mouth

i can tell things have changed

everywhere I go there’s gutter smells and pain

someone blew off their top

the green grass of home starts to rot

and everybody dances to their tune

you can shoot your mouth off

but nothing is said

it’s hard to control your thoughts

with nothing in your head

mama don’t dance no more

daddy ran out the door

and no one says what they really think

maybe it’s time to change

what’s happening everyday

maybe it’s time to be heard

i felt a presence in my house

an endless ache follows me out

bombs drop on the evening news

voices say we’ve got nothing to lose

and everyone’s a puppet on a string

they can shoot their mouth off

but nothing is said

it’s hard to control your thoughts

with nothing in your head

mama don’t dance no more

daddy ran out the door

and no one says what they really think

maybe it’s time to change

what’s happening everyday

maybe it’s time to be heard

(bradley jacobson) 4:02

© 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

where the boys are

where the boys are

someone waits for me

a smiling face, a warm embrace

two arms to hold me tenderly

where the boys are

my true love will be

he’s walking down

some street in town

and i know he’s looking there for me

in a crowd of a million people

i will find my valentine

i will climb to the highest steeple

and tell the world he is mine

til he holds me

I will wait impatiently

where the boys are

where the boys are

where the boys are

someone waits for me

(neil sedaka/howard greenfield) 4:20

© 1964 screen gems – emi music (ASCAP)

new music arrangement by bradley jacobson

debbie doesn’t

debbie doesn’t want me,debbie doesn’t care

when I’m in the room she acts like I’m not there

i try to make contact, try to make her see

but debbie doesn’t notice and she doesn’t want me

oh debbie, can’t you see  your presence touches me

i’ve loved you from afar, i’ve loved you in my dreams

i wrote you plastic letters that you returned to me

oh debbie, you have to be the coolest chick in history

i met you backstage, i let you in my heart

you pushed right past me and tore me all apart

debbie doesn’t want me, debbie doesn’t care

when I’m in the room she acts like I’m not there

i try to make contact, try to make her see

but debbie doesn’t notice and she doesn’t want me

oh debbie, I live for you

i keep scrapbooks  on everything you do

i think i’m pretty funny, i think i’m pretty smart

if you took a chance, i know I’d win your heart

oh debbie, can’t you see i’m dripping sincerity

it’s in everything I say and my every single rhyme

just look into my Debbie loving eyes

debbie doesn’t want me, debbie doesn’t care

when I’m in the room she acts like I’m not there

i try to make contact, try to make her see

but debbie’s a cool chick so she’ll never want me

(bradley jacobson) 3:26

© 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

make a level sunrise

every season brings a brand new scenario

past mistakes repeat through the video

sweet Carlotta from the barrio

swears she heard the sun burst through her stereo

ah…make a level sunrise

ah…feels so good it burns my eyes

cautious lip fumbles

for correct terms

while the voice breaks

and the mind churns

all for naught

as far as I’m concerned

my lips are chapped

from the freezer burn

ah…make a level sunrise

ah…throw a rope around the skies

ah…maybe we could compromise

i’ll kiss your neck

if you make a level sunrise

fortune teller who don’t know better

can conjure up a spell

make it better, tempt the weather

throw a coin into the wishing well

ah…make a level sunrise

ah…feels so good it burns my eyes

ah…throw a rope around the skies

ah…maybe we could compromise

i’ll kiss your neck

if you make a level sunrise

(bradley jacobson) 3:50

© 2003 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

eggman

where are all the king’s horses

where are all the king’s men

who’s going to help me

put my life back together again

i’ve fallen and I can’t get up

i’ve fallen and I can’t get up

i need some help

i need somebody

i need some help

i need somebody…eggman

where are all the king’s horses

where are all the king’s men

who’s going to help me

put my life back together again

i’m broken and I can’t get fixed

i’m broken and I can’t get fixed

i need some help

i need somebody

i need some help

i need somebody…eggman

fractured…hurt…thrown down…let down

somebody did this,

i don’t know who or why

somebody pushed me

where are all the king’s horses

where are all the king’s men

who’s going to help me

put my life back together again?

(bradley jacobson) 3:40

© 1992, 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

cocksure

some guys think I’ve got a swelled head

cuz I act like every night their girl’s in my bed

but I don’t stoop to toot my own horn

their mama up and done it since the day I was born

i’ll give it to you straight

a long story short

i’ll take you out on a date

then you’ll know for sure

you can stroke my ego

you can swallow my pride

it’s good for your libido

and you know it’s good for mine

you can go down…shit!

you can beg me for more

if you can say it gonna get it

you bet I am, I’m cocksure

most girls say they think I’m all that

but they don’t know the half of it

til they’re on their backs

see I don’t claim to be mr. big

i never had to brag, just the way it is

i’ll give you the facts hard

i hope it doesn’t hurt

if you want to last for long

you’ll do more than just flirt

you can stroke my ego

you can swallow my pride

it’s good for your libido

and you know it’s good for mine

you can go down…shit!

you can beg me for more

if you can say it gonna get it

you would be too, I’m cocksure

most folks know I don’t tell tall tales

if I open my mouth, it won’t tip the scales

my rep is gold and my legend huge

to grow a little larger all I need is you

so I’ll give you the deal raw

I’ll tell you the truth

To rise with me tomorrow

Today you’ve got to prove

you can stroke my ego

you can swallow my pride

it’s good for your libido

and you know it’s good for mine

you can go down…shit!

you can beg me for more

if you can say it gonna get it

babe shut the door, I’m cocksure

(charles mason/bradley jacobson) 4:32

© 2003, 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP), new york city boy

little miss priss

sweet teenaged, she’s a mild child

her feigned innocence

drives them wild

get too close, you’ll feel the sting

she’s so pure, that precious thing

everything she do she so prissy prissy

I can’t stand that little miss priss

everything she do, she so prissy prissy

i’m gonna get me some little miss priss

whatcha gonna do when the walls come tumbling down

whatcha gonna do when the walls come tumbling down

full of style and savior faire

she breathes life through her nose in the air

she’ll chew you up and spit you out

Before a word comes out of your mouth

everything she do she so prissy prissy

I can’t stand that little miss priss

everything she do, she so prissy prissy

I’m gonna get me some little miss priss

whatcha gonna do when the walls come tumbling down

whatcha gonna do when the walls come tumbling down

she’ll get old like they all do

the cool kids will appoint someone new

but some people will never change

she’ll be the priss til her dying day

everything she do she so prissy prissy

i can’t stand that little miss priss

everything she do, she so prissy prissy

i’m gonna get me some little miss priss

(patrick english/bradley jacobson) 3:36

© 2004 otv music/ buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

baby

baby it’s over

that I know it’s true, it’s true that it’s done

maybe we’ll be together

it’s just a thought I thought I’d share with you

i saw the light, the light did shine

it’s hard to see shadows once you cross that line

i was there, you were too

two of a kind that was me and you

but the light grew dim it could not remain

when the last street light went down on the lane

baby say it’s all a lie

you said goodbye, goodbye

you said goodbye

someday I’ll make you see

you are the one,

the one you are for me

reactions came a little after the time

it’s hard to find the rhythm

when you can’t find the rhyme

harsh encounters

that come from the past

wounds won’t heal a splinter of shattered glass

time cuts and time wounds that we know so well

we spent our nights in heaven

now we walk alone in hell

baby don’t leave me

i need you so,

you know I need you so

baby come to me

i’ll treat you well

you know I will

baby say it’s all a lie

you said goodbye, goodbye

you said goodbye

someday I’ll make you see

you are the one,

the one you are for me

baby go away

i don’t know why I have to fight with you

maybe we’ll be together

it’s just a thought

i thought I’d share with you

(bradley jacobson) 4:35

© 1993, 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

anything at all

he never gave me anything but love

everything he had he liked to shove

then one day i saw he wasn’t gold

everything he gave me he had stole

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything at all

he never gave me anything but lust

everything he touched would turn to dust

then one day I looked and he wasn’t there

with every tear that fell i swore i didn’t care

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything at all

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything

he never gave me anything at all

(bradley jacobson) 2:30

© 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

nightmare

i can’t fall asleep at night

i’m afraid of what just might…happen to me

i close my eyes and always see you there

looking at me with that blatant stare

it’s not just a dream

it’s a nightmare

nightmare is never ending

nightmare no use pretending

i can’t fall asleep

cause in my nightmare

you are the beast

i don’t know what’s running through my mind

i feel like I’m lost somewhere in time…in a memory

even though you are right next to me

i can’t fall asleep

for fear I won’t be able to breathe

it’s not just a dream

it’s a nightmare

nightmare is never ending

nightmare no use pretending

i can’t fall asleep

cause in my nightmare

you are the beast

i don’t know why I feel this way

there is no way to explain

maybe I’m just afraid of our love

so I’ve got nothing else to dream

nightmare is never ending

nightmare no use pretending

i can’t fall asleep

cause in my nightmare

you are the beast

(bradley jacobson) 2:54

© 1991, 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)

girls talk

there are some things you can’t cover up

with lipstick and powder

thought I heard you mention my name

can’t you talk any louder?

don’t come any closer,

don’t come any nearer

my vision of you can’t get any clearer

i just wanna hear girls talk

got a loaded imagination being fired by girls talk

but I can’t say the words you wanna hear

i suppose i’m going to have to play it by ear…

right here and now

girls talk… and they wanna know how

girls talk… and they say it’s not allowed

girls talk… if they say that it’s so

don’t you think that I’d know by now

that the words on everyone’s lip sticks

that you’re dedicated

you may not be an old fashioned girl you’re still gonna get dated

was it really murder?

were you just pretending?

lately I have heard you are the living end

girls talk…and they wanna know how

girls talk…and they say it’s not allowed

girls talk…and they think they know how

girls talk…if they say that it’s so

don’t you think that I’d know by now

(elvis costellO) 2:54

© 1979 plangent visions music (ASCAP)

new music arrangement by bradley jacobson

speeding

i’m head over heels, I’m tripping on my wheels

and I can’t find my way

i’m running through time, I’m losing my mind

i think I lost it yesterday

how long til it comes back around

how long til it hits the ground

i’m speeding through timea nd I don’t know why

so I cry, cry, cry all the time

i need to unwind

but I forgot to rewind my VCR fate

i never will win cause the world won’t stop its spin

so it’s just another hectic day

how long til it comes back around

how long til it hits the ground

i’m speeding through time and I don’t know why

so I cry, cry, cry all the time

i’m speeding along and I can’t slow down

so its gone, gone, gone, bye, bye

i will get it right, i will stop the fight

if i just find the time

i know there’s no use, i can’t find an excuse

i just lost my mind

how long til it comes back around

how long til it hits the ground

i’m speeding through time and I don’t know why

so I cry, cry, cry all the time

i’m speeding along and I can’t slow down

so its gone, gone, gone, bye, bye

words and music by bradley jacobson

© 2004 buzzee bee bop tunes (ASCAP)