Once I had a sweet love
Always followed me around
The way I treated my little lamb was like
The Marquis D. Sade and Her new clown
I guess I hurt him
I guess I hung up
I guess I should have called him back
I guess I didn't care
Maybe I left him there
Maybe a woman just acts like that
What's a matter?
Hey baby, baby
What's a matter?
Don't you want me?
What's a matter?
Now Baby, baby
What's a matter?
Is this The Real End?
Well, I had some dough,
I had a big car,
I turned around and all the money was spent
I don't know wherever it goes but
That's probably where my baby went
So you got a New boy
He's so fine
He wants to be with you
All the time
Don't tell him he's the only one
Or your New boy becomes a Hard to find
What's a matter?
Hey baby, baby
What's a matter?
Don't you want me?
What's a matter?
Now Baby, baby
What's a matter?
Is this The Real End?
Can I tell you about it?
Once you find yourself
A Better man
Treat him special all of the time
Make him some catfish
Fry it up in bed
Don't leave him hangin' on the telephone line
But keep him guessing
Don't tell him where you are
Keep your old linen to yourself
Keep your bank account
And what you don't worry about,
If you can give,
Well, it i`ust might work out
What's a matter?
Hey baby, baby
What's a matter?
You look so funny
What's a matter?
Now Baby, baby
What's a matter?
Is this the real
Real End?
Written by Barnes)
Something cool
I'd like to order something cool
It's so warm here in town
And this heat gets me down
And I'd like something cool
My, it's nice
Just to sit down and rest awhile
Hey, you know it's a shame
But I can't think of your name
But I remember your smile
Well, I don't ordinarily drink
With strangers
I guess I usually just, just drink alone
But you were so nice to ask me
And I'm so terribly far from home
Like my dress, well, I must confess
It's very old
Hey, but it's simple and neat
And it's just right for this heat
Hey, I will save my furs for the cold
A cigarette, no , I don't smoke them
As a rule
But, I'll have one, it might be fun
With something
I'll bet you wouldn't imagine
But I once had a house
With so many rooms
I couldn't count them all
Yeah, I know you wouldn't imagine
But I had fifteen different guys
Who would beg and beg to take me to a ball
And I know you wouldn't picture me
The time I went to Paris in the fall
Oh who would think the guy I loved
Was quite so handsome and quite so tall
Well, it's through, it's through
That was just a memory I had
One I guess I almost forgot
Oh, 'cause the weather's so hot
And I'm feeling so bad
About a date
Oh wait, I'm such a fool
He's just a guy who stopped to buy me
Something cool
My baby's alvvays crying,
My baby wants to see me cry, too.
Chain on my heart is going to break
Cuz every tear that falls in here
Is a dime for the Juke Box Fury
So punch it in
Shake the chain
And listen to the song you're playing
Shake the chain, Shake the chain
At everything I do
Just enough
Everything I wanted to
Just enough
Everything I put you through
Just enough to know
He don't want me
Oh, I think he's polorized
He don't know which way to go
Where would vou be otherwise?
Otherwise? Well, you know we could
Runaround
Because I can get this anyway
Runaround
I can get this anyway
Runaround
l can get this anyway
Light goes down
Somebody could break your heart
Light goes on
You could break somebody's heart
Chain on mv heart is going to break
Every time you try to make me cry
Listen to it now
Punch it in
Shake the chain
I can't take the tears
I can't take the tears
Shake the chain, shake the chain
At everything I do
Just enough
And everything I wanted to
Just enough
And everything I put you through
Just enough to know
He don't want me
Oh, you better wise up girl
You better get smart
You better hide your heart
He's a Runaround
And I could get this anyway
Runaround
I can get this anyway
Runaround
I can get it anyway
Take a deep breath
And break the chain
Well we were born forever
We are twinned in a fugitive mind
Friends should stay together and
Light the world with the fugitive kind
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
I just saw you walking
Ice was reading fortunes in the moonlight
Thinks he could not tell you
So never read it more than you will tonight
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Walking satellites
We were born forever
Tunneled into the fugitive night
Friends must stay together
Code the world with the fugitive light
I just saw you walking
Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight
Casting runes on the rooftops and alleys
Never read it more than you will tonight
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Walking satellites
Walking satellites
What's the matter with it? why's it look that way?
What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say?
What's that on its back? where's it trying to go?
A mystical vision got dressed up one night
Locked the door, walked through the misty porch light
Headed over to somebody's house
For an occasion long awaited
As it crossed the road, vista del mar
A big red car
Big black tires, nice corvette
And the future has not arrived yet
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the road kill
Moonlight on the hill, and the future is a road kill
What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say?
What's the matter with it? I just saw it yesterday
The police came, the neighbors too
They tried to pick it up, what else can you do?
Meanwhile, somebody's waiting back at the house
For the future to dawn bright across the sky
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the road kill
Moonlight on the hill, lights up the future
What's the matter with it? what's it trying to say?
What's the matter with it? why won't it go away?
What's the matter with it? why won't it close its eyes?
What's the matter with it? who are those guys? what's the matter with it...
( A.J.Lerner, F.Loewe )
I have often walked
Down this street before
But the pavement always stayed
Beneath my feet before
All at once am I
Several stories high
Knowing I'm
On the street
Where you live.
Are there lilac trees
In the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark
In any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of every door?
No, it's just On the street
Where you live.
And oh, the tow'ring feeling
Just to know
Somehow you are near
The overpow'ring feeling
That any second
You may suddenly appear.
You know,
People stop and stare,
They don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth
That I would rather be
Let the time go by,
I don't care if I
Can be here
On the street
Where you live.
And oh, the tow'ring feeling
Just to know
Somehow you are near
The overpow'ring feeling
That any second
You may suddenly appear.
You know,
People stop and stare,
They don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth
That I would rather be
Let the time go by,
I don't care if I
Can be here
On the street
Where you live
Can be here
On the street
Where you live.
Down there by the river is a man
Whose horn is twisted into shapes
Unknown to the wicked and the wise
And he bears the look of an animal
Who's seen things no animal
Should ever see
He has been driven beyond all towns
And all systems
Until now though it is long past too far
He keeps going
Because it's a desert
Because it's a desert
We come to the river
We'll walk away from all this now
We come to the water
We'll walk away from all this now
She first saw him he was standing in the doorway
Illuminated from behind by a light
Though imaginary posses
Chased them to these distant adobes
Standing on the cliffs today
I thought I saw you below
Walking by the river
My shadow growing smaller
It's a desert because
Because it's a desert
They'll be asking us about it forever
I guess
We come to the river
We'll walk away from all this now
Come to the water
We'll walk away from all this now
Long coats on the prairie
Lying in the dust
Who can I turn to?
Who can I trust?
Were you walking on the water?
Playing in the sun?
But the world is turning faster
Than it did when I was young
When I was young
Oh, when I was young
I was a wild, wild one
There was a Joe
Leanin' on the back door
A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills
Their eyes was statin'
They was waitin'
To get their hands on some easy money
They flipped a dime
One said " well, I'll take heads this time"
One stepped up
One stepped back
One loosened her shoulder strap
She couldn't speak,
Her knees got weak
She could almost taste that easy money
There was this old black cat
Sittin' in a old black cadillac
The Joe smelled sweet
She curled up at her boyfriend's feet
She said "I got a plan
Listen, Sam, how'd ya like to make some easy money ? "
He say, "yes! oh yes!
Jus' tell me what you want me to do "
She said, "Baby, you can trust me
Baby, but you must be hidin' in my room
At a quarter to two"
Well, the cat told the boy
"Come up to the room and play with my toy"
But the Jill set the bait
And she wasn't gonna sit around and wait
But this guy was wise to all the lies
And he flies out the door
With the easy money
Because there ain't no man
Who got the money in his hand
Who got any of that bread
Bein' slow in the head
The easier it looks
The hotter it hooks
There ain't no such thing as easy money
We say, "yes! oh yes!"
Saturday night
There was a terrible, terrible fight
Between two dames who was losin' the same game
It wasn't clear,
But I hear somebody was lookin' for some easy money
Love is wonderful, the second time around
Just as wonderful, with both feet on the ground
It's that second time you hear your love song sung
Makes you think perhaps that love like youth is wasted
Is wasted on the young
Love's more comfortable, the second time you fall
Like a friendly home the second time you call
Who can say, what lead us to this miracle we've found
There are those who'd bet
Love comes but once and yet
I'm oh, so glad we met
The second time around
Love's more comfortable, the second time you fall
Like a friendly home the second time you call
And who can say, what lead us to this miracle we've found
There are those who'd bet
That love came once and yet
I'm oh, so glad we met
Rickie Lee Jones
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But after all
There are such things
And these are the things
Who'll turn your memories back into dreams again
Oh, it's all flying and waving
For you to keep trying
You're so close.
So close.
All the returns
One of these days,
One of these days,
One of these days,
There, there is my ship
Finally come in
I see the mast rolling on the steps
Over the garden wall
I hear the sailor's call
I see the albatross
Over and down now I'll go home
Home to my children I left behind
Long ago with my mother the moon
That's where my father is
This broken heart is his
Archipelago is turning, turning to strangers
Here in the world, turning to strangers
Oh, they hold on
Here, here's where we live
Here is a sea, my family
We'll always be young as we've ever been
Death will not part us again nearer to heaven than
10,000 ancestors who dream of me
Well I hear you dreaming of me
She was pregnant in May
Now they're on their way
Dashing thru the snow
To St. John's, here we go
Well, it could be a boy
But it's okay if he's a girl
Oh, these things that grow out of
The things that we give
We should move to the west side
They still believe in things
That give a kid half a chance
When he pulled off the road
Step in a waltz of red moon-beams
Said he fit an APB,
A robbery nearby
And he goes for his wallet
And they thought he was going for a gun
And the cops blew Bird away
Some kids like watching Saturday cartoons
And aome girls listen to records all day in their rooms
But what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with
If a son's in a tree building model planes?
Skeletons,
Skeletons.
( H.Carmichael, S.Arodin )
Up a lazy river by the old mill run
Lazy river in the noon day sun
Linger awhile in the shade of a tree
Throw away your troubles,
Dream with me.
Up a lazy river where the robin's song
Wakes the mornin'
We'll roll along
May be blue skies 'bove
Everyone's in love
Up a lazy river
How happy we'll be
Up a lazy river with me
Up a lazy river by the old mill run
That lazy, lazy river in the noon day sun
You can linger for awhile in the shade of a tree
Throw away your troubles, baby
Dream a dream of me.
Up a lazy river where the robin's song
Wakes a brand new mornin'
Where we can roll along
There may be blue skies up above
But as long as we're in love
Yeah, we'll be up a lazy river
How happy we could be
Up a lazy river with me.
Oh, that half way mark, yeah.
Up a lazy river where that robin's song
Awakes a brand new mornin'
We can roll along
There are blue skies up above
And as long as we're in love
We'll be up a lazy river
Up a crazy, lazy, river
Up a lazy river
I ain't goin' your way, get out of my way
Up a lazy river with me.
The tigers come at four
Shaped like the curtain and the floor
Like the stars they once were wild and cold
Your turn to see me
I can抰 believe its really you
Sharpening your teeth on my low womb
Playing with tigers
Chasing the lampshade with my toes
Playing with tigers
慣il i find out where it goes
You check your clothes
You come and lay with me a while
In the theater of dream
We are sleeping in the aisle
Wind climbs up the brick
Carrying brightly colored ghosts
They play on you with
The light from the street below
Playing with tigers
Chasing the lamp with my toes
Playing with tigers
Until I find out where it goes
Where it goes, where it goes
I tried to leave you
But you sent all the cars to bring me back
Tigers are falling like paper on our parade
Tigers, tigers.
And the mail blowing out of the mailbox
Down the street, yeah yeah
Tigers.
I can't tell you anymore than that.
I'll tell you tomorrow when the train comes.
he's an ugly man
he always was an ugly man
he grew up to be like his father
an ugly man
and he'll tell you lies
he'll look at you and tell you lies
he grew up to be like his father
ugly inside
hey - ugly man
what's the plan?
if people knew
what would they do
to the ugly man?
Having fun?
but will we be here
when you're done
with me...?
revolution
now it's finally going to come
everywhere that you're not looking
Revolution
and we'll take it back
now we take the country back
everywhere that you're not looking
ugly man
ugly man
We go down round
The far side of the tracks
Lolitas playing dominoes and poker
Behind their daddy's shacks
Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys
On a pearl splashing glass
If they give us any flack
If they come up on our ass
We'll just give 'em the go-by
The Cadillac pass
Take me now
From the blue and pale room I'd follow
Through the faces and the traces of
Treasure I keep hearing inside me
Madmen throw their voices
From pretty boys
And from the best ones
You pick up connections
As they hand you your directions
To the Western Slope
I lied to my angel so I could take you downtown
I'd lie to anybody there was nobody else around
And I know what people say about me
But I lied to my angel and now he can't find me
I'm sorry
I saw him
I saw him
Laughing
I could hear them
Laughing
Alive
I could hear them
E. A. Poe
And Johnny Johnson
If you dial in
They're calling from the Western Slope
Who's the thin thread of light
That keeps you strangled in the scenery
That follows my voice --- can you se me?
Then follow my voice
Who raised this banner?
That no one hears --- The Jack
Beneath the axis
Digging under the current
Someone's trying to get back
But who's qualified to retrieve
The soul's enduring song?
From the grottos of her eyes
And the clashing stars
E. A. Poe
And Johnny Johnson
If you dial in
They're calling from the Western Slope
Who's the thin thread of light
That keeps you strangled in the scenery
That follows my voice --- can you se me?
Then follow my voice --- see me?
Instrumental
I brought the Weird Beast here
From Van Nuys Blvd.
So I would not be without a man
When the Tartans reign
Flooded the
Empty streets of Paris...
And on one of these
Passing boats I thought
I saw the Weird Beast
Speaking in the
Russian tongue
Will he kill the Czar?
Will he kill the Czar?
Draw the Weird Beast
Everywhere you go.
Death speaks the foreign
Language we don't know.
Make sure they hear him
Breathing
Someday vou'll meet
A stranger
Locations everywhere
You go
All of the science
You've kept in bottles
Because
Someday this dream is
Going to end
I have this Feeling
A Weird Beast
Is going to come our way
(Winwood/Capaldi)
If you see something that looks like a star
Shooting up out of the ground
And your head is spinning from a loud guitar
And you can't escape from the sound
Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you
We were children once, playing with toys
And the thing that you're hearing is only the sound
Of the low spark of high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys
If you had just a minute to breathe
And they granted you one final wish
Would you ask for something like another chance?
Or something similar as this?
Don't worry too much
It'll happen to you
As sure as your sorrows are joys
And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys
The percentage you're paying is too high priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
But today you just read that the man was shot dead
By a gun that didn't make any noise
And it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was
The low spark of high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys
If I gave you everything that I owned
And asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I do for you?
Or take me for a ride
Strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys, high-heeled boys
Sing a song of sad young man
Glasses full of rye
All the news is bad again so
Kiss your dreams goodbye
All the sad young men
Sitting in the bars
Knowing neon nights
Missing all the stars
All the sad young men
Drifting through the town
Drinking up the night
Trying not to drown
All the sad young men
Singing in the cold
Trying to forget
That they're growing old
All the sad young men
Choking on their worth
Trying to be brave
Running from the truth
Autumm turns the leaves to gold
Slowly dies the heart
Sad young men are growing old
That's the cruelest part
All the sad young men
Seek a certain smile
Someone they can hold for a little while
Tired little girl does the best she can
Trying to be gay for her sad young man
While the grimy moon
Watches from above
All the sad young men
Play of making love
Misbegotten moon
Shine for sad young men
Let your gentle light
Guide them home tonight
All the sad young men
Walking down my street
Here's the room where I live
Here's the neighbor children, sometimes they bother me
Here's the window where you left
How can I forget to look,
How can I forget
A sunny afternoon
A plane goes by
Walking with my cat around
It's a sunny afternoon
Here's the window where you left
How can I forget to look
No matter where you move the light
Somebody's always got a needle in her eye
You can pet her, she won't bite
She's been lying very still all night
Spring this year has got me feeling
Like a horse that never left the post
I lie in my room
Staring up at the ceiling
Spring can really hang you up the most
Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers
And to them I'd like to drink a toast
I walk in the park
Just to kill the lonely hours
Spring can really hang you up the most
All ?? the birds twitter-twitt
I know this tune
This is love, this is it
Heard it before
And don't I know the score
And I've decided that spring is a bore
Love seems sure around the new year
Now it's April
Love is just a ghost
Spring arrived on time
Only what became of you, dear
Spring can really hang you up the most
Doctors once prescribed a tonic
Sulfur and molasses was the dose
That didn't help one bit
My condition must be chronic
Spring can really hang you up the most
All alone, the party is over
Old man winter was a gracious host
But when you keep praying
For snow to hide the clover
Spring can really hang you up the most.
You'll always find
What you're after, baby
You'll find the sun
And laughter
So long
My darling
So long
You're alone
Can't seem to find you anywhere
But I know
You're better there
So long
My darling
So long
I lie awake
Thinking about you endlessly
I will wait under the stars
And my hands are flickering and the water turns to tracing paper and I watch you dry
I'm an army of stills like you flick between your fingers
You will always make me be faster than I am
There's a banner rising
I know sorry when I see its bones
We will always end up washed up on the shore and my hands are flickering,
Some one's reading the book over us,
White letters cross your trousers, we were always being dubbed
summertime and everything is sweet
walking barefoot to the circle k
on the burning street
summertime and everything's on fire
this town is a drive-by for the
whole inland empire
but down on the boulevard
they take it very hard
but it's alright, it's OK
i was going to move out of here anyway
don't look at me, I've got nothing to say
countdown to ecstasy
they are very rich, those boys uptown
they got so much now they wanna
let it trickle down
la la la la la la
summertime and everything is chill
cops and gangsters cruising
everybody's dressed to kill
summertime and everything is cool
in the halfway house for sex offenders
by the school
they're laughing, they're dancing
they're calling everyone
step right up, don't be shy
buy a second chance
you need a favor?
i got a guy
who can buy you a second chance...
but it's alright with me
if they lock you up
then I can be free
six of you
half a dozen of me
so count down...
alright, OK,
i was gonna move out of there anyway
don't look at me
i've got nothing to say
as you countdown to ecstasy
Running From Mercy
Oh sacred patience with my soul abide
There's a rainbow above me that the storm clouds hide
And kind words will never die
Cuz the magic in kindness springs from the love, love, love
Little acts of kindness and little words of love
Make our earthly home heaven above
And there is no sorrow heaven cannot heal
Abide within, no cross, no crown
Running from mercy, hidden and coy
Swimming upstream down oceans of joy
Die in the arms of a natural life
Waking our happiness drowning in light
Waking our happiness drowning in light
Little acts of kindness, little words of love
Make our earthly home like heaven above
And there is no sorrow heaven cannot heal
Abide within, no cross, no crown
This thing was not born with wings
Slow to stop our ways sing (chorus)
You, you wake up!, come on boy, come on little boy
Don't you stop her, don't you stop her
There's that door
I've got that door
I know where that door is
Just follow me and you wake up
Come on with me
Tomorrow
close your eyes and dream of me
you've found the one you love
life is long and then it's through
but you go on and on
nous serons une nuit brillante
comme tous les papillons
longue (est) la vie
la mort... ce n'est pas fini
toujours je suis... un papillon
la nuit ...les papillons
oh the ship i'm on
time is what i ride
forty winds, the captain and the tide
oh a sailor boy
stole me from my home
and this sea of joy
is the only life i've known
i could fly away
i could fly away
but i take the sea
for stranger days than these
a salty dog
is caught up on the reef
and the bottom of the sea
she kisses in relief
she could fly away
she could fly away
but she takes the sea
for stranger days than these
you trade your life
when something comes for you
and you bury the knife
between the lies and truth
you could fly away
you could fly away
but you take the sea
for stranger days than these
and I take the sea
for stranger days than these
Make of our hands, one hand
Make of our hearts,one heart
Make of our vows, one last vow
Only death will part us now
Make of our lives, one life
Day after day, one life
Now it begins, now we start
One hand, one heart
(Written by Tom Waits)
You used to dream yourself away each night
To places that you'd never been
On wings made of wishes
That you whispered to yourself
Back when every night the moon and you
Would sweep away to places
That you knew
Where you would never get the blues
Well now, whiskey gives you wings
To carry
Each one of your dreams
And the moon does not belong to you
But I believe
That your heart keeps young dreams
Well, I've been told
To keep from ever growing old
And a heart that has been broken
Will be stronger when it mends
Don't let the blues stop you singing
Darling, you've only got a broken wing
Hey, you just hang on to my rainbow
Hang on to my rainbow
Hang on to my rainbow sleeves
Instrumental
Come on - Joey get out of school
We got places to go
A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts
And the girls like to touch it
Just to find out if it works
But don't look at me
It wasn't me
Joey live on the edge of the corner
Of living on the run
I like to ride in the middle
I'm just tryin to have some fun
Until the Pirates come
And take me
And I won't need a pilot
Got a pirate who might sail
Somewhere I heard far away
You answer me
So i'm holding on
To your rainbow sleeves
Well, goodbye boys,
Oh my buddy boys,
Oh my sad-eyed Sinatras
It'as a cold globe around the sea
You keep the shirt that I bought ya
And I know you'll get the chance to make it
And nothin's gonna stop you
You just reach right out and take it
You say - So long, lonely Avenue
So long lonely avenue
I'll see you there
Wait 'n see
Be lookin' for me
Just like you
Just like me
The most as you'll ever go
Is back where you used to know
If grown-ups could laugh this slow
Where as you watch the hour snow
Years may go by
So hold on to your special friend
Here, you'll need something to keep her in :
"Now you stay inside this foolish grin ... "
Though any day your secrets end
Then again
Years may go by
You saved your own special friend
'Cuz here you need something to hide her in
And you stay inside that foolish grin
When everyday now secrets end
Oh and then again
Years may go by
Here I'm going
Wlakin' with my baby in my arms
'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black
And the devil, see, he's right behind us
And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby
My little angel back
But they won't getcha,
'Cuz I'm right here witcha
On the night train
Swing low, Saint Cadillac
Tearin' down the alley
And I'm reachin' so high for ya
Don't let 'em take me back
Broken like valiums and chumps in the rain
That cry and quiver
When a blue horizon is sleeping in the station
With a ticket for a train
Surely mine will deliver me there
Here she comes ...
I'm safe here with you
On the night train
Oh mamma, mamma,
Concrete is wheeling by
Down at the end of a lullaby
On the night train
The very thought of you makes
My heart sing,
Like an April breeze
On the wings of spring.
And you appear in all your splendor,
My one and only love.
The shadows fall ands spread their
Mystice charms in the hush of night,
While you're in my arms.
I feel your lips, so warm and tender,
My one and only love.
The touch of your hand is like heaven.
A heaven that I've never known.
The blush on your cheek,
Whenever I speak,
Tells me that you are my own.
You fill my eager heart with
Such desire,
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire.
I give myself in sweet surrender,
My one and only love.
The blush on your cheek,
Whenever I speak,
Tells me that you are my own.
You fill my eager heart with
Such desire.
Every kiss you give
Sets my soul on fire.
I give myself in sweet surrender,
My one and only love.
My one and only love.
wearing her new mink coat
and it's already 85 degrees
she looks like she's about to
give up hope
i look at the people
sitting at the bus stop
people need dignity and love
love and understanding
i was a fish all night
left out of the sea
there was nobody
that wasn't after me
i was a bird, yeah
and it started to rain
you know I wondered
if everybody could feel my pain
i look at the people
everyone's the same
people need dignity and love
love and understanding
hour by hour,
the whole wide world
one soul at a time
and I say she whoa whoa
sitting on her woo woo
she's at the whoa whoa
she's got nowhere to go
and though she whow whoa
here everyday there's nobody
even asks her name
i look at the people
sitting at the bus stop
everyone needs dignity
and love
love and understanding
hour by hour
the whole wide world
one soul at a time
(Written by Rogers-Hart, some ad lib by RLJ)
My funny valentine,
Sweet comic valentine,
You make me smile with my heart.
Your looks are laughable, they're un-photographable,
But still, still you're my favorite work of art.
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, baby, are you smart?
Please, don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay my funny valentine, stay
Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town
Green life teems up from the underground
Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage
Reach hard in for the ragged star fish
And only her lipstick bleeds,
And the color seeds into all your paint by number schemes
What was yellow, what was white, what was day, what was night
And now in soft detective voices the past rises
And follows you in shapes of rain and dew
And you walk through the fun house,
Those sonic faces hit you like a bus
'Till you're knocked down by the doppler waves of trust
And over here I scare myself day after day,
Cube after cube, dot after dot laying down on the kitchen floor,
Tapped into the secret code she's a down girl,
The acid's eating out her mind
The altered universe, step right up
Door swings both ways and now tattooed children, two-legged potions
Follow us while lightening bugs circle overhead,
While lightening bugs circle overhead...
We tear their wings off and memorize what they said
Chasing us across summer and into sleep
It's down rain, down time, she's a real down girl,
the acid's eating out her mind...
'Till all is new and all is changed, the altered world
(Written by Rickie Lee Jones / Brown-Calilli-Sansone)
And when I see the sign that points one way
The lot we used to pass by every day
Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
You're not to blame
From deep inside the tears that I'm forced to cry
From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide
Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home
Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home
Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Your name and mine inside a heart upon a wall
Still finds a way to haunt me, though they're so small
Just walk away Renee
You won't see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
You're not to blame
I Won't Grow Up
I won't grow up
I don't wanna go to school
Just to learn to be a puppet
And recite a silly rule
If growing up means it would be
Beneath my dignity to climb a tree
I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up
Not me.
I won't grow up
I don't wanna wear a tie
Or a serious expression
In the middle of July
And if it means that I must prepare
To shoulder burdens with a worried air
I'll never grow up, won't grow up, never grow up
So there
Never gonna be a man
I won't!
Like to see somebody try
And make me!
Anyone who wants to try
And make me turn into a man
Catch me if you can
I won't grow up
I don't wanna wear a tie
Or a serious expression
In the middle of July
Growing up's awfuller than
All the awful things that never been
I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up
Again
Growing up's awfuller than
All the awful things that never been
I won't grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Again
Not me
Cathedral bells were tolling
And our hearts sang on,
Was it the spell of Paris
Or the April dawn?
Who knows, if we shall meet again?
But when the morning chimes ring sweet again:
I'll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces all day through:
In that small cafe,
The park across the way,
The children's carousel,
The chestnut trees,
The wishing well.
I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day,
In everything that's light and gay,
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find you in the morning sun,
And when the night is new,
I'll be looking at the moon
Ghostyhead, ghostyhead, standing in the door
You think if you don't answer
I can't hear you anymore
Chains you hung from ear to ear
Finally drug your head
But I can see through anything
I know what you bled
Ghostyhead, ghostyhead, you think that I can't see
The shadow of another girl
Each time you look at me
People came from far away to watch us drop you in
But ghostyhead the crowd is gone
Come back up again
Ghostyhead, ghostyhead
Come out on the porch
There's a serpent caught in a fisher's net
Virgins light the torch
'Cause who this night would not stay warm
By any light they could?
You just eat your bread and cake
Julie got some ectasy
She laid down on the steering wheel
Love comes to the first thing love sees
Love comes to the first thing that makes it real
Makes it real
Everybody's been hit
Everybody's been hurt
Everybody's been kicked
Everybody's been dirt
Everybody had to drive all night to reach L.A.
In the morning light
1-Try to lighten up I always bear down
I Want to back you up, but you just back down
Julie found some brown girlfriend
Got it for a coin
Landlord threw her clothes out
On the street in the tenderloin
Everybody's been a dog
Everybody's had to beg
Everybody's been a moth, been a moth
When she woke up on her knees
Everybody made her say please
I was in a wild place where I go
I couldn't hear you
Julie found God in the bus station
And she liked him a lot
Well, you put your money in the basket that comes
You remember the first guy that you bought
Everybody starts out innocent, starts out ridiculous
Starts out beautiful, starts out beautiful
Nobody wants to be alone
Out here I'm all on my own
(repeat 1)
Julie found her sailor boy
Sailed off to the deep blue sea
So firewalker you...you can walk on me
You can walk on me...
I'll remember you too clearly
But I'll survive another day
Conversations to share
When there's no one there
I'll imagine what you'd say
I'll see you in another life now, baby
I'll free you in my dreams
But when I reach across the galaxy
I will miss your company
Company
I'll be looking for company
Look and listen
Through the years
Someday you may hear me
Still crying for company
So now you're going off to live your life
You say we'll meet each other now and then
But we'll never be the same
And I know I'll never have this chance again
No, not like you
So, I'll see you in another life now baby,
I'll free you in my dreams
But when I reach across the galaxy
I will miss your company
Company
I'll be looking for company
Look and listen
Through the years
Someday you may hear me
Still crying for company
Take the train
Oh you have run as far as you can go
They've tied your fingers to rails of stars
Can you hear the whistle blow?
There's is no one here to beat out your brains
There's no one who'll make you cry
If your parents kill you year by year
Well here's the time to say goodbye
And it's oh so bad from far away
And it's always warm inside
There's children there
There's children there
Who will touch your face?
Who will fill your pockets?
Avoid that tangled street
And who will count the marbles there?
And who will save your penny ring?
Come and meet the angels born this day
Sleep now the night is late
Maybe you want another world
One where heaven doesn't weigh so much
Maybe you'll find another girl
One you can feel when you do not touch
Well I've got something
Warm inside me
It won't let you fall
'Til I see
Somewhere better than this place
Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away
Somewhere better than the world
I'm an aviator now
Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly
Over this tenement waterfall
This wet buries all the tears we've cried
I dream of you coming to me
Swimming in a water
Of many hearts I've known
Beneath new stars they're calling
Somewhere better than this place
Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark
Go find the arc
Show them the atlas' marker
You walk into school like you got nothin' to win
They won't let you in without atlas' marker
Oh, my sister's buried here so deep
I hear her digging in her sleep
Somewhere better than his place
Sometimes she closes her eyes
And she's out in space
Somewhere better than the world where we live
'Round here we don't need no one trying to set us
straight
Heck, I got a red neck in plaid suit
And he's on TV real late balalaikas tolling
Sheba plays the flute
There's a communist and capitalists
They all think I'm cute
You know, I'm out of rehab
You know, I'm with the band
Anyway I think it's time to say
Exactly what I am
Cause I tried to be a man
But that's just not meant to be
You know I
Tried to be a man
That's not what I came to be
Well, there's seven years of famine
And seven years of drought
Seven years of Sam
And you know what I'm talking about
And it won't take very long before its hard to tell
If they're trying to take you back with him
To heaven or to hell
They make her so pretty
She won't be pretty long
She'll be rising out of the sea of planet Babylon
Cause she tried to be a man
That's not what she came to be
She tried to be a man
That's not what she came to be
She's living down on Bronson
She never blinks her eyes
The family in Wisconsin
Look like they're hypnotized
I get a strange sensation
When I lay down in my bed
In fact, if you could drop me on the corner
Here instead on planet Babylon
That's where they wrote the book
Hey there's something here about you
Come on and take a look
It says you tried to be a man
But that's not what you came to be
It says, it says, it says, it says
You tried to be a man
But that's not what you came to be
Came to be
What you came to be
It makes me laugh
When I think about us
The way we light up the way home
It's you for us
And one for all
It caught me in its ray
But it hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
When you're gone
Now we've got a sunny day
We earned this, every twinkle, every eye
But Monday I forget
Wednesday I just don't get
Thursday I remember and
Sunday I cry
Cause it hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
When you're gone
And it hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
It hurts to be here
When you're gone
Oh, oh
Caught me in its ray
And I know I'd never go back
It's broken-hearted street
And a paranoid street lamp
My only precious thing I had has been broken
But I'm soulful and grateful and gleeful
Hey, hey yeah
Out on the range
The quiet, endless still
Where the wild s.s.i
Whispers from these hills
It's a petrified forest
Trailer parks and Fords
And there ain't no goin' back
Rodeo girl
Saddle up
There's no more credit in this bank
Try your luck
Up in the east
Down in the west
Hold on tight
To the pony that you love the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a Cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a Cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Rodeo girl, rodeo girl
Count all the boxcars
The blue and white stars
That fall for ya rodeo girl
You're lost in the desert
And it's too hot to think
You gotta know about the milk truck
If you want a drink
And when the cowboy's sing
Bobby sands and the bear
You can wet your lips
In the cool pools of despair
Up in the east
Down in the west
Hold on tight
Now you gotta be better than the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a Cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a Cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Once your journeyed into the wilderness
To listen to John the Prophet
You called "The baptiser"
He spoke to you of truth
He was a burning, shining light
And you were willing for a while
To follow him
Now one has come...
The lamp of the body is the eye
The lamp of the body is the eye
See the darkness shine
How great is the dark
See the dark
And are there not twelve hours of daylight
But if you walk by night
And when I see the sign that points one way
The lot we used to pass by every day
Just walk away renee
You wont see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
Youre not to blame
From deep inside the tears that Im forced to cry
From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide
Just walk away renee
You wont see me follow you back home
Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Just walk away renee
You wont see me follow you back home
Now as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes
For me it cries
Your name and mine inside a heart upon a wall
Still finds a way to haunt me, though they're so small
Just walk away renee
You wont see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same
Wrote a letter to my father
I thought I'd tell him where I am
I knew that he was hoping
I'd come home again
I'm standing in the doorway
But I'm happy living here
Everybody always tries so hard
To sing a song no one can hear
And yes, my heart was broken
Yeah but I made it through the night
Little Janis Joplin she's got a job on the corner bar
So I guess where doing alright
I got used to all that swimming
I said come on in the water's fine
And I know you don't remember me
But I've seen you, seen you many times
Yes my heart was opened
No, no I don't look back
Because I'm riding around heaven
In Elvis Cadillac
Riding around in heaven
In Elvis Cadillac
Yes my heart was opened
And no, I never look back
Hey, I'm riding around heaven
In my Elvis cadillac
Riding around in heaven
In Elvis Cadillac
In Elvis Cadillac
Oh, please baby
You know I like you
Savin' all my money all week long
So I can go out drivin' with you
Down on Hollywood Boulevard
On Friday night, dressed right
I don't take no trouble smoke at the wall
But I still have that leopard-skin hat
That you gave me way back
Before it was cool and they took it to school
Here in the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Hey today we wild it up, wild it up
Yeah we wild it up, wild it up
Today we wild it up, wild it up
C'mon baby we wild it up, wild it up
Wild it up, wild it up
I like to dance with my rooner
'Cuz when we dance it feels like
We are who we're meant to be
He puts his arms around me
And I put my arms around him
Ooh, I feel satisfied and free
One night I tied my bandanna around his wrist
And we started to sway and it felt so good
He said, "Looky here Mama, looky here
I think I better just see you safely out of the neighborhood"
That is to say
The ghetto
The ghetto of your mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
You know we wild it up, wild it up
Wild it up, wild it up
Wild it up, wild it up
Wild it up, wild it up
Oh, we wild it up, wild it up
Oh, wild it up, wild it up
Oh, wild it up, wild it up
Wild it up, wild it up
Outside my window the noise is all I've got
There are no stars in the sky
Just the sirens and queens
Breakin' glass down in the parkin' lot
Yeah, that's the world where I live
Sometimes I wonder, oh, how can I go on everyday
But I know that the world you make inside your head
That's the one you see around, that's what I said
Yeah, but the one you see is the one that you make
Inside of the ghetto
The ghetto of your mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Hey c'mon now
We wild it up, wild it up
We wild it up, wild it up
Hey, we wild it up, wild it up
Oh, we wild it up, wild it up
Oh, we wild it up, wild it up
Oh, we wild it up, wild it up
Oh, we wild, wild
Oh, we wild, wild
Wild it, wild it
Oh, we wild it, wild it
Oh, we wild it, wild it
Wild it up
The ghetto of my mind
It's the way I feel the ghetto
In the ghetto of my mind
Pack up all your cares and woes
Here I go singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where someone waits for me
Sugar's sweet and so is he
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
If you believe
You are light as air
If you believe
You will fly
There is no tear that is stronger than
The faith that's in your eye
Look now at my body
Broken there by the sin
And all my friends who drink my wine
They're all drunk again
We can make another world
Another life
We can make it out of you
Another world
Your eye is the brightest star
Your heart is the sea
Nothing in the universe
Means more than what you mean to me
And another day
We can have another life
Another world
Make it out of clay
We can make a sweeter night
A sweeter night
Listen child
We can have a softer day
Listen, listen child
Listen listen
A softer day
One where you'll be safe
Why won't you listen child
Come one listen child
We can make it outta here
We can make it out of this
Another night
And on the seventh day
To the seventh day
Listen child
The seventh day
Child
The seventh day
Child, child, child
The seventh day
Child...
Rickie Lee Jones
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Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
To find the Stax and Sun
They were reaching to get to
They was a rapping the flat scat
Diamond dialectos of points and taps
Between the chicken and the back
They drew themselves a be-bop
Midnight map
They said "do you got a map the next joint?"
"Do you got a map the next joint?"
Pick it up on the night train
Down on the corner of rhythm and blues
Where I have met all of my boys since
Back in '52
Bringing 'em Stax and Sun
Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot
And Memphis forgot
Where they were coming from
Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that?
Do you like rapping the fat scat?
Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen
Like a pill they do it all night
Spectators,
White-walls, find and greased back
Every Saturday night
Leaning in the scenery
Picking up the kids
At the next door neighbors'
"Yeah I know what you did
Yeah I got a room you can stay in
If you promise you won't make so much noise"
"No I won't"
"No I don't!"
I wanted to pray
I wanted to let you go on your way
I wanted to know why they laid there
Dying in the streets next to the restaurant
Where people were eating and yes
I wanted to pray
How do you pray in a world like this
You know, I see the people on TV
And they close their eyes and they bow their heads
And they say "Let us pray"
And it feels so cold and meaningless
And I wanted to pray
And I said
Tell me father
Tell me mother
Heavenly mother
And they said
When you pray
Pray alone by yourself
In the secret room of your heart
Don't go out into the church filled with people and
pray
God hears every secret that you say
See all those people praying on TV and the churches
They like to make a big parade out of what they're
doing
They think God hears them louder if they say it
Over and over and over and over and over again
But I say, God, but I say this
You are the prayer
Your eyes are the prayer
Your hand on your cheek
You are the prayer
Those words you want to speak
They are the prayer
That dance you make
When you're by yourself
Just before your mother calls you on the phone
You are the prayer
I tell you what
You gotta take it back from them
Because the prayers belong to you
All you gotta do is say hey hey
I'm down here too, I'm down here too
I'm down here too
And I hear you in the trees
And I hear you
And I'm near you
I wonder why there's so much suffering
I want to say thank you, thank you
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
I wanted to say thank you, thank you
I wanted to say
I wanted to say
You are where I like it best
You are where I like it best
You are where I like it best
That's the Lords' prayer
"You are where I want to be"
So, amen, just amen
Amen, all by myself, amen, amen
I'm so lonely, just amen
And I'm rising, rising, just amen
You can look through my eyes
Hear through my hear
I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm cool
I didn't make it surely, playin' by the rules
I've come of heart, but now I'm fine
I'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the line
I've come of heart, but that's okay
'Cause trouble man don't get in my way
I've come of heart, baby
I've been for real with a trouble man
I'm gonna keep movin', I'm gonna roll to town
I've come of heart, come on, get down
There's only three things that's for sure
Taxes, death and trouble
Well this I know, baby
This I know, babe
Let the sweat through you
Should you think about me [unverified]
Get me singin', yeah, yeah
I've come of heart, I had to fight
Take care of my business [unverified] with all my might
I've come of heart, I had to win
Then start all over and then again
I've come of heart, but that's okay
'Cause trouble man don't get in my way
I've heard some places and I've seen some places
I've never had tensions, I give my directions
When people say, that's okay, they don't bother me
I'm ready to make it, don't care 'bout the weather
Don't care 'bout no trouble, got myself together
I've seen the kind of protection's all around me
I've come of heart, baby
I've been for real with the trouble man
I'm gonna keep movin', goin' goin' tight
I've come of heart, come on, get down
There's only three things for sure
Taxes, death and trouble
This I know, baby
This I know, baby
Hey now, let it sweat, baby, oh
I've come of heart, but now I'm cool
I didn't make it, baby, playin' by the rules
I've come of heart, but now I'm fine
I'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the line
I've come of heart, but that's okay
'Cause trouble man don't get in my way
Don't get in my way
We will fly way up high
Where the cold wind blows
Or in the sun laughing having fun
With lot of people that she knows
And if the situation should keep us separated
You know the world won't fall apart
And you will free the beautiful bird
That's caught inside your heart
Can't you hear her?
Oh, she cries so loud
Casts her wild note
Over water and cloud
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
We'll be riding on the horses, yeah
Way up in the sky, little darlin'
If you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up
You will grow and until you go
I'll be right there by your side
And even then whisper the wind
And she will carry up your ride
I hear all the people of the world
In one bird's lonely cry
See them trying every way they know how
To make their spirit fly
Can't you see him?
He's down on the ground
He has a broken wing
Looking all around
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
You go riding on the horses, yeah
Way up in the sky, little darlin'
If you fall, I'll pick you up, pick you up
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
You go riding on the horses, yeah
Way up in the sky, little darlin'
If you fall, I'll pick you up, pick you up
If you fall, I'll pick you up, pick you up
If you fall, I'll pick you up, pick you up
I'll pick you up darlin' if you fall
Don't worry 'bout a thing little girl
Because I was young myself not so long ago
When I was young, when I was young
Hold me love, I can't sleep again
Will I have to kiss your nose?
I wanna lay here next to him, love
I remember walking in the rain
Rain was falling on my hands
I don't wanna live through that again, no
Outside the heart it gets dark now
And I was walking in the park now
Children singing songs that
Will now make all our dreams come true
I'm in love with you
I know it takes is love
Love is a healing thing
When you give everything
You're loving the world
The world gives you love to hold onto
Remembering, we seldom remember love
Chorus:
(Somewhere) Just give me many chances
(Far away) I'll see you through it all
(Remember) Just give me time to learn to crawl
In September, when the rain comes and the wind blows
I will see you walking in the coat of ?
If you'll let me, I will keep you here inside the stars
I will love the salt on my sheets
(Charlie Chaplin)
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you
And light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
Rickie Lee Jones
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She was pregnant in May
Now they're on their way
Dashing thru the snow
To St. John's, here we go
Well, it could be a boy
But it's okay if he's girl
Oh, these things that grow out of
The things that we give
We should move to the west side
They still believe in things
That give a kid half a chance
When he pulled off the road
Step in a waltz of ted moon-beams
Said he fit an APB,
A robbery nearby
And he go for his wallet
And they thought he was going for a gun
And the cops blew Bird away
Some kids like watching Saturday cartoons
Some girls listen to records all day in their rooms
But what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with
If a son's in a tree building model planes?
Skeletons,
Skeletons.
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
After closing time
At the Guernsey Fair
I detect the El Supremo
From the room at the top of the stairs
Well I've been around the world
And I've been in the Washington Zoo
And in all my travels as the facts unravel
I've found this to be true
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
They got the house on the corner
With the rug inside
They got the booze they need
All that money can buy
They got the shapely bodys
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt
And for the coup-de-gras
They're outrageous
Let me tell you
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
Show business kids making movies
Of themselves you know they
Don't give a fuck about anybody else
You know you go to
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
All the stars come out at night
While the poor people sleepin'
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin'
My babys alvvays crying,
My baby wants to see me cry, too.
Chain on my heart is going to break
Cuz every tear that falls in here
Is a dime for the juke box fury
So punch it in
Shake the chain
And listen to the song youre playing
Shake the chain, shake the chain
At everything I do
Just enough
Everything I wanted to
Just enough
Everything I put you through
Just enough to know
He dont want me
Oh, I think hes polorized
He dont know which way to go
Where would vou be otherwise?
Otherwise? well, you know we could
Runaround
Because I can get this anyway
Runaround
I can get this anyway
Runaround
L can get this anyway
Light goes down
Somebody could break your heart
Light goes on
You could break somebodys heart
Chain on mv heart is going to break
Every time you try to make me cry
Listen to it now
Punch it in
Shake the chain
I cant take the tears
I cant take the tears
Shake the chain, shake the chain
At everything I do
Just enough
And everything I wanted to
Just enough
And everything I put you through
Just enough to know
He dont want me
Oh, you better wise up girl
You better get smart
You better hide your heart
Hes a runaround
And I could get this anyway
Runaround
I can get this anyway
Runaround
I can get it anyway
Take a deep breath
Got your mother in a whirl
'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey, babe, your hair's alright
Hey, babe, let's stay out tonight
You like me and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You know fans when they play it hard
They want more and you want it first
Put you down and say I'm wrong
Tacky thing, you put them on
Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so
Doo doo doo
Got your mother in a whirl
'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey babe, your hair's alright
Hey babe, let's stay out tonight
You like me and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You know fans when they play it hard
You want more and you want it first
They put you down, say I'm wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on
Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so
Doo doo doo
Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so
You've torn your dress, your face is a mess
You can't get enough but enough ain't the test
You've got a transmission and a live wire
Got your few lines and a handful of dues
You gonna be there when they count up the blues
I love your dress, I love your dress
You're a juvenile success
Because your face is a mess
How could they know?
How could they know?
But what you wanna do
Or where you wanna go?
Wish I could do for you
Wish I'd been there too
Because you've torn your dress
Torn your dress
(Rebel, rebel)
And your face is a mess
(Rebel, rebel)
Your face is a mess
(Rebel, rebel)
Your face is a mess
(Rebel, rebel)
So how could they know?
How could they know?
Torn your dress, torn your dress
Dan and I like Las Vegas, never seen the sea
Where the river, where the river bed runs dry
She closes his eyes, puts her ear to his shirt
And listens to the whole wide earth
Lila's ready, she look in the mirror
He has stopped, he can't hear her
She stops in a bar, apparently she is unhurt
And with a little bit of change, oh feels good
She washes her wings in the dirt
And the bar is filled with angels cuz the world is turned upside down
All of you've been walking on your heads
Since the day your feet touched the ground
Any day, any day we'll go home
Any day, any day we'll go home, home
Well he knocks on the door, someone show him how
And I seen them before, I know him somehow
Why does he stick to my fingers?
Why does this look like his soul?
They could just make him a heaven or hell
What don't they?
I don't know
What do they want with these angels?
Why don't they take them to Reno?
Nobody ever comes for them
They're all inside of the casinos
Look at them poking like flightless birds falling from paper plates
Oh home, heavenly earthbound
But the spirit cannot wait to fly like the pink flamingos
For a thousand years
I've lay upon the Lake Victoria
I was winged and many-colored
And nobody knew my name
For a thousand years
I fell out of the sand into the Guadeloupe
And I made many songs into the air
And nobody knew my name
I fell like water
In sweet gasps of hydrogen up
Into the sea over the Bikini Islands
And I dove into the liquid concrete of sweet silver
lake
The liquid concrete of down by the river
And nobody knew my name
Now I walk among them and I sing to them
And I open up my wrists
And nobody knows my name
And I translate into many hours of history
But nobody knows my name
I stood in the four winds
I stood in the four winds
I stood in the four winds
And nobody knows my name
So I walk again
Yeah, I walk every night
So I walk again
I look at you
Sweet every face
Do you know my name
Do you, do you know my name
Do you know my name
Do you know my name
Say it
Do you know my name
Say it
Do you know my name
Do you know my name
Do you know my
Do you know my name
Do you know my
Well, love?s gonna bring us back alive
Love?s gonna bring us back alive
Over mountains where no one goes
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we?ve been runnin?, runnin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we can't stop runnin?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, until love brings us back alive
We?ve been outlaws on the run
Sometimes outlaws on the run
I was just a baby when I fired my gun
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, keep on runnin? on
Yeah, yeah, yeah, never stop runnin?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, until love brings us back alive
Well, the river?s only water and the mountain?s only gold
They?ll get old, tell me will you walk through this world alone?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody [Incomprehensible]
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody [Incomprehensible]
Love will bring us back alive
Over mountains, we?ll come home
Through the desert, we?re gonna come home
There?s no water, where the wind has blown
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well, the rain comes down
Oh yeah, yeah , yeah, but we can?t stop now
Rickie Lee Jones
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Eddie's got one crazy eye
that turns him into a cartoon
wahen a pretty girl comes by
and there's nothin' here to do anymore
he sits on the stoop all day
like there's something he's waiting for
Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley
he's got all those guys with him
from that town where they all look like Frankie Valli
they speak fluently blonde
from her legs to her cigarette
and Louie told Eddie that he'd fix him up
but he ain't come back yet
well, you know
It's more trouble than it's worth
it's more trouble than it's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are ---
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are
Tell him where you are
Zero quit school
and she lost her job again
and then her boyfriend beat her up
and now he won't let her in
so she's walking by his joint
in a black and blue dress
she looks at Louie who elbows Eddie who says
"don't tell me, lemme guess."
It's more trouble than it's worth
he's more trouble than he's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are ---
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are
Well at first when it was this way
when they're the only ones
and you've got all these ideas
you never tell to anyone
there are always magnets
pulling each of you there
living every story you'd dare
to be the only ones
the only ones...
Oh, who are living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we'll be living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
gotta be living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
Louie and Eddie found a reason then and there
carried her over the bridges like fluttering pages they didn't care
in the terminal where dreams
let so many tickets through
when strangers look in faces
and see somebody there they knew
you might meet me tomorrow
as all the lights are blooming green
and you're feeling a little lonely,
a little sad, a little mean
remember a place
inside of that hotel
where you could do anything you want to do
you couldn't tell
If it's more trouble than it's worth
ah, this is more trouble than it's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
tell him where you are ---
Oh Wild and the Only ones
I'm waiting you could
tell him where you are ---
Oh Wild and the Only ones
why don't you tell him where you are?
It seems lately when I walk down the street
There's somethin' in my neighborhood
It's gettin' stronger every day
It's like a rumor that lights up all of me
And it whispers from the rooftops up above
I must hold on or I'll fly away, yeah, yeah
Oh, no, not the autumn leaves
Lift you up like a flower in the cool night breeze
My heart's just flyin' when he walks by
Oh, 'cause he's my inspiration
Yes, indeed my pride and joy
Don't you say nothin' bad about
What's between me and my baby boy
My mom has her own point of view
"You'll learn the hard way
If that's what you're gonna do"
My sister don't have much to say
My girlfriend told me when I was young
You'll know him the minute that he's there
Oh, tell me you feel it comin' in the air?
Oh no, not a summer song
Makes the night feel better
When the day goes wrong
My heart's just a singer when he walks by
Oh no, not a summer night
You forget about tomorrow
'Cause the world seems right
There goes my baby walkin' by
Oh, 'cause he's my inspiration
Yes, indeed my pride and joy
Don't say nothin' bad about
What's between me and my baby
'Cause he's my inspiration
Yes, indeed my pride and joy
Don't say nothin' bad about
What's between me and my baby boy
There goes my baby walkin'
There goes my baby walkin' by
There goes my baby walkin'
There goes my baby walkin' by
There goes my baby walkin'
There goes my baby walkin' by
There goes my baby walkin'
Jolie, jolie, pretty little thing
All I want you to do is just be happy
And we went on a walk and we went on a hill
And come back up again, you know I will
Just to bring you the mail, to me it's just another hill
Jolie, jolie, dancing love
All I want you to do is just be happy, be happy
Do you want me to fly to heaven's gate?
?I won't wait
I'll go right away cuz to me it's just another day
Jolie, jolie, dancing
All I want you to do is just be happy, even happier than that
Do you want me to stop every time I start?
When I kiss your lips and you break my heart
But I do this to me it's just a little kiss
It's just a little kiss
Uh, huh, stay right there on the "A"
Yeah baby stay there
Oh daddy, you can only do the best you can
Take my advice
It doesn't get easier watching the golden orbs floating
out of the bars
And into space there's Frank Sinatra on the Juke box
Pause in the ketchup your face in the reflection in the
mirror
He walked through the rocks, you know
He walked through the scorpion dust
He walks on the beach and now he walks
And he keeps walking 'til he's out of reach
Every generation watches the princes of their nation
File away until the Son of Man every, every Madonna
means so little to the next one
We ran together down the Santa Monica Boulevard oh baby
You look so hard, so fine
And my second-hand capella all that night I said Oo
hoo...I said Oo hoo oo hoo
There you are in your write dress shirt most of all I
think I loved your hands
I loved them so much that it hurt and all the
bartenders knew your name
And all the pimps knew your car and we lay by the Nazz
And we were blessed yes, we are
You tell them I was there hey I was there man I was
there
When Jesus walked I was there when Jesus walked
Now I don't know what happened, what happened was
Babylon and that little Sheba
With her siren song and the planets swirling
Where no one's ugly and everyone's square no one's ugly
and everyone's square
There's no such place I heard such peach when he played
those traps
I heard such peace when He looked out at the map
And it ran through me and echoed into another time and
space and place
And it ran through me way on back in time way on up is
fine
Way one back in time was on up is fine way on back in
time
Take my advice and go throw it away it's gonna do you
no good until you blow for good
Cause you are there man you are there don't you know
You are there where Jesus walked, every generation,
yeah the princes of their nation
Well, I'm ugly, too. No, no you're not beautiful, no,
you're ugly too
Cause you've been travelling in so many universes and
you manifest here
It's difficult to see who you are
Brother I didn't realize that you were talking to me
until you broke that bread and I saw that you were
Where have you been that you don't know what's been
going on here in Jerusalem
Haven't you heard, haven't you heard about the
Nazarene, you know
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
She come 'round here 'bout midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room, room
Make me feel so good
[Incomprehensible] woman do
Well, why did you make me feel alright?
She's a natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Come here 'bout midnight, yeah, yeah, yeah
Did I tell you about my baby?
[Incomprehensible] she comes around
Five feet four
From her head to the ground
Comes around here
Just about midnight
Why she makes me feel so good?
Make me feel alright
And her name is G L O R I A
G L O R I A, G L O R I A
G L O R I A, G L O R I A
Gonna shout it every night
Gon' shout it every day, okay then
Oh, midnight, midnight, midnight
She come around here
She make me feel alright about midnight
Walking down on the street
She come, knock on my door
Knock, knock on my door
Then come in my room
Make me feel alright
Feel, feel, feel, feel
Feel, feel, alright, alright
She's a sender, she's a lover
She's a sender, she's a killer
What's her name?
Her name is Gloria
G L O R I A, G L O R I A
Gon' shout it every night
Gon' shout it every day
G L O R I A, G L O R I A
I wan' shout it every night
I wan' shout it every day
And every day
And every day
And every day, child
And every day, child
Every day
Make me feel good
Make me feel good
Feel, feel
Mamma look me, feel, feel, good, good
Well I decided to take the bus
It was about six o five
'Cuz I could hardly walk
In fact, I was just bearing
Under the bridge and over the street
Now every shadow that I meet
They all know my name
And they whisper, "Oh what's the matter Hon?
Don't you know you're ridin' on a ghost train?"
Jupiter Ray on the bus
I remember when Jupiter came to the town
Man, he was one of the best of us
Oh, that stuff can really take you down
Hey, Jupiter Ray is on the bus
I remember when Jupiter was alive
Come to think of it you all have a strange translucence in your eyes
What's the matter son?
Don't you know you're ridin' on the ghost train
You somewhere
You just buy your ticket and get on board
This train don't stop 'cuz we like to ride ride ride ride
We just wanna ride and ride ride ride
Ding goes the trolley
Ooh bang goes the bell
Somebody call my second cousin
Oh I'm not feelin' very well
This is where little blondes check in their furs
This is where little blondes check in their hat
Don't worry about where you were?
We took care of that
Mr Driver is this my stop ?
Mr Driver tell me how to get off
Any way you can, anyway come back into the light
But you wanna get to heaven
You take the devil by the hand
And you slide right into the promised land
'Cuz this could be the night
And this could be the gate
Everybody's waitin' for you darlin'
So don't be late
What's the matter honey ?
Didn't you pay your money for the ghost train?
Well I decided to take the bus
It was about six o five
'Cuz I could hardly walk
In fact, I was just barely alive
Now we went up to the garden
Beneath the olive tree
The bells were ringing
The rooster crows
The men were standing all around
Other men are laying on the ground
And I am standing by myself
I just let them sleep awhile
I just let them sleep awhile
You know you wake up one morning
And you're someone else
You're on your own
There is no miracle to take you home
And you cry to the God who leaves you there
To the branch and the bird and the empty air
To the God of why can't we turn back around
You say I've been true to you / Let me sing awhile
Let me sleep here
Don't make me beg
Let me sleep
When I call your name
Here
You turn, your turn, your turn away
Let me sleep here
All I want is your hand
Let me sleep
I've been true, I've been true
All I want is your hand
Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words
Of kindness linger on
She no longer needs you
She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time
And doesn't feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you
In her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her
When she says, her love is dead
You think she needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
You stay home, she goes out
She says, that long ago
She knew someone but now he's gone
She doesn't need him
Your day breaks, your mind aches
There will be times
When all the things she said will fill your head
You won't forget her
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
Honey-skinned girl
She's light on her feet
Twirling on Apollo
But she's going down there for something to eat
On the corner
We see him coming
Followed by the rabbis
With their soft shoes humming
We're falling up, yeah yeah
We're falling up
Come on
Try to remember
Honey girl
We could be like him
Transfiguration
Try to remember
We're falling up, yeah, yeah, yeah
We're falling up, oh, oh, oh, oh
We're falling up, oh, waouh
We're falling up
Honey baby
We're living with the Romans now
I want you to remember this
Come on
Try to remember
We're falling up, yeah, yeah, yeah
We're falling up, oh, oh, oh, oh
We're falling up, hey
We're falling up, oh waouh
Try to remember
Try to remember
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
The night's the time for your tears
Your heart may be broken tonight but tomorrow with the morning light
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
The nighttime shadows disappear
And with them go all your tears
'Cause the morning will bring joy for every girl and boy
So don't let the sun catch you cryin'
We know that cryin' is not a bad thing
But stop your cryin' when the birds sing
It may be hard to discover
That you've been left for another
But don't forget that love is a game that can always come again
So don't let the sun catch you cryin', cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin', oh, no
Oh, no, no, oh, no, no
Hey mama, what's that there? And what's that doing there?
Hey mama, hey mama, hey look at that over there!
And what's that doing there? And where're they going there?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?
And who's that in my chair? And what's he doing there?
Mama, hey mama, can I go over there?
Hey mama, what is square? And where do we get air?
And mama can I have that big elephant over there?
Quizzical kid, she doesn't want anything here
Just forever to manage to know who what why or where
Inquisitive child, sometimes the questions get wild
Like mommy can I have that big elephant over there?
Don't wanna comb my hair and where's my teddy bear?
And mama, hey look at the cowboy coming there
And can I have a pair of boots like that to wear?
And mama can I have that big elephant over there?
The time will march days will go
And little baby's going to grow
I gotta tell her what she needs to know
I'll help her along and she'll be strong
And she'll know right from wrong
As life's parade goes marching by
She's gonna need to know some reasons why
I don't have all the answers but I'll try to do what I can
We'll make a plan
You give the kid your best and hope she?ll pass the test
And finally send her out into the world somewhere
And though she's grown up I bet I never will forget
Mummy, can I have that big elephant over there?
Hey why they do that there? And how you put that there?
Hey mummy, up here! Hey mummy, what that say up there?
Hey mummy, what is fair? How come I have to share?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?
And mummy can I have that big elephant over there?
So I'm down and so I'm out
So are many others
So I feel like tryin' to hide my head
'Neath these covers
Life is like the seasons
After winter comes the spring
So I think, I?ll stay awhile
And see what tomorrow brings
I've been told and I believe
That life is meant for livin'
Even when my chips are low
There's still some left for givin'
I've been many places
Maybe not as far as you
So I think, I'll stay awhile
And see if some dreams come true
There isn't much that I have learned
Through all my foolish years
Except that life just run in cycles
First there's laughter, then those tears
But I'll keep my head up high
Although I'm kind of tired
My gal just up and left last week
Friday I got fired
You know, it's almost funny
Things can't get worse than now
But I'll keep on tryin' to sing
The sun's goin' down
I'm goin back to my cave
I've got no one to meet
No one to save
I like the music
In my head
I think I'll go away
For her instead, yeah
I draw a circle in the sand
Draw a circle in the sand
Draw a circle in the...yeah
Soft sweet devil lights my way...yeah
It's time to go home
Rise like an animal balloon
Peers over Jerusalem
I can't fall too soon
And the angels picked me up
And called my name
She's sweet charity
But peace is power, and money, and fame
Well I draw a circle in the sand
Draw a circle in the sand
I draw a circle in the...yeah
Soft sweet devil to light my way
Oh a soft sweet devil to light my way
It's time to move on, to dream the dreams of the hungry
To cast a spell to the homeless, barefoot and poor
Where nobody bothers you, your anybody's friend
For all that it cost him
He never did complain
The chicken headed man
Feathering the rain
But the last bus is tired
And everybody's gone
The horses are waiting
In the middle of the lawn
Gone for the rodeo
Gone from the tundra, gal
It's after the fair
Is it bleeding out of you?
"Come into my trailer
We'll toast a little bread
Oh look, you've left a hole
Where you laid on my bed", he said
But you keep what you can keep
When you dive into the deep
There's year after frozen year
That's where I saved you there
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
But everybody's gone now
It's after the fair
And the horses are painted
With the waiting of the lawn
You turn the carousel on
When the lights have closed down
And watch your ponies run
Through the middle of town
So there ya go, little gal, there ya go
Gone from the tundra now
It's after the fair
That's where I
Over the fences again
And the vacuums in the hall
And the planes up in the air
That's where I hear you best
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe
That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode
As he follows a path filled with harried desire
And mimics his footsteps and sets his prayers on fire
Glad to have chosen that which left no choice
To sing without loving in a solitary voice
To observe with passion each careful denial
The protrusions which give my life meaning for a while
Sometimes I see you in embarrasing ways
You're brushing your teeth with licorice seeds
Standing too close, holding your clothes
Smiling at God, the meaning of life grows
No, no I'll never tell and I'll never know
What candles you light after the show
And I'll never tell and I'll never ask
Rickie Lee Jones
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Oh, he's a lucky guy
Oh, he's a lucky guy
He doesn't worry about me
When I'm gone
He goes to sleep at night
He don't turn off the light
And wonder how to find me
Or if I'm alone
Oh, he's a lucky guy
I wish I was like him
Cuz when he talks about me
He don't look this way
He's a lucky goy
He used to walk with me
He used to talk to me
See, we have these secrets
That no one else could hear
Well, he's not the only one
No, no not the only one
But what happens to them?
Do they matter?
Do they disappear
Into a lonely girl?
Now I'm a lonely girl
Cuz I want somebody with me in the world
Oh, he's a lucky guy
Fontune walks right in the door
And here I am
Just like before
Well, I'm not gonna turn around
I'm not his pretty clown
I'm not the one caught
Like he thought
He was the last one I had there
Cuz I did a foolish thing
A real, real stupid thing
I told him I love him
And I want him there
When I knew he wouldn't come
And I knew he didn't care
And I'll cry awhile
I'll cry awhile
But when I wake up
Tomorrow is a new day
I'm a lucky guy
Hey, I'm a lucky guy
Real, real lucky guy
Hey, I'm a lucky guy
These stars
No one else can see
Trapeze the height of thee
Vanish as they call
These blues
No one else can hear
No one else can sing
This one for you
Can they, dear?
Things that you do are always with me
When you're laughing
You're always here
What's the use in crying?
It won't matter when we're old
This tear will
Finally fall
Keep your eyes here
When there's no net at all
Where the Lord's face
Is an all-night cafe
There's a woman who will wait on
What you have to say
And your dreams are like marbles
In the pocket of a little boy
And they whisper when you hold them
Like a beautiful girl
All the gang has gone home
Standing on the corner
All alone
You and me, streetlight
We'll paint the town - grey
Oh, we are so many lamps
Who have lost our way
Say goodnight, America
The word still loves a dreamer
And all the gang has gone home
And I'm standind on the corner
Sal was working at Nyro's nook in downtown
Selling articles of congress to these people downtown
He was pretty sleezy when I met him
A weasel in a poor boy's wool
Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey
Buys his meat from a whore next door
Wants it rare but he gets it well
A weasel on a short order floor
So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad
Sal, say good-bye to the barrio
Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals
Angela, Perry and Mario
Kid Sinister with the Bus Stop Blues
A quarter could take you home
A dime could make a dream come true
But a weasel ain't got a dime for the phone
(Does a weasel got a dime for the phone?)
So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad
Sal, say good-bye to the barrio
Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals
Angela, Perry and Mario
You dancin' in the welfare lines, Sal
Actin' like some jerk-off fool
When we could lay out eatin' peaches on the beaches
A weasel in a white boy's cool
But we're all in a white boy's school
I've been around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
The North Pole I have charted
But man I can't get started with you
And at the golf course I'm under par
Metro-Goldwyn wants me to star
I've got a house and a show place
But can't get no place with you
You're so supreme
The lyrics I write of you
Dream, dream, day and night of you
Scheme just for the sight of you
Baby but what good dose it do
I've been consulted by Franklin D.
Even Gabel had me to tea
But now I'm broken hearted
Can't get started with you
You're so supreme
The lyrics I write of you
Dream, dream, day and night of you
Scheme just for the sight of you
But what good does it do
I've been consulted by Franklin D.
Even Basic had me to tea
But now I'm broken hearted
(Written by Rickie Lee Jones)
I would call him, Hey Bub
He had a little place he kept for me
And he would tell me - (poof)
Boy, we were so in love
He moved us to a home there
A place where he'd take care of me
And I'd always know where he'd be
I don't know, it happened so fast
And sometimes all I see is lonely
Oh lonely
He's gone and I don't like to hear anymore
All the places that saw us meet
The darkness, there's not much left of our old town
I would call him, Hey Bub
He had a little place he kept for me
And he would tell me - (poof)
In the dominion of pillars of faith
her nest toppled by the march winds
she set out through the forest
on a cloudy day
the dower sky whining over tea, the weakened
country side rolling over onto his side to watch for
coming night.
sick with fever now the cottages glowed from within,
and all the plump women fanned the fires and cooked
the soups and warmed the water for the baths of small
children.
this one bathes with a sail boat.
That one uses kitchen spoons and bottles.
meanwhile
the grass shivers
the cars in the driveway
pull restlessly at horizontal lines
thrown carelessly across
in my featherless, sagging, saffron wings,
i dance
my Phoenician, waterlogged, orchestrated and forty foot wings
wave in the air
i am drunk laying against the striped table
pushing these banners into the airless beach
waving these flags as i murmur the recipes of prayers to the vendors
and the pharisees in bikinis pumping iron against the sun
the recipes of semitic vendors, egyptian vendors
shaking their backs against the sun
laughing with the sounds of sheets of metal
splashing the naked pharisees
with wild bikinis and the soft fragrance
of dreams
and morning
i walk on the beach looking for a place to sleep
My arms are hidden beneath my sailing skin
i am broke and fucked up and i fall in the sand
and sleeping in the warm cradle of a billion rocks
i dreamed of cher
she came to us in babylon
and she was rattling fluently
her true language
and she was dressed in high syrian rags
her face had white powder on it and there were
little brown moons beneath her eyes
and i saw into her
an arabic women parading around naked
powerful, irreverent but still after all
doing it the old egyptian way
with sparkling clothes and force
now i awake in the afternoon
the arcade is filled with children
families are walking by staring at me
pre-pubescent faces are coming a little too close
i don't even remember if i have on any underwear
i get up and walk away
i never even knew this stuff was here
the twirling music, the games, the money
this commune living sucks
these black panthers suck
these harmonica players
should all go back to the north
canada, new jersey, where ever they do that
blowing
I abandon the old way when i first got to san diego. I fucked anybody i wanted to. I was, however, gang raped by a blues band in an old school bus. That was pretty
horrible. There were only three of them. I can't remember if i got the third on e off me. I think i did. I was so ashamed.
Perhaps people think if you don't scream you're not being raped. Perhaps they think if you say to yourself, just let him do it and he won't hurt you. Or even more
provocative, just let him do it and maybe he'll like you. And of course you've been saying no, no, don't . Or pushing but not pushing too much. Because you're just a little
girl really, and you're afraid, and you're so tired, and you just want someplace to sleep.
That's what it's like when you run away from home.
Lots of people will rape you. And you'll let them. Just to have a place to sleep.
The thing was, after they fucked me, and all this juice all over my thighs, they didn't even let me sleep there.
You think this only happens to me? You're crazy. You think this only happens to girls who are rough? You're wrong. You think this only happens in stories?
Look behind you.
Still i liked the idea of being assertive. I liked the idea of free love in san diego. i liked the idea of saying i want you instead of waiting around so some guy can get his rocks
off thinking you didn't really want him that he won something from you that you didn't want to give him. This strategy, this tradition, is a kind of rape.
This idea that men are suppose to win you, that you are suppose to be aloof, is a small but significant dramatization of rape. I do not like it. not one bit. that sam i am that
sam i am. i do not like that sam i am.
now i could no more say get down here and eat this sweet me than i could
swallow a bull fighter
or write names on the walls in blood
or wear the victims horns on my head
or row a boat across the atlantic ocean again
and though sometimes i am sitting at the desk, or
at a table eating dinner
and there is some one, some slave, or some anything
underneath
eating mine alone
and no one knows
or eating every ones
and everyone is coming
i could never bring anything to reality now
reality is cracked by the blows of terrible
men and nights with pointed teeth
snapping poison at the air
i breath
and all good things now
take place inside my many layered
silence
my eyes
my lips
are sealed
where did you go
when things went bad, anyway?
i sat beside you in that bathroom all night.
you were crying
you were talking to me like a baby
you were gone, man, gone
you just kept getting in the bath
and getting out and letting the water run out
and then getting in again
and all that food i made
it was all over the walls in the kitchen
and there was a heat wave
and the waves were very, very high
and the dogs were turning into carrots
and the valentines were melting beneath
burrito and neon
where shattered places pave the road
the winding road through echo park
that echoes still
your naked body
the bed you brought
those stupid lamps
your body echoes
the last shadows
of me against you
you loved me.
you loved me madly
where did you go?i knew you like that scene of girls chasing you down the street. that's why you always liked to have a very hip car, because it was important that they
chase you in the right car, and i was not about to chase you.
i knew that story of that italian girl in philadelphia chasing you down the night street you were in a taxi cab, that's a nice image. then the japanese girl. but then my feet
were starting toward you and you were turning the corner onto sunset and you left me there in a second day cold turkey. and all i can think of i philadelphia cheese steak
sandwich philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich.
philadelphia cheese steak and every time i think cheese steak i see all this wet cheese and steak.
Here comes the parade! Look! Here it comes!
I let you go.
There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity
A cold that will wipe the hope from your eyes
Young girl standing underneath the "L" train
Standing there, watching the trains go by ...
You think that nobody knows where you are, girl
You think that nobody knows how this feels
Alone, in a world of your own
There you are girl
The small things float
To the top of gravity
Gravity
I'm telling you where it is
Gravity
We walk in easy snakes
Through the roulette rattling of the ethyl
And now the arson smell of moon
Polishes a newsstand
They empty the gas can
The watch the fire
If there are three girls running
There are three girls running nowhere
From remedies
That you call random
We call by name
And ask them to explain why
Oh, no I heard somebody
Hush up
Don't say nothing
I thought I heard someone
Well we walk when we want to go
Nobody's gonna be there
Seen somebody, somebody
Be quiet
Nobody's there ...
Nobody
I could not say no to the light of my desire
I'm not asking so much
But you roll-call the passion
His lips?
His back?
His face?
No, no, no
I'm not asking so much!
I try to imagine another planet, another sun
Where I don't look like me
And everything I do matters
Where you are, girl
In your green paint
With a pin to pull
At the fingertips of gravity
Gravity
I'm telling you where it is
A distant light finds me when I'm with you
A distant light knows me when I'm through
Once I mistake you
For somebody else
Mistook you for somewhere, mistook you
A distant light that binds me
A distant sound that finds me
When I'm through
(George & Ira Gershwin)
There's a saying old, says that love is blind
Still we're often told, "seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind
Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet
He's the big affair I cannot forget
Only man I ever think of with regret
I'd like to add his initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?
There's a somebody I'm longin' to see
I hope that he, turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood
I know I could, always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although he may not be the man some
Girls think of as handsome
To my heart he carries the key
Won't you tell him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
(bridge)
Won't you tell him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
It must be love that whispers in my ear
It must be love that we keep trying to hear
Cuz I imagined this kind of vvonderful choice
I imagine you hear the very same voice
When I speak to you
You say "That's just my imagination"
Oh no, no, no
It Must Be Love
It Must Be Love
Perhaps one girl who was moving in a fine line
Finds one boy in back
That she can always stand behind
And it's you and me
Cuz that's where we want to be
Oh, It Must Be Love,
It Must Be Love
People look through everything they see
Cuz there's so many other things to be
I have seen you walking in the rain
I wanted to know why you were crying
I wanna fix what's wrong...
It must be love the sailor sails for
Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor
Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water
I would have you there wherever I'll go
Way from the seventh sea,
He brings the bottle back to me
Oh, It Must Be Love
Oh, It Must Be Love
People look through evervthing thev see
There's so many other things to be
I have seen you walking in the rain
I want to know whv vou were crying
Baby, let me fix what's wrong...
It must be love that fathoms the moonlight
Must be love that shallovvs
The deepest part of the night
So you can show them vvith vour eye
The things that make them cry,
Because that Must Be Love
It Must Be Love...
And the way you are
Must Be Love
And the things vou Feel
Oh, It Must Be Love,
Oh, It Must Be Love
Hi-Lili-hi-lo
On every tree there is a bird
singing a song of love...
On every tree there is a bird
and every one I'd ever heard
Could brake my heart without a word
singing a song of love...
The song of love is a sad song
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo
The song of love is a song of woe
Don't ask me why I know
The song of love is a sad song
For I have loved and it's so
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo Hi lo
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo Hi lo
Hi Lili Hi Lili... Hi lo
The song of love is a sad song
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo
The song of love is a song of woe
Don't ask me why I know
The song of love is a sad song
For I have loved and it's so
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo Hi lo
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo
Hi Lili Hi Lili Hi lo Hi lo
The spirits of her abortion had manifested...
The spirits of all her abortions manifested themselves into the furniture in the room
There would be a chair waiting, smiling, the pictures on the wall watched her in disbelief
She'd go carry the garbage out to the sidewalk and come back in and sit with all her children inanimate, petrified forever
A little boy named Howard, everybody knows one of those guys in school who kills everything he finds,
Every little cat, every mouse, every dog, likes to burn his sister with cigarettes
Diabolical schemes, everything has been conspired, the doors wired
That's 'cause those south Americans tied him up in a chair,
He was doing that dope deal, he never got over that
what you are you can never erase
it's here til the end of time
what you lost you will never replace
still you're trying to find...
you dont do it for god
you dont do it for love
you're back on the street because
it takes you there (x3)
what you have will never be enough
you will always want more
but lift me out, over one more night
all i want is what i was before
i dont do it for god
i dont do it for jesus
i'm back on the street because
it takes you there
takes you there
it takes you there
takes you there,
i had a dream
i know it seems so absurd
we all live in a house on a hill
nobody has to say a word
wake up
it's the middle of the night
the room is opening with love
i try to hold on to this golden light
but i fall hard from above
i don't do it for money
i don't do it for god
i'm back on the street because
it takes you there
takes you there
it takes you there
takes you there...
takes you there
takes you there
takes you there
the man in the starry tie
led me talking backwards
across the waving chips
i spoke fantastic, like a prophet
like a piece of blood
where no doors are
and weary now i set upon the good year
and the wrench
wrenching out of me every
ready of light
that i might get it right
and walk away
into the metro sunset
the golden metro may
and now across the plains
take your child
the highway sign, banana trees,
windows parted and hoping
see the flat faced delicatessen
sweeping up the afternoon
pick up little pieces of meetings
and on your way
here is the donut shop
here is the early morning light
where i would drool in chlorine
yes here is the early early mornings i spent training
and here is the highway
chasing 'j's' out on his empty skin
looking for license plates
and liquor stores
over there is new mexico
and down there is corpus
you can find my mother and me wrapped up in a warm
scotch on the rocks
the numbing ice of each others eyes
looking just like now
for relief
there is no direction but past
every thing else is passive
but if you would seek me
seek me there
in a field
or a gas station
in my american mothers arms
before she is too medicated
to remember
how to say my name
say it gently, just once more
for me mother
with the sounds of trucks and distant trains
with the gold sticks
and the burnt skin of prayer
bathe me once again
in hot oil
silence and long, long days
car keys and dash board lights
bears in the garbage
that sweet honeycomb
of memory
don't weave the web too tight
don't catch me tonight
speak to me in cool lines
the steering wheels turning
where ever we go
dinner approaches
the fire light
of high beam and lipstick
laughing the red midwest
her curled curtains
wild and a strand of me stuck in her mouth
wet always an outsider
to the cities i create
the entire east comes upon me and i
reeling in stars
grip the wheel
a good girl, really
just don't know how to stop
A long stretch of headlights
Bends into I-9
Tiptoe into truck stops
And sleepy diesel eyes
Volcanoes rumble in the taxi
And glow in the dark
Camels in the driver's seat
A slow, easy mark
But you ran out of gas
Down the road a piece
Then the battery went dead
And now the cable won't reach...
It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good,
Your last chance
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco
Well, he tried to be Standard
He tries to be Mobil
He tried living in a world
And in a shell
There was this block-busted blonde
He loved her - free parts and labor
But she broke down and died
And threw all the rods he gave her
But this one ain't fuel-injected
Her plug's disconnected
She gets scared and she stalls
She just needs a man, that's all
It's her last chance
Her timing's all wrong
Her last chance
She can't idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin' out of the last chance texaco
(Written by Resnick-Young)
When the sun beats down, and melts the tar upon the roof
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fire-proof
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be
From the park you'll hear the happy sounds of a carousel
You can almost taste those hot dogs and french fries they sell
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the boardwalk, people walking above
Under the boardwalk, we'll be falling in love
Under the board-walk, board-walk
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be
Under the boardwalk, out of the sun
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun
Under the boardwalk, people walking above
Under the boardwalk, we'll be falling in love
Wild girl, you must have been a terror when you were young
Or your mamma must have let you run, let you run free
But it wasn't very nice eating, eating all that sugar and spice
What they want a girl to be
And all the things a child learns on their way from hope to here
The innocence, the fury, the racism, the rage and fear
I don't remember tell me again the part no one wants to hear
Well, that's so many people's story, a lot of heartache but not much glory
But glory, the truth be told tomorrow you are twenty one years old
I say happy birthday tomorrow to you
The only game in town
You can live your life with regret about the things you think you did wrong
Or over what someone would not give
Or you can be grateful when you open your eyes
The story you write, you live
Well, it's hard to be older and poor, I don't dig it that much anymore
But everyday of my life I'm so proud, so proud I became his wife
Because I got to raise Charlotte and Charlotte's learning
The only game in town
Wild girl in a red dress, come on, speak up, say yes
This thing that makes you beautiful never comes out of a jar, yeah
You are a beautiful girl, you're reaching out from your beautiful world
That is the daughter you are
Walk right and the real world knows it
'Cause you bring it back down into the real world
Walk right up the real world knows it
You'll bring it back down into the real world
Say take me back, baby
I just wanna make a dream come true
I came here to love somebody
I just wanna make my dreams come true
And I'm trying because trying is the only game
There's just one thing before I go
You are the sweetest boy I know
I've lived my whole life in the past
I awoke last night at last
I thought I'd finally won your heart that forever never part
And in sweet love we would grow old
Now I'm just a scavenger in the cold
I'm just a scavenger
All I can do is wish you well
And light the bonfires of hell
Honey, you hurt me bad this time
I'm burning everything I find
You hurt me bad this time
You nearly tore me from my mind
Before I knew I had been hurt
She laid her hair across your shirt
She laid her hair
All I can do is wish you well
And light the bonfires of hell
There's just one thing before I go
You are the sweetest boy I know
You are the sweetest boy
If there's a sun I'll watch it rise
To dry the tears out of my eyes
If there's a river you can bet
There'll be a sea from my heart yet
There's a house at Bayless Street
I left when I was tired
There's a dog in the backyard
He watches the moon for me
Lay down all these easy times and we'll
Meet me there with the book you brought from Bayless Street
A child on Bayless Street left there by myself
And she's waiting there to meet
All the people we've become
Meet me now, I will bring my friend
Lay down all these easy times and we'll
Meet me now, I will bring my friend
And when you arrive
Shining and new
Forgotten by the fear and pain
you put your body through
On His Jeweled Floor
We are every one
Laying in His starry arms,
On His Jeweled Floor we are standing now
See me as I am...
You'll come in the afternoon
Of a hard travelin' day
Blown by a stromy sky
That finally passes away
On His Jeweled Floor
We will meet again
He holds us all in His starry arms
On His Jeweled Floor I am standing now
Can you see me as I am?
There are no demons, only angels
Life will surely fade
Spend it loving tenderly
Or Shiva at your grave,
Sit shiva at your grave,
On His Jeweled Floor
We will all be there
He holds us all in His starry arms
On His Jeweled Floor no one ever falls
Can you see me as I am,
All my old friends
Have gone underground
They fall so hard
I am the last of my kind in this town
Out in the yard...
My feet hardly touch the ground.
My feet hardly touch the ground.
Life moves on the Eucalyptus Trail
Vishnu's Ocean, Wagon-wheel motel.
Cowboy fairies floating all around
Make-believe that held us
To the ground
Finally let's go.
Turn the wheel, I'll be on my way.
Turn the wheel, I'll be on my way.
I want to be the one you love,
I can be the one.
I want to be the one you love,
I can be the one.
I want to be the one you love,
Let me be the one.
I want to be the one you love,
I can be the one.
Stop at any beach,
Wagon-wheel motel.
Vishnu's Ocean,
Something's changed, it's not that I fear but
Maybe it's that I took care of you too many times
And you grew weaker for a kindness
And sometimes kindness from a friend can break a man
I can understand you sit there like a child, man
I never meant to make you cry and I'm so sorry
I'd turn the clock but tell me, tell me how can I?
You're old enough to know
You're old enough to know
Why do you shun me when I treat you with respect?
You've been my best friend, joy and happiness
But without a tender kiss sometimes
We may as well say goodbye
'Cause late at night as the cars go by
I lay here, I watch you try
To pretend you're not breaking inside
For someone to sing in your ear
I can understand when you sit there like a child and beg
Don't you?
But if you want me to stay, baby has to cry sometime
Don't be kind to me, I wanna walk away
You're old enough to know
You're old enough to know
You're old enough to know
The line of traffic comes to stand still
For the love came out in the morning air
I find the place I started from
The wild is calling, this time I'll follow
Easter parade
In the beautiful typewriter's quiet
Confetti falls from every window
Throwing hats up in the air
A city perfect in every detail
Easter parade
I know you, birthday cards and silent music
Paperbacks and sunday clothes
In the hallway and railway stations
Radio across the morning air
A crowd of people everywhere
And then the people are running forward
Something cool
I'd like to order something cool
It's so warm here in town
And this heat gets me down
And I'd like something cool
My, it's nice
Just to sit down and rest awhile
Hey, you know it's a shame
But I can't think of your name
But I remember your smile
Well, I don't ordinarily drink
With strangers
I guess I usually just, just drink alone
But you were so nice to ask me
And I'm so terribly far from home
Like my dress, well, I must confess
It's very old
Hey, but it's simple and neat
And it's just right for this heat
Hey, I will save my furs for the cold
A cigarette, no, I don't smoke them
As a rule
But, I'll have one, it might be fun
With something
I'll bet you wouldn't imagine
But I once had a house
With so many rooms
I couldn't count them all
Yeah, I know you wouldn't imagine
But I had fifteen different guys
Who would beg and beg to take me to a ball
And I know you wouldn't picture me
The time I went to Paris in the fall
Oh who would think the guy I loved
Was quite so handsome and quite so tall
Well, it's through, it's through
That was just a memory I had
One I guess I almost forgot
Oh, 'cause the weather's so hot
And I'm feeling so bad
About a date
Oh wait, I'm such a fool
He's just a guy who stopped to buy me
You're coming into town on your donkey tonight
You're coming into town on your donkey
You're coming into town on your donkey tonight
You're coming into town, coming into, yeah yeah
It will permeate across the ages
Coming into town on your donkey tonight
And you're wearing your garland
You're coming into town on your donkey tonight
And you're wearing your garland
Shake, shake, shake, shake...
Lies, lies, lies, lies
Will lead them up, lead them up to the dominion
Lies will lead them up
Lead them up to the minion
Lies will lead them up, lead them up
You'll be going out in the spirit
You're coming into town on your donkey tonight
But you'll be going out on a cross
But you'll be going out on a cross
Maybe you want another world
One where heaven doesn't weigh so much
Maybe you'll find another girl
One you can feel when you do not touch
Well I've got something
Warm inside me
It won't let you fall
'Til I see
Somewhere better than this place
Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away
Somewhere better than the world
I'm an aviator now
Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly
Over this tenement waterfall
This wet buries all the tears we've cried
I dream of you coming to me
Swimming in a water
Of many hearts I've known
Beneath new stars they're calling
Somewhere better than this place
Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark
Go find the arc
Show them the atlas' marker
You walk into school like you got nothin' to win
They won't let you in without atlas' marker
Oh, my sister's buried here so deep
I hear her digging in her sleep
Somewhere better than his place
Sometimes she closes her eyes
And she's out in space
C'est une chanson,
Qui nous ressemble,
Toi qui m'aimais,
Et je t'aimais,
Nous vivions tous les deux ensemble,
Toi qui m'aimais,
Moi qui t'aimais,
Mais la vie sépare,
Ceux qui s'aiment,
Tout doucement,
Sans faire de bruit,
Et la mer efface sur le sable,
Les pas des amants désunis.
Since he went away,
The days grow long...
And soon i'll hear,
Old winter songs,
But i miss you most of all,
Begging round the sun beaten streets
I can't make me no connections
Locals here no speak no English
Where is my woman, well no one knows
Ah well, some girls just have to leave in the night
While you're fast asleep
But I don't worry, I move in the dark
There were lights, there were border lights
I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing
I saw the light, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there
I woke in some hotel room
I could hardly remember my name
They were only sixteen years old
I felt so lonely, I felt so ashamed
I know sometimes I just have to leave
In the night, while you're fast asleep
But I don't worry, I move in the dark
There were lights, there were border lights
I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing
I turned around, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there
Don't you wonder where one goes wrong
Is it somewhere in a foreign rain?
We're sitting out the storm
Every lamplight in town
Man don't know when he's got it his grace
Till beat angels come and take her away, beat angels, beat angels
Tell me everything
I just want to talk to you
I won't do you no harm
I just want to know about your different lives
On this is here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just sit there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.
I just wanna know
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just remains of vibrations
And they happen long ago ?
Things like "Love the world" and
"Let your fancy flow"
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Is this true ?
I just wanna talk to you.
I have lived here before
The days of ice
So of course this is why
I'm so concerned about the earth
'Cause I come back to find
The stars are misplaced
And the smell of a world
That's burned
A smell of a world
That's burned.
So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I'd just like to have a ringside seat
I wanna hear about these new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want you to show me
I want you to say to me
Show me everything
Oh yeah is that true ?
Is that true ?
Please let me talk to you
Oh my new Mother Earth
I won't do you no harm
Yes I have lived here before,
Many times many times
I and Braggar, and Junior Lee,
well that's the way we always thought it would be
In the wind-strewn leaves of September, how we met
IN THE WINSTON LIPS OF SEPTEMBER, HOW WE MET
Decked out like aces, we'd beat anybody's bet
Cuz we was Coolsville... cuz we was Coolsville
Well you stick it here;
you stick it over there;
but it never fits
And now a hungry night you want more and more
and you chip in your little kiss.
AND YOU'RE CHIPPYIN' YOUR LITTLE KISS
Well, I jumped all his jokers,
but he trumped all my tricks
And I swear to God I thought this one was smart enough to
stick it into Coolsville... yeah stick it into Coolsville...
So now it's J and B, and me, and that sounds close,
but it ain't the same (well, that's okay)
Hot City don't hurt that much but everything feels the same
Well the real thing come and the real thing go...
Well the real thing is back in town...
Ask me if you wanna know The way to Coolsville...
(Well I hear you wanna go back to Coolsville...
there is a tree on allenford
I drive by it each day on my way to and from work
and there are always flowers left there each day
left for a child who died there
or so that is what people say...
but all i see
looks back at me
loved by someone, loved by someone
loved by someone, loved by someone
and the golden thread of nature of this is
simply that we are a part of everything
that will ever exist.
to be loved is why we've come.
every drop of rain that fell or falls
is always falling
on and on and on and on.
come into me
and we'll always be
oved by someone, loved by someone
loved by someone, loved by someone
there's nothing that has ever been
that isn't loved
by someone who waits
to be loved again
loved by someone, loved by someone
i know that lizards like jelly, because i have fed wild geckos on the roof of my hut in the seychelles islands. she was called the morning lizard, and i would drop clear ponds
from the tips of my fingers for her to drink, and drop gobs of silly flavored jelly on the counter for her to lick.
i know that it is possible to become intimate with a stranger, from a distance, across time and continents, because i have knelt before a young master in a very private tea
ceremony. i watched him move, whisk, wipe, fold, touch, offer, drink, enter, exit,
well this one wasn't so good.
i have debuted at carnegie hall.
i have been homeless, panhandled on the streets.
i have witnessed death, and birth, and graduation.
i have been told to leave, and invited to stay.
i went to a big new years eve party in new york city, with many famous people, the mayor, baryshnikov, jessica lange,
i was at the opening of the film which one best film that year.
i was kicked out of high school
i was given the key to the city of baltimore.
what a kick. i'd like more of those. i was arrested
i am the highest point of my family tree. i call them to fruition, i sing them themes about the beautiful sky, but they cannot see it. there is a canopy above them, being
woven out of determination to grow. out of the legacy of pain. i call them but they do not come, they cannot come, no sun hits them.
i have swum with turtles in the open sea.
i found ancient, rusty nails on the shore.
and written about the boat, the sailors, and their homes , from one piece of survival.
i grew up in a hospital, watching my brother die.
i grew up in a hotel room , watching my mother bring home left over food.for our dinner.
i have cried my self to sleep by the cold sea, with no coat or blanket or dime for the phone,
and awakened in the warm sun, in his arms, hearing his grunts and the rustling of his leaves, his great purring
and measured love by these things,
and so love became a fearful calm,
and i have always run
back to the storm
the lion completed, weakened by love,
send me back to the hunt
my lord
i have turned my back to the sunrise from hotel rooms
and called out the name of the setting sun from the desert floor
i've been where it was happening
i have made it happen
i have walked down tiny lanes alone, for miles
i have planned revolutions
i have carved myself into moderation
i abandon my own shadow
i have been attacked by droves of red ants.
by crazy horses
by crazy people
i have been carried all the way, by someone, now and then
but he is always too tired to stay then
and i hate him for loving my weakness
i have been in a helicopter, flying over the alaskan glaciers, and i have been in the concord, faster than sound.
as much as i have learned camouflage, i have left my broken body on the plains at dusk
i been in a jet when the oxygen masks dropped
i came out to the car and my daughter was gone from her car seat.
she had followed me in.
all of it is written over and over again.
i have skiied, water skiied, raced in the water, i have played baseball and cards.
i learned chess at 8, when i learned my funny valentine.
i met bob dylan. He called me a poet.
Take a walk around midnight in the city
Young blood is hiding there somewhere
If you're looking for something to do
There's always something happening there
Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe today
Here come Pepe and she's got a friend in a Chevrolet
But she ain't running, she's walking a little slow
And she ain't crying, she's just singin' a little low
They say this city will make you dirty, but you look alright
You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight
City will make you mean but that's just make-up on your face
Love will wash you clean in the night's disgrace
Find a block where your people can find you
Keep your third eye watching behind you
You never know when you're making a memory
They will wish they were here together again, someday
Kids looking for something to get into, take a look
Two for the movie show, three in the back row, hold on tight
Remember, you might have looked like cool twelve
But your fuse felt just like dynamite
This city will make you dirty, but you look alright
You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight
City will make you mean but darlin', that's just make-up on your face
Love will wash you clean in the night
Take a walk around midnight in the city
Young blood will find you there, somewhere
And if you're looking for something to do
There's always something happening there
Something's happening there
Something's happening there
a gypsy boy came up to you
with a newspaper spread across his arm
to hid his fingers in your pocket...
meanwhile, in another part of town
i buy a ticket for a game
and la petite femme, smoking les gitanes
is writing down my name
oh, little mysteries, little mysteries
yeah, little mysteries, little mysteries
a plane goes down in kc, mo
in a simple twist of fate
a trail of lies leads us to orlando
but we are days too late
for a certain brother down in florida
famous for his cake
and when the boys came over from texas
they said "we'll take everything we can take..."
oh, little mysteries, little mysteries
yeah, little mystereis, little mysteries
nobody wants to know
nobody wants to see
now four years later
another senator hits the ground
this time the boys make sure
that his wife is with him when he goes down
and while everybody's looking up
in a race too close to call
t he election quietly slips into
the third door down the hall.
oh, little mysteries, little mysteries.
yeah, little mysteries, little mystereies
could be next to you.
someone you've known for years
a car parked down by the airport
i know what it takes to be loved by you
talk like you talk
think like you do
you never were human so
how could you know?
we fall so hard, we can't let go
i am the last of my kind in this town
everyone else has gone underground
i know what to say when
i'm in your head
i know where to lay when i'm in your bed
in fact, there's no part of me i can't kill
no hole i won't dig
for baby to fill
i am the last of my kind in the town
i want to be the one you love
i want to be the one you love
i want to be the one you love
Dented bodies, broken souls
Wilted roses, hearts grow cold
Unhappy endings and shattered dreams
Where's the candlelight, where's the smiles
Man this place goes on for miles
There's heaps and heaps of wedding rings
Equal space for tramps and kings
There's no doberman dogs or security guards at the love junkyard
Open twenty four hours, come as you are, yeah, to the love junkyard
Tanks of teardrops shed in vain
Mixin with the pouring rain
Promises go up in smoke
Freight cars full of abandoned hurt and hope
There's no doberman dogs or security guards at the love junkyard
Open twenty four hours, come as you are, yeah, to the love junkyard
Tiny trysts or grand affairs, there抯 no more need for teddy bears
The time for pretty words has past, so fly the flag of love half mast
At the love junkyard, yeah
There's no dobermans though or security guards at the love junkyard
Open twenty four hours, bring your broken heart, to the love junkyard
To the love, to the love junkyard
Is that you, is that you, is that you baby, is that you...
(written by Billy Strahorn)
I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come-what-may places
I used to visit all the very gay places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails.
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingue traces
That used to be there -- You could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clock tales
Then you came along with your siren song
To tempt me to madness...
I thought for a while that your poignant smile
Was tinged with the sadness...
Of a great love for me.
Ah yes, I was wrong.
Again, I was wrong.
Life is lonely again,
And only last year, everything seemed so sure.
Now life is awful again,
A trough full of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it
I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still
Burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest
What you wish for, what you think
The photographs you carry around
What whispers to yourself when you're finally gone
What you take when you go
Adds up to the big number
What you leave with
Who you know
Makes the big picture matter
It doesn't matter if you're fat
Wear a helmet or wear a hat
If you're sorry or if you're sure
Who you are is who you were, who you were matters
So deep inside yourself
Looking out at everyone else
Think a thing, in a while you meet it on the street
Because it matters...
Homeboys
Calling from the corners
Station to station
For the magazine
But her pages are turning
Out the lights in the windows
And all that you're reading
Is the braille night
I can't come out
And play Paddy with
The Precinct boys no more
But you and me baby
We'll be lovers again
But she's walking to the A
Walking to the B
Walking to the C now,
Where are you going?
I'm just going with him...
He could be anywhere
I don't know where he is
I know he's coming
I know he's coming to me
It could be anyday
I will know right away
I'll know he's Coming
I'll know he's Coming to me
I'll know he's Coming
I'll know he's Coming to me now...
I don't think you know
What you're doing
I don't think you know
That she'll make him cry
Make my baby cry
'cause you'll break my heart,
Carol, Carol, Carol
There's a flagboy
Calling danger
Watch you're back now
Hey you. Flagboy,
Let'em come, let'em come
'cause I can see them there
I can see them coming
I can see it all now
Hey you, Flagboy
Let'em come
They don't know where I am
I could be anywhere
I know they're coming
I know they're coming to me
It could be anyday
I will know right away
I know they're coming...
I know they're coming to me
I know they're coming,
Everything's Coming
Everything's Coming to me
Everything's Coming
lap dog lap dog where you gonna go?
if i put you out in the rain and snow
if i put you out in the rain and snow
where the sun dont shine and the cold wind blow
lap dog lap dog who you gonna see?
when you look in the mirror and you dont' see me
when the face in the mirror just makes you cry
on the corner as the cars go by...
someone you can rely on
someone you can rely on
someone you could be there with
someone you could do that with
someone like me
lap dog lap dog you should come home
a little lap dog wasn't meant to roam
a little lap dog was meant to lay
I say this was no game of chicken
You were aiming your best friend
That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck
I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad
Now its daddy on the booze
And Brando on the ice
Now it's Dean in the doorway
With one more way he can't play this scene twice
So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
And you told her to stand tall whet you kissed her
But that's not where you were thinking...
How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
How now look who shows up
In the same place
In this case
I think it's better
To face it ---
We belong together
We belong together
Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man
And he entwine her in his finger
And she lay there like a baby in his hand
And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas
And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees
But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
To turn her into a tattoo
That will whisper
Into the back of Johnny's black hair
And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain
Lookin' for a leather jacket
And a girl who wrote her name forever
A promise that ---
We belong together
We belong together
Shall we weigh along these streets
Young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart
All left on neon for them?
Who are foolish
Who are victim
Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
Move into your eyes and lips and
Every tear
That falls down on the neighborhood now
I said "Bird, we just gotta tell them"
And they turn and ignore us
And the only heroes we got left
Are written right before us
And the only angel who sees us now
Watches through each other's eyes
And I can hear him
In every footstep's passing sigh
He goes crazy these nights
Watching heartbeats go by...
And they wisper ---
We belong together
not long ago it was alright
there were no bad dreams that kept me up at night
it was not brother against brother
mother against mother
so tell somebody,
you've got to tell somebody
tell somebody what happened in the usa
now they want us to just get in line
behind a president
when you know they spent milions of dollars
condemning and accusing
the last one from the other side
tell somebody, tell somebody
tell somebody
what's happening in the usa?
tell somebody, tell somebody
tell somebody
what happened in the usa
tell somebody, tell somebody, tell somebodyâ¦
i want to know how far you will go
to protect our right of free speech?
because it only took a moment
before it faded out of reach...
oh, tell somebody, tell sombody right now
tell somebody
what happened in the usa?
i wanna read about it in the news
i wanna hear about it on tv, yeah
what happened in the usa?
when they ask you
what happened in the usa?
tell sombody.
they'll wanna know, oh people
the depth of our democracy
is only as good as the voices of protest that she protects
They all smile
They shake your hand
They want to know your name
Y ou sit in your mothers room
Look through the window pane
When they know you're not watching
They talk behind your back
They laugh about the lonliness
Of your awkward attack
Attack them in the fences
Attack them in the schoolyard
Wipe your sleeve across your head
When the canons fire
Someday, many years from here
Where no one else can see
You'll dig up the things they buried
And finally set them free
Finally, set them free
Now free them from the schoolyard
Free them from the lunch tray edge
Free them from the canons inside your head
I don't know why,
But for some people
An ordinary day
Just rises up before them
And it sweeps the past away
And its a good Life
From now on
When I look back at you
A good life,
Look ahead
Downstairs at danny's all-star joint
They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day
But when the nighttime comes, hey-hey
There's this cat down there that makes a bad kinda soup
I come around struttin' my luck in my shoop coupe
Cecil gives me coffee
And he won't never take my coin
I say, " I got thirty dollars in my pocket!
Whatchoo doin'? "
I holler, " Come on, Cecil, take a dollar!
Come on, Cecil, take a ten!
I've finally geared up into a whole buncha big ones
And you're actin' like I'm down-shiftin' "
He knows all the under-riders on the boulevard
They got to barefoot cruise when it's forty-weight hard
They look particularly dead-beat
Permanently pale
Cecil picks up his butcher knife
Waves it at the jail
The kid say, " I ain't got no dough, Joe, I just want some o.j "
I said, " Don't look at me " (Cuz he was lookin' my way)
Cecil wink upon him some juice and some green
And the kid walks over and puts the quarter in the pinball machine
And he says, " Come on, Cec, gimme a dollar
Come on Cecil gimme five
I'm in a half-way house on a one-way street
And I'm a quarter past left alive "
He can talk about your people in a wonderful way
He can talk about your people 'til your hair turns grey
your sisters into mustard, she loves to walk the pup
she like pickles and a relish, she never gets enough
Hershey milkshake steamin on a stick, Get a Carter Blanche Sandwich
Oh lettuce get it thick... It not becuase Im dirty, not because Im clean
not because I kissed a boy behind a magazine...
Hey Boys, how bout a fight... Here comes Ricky with her girdle on tight.
She dont know your name, But she knows what you got, fromn your
mazzo balls to the chicken in the pot. chicken in the pot...
chicken in the... DOOOWWWWOWOWN stairs at Danny's all star joint
They got a jukebox that goes Doyte doyte.finger snappin delux make ya bee bop
bap... Your a Ivy League... Your a Hep Scat...
You cant break the rules until ya know how to play the game
If ya wanna have a little fun you can mention my name...
But keep your feet in the street... Your toes in the lawn...
But keep your business in your pocket Baby, thats where it belongss.
OW come on Cecil take a dollar... Come on Cecil take a tip...
Do your self a favor if she offers it take it.
But honey dont give it away if she dont appriciate it... Dooown bownt bownt
So he dropped the webs of the spider of heaven down through the clouds,
All the way into the pool of blood at the bottom of hell
Far above in heaven a bird flys through the terrible cloud of unknowing
Trust can make a man into a wood, trust can make a man green
An everything that longs to Be
Broken and small enough to see
To be held in his hands
To be a part and yet alone
Here he is, reaching for... the speed of light
Here he is, reaching for... the sound of forgiveness
Now wounding 'round the waterfront she listens for a voice
A sign of Mother God, a sign of God the lad
I long to enter you with gentleness and compassion
But sorrow is always an open door
I know many days go by and I forget to look up at the stars
I forget there are stars, I forget there is the rest
Thin threads of light follow you around
Through the pale blue, down your skin
Polly and I went to the circus
Polly got hit with a rolling pin
We got even with the circus
We bought tickets but we didn't go in...
You won't like it here
When I first take you,
He's in the back doing his Father O'Riley for the cops.
But you'll like Woody
(He's hiding in the shed)
And we're going with him
I told my brother...
When the Police come
Don't say nothing
Don't say nothing
And the Police will go
Cuz they don't like it
When you beat them to the punch,
They don't like it
When you come in on a hunch.
And I've seen more dreams
Riding on his eyes,
Than a sure thing like
The Starry Skies,
And you'll like it when you find out what he's got
In the backyard,
By the parking lot.
Hey Baby, you're my favorite boy,
I think about you all the time.
And this garbage that you still employ,
Do they really pay for every line?
For the Juke Box Fury
Pounding in your soul,
Juke Box Fury tells them where to go,
Juke Box Fury pounding in your head,
Juke Box Fury every vvord we said when
We were younger
And they hurt us so,
But you never know...
You got a Juke Box.
You can make it even.
Look, I don't like it here.
This is trouble.
That guy keeps gettin'up.
That girl keeps goin'over to the phone
I'm going to talk to them
(You just watch me)
I'm going to tell them;
"I think you two look like you're ready to go."
Put your foot right here.
D'you get it down all right, dear?
Well, put your foot right here...
Here, baby,
You're the one for me.
This must be Paradise.
She's never where you think she'll be,
But don't worry about it
Cuz the Juke Box Fury's
Pounding in your soul
Juke Box Fury knows where to go
Juke Box Fury pounding in vour head
Juke Box Fury every word we said
When we vvere younger
And they hurt us so
But you never knovv...
You don't knovv vvhat you've got,
You can make it even!
You got a Juke Box!
You can make it even...
Like this:
Doodootin—doodootin—Doo.
Hev Danny! Wait for me!
(Jefferson Airplane)
The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
The winter looked the same as if it never had gone
And through an open window where no curtain hung
I saw you
I saw you
One begins to read between the pages of a book
The shape of sleepy music and suddenly you're hooked
Through the rain upon the trees that kisses on the run
I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
You can't stay and live my way
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind
You always say that you won't go away
But I know what it always has been
It always has been
A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh
Most of the time I just let it go by
Now I wish it hadn't begun
I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
Strolling the hills overlooking the shore
I realize I've been here before
The shadow in the mist could have been anyone
But I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
Small things like reasons are put in a jar
Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star
Was it just something that I made up for fun
I saw you
I saw you
#56 The Moon Is Made Of Gold
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Rickie Lee Jones (1990)
Double Bass: Rob Wasserman (song collected in Rob Wasserman's album Duet)
Written by Rickie's father, Richard Jones, as a lullaby for her
Live at the Wiltern Theatre (1992)
Don't feel bad
Because the sun went down
The night has wealth untold
You just keep watching
And you soon will see
The moon is made of gold
And now the stars appear
And as they do
All heaven they unfold
Don't feel bad
Because the sun went down
The moon is made of gold
* (Oh you) See how the shadows
Enhanced by the light above
Dance in the night
As the breeze sigh
Soon you will be asleep
Into your dreams will creep
Visions of fairies
Flyin' through the sky
And one by one
Your dreams will all come true
Magic you behold
Don't feel bad
Because the sun went down
The moon is made of gold
(* repeat)
The night is magic
Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue
To find the Stax and Sun
They were reaching to get to
They was a rapping the flat scat
Diamond dialectos of points and taps
Between the chicken and the back
They drew themselves a be-bop
Midnight map
They said "do you got a map the next joint?"
"Do you got a map the next joint?"
Pick it up on the night train
Down on the corner of rhythm and blues
Where I have met all of my boys since
Back in '52
Bringing 'em Stax and Sun
Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot
And Memphis forgot
Where they were coming from
Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that?
Do you like rapping the fat scat?
Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen
Like a pill they do it all night
Spectators,
White-walls, find and greased back
Every Saturday night
Leaning in the scenery
Picking up the kids
At the next door neighbors'
"Yeah I know what you did
Yeah I got a room you can stay in
If you promise you won't make so much noise"
"No I won't"
Didn't you hear?
Black is a criminal,
White is a crime,
Poison is the pen
Writing down this children's nursery rhyme.
Didn't you see him standing next to me?
The seeds of change have grown,
We don't have to hide anymore.
Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side,
Lololololololo, maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart.
It doesn't take much to see
If you're looking for an enemy,
Greed and apathy
Spell the letters of our name.
You sit and laugh at other people,
Making money off their shame and sorrow,
Waiting for tomorrow to fix itself.
Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side,
Lololololololo, maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart.
It's a dark night to feed a stranger,
I don't have enough to feed myself.
I keep trying to believe in believing
In something I can't see
From where I stand,
I pull it with my faith,
With the smile on my face.
It's gonna take a lot more
Than you might be used to,
Who's to blame for not standing up for them
When it was not in style?
When hope is the color of a man
The color of love is the color that can
Stand for something.
Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side,
Lololololololo, may be trouble of a hopeful heart.
Lololololololo, the trouble of a hopeful heart,
Now the birds speak in secret rhythms
and the trees bark in secret sounds
and the people speak in secret thought
and they push the thoughts into the shape of words
and sometimes someone among us
sticks her head into the
shiny phosphorus blue vat
of language
and listens, like a skeleton
to the pulsing of life within,
and she tells us
of secret rattling angles
to watch for and to reach into
with strange oceans
and deafening skies
that can be mapped and measured
only by sounds
and never by meanings
and once we can tell where we are
using the nearest star
as it relates to the ragged water
then we can plant our feet into the good ground
and go to the rodeo
and answer the plum-colored hawk
and sing to the river
in good faith
god presses his mouth
around our head
he breathes out
he breathes in
and we are resuscitated in the goofy
atmosphere of god
where there are highways and bowling
and tattooed by the sun
a circus
made by the prayer of breathing
and living hope
and barbed eyes
where coyotes hang
and cowboys hammer
posts and branches
to keep us inside
as much as keep someone out
and the prayer that is
and it is answered with a breath
gods lips against our own
we breathe in
we breathe out
he breathes out
and sigh
alive again
the unexpected
discovery
of a b-side
of life
a map of voices
a warning to others who would come this way
an animal who has seen things
a horn twisted into shapes
understood by strangers
recognized by demons
an invitation in
the secret language of trees
sung in wild shapes
Take a walk around midnight in the city
Young blood is hiding there somewhere
If you're looking for something to do
There's always something happening there
Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe today
Here come Pepe and she's got a friend in a Chevrolet
But she ain't running, she's walking a little slow
And she ain't crying, she's just singin' a little low
They say this city will make you dirty, but you look alright
You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight
City will make you mean but that's just make-up on your face
Love will wash you clean in the night's disgrace
Find a block where your people can find you
Keep your third eye watching behind you
You never know when you're making a memory
They will wish they were here together again, someday
Kids looking for something to get into, take a look
Two for the movie show, three in the back row, hold on tight
Remember, you might have looked like cool twelve
But your fuse felt just like dynamite
This city will make you dirty, but you look alright
You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight
City will make you mean but darlin', that's just make-up on your face
Love will wash you clean in the night
Take a walk around midnight in the city
Young blood will find you there, somewhere
And if you're looking for something to do
There's always something happening there
Something's happening there
Something's happening there
My funny valentine
My sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks they are laughable
They, they're un-photographable
But still, still you're my favorite work of art
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, baby
Are you smart? Are you smart?
Please, don't change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay my funny valentine, stay
How come he don't come and P.I.P. with me
Down at the meter no more?
And how come he turn off the TV
And hang that sign on the door?
Well, we call, and we call
"How come?", we say
Hey, what could make a boy behave this way, yeah?
Well, he learned all of the lines now
And every time
He don't, uh, stutter when he talks
And it's true, it's true
He sure has acquired
This kind of cool and inspired sort of jazz when he walks
Where's his jacket and his old blue jeans?
If, if this ain't healthy, it is some kinda clean
But that means that Chuck E.'s in love, my, my
Chuck E.'s in love, love, love, love
Chuck E.'s in love, uh-huh
Chuck E.'s in
I don't believe what you're saying to me
This is something that I've got to see
Is he here?
I look in the pool hall
But is he here?
I look in the drugstore
But is he here?
No, he don't come here no more
Well, I tell you what
I saw him
He was sittin' behind us
Down at the Pantages
And whatever it is
That he's got up his sleeve
Well, I hope it isn't contagious
What's her name?
Is that her there?
Oh, Christ, I think he's even combed his hair
And is that her?
Well, then, what's her name?
Oh, it's never gonna be the same
That's not her
I know what's wrong
'Cause Chuck E.'s in love with the little girl singing this song
And don't you know
Chuck E.'s in love, yeah, yeah
Chuck E.'s in love, love, love, love
Chuck E.'s in love, my, my
Chuck E.'s in
Chuck E.'s in love
Chuck E.'s in love
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