Tender Loving Abuse
LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY
( Dufay )
Love's game's fine by me
I can accept defeat
But when she marks the deck
I just can't win
Win
I'm one of the last fallen angels
Broke all the laws of love
Cuz each time my love calls
I go down
Love is the only way that I go down
Flew into her moon last night
My entry too quick... whoa
Could be why she's so uptight
She said
'Mama no... mama yeah... yeah
I wrote this song hopin' one day
To prove to you my point
With these three simple chords
You'd understand that
Love is the only way that I go down
TONIGHT
( Dufay )
I can't believe no love's come true
Can't feel the flame
And I blame you
She's fancy free
She only sees
Her zodiac and her angel's dust
Tonight... tonigh...igh...ight
Tonight... it's a free fall flight
Tonigh...igh...ight
Tweedle dee... Tweedle dum
Now... Cinderella now... here I come
I've seen you dance
Your hard up prance
Things are strange
And I'm born again tonight
Say what
Tonight... tonigh...igh...ight
Tonight... it's a free fall flight
Tonigh...igh...ight
I can't believe your soft words
They're lies
With a smile on your lips
Your cold eyes they speak
Beware my sweet love
When I cease to adore
I fell in your hands
But not down to the floor
And you don't know
You don't know
You don't know
DON'T TALK BACK
( Dufay )
Oh... you can't feel it
Oh... you can't hear
Cause all I get
Is your sweet double word play
Now I'm out of love
And I'm not in your way
Don't talk back
Don't talk back
I have to get you
Just where you want to be
I have to talk you down
To listen to me
Jealousy got the best of me
I never knew how to referee
Shot down by your cold and thin eyes
Now I know how to speak my mind
Don't talk back
Don't talk back
Won't see me runnin'
With my tail between my legs
I haven't left my balls
Sitting on the shelf
Here comes whip woman
Taking her place
A refugee from hall of pain
Pain boogie... her foot in my face
Pardon... you're past
What's left to say
Cause I don't want to hear why can't I get home
I can't get away
Don't talk back
Don'tcha... don'tcha... don'tcha talk back
Don't talk back
10,000 BANDS
( Dufay )
Don't wanna sing about dreams
Or star struck plights
Rock and roll memories
And those burnt out nights
Swallowing splinters of life
And coughing up fear
Then I hear my strung out Stratocaster blues away
Yeah
I played guitar
In ten thousand bands
With nothing to show
But bloodied hands
I played my leads
Screaming high and loud
I've been fuzzed and phased
And echoed and synthesized
Ten thousand bands and me
Ten thousand bands and me
Just wanna sing a little sing song
And I'll have some fun
But my fine fretted friends in my band
They're turning on me
They say stick to pop
It's gonna take me to the top ten
With a bullet
Then I hear my strung out Stratocaster
Blues away... yeah
I played guitar
In ten thousand bands
With nothing to show
But bloodied hands
I played my leads
Screaming high and loud
I've been fuzzed and phased
And echoed and synthesized
Ten thousand bands and me
Ten thousand bands and me
My eyes too open
Too vulnerable
Too full of chemicals
And a lotta... lotta booze
With the three J's gone
They've left an open book
If I could read between the lines
Then I could surely make the grade
UP TO YOU
( Dufay )
You keep runnin' around
Play the same old bills to me
You keep writing it down
I don't understand
Do I have to know
Do I have to show
I ain't got no receipts
I don't pay no bills
Well now who is it up to
You... no... me... no... you
Yes... it's up to you
No... me... no... you
I keep runnin around
Play the same old game
You keep chasing me down
Wondering what's the same
The same... the same
I don't really care
How you wanna know
Do I gotta get down on my knees and pray
There's something up with you
No... me... no... you
There's something up with you
No... me... no... you
yeah
I guess it's up to you... no... me... no... you
So so so so so so....
Hang out
Hang in
I can't win
You don't know what to do
You don't know where to go
You don't know who to turn
Turn into
Note:
It's no mistake.
The first time he sings
"play the same old bill"
as in
"my band is so famous we are on the top of the bill"
Whereas the second one he sings
"I ain't got no receipts I don't pay no bills"
BABY NOW I
( Dufay / Seitz )
Baby now I
Baby now I know your name
Baby now I
Baby now I'm not the same
And I can't go calling you
By your ex old man's big name
Baby now I
Baby now I know your name
Baby now you
Maybe now you're not to blame
And I don't call you my own
'Cause when the madness hits you're gone
No one I knew seemed to see at the time
That the wait was on
A big woman I knew at the time
So bizarre
(at the time it was)
That the parties and opportunities
That I thought were small
Oh... oh... oh
baby now I
Baby now I know your name
Baby now I
Baby now I'm not the same
And I won't go calling you
No... I won't call you at all
Now that I see who goes out on a limb
That's a broken branch
I didn't make time to be loving the things
That I thought were small
In the deep deep deep deep deep
Recesses of my mind
I didn't know
Note:
This song is autobiographical
because Dufay used to date
Peter Frampton's ex and when Dufay found out
who she used to date things got hot and ugly
STRAIGHT JACKET
( Dufay )
Well... people in the world agree
They say hey... you got a strange vibration
They see me riding high
And rockin through the night
They try to tame... oh tame... my situation
My mind was in a rage
When I flew from the cage
It was a great day for aviation
So they put me in a straight
Oh straight... straight jacket
And they put me in a straight
Yeah straight... straight jacket
They put me in a straight
Yeah straight... straight jacket
Well I'm sitting on top of the world
And I say
It's such a great... oh great... sensation
I'm still riding high
And I'm out of their cage
And they don't know what to do
Don't know what to do
With my way
So they put me in a straight
Oh straight... straight jacket
And they put me in a straight
Yeah straight... straight jacket
They put me in a straight
Yeah straight... straight jacket
Note:
This song is autobiographical
because Dufay really was locked
up in a nuthouse in the past and he really was
put in a straightjacket.
What's more, he was locked up in a padded cell.
One way or another, one day he had an opportunity to run
away from the place so he jumped out the window. That's why it
mentions "aviation". Because of jumping from such a great
height he busted both of his legs.
If memory serves,
Tyler confirms it in his memoir.
What's more, it's no mistake
that no songs on this album finish with a fade out effect.
However, "Baby Now I" and "Straight Jacket" are one long song.
It was intended to be so, and it means that Dufay was put in a
straight jacket because of the woman from the previous song.
DON'T WAKE ME UP
( Dufay / Levinson )
Don't wake me up... baby now
Don't you wake me up
Don't wake me up... baby now
Whoa oh oh whoa
There I was... twice the speed of sound
So high... never touching ground
And you turning back the clock
You see that you... you're in for a shock
Well it's a surprise... a surprise
What a surprise
Say you... standing in the sandbox
Please... collar the jive
Oh you... finger artist gangster
You have to love
Love who loves you
Father Time... he's a makeup man
It's getting late for your telephoto face
When I scream... get out of bed
Well you tossed and turned and said
To me... to me... here's what you said
Don't wake me up... baby now
Don't you wake me up
Don't wake me up... baby now
Whoa oh oh whoa
FOOL NO MORE
( Dufay / Roth )
I
Won't be a fool... no more
I
Won't be a fool... no more
Oh baby got high
Then baby got down
Innocence
Unaware of my sound
Unopposed at the door
Stick my foot
In my mouth
Aimlessly
Short of novocain
I cause the pain
Now I push
My fingerprints
In your back
See what's up... what's come down
When it's in... it goes out
Influence
Drops from the moon
Just in time
Steady rate of climb
Solid state of mind
TENDER LOVING ABUSE
( Dufay )
I might have treated you different
But I didn't know how
The years that came between us
I didn't know why
But I know
That I
Was fooling
Myself
It's tender loving abuse
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Tender loving abuse
Tender loving abuse
Playing much too hard
I couldn't slow down
Couldn't talk out loud
So drowned out in silence
How touching
It is
When we
Break down
How sweet it is to be hurt by you
What is it you see
To... keep keep keep coming back
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