1. TOUGHER THAN THE REST



Well it’s Saturday night
You’re all dressed up in blue
I been watching you awhile
Maybe you been watching me too
So somebody ran out
Left somebody’s heart in a mess
Well if you’re looking for love
Honey I’m tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan
Or some good-lookin’ Joe, on their arm
Some girls like a sweet-talkin’ Romeo
Well ’round here baby
I learned you get what you can get
So if you’re rough enough for love
Honey I’m tougher than the rest

The road is dark
And it’s a thin thin line
But I want you to know I’ll walk it for you any time
Maybe your other boyfriends
Couldn’t pass the test
Well if you’re rough and ready for love
Honey I’m tougher than the rest

Well it ain’t no secret
I’ve been around a time or two
Well I don’t know baby maybe you’ve been around too
Well there’s another dance
All you gotta do is say yes
And if you’re rough and ready for love
Honey I’m tougher than the rest
If you’re rough enough for love
Baby I’m tougher than the rest




2. BE TRUE



Your scrapbook’s filled with pictures of all your leading men
Well baby don’t put my picture in there with them
Don’t make us some little girls dream that can’t ever come true
That only serves to hurt us and make you cry like you do
Well baby don’t do it to me and I won’t do it to you

You’ve seen all the romantic movies you dream you take the boys home
But when the action fades your left all alone
You deserve better than this little girl can’t you see you do
Do you need somebody to prove it to you ?

Well baby you prove it to me and I’ll prove it to you

Now every night you go out looking for true lust satisfaction
But in the morning you end up with second thoughts that came from your actions

And another cameo roll with some big player your befriending
Your gonna go broken hearted looking for that happy ending
Well girl your gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold
Crying alone in the theater as the credits roll

You see I won’t be like those other guys
Who filled your head with pretty lies
And dreams that can never come true

Well listen
Baby you be true to me and I’ll be true to you

So how about it ?

Is it a deal ?



3. CHIMES OF FREEDOM




Well, far between sundown’s finish and midnight’s broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin’
As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun
Sayin’, it may be the chimes of freedom crashin’

Flashin’ for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashin’ for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight
And for each and every underdog soldier in the night
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin’

Well, in the city’s melted furnace unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin’
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain
Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin’

Yeah, tollin’ for the rebel, yeah, tollin’ for the raked
Tollin’ for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked
Yeah, tollin’ for the outcasts burnin’ constantly at stakes
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin’

And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed
There’s a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly liftin’
Well, electric light still struck like arrows
Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin’

Well, tollin’ for the searching ones on this speechless, secret trail
For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale
And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail
Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin’

Well, starry eyed and laughin’ I recall when we were caught
Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended
As we listened one last time, and we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed "Has the tollin’ ended ?"

Yeah, tollin’ for the achin’ ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless, confused, accused, misused strung out ones at worst
And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin’




4. BORN TO RUN




In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream

At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines

Sprung from cages out on highway 9,

Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line

Baby this town rips the bones from your back

It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap

We gotta get out while we're young

`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend

I want to guard your dreams and visions

Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims

and strap your hands across my engines

Together we could break this trap

We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back

Will you walk with me out on the wire

`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider

But I gotta find out how it feels

I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real



Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard

The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors

And the boys try to look so hard

The amusement park rises bold and stark

Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist

I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight

In an everlasting kiss



The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide

Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place

Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun

But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run