Holly Palmer

In the eyes of the beholder
There's beauty in everything
It all depends on just how hard you?re looking
That gets you what life brings

So I really don't mind waiting
Though you?re half a world away
It's remembering your silly smile
That gets me through the day

I read fifteen chapters of a
Real slow book today
And I noticed for a short time
That I forgot you'd gone away

Through two hole pots of coffee
I washed the dishes and I cleaned the shelves
Then I thought I heard you tell me
To stop feeling sorry for myself

So some, they, they talk of cease fire
Or heading for higher ground
Like a frog that jumps to water lilies
You?re the safest thing I've found

And if you weren't so beautiful
I would love you just the same
You'd be a rose by any other name

I know I could have had a life of sandy beaches
Champagne and top shelf wine
But 'cos life doesn't last forever
I chose you and got it right the first time

We'll make hay while the sun shines
And love 'til the evening fades
And that beats riches
It's a better life we've made, so while

So some, they, they talk of cease fire
Or heading for higher ground
Like a frog that jumps to water lilies
You?re the safest thing I've found

And if you weren't so beautiful
I'd love you just the same
You'd be a rose by any other name

So when you get home, boy, look out
I'll show you just what loves all about
There'll be candles and wine
I'll pull down the blind and I'll tell
All our friends that we're out

So some, they, they talk of cease fire
Or heading for higher ground
Like a frog that jumps to water lilies
You?re the safest thing I've found

And if you weren't so beautiful
I'd love you just the same
You'd be a rose by any other name

I've been looking for someone to thank for sending down this rain
(And I've been wondering who do I thank
For sending you back again)
'Cause it makes my nibbled lip
And my, from nowhere tears
Feel at home

Come lie with me and be my love
Lie down with me
Under the cypress tree
In the sweet grasses
As night passes

My face is neatly decorated with my yellow hair
Striped up by the fat drops fallen there
I squeeze it all out of my corduroy
Like the day you found me
The man who drives this bus
Raised me up a half assed smile in the mirror
But never mind
I'm gonna fold it up
Press it flat
Stick it in my pocket
Make it last all night

Come lie with me and be my love
Lie down with me
Under the cypress tree
In the sweet grasses
As night passes

So I'm trying to learn Italian and you're lying next to me
The neighbor dog is howling
It was really satisfying
Not to see you last night
You had all sixteen excuses lined up in a row
Like blanks on the belt of a GI Joe
It's really mystifying all this trying and trying

And then you asked if I was coming out
And I said no and you said that's okay
I just wanted to know, then you said
I guess I'll see you later on
On the edge of the bed

And I say rock-a-bye my sweet upon your broken bow
It's alright, we're speaking different languages now

Now the mockingbirds are singing
They're bringing up the sun and I'm thinking
Maybe that's what's cool about it
We've been trying to hold each other like a conversation

You said that maybe I wasn't looking
But I recognize the sounds just like you
But I can't form the words or they're too hard to spell
And your head is buried in the dictionary

And I say rock-a-bye my sweet upon your broken bow
It's alright, we're speaking different languages now
Smoothing your hair from your drunken brow
It's alright, we're speaking different languages now

All I know is, a couple of days go by and I can't even read your lips

Things were fine the other day
And I said, well baby if you knew why
I bet you wouldn't feel this way
And you said, one hand on your heart, one hand on my head
Don't fall off the edge of the bed
And we just laughed

And I say rock-a-bye my sweet upon your broken bow
It's alright, we're speaking different languages now
Smoothing your hair from your drunken brow
It's alright, we're speaking different languages now

When you went away I cried for so long
I wanted you to stay but that was all wrong
The pain you left behind has become a part of me
And it's burnin' out a hole where my love used to be

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

Now you know I love you but that wasn't enough
We both fell apart when things got too rough
I've learned how to give now, but what good does it do?
When no one can touch me the way you used to do

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

Now I know that your opinion of me isn't too good
But please try to understand I would change if I could
And now this coldness inside is starting to build
A woman can't be a woman unless she's fulfilled

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

'Cause no one can...

When you went away I cried for so long
I wanted you to stay but that was all wrong
The pain you left behind has become a part of me
And it's burnin' out a hole where my love used to be

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

Now you know I love you but that wasn't enough
We both fell apart when things got too rough
I've learned how to give now, but what good does it do?
When no one can touch me the way you used to do

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

Now I know that your opinion of me isn't too good
But please try to understand I would change if I could
And now this coldness inside is starting to build
A woman can't be a woman unless she's fulfilled

But it's not losin' you
That's got me down so low
I just can't find another man
To take your place

'Cause no one can...

"...to the west side
they still believe in things"*

I reached between my legs
And found a silver screw
I held it up and straight out to you
I wish that you would take it
My house got split in half again
That leaves four lorn shares
Even if everyone wanted some
There wouldn't be enough to go around
We got our own now

Everybody gonna be alright

So there's five little birds right now
And they're flying manic around right now
Six if you're counting the Eskimo
But he never got used to the weather
So he was more than happy to go

Everybody gonna be alright

Monkey mouth and a stethoscope
She says honey, we don't want no kids
There's not enough hope
Chocolate Dog tells me better jokes
And he keeps his own room clean
And Hummingbird is on fire
But at least that girl don't smoke

Everybody gonna be alright

Get together
Get married
Have a party
Have a baby
Isn't it wonderful?
Won't it just be wonderful?

Then get a better job
Get some money
Get a brand new car
Get somewhere sunny

A fourteen year old moment
Is fourteen hundred miles away
A fourteen year old moment
Ain't got nothing on today

Got bored
Got lazy
Got horny
Things got too crazy
But you were so good
So good

A fourteen year old moment
Is fourteen hundred miles away
A fourteen year old moment
Ain't got nothing on today
A fourteen year old moment
Is fourteen hundred miles away
Those fifty golden candles ain't got more than a flame
No more than your name

So get out, get over it, get under, get by, get somebody else

Get a friend
Get a neighbor
Get a dog
Get yourself a savior
Pick yourself up
Knock yourself out

A fourteen year old moment
Is fourteen hundred miles away
A fourteen year old moment
Ain't got nothing on today
A fourteen year old moment
Is fourteen hundred miles away
A fourteen year old moment
Ain't got nothing on today

I've been really really bad
I said mean things just to get you mad
I've been really really glad
To see you fight for me
I've been carrying around
An awful lot of weight that holds me down
I've got a heavy, heavy heart
That's making me too crazy

I might explode or melt down from distress
I'll never know 'til it gets off my chest

I confess to loving you too much
Dying for your touch
That never is enough to hold me
Driving way too fast
Living in the past
And never knowing that I'm happy

I've been really, really bad
I keep shutting down when you get sad
I don't really understand how to give to you
I've been known to jump the gun
I'm the first to leave if it's not fun
My heart is always on the run
As soon as I'm confused

It can't be good to make life the enemy
If I could I'd tame what's inside me

I confess I give you little tests
I do not do my best
Forgetting that I'm blessed and lucky
Wasting too much time
Pouring too much wine
And tuning out sometimes when you fuck me
Being self obsessed
Take too long getting dressed
Take your tenderness for granted
Getting negative
I'm hyper-sensitive
I come down on you heavy handed

They say that all things heal faster with the truth
And confession is the way a soul finds its groove

Oh I know I gotta confess to
Loving you too much
and dying for your touch
That never is enough to hold me
Driving way too fast
Living in the past
And never knowing that I'm happy
I give you little tests
I do not do my best
Forgetting that I'm blessed and lucky
Wasting too much time
Pouring too much wine
And tuning out sometimes when you fuck me

I get down on my knees
And crawl inside and spin around
And look for you
Dive into the pillows
I get down on my knees

You're gone and I'm not that sad without you
I'm not that mad without you
But I do still think about you

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

The pinholes at the back of my mind
Let just enough light in to see the fake newsprint
And just be able to make out the words
That I wish that they'd said
I wish you'd said yes to me

You're gone and I'm not that sad without you
I'm not that mad without you
But I do still think about you

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

And maybe I'll make you change your mind
And maybe we'll make it right this time
And slide into our love story

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

I get down on my knees
And crawl inside and spin around
And look for you
Dive into the pillows
I get down on my knees

You're gone and I'm not that sad without you
I'm not that mad without you
But I do still think about you

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

The pinholes at the back of my mind
Let just enough light in to see the fake newsprint
And just be able to make out the words
That I wish that they'd said
I wish you'd said yes to me

You're gone and I'm not that sad without you
I'm not that mad without you
But I do still think about you

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

And maybe I'll make you change your mind
And maybe we'll make it right this time
And slide into our love story

If you believe then come over
And tell me you're okay
If you believe that it's over
I'll walk away, I'll walk away

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Tell me baby
If maybe we could put the top down
The sun is flying so high today
And the shine off your cherry fenders
Would be too much but not too much
With your hand reach out
With your mouth shape the phrase
And say

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

With your eyes look over
With your car pull over
That's all it's gonna take
'Cause I have been paying very close attention to your habits
Somebody over there at the counter
In the diner on the corner in the corner of my mind
Wears your face
On a different day I am someone else too
And we disappear together
We fold up and fly away like paper airplanes
We rub each other's creases and line up each other's angles
And we choose the brightest papers and we fly

Just so you know
Just so I know
Just so we know
We're together
If I can look in your eyes
And see what I feel then it's real
And I know
We're together

'Cause we could really take our time
We could really get our shapes just right
And fly off each other into the night
And where we land is out of our hands
And so in this way we don't stop
We never stop
We don't stop
We won't stop baby

Chorus

Raining
It's pouring
The old man is scoring
It's morning
He says every nerve in his body is alive
When he's with me
He says he loves me
He says everything is separate
He says I'm beautiful
And I say, "Who, me?"
He says he loves me
He says he's happy

I feel like a dirty old man
Like a lecher
Like a polyester uncle's friend who's trying to catch a glimpse
Periwinkle polyester
Lickerish man
You make me feel like a dirty old man

Morning
Oh, he says when he looks down
And he sees and I'm shiny shining
Glistening like the dew on the leaf of a pretty, pretty flower
That someone ain't stepped on yet
My baby says that he's happy
He says everything is separate
He says he loves me
And every nerve is alive

But I feel like a dirty old man
Like a lecher
Like a polyester uncle's friend who's trying to catch a glimpse
Periwinkle polyester
Lickerish man
You make me feel like . . .
Like a dirty old man
Like a lecher
Like a polyester uncle's friend with horn rims
Polyester periwinkle
Lickerish man
You make me feel like a dirty old man
Scoring

When Elvis Presley died we were curious
We all knew he was something
If a bit mysterious

And your mom watched over you sleeping
Down from the pages of a girlie magazine

I dragged my paisley suitcase
Up all those hundred stairs
She said my Hollyberry's always welcome here

And your daddy smashed up the Porsche
And painted the alley with broken oxblood 2x4s for no reason

She used to date the king
They probably did it and everything
She doesn't walk too well since the stroke
But she can sure tell a dirty joke

And your mom watched over you sleeping
Down from the pages of a girlie magazine
And your daddy smashed up the Porsche
And painted the alley

The swollen cotton cups
Are almost overflown
An eye up to the keyhole
A model town below is sleeping quietly

And when the man turns on
I tighten up my belt
The quivering is delicious
Imagining the time it takes to fall back down

Someday soon we'll be together

And someone spilled my gin v But the movie's on
Fixing on the picture
I watch the words and wipe my eyes carefully

Someday soon we'll be together

And it would be so easy to never ever stop
And only hope to pass out
Long before I reach the ground

Someday soon we'll be together

Singing songs Sinatra sang
Sal the gardener is drunk again
She is gone but he remembers
Polka dots and breathing hard
He dances with an angel in the yard

Shapes his cracking lips around her favorite parts and dips her down
And you can hear him singing songs Sinatra sang into her ear

Stepping left and turning right
Their fingers laced together well
And he can smell her sweetness if he's still

Sunflower wallflower wait in vain, he tips his cap and starts again
And you can hear him singing songs Sinatra never sang so dear

Car horn blow from time to time
Barking dog or a lazy chime
Any Friday's band will do just fine

I used to see these Scandinavian looking ladies
All the way down half a crowded block
And I used to chase those yellow headed ladies
But it was never you on my block

I used to press my nose against the stone cold glass
At Fireside's liquor store
At the coin-op laundromat, on 15th and Montana
At sweet Suzy Q's up around the corner

The way you call to the woods
Is how the woods call back to you

I used to hear the front door slam
I'd run right out into the street
Doing that crazy dance
Spinning left to right
My head in my hands
My momma left me alone tonight
And she always said
The way you call to the woods
Is how the woods call back to you

How am I gonna get my work done
With you looking at me?
I bring home the bacon
Fry it up in a pan
I wear that sweet perfume
To find myself a better man

The way you call to the woods
Is how the woods call back to you

The details of distance
And phone bills and kisses on other girls lipses
Don't scare me
I don't care
Listen I glisten I glow when you call
I'm not small when you call
Without you baby
I am no one at all

Second chances are what this romance is
You can't turn me down 'cause

Everybody's got a superjones
Everybody's looking for something
A super high super sly super zone
You can turn me down
But I'll keep trying

And these other hours of quiet and empty
Before love is ours
Are wild and wide
And turned on their side
Shadows and voices
And too many choices
They fill me and kill me most every night
Come on home baby
I've learned my lesson right

I don't know where you think you're going
You can't turn me down 'cause

Everybody's got a superjones
Everybody's looking for something
A super high super sly super zone
You can turn me down
But I'll keep trying

Superjones superjones...

Now maybe you think I'll change my mind
Maybe you think I'll not have so much time on my hands
But it's you on my hands that I knew on my hands
That I'd find you again
Baby baby don't look so shocked
Now baby baby don't see the clock behind me
I'm not going nowhere
I'm not going nowhere
No, I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy and you baby you are

perfect

The details of distance
And phone bills and kisses on other girls lipses
Don't scare me
I don't care
Listen I glisten I glow when you call
I'm not small when you call
Without you baby
I am no one at all

Second chances are what this romance is
You can't turn me down 'cause

Everybody's got a superjones
Everybody's looking for something
A super high super sly super zone
You can turn me down
But I'll keep trying

And these other hours of quiet and empty
Before love is ours
Are wild and wide
And turned on their side
Shadows and voices
And too many choices
They fill me and kill me most every night
Come on home baby
I've learned my lesson right

I don't know where you think you're going
You can't turn me down 'cause

Everybody's got a superjones
Everybody's looking for something
A super high super sly super zone
You can turn me down
But I'll keep trying

Superjones superjones...

Now maybe you think I'll change my mind
Maybe you think I'll not have so much time on my hands
But it's you on my hands that I knew on my hands
That I'd find you again
Baby baby don't look so shocked
Now baby baby don't see the clock behind me
I'm not going nowhere
I'm not going nowhere
No, I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy I'm perfectly happy and you baby you are

perfect

I'm not joking baby
Here's a token
Catch a train
Go to someone else
You're mistaken
If you think I'm takin' you back
Like the fool I have been
You're insincere insensitive
You can't communicate
You don't let me talk
Everything is my fault
I can't sleep in your hard bed

We stop and we start and we crack apart

Time out baby
Now wait a minute
You're not sucking me back in it
One more touch and I'll crush
'Cause I know what'll happen
There I go for the hundredth time

I'm for real
Baby how I feel's
You don't hold appeal for me now
I'm not listening
I can see your lips moving
But you're not reaching me now
I've never been more serious
You can't change my mind
But why you so fine
While you're wasting my time?
Why you have to stand so close?

Not here not there no hands nowhere

Time out baby
Now wait a minute
You're not sucking me back in it
One more touch and I'll crush
Because I know what'll happen
There I go for the hundredth time

So much so wrong
Your kiss is so strong

Time out baby now
You're not sucking me back
One more touch and I'll crush
I know what'll happen
When you go for the hundredth time
Here I go
It'll happen
When I go for the hundredth time
...99 100 gotta stop and wonder
Get another lover baby

I'm not joking baby
Here's a token
Catch a train
Go to someone else
You're mistaken
If you think I'm takin' you back
Like the fool I have been
You're insincere insensitive
You can't communicate
You don't let me talk
Everything is my fault
I can't sleep in your hard bed

We stop and we start and we crack apart

Time out baby
Now wait a minute
You're not sucking me back in it
One more touch and I'll crush
'Cause I know what'll happen
There I go for the hundredth time

I'm for real
Baby how I feel's
You don't hold appeal for me now
I'm not listening
I can see your lips moving
But you're not reaching me now
I've never been more serious
You can't change my mind
But why you so fine
While you're wasting my time?
Why you have to stand so close?

Not here not there no hands nowhere

Time out baby
Now wait a minute
You're not sucking me back in it
One more touch and I'll crush
Because I know what'll happen
There I go for the hundredth time

So much so wrong
Your kiss is so strong

Time out baby now
You're not sucking me back
One more touch and I'll crush
I know what'll happen
When you go for the hundredth time
Here I go
It'll happen
When I go for the hundredth time
...99 100 gotta stop and wonder
Get another lover baby

"Put the girls up for adoption"
Remember what a mess you were?
Though he made mistakes
I think we came out alright
Tell me is Annaliisa coming?
Oh Mama I could cry
How the years flew by
And now they're out of time
She put a finger to her lips
A strong arm 'round my waist

She said, "Now lay your head here upon my shoulder
Let the rain come down
People only do just what they want to do
Honey, it's not up to you"

Ma, it's good to see you
I know that he'd be glad you came
Do you think they tried to get it right?
She grabbed me by my chin
Then looked straight into my face

She said, "Now lay your head right here on my shoulder
Let the rain come down
People only do just what they want to do
It's all that they can do

Now lay your head here upon my shoulder
Let the rain fall down
People only do what they do
It's not up to you

Someday baby girl we're gonna sit here all together
Just the three of us
Somewhere close your papa will be proud

Lay your head here on me
And let the rain come down
Darling, don't you see?
They only do what they do
Sugar, it's not up to you

Now rest your brow right here on my shoulder
Let those tears come down
'Cause people only do just what they want to do
Honey, it's not up to you
It's not up to you"

Wide open spaces, I'm falling
You think I'm crazy
I'm not
Voices speak loud in my head
Sometimes I can't even get them to stop

But I'd rather speak your name
Remember when you came
And how you took my breath away

So let me hear the echo of your footsteps
And let me feel your fingers through my hair
I'm trying hard to fill these open spaces
And end up counting hours you're not there

Lately I'm dreaming of water
Burning my feet in the sand
Sometimes this world is peculiar
It seems like you're always changing your plans

But I'd rather speak your name
Remember when you came
And how you took my breath away

So let me hear the echo of your footsteps
And let me feel your fingers through my hair
I'm trying hard to fill these open spaces
And end up counting hours you're not there

Lately I've been feeling so out of control Don't know who I am Swinging like a pendulum One day I'm high then I go so low I can't get out of my bed I'm all in my head

I'd point my finger at you
And say that you're to blame
But I know it's my sad game
I got these two sides fighting in me
Guess everybody has
One side is courage the other's mad
And when that one wins
And I'm not in my skin
You help me
Whoever I am
You help me

I wanna love like I've never loved before
Wanna see the world
I want the heart and the soul and all of the dreams
That I had as a little girl
Why's it so tough to wake myself up?

I'd point my finger at you
And say that you're to blame
But I know it's my sad game
I got these two sides fighting in me
Guess everybody has
One side is courage
The other's mad
And when that one wins
And I'm not in my skin
You help me
Whoever I am
You help me

Never never let me down
Never never fool around
No one's ever loved me like you do

Now tell me something would you baby?
How could you know what to do when you do what you do?
Always in the right way on the right day
When I look at you I know why I know what I know how I know where I know you from and I'm not going nowhere I'll be staying with you right here...

Lately I've been feeling so out of control Don't know who I am Swinging like a pendulum One day I'm high then I go so low I can't get out of my bed I'm all in my head

I'd point my finger at you
And say that you're to blame
But I know it's my sad game
I got these two sides fighting in me
Guess everybody has
One side is courage the other's mad
And when that one wins
And I'm not in my skin
You help me
Whoever I am
You help me

I wanna love like I've never loved before
Wanna see the world
I want the heart and the soul and all of the dreams
That I had as a little girl
Why's it so tough to wake myself up?

I'd point my finger at you
And say that you're to blame
But I know it's my sad game
I got these two sides fighting in me
Guess everybody has
One side is courage
The other's mad
And when that one wins
And I'm not in my skin
You help me
Whoever I am
You help me

Never never let me down
Never never fool around
No one's ever loved me like you do

Now tell me something would you baby?
How could you know what to do when you do what you do?
Always in the right way on the right day
When I look at you I know why I know what I know how I know where I know you from and I'm not going nowhere I'll be staying with you right here...