The Overlords Lyrics

The Overlords

Well I been breakin' rocks up on coolie #3
I know it's been  forever, thought
you'd never hear frome
The weather up here is rotten, rainin' granite all the
time
And both moons are glowin' purple and there is no sun to shine
I been
diggin' deep down in a tunnel that goes twenty miles down
And I know my life
is cheap when I hear that rumbln' sound
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Oh the overlords
Got me
workin' overtime
Oh the overlords
They never make it rhyme
And there is
something in the air that is burnin' in my throat
A big black cloud is
passin' droppin' acid on my coat
The overlords got me workin'
overtime
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It's been ten years and a day after world war
nine
They pushed us to make meaning and from their meaning was our
crime
Last night I had a dream where the guards all fell asleep
I jumped
the fence outside this pen and then I hotwired up
The warden's Jeep
And I
took a walk
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I still rmember all those nights we had together up on
Mars
We both stood in line t get some new tattoos
While the kids got cut
some scars
And when they check the beds tonight,
They'll find a note
scratched in the pine
You now can seek me underground where' I7ll be
monkey-wrenchin' all the
  time
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>From a planet out in
space
A signal you could trace
Controllin' what you feel but you never
see their face
Oh the overlords, got me workin'
overtime
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Lost
Weekend
(Wall of Voodoo)
Performed by Wall of Voodoo
Driving out of
Vegas in their automobile
She was in  the backseat while he was at the
wheel
With the windows wide open
All the money frome store they'd gambled
away
He said, "the best laid plans often go astray."
She took the page
fromher book and turned it down
She lit a cigarette
She didn't make a
sound
"And I know if we'd had just one more chance," he said,
"I
know-we'd finally hit the big one at last," she said
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Instead of
another lost weekend
Lost weekend
Another lost weekend
Lost
weekend
"Pull over soon," she said, "it's no big deal, you can take any exit
that
you happen to f feel is the right one. The right one."
Aas she slowly
blew her somke out the rear wind vent
She thought back on all the letters
she'd sent
For a contest to be on a quiz game show
"Maybe I shoulda
stayed in school," he said.
"Yeah, I know-start your own business cleaning
swimming pools," she said
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She leaned forward over the front
seat
And twiddled with the radio dial
She looked out the window
Sw a
sign and both of them began to smile
"There's a place we could stay
at...it's up another
mile."
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