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Moe Berg: guitar, vocals; Johnny Sinclair: bass; Kris Abbott: vocals, guitar; Dave Gilby: drums; Leslie Stanwyck: vocals, acoustic guitar. Producer: Todd Rundgren. Guest musician: Gary Windo, saxophone on "Survival." All songs written by Moe Berg, © 1989 EMI April Music Canada / Pursuit of Tunes, except "Food," "Shave Your Legs," "All I Want" and "Forbidden Fruit," which are © 1988.
Female vocal lines in italics
Food
Your love is like greasy fried noodles / Instantly gratifying - makes me want
to come back for more / You fill me up and I'm hungry an hour later / Got to
have another serving - give me a sweet encore / Come on over for some barbequed
pork / I want to get you on my fork and then I'm gonna swallow you whole / Want
to baste you on both sides get you nice and tender / Want you to melt in my
mouth - give me a sensory overload /
Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death /
Sometimes you're a little like shake and bake chicken / A little hard on the outside but so soft within / I bite through your coating and you ooze all over me / I feel just like a pig with your juice running down my chin /
Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death /
For dessert how about a nice piece of your cherry pie / With some whipped cream on it, that would taste so unreal / After we're done I see you sucking on a cigarette / You know there's nothing like a smoke after a good hearty meal
Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death / Ring the dinner bell, I'm starving to death /
Two Girls In One
Well, she's two girls - two girls in one / She's the woman that she
wants to be and the woman she's become / Don't even bother trying to figure
it out / Go figure - two girls - two girls in one /
Well, she's never been hungry, she's never been poor / But when you tell her what it's like / She seems to know a little more / Yelling through the bathroom door / 'Bout how to liberate the masses / While she's putting on her lipstick / And curling her false eyelashes /
'Cause she's two girls - two girls in one / She's the woman that she wants to be and the woman she's become / Don't even bother trying to figure it out / Go figure - two girls - two girls in one /
She won't wear a ring on her finger / No man can tie her down / But she wears one in her nose / So he can pull her around / Sensitive and vulnerable, that's the kind she likes best / But he's got to have muscles / And a lot of hair on his chest /
'Cause she's two girls - two girls in one / She's the woman that she wants to be and the woman she's become / Don't even bother trying to figure it out / Go figure - two girls - two girls in one /
She provokes your lust just so she can refuse it / Sex is a weapon but only she's allowed to use it / She uses her whims to tell her what's wrong and right / And her ignorance to paint the world black and white /
'Cause she's two girls - two girls in one / She's the woman that she wants to be and the woman she's become / Don't even bother trying to figure it out / Go figure - two girls - two girls in one /
New Language
Don't make me speak in a new language / Just let me tell you the way that I
feel about you / I sure don't want to offend anyone / But if you take away my
words how can I tell you the truth /
An old-fashioned boy and a modern girl / The way that we talk turns our heads around / Your passion is real when I'm in your arms / But when you speak it gets watered down / I know I'm not very articulate / I can't express myself innocuously / But what I say - it comes from the heart / Must you distort the real meaning /
Don't make me speak in a new language / Just let me tell you the way that I feel about you / I sure don't want to offend anyone / But if you take away my words how can I tell you the truth /
I know it's been said that talk is cheap / But we know the power it really has / Must it be rigid and so benign / Can't it be free and efficacious /
Don't make me speak in a new language / Just let me tell you the way that I feel about you / I sure don't want to offend anyone / But if you take away my words how can I tell you the truth /
Don't make me speak in a new language / Just let me tell you the way that I feel about you / I sure don't want to offend anyone / But if you take away my words how can I tell you the truth / Please don't take away my words / And let me tell you the truth /
Something Physical
His kisses are like drugs / They turn your eyes inside your head / Your skin
comes alive / And your brain shuts off / Then he turns on you and he's cruel
and heartless / You can't figure out what went wrong / He's a hungry baby far
from his mother / And you're no comfort at all /
There's something physical between you / That keeps you tied to him / Like chains, it'll drag you down /
When he's not around it's easy to intellectualize / That he's no good / So you sit at home and you sleep / And you dream a little more than you should / Then he opens the door / There's liquor on his breath / And perfume in his hair / He holds you close -- he's so warm and strong / And gradually you don't care /
There's something physical between you / That keeps you tied to him / Like chains, it'll drag you down /
Sometimes you don't hear from him at all / And the voice in your head becomes a shout / What has he got that you can't live without /
It's something physical between you / That keeps you tied to him / Like chains, it'll drag you down
The One Thing
I'm no ladies man - I don't run around / It's really not my style / I mean I
like to flirt but I don't want to hurt / You could say I'm just a friendly guy
/ It doesn't often happen but sometimes I'll get a girl laughing / That's if
she'll even give me a look / But when it comes to matters of the heart I'll
tell you right up front / I'm playing by the book /
Baby, there is one thing I am saving just for you / Darling, I got one thing I ain't giving to nobody but you /
Sometimes if she's not shy I like to steal a little kiss / A little kiss if she's willing and young / Sometimes she'll be a little too eager / (I hate it when they almost choke you with their tongue) / That's when I back off and try and catch my breath / And think of what I've got to lose / She might be pretty and witty and fun but between the two of you / I know who I'll choose /
Baby, there is one thing I am saving just for you / Darling, I got one thing I ain't giving to nobody but you /
Sometimes I go too far - the girls just think I'm icky / They can see the boner in my pants / I know I should keep my hands to myself / But I can't - I just can't / My skin gets creepy crawly and I'm so alcoholly / That I know it's time for me to leave / 'Cause it all means nothing / I belong to you and that's something you'll just have to believe /
Baby, there is one thing I am saving just for you / Darling, I got one thing I ain't giving to nobody but you /
No Safe Place
I've got a little girl, though I know it won't be long / Before she finds another
boy who will sit her by the fireplace / And sing her a song / And it feels like
there's no safe place / In a world that's come apart / And the deafening sound
of a bursting bubble / Wakes you up with a start /
Is there nowhere that is safe / Why can't we change the rules so I win / All I need is an escape / A temporary place to hide /
When she's coming in the door when she's walking out the door / Hard to tell which is worse / That false feeling of relief when she comes in / Or the empty feeling when she's gone / And every night on the streets the forces of darkness / Score another victory / And I stand with the timid waiting for the devil / To make a martyr of me /
Is there nowhere that is safe / Why can't we change the rules so I win / All I need is an escape / A temporary place to hide /
Fold up the tents and load up the trucks / 'Cause it's time to move on / If we only knew where to go / I hope that we'd already be gone /
And even when we're lying together / I make sure she falls asleep first / It seems when things are at their best / My mind starts to wander to things at their worst / So do I fall asleep and dream of a peace / That never will come / Or do I roll over and let her break the glass around my heart / And set off the alarm /
Is there nowhere that is safe / Why can't we change the rules so I win / All I need is an escape / A temporary place to hide /
Shave Your Legs
If you shave your legs I'll stay home every night / I'll defer to you; I'll
let you win every fight / I'll forget about all the things that you said / All
the times you've hurt me and left me for dead / If you Neet your legs I'll lie
at your feet / I won't come home drunk and fall fast asleep / I'll ignore the
fact that you've broken my spirit / That contempt in your voice, I'll pretend
I don't hear it /
I'll do anything that you want / If it means that we can stay together / I'll do anything that you want / Can't we keep the peace and stay together /
If they're soft and smooth I'll be faithful and true / I'll forget all my friends that take time from you / I know you're not attracted to me any more / But we can keep that hidden behind our locked door / If they're sleek and shiny we can have a child / You can call it want you want, you can let it run wild / Just rub yourself against me once in a while / Let me run my lips down them, give me a reason to smile
I'll do anything that you want / If it means that we can stay together / I'll do anything that you want / Can't we keep the peace and stay together /
Runs In the Family
Paula's sister has legs as long as hers / Maybe a little bit longer / They're
tan and shiny and newly grown / And they fit so easily on her / Paula's sister's
eyes sparkle and flair / With the promise of her youth / Paula's eyes are beautiful
but dark / Because they know the truth /
I guess that beauty runs, runs in the family / runs in the family / I guess that beauty runs in the family / It's as easy as DNA /
Paula's sister has no lines on her face / Nobody's hurt her yet / Paula's smile is still devastating / But I see it less and less / She looks a lot like Paula did / When we first met / Before I wore her spirit down / And filled her with regret /
I guess that beauty runs, runs in the family / runs in the family / I guess that beauty runs in the family / It's as easy as DNA /
I'm talking to her like an older brother / She's talking to me with her shoes off / She looks at me with innocence / I look away /
I guess that beauty runs, runs in the family / runs in the family / I guess that beauty runs in the family / It's as easy as DNA /
All I Want
There's no sound like the sound of you breathing / It's the sound that I want
to put me to sleep at night / There's no word like the name that I call you
/ It's the song that I sing to make everything right / I don't want to change
your way of thinking / I don't want to change what you believe / I don't want
you to change a single thing / All I want is your hand tonight /
You are the heaven that I've chosen to believe in / Your face lights the light of hope inside of my heart / The miracle of when we're together / Lives inside of me through the times that we are apart / I don't want you to walk on the water / You don't have to prove yourself to me / I don't need you to catch the roof above me / All I want is your hand tonight /
Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / All I want is your hand tonight /
Sometimes I think about you walking the street / Doing things that any other person might do / Sometimes I wonder what makes you think of me / Is it anything that I can follow you through / We don't have to be lovers in danger / Wouldn't put that kind of strain on you / Maybe we won't live happy ever after / All I want is your hand tonight /
Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / All I want is your hand tonight /
We don't have to be lovers in danger / Wouldn't put that kind of strain on you / Maybe we won't live happy ever after / All I want is your hand tonight /
Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / Want is your hand tonight / All I want is your hand tonight /
Forbidden Fruit
Why do men choose evil / Why do men choose pain / Why do I choose to see you
again / Why do your eyes tempt me / Why do I want you so much / I know your
body would break me, so I won't touch /
Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow / There'll be no turning back / You can't go back / Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow /
I try to avoid you / We can't be left alone / If I could just undress you, that's as far as I'd go / It makes me feel so guilty / I feel so ashamed / Maybe I'll go outside and wash you off me in the rain /
Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow / There'll be no turning back / You can't go back / Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow
Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow / There'll be no turning back / You can't go back / Forbidden fruit - the taste of sorrow
Little Platoons (My Neighbourhood)
My neighbours in the real world / Are like the people in my dreams / The numb
walk with the wicked / And I walk in between / They're really hard to talk to
/ But they've always something to say / It's either thick and incoherent or
undercut with rage /
Things out here can get a little crazy / People are aimless - not so smart / A bit lazy / Things in my neighbourhood can get a little rough / But that's where my room is, that's where I keep my stuff / It's where I keep my stuff /
Women around here don't fare all too well / There's usually a comment or a taunt from some loser who smells / The ones who get married or shack up don't last too long / Their men like to fight - sometimes with guns /
Things out here can get a little crazy / People are aimless - not so smart / A bit lazy / Things in my neighbourhood can get a little rough / But that's where my room is, that's where I keep my stuff / It's where I keep my stuff /
Some of the old ones have lived here for years / They keep their places nice in spite of everything / Once they had a meal for the lonely and downtrodden / Now they lock their doors tight - those days are forgotten /
At night there's a lot of yelling at each other and to themselves / I hope I never hear somebody's final cry for help / There's a lot of hate out there so I keep my head down / Past the 7-11, down my dark street till I get home /
Things out here can get a little crazy / People are aimless - not so smart / A bit lazy / Things in my neighbourhood can get a little rough / But that's where my room is, that's where I keep my stuff / It's where I keep my stuff /
Survival
When you get scared you come to me pleadingly / I must be there whenever you
call / To betray your faith would be my greatest sin / Your love's so deep it
makes me feel small /
Now it's me, not your father, keeping the ghosts away / When we kiss it's a bond that I cannot hide from / I can't hurt the one I'm trusted to care for / It's not love any more - it's survival /
When we're apart I cannot comfort you / But your heart is safe with me every night / When temptation's hand pulls me away from you / I must resist or forfeit my life /
Now it's me, not your father, keeping the ghosts away / When we kiss it's a bond that I cannot hide from / I can't hurt the one I'm trusted to care for / It's not love any more - it's survival /
Now it's me, not your father, keeping the ghosts away / When we kiss it's a bond that I cannot hide from / I can't hurt the one I'm trusted to care for / It's not love any more - it's survival /