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August

Round Here

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again. Where? I don't know. Maria says she's dying through the door I here her crying why? I don't know. Round here we always stand up straight. Round here something radiates. Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis. She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land just like she's walking on a wire in the circus. She parks her car outside of my house takes her clothes off, says she's close to understanding Jesus. She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous. Round here we're carving out our names Round here we all look the same Round here we talk just like lions but we sacrifice like lambs Round here she's slipping through my hands. Sleeping children got to run like the wind out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning. she says, "It's only in my head."she says, "Shhh...I know it's only in my head." But the girl in the car in the parking lot says: "Man you should try to take a shot Can't you see my walls are crumbling?" Then she looks up at a building and says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life: She must be tired of something. Round here she's always on my mind. Round here I got a lot of time. Round here we're never sent to bed early Nobody makes us wait. Round here we stay up very very very very late.

Omaha

Start tearing the old man down run past eh heather and down to the old road. Start turning the grain into the ground. Roll a new leaf over. In the middle of the night, there's an old man treading around in the gathered rain. Well Mr. If you're going to walk on water, Could you drop a line my way Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door. Start threading a needle. Brush past the shuttle that slides through the cold room Start turning the wool across the wire Roll a new life over. In the middle of the night, there's and old man threading his toes through a bucket of rain. Hey Mr. You don't want to walk on water you're only going to walk all over me Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters. It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door. Start running the banner down, drop past the color come up through the summer rain start turning the girl into the ground. Roll a new love over. In the middle of the day, there's a young man rolling around in the earth and rain. Hey Mr. if you're going to walk on water, you know you are going to walk all over me. Omaha Somewhere in middle America get right to the heart of matters. It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door.

Mr. Jones

I was down in New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer She dances while her father plays guitar She's suddenly beautiful We all want something beautiful. So come dance this silence down through the morning Cut up, Maria! Show me some of those Spanish dances Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones. Believe in me. Help me believe in anything. I want to be someone who believes. Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales. Stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. No, No, she's looking at me." Smiling in the bright lights coming through in stereo. When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely. I will paint my picture. Paint myself blue, red, black and gray. All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful. Gray is my favorite color. I felt so symbolic yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a gray guitar and play. Mr. Jones and me look into the future. Stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so, she's looking at me." Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely. I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats. We all want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that. Believe in me, because I don't believe in anything and I want to be someone to believe. Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio. Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women. "She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me." I want to be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky. When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be. Mr. Jones and me staring at the video. When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me. We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be. Mr. Jones and me, we're going to be big stars...

Perfect Blue Buildings

Just down the street from your hotel, baby. I stay at home with my disease and ain't this position familiar darling. Well, all monkeys do what they see. Help me stay awake I'm falling... Down on Virginia and La Loma where I got friends who care for me You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted I got an attitude of need Help me stay awake I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from me It's 4:30AM on a Tuesday. It doesn't get much worse than this. In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless. Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from myself and me I got bones beneath my skin, Mister... There's a skeleton in every man's house. Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody There's a dead man trying to get out Please help me stay awake I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion baby. Try to keep myself away from me.

Anna Begins

My friend assures me "it's all or nothing" I am not worried I am not overly concerned My friend implores me " for one time only, make an exception." I am not not worried Wrap her up in a package of lies Send her off to a coconut island I am not worried I am not overly concerned with the status of my emotions "oh", She says, "were changing." But were always changing It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love and I guess I'm going to have to live that but, I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray or something in between and I can always change my name if that's what you mean My friend assures me "it's all or nothing` But I am not really worried I am not overly concerned You try to tell your self the things you try tell your self to make yourself forget to make your self forget I am not worried "If it's love" she said, "then were gonna have to think about the consequences" She can't stop shaking and I can t stop touching her and..... This time when kindness falls like rain It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind "these seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days" she says. And I'm not ready for this sort of thing But I'm not gonna break And I'm not going to worry about it anymore I'm not gonna bend. And I'm not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore It seems like I should say "as long as this is love..." But it's not all that easy so maybe I should just snap her up in a butterfly net Pin her down on a photograph album I am not worried I've done this sort of thing before But then I start to think about the consequences Because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...The time when kindness falls like rain It washes me away and Anna begins change my mind And every time she sneezes I believe it's love and oh lord.... I'm not ready for this sort of thing She s talking in her sleep-it s keeping me awake And Anna begins to toss and turn And every word is nonsense but I understand it and oh lord. I m not ready for this sort of thing Her kindness bangs a gong It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away It's chasing me away. She dissappears, and oh lord I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Time and Time Again

I wanted so badly somebody other than me staring back at me but you were gone I wanted to see you walking backwards and get the sensation of you coming home I wanted to see you walking away from me without the sensation of you leaving me alone Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself I wanted the ocean to cover over me I wanna sink slowly without getting wet Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely and I'll walk on water every chance I get Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself So when are you coming home, sweet angel? You leaving me alone? All alone? Well if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own I wish I was traveling on a freeway beneath this graveyard western sky I'm gonna set fire to the city and out in the desert we're gonna ride Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself

Rain King

When I think of heaven Deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers And all other instruments of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird. Don't try to feed me I've been here before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been crying and I've been thinking And I am the Rain King And I said mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone I can't go outside I'm scared I might not make it home I'm alive, I'm alive But I'm sinking in If there's anyone at home at your place, darling Why don't you invite me in? Don't try to bleed me I've been there before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been lying and I've been sinking And I am the Rain King Hey, I only want the same as anyone Henderson is waiting for the sun Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends After all the dreaming I come home again When I think of heaven Deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of dying Lay me down in a field of flame and heather Render up my body into the burning heart of God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to bleed me I've been here before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been dying and I've been drinking And I am the Rain King

Sullivan Street

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water and home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Prett soon I won't come around I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly fallen to her knees Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street where all the bodies hang on the air If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet Either way now I don't really care I'm almost drowning in her seas she's nearly crawling on her knees She's down on her knees Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street I'm just another rider burned to the ground I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly crawling on her knees It's almost everything I need I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees

Ghost Train

I took a cannonball down to the ocean across the desert from sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation fiftly million feet of earth between the buried and me "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?" She buys a ticket because it's cold where she comes from she climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?" I took the cannonball down to the ocean watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves love is a ghost train howling on the radio "Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains." "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Raining In Baltimore

This circus is falling down on its knees The big top is crumbling down It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east Where you should be, no one's around I need a phone call I need a raincoat I need a big love I need a phone call These train conversations are passing me by And I don't have nothing to say You get what you pay for But I just had no intention of living this way I need a phone call I need a plane ride I need a sunburn I need a raincoat And I get no answers And I don't get no change It's raining in Baltimore, baby But everything else is the same There's things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard And I wish it was a small world Because I'm lonely for the big towns I'd like to hear a little guitar I think it's time to put the top down I need a phone call I need a raincoat

A Murder of One

Blue morning Blue morning Wrapped in strands of fist and bone Curiosity, Kitten, Doesn't have to mean you're on your own You can look outside your window He doesn't have to know We can talk awhile, baby We can take it nice and slow All your life is such a shame, shame, shame All your love is just a dream, dream, dream Are you happy when you're sleeping? Does he keep you safe and warm? Does he tell you when you're sorry? Does he tell you when you're wrong? I've been watching you for hours It's been years since we were born We were perfect when we started I've been wondering where we've gone All your life is such a shame All your love is just a dream I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows One for sorrow Two for joy Three for girls and four for boys Five for silver Six for gold and Seven for a secret never to be told There's a bird that nests inside you Sleeping underneath your skin When you open up your wings to speak I wish you'd let me in All your life is such a shame All your love is just a dream Open up your eyes You can see the flames of your wasted life You should be ashamed You don't want to waste your life I walk along these hillsides In the summer 'neath the sunshine I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me Change, change, change

Satellites

Catapult

All of the sudden she disappears just yesterday she was here somebody tell me if I am sleeping someone should be with me here (cause I don't wanna be alone) I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand and I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult What a big baby won't somebody save me please You won't find nobody home all of these quiet battered voices wait for the hunger to come we got little revolvers and stupid choices and no one to say when we're done (Well I don't wanna bring you down) I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes `cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence of so much rejection in every connection I make I can't find nobody home I wanna be the last thing you hear when you're falling asleep....

Angels of the silences

Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now Where'd you come from? Where am I going? Why'd you leave me 'till I'm only good for... Waiting for you All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming Every night these silhouettes appear above my head Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper Every time I fall asleep Every time I dream "Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for... Waiting for you" All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book Suck my blood, break my nerve offer me their arms Well, I will not be an enemy of anything I'll only stand here Waiting for you All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming

Daylight fading

Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you It's getting cold in California I guess I'll be leaving soon Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading We leave just before it's gone She said "everybody loves you," she says, "everybody cares" But all the things I keep inside myself they vanish in the air If you tell me that you'll wait for me I'll say I won't be here I want to say good-bye to you Good-bye to all my friends Good-bye to everyone I know Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading We leave just before it's gone

Im not sleeping

She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping She comes to me when I'm alone She comes to me, she holds my head when I'm crying She comes to me, she shuts my eyes She brings me home But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore She tells me when you look at me, she tells me when you're lying She tells me when you talk about me, she lays me on the floor She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked She tells me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore 1-2-3-4-5-6-7a.m. All alone again But I've been through all this shit before Spend my nights in self defense Cry about my innocence But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more I see her on the TV, I see her in the movies I see her in these animals that dance inside my head I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore I'm not sleeping I'm not sleeping anymore I said rain rain go away come again some other day, cause I got all this shit to say but I've gone back to find my way. My sister's mother's favorite son lost among the chosen one, but I've got news for everyone cause I'm going out that door

Goodnight Elisabeth

I was wasted in the afternoon Waiting on a train I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth had disappeared again I wish you were inside of me I hope that you're ok I hope you're resting quietly I just wanted to say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth We couldn't all be cowboys So some of us are clowns Some of us are dancers on the midway We roam from town to town I hope that everybody can find a little flame Me, I say my prayers, then I just light myself on fire And I walk out on the wire once again And I say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth I will wait for you in Baton Rouge I'll miss you down in New Orleans I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain And if you're the queen of California Baby I am the king of the rain And I say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth

Children in Bloom

Children in bloom cooking in the sun Waiting for a room of our own Leave my sister alone She don't deserve this She is a flower and I am a flower and We are all alone I gotta get out on my own I gotta get up from this waiting at home I gotta get out of this sunlight It's melting my bones I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home All these wasted dreams Just waiting for the sun to open up my heart to anyone Bring me some rain Because I'm dying and I can't get this damn thing closed again

Have You Seen Me Lately

Get away from me This isn't gonna be easy But I don't need you Believe me You got a piece of me But it's just a little piece of me And I don't need anyone And these days I feel like I'm fading away Like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? I remember me And all the little things that make up a memory Like she said she loved to watch me sleep Like she said: "It's the breathing, it's the breathing in and out and in and..." Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? I guess I thought that someone would notice I guess I thought somebody would say something If I was missing Can't you see me? Come on color me in Come on color me in Give me your blue rain Give me your black sky Give me your green eyes Come on give me your white skin Come on give me your white skin Come on give me your white skin I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately

Miller's Angels

Miller's angels in black and white Welcome everyone in Children dreaming of wrong and right Wrapped in grace and in sin They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue They come out of the blue sky But you never know where they're gonna go Hey Romeo Miller's fingers are traveling down the length of her thigh But Miller's mind is still wandering Staring up at the sky They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue They come out of the blue sky But you never know where they're gonna go Hey Romeo Don't, don't come around here Miller's angels are hovering in between the earth and the sun In the shadow of god's unwavering love I am a fortunate son They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue

Another Horsedreamers' Blues

Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day Tiyuri to win Perfect Dozen to place Money is the matter that's been on her mind Time ticks by her one race at a time She's trying' to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses Looking' at a green sky Sun like a red eye Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by She's tired and lonely Scared and depressed Her visions of one day go racing the next She's trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses Margery doesn't say anything all the way home So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and TV dinners and letters she won't send, and Every race night is shot through with sunlight Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for... Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and Boys who can't tell one girl from another So she takes her pills Careful and round One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down But she's trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of... Trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses

Recovering the Satellites

Gonna get back to basics Guess I'll start it up again I'm falling' from the ceiling You're falling from the sky now and then Maybe you were shot down in pieces Maybe I slipped in between But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see Just you and me So why'd you come home to this sleepless town It's a lifetime commitment Recovering the satellites All anybody really wants to know is... When you gonna come down Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays And she watches as her babies drift violently away 'Til they see themselves in telescopes Do you see yourself in me? We're such crazy babies, little monkey We're so fucked up, you and me So why'd you come home to this faithless town Where we make a lifetime commitment To recovering the satellites And all anybody really wants to know is... When are you gonna come down She sees shooting stars and comet tails She's got heaven in her eyes She says I don't need to be an angel But I'm nothing if I'm not this high But we only stay in orbit For a moment of time And then you're everybody's satellite I wish that you were mine So why'd you come home to this angels town It's a lifetime decision Recovering the satellites Everybody really knows for sure... That you're gonna come down That you're gonna come down

Monkey

All dressed up No place to go Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me? I know all the wrongs and rights And I just want a little light to fall on me Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? We'll I'm all messed up That's nothing new Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming But all I ever need is everything Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? Just get the world off your shoulders And close your pretty blue eyes Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise? Got nowhere but home to go Got Ben Folds on my radio right now I'm in trouble for the things I need Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too? Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been?

Mercury

She is trapped inside a month of gray And they take a little every day She is a victim of her own responses Shackled to a heart that wants to settle And then runs away It's a sin to be fading endlessly Yeah, but she's all right with me She is leaving on a walkaway She is leaving me in disarray In the absence of a place to be She stands there looking back at me Hesitates, and then turns away She'll change so suddenly She's just like mercury Yeah, but she's all right with me Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds For the things that die before their time For the restlessly abandoned homes The tired and weary rambler's bones And stay beside me where I lie She's entwined in me Crazy as can be Yeah, but she's all right with me

A Long December

A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaven' Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California...I think you should Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself To hold on to these moments as they pass And it's one more day up in the canyon And it's one more night in Hollywood It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

Walkaways

Gotta rush away she said I've been to Boston before anyway, this change I've been feeling doesn't make the rain fall No big differences these days Just the same old walkways Someday Im going to stay

This Desert Life

Hangin Around

she sat right down on the sofa says where have you been? i been waiting for you Cause last night i had something so good these days get so long and i got nothing to do i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town so long i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town way too long we spend all day getting sober just hiding from daylight watching tv we just look a lot better in the blue light well you know i gotta get out well i'm stuck so tight weighed by the chains that keep me hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town too long i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town way too long this girl listens to the band play she says where have you been? I been lying right here on the floor (right here on the floor) well I got all this time to be waiting For what is mine to be hating What I am after the love has faded Hangin' around this town on a corner I been bummin' around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bummin' around this old town for way way way way way too long way way way way too long way way way way too long way way way way too long

Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

Well I woke up in mid afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast Well I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame If you've never stared off into the distance then your life is a shame And though I'll never forget your face sometimes I can't remember my name Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't cry Hey, Mrs. Potter, I know why But, hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me Well there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said Oh and the ghosts of the tilt-o-whirl will linger inside of your head Oh and the Ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead When I see you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't go, I said Hey, Mrs. Potter, I don't know, but Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me Well all the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream Well I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem Aw, but I'd sure like to find out So why don't you climb down off that movie screen Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't turn Hey, Mrs. Potter, I burn for you Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor And orders another Well, I wonder what he did that for That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door. Yeah. We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars We stand up in the Palace, like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars Aw, we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars Well, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Aw, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Hey, Mrs. Potter, I won't touch and Hey, Mrs. Potter, it's not much but Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me

Amy Hit The Atmosphere

If I could make it rain today And wash away this sunny day down to the gutter I would Just to get a change of pace Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better And that's all that really matters to me Well, Amy hit the atmosphere Caught herself a rocket ride out of this gutter And she's never coming back I fear Anytime it rains she just feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long Meanwhile all the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come There has to be a change I'm sure Today was just a day fading into another And that can't be what a life is for And anything she said well she feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long Meanwhile all the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know All I really know is I wanna know And all I really know is I don't wanna know

Four Days

All I want is something good It gets harder every time She is leaving here tonight take a breath take your time spread your wings and rise Make a mark upon the wall Paint your face and pass the time Close your eyes as she ascends Hold your breath and ease your mind Forty thousand times Time ...fades into the night They descend and then they climb Feathers falling through the night Have you seen Ohio rise? It has been four days and nights All I want is something fine It gets harder every time She is sleeping far away Take a breath take your time Spread your wings and rise Rise into the black Ohio skies

All My Friends

Thought I might get a rocket ride When I was a child But it was a lie That I told myself when I needed something good At 17 had a better dream Now I'm 33 and it isn't me But I'd think of something better if I could All my friends and lovers Will leave me behind And I'm still looking for a girl One way or another I'm just hoping to find a way To put my feet out in the world Caught some grief from a falling leaf As she tumbled into the dirty ground And said I should have put her back there if I could Well everyone needs a better day And I'm tryin' to find me a better way To get through the things I do and the things I should All my friends and lovers Will leave me alone To try to have a little fun One way or another I just wish I had known To go out walking in the sun To find out if you were the one does it make you wanna come a little closer now and did you want to dance with me Did you wanna hum a little harder now can you see her? waiting there can you see her? because I'm almost there can you see her waiting there for someone like me Well all you want is a beauty queen But not a superstar But everybody's dream machine All you want is a place to lay your head You go to sleep dreamin' how you would Be a different kind if you thought you could But you come awake the way you are instead All my friends and lovers They shine like the sun Well I just turn and walk away One way or another I'm not comin' undone I'm just waiting for the day All my friends

High Life

Such a life Such a life Such a life"such a life, such a life,such a life, All my friends got flowers in their eyes But I got none this season All of last year's blooms have gone and died Time doesn't give a reason well hey maybe you ask yourself Sometimes what you need to be forgiven Everything that you ever done wrong Is the reason that I'm driven Straight to tears Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I get me ends and my beginnings mixed up, too Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two It's just like answers that come in small packages that go in the mail Waiting for the trains that just never come Beginning to believe in The disappearing nature of the people we have been We have begun to change Into the worst kind of people So unkind Oh apologies No apologies This apology doesn't describe The way it feels to feel for you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I find myself slowly disappearing, too Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to help me to remain with you I just wanna stay for a little while I wanna stay a little while Oh, come on Cause there's a night light just falling down on me I just feel like a change But if the southern summer sea of flowers Won't bloom without the rain But oh this desert life This high life Here at the dying of the day I wasn't made for the scene, baby But I wasn't made in this scene, baby It's just my way I don't wanna go home alone I wanna come on home to you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I line my sky with all the silver I can get Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two Isn't that just like disappearing into the sum of yourself and the person you are disappearing into it's like one plus one equals nothing at all one plus two equals nothing at all one plus me equals nothing at all one plus you equals one plus you equals you equals you and you and you and nothing at all

Colorblind

I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am Taffy stuck, tongue tied Stuttered shook and uptight Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am...fine I am covered in skin No one gets to come in Pull me out from inside I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am...fine I am.... fine I am fine

I Wish I Was A Girl

The devil's in the dreamin' He tells you I'm not sleepin' In my motel room alone With nothing to believe in You dive into the traffic rising up And it's so quiet You're surprised and then you wake For all the things you're losing You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain I wish I was a girl So that you could believe me And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep I wish for all the world That I could say Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right These days The devil's in the dreamin' You see yourself descending From the building to the ground And you watch the sky receding And you spin to see the traffic Rising up and it's so quiet And you're surprised and then you wake For all the things I'm losing I might as well resign myself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain I wish I was a girl So that you could believe me And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep I wish for all the world That I could say Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right These days And one of these dreams You forgive me It makes me think of the bad decisions That keep you at home How could anyone else have changed But these are wrong conclusions That leave you alone How could everyone rearrange How could everyone else have changed What I see I believe For all the things I'm losing I might as well resign myself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain Well I can't sleep at night

Speedway

I get so nervous - I'm shaking It's so I got no pride at all It gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more Guess I just get off on that stuff thinkin bout taking some time thinkin about leavin soon I got some things I can't tell anyone I got some thing's I just can't say There the kinda things that no one knows about just need somebody to talk to me I'm thinkin about leaving tomorrow I'm thinkin about being on my own Think I've been wasting my time thinkin about getting out thinkin about getting out In all this time the bottom line you dont know how much I feel you say you see but I dont agree. Dont know - dont know how I feel. Just trying to get myself some gravity your just trying to get me to say. Sometimes I sit here looking down upon los angeles sometimes Im floating away Thinkin about breaking myself Thinkin about getting back home Think Ive been waiting way to long Thinkin bout getting out Thinkin bout getting out Thinkin bout getting out

St. Robinson and his cadillac dream

Staring out of his window as the world rushes by Arthur Robinson closes the glass and replies, "I dream of ballerinas and I don't know why? But I see Cadillac's sailing. I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay Maryland and Virginia have faded away And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today So I am endlessly waiting The comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean Out there in the shadow of the modern machine walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream Carrie's down in her basement all toe shoes and twinned With the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins, From where you think you will end up to the state that you're in Your reflection approaches and recedes again. Yeah And the comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean Out in the shadow of the modern machines Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream I had a dream of a black car that shimmers and drives Down the length of the evening to the carnival's side In a house where regret is a carousel ride We are spinning and spinning and spinning Theres a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell There's a girl in the basement coming out of her shell And there are people who will say they knew me so well I may not go to heaven.. I hope that you go to hell! The comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean out there in the shadow of a modern machine Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream In his dream. St. Robinson in his dream. Some people are never quite what they seem Come on baby come on baby Lets just Get into my car and drive.

Kid things

What's there that makes you want to be lonely What's there to keep you sitting at home He'd always say no no no as if he wanted you to be hungry well the same things you're missing could get you into something else Better leave when to stay is only nothing but being alone what I wanted you to know is Kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was Kid things seemed like nothing at all but kid things make it better than it was hey what you got that makes you want to be lonely hey what you got that makes it a better way to be she said No no no i can't get any love and it's a sunday. I said oh yeah what makes you think I wanted it that way. cause one or two more smiles from you and I don't need anything else. what I wanted you to know is kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was we're just kids we spend all night on the phone it's a kid thing but i sleep better when i'm not alone what i want right now is just some more gimme more.. Hey what you think is you're not getting any younger What i know is that you're not really very old i know you wanna say No no no it feels much better in the summer well if it isn't warm where you're sittin' then kitten come on in out of the cold Cause all I know is when I'm with you well I don't need anything else. what I wanted you to know is Kid things seemed like nothing at all and kid things make it better than it was We're just kids... we spend all night on the phone It's a kid thing.. so i sleep better when i'm not alone Kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was We're just kids... Just like driving a car... it's a kid thing and the further out the closer in you are

Hard Candy

On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summers Where my shadows used to be And she is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary girl And in the evenings on Long Island When the colors start to fade She wears a silly yellow hat That someone gave her when she stayed I didn't think that she returned it We left New York in a whirl Time expands and then contracts When you are spinning in the grip of someone Who is not an ordinary girl And when you sleep you find your mother in the night But she stays just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning covers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again You send your lover off to China And you wait for her to call You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summers back in a letter And I hide it from the world All the regrets you can't forget Are somehow pressed upon a picture In the face of such an ordinary girl And when you sleep you find your mother in the night But she fades just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning showers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again

American Girls

She comes out on Fridays every time Stands out in a line I could've been anyone she'd seen She waits another week to fall apart She couldn’t make another day I wish it was anyone but me It could've been anyone you see She had something breakable just under her skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle up to my hand Making me feel so incredible She comes out of closets every night But then she locks herself away Where she could keep everything from me I could have been anyone you see She’s nothing but porcelain underneath her skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle up to my hand Making me feel so incredible Little shivers shaking me every day But I could get the same thing anywhere So if she goes away Well it's alright and I'm okay "Hey", she said, "Come back again tonight" I said, "I might I might I might" She said, "Well that's alright If it's alright with you, then it's alright with me" I waited for an hour last Friday night She never came around She took almost everything from me I’m going through my closets Trying on her clothes almost everyday I could've been anyone you see I wish it was anyone but me Theres nothing but pills and ashes under my skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle right up to my hand Making me feel so incredible If I made you cry, please tell me why Cause I'll try again if you let me try American girls all feathers & cream Come into bed so edible

Good Time

The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes He don't know what to do He just wants to look good for you So he rushes in to tell you what he did today but he can't think of what to say I think you listen anyway. He wants to have a good time just like everybody He doesn't want to fall apart You watch him as he stutters over what to say It's just a little game you play It's no easier for you some days You wish you could tell him it'll be okay But you feel a little shy these days Cause everybody goes away You just want to have a good time Just like everybody else You don't want to fall apart this time I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in Well darling, if it's shit came out Then I suppose that it's shit went in Even though I couldn't say I've been the places that you've been You know he made my heart real strong Even if he made my head real thin I want to have a good time Just like everybody And I don't want to fall apart I just want have a good time Just like everybody else And I don't want to fall apart this time So would you please invite me in I really love the red haired girls I'm just another boy from texas Come on and take a spin I got a brand new set of wings

If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel is Dead)

Got a message in my head That the papers had all come Richard Manuel is dead And the daylight's coming on I've been wandering through the dark Now I'm standing on the lawn If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things I do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time that is running out on you It was cold when I awoke And the day was halfway done Nearly spring in San Francisco And I cannot feel the sun You were sleeping next to me But I knew you'd be gone If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things I do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time That is running out on you Take some time before you go To think of mondays coming down And the people that you knew And ones that aren't around You've been fading day to day I've been moving town to town If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things i do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time That is running out on you

Goodnight L.A.

I said, "Goodnight L.A." Cause I’m awake in my room I been up for 38 hours And it don’t look like sleep’s coming soon Cause I could break like a bird Or I could swallow the sea It seems like the daylight is coming And no one is watching but me But I don’t mind the dark discovering the day Cause the night is a beautiful bright blue and grey And what brings me down now is love Cause I can never get enough And it’s a dangerous time for a heart on a wire Shuttled from station to station noisily Not knowing why So I put my head on the ground And the sky is a wheel Spinning these days into things that I’ve lost But you can keep all the years But I don’t mind the days gone rolling away Cause all this sunlight Feels warm on my face today And what brings me down now is love Cause I can never get enough of love

Butterfly in Reverse

Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They took a lot of time Getting it right on this girl I said, Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl Had a lot of girlfriends I should have known them Click your heels and count back from three Do you want to go back? You should have known That the butterfly in reverse here is me Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They took a lot of timeGetting it right on this girl I said, Mary-AnnYou’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl Where’d you want to go to With nothing beside you But webbing and curfews and rain? And everything that hurts you Is locked up inside you Like butterflies with wings And other perfect things We go swimming in the sunshine Dangling from clotheslines Separate and fall into me But did you ever see me ? Me, absolutely ? Me, but all you, but still me? Mary-Ann you’re better than the world They took a lot of time Getting it right on this girl, I said Maryann You’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl

Miami

I guess I think I feel alright You come circling through the light The skyline is bright tonight What more perfect rendezvous? The sundown paints the shadows through The daylight, Amy, on what we do It looks like darkness to me Drifting down into Miami Can I say , "I wish that this weather would never leave"? It just gets hard to believe That god sent this angel to watch over me Cause my angel She don’t receive my calls Says I’m to dumb to Fuck To dumb to fight To dumb to save Well, maybe I don’t need no angel at all It looks like darkness to me Drifting down into Miami She could pull the sunlight through me Coming down into Miami Make a circle in the sand Make a halo with your hands I'll make a place for you to land The bus is running It’s time to leave The summer’s gone And so are we So come on baby, Let’s go shut it down in New Orleans.

New Frontier

Miracle people with marvelous hair And a knack to do anything better than anyone I got a home with electrical air And I live in a world smaller than anyone's But I got a line on the new frontier I got a line on the new America All of the people are vanishing here I could be huge if I could just get From the outside of everything To the inside of you Purest Aluminum people are walking The streets of London So hysterical Nobody here gets a word that I say And the problems, I'm told, are more than medical But I got a friend from the new frontier And Galen, she says, "This is not America You need a girl with electrical hair. And the word that you wanted was aluminium." From the outside of everything To the inside of you I was in bed with the girl at the end of the world She said "I'm going home. You should come home too." But I'm at the end of the new frontier Here at the edge of the flat earth ending I'm getting off to get lost in the air At the end of the world Where the light is bending From the outside of everything To the inside of you

Carriage

If anything It should have been a better thing From underneath you staring at the ceiling There’s another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards That hides inside of all this tension that I’m feeling But it’s all inside of you Surprise Surprise I miss your hair You miss my eyes And all this solitude is my confidence eroding So we slide inside of someone’s mouth and someone’s eyes Until there’s the sound of something intimate exploding But it's all inside of you I wish that I was anaesthetized and sterilized And then you wouldn’t have this evidence congealing Surprise Surprise Another pair of lips and eyes And that is the consequence of actually feeling It was all inside of you

Black and Blue

Fading everything to black & blue You look a lot like you'd shatter In the blink of an eye But you keep sailing right on through Every time you say you're learning You just look a lot like me Pale under the blistering sky White & red black & blue You’ve been waiting a long time To fall down on your knees Cut your hands Cut yourself until you bleed But fall asleep next to me Wait for everyone to go away And in a dimly lit room Where you got nothing to hide Say your goodbyes Tell yourself we’ll read a note that says, "I’m sorry everyone. I’m tired of feeling nothing. Goodbye." Wash your face dry your eyes Cause you’ve been waiting a long time To fall down on your knees Cut your hands Cut yourself until you bleed But fall asleep next to me And have a dream I’m falling down on my face I scrape my knees I scrape my hands until they bleed Cause you're fast asleep next to me

Why Should You Come When I Call?

It's 1:30 in the morning but that's alright by me Weren't you just waiting by the phone? I should give a little warning But I need the things I need I'm not proud to need a hand, but I just don't understand... So why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Ain't necessarily a bad thing to believe the things I say Cause you can make yourself feel good You know it's really not a good thing to give everything to me I'm just waiting for the show cause I got nowhere to go So why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Cause nothing makes me feel so good Or gets me high so I sleep at night And let's me know that everything's alright I feel nice I'm so sorry in the morning You can believe what you believe I'm used to waking up alone And if you think about it Anyone you think about is better love than me But if you're not fallen quite asleep I might call tonight If that's alright... Why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own

Up All Night (Frankie Miller goes to Hollywood)

Is everybody happy now Is everybody clear We could drive out to the dunes tonight Because summer's almost here I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip away I might sleep all day... And when the roads are clear You head on out of here And if you're coming back I'll see you in the morning I'm just staring at The ceiling staring back at me Just waiting for daylight To come crawling in on me I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip away I might sleep all day... It's too late to get high now Fix your hair just right Put your jeans on tight Or wear a dress so I can get it off real easy I been thinking I'd like to see Your eyes open up real wide The minute that you see me But if you don't come through I wouldn't wait for you I understand that everyone goes disappearing Into the greater grey that covers over everyday And hovers in the distance... I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip awayI might sleep all day... It's too late to get high now

Holiday in Spain

Got no place to go But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico She's got a bottle of tequilaA bottle of gin And if I bring a little music I could fit right in We got airplane rides We got California drowning out the window side We got big black cars And we got stories how we slept with all themovie stars I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drink my worries down the drain Fly away to somewhere new Hop on my choo choo I'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit If you dress me up in pink and white We may be just a little fuzzy 'bout it later tonight She's my angel She's a little better than the one that used to be with me Cause she liked to scream at me Man, it's a miracle that she's not living up in a tree I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane And fly away to someone new Everybody's gone They left the television screaming that the radio's on Someone stole my shoes But there's a couple of bananas and a bottle of booze Oh well, happy new years baby! We could probably fix it if we clean it up all day Or we could simply pack our bags And catch a plane to Barcelona cause this city's a drag I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Flush my worries down the drain Then fly away to somewhere new Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane And fly away to someone new

Big Yellow Taxi (Hidden track)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them No, no, no

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples,

Leave me the birds and the bees Please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took my girl away Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Well, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey hey hey

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

I don't wanna give it Why you wanna give it Why you wanna giving it all away Hey, hey, hey Now you wanna give it I should wanna give it Now you wanna giving it all away Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot

Films About Ghosts

Friend of the Devil

(Grateful Dead)

I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep last night 'till the morning came around. Set out runnin' but I take my time

A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills. Set out runnin' but I take my time, a friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air. Set out runnin' but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night, The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie, and she's my hearts delight. The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail, And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail. Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee

The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me. Set out runnin' but I take my time, A friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

She don't want nobody near

She don't want nobody nearBut you can't get away from thatThey appear and disappear And they all get a string attached Pretty soon they've got you hanging on the line Pretty soon they're singing one by one, the same old rhyme They sa