TONY JOE WHITE

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you're gonna look) good in blues

bare necessities

steamy windows

main squeeze

bi-yo rhythm

the other side

 

 

 

AINT GOING DOWN THIS TIME

 

 

I've been laying low
Living in the shadows
Spending time alone
Conversations with the wall

Hanging on
I'm just trying to matter
And I remain
Trying to make some sense of it all

I've been here before I'm familiar with the pain
But I ain't running no more there's one thing changed
Ain't going down this time
This time I ain't going down

Like an undertow
I feel the promise of the nighttime
But I've been down that road
And my search came to an end

I hit the motherload
Enough blues for a lifetime
Now I'm digging deep inside
Trying to find my way back again

You know you've entered the danger zone
When you look in the eyes and there's no one home
Ain't going down this time
This time I ain't going down

Deep in the night
I miss a woman's touch
The fire burns strong
And I'm drawn to the flame

But I pay the price
When I get caught up in the heartbeat
And passion flows
Unrestrained

No one left to blame I'm faced with the truth
And it's all too plain when there's nothing left to lose
Ain't going down this time
This time I ain't goin

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

UNDERCOVER AGENT FOR THE BLUES

 

She was my lover
She was working undercover
Oh the woman knew all of the moves
She really had me romping
We were barefoot stomping
She just kept igniting my fuse

I was blinded by the blackness of her long silk stockings
She was rocking with an optical illusion
This ain't how I thought it'd be
She just kept on keeping me in a state of total confusion

She took me for a ride
Rattled me
I found out
She was an undercover agent for the blues

She never really needed love
Omnidirectional
I was just an innocent bystander
She kept on getting kinkier
I say hook, line, and sinker, she was
Just, just too hot to handle

She took me by storm
It must have been a season for the fools
She was so bad
An undercover agent for the blues

I was blinded by the blackness of her long silk stockings
She was rocking with an optical illusion
This ain't how I thought it'd be
She just kept on keeping me in a state of total confusion

She took me for a ride
Rattled me down to my shoes
And I found out
She was an undercover agent for the blues

She was so bad
An undercover agent for the blues

 

AND WE MOVE CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

 

Strong instinct for survival
Romantically insane
Moving soft along the edge of time
Like a panther in the rain

Manipulated rebels
With a total disregard for the rules
When pride comes tumbling off the great white stallion
You move closer to the truth

And the search continues for the meaning
They build the cathedrals high
But we keep our weapons ready
Looming dark against the sky

They're taking down the rain forest
Changing it to a room without a view
And the big trees fall like dominoes
And we move closer
The eagle watches from the mountain
As the warriors turn into fools
And the dice are thrown on sacred ground
And they move closer to the truth

And who's gonna tell the children
How the rivers used to flow cystal blue
And we keep leaving scars on Mother Earth
And moving closer to the truth

 

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