Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth Album Lyrics

Speak in cherry red
Screaming electric green
Purple mountain's majesty really talk to me
Talk to me babe

Swap-meet sally
Trampstamp cat
Mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
Tattoo-tattoo

(Tattoo, tattoo)
Show me your dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So autobiographic!

Best believe that need will hurt you
Best deceive these true colors that follow one of your false virtues

Here's a secret to make you think
Why is the crazy stuff we never said poetry in ink
Speak in day-glow red
Explodo paint
Purple mountain's majesty show me you, I'll show you me

Swap-meet sally
Trampstamp cat
Mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
Tattoo-tattoo

Woo!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Sexy dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So very autobiographic!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Got a hold on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You put a spell on meeeee!

[Guitar solo]

Uncle Danny had a gold tattoo
He fought for the unions
Some of us still do
On my shoulder is a number of the chapter he was in
That number is forever like the struggle here to win

(Everybody!)
Swap-meet sally
Trampstamp cat
Mousewife to momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
Tattoo-tattoo
Tattoo
Ta-too!

(Tattoo, tattoo)
Sexy dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So very autobiographic!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You got a hold on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You put a spell on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
I'm in love with you
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Show me, show me your
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Look at me, look at you!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Whoa!

She got a doorbell sign that said
Bring it or don't ring it
She's the woman
She's the woman
She's the woman
She's the woman

Fate is my pimp
But she was cool
Said If you're doin' business with me, honey...
What does that make you?
Some Casablanca gin joint
You're a nervous wreck
Your I.Q. plummets fourteen points
Her thunder thong around your neck

The song ain't dirty
It's really just the way we sing it (sing it)
She's the woman (sing it)
She's the woman
She's the woman
She's the woman

She wanted something to regret
Tomorrow morning
This suburban garage-a-trois
Was worth exploring
Yeah dreams come true
But it remains to be seen
By the time mine usually do
It's no longer me!

She got a doorbell sign...
You better bring it, or don't ring it
She's the woman
She's the woman
She's the woman

You're bad mood's permanent
Communication Breakdown
Like watching someone reinvent
Their 19th Nervous Breakdown

Woman you suffer from a color
I suffered cause of you
Now everybody's suffered
'Cause of you and your blues

Ain't goin' down to no Crossroads
Ain't gonna dust no broom
No Evil Woman got a hold on me
Ain't going to Heaven anytime soon

You're bad mood's permanent
Communication Breakdown
Like watching someone reinvent
Their 19th Nervous Breakdown

Woman you suffer from a color
I suffered cause of you
Now everybody's suffered

I'm done with coexisting
This is heavy lifting
No more growing codependent over you
And baby while we at it
I've had it with you and your blues

[Solo]

Woman you suffer from a color
I suffered cause of you
Now everybody's suffered
Woman you suffer from a color
And I suffered 'cause of you
Now everybody's suffered
Now everybody's suffered
'Cause you and your blues

Steel fingers play a deadly song
Whole lotta Shakespeare going on and on and on

It's all happening downtown
You painted daughters of the Tong Underground
Don't mess around

Welcome to China Town
Well you bring ultra-new
Welcome to China Town

Hero's aren't born, they're cornered
And this corner is where we write the story
Two tribes warring
Downtown after hours
The best to you each morning

Can't survive and think to win
Drugged into sin
Next episode begins and begins and begins and begins

It's all happening downtown
You painted daughters of the Tong Underground
Don't mess around

Welcome to China Town
Well you bring ultra-new
Welcome to China Town

It's all happening downtown
Welcome to my town, my town, my town!

[Solo]

It's all happening downtown
You painted daughters of the Tong Underground
Don't mess around
Welcome to China Town
Well you bring ultra-new
Welcome to China Town
Welcome to my town, my town, my town!

King-size, we were crushin'
Trouble by the dozen
Stakes have never been higher
Come back when you're younger
Cuz I can feel the thunder
1-800-GUITAR

Oooooohhhhh yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
Now look at all of the people here tonight...

It's a world of fools
That's just what's expected
None of 'em know it
Or even suspect it
God must love the lazy
Shiftless and the crazy
Puttin' so many in life

Oooooohhhhh yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
Now look at all of the people here tonight...

Forgotten empires
Lost victories long past
Every time I bloomed again
I thought it was the last
And then something crazy happens
And... BOOM!
I'm doing the victory dance!

Told ya I was comin' back...
(Told Ya!)
Say you missed me...
(Say it!)
Say it like ya mean it!

[Guitar Solo]

You can always tell the winners
The saints and the sinners
Down at the starting line...

Oooooohhhhh yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire
We came... we came... we came through blood and fire

Bullethead
Bomb the moon until you're crazy dead
Bullethead
Got a different kind of truth
Bullethead
Yes you are in danger
I drive just like you!

How many roads must a man walk down
Before he admits he's lost
And do you really, really drive this way
Just to piss me off?

Boldly going nowhere
Trouble busting through
Yeah, I'm rolling slowly
But I'm ahead of you

Bullethead
Bomb the moon until you're crazy dead
Bullethead
Got a different kind of truth
Bullethead
Yes you are in danger
I drive just like you!

Well I'm a lovin' the horn baby
Well I'm a Bullethead
Come-a, come-a, come-a, come on baby
Well I'm a Bullethead
Hurt me

[Solo]

Traffic is giving you trouble
I can feel your pain
No light at the end of the tunnel
Due to budget constraints

Some days you're the dog
Some days you're the hydrant
If everything is going your way
You're facing the wrong lane

Bullethead
Bomb the moon until you're crazy dead
Bullethead
Got a different kind of truth
Bullethead
Yes you are in danger
I drive just like you!

I've been rich and I've been poor
Rich was better, totally better
Require's a degree of acceptance
As in "must accept As Is"

Drive my search engine home
Dropped and chopped in Alabama Chrome
Hey what the hell it runs, SO!
The day is dunzo
Let's have some funzo
Your's very truly,
As Is

That's how it goes...

How expensive he was
Or what was he worth
Ain't no Brinks truck following no hearse

Drive my search engine home
Dropped and chopped in Alabama Chrome
Hey what the hell it runs, SO!
The day is dunzo
Let's have some funzo
Your's very truly'
As Is

This next part should really confuse things
Everybody let's stay focused

Love of the craft
Or love of the buck?
Every day down here's a rainy day
We don't save up

[Solo]

A little more volume in the headphones please...

Unspoiled by progress
"As Is" is how I follow through
It's not who you squeeze
But who returns once again to squeeze you
No doubt!
Love 'em all I says
Let Cupid sort 'em out

Drive my search engine home
Dropped and chopped in Alabama Chrome
Hey what the hell it runs, SO!
The day is dunzo
Let's have some funzo
Your's very truly,
As Is

Love of the craft
Or love of the buck?
Every day down here's a rainy day
We don't save up

La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la
[Repeat]

Honey baby sweetie girl
Let me count the ways you rock my world
Stone soul sister, soccer mom
Mucha chamiga
Cherry bomb

Baby Lover
Angel Faces
Satin Doll
You straight up aces

I'm a bad little cowboy
Send me to your room
Let's get started
Let's not stop soon
I roll like the ocean
When the moon is full
I'm a face grenade
With the sex-pin pulled

Baby Lover
Angel Faces
Satin Doll
You straight up aces

[Solo]

Honey baby Hampton's bitch
Kinda lost, sorta rich
I dig both and I don't care which
You're gonna make me crash
You red hot Florida trailer trash
Now that's a switch

[Solo]

Woof!
Woof!

That's the trouble with never
Sure seem like a mighty long time
That's the trouble with never
When was the last time
You did something for the first time?
Hello!

Every Einstein's assigned
A Tweedle dumb and Tweedle dumber
Ain't no fool could see
Never even wonder
Yeah we could come together
I will call for you
Hey, never's good for me
How's never sound to you?
1-800-Tell-Me-Baby!

That's the trouble with never
Sure gave me a mighty long time
That's the trouble with never
When was the last time
You did something for the first time?

Yeah!
Level with me Baby!
Talk to Me!

[Solo]

This could damage your reputation
My wicked wicked ways
But maybe I just will
Since you put it that way
Delusions of eloquence
You never can say
You wanna play? (the game)
You can't quit when you get played
Mistakes make people
Isn't that what people say?
Let's them play in the moment
Dance the night away
Selective amnesia
Is only a heartbeat away

Ask him a question
In concern of time
Suppose you wait forever
And then you change your mind
Oh, No!

That's the trouble with never
Sure could be a mighty long time
That's the trouble with never
When was the last time
You did something for the first time?
When was it?
When was it?
Ah, Text me baby!

When Baby?
Tell Me
When was the last time baby?
Show Me

Counter blast, Interstellar facial full
Bumper sticker on my rocket's ass
Go Home, The Earth Is Full
Outta space, Outta space
Outta space, Outta space

Eighty acres of one stop shopping
Has somewhat changed the place
Wow, we outta space
I do not refuse it
I am guilty, I do use it
I am the reason
We outta space

Counter blast, Interstellar facial full
Bumper sticker on my rocket's ass
Go Home, The Earth Is Full
Outta space, Outta space
Outta space, Outta space

[Solo]

Danger rides the web tonight
Burst mode dynamite
Spinning up my Facebook page
And I'll ride out towards the outer maze

The future ain't what it used to be
Time to change my galaxy in case
We outta space!
Trouble-free Earth despocrats made
Mother Nature piss her pants and when
That's human way

Counter blast, Interstellar facial full
Bumper sticker on my rocket's ass
Go Home, The Earth Is Full
Outta space, Outta space

Gold tooth reflecting.
My advice is free.
There's a trick to Christian values
And it's compulsory.

Stay frosty.
That's what the preacher man said.
Stay frosty.
His words still racket in my head.

Can't control your future,
Can't control your friends
In a world without end.

Stay frosty.
Hey yeah!
Stay frosty now.
Alright!
Woo!

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And I traveled to the South.
The ancient rabbi appeared to me,
Voice heavy with the sands of time,
He made me see:

"Same as Kabbalah Dave, but for you it's free."
God guides us on our journey
But careful with those feet.

Stay frosty
In a world without end.
Stay frosty
Like the ancient immortal said.

Don't want 'em to get your goat?
Don't show 'em where it's hid.
And that's just what I did.

Stay Frosty!
(Woo! Look out!)
Stay Frosty now!
(Use my hand, I won't look)
Uh oh!

Uh uh uh
Uh uh uh
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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Uh uh uh uh uh
Uh uh

I journeyed to the East
And I struggled to stay afloat.
A solitary Buddhist monk
Threw me a rope.

Looked me in the eye
Said, "Don't make me say this twice:
You want to be a monk?
You gotta cook a lot of rice."

Stay frosty
In a world without end.
Stay frosty.
Work hard at this my friend.

Look beyond the kung-fu fighting.
God is love
But get it in writing.

Stay frosty.
Stay frosty now.

[Solo]

I wandered out west
To the California coast
Where the folks who know about frostiness,
Stay frostiest the most.

My brand new landlord
Proposed me a toast:
My "West Coast Host"

Stay frosty.
Chant it like a mantra...
Stay frosty.
And there's nothin' you can't handle.

Far and wide,
Far as you ramble,
Trust in Allah
But tie up your camel and remember
Stay Frosty

Woo!

Yeah!

Ow!

Big river
Rollin'.

Listen to a sea shell
You can hear the sea.
Listen to a beer glass
That river belongs to me.

Big river
Rollin'.

There's a river runs here.
When it rains we flood.
Co-op City first 3 floors
Of Charles River mud.

Big river
Rollin'.
Oh, yeah!
Big river
Rollin'.
Oh, yeah!

Land's edge,
Where the East begins,
The debris meets the sea
When the tide comes in.

Oh, look out!

Look both ways now.

[Solo]

Big river
Rollin'.
Oh, yeah!
Big river
Rollin'.
Oh, yeah!

Big river.
Big river.
Oh, yeah!