Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall-The Paranoid Style

[00:06.88]Said before you knew what it was like to be poor [00:10.49]Or maybe just poorly dressed [00:12.71]I was always trying to make a good time out of life [00:17.16]With the empress [00:19.68]But now I've been asleep at the switch, oh honey [00:23.50]Somehow I got the wound [00:25.68]I recognize that somebody had to do something soon [00:30.88]I was a rock in an island [00:34.09]Somewhere near the Cote d'Ivoire [00:37.16]I could not deny the crabs [00:39.69]But baby, they ain't here no more [00:42.63]So many tricks that you trade on [00:45.70]So much makeup to cover the pall [00:48.96]I gather you are here and all [00:52.23]But rock and roll just can't recall [00:58.42]Said that she was someone that you used to know [01:02.85]Or maybe someone you used [01:04.87]I was down on my knees at the crossroads [01:08.39]So I suppose I've got no excuse [01:11.36]The scales have fallen from my eyes dear [01:15.28]Now I think I understand [01:17.62]So you can **** on water, that don't make you [01:20.94]A miracle man [01:22.65]I was a double agent on a submarine down on the Isle of Wight [01:29.66]I had the intelligence, but I never really was [01:34.45]All that bright so many tricks to turn on [01:37.74]You gotta walk before you can crawl [01:40.99]It might have been the Vietnam [01:44.20]But rock and roll just can't recall [02:11.17]Now these days I shiver, shake when I walk [02:14.81]And you can't bear to see me dance [02:17.88]My life's an antique of an experiment [02:21.52]And I blew the advance [02:24.57]What do we do with brother Mark? [02:28.32]You don't use soap in yourself [02:30.79]Maybe we still got the moves and the crooks but you ain't got the health [02:36.05]I raided and pillaged down on sunset [02:40.25]And I woke up on the beach [02:42.99]I was a ******* rhythm machine now the good life was in reach [02:47.87]So many tricks that you take on [02:51.06]You're left against the wall [02:53.99]Drop the needle and ramble on [02:57.44]And rock and roll just can't recall [03:03.52]Rock and roll just can't recall [03:08.37]