In The Pocket

1. Shower The People

   Shower The People

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   You can play the game
   You can act out the part
   Though you know it wasn’t written for you
   Tell me how do you stand there
   With your broken heart
   All ashamed of playing the fool

   But one thing can lead to another
   It doesn’t take any sacrifice
   Oh, father and mother and sister and brother
   If it feels nice don’t think twice

   Just shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna turn out fine
   If we only will
   If we only will
   Just shower the people
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

   You can run but you cannot hide
   This is widely known
   Yes, and what you plan to do with your foolish pride
   When you’re all by yourself alone
   Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
   You can feel it beginning to ease
   I think it’s true what they say about the squeaky wheel
   Rascal’s always getting the grease

   Better to shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna turn out right
   If we only will
   If we only will
   Oh, just shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

   Shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Show them the way that you feel
   They say in every life
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   They say that the rain must fall
   (Show them the way that you feel)
   Just like pouring down rain, pouring down rain, make it rain
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Make it rain
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Make it rain
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Make it rain
   (Shower the people you love with love)
   Love, love, love is sunshine
   (Show them the way that you feel)

   Shower the people you love with love
   Show them the way that you feel
   Things are gonna be much better
   If you only will

2. A Junkie’s Lament

   A Junkie’s Lament

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   Ricky’s been kicking the gong
   Lickety split didn’t take too long
   A junkie’s sick
   A monkey’s strong
   That’s what’s wrong

   Well, I guess he’s been messing around downtown
   So sad to see the man losing ground
   Winding down behind closed doors
   On all fours

   Mama, don’t you call him my name
   He can’t hear you anymore
   And even if he seems the same to you
   That’s a stranger to your door
   Ask him what’s he come here for

   Oh my God, a monkey can move a man
   Send him to hell
   And home again
   With an empty hand in the afternoon
   Shooting for the moon

   It’s halfway sick
   And it’s halfway stoned
   He’d sure like to kick
   But it’s too far gone
   They wind him down with the methadone
   He’s all on his own

   But baby, don’t you throw your love away
   I hate to seem unkind
   It’s only that I understand the man
   That the monkey can leave behind
   I used to think he was a friend of mine

3. Money Machine

   Money Machine

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   When I was just a child
   My life was, oh, so simple
   And the ways of the great world
   Seemed strange and funny
   Then when I was a young man
   I learned of that machine
   That turns out all those bails of precious money

   Now you can measure your manhood by it
   You can get your children to try it
   You can bring your enemies to their knees
   With the possible exception of the North Vietnamese

   It takes a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world

   General Motors and IBM
   AFL-CIO and all the king’s men
   When I began the game
   See me singing ’bout fire and rain
   Let me just say it again
   I’ve seen fives and I’ve seen tens

   It was a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Settle up top, on top of the world
   (Money, money, money)
   (Give me that dough)
   (Mine, mine, mine)
   Been living in the lap of luxury too long
   Please, Mr. DJ, won’t you play my song
   Maybe my baby will listen on the radio
   Come back home to me
   Help me spend my dough

   I need a strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the goddamn world
   I need a strong hit from the money machine
   Strong hit from the money machine
   Sitting on top, on top of the world
   Money, money, money

4. Slow Burning Love

   Slow Burning Love

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   It was a hot and sultry day
   Somewhen in early September
   I don’t hardly remember the day
   Just the way the sun beat down
   Upon the bay, baby

   I did not even need to know your name
   It was, oh, so plain to see
   That you had eyes for me
   Halfway open, halfway closed
   Half naked eyes for me, baby

   It was a slow burning love
   A fair-weather love affair
   A slow burning, smouldering love
   For you and I
   And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky
   It died

   Oh, the lights of the city were close at hand
   I might just as well have been another man
   You might just as well have been another girl
   It might just as well have been another world

   It was a slow burning love
   A fair-weather love affair
   A slow burning, smouldering love
   For you and I
   And like the sun on the edge of the Western sky
   It died

   Slow burning love…

5. Everybody Has The Blues

   Everybody Has The Blues

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   Poor puppy, you look so sad
   I guess you think that no one ever
   Felt so bad before

   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody knows the way that you feel today

   Everybody gets to sit and cry
   Everybody gets to wonder why
   Everybody gets to watch the sky turn grey

   Maybe you lost your job
   Maybe you lost your girl
   Maybe you feel like you’re losing your mind
   That’s not the end of the world

   Everybody gets to feel some pain
   Everyone got to get to caught out in the rain
   Everybody got some days that they can’t explain

   Everybody got the blues
   Everybody has the blues
   Everybody knows the way that you feel today

6. Daddy’s All Gone

   Daddy’s All Gone

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   I don’t have much to say
   Thought I’d call you up anyway
   Just to try to show you the way
   That I feel today
   Oh, I miss you, baby

   I sure am on the road
   I don’t need to say much more
   Just the same old well-known stranger
   That I was before
   It seems like yesterday now

   Daddy’s all gone
   Only ’bout halfway home
   He’s holdin’ on to the telephone
   Singin’ please
   Don’t make this show go on

   There’s a bus every other hour
   There’s even the midnight train
   But that don’t leave me the power
   To see your face again
   It’s not that simple, baby

   There’s a room full of smiling faces
   There’s a man standing by the door
   Says it’s time to change our places
   Get down on the floor
   Time to kill them, baby

   Daddy’s all gone
   Only ’bout halfway home
   He’s holdin’ on to the microphone
   Singin’ please
   Don’t make this show go on

7. Woman’s Gotta Have It

   Woman’s Gotta Have It

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   Once upon a time a good friend of mine
   Told me to tell y’all what I say today
   Do the things that keep a smile on her face
   Say the words that make her feel better ev’ry day
   You bet you better keep on you Ps and Qs
   If you don’t the woman you can easily lose
   Oh, I had a love, a true love and I lost it
   No one seems to understand about the pain that it cost me

   Woman’s got to have it
   I believe that I should know
   She’s got to know that she’s that she’s needed around
   When you kiss her
   You got to make her feel it everyday, boy
   She’s got to know that she’s not walking on shaky ground
   Think it over

   Don’t take for granted the smile upon her face
   Check a little bit closer, you might find a tear trace
   Maybe the little girl never said a mumbling word
   But she’s got to know that her voice is heard
   Oh, I had a love, it was a true love and I lost it
   Now I’m suffering all this pain that the true love cost me

   A woman’s got to have it
   I believe
   She’s got to know that she’s that she’s needed around
   When you kiss her
   You got to let her feel it everyday, boy
   She’s got to know that she’s not walking on shaky ground

   So if you’ve got a love
   And maybe you’ve got eyes to keep her
   You’ve got to give her what she wants when she wants it
   Where she wants it (all right)
   How she wants it
   And every doggone time she thinks she needs it

   Your woman needs it
   The same as mine
   A woman got to have it
   From time to time

8. Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream

   Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream

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   Well you country fools in your one horse town you can laugh at me
   but it’s plain as rain that you’ve never been down to the southern sea
   To see me now is like watching a fish swimmin on dry land
   I only wish you could see me down in the islands
   Mister, that’s my home.
   What a fool I was to leave the only happiness I’ve known

   You see me coming, you wink your eye and call me Captain Jim
   And when I don’t do nothin’ but walk on by you say baby get a load of him

   All I need is the sea and the sky and I know where I stand
   Instead of you hicks straight out of the sticks deciding I ain’t a man
   You’ll never understand

   Up here I’m a whisky bum but down there I’m a king
   Sounds just like the angels up in heaven
   When they sing
   Welcome home, welcome home
   Such a sight to see
   Instead of some salvation army sister
   Singing “Nearer My God To Thee”

   Now I know that yankee whisky has taken away my mind
   and I know that rum is the only drink suitable to mankind
   and I know this tree I’m under is shaped entirely wrong
   I need to see a gentle palm tree and I won’t wait to long
   I can feel that it’s coming on strong

   The first cold wind of winter is flapping in my clothes
   Showing me the way with the direction that it blows
   Welcome home, welcome home

9. Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down

   Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down

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   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   You can rise above it
   Don’t be sad ’cause you’re on your own
   You have to learn to love it
   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   You’re gonna find your way
   Don’t be sad ’cause your day is done
   There’s another day, everyday

   (Chorus)
   Everyday I wake up just the same
   Waiting for something new
   Every night I have myself to blame
   For the dreams that haven’t come true
   But especially today I’m feeling blue

   Don’t be sad ’cause your son is down
   Little mama he’s bound to feel it
   Don’t be sad ’cause your boy is blue
   It wouldn’t do to conceal it from you
   Don’t be sad ’cause your sun is down
   The night doesn’t need your sorrow
   Don’t be sad ’cause the light is gone
   Just keep your mind on tomorrow and carry on

   – Chorus –

10. Nothing Like A Hundred Miles

    Nothing Like A Hundred Miles

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    I have tried to forget about you
    And all the plans that we had planned
    Yes, and I’m bound to leave this town
    I don’t care where I may land

    If what they’re telling me is true
    And you have found somebody new
    To love you
    There ain’t but one thing I can do, baby
    To save my heart from being broken in two by you
    Baby, I’m moving through

    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Between me and trouble in my mind
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Show me the yellow line
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    When I’m only passing through
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    To make me forget about you
    Forget about you, baby

    Don’t we like our found farewells
    And don’t we like to keep our good-byes
    Nice and clean
    You may wish I’d go to hell
    While you tell me what a pleasure it’s been
    So long, baby, I’m moving on

    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Between me and trouble in mind
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    Somebody show me the yellow line
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    When I’m only passing through
    There’s nothing like a hundred miles
    To make me forget about you
    Forget about you

    I have tried to forget about you
    Baby, I have failed
    Just as long as I stay in Houston
    I will

11. Family Man

    Family Man

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    Woah Jocko, don’t expect me
    To come out drinking, messin’ around
    Spending my time
    With a bunch of crazy people
    Yes, I been there before
    I don’t need to go back no more

    I’m just a family man
    Like it or not
    I am a family man
    I’m a-holding onto what I’ve got
    I’m a family man
    Right by damn
    Finally, find out what I am
    Is a family man

    And don’t expect me
    To hit the road
    At a moment’s notice
    Without my suitcase
    With some crazy bunch of strangers
    In some unknown car
    I’m just not willing to go that far

    The life I used to lead was a little too frantic
    I guess I just got eyes to grow old and grey
    And if what I have in mind isn’t super romantic
    I guess I always saw myself this way

    I’m just a family man
    Like it or not
    Said I’m a family man
    Holding onto what I’ve got
    I’m a family man
    Right by damn
    I, finally, find out what I am
    Is a family man

    Sears and Roebuck
    Howard Johnson
    Colonel Sanders
    Station wagon
    Briggs and Stratton
    Second mortgage
    If I can ever lose my blues
    Walk on over and turn on the TV
    What I’d like to do is lie down on the sofa
    Later on
    I might walk my dog, baby
    Bo Diddley’s a family man

12. Golden Moments

    Golden Moments

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    Now if all my golden moments
    Could be rolled into one
    They would shine just like the sun
    For a Summer day
    And after it was over
    We could have it back again
    With credit to the editor
    For striking out the rain (very clean)
    And all it really needed
    Was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna bring me down
    No one’s gonna stop me now

    Now I gathered up my sorrows
    And I sold them all for gold
    And I gathered up the gold
    And I threw it all away
    It all went for a good time and a song (come on)
    The laughter was like music
    It did float my soul along for awhile
    And all it really needed was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna reach me here
    No one’s gonna know I’m gone

    You may think I might be crazy
    And I guess you might be right
    But I know the way I feel today is out of sight
    I do not trust my senses to remember your name
    Without corrective lenses
    Things are never twice the same anyway
    And all it really needed
    Was the proper point of view

    No one’s gonna bring me down
    No one’s gonna stop me now
    No one’s gonna reach me here
    No one’s gonna know I’m gone