NOT FIGHTERS-LYRICS

PARTY
This is where we forget about what a long week it’s been
Time to dig in
Everybody’s coming over, you can bet we’re getting rowdy again
Everybody dig in

It’s always work hard, work hard all week long
But when the weekend rolls around we sing a different song

When the ladies get to dancing and the music gets to blasting it’s a party
and you know we’re there
You can feel the music blasting with the lovely ladies dancing it’s a party
and you know we’re there

This is our idea of kicking back and having us a good time
If they took away our weekend, you know we’d probably lose our minds
So baby shake if you got it cuz we’re far from done
You know that we’re not stopping ’til they pull the plug

CHORUS

This is where we forget about what a long week, yeah,
What a long week it’s been…

CHORUS

LITTLE MISS PERFECT
Little miss perfect sippin’ on a margarita,
She got glitter in her hair, she got a lot of paint on her face
With a pretty red smile, she let’s me know she’s lonely
While the hoops on her ears are picking up TV waves from space

Little miss perfect she gives me the wink
So I seat myself beside her and I buy that woman a drink
She knows just what she’s doing, she’s played this game before
And if I play it right a little later I might get a little sugar from the candy store

She knows how to move her body right
She can dance the bump and grind, we’re gonna bump and grind tonight

Little miss perfect, she gotta little twinkle in her eye
Little miss sweet thing, well the girl won’t let me drive
Little miss rock and roll, with a hard body going on,
Rock me baby all night long

She sits back chewin’ on a cigarette, she’s thinking she’s all that
She works her body really damn good she sure knows where it’s at
While I sit back and I catch my breath, I should be in my prime,
I’d better catch my cool real quick before she hits me one more time

She knows how to move her body right,
She can dance the bump and grind, we’re gonna bump and grind

Little miss perfect, she gotta little twinkle in her eye
Little miss sweet thing, well the girl won’t let me drive
Little miss rock and roll, with a hard body going on
Rock me baby all night long

WE COULD BE
You can laugh at me if you like, I don’t mind
because it just so happens that I like the way you laugh, it suits me fine
so don’t go telling me you’re insecure about the people you don’t know
saying this and that about you because it never goes away, it never goes away
so hear me when I’m saying

I want to be more than just the story of the guy who wants to be with you
stuck somewhere in between your old fear or some new routine, cuz baby

We could be what everyone keeps talking about
We could be what everyone’s been thinking
I’m not saying this is gonna be easy, I’m just saying we should give it a go
and if you’re liking what I’m saying, baby think about staying because
We could be what everyone keeps talking about.

Here’s the catch I’m talking about a full time thing, not some short term fling
you can leave that in the past, those days are gone you know we’re moving on
because your body’s so delectable, delightfully inspectable
my self control is pushed to the limit
and baby I hope that you’re digging on me, cuz I’m digging you as you can see

I want to be more than just the story of the guy who wants to be with you
stuck somewhere in between your old fear or some new routine, cuz baby

We could be what everyone keeps talking about
We could be what everyone’s been thinking
I’m not saying this is gonna be easy, I’m just saying we should give it a go
and if you’re liking what I’m saying, baby think about staying because
We could be what everyone keeps talking about.

TIME OF DAY
The screen door’s open, I can feel the breeze coming through
the only thing on my mind right now is you
you mosey ‘cross the room, flop down next to me
and lazily you say you don’t feel like doing anything

but as your hair falls on my shoulder
your dimples give you away

It’s that time of day when no one feels like moving
but I’m so in the mood
come what may, this moment’s far from over
we can get lost in each other
baby there’s nothing better than that time of day with you
that time of day with you

I love just taking it easy with you baby
but you always look so fine
we could lie around together while the world spins around outside
and I know I’m lucky cuz I’m the one with you
and the way you’re sitting there grinning at me
there’s so much that I want to do but it’s that time of day…(CHORUS)

GRANT WANTS TO BE A PIRATE
Plastic injection molding clicks beneath his finger
while the ones and zeroes dance before his eyes
engineer of the year, a little golf, a little beer
a little one is on the way, but the dream won’t go away

Grant wants to be a pirate, he wants to live the good life
and party all night
Grant wants to be a pirate.

Time goes so slow in his cubicle, how he wishes he could be
a fearsome tyrant, ruthless leader of the seas
and his beautiful wife, she rolls her eyes at his elaborate imagination
he wants the world to fear his name, but she loves him just the same

CHORUS

With the Caribbean vibrations, sipping on the sugar cane libations
it’s the same daydream at his computer screen
jump in the water’s fine
can you imagine the elation if this could be a permanent vacation

but some dreams die hard this is no exception
his parents joke they should’ve used contraception
twenty nine years and nine months ago
they were getting it on, how could they have ever known
they’d give birth to a boy who’d grow up irate, in a land locked state
two centuries too late to be a pirate, to live the good life
to party all night at least in his mind.
His name’s Grant, he wants to be a pirate
our friend Grant wants to be a pirate.

CHORUS

OUT OF HER MIND
There’s a girl who’s caught my fancy, and apparently she fancies me too
She’s sharp as a tack, loves to laugh, and she’s beautiful to boot
everything she does comes easily and naturally with beauty and such grace
and the part that I like best is when she holds me close in her sweet embrace

The only problem I foresee is that she says she’s into me
it makes me question her mental sanity

Cuz if I’m in her head, she’s out of her mind
to love someone like me who’s crazy all of the time
love has no reason and it sure has no rhyme
if I’m the one in her head, she must be out of her mind

She likes going out in public places kissing on me and holding my hand
She’s got me spell bound when she’s skipping down the sidewalk
her wish is my command

She sits by me at the game, she knows all the players by their names
She’s a bigger fan and it puts me to shame

CHORUS

and not too long from now I’m going to ask that girl to marry me
and if she says “YES” I think the whole world would agree

CHORUS

SLEEP LIKE YOU
The room is quiet, I can hear you breathing peacefully
all I can see is the glow on the wall from our alarm clock, it’s half past 3
My mind is racing with all the things I’ll have to say in the morning

I gotta get through tonight somehow
The only thing I can think about right now, is

I wish I could sleep like you
The way you’re lying next to me
cuz it’s over in my head, I just haven’t told you yet
It’s over
I wish I could sleep like you

Who were we kidding?
The way we talked about how we’d always work it out
and never go to bed angry from a fight
we’re together, but I feel alone tonight

CHORUS

I’m not looking forward to the tears I’ll be crying when you wake up
and I say to you what needs to be said
Because I know I have to say goodbye, and get on with my life,
and never spend a sleepless night with you again.

ALRIGHT TONIGHT
There’s nobody out on the freeway, just the stars, my girl and me
and though I like the view, my foot seems it’s made of lead
The wheels keep spinning on the high way, and it’s the end of a long, long day
We’ve got the songs from the radio ringing in our heads

We’re going home tonight, I can see the lights of the city just over the hill
and if I lock ‘er in with an ear to ear grin, we could make it home with time to kill
We’ll kick off our shoes for a rendezvous, we’ll share a glass and dim the lights
we’ve got nowhere to be, I’ve got you with me, I think we’re gonna be alright tonight

Now the tedious life can get grueling and we forget living should be fun
but then we get blind from the grind that gets in our way
but there’s only thing to remember, I’ve got you and baby you’ve got me
we could be gone tomorrow but we’re here today

CHORUS

LEAVE ME ALONE
You got smoked up and took my car while I was sleeping
You neglected to tell me you were going out
I awoke to find you crying
I didn’t know why you were crying

You told me my car was in a little accident
A tiny scratch on the front passenger side
I stepped outside to see my front grill smashed in
And my bumper lying in the gutter next to a street light

Leave me alone, I don’t feel like talking to you
Yes, I’m angry
I’ll be back home writing another song about how you let me down
When you were high.

Highway patrol pulled me over on the way home
I didn’t have my license and your pipe was on my dash
I told the cop it didn’t belong to me
That’s about the time he threw the cuffs on me

Called my old man to bail me out down at the station
Needless to say it was 2am and he was mad
Now my folks aren’t talking to me and I owe the state some money
So the next time that you call me don’t ask me how I’m doing just

Leave me alone, I don’t feel like talking to you
Yes, I’m angry
I’ll be back home writing another song about how you let me down
When you were high

So you say the joke’s on me? I guess the joke’s on you,
Cuz I’m a rock star now.

WALKIN ON AIR
Everywhere I go I see your face
just living in a daydream, staring into space
I never thought I’d fall in love like this
but you’ve got something I can’t resist

I’m just floating, walking on air.

You’re asking me if everything’s ok
baby just being with you, you know it makes my day
you’re laughing, smiling, loving on me
and there’s no place else that I’d rather be

Girl you’ve got me feeling like I’m walking on air
drifting across the sky so blue
I never saw it coming, now I’m never looking back
my world’s changed, there aint nothing I can do

I never thought I’d fall in love like this
but you’ve got something I can’t resist.

I’m just floating, walking on air.

I MAKE MY OWN MONEY
Got off of work, did a little shopping, and found the cutest pair of shoes
and wouldn’t you know, they were on sale it was too good to be true
so I bought me top, a new purse and some jeans to go with the latest trends
now I can see what you’re thinking baby don’t get mad, I hate to have to tell you again

I make my own money, you don’t have to like it honey
at the end of the day all our bills are paid
it aint worth worrying about
now baby I work hard (I’m a hard working woman)
so cut me some slack (cut me some slack)
it’s not as bad as it seems, I kept the receipts, I can always take it back
but you know I’m not gonna
cuz I make my own money

There are things about being a woman you’re never gonna understand
but that’s what you get baby for being, a man
now I know your jeans cost half as much and you wear the same pair all the time
but baby I look good so you’d better change your tune if you want to find yourself in mine

Cuz I make my own money, you don’t have to like it honey
quit nipping at my heels cuz I pay my own bills
it aint worth worrying about
now baby I work hard (I’m a hard working woman)
so cut me some slack (cut me some slack)
it’s not as bad as it seems, I kept the receipts, I can always take it back
but you know I aint gonna
cuz I make my own money

I make my own money, you don’t have to like it honey
if I shop all day I wanna hear you say
IT AINT WORTH WORRYING ABOUT
now baby I work hard (I’m a hard working woman)
so cut me some slack (cut me some slack)
it’s not as bad as it seems,
I kept the receipts, I can always take it back
but you know I aint gonna
cuz I make my own money