1.Baby Boom Baby
Somehow the season always brings a picture of you
Baby boom baby
Holding on for everything you figured you're due
Little turtleneck girl
The moon on your shoulder
The wind in your lovely hair
Oh what a night
We sat on the beach and watched as the sun
Rose into the summer air
You said we couldn't miss what we never knew
Something about something that you had to do
Sitting on the sand with a hole in my shoe
I had no way of knowing where you might have been
Time goes by
All on my own i imagine you a life in between
All own my own
I worked on a letter but it never made it out of my head
Somehow reading your name it wasn't the same
As leaving the thing unsaid
How come i miss what i never knew
And drag out the past just to paint it blue
And spend my days with a dream of you
Oh, after a fall
Here i'm trying to find our name on the wall
It was neither yours nor mine
It was something of the two combined
From a time spent out of time
I work hard to see that you remember my name
Nod your head yes
Do all i can to make you want to see me again
Oh what a night
Got a letter from the mail, got a message from the telephone
Seems you're working in town
Moving around
Living alone
Now i'm caught in the spotlight
Walking the wire
My feet are frozen and my heart's on fire
What do i do if my dream come true
2.First Of May
And the light between us
Which we could not quite extinguish
Which we see at dawn
Burns on
First day of may
Things are beginning
Our side is winning
Hip hip hooray
Made in the shade
Deep in the shadow
Down by the meadow
Lie in my arms
And the moon will rise
Before our very eyes
We will rise too
I'll be with you
It's a rite of spring
A horizontal thing
The sweetest sort of dance
Hidden in among the plants
Ha ha ha ha
People are laughing
Children are singing
Come join the dance
And the walls around us
Which we kept at such a cost
When we turned around
Came tumbling down
Ha ha ha ha
She can't stop laughing
He can't stop singing
First day of may
3.Home By Another Way
Those magic men the magi
Some people call them wise
Or oriental, even kings
Well anyway, those guys
They visited with jesus
They sure enjoyed their stay
Then warned in a dream of king herod's scheme
They went home by another way
Yes they went home by another way
Home by another way
Maybe me and you can be wise guys too
And go home by another way
We can make it another way
Safe home as they used to say
Keep a weather eye to the chart on high
And go home another way
Steer clear of royal welcomes
Avoid a big to-do
A king who would slaughter the innocents
Will not cut a deal for you
He really, really wants those presents
He'll comb your camel's fur
Until his boys announce they've found trace amounts
Of your frankincense, gold and myrth
Time to go home by another way
Home by another way
You have to figure the gods saying play the odds
And go home by another way
We can make it another way
Safe home as they used to say
Keep a weather eye to the chart on high
And go home another way
Home is where they want you now
You can more or less assume that you'll be welcome in the end
Mustn't let king herod haunt you so
Or fantasize his features when you're looking at a friend
Well it pleasures me to be here
And to sing this song tonight
They tell me that life is a miracle
And i figured that they're right
But herod's always out there
He's got our cards on file
It's a lead pipe cinch, if we give an inch
Old herod likes to take a mile
It's best to go home by another way
Home by another way
We got this far to a lucky star
But tomorrow is another day
We can make it another way
Safe home as they used to say
Keep a weather eye to the chart on high
And go home another way
4.Letter In The Mail
If i could go down now
While the whole town is sleeping
See the sun creeping up on the hill
I know the river and the railroad
Would run through the valley still
I guess it never was much to look at
Just a one-horse town
The kind of place young people want to leave today
Store fronts pretty much boarded up
Main street pretty much closed down
The church bell still rings on sunday
Old folks still go
The young ones listen on the radio
Saturday night nothing but a stray dog running wild
Like nobody's child
And little by little, light after light
That's how it died
They say you never go home again
That's no lie
Its like a letter in the mail
To a brother in jail
It's a matter of time
Until you can do a little bit better time
It used to be part of the heartland
Awful proud and strong
But deep, deep down peaceful and serene
When people used to talk about the country
That's what they used to mean
I might go down come the weekend
Go on my own
Drop off annie and the baby
Maybe drive alone
Pay my last respects to a time
That has all but gone
We said, mama come look at the mountain
Fire in the sky
It's lit up like the fourth of july
The mill burning down
The jobs leaving town
The trains rolling by
And little by little, light after light
That's how it died
They say you never go home again
That's no lie
It's just a letter in the mail
To a brother in jail
It's a matter of time
Until you can do a little bit better time
5.Never Die Young
We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up, never slow down
Never grow old, never ever die young
Synchronized with the rising moon
Even with the evening star
They were true love written in stone
They were never alone, they were never that far apart
And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it
We got to close our eyes
Cut up our losses into doable doses
Ration our tears and sighs
You could see them on the street on a saturday night
Everyone used to run them down
They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight
Not enough tough for this town
We couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole
No, it didn't seem to rattle at all
They were glued together body and soul
That much more with their backs up against the wall
Oh, hold them up, hold them up
Never do let them fall
Prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin
That names us and claims us and shames us all
I guess it had to happen someday soon
Wasn't nothing to hold them down
They would rise from among us like a big baloon
Take the sky, forsake the ground
Oh, yes, other hearts were broken
Yeah, other dreams ran dry
But our golden ones sail on, sail on
To another land beneath another sky
6.Runaway Boy
Fetch down the fiddle, rosin up the bow
Don't play me nothing on the radio
Don't make me remember the alamo
I'm feeling like a little bit of cotton eyed joe
No ragin' cajun crawfish stew
Fat batter come a lou mamma lou
Boy howdy and howdy damn do
Something like fine setting eyes on you
Let me come down, i won't never go back up again
Oh, hold me down
Let me come home, i won't never go away no more
Oh let me come down
In a younger day back in tennessee
The muddy mississippi used to call to me
Float on a river and set yourself free
Run from the farm and the family tree
Run from the runaway boy
So i've been all the places that i ever want to be
I've seen all the people that i ever want to see
I'm sick and tired of being lonely and free
I'm ready today for what's waiting on me
I'm gonna give up believing i was born to run
And stop acting like a man that gets shot from a gun
I'm putting down roots, i want to soak up sun
And stay right here until my days are done
Let me back down, i will never go up again
Hold me down, tie me on down
Let me go home, i will never go away no more
Oh let me come home
Oh let me go down
7.Sun On The Moon
In line, in line, it's all in line
My ducks are all in a row
They do not change, they do not move
They have nowhere to go
I've been talking to a friend of mine
He says making money's just a waste of time
He's a lazy gent, he don't pay no rent
He's all bent out of shape from living in a tent
It's hard to hear what he has to say
'cause everyone around me is just the same way：
More, more, daddy gimme some, gimme some
More, more, daddy gimme some more
Some kind of funny looking money machine it is
Saddest looking people that i've ever seen
Living in a hole, body and soul
Strung out on the company dole
One for a nickel and two for a dime
Time may be money but your money won't buy time
In line, in line, it's all in a line
My ducks are all in a row
They do not shift, they do not move
They have nowhere to go
Me and my flea we were down by the water
Fell in a hole with superman's daughter
Living alone, chewing on a bone
Pretty as homemade sin
She had to be high by the look in her eye
Her hands were wet and her mouth was dry
The sun on the moon, the sun on the moon
The sun on the moon made a mighty nice light
Bow wow wow, honk your horn
In line, in line, it's all in line
My ducks are all in a row
They do not change, they do not move
They have nowhere to go
Sometimes i'm hungry, i don't know what to do
You can take a taco to katama too
8.Sweet Potato Pie
Oh lord i feel fine today
I'm walking on cloud nine today
I'm over that line today
Happiness is finally mine today
I guess i'm just a lucky guy
And i'm prepared to tell you why
It's strictly on account of my
Sweet potato pie
I'm the fellow that she loves the most
The main reason why she left the coast
She's my little girlziña
That much hotter that a jalapeño
Tender like a night in june
Sweeter than a honeymoon
Brighter than a silver spoon
Just as crazy as a loon
Softer than a lullabye
Deeper than the midnight sky
Soulful as a baby's cry
My sweet potato pie
I used to see her around the neighborhood
I wonder how she grew up so good
She belonged to freddy and he was bad
And i never was ready to make him mad
I'm glad i had to wait awhile
A little bit too juvenile
I needed to refine my style
A silk suit and a crocodile smile
So let the whole damn world go by
'cause i just want to testify
From now on it's me and my
Sweet potato pie
9.T-bone
Me and t-bone on the road to town
It's like i'm walking with a talking machine
Just as soon as he thinks of something else
He won't wait to interrupt himself
Must be something that he can't quite say
He just doesn't want to leave it that way
Although he may not know it yet
Unless i miss my bet
He's just trying to forget
What his heart remembers
I see that t-bone got an automobile
Low-loping and open to the sky
All night behind the hurricane wheel
Riding in the eye
All day underneath the hood
Mondo bondo, plastic wood
He needs a mile of masking tape
He wants to keep his ship in shape
Someday to escape
What his heart remembers (oh, yes,what his heart remembers)
T-bone's not alone, not alone
Looks like he gets a second chance
It's mamarama and lumalamalu
Want to take him to recovery dance
He's looking like he gets his meat suit back
I guess he must have missed the crack attack
Still he's riding for a fall
'cause it's written upon the wall
That now he must recall
What his heart remembers (what his heart remembers)
10.Valentine's Day
Beneath the tide the fishes glide
Fin to fin and side to side
For fishy love has now begun
Fishy love, finny fun
Paper moon, paper heart
Pink balloon, work of art
Al capone, bugs moran
Valentine's day
Bootleg gin, porkpie hat
Dew drop inn, dirty rat
Through the heart, cupid's dart
Valentine's day
Day to repay the one that you love
Gentlemen take off your hats as i speak thereof
Just a brief break from the push and the shove
We may go a few rounds without boxing gloves
Land your punch, i stand my ground
We break for lunch and a second round
We set them up, we knock them down
Valentine's day
Me and you, you and him
Him and her, us and them
We keep score, love as war
Valentine's day
I lost my teeth, i lost my hair
I lost my mind, you don't care
Love is war, all is fair
On valentine's day
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