Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues Pt. 1

Album: Snakebite (2004)
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  • Didn't want no MTV,
    Didn't want no VH-1
    Was a time so long ago
    Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun
    Made a great big noise
    For all the girls and boys
    It was 1977
    Now two are gone to heaven
    Yeah, I was in an office space
    There across the street
    Down an alley, dirty stairs,
    And a basement underneath
    Brendan ran The Masque
    He played drums, we drank a lot
    We started playing underground
    People started comin' round
    Comin' round.
    Mark Moreland played his guitar
    And I clawed there at the keys
    Little brother Bruce showed up one day
    And now we're three
    I had this rhythm box
    That I got from Yogi Bear
    And Joe and Chas jumped on to play
    And we practiced music night and day
    Night and day.
    Hey, the scene was growin' out
    People everywhere
    Old hippies, beatniks, glam-rock kids
    Goin' punk rock??cut their hair
    One night we played The Whiskey
    With Miss Ivy and Mister Lux
    Backstage the record man approached
    Yeah, we thought we had hit the bucks
    Big bucks.
    So we put out a record EP
    Jim Hill was our engineer
    And when it got played on the radio
    We could not believe our ears
    There it was.
    So we went out on the road
    Started playin' near and far
    Drivin' in that beat-up van
    Or two or three old cars
    Drivin' everywhere.
    Then the sharks showed up and circled
    A big manager for Sting
    Said sign here, boys, you'll all be stars
    We'll go for that brass ring
    The contract was like a book
    Two hundred pages longy

    We signed there on that dotted line
    Just a dollar for each song
    Just a dollar.
    Things started gettin' wild
    With the band and me and Marc
    We did that methedrine a lot
    And drank that Cutty Sark
    Richard Mazda came from the UK
    Helped us to record in a brand new way
    One weekend, Marc's song fell out
    The single they still talk about
    We made a video
    With Frank Delia behind the lens
    Labor Day in Mexico,
    Lots of beans 'n drugs 'n friends
    But all was gonna bust
    Hey, how are chumps like us to know
    We took off on that tour so long
    And played and sang our radio song.
    Oh-woah.
    Now, it seemed like that old voodoo dog we had
    Was payin' for its fees
    We lost control of our own band
    To the record company
    Yeah, I guess we blew it big time
    Business got us bent
    We played a show for forty grand
    And the manager took every cent
    Every goddamn cent.
    Yeah, things got worse, and pretty soon
    It was time for me to go
    I did my best to patch it up
    But we were all just big assholes
    So, if you wanna make a band,
    Get ready for a good ride
    Don't let weasels, sharks, and fiends, and creeps
    Force you to compromise
    Uh-huh.
    Didn't want no MTV,
    Didn't want no VH-1
    Was a time so long ago
    Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun
    Made a great big noise
    For all the girls and boys
    It was 1977
    Now two are gone to heaven Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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