1.All I Wanna Do
Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is la!
'all i wanna do is have a little fun before i die,'
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos of nothing
He says his name's william but i'm sure
He's bill or billy or mac or buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And i wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole life
We are drinking beer at noon on tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits
They drive their shiny datsuns and buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like billy and me, cause
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of bud as they spin on the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard
Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the buds and the clean and dirty cars
The sun and the moon but
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling i'm not the only one
All i wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over santa monica boulevard
(wyn cooper／sheryl crow／bill bottrell／david baerwald／kevin
gilbert)
2.A Change(Would Do You Good)
Ten years living in a paperbag
Feedback baby, he's a flipped out cat
He's a platinum canary, drinkin' falstaff beer
Mercedes rule, and a rented lear
Bottom feeder insincere
Prophet lo-fi pioneer
Sell the house and go to school
Get a young girlfriend, daddy's jewel
A change would do you good
A change would do you good
God's little gift is on the rag
Poster girl posing in a fashion mag
Canine, feline, jekyll and hyde
Wear your fake fur on the inside
Queen of south beach, aging blues
Dinner's at six, wear your cement shoes
I thought you were singing your heart out to me
Your lips were syncing and now i see
A change would do you good
A change would do you good
Chasing dragons with plastic swords
Jack off jimmy, everybody wants more
Scully and angel on the kitchen floor
And i'm calling buddy on the ouija board
I've been thinking 'bout catching a train
Leave my phone machine by the radar range
Hello it's me, i'm not at home
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone
A change would do you good
A change would do you good
Hello, it's me, i'm not at home
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone
A change would do you good
A change would do you good
(sheryl crow／jeff trott／brian macleod)
3.Everyday Is A Winding Road
I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man
He says he's been down this road more than twice
He was high on intellectualism
I've never been there but the brochure looks nice
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low,
These are the days when anything goes
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine
He's got a daughter he calls easter
She was born on a tuesday night
I'm just wondering why i feel so all alone
Why i'm a stranger in my own life
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine
I've been living in a sea of anarchy
I've been living on coffee and nicotine
I've been wondering if all the thing i've seen
Were ever real, were ever really happening
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine
(sheryl crow／jeff trott／brian macleod)
4.Gold Dust Woman
5.Happy
6.If It Makes You Happy
I've been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitoes,
And drank til i was thirsty again
We went searching through thrift store jungles
Found geronimo's rifle, marilyn's shampoo
And benny goodman's corset and pen
Well, o.k. i made this up
I promised you i'd never give up
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad
You get down, real low down
You listen to coltrane, derail your own train
Well who hasn't been there before？
I come round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you french toast again
Well, o.k. i still get stoned
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad
We've been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos
And everywhere in between
Well, o.k. we get along
So what if right now everything's wrong？
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad
(sheryl crow／jeff trott)
7.It Don't Hurt
it don't hurt like it did.
I can sing my song again.
It don't hurt like it did.
I can sing my song again.
I scraped the paper off the wall.
I put down carpet in the hall.
I left no trace of you at all.
And i can sing my song again.
I don't dream 'cuz i don't sleep.
The moon is hanging like your hat.
The sun comes up, well i don't see
Curtains tied up like a bat.
The electric man looks good today.
Maybe not, well i'm trying hard.
Trying hard to feel that way,
The electric man's a good place to start.
Took your paintings off the wall.
That one of me that you called doll.
I added on 'cuz the house was feeling small.
Now i can sing my song again.
I don't think of you no more
Except for everyday or two.
I don't think of you no more
Except for in between the sun and moon.
Packed up and moved out after all.
Bulldozed the house and watched it fall.
That blessed sight i still recall
I can sing my song again
I can sing my song again
It don't hurt like it did, it hurts worse.
Who do i kid？
(sheryl crow／jeff trott)
8.Leaving Las Vegas
Life springs eternal
On a gaudy neon street
Not that i care at all
I spent the best part of my losing streak
In an army jeep
For what i can't recall
Oh i'm banging on my tv set
And i check the odds
And i place my bet
I pour a drink
And i pull the blinds
And i wonder what i'll find
I'm leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good
Used to be i could drive up to
Barstow for the night
Find some crossroad trucker
To demonstrate his might
But these days it seems
Nowhere is far enough away
So i'm leaving las vegas today
I'm leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm standing in the middle of the desert
Waiting for my ship to come in
But now no joker, no jack, no king
Can take this loser hand
And make it win
I'm leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good
I quit my job as a dancer
At the lido des girls
Dealing blackjack until one or two
Such a muddly line between
The things you want
And the things you have to do
I'm leaving las vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a saturday night
Leaving las vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving las vegas
And i won't be back
No i won't be back
Not this time
(sheryl crow／bill bottrell／david baerwald／kevin gilbert／david
Ricketts)
9.My Favorite Mistake
I woke up and called this morning
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore
I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
It's 6 a.m. and i'm alone
Did you know when you go
It's the perfect ending
To the bad day i was just beginning
When you go all i know is
You're my favorite mistake
Well, your friends are sorry for me
They watch you pretend to adore me
But i'm no fool to this game
Now here comes your secret lover
She'd be unlike any other
Until your guilt goes up in flames
Did you know when you go
It's the perfect ending
To the bad day i've gotten used to spending
When you go all i know is
You're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
Well maybe nothin' lasts forever
Even when you stay together
I don't need forever after
It's your laughter won't let me go
So i'm holding on this way
Did you know, could you tell
You were the only one
That i ever loved
Now everything's so wrong
Did you see me walking by？
Did it ever make you cry？
You're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
(sheryl crow／jeff trott)
10.Strong Enough
god, i feel like hell tonight
Tears of rage i cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand
Are you strong enough to be my man？
Nothing's true and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
Cause you can't change the way i am
Are you strong enough to be my man？
Lie to me
I promise i'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave
I have a face i cannot show
I make the rules up as i go
It's try and love me if you can
Are you strong enough to be my man？
When i've shown you that i just don't care
When i'm throwing punches in the air
When i'm broken down and i can't stand
Will you be man enough to be my man？
Lie to me
I promise i'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave
11.There Goes The Neighborhood
Hey let's party, let's get down, let's turn the radio on,
This is the meltdown.
Get out the camera, take a picture,
The drag queens and the freaks
Are all out on the town.
And cowboy jane's in bed
Nursing a swollen head.
Sunshine sally and peter ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow.
I dropped acid on a saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about.
Now there goes the neighborhood.
The photo chick made to look sickly
Is standing in her panties in the shower.
She plays the guitar in the bathroom
While the police dust her mother's plastic flowers.
And schooboy john's in jail
Making a killing through the u.s. mail.
Sunshine sally and peter ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow.
I dropped acid on a saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about.
There goes the neighborhood.
There goes the neighborhood.
This is the movie of the screenplay of the book about a girl who
meets a junkie.
The messenger gets shot down just for carrying the message to a
flunky.
We can't be certain who the villains are 'cuz everyone's so
pretty
But the afterparty's sure to be a wing-ding as it moves into
your city.
Sunshine sally and peter ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow.
I dropped acid on a saturday night
Just to see what the stink was about.
Sunshine sally and peter ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow.
I dropped acid on a saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about.
There goes the neighborhood.
There goes the neighborhood.
(sheryl crow／jeff trott)
12.The Difficult Kind
I think i was wrong
I think you were right
All my angry words
Will keep me up at night
Through the old screen door
I still hear you say
Honey won't you stop
Treating me that way
If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then i'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
Cause babe i've changed
Tell it to me slow
Tell me with your eyes
If anyone should know
How to let it slide
I swear i can see you
Coming up the drive
There ain't nothing like regret
To remind you you're alive
If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then i'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
Cause babe i've changed
I crossed the canyon a thousand times
But never noticed what was mine
What you'll remember of me tonight
Well, it almost makes me cry
Yeah, it almost makes me cry
Oh ballbreaking moon and ridiculing stars
The older i get, the closer you are
Don't you have somewhere that you need to be
Instead of hanging here making a fool of me
If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then i'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see the change in me
If you could only see
What love has made of me
But i'll forever be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see, no you won't see
The good in me
But babe i've changed
Cause babe i've changed
(sheryl crow)
13.Tombstone Blues
tombstone blues
The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course
The city fathers they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of paul revere's horse
But the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of belle starr she hands down her wits
To jezebel the nun who violently knits
A bald wig for jack the ripper who sits
At the head of the chamber of commerce
Mama's in the fact'ry
She ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley
He's lookin' for the fuse
I'm in the streets
With the tombstone blues
The hysterical bride in the penny arcade
Screaming she moans, 'i've just been made'
Then she sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade
Says, 'my advice is to not let the boys in'
Now the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside
He walks with a swagger and he says to the bride
'stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it's not poison'
Mama's in the fact'ry
She ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley
He's lookin' for the fuse
I'm in the streets
With the tombstone blues
Well, john the baptist after torturing a thief
Looks up to his hero the commander-in-chief
'tell me great hero, but please make it brief
Is there a hole for me to get sick in？'
Commander-in-chief answers him while chasing a fly
Saying, 'death to all those who would whimper and cry'
And dropping a bar bell he points to the sky
Saving, 'the sun is not yellow it is chicken'
Mama's in the fact'ry
She ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley
He's lookin' for the fuse
I'm in the streets
With the tombstone blues
14.White Room
In the white room with black curtains by the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.
I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines;
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.
You said no strings could secure you at the station.
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows.
I walked into such a sad time at the station.
When i walked out, felt my own need just beginning.
I'll sleep in this place where the sun never shines;
Wait in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd.
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Now she's dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
I'll wait in the queue where the trains come around;
Wait here with you where the shadows run from themselves.
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