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oh where, oh where were you last night? looked for you at the county fair you were nowhere you were nowhere and i looked for you on the macon, georgia county line and sheriffs badges flashed behind oh where, oh where were you last night? looked for you at the county fair you were nowhere you were nowhere and i looked for you on the macon, georgia county line and sheriffs badges flashed behind oh where, oh where were you, my dear looked for you almost everywhere but you were nowhere you were nowhere and i looked for you on the macon, georgia county line and sheriffs badges flashed behind matrimony tab well, i'm saving this dress for my wedding day momma wouldn't have it any other way she says when she married, her waist was twenty three i guess i'll never wear it anyway i don't believe i care to marry though i cannot explain exactly why it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery simply a faster way to die i'm saving all my money for my wedding day you know my momma wouldn't have it any other way she says when she married, she didn't have a dime but i guess i'll spend that money some other way because i don't believe i care to marry though i cannot explain exactly why it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery simply a faster way to die well, i'm saving my best thing for my wedding day because my poppa wouldn't have it any other way he says if i lose it early, i'll have thrown my life away but i swear i'll use my cherry my own way i don't believe i care to marry though i cannot explain exactly why it somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery simply a faster way to die. me and my ticket i picked up my ticket just the other day didn't have much money, but i found a way they'll open up the doors for you sometimes when you don’t want them to ah, but you’ll go in but you’ll go in. found my seat was empty, right next to the man who’d been sitting there since time began talkin’ to himself between the thoughts come to him since then and that’s when he went in that’s when he went in i miss the feelings that i get when i had the time to sit and just do nothing just do nothing do nothing just do nothing i miss the feelings that i get when i had the time to sit and just do nothing just do nothing. memories memories of you that i just don't have right now i'll make them up one cup of wanting you two cups of hoping somehow these things come true while i'm staring at pictures of you while i'm staring at pictures of you yearning longing making up memories of you making up memories of you for now.. your picture will do dialing you up in my sleep when the nights wearing thin won't make it right my reasons to want to and 100 reasons to lie when i don't want to while i'm staring at pictures of you while i'm staring at pictures of you yearning longing making up memories of you making up memories of you for now.. your picture will do memphis all the railroad lights shine on the city full moon shall pass in twilight in the oldest oak tree by the neighboring factories forever rising steel beams in twilight. in the overpass view with the traffic lights hanging by threads like ornaments so did you have your last drink? did you raise it up to me just to spite me not being there with you? drunk fucked up like a twilight drunk fucked up like drunk like a twilight out tonight so when the bar closes down it does murder to the city dirty and peaceful and mean and for the record i'd stand right here on the corner waiting for justice to bring you here to me. drunk fucked up like a twilight drunk fucked up like drunk like a twilight out tonight. midway park tab ride with you tonight, i'll ride forever there's no way to predict this kind of weather ashes fall to earth, words are severed feathers turn to weighted iron pillars midway park streetlights shine on a hood that is dark down on the graves where we'll lie. we'll lie. we'll lie. think of you tonight, i'll think forever there's no way to predict this kind of weather ashes fall to earth, words are severed feathers turn to broken beads and pillars midway park streetlights shine on a hood that is dark down on the graves we'll lie. where we'll lie. we'll lie. don't tell the truth, we'll lie just lie. don't tell the truth just lie. mining town tab said you came from a mining town but they closed the mining down said your daddy was a drinker he had a picture of jesus on his sinker maybe i... maybe i'm coming for you tonight this town's only five miles wide look everywhere there's a road sign on tops and places to hide and cops sit around hungry waitin to dine maybe i... maybe i'm coming for you tonight maybe i... maybe i'm coming for you tonight said you came from a mining town they closed the mining down said your momma was a drinker she had a picture of jesus on her sink and maybe i... maybe i'm coming for you tonight maybe i... maybe i'm coming for you tonight maybe i........ baby, i'm coming for you tonight. mirror, mirror tab mirror, mirror up on the wall in the back of her room as i walk down the hall in the house where we stayed tell me something about what i saw in the face of a man who once felt it all but feels nothing today knock knock who's there i don't know i can't say ask me tomorrow i'll tell you again oooo i'm tellin you now i'm tellin you now oooo i'm tellin you now i'm tellin you now trouble trouble down in my hood where it's well understood where they love when you're bad and they hate when you're good tell me something about who we are at the end of the day when our souls become one but our lives separate monday night i was a bad idea on a saturday night. rolled through your fingers and i made you uptight. little boy blue with my lazer on stun- couldn't dodge the bullets from your infared gun. all i want is to roll through your fingers, baby. all i need is to make it all right. all i want is to be your connection win your affection, be your reflection on a monday night, on a monday night. i was the last thing left of an afternoon round, dressing up for trouble at the lost and found try to live forever every day of the year give me something before they kick us outta here. (chorus) any other time, you want me as cool everybody look- i'm the fool. i can let you in if you can let me lie being your connection, winning your affection on a monday night, on a monday night. oh man, i wish i could talk to you. oh man, i wish that i wanted to. (chorus) my heart is broken my heart is broken my love is gone i live without you your pillow cold i am forsaken i can't go on my heart is broken my love is gone if i hadn't cheated while you were gone the well that we'd been drinkin from wouldn't a dried and turned cold my days are empty my nights are long five cups of coffee for the years gone wrong if i hadn't cheated while you were gone the well that we'd been drinkin from wouldn't a dried and turned cold my days are empty my nights are long my heart is broken my love is gone my love is gone my winding wheel well night time let her through yeah i'm talking to you wanna see her precious little thing with eyes that dance around without their clothes so buy a pretty dress wear it out tonight for anyone you think could outdo me oh better still be my winding wheel cause i feel just like a map without a single place to go of interest and i'm further north and south if i could shut my mouth she'd probably like this so buy a pretty dress wear it out tonight for all the boys who think could outdo me oh better still be my winding wheel be my winding wheel well the children laugh and sing a song that ushers in her driving rain and i'm standing in the station like some old record waiting on a train so buy a pretty dress wear it out tonight for anyone you think could outdo me oh better still be my winding wheel be my winding wheel be my winding wheel nervous breakdown i'm about to have a nervous breakdown my head really hurts if i don't get the hell outta here i'm gonna go berserk, cause i'm crazy and i'm hurt head on my shoulders i'm going berserk always talk the same old talk the same old lies you see the way i am you stop anytime you can, cause i'm crazy and i’m hurt head on my shoulders i'm going berserk i'm crazy and i'm hurt head on my shoulders i'm going berserk *words and music by greg ginn, 1973 new york, new york well, i shuffled through the city on the 4th of july i had a firecracker waiting to blow breakin' like a rocket who was makin' its way to the cities of mexico lived in an apartment out on avenue a i had a tar hut on the corner of 10th had myself a lover who was finer than gold but i've been broken up and busted up since and love don't play any games with me, anymore like she did before the world won't wait, so i better shake that thing right out there through the door hell, i still love you, new york found myself a picture that would fit in the folds of my wallet and it stayed pretty good still amazed i didn't lose it on the roof of the place when i was drunk and i was thinking of you everyday the children they were singing their tunes out on the streets and you could hear from inside used to take the subway up to houston and 3rd i would wait for you and i'd try to hide and love won't play any games with me, anymore if you don't won't it to the world won't wait and i watched you shake but honey, i don't blame you hell, i still love you new york i remember christmas in the blistering cold in a church on the upper west side babe, i stood there singing, i was holding your arm you were holding my trust like a child found a lot of trouble out on avenue b but i tried to keep the overhead low farewell to the city and the love of my life at least we left before we had to go and love won't play any games with me, anymore if you don't want em to so we better shake this this thing out the door i'll always be thinkin' of you i'll always love you though, new york i'll always love you though, new york new york, new york. nighttime gals tab most of the women that i know are mostly nighttime gals. hang their head down on the bar, cause of the guy before. silver and gold still must mean something to people with nothing. does it mean anything to you? most the people that i know are mostly nighttime folks. dry their clothes out on the tub next to the paycheck stub silver and gold still must mean something to people with nothing. does it mean anything to you? nobody girl well, the night makes moves and it shatters like broken glass better play it cool... better let it pass have you been screening your smokes? and whispers in an all night bar better off as the fool than the owner of that kind of heart they don't know you anyway they don't know you and they don't watch you walk away just a nobody girl with a radar to the scene when the emptiness finds you you find all the nubmers you need say you follow your heart well, honey you're just being lost say you follow your gut well, how much would it cost? they don't know you anway they don't know you and they don't watch you walk away you're nobody, girl you're nobody, girl you're a nobody, girl the night plays games and the people they come and go well, they trade in their pieces for a late-night ride on your rodeo if your horses could talk, i wonder if they would complain i know you're rested and ready they've been going nowhere for days they don't know you anway they don't know you, they dont even mind the weight nobody, girl you're nobody, girl nobody, girl not home anymore tab i slept in our room and i swore and i slept with our ghosts painting the walls and our happiness hung there like a mistake or a light truly you are gone {ghosts painting the walls} wandering helplessly now we are we are you, you are gone you, you are gone you, you're gone you, you're gone you're gone i left all the lights on in our old room to pretend that you and i were home {waiting up somewhere for your boy} {i'm not home} i left all the lights on {i'm not home. anymore} you are still waiting up for me in our old room? {you're not home anymore} you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone yeah you, you're gone you're gone no love in the ghosts that we are no love ever lost we are still waiting up somewhere you are you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone yeah you, you are gone it used to mean a lot, mean a lot to me now it doesn't mean it doesn't mean a thing it used to mean a lot, mean a lot to me now it doesn't mean, doesn't mean a thing and i pretend that it meant a lot to me but it never meant, never meant a thing used to mean a lot, mean a lot to me. now it doesn't mean... doesn't mean anything. nursery lie lie. lie. lie. why do you always lie? stick a needle in the sky lie. lie. lie. ooh. ooh. ooh. i've seen what you mean to do it's monkey me, and monkey you. ooh. ooh. ooh. cry. cry. cry. now i'm alone to cry. cross my heart, i hope i die. cry. cry. cry. my. my, oh my. you are the devil inside. i know you are, but what am i? my. my, oh my. this time, i'll write the rhyme and i'll make it more genuine they say kids in school are cruel those fools, they never met you. cry. cry. cry. i'm all alone to cry. but cross my heart, i hope i die. cry. cry. cry. cry. cry. cry. oh my sweet carolina well i went down to houston and i stopped in san antone i passed up the station for the bus was trying to find me something but i wasn't sure just what i ended up with pockets full of dust. so i went on to cleveland and ended up insane bought a borrowed suit and learned to dance i was spending money like the way it likes to rain man i ended up with pockets full of cain. oh my sweet carolina what compels me to go oh my sweet disposition may you one day carry me home. i ain't never been to vegas but i gambled up my life building news print boats i raced in sewer mains i'm trying to find me something but i wasn't sure just what funny how they say that some things never change. oh my sweet carolina what compels me to go oh my sweet disposition may you one day carry me home. up here in the city it feels like things are closin' in the sunset's just my light bulb burnin' out i miss kentucky and i miss my family all the sweetest winds they blow across the south. oh my sweet carolina what compels me to go oh my sweet disposition may you one day carry me home may you one day carry me home. oh my sweet valentine oh my sweet valentine guess i know you well left my old better half to be all by myself though i don't have long i know i'll just let my loving show cause there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm no there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm oh there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm love won't keep you warm my dear. we're never far from home that place where we all go now i can't wait to get there sometimes sometimes it's such fun to be alive oh my sweet serenade guess we tore it up night time sang our song until we gave it up though i don't have long i know i'll just let my loving show cause there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm no there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm no there ain't nothing like a petal in a rain storm love won't keep you warm my dear... we're never far from home that place where we all go now i can't wait to get there sometimes sometimes it's such fun to be alive. oklahoma see old mabel walk on down the house pickin flowers for someone else see old mabel walk down the house said son, better go on back inside storm brewing from the northwest side didn't ask about my daddy's ruin cause that old motherfucker ain't alive see old mabel walk on down the store buying groceries to eat walkin on down the street said son, you better go on back inside storm brewing from the northwest side didn't ask about my daddy's ruin cause that old motherfucker ain't alive see old mabel walk on down the house pickin flowers for someone else old mabel family bible on the coffee table in old mabel's house onslow county onslow county is the land of track housing when they ask you "can i help you?" it's "no sir, i'm browsing" there ain't never any any money to buy no one a present it was her birthday, you just tell her "hell, i love you. here's a cigarette." and all the bars are burning and they're making it with cash-ins i guess underneath the worry oh, everybody's laughing onslow county it's covered by some pine trees and the people go out fishing and they dirty up their blue jeans and there ain't never any money to buy no one a present it was her birthday, you just tell her "hell, i love you here's a cigarette." and all the bars are burning. and they're making it with cash-ins i guess underneath the worry oh everybody's laughing out of time turn me in when i fell off the line you said you had all i could never find yeah, i'd never find guess you never see from that far inside what it really means you're running out of time you're running out of time ? you're looking now, i've changed my mind pushed me out when i fell off the line yeah, i fell off the line guess you never see from that far inside what it really means out of time guess you never see from that far inside what it really means you're running out of time you're out of time paper moon i go walking under a paper moon all the birds are singing singing you a pretty tune all the constellations and all the stars above they all start to whistling they start singing along the world is not a monster and i'm not scared at all floating through your heavens the world is in my arms oh rainy day don't follow me cause i'm her baby doll and she's my cup of tea i go walking under a paper moon and my eyes are made of crystals plastic flowers bloom all the leaves are changing and the skies are blue all the seasons of distraction can't take the smile god's given you the world is but a monster and i'm not scared at all i'm floating through the heavens the world is in my arms oh rainy day don't follow me cause i'm her baby doll she's my cup of tea love takes care of love hate just burns you out pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring tab pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring six months from now, what will that money mean? you shop around looking for memories somehow satisfaction don't come that easy it's a shame you weren't satisfied with me you're the saddest thing i've ever seen. pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring six months from now, what will that money mean? you shop around looking for memories somehow satisfaction don't come that easy it's a shame you weren't satisfied with me you're the saddest thing i've ever seen. pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring six months from now, what will that money mean? you shop around looking for memories somehow satisfaction don't come that easy it's a shame you weren't satisfied with me you're the saddest thing i've ever seen. rays of burnin' light wind blows cold from the east on the sea straits you checked me into your arms back then i'll take you, you'll take me, we'll kill your enemies we'll leave em lying dead on the street lyin' in the rays, rays of burnin' light simple way… (?) driving rays, driving rays, driving rays rays of burnin' light wind blows cold from the southeast so shut your mouth i never call you out anymore i'll take you, you’ll take me, we'll kill your enemies we'll leave em lying dead on the street lyin' in the rays, rays of burnin' light simple way… (?) driving rays, driving rays, driving rays rays of burnin' light what you want is what you are what you want's not right anymore what you want is what you are what you want's not right anymore driving rays, rays of burnin' light simple way… (?) driving rays, driving rays, driving rays rays of burnin' light driving rays, driving rays, driving rays rays of burnin' light what you want is what you are what you want's not right anymore what you want is what you are what you want's not right anymore reason to lie i get so tired of missing you i get so tired of wanting to compared to things that are easy to do like the reasons you lie to me the reasons i lie to you and i wish you were some kinda explosive device that only you could diffuse reasons you lie to me reasons i lie to you wanna live in a beautiful house somewhere up in the hills with some people making fun of us you refer to with your two cares then it wouldn't be somebody else that you'd grow accustomed to reasons to lie to me is a reason to lie to you i get so tired of missing you i get so tired of wanting to compare the things that are easy to do like the reasons you lie to me reasons i lie to you return of the grievous angel won't you scratch my itch sweet annie rich and welcome me back to town come out on your porch or i'll step into your parlour and i'll show you how it all went down out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels and a good saloon in every single town and i remember something you once told me and i'll be damned if it did not come true twenty thousand roads i went down, down, down and they all lead me straight back home to you 'cause i headed west to grow up with the country across those prairies with the waves of grain and i saw my devil, and i saw my deep blue sea and i thought about a calico bonnet from cheyenne to tennesee we flew straight across that river bridge, last night half past two the switchman wave his lantern goodbye and good day as we went roling through billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel and now i know just what i have to do and the man on the radio won't leave me alone he wants to take my money for something that i've never been shown and i saw my devil, and i saw my deep blue see and i thought about a calico bonnet from cheyenne to tennesee the news i could bring i met up with the king on his head an amphetamine crown he talked about unbuckling that old bible belt and lighted out for some desert town out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels and a good saloon in every single town and i remember something you once told me and i'll be damned if it did not come true twenty thousand roads i went down, down, down and they all lead me straight back home to you twenty thousand roads i went down, down, down and they all lead me straight back home to you **words and music by gram parsons revenge what ever happened to you, you're trashed and i'm still wrong i know you wanted to stay so long and i'm still wrong and there were no secrets, there were no stories, there was no one around and there were no reasons, there was no questions, there is no point now what ever happened to you, you're trashed and i'm still wrong i know you wanted to stay so long and i'll all wrong so tell me a secret, did you want to see me pull my guns? so tell me a secret, there were no stories, nobody won i'll give you a reason, i'll wage your war, pull the punch from your face (?) i'll stand my guard, i'll give you a reason, you might see it, you might hate it, you might never know your name so tell me a secret, did you want to see me pull my guns? (reason, tell me one more lie) so tell me a secret, stole all your punches in the eye (?) tell me a secret, wage your war, stole all your punches (?) tell me a secret, how does it feel to be so old? how does it feel to be so old? to see her cry? rosemary moore take out your hearing aid and let's go have a drink you won't have to hear about what i might think. if he didn't die happy, at least he didn't die poor you're still kind of pretty, mrs rosemary moore. what are you still cryin' for? i think you're free now, rosemary moore. funeral wasted your tears cared and cried all of these years everyone believes this is terribly bad rosie, you don't have to play sad. put on a pretty dress and we'll go out on the town you dance a lot better without him weighin' you down rosie, i've got your car keys, you can still find the door you can drive if you want to, mrs rosemary moore. stop leaving tears on the floor you're alone now, rosemary moore. cheap cigarettes and coffee and cards yard sales and broken down cars everyone believes this is terribly bad rosie, you don't have to play sad. take out your hearing aid and we'll go have a drink you won't have to listen to what i might think. if he didn't die happy, at least he didn't die poor. you're still kind of pretty, mrs rosemary moore and stop leaving tears on the floor i think you're free now, rosemary moore. runnin' out of road i know you don't understand me now i wish you could figure some way how but we're runnin' out of road runnin' out of road runnin' out of road time to go pass the houses that run near your home here's some places you and i should go but we're runnin' out of road runnin' out of road runnin' out of road time to go you will never understand me now and i think i did this just to show you how we been runnin' out of road runnin' out of road runnin' out of road time to go shakedown on 9th street head on down to 9th street gal let's go out a kickin with the boys and the gals wear your dress and bring my ring someone's gonna get it, ain't gonna be me lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal lucy, lucy my sweet (lucy, lucy my sweet) lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal) i was just gonna hit em but i'm gonna kill em now we all met about a half past three lucy, she was rockin by my kickin machine too many straights and not enough grease that's when lucy got it in the chest, i think lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal) lucy, lucy my sweet (lucy, lucy my sweet) lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal) i was just gonna hit em but i'm gonna kill em now
i was screaming for him boots all dirt and sexy and thin on come the lights from the straights in their cars i was just a laughin when i hit the floor lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal) lucy, lucy my sweet (lucy, lucy my sweet) lucy, lucy my gal (lucy, lucy my gal) i was just gonna hit em but i'm gonna kill em now silver wings silver wings shining in the sunlight roaring engines headed somewhere in flight they're taking you away leaving me lonely silver wings slowly fading out of sight silver wings shining in the sunlight roaring engines headed somewhere in flight they're taking you away leaving me lonely silver wings slowly fading out of sight don't leave me i cry don't take that airplane ride but you lock me outta your mind left me standing here behind silver wings shining in the sunlight roaring engines headed somewhere in flight they're taking you away leaving me lonely silver wings slowly fading out of sight slowly fading out of sight slowly fading out of sight words and music by merle haggard* sit and listen to the rain sit around, dream away the place i'm from used to feel so much, now i just feel numb could go out tonight, but i ain't sure what for call a friend or two i don't know anymore sit and listen to the rain sit and listen to the rain gonna ride down to the river where it runs gonna watch tv and pray for decent reruns sit around and dream away what i've become used to feel so much, now i just feel dumb sit and listen to the rain sit and listen to the rain i'll never understand this emptiness i'll never really try to understand, i guess i'll never understand this emptiness i'll never really try and understand, try and understand, i guess sit around, dream away the place i'm from used to feel so much, now i just feel dumb could go out tonight, but i ain’t sure what for call a friend or two i don’t know anymore sit and listen to the rain sit and listen to the rain sittin' around well, i've been sittin' around and wonderin' wonderin' what i should do got nighttime comin' from the down the street my daylight's turnin' blue and i can't think of anything anything to say to you and i bet if you could wish for anything i bet you'd want me to yeah, you'd want me to well, i've been sittin' around and mendin' things threadin' the needle, stroke through the spool and i've been sittin' around pretendin' things pretendin' things were cool and i can't think of anything anything to say to you and i bet if you could wish for anything i bet you'd want me to yeah, you'd want me to well, i've been sittin' around and wonderin' wonderin' what i should do got daytime comin' from the down the street my nighttime's turnin' blue somebody remembers the rose somebody remembers the rose while the other forgets how it grows would all the dangers would all the dangers of love am i still a stranger? somebody remembers the dress how it was handsome beautifully pressed would all the dangers would all the dangers of love lost to a stranger honey i'm out of service for a while damaged heart's been manufactured and everyday this one never works anyway somebody remembers the rose while the other forgets how it grows would all the dangers would all the dangers of love lost to a stranger honey, i know you baby, i know you yeah, i know you somehow, someday i want to tell you something that i shoud've, long ago i wish that you and i had those kids maybe bought us that home i wish that we were still in your room in your bed and you were holding me 'cause there ain't no way i'll ever stop from lovin' you now there ain't no way i'll ever stop from lovin' you now no, there ain't no way and i'm gonna try and show you somehow somehow, someday i dreamt that you and i were still young laughing like little kids i'll neverknow just how bad it hurt or what i did i wish that we were stumbling fast down on irving and 6th i wish we were still making plans but now, there's nothing to fix but there ain't no way i'll ever stop from lovin' you now there ain't no way i'll ever stop from lovin' you now no, there ain't no way and i'm gonna try and show you somehow somehow and oh, someday someday... someday ah honey, someday sorry you are a gnarled pear tree near an oak that binds your better roots. beneath its living branches your fingers bend and ache with rotting fruit. i'm sorry... sorry... sorry for my shade uprooted to protect you. i'm sorry... sorry... sorry for my shade what a stick figure i have made. you are a bitter brother in the shadow of its kin strangled in her warm embrace. you have grown up savage, mean and thin. i'm sorry...sorry...sorry for my arms i have tried to protect you. sorry...sorry... sorry for my arms i have darkened all of your charms. you are a jack-o-lantern woke up on a bitter winter morn your skin is soft and sallow your short season has not come and gone. i'm sorry...sorry...i'm sorry for the time your ruined face....some reflection of love i'm sorry...sorry... i'm sorry for the time your ruined face...a perfect mirror of life. statuettes with wounds marionette with your harpoons she confiscated my guns i get so tired of belonging i think i'm losing you some and why we lied is it funny when you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me the joke's on you cause i feel sorry for him marionette with the harpoons statuette with your wounds i get so tired of belonging tired of belonging to you and why you lied is it funny when you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me the joke's on you cause i feel sorry for him oh when you lie your lies become my line oh when you say it will be all right it will be okay when you cry wish your lies could be my line marionette with your harpoons you confiscated my guns i get so tired of belonging i think i'm losing you some and why you lied is it funny when you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me is it funny that you're laughing at me the joke's on you cause i feel sorry for him sweet lil gal fair haired gal you got a sister that's mean hanging around cigarette machine when i'm lonely she makes me feel nice when i'm lonely she makes me feel nice steals my shirt makes me hurt in the field where my plane went down in the field where my plane went down sweet lil gal sweet lil gal everything's go when she comes to me lay there for days on the floor with my pains when you're lonely she makes you feel nice when you're lonely she makes you feel nice steals my shirt 23rd and 1st in the field where my plane went down in the field where my plane went down sweet lil gal sweet lil gal sweet lil gal. sylvia plath i wish i had a sylvia plath busted tooth and a smile and cigarette ashes in her drink the kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week the kind that goes out on her to give me a reason, for well, i dunno and maybe she'd take me to france or maybe to spain and she'd ask me to dance in a mansion on the top of a hill she'd ash on the carpets and slip me a pill then she'd get pretty loaded on gin and maybe she'd give me a bath how i wish i had a sylvia plath and she and i would sleep on a boat and swim in the sea without clothes with rain falling fast on the sea while she was swimming away, she'd be winking at me telling me it would all be okay out on the horizon and fading away and i'd swim to the boat and i'd laugh i gotta get me a sylvia plath and maybe she'd take me to france or maybe to spain and she'd ask me to dance in a mansion on the top of a hill she'd ash on the carpets and slip me a pill then she'd get pretty loaded on gin and maybe she'd give me a bath how i wish i had a sylvia plath i wish i had a sylvia plath take your guns to town on the eastern highway we ride windshield wipers disperse the rain from the sky what's left is ivy and vine all the letters i'd sent back home never express the idea of how a young man can be so far from home take your guns to town don't take your guns to town take your guns to town don't take your guns to town stumble down main street alone just gotten home with my hand on the phone i was drinking alone on the quilted take your guns to town don't take your guns to town take your guns to town don't take your guns to town tearin' me up inside i went out today and i was lookin' at the people on the street they weren't threatenin' to me and i was noticin' how it was kinda sweet well, i've been changin' a lot and how i think maybe if i could find a way to fall back in love with the world i’d end up forgivin' us eventually cause i never lived anywhere but in my head think that my eyes might have hidden instead ask me to forgive us for the things that we did and i do, and i did but the sun comes out and i hide from whatever it is that's been tearin' me up inside but you weren't out today you just lyin' there and starin' at the sheets that's not threatenin' to you and, baby, just take something so you can get some sleep i know it's been changin' you a lot if there was a chance that you could ever find a way to fall back in love with the world you could forgive yourself eventually cause you never lived anywhere but in your head think that your eyes might have hidden instead ask me to forgive us for the things that we did and i do, and i did but the sun comes out and i hide from whatever it is that's been tearin' me up inside inside inside inside tennessee square tab red ribbons hang in a tennessee square old people laughing and singing and dancing down there i'd like to join them, i got no money to spare so i sit here and watch from the porch drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair. ferris wheel lights look like pictures i'd seen in a book somewhere vacant parking lots across the street remind me i'm going nowhere i'd like to join 'em, i got no money to spare so i sit here and i watch from the porch drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair it's difficult to go on knowing you're out there somewhere vacant parking lots across the street remind me i'm going nowhere. the battle tab when i am buried don't visit my grave god cannot save me from the sins i've embraced pay your respects at that old liquor store where i won the battle, but i lost the war. you mine for silver, and i pan for gold you keep yours hidden, while all my are sold you tell the truth, and i lie and i barter and i drink and i cry, and i pass out at night i've always cheated, though i've never stolen no i've wanted things that you ain't never thought of pay your respects to that gamblin' score where i won the battle, and i lost the war they always told me when death came my sins would be cast out forgotten, laid to rest with my body pay your respects to that old church-house door where i won the battle, and i lost the war. the poison and the pain when he took my hand how he laid me down to the darkest nights that i ever found don't drink his wine for you'll taste his blood oh the poison and the pain oh the poison and the pain then he'll pick you up down in shuffletown and he'll break the dress of your lover's gown and he'll break the pearls of your mother's time oh the poison and the pain the poison and the pain with the windows rolled and the darkened pines with her scriptures learned and psalms memorized how he took her down and he stole her soul oh the poison and the pain the poison and the pain and how i drank his team from his poisoned well and my righteous ways i unlearned so well we'll drink his wine and you'll learn the hell of the poison and the pain the poison and the pain the poison and the pain the rescue blues everybody wants you to be special and everybody wants you to be high they throw you down a rope when you're in trouble, baby screamin' "save me" they then charge you with the rescue blues and everybody wants to see you suffer they know that you need the pain so much they throw you up a rope when you're too high to cruise, baby lord, you lose lady then they charge you with the rescue blues and everybody wants to see you fall that's why the always love to get you high and everybody knows you need the pain so much, lady well, keep in touch, baby just don't charge me with your rescue blues the string and the wire oh sweet tennessee rose all split up into parts go fetch the string and wire go fetch the string and wire from the kitchen drawer and i'll try to mend you up some more warm, warm wind blow on these here two hands how they froze up right they got too numb to _?_ go fetch the string and wire go fetch the string and wire from the kitchen drawer and i'll try to mend you up some more they put poison in the well made your sister cry and run so i'm sewin up a blanket spread to keep the jailhouse warm so go fetch the string and wire go fetch the string and wire and a couple empty cans of tin so we can hear her cry again they put powder in the shells of your brother's lonely gun i'm afraid they don't make string and wire i know that's strong enough so go fetch my spinnin spool go fetch my spinnin spool underneath the bed and i'll sew you up a handkerchief instead theme for a trucker so you're a trucker hard driver mr king of the road feelin' lonely drinkin' coffee she had only ever known drove a lot today was it yesterday? just a memory you know you can't dilute it or see to it roll through it you head home there is a motel with a vacancy there is no possibility you could drive yourself to ever be the man you once were so you're a trucker hard driver mr king of the road feelin' lonely drinkin' coffee she was all he'd ever known drove a lot today was it yesterday? it's just a memory you know you can't see through an old tune roll through it and head home there is a motel with a vacancy there is no possibility. but you could drive yourself to ever be the man you once were. so you're a trucker hard driver mr king of the road feelin' lonely drinkin' coffee she was all he'd ever known drove a lot today was it yesterday? it's just a memory you know you can't dilute it or see to it roll through it head home. there is a motel with a vacancy there is no possibility you could drive yourself to ever be the man you once were. the rain won't help you when it's over takes a friend to laugh when it's over takes a fool to cry when it's over take the sun...take the sun... take the sun from the sky then it's over the rain won't help you when it's over {3x} the rain can't help you when it's over our mother dies and it's over her father dies when it's over take the sun.... take the sun wipe the tears from her eyes when it's over the rain can't help you when it's over {16x} *words and music by a. escovedo, believable music, bmi. think about me sometimes the sun, it comes up on me sometimes the rain, it tastes so sweet eyes are blue, underneath, too every word she says makes me, too tell me what i'm gonna do if i should fall in love with you i don't care what you think about me i don't care what you think about me can't smoke in her car, but you can in her room windows are rolled down and the air is off, too eyes are blue, underneath, too every word she says makes me, too tell me what i'm gonna do if i should fall in love with you i don't care what you think about me i don't care what you think about me can't smoke in her car, but you can in her room windows are rolled down and the air is off, too eyes are blue, underneath, too every word she says makes me, too tell me what i'm gonna do if i should fall in love with you i don't care what you think about me i don't care what you think about me i don't care what you think about me i don't care what you think about me ticket time she's gotta lotta things lined up to see which one of them's gonna shine betcha's i ain't gonna shine enough it's too bitter and rough and she says, "meet me at the show just don't let anybody else know which one of us is gonna be and i'll attest it to time." ::chorus:: hear 'bout your dream (2x) it's ticket time (2x) dream (2x) it's ticket time (2x) she's gotta lotta things lined up to see which one of them's gonna shine betcha's i ain't gonna shine enough it's too bitter and rough so which one of us it's gonna be? is it gonna be you or me? yeah, i bet i ain't gonna be the one and the shit's gonna fall {chorus} dream..... that it's ticket time dream..... that it's ticket time. she's gotta lotta things lined up to see which one of them's gonna shine betcha's ain't gonna shine enough compared next to mine so meet me at the show i won't let anybody else know it'll be just you and me and we'll attest it to time {chorus 2x} tina toledo's street walkin' blues sweet talkin' johnny push a john quicker than he spit stret walkin' tin with a crooked crown waitin' for it there she goes she born in boston but the amtrak took her away she lives in brooklyn but she works outta queens in the black limousines, money in the bank black limousines, money in the bank send it home tina toledo got a kid that lives with her ma she takes the subway after school, makes up her face, changes clothes there she goes she feels the rain coming down on washington square she gives the cops on the beat a little discount and then, then, then it's black limousines, money in the bank black limousines, money in the bank send it home hard on the knees, money in the bag hard on the knees, money in the bag send it home for medical school rock herself to sleep with the rhythm of the rain beating like the be against the window frame of her hotel room rock herself to sleep with the tunes on the dash don't take no credit cards, she takes cash says, "money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank it ain't no easy life but it pays pretty good, keeps her out of the cold it ain't no easy life but it's silver and gold silver, silver, silver and GOLD tina toledo's street walkin' blues street walkin', street walkin' blues to be the one well the pills i got they ask me 'let's go out for awhile' and the knives up in the kitchen are all too dull to smile and the sun, it tries to warn me 'boy those wings are made of wax' while the things i do kill me they just tell me to relax. oh cinderella all dressed up in all your boots and all your charms i'm not the fellow to protect you or to keep you from all your harm. and i don't know which is worse to wake up and see the sun or to be the one be the one that's gone. and the empty bottle it misses you and i'm the one that it's talking to and with you and i just barely strangers i'm pretty much just left a fool. damn, don't the streets feel empty though just wandering around here without you oh the empty bottle that misses you and i'm the one that it's talking to. i don't know which is worse to wake up and see the sun or to be the one be the one that's gone. to be young young boy done me bad went and didja wrong young boy done me bad went and didja wrong and i got high lord, i got high now i gotta bone to pick with you and i'm sure you know it's true oh one day when you're looking back you were young, and man you were sad when you're young, you get sad when you're young... you get sad and you get high young gal done you bad and i went and didja wrong young gal, you done me bad so i went and didja wrong and i got high lord, i got high now you gotta bone to pick with me but i wish you'd let me be oh one day when you're looking back you were young, and man you were sad when you're young, you get sad when you're young... you get sad and you get high you get high today today today, today is the last day you'll have to suck up again is that okay? so anyway, anyway i thought of something new i should say i'm not okay we're all pretty in pink, pretty in red just go forget every word we said at least for today we're all pretty in pink, pretty in blue sometimes i think that i know me sometimes i think that i know you but mostly i'm just afraid when you face up to him and you’re face down again wake up and know you're not okay oh, honey, wake up and put on your makeup and just say goodbye to him today well, today i saw you you were out in a crowded room all you could ? was out of tune what was i supposed to say they're all pretty in pink, pretty in red just go forget every word we said because it doesn’t matter, anyway when you face up to him and you’re face down again wake up and know you’re not okay oh, honey, wake up and put on your makeup and just say goodbye to him today today, today's your day today today, today, today's your day today today today, today is the last day you'll have to suck up again is that okay? we're all pretty in pink, pretty in blue sometimes i think that i know me sometimes i think that i know you mostly i'm just afraid when you face up to him and you're face down again wake up and know you’re not okay oh, honey, wake up and put on your makeup and just say goodbye to him today today, today's your day today today, today, today's your day today, your day too drunk to dream tab can you hear that lonesome moaning? is that you, or is that me? my broken heart ain't aching for nothing that i can't touch or i can't see. do you hear that lonesome cryin? thought i'd made it stop its singin' but my hands lay there on the bottle and i just drank, 'til my heart would be too drunk to dream so baby, you can leave if you wanna there ain't no drinkin when the bottle is dry sugar, you can leave if you wanna i got no more tears to cry. do you hear that lonesome shuffle of my feet walking out of the bar? and i stumble down the same damn streets, my daddy done stumbled before. so baby, you can leave if you wanna all the flowers in your garden have died baby, i'm gonna have to warn you i ain't got no more tears to cry. well sugar, you can leave if you wanna there ain't no drinkin when the bottle is dry baby, i'm gonna have to warn you i ain't got no more tears to cry. top dollar well i tried to find something something to hold on to i thought it was you cause i'm sick and tired of trying to make something something out of nothing i guess since you were bluffing now i think i'm losing my mind the pain in my heart was it worth the price? the pain in my heart was it worth the time i wasted on you? you're giving me the top dollar blues and i gave you it all, all all that i could give you you've taken what i've given and thrown it all away like it's nothing never meant nothing now i'm left with nothing what an awful price i've paid the pain in my heart, was it worth the price? the pain in my heart, was it worth the time i wasted on you? you're giving me the top dollar blues. i've bet all my money and that's how it goes you ran a good race but you lost just by a nose it's true. baby, you're giving me the top dollar blues. the top dollar blues, i gave you it all, all all that i could give you and the top dollar blues top dollar blues touch, feel & lose i knew i was never gonna talk to you tomorrow and oh, the birds how they sing if you were a bird could you sing me a song of sorrow 'cause all i know from you is grief but i never wanted to be your rolling train i never wanted to be your dancin' shoes i just wanted you to love me i just wanted you to love me touch, feel & lose and cry, cry, cry i thought maybe i could be some kind of shelter but oh, your storm how it raged you know your kisses, they like lightnin' and thunder and your smile is sweet and come down like rain i never wanted to be your dancin' shoes i just wanted you to love me i just wanted you to love me touch, feel & lose and cry, cry, cry i just wanted you to love me, honey cry, cry, cry turn around tab want to cross but i don't think i can it's too weak here even where i stand come here darlin' let me see you hold my hand so we can mend your broken halo all i want from you when, all i want from you is for you to turn around turn around wanted damage so i damaged it some we used to have it all now i just got some the silence, perfections, mysteries all easy to fall from your lips all the while lies were told to me in shapeless secrets when all i want from you all i want from you is for you to turn around turn around turn around turn around {can't you surrender to the distance and the damage still between us and the walls to the buildings are the dreams that will keep us} can't you turn around can't you turn around can't you turn around why can't you turn around? turn around turn around turn around. waiting to derail yeah, you say that all the time and you mean it only sometimes are you out in all that sunshine waiting to derail wanting needing fighting feeling waiting to derail needing wanting feeling fighting waiting to derail yeah, you say that only sometimes but you mean it all the same are you out in all that sunshine just waiting to derail wanting needing feeling wanting waiting to derail wanting changing do you feel it? do you feel it? are you waiting to derail to derail waiting to derail waiting to derail waiting to derail waiting to derail are you waiting? yeah, you say that all the time but you mean it only sometimes are you out in all that sunshine are you feeling better now that you're waiting to derail wanting feeling trying embracing but you're waiting to derail waiting. yeah, waiting to derail you're waiting to derail yes you're waiting to derail what makes the world like this what makes you act like this standin' in your torn-up dress speakin' spanish and in english in your daddy's bar just up the block from your dad's house brother's broken chain at rest linen cloth, your mother's hands against her chest out there tearin' up the boys with your sweet eyes brother's best friends drink the rounds to him and start a fight just one person, one barstool less tonight and i try and dismiss what makes the world like this and she had never touched a boy least never like this before flowers at the funeral reminded her of spring bulbs that burned out in the sign that hangs above her daddy’s dive danced around her like some strange west new york serenade she speaks in tongues just two drinks in the static and steam, the tunnels underground collapse and stranded her ass here standin' smokin' cigarettes in some torn-up dress and i'd like to dismiss what makes the world like this what makes you act like this standin' in your torn-up dress speakin' spanish and in english in your daddy's bar what may seem like love tab what may seem like love may soon fall apart you don't practice what you preach you don't finish what you start your lies have got me tryin' to mend a broken heart please don't speak to me again you keep telling me you're sorry but i just don't give a damn you keep telling me you're sorry well, i'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin. what may seem like love may soon fall apart the student shouldn't speak and interrupt his teacher's thought there's a lesson to be learned about being true to heart please don't speak to me again you keep telling me you're sorry but i just don't give a damn you keep telling me you're sorry well, i'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin. what may seem like love may soon fall apart you don't practice what you preach you don't finish what you start your lies have got me tryin to mend a broken heart please don't speak to me again. you keep telling me you're sorry well, i just don't give a damn you keep telling me you're sorry well, i'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin i'm never gonna listen to a single word you've been sayin when the stars go blue dancin' where the stars go blue dancin' where the evening fell dancin' in your wooden shoes in a wedding gown dancin' out on 7th street dancin' through the underground dancin' little marionette are you happy now? where do you go when you're lonely where do you go when you're blue where do you go when you're lonely i'll follow you when the stars go blue laughing with your pretty mouth laughing with your broken eyes laughing with your lover's tongue in a lullabye where do you go when you're lonely where do you go when you're blue where do you go when you're lonely i'll follow you when the stars go blue the stars go blue, stars go blue why do they leave? oh why do they leave oh why do they leave on the day that you needed them the most simple cards and things rose colored sunsets no flowers from me simple cards and things rose colored sunsets no flowers from me lover why do you leave lover why do you leave on the day i want you for me say, say it aint so that he will take you tomorrow and i will sit here today the worst simple cards and things rose colored sunsets no flowers from me simple cards and things rose colored sunsets curtains for me lover why do you leave lover why do you leave on the day i want you to be the world. wild flowers poor girl, no ma nothing much to speak of but a rough diamond sleep now and your angels will come, dear poor matilda handcuffed to the wheel and steering wildly through love's fields, so blindly forever only takes its toll on some but, tonight you're sleeping alone without him tonight you're sleeping alone without him and everything went up in smoke like widlflowers wildflowers, dear poor girl, lonely shuffles through the parade of a sleepless circus serenade hold on, dear poor girl, no ma sister steals her a coat for the windless breezes sleep now and jesus will come, dear forever only takes its toll on some but, tonight you're sleeping alone without him tonight you're sleeping alone without him and everything went up in smoke like widlflowers wildflowers, dear wither, i'm a flower whether, i'm a lover wither, i'm a flower whether, i'm a lover wither, i'm a flower so city is my sister and country is your brother learn to lose your battles cryin' on a shoulder whether, i'm a lover wither, i'm a flower whether, i'm a lover wither, i'm a flower wonderwall today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you by now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now backbeat the word was on the street that the fire in your heart is out i'm sure you've heard it all before but you never really had a doubt i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now and all the roads we have to walk along are winding and all the lights that lead us there are blinding there are many things that i would like to say to you i don't know how because maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me? and after all you're my wonderwall today was gonna be the day but they'll never throw it back to you by now you should've somehow realized what you're not to do i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now and all the roads that lead to you were winding and all the lights that light the way are blinding there are many things that i would like to say to you i don't know how i said maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me? and after all you're my wonderwall i said maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me? and after an you're my wonderwall said maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me you're gonna be the one that saves me you're gonna be the one that saves me **words and music n. gallagher yesterday's news tab well traveling to the point that i can't stop it get so familiar never get enough talk about it all the time just drop it damage on your pretty little eyes says it all i can't stand to be under your wing i can't fly or sink or swim it's a lot like falling down standing up, and i'm falling down fill my cup til i understand wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time well, yesterday's news is what i have been reading see you at the comet and i end up needing know if you were thinking it could have been it was nothing it's cause nothing's what you did i can't stand to be under your wing i can't fly or sink or swim it's a lot like falling down standing up, and i'm falling down fill my cup til i understand wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time well i can't stand to be under your wing i can't fly or sink or swim it's a lot like falling down i'm standing up, falling down fill my cup til i understand wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time |