gettin' nowhere fast.
- Goin' down, on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down.
- Goin' down, I'm on a flight to nowhere.
- Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down.
- (Keith, Hannon)
- Alright! Now this next song, I'm gonna leave the stage, I'm gonna leave
- you people with the man on the acoustic guitar, mr. Frankie Hannon
- [Solo]
- So you think that it's over, say your love has finally reached the end
- Any time you call, night or day, I'll be right there for you
- If you need a friend
- It's gonna take a little time, I know, time is sure to mend your broken heart
- But don't you even worry, Philadelphia, 'cos I know you'll find love again
- Love is all around you, love is knockin' outside your door
- Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
- Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
- Love is all around you, yeah yeah, love is knockin' outside your door
- Waitin' for you is this love made just for two
- Keep an open heart and you'll find love again, I know
- [Solo]
- It's all around
- It's all around
- Love will find a way - darlin', love is gonna find a way
- Find its way back to you
- Love will find a way - so look around, open your eyes
- Love is gonna find a way - love is gonna, love is gonna
- Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way, yeah
- Love will find a way - love is gonna find a way back to you, yeah yeah yeah
- [Solo]
- Love will find a way - darlin', love is gonna find a way
- Find its way back to you
- Love will find a way - oh just look around, look around
- Open up your eyes now, honey
- Love is gonna find a way - love is gonna, love is gonna
- Love is gonna, love is gonna find a way, yeah
- Love will find a way - love is gonna find a way back to you, yeah, I know
- You know what Philadelphia?
- I know, I know, I know, I know
- Whoo! Thank you very much, Philadelphia!
- Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute! Remember that song we were gonna sing now?
- Okay, yeah
- Tear 'em up, cowboy!
- We're gonna go back there with drums from our heads
- So tonight's as good a night as any to try. Help us out
- (Keith, Wheat, Hannon)
- Hold me close now, hold me tight, don't let go of me tonight
- You're all I want, you're all I need
- Hold me close now, hold me tight, and don't let go of me tonight
- Sweet paradise, yeah
- How I love all of those crazy little things you've said and done for me
- You're the one for me
- Darlin', dry your eyes, I can't stand to see you cry
- Now just turn and walk away, don't look back when I say goodbye paradise
- Days go by and life goes on, I feel I've been away too long
- What I would give to be with you, days go by and life drags on
- Feel I've been away too long, for much too long, yeah
- And all the while that I'm away, don't let our love fade away
- Don't you fade away
- Now as sure as the sun is gonna shine, the day will come
- Now I'm waitin' for the day, there'll be no more sayin' goodbye paradise
- My sweet paradise, you are the reason why it tears me up inside
- And I break down and cry, didn't wanna say goodbye paradise
- I'm comin' home to you tonight, comin' home to you tonight
- So hold on tight, tonight I'm on my way back home to paradise
- I'm so lost without you, I can't live without you
- I've been away too long, now, tonight I'm on my way back home to you
- My my paradise, my my paradise
- To hold you in my arms, you're all that I adore
- To see your smilin' face as I walk through the door
- I'll never say goodbye again, no
- [Solo]
- Hey, we're Pogo! Oh, okay. Here we go
- As a matter of fact, this song was wrote about a town that is not part of
- where we're from (Freebird!) No, we're not from Alabama, man
- We're from California (Californ-I-A. We like Philadelphia though, I mean)
- Oh yeah, we like ya a whole bunch (yeah, we're ready)
- It's the same old song and dance,
- You're askin' me for a second chance.
- I don't care, baby, what you say,
- All I wanna do is gotta get away.
- Been too many times callin' out your name,
- You promised me, but you never came.
- Was it, baby, all a game to you? Yeah.
- After all the things that I've done for you,
- Say your love, your love, could not be true.
- I don't need nobody like you.
- So turn out the lights, the party's over.
- Turn out the lights, the party's over for you.
- This time is the last time, never be a next time.
- Tonight I wanna dance to a brand new tune.
- You know, it took so long for me to realize
- You got a cheatin' heart full of dirty lies.
- Now listen baby, I got news for you.
- Now don'tcha come knockin' on my door.
- 'Cause I don't want your love no more.
- I don't need nobody like you.
- So turn out the lights, (lights out) the party's over.
- Turn out the lights, (lights out) the party's over for you.
- This time is the last time, never be a next time.
- Tonight I wanna dance to rock and roll.
- I guess it must-a been you were so caught up
- That you didn't even notice we were fallin apart.
- Now you played the game, now you play the fool.
- I don't need nobody like you.
- I don't want it. I don't need it.
- No, no, nobody like you. All I got to say.
- So turn out the lights, (lights out) the party's over.
- Turn out the lights, (lights out) the party's over for you.
- This time is the last time, never be a next time.
- Turn out the lights, the party's over.
- Turn out the lights.
- Turn out the lights. (turn out the lights)
- Turn out the lights, the party's over.
- Turn out the lights. (turn out the lights)
- Turn out the lights, (lights out) the party's over.
- Turn out the lights, the party's over. Yeah.
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