

Flick Of The Switch
1983 REF#: 80100 ©Atlantic Records Limited |
1. Rising power (3:43) 2. This house is on fire (3:23) 3. Flick of the switch (3:17) 4. Nervous shakedown (4:22) 5. Landslide (3:56) 6. Guns for hire (3:25) 7. Deep in the hole (3:17) 8. Bedlam in Belgium (3:48) 9. Badlands (3:37) 10. Brain shake (4:00) |
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Dog day, it's Tuesday
Hope that girl she'll come today
Hard life, it's a city life
Sweat keeps pourin' down
I got my feet up, like to love
Through the dawn till I've blown
All I want's her lovin' now
I love the way she move around
Need no excuse
To let it all hang loose
My body's for abuse
CHORUS:
Rising power, we'll raise the night
Rising power
Rising power, we'll wake the dead
Rising power
(You got it)
Love life, up all night
Darkest hour at the dead of night
Seen her walkin' down the street
The kind of woman that brings on heat
Love her dusk till dawn
Come the morning, she was gone
Took me all to my surprise
Money gone, left high and dry
Need no excuse
To let it all hang loose
My body's for abuse
CHORUS
(Gonna end up torn to shreds)
Don't need no excuse
My body's for abuse
CHORUS
Rise, rise
I'm gonna rise
Rising power
The power rise from you
Fantasy world (?) Fantasy world, hitting one of dream A little tongue in cheek, (ha, personality?) She bring on the flames, and it's burning and burning My body's aching, tossing and turning CHORUS: House is on fire House is on fire This house is on fire And the flame is gonna burn you down She got me running for shelter Needin' quarantine She got me red hot and wired Call an emergency She bring on the flames, and it's burning and burning My body's aching, tossing and turning CHORUS You got me burning and burning You got me tossing and turning
Well there's a love gone down on mine Suicidal voltage line She sends signals outta distress She devil, she evil She got you reelin' on a rockin' machine CHORUS: With a flick of the switch With a flick of the switch she'll blow you sky high With a flick of the switch With a flick of the switch she can satisfy She gonna blow you all sky high Flash the eye, electrify A power force you should feel She devil, she evil She got you screaming on a lightnin' machine CHORUS (Give you pain, blow your brain) She gonna put the light out on - you
"Freeze", said the man cruisin' the beat "You get your hands up and spread your feet" "Don't you move an inch", I heard him say "Or you'll be doin' time until the judgement day" And he said, "Don't tell me no lies, give me alibis 'Cause if you cross my path, you'll be doin' life" It's a dirty lie CHORUS: It's a shakedown And it's a nervous shakedown A nervous shakedown Another nervous shakedown It's a shakedown And it's a nervous shakedown We got a shakedown Another nervous shakedown (It's more like a set-up) "Take a dime", said the man, "you can make one call You got a one-way ticket to the County Hall" Well, the judge looked high and I looked low And when he smiled at me it was a one-man show He said, "Two to five, the jury decides Double parole if you survive" It's a dirty lie CHORUS Law is gonna get you this time And throw away the key CHORUS It's a shakedown on - you
I want you to hear me a little
This is for all you bad boys
This is a story of the satanic rock 'n' roll
I want you to put your hands in your pocket
Take ten dollars out and send it to me, ha ha
???? (a main man?)
Listen to me baby, ain't gonna say it again
When Momma done school her son
????
Daddy don't take a no, no, no
Sends him to a (bullet affair?)
This boy is lost
It's a living nightmare
It ain't fair
CHORUS:
That boy he don't know how to lose
He's out to win
He got the lot to call the last shot
Shaker, he's a breaker, he's a maker
He's a landslide, landslide
Walking, talking, rocking landslide
Now Momma he ain't no toy
And never ever gets his share
(Daddy expecting to ???? his son?)
???? room for air
This boy is lost
It's a rocking double dare
He's out to stare
CHORUS
(Preacher) done say his prayer
Take him to the promised land
Momma ????
Never gonna ????
This boy is lost
???? far off course
But he's the boss
CHORUS
That man's a one man landslide
That boy's a walk talk rocking landslide
The word is out That I'm about And I've come gunning for you I'm a real entertainer A mischief maker A lover of no fixed abode Quick draw on the floor No law give you more Sweet talking lover of sin You want to get You get what you want Look out woman - CHORUS: I got guns for hire Shoot you with desire The guns for hire Shoot you with desire I'm a wanted poster A needed man Running wild across the land I'm a smooth operator A big dictator Gonna mark you with my brand CHORUS (Quick draw on the floor, big shot) Hot to trot, big shot Take a lot Never get the drop on me I'm a real entertainer Mischief maker Lover in seven languages CHORUS What you get, big shot You can't get the drop on me, girl
I've been enchained She got shackles on me That woman to blame For the hell and misery Can't find my way outta here Shoot me down in a burnin' fear Goin' down for a stretch of years Way down below CHORUS: I'm deep in, deep in, deep in the hole Deep in, deep in, deep in the hole I'm down in, down in, down in the hole Well I'm deep in, deep in That woman got me deep in the hole I'm sinking down She got me down on the floor Can't touch both walls The further down I go Pulls the strings on my violin bow Makes me sing when she fire my load Ain't no slave, but you do what you're told You sold your soul CHORUS
The blood in my veins Was running right through my brain There was a cop with a gun Who was running around insane Three fifty arrests No bullet proof vests Now ain't that a shame We wanted to play Play for the crowd "No", said the wankers "You're on your way out" Bedlam in Belgium The place was a jumpin' And the booze was going down There's a cop doing time Who's been working overtime We don't play just for pay So we left the stage Stay just the same He gave me a crack In the back with his gun That ain't so bad But to feel the blood run Bedlam in Belgium It was bedlam in Belgium Bedlam in Belgium Can't have a good time unless you don't run Bedlam in Belgium Who's to blame, it's a shame Bedlam in Belgium It was bedlam You gonna run out Stage was saged Cops enraged Crying for more It was a world war war It was bedlam in Belgium Can't have a good time unless you don't run Bedlam in Belgium And the law got the drop on me
I am a pistol pocket man with a gun in my hand Looking for a woman that will understand You like to roll and I like to ride I'll stop at nothing, never take me alive CHORUS: I'm a man with a fast hand Loving on a last stand Outlaw, quick draw Evil talking bandit man In the badlands I got a .45 that'll make you fry Burn your saucy ass up like the Fourth of July I ride it hard, I ride it high Make love to you till you reach for the sky CHORUS I'm gonna set up my six pack Ain't gonna back track I shoot loaded Come on girl, gonna give you a thrill In the badlands
Alright, hold tight I really want to ball tonight On my fender, no space defender I enjoy it on the floor, I get it tight Toe to toe with the blood below Fee Fia Foo smell the blood of rock 'n' roll All night drive on the rockin' suicide My feet are jumping, she's a joy to ride Joy to ride, a joy to ride She's an all night drive on the rockin' suicide And it's a brain shake, brain shake, brain shake All I can take Brain shake, brain shake, brain shake She's a mean lean rocking machine A hip hugging blue jean dream She's a one horse town (?) with a sweet sweet kiss Her hips are right around me And it's toe to toe with the blood below Fee Fia Foo smell the blood of rock 'n' roll All night drive on the rockin' suicide My feet are jumping, she's a joy to ride Joy to ride, a joy to ride She's an all night drive on the rockin' suicide And it's a brain shake, brain shake, brain shake Ready to shake Brain shake, brain shake, brain shake It's a brain shake brain shake brain shake For mercy sake Brain shake, brain shake, brain shake She's a joy to ride Joy to ride, a joy to ride She's an all night drive on the rockin' suicide