When the lights are low you know I'm going to go to my hotel chambermaid I'm going to jump the garden and come on hard all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight
VERSE When the world is dead I'm going to make the bed with that hotel chambermaid She'll bring the coffee in the morning with a smile She don't ask me where I come from I crept in and I soon be done I just want to hide here for a while
I ain't got a million dollars, no-one I can call mine But I'll push on cushion me in some way Ain't got no future at least that's what they say This girl is going to take those kind of blues away for a day yeah Uh uh uh uh uh hotel chambermaid hotel chambermaid
VERSE Room service can you help me I want a hotel chambermaid I didn't pay my bill but I had my fill all right While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight While the river's rolling outside the window Going to see her going to get love Going to shut the bellboy out tonight (3 times)
Intro G CG (4 times VERSE G CG G CG Well I ain't got no worry I ain't in no hurry You better tell your mother, That you're a real soul brother Hey hey!
I have to say it's all right About five past midnight And we don't stop a-rollin' Until the floor board cave in.
BRIDGE C G Yeah I feel like I've been a-living to die C G D But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry.
CHORUS G CG G CG I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes G CG G D I got my soul shoes I got my soul shoes on my feet.
(Instrumental break)
BRIDGE If you wanna leave me go dance with another guy If you wanna grieve me baby just set my soul to die
(Instrumental chorus)
VERSE Yeah the place is buzzin, please don't let the fuzz in. You better tell your mother, that you're a real soul brother.
BRIDGE Oh yeah I said I feel like I've been living to die But when that rhythm play I don't know how to cry
C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C You wake up early in the morning G C A-playing on the clarinet G C Whole town down when the man comes around F G And no one pays their rent It's all spent on C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey yeah any time I think I can. G C She's come and laid on a sample G C A little sweet white honey bee G C Tastes so good that the whole town stood F G And stared and looked at me They all see the C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man C F C F C F C F White honey eee any time I think I can.
C'mon and (scat to chorus and the chords as in intro) sax break and repeat C G F G as in intro G C But now I ain't wanna criticise G C But let me tell you what I found G C Since they took away the record machine F G White honey don't come around. Get down! C F C F C F C F White honey get it from the candy man Oh oh oh oh oh C F C F C F C F white honey-ee any time I think I can C F C F Said honey what you doing what you doing what you doing C F C F What you're doing downtown tell me baby. C F C F Honey what you do what you do what you doing C F C F You're trying to make me look like a clown. C F C F I said hit white honey when the chips are down C F C F I'm gonna taste white honey when ain't no one around C F C F C F I said honey honey honey honey honey honey honey honey yeah C F C F Wah wah
Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, for me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - I don't mean to bother you but I'm in distress There's danger of me loosing all of my happiness For I love a girl who doesn't know I exist And this you can fix, so.....
Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow go Straight to my lover's heart for me, Nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - Cupid if your arrow makes her love strong for me I promise I will love her until eternity I know between the both of us her heart we can steal Help me if you will, so.....
Cupid draw back your bow And let your arrow flow Straight to my lover's heart for me, o nobody but me - Cupid please hear my cry And let your arrow fly Straight to my lover's heart for me
Now - Cupid, don't you hear me, I'm calling you, I need you, Cupid help me . . .
The dreams and hopes of men are powered by addiction And who am I to say that this is an affliction When everybody gets suckered in and lives their lives like fiction Writing their own stories of success
They say they want you for your colourful evocation The way you turn a cliche into a sensation But all they ever wanted was that same vibration The one that shimmers round success
Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success
You can't be happy while someone else has a fistful They glow from TV screens healthy strong and fiscal And everybody slaps their back while you're alone with a wristful Jerking to the rhythm of success
Success success Success success Success success Success success All you ever need: Success
The kid's left home, the kid's got a kid of her own Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The mystery sign, turn off and follow it blind The interstate is jammed and crammed with exhaust mist It only leads to somewhere you'll never miss You'll never miss
Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies
The rusty chrome, the shutters swing open and closed Don't knock that door, don't knock it, nobody's home The blood runs cold, the blood runs cold There must be gold where fools are That's what we are, that's what we are
Get on the blue highways, follow the blue highways You know that they're there, you know that they're there Where the real America lies Blue highways, blue highways, blue highways
The mona lisa's sister doesn't smile She tried to pose but only for a while Leonardo sent her home since then she has lived alone With her few belongings and a copy of a painting of herself unhappy She is going to burn it when she's ready
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Marilyn was lying all alone with an empty bottle by the phone Kennedy was not around she was cold when she was found But she'd gone where the goddesses are sleeping Where the molten tongues of flame are leaping Or where the angel's hearts are beating
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Joan of arc was burning at the stake somebody had made a big mistake She had lit a cigarette in an aiport where you get All your fingers taken off for smoking. Meanwhile up the road a factory's choking The ones who killed her work there I'm not joking
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire Get started, start a fire
You stop in the old cafe where you used to play pinball And look for the air-raid shelter but it's gone and the cafe seems so small and all the gardens that had trees and stolen apples now have small businesses flourishing in cinder blocks Then they will call your name and hand you a gold watch Then they will call your name but it doesn't sound like much And you'll never discover why it's like an old lover you can't touch anymore It doesn't mean much anymore when you go back in time back in time
You head down to the local try to find a focal point A scratch in the wallpaper but it's all been wallpapered over Down at the newsagents it's all pornography And you try to get high again but it's like time-lapse photography Then they will call your name and hand you a medal Or something more practical like a whistling kettle and it'll test your metal Just try to keep grinning knowing that this feeling is indulgence worse than sinning trying to go back in time yeah
Photographs with a glossy finish letters lovers never finished And there in a dusty drawer a necktie you once wore And a girl you tried to court made you feel about two feet short Where is she now today? What would she have to say? Then they will call your name and hand you a pension A bottle of pills that guarantee life extension and give you a mention in the local boy makes good section But all the old news is like print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time
Yes all this old news is just print stains across your mind when you try to go back in time Back in time back, back in time
All the dirt's lying under the carpet He swallowed a drink and then checked her heartbeat Her wedding gown has been burned to ashes Fanned by the flutter of her false lashes One last chance to kiss again She looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
She got colder with each incision No-one knew he had a fatal vision One last chance to kiss again Your mother knows her baby's pain Not forever could they last Under the mask under the mask Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask
Look at them walking look at them kiss What a picture of domestic bliss Laughing and laughing like clockwork toys Until they're broken girls and boys
One last chance to kiss again she looked so good he looked so sane Not forever could they last Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask, Under the mask,
Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness Under the mask of happiness
