Talkin\u00b4 Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt.1
Stan Ridgway

Didn't want no MTV,

Didn't want no VH-1

Was a time so long ago

Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun

Made a great big noise

For all the girls and boys

It was 1977

Now two are gone to heaven

Yeah, I was in an office space

There across the street

Down an alley, dirty stairs,

And a basement underneath

Brendan ran The Masque

He played drums, we drank a lot

We started playing underground

People started comin' round

Comin' round.

Mark Moreland played his guitar

And I clawed there at the keys

Little brother Bruce showed up one day

And now we're three

I had this rhythm box

That I got from Yogi Bear

And Joe and Chas jumped on to play

And we practiced music night and day

Night and day.

Hey, the scene was growin' out

People everwhere

Old hippies, beatniks, glam-rock kids

Goin' punk rockcut their hair

One night we played The Whiskey

With Miss Ivy and Mister Lux

Backstage the record man approached

Yeah, we thought we had hit the bucks

Big bucks.

So we put out a record EP

Jim Hill was our engineer

And when it got played on the radio

We could not believe our ears

There it was.

So we went out on the road

Started playin' near and far

Drivin' in that beat-up van

Or two or three old cars

Drivin' everywhere.

Then the sharks showed up and circled

A big manager for Sting

Said sign here, boys, you'll all be stars

We'll go for that brass ring

The contract was like a book

Two hundred pages long

We signed there on that dotted line

Just a dollar for each song

Just a dollar.

Things started gettin' wild

With the band and me and Marc

We did that methedrine a lot

And drank that Cutty Sark

Richard Mazda came from the UK

Helped us to record in a brand new way

One weekend, Marc's song fell out

The single they still talk about

We made a video

With Frank Delia behind the lens

Labor Day in Mexico,

Lots of beans 'n drugs 'n friends

But all was gonna bust

Hey, how are chumps like us to know

We took off on that tour so long

And played and sang our radio song.

Oh-woah.

Now, it seemed like that old voodoo dog we had

Was payin' for its fees

We lost control of our own band

To the record company

Yeah, I guess we blew it big time

Business got us bent

We played a show for fourty grand

And the manager took every cent

Every goddamn cent.

Yeah, things got worse, and pretty soon

It was time for me to go

I did my best to patch it up

But we were all just big assholes

So, if you wanna make a band,

Get ready for a good ride

Don't let weasels, sharks, and fiends, and creeps

Force you to comprimise

Uh-huh.

Didn't want no MTV,

Didn't want no VH-1

Was a time so long ago

Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun

Made a great big noise

For all the girls and boys

It was 1977

Now two are gone to heaven


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