After the first Nazz album, the Nazz recorded a double album entitled Fungo Bat. This was not accepted by the record company. Songs were culled from Fungo Bat and Nazz Nazz was released. Later, more songs were culled and Nazz III was released; however, not all songs got used. Here is the original song list and lyrics to the songs not found on the other two albums.
I got lost in my sleep five thousand miles from here I was seduced by a lady with deadly snakes in her hair There was a dragon there who could have been anywhere There was me, and the beast, and fire in the air I was the first knight to fly but tumbled out of the sky To meet fiendish Grendel where the sea hag hides On the grain of dust where I meander Aphrodite does what I command her I want to dream back and fly with Mercury Fly on wings to Helium and I will not believe You're everywhere that ever was See everyone whose ever sung I love the emperoress of a distant sun
It's here, tapping on my window, knocking on my door It's coming out for sure It's there, floating on the air, must be everywhere Saying do you want to share Could it be That what you want to see is What you see It's all around you So please think of what you're saying Don't rush Think more of us If you can try to understand It's easy to make plans Just love me if you can What's your answer Or will you take this chance and Make a stand for It must be everywhere Love everywhere, everywhere
Some day many dreams will pass away Some day all the still will come to play Everywhere you look it can be found Everywhere, everywhere, all around Somehow it sees, but it is blind Somehow it thinks but has no mind Though it never was, it never will be It always is and always will be Sometimes it stops but never ends Sometimes while ending it begins Constantly dying in the sea Constantly seeming to be free
Everyone's got to have a cause or two No one's changing enough to help you There's something basically wrong Everywhere, we revolve out of our time And we know that's there's nobody listening to people like us But for now, for awhile We just forget all about it awhile Forget all about it awhile For awhile Thoughts of life, lots of women, thoughts of love These are things that we can't be sure of And every minute you live takes you a minute towards when you must die And we know there are times when I'm not even sure I'm alive But for now, for awhile We just forget all about it awhile Forget all about it awhile For awhile No one's fit to run the world, as far as I can see The only person fit to run my world is me But that's just one of my own personal crusades And for now I'm not complaining, not campaigning If you haven't got time to rest, then take the record off now
There is only one winner There is only one prize Whoever gets your heart is the winner There is only one winner I'm at war with a man that I still haven't seen It's a fight for life, if I lose you I'll die Somebody's got to lose you and that's why There is only one winner There is no second place I only know I must be the winner There is nothing to lose but the sight of your face I can't stay around if I know you're not mine Somebody's gonna be lost in your mind There's a line I don't want to have to follow behind And I just can't see myself hugging you, loving you There is only one winner You're the one to decide You've got to tell me who is the winner Tell me who gets the broken heart, who gets the bride Not a thing I can do - it depends upon you But nobody wants to win more than I do I can't lie, and I'll do anything to show you my side I won't lie, no lie I'll do anything to bring you over to my side Take your time, take your time If you want all my time is yours Time is yours to make me the winner
Innocent angel with your evil mind But not around to see me plot the perfect crime It makes me dizzy thinking just what you might do And if you should find that I'm as evil as you Magic Me, know just what you hide girl, Magic me It isn't just talent 'cause it took me years And girls like you only want to see my tears I'd like to sit back now just to picture the fun And see your reaction when the damage is done Magic Me, know just where you hide girl, Magic me The spell is very simple and it's worked so far It's quick and very painful and it leaves a scar Justice is all right with me And I'll treat you just like you treated me
You know as long as I can remember I wasn't ever liable to give myself away But it sure doesn't look like it makes a difference now So I'm gonna cry today You know as long as I can remember Nobody ever got anybody back this way And it sure doesn't look like I'm gonna be the first So I'm gonna cry today Are you turned off by my lack of composure Please excuse my state, it's just that I know Your gonna take away something that I never had But I thought was mine You know as long as I can remember You and I never had to find ways to waste a day But it sure doesn't look like you're gonna be around So I guess I'll cry today Are you turned off by this over exposure Please excuse this mess, it's just 'cause I know Your gonna take away something that I never had But I thought was mine
I'm a human being now but I used to be a pig 'Til they shortened up my nose and they made me wear a wig I'm afraid the things on piggy farm will never be the same Since they picked me for this job and they stuck me with a name It's a name, it's name, who ever heard of a pig with a name like Meridian Leeward - that's my name I fly around the sky in a big jet plane I'm a flash ace pilot, got my name on the wing I hang around with people and they don't suspect a thing You look like a person but you know you're a pig I'm not afraid of dying from some mad man's gun or knife When I was still a piggy, dying was a way of life I'm not a piggy anymore and I don't share that dread The other day for breakfast I ate half of Uncle Fred I wonder who ate the other half of Fred? I think I'd rather be a cop I think that's what I'd like to be I'd show you people a thing or two If a man in blue starts beating on you Look out 'cause it might be me You look like a cop but you know you're a pig
Ice, it forms in sheets from your eyes Your tears are down and so crass Because all you wanted was a touch from the face Try to find a feeling nothing and wondering why And the snow queen turned into a princess of ice Braving cold and staring cooly aloof as you die Under the Ice Please, an ill wind blows no one good A hurricane in disguise And it sings you a song you find appealing inside Waits around until you've learned to sing like a fool It's a wind that lingers long enough to be fed Takes away the woman, leaves you hung in a blue sea of cool
Some people think they were born out of wisdom Some people think they were bred out of grace Some people think they're alive out of glory Some people think through the hole in their face Some people are so fine And some people ain't you, and some people ain't me And some people are something that I don't ever want to be Some people think that I'm acting naively Some people think I'm not thinking things right Some people think we don't look square at each other Spite is the main driving force in my life
Some men sail the waters, some men live on the land I was born Apollo with the reins and the whip in my hand Where I take the ladies is something you've never seen But nothing stops a man who flies and glides like a dying machine I don't need the motions that are made for that hill And I don't do half the things you think that I will And I don't see how you find it much of a thrill That's unless you want to take a ride Ride my chariot baby, my role is the sun Ride my chariot baby, my steed's on the run Ride my chariot baby, we're leaving by dawn Come on, come on, or else you're gonna see me gone I got the belts and whips on, hanging around my waist I ride the skies of lightning with the clouds running over my face Start out in the morning, sailing on the edge of night I can save you with my left hand, I can destroy you again with my right You've got one last chance to catch a ride on my tail When I move my tracks are hardly leaving a trail And the sun and I leave every dawn without fail So if you want to take a ride
Think of something I can send her while I'm thinking Can't remember when I had such fun Maybe later it won't matter No spent feelings looking at her When she's out of sight, if she's out of mind Wondering all the time did I do it right Something tells me though she's left me, it's not over Still I thought we'd had a very nice time
One for the money, one for the lady Two is the price to make the style of the day Six days awaiting, now it's together All that's forgotten can be picked up along the way I'm of single mind, you know I know what I want and I know what you need You're looking at me You're looking at the man home free Got to get into that old time lovemaking Old time, old time making of love Time for the lady, time for the master Time is awaistin' 'til it's time to get down Fire on the heart side, love in the vinyards Run down the reasons why we bother to stay around I believe by now we know My head is a song and my soul is a wire My heart is a fire I'm burning up with that desire Let's go down, now everybody's waiting there Nobody's done a thing like this before Do it again When you're standing on the floor It's all together two in love (I love you) Send [...] where it is impossible Hold my hand, hold my hand I gotta get away from here Play it by ear now, play it by ear Please start it once and then play it by ear Please start it once again, play it by ear now Can't quite remember when my brother told me to hear What did he say? I wish that he were here today To see me digging that old time love making
Ain't it nice to find somebody waiting at home Ain't it nice to find somebody waiting at home But she's just a featherbedding lover I might as well be living alone You're out all night and I work all day You tell me you love me, but I think you just need a place to stay I believe I'm feeding someone else's doe 'Cause you're just a featherbedding lover I might as well be living alone Pack your things, I think this time you better go Pack your suitcase, I think this time you better go 'Cause you're just a featherbedding lover I might as well be living alone
There's a hand that reaches Reaches from a heart One that isn't able One that doesn't know just where to start So it starts to tremble Gives itself away Strains to find a gesture Something that the heart can easily say Take the hand It would mean so much to the heart to touch you Play the part Would you hold the hand and warm the heart And take the heart that's waiting Open it and find There's a heart that's reaching There's a heart that's reaching from inside
There is only one winner There is only one prize Whoever gets your heart is the winner There is only one winner I'm at war with a man that I still haven't seen It's a fight for life, if I lose you I'll die Somebody's got to lose you and that's why There is only one winner There is no second place I only know I must be the winner There is nothing to lose but the sight of your face I can't stay around if I know you're not mine Somebody's gonna be lost in your mind There's a line I don't want to have to follow behind And I just can't see myself hugging you, loving you There is only one winner You're the one to decide You've got to tell me who is the winner Tell me who gets the broken heart, who gets the bride Not a thing I can do - it depends upon you But nobody wants to win more than I do I can't lie, and I'll do anything to show you my side I won't lie, no lie I'll do anything to bring you over to my side Take your time, take your time If you want all my time is yours Time is yours to make me the winner
Hi everybody, we're the Nazz from Philadelphia, home of tuna fish hoagie. In Philadelphia, we do a little thing called the loosen up. It goes like this. First we loosen up on the drums. OK, now we loosen up on the bass. All right let the guitar player fall in. Now then, now then, the organ player. Get loose everybody. Do the loosen up. You can do it now. Ain't nothing to it now. Loosen up baby. Get loose. Hang loose baby. Hang loose mother. Hang loose fungo bat.
Sing me a song 'cause I've been away awhile I just want to hear some music It's been such a long time Don't you want to hear me cry I can't keep a tune I could never dance too well But my head is sick inside I need the music to make me well I need music to make me well, make me well
blues instrumental
We just want to sing you a song That's all we want to do You don't have to change your way or mind That's only up to you We are singing this song If you'll listen for awhile If you try as hard as we do Maybe together, we can manage a smile
I know you think I've done something wrong
I'm only trying to see myself through your eyes
And put myself where I belong
You think I'm hurting, I can't make you see
I can't love you when the person you love isn't me
I can't stop feeling, my heart still feels like before
How can I tell you to make you see what I mean
I couldn't mean it anymore
If I could see you I'd try to explain
You're my heart's life, it can't take the pain
I'm alive - keep me alive
I'm not the guy that you think I'll turn out to be
You knew somebody with love too easy to say
But girl you know that isn't me
It's not that easy to say I'm in love
'til it's something we both are sure of
If you want me to say I'm in love
make it something we both are sure of
I've got plenty of love for you Golden rings for your fingers too Well I can dance and tell jokes too If you'll buy me a drink of my favorite brew Let's make plans full of fun and games I'll sing you a song, you can call me names I'd love to hear anything you say Just another few dollars, I'll be on my way I've got plenty of love for sure A mind that's clean and a heart that's pure So let's get together for a couple more 'Cause I've got plenty of love that's for sure
Ever since the last time I saw you, you tried to qualify my life You never knew the way I live And I'm sorry I was never for changing the things I couldn't change anyhow And I'm sorry I'm not a different sign And I don't believe in hiding the people and the things in my past And I know you don't want to hear me say I wish that we were together again We just couldn't make it work on paper I'll never know why but you never knew me except for my name Maybe you think that I have changed but nothing can change my mind Those changes of your own that you held so dear, to me were just a waste of time Making believe we know it all without enough of an understanding going on All of the words won't change your mind 'Cause they're lost when you put the letter back in the drawer If I stood before you now, you couldn't put me away anymore Letters don't count Letters don't, letters don't count Letters, letters don't, letters don't count
Kiddie boy, kiddie boy, don't kid around with me Don't do nothing with my woman, you wouldn't want me to see Kiddie boy, kiddie boy, I knew your papa too He'd come around my house, someone my mama knew Kiddie boy, kiddie boy, I'm gonna have my day It seems you don't like living, you're gonna get your way
Once upon a time I had this idea That the world was round like me So I asked the queen for three fine ships To sail across the sea Traveling with hoodlums as my crewman Made me quite a little scared Luckily I found that in the new world Somebody was already there I wasn't very sure just what to call them See the funny clothes they wear So I called them Indians 'Cause I knew they were already there
Someone's gonna tell you and it might be me There's something on your face that even you can't see It isn't your eyes and it isn't your nose You don't have to sniff to tell you that it ain't no rose It's something in your arrogant line Your brain is tired of biding its time You're gonna blow up here so Paul you got to make up your mind You drag into the studio and don't care why You got a life as big as city hall and that's no lie The aging owner treats you to a couple of beers Feeding you cliches about the thing between your ears You wonder if its all he can say You'll find a better way to say it someday But Paul you're too busy stripping gears, now Paul your life is dripping away Hang in, hang out, hang on, hang on Paul You're having a ball It's your way of life and not mine It's so strangely easy to see But you're laughing so hard you could die I'm not about to tell you what you should be doing I tend to disappear when I smell trouble brewing I understand exactly what's the matter with you We're stranded here together in this paddleless canoe I'll take my chances in the water for now It's what my mother would have wanted anyhow The life you're living is over but Paul, you're no contented cow They say being in show biz is a thrill It makes your life a breeze, [...] But you better do something Paul before it kills you, yeah Paul, you've got to make up your mind
You are my window
You cast my shadow
All in the light is you
All I ever saw in the love light was you
All I knew
You are my marrow
You cast my sorrow
You feel the world for me
You are what the world isn't feeling for me
And the key
Here with me
And the world is black but I can't see my window
You are my prism
You are my reason
You're what I want to be
You are everything that I want you to be
You're my key
Set me free
Open up my mind
Make me be the soul you hope to find
Keep me in line
We know I'm not all I should be feeling
Don't make me fake it
I'm not all love sense
Not all,
always,
not all,
free and,
not all,
me and,
not all
You are,
you are,
you are,
you are,
you are my window
You're my everyday
my pathway,
you're my mind,
my hope,
my light,
my dream,
my sleep
You are my pillow
You are my willow
You shouldn't wait for me
No one need weep for me anymore
You're my door
I wanted to write you a beautiful, beautiful song I wanted to write you a beautiful, beautiful song A beautiful song The kind that makes your memory go sailing through the window Like in a movie And fly away, a million miles into space And look down And look down on the lights of the world Like people were as nice as the sight of it all Just you I wanted to sing you a beautiful, beautiful song I wanted to sing you a beautiful, beautiful song But you know what a cynic I am And my voice isn't that good anyway So all I can do is rave on
On a train, I met a dame She was so handsome, she was a knock out girl She was pretty from New York City Oh I loved her up and down that whole damn track With a heave and a ho, well I just couldn't let her go Get along, sweet little woman, get along Come on now get along Train kept a rollin' all night long Well the train kept a rollin' all night long Came a stop and I was jerky She was a fowl and I was a real guy turkey She got off the train But she looked so good, well I just couldn't let her go
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