(Gibbons, Hill, Beard) 3:07
Somebody breathin’ down my neck
While I’m tryin’ to roll the bones
I don’t care I’ll just float a check
Cause I’m feelin’ my gamblin’ Jones
Here come seven, gimme eleven come again
Love to hideout where I am my own best friend
There’s crazy little Linda Lou
With the long and lanky legs
Nobody do it like Linda do
At these backwoods lone star dregs
Like I told you, head out FM 92
Roll in slowly, you’ll be safer if you do
If you don’t know what I’m talkin’ about
Let me ease your worried mind
It’s the place to go without a doubt
But it’s a little bit hard to find
Back in the timber, once you’re there
You’ll wanna stay
Get loose and limber anytime night or day
Just remember, ask for the Avalon hideaway
She likes wearin’ lipstick, she likes French cuisine
but she won’t let me use my passion unless it’s in a limousine.
She got me under pressure,
she got me under pressure.
She likes the art museum, she don’t like Pavlov’s dog.
She fun at the mind museum, she likes it in a London fog.
She don’t like other women, she likes whips and chains.
She likes cocaine and flippin’ out with great Danes.
She’s about all I can handle, it’s too much for my brain.
It’s got me under pressure,
It’s got me under pressure.
I’m gonna give her a message,
here’s what I’m gonna say:
Tidify da, sinmah gough dah hep haing ding fum gogamamo.
Stry da fings thadd awondt oont do butt any il thang thad a wondt meeto.
Shees my nurirng my nu esit seten’ ra mind at a ros reshoo.
I don loo kadang doo my net loohah leten meen you
Hmm, I wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole.
I wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole.
You just don’t know what shape I’m in.
Try-da-fy thedit dern tasgoo
Itel dang ifl eeton if airs ron wichoo
Day me dy ron my nek
Thars a dang ana ding doo itan beegon
Shee kina sitn wita ly dou fang
Let it ang wit a itin imin babee
Ide oln lee pak da thangs yoodo
Letit ang ifen eeton wacha ron wichoo
I wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole.
I found an empty house in my neighborhood,
I knew that wer shouldn’t but I thought we could.
Knew it wouldn’t be hard to slide into the backyard,
Called all my friends and slipped a hundred to the guard.
We turned on the radio and had a party on the patio.
Betty’s in the sauna and she’s getting kind of hot,
Mary’s in the icebox wishin’ she was not.
Connie’s in the whirlpool, Jimmy’s tryin’ to be cool,
Libby’s in the bushes ’cause she’s nobody’s fool.
We turned the lights down low and had a party on the patio.
Heard the cops are coming so we tried to jump the fence,
Mary didn’t make it and we haven’t seen her since.
Connie had another drink, Jimmy simply couldn’t think,
Billy G. was passed out underneath the sink.
But everybody’s gonna show for another party on the patio.
You didn’t have to love me like you did
But you did, but you did.
And I thank you.
You didn’t have to love me like you did
But you did, but you did.
And I thank you.
But you took your love to someone else
I wouldn’t know what it meant to be loved to death
You made me feel like I’ve never felt
Kisses so good I had to holler for help
You didn’t have to squeeze it but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
You didn’t have to hold it but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
Every day was something new,
You put on your bag and your fine to-do
You got me trying new things too
Just so I can keep up with you.
You didn’t have to shake it but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
You didn’t have to make it like you did
but you did but you did
And I thank you.
All my life I’ve been shortchanged
Without your love baby it’s a crying shame
But now I know what the fellas talking about
Hear me say that they been turned out
I want to thank you
I want to thank you
I want to thank you
Yes, I want to thank you