Violent Femmes - Why Do Birds Sing? Lyrics - Full Album

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Why Do Birds Sing? Lyrics

(Lyrics to the Full Album on one page)

American Music
Out the Window
Look Like That
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Hey Nonny Nonny
Used To Be
Girl Trouble
He Likes Me
Life is a Scream
Flamingo Baby
Lack of Knowledge
More Money Tonight
I'm Free

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 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 didn't 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
It reminds me of me
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...

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Out the Window Lyrics

Life was fun life was great
'til I make 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 believe
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 hear 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 falling
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

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Look Like That Lyrics

I like his shoes I like his hat
I'd like me better if I looked like that
Uh-huh uh-huh
I like her shoes I like her hat
I'd like you better if you looked like that
Uh-huh uh-huh
But then my love starts burning
For what we are learning to ignore
I like her clothes I love her dress
I'd like her better if she loved me best
I like his shoes I love his pants
I'd want him better if he wanted to dance
Uh-huh uh-huh
But then our love starts turning
For what we are yearning to adore
I'm meeting people nice people too
I'm meeting people nice people like you
We're meeting people nice people too
We're meeting people nice people like you

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Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Lyrics

I needed time to realize my crime
It was let me love & 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 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

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Hey Nonny Nonny Lyrics

Beauty sat bathing by a spring
Where fairest shades did hide her
The winds blew calm the birds did sing
The cool streams ran beside her
My wanton thoughts enticed mine eye
To see what was forbidden
Bu better memory said"fie"
So vain desire was chidden
Hey nonny nonny
Oh hey nonny nonny
Hey nonny nonny
Oh hey nonny nonnie
Into a slumber then I fell
When fond imagination seemed to see
But could not tell her feature or her fashion
But e'vn as babes in dreams do smile
And sometimes fall a weeping
So I awaked as wise this while
As when I fell a-sleeping
Say man are you down for doing
Something positive in the community?
No I don't think I'll ever do that again
Well ain't you worried about doing the right thing?
Well I don't care if I
Hey nonny nonny nonny
ho nonny nonny nonny

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Used To Be Lyrics

I used to be happy I used to be such a loving man
I used to be that was before the end of my world
That was before the end of my world
She used to be happy she used to be such a loving woman
She used to be that was before the end of her world
That was before the end of her world
We used to be happy we used to be such a loving people
We used to be that was before the end of our world
That was before the end of our world

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Girl Trouble Lyrics

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 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

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He Likes Me Lyrics

He likes me he likes me ooh...isn't that nice
He likes me he likes me ooh...isn't that nice
That your brand new friend he likes your old true friend
And isn't that the way that it ought to be
That your brand new friend he has good will to send
And you're so free you're so free you're so free
And I am history
He likes you he says that he loves you ooh that's good to know
You like him I hope you don't love him and ooh...you should know
That your old true friend he doesn't like your brand friend
Person to person it' s not on purpose but I take it personally
And soon your brand new friend I hope I'll have a bon voyage to send
And you're so free you're so free you're so free
And I am history
You say you won't pick and you won't make a choice
But I'm so mad I could spit and I hear it in your voice
You said he likes me he likes me ooh isn't that swell
He likes me you said he likes me ooh tell him hell...o from me
A great big hello from me
Jesus always taught me that I should love my enemy
Darling my heart's in pain that's why my song's insane
And you're so free and I am history
He likes me but I don't like him

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Life is a Scream Lyrics

She said to me oh I don't know what you mean
All I'm trying to do is trying to make your scene
I said to her no way baby life ain't what it seem
Well don't you know baby that life is a scream - AAGH

She came up to me in her high fashion and sheen
Well don't you know that she was trying to come clean
I said to her no way baby life ain't what it seem
Well don't you know baby that life is a scream - AAGH

She said to me oh I love it when you're mean
Don't you know it's boring when it's quiet and serene
I said to her no way baby life ain't what it seem
Well don't you know baby that life is a scream - AAHEEII!

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Flamingo Baby Lyrics

You're a flamingo you stand on one leg
You're a flamingo baby you hatched from an egg
Well you hold your foot up so delicately over the sea
And when it comes down it comes down on me

Well I used to want to hump you
I used to want to rock and roll
I was attracted to your gracefulness
But your surprise sure took its toll

Now I guess I'd better go out now
Gonna try to find something new
And all I'm left with is this craving
For some flamingo stew

Now the beauty's in the gutter
The loveliness is off her throne
In the eyes of the beholder
It's gone and now he feels kind of alone

But this feeling it's the kind
That will shortly pass
I'm gonna find myself another bird
And roll on down the grass

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Lack of Knowledge Lyrics

I'm not doing something I'm supposed to do
I'm doing something I'm not supposed to
I don't know about that I don't know about that
I don't know nothing bout nothing like that
Destroyed my people are destroyed
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
I wonder if I'm happy wonder if I'm mad
I wonder why the whole wide world's so wonderfully sad
I don't know 'bout that but I can tell you this
That when I drink a lot of beer y'know I gotta piss...off
People should be pissed off
People should be pissed off for lack of knowledge
Read read read read read read read everything you can
Cause there's no tomorrow like today and
There's no today like tomorrow and they will stick
And they will stick you in the end

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More Money Tonight Lyrics

I always felt that I was different
I always thought that that was good
I always thought that I was different
I always felt that that was good
Sometimes in school people pick on me
In the gym locker room or in the hallway
Cruel things people do and say
Wait a minute wait a minute
I'll make more money tonight
Than you ever dreamed of
You thought I was strange
Well just look at me now
If you are lucky I'll play in your city
And you can come see me if you got the...
Somebody stole all my clothes that I like to wear
But I'm so rich and famous baby what do I care
Wait a minute wait a minute
If you got the money If you got the money
If you got the money If you got the money

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I'm Free Lyrics

I'm free and I'm happy I am free from your hatred
I've parted from the part that I participated in
So I'm free it was easy I know nothing of your hatred
I've know and shone the light and the darkness abated
So I'm free run skip jump play my little boy is happy
Look he's smiling because he knows no fear..hear...
My mommy is calling me and I'm running thru the fields
Because I'm free
Every day in every way I'm getting better and better
And better and better and better and better etc
Because there is no fear
Here why I can't tell you now
Cause I'm runnin' through the wood and
I just jumped a little bit higher
Cause I'm free and that's the way he created me to be
I have turned from your hatred I turned on the light
And there was nothing there that waited to get me
This ain't a song about that
This is a song about this

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