PRESSURE CHIEF LYRICS
COPYRIGHT 2004, CAKE
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Note: These lyrics are my own best guess - they are far from official. As such, I am taking comments and suggestions here.
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WHEELS
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In a wooden boat in the shipping lanes
With the freighters towering over me
I can hear the jets flying overhead
Making lines across the darkening sky
And when the sun is going down
I can take a taxi into town
And the waiter at the restaurant
Sets a table just for one
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round
So I hired a plane to take me to
A place so far away from you
Eventually we began to see
That we could be completely free
And I could get away from you
And you could get away from me
And we could live each separately
In our cities in the sun
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round
In a seedy karaoke bar
By the banks of the mighty Bosphorus*
Is a Japanese man in a business suit
Singing 'Smoke gets in your Eyes'
And the muscular cyborg German dudes
Dance with sexy French-Canadians
While the overweight Americans
Wear their patriotic jumpsuits
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round
(Spinning round)(I don't know)
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
(Spinning round)(I don't know)
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round
Why you say you are not in love with me?
(Spinning round)(I don't know)
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
Why you say you are not in love with me?
(Spinning round)(I don't know)
Wheels keep on spinning round, spinning round and round
Why you say you are not in love with me?
Why you say you are not in love with me?
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NO PHONE
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No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
Ringing, stinging
Jerking like a nervous bird
Rattling up against his cage
Calls to me throughout the day
See the feathers fly
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
Rhyming, chiming
Got me working all the time
Gives me such a worried mind
I don't want to seem unkind
But God, it's such a grind
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
Shaking, quaking
Waking me when I'm asleep
Never lets me go too deep
Summons me with just one beep
The price we pay is steep
I've been on fire
Yet I still stay frozen
So deep in the night
But soon contemplations will always be broken
My deepest concerns will stay buried and unspoken
No I don't have any change left, here's a few subway tokens
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
No phone, no phone
I just want to be alone today
No phone, no phone
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TAKE IT ALL AWAY
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You keep pushing me away
In spite of what you say
I found out yesterday
That I've been wasting all my time
Trying to make you smile
Trying to make this seem worthwhile
You've been pushing me around
In spite of what I do
Trying to make things good for you
Take your economy car and your suitcase
Take your psycho little dogs
Take it all away
You've been racing through my mind
You're picking up in speed
You're driving recklessly
It's like a car crash
Happening on my street
Broken bodies at my feet
And sirens on the way
They're too late
'Cause nobody's going to save us
We're a rubbernecker's dream
We're burning gasoline
Go
Take your economy car and your suitcase
Take your psycho little dogs
Take it all away
And go
Go ahead and destroy this
Better come with an army
Are you feeling
Feeling OK, baby?
Take your economy car and your suitcase
Take your psycho little dogs
Take it all away
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DIME
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In the brown shag carpet of a cheap motel
In the dark and dusty corner by the tv shelf
Is a small reminder of a simpler time
When a crumpled up pair of trousers cost a brand new dime
Well you asked me how I made it through
And now my mint condition could belong to you
When I'm on the ground I roll through town
I'm a president you don't remember getting kicked around
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine, I'm freshly minted
I am determined
Not to be dented by a faraway plane or anything
Not yet invented
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine
In the hiss and grumble of the freeway sounds
As the afternoon commuters drive their cars around
There's a ringle jingle near the underpass
There's a sparkle near the fast food garbage and roadside trash
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine, I'm freshly minted
I'm silver plated
I'm underrated
You won't even pick me up, 'cause I'm not enough for a local phone call
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine
I'm a dime
I'm fine
and I shine
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CARBON MONOXIDE
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Too much carbon monoxide for me to bear
Too much carbon monoxide for me to bear
Where's the air?
Where's the air?
Where's the air?
Where's the air?
After car, after bus
After car, after truck
After this, my lungs will be so fucked up
I wish I was in that Mercedes-Benz
Sealed away from my sins
I'd have the music high
Going 95
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Too much (too much) too much
Too much (too much) too much
Too much (too much)
Too much carbon monoxide for me to bear
Too much carbon monoxide for me to bear
Don't you care?
Don't you care?
Don't you care?
Don't you care?
After car, after bus
After car, after truck
After this my lungs will be so fucked up
I wish I wasn't just some pedestrian
Breathing all this in
I look up at that gray sky
It makes me want to
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Too much (too much) too much
Too much (too much) too much
Too much (too much)
Too much carbon monoxide for me to bear
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THE GUITAR MAN
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Who draws the crowd?
who plays so loud?
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show?
You know, baby
It's the guitar man
He can make you love
He can make you cry
He will bring you down
He will get you high
And something keeps him going
Miles and miles away
To find another place to play
And night after night
Who treats you right?
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio?
You know, baby
It's the guitar man
When he comes to town
And you see his face
And you think you might
Like to take his place
Something keeps him drifting
Miles and miles away
Searching for the songs to play
Then you listen to the music
And you'd like to sing along
And you want to get the meaning
Out of each and every song
And you find yourself a message
And some words to call your own
And take 'em home
He can make you love
He can get you high
He will bring you down
He will make you cry
Something keeps him moving
But no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go
Then the lights begin to flicker
And the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter
And the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice
He's just got to find another place to play
Fade away
Not today
Fade away
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WAITING
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So we think that we're important
And we think that we make sense
And we think there's something better
On the other side of this fence
And you can soak your bread in gravy
And you can soak your bread in soup
But the car that you are driving
Doesn't really belong to you
So you know
You'll always be waiting
Always be waiting
For someone else to call
Yeah you know
You'll always be waiting
Always be waiting
I say
Always be waiting
And you can soak your bread in water
And you can soak your bread in wine
It can seem like you are living
Like you're having a real good time
And you can do it to your conscience
You can do it all the time
You can do it with a vengeance
In the morning after nine
But you know
You'll always be waiting
Always be waiting
For someone else to call
Yeah you know
You'll always be waiting
Always be waiting
I say
Always be waiting
I say
Always be waiting
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BASKETS
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She'll hang the baskets on the walls
Don't you know, I've seen it all before
She'll hang the baskets on the walls
But I've seen it all before
Heard the slamming of the door
Come summer, come fall
Come winter there'll be baskets on the floor
He'll go to buy her Turtle Wax
But in his mind he won't be coming back
She'll hang the baskets on the walls
But I've seen it all before
Heard the slamming of the door
Come summer, come fall
Come winter there'll be baskets on the floor
But I've seen it all before
Heard the slamming of the door
Come summer, come fall
Come winter there'll be baskets on the floor
She'll hang the baskets on the wall
(She'll hang the baskets)
She'll hang the baskets on the wall
(She'll hang the baskets)
She'll hang the baskets on the wall
(She'll hang the baskets)
She'll hang the baskets on the wall
(She'll hang the baskets)
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END OF THE MOVIE
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People you love
Will turn their backs on you
You'll lose your hair
Your teeth
Your knife will fall out of its sheath
But you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the movie
People you hate
Will get their hooks into you
They'll pull you down
You'll frown
They'll tar you and drag you through town
But you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the movie
No you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the show
People you hate
Will get their hooks into you
They'll pull you down
You'll frown
They'll tar you and drag you through town
But you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the movie
No you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the show
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PALM OF YOUR HAND
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When the house was standing
You'd never have believed it
When the house was standing
You'd never have believed
The bricks and mortar
Have all given way
At first they resisted
But then they began to sway
How can you say
Forever is at your command?
How can you say
The future's in the palm
In the palm of your hand?
When the house was standing
You'd never have believed it
When the house was standing
You'd never have believed
That gaping hole
Was once a foundation
Where you stand now are
Tools in a basement
and
How can you say
Forever is at your command?
How can you say
The future's in the palm
In the palm of your hand?
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TOUGHER THAN IT IS
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Well there is no such thing as you
It doesn't matter what you do
The more you try to qualify
The more it all will pass you by
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Well the more you try to shave the cat
The more the thing will bite and scratch
It's best, I think, to leave its fur
And to listen to its silky purr
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Well there is no such thing as you
It doesn't matter what you do
The more you try to qualify
The more it all will pass you by
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
Some people like to make life
A little tougher than it is
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EXTRA VALUE
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RUBY, DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN
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You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
It wasn't me who started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be
Oh, Ruby, I still need some company
It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralyzed
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age, Ruby, I realized
But it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around
Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
She's leaving now, 'cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it some one hundred times before
And if I could move, I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh, Ruby, don't take your love to town
Oh, Ruby
(God's sakes)
(Turn around)
(Turn around)
(Get back in here!)
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STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT**
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Strangers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wandering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be sharing love
Before the night was through?
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
Something in my heart
Told me I must have you
Strangers in the night
Two lonely people, we were
Strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we
Said our first 'Hello'
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away
A warm embracing dance away
And
Ever since that night
We've been together
Lovers at first sight
In love forever
It turned out so right
For strangers in the night
Love was just a glance away
A warm embracing dance away
And
Ever since that night
We've been together
Lovers at first sight
In love forever
It turned out so right
For strangers in the night
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All lyrics transcribed by me. Please feel free to email me with any corrections. Requests for mp3s or burned copies will be ignored.
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*What exactly is a 'Bosphorus'?
**'Strangers in the Night' is a cover of Frank Sinatra.
Last updated 10/6/04, 5:45 PM PST