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    2005

STYX
Tommy Shaw - Guitars & Vocals
James Young - Guitars & Vocals
Lawrance Gowan - Keyboards & Vocals
Ricky Philips - Bass Guitar & Background Vocals
Todd Sucherman - Drums, Percussions & Background Vocals

Chuck Panozzo - Bass Guitar on "Locomotive Breath"

Additional Musicians
Koko Taylor - Add. Vocals on "Blue Collar Man @ 2120"
Johnnie Johnson - Piano on "Blue Collar Man @ 2120"
The Oracle Diva - Add. Vocals on "It Don't Make Sense" & "Wishing Well"

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.
I’m crying, I’m crying.
I’m crying, I’m crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob g’goo.

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say

That you still want me
Well, that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Beacuse all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
and miles and miles and miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles

You take one man's heart and make another man live
You even go to the moon and come back thrilled
You may a deaf man hear and a dumb man speak
So it don't make sense that you can't make peace.
No it don't make sense that you can't make peace. 

You can make a transfusion that will save a life.
You can change the darkness in the broad daylight.
Make submarines, they submerge for weeks.
So it don’t make sense that you can’t make peace

You know it don't make sense- you can't make peace
You know it don't make sense- you can't make peace
You know it don't make sense- you can't make peace

I don't need no doctor
'Cause I know what's ailing me
I don't need no doctor
'Cause I know what's ailing me
Yes I do

All I need is my baby
You don't know I'm in misery 

I don't need no doctor
my prescription tells me that

I don't need no doctor
my prescription tells me that

All I need is my baby
.....

care for all my needs

Well the doctor said I need rest - ooh ooh
He put me on the critical list - ooh ooh
Keeping me safe from harm - ooh ooh
All I need is her sweet charme - ooh ooh
Gave me a medicated lotion
It wouldn't soothe
My emotion

Well the doctor said I need rest - ooh ooh
He put me on the critical list - ooh ooh
Keeping me safe from harm - ooh ooh
All I need is her sweet charme - ooh ooh
Gave me a medicated lotion
It wouldn't soothe
My emotion 

Ain't but one way out,
Lord, I just can’t go out that door
Ain't but one way out,
Lord, I just can’t go out that door
There's a man down there,
Might be your man, I won't know

Lord you got me trapped woman,
On the second floor;
If I get out this time,
I won't be trapped no more.
So raise our window baby,
I can ease out soft and slow
Hey your neighbors,
Won't be talking stuff they don't know.

Come on boys.

I'm foolish to be here in the first place,
Know some man gonna walk in and take my place.
Ain't no way in the world,
I'm walking out that front door
Cause there's a man down there,
Might be your man I don't know.
Cause there's a man down there,
Might be your man I don't know.  

All hands on deck, we've run afloat!' I heard the captain cry

'Explore the ship, replace the cook:  no one leave alive!'

Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly?

A twisted path, our tortured course, and no one left alive

We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die

No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain's eye

Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call

A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all

We fired the gun, and burnt the mast, and rowed from ship to shore

The captain cried, we sailors wept: our tears were tears of joy

Now many moons and many Junes have passed since we made land

A salty dog, this seaman's log: your witness my own hand

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirty-'n'-gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people lookin' half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city

Cool town, evening in the city
Dressed so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city
'Til I'm wheezing like a bus stop
Runnin' upstairs, gonna meet you on the roof top

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin' dirty-'n'-gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people lookin' half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head

But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat, it'll be all right
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
The days can't be like the nights
In the summer in the city
In the summer in the city 

Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know
How to, go about gettin' it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin' my soul

Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
It's all the same
When it's, when it's over, mama
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess

 Well, I think I'll go turn myself off,
And go on down
All the way down
Really ain't no use in me hanging around
In your kinda scene

Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess

Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times

She had sun in her face
Her lips kiss the sun
Arrest the sun
Fields of light we found the place

She had sun in her eyes
The clouds crossed the sun
Without the sun
The evening shadows in her eyes

Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times

She had breaded her hair
The grass jumped through the rain
Reach to the rain
Tears of mystic rain in the air

She had tears in her eyes
The skies turned to gray
Melt away
Shining streaks in rain that day

Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times
Talkin' about the good times

Good times
Good times
Good times
Good times

In the shuffling madness

Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all-time loser

Headlong to his death
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train won't stop going
No way to slow down

 He sees his children jumping off
At the stations one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun

He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down

He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls

He picks up Gideons Bible
Open at page one
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down 

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down

Take off your hat, kick off your shoes.
I know you not goin' anywhere.
Running around town singin' your blues.
You know you ain't goin' anywhere.

You've always been a good friend of mine,

But just keep saying farewell.

And the only time that you're satisfied,

Is with your feet in the wishing well.

Throw down your gun, you might shoot yourself.

Or is that what you're tryin' to do?

Put up a fight you believe to be right,

And one day the sun will shine through.

You've always got somethin' to hide.

Somethin' you just can't tell.

And the only time that you're satisfied,

is with your feet in the wishing well.

But I know what you're wishing for.

Love in a peaceful world.

Love in a peaceful world.

Love in a peaceful world.

Love in a peaceful world.

You've always been a good friend of mine,

But you keep saying farewell.

And the only time that you're satisfied,

Is with your feet in the wishing well.

In the wishing well.

In the wishing well.

Everybody's got a dream and they take it to the wishing well.

Everybody's got a dream, hah.

Wishing well.

Give me a job, give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God, I'm hardly alive

My mother and father, my wife and my friends

I see them laugh in my face

But I've got the power, and I've got the will

I'm not a charity case

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keeping my eye to the keyhole

If it takes all that to be just what I am

Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Make me an offer that I can't refuse

Make me respectable, man

This is my last time in the unemployment line

So like it or not I'll take those 

Long nights, impossible odds

Keeping my back to the wall

If it takes all that to be just what I am

Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Keeping my mind on a better life

Where happiness is only a heartbeat away

Paradise, can it be all I heard it was

I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keeping my eye to the keyhole

If it takes all that to be just what I am

Well, I'm gonna be a blue collar man

Oh yes I am

I'm gonna be a blue collar man

I am what I am

And I'll take those long nights, impossible odds

Keeping my back to the wall

And if it takes all that, all that to be just what I am

I vow to be a blue collar,

gotta be a blue collar,

gonna be a blue collar man.

I'm gonna be a blue collar man

I'm gonna be a blue collar man

I'm gonna be a blue collar man