LYRICS

"SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Temptation what's better
Do ya walk away from the apple?
Or take a bite?
Damnation don't matter
In and out I go
But I really don't mind
Down dirty come meet me
One step away from a primitive appetite
Don't look now I'm trouble
In over your head
But don't pay it no mind

Slave you save me
I know you're kinda scared
So I'll take you down easy

Got you tight in a grip like vice
You're a slave to the rhythm now
Soakin' wet in a pool of sweat
Caught on in the up and down
You're a slave to the rhythm now

Salvation ain't easy
Walkin' on a line
That can lead you to light or dark
Don't matter this voodoo
Take ya down
Down, to the pulse of your heart

Slave you save me
All I wanna do
Is take you down sleazy
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"FULL TIME BODY"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

You're writin' long letters to the folks back home
Ya tell 'em all's fine in the combat zone
But you lie.
You say you're the star of the acting class
But you fail to explain 'bout your part-time trash
At nite

Now you make your livin' pumpin' fast to nowhere
Get it while you're foolin' only heaven knows

Full time body somethin' naughty
Get on your rockin' horse and ride
Lawdy lawdy yer full time body
Is what it takes to keep alive

When you paint your face you don't feel like yourself
You're a broken down doll that belongs on a shelf
And you cry
But you can't run away from the truth that you are
Cosmetics can't hide all your brand new scars
Such a crime

Now you fake your livin' pumpin' ass to nowhere
Who ya think you're foolin' powder up the nose

CHORUS

A real good livin's kinda hard to find
Full time body baby
Shake that booody oh lordy lordy
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"TIE YOU UP"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Lookin' for a ride
The thrill of the chase is so damn nice
So take me inside
To taste the scent will do just fine
Now I don't wanna have to tell you no lies
The secrets we keep
Can take us way beyond all heights
Some kinda crazy on the borderline 'o sin
Will take you to the shape I'm in

Tie you up
Maybe never let you down
Tie you up
Meet me in the underground
Somethin' in the air tonight
Is drivin' us insane
Like the fire from a dragon
I'll be breakin' at the chains to
Tie you up tie you up

Lights out on the playground
The carousel starts at the darkened fair
One taste of pleasure now darlin'
Where the signs all say beware
Like a bullet hits you straight between the eyes
Feel you body shakin' startin' deep within your thighs
You can never match me bite for bite or gun to gun
Can't stop till I get done

CHORUS

So right on the mark now you're not so tame
Here's your walk in the dark side of your name
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"DESPERATE"
Ponti, Davis, Virgin Music, Jack Ponti Music, Screen Gems EMI Music

Here we sit
In this smoky bar
Two souls drifting
Thru the world alone

Here we talk
About life and love
Hold me tonight
We'll be lovers

And we'll dance
As our drinks go down
Casting the stale truth
With each breath

Then we'll touch
As the lights go out
Want me tonight?
I'm your lover

Baby I'm desperate
Burning fire for you

When the rain comes falling down
And you're lonely as the night grows colder
Don't worry 'cuz I'll be there for you

When your dreams seem far away
Take a moment to look over your shoulder
'Cuz honey you know I'm desperate too
Everybody's desperate just like you!

Here we are
Like the times before
Reaching out at midnight
For the only open arms

And we kiss
In our Shangri-La
We steal the night
Just like lovers

Somebody's been watchin' baby
Feels like a thousand nights
Everybody's been desperate baby
Sometimes the wrong feels right
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"TOKYO TIME"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

We cut a perfect diamond
Out of sync and vague
It bleeds from the heart
It's fallen apart it's all a big mistake
So many words unspoken are lost into the fall
It's headed for dark of powder and spark
The final curtain call

Cut a perfect diamond
And then a perfect lie

You and me we don't disagree
We're full tilt compromise
It isn't hard to make a blind man see
You're livin' on Tokyo time
Livin' on Tokyo time

Once we had the answers
Once we had the key
Then came the rain and thundering strain
A ghost ship on the sea
I try to understand you
Don't know where it's lost
A haunting inside swallowing pride
A fairy tale will cost

Once we had the answers
Now we have the lies

CHORUS

I've taken all I can
Ain't no beggar in a foreign land
And I've never had to hide
And I'm never gonna meet you in Tokyo time
Thought we had a diamond
But all we have is ice
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"VAMPIRE KISS"
K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

I was headed down dark alley streets
Time hadn't lifted the spell of the beast
Still hear her laughin' movin' in for the kill
Will had been taken all for the thrill
Got to take me, all is fine
Take the madness; all in time
Feel the nasty all I do
Such a habit déjà vu
Take me inside, 'cause I ain't done yet
No you're never lookin' for love
Fire and soul in a skin tight dress
A perfect fit like a hand in your glove

Make me electric baby set me on fire
Rattle my bones you take me wire to wire
Never knew nothin' baby quite like this
'Till I had a taste of your vampire kiss

I can't say no, no more
A dyin' fever but I'm back in for more
You light a candle, sayin' never-ending rhymes
One more attack and now it's time after time
Roll me over midnight lay
Feel your presence though you're miles away
Got to shake it bound to lose
Balls a hangin' and my head's in your noose
Take me inside 'cause I ain't done yet you know I'm not lookin' for love
Sweat on sweat baby sex on sex pound for pound
Grind to ground

Yeah you're ready to awaken time to make a move
Darkness for the prowlin' people for the takin'
Gonna make it on you
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"THE MIDGE II (Instrumental)"
L. Bulen, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
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"THE PRICE OF LOVE"
Ponti, Pepe, Champlin, Jack Ponti Music/WB Music Corp/Little Elvis Music & BMG Songs Inc.

One lonely night, I heard you calling
But it was only the sound of a heartbeat
Breakin' the walls
As time moves on, words say it all
Now I got only the sound of the silence
Breakin' the fall

Some things will never change
Well it might take a miracle to turn you around
Some things will never change
The dreams you kept inside
You find them lyin' on the ground

Stranded in the night
Lonely is the price of love
I would gladly sacrifice
Only for the price of love
I would hang my soul to dry
Maybe for the price of love
And it cuts you like a knife
The price of love

Behind the light, where dreams are woven
I see you and me in a mirror breaking it down
It's no surprise, we count the pieces
But we can't let go of a fire
That's burning us down

Some things will never change
But it might take a miracle to start it again
Some things will never change
So hold on to the hope
And we'll fight it 'till the end

When I close my eyes
I can feel you now and then
But I kinda lose the touch
Something in my mind is growing off and on and again
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"DREAMIN' IN BLACK & WHITE"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Midnight rider on a subway train
Mexican Mud flowin' thru his veins
Switchblade shinin' how he love to fight
Eyein' up a hurricane, waitin' for the rainbow's end
Hey Hey Hey doncha give him no lip
Full time captain of a sinkin' ship
No one cares, no one sees

So don't fall in the fire
Don't sleep with the liars
Livin' in color, dreamin', in black and white
And don't dance with the devil
What price can you handle?
Livin' in color, dreamin' in black and white

Sad soul lady waitin' on her john
Watcha gonna do when your looks are gone?
Third rail ready take you out real fast
Swim in the wine, walk on the glass
Save it for another day, hopin', for another life
Hey Hey Hey woncha cut her some slack
Life ain't very funny when you're hookin' on your back
No one knows, no one tries

One more trip down the tracks
One more dime for the bag
The mirror's 'bout to crack
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"DOWN BY THE TORCHLIGHT"
K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Swampin' on down Atchafalaya Way
Where a man can get lost he be gone for days
Well I can get lost just a sittin' here dreamin' bout home
Well last time I was down there I was stoned so deep
Jack he got busted and I watched him bleed
The law's so out of order and they'll beat you right down to the bone

CHORUS
I wanna hear it rain
In the dead of the night
I wanna feel the strange
Down by the torchlight

My sister got married makes a damn good wife
He beats her when he drinks it's her way of life
There's no room left in the trailer but there's one on the way
When I look back I don't understand
How the times can pass by when you're so out of hand
All my friends are all left in the jungle just wastin' away

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Raise the baptized
With a mock of an old rhyme
Stories untold
Down by the torchlight
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"LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL"
K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Who do you think you are to tie me down and leave me stranded?
I couldn't fight you if I tried
And through the years it took
To get me here it didn't matter
The bitter ends and sleepless nights
Who do you think we're foolin'?
Who do you think we are?

You're my days, you're my nights
Everything I hoped forever
The wrong and the right
You're my dreams, you're my fears
The light at the end of the tunnel darlin'
Takin' away all the dark that tied me down

My life's an open book for everyone to read I know it
Some things I keep too locked inside
You weaved your spell one-day
And swept me in with subtle magic
You cast awakes me in the night
How did it go unnoticed?
How did it get this far?
You're the light at the end of the tunnel
Light at the end of the tunnel callin'
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"TEAR DOWN THE WALLS"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, B. Pfieffer, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

I'm so bored out of my head
Well they haven't heard a single word that I said
The music's loud and I'm feelin' wound
Drinkin' down my sorrows
Yeah I might as well drown

Everything I do is wrong
That's what they tell me
Everything I say is wrong
I'll lock it inside
Everything I feel is wrong
Well how can they know that?
Three ways I see it
The right, wrong, and mine

Gonna tear down the walls, tear down the walls
Brick by brick gotta get my last kicks
Gonna tear down the walls

I don't need you comin' down on me
Don't need you tellin' me what I need
Learn you lesson!  Screamin' thru the halls
No suppressions gonna reason at all
Gotta face another day under restrictions
Gotta face another year
In this prison cell
Gotta face a mother's fear
Father's conditions
I've had enough of buyin' what you sell
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"HOTTER THAN HELL"
Baton Rouge, Pepe, Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes

Woke up in the city, wiped the night from my shoes
Spent time in the neon, where a soul can get abused
Preacher man screamin' on the street most everyday
Sleep can keep this messed up world shut out
Only so long, what we gonna do?

Swim up a river, the current pulls you down
No rest for the hopeless when the ship starts hittin' ground
The poison is the hustle, the whips about to crack
Get so high to gypsy moon ain't never comin' back
The sun can rise in the mornin' true
But it's one dark afternoon

Sentenced to the fire, hear the mission bell
The world is getting' hotter than hell
Spinnin' in a circle, wishin' in a well
The devil's getting' smarter and the world is gettin' hotter than hell

A hero on the TV falls before the crowd
Starve without a reason, cry without a sound
Beverly Hills to Harlem I wonder who's the guide
The face of ancient stories, swims against the tide
Monkey in the middle, laughin' at us all
And we slide

Pray for the sinner and suffer the fool
The truth is a tale of the dark
Where carnival lights wipe the stars from the sky
and it's your fault and mine, that the pages of time
Draw a blank
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