Todd Rundgren's The Individualist

Songs:

Tables Will Turn

If Not Now, When?

Family Values

The Ultimate Crime

Espresso (All Jacked Up)

The Individualist

Cast The First Stone

Beloved Infidel

Temporary Sanity

Woman's World



Note about Espresso (All Jacked Up): The reference to 

"Chocolate" is actually pronounced in the Spanish accent.  The 

word chocolate is spelled the same in both languages.  Some 

things in life are universal!



Players:

  Todd Rundgren

  additional "Family Values" choralists: Mary Lou Arnold

                                         Ed Bishop

                                         John Ferenzik

                                         Jesse Gress

                                         Ann Lang

                                         Tom Nicholson



Producer:

  Todd Rundgren



Lyrics:



"Tables Will Turn"



  Water, water everywhere and not a place to stand

  My foundation rests on bedrock

  But the bedrock rests on shifting sand



  Once the mighty jungle gave way to the streets

  Now the city's a jungle again

  Every time the cycle completes

  It's like nothing ever had changed



  Tables will turn, tables will turn, tables will turn

  Tables can turn

  When will I learn that tables will turn

  Tables can turn



  It was always my hope to repay

  All those favors that you would endow

  Though I took what I could yesterday

  Where are the crumbs when I'm so hungry now?



  And the wind cries "Merry Christmas, Happy 4th of July"

  When will I see you again?

  Sometimes it's not safe to fly 'til

  Tables have turned



  This is the law and we didn't make it

  But daily we twist it and bend it and brake it

  And to prove just how little we understand it

  We act as if it's just like we planned it



  We're in a state of constant revolution

  'Cause we got a small problem with our distribution

  And if the balance of power needs arranging

  Then the situation's got to keep changing



  And if you start messin' 'round with the ratio

  It's like tryin' to ride a seesaw solo

  'Cause the further you get from the middle

  You throw the balance off little by little



  "Class distinctions come naturally"

  You think that that can justify the inequity

  And the sky grows black while the cities burn

  And round and round and round, tables will turn



  Tables will turn, tables will turn, tables will turn

  Tables can turn

  When will we learn? Tables will turn

  Tables can turn



  Tables have turned, tables have turned, tables have turned

  Tables are turned, don't be concerned when

  Tables have turned

  Round and round and round, tables will turn





"If Not Now, When?"



  Someone stuck me on the losing side

  Everything is someone else's fault

  We're not good enough for me to care



  And the mantra is

  "Too much effort, there's never time"

  And your sole solution is a high pitched whine

  It's not red-hot coals, it's not busted glass

  There's no Mau-Maus after your sweet pink ass



  So if not now when, if not now when, if not now when?

  If not you, who then?



  No one wants to be the first to fail

  I won't play unless you guard my back



  And the mantra is

  "Change the system, and please arrange it

  To change some way that I feel no change"

  It's not flaming necklaces, household spies

  There's no market bombings, no bullets fly



  Bosnia, Bosnia

  Try spelling "Herzegovina"

  Where money talks and bullshit walks

  The bullet or the ballet box



  Babylon, oh Babylon

  We babble on in Babylon

  The TV blows, the music sucks

  The bullet or the ballot box



  We're not good enough for me to care



  And the mantra is

  "Leave the gun on the table loaded

  The first to grab it's as good as voted in"





"Family Values"



  "It doesn't help matters when prime time TV

  has Murphy Brown. I know it's not fashionable

  to talk about moral values, but we need to do it..."

  It started on a Labor Day

  A chance for us to get away

  Everyone in the house

  And year by year things moved around

  But everybody still got down in the house

  And seldom do we have a plan

  But everybody lends a hand

  Everyone in the house

  Making sure we have our fun

  While gettin' done what must be done in the house



  Pardon me, did you say something?

  What are you looking at?

  Tell me, what's your problem?

  Are you counting heads?

  Are you counting things?

  What are you looking for?

  Listen there's no problem



  'Cause we got them, we already got them

  We got family values



  "Some people say Judeo-Christian values are code

  words. Well they are code words. Code words for..."

  Politics and money scams

  Endless verbal traffic jams

  Keep it out of the house

  'Cause you'll get what you give to me

  A little r-e-s-p-e-c-t in the house

  'Cause you know some of us have been around

  And some of us still get around

  But we all in the house

  So don't get on our evil side

  'Cause we like it rough and we're nationwide



  Pardon me, did you say something?

  We're all entitled to have our own opinion

  And you're standing there like you smelled something

  But you're entitled to even bad opinions



  "Many of our generation glamorize

  casual sex and drug use, evaded responsibility,

  and trashed authority."



  We gonna have a good time everybody

  Because the family is all in the house!



  "Our policy must be premised on, it must reinforce

  values such as family, hard work, integrity,

  personal responsibility..."

  Made him love mom

  Saw what that did to him

  Made him love dad

  Saw what that did to him

  Made him love god

  Saw what that did to him

  Made him love death

  Saw what that did to him



  "I know it's not fashionable

  to talk about moral values..."

  Shut up!





"The Ultimate Crime"



  I'm unfit for jury duty

  I know policemen lie like me

  But to tell... tell the truth

  I'm just not up to the responsibility



  'Cause in my day to day life

  The ultimate crime is to live in discontent

  Looking at bad design and wasting my time

  Growing too corpulent



  The extent of the ultimate crime

  Was driving incompetent

  And the ultimate crime could pass for an accident

  The ultimate crime, the ultimate crime



  I am standing in the gallery

  When they lead the client in

  And they shave off all his hair

  Until there's nothing left, but shining skull and skin



  And I wake up sweating bullets

  And the ultimate crime is to think it's just a dream

  It happens all the time, out of sight, out of mind

  No one can hear you scream



  We invented the ultimate crime

  For the ultimate punishment

  And the ultimate crime was our greatest accomplishment

  The ultimate crime, the ultimate crime



  The ultimate crime was being irreverent

  And the ultimate crime was

  Dropping the sacrament

  The ultimate crime, the ultimate crime



  The ultimate crime was being too lenient

  And the ultimate crime was being too ignorant

  The ultimate crime, the ultimate crime

  Is not to care





"Espresso (All Jacked Up)"



  We're on the road again

  Leavin' our load behind us

  Put a new message on the answer phone

  That they can't find us



  The tickets are in my pocket

  The shuttle is right on time

  Everyone meets at the departure lounge

  Half an hour we leave the ground



  Let's go get a hot espresso

  Or maybe a cappuccino

  Say get me a cafe latte

  Make it with lots of chocolate in the middle of it



  Let's pull over

  I need some magazines

  There's an attendant in the ladies room

  If you're not squeamish

  Which side of the road to drive on?

  Here everyone eats so fast

  And what was that language that we spoke yesterday?

  I made some change so I can pay



  To get us some hot espresso

  Or maybe a cappuccino

  Would you like a cafe latte

  Make it with lots of chocolate in the middle of it



  Irish coffee

  Sweet and sticky

  English toffee

  Plain and simple

  Tea with honey

  Top it off with ginseng royal jelly



  In the morning it's a bus to Barcelona

  Fly a little side trip over to Roma

  Then we all meet in Cannes, Nice, and Monaco

  Then it's Venice, Munich, London, San Francisco

  Then we drive to Sante Fe and Austin

  New Orleans, Atlanta, New York, Boston

  Philadelphia, Cleveland Ohio

  Columbus, Detroit, coffee stop Chicago

  Then it's L.A., Honolulu

  Sidney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Katmandu



  And at the end of it all if god is willing

  We're sipping Turkish coffee in Greenwich Village



  I need a hot espresso, I'm all jacked up!

  I need a double espresso, I'm all jacked up!



  Hot espresso

  Fix me a cappuccino

  How about a cafe latte

  Make it one with lots of chocolate in the middle of it



  Gimme one more hot espresso

  Have another cappuccino

  Fire me up a cafe latte

  Sprinkle on that lots of chocolate in the middle of it



  Hot espresso, I'm all jacked up!





"The Individualist"



  Gather 'round children, I got a tale to tell ya



  There was a time when I couldn't bust a rhyme

  Had yet to hit my prime

  'Cause my mind was such a young mind

  And first you got to unwind

  The mystery of your soul, it's like a black hole

  The gravity is too thick

  You got to learn to lighten up a bit

  It's such a frightening thing to realize

  Every time you close your eyes

  You been cut down to size

  'Cause you're stuck with yourself

  Ain't nobody else to compare yourself to

  It's just you

  And then you ask yourself, "What's it all about?"

  So you try to figure it out

  And that's when you'll be tempted to believe foolish things

  And deceive yourself by lettin' someone else

  Do your thinkin' for you

  When they haven't got a clue

  But you can't relive the hype, don't ya see?

  'Cause I got a special answer meant just for me

  Somewhere in my immediate vicinity



  And if there's time enough to get it

  Then in time I'm gonna get it

  'Cause I am the Individualist



  Check my references

  Wherever you are now you know I been there, done that

  Don't need to sling the scat 'cause my resume' is too fat

  Change my name to some funky fresh dingbat

  Like "the artist formerly known as TR-i"

  I got to laugh when they try to figure out what it's all about

  And they doubt that I'm so devout

  But it's something I can do without

  I got to know why I wanna know what I wanna know

  Why do I go where the others won't go?

  My eye is on the prize that's in disguise

  That you can only theorize, but I can utilize

  To rise above the lies about reality

  'Cause you can't relive the hype don't ya see?

  'Cause I got a special answer meant just for me

  Somewhere in my immediate vicinity



  And if there's time enough to find it

  Then in time I'm gonna find it

  'Cause I am the Individualist



  Here comes the Individualist

  Yes I am, the Individualist



"Cast The First Stone"



  I had a vicious thought, a vicious thought

  Like you never had a vicious thought before

  Like you never in your life had a vicious thought before

  Not once in your life



  Cast the first stone, cast the first stone

  Let the righteous among you cast the first stone



  I told a pointless lie, a pointless lie

  Like you never told a pointless lie before

  To make yourself look good, you never told a pointless lie before

  Not once in your life



  I did a half-assed job, a half-assed job

  Like you never in your life did a half-assed job



  I was a fool for a kiss, a fool for a kiss

  Like you never in your life was a fool for a kiss



  Please do not complain to me of moral relativity

  Spitefulness induces me to go on with the litany

  Please do not complain to me of moral relativity

  The crimes of others you deplore

  But of yourself, you don't keep score



  I did a sickening thing, a sickening thing

  Like you never did a sickening thing before

  Like your body never made you do a sickening thing before



  I cursed an evil god, an evil god

  Like you never cursed an evil god before

  Like you never in your life cursed an evil god before



  I screwed over a friend, I screwed over a friend

  Like you never in your life s> 
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