Sweet 17 in summertime Drunk on elderberry wine Laughing in the cornfields And taking our sweet time The world was ours together And all the things we had Were cast up in the future baby How could things turn out bad? Now i ain’t waiting for Those days to return You showed me what love […]
In my life i’ve seen such things That i wish i had not seen But through your eyes I can let it go When you’re lying here with me Sunshine knocking on my window Couldn’t wake me from this dream (we dream) Cause baby Anywhere the wind blows I will follow you It seems That […]
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Fell out of the sky sometime in 1952 Through the radiance Looking for my shoes Daddy left and momma cried Had a passport for the blues I didn’t share their hometown point of view Cause i need more I need more Just give me one good reason What i’m living for In this uncertain world […]
There’s a silent movie Running off its reel inside my mind As i try to fall asleep tonight On prescription lullabyes In the darkness there’s a doorway That leads me back to you forever But these days there’s only You and i in photographs Ambitions and dreams we’ve shared Now i wonder who has got […]
Hear the lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I’m so lonesome i could cry I’ve never seen a night so long When time goes crawling by The moon just went behind a cloud To hide its face and cry Did you ever see a robin weep When […]
We speak out like children Of the dreams that we chase and pursue These rights we hold precious Say it loud enough And it’ll be true In the company of strangers Wild conversation And the hours go by so fast And you find a lot of wisdom there At the bottom of the glass But […]
I wait for sundown on the fire escape And watch the passing cars downstairs I’m high above korean groceries A sublet castle in the air It’s down to cigarettes and rosaries Christ, i wish someone would call me Johnny thunders on the radio Ah but "you can’t put your arms Around a memory" Maybe i […]
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone It’s not warm when she’s away Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone And she’s always gone too long Anytime she goes away I wonder this time where she’s gone I wonder if she’s gone to stay Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone And this house just ain’t a home […]
In the real world All that gold All that silver prove Is that the powerful own the truth With their heckle and jeckyll smiles Down to nickels and dimes The lawyers will sue What those bastards won’t do But sometimes with you I can leave this place And fall into your sky And sometimes with […]
I’ve been searchin’ for a long time For someone exactly like you I’ve been travelin’ all around the world Waitin’ for you to come through Someone like you To make it all worthwhile Someone like you To keep me satisfied Someone exactly like you Just like you I’ve been traveling a hard road Baby looking […]
