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"Aliens in the Family"
It's just nearly a tin of family
It's just aliens in the family
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I bang on these things and I go rat a tat a tat a tat.
I bang on these things till I get blisters on my hands.
Editor's note: The person who submitted this had 'Utopia' as the original performer. That's wrong. Todd Rundgren recorded and performed this song by himself, releasing it under his own name in 1983.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I bang on these things like a physical man.
I bang on these things till I get blisters on my hands.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna play, I just want to bang on your double D's.
I don't wanna play, I just want to bang on the drum all day.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on each other all day
I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on this drum all day
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna work, I wanna bang on my troubled knee.
or
I don't wanna work, I wanna bang honky girls all day.
I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum all day.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna work, I want to bang on a troubled day
I don't wanna work, I want to bang on a drum all day
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna work
I just want to sing and get drunk all day.
I don't wanna work
I want to bang on a drum all day.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't want no candy
I don't need no Coke.
I don't want no candy
I don't need no toys.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't want to work
I just want to play and get drunk all day.
I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day.
I think our local radio station electronically changed the words as a joke, because I've never heard it as 'bang on the drum'.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
I took a stick and an old copycat
I took a stick and an old coffee can
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
My dance separated, my boss is a turk
or
I'm damn so frustrated, my boss is a germ
I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
She caught me poundin' on her t**s with my hand.
She caught me poundin' on the desk with my hand.
"Bang The Drum All Day" (MP3)
When I get home and I think I'm a fool
When I get older, they think I'm a fool
"Bang the Drum All Day" (MP3)
Ever since I was abominable
Ever since I was a tiny boy
"Bang the Drum All Day" (MP3)
I don't wanna binge on the drum all day
I just wanna bang on the drum all day
"Bang the Drum All Day" (MP3)
I wanna bank on the month of May
I wanna bang on the drum all day
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
Can we still speak French?
Can we still be friends?
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
It's a strange, savoir-faire.
It's a strange, sad affair.
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
It's like a suicide old song
It's like a sweet, sad old song
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
Things are said, one by one.
Grains of sand, one by one.
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
Things ascend, one by one.
Grains of sand, one by one.
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
We've been through hell to get her.
We've been through hell together.
"Can We Still Be Friends?" (MP3)
We've burn in Hell together.
We've been through hell together.
"Can We Still Be Friends" (MP3)
Don't waste time being heard
Don't waste time feeling hurt
"Couldn't I Just Tell You (The Way I Feel)" (MP3)
Goodnight, Estelle, you...
Couldn't I just tell you...
"Couldn't I Just Tell You?" (MP3)
I'm not a Communist, that's what you believe.
I'm not a coward if that's what you believe.
I love the colorful hat she wears
I love the colorful clothes she wears
Doesn't ask you wrong
Doesn't last too long
I thought about us for a lot of time
I thought about us for a long, long time
It's nobody to me
It's important to me
It's some fire to me
It's important to me
It's somebody to me
It's important to me
'Cause a different girl from over-blessed
'Cause you're different, girl, from all the rest
And I may not be four
And I ran out before
And a feelin' that feels so strong about you.
And a feelin' hit me oh strong about you.
And a feeling to feel so strong about you
And a feelin' hit me oh strong about you
I just knew that something wasn't right
I was feeling something wasn't right
But my feelings for you
which is something I never knew
But my feelings for you
were just something I never knew
Realize (realize)
In your eyes (in your eyes)
(later)
In my eyes (in my eyes)
Then you crazed up at me
Then you gazed up at me
Then you dazed up at me
Then you gazed up at me
Then you gave love at me
Then you gazed up at me
Then you gave up at me
Then you gazed up at me