LYRICS FROM
THE ROCK IS STILL ROLLIN’
2026
All Songs P & ©, various years, by Zanindemand Music ASCAP
* Unless otherwise noted
HAVE SOME FUN TONIGHT
I don’t want to work so I’m takin’ the day off
Go out, and lay down in the sun
Slip off my shirt and catch some rays
Mellow myself out today
Get it together
Go out and have some fun tonight
I love to smile so I’m taking the frown off
I feel like it’s been frozen to my face
I’ve got to get back the light in my eyes
Shed my sad and blue disguise
Get it together
Go out and have some fun tonight
Winter time is over
Spring fever is here
Get out and grab somebody
Have a party!
It’s that time of year
I don’t want to work so I’m takin’ the day off
Let’s all get out and have a good time in the sun
Take off your clothes, let down your hair
Do anything, anywhere!
Get it together
Go out and have some fun
Come back together
And call everyone
And when we’re all together
Gonna have some fun tonight!
DOG DAYS
So you came up out of your hole
A lover with many a disguise
Well, your loves have all been stolen
Baby, never mind with the lies
I heard it through the grapevine
You can beat them all
What an expose
Every dog has his day
There’s oh so many fish in the ocean
And the crowd is swaying slow
As the band begins to roll
And the cards are laying down, down, down
Of all the lovers you could have chosen
You never should have picked on the young girls
They wanna touch a head so swollen
Later, turn your back and the whole world knows
You better be ready because I see them all
What an expose
Every dog has his day
There’s oh so many fish in the ocean
And the crowd is swaying slow
As the band begins to roll
And the cards are laying down, down, down
Silly to think I was the only
But you’re a little too small for the big one, one, one
Wouldn’t you love to see me lonely
Lemme see the soles of your feet run run run
You’ve got a few girlfriends you’re gonna need them all
What an expose
Every dog has his day
There’s oh so many fish in the ocean
And the crowd is swaying slow
As the band begins to roll
2ndX: As the wind begins to blow
3rdX: As the wheels begin roll
And the cards are laying down, down, down
Written by Jera Denny ©1997/2026
DOUBLE LIFE
Here I am seven AM d-dirty work
Just a back breakin’ truck drivin’ j-j-jerk
But it’s ok - at night I lead a double life
Pick it up put it down no not over there
Move it out move your ass no no time to spare
But it’s ok - tonight I’m underneath the lights
Double life double life livin’ a double life
Tough days hot nights rockin’ under the lights
Pump it up smell the dust it begins to rise
White hot bloody sweat drippin’ in your eyes
But it’s ok this is only a disguise
Double life double life livin’ a double life
Tough days hot nights rockin’ under the lights
Be the lamb take the knife just for rock n’ roll
Sacrifice spill your blood save your mortal soul
But it’s ok straight to heaven you will go
Double life double life livin’ a double life
Tough days hot nights rockin’ under the lights
Written by Dessinger/Burnham © 2026
HARD TO GET
Congratulations
On your great expectations
She makes everyman a loser
Why does every man choose her?
You - you got some imagination
Hey Romeo
She ain’t Juliet
She’s hard to get
The town you’re painting
She’s so hot - everybody fainting
Dance you right into a coma
Lay you down - girl go home
With some cat who’s just been waiting
Hey Romeo
She ain’t Juliet
She’s hard to get
So hard
She’s so hard
The girl’s so hard
She’s so hard
So hard!
Somehow someone makes it
Maybe sometimes they just fake it
Give her time she may come ‘round
Long as you don’t have a breakdown
You - you gotta learn how to take it
Hey Romeo
She ain’t Juliet
She’s hard to get
By Dessinger/Burnham ©1985 & 2026
MAMA WAS A TRAIN WRECK
Mama was a Train Wreck
A Train Wreck - A Train Wreck
Mama was a Train Wreck
Daddy was a Train
Go and be a good boy
Fetch my liquor, son
No one understands me
You’re the only one
Sister got the back hand
Brother got the switch
Mama called him bastard
Daddy called her bitch
Mama was a Train wreck
A Train Wreck - A Train Wreck
Daddy was a Train
Mama was dependent
Daddy was insane
Jehovah’s mighty lantern
Wasn’t bright enough
Daddy had his dogma
And he traded it for love
When I got to the crossing
Baggage everywhere
Mama brushed herself off
Smoothed her golden hair
But Daddy wasn’t there
Daddy didn’t care
He didn’t have a prayer
Mama was a Train Wreck
A Train Wreck - A Train Wreck
Mama was a Train Wreck
Daddy was a Train
Written by Karen Hudson© 2013 Nest Of Vipers Music ASCAP
READY TO SAY GOODBYE
Talk is cheap - and we talk more than we should
If the motor’s runnin’ - best not look under the hood
You bring out your ghosts - I bring out the demons in my past
And then you say you never thought all this would last
The day we met - in the museum of the petrified
We became exhibits - two people with too much to hide
We put it all on display - some things should never see the light of day
And some things we left out in the light have they gone and died? No!
I can’t let you go - I can’t let you go - No, I can’t!
I can’t let you go
Until I’m ready - Until I’m ready
To say goodbye
The night is dark - and we’ve been out tracing edges
Of what we see - and what we feel grasping at ledges
I take your hand - I say we still can make it
But then you say just be cool - we can just fake it
You’re out of reach - you cut the ties that bind with your knife
Out on the beach - I throw a rope to bring you back to my life
We’re not in tandem - we’ve gotten out of sync
As I try to pull you back from the brink
I can’t let you go - I can’t let you go - No, I can’t!
I can’t let you go
Until I’m ready - Until I’m ready
To say goodbye
Is anybody ever really ready
To say goodbye to things we love?
I only pray that this time
I’m not just another loser
But I don’t know if that’s what you’ve got in mind
The words flow - we speak in speeches as if we’re professors
Where will it go - if the words start to sound like confessor’s?
Is there a plan? Is there a place where we can hold on?
I just don’t want to know you’re really going, going, gone
I can’t let you go - I can’t let you go - No, I can’t!
I can’t let you go
Until I’m ready - Until I’m ready
Don’t make me ready
To say goodbye
FRIENDS
Woman
Hold me
It’s good to see you again
Remember
Can you
How long has it been?
I think about you now and then
And when I have only memories to turn to
‘Cause you still give me somethin’
Like you did so long ago
Woman
Tell me
Have things gone your way?
I know you remember
When we
When we shared every day
Oh woman
I don’t know
If our paths will ever cross again
But I know you remember
Our promise
To always be friends
I still love you girl
SHE LEFT ME (The Love I Had)
She left me
She left me
And I’m feelin’ sad
I know I’ll never
Find another
Like the love I had
She brought sunny days
When all was cloudy skies
With a poet’s heart
With an angel's eyes
She gave me hope
Made me dream again
I came to realize
Love could be a friend
‘Till she left me
Oh she left me
And I’m feelin’ sad
I know I’ll never
Find another
Like the love I had
We shared a special world
Had places all our own
She dared me to discover
Things that I had never known
That I might have it all
On my side of the fence
Life finally had a reason
Everything made sense
So sad, so sad, so sad
And so you might ask
What went wrong?
Who put out the fire?
How ended the song?
Well let me just say
That it’s too sad to tell
When what seems like heaven
Turns into hell
She left me
She left me
And I’m feelin’ sad
I know I’ll never
Find another
Like the love I had
THAT FLAME
I was talkin’ to an old friend, and I told her
I think I could give it all up
I’ve been puttin’ it on the line
I’ve been down on my knees
But I feel like a beggar with an empty cup
And she said:
You’re not the first to feel forsaken
All those dark nights - they’re nothin’ new
And what perfect world are you still searching for?
Have you looked everywhere inside of you?
Don’t curse the darkness
There’s always a candle you can light
And keep that flame burnin’ through the night
So I said to my old friend
Oh yes! - I’ve been keepin’ a torch held high
Keepin’ the tower watch in a castle in the air
And if I’ve seen the light I’ve seen a lie
And she said:
What do you want to go back to?
Be where they never dare to dream?
Now do you, now?
And if you ain’t dreamin’ you’re dead my friend
Tell me - what does your life really mean?
Don’t curse the darkness
There’s always a candle you can light
And keep that flame burnin’ through the night
Well keep it burnin’
And then I said to my old friend
Is this world fallin’ apart?
Have we lost touch with our good nature? Tell me
Who’s got the soul who’s got a heart?
And she said:
It’s time to believe - walls do fall down
Time to believe - changes always come
Yes it’s time to remember your dreams my friend
Tell those false idols it’s time to run
Don’t curse the darkness
There’s always a candle you can light
And keep that flame burnin’ through the night
And as she turned to leave, she looked back -
And when it’s too dark to see, she said
Then light your candle with mine
So bright they will burn
ROCKIN’ N’ ROLLIN’ ON DOWN THE ROAD
Let me say good bye can’t stay forever
It makes me sigh, we’ve been so happy together
But you know I must be on my way
You made me feel so good in so little time
Made the hours cook the minutes rhyme
Take one last look and I’ll be on our way
And we’ll be rockin’ and a rollin’ on down the road
Ain’t no stoppin’ we got so many places to go
We’re gonna take off any minute yeah
Man we gotta blow
And be rockin’ and a rollin’ on down the road
Let me say good bye but all you people we’re so nice
We all got high - we went to paradise
We got there! - but we just can't stay
Well I don’t know a town that’s treated us better
We’ll come back around ba-ba-baby whenever
We can get down and out and over this way
(Cause we’ll be rockin’ and a rollin’ on down the road
Ain’t no stoppin’ we got so many places to go
We’re gonna take off any minute yeah
Man we gotta blow
And be rockin’ and a rollin’ on down the road
Rockin’ on down rockin’ on down
Rockin’ on down rockin’ on down