Let me tell you a story, it   s been told a hundred times
I think Robert Johnson was the first man to strike a deal and sign the dotted line
It's about a boy, becoming a man, learning what it's like to loose
Everything he had he was willing to trade for a lifetime of women and booze

He went west of the river, following the railroad tracks
He was looking for an evil dealer; you know there ain't no turning back

Welcome to the crossroads, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroads, it's all for rock 'n' roll

He got a funny feeling, felt like somebody watching him
Out came a man in a three piece suit with a friendly crocodile grin
He said "Sign on the line and your dreams will come true"
He signed and then the paper burned
"Think of this as a favour to you but one day I'll want a favour in return"

He went back to the city, became a singer in a band
Got a record deal he was sitting pretty, everything was going to plan

Welcome to the crossroads, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroads, it's all for rock 'n' roll

Fame and fortune   s come so easily
Now I have got such a bad case of insatiable greed
I don't think that life could get any better than this
All because a deal was made at the crossroads in Memphis

And so twenty years passed, and he forgot about the covenant made
Until a man knocked on his mansion door, dressed in a tailored suit of Suede
The man had a familiar style; he had the smile of a crocodile
He held a contract and said "Boy it's time to go to hell because your soul is mine"

So that completes the story of our tragic hero   s demise
Can you work out where we learnt to sing? We can be your tour guides
And take you to the crossroads, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroads, it's all for rock 'n' roll
Welcome to the crossroads, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroads, it   s all for rock, do it for rock 'n' roll
				

Twisted words and avatars, just part of your disguise
Stalking chat rooms instigating a terror enterprise
You're everything that I despise yeah

What can I do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you   re sick in the head
I don't care what daddy made you do
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Lunatic terror architect
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
Your therapist and momma even said
You're better off, you're better off   gdead!

I hear you screaming I   m not the enemy through a veil of black tears
You   re your own private eye and you're my nightmare engineer
Called the cops but they didn't show, they   re more efficient in the videos
If this was SVU or CSI that bitch would be in prison right about prime time
Bitch I hope you die

What can I do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you   re sick in the head
I don't care what daddy did to you
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Lunatic terror architect
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
Your therapist and momma even said
You   re better off, you're better off   gdead!

We are surfing a cultural tidal wave called the internet
And what brilliance has this digital age brought us?
Well you can have quick answers to stupid questions
But what if those questions involve other people   s personal affairs?
Well if you want them answered then I guess you'd turn to a social network
Like myspace, facebook, twitter    
I mean that   s a stalkers paradise right there
Just grab some random photos, make up a name
And you're ready to pass judgment on people
And anonymously fuck with their lives

What can I do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you   re sick in the head
I don't care what daddy did to you
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Causing pain really gets you wet
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
Your therapist and momma even said
You   re better off, you're better off fucking dead!

You   re better off dead bitch
				

Everybody knows Jimmy the Jackal is trouble with a capital L 
For loser or laughable or down right lazy 
Can you tell I know hime well? 
He likes to kiss and tell about his girlfriend 
She's like a piano 
When she's not upright then she's grand 
Than how the story goes 

oh oh oh oh 
I said didn't you know that the party's over 
Didn't you know, you're not welcome to come over 
Come on come on, the party's over 
Get your ass our of there don't come back over 

Jenny was a classic case of insecurity 
You know she'd over compensate 
The way she'd drss was a lesson in anatomy 
A definite social disease candidate 
If she smiles you should run and hide 
Or kiss your clen bill of health goodbye 
So now you know she's got what doesn't show 
that how the story goes 

Get out! Right now! 
Don't you know the party is over? 
				

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Welcome to a little game that makes me insame 
Say hello to the folks at home, tell us boy what is your name? 
What's your job? and tell us where you're from 
We don't care, but we still keep that TV on 

Channel change, same old show 
Just a movie that went straight to video 
Go switch your stereo on and 

turn it up 
Why don't you turn it u? Right on up? 
turn it up 
Why don't you turn it u? Turn the rock right up! 

Once again I'm bored as hell; I'm still stuck to the couch 
Soapy sit-coms and the game shows I can live without 
Television's just a medium, cause it's not rare or even well done 

Everyday, same TV 
Justa nother movie, straight to DVD 
Go get your Rock'n'roll CD 

turn it up 
Turn it up, how bout you turn it up 
I got a great idea for you 
Turn it out 
Why don't you turn it out? Turn it out night up! 
				

Close your eyes lay your head upon my shoulder 
And don't you cry, I promise you when we get older 
I'll still be your friend, and lover till the end 
Please don't let us fall apart 
I can't express it cause 

na na na I'm lost for words 
Darling you are my whole world 
na na na I'm lost for words 
Be my girl 

So hold on tight follow me to the end of the earth 
I'm surprised that you're giving all that your worth 
I'm still be your friend, and lover till theend 
Please don't let us fall apart 
Wish i could tell you but 

There's something that I've been meaning to tell you babe 
And I know it's bad timing 
Sorry girl I've got to go home again 
We've been up and down this road together 
With you girl I couls stand any weather 
Listen to me when i say 
I don't think i could ever let you get away 

na na na I'm lost for words 
Darling you are my whole world 
na na na I'm lost for words 
You're my girl 
Darling you're my whole world 
na na na I'm lost for words 
Yes you are, you'll always be my girl 
				

Could wind blows bout to freeze your soul 
The quick silver says 30 below 
You shiver shake till your body aches 
And your teeth chatter our of control 
Summer lovers say try a holiday, I won't go to L.A. 
Dreams of paradise and those barbour lights 

Let me go back one more time 
Sydney in the summer time 
Take me back to summer time 
Signey in the summer time 

Do you want some body heat cause i'd share with you 
Don't be so coled and loose the attitude 
This is not a game but if it's all the same 
Then i've got something for you to do 
Summer lovers say have you seen LA? I'll never go that way 
Dreams of paradise and those barbou lights 

Remember good times on that barbour cruise 
Champagne in my head tasted good 
Luna Park was smiling at me 
Let that lunatic supervise our party tonight 
It's alright... look at the viex! 

Sydney in the summer, never had a better time 
Sydney in the summer, summertime 
Take me back, take me back to summer time 
Sidney in the summer time 
				

Pressures getting higher he could feel it knowk him to the floor 
The cold war in his head was screaming silence like never befire 
He went outside to pray for rain 
Needed to wash away those sins and pain 
He cried "I'm going, I'm leaving 
No time to think about sens or reason" 

He hit tie road to find himself because 
He'd always lived for someone else 
A feedback loop had become his life 
With a determined lease on bad advice 
There's no support there's no rewind 
He knows he can't turn back the clock this time 
His old friends drifted far away 
All he's git's a hope for yesterday 

Sometimes, you need a change of scene 
Sometimes you got to change the situation 
You know what I mean? 
Sometimes you need a change of scene 
Sometimes, sometimes, I just wanna scream 

Faiths a siren melody swimming against the tide he can't break free 
Loosin out he cannot breathe, cause everybody wants him to beleive 
Faith may not be on his side, but you cannot blame a gay for trying 
Friends they sometimes drift away, 
Yeah I waved to hom that day, now 

Sometimes, you need a change of scene 
Sometimes you got to change the situation 
You know what I mean? 
Sometimes, you'll learn and realise 
That what you want's not what you need 

Thirty two degrees on a sunny day and a change has taken place 
Sometimes you don't need reasons to celebrate 
The trouble's disappeared 
And the storm has gone and the sun shines in it's place 
Sometimes you don't need reasons to celebrate 

Sometimes, you get to take a break 
Sometimes, take time to celebrate 
Sometimes celebrate your like, it's not too late to celebrate 

Sometimes, you need a change of scene 
Sometimes you got to change the situation 
You know what I mean? 
Take a holiday, it's time to make a change 
So live life you wanna 
Don't let them step right on ya and don't you stay the same
				

Exotic, dancer, come and talk to me 
I'll buy the drinks honey sit on my knee 
Back room, show time, let's make the number three 
Got me thinking, I've noticed 

Nothing is free except bad advice, every thing's got it's own price 
Nothing is free here is paradise, get your cash and take my advice 

You know money talks and it's say goodbye 
My money talks and it's say goodnye 
My money talks when it says goodbye 
My money, my money talks when it says goodbye 

Tame me down town where the girls can be found 
Worth every penny it's flesh by the pound 
Searching hunting, I'm high and on the prowl 
Got me thinking, I've noticed 

Nothing is free except bad advice, everyone's got it's own price 
Nothing is free here is paradise, get your cash and take my advice 
If you dare 

And it's alright, my credit card's paying for me tonight 
That feels good, hey honey! 
Can I get another drink over here, and ah, what's your name?
				

wake up, feeling fine, it's s Sunday afternoon 
I went down when the sun came up 
With my head spinning round the room 
alrigt all night, last night you looked so right 
I just wished that I'd introduce my self but you left too soon 
There was no meeting now I keep dreaming 

Let's just go and run away together 
We'll go crasy, cause I'll be chasing after you forever 
We're just crazy 

Get together nervously a seedy hotel paradise 
A bunk bed what a comedy, and not to mention over priced 
Sex life, high life, been waiting for you my whole life 
I know you were meant for me and yes I know I've only met you twice 
Forgive my directions this must seen shameless 

I'm going crazy for you baby you're divine 
I hope you feel the same inside 
I'm going crazy for you baby you're divine 
Say you're mine, just say you'll be mine 

If you want a perfect life you've got to get it your own way 
I lose my perfect wife and yes I know it sounds cliche 
I love her vulpine waistline, she's my partner in crime, my little feline 
Together forever, I love to hear her whisper 

Le'ts just go to run away together 
We'll go crazy I'll be running after you forever 
We're just crazy 
				

With aversion this distortion

came so swiftly

Cut the cord from this day forward

We'll be drifting


No direction, no affection

Watch the soul dive

You're dissected, resurrected

Still don't know why

This illness is like a monster that is

Eating us alive


(Chorus)

Hold on, be strong

So right, so wrong

With all of our senses

All of our defenses

Hold on, be strong


New arrival, our survival

Still not certain

What's a virtue, where do you go to

When you're hurting?


It's a weakness, it's a sickness

In the gene pool

Show no mercy, people here say

"Kill the damned fool"

This illness is like a monster that is

Eating us alive


Chorus


My

Soul

Blood

Run


Don't ever let me go, no

Don't ever let me go, no

Never never let you go, no

I'll never let you go, no


Chorus
				

You know my mother told me but I as a little boy 
It's about time that you grew up son, and threw away your toys 
I ried and cried and i could'nt beleive 
That life could be so cruel, and oh so mean 
It was a lesson that I could'nt forget, but it didn"r change a thing 

Well when I was an adolescent the teacher said to me 
That I was the worst child that he ever did see 
They tried to dominate me into submission 
But they cound'nt bring me down, now the wheel's going to turn 

Try to break me, they said "he'll never learn" 
I said 
"Don't forsake me cause you necer know when the tables will turn" 

Stand up and take it like a man 
Stand up take it if you can 
Stand up take it like a man 
Stand up and take it, just take it like a man 

Wgen i turned 17 I thought that everthing would change 
But i quickly realised that the difference was the same 
The teachers turnes into police, the pencils became guns 
Now educations called suppression, the playground's called a slum 

Try to make me conform when will you learn? 
I said "don't mistake me 
it's just a matter of time before your neighborhood burns" 

Daddy always said to me "boy just do the best you can 
In every situation stay on your feet and take it like a man" yeah 

Stand up, take it, 
Stand up, take it like a man 
Stand up, take it, 
Stand up, take it like a man if you can 

Stand up and take it like a man 
Stand up take it if you can 
Stand up take it like a man 
Now you're a man son, start acting like one 
Separate yourself from the crowd 
Stand up and take it like a man now