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The 9 Volt Years

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  The 9 Volt Years
Battery Powered Home Demos & Curios (1979-198?)
1998 Razor & Tie

1. Run Back To You
2. Someday Someway
3. Bad Luck
4. Stay Fabulous
5. Everyone's In Love With You
6. You're My Favorite Waste Of Time
7. Vague Memory
8. Bruce Is King
9. That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On
10. She's Not You
11. The Thrill of the Fight
12. First Love
13. Something's Gonna Happen
14. I'm Sorry
15. Rockin' Around in NYC

 
1. Run Back To You
  (M. Crenshaw)
 

All of a sudden in the wrong place and time
I hear an echo in the back of my mind
Of all the tears that I've wasted on you
and all of the things that we used to do

Although I know that I can make it without you
Even though I'm really tired of thinking about you
and all of the things that we used to do
and all of the trouble we're puttin' each other through
I can't help it if I want to run back to you

Now don't try to run and hide
I'm gonna track you far and wide
and I don't care if I hurt my pride
I can't help it if I still want you by my side

Come home and tell me that you'll give me a listen
You left my ego in a ruined condition
I hear an echo in the back of my mind
It's coming around for the millionth time

Although I know that I can make it without you
Even though I'm really tired of thinking about you
and all of the things that we used to do
and all of the trouble we're puttin' each other through
I can't help it if I want to run back to you

Now don't try to run and hide
I'm gonna track you far and wide
and I don't care if I hurt my pride
I can't help it if I still want you by my side

I can't help it if I wanna run back to you
And I'm gonna run back to you
I just gotta run back to you
I can't help it if I run back to you

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2. Someday Someway
  (M. Crenshaw)
  I can't stand to see you sad
I can't bear to hear you cry
If you can't tell me what you need
All I can do is wonder why

Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you

After all you've done for me
All I really want to do
Is take the love you brought my way
And give it all right back to you
Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway yeah now
Someday, someway
Maybe you'll understand me

Well, you've taken everything from me
I've taken everything from you
I'll love you for my whole life through

After all you've done for me
All I really want to do
Is take the love you brought my way
And give it all right back to you

Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you

You've taken everything from me
I've taken everything from you
I'll love you for my whole life through

I can't stand to see you sad
I can't bear to hear you cry
If you can't tell me what you need
All I can do is wonder why

Someday, someway aww
Someday, someway, yeah now
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you

Someday, someway aww now
Someday, someway, yeah yeah
Someday, someway
Maybe you'll understand me

Someday, someway oh!
Someday, someway, yeah yeah
Someday, someway
Maybe I'll understand you

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3. Bad Luck
  (M. Crenshaw/D. Was/D. Was)
  When two cars crash
you can pull them apart
But when lovers clash together
they get tangled heart to heart

And nothin', and no one
can get them unstuck
Love can be some bad luck
Love can be some bad luck
oh yeah

When glass breaks
you can sweep it away
But when lovers take a tumble
they keep breaking day by day

And nothin', and no one
can get them unstuck
Love can be some bad luck
Love can be some bad luck
oh yeah

Medicine won't cure the pain
but it doesn't pay to give the blame
You're still gonna feel the same
and next time you start to feel secure
at that moment you can be sure
that bad luck is at your door

And nothin', and no one
can get them unstuck
Love can be some bad luck
Love can be some bad luck
Love can be some bad luck

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4. Stay Fabulous
  (R. Miller/M. Crenshaw)
 

instrumental

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5. Everyone's In Love With You
  (R. Crenshaw/M. Crenshaw)
  All around this old town
You are the news that's goin' round
Everyone's in love with you
Everyone's in love with you

My friends and I, we're in a whirl
We're all obsessed with the very same girl
We all are in love with you
Now everyone's in love with you

Now I suppose that I
have got to try to outlast all the other guys
And I've got my hopes up high
That soon they'll pick up the pieces and say goodbye
We all are in love with you
and everyone's in love with you
(repeat)

You know we're all wondrin' what to do
to be the first to get next to you
Everyone's in love with you
Everyone's in love with you

It's too crazy to be true
Everyone's in love with you
We all are in love with you
and everyone's in love with you

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6. You're My Favorite Waste Of Time
  (M. Crenshaw)
 

You're my
You're my favorite waste of time
You're my
You're my favorite waste of time

Here I am
I'm playin' daydreamin' fool again
You're my favorite game
and you are the one
whose got my head in the clouds above
you're the one I love

And you're my
You're my favorite waste of time
You're my
You're my favorite waste of time

I don't care
if being with you is meaningless and ridiculous
If it's wrong or right
I've got to give you my love tonight
and tomorrow night

Cause you're my...

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7. Vague Memory
  (M. Crenshaw)
 

You gave me a reason, to laugh when I was down
And you are all I feel for, all I care for in this town
Where we would have to die to survive
I know we would feel more alive
If all of this could be a vague memory

A vague memory, may never go away
But it won't bring you down, day after day
For those who can feel what a young heart can feel
This place holds something familiar and real
But for you and me, it's a vague memory

A vague memory, may never go away
But it won't bring you down, day after day
And for those who can feel what a young heart can feel
This place holds something familiar and real
But for you and me, it's a vague memory
Just a vague memory
Yes for you and me, it's a vague memory

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8. Bruce Is King
  (M. Crenshaw)
  instrumental

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9. That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On
  (R. Alfred/D. Serino)
  When we used to say goodnight
I'd always kiss and hold you tight
Lately you don't seem to care
You close the door and leave me standing there
oh honey that's not fair

Well that's it
baby I quit
I'm movin' on

The other night we had a date
You showed up two hours late
Although your hair was all in place
Somebody's smeared the lipstick on your face
Oh they just smeared it everyplace

Well that's it
mmm baby I quit
I'm movin' on

Well you made me love you, you made me leave you
You made me tumble and fall
Oh if I can't have you the way I want you
then I don't want you at all
no!

Baby I could take a lot, cause I love everything you got
Although your kisses thrill me so, if you've got someone else
I gotta know
Oh honey that you know

Well that's it
mmmm baby I quit
I'm movin' on

Yeah, yeah, yeah
You made me love you, you made me leave you
You made me tumble and fall
But if I can't have you the way I want you
then I don't want you at all
oh!

Baby I could take a lot, cause I love everything you got
Although your kisses thrill me so, if you've got someone else
I gotta know
Well honey that you know

That's it
mmmm baby I quit
I'm movin' on

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10. She's Not You
  (D. Jones/R. Crenshaw)
 

My girl Betty she's always into something new
She says lay here beside me until the darkness is through
She's got a secret but I could never find a clue
She's got everything I need and I want
but she's not you

Well my downtown lady now she really gets around
She says she's gonna take me with her
and we're going out tearin' up the town

She don't mind living in daydreams
I've never seen her blue
She's got everything I need and I want
but she's not you

She's not you (x3)

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11. ...The Thrill Of The Fight
   
  soundbyte

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12. First Love
  (M. Crenshaw/R. Cioffi/F. Todd)
  It's an echo from your past
a memory you didn't know would last
You drive along with the radio on
and suddenly you're singing your old song

Woah, where can she be tonight?
You're hopin' that she's alright
No one ever can forget their first love

Just a taste of sweet perfume
when you walk into a crowded room
And you remember that april night
the first time you ever held her tight

Woah, you see it all so clear
You're standing there not here
No one ever can forget their first love

Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah
Although it happened long ago
now don't you know you'll never never never never let it go

Where can she be tonight?
You're hopin' that she's alright
No one ever can forget their first love

You see it all so clear
You're standing there not here
No one ever can forget their first love

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13. Something's Gonna Happen
  (M. Crenshaw)
  The dead of night and I'm all alone, yeah
I got my hand on the telephone
I've got to get ahold of you, 'cause when I do
I tell you something's gonna happen

Now just forget about your boyfriend, yeah
and I'll forget about my girlfriend
Come over and I'll show you how, I need you now
I said something's gonna happen

Aw baby, baby, baby
You know you really really wreck my nerves
You got my head goin' round and my feet off the ground
(You got me hangin' on the telephone)
Now we're all alone with the lights on down low, yeah
Rockin' music on the radio
It's just the way it ought to be, and momentarily
I tell you something's gonna happen

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14. I'm Sorry
  (E. McDaniel)
  I'm sorry
whoa baby I'm sorry
Yes baby I'm sorry for the things I said to you

You know I love you and you know I care
With you my little heart I want to share
Well, you know I need you with all your heart and soul
You know that I want you and I'll never never let you go

Forgive me
ooo baby please forgive me
mmm baby please forgive me for I knew not what I would say
Come on baby you know I need you
Give me one more chance to prove my love for you now

You know I love you and I place nobody else above you
So come on, yeah come on say that you love me

Cause I'm sorry
whoa baby I'm sorry
Yes baby I'm sorry for the things I said to you

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15. Rockin' Around In NYC
  (M. Crenshaw)
  Whenever idleness is making me insane
Well then I feel I should be getting the train on the double
Here comes trouble
I hit the city and my head is a-reelin'
I get the feelin' that it was really was worth going after
When we're tastin' disaster

So 'round and 'round and 'round we go
Through seventeen lights in a row
Take a hold of my hand and come with me
We'll go rockin' around in NYC

Whenever ennui is takin' me way down
Well then I feel I should be gettin' to town on the double
Here comes trouble
I hit the city and I'm feelin' the thunder
No need to wonder if it was really worth going after
When we're tastin' disaster

So 'round and 'round and 'round we go
Through seventeen lights in a row
Take a hold of my hand and come with me
We'll go rockin' around in NYC

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