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A pistachio
A pistachio, you never tried.
If you start me up
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
Czechoslavakia
Czechoslavakia, you can never stop.
You can start me up
You can start me up, I'll never stop.
Domeo!
or
Domio!
Start me up!
Don't make a grown man cry.
You make a grown man cry.
Gestappio!
Gestappio!
Der Comissar!
You can start me up,
You can start me up
I'll never stop
Hey, A-stra-phia
A-stra-phia, never stop.
If you start me up
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
I can't compete
With the riders in the other Jeeps.
I can't compete
With the riders in the other heats.
I take this place is just a dead man's slam!
I'll take you places that you've never ever seen...
If you're Scorpio
If you start me up
If you're sportier
If you start me up
In Yugoslavia!
In Yugoslavia you'll never starve!
If you can start me up
If you can start me up I'll never stop.
Insomnia! Insomnia!
I'll never stop!
If you start me up
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
It's insomnia
If you start me up
It's the story of,
It's the story of a movie star
You can start me up,
You can start me up I'll never stop
My ass got AIDS
My eyes dilate
My eyes die late.
My eyes dilate.
My hands are squishy, she's on Main Main Street.
My hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine.
My heads are greasy, she's made, made in the shade.
My hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine.
Prokofiev!
I'll make of you a superstar
Don't make a strong man cry.
If you start me up!
If you start me up
I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry.
Ride like the wind at double speed
My hands are greasy, she a-made, made in the shade
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you never, never been
Scorpio,
Scorpio's my birth star.
You can start me up
You can start me up, I'll never stop.
She's a mad, mad, machine
She's a mean, mean machine
Start me up. Start me up.
Start me up. Start me up.
Start me up. Start me up.
Start me up and never stop.
Start me up
Start me up, my nervous start.
You can start me up
You can start me up, I'll never stop.
Stop me now! If you don't stop me now I'll never stop.
Start me up! You can start me up, I'll never stop.
Stunk me up.
Start me up.
Stunk me up
Start me up!
This song is a major highlight of a Stones show.
Yeah pistachio
Yeah you start me up
Yeah, you rock me up.
You can start me up.
You are floppier
If you start me up
You can start me up without a spark
You can start me up, I'll never stop
You can start me up
Start me up, start me up, my jumpstart.
You can start me up
Start me, start me up, I'll never stop.
You can stuff me up
You can start me up
You have stunk me up!
If you start me up!
You have to start me up, I'll never start.
If you start me up, I'll never stop.
You made it groan, made it cry
You made a grown man cry
You make a corned beef round.
You made a grown man cry.
You make a crow man fly
You make a grown man cry
You make a crow think twice.
You make a grown man cry.
You make a dead man call
You make a dead man come
You make a frozen pie
You make a grown man cry
You make a gold man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a golden fry
You make a grown man cry
You make a groaning cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a ground meat pie
You make a grown man cry
You make a program try
You make a grown man cry
You make an old pig cry.
You make a grown man cry.
You make it wrong, make it right
You make a grown man cry
You make me groan and cry.
You make a grown man cry.
You make the chrome taste brown.
You make a grown man cry.
You mean to thrown me crown.
You make a grown man cry.
You're Michael Jordan, why?
You make a grown man cry
You're makin' chrome be a crime.
You've made a grown man cry.
Yugoslavia
or
Yucky stocky oh
or
Yucky stocky oh
You can start me up
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, I'll never stop.
You can start me up
You can start me up, I'll never stop.