Shannon Mcnally

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Midweek morning time I wake up next to you
With your head on my pillow and your arms around me,
Oh baby it's so warm
And I've looked all around
Seeing nothin but big mouths with something to prove
Never come close to havin anything on your
No baby not even close
Still I lay here thinking about the way I thought it would be
But all my planning aside

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see, I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got, I know I had it all along

And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to
You follow me and I'll follow you
Yes I'll follow you
Still I lay here thinking 'bout the way I used to be
And man baby with you I've come a long way

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And it's all a trick till you figure it out
I couldn't hear myself thinking till I started to shout

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

I'd love to have you with me
Almost all the time
Life just isn't like that
At least not mine

There's no need for hello
There is little reason for goodbye
I never need to miss you 'cause you're
Always on my mind

No exchanging numbers
Or promises to write
I know I'll see you somewhere
Sometime

I'll always be around
When you're running down
You can call me out
It's better I'll always be around

It's too much like confession
To say your name out loud
So I guard our little mystery
By leaving things out

If you want me just whistle
Just put your lips together and blow
I know I'll see you somewhere
Where I don't know

I'll always be around
When you're running down
You can call me out
It's better I'll always be around

I think that we've got a bond
That's too good to be true

I'll always be around
When you're running down
You can call me out
It's better I'll always be around

I'll always be around, oh yeah
Oh yeah
I'll always be around
I'll always be around
Whenever you need me, whenever you need me
Just call me now baby

Yeah, I'll always be around
I'll always be around
Whenever you need me, whenever you need me

And I knew you'd come walking up the middle of the street
Like a ball of fire giving off heat
And I was standing there in my lace of flames
My fingers on fire embers all around
As the walls fell your hands found me in the fog
I heard people talking in that secret dialogue
More's going on than meets the eye
And I'm trying to decipher the lies

Bah bah da da da
Cause I was going under and you saved me
Now I owe it all to you
I was going under and you saved me
My bittersweet my bitter blue

And oh they do get mad baby don't they get angry
When you tell them that you just don't agree
They tell you that you're hard to please
That your na?ve and you're gonna be very very sorry
But I feel so sure and I feel so new
And then there you are in your jeans of blue
Making it all seem so easy
You make the gale winds nothing more than breezy

Bah bah da da da?
Cause I was going under and you saved me
Now I owe it all to you
I was going under and you saved me
My bittersweet my bitter blue
Whoa?. My bittersweet my bitter blue

Color's rising honey don't you realize don't you see
You're for me like Adam was for Eve
See me come laughing through the fields
See me come laughing through the waves
Baby I've been holding out for you ? yeah

See me come laughing through the fields
See me come through the waves
Here I come, here I come

Cause I was going under and you saved me
Now I owe it all to you
I was going under and you saved me
My bittersweet my bitter blue

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Midweek morning time I wake up next to you
With your head on my pillow and your arms around me,
Oh baby it's so warm
And I've looked all around
Seeing nothin but big mouths with something to prove
Never come close to havin anything on your
No baby not even close
Still I lay here thinking about the way I thought it would be
But all my planning aside

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see, I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got, I know I had it all along

And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to
You follow me and I'll follow you
Yes I'll follow you
Still I lay here thinking 'bout the way I used to be
And man baby with you I've come a long way

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And it's all a trick till you figure it out
I couldn't hear myself thinking till I started to shout

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away
He's a songwriter, he got something to say
He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out
This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout"

Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be
There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key
But I know the patron saint of desperate causes
Doesn't ring his fingers with diamonds and ruby roses

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion
What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care?

There's a lonely girl riding the bus in the middle of the night
She calls herself up to hear a friendly voice
And she says, "Hi, this is Casandra, leave your name and your number
And I'll call you back if I have the time or if I remember"

Patty cake, patty cake, barkeep man
Pour me a beer as fast as you can
What to do with all this sadness that I see
Lord knows it ain't easy being green

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion
What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care? Oh yeah

Oh some say, there's no solution to all this disillusion
What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care? Oh yeah

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion
What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care?
Who simply doesn't care, oh yeah, yeah

Hey Joe, have you seen my friend Flo
I was with her last night, I thought it was alright for her to go
Put her in the car, guess she didn't get very far
'Cause they found her shoes and her purse by the off ramp

Don't know why she stopped but I am sure she had a reason
Some creep took it as chick open season
It doesn't look good, no, it doesn't look good
I doubt she's gonna get up and walk out of those woods

But it could have been me, oh
And that strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees, alright

One night my car broke down on the turnpike
I was stuck in Northeast Pennsylvania
It was after midnight and it was gonna snow
I didn't have nowhere to go

I thought to call for help
But when the cars passed me by my cries fell silent
For how many times has the Devil walked among us
Wearing the face of the savior

So I headed out alone not sure whether to stay in the light
Where I could see or in the darkness where they can't see me

It could have been me, oh
Strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees
Oh, it could have been me, oh
Strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees
Oh, across my knees, oh, across my knees

Nobody move, nobody breathe
No one gets hurt but me
Put the goods in the bag, lay it down easy
Colorado

The horses want to run up Fifth Avenue, yeah
And I'd run too but I'm wearing these high heeled shoes
Someone trip the alarm, sirens come screaming
Colorado, Colorado

Everyone put their hands on their head
And their eyes on the ground
No matter what you hear
Don't turn around

Likely to get messy
And it's likely to get loud, to get loud, to get loud
And I'd prefer to spare everyone but me the sight
Of it all falling down

Cat's in the bag, so lay it down easy
Colorado, Colorado

Never knew how I felt till I felt that gun in my hands
Never knew the sound of my voice till I heard it with that gun in my hand
I'm going out those front doors like butch and sun-dance
Gunning straight down the middle with the sun in my eyes
Wanting for nothing but one bold moment in a fearless life

Today is a may day
With a fair wind blowing
Today no more may days
It's a good day to die

What else could I do?
You see how it goes
You're left with no front door
And a back door that's closed

So when they ask
My name is Colorado, Colorado
Is Colorado, is Colorado

Some things are basically
Beyond vision of doubt
Some things I understand
That I'm better off without

Dingy walls painted clean
Broken words unseen
I said maybe the world's as it should be
You disagree

Bolder than paradise
And longer than goodbye
Carry your name around with me
Like a spell I sometimes recite

Wide open spaces and amber waves of grain
That's where I used to live
In the kingdom of my youthful reign
Before I was a prisoner to silo
Walled into the shadows, shy to the sky, yeah

Bolder than paradise
And longer than goodbye
Carry your name around with me
Like a spell I sometimes recite

Yeah, bolder than paradise
And longer than goodbye
And I'm gonna carry your name around with me
Like a spell I sometimes recite

All this dreaming will drive me crazy
But is it dreaming if it's all I ever do?
The days are bleeding, they just run together
The nights are cold in the deep of Minnesota

From where I lie, I can see the airport
I watch them land and I see them leave
So many things that I've never done
So much ends before it's begun

And I'm so tired, I could cry
I'm so tired, I lie awake at night

Watching the moonlight circle my head
It's just about as blue as blue can get
When I get out of this bed
It's gonna start all over again

Mississippi sun doesn't shine this far north
I'm dreaming of peaches and bare tanned knees
A place that's warm, where they just let you be
Where you can stay forever 'cause the rent is free

And I'm so tired, I could cry
I' m so tired, all I can do is sigh

Watching the moonlight circle my head
It's just about as blue as blue can get
When I get out of this bed
It's gonna start all over again

When I die and lay me down
Cast my body to the sea
But bury my heart on the Jersey Shore
And every time you think of me

Know my mother was a beauty queen
My father tended a bar
And they made me beneath Leo's rising star
With Elvis on the radio singing
'Love Me Tender, Love Me True'

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore
Bury my heart
Bury my heart no matter where I run
Bury my heart

Soon as I could walk I ran
Stayed about as still as sand
When I stopped and turned around
Said, ?Man, oh, man, how far I've come
Look at all these things I've done
Now you know I just wanna go home?

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore
Bury my heart
Bury my heart no matter where I run
Bury my heart

I never have stood still in the sun or the rain
Like that old littering pine tree
When time moves on, oh, I go along
But the images will always be

With each passing year, oh, the lines will grow deeper
My memories will grow sweeter
The laughter will grow fainter
And I'll remain the painter of a love song from 1973

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore
Bury my heart
Bury my heart no matter where I run
Bury my heart

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore
Bury my heart
Bury my heart no matter where I run

Gonna sing it like a song, sing it mountain high
Gonna sing it river flow
I've been thinking 'bout it in my thoughts alone

When I hear that voice it's like soup to the hungry
Wanna be the teacher, gonna be the kid
I'm gonna get inside
Find out where it's hid

'Cause, baby this is it babe
We're on the miracle mile
Trying to give it up and do it with a smile
'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in
Till I find out where this miracle begins

Some days I get so mad, still I get out of bed
Put my shoes on and push on ahead
l look for something good to say

Gone are the days that I'm surprised or bewildered
By what they're calling quality
Most of it sounds like bullshit to me

Someday is here and tomorrow never comes

'Cause, this is it baby
We're on the miracle mile
Trying to give it up and do it with a smile
'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in
Till I find out where this miracle begins

Throw your old skin to the curb
Go and get a match
It's time to light it up and let it burn, oh yeah now

Bet you got a woman to keep you warm
Don't mind me, I'm over here trying not to do anything wrong
My enthusiasm tends to come on too strong

Everybody's shakin' it for the camera
Yeah, you're beautiful but isn't there anything else to say uh
Like how does it feel now?

'Cause, this is it baby
We're on the miracle mile
Trying to give it up and do it with a smile
'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in
Till I find out where this miracle begins

Oh, we're on the miracle
We're on the miracle mile
We're on the miracle
We're on the miracle mile
We're on the miracle
We're on the miracle mile

oh i'd like to find myself
trapped in some desert town with you
just me and you

my long black hair waving in the drive-in
me waving at you, my lover
from some ancient balcony

but like a
first division i see you
and your gone
way out could id run to

come back
come back
come back

but you're
gone california
and it's just my fate
making me blue
why else would i see you
today

but im not in some desert town
and you're not there with me
im underground in NYC

the city of perpetual motion
the city that never sleeps
thats alright, i wasn't tired anyways

i was so close getting clear
thought i had nothing to fear

you'd be on a plane
and you'd be gone
and it would be done
but there are

18 million people in this town
who spend the day
bummin' around
just to bump into you
on third avenue

yeah

and its a
pale moon
burning sun
when will i see my only one

pale moon
burning sun
when will i see my only one

well i think it's unbelievable
i think it's incredible
it's magical
it's tragic

but i know we'll meet again someday
and we'll be very far away
and i'll know you
and you'll know me
and we're gonna both agree

that we belong together
we belong together
we belong together

we belong together
we belong together
we belong together

cause it's a pale moon
burning sun
when will i see my only one

pale moon
burning sun
when will i see my only one

yeah
yeah

oh
oh i'd like to find myself
trapped in some desert town with you
just me and you
just me and you