spending the best years of a childhood horizontal on the floor. like a bobsled minus the teamwork and the televised support. . and nothing sounds appealing.
oh I'll bet I know what you like. at least think I know what you might. I'm not the most cocksure guy. but I get more bold with every smile. . so please, show me your teeth, I'll show mine.
You. You ask me 'bout my night. Don't even try to act surprised. You know exactly what I do. . Some say the grail is out of reach. Although you've got to hand it to me.
Sister help take this pain from my fheart. Help me stand up and find out what is right. Don't want to exist here in the dark. When the gates of Eden offer so much light.
Well, I get up i the morning. Have a smoke, have a drink. Then I get dressed. I don't want to get to work too late. 'Cause that bossman, he's a real mean son of a bitch.
(Janis Ian/John Vezner/John Mellencamp). They are master and slaves. We are sunlight and shadow. All roads to the river. I am lost, I am saved. I'm beloved and betrayed.
I was watching a movie the other night on TV. The actress reminded me of you. Her attitude, the way that she smiled. She was doin' a part, girl, like you used to do.
I've had a lot of girls in my life. They never meant that much to me. A good time was always had by all. But those good times, they were fleeting memories.
Please be quiet, everyone's asleep. Stella's locked her door and she's requested some peace. She teaches the English at the American school. She teaches imaginary numbers and the golden rule.
They're so tough. They like to make us feel little. They like to make us feel small. And keep us down. 'Til we feel no good at all. Then they tell us that we're stupid.
Suzanne divorced her husband. She got the kyes to the car and the home. But her friends were really his friends. No one stops by to see her much any more.
Well I don't like it when I see your eyes darlin'. Back and forth across the room. And I don't like it when I see you doin' dances. Baby that I ain't used to.
As I run through this life. Sometimes it breaks my heart. Seein' old people goin' downtown. Stumblin' their way through the dark. And the little babies cry.
Why do you think there's nobody out there?. No one who wants me and no one who knows. I wait in this place, no one can see me. After all this time could I be so alone?.
I know you and you know me. We met many years ago. In the halls of some ivy covered university. Where we both used to go. Now we stand outside the Denmark Hotel.
Well, she started out to be a dancer. She's gonna make her livin' dancin' in the Broadway shows. SO she hitchhiked cross country from Pasaroba to the Big Red Apple.
waiting wanting. to see you in my eyes. finding feelings. that I thought were buried inside.. . because I never thought that I. could ever love like this.
It's so soft to the see the glow from the city up ahead. Connect my heart to the rhythm, it's lead. Straight forward and ready 'cause I'm on my way home.
Give a prayer to the purse. Can a blessing really be a curse?. Is it right, is it wrong. Or is it even worse now?. . Well, I'll tell you. For the prize you descend.
When I'm gone. Don't stop to wonder if I ever think of you. The same moon shines. The same wind blows. For both of us, and time is but a paper moon... be not gone.