The Overlords
Stan Ridgway

Well I been breakin' rocks up on coolie #3
I know it's been forever, thought you'd never hear frome
The weather up here is rotten, rainin' granite all the time
And both moons are glowin' purple and there is no sun to shine
I been diggin' deep down in a tunnel that goes twenty miles down
And I know my life is cheap when I hear that rumbln' sound
CHORUS
Oh the overlords
Got me workin' overtime
Oh the overlords
They never make it rhyme
And there is something in the air that is burnin' in my throat
A big black cloud is passin' droppin' acid on my coat
The overlords got me workin' overtime
CHORUS
It's been ten years and a day after world war nine
They pushed us to make meaning and from their meaning was our crime
Last night I had a dream where the guards all fell asleep
I jumped the fence outside this pen and then I hotwired up
The warden's Jeep
And I took a walk
CHORUS
I still rmember all those nights we had together up on Mars
We both stood in line t get some new tattoos
While the kids got cut some scars
And when they check the beds tonight,
They'll find a note scratched in the pine
You now can seek me underground where' I7ll be monkey-wrenchin' all the
time
CHORUS
>From a planet out in space
A signal you could trace
Controllin' what you feel but you never see their face
Oh the overlords, got me workin' overtime
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Lost Weekend
(Wall of Voodoo)
Performed by Wall of Voodoo
Driving out of Vegas in their automobile
She was in the backseat while he was at the wheel
With the windows wide open
All the money frome store they'd gambled away
He said, the best laid plans often go astray.
She took the page fromher book and turned it down
She lit a cigarette
She didn't make a sound
And I know if we'd had just one more chance, he said,
I know-we'd finally hit the big one at last, she said
CHORUS
Instead of another lost weekend
Lost weekend
Another lost weekend
Lost weekend
Pull over soon, she said, it's no big deal, you can take any exit that
you happen to f feel is the right one. The right one.
Aas she slowly blew her somke out the rear wind vent
She thought back on all the letters she'd sent
For a contest to be on a quiz game show
Maybe I shoulda stayed in school, he said.
Yeah, I know-start your own business cleaning swimming pools, she said
CHORUS
She leaned forward over the front seat
And twiddled with the radio dial
She looked out the window
Sw a sign and both of them began to smile
There's a place we could stay at...it's up another mile.
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Stan Ridgway The Overlords


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  A Mission in Life   Afghan/ForKlift   Afghan\/ForKlift   After the Storm   Amnesia   An Act Of Faith   Animal Day   As I Went Out One Morning   Back In Flesh   Back Towards Diamond Bar   Bel Air Blues   Beloved Movie Star   Beloved Movie Star Redux   Beyond Tomorrow   Big American Problem   Big Dumb Town   Bing Can't Walk   Bing Can't Walk ('cause Bob Broke Both His Legs)   Brand New Special And Unique   Call Box   Call Box (1-2-3)   Call Of The West   Calling Out to Carol   Camouflage   Can't Complain   Can't Make Love   Can't Stop The Show   Cannon Song   Cannon Song (aka Army Song)   Classic Hollywood Ending   Crack The Bell   Crow Hollow Blues   Crystal Palace   Deep Blue Polka Dot   Deep Inside We're Blue   Dogs   Don't Box Me In   Don't Drop The Soap   Don't Drop The Soap (For Anyone Else But Me)   Down the Coast Highway   Drive She Said   Drive, She Said   End Of An Era   End of the Line   End of the Line [*]   Factory   Floundering   Foggy River   Free Of It All   Full Of Tension   Funzone   Garage Band '69   God Sleeps In A Caboose   Goin' Southbound   Gone the Distance   Good Times   Hands Of Love   Harry Truman   Hear That Bird   Heat Takes a Walk   Hell In A Handbasket   Highway Song   I Wanna Be A Boss   Into The Sun   Invisible Man   Jack Talked   Jack Talked (like A Man On Fire)   King For A Day   Knife and Fork   Lonely Town   Longarm   Look At Their Way   Lost Weekend   Luther Played Guitar   Mama Had A Stove   Man of Stone   Me And My Dad   Mexican Radio   Mission Bell   Monsters of the Id   Mr. Smith   My Exclusive Sex Club   My Own Universe   My Rose Marie (A Soldier's Tale)   Nadine   Neon Mirage [Instrumental]   New Blue Mercedes   Newspapers   Old Bent Coin   Only A Hobo   Operator Help Me   Our Manhattan Moment   Overlords   Peg and Pete and Me   Picasso's Tear   Pick It Up   Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)   Pick It Up And Put It In Your Pocket   Pile Driver   Pink Parakeet   Police Call   Red Light   Right Through You   Ring Of Fire   Ring Of Fire (Single Edit)   Rio Greyhound [Instrumental]   Running With The Carnival   Salesman   Sixteen Tons   Snaketrain   Spy World   Stormy Side Of Town   Stranded   Susie Before Sunrise   Talk Hard   Talkin\u00b4 Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt.1   That Big 5-0   The Big Heat   The Can't Stop The Show   The Gumbo Man   The Last Honest Man   The Man In The Long Black Coat   The Passenger   The Roadblock   They Don't Want Me   This Way Out   Throw It Away   Time Inside   Time Wave Zero   Tomorrow   Train Of Thought   Triangle Head   Tse Tse Fly   Twisted   Two Minutes Till Lunch   Uba's House Of Fashions   Underneath the Big Green Tree   Valerie Is Sleeping   Wake Up Sally   Walkin' Home Alone   Whatever Happened To You?   Whistle For Louise   Wild Bill Donovan   Your Rockin\u00b4Chair

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