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Freeze On Me
03:43
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Freeze on Me
(Dreyer, Sunshine)
Night breaks over Reno
I got a bullet in my soul
There's blood all over my tuxedo
and you don't love me any more
I'm up a shaky tree
you put the freeze on me
You wrecked my black Buick Regal
you stole my alligator shoes
I knew that you were barely legal
but old enough to light my fuse
was blind but now I see
you put the freeze on me
You had the weasel in your pocket
and he'd do anything you said
he rode to heaven on his rocket
and landed on your water bed
ain't no room for three
you put the freeze on me
The abominable showman
in his chinchilla bungalow
introduced me to that woman
and left me stranded in the snow
in spite of all my pleas
you put the freeze on me
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Coffee & Reefer
03:52
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Coffee and Reefer (Dreyer, Sunshine) 10/2/01 Pawling, NY
Chocolate cake makes my poor stomach ache
And all those pills are too much for me to take
I don't like cocaine cause it makes me all uptight
But Coffee and Reefer makes me feel all right
Now crystal meth will make you high, and it's cheap
But I never liked going five days without sleep
Acid makes me say stupid things like "Outta Sight"
But Coffee and Reefer makes me feel all right
Now Coffee takes you high, and reefer takes you low
The bean will make you fly, while the bud makes you slow
Shooting speedballs will make you sell your stereo
Now who ever heard of going in hock, for a cup of Joe
You know that crank will land you right in the clank
Smoke that nasty crack and you'll want to rob a bank
Forget the nicotine, Benzedrine, amphetamines
Try Coffee and Reefer for a real mellow scene
Bridge:
Don't drive a car or answer the phone
Just try to spend a couple of hours alone
Don't operate machinery when you're smoking on that weed
The Cartoon Channel has everything you need
Now Ecstasy can cause a man to love a wall
Whiskey make you want a girl you'd never touch at all
Mescaline will turn you into a little pink eraser
So try a cappuccino with a mellow gage chaser
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Little Bit Shy
03:02
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Little Bit Shy
(Sunshine, Dreyer) © 01-31-2002
(I) I know it might seem strange
Cause I don't even know you
But as you hand me my change
I'm thinking how I'd hold you
(IV) I've been watching you work
And no, I'm not a stalker
(I) I'm just feeling like a jerk
Cause I'm not a smooth talker
(PRE) I keep buying things that I don't really need
Just to hear you say "Two ninety nine"
There are so many things I've been wanting to say
As I'm standing in your checkout line
(CHORUS) I'm just a little bit shy
I know your name is Bridget
Cause it's written on your name tag
I'd like to get your digits
Written on my brown bag
I'm afraid you'll think I'm crazy
Or a little bit absurd
If I ask you for your number
So I don't say a word
I promised myself that today was the day
I would finally take you aside
But now's my chance to talk to you
And my tongue won't come untied
I'm just a little bit shy
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Tumblin' Down
05:08
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Tumbling Down
(Dreyer, Sunshine) 4/30/02 Pawling, NY
I never thought it could happen to me
I had a wife and a Mercedes Benz
A had a greenback for every blade of grass on my lawn
To win people and influence friends
One night of sin and now I’m spinning on a merry-go-round
While my world comes tumblin’ down, world comes…
I got mixed up with 10-Finger Jack
In a way I could not have foreseen
He spoke in million-dollar metaphors,
But he reeked just like cheap gasoline
He said he wouldn’t rest until he put me six feet underground
And my world came tumblin’ down
I left Jack’s sister in a family way
Without ever saying a word
Jack did the wolf; she did the rabbit,
While I did the proverbial bird
My wife was inside of my house as it burned to the ground
And my world came tumblin’ down, world came..
The moral of the story is as old as the hills,
And it’s something that we all know
There ain’t no free lunch; you gotta pay the piper
And you reap just what you sow.
Maybe you’ll find something to say that’s a little more profound
When your world comes tumblin’ down
World comes tumblin’ down.
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Human Blues
(Sunshine, Dreyer) 3/19/03 Pawling, NY
WAKE UP, GET READY, GO OUT--HUMAN BLUES
GO TO WORK, WORK HARD, DO YOUR JOB—HUMAN BLUES
GO HOME, PAY YOUR BILLS, GO TO SLEEP—HUMAN BLUES
WAKE UP –Sell your television
GET READY—a change is gonna come
GO OUT—of your way to help somebody, so you can understand where they’re coming from.
GO TO WORK—try to make your living better
WORK HARD—to give all that you can give
DO YOUR JOB—to keep your living simple, so others may simply live
I wonder what a being from another galaxy
would have to say about the human family
That we shouldn’t be divided up by politics and race
The lines between our countries can’t be seen from outer space
GO HOME—but don’t forget the homeless
PAY YOUR BILLS—save some for charity
GO TO SLEEP—dreaming of a better world,
and tomorrow go and make it a reality.
Alien voice: A few of you have more than everyone else
So you convince them to buy what you sell
Your world is beautiful when seen from above
I got the blues for the humans, cause where is the love?
Maybe I’m an alien so I shouldn’t judge
But why base your economy on dinosaur sludge
Your world is so bountiful with riches untold
I got the blues for the humans cause you sold it for gold.
(solos)
My friend from space had something big that he had to say
So I took him to our leaders and they locked his ass away
In a court of kangaroos, he stood with Buddha’s calm
And asked the corporate generals—Who would Jesus bomb?
I never seen a planet quite like this one before
You got the power to be peaceful
But you’re constantly at war
Love is something powerful that everyone can use
To fight the human blues. Human blues.
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Still Too Late
04:22
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Is it Still Too Late?
(Dreyer, Peyroux, Sunshine, Hovey) © 01-15-2002
Is it still too late to cry all these tears?
Is it still too late to bring back all these years?
If it's just hurry up and wait
Tell me now
Is it still too late?
Is it still too late for you to change your mind?
Is it still too late for us to waste a little more time?
Here I am standing at your gate
Is there some way some how
Or is it still too late?
You say that less is more than you'll allow
And more or less you've made it clear
But I feel more like I do right now
Than I did when I got here
Is it still too late even though time is an illusion?
Is it still too late to be bound up in this confusion?
If there's a chance to change my fate?
Tell me now
Is it still too late?
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Natural Man
05:42
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I don't want no gold watch for workin' fifty years from nine till five
A-while the boss is guzzling champagne and I'm beltin' beer in some dive
'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and loving for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Like a natural man (like a natural man)
A natural man (like a natural man)
Well now, I refuse to listen to people's thinkin' that I live too high
I'm gonna taste it now before my one life streaks on by
'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Just like a natural man (like a natural man)
I said a natural man (just like a natural man)
Well now, I tried to do what others say that I should do
They say that I should fit in, fool 'em, fake it, well
Those kinda dues just make me crazy and blue
Man, I just can't take it
So when ya see me walkin', won't ya notice that proud look in my eyes
My feet are on the ground and my soul is searchin' for the sky
'Cause I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
I want to be happy and free
Livin' and lovin' for me
Just like a natural man (just like a natural man)
A natural man (just like a natural man)
Just like a natural man (just like a natural man)
My feet are on the ground (just like a natural man)
My soul is searchin' for the sky (just like a natural man)
Like a natural man (just like a natural man)
No more "Yes, sir" (just like a natural man)
No more "Yes, mam" (just like a natural man)
Huh, 'cause I'm a natural man (just like a natural man)
I'm a natural man (just like a natural man)
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Tore Up from the Floor Up
(Sunshine) 2/18/02
Well, I'm tore up from the floor up
Can't take no more
Yeah I'm tore up from the floor
Can't take no more
Can't do nothin' since my baby walked out that door
(stops, on the one)
Can't eat
Can't sleep
Haven't had a shower in
Two weeks
Can't work , Can't play
Don't care what's gonna happen anyway
Cause I'm tore up from the floor up
Can't take no more
Yeah I'm tore up from the floor
Can't take no more
Can't do nothin' since my baby walked out that door
Can't walk down the street without crying
Can't listen to my old 45s
Well there ain't no cure in the world worth buying
I don’t care if I’m dead or alive , Cause I'm tore up...
Don't trust that New York woman
She's got ways that you can't see
You can't give your heart to the woman
Cause if you do you might end up just like me. I'm tore up.
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9. |
Wasted
03:43
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Wasted (JoAnne Sunshine)
I have been confused
Gotten shaken up
Guess I found some wisdom, but it’s not enough
And I’m wasting time til I don’t know when
I’m wasted
Haven’t traveled far
But it’s been enough
All over you can see the same stuff
Been a waitin so long, til I don’t know when
I’m wasted
Summer’s gone, winter’s on
Where do I begin
The treasure of a human life only tasted
Well, all I’ve got is my dreams
But they’ve been asleep
Treasures to remember, but they’re not mine to keep
And the clock keeps ticking ‘til I don’t know when
I’m wasted
Chorus
So that clock keeps tickin
It’s got a nice beat
Got me movin and shakin and atappin my feet
And I can’t remember, but it
Might have been wasted
Wasted
Wasted
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I've got no chauffeur to chauffeur me
I've got no servant to serve my tea
But I'm as happy as a man can be
Because I've got a girl who loves nobody but me
I don't own stock in no stock exchange
I don't hold claim to no real estate
But I'm not living my life in vain
Because I've got a girl who loves nobody but me
And every time my sweetie goes walking
Down some sunny street
She always sets the whole town to talking
Cause she's a genuine Athena from her head down to her feet
I don't rank high in society
I don't possess a PhD
But I'm all set confident-you-ally
Because I've got a girl who loves nobody but me, now
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So In Love With You
03:44
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So in Love With You (Dreyer, Sunshine)
When I first met you baby
I had to keep you under my hat
You were my precious little secret
And I knew I had to keep it like that
We were all tangled up
On the other side of town
Not even my closest friends
Could know exactly what was going down
Now I don’t have to hide
The way that I feel
What we got inside
We knew it was real
Now I can tell the world
I’m so in love with you
There was nothing we could do about it
The attraction was so strong
We couldn’t hear the voices of everyone around us
Trying to tell us it was wrong
Now I’m so glad I didn’t listen
To what they had to say
Cause I’m so in love with you baby
And it gets stronger every day
Now I don’t have to hide
The way that I feel
What we got inside
We knew it was real
Now I can tell the world
I’m so in love with you
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Heaven please send to all mankind,
Understanding and peace of mind.
But, if it's not asking too much
Please send me someone to love.
Show all the world how to get along,
Peace will enter when hate is gone.
But, if it's not asking too much,
Please send me someone to love.
I lay awake night and ponder world troubles.
My answer is always the same.
That unless men put an end to all of this,
Hate will put the world in a flame, (oh) what a shame.
Just because I'm in misery.
I'm not begging for no sympathy.
But if it's not asking too much,
Just send me someone to love.
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Ron Sunshine New York, New York
Singer, songwriter, harmonica player Ron Sunshine was born in Denver, moved to NYC in '81, and started paying music full time in '90. He has released six albums, toured internationally, and recorded &performed with the likes of Dr. John, The P-Funk Horns, Pinetop Perkins, Wilson Pickett, and many others. Ron & band continue to dazzle from NY to Los Angeles, Paris to Stockholm, Bermuda to Red Bank. ... more
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