The Long Goodbye

The Essex Green The Long Goodbye Lyrics
1.By The Sea

A moment taken slowly by the sea
Wind blowing down
Bells ring a sigh, of good morning, goodbye...

Ooooo...

Faces pass you by on a blue train flyin' high
Who do you see this time?

Everybody's talkin' at once
They got the look of a stranger
Ooh..

The shoreline is a map, as sure as anyone you've ever known
Tracing the way
To good morning, good day...
Ooooo...


2.Julia

You may be on central time, girl
(Julia)
But I'm still behind you here, girl
(Julia)
And if you're thinkin' 'bout it right
(Julia)

It's so sad to get lonely
In their mind they're only, a little more sad
You and me, we got a whole world to key

So take those troubles to me
(Julia)
And if they double, don't worry
(Julia)
There's no need to cry, don't cry
(Julia)

It's in this song I'm singing
I hope you don't mind me sayin' this, just hear me out
You and me, we got a whole world to key

And if it gets overwhelming
(Julia)
Nothing I can say, is helping
(Julia)
Then it's in your hands, it's in your hands
(Julia)

But it's not the two cities inside you
It's all here right beside you, girl
You and me, we got a whole world to key

Julia


3.Old Dominion


4.Sorry River

How could you let us run dry?
Drain our heaven, make it fall from the sky
How could you let us run dry?

And when did the somersault turn?
Throwing us over, on another shoulder, watching our future
unwind

Oh the sorry river
Turned a sorry trickle
Fly your most convenient flight of all
I fooled you just to trick myself, now this water's
Flowing somewhere else...
Somewhere else

So cross us off your list
And leave your guilt at the Chinese laundry, man you got a
granted wish

And now as we go our own way
And fade this scene like a cinema story, no more turns today
No more turns today
No more...today

Oh the sorry river
Turned a sorry trickle
Fly your most convenient flight of all
I fooled you just to trick myself, noe this water's
Flowing somwhere else...
Somewhere else


5.Chartiers

You were down when I met you, but
Deep in your eyes
I could see the sign
With a thousand drummers drumming,
And a hundred singers singing songs of love.
Whatever they knew about it
Love
Whatever it meant to them

So we all met up after school
And you took us home into your room
You's skip class and drummed all day
So I put my books down and picked up the camera
Was it you that I filmed?

You'd run
And I'd follow
I'd stayed and you'd gone

She was in Chicago where the streets are paved
With all those names of our heros
And our dreams we tried
But the house was raised
And left an empty lot

I know that you won't cry about it
Hiding
Hiding the tears in your eyes

You'd run
And I'd follow,
I've stayed and you've gone

So far in late October
The nights are darker without you here


6.Whetherman

He never thought the rain would fall
Must be losing his mind

Tried to predict the weather,
but he failed this time

One look at the sky, could tell you
Oh, it's unkind

I wasen't the one to steal
The money by your side

I'm an innocent, just as those who
Turn away their eyes

I'm as lucky as I can be, I know

It feels so lonely
When it's coming down
It feels so lonely
On the naked ground
It feels so lonely
When you're fallin' down

I never enjoyed the darkness
On the bottom floor

It felt like afternoon
Even though it was morning

Well it's better than spending all your life, outside

It feels so lonely
When it's coming down
It feels so lonely
On the naked ground
It feels so lonely
When you're fallin' down

I could see you there....Oh, I could see ya there


7.The Boo Hoo Boy


8.Berlin

Oooh, love
You're coming down on me

Oooh, love
You've got to show me

Oooh, friend
You're getting on your way

Oooh, friend
What will you take?

And when I see you
It's not like before

And when I hear you
I just need more, I just need more

Oooh, you
Can you hear me?

Oooh, you
You can free me


9.The Late Great Cassiopia

I was born today in all them constelation
The minor where a major wants to be

I stacked my words, manufactured merchant
And walked along the water in my sleep

To the news spun circles and there I saw you
Wrapped up in a New York magazine

Was that the page that tells how I was fallen?
Well maybe that part is not worth mentioning

Now...what will they say?

Now...what can they do anyway, anyway?

So let me down slow, let me down real easy
Even giants have to watch how they decline

I'd wheelie in the sky or anything else, I promise
I will until the day that I die
I will until the day that I die

What will they say?

What's the world, gonna do anyway, anyway?


10.Our Lady In Havana

Well I overheard an invisible voice
Miles away in a crumbling hotel

It said, this is a force like a moving sky
I say, forget all you know, we gotta run and hide

You shouted out your heartache
Nearly every night

And we can just pretend
That I can fill these shirts, these, in
With the holiday

On the cobblestones on a sign of shade
The sun will fade all the shadows that you chase

An impossible thing that cut your heart in two
So take your pick, and I'll do the same for you

A church on every corner
The mormons and christians congregate
I'm shrinking down to size
For the second day, I'm eighteen stories
Above the sea
I've got too many people on my shoulders
A high rise over me
A high rise over me...

Well there's disbelief in the streets below
Where I sold my story to a curround arrow

We took a match to the masterplan
Brought me down to earth like a treasure in the sand

And what if all the what ifs were a happy man?
You think our hands are tied
But we pen the chapters every time
You gotta realize

A church on every corner
The mormons and christians congregate
I'm shrinking down to size
For the second day, I'm eighteen stories
Above the sea
I've got too many people on my shoulders
A high rise over me
A high rise over me...


11.Lazy May

Your heart perched in a tree
Kept from all the scene
Woah, oh my lazy May

Careful, I'm a cloud
Lookin' down upon it now
Woah, oh my lazy May

When the winter comes
You're beatin' your own drum
Woah, oh my lazy May

Then it's summertime
You say you're lucky to be mine
Woah, oh my lazy May

I, I love you
I, I love you
Oooh my lazy May

I, I love you
I, I love you
Oooh my lazy May

You've never seen a rose
More guarded than those of
Oh, oh my lazy May

But I know what time of day
Those thorns melt away
Oh, oh my lazy May

I, I love you
I, I love you
Oooh my lazy May

I, I love you
I, I love you
Oooh my lazy May

Now the season ends
You say we're better off as friends
Oh, oh my lazy May

Tryin' all you will
I'll marry you still
Oh, oh my lazy May


12.Southern States

I have seen the moonlight
On the shoulder of the midnight road
On the county fire

I've been running for hours
Now my feet are broke, I haven't spoke

I gotta mind to pray

For the people in southern states
For to keep it underground
For your secrets you know I've got a yearning
From my head on down

For the autumn around the bend
For to carry over seas
For the person you know I've been searching for
In the city streets

And I could hear the landslide
When you asked to stay, I drove you away
To the outer bank

Since I've been counting the treetops
Listen all the day for your wheels to say
How could I be so wrong?

For the people in southern states
For to keep it underground
For your secrets you know I've got a yearning
From my head on down

For the autumn around the bend
For to carry over seas
For the person you know I've been searching for
In the city streets