The Overlords

Stan Ridgway

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    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

    CHORUS
    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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