Erin Mckeown

Easy baby, don't come so close, i ain't ready to handle you,
You're my weakness and you still show.
And when a bridge is burning it don't help if the wind blows.
Baby, you had me figured out, right down to the t,

Said, "this is who you are and how you do it,
You don't have to say nothing , i can see.
There's a passion in you, god help you if it gets free,
'cause baby it don't burn for me, so i'm gonna leave."

And i cried, "no, baby, no baby, no please don't.
No, baby, no baby, no please don't.
If you hurt me this fast, i'm gonna have to heal slow."

Now my momma always told me never to burn my bridges,
And i was careful not to fan the flames,
But baby, you lit a fire in me and now i don't burn the same.
Yeah i like the danger of never turning back,
So when i look over my shoulder
I only want to see smoke to mark my tracks.

So go, baby go, go baby go, you can go.
Yeah, go, baby go, go baby go, you can go.
If you hurt me this fast, i'm gonna have to heal slow.

So easy baby, don't come so close,
I ain't ready to handle you.
You're my weakness and you still show.
Come and cross this bridge,
You gonna find there ain't nowhere to go.

Tonight woke I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Tonight found I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"
Oh, said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"

In a strange bed, in a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Said it to me, what they've always said
Said it to me, what I've always heard
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
Girl, you sleep with success
Girl, you sleep with success tonight

Slept, I have, in beds of Middle America
Life off the fat of the man
I’m gonna go out tonight
I’m gonna try, try to make it
Live I as fast as I can
Live I as fast I as can

And I said to it, "success, I didn't
Recognize you at first"
But then I said to it, "success,
You don't look the way I have
Dreamed of you,
Dreamed of you"
"Well, not strange," said success,
"To find me here tonight.
Not strange," said success.
"So, what say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success and life?"
Wwhat say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success"
And success it said to me
"Forget about the beds of middle America
You don't need the fat of the man
Why don’t you sleep with me tonight?
That's all you've got to do to make it

And die as fast as we can
Die as fast we as can."

Well I said to it, "success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried"
Well I said to it, 'success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried
And I've tried and I've tried and I've tried"
Something about success that lies
Something about success that lies
Lies next to me
In a strange bed, a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Tonight woke I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Tonight found I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"
Oh, said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"

In a strange bed, in a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Said it to me, what they've always said
Said it to me, what I've always heard
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
Girl, you sleep with success
Girl, you sleep with success tonight

Slept, I have, in beds of Middle America
Life off the fat of the man
I’m gonna go out tonight
I’m gonna try, try to make it
Live I as fast as I can
Live I as fast I as can

And I said to it, "success, I didn't
Recognize you at first"
But then I said to it, "success,
You don't look the way I have
Dreamed of you,
Dreamed of you"
"Well, not strange," said success,
"To find me here tonight.
Not strange," said success.
"So, what say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success and life?"
Wwhat say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success"
And success it said to me
"Forget about the beds of middle America
You don't need the fat of the man
Why don’t you sleep with me tonight?
That's all you've got to do to make it

And die as fast as we can
Die as fast we as can."

Well I said to it, "success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried"
Well I said to it, 'success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried
And I've tried and I've tried and I've tried"
Something about success that lies
Something about success that lies
Lies next to me
In a strange bed, a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Untie these strings from my heart
Won’t you untie these strings from my heart
And when they're gone
Well, I fall apart in your hands
And I am undone

Now you steal that pride from my steps
Now you steal that pride from my steps
And when it’s gone
Well I fall, I fall at your feet
And I am undone

Open so rare that I find myself
Wondrous and confused
Open so rare that I find my self rapt in rare, rare delight
You touch that stone, the stone that is my heart
And you wish it gone, and you wish me undone
Then I am undone

Won’t you take these words from my heart
And I can give only words from my heart
And when they're gone, well I fall
What were words anyway?
And I am undone

You touch that stone, the stone that is my heart
And you wish it gone, you wish me undone
Then I am undone

Roll that stone from my heart
Won’t you roll that stone from my heart
And when it's gone
You will see where I was laid
And that I’m gone

It's a monday morning, cold winter's day, nothing outside is real.
Step in the car, turn the key, put on some heat, begin to feel.
Then i blink my eyes to make sure i'm me and think about catching a buzz
Box my ears, clean my nose, got to get in gear because

I've got a hell to be in by 8:05 and i can't find my head.
And i can't figure out just why i'm here but i think i'm being led.

I'm rolling down the highway at a safe and sane sixty per
Seems so easy, seems so right to pull over and jump the curb.
The steering wheel begins to shift a little to my right.
My palms become sweaty and i jerk in a flash of light.
I slam on the breaks and screech to a halt.
Pedestrians are swerving, i laugh cause it's my fault.
Calm as can be i pull back into traffic,
Speeding towards my hell cause i like my violence graphic.
The trees and leaves become superimposed on the sky
My vision is consumed with the greenness going by.

I've got a hell to be in by 8:05 and i can't find my head.
And i can't figure out just why i'm here but i think i'm being led.

At 7:50 i'm stopped behind a school bus filled with pubes.
Wouldn't it be funny, i think, to sell the little fuckers 'ludes?
But then a thought occurs to me from long ago when i was young
Of the fear i had inside me at the prospect of barbiturate fun.
Oh, how the times they change, i cackle deep inside
As i speed past that yellow shit puking carbon monoxide.

I've got a hell to be in by 8:05 and i can't find my head.
And i can't figure out just why i'm here but i think i'm being led.

I've got five minutes to bolt, can't be late to my hell
When that cold hits me again, who i am i cannot tell.
What's reality is a mystery brought on by too much thought.
My concepts collapse my sense of being caught
Between the cold air surrounding me and the emptiness inside.
My head is killing me, and i've got no place to hide.

Yesterday i was born of a coke-goddess queen,
A child of the city,
And tonight as i lie in the arms of a silver clad diva,
With her hips clutching mine,
Cradled, i love, amidst the newspapers,
The television, the noise,
The lies, the heat that is not hot,
Yet nearly intolerable.

And the day that it happened,
The day that i began to become woman, i cried.
Where's that poetry gone,
Cause i think i have lost some sensual sweet.
Where's my little girl hips?
A little innocence on these lips isn't so hard to wipe away.
Just ask me.

Now rolling, now rocking, now tick-tocking time away,
My hands reach for my face but fingers like knives,
10 to a set, cut deep and leave me scarred.
So that my lips pass over her lips yet
Feel more and more like the concrete coating all around.
And i reflect that what i write,
What i say mirrors the glass all around and what i think,
Well, that's a product manufactured downtown.
So i reflect that these hips
Now rolling, now rocking,
Now tick-tocking time away
Will one day bear the child of the cold pushing and hard driving city.

And as the years went by small changes occurred in my face, my body, my love.
My body has been becoming concrete for years now.
Where's that poetry gone,
Cause i think i have lost some sensual sweet.
Where's my little girl hips?
A little innocence on these lips isn't so hard to wipe away.
Just ask me.

Now coming home tonight, alone,
Coming home wandering these streets alone,
Thinking only words for thought and with words and thoughts
I am alone.
And if you walk my streets, if you say my words,
If you hold my hips, new to me,
Will it ever be so clear
That it is the buildings that rise and stiffen to seed the sky,
Spawning the ever growing puddle of sprawl in the ever growing land of filth,
And that i am my hips.
I am my hips.
I am my hips - the bastard child of the city grown.

Softly Moses speaks
Quietly to sleep
Easter Sunday never tasted so bitter

Lonely in the dark
Images creep past
Bright pink
Purple, blue
Green and black

Despair, oh holy day
We cross down sorrow's way
Weep, weep
We are the slaves on Easter Sunday

Oh I wish that I could die for thee
On a technicolour calvary
Egypt would be ours
Ten thousand years of peace

Where happiness would lie
Madness bids me, say not all that
Rises is of God

For shame and guilt
All owe it to me
Administer it like a pill
Father heals none
One Easter Sunday

Sister, brother, sister
Fall on to your knees
The blush of the flower tastes of false gods and trickery
Mercy, mercy my son you belong to me
Oh moses, save my empty, my empty soul

And i wish that i could die for thee
On a technicolor calvary
Egypt would be ours
Ten thousand years of peace

Softly, Moses, speak
Quiet me to sleep
Easter sunday never tasted so bitter

Every time she sees a movie
She thinks its about her
And every time she hears a song
She thinks its about them

She has never felt this way before
No, she has never felt this way
She has never loved before

But in the past, she'd always been selfish
But in the past, she'd always been able to run
So nothing had ever held her there
No boy that she had ever cared for
She doubted this could happen to her
She had no idea what feelings were
Now she knows if she ever leaves
She won't have a thing to believe in

This was an independent girl

It is not her nature to kiss
It's not her nature to even think about a song like this
Oh yeah, but something comes when they're together
Turns her into a silly, laughing, drooling, crying little girl

She says, "Come on, grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be.
Now, come on, grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be."

I ask you to hold my hand
You put your arm around me
You help me understand
Dependence is new to me
Completeness, a wonder to see
Something comes inside of me
And I've never never felt so free
And if I tell you once, I can't do it again
I love you more than I can comprehend

This was an independent girl

She never wanted this before
And now she thinks she doesn't want anything more

She says, "Come on, grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be.
Now, come on, grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be.
Now, come on grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be.
Now, come on grow old with me.
They say the best is yet to be."

Something comes when they're together
Turns me into a silly, laughing...
Something comes when they're
Together
Turns me into a silly, laughing...
Something comes when they're together
Turns her into a silly, laughing, drooling, crying little girl

This was an independent girl
This was an independent girl
This was an independent...
I was an independent

Who am i to sing a love song
I hold myself away
Yeah, but listen to the sound of a house running
Well all houses are the same
And all the sadness in your heart
It won't bring me back to you, no
Yeah but, doesn't it make you wonder how a love,
A love made so easily could shy beneath november's harvest moon

Dark in a stranger's open kitchen
Well, i stripped you to your bare feet and more
Yeah, it makes me feel so foolish now
Thinking of everything i did
Tell me, i was pretty at the time
Was i pretty at the time?

I'm afraid for you to hear me say these words
It's the same every, everyone i've hurt
But i will try to remember how you wandered away
To follow some long echo of a bird
And all the sadness in your lonesome countryside
Well, it won't bring me back to you, no, no
Trust me, you don't want me around
And i'm too always fond of leaving...
And i'm too fond of always leaving you

You don't know how much i loved you
No, you don't know how much i loved you
No, you don't know, you don't know...
You don't know how much i loved you
Now, you don't know

Four and twenty blackbirds perched o'er the milhaus floor
Four and twenty blackbirds perched o'er the milhaus floor
Watching a pair of blackbirds, a pair of blackbirds more
Four and twenty blackbirds perched o'er the milhaus floor

One blackbird to the other, "you must be my queen,"
Said one blackbird to the other, "say, say, say you must be my queen"
Well, the other replied in turn, "well, sure enough you my king"
Four and twenty blackbirds and two began to sing

The queen she sang of milhaus rising to the sky
The king he sang of riches baked in a honey pie
Stick your finger in and taste it on the sly
Sing a song of sixpence and a pocketful of rye

The queen she asked that question, "what makes the milhaus rare?"
The king replied in turn, "well, tonight it's you so fair"
Four and twenty blackbirds too baked themselves to care
Fly away you dainty dish, two blackbirds flew upstairs

When that sun had risen, the rhyming it was through
When that sun had risen, yeah, yeah the rhyming it was through
Four and twenty blackbirds had rhymed that whole night through
Fly away two blackbirds with nothing left to prove

Now you count that blackbird lucky who first to fly away
Bitter that taste left behind and the lonesome heart astray
Pity not that blackbird, the blackbird who must stay
For having tasted blackbird pie, baked and on display

Four and twenty blackbirds
Four and twenty blackbirds perched o'er the milhaus floor
Watching a pair
Watching a pair of blackbirds
Watching a pair of blackbirds
Pair of blackbirds more

Hey fashion doll
Take off the wall for me
Only me
You all pretty, pretty
With ribbons of indecision
And your lips well disguised

Hey fashion doll
Wake up, wake up
No one will see
This is a moment we'll mark time by
Say we did that when
Say we did that why
And the clothes do not make the man

Desire is dressing up Daisy
Prudence is putting on airs
And in September was indulgence and fall

So what makes us beautiful?
Daisy is as Prudence does
The fabric of seduction reveals
Beauty just because
Beauty just because
You're straddling me

Prudence she slowly, she takes off her
Daisy she fumble and laughs
And a meeting of the two is merely

Desire is dressing up daisy
Prudence is putting on airs
And somewhere in the middle you fall
You fall, you fall
Hey fashion doll
Well, you're straddling me

You know my secret, somebody told you didn't they?
I can tell by your voice
And in the way
We are awkward, mama, what did they say
When they told you my secret anyway?
The old heave-ho holds the old you don't know
What to do, what to say
Didn't they?

You in your half-shirt and lies
Me with the half-lit eyes
What a pair, who would ever suspect?
And could I care for polite
When mama, I'm so frightened
As a girl with a secret could be

With a tool of my own invention
I cracked my own resolve
Weighed it in my hand
And struck myself hard
And I felt you creep in to freeze and expand

Tonight woke I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Tonight found I in a strange bed
Strange bedfellow, strange
Said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"
Oh, said it to me, "oh, you'll be all right"

In a strange bed, in a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Said it to me, what they've always said
Said it to me, what I've always heard
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it
You're gonna make it girl
Girl, you sleep with success
Girl, you sleep with success tonight

Slept, I have, in beds of Middle America
Life off the fat of the man
I’m gonna go out tonight
I’m gonna try, try to make it
Live I as fast as I can
Live I as fast I as can

And I said to it, "success, I didn't
Recognize you at first"
But then I said to it, "success,
You don't look the way I have
Dreamed of you,
Dreamed of you"
"Well, not strange," said success,
"To find me here tonight.
Not strange," said success.
"So, what say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success and life?"
Wwhat say you to a bargain twixt
You and I, success"
And success it said to me
"Forget about the beds of middle America
You don't need the fat of the man
Why don’t you sleep with me tonight?
That's all you've got to do to make it

And die as fast as we can
Die as fast we as can."

Well I said to it, "success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried"
Well I said to it, 'success, I
Couldn't love you if I tried
And I've tried and I've tried and I've tried"
Something about success that lies
Something about success that lies
Lies next to me
In a strange bed, a strange bed
Bedfellow strange

Untie these strings from my heart
Won’t you untie these strings from my heart
And when they're gone
Well, I fall apart in your hands
And I am undone

Now you steal that pride from my steps
Now you steal that pride from my steps
And when it’s gone
Well I fall, I fall at your feet
And I am undone

Open so rare that I find myself
Wondrous and confused
Open so rare that I find my self rapt in rare, rare delight
You touch that stone, the stone that is my heart
And you wish it gone, and you wish me undone
Then I am undone

Won’t you take these words from my heart
And I can give only words from my heart
And when they're gone, well I fall
What were words anyway?
And I am undone

You touch that stone, the stone that is my heart
And you wish it gone, you wish me undone
Then I am undone

Roll that stone from my heart
Won’t you roll that stone from my heart
And when it's gone
You will see where I was laid
And that I’m gone

Estelle, I was your husband
Third in a group of three
Well now, you twice the widowed
I once did see
A wedding bed like no other
For it's turned to a funeral grave
Truth is temperance and happiness warns
Signposts on the road that is paved

When the decent folks dance that two step revival
Denial, deviation, temptation and trial
Estelle, oh Estelle, what you loved you gave away
Jesus says we die a little death for him every day

Dot turned tricks upon the spoons
Played piano with the other hand
You the kid who liked life so much
Look up, it's your wedding band
Well the minister spoke, and the vows we took
At that moment you were mine
A falling took place afterward
An explanation would take more time

When the decent folks dance that two step revival
Denial, deviation, temptation and trial
Estelle, oh Estelle, what you loved you gave away
Now, Jesus says we die a little death for him everyday

Estelle, I took you home that night
My wife above the common-law
Laid it up like we always do
In the hammock of our backyard
Swinging like a rocking horse
Cannonballing down a track
We both found heaven right then
You just chose not to come back

But when the decent folks dance that two step revival
Denial, deviation, temptation and trial
Estelle, oh Estelle, oh Estelle, what you loved you gave away
Jesus says we die a little
Jesus says we die a little
Jesus says we die a little death for him everyday

Oh, there's hope in poetry, comfort in fiction
Like the voice of Walt Whitman for example

I have noticed something
You will have noticed this too
We cut the words off short
We like either or
We are the virgin and the whore
You will have noticed this too

So I am led to say purely for example, purely for survival
And speaking of course from my own experience
When I’m drunk it's easy
When I’m sober I try not to love you so hard
Will not love you so hard

You will have noticed this too
For you were on the other side

In a San Francisco loft you couldn't pay for
I could feel your heart beat through the floor boards
I waved my hope around like a cheap flag
Whose colours had faded
Whose emblem was laughable

What is whiskey in the morning but a clear path to the door?
What would Uncle Walt say to the silent floorboard?
Hope
Hope

I'm the kind of lover who won't run for cover
What kind of lover am I?
C'mon, c'mon baby, I'm lovin', lovin' lazy
What kind of lover am I?

Now put my bed above us, then I learn to love us
What kind of lover am I?
I'm a little drinker, nervous and a stinker
What kind of lover am I?

Ooh, a little rulebreaker
How do I break so well?
Ah, a little rulebreaker
If you break me, can you tell?

In my plastic heart, forever for art
What kind of lover am I?
I don't say it I imply it, I'm the queen of quiet
What kind of lover am I?

Ooh, a little rulebreaker
How do I break so well?
Ah, a little rulebreaker
If you break me, can you tell?

I'm the kind of lover who won't run for cover
What kind of lover am I?
I'm the kind of lover who won't run for cover
What kind of lover am I?
What kind of lover am I?
What kind of lover am I?

I got the cocaine to keep me
Cocaine to keep me home
My best buckaroos to the west coast have gone
Oh, I could've bought a ticket
I could've bought a ticket
But what would I have done?
With no lines in my pocket and a nose for the setting sun

Well, I found a new cowboy
I found a new cowboy
I have something to do
Oh, a fresh bed of roses to keep me amused
He rode from Seattle
On the trail from Seattle
I heard he's done hard time
But he brings back this bad girl some good boy, hometown 'shine.
So sail away ladies
Saddlesore maybe
With a nose to the setting sun
I'll be right behind you when the roses have had their run.

Me and my cowboy
Me and my cowboy
Gonna ride ‘til we ride no more
'Til the cocaine calls and the cocaine becomes a chore

So sail away ladies
Saddlesore maybe
With a nose to the setting sun
I'll be right behind you when the roses have had their run.

Baby's got blue skies up ahead
Now, baby's got blue skies up ahead
Blue skies up ahead
So baby's got blue skies up ahead

I have the worst apprehension
That you don't crave my attention
But I can't force you to change your taste
If you don't care to be nice, dear
Just give me air, but not ice, dear
Don't let a good fellow go to waste

For this little sin that you commit at leisure
You'll repent in haste
If my heart gets in your hair
You mustn't kick it around
If you're bored with this affair
You mustn't kick it around
Even though I'm mild and meek
When we have a brawl
If I turn the other cheek
You mustn't kick it at all

When I try to ring the bell
You never care for the sound
The next guy may not do as well
You mustn't kick it around

If my heart gets in your hair
You mustn't kick it around
If you're bored with this affair
You mustn't kick it around
Even though I'm mild and meek
When we have a brawl
If I turn the other cheek
You mustn't kick it at all

When I try to ring the bell
You never care for the sound
The next guy may not do as well
You mustn't, you mustn't kick it around

Cosmopolitans and ladies
Looking for pills in draperies
Separate bedrooms and attached baths
While the precious don't quite understand
And quietly slip off to beauty

Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Panic makes quite a morning cocktail of insecurity
A fallen pancake breakfast for two
And the ladies choice of partners varies
From evening to evening
The loneliness is expected if not predicted

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

A life on the boards spilled over to the coast
And maybe down to the beach
It's a new medium pleasure to
Re-take and re-shoot
Only to pull focus before distribution

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Advice, agents and taped late night whiskey
Tiny cups for a tiny lady
Opera heels are swiftly growing indecent
And a lady in descent
Falling forward towards the cosmopolitans and ladies
Looking for pills in draperies

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Once in the spring of my twenty-fourth year
I had nothing to say
With a dangling promise, a terrible past
I threw all the words away
We were born to hum

You were the last in my twenty-fourth year
To make a demand of my voice
I tickled your ear and I laughed in your face
I gave you my choice
We were born to hum
We were born to hum

Hum
Hum

So as a gradual running, a kind of relief
Settles on my face
Once in a while I complain to myself
Nothing gets done
Nothing's in place

I, I would rather hum
I, I would rather hum

Hum
Hum
Hum

I was slung-lo and
So gung-ho
For anything to get me to start
I had my rock
I had my roll
But I couldn't find my spark

A flip of the hi-fi
A glimpse of the good life
And the clouds began to fade
I'm turning this B-side
Around to a delight
Blue skies are here to stay

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

Light the radio
‘Til it explodes
I'm dancin' ‘til I drop
One small step
First right then left
I'm never gonna stop

She was so down, look at her now
She's dancin' ‘til she drops
Everyone knows, give it some time
You'll find what you have lost

It is my style to take a while
To put the feeling down to page
I get around to making sound
When the fancy meets the phrase

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

I'm gonna burst
Right out of this world
And I won't do it alone
A kick to the heart
A lift for the charts
One listen and we'll be gone
And then who cares?
We're debonair
And we're dancin' our way back home

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

I'm just something else he tried
A catalogue of interests in a catalogue of lives
I hid myself from him; I wouldn't say it was a lie
But hiding worked its way into the way we lived our lives

It was clear that he was troubled; he had trouble with his pride
But i could never tell if the fault was his or mine
So I drew myself away, I wouldn't say I left behind
A man who would never know the man he was inside

In a moment he was gone, I could see that he had died
By the quickening of blood and the fluttering of eyes
So I held him to my breast like all the better wives
Who furnish men with love and never leave their side

I'm just something else he tried
The salt that's left behind after tears have dried
And I suppose that I'll go on, after all it was my life
And all that I supposed I held has come to be untied

Midnight confessions
Of deputy Prussians
Coloured my time in the Rhine
Where a misplaced directive
From a dirty connector
I got out just in time

Fleet of foot messengers
Tapped me in Bucharest
And paid for a train to Berlin
Where a night club at midnight
Was cleared out too quickly
I made my face in the wings

The palace ain't nothing
Compared to this majesty
Here I am dancin'
For the president of Germany

I opened up with a
Rag and a one-step and
Finished the bit with a freeze
Then a touch of the shuffle and
I closed with a soft-shoe
I hit 'em with my best routine

The palace ain't nothing
Compared to this majesty
Here I am dancin' for
The president of Germany
The orpheum never saw
A bigger hit in two a day
The national can't beat this state

Oooooh, oooooh
Don't fade out
You're my only hope and it's running out

The spotlight it shone on heavy artillery
The silence was worse than the shot
I'm just a dancer, an innocent fiction
More like a dream than not

Applause cascading from one set of fingertips
You believe what you believe
You believe what you believe
You believe what you believe
You believe what you believe

Midnight confessions
Of deputy Prussians
I got out just in time

Once in the spring of my twenty-fourth year
I had nothing to say
With a dangling promise, a terrible past
I threw all the words away
We were born to hum

You were the last in my twenty-fourth year
To make a demand of my voice
I tickled your ear and I laughed in your face
I gave you my choice
We were born to hum
We were born to hum

Hum
Hum

So as a gradual running, a kind of relief
Settles on my face
Once in a while I complain to myself
Nothing gets done
Nothing's in place

I, I would rather hum
I, I would rather hum

Hum
Hum
Hum

I begin with Culver City
Where the handsome faggots make pretty, pretty
Empty lots, secrets well kept
Nothing standing but the frame of a set
Some things are built to withstand regret

It was cinematic
How we loved
Longshot! Jumpcut! Close-up!

She wore off like a prom dress
Heels a kickin', short hair a mess
Painted nails for turning tricks
Throw something hard, something stick
Throw nothing, no, nothing slips

Tip and tuck down the 99
The pedal pushed down the entire time
You’re running scared 'til your ceiling falls
Banging her head, wrists rubbed raw
Addicted to something we never saw

It was cinematic
How we loved
Longshot! Jumpcut! Close-up!
Closeup
Yeah

Off the freeway Dreamland burns
The ultimate take in the land of returns
With a glycerine smile and a tear for tragedy
Something grand Judy left for me
Nothing more than box office history

It was cinematic
How we loved
Longshot! Jumpcut! Close-up!
Closeup
Closeup
Yes, Closeup

I begin where Garland died
Looked like a child all her life
I begin where Garland died
Looked like a child all her life
So will I

They are just civilians
We are barely civil to them
Only at times
Gonna take a million
Bodies piled and killed to
Show them we can fight

They are just civilians
We are barely civil to them
Only at times
And we are your citizens
Burrowing beneath your skin
And crawling up your spine

They are just civilians
Fighting for their place in
The company of men
Shhh! we're holding still
Waiting for the thrill
Of surprising you again

You watch yourself
And you guard yourself
You are not yourself
You are not yet safe
Watch yourself
And you guard yourself
You are not yourself
You are not yet safe

Boys I can fight
Please let me fight
Boys I can fight
Please let me fight

The treaties of civilians
We will fire at will and
From behind the lines
You who once were children
You stand and stare where buildings
Became crimes

Cosmopolitans and ladies
Looking for pills in draperies
Separate bedrooms and attached baths
While the precious don't quite understand
And quietly slip off to beauty

Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Panic makes quite a morning cocktail of insecurity
A fallen pancake breakfast for two
And the ladies choice of partners varies
From evening to evening
The loneliness is expected if not predicted

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

A life on the boards spilled over to the coast
And maybe down to the beach
It's a new medium pleasure to
Re-take and re-shoot
Only to pull focus before distribution

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Advice, agents and taped late night whiskey
Tiny cups for a tiny lady
Opera heels are swiftly growing indecent
And a lady in descent
Falling forward towards the cosmopolitans and ladies
Looking for pills in draperies

Small time and you're dreaming of the big lights
Screen life, you went looking for a good time
Painless, don't you wish you were weightless
Famous, from this moment you're fated

Envelopes of glassine
Spoiled the surprise
Took that tender moment
I see what's inside
I was Vegas, you were Rome
Close your eyes and think of me

I held nine pictures
Lined left to right
Where edge met edge
I see what's inside
What faith would not carry
Impatience denied
I was Vegas, you were Rome
Wasn't built in a day

This gambol cannot last
This courtship will slide
Envelopes of glassine
Spoiled the surprise
I'll walk from Vegas, you sail from Rome
Let us have met

So, if you want to be a lady
Well then, have a look at me
Folks line up for days
Just to have a look-see
Take it from me
What you see is a lady indeed
If you want to be a lady
Well then, have a look at me

Paint your lips a touch too wide
Hide secrets in your mouth
Stand on corners for too long
Just to have a look-see
Hang your purse on your left
Your lover’s photo turn it right
If you want to meet a lady
Well then, offer her a ride

All these men are looking
Looking at me
Giving me the once over
With a big old look-see

Carry the world by its knees
Keep the porch-light burning bright
You sell yourself for nothing less than
One grandstanding night
If take it from me
What you'll be is a lady indeed
If you want to be a lady
Well then, have a look at me

James!
Look out for the boy next door
Come knock-knock-knocking
The ceiling to the floor

James, I've told you life could be deluxe
Every which way looks like trouble but
You've got to let him go

James!
C'mon hold your horses
The first kid under your nose ain't a sure thing
James, I told you life was made of luck
But a deal's better made the second time it's cut
You've got to let him go
You've got to let him go

But he's one wall away, these walls so thin
One wall away, these walls so thin
One wall away, these walls so thin
One wall away, these walls so thin
One wall away, these walls so thin
One wall away

James!
They call it the waiting game
Boy, you will wait in vain
The first one you see might make you change
But a straight boy, James
Always shoot the same
You've got to let him go
You've got to let him go

Love at first sight, it may be
But first love on sight
James is crazy

Oh boy, I'm lucky; I'll say I'm lucky
This is my lucky day
I'm all in clover, I'm glad all over
I want to shout "hooray"
I found a horseshoe, couldn't go wrong
And then of course, you happened along
Oh boy, I'm lucky, I'll say I'm lucky
This is my lucky day

I found a horseshoe, couldn't go wrong
And then of course, you happened along
Oh boy, I'm lucky, I'll say I'm lucky
This is my lucky
Oh, wow, I'm lucky
This is my lucky day

I was slung-lo and
So gung-ho
For anything to get me to start
I had my rock
I had my roll
But I couldn't find my spark

A flip of the hi-fi
A glimpse of the good life
And the clouds began to fade
I'm turning this B-side
Around to a delight
Blue skies are here to stay

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

Light the radio
‘Til it explodes
I'm dancin' ‘til I drop
One small step
First right then left
I'm never gonna stop

She was so down, look at her now
She's dancin' ‘til she drops
Everyone knows, give it some time
You'll find what you have lost

It is my style to take a while
To put the feeling down to page
I get around to making sound
When the fancy meets the phrase

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

I'm gonna burst
Right out of this world
And I won't do it alone
A kick to the heart
A lift for the charts
One listen and we'll be gone
And then who cares?
We're debonair
And we're dancin' our way back home

She was so down, look at her now
She's never been so high
Everyone knows, give it some time
The clouds'll clear the sky

I want a little taste of you
When I can
Just a little taste will do
But I know you understand
I am not looking for love
Nor making a plan
Taste of you
When I can

I want a kiss in the morning
That's all I need
Just a kiss in the morning
Don't want no guarantees
I am not looking for love
You don't see me on my knees
A taste of you
All I need

I am a clever lady
Just like a satin doll
A little wanton maybe
But I keep my wanting small
I am not looking for love
I am not trying to fall
A taste of you
But that's all
I want a taste of you
But that's all
Just a taste of you
But that's all

Oh Vera, I can't complain but
When, when will you write?
This city is strange
And strangely bright
Sooner or later I'll change

Oh Vera, my cough is silent
And Sunset is setting up fine
There's work for me here
And here is my work
While we wait for my lungs to dry

Oh Vera, tonight I'm lost
What makes me live for this craft?
I'm going nowhere
My music's a bust
Even our neighbours just laugh

Oh Vera, we must see a film
I think that it might change my life
Something with Garland
Who's down on her luck
The kind of picture I like

Oh Vera, I'm full of it now
Who knew that notes could be fun?
I'm counting to twelve
And then back to one
I feel I'm a writer again

Oh Vera, I'm truly content
I'm waiting alone for a friend
A helluva poet
A Hollywood type
Who turns up the words on their end

Oh Vera, I'm reading the news
I can do nothing but cry
The opera was summer
An apple just fell
It's funny how well poets lie

He sun you can remove
The source will follow you
But course, that will never do

Additions you describe
Of force, and compromise
But let's not call them lies

All that you refuse
You always took a certain pleasure
But certains things it's proved
Move at a speed, defying measure

Gravity and sound
Came falling from your mouth
When everything came out

And all that you review
You never found a single treasure
But certain things it's proved
Will escape whatever measure

You weigh your words
Didn't have to abort
Spread before
Everything you wanted

And all that you refuse
You always took a certain pleasure
But certain things it's proved
Move at a speed defying measure

Air! In my bones where the marrow should be
But what I lack for guts and blood
I make up for in dreams

Love! And you're wondering how it works
The heart in the natural world
It's a wonder that science can hurt

I am made to fly
You are made for flight
From the structure of our cells
To the chambers we share inside
So let's become like birds
We will become like birds

Hope! It's the one thing that science will prove
What you don’t have hope for you lose
Evolution is what you choose

I am made to fly
You are made for flight
From the structure of our cells
To the chambers we share inside
So let's become like birds
We’ll become like birds

Air! In my bones where the marrow should be
But what I lack for guts and blood
I make up for in dreams
I make up for in dreams
I make up for in dreams

I'm in shambles
Blown to bits by our troubles
These brambles
Our stumbling’s, our struggles

Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra!

And it's a forced march
And I’m parched in denial
And it's a struggle
Of faith and of fire

Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra!

Walking we are caught by tiny hooks that hold our hope
Our skin may be scratched but nothing holds us back
Walking we are caught by tiny hooks that hold our hope
Our skin may be scratched but nothing holds us back
I will be brave, I will be brave
My body may change
But my spirit will stay, I will be brave

Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra!

I’m in shambles
Blown to bits by our troubles
These brambles
Our stumblings, our struggles

Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra!
Thorns! Over thorns! Through this trouble, we are born!

When our love is gone, we will be calm
We will be calm
And when the feelings come, I will fight them off
We will fight them off

In the evening blooms, I still think of you
I’m thinking only of you
But when temptation starts, I will fight it off
We will fight it off

Fire, all our guns and arrows
Fire, all our guns
The bells and bombs, we'll fight them off
The fireworks say it's over

Now the fall begins, and our failing hearts
May come apart
But I will be on guard, I will fight it off
We will fight it off

Fire, all our guns and arrows
Fire, all our guns
The bells and bombs, we'll fight them off
The fireworks say it's over

Some day, in some other life
We'll let this battle pass us by
Some day, in some other time
We will be the ones who are left alive

In my weakened state, I could fall for you
Like I fell for you
But lord, when it grows late, I will fight it off
I will fight it off

Fire! All our guns and arrows
Fire! All our guns
Fire! All our guns and arrows
Fire! All our guns
The bells and bombs, we'll fight them off
The fireworks say it's over
The bells and bombs, we'll fight them off
The fireworks say it's over
It’s over

Delicate December, let's remember
When we were tall
And we can pretend it's just summer
We're neither spring nor fall
Would you want my number
Were I someone
You didn't know at all?
Special for December
Let's pretend we're
All for one

I know, it's not the same
What's said is said and won't be said again

I know, it's not the same
What's said is said and won't be said again

Delicate December
Let's be tender
Slow down time to a crawl
Nothing's temperamental
If we're gentle
Hands up
Let's call it a draw
Elegant and simple
Sentiment means
Letting go and letting fall
Special for December
Let's pretend we're
All for one, one for all

Our love in little heaps
Our love now fast asleep
Our love was taking leaps
Don't land

You're so pretty floating through the air
How you pause by despair
Bullet flies toward disrepair
Don't land, don’t land
Don't land, don’t land

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Bright trails against the sky
So much destruction, how does it fly?
I must avert my eyes
Don't land, don’t land
Don't land, don’t land

Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Our love was built on heavy things
Our love survives and sings
Our love always it had wings
Don't land, don’t land
Don't land, don’t land
Don't land

Maybe someday we can live on the moon
Milk in our eyes and the coffee cups too
If we behave, play our cards right
Moon'll be our fortune tonight

Frequency of traditional child
Ignition becomes a spark of disguise
Where we are from, where we begin
Philosophy on paper napkin

Dutiful daughter never wanted to fly
She swims through the air like she swims through the sky

Waves of phosphor, waves of grace
Lights on the square and lights on her face
Saturn returns and Mercury slaves
Atoms transmit to gravity's play

Dutiful daughter never wanted to fly
She swims through the air like she swims through the sky

Maybe someday we can live on the moon
But ‘cause we can, doesn't mean we have to
Rockets will come, astronauts go
Nothing so precious as what we don’t know

Dutiful daughter never wanted to fly
She swims through the air like she swims through the sky

We know too much!
We know too much!
We have to find it ourselves!
We know too much!
We know too much!
We have to find it ourselves!
We know too much!
We know too much!
We have to find it ourselves!
We know too much!
We know too much!
We have to find it ourselves!

Kill the sun, kill the moon instead
Someone's gone to your little head
Don't look so sad!
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait

Fatal place in your final hour
Little peace for the hear and now
Don't look so sad
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait

You say you're so unmade
You're untitled too
You make the stars behave
When they're close to you

Don't forget, when you're fast asleep
There's a plan you need to keep
Roll on! Roll on
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait
Chimere dore

Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait
Chevaux il fait

One part sad and two parts brave
One part's silent and one part says
To the stars!

One part black and two parts blue
One part wishes the best for you
One part changed and two parts fine
I'm telling you, I'm fine

To the stars, to the stars
Oh, we are lit within
By all we've been
And by all we care to be
To the stars, from the wars
Oh, we'll wake up a little this morning
A little better than we were before
We were before

One part lustre, two parts shy
Heaven's above, trouble behind
One part glory, two parts glow
Shine on, shine well, you're free to go

To the stars, to the stars
Oh, we are lit within
By all we've been
And by all we care to be
To the stars, from the wars
Oh, we'll wake up a little this morning
A little better than we were before
We were before

One part brilliant, two parts fade
Stars apart, shine the same

This morning I saw a glimmer of hope
In the eyes that I met at the door
Of separate futures and confident sutures
To the wounds that we have endured

Oh, you hate the words of war, but baby
Face it! That's what it's been for us
We were never good fighters or very good soldiers
But through this we are more

It's Victorian this embroidering ordering and
Sorting of memory to museum quality
In a box we are, we are and we're art
For the victims and tourists to see

And this victory we're part of is part and
Parameter of all that has come before
We were never good fighters or very good soldiers
But through this we are more

What's the harm in ruins, reminds us of who
We were in the darker times
In the pieces of colonies, we'll find that we follow
A church of our own design

By our best, we're remembered, baptised we surrender
By air, by water, by shore
We were never good fighters or very good soldiers
But through this we are more

We are more
We are more
We are more
We are more

Us Among men
In the plans of shifting lime
We stood beside
A foundation of space and time

What would you say
To a city built in Jackson Park?
Electric castles and
A promise kept of highest art

In our white city
We'll stroll together in
Streets of wax
Streets of plaster
In our white city
White with wonder and
Heights of greatness and
Nights asunder

Down to the wire
Time is running out on our project
World, look to us
Find a model of what's not thought yet

In our white city
We'll stroll together
In streets of wax
Streets of plaster
In our white city
White with wonder and
Heights of greatness and
Nights asunder

How beautiful is beauty
When it's only temporary
A decade a century stands still
In the white city of our will

Raise and be raised
Our hands face up and our faces forward
Show us the beauty
Show us where we aim our story

In our white city
We'll stroll together
In streets of wax
Streets of plaster
In our white city
White with wonder and
Heights of greatness and
Nights asunder
In our white city
Of domes and girders
We can fall but
The fall wont hurt us

You were never broken by ordinary things
You kept holding out for the big mistake
I was fragile, too scared and delicate
You kept trying, I'm the one that quit
Worn out by the baggage that we bring
You were right about everything

There were times your age began to show
You were never more dangerous to know
You passed me running, you caught me standing still
You'd do it all again all for the thrill
I was raised you get out before you sink
You were brave about everything

Nostalgia sweet, hindsight so dear
Objects now are smaller than they appeared
The birds of summer, in winter disappear
In spring return, new life, new years
Here I am, humble on my knees
Come back to life, come back to everything
Come back to life, come back to everything
Oh, you were right about everything
Oh, you were right about everything
Oh, you were right about everything

Coucou, les rosiers fleurissent
Coucou, les rameaux verdissent
Coucou, voici le printemps

Coucou, le beau soleil brille
Coucou, et les yeux des filles
Coucou en font tout autant

Que faites-vous, que faites-vous
Encore a sommeiller
Eveillez-vous, eveillez-vous,
Le monde est transforme

Coucou, ouvrez moi bien vite
Coucou, mon coeur vous invite
Coucou, il fait nous aimer

Cadilla
Cadilla
Coucou veut dire bonjour
Cadilla dilla dilla

Cadilla
Cadilla
Coucou bonjour mon amour

Que faites-vous, que faites-vous
Encore a sommeiller
Eveillez-vous, eveillez-vous,
Le monde est transforme

Coucou, ouvrez-moi bien vite
Coucou, mon coeur vous invite
Coucou, il fait nous aimer

> Don't worry 'bout me
I'll get along
Forget about me
Just be happy my love
Let's say that our little show is over
And so the story ends
Why not call it a day the sensible way
And still be friends
Look out for yourself
That should be the rule
Give your heart and your love
To whomever you love
Darlin' don't be a fool
Why do we cling to this old faded thing
That used to be
So if you can forget
Then don't worry 'bout me
Why should we cling to some old faded thing
That used to be
So if you can forget
Then you don't worry 'bout me

Hallelujah, hallelujah
All you sinners gather round
Hallelujah, hallelujah
All you sinners I have found
The rack where the weary forever are free
Come you sinners, just follow me

Forget your troubles and just get happy
You gotta chase all your cares away
Sing hallelujah, come on get happy
Get ready for the judgment day
The sun is shining, come on get happy
The Lord is waiting to take your hand
Hallelujah, come on get happy
We're going to the promised land
We're heading 'cross the river
Wash your sins away in the tide
It's all so peaceful on the other side

Pick up your troubles and just be happy
Got to chase all your cares away
Sing hallelujah, come on be happy
Get ready for the judgment day

We're heading 'cross the river
Wash your sins away in the tide
It's all so peaceful on the other side

Pick up your troubles and just be happy
Got to chase all your cares away
Sing hallelujah, come on get happy
Get ready
Get ready
Get ready for the judgment day

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings

Just one of those things
It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings

Just one of those things
If we'd thought a bit about the end of it
When we started painting the town
We'd have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

Oh melody!
Why won’t you come and visit me?
What a pleasure it would be
To have a little melody

Oh melody!
C'mon n sit upon my knee
I promise not to be naughty
But have a little melody

Oh please don’t make me beg and plead
Don't you know how flat my songs would be

Without a melody!
I guess a girl can see
Why all the boys go fiddle-dee-dee
Over a melody

Oh, please don't make me beg and plead
Don't you know how flat my songs would be

Without a melody!
Why won’t you get next to me?
Oh, what a comfort you would be
I just need a little melody

Oh, melody!
I'm not asking for a symphony
Oh pretty girl, pretty please
Can I have a little

It is only a paper moon,
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.
It is only a canvas sky,
Sailing over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.
[Chorus]
Without your love,
It's a honky tonk parade,
Without your love,
It's a melody played,
At a penny arcade.
It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony,
As it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.
[Chorus]
It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony,
As it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.
It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony,
As it can be,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.

Copper comes from Arizona
Peaches come from Georgia
And lobsters come from Maine
Well the wheat fields are the sweet fields of Nebraska
And Kansas gets bo-nansas from the grain
And old whiskey comes from old Kentucky
Ain’t the country lucky
New Jersey gives us glue
And you, you come from Rhode Island
Little old Rhode Island; it’s famous for you

Cotton comes from Louisiana
Gophers from Montana
And spuds from Idaho
Well they plough land in the cowland of Missoura
Where most beef meant for roast beef
Seems to grow
And Grand canyons come from Coloradah
Gold comes from Nevada
But divorces also do
And you, you come from Rhode Island
Little old Rhode Island is famous for you

Pencils come from Pennsylvania
Vests from Vest Virginia
And tents from Tent-a-see
Well they know mink where they grow mink in Wyomink
And a camp chair in new Hamp-chair that’s for me
And minnows come from Minnow-sota
Coats come from Dakota
So why should you be blue?
And you, you come from Rhode Island
Don’t let ‘em ride Rhode Island
It's famous for you
Famous for you
Famous for you

You sinners drop everything
Let that harmony ring
Up to heaven and sing
Sing you sinners

Just wave your arms all about
Let the Lord hear you shout
Pour that music right out and
Sing you sinners

Wherever there's music
The devil kicks
He don't allow music
By the river Styx
You're wicked and all depraved
You all misbehaved
If you want to be saved
Sing you sinners

You sinners drop everything
Let that harmony ring
Up to heaven and sing
Sing you sinners

Just wave your arms all about
Let the Lord hear you shout
Pour that music right out
Sing you sinners

Wherever there's music
The devil kicks
He don't allow music
By the river Styx
You're wicked and you're depraved
You all misbehaved
If you want to be saved
Sing you sinners
C'mon and sing you sinners

When an irresistible force, such as you
Meets an old immovable object like me
You can bet as sure as you live
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give

When an irresistible smile, such as yours
Warms an old implacable heart, such as mine
Don't say no because I insist
Somewhere, somehow, someone's gonna get kissed

So en garde! Who knows what the fates have in store
In their vast mysterious sky?
I will try hard ignoring those lips I adore
But how long can anyone try?

Oh baby I'll fight, fight, fight, fight, fight it with all of our might
Chances are some heavenly star spangled night
We'll find out as sure as we live
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give

So en garde! Now who knows what the fates have in store
In their vast mysterious sky?
I will try hard ignoring those lips I adore
But how long can anyone try?

Oh baby I'll fight, fight, fight, fight, fight it with all of our might
Chances are some heavenly star spangled night
We'll find out as sure as we live
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Oh, something's gotta give
something's gotta give
Something's gotta give
Oh, something's gotta give
something's gotta give
Something's gotta give

Thanks for the boogie ride
I'm more than gratified
I'm really satisfied
Which only goes to prove
You don't know until you glide
Into the boogie ride
How quickly you will fly
Out of this world

I like riding in jalopies
Away from motorcycle cop-ies
I like riding just like you do
Along the chatanooga choo choo
So let me thank you babe
Thank you for the boogie ride
It really was great

Music played by solid senders
Can set me off on dancing benders
When I choo choo with my cutie
Love to ride with a boogie
So let me thank you babe
Thank you for the boogie ride
It really was great

I like riding in jalopies
Away from motorcycle cop-ies
I like riding just like you do
Along the chatanooga choo choo
So let me thank you babe
Thank you for the boogie ride
It really was great

Music played by solid senders
Can set me off on dancing benders
When I choo choo with my cutie
Love to ride with a boogie
So let me thank you babe
Thank you for the boogie ride
It really was great

When I was young, I lived in a world of dreams
Of moods and myths and illusionary schemes
Though now I'm much more grown up
I fear that I must own up
To the fact that I'm in doubt of
What the modern cynics shout of

They say it's spring, this feeling light as a feather
They say this thing, this magic we share together
Came with the weather too

They say it's May, that's made me daft as a daisy
It's May they say, that's made the whole world this crazy
Heavenly hazy hue

I'm a lark on a wing
I'm the spark of a firefly's fling
Yet to me this must be
Something more than a seasonal thing

Could it be spring, those bells that I can hear ringing?
It may be spring, but when the robins stop singing
You're what I'm clinging to
Though they say it's spring
It's you

If poets sing that when a heart's sympathetic
It may be spring, then poets' plights are pathetic
But I'm poetic too

They say it's spring, for lovers there's where the lure is
That evil thing, for which September the cure is
This, they are sure, is true

Though I know that it's so
That my fancy may turn in the spring
With the right one in sight
One can find a perpetual thing

Did I need spring to bring the ring that you bought me?
Though it was spring, that wondrous day that you caught me
Darling I thought we knew
That it wasn't spring
‘Twas you