Here we are
We drift like gas
On someone else’s bed
I pay high you know


Here we are
How old are you
It’s just a job to me


Here the ladies always ring twice
Thought you’d slip away tonight with me
In a subway I called ‘you’


Hello you no more this talk of
‘My boys will be yours’


No more ‘I’
This conversation drains
My patience dry.


Here the business always rings twice
No relaxing for the boys tonight
In a subway I called ‘you’


Here the tension always slows twice
Shed one tear it’s just routine for now
In a subway I called ‘you’

Gun
it’s raining it’s pouring
and you didn’t bring a sweater
nebraska will never let you come back home
and on hollywood and wine
by the thrifty mart sign
any night i’ll be willin to bet
there’s a young girl
with sweet little wishes
and pretty blue dreams
standin there and gettin all wet

now there’s a place off the drag
called the gilbert hotel
there’s a couple letters burned out in the sign
and it’s better than a bus stop
and they do good buisness
every time it rains
for sweet little girls
with nothing in their jeans
but sweet little wishes
and pretty blue jeans

now it’s raining it’s pouring
the old mam is snoring
now i lay me down to sleep
i hear the sirens in the street
all the dreams are made of chrome
i have no way to get back home
i’d rather die before i wake
like marilyn monroe
and throw my jeans out in
the street and the rain will make ’em grow

now the night clerk he got a club foot
and he’s heard every hard luck story
at least a hundred times or more
he says check out time is 10 am
and that’s just what he means
and you go up the stairs
with sweet little wishes
and pretty blue dreams

now it’s raining it’s pouring
and hollywods just fine
swindle a little out of her dreams
put a letter in the sign
never trust a scarecrow
wearin’ shades after dark
be careful of that old bow tie he wears
it takes a sweet little bullet
from a pretty blu gun
to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair
no that ain’t no cherry bomb
4th of july’s all done
just some fool playin’ that second line
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun

no that ain’t no cherry bomb
4th of july’s all done
just some fool playin’ that second line
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun

You get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing
Well a swim with the sharks is like me

I’ll find them for three and catch them and kill them for ten
When they smile just cut off your legs
You’ve got no time to think only to beg

Twenty no twenty five – three tons
The one in the front is the one on the run
Well it’s blood red
Fair game for the eats ’cause this my home this is my street

Well is a swim with the sharks like weak is for strong
Nobody knows it yet not right from wrong
Deep is the dark from the depths of the dive
Am I okay, am I alive?
Well the hot house now seems like suckin’ on some ice cream
Funny thing is it’ll make a grown man scream
Want to stay afloat but don’t forget it
All I’ve got to say you’re gonna need a bigger boat

Well a swim with the sharks is like now
never
deadly
clever
the darkness
the sun…forever…done

Mercy sakes look at her walk
She really makes them blue jeans talk
I can’t take my eyes off of her
She’s sure put together right
I wish I may, I wish I might
Get her to play in my back yard tonight yes sir

If I had a swing like that
Anytime day or night
You know where I’d be at
Sashaying swaying back and forth
Man I’d never leave the porch
If I had a swing like that

Goodness gracious land o’goshen
Every move’s a major motion
Rolls me over like an ocean wave
Man there oughta be a law
Beats anything I ever saw
I sure love to watch her walk away

If I had a swing like that
Anytime day or night
You know where I’d be at
Sashaying swaying back and forth
Man I’d never leave the porch
If I had a swing like that

A taste of honey
tasting much sweeter than wine
Do dut don du, do dut don du

I dream of you first kiss and then
I feel upon my lips again
A taste of honey
A taste of honey
tasting much sweeter than wine
Do dut don du, do dut don du

I will return, yes I will return
I’ll come back for the honey, and you
Do dut don du, to dut don du

Yours was the kiss that awoke my heart
There lingers still though we’re far apart
A taste of honey
A taste of honey
tasting much sweeter than wine
Do dut don du, do dut don du

I will return, yes I will return
I’ll come back, I’ll come back
for the honey, for the honey
and you

I’m kicking down the road
I got a top hat on
With my head in overload
I heard a radio song

There was something in the air
I think I know it well
Watchin’ everybody stare
You know I never tell
You knocked me to the floor
With a sound I never heard (2x)

I was walking down the street
Saw you sneakin’ out your house
Know who you’re gonna meet
In the criminal hour

Saw you slip right through the door
You whispered just a word
Then you knocked me to the floor
With a sound I’ve never heard

The thought of you and me and me and you
It’s clear, it’s blurry
Your head, my mind, your mind, my head, as one
It’s real, the foolish worry

I feel you and you feel me as I feel you
It’s good, it’s scary
The speed, the heat, it’s deep, and steep
It’s light but hard to carry

Listen when I’m silent there’s a
Sound that only you can hear
Listen when it’s quiet I know
You can hear it, cover up your ears
Cover up your ears

Your hands, my mouth, your mouth, my hands
The weight of what we’re thinking
No words, the air we breathe
It’s not liquid, but we’re drinking

Listen when I’m silent there’s a
Sound that only you can hear
Listen when it’s quiet I know
You can hear it, cover up your ears
Cover up your ears

Listen when I’m silent there’s a
Sound that only you can hear
A sound that only you can hear
A sound that only you can hear
A sound that only you can hear

Pass the tequila, Manuel
(glug, snort)
Listen, gringo, laugh at my lisp and I kill you
I think
This Spanish music
It sets my soul on fire
Lovely seniorita
Your eyes are like stars
Your teeth are like pearls
Your ruby lips

Christmas time again
The perfect end, to a not-so-perfect year
At last it’s here
Hustle bustle to and fro
From store to store, to get one more
Of whatever is in style this year

On the marquee sign at 5 and 9
The latest movie shows, and it starts to snow
Children look into the sky
To see if reindeer really fly
Who knows
But when it comes down to this season
Above it all there’s still a reason
To just look up

A star is born tonight
Come to make things right
Angels singing, anthems ringing
Glory to the King
A star is born tonight

Silent holy night, heaven’s sacred light
Shines all around
And joy resounds
In manger hay the baby Jesus came to seek
And save the lost
Until they’re found
Peace on earth a new beginning
He’s the gift that keeps on giving
To all of us

A star is born tonight
(Choir) Glory hallelujah, glory to the King of Kings
Come to make things right
(Choir) Merry Christmas to you all the joy the season brings
Angels singing, anthems ringing
Glory to the King
A star is born tonight

Angels singing, anthems ringing
Glory to the King
A star is born tonight

It’s so strange he doesn’t show me more affection than he needs
Almost formal, too respectful, never takes romantic leads
There are times when I imagine I’m not always on his mind
He’s not thinking what I’m thinking, always half a beat behind
Always half a beat behind

I’m in every kind of trouble, can’t you tell, just look at me
Half ecstatic, half dejected, all in all I’m all at sea
Easy turns I thought I wanted, fill me now with chilling dread
You can never know the chaos, of a life turned on it’s head
Of a life turned on it’s head

Take a little time to panic, shake off your complacent state
I know all I ever wished to, of a life destroyed by fate
It’s so strange you never notice anything but where you are
Step outside your gleaming prison, or is that a step too far
Or is that a step too far