Yalla Yalla (Let's Go) lyrics - Cracker

Jesus Christ it's hot out here
But I'm the lucky mother tip of the spear

Give me water and cannon fodder
Get me outta this stinking CHU

I been thru Basra
Fucked up Falluja
Sadr city Mosul

There weren't no chocolates
No pretty flowers
Just kill them all or we die

Ya la la yalla yalla
Ya la la yalla yalla
Ya la la yalla yalla
Ya la la yalla yalla

At bombaconda the hajis missed me
Send them on their way to paradise
Whiskey tango foxtrot gunners
Too many pogues in the way

No r and r in Kuwait city
Abu Dhabi Dubai
I want my boots on
My battle rattle
When it's my time to die.

Ya la la
Ya la la yalla yalla

Ya la la
Ya la la yalla yalla

I had a girl her name was Gwendolyn Wanda
She rocked my world she loved my anaconda
I had a girl her name was Alda Salas
We never stopped, she'd holler yalla yalla
I had a girl Nantucket Massachusetts
She had a lisp, but man her ass was perfect

I had a girl her name was Alda Salas
I couldn't stop she'd holler yalla yalla
I had a girl, she volunteered for PETA
She liked my gun, all fifty millimeters

I liked a girl she liked to live with danger
She liked it best when it was with a stranger

I had a girl her name was Gwendolyn Wanda
She rocked my world she loved my anaconda

I had a girl Nantucket Massachusetts
She had a lisp, but man her ass was perfect.

Show Me How This Thing Works lyrics - Cracker

Show me how this thing works [x2]

Last night
I saw it fall out of the heavens
It was gleaming chrome
With red lettering
It had a handle,
Two meters, a knob for the volume

Show me how this thing works [x2]

When it make me rich, when it make me glad
When it make me love for all humanity
When it keep my poor and aching heart at bay (oh, oh, oh)
When it glow at night, when it make a hum
When it make the girls think that I'm less geeky

Show me how this thing works [x2]

We took it down to the physics laboratory
Police had the building mostly quartered off
A crowd was gathered, there were TV cameras

Show me how this thing works [x2]

When it make me rich, when it get me high
When it look good with the rest of my furniture
When it make a soft and pleasing tone at night (oh, oh, oh)
When it heal the sick, when it feed the poor
When it give me everything I ever dreamed of

Show me how this thing works [x2]

Show me how this thing works [x2]

When it make me rich, when it make me wise
When it give my empty love a little bit of meaning
When it make the lions lay on down with the lambs (oh, oh, oh)
When it cure this rush, when it give us cash
When it do all this without a serious side effect

Show me how this thing works [x2]

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me lyrics - Cracker

Come on, turn on, tune in, drop out, with me
Baby you need a break so lets just run away

Well I'm tired of coding Perl, and I'm tired of VBA
Maggie throw your law books away

Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

Now picture this:

I'm shopping in town for our homemade agrarian fortress
You're texting: Corian, Granite, or Tile Kitchenette in the gun nest?

Well we will find a little meadow
high up in the Cascades

Baby we wont ever come down
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

Turn on, tune in, drop out, with me
The whole things coming down
So lets just get out of the way

Well I'm not paranoid, there is no conspiracy
But I swear big brothers watching me
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

So you're serving aperitifs to the local survivalist militia
In camouflage you're fine but the locals still call you Morticia

Well find a little meadow
high up in the Cascades

Baby we wont ever come down
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

Buy a little cabin in the Adirondacks
Baby they'll never find us
Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

Hand stitch out tepee
Windy East Mojave
Watching for black helicopters

Turn on, tune in, drop out, give up, with me

We All Shine A Light lyrics - Cracker

Big city
Bright lights
I come down from the mountains
Across the tribal lands
I heard Pashtu songs
From Jalalabad
I heard Dari songs
At the Kabul Gate

But we all
Shine a light
We will all shine a light
And we all
Shine a light
We will all shine a light
Like Younus Kahn
For Pakistan
We will all shine a light
Kings and queens
Of lotus land
We will all shine a light

Fifteen horsemen
In a Mongol band
Out lead the batsman
At Waziristan
Huzarah girls
At the Kutcheri Gate

Panjabi girls
In the cricket stands

But we all
Shine a light
We will all shine a light
And we all
Shine a light
We will all shine a light
Like Younus Kahn
For Pakistan
We will all shine a light
Kings and queens
Of lotus land
We will all shine a light

Shine a light
Shine a light
We will all shine a light

Shine a light
Shine a light
Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light
Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light Shine a light
Shine

Hand Me My Inhaler lyrics - Cracker

I'm here
You're there
But I'm not really where I wanna be

It's cold
Out here
Come on little darlin' wont'cha open up your door

Just hand me my inhaler
And walk a little more
Even if you've got that sign hangin on your door

Hand my inhaler
And my old 45's
Gotta reform the band, without you

I'm here

And you're there
And I'm as happy as I'll ever be

So hand my my inhaler
And walk a little more
Even if you've got sign hanging on your door

Yeah
Hand my my inhaler
And my old 45's
Gotta reform the band without you

Without you

Friends lyrics - Cracker (feat. Patterson Hood)

[David Lowery:]
Well I'd never sleep with your ex-girlfriend
Even if she starts to flirt with me again.
Allow me apologize for my slightly wicked thoughts;
'Cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.
[Patterson Hood:]
If a fight breaks out and you're the cause of it
In some redneck bar where you've been talking shit.
I would not forsake you later in that parking lot
'cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.
[Lowery and Hood:]
Well through the laughter and the tears,
We go stumbling through the years.
[Lowery:]
A bit dysfunctional well folks might say
[Hood:]
Well I've got the dirt on you.
[Lowery:]
Hey, I've got plenty on you too.
[Lowery and Hood:]
So I pray we stay together all our days.

[Lowery:]
So when you're on a date
And you finally bring that girl home.
You put a little Captain Beefheart on the stereo
And you disconnect the phone.

[Hood:]
Then I show up drunk and raving,
And then I pass out on the spot.
'Cause that's the kind of friend
That you've got.
[Lowery:]
Well through the laughter and the tears,
[Lowery and Hood:]
We go stumbling through the years.
[Lowery:]
A bit dysfunctional well folks might say
[Hood:]
You can say that again.
[Lowery and Hood:]
Well I've got the dirt on you.
[Lowery:]
Hey, I've got plenty on you too;
[Lowery and Hood:]
So I pray we stay together all our days.
[Lowery:]
Oh dear lord
[Lowery and Hood:]
Yeah I pray we stay together all our days.

I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right lyrics - Cracker

Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Darlin, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Cause the devil come out and
Take you for his own [x2]

Long brown hair and tall brown boots
You came across the bitter roots
Finally take what you knew was always yours

I was glad to go along
I didn't think it'd be so long
Til you were bored and on to the next big thing

I could be wrong, I could be right
You and I are so much alike
The devil tryin to keep us far apart
Now I was stoned and I was high
But everything, it felt so right
I could be wrong, I could be, could be right

Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Darlin, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Cause the devil come out and
Take you for his own

Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Darlin, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Cause the devil come out

Sacagawea, big medicine
Had a thing they need my stand

When they finally saw the western sea
I was glad to go along
Cause the best laid plans are always wrong
They come apart, they always end in misery

I could be wrong, I could be right
What we do is all so right
They should be left to keep us far apart
I was high and I was stoned
I didn't want to be alone
Is that so wrong? Is that so wrong?

I could be wrong, I could be right

Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Darlin, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Baby, don't ya go,
Don't ya look down in that hole
Cause the devil come out
And keep you for his own

I could be wrong,
I could be right
What we do is all so right
They should be left to keep us far apart
I was high and I was stoned
I didn't want to be alone
Is that so wrong? Is that so wrong?

I could be right

I could be wrong,
I could be right
I could be wrong,
I could be right
I could be wrong,
I could be, could be right [x4]

Time Machine lyrics - Cracker

Sonny step right up into the time machine
we'll set the dial for 1983
To the DKs right down in Wilmington
Nightsticks swinging, tear gassed air turns green
In the time machine. Time machine!

We took our lumps and ran between the casualties
Buick full of bloddy rags, and black flag cassettes
I think I liked em better with Dez Cadenza.
Sonny are you still too cool? How did you like your day at school
In the time machine. Time machine

Put you in a time machine, put you in a time
machine see how you do.

Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is) lyrics - Cracker

My people came out of the forests and the mountains,
into this unpromising land.
Scratched out a living in this desert valley,
hard living for any man.

It weren't no Eden, as cold as Sweden,
like Hades in the summer time,
We built the cities, we dug the ditches,
we picked the fruit from the vine.

Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?

Skip forward four generations, comes a great first world nation
But I'm living in the third.
Trying to make a living, playing on my SG Gibson,
Tending bar and sometimes selling herb.

We live like serfs, in this new feudal land
we pay the bills and fight the wars.
I ain't no wobbly, no pinko Commie,
let's start the end times right now!

Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?
Hey, Bret! You know what time it is?

Darling One lyrics - Cracker

I hear a voice that fights the wind, the rain that keeps fallin'
And I feel a river rushin' in between you and me
And you keep on lookin' for something that's not lost
And I wish that somehow I could carry you across

Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart?
Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart? Sweetheart

When they told you that the great parade had long since passed
I saw you waiting there for the good times to come back
I'm feelin' blue 'cause there's so much to live up to
And I wish that somehow I could give it all to you

Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart?
Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart? Sweetheart

I'm feelin' blue 'cause there's so much to live up to
And I wish that somehow I could give it all to you

Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart?
Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart?
Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart?
Why don't you rest your worries darling one, sweetheart? Sweetheart

Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey lyrics - Cracker

Well sunrise in the land of the pharaohs
I see my broken arrows
Scattered 'cross the plain.
Well sunrise on the river in the city
I'm feeling pretty shitty
In the wreckage of my life.
So if you want to live;
Let's live together
In bows and feathers.
And find my decadence
And if you want to dare
Well we can take that long road
Cause dying is easy,
It's living that's hard.

Well sunrise in the land of milk and honey

She says "My little bunny
Is this all that there is?"
Well sunrise in the land of southern idols
Lines and hotel bibles
And fallen debutantes
So if you want to see what's in the shadows:
The burning meadows
Of our apocalypse
I dream of fallow fields
I dream of winter
Cause dying is easy,
It's living that's hard.

"Greenland" (2006)

Something You Ain't Got lyrics - Cracker

Well the first dance cost me a quarter,
and the second dance cost me my heart
Now I'm here on this barstool,
like a circle it ends where it starts
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

Well I woke up hung over in the squalor
where I make my home
Ate my heart out for breakfast,
then I met the day stoned
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

'cause it's alright, yeah it's alright

Maggie lyrics - Cracker

Lazybones, c'mon get your beautiful ass out of bed
It's half past noon, and I been calling you since 11 a.m.

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

4 a.m., bar time at the Scottish gates of dawn
Aberdeen, Glasgow there's a piper playing on the cemetary lawn

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

Where Have Those Days Gone lyrics - Cracker

Took a trip to California to see where those old days are gone
And the girl that went with them - curiosity, that's all I swear I swear
In Mendocino County thought I saw Thomas Pinchen at the end of the bar
But that's just Rob Brezsny writing his real astrology column

Headed up the coast with my only Jewish Mexican friend
Found a bar in Arcadia it was the means to an end
In the alley for a smoke got beat up by some arian goons
Lying in my blood I said hey Juan does this mean I'm gringo

Where have those days gone
Where have those days gone
Where have those days gone

So we crawled towards the ocean through brambles of olallieberry thorns
While blue lights they flailed, sirens wailed, we were ripped and we were torn
Don't know why we were hiding, never could make that girl wanna stay
It made sense to a man, it's curiosity that's all I swear