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A singer in a smokey room
Snow White and sleep with you.
A singer in a smokey room
Smell of wine and cheap perfume.
Brain damage wastin'
Up and down the boulevard.
Strangers, waitin'
Up and down the boulevard.
Brain damage, wasted
Comin' down the boulevard.
Strangers, waitin'
Up and down the boulevard.
Delights, evils
Streetlights, people
Don't stop Felipe
Don't stop Believin'
Don't stop the mailman
Don't stop believin'
Don't stop! Believe it!
Don't stop believin'.
Don't stop, Fillipe.
Don't stop believin'.
Don't stop, be leavin'!
Don't stop believin'
Everybody wants to win
Everybody wants a thrill
Everyone wants a grill.
Everybody wants a thrill.
Gustav be-leeding
Don't stop believing
Handy Mandy won't you roll the dice
Just one more time.
Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time.
He took a midnight drink of it anyways.
He took a midnight train going anywhere.
Heaven is defined a moose
Living just to find emotion
Heaven is to find devotion
Livin' just to find emotion
Heaven must have found emotion.
Livin' just to find emotion.
Heaven's a defined emotion
Livin' just to find emotion.
Heaven's just a fine emotion.
Living just to find emotion.
Heaven's just a fond emotion.
Livin' just to find emotion.
Heaven's just a funky moose
Living just to find emotion
Heaven's just a funky motion
Living just to find emotion
Hold on to that freedom
Hold on to that feeling
Hold on to that peeling
Hold on to that feeling
I see her in a smoky room
I smell-a wine and cheap perfume.
A singer in a smoky room
(The) smell of wine and cheap perfume.
I see her in a smoky room
I smell her wine and cheap perfume.
A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume.
I seen her in a smoky room...
A singer in a smoky room...
I seen you in a smoky room
I smell Hawaiian cheap perfume
A singer in a smokey room
Smell of wine and cheap perfume.
I sing up in a smokey room
The smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a small, they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on.
A singer in a smokey room
The smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile, they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on.
I sit here in a Spokane room.
A singer in a smoky room
I smell of wine and cheap perfume.
The smell of wine and cheap perfume.
I smell white and sleep with you
Smell of wine and cheap perfume.
I've seen her in a smoky room
A singer in a smoky room
Just a CD burn, morning rains in South Detroit.
Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit.
Just a city boy,
born and raised and softly trothed
Just a city boy,
born and raised in South Detroit
Just a city boy
Born an' raised in self- control.
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit.
Just a silly boy
Just a city boy
Just a small time girl.
Just a small town girl.
Just a small town boy
Barney raced in south Detroit.
Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit.
Just a smoke out girl
Just a small town girl
Livin' just to fight a notion.
Living just to find emotion.
Livin' just to find devotion.
Livin' just to find emotion.
Living just to find a moose and hide it somewhere in the night
Living just to find emotion and hiding somewhere in the night
Living just to find emulsion
Living just to find emotion
Oh the music never ends, it goes on and on and on and on
Oh the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on
People dancin' up and down the boulevard
Livin' just to find emotion
or
Strangers waitin'
Up and down the boulevard
Livin' just to fall into motion
Strangers waitin'
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searchin' in the night
Streetlights, people
Livin' just to find emotion
Smell of wine and cheese perfume
Smell of wine and cheap perfume
Smell of wine and sheep perfume
Smell of wine and cheap perfume
Some will win, some will lose, some are going to drink some booze
Some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues
Some will win, some will lose
Some are going to sing the blues
On a boat that never ends, it goes on and on and on and on
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on
from the Live in Concert DVD
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to bring the booze.
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues.
Stream Line, Bingo oh aaaaah!
Streetlights people
Streetlife people
Living with profound emotion.
Streetlight people
Living just to find emotion.
Streetlife people
Streetlight people
Streetlight feelin'.
Streetlight people
Streetlight peole
Living with profound emotion.
Streetlight people
Living just to find emotion.
Summer win, summer lose
Summerboy you sing the blues
Some'll win, some will lose
Some are born to sing the blues
Summer wind, some wheel loose
Some are going to sing the blues.
Some will win, some will lose
Some are born to sing the blues.
They do anything but roll the dice
Just one more time.
Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time.
They'll do anything but roll the dice
Just one more time.
Payin' anything to roll the dice
Just one more time.
Up and down Bora Bora
Up and down the boulevard
Whoopin' down the boulevard
Up and down the boulevard
Working hard to get my feel,
Everybody wants a grill
Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Working hard to get my meal
Everybody wants a grill
Working hard to get my fill
Everybody wants a thrill
You'll get fired
You'll get by