Strawberry Lover - Lyrics
Darkroom
C’mon now baby won’t you touch me touch me touch me
Before I go insane
I think the weight of your own blood might kill you
If it don’t hit my veins
C’mon now baby won’t you love me love me love me
If you got any need
I think the weight of your own blood might kill me
If I don’t see you bleed
You know I live in a darkroom
Pictures are floating
Thoughts are my own doom
So before they get going
Don’t leave me seeing it in red and black and white
With only chemicals to give my head a light
I know your hand is on the knob outside
C’mon release me
C’mon let me out
Into the heathen fight
I wanna see the gritty streets of London
Before the dawn hits light
C’mon now baby won’t you love me love me love me
Even if you gotta break in
And let your love smear the pretty poses
Into a mess of sin
You know I live in a darkroom
Pictures are floating
Thoughts are my own doom
So before they get going
Somewhere beyond the door where I can’t see
Is just a simple frame of you holding me
C’mon now babe before the colors all bleed
C’mon release me
C’mon let me out
Even if the bitter fumes bite
I wanna see the gritty streets of London
Before the dawn hits light
Shonalee
I feel better when night comes
I can lose what the day’s done
Find some time
Far away from the headlines
A million miles from the deadlines’
Burnin’ sign
C’mon take a look around
Go through the door and right downtown
Shonalee was a waitress
Workin’ out the late shift on South Street
Hair was off of her shoulders
I came in from the cold and
My heart beat
Oh they say that I’m a fool
To think I’m finding something new
I don’t give a damn about these papers anymore
Shonalee, gimme ‘nother quarter for the jukebox
It’s my favorite song
Come with me, when you hear the trumpet and the bass
Let it groove you all night long
Swing with me to an old time
Everything fallin’ in line 1-2-3
All the world’s before us
Brilliant blinding chorus
Easy
How did we go wandering and end up only sitting by
I don’t wanna go without this quarter of a try
Shonalee, gimme ‘nother quarter for the jukebox
It’s my favorite song
Come with me, when you hear the trumpet and the bass
Let it groove you all night long
Shonalee
I hear it every morning
I know what’s goin’ on
This life’s never gonna give you what you need
But come on close your eyes girl
Lose your sorrows in a song
And don’t you wanna dance?
And don’t you wanna dance?
I know you wanna dance
Shonalee
Shonalee, gimme ‘nother quarter for the jukebox
It’s my favorite song
Come with me, when you hear the trumpet and the bass
Let it groove you all night long
Yeah, come on
Shonalee, a quarter for the jukebox
It’s my favorite song
Come with me, when you hear the trumpet and the bass
Listen to it all night long
All night long
Sink My Teeth In
I been standin’ in a smoky kitchen
Heating oil on a fryin’ pan
Burn marks on my hands
In the other room a boy so patient
Doesn’t even wanna see me need
But I gotta be free
You make me feel so well-protected
I don’t even wanna go ouside
So afraid the sun is gonna
Tell me something here ain’t right
Baby you’re not gonna give me up
You’re just gonna give me better stuff
You’re just gonna give me something I can
Sink my teeth in
Lean your shoulders back and bear my load
Give me something I can use for the road
Lean your weight into me boy I wanna
Sink my teeth in
Drove the Chevy across Pennsylvania
Yeah I’m trekkin’ it to Oregon
Got my raincoat on
All you see these days are billboards pulsing
Telling me just what I need to fly
Making myths of my sky
Take me some place where I’m as naked
Nothing but the very core of me
And no matter how the wind blows
That’s where you can get it free
Baby you’re not gonna give me up
You’re just gonna give me better stuff
You’re just gonna give me something I can
Sink my teeth in
Lean your shoulders back and bear my load
Give me something I can use for the road
Lean your weight into me boy I wanna
Sink my teeth in
Every night I spend on scratchy sheets
Every morning I might miss the dawn
I’m imagining you whispering there’s somewhere I belong
Baby you’re not gonna give me up
You’re just gonna give me better stuff
You’re just gonna give me something I can
Sink my teeth in
Lean your shoulders back and bear my load
Give me something I can use for the road
Lean your weight into me boy I wanna
Sink my teeth in
Sink my teeth in
Sink my teeth in
Strawberry Lover
Out on a moonbeam
Sprinkled in wine
Pluckin’ the fruit from the vine
Runnin’ a cold tap into my head
Fell on a meadow
Slept in its stead
Woke from the dream
And sailed on its thread
Never mind aging
Obeying no signs
I wanna be a strawberry lover
Hot under cover
And rise in the fields
Reckless and free
High as no other
Strawberry lover
A sweetness revealed
I wept and wandered
Wound up alone
Far under skin
Farther from home
Never two thoughts
But these words in my mind
I wanna be a strawberry lover
Hot under cover
And rise in the fields
Reckless and free
High as no other
Strawberry lover
A sweetness revealed
Fruit on the bough
It’s heavier now
Ripe and ready
To sweeten the ground
And ain’t you been ever to ride in the hills
Knowin’ it’s foolish
Riding on still
Nothing to spare
Of this world so divine
I wanna be a strawberry lover
Hot under cover
And rise in the fields
Reckless and free
High as no other
Strawberry lover
A sweetness revealed
Office Girl
He’s got you by the neck
Around your pretty cravat scarf and
He makes you double check
Where all his pretty guilders are
He’s got me by the teeth
He’s got my fingers in a bind
Until the evening leaks
Into this tender heart of mine
Hey there office girl
I know you’re thinkin’ it’s a sad
Tight old world
But freedom’s what you got
When it’s time to tumble down with your curls
And honey
As soon as that door opens you’ll sing it
Groovin ‘til sunrise
I took a two week fix
Until my big bad dream comes true
And if it’s two weeks late
I’ll have to do what dreamers do
I know you think I’m brave
But honey I’ve got no choice
He thinks I cannot be saved
He’s never heard a single prescient voice
Hey there office girl
I know you’re thinkin’ it’s a sad
Tight old world
But freedom’s what you got
When it’s time to tumble down with your curls
And honey
As soon as that door opens you’ll sing it
Groovin ‘til sunrise
Where you don’t have to jump or shake
Unless you wanted to
Throw your hands up in the air
And roll into the night, into the true
I’m takin’ wing tonight
On my gold guitar
With heat and light
And my own gold star
I’m gonna sing it true
As a soul tune
Deep as the blue
That clouds this lonely moon
Deep as the blue
As soon as that door opens you’ll sing it
Groovin ‘til sunrise
As soon as that door opens you’ll sing it
Groovin ‘til sunrise
Groovin ‘til sunrise
Soda Water
Camel coat
Auburn hair
Idle taxi
Leicester Square
Like a lion in black
Sends up the windows and leans on back
Honey’s dripping from the trees
Order me a soda water
Rifles swinging at my knees
Order me a soda water
Said my castle in Nice
Sits on a cove, on a beach
Where a girl can move slow
In a pace she wants to know
So I showed him my cards
He was stunned by the scars
And he said that ain’t right
C’mon now baby I’ll hold you…
Honey’s dripping from the trees
Order me a soda water
Rifles swinging at my knees
Order me a soda water
A tall
A tall
Now the way it all goes
Happens quick
We all know
But this room late at night
Is where I’m keeping my candle bright
And I weave up these lines
Green and thick-rutted vines
Out the window they all grow
And oil slick in the grass below
Where I run, not a care
Oiled leaves in my hair
‘Til I tense like a wren
And worry back on his kisses again
Honey’s dripping from the trees
Order me a soda water
Baseball bats swinging at my knees
Order me a soda water
Honey’s dripping from the trees
Order me a soda water
Rifles swinging at my knees
Order me a soda water
Order me a soda water
Order me a soda water |
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Shootout At The Candy Shop
He was beat man, overdone
Tell me I’m a no good one
I ate it up but that got old real soon
With my heart and my soul
I had no more control
So I left before the light of noon.
And he calls me like he did before
But honey I don’t care no more
I’m not about to feel that scorn
And I’m not goin’ back
Got my eyes on the track
It’s as easy as the day that I was born
I could go down in a blaze of glory
With everything I ever wanted
And every other rebel heart so free
It could be my favorite story
Shootout at the candy shop
But who would ever get the chance to say
That’s me
In a photo on your mama’s desk
A face that Jesse James expressed
Muggin’ like a thief but you’ve no name
Life is long, little boy
There’s a lot to enjoy
And I don’t feel like spending it on pain
I could go down in a blaze of glory
With everything I ever wanted
And every other rebel heart so free
It could be my favorite story
Shootout at the candy shop
But who would ever get the chance to say
That’s me
And you know pretty well
‘Bout the songs I would tell
But you don’t know the heart from the hand
When you lie and you scream
And you piss on my dream
It doesn’t leave me with a lot to understand
I could go down in a blaze of glory
With everything I ever wanted
And every other rebel heart so free
It could be my favorite story
Shootout at the candy shop
But who would ever get the chance to say
That’s me
I could go down in a blaze of glory
With everything I ever wanted
And every other rebel heart so free
It could be my favorite story
Shootout at the candy shop
But who would ever get the chance to say
That’s me
That’s me
That’s me
Ribbons
The light streams through the eastern window
6 am settles on your face
Makes every thin line show
And puts you in your place
I mean to tell you I don’t care no more
If we grow old and wrinkled blind
As long as I know what I’m waking for
So c’mon c’mon
Even with those ribbons ‘round your eyes
C’mon c’mon
Even though your heart has been disguised
It’s a hard world
But if we make it through
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around you
This life’s been hard to hold on to
Slip its burn at the turn of a dime
Leave no doubt where I run to
My last breath for your busted road sign
That’s pointing on a higher hill to climb
So c’mon c’mon
Even with those ribbons ‘round your eyes
C’mon c’mon
Even though your heart has been disguised
It’s a hard world
But if we make it through
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around you
Even the angel said
A light don’t always shine
The darkest riverbed
The steepest hill unwinds
And in the mirror your whole face is comin’ loose
And wound around your jaw a square you didn’t choose
Well honey that’s from all those rivers pushing through.
So c’mon c’mon
Even though the night has left you blind
And there’s no proof of the sweet ocean in the pines
It’s a well babe if we swim it through
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around
C’mon c’mon
Even though your heart has been denied
It’s a hard world
But if we make it through
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around you
So c’mon c’mon
Even with those ribbons ‘round your eyes
C’mon c’mon
Even though your heart has been denied
C’mon c’mon
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around you
I’m gonna wrap ribbons around you
Orphanage Rage
And I don’t wanna see you no more
Don’t be threading coconuts ‘round my door
‘Cause it ain’t enough to give me a fix
Not for this
And I don’t wanna run all those miles
It would take to earn me your kind of smile
Nothing comes from those who smile at grist
You sick old twist
You make me so angry
You make me so angry
Oh and anger isn’t what I believe anymore
You could run but you could never be free
From the brand of venom spillin’ out of me
‘Cause you might as well be leavin’ a baby
At an orphanage door
Oh and children take a while to heal
Sorry babe but I’m a child now still
Don’t be fooled by those Hawaiian blue pills
That litter this shore
You make me so angry
You make me so angry
Oh and anger isn’t what I believe anymore
Thank you for killing my last rotten leg
Now I can hobble on this limb instead
And celebrate what’s battered in my hide
With some kind of pride
Most of all I hope you can see
Just how beautiful my life came to be
Once I ran without a leaf from your tree
On the nursery floor
You make me so angry
You make me so angry
Oh and anger isn’t what I believe anymore
Bombs Are Falling
Once I knew I couldn’t say
I been loving you
I pull myself away
Something shattered
Broken glass
But it opened up a wide, endless highway
Stumbled out before the siren’s rush
On my way to someplace far off from the fire
Goodbye chaos
Down the broken street
And the muted strings keep footsteps
From the ground they touch
Bombs are fallin’
Baby
Bombs are fallin’
If you knew, why would you say
When the precipice of pain
Ain’t ever far enough away
Little stranger shadows lines
Knowing only darkened hollows
That you wish to hide
What a horror
And a shame
And a night you can’t cut through to grab the flame
And there’s nothing to be done
But to keep on truckin’ knowin’ you’re the lucky one
Bombs are fallin’
Baby
Bombs are fallin’
And it’s more than I could ask for
More than I could need for
Anyone to wanna follow in my lead as I
Hurry on down a dusty old street
Some tune I just made up to keep
The hustle in my feet don’t
Put it all up don’t give it for me
It’s the devil and his cup I come around to see
How could you live once you had died
I don’t wanna know
I looked at the sky
And bombs are fallin’
Baby
Bombs are fallin’
Bombs are fallin’
Baby
Bombs are fallin’
Willing To Change
At the first blush
You might think he’s pretty sweet
Throwing roses at your feet
Sliding out your café seat
But look closer
In his eyes it’s crystal clear
That the only thing he wants
Is the one thing that you fear
And I
I wanted the same
But I was willing to change
I was willing to change
When I walked out
Clothes were crumpled on our bed
From the bitter words I said
When I felt where loving you led
Did you fold them
And put them on your shelf
Not to wear no more yourself
Hand them off to someone else
Well I
I would do the same
But I was willing to change
I was willing to change
Sometimes
All it takes is one
Heart to come undone
From its own bind
Sometime
You’ll remember
Words I would have said
When the lights went red
Gridlocked in your head
How I need you
And that’s more than you can say
For some fool who’d walk away
Just when black and white went gray
And I
Hope you feel the same
Cause I am willing to change
I am willing to change
I am willing to change |
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