It cuts every corner of every street
I see it on the face of everybody I meet
It comes out of nowhere, it chills to the bone
When I'm by myself, I'm not alone
I've tried to run, I've tried to hide
It's seen me laugh and it's seen me cry
It's always there, wherever I go
I can't escape your blue shadow
I can't escape your blue shadow
It's like an ice cold blanket on the bed of my soul
It's wrapped around my heart and it won't let go
I never think about you, well, that's a lie
I can't forget about you, so why even try
I've tried to run, I've tried to hide
It's seen me laugh and it's seen me cry
It's always there, wherever I go
I can't escape your blue shadow
I can't escape your blue shadow
Your blue shadow
Your blue shadow
Your blue shadow
She wore black on black
It was perfect for the night
She looked like an angel
By the candlelight
He had his lines all down
Like a work of art
He made every word sound
Like it was straight from the heart
He said, "Do you believe in magic?"
As he reached for her hand
She said, "I always have
But I should try understand"
He watched like a hawk
As she tripped on her gown
He said, "I'll give you a ride
'Cause this is a dangerous town"
She stepped inside like a woman
And took that walk of shame
She stepped into his car
She didn't even know his name
She felt less of nothing
And no guilt, no pain
Two hungry souls
On the walk of shame
He called her a lady
It went straight to her head
He spoke hollow words in a motel room
In a dusty bed
When the morning broke
The truth came with the light
The mirror told her the magic
Well, it just disappeared with the night
And there she stood like a woman
And took that walk of shame
She didn't make a sound
She didn't even know his name
She felt less of nothing
And no guilt, no pain
No tears allowed
On the walk of shame
No tears allowed
The sunlights of forever shine down on you and me
When we are together is the only time we're free
That's when the world stands still, we're the only ones alive
There's no space in between us if you look into our eyes
We don't have to touch we just breathe each other's breath
We only have two choices: paradise or death
The blood has all been given and it's written on the wall
How crazy we've been driven is a mystery to them all
We always played like children and we made love just like gods
We fought this world together and we lived to spite the odds
I'd tear through the sky to find you and I know that you'd find me
We made a sacred promise to find out what we can't see
We stood out on the edge and we pulled each other back
And then we disappeared in the middle of the act
We built a sanctuary, had communion without wine
In the late great golden state
It's getting hard to negotiate
When you're one slip
From a grim fate
In the late great golden state
In the late great golden state
I don't do much
But I'm always late
I ain't old, I'm just out of date
In the late great golden state
I caught one last glimpse
Of the palomino
When I drove out west
To see the purple sage
Then as canyons burned
And the mountains crumbled
The last cowboy band
Left the stage
I ain't old, I'm just out of date
In the late great golden state
[Instrumental]
I caught one last glimpse
Of the palomino
When I drove out west
To see the purple sage
Then as the canyons burned
And the mountains crumbled
The last cowboy
Left the stage
Yeah, the late great golden state
Is a nice place for a clean slate
But leave your expectations
At the gate
Of the late great golden state
'Cause they can pack you up
And send you home in a crate
Stamped the late great
One day your face will fade and your heart will see new things
Someday there will be no parade and you'll see what life can bring
You made me wait for you while your brilliant mind was seething
I guess you didn't know that you were the only thing that kept me breathing
I said the things I said not because I meant to harm you
Now you know that I'm nearly dead, I'll just bet that it kind of warms you
You left me out on the edge of the world
You played your cards and your power as the girl
You watched with pride as your flag unfurled
And you watched me fall from the edge of the world
Revenge is so sweet they say, but they don't tell you that it eats you
Your crowd is gathered 'round today but someday they're the ones who'll beat you
I know that I'm wrong about what came out of me last time we talked
But do you have to shout it out that you think that I would really walk?
You left me out on the edge of the world
You played your cards and your power as the girl
You watched with pride as your flag unfurled
And you watched me fall from the edge of the world
You said I could never be too intense, it only proved that I really loved you
You said that it all made sense that I would put no one above you
And now with just one slip on my part you've used that to damn me
If you felt the desperation in my heart then maybe you wouldn't slam me
You left me out on the edge of the world
You played your cards and your power as the girl
You watched with pride as your flag unfurled
And you watched me fall from the edge of the world
I pray you never lose your face, I hope it stays brand new
'Cause in this world it's the place where everybody seems to love you
Where I live it doesn't mean a thing, I'll be there in forever
I tried to tell you
Why you should listen to my song
You told me that you heard me
And that you'd learn to use the phone
I told you that I was really scared
I may not last
I said I was desperate
An emergency was coming fast
Do you really want to let me be the desperate one?
I thought you were my friend
I waited for the blood you
Promised me that you would let
In my soul I prayed
That you would never forget
You said to sign my life away
To your command
And now I can't describe
How little I understand
Do you really want to let me be the desperate one?
I thought you were my friend
Do you really want to let me be
Do you really want to let me see the Desperate One?
Do you really want to let me be the desperate one?
I thought you were my friend
I thought it was 'till the end
There's a big black train
I've been hearing all my life
Every night, at sundown
I hear its lonesome cry
When I look through the screen door
I see a rocking chair
My mama's sitting in it
Thinking 'bout that world out there
She wants to go over that mountain
To see what's on the other side
She said, "I want to go over that mountain
Before the day that I die"
Well she's never set foot
Out of this poor valley holler
Though she talks about her dreams
Of some other way to fly
Eighty seven years of living
And never had much of anything
Is it asking too much to see
A damned old diesel train?
She wants to go over that mountain
To see what's on the other side
She said, "I want to go over that mountain
Before the day that I die"
Twenty years ago, today
My daddy left this holler
He said, "I'll be coming back
Tomorrow night"
I remember the sound
Of his boot heels in the gravel
Well, he ain't been back since
And he never said goodbye
She wants to go over that mountain
To see what's on the other side
She said, "I want to go over that mountain
Before the day that I die
Baby, yeah, would you meet me at the starlight lounge?
Where I found you and you found me
We were both dressed up with no place to be
You set me from my reasons for the span of our drink
For as long I think as it took for us to sink
In our garden of sleaze
You felt me up and you stroked me from the inside out
Till we just about, yeah
We just about were sleazed out
You leaned on me and I leaned on you
Yeah, we pushed real hard to twist the truth
Whispered love through a hot red smoke in a dirty booth
You gave me so many reasons, yeah, you let me down
And I started to think 'bout our last drink
As I watched us drown in our garden of sleaze
Baby, would you meet me at the starlight lounge?
Smooth me over
Make it okay
Make it alright
Make it alright
Smooth it okay
Make it better tonight
Love me better
And make it smoother
Make it better
Make me feel
Take the demon
And be an angel
Break the bottle
And throw away the pills
And take the keys away
You can't fail me
Can't fail me
I can't fail me
Make it better
Be an angel
And break the bottle
It's your future tonight
Smooth me over
Smooth me over
Make it okay
Make it alright
Smooth it okay
And let me sleep tonight
Take the keys away
Break the bottle
Take the pain away
And lock the door
You have to fix me
The bottle broke me
Throw the pills away
I gotta sleep
You have to fix me
The bottle broke me
So I won't fail you
Smooth me over
Make it better
You'll have to scream at me
And make it right
Be an angel
And take this demon
Lightning bugs buzzing ?round the piss elm tree
I?m a hundred miles form reality
Take a big drag-suck it all in
Blow it out the window, let it ride on the wind
I see indigo wheels of purple and blue
People on TV, look like me and you
There?s spiders on the ceiling and buzzards on the wall
If I could find the telephone, I?d give you a call
Smoking in bed, smoking in bed
It?s bad for my body, good for my head
I like to lay around the house and smoke in bed
Have any y?all ever seen a mattress burn
While listening to the Byrds sing ?Turn, Turn, Turn'?
I?ve seen it happen, I?m living proof
If you don?t believe me look at the hole in my roof
Now I can lay around the here and look at the sky
And watch the fuzzy black dragons as they fly by
I think it?s time to roll a bog ole fatty
And try to find the phone to call Miss Paisley Patty
Smoking in bed, smoking in bed
It?s bad for my body, good for my head
I like to lay around the house and smoke in bed
Smoking in bed, smoking in bed
It?s bad for my body, good for my head
Why did you go
Restin' your soul
Restin' your soul
Now I have to go
Travelin' alone
Travelin' alone
I don't blame you in
So many different ways
I might have done the
Same myself
But if you could see how
I get through every day
You'd know why I could
Use your help
I've always wondered if
We black out and just go
That has always been
My fear
If you're looking for the
Magic that's unknown
Just know that you stole some
Purple passion in the glove box
Under a map
And a couple of joints and some
Dentyne under my cap
As a general rule
I don?t monkey around with toys
But she needed more than you could get
From the average boy
She said, "I?ll never see you again"
At least you could grant me a wish
We?ll drink purple passion
We?ll drink purple passion
We?ll drink purple passion
?Til we?re black and blue
She pulled out a night stick
A placed it into my hand
There are voices in my head
And demons in my soul
Sometimes they keep me warm
Sometimes they leave me cold
There are strangers in my bed
To caress my jaded skin
And squeeze my body tight
And forgive me of my sins
And I know I?m not insane
If I am, I?m not to blame
It?s just this damned old hungry pain
Like a drug inside my veins
And I?ve sown just what I?ve reaped
And my thoughts are mine to keep
And through my chilly bones they creep
And they whisper me to sleep
When the nighttime goes away
And the voices have all gone
I fumble with my clothes
And put myself back on
I walk out on the streets
To face another day
I know I?ll meet my fears
Somewhere along the way
As I climb the mighty steel
And watch the river flow
I?ll drown beneath the waves
The news is full of crime
And people love to hear it
They hang on every line
Even though they fear it
As long as it is someone else
Who's suffering the pain
They'll suck their beer and belch
And watch the blood pour like it's rain
But people tell me why it's so
When a man kills his pregnant wife
It becomes a prime time show
If they're living in the high life
They change the channel just like that
When their drowning in the ninth ward
But they're hypnotized by some cat
Who killed a beauty queen in his yard
I can tell you what I think
But the news just won't admit it
Oooooo pretty people did it
Yeh, oooooo pretty people did it
Seems murder only last a minute
When it's poor or red or black
They always have a way to spin it
When the big chiefs get bushwacked
If your child goes missing you got to know
You better put out some fliers
Unless your rolling in the dough
You won't get much help through the wires
Here's a news flash here's the scoop
Here is why your story bit it
The burning of that first cigarette
Is enough to make me halfway forget
That there's no place where I feel at home
I guess that I was just born to roam
Buses, trains and other people's cars
Are the means by which I gaze at the stars
Loose change from strangers here and there
Gives me a little hope that someone cares
Sure I'm an able bodied man
People think I should work and that I can
But it's not my hands that put me in a bind
It's a problem the Good Lord gave my mind
(Chorus)
I've cried, believe me
I've begged madness to leave me
Like anyone I didn't ask to be born
But I'm here anyway
And I'm one of those who is torn
In pieces
Pieces of a man
If I could choose to change, I would, God knows
But my thoughts go where the cold wind blows
They say give credit where credit is due
I've never had any credit, so I don't feel like they do
Who knows why some are broken from the start
I guess the rules are made up by someone who's smart
If that's the case I wish they'd figure us out
She staggered from the house and snaked to my car
The haggard lil' spouse had a thing for seedy bars
She begged to let her ride then she drooled on my jeans
She was crazy in her eyes and bustin' at the seams
Then she took a matchstick and scraped at her wrist
But her skin wasn't breaking so she made her a fist
I guess the years at the spa had grown a tough hide
It ain't easy to pull---It ain't easy to pull
It ain't easy to pull off... Orange County suicide
Behind the Orange Curtain way on the other side
Our future looked uncertain as we hit El Toro Y
We saw the devil walking while angels ran around
There was no sense in talking, the ship had run aground
A look of desperation came all over her face
Cryin' and cussin', stepping up the pace
She grabbed a box of little matches, guess she wasn't satisfied
It ain't easy to pull---It ain't easy to pull
It ain't easy to pull off... Orange County Suicide
If you do it----you gotta do it for real
Don't do it----just to see how I feel
If you do it--you gotta do it for real
Go through it----Then tell me how you feel
She was pretty as a flower, sturdy as a pearl
She came with all the powers you would want in a girl
But nothing's ever simple when you're on the cuttin' edge
Smoothing every wrinkle, honoring every pledge
In a house of cards she was playing every hand
The world on her finger and me at her command
She was all wound up and she finally came untied
It ain't easy to oull-It ain't easy to pull
It ain't easy to pull off... Orange County Suicide
It's just me
It's just me
It's just me
Living inside you
That voice you hear in the morning
Is me opening your eyes
The darkness that you feel each evening
Is just my lonely cry
Don't let me change the way you're living
I'm just in here with my love
I lost my vanity and judgment
When I found nothing up above
It's just me
It's just me
It's just me
Living inside you
That jealous rage that took me from you
Is just a whisper in the wind
The breeze that carried me back to you
Is the memory of my friend
It's just me
It's just me
It's just me
Tonight I walk these city streets alone
Kicking empty beer cans mumbling in a monotone
And whatever madness the sidewalk show presents
But I've got no time, I've got no desire for painted girls for rent
Or uptown chicks in Daddy's cars, ragtops down shooting for the stars
It's me and it's them and the night's been ripped in two
I couldn't sleep, it's too late for me to call
If I stayed home I'd punch more holes in my apartment wall
I drove downtown and tried to come alive
Instead I'm drinking this morning's coffee in this all night dive
And I'll be here for a little while
Think of all the numbers that I could dial tonight
And God knows I've got more than a few
(Chorus)
But I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
You know it's not long until I'm gonna leave this circus far behind
And drive the night straight through, to Island Avenue
You know I love to walk these streets alone
I thought all I ever wanted was to be out here on my own
But yes I'm fascinated by your ways
And yes I must admit that you have set me all ablaze
Crazy promises that no man could keep
As I slam the door of my battered heap
As I hear the engine start I take my cue
'Cause I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
I don't want nobody, don't need nobody, I want you
You know it's not long until I'm gonna leave this circus far behind
Do you remember in the day
All our crazy summer ways
And those guys that were our friends
The red and yellow windy falls
When we seemed to have it all
And it was never gonna end
The girls we loved
That came and went
All the idle time we spent
Playing records that we'd borrowed
Now it kinda hurts to think
Every time I take a drink
That this would be tomorrow
[Chorus:]
I don't see nothin' wrong with dreaming
Unless that's all you seem to do
Something's wrong when you can't find meaning
Since nineteen seventy two
I'm not sure if it's me that
Needs changing'
Maybe we had a better way
But then the world always
Needed rearranging
Even back in the day
Even back in the day
They've turned the Ritz into
A mall
And tore down the Big and Tall
But the ghosts still wander main street
They took away the mom and pop
There's a seven acre stop
Where you buy new tires and bed sheets
Paula's record shop is gone
It died a little with each song
That was written by committee
Now the stars don't really shine
They steal the glow we left behind
In a time they never did see
[Chorus:]
I don't see nothin' wrong with dreaming
Unless that's all you seem to do
Something's wrong when you can't find meaning
Since nineteen seventy two
I'm not sure if it's me that
Needs changing'
Maybe we had a better way
But then the world always
Needed rearranging
Even back in the day
I don't have a girl to bail me out tonight
And I don't have the means to help myself
I don't have a friend to get me tight tonight
It seems like nothings right when nothings left
I bit the hand that fed me & I made the knife that bled me
But I used to be a lion
But I used to be a lion
I don't have the pride to hold my head up high
And I don't have the strength to make the kill
These days I don't run free I'm just passing by
Waking up at all is my only thrill
I lost the ones that love me
Now everyone's above me
But I used to be a lion
Maybe we're in a mess
Maybe it's cold out there
It seems like a cruel test
This weights too hard to bear
But maybe we'll find a way
To raise the flag again
It's gotten so hard to say
This land is our land
Somedays you can look around
And see hope in the eyes
Of those who are still bound
To a world of bloody skies
We're getting tired of holding on
To the righteous stories
And the fairy tales and songs
And the wind that's blowing old glory
They can take away our rights
But what makes 'em worry
They know it's in us to fight
And never trade hope for glory
Mama used to feed the Hobo's
Now I'm a Hobo
I'm a Hobo
Mama used to feed 'em scraps and things
Now I eat scraps and things
I eat scraps and things
Mama used to feed 'em scraps and things
Now I eat scraps and things
I eat scraps and things
(Solo)
Mama said California was gonna fall in the ocean
Gonna fall in the ocean
Mama said California was gonna fall in the ocean
Now I'm in the ocean
I'm in the ocean
When I was a child I loved the people
Now I'm afraid of the people
I'm afraid of the people
When I was a child I loved the people
Now I'm afraid of the people
I'm afraid of the people
Mama used to feed the Hobos
Now I'm a Hobo
I'm a Hobo
Mama used to feed the Hobos
Now where is Mama
I sit here in my lonely room
Sunshine breaks the dusty gloom
And spots the magazine on the table
Your cover girl eyes burn right through me
I see myself in the looking glass
I see some freak staring back
Even though I know it's me
It's the inside I wish that you could see
[Chorus:]
Hearts like mine, Love girls like you
Hearts like mine, love girls like you
I sit here in this cold steel chair
The turns in life for some just don't seem fair
When I roll over to the tv
I can still turn you on
[Chorus:]
Hearts like mine, Love girls like you
Hearts like mine, love girls like you
Still I thank our lucky stars everyday
That it's possible for some to have your fate
I can hope that you'll find
Someone with a heart just like mine
And Hearts like mine, Love girls like you
A clear blue ocean view
For sale not for lease
Everyone said it's, a
Contemporary masterpiece
Malibu, August it was a
Perfect dream
Enormous potential the real
Estate lady screamed
A stunning sunset and
Movie stars right next door
Life was finally beautiful
Entertainment was in store
(Chorus)
Waterfalls, Jacquzzies, workout
Rooms and uzies
But massive pocket doors
And expensive wooden floors
Don't make a house a home
It's just another loan
So I cry
Behind the gray walls
Style and sophistication and
California Grace
The top of the world it's gated with
Plenty of space
A girl named Misty and a dog
The size of a horse
Possiblilties for power it's just
A matter of force
Unique adobe just like in
Mexico
But not a single person walks
My bones are starting to show through
My eyes are dark and hollow
It's all because I'm missing you
It's getting hard for me to swallow
If magic doesn't really come
Why did you say it did
If it's just a fantasy for some
What do I tell the kids
Why did you take me by the hand
If you knew you could let it go
Why did you lead me through that land
If it was just some kind of show
I guess it doesn't really matter
What's not true is just not true
I'll guess you'll just keep getting fatter
Off the ones who are brand new
I've got this crazy feeling still
You'll live in a black hole
There'll be something there that you can't fill
Only this time it'll be your soul
Yet through all of this doubt
My mind still drifts out on a land
And you've figured it all out
Hey, baby, it's me
Listen, I'm gonna talk fast, this is long distance
Ya, I'm sittin' here at the Waffle House
Smothered and covered
Ya, precious just sat me down a glass of sweet tea
Made me think about you
No baby, she's a waitress, no, I don't know her
I never stopped in Texarkana before
Look here, the only thing standing between
Me and you now is 200 miles and a donut tire
Some cat named Dino is puttin' on to Sinclair next door
Hey, don't cry baby, oh, don't cry
Yeah, daddy's comin' home and this time
It's for good and girl I'm gonna, well
I mean, I'm gonna love you
What do you mean how long?
Forever and ever and ever and ever
Forever and ever and ever
Is that long enough for you?
Hey, baby, it's me again
Hey, you remember them drawers you left in the car
Yeah, the ones with the pink feathers around the edge
Then, don't you tell a soul but I got 'em on right now
And they're making me think about you
Yeah, I was thinkin' about you when the law pulled me over
They said I looked like the kind of guy that might
Be hidin' somethin' and my car was swervin'
But I don't think he's ever seen a man wearing pink panties
And under the influence of Merle Haggard
Now here it is baby, the only thing between you and me
Is 25 miles and a quick stop at the red dot
Say what? Oh, baby, I already told you
How long I'm gonna stay this time
Forever and ever and ever and ever
Forever and ever and ever
Is that long enough for you?
Forever, forever and ever and ever and ever
Forever and ever, is that long enough for you?
Forever, forever and ever and ever and ever
Forever, forever, is that long enough for you?
Forever, forever and ever and ever and ever
I remember Houston, the air was too close
And you said let me out of this cage right now
New Orleans was to be the next stop
People are free there to breathe when they want
It turned out the heat was too great there
They wore blue suits and they ate there
A U-Haul trailer and a girlfriend took you to San Francisco Bay
For peace, for love and happiness
But something went wrong in the middle of the night
Who knows what makes a heart race too fast
And who knows what makes it stop
Somehow I still feel it was a mistake
Surely it wasn't just your heartbreak
And maybe the sky was just running out of hope
And maybe the heavens opened up and dropped down a rope
And you grabbed it
Sometimes on clear days I try to find you
But I never see anything but space
But sometimes in the middle of the night
I hear a whisper and sometimes a scream
I wonder what you're trying to say
I think I may know what it is
'Cause I'm still here and I'm trying to win
And you're trying to tell me that I can't
'Cause there's not enough love to fill me here
My heart races fast just like yours
I'll never forget that last look on your face
And maybe you were too good for this place
And maybe the sky was just running out of hope
And maybe the heavens opened up and dropped down a rope
Everybody lies, everybody ties
Someone to them and takes a little dope
Everybody sighs, everybody tries
To clear the smoke when there's no fucking hope
Everybody fakes, everybody breaks
And hearts get killed along the way
Everybody takes, everybody makes
Their own rules of how the game is played
So we keep stopping at the lights
When they don't look
And we keep drawing all the lines
For their books
But you and I can't seem to play
A game that works
'Cause you and I can't seem to say
Yes to the jerks
So we hurt ourselves
But you and I can't seem to play
A game that works
'Cause you and I can't seem to say
Yes to the jerks
So we hurt ourselves
But you and I can't seem to play
A game that works
'Cause you and I can't seem to say
Yes to the jerks
So we hurt ourselves
But you and I can't seem to play
A game that works
'Cause you and I can't seem to say
Yes to the jerks
All the dirty old men are eyeing her
I'm no better in the corner spying her
She bends over to pick up a rag
She walks my way and I can barely say
Emily, you look so nice
Emily, you better bring a glass of ice
Emily, I don't know how much of this I can take
I shiver, I shake
I make some stupid joke about the menu
You know how it gets so clumsy when you
Try to think out the next thing to say
She doesn't notice, and laughs anyway
Emily, I don't wanna cause a scene
Emily, you're the best I've ever seen
Emily, I don't wanna be another coffee break
I shiver, I shake
These lines you must have heard them all
Everyone's lined up at the waitress call
Emily, you got me climbing up the walls
Emily smiles and goes on with her work
The next remark from the next drunken jerk
The same sweet smile, the same heart throb
You know the whole damn act's just part of the job
Emily, I'm sorry about the ketchup drip
Emily, I'm sorry about the lousy tip
Emily, I guess tonight I'll lay awake
And shiver and shake
Will you think of me when I'm out the door?
Will you think of me when you're on the floor?
Will you think of me anymore?
The lawman said "El Centro on five dollars a day?
You must be dreamin' kid"
How long did you want to stay,
Cause Son that's just the price of admission
Are you out of your mind?
If you wanna stay here, you damn well better listen
(CHORUS)
Cause you see son
We got nine square miles of beautiful brown turf
0 murders per 100, 000
And we could care less about the surf
We're the center of a promisiing commercial region
We got rotary and lions club, and damn good American Legion
I said I'm just tryin' to get to the Golden State
I hear there's jobs everywhere
And the weather is great
And He said "Oh, I see you don't believe this is California
I guess the folks back in where ever didn't warn you
See, it ain't all swimming pools and movie stars
You're lookin' for that place that may as well be Mars"
You little shit
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And then he said "We've got points of interest and good museums and golf
But if you really want your heart broke
We're just a little bit soft
If I had a nickel for everytime I've seen your kind
I'd be so rich I'd probably lose my mind"
And I said okay
I think I get what you're sayin
It's that you can't always get what you want
Without payin, okay
My bones are starting to show through
My eyes are dark and hollow
It's all because I'm missing you
It's getting hard for me to swallow
If magic doesn't really come
Why did you say you did
If it's just a fantasy for some
What do I tell the kids
Dear God, I come to you in all humbleitude
As a representative for the children
Yes, they're the ones who aksed me to come to you
And talk to you about this particular subject
That subject being that little saying you gave us
When we were in bible school at Camp Tanaco
"Ask, and you shall receive"
Now, what we aksed for was
"Can you please just tell us what the fuck's goin' on?
Does magic really come?"
I don't mean to be irreverant, or anything like that
I wouldn't dare, would I?
But you see I'm standing here at Dub Ballard's Frosty Freeze
At the corner of Hwy 67 and Solinberger Street
The home of a lovely girl with a poodle haircut named Cindy.
To whom I gave one cleat, a football cleat,
Because I couldn't afford the fifteen that the doctor's sons could.
You see, we're kind of lost out here, God
I've got this fucking snow-cone in my hand and it's dripping down
And we're wondering, since you're kind of a doctor of the universe
Could you give us a little cream or something for that
Could you just help us out a smidgen?
Kinda lookin' for a clue
I mean not in the mystery sense, not in the Humphrey Bogart sense
But just in the sense that we want to know what to do
When we wake up in the morning and our heart is beating
Out of our fucking chest
Why is this window so dirty and gray?
I can?t see you through it anymore
It may be the smoke, it?s hard to say
The fact is this place has too many doors
I can?t find a handle on any of them
Maybe I see one but I don?t want to turn it
What if I did and it opened on him
Ain?t truth a bitch when you?re having to learn it?
Before a heart breaks, it has to bend
It?s the last one to know when love comes to an end
And here I sit crazy, lonesome and sad
Watching me dark and mad
Watching me dark and mad
This cigarette burns like the pain in my soul
When the fire gets too hot, the ash turns to coal
The smoke tells a story that?s sad but it?s true
It turns into a ghost that looks just like you
I close my eyes and I silently scream
My mind comes and goes, it drifts and it dreams
The cold hand of death is welcome and warm
It?s the essence of love in its darkest form
Before a heart breaks, it has to bend
It?s the last one to know when love comes to an end
And here I sit crazy, lonesome and sad
Watching me dark and mad
Watching me dark and mad
Watching me dark and mad
I saw her in between fast moving scrambler cars
She had a stare like a twenty dollar whore
Now I have done my time but I would say thus far
I've never seen a stare like that before
I ambled over close enough to ask her name
She said not that it's your business but it's dora
Her bottom lip and both ears were linked by chains
She even had a tattoo on her aura
I told her that I'd like to know about her world
And she said I ain't no carnival girl
She said just because I work the fair
And the wind of freedom blows through my hair
Don't mean I swing like a tilt-a-wurl
I may not be strung out in pearls
But I ain't no carnival girl
I ain't no carnival girl
She said that she would meet me in the parking lot
But right now she had to tug on that old handle
I bought a cotton candy and picked out a spot
And watched until the scrambler was dismantled
We talked until the sun came up and dried the dew
But talk was all we did since she insisted
She told me that their had only been a few
Exceptions to the rule since she enlisted
She said she'd gladly tell me all about her world
But she ain't no carnival girl
She said just because I work the fair
And the wind of freedom blows through my hair
Don't mean I swing like a tilt-a-wurl
I may not be strung out in pearls
But I ain't no carnival girl
There's a screened-in porch in the front but not the back
The back's just got a door and a crepe myrtle bush
And a little ole dried up garden and some woods way on the back
There's a hickory nut tree that covers the whole roof
Sounds like hand grenades hittin' the tin roof all the time
There's an old wood floor that's bowed up just about everywhere
It's got a thin coat of white stuff on it even though
It's a dark wood floor
There's a washing machine right outside the back door
It's a ringer washer, the kind they don't make anymore
I got my hand caught in it several times
And usually got my ass whipped for it
Even though I's the one that got hurt
There's a snake stick, that's what they called it anyway
By the back door because if you
Wanted to go outside you'd usually need it
Everything's green most of the time except in winter
When you could see the highway, it's not a leaf on the trees
There's an old rock, well, where we clean the squirrels
I used to sit out by that and watch the Carbor girl come down the road
She didn't have but one dress and that's all she needed
It was kinda red and kinda gray and kinda tore up and kinda perfect
She's built like a brick shit-house
She had polish on her toenails that only went about halfway down
?Cause they was always tore up
She used to walk across the side yard, right by the well
And go stand by the crepe myrtle bush
And look in the screen door
She'd usually stand there for about ten minutes
And back then I wasn't sure what she wanted
These days I understand, if I'd a known then what I know now
Well, my life might well have been pretty different
Well, she was about eight or nine years older than I was when I first
Started school I knew there was somethin'
There was somethin' about the south and the air was a lot heavier
And it seems like the women sweat even when they're not
I don't know if you've ever heard rain on a tin roof or not
But it's kinda tailor made for love
And day I was in the house and I was lookin' back
Toward the back screen door and there she was
Standin' there for ten minutes
The only thing different on this day is
That my daddy went back there and talked to her
And told her she looked pretty
I thought the same thing but there was somethin' 'bout the look
In his eye was a little different than the one I'd had in mine
And he walked outside and they went past the crepe myrtle bush
And past the well and out into the green
And I walked to the back door and I watched for a long time
And all I could see was trees after a time, I really couldn't see
They came back out and my daddy was walkin' way ahead of her
And she was kinda following, almost runnin'
He acted like he didn't want to have anything to do with her
And I was wondering why, why would you be so happy going in
And so down coming out, I don't know
That's what I thought then
He didn't act like she's so pretty anymore
Now I think I get it
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe I'm blind
Cause I can't understand
The kind of mind
That kills for God
Or money or the land
It just seems odd
To take that kind of stand
Some on the East side
Some on the West
Who think that somehow
Their way is best
But there are some
There in the middle
Who's lives have come
To mean so little
[Chorus:]
You can preach all you want to
And make up forever more
I know you want to walk into
Another world
But I don't see no Beautiful Door
I can't help myself
I like this place
And leavings not a thing
I want to face
But those who wanna go
Knock yourselves out
Just don't take those
Who don't care about
Your power dreams
And your golden gates
Cause I hear their screams
As you deal their fates
You'll never kill this world
But I am afraid
That you'll take away
Those you said God made
[Chorus:]
You can preach all you want to
And make up forever more
I know you want to walk
Into another world
But I don't see no Beautiful Door
I know you want to walk
Into another world
But I don't see no Beautiful Door
You say you want to talk
About a better world
At least we dreamed
And we let each other dance
At least it seemed
That we gave ourselves a chance
At least we tried
When the nights got longer
We never lied
When the questions got stronger
We gave it all
When there was nothin' left to give
When we heard the call
We always went there and lived
We took a chance
And we opened every door
We stole a glance
But it was taken back in scores
We always tried our best
But we usually made a mess
We tried to clean it up
But we missed a spot I guess
The stars shone down
And we took in all the light
The light went round and round
I walked into an elevator and you walked into a wall
You said you wanted to be with me
I never dreamed I had it all
But something changed hat day inside me
And I believe it changed inside you too
Yeah, Angelina, can you feel it?
Watching angels as they're dancing up above
Angelina, what's come between us
Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?
They all said we'd never make it
Two crazy panthers on the prowl
They said we would only fake it for a while
But we just looked at them and growled
You were massed and tied an' cut and weary
But I said, that's okay, you can be a girl
Yeah, Angelina, can you feel it?
Watching angels as they're dancing up above
Angelina, what's come between us
Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?
This ain't no chance we're taking
It's a real love that we're making
Blindfolds off and now we see
yeah, we see, Angelina, oh Angelina
Yeah, Angelina, can you feel it?
Watching angels as they're dancing up above
Angelina, what's come between us
Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?
Angelina, what's come between us
Could it bee the magic and the mystery of love?
Could it bee the magic and the mystery of love?
There's always numbers
In my head
A countin hunger
That must be fed
Got some pills
By my bed
Supposed to eat 'em
But I count them instead
Am I crazy
Am I mad
I've run out of fingers
They're all I had
[Chorus:]
I'm always countin'
I'm always countin'
Only trouble is
I'm countin on me
I wake up achin'
I count the pains
The storm ain't breakin'
I can't count the rain
I count the spectators
But the crowd just grows
I'm a speculator
Of the highs and lows
I've been playing
With a loaded deck
But the card are claiming
I'm a nervous wreck
[Chorus:]
I'm always countin'
I'm always countin'
Only trouble is
