Little Yellow Town Lyrics - Rickie Lee Jones

Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town 

Green life teems up from the underground 

Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage 

Reach hard in for the ragged star fish 

And only her lipstick bleeds 

And the color seeds into 

All your paint by number schemes 

What was yellow? What was white? 

What was day? What was night? 

And now in soft detective voices, the past rises 

And follows you in shapes of rain and dew 

And you walk through the Fun House 

Those sonic faces hit you like a bus 

Till you're knocked down by Doppler waves of trust 

And over here I scare myself 

And over here I scare myself 

Day after day, cube after cube 

Dot after dot 

Laying down on the kitchen floor 

Tapped into the secret code 

She's a down girl 

The acid's eating out her mind 

Ah, the altered universe, step right up 

Door swings both ways, ha ha 

And now as tattooed children 

(Two-legged potions) 

Follow us 

While lightening bugs circle overhead 

While lightening bugs circle overhead 

We tear their wings off 

And memorize what they said 

It's down rain, down time 

She's a real down girl 

The acid's eating out her mind 

Till all is new and all is changed 

The altered world spells out your name 

(See if it works)