Susanna Hoffs

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1.Beekeeper's Blues

Written:Susanna Hoffs/David Baerwald/David Kitay

You only call when you want money
And when I need you you're not there
Everybody else has written you right off
You make it hard to care
You're pretty hard to bear.

Women think that you're a genius
'Til you get caught for who you are
I reeled you in and you ate me half alive
You were a future star
Who do you think you are?

No good deed will go unpunished, oh oh oh
No beekeeper goes unstung
And these boots are made for walking
They're walking back to you
What else can I do?

I know you know that you're good looking
And you're not known for too much else
I took you in and you left me half a live
Don't know what you do
Or who you do it to.

When I'm gone someone will save you
When she gets tired there's always someone new
I reeled you in and you ate me half alive
You were a future star
Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are?

I reeled you in and you ate me half alive
You were a future star
Who do you think you are?

No good deed will go unpunished, yea yea yea
No beekeeper goes unstung
And these boots are made for walking
I'm walking back to you
What else can I do?

Oh no no (oh no no)
Walking back to you (walking back to you)
Oh oh oh, walking back to you (walking back to you)
(I'd do it all again, I'd do it all again) with you.


2.All I Want

Lyrics:L.Broudie/P.Coyle
Music:L.Broudie/P.Coyle

Can't ignore or hide away
Can't escape from the things that line our way
Take it, leave it, break it
Anyway, you can't get back to yesterday.

All I want
All I want to do
You better listen from now on
Stop what's going on
Stop what's going wrong
You better listen from now on.

Confidence, coincidence, call it a sin
It's just like people say
Tomorrow's here so open up your eyes
Never hesitate.

All I want
All I want to do
Is make you listen from now on
Sleeping in the dark
Dreaming of the stars
Keep one to wish on from now on.

It makes me want to give you everything
Pick you up and take you home again
Hold you tight and think that now is then.

All I want to do
All I want to do
You better listen from now on
Open arms or crying eyes
Say hello or wave goodbye
Which one are you thinking of.

All I want to do
All I want to do
Is make you listen from now on
Stop what's going on
Stop what's going wrong
From now on.

'Cause all I want to do
All I want to say
You better listen from now on
Sleeping in the dark
Dreaming of the stars
Keep one to wish on from now on.

All I want to do
All I want to say
Is everything I feel from now on.


3.Enormous Wings

Written:Mark Linkous/Susanna Hoffs

There once was a very old man
Who had enormous wings
There once was a very old man
Who had enormous wings.

They say he saw the world
Through the eyes of a blue dog
There once was a man
Who had enormous wings.

It was sad
The rain had knocked him down
People came to see from all around
He was lying there.

He was lying there.

His dreams are forever
Entangled in the mud
He's an angel (his dreams were forever)
Tangled in the mud (entangled in the mud).

Every soul you meet (there once was a very old man)
May be a stranger (who had enormous wings)
He's an angel (he's an angel)
He must be coming for the children (He's coming for the
children).

It was sad
The rain had knocked him down
People came to see from all around
He was lying there.

And though he'd like to sleep
The stars fall to the earth in heaps
And he's got tears in his eyes
'Cause the town is filled with so many spies
They all avert their eyes.

The rain had knocked him down
People came to see from all around
He was lying there.

It was sad
The rain had knocked him down
He was lying there.

They say he saw the world (he's an angel)
Through the eyes of a blue dog (who had enormous wings)
He's an angel
Who had enormous wings.

There once was a very old man
Who had enormous wings.


4.Falling

Written:Susanna Hoffs/Charlotte Caffey/Roger Manning

Piece by piece I come undone
Lose my equilibrium
I crash but I don't care
Nothing to hold on to
I won't look back, I'll look for you
And I'm almost there.

I am falling I am falling
I am falling for you.

I come undone
Piece by piece
I'm overcome, overcome
Come undone, come undone.

On the floor against the wall (against the wall)
To the sound of stars, I fall
So hard but I don't care
All around and down we go (down we go)
Swimming in the undertow with you
There is no fear.

I am falling
I am falling
I am falling to you.

I come undone
Piece by piece
I'm overcome, overcome
Come undone, come undone.

Piece by piece you come undone (come undone)
Lose your equilibrium
We crash but we don't care.

I am falling I am falling
I am falling for you.

I am falling
I am falling
I am falling to you.


5.Darling One

Written:S.Hoffs/Mark Linkous/David Lowery/Davey Faragher

I hear a voice that fights the wind
And the rain that keeps falling
And I feel a river rushing in
Between you and me.

You keep looking
For something that's not lost
I wish that somehow
I could get you across.

Oh, won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart
Oh, won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart, sweetheart.

When they told you the big parade
Had long since passed
I saw you waiting there
For the music to come back.

Feeling blue
'Cause there's so much to live up to
I wish that somehow
I could give it to you.

Oh, won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart
Oh, won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart, sweetheart.

Won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart.
Oh, won't you rest your worries
Darling one
Sweetheart, sweetheart.


6.King Of Tragedy

Written:S.Hoffs/David Baerwald/Jim Keltner/Greg Leisz/La

She's a cross between
Emma Peel
Gwyneth Paltrow
And Kathy Lee
She's got a boyfriend
He's twenty-three
She won't give him up
I can't set him free.

And still he means the world to me
If only I could make him see
If only he'd be good to me
But he's the king of tragedy, oh oh.

He calls me on the phone
He needs another loan
Gonna lose his home
He lays it all on me
And I feel so guilty
Want to tell him no
But he always tricks me
Into letting go.

And still he means the world to me
If only I could make him see
If only he'd be good to me
But he's the king of tragedy, oh oh.

Oh, come back to me, yea yea.

We used to call you
Johnny Fun
Isn't that ironic
After all you've done
But the door's still open
The way is clear
When you get it together
I'll be here.

And still he means the world to me
If only I could make him see
If only he'd be good to me
But he's the king of tragedy, oh oh.

You and me that's all I ever wanted
Can't you see you're all I ever wanted
You and me it's all I ever wanted
Can't you see you're all I ever needed, oh oh.


7.Eyes Of A Baby

Written:S.Hoffs/David Baerwald/Jim Keltner/Greg Leisz/La

It was five o'clock in a dying city
I was putting on make-up
Trying to feel pretty
Looked around my tidy little home
Oh, I was tired of being alone.

Had an eight o'clock date with a man I never met
I hate to be late
So I headed east on Sunset
Thinking anything is better
Than being alone.

Now I'm looking in the eyes of my baby
Now I'm looking in the eyes of my man
No one ever could be more surprised than me
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?

There was fog in the road
It was like I was driving blind
All the faces I've known kept running around in my mind
I was right to keep looking
I was right to look ahead
You never know what you might find.

I was feeling so old
And naive at the very same time
I had no idea if I could even talk to a guy
If I could run, if I could leave, if I could hide
You know I would
But there he was and it was time.

Now I'm looking in the eyes of my baby
Now I'm looking in the eyes of my man
No one ever could be more surprised than me
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?

Oh, it's alright
Oh, it's alright
Oh, it's alright.

Now we're looking in the eyes of a baby
Now we're looking in the eyes of a child
No one ever could be more surprised than me
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?

Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?
Did you see him smile?


8.Grand Adventure

Written:Susanna Hoffs/David Baerwald/David Kitay/Greg Lei

You're a little bit phony
And you try a bit too hard, hard
I'm a little bit lonely
And I wonder who you are.

Maybe you're someone brilliant
If not I still don't mind.

I'm on a grand adventure
With my friend, The Great Pretender
We can do anything we want.

In your corduroy flares
With your Led Zeppelin hair
And your nonchalance
You hide how much you really care.

You drink your Irish whiskey
Through lips I wish would kiss me.

I'm on a grand adventure
With my friend, The Great Pretender
We can do anything we want.

(Anytime) anywhere, anytime.

And now my happiness is
Your happiness is happy, happy.

I'm on a grand adventure
With my friend, The Great Pretender
We can do anything we want.

Anywhere, anytime.

My happiness is your happiness
And my happiness is your happiness
And my happiness is your happiness
And my happiness is your happiness.

Baby, in your Forponey boots
You're a little bit phony
You try a bit too hard.


9.Happy Place

Written:Mark Linkous/David Lowery

Everyday
Held at bay
Lucy says
Try to fly
Paralyzed
And I don't know why
Don't know how.

Oh, why don't you
Go on and get in your happy place.

Everyday
Mary says
It's okay
It's easier
To say those words
And run away
When you don't feel this way.

Why don't you
Go on and get in your happy place
They say why don't you
Go on and get in your happy place.

Everyday
It's okay
Lucy says.

Hey, come on now
Go on and get in your happy place
Oh, why don't you
Go on and get in your happy place.

Hey, come on now
Go on and get in your happy place
Oh, why don't you
Go on and get in your happy place.


10.Those Days Are Over

Written:Susanna Hoffs/David Baerwald/David Kitay

Do you remember
Nineteen-Ninety
I wouldn't blame you if you don't
You were crazy
Always fighting
Always drinking alone.

People wrote you off
I never wanted to
You really broke my heart
But then that's nothing new
That's all over now.

You really won this time
Those days are over
Hey, you really won this time
Those days are over.

It's been a long time
It's good to see you
Good to see you well
All the family
They're glad to see you
Glad to see you well.

I won't ask you
On this happy day
I won't ask you
If you meant to hurt me
'Cause that's all over now.

You really won this time
Those days are over
Hey, you really won this time
Those days are over, yeah.

Hey, you really won this time
Those days are over
Hey, you really won this time
Those days are over.

Those days are over
Those days are over
Those days are over
Those days are over.


11.Weak With Love

Written:Jim Keltner/S.Hoffs/David Baerwald/Larry Klein/D

December eighth in nineteen-eighty
I was home on Avondale
Boys were playing basketball
When the news came in.

I heard my brother say, 'Oh my God!'
I said, 'What's the matter, Jesse?'
He said, 'I don't want to tell you this'
And he would not meet my eyes.

Please comfort me
And shelter me
I am weak with love
Comfort me
And shelter me
I am weak with love

The policeman laid him in the police car
He was shot and bleeding
Then he said, 'Are you John Lennon?'
John couldn't speak but he nodded 'yeah'.

I heard my brother say, 'Oh my God!'
I said, 'What's the matter, Jesse?'
He said, 'I don't want to tell you this'
So he took me for a drive.

Please comfort me
And shelter me
I am weak with love
Comfort me
And shelter me
I am weak with love

Love, love, love.