Unplugged in New York Lyrics

Most songs have been covered elsewhere but here's the covers.


1, Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam   (Vaselines cover)
Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam 
Sunbeams are not made like me  

Don't expect me to cry 
For all the reasons you had to die 
Don't ever ask your love of me  

Don't expect me to cry 
Don't expect me to lie 
Don't expect me to die for thee
  

2, The Man Who Sold The World   (David Bowie cover)  
We passed upon the stairs, we spoke of was and when 
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend 
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes 
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago  

Oh no, not me 
I never lost control 
You're face to face 
With the man who sold the world  

I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home 
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed 
I gazed a gazley stare at all the millions here 
We must have died alone, a long long time ago  

Who knows, not me 
We never lost control 
You're face to face 
With the man who sold the world
  


3, Plateau    (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)  
Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau 
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know 
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand 
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands  

The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop 
And an illustrated book about birds 
You see a lot up there but don't be scared 
Who needs action when you got words  

When you've finished with the mop then you can stop 
And look at what you've done 
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen 
And the work it took was fun  

Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau 
Some said it was in Greenland and some in Mexico 
Some decided it was nowhere except for where they stood 
But they were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
  

4, Oh, Me    (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)  
If I had to lose a mile 
If I had to touch feelings 
I would lose my soul 
The way I do  

I don't have to think 
I only have to do it 
The results are always perfect 
And that's old news  

Would you like to hear my voice 
sweetened with emotion 
Invented at your birth  

I can't see the end of me 
My whole expanse I cannot see 
I formulate infinity 
And store it deep inside of me
  


5, Lake Of Fire    (Meat Puppets cover w/Meat Puppets)  
Where do bad folks go when they die 
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly 
They go down to the lake of fire and fry 
Won't see them again till the fourth of July  

I knew a lady who came from Duluth 
She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth 
She went to her grave just a little too soon 
And she flew away howling on the yellow moon  

Now the people cry and the people moan 
And they look for a dry place to call their home 
And try to find some place to rest their bones 
While the angels and the devils 
Fight to claim them for their own
  


6, Where Did You Sleep Last Night   (Leadbelly cover)  
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me 
Tell me where did you sleep last night  

In the pines, in the pines 
Where the sun don't ever shine 
I would shiver the whole night through  

My girl, my girl, where will you go 
I'm going where the cold wind blows  

Her husband, was a hard working man 
Just about a mile from here 
His head was found in a driving wheel 
But his body never was found
  


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