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Stan Ridgway lyrics
Pick it up (and put it in your pocket) lyrics
A signal swings and the lights turn off
And a missing man begins to cough
And no one knows the lost ones from the found
And lady luck, well, she can't explain
To a hardened coin or a bill, the game
It seems everything changes hands when it hits the ground
They said it's dog eat dog, cat eat mouse
And mouse eat cheese and the cheese just smells
The warning systems ring but help won't come.
And all the calling cards and the walking sticks
and the hidden punches and the coward's kicks
Say we got a big mouthful now
Chorus:
Pick it up and put it in your pocket
or somebody else will
Pick it up and put it in your pocket
or somebody else just will
repeat as necessary
Now the world's a road and for miles around
On every inch of unclaimed ground, hide rewards for some but all the rest
Spin a creepy wheel or they trip the stair
While the new school boys just can't play fair
In a place that leaves its money in its mess
Chorus repeat
Now an old man with a paper bag
And a list so long on a dirty rag
Checks each item that he will throw or keep
But he'll never thank the coin that's bent
Or a greenback bill that a stranger sent
But he'll pick 'em just the same
And then he'll thank the street
He turns and says it's dog eat dog
And cat eat mouse
And mouse eat cheese
And the cheese just smells
Now I don't wanna seem to say
That the time ahead won't be okay
But the scale is loaded down
With the weight of sixteen tons
And the ones that have
Tell the ones that don't
To tell the ones that can't
About the ones who won't
And there's no place left here
'Round to run
Chorus repeat endlessly
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End of an era lyrics
Longarm lyrics
Invisible man lyrics
The good, the bad, and the ugly \ hang 'em high lyrics
Can't make love lyrics
The passenger lyrics
Full of tension lyrics
Me and my dad lyrics
This way out lyrics
Good times lyrics
Animal day lyrics
Red light lyrics
Back in flesh lyrics
Call box (1-2-3) lyrics
Two minutes till lunch lyrics
Tse tse fly lyrics
Crack the bell lyrics
Factory lyrics
Look at their way lyrics
Hands of love lyrics
Mexican radio lyrics
They don't want me lyrics
On interstate 15 lyrics
Tomorrow lyrics
Lost weekend lyrics
Spy world lyrics
Call of the west lyrics
Walkin' home alone lyrics
Salesman lyrics
Twisted lyrics
Rio greyhound lyrics
Foggy river lyrics
End of the line lyrics
Can't stop the show lyrics
The big heat lyrics
Pile driver lyrics
Camouflage lyrics
Stormy side of town lyrics
Nadine lyrics
Drive, she said lyrics
Heat takes a walk lyrics
Goin' southbound lyrics
Peg and pete and me lyrics
Newspapers lyrics
Calling out to carol lyrics
The last honest man lyrics
A mission in life lyrics
Lonely town lyrics
Dogs lyrics
Can't complain lyrics
Watch your step lyrics
I wanna be a boss lyrics
Mouthful of sand lyrics
Snaketrain lyrics
Right through you lyrics
The gumbo man lyrics
Harry truman lyrics
Venus is hell lyrics
O.k.? lyrics
Bad news at the dynamite ranch lyrics
Beyond tomorrow lyrics
Jack talked lyrics
The roadblock lyrics
Overlords lyrics
Uba's house of fashions lyrics
Police call lyrics
New blue mercedes lyrics
Hell in a handbasket lyrics
Mr. smith lyrics
Old bent coin lyrics
My exclusive sex club lyrics
Triangle head lyrics
Back towards diamond bar lyrics
Bel air blues lyrics
Highway song lyrics
Time wave zero lyrics
Big american problem lyrics
Gone the distance lyrics
Knife and fork lyrics
Down the coast highway lyrics
Stranded lyrics
Wild bill donovan lyrics
Man of stone lyrics
Pink parakeet lyrics
Underneath the big green tree lyrics
As i went out one morning lyrics
Crystal palace lyrics
Big dumb town lyrics
Luther played guitar lyrics
Hear that bird lyrics
Mission bell lyrics
Deep blue polka dot lyrics
Train of thought lyrics
Murray's steakhouse story lyrics
Sweet pig alley lyrics
Valerie is sleeping lyrics
Mickey the priest lyrics
Mama had a stove lyrics
Whistle for louise lyrics
Picasso's tear lyrics
Susie before sunrise lyrics
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