I am an old woman ...Lightning was desire ...This old house it would've burned down ...That I can hold on to ...To believe in this livin' ...When I was a young girl ...I had me a cowboy ...It was a free ramblin' man...There was a long time ...No matter how I tried ...The years they just rol...Like a broken down dance ...That I can hold on to ...To believe in this livin' ...There's flies in the kitchen ...I can hear them there...And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today ...But how the hell can a person ...Go on to work in the morning ...To come home in the evening ...That I can hold on to ...To believe in this livin'

I am an old woman...Lightning was desire...This old house it would've burned down...That I can hold on to...To believe in this livin'...When I was a young girl...I had me a cowboy...It was a free ramblin' man...There was a long time...No matter how I tried...The years they just rol...Like a broken down dance...That I can hold on to...To believe in this livin'...There's flies in the kitchen...I can hear them there...And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today...But how the hell can a person...Go on to work in the morning...To come home in the evening...That I can hold on to...To believe in this livin'

And back when I was really young ...A part of that burned down ...Between the Sonic and the grocery store ...Laughing all the while ... as many friends as I could pack ...In my daddy's Ford ...But I ain't in Checotah anymore ...My hotel in Manhattan ...And what I just paid for dinne...Would be a down payment on a house ...I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa ...n hailing cabs here in New York ...But I ain't in Checotah anymore ...I'm in a world so wide ...I miss the big blue skies ...The Oklahoma kind ...In a world of long red...The bright lights of Ho...All the paparazzi flashing ...But I ain't in Checotah anymore ...I'm in a world so wide ...I miss the big blue skies ...The Oklahoma kind ...Where the Wildcats beat the Iron heads ...d Settler's Day and the Okra Fest ...After prom, down at the bowling lanes ...atching crappy fish in Eufaula lake ...I ain't in Checotah anymore ...I'm in a world so wide ...I miss the big blue skies ...The Oklahoma kind ...But I ain't in Checotah ...No, I ain't in Checotah

In the beginning, she was stunning and pure...When he first saw her, he fainted to the floor...She was distant and arrogant from the start,...She did not see the fragile state of hi...She fell in love with him, on t...She became softer, in every way...though they were so in love,...She drew a line in the sand, just because...The only thing that they did together, was to make love...So paradise found was not paradise to him...e loved her, but he was still an English ma...Tropical birds in the heat and the ocean,...though they were so in love,...They drew a line in the sand, just because...The only thing that they did together, was to make love...She burned his house down, saying you ma...r this, you fell to the ground when you saw this...though they were so in love,...They drew a line in the sand, just because...The only thing that they did together, was to make love...When that big house burned down...All around her, in the smoke and the fire,...In the devastation, they n...Back to her white house...About the two of them, ever a...though they were so in love,...They drew a line in the sand, just because...The only thing that they did together, was to make love...(In the beginning,...She was stunning, and pure...In the smoke and the fire,...Back to her white house... while they were so in love... while they were so in love...She burned his house down

I'm gonna race it to the ground...It's gonna break the speed of sound...I love it and I need it, I feed it...I'm a highway star, y...I'm gonna keep her to the end...I love it, I need it, yeah...I'm a highway star ...Now that I'm on the road again...I gonna beat my..., y...Ooh, I'm in heaven again...I got everything...I love it and I need it, I feed it...I'm a highway star ...I'm gonna race it to the ground...It's gonna break the speed of sound...I love it and I need it, I bleed it...I'm a highway star...I'm a highway star...I'm a highway star...Oh, yes I am, you mothers ...Sweet child in time, you'll see the line...The line that's drawn between the good and the bad...See the blind man, he's shooting at the world...The bullets flying, the...'ve been bad, Lord, I bet you have...Wait for the ricochet ...I'm cryin' for you da...I want to hear you sa...Sweet child in time, you'll see the line...The line that's drawn between the good of us and the bad of us...See the blind man, shooting at the world...The bullets flying, the...'ve been bad, Lord, I bet you have...Wait for the ricochet ...I want to be inside o...I gotta hear you sing... which is also from the last album. It tells the story of how we recorded it and what went wrong when we did it. It happened in Switzerland, the song, a thing called Smoke On The ...On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers...Were at the best place around...Burned the place to the ground, now ...Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky...Smoke on the water...But burning down ...They burned down the gambling house...Funky Claude was running in and out...He was pulling kids out of...When it all was over...Swiss time was running on... that we would lose the race ...Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky...It was burning...Smoke on the water...Down to the ground, it was ...We ended up at the Grand Hotel...It was empty, cold and bar...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know, I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky...Smoke on the water...It was tumbling down...Everybody was crying ...No one sees the things you do...Because I stand in front of you...ut you drive me all the time...You put evil in my mind...I used to sing and sa...Now I have become a fool...'Cause I listen to the mule...How can I change when my mind...nd of a Lucifer hid in the ground...t another slave for the mule...There once was a woman...The kind that gets written down in history...Her name was Nancy...Her face was nothing fancy...I loved her...I tried to take her...I even tried to break...She said, I ain't for takin' wo...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...I spent my money as I took my turn...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman, yes I have ...But I could never please ...I couldn't get her...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...I spent my money as I took my turn...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...Ooh, I got a strange kind ...Ooh, my soul, I love you ...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...I spent my money as I took my turn...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman, yes I have ...I wed her in a hurry...No more callers and I glow with pride...I'm dreaming...I feel like screaming...I won my woman just b...I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you...I spent my money as I took my turn...I want you, I need you, ha ha ha...Ooh, I had a strange kind ...She was so fat...She was the worst thing you've ...Ooh, my soul, I love you, baby ...You're lazy, stay in bed...re lazy, yeah, stay in bed...I said, my trying ain...Lazy, stay in bed...We're meeting all the groovy people...We've rocked the Milky Way so far...e're dancing 'round the Borealis...pace truckin' round the the stars ...Remember when we did the moonshot...nd Pony Trekker led the way...We moved to the Canaveral moonstomp...We got music in our solar system...The fireball that rode was moving...They got music in the solar system...Rock around the Milky Way...Dancing 'round the Borealis...I don't feel so brigh...I don't care to sit t...Maybe I'll find on the way down the line...that I'm free, free to be ...I don't need a dark t...I don't want a rough ...I can't feel, I can't see....Maybe I'll find on the way down the line...that I'm free, free to be ...I don't need black ni...I can't see dark nigh...Maybe I'll find on the way down the line...that I'm free, free to be ...When she was rockin' in the house of blue light...Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty...When she was rockin' to the east and west...Lucille was oh so real...When she didn't do her d... I'm a speed king you ... I'm a speed king see ...Saturday night and I just got paid...Gonna rock and roll down to New Orleans...t first two stanzas in inverse order]

When I was just a little kid ...Soon as I had done my chores ...I'd beat a path from our house to yours ...One in red, one blue and w...I'll never forget tha...first ride from our house to yours ...From our house to yours ...It was back and forth from our house to yours ...On a boy who lived down the road from us ...I watched him go from our house to yours ...I remember the day you turned thir...But I taught you make-up,...We burned up the phone lines from our house to yours ...From our house to yours ...I knew way from our house to yours ...I'll never forget tha...When the moving van took you...I cried till my eyes ...dred miles from our house to yours ...Then a card in the mailbox at christma...ts of love from our house to yours ...From our house to yours ...I knew the way from our house to yours ...I knew the way from our house to yours

blinking eyes? I couldn't work it out. I swear she could rea...life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was stripping herself ...Here I am, this is me ...I am yours and everyt...I never could. ...Our life was a pillow-fight. We'd stand there on the quilt, our hands cl...and a Stanley knife in ...er hand. She sliced the tyres on my bike and I couldn't forgive he...She went blind at the age of five. We'd stand at the bedroom window and ...me to tell her what I saw. I'd describe the houses opposite, the little ...ch of grass next to the path, the gate with its rotte...open that Dad was always going to fix. She'd stand there quiet for a moment. I ...thought she was trying to develop the images in her own head. Then ...I can see little twin...ristmas tree lights in faraway windows. ...I can see huge tiger ...I'd look at the grey house opposite, and close the curtains. ...She burned down the house when she was ten. I was away camping with the scouts. ...The fireman said she'd been smoking in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat ...and our mum died in the flames, so Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the ...on to find us a new house. We never saw him a...h birthday she fell down the well in our Aunt's garden a...eryone said. That's when she said she'd neve...blink again. I would tell her when she started at me, ...they reminded me of the well she fell into....She moved in with a gym teacher when she was fifteen, all muscles he was. He ...lost his job when it all came out, and couldn't get another one. Not in that ...hough. She said she was in love. They were tog...temper. He hit over the back of the neck ...ullworker. She lost the use of the right side of her b...three years and was out in fifteen months. We saw him a while later, he was ...eague football team in a Cornwall seaside town. I don't think ...f weight from being in a chair ...all the time. She'd get me to stick pins and stub out cigarettes in her right ...hurt. Her left hand was pretty ... wrestling matches, I'd have to use both ...We buried her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the vicar, and the man who dug ...the hole. She said she ...the worms could get to her quickly. She said she liked the idea of it, though I ...thought it was because of what happened to the cat, and our mum.

Ann ran a boardin' house with a faded sing t...Well one night in June in the billiard room was I chalking up with a ...He was set to break when the door burst open and Leo James rushed in ... broke out and it's down at Nancy Ann's ...dropped our cues on the poolroom floor and down the street we ran ...Though the flames were hot and the smoke was thick not a single life was lost ...And the reason for the blaze was never found ... will be remembered in our local history ...As the fire that fairly scandalized the town ...The night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls burned down ...When we got to the place the front was a blaze and so was the second floor ...So we cut around the side and up the alley and stopped aside the back door ...catching our breath when the door flew open and ...And out through the smoke ran Mayor Wil...irt tail afire came the local chief of poli...d banker Jones with the red-haired girl he always said was his niece ...And then I spied Miss Nancy Ann herself helping someone else out of the fire ...Her arm around the red bald head of ol...The county physician the city mortician out through the flames they ran ...The grand parade of girls in gowns and hat clad ...Through the thick gray smoke th...Though the flames were hot... ...Now everybody was out at the girl's hotel by the time the roof caved in ...ere headin' back to the billiard hall when Leo turned to my fr...He said I believe that's the funniest show I've ever seen in town ...The so called elite caught out in the street with their pompous purity down ...Though the flames were hot...

On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers...Were at the best place around...Burned the place to the ground...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,...They burned down the gambling house...and funky Claude was running in and out...Pulling kids out the ground...When it all was over...But Swiss time was running out... that we would lose the race...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,...We ended up at the Grand Hotel...It was empty cold and bare...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,..., smoke, burning it down...Fire in the sky..., smoke, burning it down...Fire, fire in the sky

On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers...Were at the best place around...Burned the place to the ground...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,...They burned down the gambling house...and funky Claude was running in and out...Pulling kids out the ground...When it all was over...But Swiss time was running out... that we would lose the race...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,...We ended up at the Grand Hotel...It was empty cold and bare...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky...Smoke on the water,..., smoke, burning it down...Fire in the sky..., smoke, burning it down...Fire, fire in the sky

When night falls - that's when it all begins ...I highly recommend y'... to do us harm like I'm nervous ...Live inside a glass house ...ey want to bring us down ...Want twist us all in their black magic ...Meet me at the getaway spot in a jiffy ...Leave all the does behind that ac...Till the other side retreats...I told you that is a saw I wore ...I'm a kill ...When the rebel yells song th...See, I got guns, and I'm sick ...d meet me here, and I came quick? ...Them same cats on the most wanted list ... straight disappear in the mist ...I shoot to kill, and I'll be damned if I miss ...I get serious as hell when I'm threatened ...ening, and, but now I'm alert ...And that's right down my line of work ...The whole Brotherhood n...y got us up against the wall ...Here I call out; let it al...ith or without you, I'm for war ...I got shit like up on in Attica ...I want y'all dues ...Shit hit the fan ...Time up in the new, then torture ...I rip a niggas toe na...What, I didn't hear the news? ...Five slayin' the law ...Man, how I don't want do these...I lay mousetraps for those mice-house niggas that house gats ...I know killers from down south, B ...I earn my respect, and I was born to wreck ...day, it's all about the money ...I guarantee I'm gun play ...Bitch, I'm in the jet ...Benz on the runway ...oney like that; why the fuck I need school? ...Plot where I lay up ...d forbid you hit me in my Ribs and I live ...Thought I heard something ...Last cat that I heard frontin' ...Burned up herb huntin' ...Now I don't care who I hit ...It's who I hit I knew I hit ...We're here for the cats in the minivan ...Sex guard the money ...t up your wife with the head of the night ...To my tents dimming the light ...I'm bendin' this mic ... niggas look sloppy when ...y don't see me, and I see them

When night falls - that's when it all begins...I highly recommend y'... to do us harm like I'm nervous...Live inside a glass house...ey want to bring us down...Want twist us all in their black magic...Meet me at the getaway spot in a jiffy...Leave all the does behind that ac...Till the other side retreats...I told you that is a saw I wore...I'm a kill ...When the rebel yells song th...See, I got guns, and I'm sick...d meet me here, and I came quick?...Them same cats on the most wanted list... straight disappear in the mist...I shoot to kill, and I'll be damned if I miss...I get serious as hell when I'm threatened...ening, and, but now I'm alert...And that's right down my line of work...The whole Brotherhood n...y got us up against the wall ...Here I call out; let it al...ith or without you, I'm for war ...I got shit like up on in Attica...I want y'all dues...Shit hit the fan...Time up in the new, then torture...I rip a niggas toe na...What, I didn't hear the news? ...Five slayin' the law...Man, how I don't want do these...I lay mousetraps for those mice-house niggas that house gats...I know killers from down south, B...I earn my respect, and I was born to wreck...day, it's all about the money...I guarantee I'm gun play...Bitch, I'm in the jet...Benz on the runway...oney like that; why the fuck I need school?...Plot where I lay up...d forbid you hit me in my Ribs and I live...Thought I heard something...Last cat that I heard frontin'...Burned up herb huntin'...Now I don't care who I hit...It's who I hit I knew I hit...We're here for the cats in the minivan...Sex guard the money...t up your wife with the head of the night...To my tents dimming the light...I'm bendin' this mic... niggas look sloppy when...y don't see me, and I see them

On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers ...Were at the best place around ...Burned the place to the ground ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...They burned down the gambling house ...Funky & Claude was running in and out ...Pulling kids out the ground ...When it all was over ...But Swiss time was running out ... that we would lose the race ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...We ended up at the Grand Hotel ...It was empty cold and bare...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers ...Were at the best place around ...Burned the place to the ground ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...They burned down the gambling house ...Funky & Claude was running in and out ...Pulling kids out the ground ...When it all was over ...But Swiss time was running out ... that we would lose the race ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...We ended up at the Grand Hotel ...It was empty cold and bare...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

On the Lake Geneva shoreli...Frank Zappa and the Mothers ...Were at the best place around ...Burned the place to the ground ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...They burned down the gambling house ...Funky & Claude was running in and out ...Pulling kids out the ground ...When it all was over ...But Swiss time was running out ... that we would lose the race ...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ...We ended up at the Grand Hotel ...It was empty cold and bare...But with the Rolling truck Stone...I know we'll never fo...Smoke on the water, fire in the sky