Lyrics from Where Has The Music Gone?: The Lost Recordings of Clem Comstock

Kindly transcribed by Mrs. Ralph Wernicke, treasurer of the Clem Comstock Appreciation Society
C 1999 Mental Giant Music (ASCAP)
All rights reserved.

All selections written by Clem Comstock except where indicated.

Battle Of The Wills
Sport Utility Vehicle
Never Gonna Get Married
The Other Guy
Baby Teeth
Don't Go
Come And Get It While You Can
Just So
Frat Rock
Pamela
I Want To Hold You
Tilt A Whirl Tongue
Counting To Infinity
Stay Home Day
They Say They Can (I'd Like To See It)
He Got Bored With Me
Reed Pipe Boogie
Where Has The Music Gone?

BATTLE OF THE WILLS

You say yes I say no
You tell me to stick it where the sun don’t show
We don’t try to understand
We’re too busy working on a battle plan
Used to be I’d fall in line
But now I’m gonna speak my mind
It’s the battle of the wills
And you’re not gonna win this time

People say we’re in love
So why’re you always putting on your boxing gloves
Don’t you see what you’ve become
A wounded animal with an acerbic tongue
Sticks and stones’ll break my bones
But names they never hurt no one
You can tell it to the judge
The battle of the wills has begun

(Johnny) I can’t hear you
(Johnny) I can’t see you
I’ll resist your charms and your witchy ways
Never seen such a feisty girl in all of my days

Put up your dukes, put up a fight
What a lousy way to spend a Saturday night
Then you say let’s make up
Don’t know if we’re steady or we’re breaking up
Is it just a power play
I can’t believe the words you say
It’s the battle of the wills
And you’re not gonna win this time

SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE

She’s got four-wheel drive
I can shift on the fly
Man she’s looking so good
With her shiny chrome wheels
And a leather interior
Dashboard trimmed in wood
Yeah my CD’s cranking
Speaker right under the hood

We’re in gear, we’re alive
If we crash, we’ll survive
Sport utility vehicle

With my Karmen Vortex Generator
Hitting on all six
Regulating every one
She’s got a sheet metal body
I can go off-road
Although it’s something that I’ve never done
I got a cool moon roof
So I can see the sun

Sport utility vehicle

Don’t brag too much or you’ll regret it
I fear your temper’s fuel-injected
Baby

Some guys from another school
Were puttin’ us down
Pointing fingers and laughing real hard
Now we’re playing chicken
It’s a fight to the finish
Hang on to your stabilizer bar
I’m gonna teach you goons
To make fun of my dad’s car

Hold your ears, hold your breath
It’s a race to the death
When the smoke and dust had cleared
Only one automobile appeared
Sport utility vehicle
Sport utility vehicle

NEVER GONNA GET MARRIED

I’m never gonna get married
I’m never gonna raise a family
I’m never gonna say ‘I do’ to another boy
I’m never gonna be tied down
I’ll always be the girl who wants to run around
I’m never gonna get married
No I never will

And all the mothers tell their daughters
‘It’s the thing to do
I would if I were you’
Jumping into dangerous waters
And Jaws is waiting there
With his mouth wide open

I’m never gonna get married
I’m never gonna raise a family
I’m never gonna wear a wedding gown
All dressed in white
I’m never gonna have a husband
I’d rather make it with my cousin
I never wanna be shackled
To a ball and chain

And all the brides will tell their mothers
‘It’s not like you said
The love we had is dead
You painted me a pretty picture
And now your baby’s all tainted and tattered’

I’m never gonna get married
I’m never gonna raise a family
I’m never gonna say ‘I do’ to another boy

THE OTHER GUY

I’m feeling sad
I’m feeling blue
I’m all alone while he’s there with you
I think with a sigh
I’m just the other guy

We know that it’s wrong
A terrible crime
You give me your love only part of the time
He was there before I
And I’m just the other guy

Bridge:
The other guy
Who’s in love with you
Who loves those things
Those things you do
I long for your touch
I beg for your kiss
Oh how did I end up in this?

I’m wrecking your home
It’s crazy I know
I call on the phone
But I hang up if he says ‘Hi’
‘Cos I am the other guy

I tap on your screens
Press my face to the glass
Outside in the dark
What am I
Just a moth who’s drawn to the light?
No I’m the other guy

Repeat Bridge

What can I say?
What can I do?
You have your cake and you eat it too
Oh ‘someday’ I cry
‘He’ll meet the other guy’

BABY TEETH

Feast your eyes on the girl who stole my heart
She is oh so young
A very fine way to start
All my friends are razzing me
They say she’s in a different league
‘Cos she’s still got her baby teeth
She’s still got her baby teeth
She’s still got her baby teeth
And I’ve lost mine

Innocence, keep it in your chestnut sack
‘Cos once it’s gone gone gone
You never ever get it back
Everybody’s saying no
They’re telling me to take it slow
‘Cos she’s still got her baby teeth
She’s still got her baby teeth
She’s still got her baby teeth
And I’ve lost mine

Take me away to a land before time
Put me in a tape machine and hit Rewind
I was born too soon
She was born too late
Fooled by the Finicky Finger of Fate

Ode To Joy
And Ode On A Grecian Urn
Poetry in motion
I never thought I’d ever learn
But something woke me up inside
My feelings now I just can’t hide
'Cos she's still got her baby teeth
She's still got her baby teeth
She's still got her baby teeth
And I've lost mine

DON’T GO

Don’t you go and leave me all alone
If you go then that would hurt me so
Don’t go and leave me all alone
I wish that you would phone
And say you’re coming home
Don’t ever go don’t go
Don’t you ever leave
Don’t you ever go

Don’t you go and break my heart in two
If you did, I don’t know what I’d do
Don’t go and break my heart in two
You’ll make me sad and blue
Oh lover tell me true
That you won’t go won’t go
You won’t ever leave
You won’t ever go

Ooo
This message is for you
The one I'm talking to
I'm trying to get through

Don't you go and leave me all alone
If you go I'll lose my lovin' glow
Don't go I'll be a nervous wreck
Be wonderin' where you went
Be trackin' down your scent
I'm begging no don't go
Don't you ever leave
Don't you ever go

Dear
My greatest ever fear
The time when you're not near
I need to keep you near
To wipe away the tears
I'm crying in my beer
You make them disappear
You make it a career

Don't you go and leave me all alone
If you go then that would hurt me so
Don’t go and leave me all alone
I wish that you would phone
And say you’re coming home
Don’t ever go don’t go
Don’t you ever leave
Don’t you ever go

COME AND GET IT WHILE YOU CAN

If you knew what I'm thinkin' then
You'd understand
No sense in burying our heads
Right in the sand
'Cos you're a woman baby
And I'm a man
My love is fresh honey
So come and get it while you can

You're mixing up a potion and I need a cup
My dough is in the oven and it's rising up
I've got the goods baby in my cake pan
It's steaming hot sugar
So come and get it while you can

I've been told by other guys
That you are good as gold
So now I've served you up a plate
You know you just can't hesitate
Because eggs don't taste that great
Once they've gotten cold

I've been as bloody patient as patient can be
Why don't you read the signs and come
Straight back to me
We'll start a revolution
We'll start a clan
My love is fresh honey
So come and get it while you can

JUST SO

Just so just so
He lives his life just so

He keeps his socks in a drawer
He hangs his shirts in the cupboard
He lays his shoes on a shoetree
It's his duty to society

Just so just so
He lives his life just so
I know I know
His one and only goal
Just so he lives his life just so

Everything is fine
Everything is very fine
Everything is as it should be
The paper comes out every morning
And the train's on time at seven-thirty

He takes his tea with his biscuits
He waxes under his armpits
He's got no patience for misfits
All they do is upset his serenity

Just so just so
He lives his life just so

FRAT ROCK   (A. Newman/C. Frappe)

Don't mind the yelling and the pushing shoving
We're just getting down to frat rock
It's the music that has got us pumping
We're just getting down to frat rock
Sidestep the vomit and the draft beer shower
Brought here compliments of frat rock
Chug it down until you're horizontal
Lullabye goodnight to frat rock

Don't be in a rush or in a haze now
Turn on and tune in to some frat rock
You'll find happiness in all your days now
With a daily dose of frat rock
Call it childish or call it simple
No one said that it was great art
We're descending down to caveman level
It's the therapy of frat rock

If you can count to four then you're a shoo-in
Join a band and play some frat rock
Learn three chords and you'll be out there doin'
Great performances of frat rock
Don the uniform that we're all wearing
For a hip parade of frat rock
Cattle consciousness that we're all sharing
It's the legacy of frat rock

Look the party's getting quite psychotic
Overdosing on the frat rock
Some say our practices are homo-erotic
They don't appreciate the frat rock
It's all Greek to them it's frat rock
We're just getting down to frat rock

PAMELA

I pledge my love to Pamela
The stars above for Pamela
Though she doesn't know my name
I'm in Heaven just the same
With my Pamela

I can't do wrong to Pamela
It won't be long, my Pamela
See her from across the room
Knowing I'll be with her soon
Oh my Pamela

Her eyes shine bright
Brighter than a supernova
I'll hold her tight
Lucky as a four-leaf clover
My Pamela

First I'll kiss her little nose
Funny how the feeling grows
Soon she'll feel it in her toes
Oh my Pamela

Look what I've found
An angel who has come to save me
God sent her down
I thank him for the gift he gave me
My Pamela

I WANT TO HOLD YOU

Every night I'm lyin'
Lyin' in my bed and lyin' to myself
Though I'm here without you
I'll be dreaming 'bout you and nobody else
I'm begging to myself be kind
But baby here in my mind
I just want to hold you
I want to hold you
I just want to hold you

Crazy secret feelings 'tween a man and woman
It's a natural fact
This forbidden fruit
I've just had a taste and now I can't go back
I don't know why I even try
'Cos darling I can't deny
I just want to hold you
I want to hold you
I just want to hold you

Oh in my heart this is happiness
Oh in my soul I could die
Oh in my head I keep wonderin'
When will I see you again
I'll be so lost until then

Can you feel it coming
Come that fateful day when we will cross that line
Seeing us together
It's a scene I've acted out a hundred times
I don't know what tomorrow brings
But sugar how my heart sings
I just want to hold you
I want to hold you
I just want to hold you
I want to hold you
I just want to hold you

TILT A WHIRL TONGUE

My girl waves like the ocean
My girl dives like the sky
My girl's love and devotion
Brings a happy tear to my eye

She is one in a million
She is skilled in romance
Her Irish eyes are a-smilin'
Her French kisses are straight from France

Tilt-A-Whirl tongue Tilt-A-Whirl tongue
Take me back to the days when I was young
We float on into the Tunnel of Love
And then I take a ride on her Tilt-A-Whirl tongue

She's a smooth rollercoaster
She's a cool Ferris wheel
She's a mean House of Horror
Now my Fantasy Park is real

Tilt-A-Whirl tongue Tilt-A-Whirl tongue
Spinning 'round in circles until my face is numb
We make our own games and we make our own fun
And I love to intertwine with her Tilt-A-Whirl tongue

We do the loop de loop
We do the slippery slide
We go back and forth
We go side to side

Tilt-A-Whirl tongue Tilt-A-Whirl tongue
Beginning the Beguine before it has begun
We do the Water Wiggle and the Cannonball Run
But my favorite ride is her Tilt-A-Whirl tongue
I love to catch a ride on her Tilt-A-Whirl tongue
I love to intertwine with her Tilt-A-Whirl tongue

COUNTING TO INFINITY

So much to do and so much to see
I'm gonna count up to infinity
It's just my style, it's just my speed
Why don't we count up to infinity?

Let's try
We got nothing but time
Let go of your ego and your Id
My my
You don't have to ask why
Do it just to say that we did
Open up your mind
See what you can find
You might be quite surprised

Un-uptight wild and free
We are the Children of Infinity
Go outside, find your favorite tree
Camp out and count up to infinity

Start small
Don't try doing it all
A wise man pauses and reflects
Your goal
It'll start to unfold
The nearer you get to googolplex
So here's a friendly tip
Every heavy trip
Begins with a single step

STAY HOME DAY

I stumbled out of my house this morning
With a Jekyll and Hyde hairdo
Rain pouring down I had no umbrella
And then the heel it broke off my shoe

Looks like a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
'Cos I can't let anybody see me this way
I'll take a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
Aaah

I was attacked by a German shepherd
He had his teeth and his paws on me
I got a tear in my mohair sweater
Began to sob uncontrollably

Looks like a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
'Cos I don't wanna put my nightmares out on display
I'll take a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
Aaah

I'm always running around in circles
With no particular place to go
I'll scurry off to my next appointment
To be with someone that I don't know

I need a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
I'm gonna sit with a plate of olives on my TV tray
Yeah it's a stay-home day
A lovely stay-home day
Take a message from my doctor, lawyer and my C.P.A.
I'm on a stay-home day
A lovely day
Aaah

I want a stay-home day
Stay home all day

THEY SAY THEY CAN (I'D LIKE TO SEE IT)

They say they can put a man on the moon
I'd like to see it
They say they can sell a Christmas in June
I'd like to see it
They move and shake the world today
With authority
But can they make you want me?

They say that a dream can always come true
I don't believe it
If there is a key to opening you
I'd like to be it
They're all so bright and erudite
To the nth degree
But can they make you want me?

I've been around and you've seen me
I know you have 'cos you looked between me
All of my sighs and my pleas meant for you to hear
They're falling on deaf ears
Just when I thought that I had you
Some other guy came along and grabbed you
Oh woe is me 'cos without you I can't be free
I made a wish upon a star
And kept the door open ajar
Now I've been good
I deserve it I do
For the thing that I wished for was you

They say they can put a man on the moon
I'd like to see it
They say that a change is happening soon
I'd like to see it
Young people everywhere will share
All their love for free
But can they make you want me

HE GOT BORED WITH ME

I was his plaything, I was his toy
I was his laughter, his pride and joy
Sunshine, all the time
But he got bored with me

I wore his sweater, I wore his ring
Rode in his Chevy and everything
Heaven, but then
He got bored with me

It started with the day
He had to go away for the summer
Bummer
He came back in the fall
And wasn't nice at all
Everything had changed

I loaned him money when things were grim
Typed all his English reports for him
Happy, as can be
But he got bored with me

(Recitative)
Dear
I still wonder what went wrong
Was it something I said?
Or something I had done?
Or did the love that we shared never really exist
At all

I used to understand
When he would clap his hand
I'd come running running
In all Eternity
I never thought I'd be
A temporary flame

Now I'm doing better, I've come to find
Self-centered boys are a waste of time
I'm glad, not sad
That he got bored with me

REED PIPE BOOGIE

(Instrumental)

WHERE HAS THE MUSIC GONE?   (Roger Klug)

Well is it ever so clear
The thing that you loved became the thing that you feared
And hated most
'Cos the music today
Seems so devoid of any poetic display
Melba toast

Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Well it's leaving now
Never to return again

Was it always like this?
Were you laughing at us when we were listening to Styx
And Foreigner
Is something wrong with my head?
I'm examining the specimen and pronouncing it dead
I'm a coroner
Remember back when melody rang crystal clear
She laughed and sang 'I love you' in a song

Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Well it's leaving now
Never to return again

What if we could find a way to turn back time
Maybe we could learn a thing or two
Boo boo be doo

Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Where has the music gone?
Well it's leaving now
Never to return again

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