Don't get mad - Get even (1984)

1. Are you ready?
2. Love hungry
3. Burning up
4. The fight goes on
5. Don't get mad - Get even
6. Into the valley
7. Bite on the bullet
8. Doctor Ice
9. Front page news
10. Leaving love (behind)

Are you ready

Are you ready (x3)

I was all dressed up, no place to go, gotta lady at my side
Got paid today, did OK, so out on the streets and ride
The word is out 'bout a rock and roll show get the weekend started right
The lights go down out into sound, are you ready to rock tonight?

Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight (x2)

Rock and roll gonna save your soul or so the saying goes 
So let's get movin', do some proving, let those good times roll 
No use sittin', get out of your seat, get your hands up in the air 
Don't try to fight it, ain't nothing like it, the word is out, so beware

Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight (x4)

Believe it, feel it, everybody somehow someway has got to have it 
Believe it, feel it, ain't nothing like that rock and roll magic 
Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready 
Are you ready, are you ready yeah yeah yeah

Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight
Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight
Are you ready - ready - ready to rock, ready to rock
Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight

Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight
Are you ready - ready - I'm ready to rock, ready to rock
Are you ready - ready - ready to rock tonight
An you ready - ready - are you ready ready ready yeah

Love Hungry

You come knocking on my door
Looking like a promise of what's in store
Breezing in, how come so late?
Dress in a mess, hair in a state
Have mercy baby, you're putting this poor boy down
It ain't no good honey when you ain't around

Keep me dancing on a string
Driving me crazy for your lovin' thing
Then you turn off like I don't exist
Is there somebody new at the top of your list?
Have mercy baby, you're putting this poor boy down
It ain't no good honey when you ain't around.

Love hungry, love hungry, hungry for love (x2)

Keep me dancing on a string
Driving me crazy for your loving thing
Then you turn off like I don't exist
Well is there somebody new at the top of your list?
Have mercy baby, you're putting this poor boy down
It ain't no good, it ain't no good, ain't no, ain't no, ain't no good

Love hungry, love hungry, hungry for love (x2)

Burning up

In the darkness of the night 
When the moon above is shining bright 
When the fire starts to rise 
Will you show me paradise?

Burning hunger for your love 
Will you touch me 'till I can't hold on? 
Will you take me deep inside 
Through the endless night to light?

CHORUS:
Feel I'm burning, burning up 
I'm on fire every time we touch 
Feel I'm burning, burning up 
I'm on fire, I'm burning up

I am just a working man 
Trying hard to do the best I can 
Girl the loving that you bring 
Make a working man a king

REPEAT CHORUS (x2)

The fight goes on

Billy was a young man shot down in his prime 
Jenny was the girl that Billy left behind 
Lying in an alleyway, blood pouring down the drain 
One for the cause, another link in the chain

Sad hollow faces lay Billy in the ground 
Hearts full of hatred, the killers must be found 
Eye for an eye now means two lives for one 
There's only one way if you live by the gun

CHROUS:
And the fight goes on, battle to survive 
And the fight goes on only heroes die
They only die 

Listen to the wind call vengeance on the streets tonight 
Voices in the shadow drowned by a burst from an armelite 
Heaven's full of heroes - loyal to the end 
How many lives will it take to the bitter end, my friend?

REPEAT CHORUS

Don't get mad - Get even

When all around you seem against you 
You're a square peg in a round hole 
Somebody trying to rope and fence you 
Here's a bit of advice you should know 
When I'm starting to boil - going out of my head 
I remember the words my daddy said

CHORUS:
Don't get mad - get even. It’s the only game in town 
Don't get mad - get even. Can't keep a good man 
Keep a good man down 
Down to the ground

When a lady tries to teach a lesson
Trying hard to make you look a fool
Shucking 'n' jiving an' messing
Try and remember - remember this rule
If you're getting tired of being a joke
Don't get all fired up - you're starting to choke

REPEAT CHORUS

Don't get mad - get even. It’s the only game in town 
Don't get mad - get even. Can't keep a good man 
Keep a good man down 
Can't keep him down

Don't play fair - play dirty
Where there's a will there's a way
Don't give in - don't show mercy
Every dog - every dog - every dog must have its day

Don't get mad - get even - don't get mad - get even (x2)
Get mad - get mad..........

Into the valley

How much more can one man take 
How many times can one heart break 
Dark days left out in the cold

Taken for suckers, played for fools
Under submission we follow the rules
How long can one man carry that load?

CHORUS:
Out on the streets young hearts running free
Fighting for you, calling to me
Into the valley, tear is the key
Nothing can stop young hearts - running free

Grind us down one by one
Hide the truth behind the gun
How much? How much can we stand?

Blinded with science, choked with lies
Can't see the wood for the wool in our eyes
Can't stand the blood upon our hands

Out on the streets young hearts running free
Fighting for you, calling to me
Into the valley, fear is the key
Nothing can stop young hearts - running free

How much more can one man take?
How many times can one heart break?
Dark days left out in the cold

Taken for suckers, played for fools
Oh yeah we follow those rules
How long can one man carry that had?

REPEAT CHORUS

Young hearts - running free - young hearts - running free - running free
running free (Yeah) - running free - running free - running free
(yeah yeah yeah yeah)

Bite on the bullet

OoooYeah

Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes 
Somehow you've got to douse the flame 
Don't give up if the end ain't in sight 
No matter how much pain

Take the bit between your teeth 
Sink them into the lead 
Gotta feel those nerves of steel 
Ain't no point in playing dead 
Gotta feel those nerves of steel 
Ain't no point in playing dead

You gotta bite on the bullet, bite on the bullet real hard 
Bite on the bullet, bite on the bullet real hard

You're gonna hurt unless you follow this rule 
There's not much more you can do 
Moving in for the kill, no suicide pill 
It’s the hard way out for you.

Put all other thoughts out of your mind
Somehow you gotta concentrate
Where there's a will, there's a way, so I'm told
So don't let your will break
Where there's a will, there's a way, so I'm told
So don't let your will break - no no

Bite on the bullet, bite on the bullet real hard (x4)

Bite on the bullet, bite on the bullet real hard
Bite on the bullet, bite it, you'll like it, bite it, you'll like it yeah

Where there's a will there is a way

Doctor Ice

Nerves of steel, a hand that never shakes 
Iron will torture till you break 
The time has come - you better run 
The race is on to be number one

Doctor Ice (x2)

Senses chill as he comes to your place 
Just a man - you'll never see his face 
The time has come - you better run 
The race is on from the lonely one

Doctor Ice (x4)

Feel his hands around your throat
Your breath is short - you begin to choke
Biting, fighting for your life
But you won't stop his grip of ice - good doctor

The time has come - so make a run 

It’s just begun - he's the lonely one
Doctor Ice Doctor Ice...
Come on now... Good God...

Front page news

Wasn't long ago I first met you
Didn't have nothing but a hole in your shoe oh yeah
Sat in your room, eyes turning green
Cutting out pictures from a rock and roll magazine yeah yeah

CHORUS:
Now you're Front page news, an overnight sensation 
Front page news today 
Rave reviews, another living legend 
Front page news today

You got lucky, got yourself a gig
You couldn't hardly play, but you gotta a hit oh yeah
You got there at any price
I still wonder if you sleep easy in your bed at night

REPEAT CHORUS

Pretty soon you'll see a face - Gonna take your place yeah - gonna take it

Front page news, an overnight sensation
Front page news today
Rave reviews
Front page news today
Front page news
Front page news today, Hey Hey Hey
Front page news
Front page, front page, front page news today!

Leaveing love (behind)

I've been to hell and back getting you off my mind
You put me on my back when you walked out this time
And underlined the fact by seeing a friend of mine - a friend of mine

Leaving love behind
Tables turned this time
Leaving love behind
It ain't no use to me I'm a leaving love behind yeah

You didn't stop to think what you were doing to me
Losing you this time killed all the love in me
Now all I've got is some kind of used to be - some kind of used to be

Leaving love behind
Tables turned this time
Leaving love behind
It ain't no use to me I'm a leaving love, I'm a leaving

Leaving love behind
Tables turned this time
Leaving love, leaving love, leaving love
It ain't no use to me, I'm a leaving love

Leaving love behind
Tables turned this time
Been to hell and back, hell and back, hell and back yeah
It ain't no use to me, I'm a leaving love behind, I'm a leaving love