Amy Correia

With wine dark mouths we kiss good night
I can't sleep at all 'cause I know it's not right
The clock plots time like a beggar countin' change
Night's like a knife, crickets cry insane
I wish I was a child sleeping like the dead
And a box of dreams underneath my bed
But I'm lyin' here alone feeling like a fool
Train whistle blows like a baritone saxophone
I'm blue it's over yeah it's true
You don't love me honey and I don't love you
We've fallen out of love
We've fallen out of love
I was looking for a savior but you are just a man
I have to save myself and now I understand
That love doesn't knit you a night full of stars
Carry you off like a baby in its arms
When it feels like a sickness
A paralyzing need
Weakness that crawls on its hands and knees
Well it's not real love and it never will be
Tonight the truth has come and it set me free
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Love
Well I guess when it's real
It doesn't make you feel like you're no good
I heard that love
They say that when it's true
You get a feeling inside
You don't have to hide
And baby I feel I gotta hide from you
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I can still smell the oil burnin' on the road
Long cadillac kiss nearly killed me outta control
Go home desire
Stop hanging ‘round
Leave me alone
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Sleep there's nothing to do today
Watch the vegetables rot
The monkfish flop
Down in Chinatown
Find your hand between your legs
The fortune teller frowns
Packs her cards away
She tells you she won't say
Down in Chinatown
Let the bath tub overflow
It's time to go
Your bourbon on the rocks
You're running out the clock
In Chinatown
Gather yourself together
And meet me where the
West Side highway roars
Don't listen to the story they tell you
The Emperor snores
Down in Chinatown
Hearts may break by morning
A soldier's a dime a dozen
Kiss your little yellow cousins
In Chinatown
Swallow your holy water
And wake beneath a shady lichee tree
So much water under so many bridges
The Communists won't call you
And the children won't harm you
Playing in the hall
In Chinatown

Up in the universe

I cast my line

Standing on top of

The rolling hillside

Waiting for a sign

Watching for your eyes

I know I'll be here all night



Starfishin' for you

Wishing that it weren't true

You've taken a shine to someone new



Craw fish and a sun fish

A lightning bug goes by

Star light and sea foam

My washed up valentine

Nets have come up empty

The last kiss was thrown

The poor dog up in the sky lost his bone



But I'm starfishin' for you

Wishing it weren't true

You've taken a shine to someone new



Just when I thought my ship had come in

You went and spoiled everything

I'm gonna cry me an ocean of tears

I'll sail away the rest of my years



And I'll starfish for you

Wishing it weren't true

You've taken a shine to someone new



Starfishing, Starfishing, Ohh.



Seaweed and moon beams

A ship wreck of bad dreams

Sand dunes and sea glass

Galileo's face in his beer glass

The clock is calling to you

The night is falling for you

The whole world has turned upside down



But I'm starfishin' for you

Wishing it weren't true

You've taken a shine to someone new



Starfishing, Starfishing, Starfishing.

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Innocent I was born a queen
Woke to life I thought it was a dream
I was lying in the gutter when a hand unseen
Poured down the sun on New York City
I went sailing through the streets
On a sea of faces
I was just another person
That time erases
It was All Soul's Day and I was not afraid
I felt I had a reason to live that day
And it seemed to me that something good
Is coming if you think it could
And I don't know when
and I don't know how
But I put my head into the clouds
And it's beautiful
It's beautiful
It's beautiful
Life is
Now I'm flying over bridges
And the sun's in my eyes
Skyscrapers shining and trains roll by
I thought I saw myself among the passersby
We're walking on the water
Walking on the light
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Got no car
Got no gas to go
Got no direction
Don't even have a road
To go by
But if you want to ride with me
Inside my daydream car
If you want to ride with me
We'll stay right where we are
Got no money
Got no motorbike
Got no place to go
But please come on if you like
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I can meet you later
I can meet you now
Pick you up in no time
No place like this
Hometown like religion
Get up off your knees
Friends will talk and gossip about us when we leave
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Carvin' out a kiss
Oh I thought that he was such a dish
Making a wish with a jackknife on the skin of a tree
I didn't stand a chance
Not a shot in hell
He's been working on an old Coupe de Ville
I'm not in his heart
Now he's fixed up some old car
He drives it around and around
When I see him I say, “hi??
He just honks and drives on by
He drives it around and around
Around and around
Down at the playground
You can see him parked way out alone
What's that he's doing
Listening to the radio way down low
He didn't see me
But I saw something like a fish in his hand
Maybe I'm a lucky girl
I didn't get my wish and now I understand
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Who knows the reasons why I love the ones who don't love me
Lights may never turn to green
That car's mysterious
That guy's delirious, obscene
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The bearded lady winked at the tattooed man
And the tattooed man took her by the hand
Together they walked into their house of mirrors
And that starts a whole bunch of sideshow rumors
They were a little bit afraid of looking at each other ‘cause
Everybody said you look weird together
When the lights go up and the sun goes down
They're the perfect couple underneath these pink cotton candy clouds
It was a carnival carnival love
It was a carnival carnival love
It was a carnival carnival love
The sword swallower swallowed his pride
And he fell at the knees of his contortionist bride
He said you bent over backwards honey to give me your love
And it's made me believe in a god above
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And the fat lady looked so beautiful
Under the fried dough moon
And the rough sailor boy with his unanchored eye
He was the only one there made that solid woman swoon
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I heard ecstatic lovers screamin' on the roller coaster ride
I saw girls who felt pretty with a boyfriend at their side
I could taste it I could smell it in the air
It was love and it cast out all fear
And the lonely hearted people who ride on the ferris wheel
Gonna eat a sugar-coated star
And all those lonely hearted people up there
They just got to be loved for exactly who they are
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I became the heiress to a red and rusted bicycle
Built like a tank from Sears Roebuck circa 1952
It had been entrusted to me by my late great uncle Pat
And I guess he didn't ride it much
Both tires on the bike were flat
Pat had died at Christmas time in 1991
He had fallen off the wagon
And he sunk into a Christmas funk
My father he had found him
Two days after he had died
Well he drank himself to death one night
In a little home he owned by the seaside
So I took the bike and I cleaned it up
My father he patched up the tires
Am I going to town or just spinning my wheels
And when I die I wonder how it feels
Hey and I'm riding around riding around on it
Hey just riding around riding around on it
Hey you know I'm riding around
riding around on it. Hey!
The funeral service was a few days later
At a place down the street from where he had lived
There wasn't a hell of a turn out
He had never married and he never had kids
The coffin lid was open
Pat was lying inside
His sister had a picture of a poodle named Pepper
She put it in his hand and then she cried
Now I'm riding around in the city
Through the smog and the summer heat
And I'm blowing through all the red lights
I guess you could say I'm feeling lucky
And the taxis and the trucks
Everybody's blowin' their horns
And I got a bicycle bell to ring
And I got a notion to sing as I'm riding along
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Well I didn't even really know him at all
And I wonder can he see me
As I'm riding along
Riding along
The day that Pat was buried
The air was cold and clear
And we drove out to the cemetery
And snow flew around in the air
And a hired man from the State
He played taps on a coronet
And a flag was presented to his sister
For time in the service that Pat had spent
When he used to ride on the bike
Way back in ‘52
He was starting out a life
And the bike it was brand new
And life was laid before him like
a platter before a king
He was young and he was handsome
and the world was alive with meaning
The world was alive with meaning
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It happened again late last night
When the moon was on the rise
I was sipping my favorite drink
And I was laughing and joking and
flirting with this stranger
Some guy
And sometimes I'm like a stupid little girl
Dressed up in my mama's high heeled shoes
And I'm playing at these grown up games
And I don't even know the rules
And I'm lying to myself
And I'll be lying next to him
Burying my loneliness in this gin
And I'll be flying high again
Band plays some slow number
And the booze is in my head
And these unknown hands caress my back
I'm gonna wake in an unfamiliar bed
When the last song is finished
And the band starts to pack it up
Bartender calls, “Come on folks let's finish??
He knows we've had too much
And outside in the parking lot
We're gonna linger ‘til the last car drives away
And I'm thinking I can love this guy just tonight
Keep my devils all at bay
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In the darkness of this room
We can't see each other's eyes
And sweet blindness makes love to me
Approves of my disguise
In the morning not much to say
Words hang heavy in the air
And I quickly throw on my wrinkled dress
Run my fingers through my tangled messed up hair
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There was a blind boy in Memphis, Tennessee
Who heard the savior call but he could not see him
He walked along the river's edge
Among the weeds and the red clay bed
And he thought that he might follow him
Thought that he might follow him
He was walking with a can of warm beer in his hand
And singing, “Whole Lotta Love??
Cicadas they were groaning in the trees
Weaving drunkenly up toward the sun
And he walked under the swollen sky
And felt the weight of what it was
Oh blind river boy
Blind river boy
Where are you going to tonight
He had a thought that he might stop and rest
Under the weeping willow limbs
And he decided to go wading
And he left his boots and hat there on the ledge
And he found his feet out walking
Where the water bloomed a brilliant red
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He went into his waist and the water
curled around him in a wake
All the water singing ‘round him
What a lovely sound the water makes
what a lovely sound the water makes
Tenderly lifted like a woman in her
lover's gentle arms
The river pulled him under and
he heard a tugboat far off call
And a panic rose inside of him
he knew he was in terrible terrible harm
And now he's headed like a prayer to be spoken
at the river's deepest sound
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I'm leaving Manhattan
I'm leaving today
I can't help but want to dance all night
I felt a little lonely
Not a star up in the sky
I wonder why
The sun comes up
The sun goes down
The sun comes up
The sun goes down
And I feel the day is better spent with you
Looking at the butterflies
How wonderful your eyes
Don't ask me why I'm crying
As soon as I draw the window shade
I've seen another dying day
I am blown away
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Sun comes up
Sun goes down
Sun comes up
Sun goes down
Sun comes up
Sun goes down
Down down down

Yours for the taking
Take me in your arms
I wanna hold you
Unafraid of who you are
Deep salt sea
Come inside me
Dark elm tree
Cover me
Yours for the taking
Soft surrendered might
Your breath awakes me
In the dead of the night
Deep salt sea
Come inside me
Dark elm tree
Cover me
Yours for the taking
Take me as I am
All heaven shaking
In your quiet hand
Deep salt sea
Come inside me
Dark elm tree
Cover me
Darling please