Wasps' Nests
1. San Diego Zoo
2. Aging Spinsters
3. All Dressed Up in Dreams
4. Falling Out of Love (with You)
5. Winter in July
6. Pillow Fight
7. Dream Hat
8. Movies in My Head
9. In the City in the Rain
10. Looking for Love (in the Hall
of Mirrors)
11. Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket
12. Here in My Heart
13. Puerto Rico Way
14. You Can't Break a Broken Heart
15. When I'm Out of Town
16. Yet Another Girl
Rot in the Sun
1. SAN DIEGO ZOO
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Met you on a traffic island We were there all day
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in the middle of the world's highway
Summer left its light green lipstick on our faces
Took us to all the pretty places
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(C): Highway 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
to Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo.
San Diego Zoo. San Diego Zoo.
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San Diego Zoo. San Diego Zoo.
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How could I have ever left you?
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(How could I have ever left you?) <- this line is left out
in the first chorus
Left you in a sidewalk café I'm the restless kind
And I must have been out of my mind
'cause I haven't slept since Wednesday I've been getting thin
I just want to see your silly grin (C) (C)
2. AGING SPINSTERS
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You can have a fall and winter of your own
staying warm inside your Victorian home
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but when the city's so hot the winos burst into flames
When the Jesus freaks collapse with the weight of their claims
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(C): Marry young, Diana
I don't want to see you old and alone
It's no fun, Diana
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I don't want to see you rot in the home for aging spinsters.
You should find someone as loyal as a dog
who will still love you when you look like a frog
Someone to rock your chair and bring you pink lemonade
Someone to peel you a grape 100 degrees in the shade (C)
3. ALL DRESSED UP IN DREAMS
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I was happy
which is not like me at all
For an hour
I was feeling 10 feet tall
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and I had myself a ball
I was heading for a fall
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(C): I got all dressed up in dreams
and I waited by the door
but you never even called
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to tell me you don't love me anymore.
You're so pretty everybody falls for you
In this city it's the only thing to do
So I cried for 16 days and I cried in 16 ways. (C)
You said you'd arrive at 8, but you're 17 days late. (C)
So I wander in the rain as I slowly go insane
C G D
I got all dressed up in dreams
and I waited by the door
but you never even called
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to tell me you don't love me anymore
C G D
you don't love me anymore
you don't love me anymore
you don't love me anymore
you don't love me anymore
you don't love me anymore
4. FALLING OUT OF LOVE (WITH YOU)
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In an old Silverline
I was yours, you were mine
I was hoarse, you were mean
We designed drum machines
(C): But every day in every way
I'm falling out of love with you
Every kiss means less and less
I'm falling out of love with you
Every hour kills a flower
I'm falling out of love with you
You just bore me more and more
I'm falling out of love with you
They made sounds much like drums
I was young you were dumb
Now you're older and I'm wiser
We design synthesizers (C)
5. WINTER IN JULY
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(C): All alone in Melbourne all I do is cry
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All I see is rain falling It's winter in July
In another city neath another sky
Are you feeling lonely It's winter in July.
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Would you have fallen in love if we'd stayed another day
We could have fallen in love but you let me fly away
I saw something in your eyes that I'll never find again
and now there's something in mine so I'll walk out in the rain (C)
It's winter in July
6. PILLOW FIGHT
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How sad the castle with no foundation underground
Sadder still is the lover with no mystery left unfound
You threaten to pack your trunks and go back to Chinatown
(C): Did I say something impolitic or did I lay it on too thick and
are we breaking up tonight or can we have a pillow fight
Do we really need to hire a plane to carpetbomb down memory lane and
shall we figure out who's right or can we have a pillow fight.
Diverse unpleasantness gather around our bed
like pigeons round a park bench clamoring to be fed
Let us kill all these rats with wings by feeding them poisoned bread (C)
7. DREAM HAT
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I've been working in these here fields like it's something real
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like it's got something to do with me
Looking out on a wasted life with a wasted wife
who will have nothing to do with me
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(C): But I wear a dream hat now one that's made of silk and lace
I wear a dream hat now the only way to leave this place
I wear a dream hat now and give up on the human race
I wear a dream hat now so I won't have to see your face.
I have suffered a million fools in factories and schools
and in my little trailer home
I have suffered a million fools in rags and in jewels
I just want to be let alone (C)
8. MOVIES IN MY HEAD
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While it may come as a shock I wasn't born to love you
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Though you've tried every trick known to Madison Avenue
I will eat all chocolate fed to me I'll ride in the park
But it's only fair to tell you you're whistling in the dark
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(C): I can't remember anything you've ever said
G D A
You don't hold a candle to the movies in my head
I can't remember any life I might have led
I sit in the dark and watch the movies in my head
G D A
I'm always starring in the movies in my head.
You can tell me all your secrets till you're blue in the face
You can stare into my eyes but I'll be off in a daze
In my Indonesian palace I will probably stay
If you give me rings and roses I will throw them away (C) (C)
9. IN THE CITY IN THE RAIN
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In the city in the rain you've got a beautiful face
In the city in the rain you vanish without a trace
In the city in the rain you've got mysterious ways
In the city in the rain I'm gonna spend all my days
(C): I think I'm gonna dance all night long
I think I'm gonna dance till the moon goes down.
In the city in the rain, inside a smoky cafe
In the city in the rain you tell me that you'll stay
In the city in the rain you suddenly slip away
In the city in the rain I'm gonna spend all my days (C)
In the city in the rain I hear the screaming of tires
In the city in the rain I'm setting myself on fire
In the city in the rain among the beautiful lights
In the city in the rain I think I'll dance all night (C)
10. LOOKING FOR LOVE (IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS)
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ALTERNATE INTRO: G:320033 xx0233 032033 G
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When you left them back on the farm for the city at dawn
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The drone of youth and the hum of the pretty were songs
You thought you'd never forget It's a pity they're gone
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(C): When the sun goes down and the moon appears
you go looking for love in the hall of mirrors.
There's a dark place down by the tracks where the wrinkles don't show
They've got a room in the back where the lonely hearts go
You can get in on the act or just take in the show (C) (C) (C) (C)
11. HEAVEN IN A BLACK LEATHER JACKET
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She'll be leaving on a Sunday morning train
You'll be hanging around the docks again
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Some work is never done
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Can't sleep for holding on till then
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(C): Heaven in a black leather jacket hit me like a hurricane
Heaven in a black leather jacket I don't even know your name
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Heaven in a black leather jacket
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kiss me in the Hollywood rain.
You've been running through the limbic system maze
drowning it in a dull lysergic haze
Can't find much peace of mind but after sunset you'll be fine (C)
Can't find much peace of mind but after sunset you'll be fine (C)
12. HERE IN MY HEART
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(C): There's a beautiful song since you came along here in my heart
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There's a beautiful sound since you came around here in my heart
There's a soft summer rain since the day that you came here in my heart
There's a whole wonderland when I'm holding your hand
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Here in my heart you planted a seed
Here in my heart you're all I need.
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When you're gone, I'm alone, and I cry
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But I know you'll come home by and by
In the gloom of my room night and day
till my eyes turn as red as a flame
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crying your name (C)
In a year will these tears turn to joy
Or am I just a vice just a toy?
In a while will your smile fade away
Will we be history gone astray nothing to say? (C)
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Here in my heart
13. PUERTO RICO WAY
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To play along with the record, capo the first fret or use bar chords.
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The sun pissing in the streets of some hung over place
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dances with two left feet upon her face
But soft! She is fast asleep beneath her mosquitoes
You would never want to know what she knows
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(C): I met a girl down Puerto Rico Way with an eye as true as steel
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And the hair grew red upon her head Oh love it would have been ideal
The summer air down Puerto Rico Way is as hot as it can be
but the orchestra plays night and day Martina, will you dance with me?
She's drunk every single day She's young most of the time
She's spent all of the rent on her decline
She's fun, fun to be around She's done everything once
She's a fallen woman fallen sound asleep in the sun (C)
14. YOU CAN'T BREAK A BROKEN HEART
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Some - times you remind me of a doll
lifelike but so frail and so small
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Your plastic eyes see nothing and your painted lips are still
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And I know you don't love me but you will
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(C): You've tried science you've tried art
but you can't break a broken heart
You can tear my brain apart
but you can't break a broken heart.
You cried when you knew I would look
You tried every trick in the book
But I read that book yesterday and yesterday's for fools
and I won't play by yesterday's dumb rules (C) (C) (C)
You've tried science you've tried art
15. WHEN I'M OUT OF TOWN
The chords provided are a half step lower than the actual recording.
To play along with the record, capo the first fret.
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Where do you go
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when I'm not around
Who do you love when I'm out of town
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The butcher, the baker, the thin undertaker who makes not a sound
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Who do you love when I'm out of town
Have all my dreams come tumbling down
Who's in your arms where I used to drown
The old money-lender, the lonely bartender, the carnival clown
Who do you love when I'm out of town
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Don't say it doesn't matter anyway
G D C
because it doesn't matter what you say
All our pages are turning to brown
We're breaking up and I'm breaking down
The man in the forest, the dashing young florist, the nurse musclebound
Who do you love when I'm out of town
Who do you love when I'm out of town
Who do you love when I'm out of town
16. YET ANOTHER GIRL
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Mademoiselle Chelsea Hotel
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Prettiest in all the world
The divinest androgyne
Silver wig and plastic pearls
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Oh, the TV sets on fire
C#
Shall we go?
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(C): Yet another girl in a limousine
Yet another girl on the New York scene
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Yet another nightclub-hopping, diet pill-popping sex machine
Yet another maid to order destined for the silver screen
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Yet another girl Yet another girl
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Yet another girl
Causing accidents again
As you try to cross the street
Live on shots and cigarettes
What the hell, it's only meat
It's an artform in itself
Dying young (C)
ROT IN THE SUN
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Something about the absence of any seasons
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of any sense of time going by
Something in the endless procession of palm trees
You'll fall in love and you'll never die
You get signed to a major Top 40 label
Blow David Geffen, blow Seymour Stein
You can make an atrocious Top 40 record
no one will know in two weeks time
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(C): Let ending begin
Rot in the wind
The end has begun
Rot in the sun.
You can find your own love and a place to stay
even in New York, New York but not in L.A.
Be a movie star or a runaway
Somebody will love you in Cannes but not in L.A.
Not in L.A. (C) (C)
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