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Jersey Shore Baby
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This is the story of a love affair
Of passion and despair
with that lazy crazy place
The holy city the holy land oh Lord have mercy
Jerusalem New Jersey
to me it’s no disgrace
Who’s that child sitting in the stroller
A junior rock’n’roller
in front of daddy’s hotel
Ridin’ across the sky suspended from a cable
Mixing bowl cradle
casino carousel
Well folks met folks and the seeds of love were sown
Paradise found now for the time it could be home
In the wild turbulence the seeds were scattered and blown
But what’s been planted must grow
Thus did the Jersey Shore Baby
I once shared a playpen with an inner lake angel baby
And maybe just maybe
she rubbed off on me
And when thirteen came around there came the magical weekend
Off the lovers’ deep end
between I and she
I found the secret to life on a lucky charm imprinter
And I shattered to splinters
all I used to be
From neb-nerd to cool no longer a pushover
The old way was over
and I felt so free
I made this town mine I made it all my own
Dreamland high above all the mundanities of home
I had stumbled upon Eden but my flight fell like a stone
Into open ended exile thrown
Orphaned Jersey Shore Baby
A simpler time in the not too distant past
When the cars were fast
and the love was in bloom
A more innocent age when the buildings were standing
Life wasn’t so demanding
and the bust was a boom
Maybe one day I can end this dispersion
With no more diversion
keeping me from my one true love
Well it’s no time to bitch it’s time to get moving
About time to start proving
these dreams made flesh and blood
And though what we grew up with in our generation
May have fallen into disintegration
But I’m marshaling forces to turn desolation
Into paradise by the sea, I’m the Jersey Shore
Rebuild the scenery, I’m the Jersey Shore
Well come waltz with me
I’m the Jersey Shore Baby
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Feel Alive Tonight
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I’m going out tonight
In search of something I can’t place
It’s out there but out of sight
An entity without a face
I feel the night outside calling me
I can’t figure out what it wants me to do
But its power is enthralling me
And it’s a force I’m going to pursue
Oh, I want to feel alive tonight
Oh, I want to touch life tonight
I’m going out tonight
Looking for the lifeline that’s long been hidden
To turn all that’s wrong into right
And I won’t take the wrongs as given.
Baby you know sometimes I feel so paralyzed
Sometimes I’m left feeling so frozen
With the dream in sight but out of reach, I’m tantalized
And I wonder why I’ve been chosen
To walk through the trash, among the ruins
Sifting through the wreckage looking for that spark
And listening for long-gone sounds and archaic tunes
That echo through the old buildings from the beach to the park
Oh, I want to feel alive tonight
Oh, I want to touch life tonight
I want to break this routine that adds up to suffocation
I’m tired of watching the fruits of my labor keep shriveling
I don’t want to be surrounded by decay and desolation
Tonight I need to be among the living.
Procrastination, procrastination
Leaves me feeling like nothing gets done
Frustration, vexation
About the things I lost but should have won
Spend a lifetime falling back
Farther and farther from where I want to be
Railroaded, diverted, sidetracked
All sorts of hidden forces stalling me
Oh, I want to feel alive tonight
Oh, I want to touch life tonight
Well I drove these streets a hundred thousand times
In search of something to reverse the negative
I’m not just going to sit around waiting for the moment to strike me
Tonight I’m just going to go out and live.
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Jeff got a job in his spare time
Holding some photographer’s flash
A hundred bucks a wedding he’s doing just fine
And he don’t know what he’ll do with all the cash
There’s Just So Much I Don’t Know What To Do With It he says
Maybe I’ll Buy Myself A Car
Well Jeff old pal think about your old friends
Who desperately need bucks to make a start
Everybody’s in the money
Everybody but us
Uptown folks trade in their Cadillacs
Because the ashtrays got full
They blow all their “spare change” at the racetracks
Hard earned from the deals that they pulled
Caviar champagne rolls royce cocaine
Easy money blown away on junk
That they can’t take it with them, it’s all in vain
Why can’t they help out folks like us, stuck in the dump?!
Everybody’s in the money
Everybody but us
Holy Land refugee
Becomes a millionaire overnight
She won the New York lottery
But in spite of it all she’s uptight
‘Cause once the state takes its cut
She’ll “only” get two fifty grand a year (ain’t that a shame)
Just think what we could do with just a tenth of her glut
It would be more than enough to start our career
Everybody’s in the money
Everybody but us
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Somewhere out in tiza nabi
Beyond the highway junction Rimonim
Colonel Yossi Ben-Yutzmach waits in the lobby
of the Desert Mirage Inn
They didn’t call him Slow Joe for nothing
It took him forever to find this place
And he’s going out of his mind waiting
For his contact to show his face
Captain Eran Schverheit steps out from behind a lamppost
where he lived up to his nickname Slim Jim
He spots the Colonel standing in a crowd of ghosts
and silently moves up to him
He says Joe! I don’t believe it! You’re the guy I’m supposed to meet?
I haven’t seen you in years!
So Slow Joe and Slim Jim walk out into the street
While behind them the building disappears
Crazy Eddie the Syrian sidles up to the pair
And makes the two an offer they can’t refuse
You know his prices are insane but they’re always fair
Well he paid them ten sheks each for their shoes
Now the two dorks from the Shin Bet are left barefoot in the sand
with only a bottle of schnapps to their name
Of course Joe is too slow to even understand
That the microfilm in Jim’s heel was why he came
Eddie slips across the border to Flatbush
Giggling at the success of his scheme
While back in tiza nabi Jim kicks his own tush
And Joe is lost somewhere in a dream
He says Man I can’t believe that sap took us for a fool
Buying all our secrets for a dime
Joe says no man everything is cool
I had it in my pupik all the time
Meanwhile back in Brooklyn Eddie makes a pit stop
to examine the precious cargo that he stole
Opening the false heel it blows its top
Leaving Eddie’s head with an extra hole
Shrugging his shoulders he throws away the shoe
And heads off to Smiling Jack’s for a drink
And if you believe this story is true
Then mister you ought to see a shrink!
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Glory Days
03:50
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I had a friend, a baseball player, back in high school
He could throw that speedball by ya, make you look like a fool
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar, I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all we kept talking about
Glory Days, yeah they’ll pass you by
Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory Days, glory days
There was a girl, she lived up the block, back in school she could turn all the boys’ heads
Sometimes on Friday I’ll stop by and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Yossi, well they split up, I guess it’s two years gone by
We just kind of sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying she starts laughing, thinking about
Glory Days, yeah they’ll pass you by
Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory Days, glory days
Think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m gonna drink till I get my fill
I hope when I get older I don’t sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of …
Glory Days, yeah they’ll pass you by
Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory Days, glory days
© 1984 Bruce Springsteen
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I Don't Mind
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The chips are down, the days are bad
The worst times I ever had
Though I survived my fall from grace
I left town with my name disgraced
Just when I think that I’ve come home
Open the door and I’m alone
No one to turn to nowhere to go
I’m in a state of vertigo
I don’t mind if you settle down here
Just as long as you say you never leave me
Had enough of these three day romances
I thought with you I wouldn’t have to take my chances
I try to get myself awake
The way things are my life’s at stake
I get in trouble for the things I do
And I can’t seem to make it up to you
The word spreads back to the friends I know
Now all my friendships are about to blow
There’s nothing left in the world for me
Yet nothing seems to let me be
I don’t mind if you settle down here
Just as long as you say you never leave me
Had enough of these three day romances
I thought with you I wouldn’t have to take my chances
If you knew this was a passing mood
And not a change of attitude
Then our love wouldn’t be at its end
And me’n’you could be one again
I don’t mind if you settle down here
Just as long as you say you never leave me
Had enough of these three day romances
I thought with you I wouldn’t have to take my chances
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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There's A Voice
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There’s a voice calling out in the air and on the streets
There’s diaries, struggles, and final calls
And me I’m stone tired but I can’t fall asleep
Trying to make sense of it all
There’s a prophet singing about a deafening silence
He begs and pleads when are you gonna come down
But I just wanna roll over and shut out the noise and violence
Even though I’ve always got one ear to the ground
Oh Lord, protect me and mine tonight
Wherever they are make sure they reach the morning light
Oh Lord, send me happy dreams tonight
Don’t let the vision be obscured from sight
There’s a moon shining down and a neighborhood’s at peace
And for now all seems still and quiet
But the bills are running out and time’s running out on the lease
And I wonder how long before the next riot
All we need is a hair trigger to set balloon tempers off
For the storm to rise up in a fury
The masses unschooled act out passions unthought
Pronounce sentence with no court, judge, or jury
Oh Lord, protect this city tonight
The whole country, the whole world—let them all bathe in light
Oh Lord, protect all those I love tonight
And all those who know how to love, by them do right
I reach out into the crib and caress my baby’s cheek
Beneath my fingertips I can feel her stirring
What a sense of contentment she must be in as she sleeps
Like a cat in a human lap purring
Oh how I wish I could feel some of that contentment myself
And not conjure up all these worst case scenes
Instead of tossing and turning and shaking and burning
And wrestling with my internal screams
Oh Lord, protect me from myself tonight
And from my own imagination—I don’t have the strength to fight
Oh Lord, there’s nothing I can do about it tonight
So let my soul in exile rest—I’ve expended all my might
Oh Lord, protect this city tonight
The whole country, the whole world—let them all bathe in light
Oh Lord, protect all those I love tonight
And all those who know how to love, by them do right
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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The Silence Is Deafening
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You took a trip to the other side
of a barrier that nobody sees
Where everyday life is centrally planned
and the people are never at ease
The freedom to believe what they want to believe
it carries a heavy price
And being caught practicing belief
can mean thirty years on ice
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh where’s your sense of reckoning
Oh how the silence is deafening
You got up onstage before adoring hearts
and in front of official eyes
Playing your heart out to all the kids
the soldiers and the spies
It was the greatest concert of your life
and it was beamed all around the world
But where were you for all those in exile
not a single word
no
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh your silence is so deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
You had the chance to make yourself heard
about things that affect us all
To be the voice of the millions of our people
who are up against the wall
They’re your brothers and sisters and your flesh and blood
not only mine
Have you left your roots
behind
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Love Runs Aground
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Love runs aground
A wrenching sound
Into the shore like a burning ocean liner
Drifting, smoking, ramming into this town
What happens to a love that couldn’t get much finer
Hellstorm
Hellfire
Seven days and seven nights just like a bad dream
Nobody knows if there will be any survivors
Such a senseless end was unforeseen
Straight from the wedding
They were heading
Off to a happy ending
But they caught fire out at sea
They lost power
In the fateful hour
Just what went wrong remains a mystery
Hellstorm
Hellfire
The burning hulk beached off the convention hall
Destruction meets destruction and the toll rises higher
Spectators from the city
Come one, come all
Is this conflagration
The sorry culmination
Of a romance everybody said
Showed a sea of promise
Sha la la
It was magic
Now it’s tragic
Fairy tale love gone become a nightmare
Save Our Ship
Save Our Survivors
Save Our Souls
sweet rock’n’roll
It was a class act
Now it's a sad fact
B-movie love affair done gone up in flames
Save Our Ship
Save Our Survivors
Save Our Souls
sweet rock’n’roll
Love runs aground …
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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Soul In Exile
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Well our love ran aground when the passion engine locked
The sudden jolt caused me to bolt and finally take stock
Our house was made of glass and you flung that rock
And I was shattered by the crash
I moved the token of our love from my finger to my pocket
I’d love to take it to the lake and shoot it off like a rocket
Or maybe I’ll just take it downtown and hock it
After all, I could use the cash
I tried walking all over the shards of what we used to be
But in my blindness and oblivion I stepped on them in my bare feet
My soul in exile, trailing my blood in the street
Oh those glass memories cut so deep
Remember what must be like ancient history
How we’d spin up to the cities in search of music and poetry
The little lost sheep poet’s son-in-law would turn his own key
From an old tradition into a song
From the bottom line to the middle east to the castle by the sea
From the funky clubs down the aisle on the way to the canopy
This time it was to be for real, it was to forever be
And you marched on right along
I Love You I Love You I Love You Seven Times Round My Soul went the refrain
And for snail’s pace time I couldn’t put it on for fear of withdrawal pain
My soul in exile, tried crying but no tears came
This time nothing remains
Well our love running aground
It must have been a spectacular sight to see
Considering how it blew up like Independence Day fireworks
In front of the whole community
And speaking of independence
I’m taking my time cherishing my newfound liberty
Time and money are mine to spend
Any which way now that I’m free
I’m doing all the things I couldn’t do with you
And I’m doing them with such glee
You thought I wouldn’t have the guts
But that just shows how well you really knew me
You think I’ll just sit here and rhapsodize
Till I question my sanity
But that won’t happen this time, you see
I’m through with the dirge and elegy.
Well there would have been a time
I’d have loaded up my car with all my past mistakes
And like a stunt in a movie
I’d stick the accelerator to the floor and disconnect the brakes
I’d take her up Edgemont
And with a figure-eight spin I’d ditch her in the lake
As if somehow all that would
Eliminate all the pain and dull all the ache
Well this time I think
I’ll leave all the garbage by the curbside
I’ll set all the flotsam at the waterline
Let it get taken by the high tide
Then I’ll point my car whichever way she’ll go
And hit the road for that long, long ride
But without you as the rider by my side
I have only my faith as a guide
My ship runs adrift when cast off from you
With nowhere to land, no direction, little hope of rescue
My soul is in exile as long as it’s not one with you …
© 2015 The Hesh Inc.
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The Hesh Inc. New Jersey
Songwriter, performer, keyboard player, beach enthusiast, perpetual transplant, aspiring cult figure.
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