Rhythm Kids CD (H2D/Teenline #204) Lyrics and more...

Rhythm Kids
When we were born, they were so strict. That's why we came out accidents. Churches told them not to place their bids. And the result was rhythm kids. Mom and Dad, they did it by the book. Didn't even take a second look. Trying to follow all the grids. Then ending up with rhythm kids. Making love behind closed doors. Churning babies by the score. Never realizing they were tricked.
Didn't know about sexuality. No devices made synthetically. Never questioned what it was they did. And nine months later, rhythm kids. Thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill. Thou shall not ever take the pill. But now we've taken off the lids. Because we know we're rhythm kids.

Natalie
All the boys want Natalie, oh yeah. All the boys want Natalie, oh yeah. But if the boys get Natalie, she'll surely lose her purity. So keep your hands off Natalie, oh yeah. Eyes of fire, a smile of sin, oh yeah. Lips that make you walk right in, oh yeah. Shapely legs and silky hair make all the boys just sit and stare. But keep your eyes off Natalie, oh yeah. Natalie, you're a real swell walker. Natalie, you're a real smooth talker. Natalie, you're beginning to grow on me. Stiletto heals and painted nails, oh yeah. Milky skin that looks so pale, oh yeah. Natalie is on their minds, but she'll never find the time. So keep your minds off Natalie, oh yeah.

Let Me Out
Every morning when the clock rings I'm sitting in my bed. Jaw's aching, can't sleep, blood is pounding through my head. Race into work to be sure to get there on time. Phone starts ringing and I start losing my mind. I can't take it, I just can't take it. I can't make it, I just can't make it. Let me out. Let me outta here. Let me out. Just let me out. People calling in complaining eight hours a day. For all this work, there surely ain't enough pay. Keep my cool talking call after call after call. If this keeps up, I know I'll be climbing the walls. I can't take it, I just can't take it. I can't make it, I just can't make it. Let me out. Let me outta here. Let me out. Just let me out. How long can this go on before my nervous breakdown? I have to hold my head and scream, "No!" Day in and day out, it's always gonna be the same. I know that there's never gonna be a change. Maybe I should leave, I guess that would be for the best. That's the only way I'm gonna get my rest. I can't take it, I just can't take it. I can't make it, I just can't make it. Let me out. Let me outta here. Let me out. Just let me out. Let me out. Let me outta here. Let me out. Just let me out.

Whoever Said That You Was Cool
Sitting at our favorite table contemplating are we able. Hanging out in some old style. And then he walks in with his smile. Our heads start shaking at the fool. Whoever said that you was cool? Passing by us looking coy. Wondering if we could be the all-American boys. But are they really ones to care? They'd rather know who's losing hair. So we start laughing at the fools. Whoever said that you was cool? In their own little cliques agreeing their talent's as sharp as a tack. Whoever taught you how to be rock & rollers should be shot in the back. Getting up to leave the place. Got to get back to the reality of the human race. And there's those girls and their guise. Why don't you go back to being housewives? And so we pour out of that pool. Whoever said that you was cool?

I'm Not a Rebel Anymore
People talk, they say I've changed. Well, they're right, I'm rearranged. Now I've learned that I'm not rotten to the core. I'm not a rebel anymore. White is black and black is white. Right is wrong and wrong is right. In a million years, who's gonna know for sure? I'm not a rebel anymore. What you see in your life is truly your worth. God if you see God, dirt if you see dirt. I am here, but now you're gone. What's it matter, we are one. What's yours is mine and, baby, what's mine is yours. I'm not a rebel anymore.

Room Full of Lies
I'm sitting in this room alone. You show up late, I should have known. I've heard your stories all before. Don't make me listen anymore. I can see right through your cheap disguise, in this room full of lies. I can't believe a word you say. You change your mind from day to day. You say you want me, but you don't. I love you now, but soon I won't. Things are all confused, I don't know why, in this room full of lies. Time and time, I've wanted to change your mind and try to help you find the words to say. Now I see, you never wanted me, so I will set you free, go on your way. There's something here we can't control. The conflict's in our very souls. We're not made from the same design, so you keep yours and I'll keep mine. Now, the time has come to break the ties, in this room full of lies.

The Beat
I, I call your name at night when I'm lying in bed, and I cry every time I feel that our relationship's dead. You think it really doesn't matter to me. If only you could see. I can't help it, you know that my life's in the beat. When I see you out and about and you're painting the town with your friends, I think it's better for you if I wasn't around. Because I don't even know what to do. But I'm so in love with you. I can't help it, you know that my life's in the beat. If we hurry, there's still time to catch this romance. Two tickets left for one last chance. You think it really doesn't matter to me. If only I could see. I can't help it, you know that my life's in the beat. So, let's try to bide our time for as long as we can. Then we'll know if we are strong enough to make a stand. Well, there's nothing more that I have to say. I hope we find a way. I can't help it, you know that my life's in the beat. Oh yeah, my life's in the beat. And so I cry to the beat. I'm so caught up in the beat. I even eat to the beat.

Just Need Yourself
You don't need a school to get education. You don't need a job to take a vacation. You don't need a cause for anticipation. You don't need a death for reincarnation. You don't need a star to be a sensation. You don't need a king to show dedication. You don't need a saint for canonization. You don't need a god to feed a whole nation. You just need yourself, and that's all. You don't need to fight to get some reaction. You don't need to win to gain satisfaction. You don't need a gun for retaliation. You don't need a war to bring liberation. You just need yourself, and that's all. Be true to yourself. Be true, 'cause that's all you have to do. Be true to you. You don't need a drink to lose aggravation. You don't need a drug to use meditation. You don't need a church to get confirmation. You don't need a judge for justification. You just need yourself, and that's all. You just need yourself, and that's all.

Story of My Life
Devil in his workshop sawing me in half. I just be a screaming, he just be a laugh. Cannot take the pleasure, cannot take the pain. I would like to leave now, but here he comes again. Well, it's the story of my life. It's the story of my life. It's the story of my life and I think I'm gonna end it right now. There is too much pressure. There is too much slack. There is too much trauma to ever start on back. Well, it's the story of my life. It's the story of my life. It's the story of my life and I think I'm gonna end it right now. Every time I think I'm going up, I'm really going down. With all the time I'm losing, what's the sense of hanging around? Bad breaks to heartaches that's all I ever get. I would like to stop them, but they ain't started yet. Well, it's the story of my life. It's the story of my life. It's the story of my life and I think I'm gonna end it right now. Every time I think I'm going down, I'm really going up. If my mind keeps playing tricks on me I think I'm gonna bust. Devil in his workshop. I'm sawing him in half. He just be a screaming, I just be a laugh. Well, it's the story of my life. It's the story of my life. It's the story of my life and I think I'm gonna end it right now. I think I'm gonna end it right now. I think I'm gonna end it right now. I think I'm gonna end it right now.

Been Such a Long Time
Well, I opened the door and I walked in the bar and I went up to get me a drink. As I bumped into her, well, she turned around and said, "Well, what do you think?" Then she said, "How are you?" And I said, "Who are you?" And she said, "Don't play those games with me." As I stared in her eyes and I then realized that I was beginning to see. But it's been such a long time. Now, it's been such a long time. Yes, it's been such a long time, I don't even know your name. Well, she smiled a sweet smile and she laughed a sweet laugh and she said, "You're the same old Dan. It's been so many years, we've drank so many beers, and you haven't yet changed to a man." As I let that one pass, she knocked over my glass, and the bourbon, it poured down my sleeve. Then she grabbed for my hand, but she noticed the band, and I said, "It's about time I leave." 'Cause it's been such a long time. Yes, it's been such a long time. Now, it's been such a long time, I don't even know your name. It's not that I'd forget you, I can handle the shame. It's just that after all these years, I still remember the pain. Well, she started to cry and went into a fit and she said, "Won't you please take me home? We'll make up all those years in my bedroom tonight. Dan, I don't want to be left alone." Well, she tried for a kiss and I made sure it missed, and I said, "Don't play those games with me." As I went for the door, as she held me once more, and I said it could just never be. 'Cause it's been such a long time. Yes, it's been such a long time. Now, it's been such a long time, I don't even know your name. I don't even know your name. I don't even know your name.

No One to Need Me
Don't want to be responsible. Just want to be a child again. Don't want to grow up anymore. Just want to play with all my friends. Can't take the time to love right now. Don't want to hurt you anymore. I seek the freedom I have lost. Deliberating on a cure. Don't want to need no one right now. Don't want no one to need me. I gave you seven years bad luck. Guilt is hiding in my frame. Confusing issues that are dead. Searching for love that has been stained. Don't want to need no one right now. Don't want no one to need me. I beg forgiveness in your soul. Can't help but feel I've been damned. Don't have the answers that we want. Things don't work out as always planned. Don't want to need no one right now. Don't want no one to need me. Don't want no one to need me. No one to need me. No one to need me. Don't want no one to need me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't want to be responsible.

The Issue
You want her badly, but you say you can't have her. You love her madly, yet you don't understand her. You'd like to kiss her, but you think she doesn't want to. But now you miss her and there's no one you can turn to. You want to make it, but you don't know if you've got it. You've got to break out, but you can't tell if you've shot it. It seems so distant, but it could be so much closer. If you'd just listen, let your courage take you over. Now you gotta break those spells. Is it up to you or everybody else? That's the issue. You've got a choice to make and only you can make it. You've got a path to take and only you can take it. It's up to your command, so don't you dare abuse it. It's sitting in your hands and you can never lose it. You gonna pick up the slack? Look too far ahead or look too far back? That's the issue. That's the issue at hand. That's the issue. That's the issue at hand. Learn to work with the flow. It surrounds you. Visualize the show. Let the light through. Listen to what you hear. Turn it up some. It is so very near. See the outcome. Don't you know it's in your mind? Will the time take you or will you take the time? That's the issue. That's the issue at hand. That's the issue. That's the issue at hand.

Strangely Modern
James Dean, slot machines, wearing skintight Levi jeans. Motown, underground, buying someone's hand-me-downs. Jetpacks, zodiac, reading 'bout Jack Kerouac. Cafes, Chevrolets, slumming on a Saturday. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. Strangely modern parts of our lives. Black cats, photostats, waiting at the Laundromat. Prophets, luncheonettes, bumming people's cigarettes. Curfews, tennis shoes, making secret rendezvous. Baseball, alcohol, playing pickup basketball. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. Strangely modern parts of our lives. Rainbows, tremolo, watching all the video. Mystics, anarchists, laughing over politics. Coffee, calories, meeting sexy divorcees. Fast cars, old guitars, hanging out in sleazy bars. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. They're all strangely modern. Strangely modern parts of our lives.

Nice Guys are Always Number Two
Well, I was down here all alone. I just wanted someone to talk to before I went back home. Didn't want to start no love affair down here with you. Now you know why nice guys are always number two, always number two. You had no right to twist my mind. Then turn around and give it all to Frankenstein. The only reason I left that night? Because what he said was true. Now you know why nice guys are always number two, always number two. I wasn't looking for any fish. I already got me the cutest little dish. And she's mine all mine, you know, I love her all the time. So why did you have to play those games? Getting all those filthy people to call me those filthy names? But, you see, in those kinds of games, I know I never lose. Now you know why nice guys are always number two, always number two. You'd never win with all your sex. My little witch already has me in her hex. I'm mystified, you know, she's got me hypnotized. So now you've gone and lost your man. Don't blame it on me, it wasn't from my hand. If you can't take a joke, then why don't you just get screwed? Now you know why nice guys are always number two, always number two. So now the party's over, and you walk out the fool. Now you know why nice guys are always number two.

They'll Never Beat the Clock
Time. What's it all about? Why does it keep running out? We can't hold on to time. Is it worth the pain? I, I can't take the strain. We can't hold on to time. Every day you hear people say they're going into shock. But you know they'll never beat the clock. 'Cause you don't even have a chance. True, it's just an endless dance. We can't hold on to time. Every day you hear people say they're going into shock. But you know they'll never beat the clock. But we will give it one good try. Before we have to die. We won't let time pass us by.