Mystery To Me
Lyrics
Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to
Living in alleys, living it down
Living the way you always thought you’d do
Shakin’ it up shakin’ it down
Shakin’ the way you never wanted to
Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you always thought
you’d do
You feel so old, I feel so new
Tell me what you want me to…
Do you want me to go all night
Do you want me to tell you you’re all
right
Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to
Lord, I feel so new
Tell me what you want me to do
And it’s a mystery to me
And it’s a mystery to me
Well your trying, trying to look so hard
But you want..but you want…but you want to go
Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to
Shakin’ it up, shaking it down
Shakin’ the way you always thought you’d do
You feel so old, I feel so new
Tell me what you want me to do
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BODYCOUNT AT TYRONE’S (Bootleg LP)BRIG 007
released: unknown
Recorded: Tyrone\s Athens, 10/4/80
- 1. Just A Touch
- 2. A Girl Like You
- 3. Dangerous Times
- 4. There She Goes Again
- 5. All The Right Friends
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Body Count
- 8. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 12. Gardening At Night
- 13. Scheherazade
- 14. Lisa Says
- 15. Mystery To Me
- 16. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 17. Permanent Vacation
Chronic Murmurings (Bootleg LP)TRW 1905
released: unknown
Recorded: Wuxtury demos (6/6/1980), IRS Demos (1981), Outtakes
- 1. Dangerous Times
Wuxtury demos - 2. All The Right Friends
Wuxtury demos - 3. A Different Girl
Wuxtury demos - 4. Narrator
Wuxtury demos - 5. Just A Touch
Wuxtury demos - 6. Baby I
Wuxtury demos - 7. Mystery To Me
Wuxtury demos - 8. Permanent Vacation
Wuxtury demos - 9. 1,000,000
IRS Demos - 10. Ages Of You
IRS Demos - 11. Gardening At Night
IRS Demos - 12. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
IRS Demos - 13. Stumble
IRS Demos - 14. Catapult
Chronic Town Outtakes - 15. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 16. Laughing
Chronic Town Outtakes - 17. Romance
Chronic Town Outtakes - 18. Shaking Through
Chronic Town Outtakes - 19. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Chronic Town Outtakes - 20. Stumble
Chronic Town Outtakes - 21. Wolves, Lower
Chronic Town Outtakes - 22. 1,000,000
Chronic Town Outtakes - 23. Windout
Reckoning Outtakes - 24. Just A Touch
Reckoning Outtakes
Drive (Bootleg LP)released: unknown
Recorded: Demos from various studios and dates.
- 1. Radio Free Europe
Radio Dub - 2. Ages Of You
- 3. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 4. Shaking Through
- 5. Wolves, Lower
Fast Version - 6. Catapult
- 7. Laughing
- 8. Romance
- 9. That Beat
- 10. Burning Hell
- 11. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- 12. Skank
- 13. Theme From Two Steps Onward
- 14. Just A Touch
- 15. Mystery To Me
- 16. Wait
- 17. Begin The Begin
- 18. Cuyahoga
- 19. I Believe
- 20. These Days
- 21. Bad Day
Georgia Peaches Ripe! (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! The Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)CYCLER-T-80
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.
- 1. Rave On
- 2. 20th Century Boy
- 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 4. Crazy
- 5. That Beat
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 8. Just A Touch
- 9. A Girl Like You
- 10. Dangerous Times
- 11. There She Goes Again
- 12. All The Right Friends
- 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 14. Body Count
- 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 16. Action
- 17. Narrator
- 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 19. Gardening At Night
- 20. Scheherazade
- 21. Lisa Says
- 22. Mystery To Me
- 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 24. Permanent Vacation
Early Movements (Bootleg CD Album)COP 010
released: unknown
Recorded: (Tracks 1-11) Chronic Town LP Early Studio Outtakes; (Tracks 12-19)1980 Wuxtury Demos; (Tracks 20-21) Remixes.
- 1. Catapult
- 2. Wolves, Lower
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Romance
- 5. Shaking Through
- 6. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 7. Stumble
- 8. Wolves, Lower
- 9. 1,000,000
- 10. Windout
- 11. Just A Touch
- 12. Dangerous Times
- 13. All The Right Friends
- 14. A Different Girl
- 15. Narrator
- 16. Just A Touch
- 17. Baby I
- 18. Mystery To Me
- 19. Permanent Vacation
- 20. Drive
Primary Remix - 21. Drive
Secondary Remix
File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)BPP-001
released: unknown
Recorded: January 1982, Fridays, Greensboro, NC + Bonus Tracks.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. New Song
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Mystery To Me
- 10. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 11. Ages Of You
- 12. Catapult
- 13. Shaking Through
- 14. Laughing
- 15. Romance
- 16. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 17. Permanent Vacation
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. Wolves, Lower
- 20. Radio Free Europe
- 21. All The Right Friends
Bonus Track - 22. Wait
Bonus Track - 23. Body Count
Bonus Track
Life’s Rich Pageant & More (Bootleg CD Album)WAI 022
released: unknown
Recorded: (Tracks 1-14) Pageant Studio Demos, (Tracks 15-24) Recorded at Various Locations.
- 1. Theme From Two Steps Onward
- 2. Just A Touch
- 3. Mystery To Me
- 4. Wait
- 5. Begin The Begin
- 6. Cuyahoga
- 7. I Believe
- 8. Interim Medley (LRP Instrumental Demo)
- 9. Rotary Ten
- 10. These Days
- 11. Bad Day
- 12. Underneath The Bunker
- 13. Swan Swan H
- 14. The Flowers Of Guatemala
- 15. March
- 16. Theme From Two Steps Onward
- 17. California Dreaming
- 18. Mississippi Queen
- 19. Whole Lotta Love
- 20. Funtime
- 21. After Hours
- 22. Oddfellows Local 151
- 23. Born To Run
- 24. Eight Miles High
- 25. Roadrunner
- 26. When I Was Young


(4.75 out of 5)