Verse Number One:. . I've got a number one lady....but I know a whole lot of men.... They've got a number one lady...but keep up a number two friend.....
I am not lonely anymore. Now that I realized. I got two hands not four. . So, I'm not lonely anymore. When the ship goes down. . There will be 1000 rats.
There's always some bird-dog. Snuffling, choking. Looking like you came to collect. Something you said you owed. There's always some turtle snapping in my head.
So she washed her cut in the sink. And picked up an ulcer along the way. Down to the bay, where I did stay. . I was nineteen. And so were we to be beating twenty.
The mind is always working. The mind is always turning. The mind is always working. The mind is always turning. Things over and over and over. And over and over.
If I show up ten minutes early, baby. You can bet that you'll be running behind. But when it comes to loving me now, baby. I have to say you are right on time.
Hey, there little darling, its cold an we got no place to go. I could be your Santa, come and stand under the mistletoe. I got a feeling it won't take too long.
If I could be thirteen again. To live with no regret. When I could still be president. And I could feel my dad. . As he's holding me in his arms. Not in my dreams.
Look where we are. Traveled all around our hearts. To get back to the start. The road's not easy. But it kept on leading you and me. Till we could see.
Look at us now, livin' on the edge of it's all over. I'm wondering how we got to be this way at all. Hearts on the line, got us lookin' in both directions.
Nothing to say but I keep on talking. Nowhere to go but I keep walking anyway. Night and day, it's been this way. Since the day I found you. It's getting worse every time I'm around you.
There is just one apple on the tree. It isn't like I hoped it'd be. Yesterday when there was still you. I looked and I swear that I saw two. . Maybe a wandering white-tailed deer.
"When you find yourself a new enemy. Can you take me down off the hook?. That you've been hangin' me on", he said. With almost all the love gone". . Will the time soon come when you see fit?.
I've been abused and used and skinned up and bruised. And thrown from a movin' train. I've been homeless, car less, lost in the wilderness. Out in the pourin' rain.
Here he comes, Neon Leon. Lookin' so fine, with his gold chains on. Got a customized caddy with the top snapped down. He's known everywhere in town as Neon Leon.
They oughta' run your picture in a magazine. 'Cause you're the hardest working woman I've ever seen. If we weren't sinkin' in a river of debt. I'd say, "Quit that job and let 'em do it their self".
The only warmth I know now is from a cup of coffee. In these two lonely hands and what a poor and silent partner regret is. What I had then and what I have now no use to know the hour.
These are new lips, they're not your lips. But they kiss me the way yours used to do. They're not your arms, they're just two arms. And they'll hold me until I'm over you.
You did a job when you broke my heart. Left pieces scattered everywhere. Can't say I found every part. Not yet but I'm gettin' there. . Every night when I close my eyes.
I was all alone and lost. Weren't too many rivers crossed. You said, hello and I was found. You turned me around. . I was living in a shell, had a wall around myself.