No Surprize

Album: Night in the Ruts (1979)
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  • Nineteen seventy-one
    We all heard the starters gun
    New York was such a pity
    But at Max's Kansas City we won

    We all shot the shit at the bar
    With Johnny O'Toole and his scar
    And then old Clive Davis said
    I'm surely gonna make us a star
    I'm gonna make you a star
    Just the way you are

    But with all his style
    I could see in his eyes
    That we is goin' to trial

    It was no surprise

    The boys kept kickin' ass
    As usual time would tell
    But some bitch in the choir
    Threw water on the fires of Hell
    She loved to show and tell
    Lord, she loved to tell

    But with all our style
    You could see in our eyes
    That we are still on trial

    And it was no surprise
    No surprise
    No surprise
    No surprise

    Midnight lady
    Situation fetal
    Vaccinate your ass
    With a phonograph needle

    I say
    Look it here, friend of mine
    You scratch like you need calamine
    Flamingo boots, sole's a creakin'
    Still in love and Puerto Rican too

    Ridin' on the wheels of hell
    Smokin' up our axle grease
    Oh the backstage is rockin'
    And we're coppin' from the local police
    That's right, the local police
    Or the justice of peace

    But with all our style
    You could see in our eyes
    That we are still on trial

    Baby, it's no surprise
    No Surprise
    No Surprise
    No Surprise

    Rock and roll junkie whore
    Got my foot inside the door
    Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock
    Nobody's keepin' score

    Bad times go away
    Come again some other day
    Topaz and sazzafrazz
    Will keep the blues away

    Candy store and rock and roll
    Corporation jellyroll
    Play the singles, it ain't me
    It's programmed insanity

    You ASCAP
    If BMI
    Could ever make a mountain fly
    If Japanese can boil teas
    Then where the fuck's my royalties?

    Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow! Writer/s: Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Englishjello from Ontario"If the Japanese can boil tea where the f**k's my royalties"

    hahahahaha
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