Living It Up

Album: Pirates (1981)
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  • Well, Eddie's got one crazy eye
    That turns him into a cartoon
    When a pretty girl goes by
    But there's nothin' here to do anymore
    He sits on the stoop all day
    Like there's something he's waiting for
    Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley
    He's got all those guys with him
    From that town where they all look like Frankie Valli
    They speak fluently blonde
    From her legs to her cigarette
    Louie told Eddie that he'd fix him up
    But he ain't come back yet
    Well, you know

    It's more trouble than it's worth
    It's more trouble than it's worth
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Tell 'em where you are
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Tell 'em where you are
    Tell 'em where you are, yeah

    Zero quit school
    And she lost her job again
    And then her boyfriend beat her up
    And now he won't let her in
    So she's walking by this joint
    In a black and blue dress
    And she looks at Louie who elbows Eddie who says
    "Don't tell me, let me guess"

    It's more trouble than it's worth
    Ah, he's more trouble than he's worth
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Tell 'em where you are
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Go on, tell 'em where you are

    Well, at first when it was this way
    When they're the only ones
    And you've got all these ideas
    You never tell to anyone
    There are always magnets pulling each of you there
    Living every story, you'd dare
    To be the only ones, the only ones

    Oh, who are living it up
    Yeah, we're living it up
    Oh, we'll be living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Going to be living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Oh, we'll be living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    Oh yeah, we're living it up
    It up

    Well, Louie and Eddie found a reason then and there
    Carried her over the bridges like fluttering pages, they didn't care
    In the terminal where dreams let so many tickets through
    When strangers look in faces and see somebody there they knew
    You might meet me tomorrow as all the lights are blooming green
    And you're feeling a little lonely, a little sad, a little mean
    Remember a place inside of that hotel
    Where you could do anything you wanna do
    You couldn't tell

    If it's more trouble than it's worth
    Ah, this is more trouble than it's worth
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Come on, tell me where you are
    Oh, wild and the only one
    I'm waiting, you could tell me where you are (oh, wild)
    Oh, wild and the only ones
    Why don't you tell me where you are?
    Yeah, yeah Writer/s: Rickie Lee Jones
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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  • David (daddeo) Sanders from Maple Heights, OhioOne of the most well composed and written songs on that Lp….. still listen to it
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