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Wanna get down with you
04:31
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It’s looking right, a Friday night in the city
I see the sparkling beat of the street life dancing off my eyes
The dusk is deepening, the people are pretty,
I feel the move and the groove and the music makes we wanna fly
But I can’t pretend that the ways and the days been good
With all the friends I depend on feeling wrong
From Monday to now I just ain’t been what I should
Things ain’t broken right in oh so long
Wanna get down with you
Wanna see you sweat, wanna get
Deeper than we’ve ever been yet
Wanna hit town with you, wear the crown with you
Wanna get down with you
It’s hard to see into a stream that is glistening
It’s hard to swim when you feel that the river flow’s left you behing
So I’ve been waiting hesitating and listening
To here the sound and the bounding of laughter echoing in my mind
I can’t make your burdens not to be
And I can’t strike off all those chains you wear
But slip inside the music and you’ll see
I’ll find the dance floor, I’ll be waiting there
Wanna get down with you
Wanna see you sweat, wanna get
Deeper than we’ve ever been yet
Wanna hit town with you, wear the crown with you
Wanna get down with you
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2. |
Baggage
03:47
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Maybe I’ll buy me a farm, and work under skies of blue;
Maybe I’ll get me a boat and I’ll sail around the ocean with you.
Everything pretty I see, I worry about making it mine,
‘Cause I don’t know how else I’m supposed to hold on to something that’s sweet and fine.
If I had money to spare, maybe I’d buy me a skin
That was comfier, thicker and better to wear than this one I walk around in.
I don’t remember the last time that I sat still for a count of ten.
Think that you might be weary of hearing it, but I can’t help but ask it again:
If I say I love you, will you say you love me too?
If I asked you to stop the clock today, is that something you could do?
I want to run away with you, but I can’t figure where ---
‘Cause everywhere I travel, I find my baggage there.
Maybe I’ll buy me some schemes that aren’t so scared of the sun,
‘Cause all of my dreams look just fine at nine but are blown away before one.
Maybe I’ll find there’s a novel rattling around in my head,
Maybe in just another hour or two I’ll turn that TV off and head up to bed.
If I cry I love you, will you say you love me too?
If I asked you to stop the clock today, is that something you could do?
I dream of running away with you, but I can’t figure where ---
‘Cause everywhere I travel, I find my baggage there.
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I didn’t really want that bacon and those scrambled eggs;
I don’t really want this coffee or this slice of pie.
The food here sucks, and I’m flat broke anyway ---
I’m just here hoping you’ll be giving me the evil eye.
I admit that I came in not knowing what I’m gonna get;
I admit I’ll keep talking while you try to write my order down.
You tell me I’m the most annoying guy that you’ve ever met,
And you can’t make any sense of the reason that I’m hanging around.
Well I’m a little surprised that a woman like you hasn’t figured out the answer yet ---
I wanna be your boyfriend.
I love to watch you stomping round slamming down your plates of fruit,
And chewing out the college kids who come in on the graveyard shift.
I’ve never so frightened of somebody who was quite so cute,
I’ve never had a car, but I’d love to give you a lift.
Maybe I’ll show up at lunchtime tomorrow in my best birthday suit ---
I wanna be your boyfriend.
I see it’s just another half an hour till your shift is done;
I see that the table full of lawyers left you quite a tip.
I got nowhere that I gotta be, let’s go out and have some fun,
Let’s strut and dance our way across the downtown strip.
I’m sure that I can show you you want someone like me who wants to be your only one ---
I wanna be your boyfriend.
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Today I found you back in town, just like in my dreams,
And we drank wine by candlelight that make your brown eyes gleam.
And I remember every part of how it used to be,
How you smelled and how you smiled when you lay next to me,
And you behind the days and weeks and months of tears I cried ---
No, no, baby, no, no, darling,
I don’t want to come inside.
Seems like only yesterday we though our love was strong,
We’ve fallen back so easily to laughing all day long,
And I can almost feel your silky skin beneath my hands,
And I can almost think myself your rumbling rolling man,
And I can almost wonder if there’s more we should have tried ---
No, no, baby, no, no, darling,
I don’t want to come inside.
When you open up the drawer that shows you who you’ve been,
Take those photos out and smile, and put ‘em back again.
We snatched a perfect afternoon from the stream of time,
And waked together arm in arm, companionship sublime.
But we’re just recollecting and old passion gone away,
And I left a deeper love where I woke up today,
And I could never be a man who gave his vow and lied ---
No, no, baby, no, no, darling,
I don’t want to come inside.
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5. |
Gotta be cool
03:26
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Time is a ticking and pulse gonna quicken
Gotta watch the stake I count my take I’m on a roll
Shadows are walking I hear a walls talking
Yeah was that for me I didn’t see oh bless my soul
Feel my fist balling in my coat I gotta be cool
See her swaying sliding sashaying yeah
I’m gonna melt behind my belt I’m breaking down
Scruples are dropping I’ll never be stopping
With one or two I gotta do another round
Half a pack was never safe with me I gotta be cool
Saying I don’t want to stop tell myself I’m at the top
Tell myself I’m loving living large
Tipping on the edge of sin I think I’m falling back again
Should have left the me from just an hour ago in charge
Shooting the gaps and dodging the traps here
On every side they open wide I need a cage
Noise in the crowd is getting real loud
It’s coming near it’s coming clear I feel the rage
Sure the one who’s fucking up is me I gotta be cool
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Your name is in my mouth when day is breaking,
You’re on my mind as birds proclaim the day.
When I’m done washing up your favorite coffee cup
It’s time for me to set out on my way.
I stop to breathe as I pass through the doorway;
I smile because I feel you everywhere:
Your hair is in the comb, your note is by the phone,
The echo of your voice hangs in the air.
I’m here in the house that you made perfect,
Your picture smiles at me from every wall,
And as long as this golden sun comes slanting through the rain
The fact you’re gone won’t bother me at all.
I think of where you are while I’m here working,
I wonder how you are and how you’ll be;
Your every day is new, and everything you do
Is pulling you a little more from me.
There was a time when no one knew you better,
There was a time I heard each word you say,
But now your hopes and fears, you laughter and your tears,
I only see as glimpses far away.
I stand at the background of your days now,
Waiting with delight to hear you call,
And as long as these lilac flowers perfume this rushing wind
The fact you’re gone won’t bother me at all
You’ve carried all my love away,
We both know that’s just what you’re meant to do;
You’ll save my love until the day
You spend it just the way I did on you.
I step inside your room as evening darkens,
I wonder at the years that tumbled by,
I sit here on the bed you laid your sleepy head
And softly sing your favorite lullaby.
I wish you a loving life that’s perfect,
I know sometimes you’ll fly, sometimes you’ll fall ---
But as long as I know I’ll hold you in my arms once more
The fact you’re gone won’t bother me at all.
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7. |
Maybe today's the day
03:29
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Eyes popped wide at half past five and the first light rolling in
Tongue’s got a rhyme and I’m shining like a dime that just came from the mint
Spine’s got a tingle, don’t know what it means, but I know what my momma would say
Been waiting forty nights for things to go right and maybe today’s the day
Early morning train still rumbling by too loud for me to think
Door’s still broken and the dirties still soaking in that greasy, dripping sink
But to my surprise I woke up wise and saw the clouds run away
Just needed to turn a little corner or two and maybe today’s the day
Everything that’s heavy’s turning light
Everything that’s gloomy’s turning bright
Every obstacle that mattered shrunken down and scattered overnight
Been lost in a mist, my lifetime list ain’t narrowed in a year
Can’t tell you why but to my eye those that fog’s about to clear
Might ask my dreams hopes and ambitions if they want to come out to play
Been in reverse while the earth stood still but maybe today’s the day
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8. |
Come to bed
03:14
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Come to bed,
Hear the rainstorm passing overhead,
The air is cool and fresh and clean,
Blowing softly through the screen,
A weary day we’ve led ---
Come to bed.
We’re alone;
Our precious babies dear are nearly grown,
And they’re out somewhere, happy, wild,
The dog’s asleep down by the fire,
No one else is home ---
We’re alone.
Hear the trees
Whispering outside in the evening breeze.
They’ve grown up solid, tall and strong,
Just like our daughters and our sons,
Just the love ‘tween you and me ---
Hear the trees.
Walk the halls,
Years of talking soaked into the walls.
See the pictures smiling down
Of friends and family all around,
Here or gone, we love them all ---
Walk the halls.
Come to bed,
And dream about the joy that lies ahead:
My arms around to hold you near,
My beating heart to count the years,
My breast to rest your head ---
Come to bed.
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9. |
Nighttime Guests
02:43
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I’m an itch, I’m an itch ---
Wake up and pay attention to me, you stupid son of a bitch!
I think I’ll start in your ear or your crotch, I don’t know which ---
I’m an itch!
I’m some gas, I’m some gas ---
I’m a putrefying gritty fish screaming out your ass!
Don’t worry darling, like all things I’ll pass ---
I’m some gas!
I’m your bladder, I’m your bladder ---
I’m swollen full of piss and man I couldn’t be fatter,
Deal with me know or I’ll start to leak and spatter ---
I’m your bladder!
Hey! Hey!
I’m every stupid thing that you did or you said today!
I know you’re sleepy, but I won’t go away,
I know you’re sleepy, but we’re all here to stay ---
HEY! HEY! HEY!
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