Rough and twisted (2026)     (video)

 

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1. Yeah, why don't you drive me down that rough and twisted road ?

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    Why don't you guide me ‘cause I don't know which way to go ?

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    Promise to take me down to where the water glows,

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    somewhere down to Puerto Rico, where the tide just ebbs and flows.

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    Fetch me all your jewellery,       poetry and friends,

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    promise me I dance like Nijinsky,

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    nothing, nothing, nothing but a false pretense.

 

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2. Yeah, all you feed me, it's just rancid rice and bones,

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    all I drank was Muddy Waters as lonely as a saxophone.

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    Why don't you take me to where I wanna go.

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    to Natchez, Mississippi, it's a slim road ?

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    You just took me to a flack old town       In the back of nowhere,

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    the smell was acrylic, toxic,         couldn't breathe the air.

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    The only talk is co-conspiracy ?        You didn't like me much,

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   what they wanted was to kill me,    and all that crazy, crazy, crazy stuff.

 

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3. Why don't you drive me take me where you wanna go ?

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    Yeah, why don't you take me down that rough and twisted road ?

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    Yeah, why don't you teach me, teach me all those foreign tongues ?

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    Yeah, why don't you teach me ‘cause I'm deaf and blind and dumb !

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    Yeah, drive me, yeah, drive me where I wanna go !

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    Drive me, take me where I wanna,

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    take me where I wanna, take me where I wanna go !

 

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    (The Cockroaches)