You'll find us in the gutter
You pass us in the street
You really know us when you see us
You crush us with your feet
We're waiting, waiting for you

Big brother, he's coming through

We're biding, biding our time

Big brother, next in line
You'll find us in the future
When we are still alive
You know us when you see us
'Cause we're gonna survive
				

Leading me on you've been a bad bad boy
Betcha since you've been a kid, you've been a mama's toy

I'm gonna teach you, you're gonna learn
Don't fool with me, I'm gonna make you burn

Little boy blue take off your shoe
Just come a little closer so my aim is true

But I don't wanna do it, gonna make you hop
It's hurting me, Is it hurting you?

[CHORUS:]
Take it like a man
Oh, gonna do it all I can
Take it like a man
Oh, gonna do it all I can
				

Prowling round with beady eyes
Mister undercover
Late night brawls, street lights call
He don't need a lover
Misunderstood by womanhood
Mortgage is a millstone
Think of lies and alibis to cover up at home
Are you alright girl, for tonight girl
Just give a little. I'll give a lot
Are you a nice girl, Just-the-type girl
You've got the drug and I need a shot
Seedy hotels, crooked motels
Short-time letch, a special
Twilight-life as a ten minute wife
All so artificial
Rejected maligned by all mankind
Hypocrictic bullshit
Tell me who's rich, Now who's the bitch
Keep that red light lit
When the men come to town
When they're looking in the bars
and they're crawling in the cars
and they lay they're money down
When the men come to play
When their business day was done and they're looking for some fun
You take their money and you blow them away
				

You grabbed me and whipped me and stretched me
Raw lines were crossed on my back
Teasing and taunting me, twisting my words
Eyes turning red fade to black
Earth Mother, help me

Bury me down there

Earth Mother, can't you see

Suck my breath of air
Snake like you kissed me and chained me
Treachery barred my escape
Surrender to destiny, death for all time
Eternal light, losing faith
				

She was a real two timer
She knew I'd never leave
She thought that she could make it
I could never believe

[STICK:]
She looked so healthy
and she looked so clean
But when she got to bite you
was she mean

Vice versa, vice versa

[VERSE TWO:]
She could roll you over
and make you blind
She could say things to astound
the dirtiest mind

She looked so healthy
and she looked so clean
But when she got to bite her
was she mean

[SOLO]

Vice versa, vice versa

[SOLO]

[REPEAT VERSE TWO]

[REPEAT STICK]

Vice versa, vice versa [x2]
Turning you around
				

Speeding on the highway, bright lights on the road
Looking for a woman for the night, gonna shoot my load
Rocking and rolling on the mainspring, feeling a smile flash by
Roll her to the left, roll her to the right, get high tonight
Bright lights

Running faster than you

Bright lights

How does it feel to be through?
Fancy 5 a.m. the sun is in the trees again
Coming back to hit the town, gonna kick the hammer down
Speaking in my head, waking up in bed, sweating, shaking with fright
Roll her to the left, roll her to the right tonight
				

Walking out on you [x2]

Easy chairs and an easy life
That's what I want from you
Just one rich bitch for an easy wife
Don't wanna do nothing new

Walking out on you [x2]

Loving you came so easily
When you laid your money down
Wouldn't bite the hand that was feeding me
Until you'd pay for my crown

[SOLO]

Living free came so easily
When you laid your body down
I led the way and you gave to me
Everything you ever had

Walking out on you [4x]
				

A story is told that in Asgard of old
was a hammer of great might
By the furnace light in the depth of night
there was cast an ingot of old

Can you hear the hammerhead in the wind [x2]

They hammered on wrought and the rune spell caught
and engraved upon it's shaft
With a head of steel beneath which all men would kneel
and would lay down the sword at last

Can you hear the hammerhead in the wind [x2]

[STICK:]
They laid on the anvil, a steel cold bar
Needing no fire nor file
But their sledgehammers, like thunder rolled
And sindre sang runes by the fire

[SOLO]

[REPEAT STICK]

Can you hear the hammerhead in the wind [x4]
				

Katie was a kid, I guess she hid her thoughts from everyone
Went to school at eight, she was never late
Didn't know the meaning of fun
Every night Katie prayed to God above
But her daddy gave her everything but love
She woke up one day, said: "I'm on my way"
Her mummy read the letter, It did say:
"I'm on my way, I'm on my way"
Riding with the angels

She's having fun fun fun
Rode around and every boy in town tried to win her back
It was no go, cause she rode with Joe, he was the leader of the pack
People ran for cover when they rolled to town
The night was black, rain on the ground
Engines scream, running too fast
They knew the ride would be there last
They're on their way,
They're on their way
Riding with the angels

She's having fun fun fun
				

They say that crude boys are always good for money and sin
But the dirty old men, they don't know where to begin
Dirty toys for ????? and fear
Put on another pound for you

Chorus:
The gravy train is riding tonight
I said, the gravy train is riding tonight

Pretty girls are pretty cheap when they're on the run
But nobody knows the bodies i've seen when i'm having fun
Shrink-craft for the pleasure and the pain
Brutality is my financial game

Repeat chorus

Brutality, i don't know what you mean
Humanity, that (?i don't understand ?)
Go get a meat hook, you fetch me some gravy
(? send some cheap for, living no gravy ?)

Solo

Various mumblings and jumblings, introducing the band, etc...

The train alright, the train alright
I'm gonna ride the train
The train alright, the train alright
I'm gonna ride the train

Train, train, train, train
Gravy train alright
Train, train, train, train
Gravy train alright

I'm gonna ride, i'm gonna ride
I'm gonna ride the train
I'm gonna ride, i'm gonna ride
I'm gonna ride the train

Train, train, train, train
Gravy train alright

Not a woman, not a man (x6)
Gravy train!