1.Conversation With A Ghost
I'll respond to you in letters
Sorry so slow, sorry so few
In a nutshell, i'm much better
So far the complaints i hear are few
So how have you been？ have you been to the races？
did you take my mother --
Is your sister in braces？
i wish i could've been there to see you through
Hey, are all those things you told me once still true？
Do you remember that time
It was cold in the park
You were running a race, i was there on a lark
Who would've thought
that new york could be such a small town
Margaret is tired,
Let's let her get some sleep
Bored with these letters,
Let her count her sheep
So goodbye love, goodbye love...
2.Look At The Wind Blow
I'm only seventeen, but i want much more than
a small town girl should bargain for
More than standing in one place,
waiting for the next james dean i live in a town that's
Gripped in the bible belt man, i bared my back
and i took the welts i only pray to get out of here
Maybe someday i'll find out if the world is green
(chorus) there is nothing to do in this town at night
but sit in my car and watch the streetlights
Or stare out the window at the pizza joint
what's the point？ i wish i could buy my ford a sail
Hey, hey, look at the wind blow
Now the life of the local beauty queen is tied to
the captain of the baseball team
They got a baby on the way at least
that's what the kids are saying
and the wedding i'm told, well it must take place
To save both families from disgrace
but the whole town knows you see,
it ain't like she's not showing...
(chorus)
Tommy bates sits in his car
and he waits for his girl down at lucky's diner
They're at the end of the loop
and he's drinking soup while she puts on more eyeliner
I passed them once, and i'll pass them twice,
and i'll pass them back again they
bought an old range rover from the next town over
And their headlights are my friends,
yeah, those headlights are my friends...
3.Just The Jester Fool
(spoken intro)
I get this message on the message machine that she's cooking
dinner
Tonight so i go out and pick up a bottle of wine and when i get
there i'm a little nervous
And i run out of things to say
So i say, 'i, uh, like your wooden floor boards'
She is laying in flannel sheets
The brass bed speaks
Come on lie in me
And there i'm standing naked and meek, stalling she says
lovingly...
(chorus)
If i were the queen, and you were just the jester fool i would
love you as my king
Just because i do, i do, i do love you
(spoken bridge)
At six am the alarm clock goes off and i realize i'm not used to
looking at this particular ceiling she taps me on the shoulder
with an empty shoe and says, 'hey, cinderella, does this belo
You？'
Morning out on a naked street
Old lady on the corner is staring at me
I guess she ain't ever seen barefoot feet or heard the words
that she sung to me
4.Angel
Needle in my hand
Got a forearm rubber band
Got a golden liquid in a tube
I'm gonna do a vessel jam
Got lots of money
Got lots and lots and lots of time
I think, i think i might be
I think, i think i am
I think, i think i might be
I think, i think i am
(chorus)
It's like liquid sunshine, fire and rain marmalade skies, far
away eyes
Glazed in a haze of cocaine
Angel's on the corner, he's got ten vials in his hands he sells
each one for ten dollars,
Like some medicine man seems to know a lot for a kid just
sixteen years old he's a four year veteran of the penal code
He's got trademark shoes, three tattoos
A brass chord necklace and a smoke-stack too he's got...
(chorus)
There's a black wind spinning the cities weathervanes and the
eye of the storm is a crystal of cocaine
Can't you hear the wind？
Can't you see the driving rain
Take a break from the storm in the eye of the hurricane...
(chorus)
Eyes in the mirror, not too sure if they're my own
Black-white eyes in the mirror on a face of cold stone
Black-white eyes, riddles and lies
They tell me, tell me, tell me you've got nothing to hide but...
5.Thin Man
I've been avoiding the circus
Afraid the trapeze might fall down
You say the fall will not hurt us
'cause the net stands apart from the ground...
(chorus)
So there you go for the rings
Legs entwined and circling
Height of the backside swing
Arms reaching beckoning me
But i am the thin man
All skin and bones
Am i qualified for the job？
Or better off alone
Sleeping in a bed of leaves
Scarecrow where all the birds are thieves...
Meanwhile, back at the circus
You seeing as the pendulum flies
Watched by ten thousand eyes
6.Washington Dc 5／91
Politician and a stewardess
Underneath the monuments and the moon
He talked of national security
She talked of paris in june
(chorus)
The lucky ones if they're out tonight
Can see cherry blossoms blooming
Or ride white carriages beneath city lights but lincoln's eyes
of stone stare cool
As if bored of the reflecting pool
Or hardened by what's hidden from his sight they're rioting in
the capitol tonight...
Now the joneses from poughkeepsie
Rest mall-weary legs in the hotel pool
They're soaking up reflections
The kids are glad they're out of school
The museums were overcrowded
White house lines were much too long
But the sights, they were quite beautiful it's good to know
where the tax money's gone...
New light on your halo
Welcome to the city where we're rich on pride and pity where a
schoolboy, just a fool
Boy, gets shot down in daylight a state of shock, a face down on
the sidewalk who's
Seeing god and gets the nod to heaven like a hawk who keeps the
score when the city goes to war -- by guns, by deaths, by money？
A man in a black coat standing in the gun-smoke sips on white
milk and honey...
(chorus)
This can be the playground of the feeble where the mindless mix
the soil of play with evil a child becomes the means because
innocence is believable to all, to all, to all, but their
mother's ey
W light on your halo
And it ain't shining brightly
7.New Light On Your Halo
And it ain't shining, it ain't shining,
shine, shine, shine...
There's cracks in the walls in the town of jericho,
sirens blaring out a lifetime never told rembrandt
at the wall his palate's small,
his hopes are tall he writes his name, his claim to fame
On red bricks bright white
Hey pretty thing, voices out a window
sing a puerto rican peggy sue of seventeen in yellow shoes
All are out tonight you might say
they're looking for some action a dog strays,
music plays, kids stay in the streets all day
They see the man in the black
coat as a form of satisfaction
8.Friday Night
The moon must know it's friday,
he's been drinking all night
Crooning and swooning,
He says come dance in the half-light
So you whirl out a step, choreographed by wine
And you dance with the moon, the stars, and the stop sign
(chorus)
In my mind, i see a lifetime of tonights
But i'll keep that thought sealed tight
Live for the moment that is tonight
There's no rain in the gutters, the moon's fully bright
Let it shine all it's power,
I may not get another friday night...
You whirl and a child-like wisdom glows on your face
The moon you have embraced you left him spell-bound,
staggered, in his starry, starry place
Round, round, round, he's spinning round you, round you
Dancing, twirling, in a wild lunar chase
Though the moon's all but eclipsed tonight
By curtains and candlelight he's tapping
at me through the window pane
In his top hat and cane...
9.Blizzard
Weather advisory, one for the diaries
Windy and cold so stay off the road
It's bitter outside your windows
Stack your blankets, light your candles
There isn't a phone booth, and ain't it the cold truth
It's a lonely old highway, just me and the plows
Making the most of their payday
Laying salt in the wounds of the roadways
(chorus)
For your bed i'll beat the cold,
With a blizzard in my headlights, or an avalanche in the road
Snow blinds every road sign,
So i'm counting the miles as i'm going
There's a shroud of black ice forming
The radio sends out ample warning...
Up on the next hill, a trailer truck load spilled it spun in a
jacknife, and now it's a still life
Framed by the flares and the cruisers, orange coats and one sore
loser...
(chorus)
In hindsight, it's been a long night
And where i was was not so cold
Another sound bite off the dash lights
It's more than a foot or so they're told
Two hundred miles to chicago, my eyes froze to the road
Mesmerized as the windshield collides with the snow...
Weather advisory, one for the diaries
Windy and cold so stay off the road
10.Jumpin' A Train
The time, 11：33 on a saturday, november, 1923
I'm synchronized, it's wise to keep my wits about me
My name is roy, a one-time choir boy
Now i'm sixteen, man, and i'm nobody's toy
I'm gonna take to the wind and get this town behind me
(chorus)
I'm jumpin' a train leavin' town
Howling whistle sounds
And i'm not looking back --
gonna tie my fate to a train track
Got a whiskey bottle tied in a corn sack
Hold on world, i'm coming,
i'm hitching a ride on a north-bound train
Am i alive？ won't somebody tell me
The mississippi waves, what's it trying to sell me？
Mud in the banks, but no one gets thanks
When it's tracked in through the doorway
I am home grown, sewn into these britches
But i'm not spending my life digging up ditches
Like my daddy did, and his daddy did, and his daddy before
11.Say Something
Carrie's a cold one, colder than the winter sun
I should warn you, you better dress for it
And i'm not the only one that thinks so
Beauty is skin deep, and yes, she is thick-skinned
But what's that for virtue？
(chorus)
You want her to say some, say something, say anything,
Or say nothing at all...
Say some, say something, say anything,
Or say nothing at all...
She's browsing for postcards,
staring back at the covergirls on the magazines
Even the clerk is checking her out
She's unaware that she owns the scene
Though everyone goes out of their way for her
And all her life reads like some fairy tale
But her world is so frail
What did i tell you,
she never looks out her window to see the setting sun
You tell her the skies are blue,
she'll say the storms will come
Because every day is rain, every day is rain...
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