Ambition - City Boy

I — Ambition

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Tell me it’s wrong for a man to want to be

Much better known and twice as big as World War

Three

I’ve been on my knees, a transition is easy to see

Cause Ambition you’re driving me

So big in America, so huge in Japan (Man)

So big in America, I say you gotta get it while you can

My name is all over Albania, all the rage in Iran (and)

Sold out in Australia, I say you gotta get it while you can

Open the door, me and my Tarot hold the key

I may be unsure, but only temporarily!

What will be will be and all the fools agree

That Ambition you’re killing me

So big in America, so huge in Japan (Man)

So big in America, I say you gotta get it while you can

My name is all over Albania, all the rage in Iran (and)

Sold out in Australia, I say you gotta get it while you can

II — Me And My Tarot

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Unfamiliar doorway, crazy figures on the floor

Faces in the hallway staring daggers through the wall

I was at the party but I wished I’d never been

The stranger on the scene, the guest in someone’s

Dream

The room was smaller with the guests pouring in

«Take a card:' they said, «you need your fortune read»

«Take some good advice and leave when you are led»

The Queen of Broken Hearts had come to warm my

Bed

It was getting later the clocks all stayed the same

Everyone was gathered round to play the party game

Someone shouted «Suicide!», and everybody laughed

The game had gone too far and I drew the Hangman’s

Card

Then they turned the lights back on and left me in the

Dark

«Take a card:' they said, «you need your fortune read»

«Take some good advice and leave when you are led»

The Queen of Broken Hearts had come to warm my

Bed

We love a hero gone beyond the reach of our

Applause —

We scream his name and call «Encore!»

III — Rev-On (The Crunch)

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(Rev-On) it’s a big, black highway

(Rev-On) they can say I did it my way

(C'mon Rev-On) I got a monster beneath me

(Rev it along) Gonna smash me to smithereens

I’m after headlines, headlines

Gimme, gimme them headlines, headlines

«Golden Boy Rides Bike Off Inter-State One-Five

No Chance Of Coming Out Alive

Poor Kid Was Cut Off In His Prime»

Almost A Legend In His Time

Red light (can't come back)

It’s green for go, there’s rubber on the road

(Too hard) two wheels and ignition

That’s all I know

(Can't come back) One way to Paradise

When you’ve been bitten by (too damn hard)

Ambition

(Rev-On) You can call me a yo-yo

(Rev-On) But can you tell me a better way to go!

No!

(C'mon Rev-on) Wasn’t I the wild one

(Rev it along) Like a bullet to oblivion

I’m after headlines, headlines

Gimme, gimme headlines, headlines

«Golden Boy Rides Bike Off Inter-State One-Five»

«No Chance Of Coming Out Alive»

«Poor Kid Was Cut Off In His Prime»

«Almost A Legend In His Time'

Red Light (Can't come back)

It’s green for go, there’s rubber on the road

(Too hard) Two wheels and ignition

That’s all I know

(Can't come back) one way to Paradise

When you’ve been bitten by (too damn hard)

Ambition

(Can't come back) I just gotta go, it’s written on the

Road

(Too hard) Two wheels and ignition

That’s all I know

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IV — The End (Came Easy)

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Ambition took care of him right to the end

Ambition, his mother, his wife and a friend

And the end came easy

So the news ran loose, and they called out his name

And the front page put him on Memory Lane

But there was no-one there to see

'Cause the World went up … at three!