Napoleon's Palace
©1999 shockorama music pub.
We're all going down
To Napoleon’s palace
Eyeballing God from the second floor
We get a little higher
We'll all come together
And wonder what the hell
We all came here for
We'll put a tap on the clabbergrinder nightly
Squeeze out all the turbulent disease
Roll up on tomorrow ever so slightly
Roll the fucker up and sell it to the Japanese
Talk about it over dinner on the boardwalk
Underneath the branches of the trouble tree
Chugglelug sweet brandy from a cornkeg
Unbuckle all our anxieties
We'll ride the donkey down into our dethronement
Slip a diaper on the president of Rome
Disqualify vivaldi in a spasm
Kick Kentucky in the ass until we're home
Sink inside a Chinese flounder like an earthworm
Burn our wallets at the stake and make a snack
Troubleshoot our babyteeth above a biscuit
Substitute our tutti frutti for a pound of babyback
No Goin Back
©1992 shockorama music pub. / lyrics & melody by bob Schneider
He took all that he owned and put it into a pile
Doused it with gasoline and stood there for a while
Took out a match with a laugh and set it on fire
He said, "this is the first day of my new life
And watched those flames growing higher
And now there's no goin back and there's no turning around
Its just a one way ticket to a hole in the ground
You can’t cross the same river you can never go home
So just be true to your soul and you can never go wrong
It took her twenty two years of putting up with his trash
She made up her mind in a instant and left him in a flash
She looked down at her man as he lay by her side
She just took the keys to the car and left in the middle of the night
And now there's no goin back and there's no turning around
Its just a one way ticket to a hole in the ground
You can’t cross the same river you can never go home
So just be true to your soul and you can never go wrong
He put the gun to his head and thought of all he had done
He worked so hard for so long he'd played the game and he'd won
He had it all a big car a big house on the hill
But at the end of his life happiness had eluded him still
Not For Me
©1998 shockorama music pub./ music & lyrics by Bob Schneider
That these words may rip and tear at each other for no good reason
It's not for me
This cosmic link that you've created between gorillas and the gods
It's not for me
That my heart dies lonely every single night
It's not for me
That the sadness of the world sleep inside your eyes
It's not for
This patient scream it's not for me that you're in pain it's not for me
That you're insane it's not for me oh I left before I came
It's not for me this world to share it's not for me that I don't care
It's not for me my parents left me for dead it's not for me
It's not for me
That the Vulcans find their way into my conversation
It's not for me
That the wine found a home unlike the soul inside the skin that traps me like a net
It's not for me
That the weight of the world will trick the pen into slumber
It's not for me
All this crying of no use that wastes the veil and ruins the armor
It's not for me
This patient scream it's not for me that you're in pain it's not for me
That I’m insane it's not for me oh I will leave before I’m lame
It's not for me this world to share it's not for me that I don't care
It's not for me my parents could’ve used some help it's not for me
It's not for me it's not for me
That you won't sink low enough to drown beside your lips a fist
It's not for me
This anecdotal desperation and this needless perspiration
It's not for me
That the sun invented religion and the moon invented the rocketship
It's not for me
That I’m used to this and used to this and used to less nevertheless
It's not for me
Nothing But Time
©1996 shockorama music pub. / music & lyrics by Bob Schneider
If I gave you my affection
All of my affection
Would you leave me with nothing but time
If I gave you my love
All my sweet love
Would you leave me with nothing but time
If I gave you my money
All of my money
Would you leave me with nothing but time
Nothing To Lose
©1999 shockorama music pub.
You better double up our double down
I heard that Lenny Spooks was dead
They're putting shiny copper pennies
On his tiny little head
Horses they still run
Ladies of the night
Still walk these streets in patent leather shoes
They're is blood on every corner
But momma I don't mind
You know I ain't got nothing to lose
They said we were gonna have a good time
They said that everyone was invited
We all went down to Hollywood California
But honey don't get too excited
They'll tie you to the railroad spine
They'll run you through your paces
They'll leave you stranded in the shadows
Dying in the pews
Till you ain't got nothing to lose
Time may come and heal the pain inside my heart
But I know these scars they will never fade away
Tomorrow’s not a promise that's what she used to say
Boy you just be lucky that you eve got today
And though I’m barely breathing I ain't shaking in my shoes
You know I ain't got nothing to lose
You better double up or double down
You know there ain't know way to fight it
Not with your nickel plated shirt stains
Not with your bottles of dilauded
You’re lying in the sun drowning in the night
You got everything 'cept something I can use
There's blood on every corner but momma I don't mind
You know I ain't got nothing to lose