Last Of The Good Straight Girl

Susan Werner Last Of The Good Straight Girl Lyrics
1.Last Of The Good Straight Girls

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner

She is waiting in the rain
She is taking a commuter train
She is wearing a beret
Always wanted just to look that way
She appreciates the thought
As you help her with the bag she brought
She extends a little smile
As you look at her across the aisle

But gone are the days of the corduroy jumpers
And your very first string of pearls
Say a prayer for the souls of the fallen
And the last of the good straight girls

She is riding on the bus
And she winces when the people cuss
She is reading from a book
That she needed for a class she took
She puts a marker in the spine
As we're crossing over Cityline
As she steps down on the street
There's a man she never planned to meet

CHORUS

And you say oh, oh, oh
Where did the gentlewomen go?
And you say where, oh where
Is the town I used to know?
And you say why, why, why
Is it slipping out of sight?
Is there something in the night?

She bought a second-hand Ford
Doesn't bother with the bus no more
She rolls the windows up tight
As she's waiting at the traffic light
Through the bulletproof glass
She buys a paper and a tank of gas
Does she seem a little scared
Well she's always got to be prepared

Gone are the days of the corduroy jumpers
And your very first string of pearls
It's keys in hand and a gun in the pocket
Of the last of the good straight girls

So say goodbye to your Dairy Queen soda
And your Eisenhower-shiny world
Say a prayer for the last of the fallen
And the last of the good straight girls


2.Still Believe

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner


3.Man I Used To Love

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Music:Susan Werner


4.St. Mary's Of Regret

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner


5.No One Here But Me

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner


6.Through The Glass

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner

God was I naive
Waiting like some little lamb
Willing to believe
The story of the big stong man
Who follows his own dreams
The man who would be king someday
But it isn't all it seems
With something always in the way

And the empire falls with every word you're fumbling for tonight
And I can't bear to fool myself again

When you say
Hang on just a little bit longer
You say
Hang on just a little bit more
But I know now what I didn't before
And I will not love you through the glass

Such a slight of hand
Such a touch with subtle lies
Such a fine command
Of every common alibi
But then you lost your grip
And sank into a six pack slide
Livinf gor the sip
And killing off the king inside you

Call it running from the shadows
Call it running from the light
But you're fumbling for my name again tonight

CHORUS

Why dream on a dream that burns me
Why dream on a dream expired
I'm told that this dream returns
But lately I'm so tired


7.Some Other Town

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner

Some other town
Some other place
Some other eyes
Some other face
Some other tribe
Some other race
Lives in some other town

They shoot their drugs
They shoot their friends
And who's to blame
It all depends
There is a tear nobody mends
Down in some other town

In some other town
Sombody's boy
Is learning a dangerous trade
In some other town
Somebody's girl
Is joining the red-light parade

We contemplate the business day
We thrown the Sunday Times away
The cleaning ladies take their pay
Back to some other town

They take their check
They stand in line
Play every week
Lose ever time
We call it fair
It could be crime
But that's some other town

In some other town
Somebody's boy
Has mastered his dangerous trade
In some other town
Somebody's girl
Is leading the red-light parade

My heart is left
My head is right
My uniform
Suburban white
And I'll be driving home tonight
Over some other town
Around some other town
Right by some other town


8.Yes To You(Tappan Zee)

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner


9.Something So Right

Lyrics:Paul Simon
Music:Paul Simon
Arranger:Fernando Saunders

You've got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You've got the look of love
Light in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
Till you calm me down
It took a little time
But you calm me down
Something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
And the last one to know
Something goes right
Oh it's likely to lose me
It's up to confuse me
Such an unusual sight, oh, I swear
I can't, I can't get used
To something so right
Something so right
They've got a wall in China
It's a thousand miles long
To keep off the foreigners
They made it strong
And I've got a wall around me
That you can't see
It took a little time
To get next to me
Something goes wrong
I'm the first to admit it
The first to admit it
And the last one to know
Something goes right
Something goes right
Oh it's likely to lose me
It's up to confuse me
Such an unusual sight, oh, I swear
Oh, I can't, I can't get used
To something so right
Something so right
Some people never say the words
'I love you'
It's not best time to be so cold
Some people never say the words
'I love you'
But like a child they're longing to be told
Hmm...something goes wrong
I am the first to admit it
I'm the first to admit it
And the last one to know
Something goes right
Something goes right
It's like it'll lose me
It's up to confuse me
Such an unusual sight, oh, I swear
I swear, I swear I can't, I can't get used to
Hmm... something so right!
Hmm... something so right!


10.Signing Your Name

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner

Once in a while in my living room
I look up at your face
The man in the hand-painted photograph
I know you from
Someplace

What comes so hard from history
Comes so easy to my pen

And I keep signing your name
While the world stays the same around you
I keep signing your name
Is that all that remains of us

Year after year in the shrinking walls
Nothing to the exchange
Wood in the smiles at the holidays
And your kiss that fit me strange

What comes so hard from history
Comes so easy to my pen

And I keep signing your name...

You gave the truth to the lie
Turned your eyes to the sky
Looked away when I looked your way
There's a myth in the air
It's too late to repair
But you look at me anyway

Now where the kiss and the smile would be
The distance lies instead
Nine hundred miles of what might have been
And a world of things much better left unsaid

But I keep signing your name...


11.Much At All

Lyrics:Susan Werner
Music:Susan Werner