Violent Femmes - Girl Trouble

Have mercy on me

I got girl trouble up the ass
have mercy on me people
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me no joke
cause I'm not gonna laugh
I need the cure
only one cure in this world
I need the cure
only one cure in this world
hey james brown
I need a woman or a girl
hit me in the morning
hit me in the night
hit me when I'm wrong
hit me when I'm right
hit me when I'm up
hit me when I'm down
hit me hit me hit me hit me
all over town
girl trouble
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me
cause I'm not gonna laugh
I'm not trying to fool you people
I'm not giving you no jive
make me feel I'd rather be dead than alive
take a look around
what's shoving up my behind
problems drive me out of my mind
girl trouble
I got girl trouble up the ass
and don't tell me no joke
cause I'm not gonna laugh

Violent Femmes - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

I needed time to realize my crime
It was let me love and steal
I did dances inside my mind
Now how can I be real

Do you really want to hurt me?
Do you really want to make me cry?
No I don t really want to hurt you

Then lovers always asked me:
Why why why why in my mind my memory's burning
What's your favorite color of your favorite car?
I took a step
The step was learning that that's a step beyond a step too far

Do you really want to hurt me?
Do you really want to make me cry?
No I don't really want to hurt you

I told the truth but it was still a lie
The words are few
Some are unspoken
I could sleep four thousand years
Man of sorrows word unbroken
His sweat like blood came down like tears
I've been talking
But believe me
I know that it's true now that there's no more
I don't know
I'm in love and love's the reason I'm not prepared to let you let me go
So if it's love you want
Then take all of me
It's this love I want
I can finally see

Do I really want to hurt you?
Do I really want to make you cry?
Yes I suppose I want to hurt you
You told the truth but it was still a lie

(Culture Club)

Violent Femmes - Out the Window

Life was fun
life was great
til I made my big mistake
oh no it'll never happen to me
life was short
and life was sweet
I was thinking as I hit the street
I could hardly beleve
I could scarcely conceive
but I had gone out the window
I had gone out the window
I had gone out the window
she was fine
she looked great
and so we made our big mistake
I swear I swear I swear
it'd never happen to her
but the pavement knocked her head around
when she hit the solid concrete ground
from 30 flights above
and she was thirty something loving nothing
gone out the window
she had gone out the window
she had gone out the window
catch me if I'm falling,
catch me if I'm calling
he was smart he was wise
he'd profoundly philosophize
empathy for all humanity
'til one day by an open window
there's a note that read
I've gone out the window - I'm dead
he said yes to life for all of his life
but then one day he said no
I gotta go out the window
we all go out the window
catch me I am falling
catch me I am calling
catch me we are falling
catch me we are calling

Violent Femmes - American music

Do you like american music?
I like american music
Don’t you like american music, baby?

I want you to hold me
I want your arms around me
I want you to hold me baby
Did you do too many drugs?
I did too many drugs
Did you do too many drugs too, baby?
You were born too late

I was born too soon
But every time I look at that ugly moon
It reminds me of you
It reminds me of you ooh ooh ooh

I need a date to the prom
Would you like to come along?
But nobody would go to the prom with me baby

They didnt like american music
They never heard american music
They didn't know the music was in my soul baby

You were born too soon
I was born too late
But every time I look at that ugly lake
It reminds me of me (do you like american music?)
It reminds me of me (do you like american music?)

Do you like american music?
We like american music
I like american music baby
Do you like american music?
We like all kinds of music
But I like american music best baby…

You were born too late
And I was born too late
But every time I look at that ugly lake
It reminds me of me
It reminds me of me
Do you like american music?
It reminds me of me
Do you like american music?