Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
New fang
Nothing
I don't mean
To parade
By the sucking on a one or other
Stand up
Step aside
Open wide
Hangin' out
My ability is gone
Want two?
Yes I do
Went along
Take a dose
Getting gone for girls
Blue slips
Blood sex sweat
Can I go
I think it's what I gotta know
Sometimes ya break a finger on the upper hand
Think you got me confused for a better man
Sometimes you break the finger on the upper hand
Say you've got me confused, ah
I ain't a better man
No slack
Cadillac
Couldn't quit
Guns slaps
As we take it back
Except
What I left
Far behind
In a time
When my mind was like a landmine
Tailgate
By the lane
Too much too young
Everybody gonna go along
Turn red
No show
Gotta let us know your gonna roll
Sometimes ya break a finger on the upper hand
Said you've got me confused with a better man
Sometimes you break the finger on the upper hand
I know you've got me confused
Don't go, oh no
New fang pressing down low
No more waiting around for
New fang pressing down, ah
No more waiting around, ah
New fang
New fang
They gonna wait? No
New fang
New
They ain't gonna wait no more
Nothing
I don't mean
To parade
By the sucking on a one or other
Stand up
Step aside
Open wide
Hangin' out
My ability is gone
Want two?
Yes I do
Went along
Take a dose
Getting gone for girls
Blue slips
Blood sex sweat
Can I go
I think it's what I gotta know
Sometimes ya break a finger on the upper hand
Think you got me confused for a better man
Sometimes you break the finger on the upper hand
Say you've got me confused, ah
I ain't a better man
No slack
Cadillac
Couldn't quit
Guns slaps
As we take it back
Except
What I left
Far behind
In a time
When my mind was like a landmine
Tailgate
By the lane
Too much too young
Everybody gonna go along
Turn red
No show
Gotta let us know your gonna roll
Sometimes ya break a finger on the upper hand
Said you've got me confused with a better man
Sometimes you break the finger on the upper hand
I know you've got me confused
Don't go, oh no
New fang pressing down low
No more waiting around for
New fang pressing down, ah
No more waiting around, ah
New fang
New fang
They gonna wait? No
New fang
New
They ain't gonna wait no more
Lyrics submitted by HuGooGuH, edited by Movemental, tommy10274
New Fang Lyrics as written by Josh Homme John Baldwin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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+1, although you missed a word.
Tightrope No joke Nothing left so you go baroque