In a hotel room just off times square it's like a closet
I can watch the dancing class go round.
In a hotel room that costs as much as my apartment
I can watch the working class go down.

And it's enough to make a crooked man go straight -
Broadway, broadway.

In a hotel room just off times square they made a monster
He was unaware of what went down.
Fattening him up just like a calf before a slaughter
He'd had his fill of hollow town.

And it's enough to make a stupid man think straight
Broadway, broadway
And it's enough to make a crooked man go straight
Broadway, broadway, broadway, broadway.

rowboat lightning i kissed her yeah it didn't mean a thing
Seems like years ago it was yesterday
Fire drill yell freeze don't hang around long face disease
I got a book of poems that's gonna set you free
Well it's bad luck and it's a hard luck story
And i'm sorry i ain't sticking around
I got a real bad feeling that a book of poems ain't enough
Well it's a sick world and sixteen days
I got nightmares every night
I got a real bad feeling that a book of poems ain't enough
Hardcore uptown not the kind of place you wanna settle down
I only walked her home but that was bad enough
Two trains yell freeze it was a head-on cold now it's a love disease
I got a book of poems you gotta see to believe

Well the room was mediterranean and the meaning was two-
Fold
We got busted by your mother though you're 29 years old
And the pictures wrapped in cellophane like sandwiches or
Stamps
Burned holes in my pockets and in the inseam of my pants

And your graduation date is in absentia today
And you wished you was there with her, but you told her not
To stay
And the redwoods and the oak trees and the double yellow
Lines
Although they're in perfect symmetry they keep imperfect
Time

I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely
I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely

And the car was japanese perhaps or hungarian and blue
And it followed you down highway one, kept almost out of
View
And it symbolizes something although you don't know what it
Is
Like loneliness and longing for a future perfect kiss

I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely
I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely

And the second hand's the first thing that you see when you
Wake up
It rolls by in slow motion and you rub it for good luck
Time is gonna tell your little secrets to me
There's a frightened girl inside of you, i'm gonna set her
Free

I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely
I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely
I don't mean no, i don't mean maybe, i'm indefinitely, i'm
Indefinitely

Merle haggard, bluebook music (bmi)
First thing i remember knowin' was a lonesome whistle blowin'
And a young-on's dream of growing up to ride
On a freight train leaving town, not knowing where i'm bound
And no one could change my mind, but mama tried

One and only rebel child, from a family meek and mild
Mama seemed to know what lay in store
'spite of all my sunday learnin', toward the bad i kept on turnin'
'til mama couldn't hold me anymore

Chorus:
And i turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole
No one could steer me right, but mama tried, mama tried
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading i denied,
That leaves only me to blame, 'cause mama tried

Dear old daddy rest his soul, he left my mom a heavy load
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes
Working hours without rest, she wanted me to have the best
She tried to raise me right, but i refused

Chorus

Standing on the corner of 6th how'd i forget
Trying to do right by you all night annette
You can go ahead and get married
And this will be our secret thing
I won't tell a soul except the people in the nightclub where i sing

I don't want to get you all worked up
Except secretly i do

I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you
I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you

Standing on the corner of 6th
Where do i go
The parade's shut down now the rain is running the show
Where did all these people come from
And how soon can they leave
Normally i1d be into it but i need to get some sleep

Though i do wish you1d come over
But i'm warning you if you do

I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you
I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you

(guitar break)

Standing on the corner of 6th
Where do i get
Trying to do right by you all night annette
This would only be an experiment
In things that could have been
You can go ahead and get married
And it'll probably never happen again

I don't mean to make you excited
Except secretly i do

I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you
I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you
I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you
I'd be lying if i said i didn't have designs on you

Well the hour is late for a visit on a whim
Well the hour is late for a quiet drunken talk
I don't begrudge you the anger in your voice
No i don't begrudge you anything at all

'cause i know...that the time is scarce in laredo with your friends
Your on hoiday, on a bender, in a daze
You find all nite food in a diner full of noise
Where the bad mood walks like ants across your plates

Chorus:
'cause i know what this is
This is what we talk about
When we talk about love
When we talk about love

Yeah i know what this is
This is what we talk about
When we talk about love
When we talk about love

Well the city lights are on fuses that have blown
So the city sleeps, 'cause there's nothin else to do
Well the couch is deep and the phone receiver's warm
I miss you much too badly to convey to you

Repeat chorus

This time is special for you
I don't think you ever fell for someone like i do
Every now and then I think of you
But this time is time for rock on
Hey do you remeber the time I took you after class
I think you were going to find something special of me
But then when you turned around you broke my heart like a glass
I think you should never be like that to someone like me
This time i will let you down
This time i will never give you to
This time I will set you free
And only tonight you will be mine
Every now and then I think about you
and this pain is making me feel so
alive is the word but I think better off
wothout you i would be
I damn you my sweet blue eye darlin'
i couldn't stop siking for you
even if you never let me be
the man you wanted to see
my sweet blue eye darlin'
my sweet blue eye darlin'
my sweet blue eye darlin'
my sweet blue eye darlin'
my sweet blue eye darlin'

Big brown eyes, and a gust of wind,
And the cherry burns the corner of the page that says "the end
Is coming soon," but not soon enough.
Restring all your guitars. pack up all your stuff.

'cause if robert's dad is right,
We might not make it through the night,
And i'd hate to go alone.
Please pick up the phone.

Well a box of red, and a pill or three,
And i'm calling time and temperature just for some company.
I wish you were here. i wish i was too.
I'll drink myself to sleeplessness, i always do.

You don't want me anymore,
Since fame and fortune broke down our door.
You don't give me no respect.
What did i expect?

If that phone don't ring one more time,
I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind.
You made a big impression for a girl of your size,
Now i can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.

Her hands are cold, her breath is warm,
She's a port in a storm.
I'm worried now, but it won't be long.
It takes a worried man, you know, to sing a worried song.

I've got issues, yeah.
Like i miss you, yeah.
And i wish i weren't so thick.
I'm making myself sick.

If that phone don't ring one more time,
I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind.
You made a big impression for a girl of your size,
Now i can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.

(hitchhike to rhome lyrics.
Minor variations found on wreck your life.)
When i first met doreen
She was barely seventeen.
She was drinking whiskey sours in the bar.

The way she tossed 'em back
I would've had a heart attack.
But as it is i let her drive my car.

We galloped through the boroughs
Like a pair of horny thoroughbreds,
Until i said, "stop the car, doreen."

Well you can roll your eyes and nod
But i swear that i saw god,
In the moonlight on a side street in the wreckage we call queens.

Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.

Well i'm pulling into cleveland
In a seven-seater tour van.
There's eight of us, so i'm sleeping on the floor.

The guy that plays the banjo
Keeps on handing me the old crow,
Which multiplies my sorrow, i can't take it anymore.

Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.

Now i'm begging and i'm pleading,
"well pull over guys, i'm bleeding.
There's a fina off the highway with a phone."

I'm calling you doreen,
But it rings and rings and rings.
Where is it that you are, if you aren't in our bed at home.

Doreen, doreen, last night i had an awful dream.
You were laying in the arms of a man i'd never seen.
Come clean doreen. come clean doreen.

When you were just a little girl in pine bluff,
Daddy disappeared without a trace.
Now there's no more little girls in pine bluff,
They all ran like tears out of this place.

(chorus)
Am i too late
Am i too late
Tell you that i love you
Now they've carried you away

(repeat)

Never thought that you would see a sickbed,
Never thought that you'd stop bein' 'round.
Now i hear you're lost and gone forever,
Just like all the other girls in town.

(chorus)

Now i hear that you have gone to heaven,
And if there's one, i'm sure that's where you are.
Maybe you're the new star in the night sky,
Just outside the moonroof on my car.

(2x chorus)

Tell you that i love you
Now they've carried you away
Tell you that i love you
Now they've carried you away
Tell you that i love you
Now they've carried you away

I've been reading books when no one's lookin'
I've been listenin' to the sirens in the night
Robert says I'm goin' straight to hell, yeah
If I hang around here I just might.
And I'd like to take some medicine
And like to drink some wine
I'd like to wake up numb like all my friends
There's a road to where I came from
It gets longer all the time
There's a road to where I'm goin'
It never ends
And my moon, it always sways
And my guitar always plays and plays
Drowning in the days
Drowning in the days
Drowning in the days
Drowning in the days
I've been writing fairy tales on postcards
Writing down the story of my life
Carrie says I make everything so hard
Carrie says I'm difficult; she's right.
And I'd like to take some medicine
I'd like to take you home
I'd like to get that woman off my mind
Well I like your pouty lips
I like your pert little bones
But I'm sleeping with the porcelain tonight
And my cloud, it always rains
Ken's feedback always fades
Drowning in the days

well you can tell it the radio
tell it to the television
they are not listening
they are only machines
i could sit around all day
worrying and wishing
i was one of them
so you can tell it to me
talking to you girl
is like long division, yeah
i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl
well you can blame it on the moonlight
blame it on plate tectonics
you thought i wasn't listening
but i was
talk about attraction
talk about electronics
well you are the reason
you are because
talking to you girl
is like long division, yeah
i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl
talking to you girl
is like long division, yeah
i've been trying to find you
may i remind you, i'm under oath now
i've been trying to see you
cuz i can see you, want the truth now
i've been trying to tell you
that i can tell you are
a singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl
singular girl
you got the teeth of the hydra upon you
singular girl, singular girl

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The tupelo county jail

Wish me the best of luck, dear
There's no one here to my bail
Never been a place so lonely
As the tupelo county jail

Fill that letter full a kisses
I'm gonna have me a ball
Baby, kisses on paper
Are better than no kisses at all

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The tupelo county jail

(take it ken!)

Fill that letter full a kisses
I'm gonna have me a ball
Baby, kisses on paper
Are better than no kisses at all

Come on and write, write, write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The tupelo county jail
The tupelo county jail
The tupelo county jail
The tupelo county jail...

I got a timebomb, in my mind mom.
I hear it ticking but i don't know why.
I call the police, but they don't like me.
I hear 'em whispering when i walk by.

I got a landmine in my bloodline.
I'm not immune to getting blown apart.
She's like a claymore, that's what she's there for.
She's waiting 'round here to get blown apart.

Having her on my brain's like getting hit by a train,
She's gonna kill me. oh celeste, oh celeste.

I got a timebemb, in my mind mom,
It's gonna go off, but i don't know when.
I need a doctor to extract her.
I got a feeling she'd get right back in again

I got a timebemb, in my mind mom,
I got it badly for a stick-legged girl
She's gonna kill me, and i don't mean softly.
I got it badly for a stick-legged girl

Having her on my brain's like getting hit by a train,
She's gonna kill me. oh celeste, oh celeste, oh celeste.

Roller skate skinny and the terrible twos
How can you have everything and nothing to lose
You and nobody see eye to eye
You're gonna wake up with a ghost instead of a guy

Bulletin board on the wall of a church
Soaking up the city from a top-step perch
You're gonna break down on a midnight date
Gonna curse this town, you're gonna run late

You're pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny
Pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny

Do you want to meet up at the pickwood bowl
We could knock nine down and leave one in the hole
Wouldn't be here if the athenia hadn't sunk
Or if dear ol dad hadn't got so drunk

Every other day is a kick in the shins
Every other day it's like the day just wins
But you make it all right, you make it ok
You make me sorta glad that i waited till today

You're pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny
Pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny

(guitar break)

Roller-skate skinny and the terrible twos
Two years in and it's time to choose
Love feels good when it sits right down, puts its feet up on the table it
Sends a bowl around

Ain't nobody gonna see eye to eye
With a girl who's only gonna stand collarbone high
Rain's gonna come in fair-sized drips
And we're gonna go to heaven wearing paper-hat ships

You're pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny
Pretty as a penny, roller-skate skinny

I believe in love, but it don't believe in....
I believe in love, but it don't believe in me
I believe in love, but it don't believe in me

(repeat)

I got a four leaf clover.
It ain't done one single lick of good.
I'm still a drunk and i'm still a loser.
I'm living in a lousy neighborhood.

I got a real live horseshoe,
And i hung it upside-down above my door.
But it don't do nothing to impress you,
So i don't know what the hell it's for.

Why don't you come over? i'll show you my four leaf clover.
Who'm i trying to kid? i'm not the kind of guy you'd go
For.
I got a four leaf clover, but i ain't got no hope of
Getting you.

I got a lucky silver dollar.
My granddad gave it to me now he's dead.
At times like this i wish that i cound join him,
It might just stop this pounding in my head.

Why don't you come over? i'll show you my four leaf clover.
Who'm i trying to kid? i'm not the kind of guy you'd go
For.
I got a four leaf clover, but i ain't got no hope of
Getting you.
I ain't got no hope of getting you.

Alternate chording
Salome, uncross your heart.
I know what goes on inside, it's over before it starts.
Well i'll stay all night, i'll wait right here.
The full moon might work magic girl, but i won't disappear.

Chorus:
And i'm tired of making friends, and i'm tired of making time,
And i'm sick to death of love, and i'm sick to death of trying.
And it's easier for you, yeah it's easier for you.
And it's easier for you, yeah it's easier for you.

Salome, untie my hands.
Well i'll find another lady, and you'll wreck another man.
It's over now, yeah and so are we.
My blood's turned to dirt girl, you broke every part of me.

And i'm tired of making friends, and i'm tired of making time,
And i'm sick to death of love, and i'm sick to death of trying.
And it's easier for you, yeah it's easier for you.
And it's easier for you, yeah it's easier for you.

(repeat chorus)

I left you last night on the left coast
I'm writin' you a letter right now
The things that you do are rendering you
Something i can't live without

Maybe maybe i've got a pulse now
Maybe my heart's on fire
A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

Left you last night on the left side
The land of the free to be burned
Well the heat of your touch is makin' it such
That i've forgotten everything i've learned

Maybe maybe i've got a problem
Maybe my heart's a liar
A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

Yeah a bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

And i may be a bird in a cage
But it least it's your cage
And i may be a bird in a cage
But it least it's your cage

Left you last night on the left half
Of the bed, the half that used to be mine
The way that you sleep is the image i'll keep
Always on the edge of my mind

Maybe maybe i've got a reason
For livin' even though i'm so tired
A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

And i may be a bird in a cage
But it least it's your cage
And i may be a bird in a cage
But it least it's your cage

Maybe maybe you are the only
One my heart's desired
A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

A bird in the hand is worth a bird in a cage
Is worth a bird on a telephone wire

i'm gonna tend a bad fire until you come around
I'd sing you real live love songs
If i could get the feeling down

I want to make you happy but the devil's out my way
So i'll just pack up everything
Roll it out and up the devil's pay

I want to cause a bad scene but i gotta change my ways
I want to hear your sound again
I want to see you 'round someday

I want to make you happy but the devil's out my way
So i'll just pack up everything
Roll it out and up the devil's pay

And it seems no one can comfort me
To take me from this station where i'm at
'cause the things i love are leaving me
And it's taking every single piece
It's a grade-a mess and it's cutting teeth
It's a big black wind that's blowing back of me

I'm gonna roll up everything into a big red sun
Boil til the room's insane
Wave my rattles on and on

I want to make you happy but the devil's out my way
So i'll just pack up everything
Roll it out and up the devil's pay

I've been lightin' matches in the boiler room,
Wearing sulphur perfume.
(don't i smell nice?)

You come sniffin' around just like you own the joint,
You know it's rude to point.
(don't make me tell you twice.)

Well i like the way you walk,
That's why i left my door unlocked.
I must be going off half-cocked. (i sometimes do.)

You think it's funny, but i know it ain't no joke.
There's nothing left to read in here, there's nothing left to smoke.
Before the band the band kicks in, i guess i'd better start.
(i'll stomp a mud hole in your heart.)

You poured whiskey in my slurpee, swear to god you got me drunk,
Now i'm thinking that i'm sunk.
(and i can't swim.)

I'm drowning in the back seat of a '61 bel air,
I got a mouthful of your hair.
(a handful of skin.)

I ain't suffocating,
I'm just sick and tired of waiting.
Stop this pointless hesitating. (pull me in.)

There's an awful lot of stars out here, an awful lot of sky.
I'm turning on the radio, they're playing "let it ride."
Before the band the band kicks in, i guess i'd better start.
(i'll stomp a mud hole in your heart.)

We could cruise the lake like psychos,
Scare the kids on motorcycles.
(there ain't nothing i would rather do.)

It's 3-d on the tv, but it's empty on the street.
If it weren't for me and you, the avenue would be incomplete.
And i should say this, before this whole thing even starts,
I'll stomp a mud hole in your heart.

In a western town, beneath the northern lights,
where the pine trees pine for the fall of night,
you believe in cards, you believe in signs
and I'll be leavin' soon, but I'm here tonight.
On a mountainside, well below the stars,
keep your lovers eyes in mason jars
and I should be scared but I feel no fear,
'cause I'll be leavin' soon, tonight I'm here.
[Chorus]
And even if you are the one, and even if the cards are all true,
when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
Well the Southern P. moved her family down.
Then along came me to her sleepy town.
I don't believe in cards, I don't believe in signs,
but I'll be leavin' soon. I'm here tonight.
And even if you are the one, and even if I tried to be true,
when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
In a western town, beneath the northern lights,
where the pine trees pine for the fall of night,
don't believe in me, did I make that clear?
'cause I'll be long gone soon, tonight I'm here.
And even if you were the one, I didn't wanna walk out on you,
but when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?

And the hole
In the screen is barely big enough for you
And not near enough for me to go

And the whole damn complicated
Situation could've been
Avoided if i'd only shut the window

Chorus:
And i may be leavin' myself open
To a murder or a heart attack
But i'm leavin' the back door open
'til you come back, 'til you come back

And i may be movin' myself closer
To a real untimely end
But i'm leavin' the back door open
'til you come home again, 'til you come home again

And i told
The neighbors, i put pictures up
And handed out some flyers at the show

And the whole town speculating
Situation could've been
Avoided if i'd only shut the window

Chorus

Repeat chorus

Well i must have been stoned when this whole started,
'cause i just can't seem to think straight anymore.

Can't figure out where i'm at, maybe memphis, maybe mexico.
I think you're swell but i ain't gonna tell you so.
I think you're great but it's late and i'd better go.

Hitchhike to rhome. take the greyhound to fredericksburg.
Well i'm flat broke, i've been smoking butts for days.

You say, "maybe you can stay with me." i say, "lady, that's a dangerous plan."
You're quite a woman, but i don't wanna be your man.
You're quite a kisser, but listen close and understand.

Take a letter to god. "dear sir: i'm dissatisfied.
Well it ain't your fault they keep pouring salt on my heart.

All i need is a brief reprieve. i keep leaving. i ain't gettin' nowhere."
Won't you linger, let me run my fingers through your hair?
Won't you stay? i can't play like i don't care.
I think you're dope, and i hope i'm making myself clear.
I think you're fly and that's why i'm getting out of here.

Well, i must have been stoned.
Good lord, i wish i'd been stoned.

you're cracking up on a radio in a tunnel below the city
and i'm losing you 'cause you move too slow
and i'm wishing you could keep up with me

i'm in love with you but i don't know why it gets so complicated
though you have not left you have said goodbye
and i'm wishing that we could have made it

what i wouldn't do to be friends with you
what i wouldn't do what i wouldn't do
what i wouldn't do to be friends with you
what i wouldn't do what i wouldn't do

you're tearing it up on a thunderstorm on a long red stretch of highway
and i'm wondering if i would be home
if it was anybody else's birthday

i'm in love with you but i kill myself trying to figure out how to do it
you're on a pedestal i'm on the edge of a shelf
you know i'm moving ever closer to it to you.

Words and music by jon langford
Well i worked hard and i got lots of money
Well i tried hard but i don't wanna stay
Yeah i've seen too much trouble, i felt too much pressure bubble
I knew there had to be a better way

I wouldn't hide if you thought i was worth it
You'd smack me down when i misbehave
But everybody knows that i've got flunkies here in tow
To clean up all the messes that i've made

Chorus:
I'm going over the cliff
I'm going over the cliff
And it's hard to tell if life is a burden or a gift
Yeah i'm going over the cliff

Forgive me or forget me everybody
Well i guess i always had this honest streak
Yeah i'm sick of all the yawning, the bitching, and the bawling
I'm sick of feeling powerless and weak

Please don't call me cool just call me "asshole"
'cause i will be a beggar not a king
And the devil don't care if you're a fish or your're a stick (chip)
Yeah i'm going over the cliff

Chorus

Well in new york and l.a. they're sending faxes
So the company can wash its hands of this
Yeah there was no one there to look after me or care
Well i'm going over the cliff

I'm going over the cliff
I'm going over the cliff
Yeah success on someone else's terms don't mean a fucking thing
I'm going over the cliff

That's right, success on someone else's terms don't mean a fucking thing
I'm going over the cliff
I'm going over the cliff
I'm going over the cliff

weightless


I reckon heaven is a place
Where time is nonexistent, yeah
And the things that are important, yeah
Don't take any time at all

An awful lot like like outer space
Where everything is weightless, yeah
Even heavy things are weightless, yeah
Don't take up any space at all

Chorus
Right on, right on
Oh yeah it's so clear
All the bad things are gone
All the good things are here

Right on, right on
Oh yeah it's so clear
All the bad things are gone
All the good things are here

Almost exactly like this place
Where you and i are fighting, yeah
I'm so sick and tired of fighting, yeah
Up there we'll never fight at all

Repeat chorus

I reckon heaven is a place
Where everything is weightless, yeah
Even heavy things are weightless, yeah
Up there we'll never fight at all.

Hands off.
I had a dream they took my hands off.
Although you probably think that i'm soft boiled,
I'm still in love with you.

Girlfriend, don't sit 'round waiting for the world to end.
I'll keep my distance but i won't pretend
I'm not in love with you.

(chorus)
And it's all your fault. you spiked my malt.
You slipped a mickey in my heart.
And i can't shake free, although i'm shaking like a tree.
I should've never let it, i should've never let it start.

Deep end. i guess i'm going off the deep end.
It's only 'cause you've got a hand to lend
I'm still in love with you.

Crap shoot. you've got the snake eyes and lizard boots.
I like you better in your birthday suit, yeah
I'm in love with you.

2 x chorus

Hands off. i shot another leaded star

Why aren't you here? it's almost 4 am.
I finished up all of your beer, now i'm startin' on your gin.
I went through your diary, flipped through your phone book -called all your friends.
I just wanna know where you been, i just wanna know where you been.

I pulled back your sheets, now i'm crawlin' in your bed.
Every drink's one more defeat, and every footstep hurts my head.
I don't want excuses. i don't wanna hear that you were out with your friends.
I just wanna know where you been, i just wanna know where you been.

Chorus
I hope you crash your momma's car.
I hope you pass out in some bar.
I hope you catch some kinda flu.
Let's say i wish the worst for you.

I hope you're happy with yourself.
I hope you found somebody else, cause i ain't askin' you again.
I just wanna know where you been, i just wanna know where you been.

Why am i here? i've got better things to do.
I could hang out on the pier, down by the hudson, sniffin' glue.
I guess i'm a loser, but i like being miserable, swimming in sin.
I just wanna know where you been, i just wanna know where you been.

Chorus

Just like california was not even there
Since it's gone i'm so withdrawn
I ain't got no one nowhere

Right beside the ocean my darlin' clementine
Well the water got high and she never got dry and
She was a water sign

Chorus:
Time is on my bad side
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So i'm goin' all the way tonight
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So i'm goin' all the way tonight

Just like california to make a fool of me
Steal the sideshow, burn the disco
Slide into the sea

I'm a thinking person, and i think that it's wrong
To keep on saying true love's waiting
When true love is long gone

(repeat chorus)

In the front row at the melt show
I fell in love with you and that was three weeks ago.
We fooled around, you let me have it for free.

Yeah it worked out real nice
I showed you how to and you showed me paradise.
Now you're killing time, and it's killing me.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me?

There's a schoolyard out the back door.
I used to love it but i don't believe in school no more.
You don't learn anything, you're just waitin' around.

With your big brains and your know-how,
If there's a reason you'd have figured it out by now.
A little gettin' some's good, while you're waitin' around.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me?

Now my bad dream is my best friend,
You were here last night but now you're gone again.
I'm getting tired of you getting tired of me.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me down?

Will you sober up and let me?

Alternate chording
Last night i dreamt of you, abbie hoffman peddling your books,
I gave five bucks to you, the other kids just gave you dirty looks.
I said "i'm sorry it didn't work out quite the way you planned."
You said, "that's silly boy, the revolution is at hand."

And if you got a ten spot brother, i got a dime,
These are desperate, desperate times.

Last night i dreamt of you, pepe lopez strung out on a stage,
It don't even look like you, smiling like sawed-off twenty gauge.
I still remember the telecaster down around your knees,
It's late november and i think i smell tequila on the breeze.

And if you got the cuervo honey, i got the lime,
These are desperate, desperate times.
And if you got the shotgun honey, i got the crime,
These are desperate, desperate times.

It was a lonely holiday
I was alone -- you were away
In fayetteville or in another state
There's so many towns i hate

When you leave me, it breaks me like a bone
But it's never as bad as when you come home
Thought so much about suicide
Parts of me have already died

Chorus:
Lonely -- baby i'm not lonely
Baby i'm not -- i've got my imaginary friends
Happy -- baby i'm so happy
Baby i'm so -- i've got my imaginary friends
And if you don't love me, would you please pretend?

It was a lonely holiday
I was alone -- i was afraid
The bedroom walls were closing in
It must be closing time again

When you leave me, it breaks me like the note
That you said got stuck in your throat
Thought so much about suicide
Parts of me have already died

Chorus

there was a fine rain
There was a red wine
There was a long whistle
And it was a good sign

There was a band playin'
Somewhere off-screen
There was a girl sayin'
"come clean."

Chorus
In a dream
On a busted afternoon
In a haze
On a busted afternoon
In a bad way
On a busted afternoon

There was a sad truth
There was a punchline
And there was a long whistle
And it was a good sign

And there was a long goodbye
There was a long goodbye

(repeat chorus)

Well the roadmaps of west texas never gave me good advice.
The trains all roll where the roads don't go, now i lay awake at night,
Just wondering where the rest is so i hit that iron gate,
And i yelled good-bye to that wife of mine, i may be running late.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

Though i felt a lonesome feeling in dulce new mexico,
I was happier than i'd ever been in my el paso home.
But i thought about the woman whom i left to roam the land,
And i cried so much it dug a rut they call the rio grande.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

And my destination is written upon my feet,
And the stars above are about the only company i keep.
I raise my pass and take my seat.
I'm rolling fast with a teardrop on my cheek.

So i guess there'll be no family, so i guess there'll be no wife.
Gonna roll away on an old steel dray, it's gonna be my life.
And the roadmaps i been reading, i never came to figure out.
All i know is i'd explode by any other route.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

I've got my wife, the other women, and the whiskey killing me.
The first two make it so that i see red. the third one makes it so that i can't see.
If i had half a brain left after my debauchery,
I'd give up the other women, and the w-i-f-e.

Wedding vows weren't made to be broken.
These here lips weren't made to tell no lies.
Somewhere along the way, i guess i must have gone astray,
'cause i'm drinking here, and wishing for to die.

I've got my wife, the other women, and the whiskey killing me.
The first two make it so that i see red. the third one makes it so that i can't see.
If i had half a brain left after my debauchery,
I'd give up the other women, and the w-i-f-e.

It's just like my lttle sister (dear old momma) told me,
In the end, you reap what you sow.
I've been sowing seeds from mexico to tennessee,
And i'm reaping now an awful lot of woe.

I've got my wife, the other women, and the whiskey killing me.
The first two make it so that i see red. the third one makes it so that i can't see.
If i had half a brain left after my debauchery,
I'd give up the other women, and the w-i-f-e.

I'd give up the other women, and the w-i-f-e.

This is the story of victoria lee,
She started off on percodan and ended up with me.
She lived in berkeley 'til the earthquake shook her loose.
She lives in texas now where nothin' ever moves.

Victoria you talk so low that no one else can hear,
Unless you point your megaphone directly at their ear.
This is the story of victoria lee,
She started on rohypinol and ended up with me.

You'd like to think they're your friends, but they're not your friends,
And in the end a friend's the one you'll never know, oh don't you know?
You'd like to think you're groovy, it's your movie, you see through me, but it's true,
And in the end you'll know, victoria don't go. victoria, victoria don't go.

This is the story of victoria's heart,
You might think it's stupid, but i still think it's art.
She lost her lover to an accident at sea.
She pushed him overboard and ended up with me.

Victoria, you dance so fast that no one else can see.
Victoria i hope you use just one more dance for me.
This is the story of victoria's heart.
It's a really big one, and i don't know where to start.
(occasionally used on early versions of "victoria lee")

You'd like to think they're your friends, but they're not your friends,
And in the end a friend's the one you'll never know, oh don't you know?
You'd like to think you're groovy, it's your movie, you see through me, but it's true,
And in the end you'll know, victoria don't go. victoria, victoria don't go.

Outside st. ignatius, outside of the law,
You walk by so gracefully, i just stand in awe.
You're a goddess. you're the hottest oddity i've found.
We can go swimmin' in our skin and hope that we don't drown.

I could save the water just by drinking it tonight. i
Can't find the words to make it right, to make it right.

Tanked up out on elm street, looking for a ride.
Stretched out on concrete, running out of pride.
You need help dear, and i'm sincere. let me be the one.
I'm not a big star, but i've got a big car. you're too weak to run.

You could save the highway if you'd crash with me tonight.
I can't find the words to make it right, to make it right.
I could save the water just by drinking it tonight.
I can't find the words to make it right, to make it right.

Someday when we're older, deep in loneliness,
Things we said today won't matter, no one could care less.
We're just shadows, just ask plato. it was all a dream.
I've had it with dallas, let's burn down the palace. i'll bring the kerosene.

I could save this song if i'd just sing real loud tonight.
I can't find the words to make it right, to make it right.

By the time you leave
I'll be saving all my green
For a homebound train to carry me
On old familiar steam.

I wish you'd hurry up,
And leave or come around.
Well the moon is waning hard tonight.
I 'm leaving my home town.

And the train rolls on with no pilot.
And the station's left me i know.
But if you should happen to find it,
Please bring it home, bring it home.

I traded all my stops
For a pillow made of rails.
In an empty room i listen to
The lonely whistle wails.

I woke up to feet,
That i took to be your shoes,
And the train lay tracks that deafened me,
Shook my insides loose.

And the train rolls on with no pilot,
And the station's left me i know.
But if you should happen to find it,
Please bring it home, bring it home.

And the point of all this living,
Is the dying still to come.
And i could be forgiven,
But i just won't, i just won't.
(cool don walser yodel & fade out)

There was a half a harvest moon up on the hillside
Our love is made almost entirely of downside
Who would have thought it could feel so much better then?
Now there's a half a million things I wanna tell you
They tap the phone line and the speaker at the drive thru
Who would have thought it could feel so much different then?
Downtown, so weak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Now there's strange way and awkward feelings
I'm bouncing off the wall, I'm talking to the ceilings
Who would have thought it could feel so bad sometimes?
Now there's a half a million reasons we can argue
You're right in front of me now and there's no one to talk to
Who would have thought it could feel so bad sometimes?
Downtown, so weak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak
(Solo)
Downtown, so weak
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot speak
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot speak (Let the idiot speak)
Let the idiot

I might have wound up in l.a. panning for gold
Found me a woman to warm up with when the water got cold
But i heard that there ain't no gold there
There's just line upon line of cocaine
I've been there once and i ain't gonna go there again

I stopped believing in true love when reagan was king
The years have gone by now and the years haven't changed anything
Trying like hell to get better
But i'm gearing myself for the worst
The punk rock will get you if the government don't get you first

I'm gonna write down my name in the lady's room stall
Find me a pay phone and place a few calls
I'm gonna try not to fall down when i'm singing for y'all
I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls
I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls

My advice is to not let us boys in
For we chose misery as our rock
Misery must love all the new friends that she's got

I'm gonna write down my name in the lady's room stall
Find me a pay phone and pay for it all
I'm gonna try not to fall down when i'm singing for y'all
I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls
I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls

I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls
I'm gonna die someday staring at the dressing room walls

In the court of our friends' opinion
In the righteous? eyes of all our friends
In the way the phone goes dead
In the way you use your head
I can see how this thing is gonna end

In the darkest hours of my depression
In the rocks it takes to end
In the way you cross you legs
In the way my right hand shakes
I can see how this thing is gonna end

Goodbye, goodbye from a nervous guy
Goodbye, goodbye from a nervous guy

When the smoke pours into the bedroom
When the man comes 'round collecting all our friends
When the loved one finally learns
That the fire no longer burns
I can see how this thing is gonna end

Goodbye, goodbye from a nervous guy
Goodbye, goodbye from a nervous guy
From a nervous guy

Nineteen
Is not the age of reason.
I didn't have a reason
For setting you free.

I've seen
A lot of love go sour.
But that's not our love.
You see the problem was

I was only nineteen.

Yeah, i was only nineteen.
Finished up with high school.
Headed for a state school.
Wandered into you.

Big screen
Kissing in a movie.
God, you moved me around.
We got seriously down.

But i was only nineteen.

Chorus:
All i ever wanted to do
Was lie around in bed with you.
I was only nineteen. i was only nineteen.
I was only nineteen. i was only nineteen.

I've seen
A lot of love go bad now.
That's not how our affair
Would've wound up i swear.

But i was only nineteen.

Chorus

I was only nineteen.

i was in a real bad way
When you turned the power on
And you made me feel for all the world
Like i was the king of all the world

I was on a window ledge
When you came upon me there
Everything was upside for the moment
Right around the time i had to get going

Can't count me out
Cause i've got your number
You make me feel like i'm
The king of all of the world
King of all of the world
The king of all of the world

Now i'm on my way up north
All its gonna do is rain
And i'm gonna want to go back to the world
Where i was the king of all of the world

Can't count me out
Cause i've got your number
You make me feel like i'm
The king of all of the world
King of all of the world
The king of all of the world

I was in a real bad way
When you turned the power on
And you made me feel so right at home
I wonder if i'm ever gonna get back home

Can't count me out
Cause i've got your number
You make me feel like i'm
The king of all of the world
King of all of the world
The king of all of the world

If i wander out
Of a picture window

You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son
You'll regret the things that you done
One of these days you're gonna rue
All the messed up things you do

You're gonna die the way you live
And the way you drink you're like a ri-
Ver bound for falls and not much fun
You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son

Chorus:
You're gonna wake up in your shoes
No one you love a'watching you
You'll hate you're face when the morning shines
On the mirror frame and you're guilty mind.

You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son
And do the walls know what you done?
And do they listen in on you?
Do the walls know what you do?

Chorus

The empty bottle was half empty, tide was low, and i was thirsty.
Saw her sitting at the bar, you know how some girls are,
Always making eyes, well she wasn't making eyes.

So i sidled up beside her, settled down and shouted, "hi there."
"my name's stewart ransom miller, i'm a serial lady-killer."
She said, "i'm already dead," that's exactly what she said.

So we tripped the lights fantastic, we was both made of elastic.
Midnight came and midnight went, and i though i was the president.
She said, "do you have a car," and i said, "do i have a car?"

What's so great about the barrier reef?
What's so fine about art?
What's so good about a good times van,
When you're working on a broken,
Working on a broken,
Working on a broken man?

My heart wasn't in it, not for one single minute.
I went through the motions with her. her on top, and me on liquor.
Didn't do no good, well i didn't think it would.

What's so great about the barrier reef?
What's so fine about art?
What's so good about a good times van,
When you're working on a broken,
Working on a broken,
Working on a broken man?

When you're working on a broken,
Working on a broken,
Working on a broken man.

When you're working on a broken,
Working on a broken,
Working on a broken man.

can't get a line to telephone you
why you holing your company?
I been moaning Oh! Lonesome Me
you made a pigeon of my heart
and I'd go anywhere to know you
take a long way coming back
be your yellow bedroom cab
making bread in your heaven
and you're the reason im losing all my sleep
'cause I just can't get what I want
I'm spinning out I'm pocket sized
I'm gonna catch that flyer
I'm gonna see it shine
yeah you're waking up my one desire
but I cant get a line
can't get a to telephone you
and I ponder your hold on me
I been moaning Oh! lonesome Me
you made a pigeon of my heart
and I'd go anywhere to know you
take the long way comming back
be your yellow bedroom cab
making bread in your heaven

I watch, as it stops for a girl,
A moment, elaborate and weak.
I am easy in her midst,
Why elaborate, when there's no need to?

But i do, all night,
My words ring like money off a bar.
But she's here, asleep now,
One can only go alone so far.

One can only go alone so far.

I dream of a deep dark grave,
Seven feet below saint augustine.
And she's so easy in her breathing,
Why fall in love, when there's no need to?

But we do all night,
Sleep like spoons, forget whom we are.
But she's here, and she's wound down now.
One can only go alone so far.

One can only go alone so far.

Eighteen-hundred miles from this old nightclub
A girl is turning 22 today.
How am i supposed to entertain you?
My fingertips are useless when my mind's so far away.

Eighteen-hundred miles from manhattan
The nightclub yawns and opens up it's doors.
Thank god that i don't have to pay the cover,
'cause every night i'm broker than i was the night before

Yeah this old nightclub stole my youth,
This old nightclub stole my true love,
It follows me around from town to town.
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down,
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down.

Telephones make strangers out of lovers,
Whiskey makes the strangers all look good.
Well my angel of the morning is in mourning.
My life was misspent, don't let me be misunderstood.

And this old nightclub stole my youth,
This old nightclub stole my true love,
It follows me around from town to town.
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down,
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down.

She woke from a dream
Her head was on fire
Why was he so nervous?

He took her to the park
She crossed her arms
And lowered her honor

Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight i've got a question for you

She'd had no idea
She started to cry
She said "in a good way"

He took her by the hand
Walked her back home
They took the long way

Some day somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Baby tonight i've got a question for you

Augustin lara, english lyrics by ray gilbert (aprs, bmi)
You belong to my heart
Now and forever
Though our love had it's start
Not long ago

Well we were gathering stars
And a million guitars
Played our love song

When i said i love you
Every beat of my heart
Said it too

Was a moment like this
When i first found you
And your eyes threw a kiss
When they met mine

Now we own all the stars
And a million guitars
Are still playing

Now you are a song
And you'll always belong
To my heart

Now you are a song
And you'll always belong
To my heart

Heartbreak, old friend, goodbye it's me again.
Of late, i've had some thought of movin' in.
Of all the many ways a man will lose his home,
Well, there ain't none better than the girl who's movin' on.

True love, i knew some thought of, some thought of leavin' you.
Bad thoughts i had, when valentines were due.
Of all the many ways a man will break his heart,
Well there ain't none meaner than he pulls his own apart

Chorus:
Valentine, the destroyer, valentine, you belong
In the stars, where you are, always rollin' on.
Cried, i've cried till i couldn't carry on.
It's a lonely, lonely feelin' when your valentine is wrong.
It's a lonely, lonely feelin' when your valentine is wrong.

Of all the many things that you were countin' on,
Well, there ain't none better than the girl who's movin' on.
No, there ain't none better than the girl who's movin' on.

(repeat).

Me and this girl we've been falling in love
Beneath a quarter moon beneath a quarter moon
Me and this girl i've been living above
On a road called oppenheimer

Tar on the roof there were stars in her hair
Beneath a quarter moon beneath a quarter moon
Me and this girl we were going somewhere
On a road called oppenheimer

Me and this girl we've been working it out
We've got a long way to go we've got a long way to go
Me and this girl we've been having it out
On a road called oppenheimer

Me and this girl we've been getting it on
Beneath a quarter moon beneath a quarter moon
Watching it go until its all the way gone
On a road called oppenheimer

And the days gonna be today
And the time is gonna be right now
No i'm never gone fall for anyone else but her
And the place is gonna be right here
On a road called oppenheimer oppenheimer

Me and this girl we been falling in love
Beneath a quarter moon beneath a quarter moon
Me and this girl i've been dreaming above
On a road called oppenheimer

Tar on the roof there were stars in her hair
Watching it go until its going somewhere
On a road called oppenheimer

And the days gonna be today
And the time is gonna be right now
No i'm never gone fall for anyone else but her
And the place is gonna be right here
On a road called oppenheimer oppenheimer

Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer

Me and this girl we've been working it out
We've got a long way to go we've got a long way to go

Do you wanna mess around?
Do you wanna spend the night?
I've known both kinds of love
But i want to get it right this time

I don't wanna settle down
I don't want to make no plans
Exept for what i'm gonna do
With a pair of idle hands

Chorus:
They're tearing the buick city complex down
I think we're the only people left in town
Where are you gonna move, where are you gonna move?
Do you wanna mess around?

Do you wanna be my girl
Do you wanna be my friend
Do you wanna start it off
Just to see how it will end

Do you wanna mess around?
I mean deep down in your bones
In hotel swimming pools
On public telephones

They're tearing the buick city complex down
I think we're the only people left in town
Where are you gonna move, where are you gonna move?
Do you wanna mess around?

Repeat chorus