TOM TOM CLUB - TOM TOM CLUB

Wordy Rappinghood
Genius Of Love
L'elephant
As Above, So Below
Lorelei
On, On, On, On
Booming and Zooming
Under The Boardwalk

Wordy Rappinghood

Chorus:
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

Words in papers, words in books
Words on TV, words for crooks
Words of comfort, words of peace
Words to make the fighting cease
Words to tell you what to do
Words are working hard for you
Eat your words but don't go hungry
Words have always nearly hung me

(chorus)

Words of nuance, words of skill
And words of romance are a thrill
Words are stupid, words are fun
Words can put you on the run

mots pressés, mots sensés,
mots qui disent la vérité
mots maudits, mots mentis,
mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit

(chorus)

Its a rap race, with a fast pace
Concrete words, abstract words
Crazy words and lying words
Hazy words and dying words
Words of faith and tell me straight
Rare words and swear words
Good words and bad words

(chorus)

Words can make you pay and pay
Four-letter words I cannot say
Panty, toilet, dirty devil
Words are trouble, words are subtle
Words of anger, words of hate
Words over here, words out there
In the air and everywhere
Words of wisdom, words of strife
Words that write the book I like
Words won't find no right solution
To the planet earth's pollution
Say the right word, make a million
Words are like a certain person
Who can't say what they mean
Don't mean what they say
With a rap rap here and a rap rap there
Here a rap, there a rap
Everywhere a rap rap

Rap it up for the common good
Let us enlist the neighbourhood
It's okay, I've overstood
This is a wordy rappinghood, okay, bye.

(chorus x2)

He'll stop ... Don't stop ... Stop.

Genius Of Love

What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I'm gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun

I'm in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
There's no beginning and there is no end
Time isn't present in that dimention
He'll take my arm
When we're walkin', rolling and rocking
It's one time I'm glad I'm not a man
Feels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleeping

I'm in heaven
With the ???? of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to Bob Marley
Reggae's expanding with Sly and Robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.

Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown

If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he's the genius of love
He's got a greater depth of feeling
Well he's the genius of love
He's so deep.

L'elephant

L'éléphant et l'hippopotame 
(Se) Sont déguisés en hommes. 
(Ils) Ont marché au beau village, 
Marché, marché, marché, marché. 

Sur le chemin, (ils) ont rencontré 
Des enfants des hommes, 
Et des femmes qui courraient 
Courraient, courraient, courraient, courraient. 

Tout en courrant, les femmes pleuraient 
Pleuraient des grosses larmes 
Grosses gouttes, grosses larmes 
Tombaient, tombaient, tombaient, tombaient. 

L'éléphant et l'hippopotame 
Voulaient savoir ce qu'elles avaient 
Voulaient savoir la raison qu'elles 
Pleuraient, pleuraient, pleuraient, pleuraient. 

Un enfant, tout terrifié, 
S'est arrêté pour leur parler. 
Sa bouche ouvrait, mais il est resté 
Muet, muet, muet, muet. 

*Enlevez vos costumes bêtes, 
Leur chantaient les oiseaux. 
**Gobe-mouches pipits, chouettes et hiboux 
Chantaient, chantaient, chantaient, chantaient: 

C'est la guerre, la guerre des hommes. 
Ils se sont disputés. 
Tout autour, ils veulent tuer, 
Tuer, tuer, tuer, tuer. 

Tuer, tuer, tuer, tuer. 
Tuer, tuer, tuer, tuer. 
Tuer, tuer, tuer, tuer. 
Tuer, tuer, tuer, tuer.

As Above, so Below

Hold the symbol to your forehead 
Close your eyes 
Call the spirit of the symbol 
Come to me 
Call the symbols of the golden age 
One by one 
Call the water, fire, air and earth 
Come to me 

As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 

Behold the door appears before you 
Walk on through 
Observe the doorway now behind you 
Look ahead 
Call the spirit of the symbol 
Come to me 
Allow the deity to guide you 
Follow me 

As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 

A web of thought; of tangled vision 
Humanity 
Tear away the veil before me 
Set me free 
Tales to picture that you give to me 
Memory 
Tear away the minds that bind me 
Liberty 

As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 

Thank the spirit of the symbol 
Once you see 
Raise your finger to your lips now 
Sign of Silence 
Find the doorway of the symbol 
Pass on through 
Find the doorway of the symbol 
Pass on through... 

As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below 
As above, so below

Lorelei

Lorelei
Maybe you like a little melody
It's not the words that move me

Lorelei Lorelei Lorelei
Maybe you like a lullaby
Now I can't remember why

Lorelei Lorelei Lorelei
Intuation's leading us where
I don't know yet

Lorelei Lorelei
Something's happening
Hard to place it
Hard to hide it

Lorelei Lorelei
What is happening
I'm not sure
I guess you know it

Lorelei Lorelei

Deep in the jungle ???
There comes a clearing
And in the clearing
There is a pool

The pool is deep
The water cool
This is the thought
The thought is you

Lorelei Lorelei Lorelei

Intuition's leading us where
I don't know yet

Lorelei Lorelei
Something's happening
Hard to place it
Hard to hide it

Lorelei Lorelei
What is happening
I'm not sure
I guess you know it

Lorelei Lorelei
Lorelei Lorelei
Lorelei Lorelei

Across the wasted plain
Across the twisted dunes
Beyond the colored ???
The mountain looms

The air is thin
The ??? within
The sea of light
The light is you

Lorelei Lorelei Lorelei ...

On, On, On, On

I'm living proof, I love you
I know the truth, so do you

On and on we will come
There are scores of us
On and on, here we come
There are more of us

Come to my room, I need you
You're living proof, make your move

On and on we will come
There are scores of us
On and on, here we come
There are more of us

You are the youth, we're with you
We're living proof what we can do
On and on we will come
There are scores of us

On and on we will come
There are scores of us
On and on, here we come
There are more of us

On and on ...

Booming and Zooming

If they could see me now, Booming and Zooming 
If they could see me now, Booming and Zooming 

F104, come in F104...... 
C'mon get down F104. 
Ho, get back up F104! 
Aw, now, one more time for me
on the ground F1--104 get down.. 

'Cause you know and I know it's a private thing
at twice the speed of sound blue goes to black. 

You're spinning flat like a skipping stone
F104 but don't green apple, 
ok. We want no defenstrations today, okay? 

F104 where are you at? Play it Kenneth! 
Uh! You think you're staying cool
while its getting hot,eh? 

F104 here, uh, stop flapping your gums. 
I wear my own clothes now 
and I don't need you to roll up my sleeves, ok? 

Uh ground here, uh,
that's a couple of million, F104. 

F104 here, uh, look this is a private thing 
and I don't want you talking about it 
down there with your nice friends. 
Cause this is a private thing, ok? 
Cause I've tried A 
and then I've tried B 
and then I've tried C... 
but no, I won't green apple. 

Uh, this is the ground F104,
get outa there, get outa there F104! 

F104 uh, not to sweat baby, 
it's my hide and I can ride her out. 

This is the ground get down here F104.
You and I know who your hide 
belongs to! 

F104 here, uh,
I guess I'm at about 75 thousand feet 
and the rpm's are damn near zero, 
uh, maybe falling about 150 feet a second, 
uh, that makes about 9000 feet a minute. 
Uh, Like I said I've tried A 
and I've tried B 
and C, didn't do nothing. 
Just spinning around 
like a boomerang 
in the sky up here!...I reckon. 

I got about one last shot. 

Ok, this is a private thing 
this blue to black 
at twice the speed of sound. 
It's green silent peace, 
with waves around. 
And it's lighting up 
like a damn Christmas tree in here! 

But we'll ignore what these
little lights are saying 
and enjoy the view because 
you know and I know 
It's just that little old problem 
Our boys in Engineering find so entertaining 

This is the ground, come in F104,
come in F104, come in F104. 

F104 here, I'd love to talk to you sweetheart 
but this Christmas tree is smoking 
and it's obscuring the view. 
I'm preparing to disintegrate now, 
I'll see you boys 
for a drink on the ground 
at about 1900 hours, okay? BYE! 

If they could see me now, Booming and Zooming 
If they could see me now... 
If they could see me now, Booming and Zooming 
.....Booming and Zooming

Under The Boardwalk

Oh when the sun beats down
And burns the tar on the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fireproof

Under the Boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my boyfriend's where I'll be

Chorus:
Under the Boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the Boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the Boardwalk, people walking above
Under the Boardwalk, we'll be making love
Under the Boardwalk, Boardwalk

From the park you hear the happy sound
Of the carousel
You can almost taste the hot dogs
And french fries they sell

Under the Boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my boyfriend's where I'll be

(chorus)

Under the Boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my boyfriend's where I'll be

Under the Boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the Boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the Boardwalk, people walking above
Under the Boardwalk, we'll be falling in love
Under the Boardwalk, Boardwalk

Boardwalk, Boardwalk ...

 


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