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Get Your Hopes Up
02:08
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Get your hopes up
Get your hopes up
It’s gonna be great
It’s gonna be awesome
Oh and everybody you know will be there
Lobster dinner, oysters on ice
Your lipsticks smudged but you still look nice
Get your hopes up
Get your hopes up
It’s gonna be great
It’s gonna be awesome
Your eyes are wandering
They should be on me
Oh mein shatzi
The Paparazzi
Don’t you know I can get you anything
A pearl necklace is better than a diamond ring
Better than a diamond ring
Get your hopes up
Get your hopes up
It’s gonna be great
It’s gonna be awesome
Get your hopes up
Keep your mouth shut
It’d be so good if you just kept your mouth shut
Get your hopes up
Keep your mouth shut
It’d be so good if you just kept your mouth shut
Kept your mouth shut
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The Photographer
03:29
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I am the photographer
I make situations happen
I strive for a realism I can only achieve with your cooperation
It’s a simple operation that I’m asking for
Step one get your body on the dance floor
Step two is where you start to move
Step three look at me taking pictures of you
The camera just does something to me
I’ve never been less shy
I can’t believe I’m so attracted to such an unattractive guy
Arch your back.
Just relax
Let your shoulders dip move your hips up just like that
Oh my, you're a fantasy
I can see you on the cover of a magazine
You're the hunter on Safari
Cock your pistols for me
I will be your sexy cheetah
Posing in a tree
I am the photographer
The camera just does something to me.
I make situations happen
I've never been less shy
Oh my, you're a fantasy
I can see you on the cover magazine
Magazine,magazine, cover of a magazine
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Mondays Are For Working
03:38
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Mondays are for working
Enough of this jerking around
The fantasy is falling apart
The weekend is over and the weekend broke my heart
Mondays are for working
Feed the house cats.
Water the house plants
Get it together. Get it together. Get it together!
Mondays are for working
Emboss your calling cards
Order new stationery
Get it together, Get it together, Get it together!
Lots of work, work on Monday
Get to work. It's not Sunday
Write a list, a list of things to do
Get to work, it's back to work for you
Take notes. Take names. Take the aspirins
Tick the box tick tock tickets for a plane
Please arrange your transportation before you reach your destination. Hey, it's Bombay
Monday's there for working
Down to business
Mondays are for working
Make a phone call
Mondays are for working
Get it together, Get it together, Get it together!
Mondays are for working
Down to business
Mondays are for working
Type in email
Mondays are for working
Get it together, Get it together, Get it together!
Everybody gets up on Monday
Everybody goes to work on Monday
Everybody gets up on Monday
How come everybody says they don't like Monday
Everybody gets up on Monday
Everybody goes to work on Monday
Everybody gets up on Monday
Why is everybody always crying on Monday?
Everybody gets up on Monday.
Everybody goes to work on Monday
Everybody gets up on Monday
How come everybody so sad on Monday?
The bus driver drives a bus on Monday
School teacher teaches school on Monday
Karate Master hi-ya on Monday
The zookeeper feeds a monkey on Monday
The miner digs up jewels on Monday
Karate Master hi-ya on Monday
The pig farmer farms pigs on Monday
The paparazzi take pictures on Monday
Karate man hi-ya on Monday
I'm still unemployed on Monday
That's how I enjoy my Monday
I don't have to go to work on Monday
Mondays are for working
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All Ways Cara
02:35
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Cara says here's my pose
Cameras on, no more clothes
Audio, video, you can see what I will show
Lean machine, jungle tan
Scan the beach for a man
Gentleman of the gym
Pull it out, push it in
On her side, from behind
One more thought, she's the versatile kind.
All Ways Cara
Oh Cara, no Cara, yes Cara, all we want is you
All we want is you
All we want is All Ways Cara
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Better in Leather
03:38
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Walk in an echo Park
Shadows in the dark
Looking for love tonight.
More than his pants are tight
Look at the way he walks
Listen to how he talks
He wears his hair down low
Like a lion in the snow
We like him in denim but he's better in leather
Leather, better in leather
You'll never keep it together in leather
Out on a Tuesday night.
Looking for a fight.
My jacket is slightly ripped
And everyone's talking shit
My name is at the door
but this has become a chore
My addiction looks so good on me
My skinny arms in my sateen sleeves
We like him in denim but he's better in leather
Leather, better in leather
You'll never keep it together in leather
Out in the freezing rain he finally saw the light
for the broken hearts and the rock and roll. He gave up the best years of his life
I gave up everything but everything's all right
cuz the broken hearts and the rock and roll somehow got me through, got me through the night.
Leather, better in leather
You'll never keep it together in leather
There are no Happy endings,
Only new beginnings
Leather, better in leather
Remember, always forever in leather
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6. |
Pretty Boys
03:37
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All the pretty boys
They'll never desert you
All the pretty boys
They'll never hurt you
They'll stay, stay
After everything inside has gone away
If only I can take apart the secret locked inside your heart
Maybe then I could find a way back through to you
All the pretty boys
They'll never desert you
All the pretty boys
They'll never hurt you
Run, run down the street
The cops will only bring you back to me
There's no room for conversation
In our little celebration
Only you can set me free
Only you can show me
Tears sweet in your eyes
So blue in the neon light
You were gone when I came
All the pretty boys
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7. |
Bon Vivant
03:11
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I was a bon vivant as they say
Back when bon vivants were the call of the day
My image was airbrushed on magazines
By popular taste I was dressed to a tee
Tea isn't quite what it used to be
And I don't even know what it's called on the street
I tried to procure some and no one was sure what I wanted
You don't need them looking at you
You don't need them telling you what to do
You don't need their pills and pools and booze and rules and lies
You don't need their lies
I take it back about the good old days.
They were never that good, they're just remembered that way.
I'm as happy now as I was back then.
I'm as miserable now as I ever have been
You don't need them looking at you
You don't need them telling you what to do
You don't need their pills and pools and booze and rules and lies.
You don't need their lies
I've got two words for you
Two little words for you
You can add em up and the sum beneath the line's goodbye
Goodbye
You can sit around and wonder when
The situation will turn to your favor again
The best you can do is force a smile.
But don't hold your breath cuz it might be a while.
You don't need them looking at you.
You don't need them telling you what to do.
You don't need their pills and pools and booze and rules and lies.
I've got two words for you.
Two little words for you.
You can add em up and the sum beneath the line's goodbye
Goodbye
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8. |
Last Goodbye
03:07
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Happy to, happy to say more goodbye.
Until we say hello again, it's one less tear I'll cry
Lovely days, lovely nights
We have such a lovely time.
I don't know when we'll say hello again.
So let's have one last goodbye
I miss you long before you're gone
And next time might be as long
I'm just trying to stall the inevitable
For as long as I can manage
But with one more kiss I'll continue to exist
in the loveliness I feel inside you
Feel inside you
Lovely days, lovely nights
Every move I make to leave
Just pulls me closer to you
It's like you've got me under contract
It's like you've got some kind of voodoo
My friends all tell me that it's wrong
I shouldn't stay away so long
But I've never known this ecstasy
No one makes me feel this way
And I know even if I tried to leave
I'll never ever get away
Away
I'll never get away
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Separate Notes
02:25
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Somehow Valhalla never called
Never sent the thin concierge
Concierge, concierge
Money to burn so let's cook the books
The afterlife, a wise investment
Separate notes, they numbered three and so it was revealed to me
The melody the angels sing
Ah ah ah, ah ah ah
I'm always up later than you
I have a lot of things to do
And I do these things all night through
So I'm always up later than you
Ah ah ah, ah ah ah
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10. |
Take a Wife
03:38
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I'd take you along with me
But you wouldn't be comfortable
They're always telling me
It's time to take a wife
Now you've had your fun
You've run around enough
With your denim boys
Posing like you're tough
Find a pretty thing
Ask her to change her life
Buy her a diamond ring
It's time to take a wife
You'll never know how it pains me
All of the lies that I tell
Don't you dare look in his eyes
It's not the same for us as it is for you
We have too many enemies seated in the pews
And they know your taste runs a little weird
But for the family's sake
Can't you grow a beard?
Don't you want to be respectable?
Don't you want to know they'll be someone there?
To make the cloudy days more bearable.
And when the sun comes out she'll still be there
Time to take a wife
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11. |
Holly Dubonet
02:47
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Holly Dubonet checked into a hotel room underneath a fake name, hey
These little lies she tells get her through the day
They get her through the day, hey
Hey, it makes me cry that we'll never share our lives.
What passes for Champaign In this dreadful place
Isn't fit for pigs, hey
The bell boy in the hall isn't very tall. that bellboy isn't tall at all
But he knows her taste in medication
And how to keep vacationers at bay, hey
I wish a little dog would come along to play
Would come along and stay, hey
But his legs are just so small new line and he's just so far away, he's just so far away hey
Hey, it makes me cry that we'll never share our lives
Holly Dubonet
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Hard Place San Francisco, California
Hard Place were a neo-glam rock band that started in San Francisco in 2000 and released 4 albums between 2003 and 2015.
Members:
Freddy Cristy
Nathan Lee Shafer
Thomas Marzella
Ashley Huizenga
Elisha Drons
Band photo by Tonya Wise
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