Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't put my picture in there with them Don't make us some little girl's dream that can't ever come true That only serves to hurt and make you cry like you do Well baby don't do it to me and I won't do it to you
You see all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home But when the action fades you're left all alone You deserve better than this, little girl, can't you see that you do Do you need somebody to prove it to you? Well you prove it to me and I'll prove it to you
Now every night you go out looking for true love's satisfaction But in the morning you end up settling for just lights, camera, action
And another cameo role with some bit player you're befriending You're gonna go broken-hearted looking for that happy ending Well girl you're gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold Cryin' alone in the theater as the credits roll You say I'll be like those other guys Who filled your head with pretty lies And dreams that can never come true Well baby you be true to me And I'll be true to you
Well far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway thunder crashin' As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun Sayin' it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'
Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight And for each and every underdog soldier in the night We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'
Well in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin' As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'
Yeah tollin' for the rebel yeah tollin' for the raked Tollin' for the luckless the abandoned and forsaked Yeah tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly at stakes And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'
And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed There's a hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftin' Well electric light still struck like arrows Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin'
Well tollin' for the searching ones on this speechless secret trail For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail Yeah we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'
Well starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we were caught Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look Spellbound and swallowed "Has the tollin' ended?"
Yeah tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused accused misused strung out ones at worst And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims and strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild girl I want to know if love is real
Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness I'll love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run