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01. THIS IS THE SOUND I know you’re curious If I am serious of If I’m Just hanging around These Oxford girls are tough They like to call your bluff Leave you lying on the ground hook: This is the sound When my heart is aching for you, girls This is the town And my life is begging for Oxford girls Jane, Beth & Julia Theakston’s Peculiar But that gets old after awhile I never got too far I majored at the bar Spent my days charmed and beguiled hook: This is the sound When my heart is aching for you, girls This is the town And my life is begging for Oxford girls This is the sound When my heart is aching for you, girls This is the town And my life is begging for you, girls This is the sound And my life is aching for you, girls This is the sound This is the sound This is the sound Of Oxford girls. Mike: acoustic guitar, piano, organ, vocals Jim: drums Scott: bass guitar, water bottle Rick: backing vocals Probyn: valvebone, trumpet 02. ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (shop on Melrose) Ain’t got no money Ain’t got no job But I don’t care The city people They got their problems And i get my share I’m down with Pinks On a Sunday Melrose people Shopping away And they don’t care I ride my bike I take a walk When I’m out of my head I buy some records At Vinyl Fetish If I got the bread Can’t park on Spaulding On the weekend No Melrose left turns Seven to ten No you can’t hook: Sweet, Fairfax High School girls With the Spanish names making out at Oki Dog By the video games Catching a movie Near Park La Brea With a friend of mine We’ll hit the Snakepit for Dirty Stolis If we got the time Or grab some coffee At Urth Caffe They over-price it And we over-pay And we don’t care Mike: acoustic and electric guitar, vocals, organ, piano Scott: bass guitar, drums 03. MORNING RUN Morning run in the morning sun Would you like to go On a morning run Up the canyon, through the grotto Down Glendale, up Alvarado A left then right on North Coronado Morning Run Morning run in the morning sun Would you like to go On a morning run Round the corner, over the highway Up Sunset, down Benton Way Behind the garden, East Carnation Morning Run Morning run in the morning sun Would you like to go On a morning run Up the canyon, through the grotto Down Glendale, up Alvarado A left then right on North Coronado Morning Run 04. SNUG HARBOR As I take my seat As they fire up the grill How I long to take a walk By the 4th & Ashland hill And how I threw it all away With the girl from New Jersey Well, nothing beats Monday Like a Snug Harbor day And the actress smiles As she brings the toast and eggs While the bum outside Gets attention as he begs And on the sunny side of Bundy Drive The girls ride in Mercedes Well, nothing makes Monday Like a Snug Harbor breeze hook: She can do what she wants to do Cause It’s a free world, after all But I think she should know I can’t go without her love Everyday Is the same How I wish I could hold her near And tell her I love her Over Snug Harbor beer And the actress smiles As she lights another ‘Cig’ And contemplates a break Happy hour at ‘The Brig’ And how I threw it all away With the girl from New Jersey Well, nothing makes Monday Like a Snug Harbor day Nothing makes Monday Like a Snug Harbor day
05. CITY LIFE Let’s take the parkway And watch the sunrise Let’s grab some breakfast On the eastside Where everybody’s having fun Where everybody’s got a gun Blue jean lolitas And drinks are two-for-one hook: The bum you left on Skid Row Is now the millionaire If you can backstab If you can backbite You can make it here Let’s take a nice drive To the Gladstones High on Temescal We’ll watch the waves roll Where are the girls have perfect tans And the boys perfect their plans Between the beach balls And the undertow hook: Aiden’s taking ‘Last Call’ Back up on the stairs If you O.K., If you’re alright Why you even care? Get’s lonesome on the top floor When the people you step on Are people you know hook: Hanging on the southside fourth and Vernon Square I know a fish place with a nice bar And we can ‘kick it’ it there It’s been, like, forever Since we last spoke And you got a new gig West of Lompoc And I heard you changed your name When you got the part in fame The youthful rebel Is turning 38 hook: The kid you left on Mainstreet Is now the millionaire If you can backstab If you can backbite You can make it here Mike: acoustic and electric guitar, vocals, wurlitzer, Scott: bass guitar Morley: synthesizer Jim: drums 06. GLAD YOU’RE GONE When I woke up this morning, baby I was rubbing my eyes, still sleepy I was thinking about my plan How everything goes so bad But you were the darkest days Raining on my parades Look in my eyes now baby Ain’t no surprise, no maybes Got no line but i keep on fishing Got no well but i keep on wishing hook: Glad you’re gone Maybe now I can get some rest Glad you’re gone Maybe now I can give my best Glad you’re gone Glad you’re gone No one’s telling me where to go I’m kicking back with the radio Hummingbirds in the Yucca Trees I’m doing just what I please Got no song but I keep on singing Got no phone, still it keeps on ringing hook: Glad you’re gone Maybe now I can get some rest Glad you’re gone Maybe now I can give my best Glad you’re gone Glad you’re gone Mike: acoustic and electric guitar, organ, vocals Scott: bass guitar, drums, water bottles 07. BLUE BONNET DRIVE She lives on the seabrook She’s got windows galore Gates swing open in autumn Her room faces the north hook: And Angie won’t let life take her over Feels so good to be younger now She colours the rainbow Snail mail communication Angie sits by the window writes a letter to a friend hook: And Angie won’t let life take her over Feels so good to be younger now She lives on the seabrook Where pond waves flutter in moonlight Angie’s living on good time Watching movies till midnight hook: And Angie won’t let life take her over Feels so good to be younger All her friends are coming over now Mike: acoustic and electric guitar, vocals, electric piano, synthesizer, glockenspiel Scott: bass guitar Jim: drumss 08. COCTAILS (Duet with Lisa Jenio) Coctails for me, coctails for you You’re the sweetest thing now, here in the room Is it me or is it this bottle That’s doing all the talking tonight? Is that Fabrige’? Piere Cardon? I don’t know a thing about French Cologne But I’d really like to take you home If that’s alright...and I say, Coctails for you, coctails for me We’ll keep each other Company Forget about L.A. and all the trendy jive Coctails keep the conversation alive Martini and Rossi with Bourbon on the side I was thinking the same thing just the other night Easy on the Wild Turkey cause somebody’s gotta drive And an extra case of Bushmills just in case we survive...and we say, Coctails for you, coctails for me We’ll keep each other Company Forget about L.A. and all the trendy jive Coctails keep the conversation alive (go John) My drinks’ half empty (mine’s still half full) I’ll freshen up (and I’ll have the bartender pour us one more for the road) And we’ll disappear into the night Like only Dean Martin could And I’ll pour you a martini at my place, So baby, pull up a chair (you know I’m already there) Pretty soon I’ll be running fingers, through your hair (Don’t worry darling, I never kiss and tell, I just thank God) Thank God THANK GOD FOR COCTAILS...and we say, Coctails for you, coctails for me We’ll keep each other Company Forget about L.A. and all the trendy jive Coctails keep the conversation alive Coctails for you, coctails for me We’ll keep each other company Coctails, coctails, coctails, coctails Coctails for me and you tonight.
09. HANA SUSHI THEME Wilshire Blvd., by the moonlight Park up on the right, by the Q’s lot Toss the keys to Juan, hit the back door Bob sits at the bar, with the game on Sake and a bowl of Sunonomo Octopus galore and Sapparo Gentlemen cigars in the hall way waiting for a spot by the walkway Tony Curtis waits for a table Sportin’ ‘Foster Grants’ and a sable All the girls so nice, on a Friday Spicy Yellowtail in Wasabis hook: Someday, When my dreams do come true Will you think about me Like I think about you? Wilshire Blvd., it’s a wild ride California Girls - that’s the upside Sassy debonaire, kind of pushy Take them by the purse to Hana Sushi Park up on the right, near the Q’s lot Toss the keys to Juan as she whispers: "This is where Keanu Reeves goes. He always Gets the Sea Urchin." hook: Someday, When my dreams do come true Will you think about me Like I think about you? Wilshire Blvd., before Bundy Specials on the beer every Monday California life, It’s a sure thing Like Silicon Implants at the ‘King King’ Sake and a bowl of Sunomono Octopus galore and Sapparo Mike: electric guitar, organ, organ bass, yamaha koto, drum de-programming, vocals Lisa: backing vocals, california girl 10. WATERSIGNS Bad breaks and big mistakes Timing ain’t no piece of cake Two sides to everything I was only noticing The bad signs That haunt me now The pleasantries that brought me down hook: And rivers, they break away from oceans Watersigns just going through the motions Always believed in you Picked you up when things fell through You swore you’d always stay Turned your back and walked away And I’m lost now How you broke it down Guess who won’t be coming around hook: And rivers, they break away from oceans Watersigns just going through the motions Rivers, they break away from oceans And it’s all the same to you Hope you find an open door Not ever wave that rolls away Returns to the shore Goodbye to everything Here’s to what the future brings Too bad we parted ways Here’s a drink to better days and Success, it’s all the same Everybody knows your name Mike: acoustic guitars, vocals, organ Scott: bass guitar, drumss 11. ORLAND PARK Driving along Kept your letters and your jacket for karma Rearview mirror’s a lipstick horizon A twilight glance The loneliest thoughts Go spinning round your head like a disco ball Regret begins to add up And you don’t get no sleep at all hook: You with the cascade eyes I wanna thank you From the bottom of my heart Where everything got dark In Orland Park On the road Miles and miles of America Me in the van, you in the editing room With nothing left Just a couple of passing notes on the treble clef Nowhere to go No one to help us along hook: You with the cascade eyes I wanna thank you From the bottom of my heart Where everything got dark In Orland Park Driving along Got the radio tuned to the AM band Looking up at the sky, Even stars have to sleep sometime But Mercury shines And contemplates an orbit beyond the sun Nowhere to go No one to help it along hook: You with the cascade eyes I wanna thank you From the bottom of my heart Where everything got dark In Orland Park Mike: acoustic guitar, vocals, wurlitzer electric piano Scott: bass guitar Jim: drums John: lap steel Morley: roland sh-2000 synthesizer, piano solos
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and music: Mike Randle SCOTTISH
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