Blondie : Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980

Pop Rock / USA
(1999 - EMI Records)
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Lyrics


1. DREAMING

When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me We just walk on by - we just keep on dreaming
Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him.

Dream dream, even for a little while
Dream dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate.

I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own
Something you can have and hold.

I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free.


2. IN THE SUN

Surf's up
In the sun, I'm waiting for the day
Having fun, in warm far away
Moonlight nights, water seems so clear
Ooh city lights while I'm still waiting here.

In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love.

New York isle is covered by grey
Concrete piles, blues play my way
Tropic haze, pineapple sky
Perfect wave, hurricane eye.

In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love.

In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love.

Where is my wave?
Where is my wave?


3. HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE

I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Oh why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone.

It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long
If I don't get your call then everything goes wrong
I want to tell you something you've known all along
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone.

I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I'd like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh I can't control myself
Oh I can't control myself
Oh I can't control myself
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone.

Hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah, hang up and run to me
Whoah oh oh oh run to me.


4. YOU LOOK GOOG IN BLUE

You look good in blue
It matches your skin, your eyes dripping with pain
Someone like you
Getting off on the lies 'cause it dulls your surprise again
If it's alright with you
I could give you some head and shoulders to lie on
You look good in blue
I know what you mean when you say you've seen the end
Someone like you
Been at it again, you knew what was up in the end
If it's alright with you
I could give you some head and shoulders to lie on.

Throw your weight on me baby
Don't complain on me baby
Escape in me, next to me
I'm tired, always tired and I got not place to sleep
Don't mind dividing down the line
Can't say that I'm complaining 'cause I got no place to Play, yeah
Don't mind dividing down the line.

You look good in blue
It matches your skin, your eyes dripping with pain
If it's alright with you
I could give you some head and shoulders to lie on
Yes, I could give you some head and shoulders to lie on.


5. SLOW MOTION

What's all that commotion going on?
The boy in the back on his second attack
Wants his baby back (wants his baby back)
What's all that commotion that you hear?
The girl in the back who was doing the quake
Got a belly-ache, she can't concentrate
Pick up the beat, you can move like you're made out of vapour
"Catch me if you can" is what she said with her hands
Come on and take me back (can you take her back?)
When she gives you the beat and you get the shine
The world slows down and she stops on a dime
Got a number when you close your eyes
Like a real magician
Still she knows she'll never lose a thing
She can put you up on a shelf until she wants to pull the string
Still you know she'll never slip away
Keep time in your head, counting in your head.

Slow motion, I can play with time
I can keep today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and look at the pictures rolling in your head
Slow motion, you can play with time
You can leave her today but tomorrow's fine
Stop and live in your dreams at night
Rolling in your bed.

Slow motion, you can stop on a dime
Slow motion, you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can pick up the beat
Slow motion, you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can stop on a dime
Slow motion, you ought to try it sometime
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back
Slow motion, you can pick up the beat
Slow motion, you can stop on the street
Take me back on another track
Take me back, take me back.


6. SUNDAY GIRL

I know a girl from a lonely street
Cold as ice cream but still as sweet
Dry your eyes Sunday girl
Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl
Looks like he's in another world
Run and hide Sunday girl.

Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I say awake all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see
What your loving means to me.

She can't catch up with the working crowd
The weekend mood and she's feeling proud
Live in dreams Sunday girl.

Baby, I would like to go out tonight
If I go with you my folks'll get uptight
Stay at home Sunday girl.

Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl
Looks like he's in another world
Run and hide Sunday girl.

When I saw you again in the summertime
If your love was as sweet as mine
I could be Sunday's girl.

Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I say awake all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see
What your loving means to me
I got the blues.


7. X.OFFENDER

I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and Fine.
I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled,
I laid my heart on the line
You read me my rights and then you said "Let's go" and Nothing more
I thought of my nights, and how they were
They were filled with.

I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh.

We sat in the night with my hands cuffed at my side
I look at your life and your style
I wanted nothing more
I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh.

Walking the line, you were a marksman
Told me that law, like wine, is ageless
Public defender
You had to admit
You wanted the love of a sex offender.

I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked
You just had to laugh.

My vision in blue, I call you from inside my cell
And in the trial, you were there
With your badge and rubber boots.

I think all the time how I'm going to perpetrate love with you.
And when I get out, there's no doubt I'll be sex offensive To you.


8. PICTURE THIS

All I want is a room with a view
A sight worth seeing, a vision of you
All I want is a room with view, oh-oh
I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour, oh yea

All I want is a photo in my wallet
A small remembrance of something more solid
All I want is a picture of yo.

Picture this - a day in December
Picture this - freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
If it weren't for your job at the garage
If you could only oh-oh
Picture this - a sky full of thunder
Picture this - my telephone number
One and one is what I'm telling you, oh yea.

All I want is 20-20 vision
A total portrait with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you, oh-oh
If you can picture this - a day in December
Picture this - freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
If it weren't for your job at the garage
If you could only oh-oh
Picture this - a sky full of thunder
Picture this - my telephone number
One and one is what I'm telling you
Get a pocket computer
Try to do what you used to do yea.


9. DENIS

Oh Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you
Denis Denis, oh with your eyes so blue
Denis Denis, I've got a crush on you
Denis Denis, I'm so in love with you.

Oh when we walk it always feels so nice
And when we talk it seems like paradise
Denis Denis I'm so in love with you.

You're my king and I'm in heaven every time I look at you
When you smile it's like a dream
And I'm so lucky 'cause I found a boy like you.

Denis Denis, oh won't you hold me tight?
Denis Denis, please can we kiss all night?
Denis Denis, I'm so in love with you.

Denis Denis, avec tes yeux si bleux
Denis Denis, moi j'ai flashe a nous deux
Denis Denis, un grand baiser d'eternite.

Denis Denis, je suis si folle de toi
Denis Denis, oh embrasse-moi ce soir
Denis Denis, un grand baiser d'eternite.

Oh Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do
I'm in love with you.


10. FADE AWAY (AND RADIATE)

Oooo baby, I hear how you spend night time
Wrapped like candy in a blue, blue neon glow
Fade away and radiate
Oooo baby, watchful lines
Vibrate soft in brainwave time
Silver pictures move so slow
Golden tubes faintly glow.

Electric faces seem to merge
Hidden voices mock your words
Fade away and radiate.

The beams become my dream
My dream is on the screen.

Dusty frames that still arrive
Die in 1955.

Fade away and radiate.

The beams become my dream
My dream is on the screen.

Fade away and radiate.


11. I KNOW BUT I DON'T KNOW

Hey, y'know?
Uh, I dunno!
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know.

I give but I don't get
I will but I won't yet
I lose but I don't bet
I'm your dog but not your pet.

I know but I don't care
Then I know but I don't see
Now I see but I don't know
I care but I don't care.

I could but I won't be
You can but not with me
It's all a mystery
Locked out without a key.

Now I care but I don't care
And I know but I don't see
Now I see but I don't know
I know but I don't know.

Now I know that you don't know
And I see that you don't see
I care but I don't care
I don't care that you don't know.


12. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

One way or another I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha
One way or another I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha
One way or another I'm gonna see ya
I'm gonna meetcha meetcha meetcha meetcha
One day, maybe next week
I'm gonna meetcha, I'm gonna meetcha, I'll meetcha
I will drive past your house
And if the lights are all down
I'll see who's around.

One way or another I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha
One way or another I'm gonna win ya
I'll getcha, I'll getcha
One way or another I'm gonna see ya
I'm gonna meetcha meetcha meetcha meetcha
One day, maybe next week
I'm gonna meetcha, I'll meetcha.

And if the lights are all out
I'll follow your bus downtown
See who's hanging out.

One way or another I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna give you the slip, a slip of the lip or another
I'm gonna lose ya, I'm gonna trick ya
One way or another I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna trick ya trick ya trick ya trick ya
One way or another I'm gonna lose ya
I'm gonna give you the slip.

I'll walk down the mall
Stand over by the wall
Where I can see it all
Find out who ya call
Lead you to the supermarket checkout
Some specials and rat food, get lost in the crowd.

One way or another I'm gonna getcha, I'll getcha, I'll getcha getcha getcha getcha
(Where I can see it all, find out who ya call)
One way or another I'm gonna getcha, I'll getcha, I'll getcha getcha getcha getcha
(Where I can see it all, find out who ya call)
One way or another I'm gonna getcha, I'll getcha, I'll getcha getcha getcha getcha.
(Where I can see it all, find out who ya call)


13. HEART OF GLASS

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind.

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good
You teasing like you do.

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind.

Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind.

Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside
We coulda made it cruising, yeah.

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light.

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind.


14. 11//:59

Leaning in your corner like a candidate for wax
Sidewalk social scientist don't get no satisfaction from Your cigarette.

It's ten to ten and time is running out
Lock up all your memories, get outa here, you know that we Can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59, and I want to stay alive.

Pumping like a fugitive in cover from the night
Take it down the freeway like a bullet to the ocean
Wait until the morning, take tomorrow by the hand
Take it down the highway like a rocket to the ocean, we can Run.

Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59, and I want to stay alive.

Hanging on a frequency and burning like a fire
Boy you've got the motion down, it's getting late, I'm Tired and I've lost control
Don't leave me here, time is running out
Take me down the highway like a rocket to the ocean, we can Run.

Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59, and I want to stay alive.


15. BANG A GONG / FUNTIME

(Keep it up
Keep it up
Thank you, thank you very much
You want some more?
You want some more?
Yeah.

Alright
Wait a minute, wait a minute
This is the audience participation number here
Ahhh, spread out, spread out
It you're gonna bang a gong
You need a little room you know
Shake it up
Step back, step back, come on
Let's get some air in here
These people are sweating up front
Come on, yeah.

A little more
A few more inches
You got a few more inches right?)
Well your dirty and your sweet
Clad in black, don't look back
And I love
Your dirty and sweet, oh yeah
You know your slim and your weak
You got the teeth of a hyena upon ya'
Your dirty sweet and your mine.

Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on.

Well you're young and you're cute
You got the teeth of a hyena upon ya'
Your dirty sweet
Well you're built like a car
You got a hubcap for a halo
You're built like a car.

Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on.

Well he'll not tame you
That's the truth
You're willing and eager
You dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you're built like a car
You got a hubcap for a halo
You're built like a car.

Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on.

Well your dirty and your sweet
Clad in black, don't look back
And I love
Your dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you dance when walk
So let's dance
Take a chance, understand man
Your dirty sweet and your mine.

Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
(We've got two more)
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on, bang a gong
Get it on.

Oh take me
(Oh you don't mind if the boys just play with you a while do they
Oh, do you
Do you mind?)
Fun hey baby we like your lips
Hey baby, we like your pants
Oh, all for funtime
Hey baby, down on the land
Take you, take you, to school?
Oh, all for funtime
Hey baby, we want in
We want some, we want some
All aboard for funtime
Big daddy, I like you lips
Big daddy, I like your pants
Ohhhh.

Hey baby we like your lips
Hey baby, we love your pants
Hey everybody we want in
We want some, we want some
All aboard for funtime
Last night, ?? lair
Ooh, fun
All aboard for funtime

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