1.Mr. Jones
I was down at the New Amsterdam
staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
with this black-haired flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Cut Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
Because I want to be someone who believes
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
'She's looking at you.
Ah, no, no, she's looking at me.'
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Stare at the beautiful women
'She's looking at you.
Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me.'
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely
I want to be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars,
but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
and I want to be someone to believe
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we star at the beautiful women
'She's perfect for you,
Man, there's got to be somebody for me.'
I want to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, son,
that's just about as funky as you can be
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television,
I want to see me staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars,
but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me,
I'm going to be just about as happy as can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars..
2.A Long December
A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were
leavin'
Now the days go by so fast
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven...
I wish you would
The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California...
I think you should
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not
show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...
I guess I should
3.Colorblind
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stutter-shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am fine
I am covered my skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded
And unfolded
And unfolding
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am fine
4.Hard Candy
On certain Sundays in November
When the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summers
Where my shadows used to be
She is standing by the water
As her smile begins to curl
In this or any other summer
She is something altogether different
Never just an ordinary girl
And in the evenings on Long Island
When the colors start to fade
She wears a silly yellow hat
That someone gave her when she stayed
I didn't think that she returned it
We left New York in a whirl
Time expands and then contracts
When you are spinning
In the grips of someone
Who is not an ordinary girl
When you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake
the morning covers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
You send your lover off to China
Then you wait for her to call
You put your girl up on a pedestal
Then you wait for her to fall
I put my summers back in a letter
And I hide it from the world
All the regrets you can't forget
Are somehow pressed upon a picture
In the face of such an ordinary girl
When you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she fades just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake
the morning showers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Again, again, again, again
It's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Again, again again, again
And it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Go ask her to come around
And see me late after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then wait to if there's a spark
Go ask her to come around
And see me late after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then make me wait to see the spark
Go ask her to come around
Late and see me after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then wait to see if there is a spark
Go ask her to come around
And see me late after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then make me wait to see the spark
5.Hanging Tree
she brings her friends so we wont have to be alone
fear I might lose my composure without warning
I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires
and I was born inside the sun this morning
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
they say good evening when they dont know what to say
they say good morning when they wish you would go home
you open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside
and then freeze to death alone
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
she calls a waitress when its time for her to go
and I know everyone is eventually leaving
I got a pair of wings for my birthday baby
and I will fall down through the sun to see you mine
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
this dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
for me , for me, for me ...
this dizzy life is just a hanging tree
6.Washington Square
I sold my piano
It couldn't come with me
I locked up my bedroom
And I walked out into the air
When nothing I needed
Was left there behind me
I walked out through the shadows
Of Washington Square
I wandered the highways
From Dublin to Berkeley
And I heard the songbirds
Of Ballyporeen
But I loved like a fountain
And it left me with nothing
Just memories of walking
Through Washington Square
Now I live in the shadows
Where light is electric
And time is a number
That rests on a wall
And nobody knows me
My friends and my family
Are as far from this city
As Washington Square
So cover this warm night
In a blanket of starlight
And I'll follow this freeway
Out into the air
In case you should wander
And wanted to find me
I'm traveling homeward
To Washington Square
I'm traveling homeward
To Washington Square
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