I was dreaming of you, she said
In your sharp black suit, she said
With your ten dollar words
And your five dollar shoes
I bet you still got that cigarette smile
And your country boy blues
And you sing it over and over again
She said you sing it like you mean it
But, it′s just some stupid song
But little ballerina it's my favorite when you dance along
Nothing ever sounded better than this scratchy old record
I′m so happy that you threw it on
She pulls the needle off the record, throws her favorite old record on
Now it's worn out and cracklin'
She′s happy it′s her favorite song
She twirls around and around and around
Just to start all over again
She plays it over and over, over and over again
It's a long way to the top with your pockets full of sand
I saw the Devil on the tele
I was playing in the band
Your father′s eyes were vacant when they came to take the land
Baby, what's it gonna take for you to go?
On a string around his neck
A leper carries both his hands
And out over the ocean pilots wonder where to land
You know we′d probably live forever
If we just follow the plan
But, baby what's it gonna take to let it go
Well, if you find out honey won't you let me know
Another morning cigarette
We were born with neither memories nor regret
And if I called your name
You′d come from miles away I bet
But you're not here just yet
They got the different colored pills for different times throughout the day
They got the long term side effects, the world has turned to gray
The lady at the door just told me God was on his way
I told her tell Him to stop by and say "hello"
Cause if he′s in town there's some folks that would like to know
Now the rich man and the poor man and the former queen of Spain
Have all had someone like you, they all have gone away
And the fact that time will crawl or fly depending on the day
Makes every kiss a gift and everyone of us a saint
I heard my angel crying out she'd fallen from God′s grace
She′d had enough, she drank the blood, she couldn't stand the taste
From there to here′s a long way down but baby I can wait
I might be a fool to catch ya, let ya fall'd just be a waste
I should have took a breath instead I wired my jaw shut
I breathed deep through my nose and prayed my clothes′d turned to dust
Stand naked as a babe the day I finally gave up
When all I'd say became profane I would not give a f.
My eyes wandered round the crash site for to find your missing parts
I found your head, your perfect legs and your million dollar heart
To my surprise I caught a cop he was climbing in the car
I was flashlight blind, jaws of life could not pry us apart
I woke up from my dream to someone screaming in the road
He′d carved your name into his chest saying "baby please don't go"
When I woke you up you whispered wearily and cold
You said "baby shut the shades it′s just someone I used to know,
It wasn't love. No, not like us."
The day I lost my sight, I learned to fly, and I flew away
I'd check on you from time to time just to make sure you're OK
And all at once you shot me down with a simple turn of phrase
You said "If you got a secret, you should learn to keep it safe"
She good for me like medicine
She say her momma′s Mexican
Well, I hope she wear that dress again
I swear at times I can see right through it
She making sure my spine is straight
I'm singing pardon me you highness
Little darling how′d you get so good, so good, so good
That's why I′m singing to ya
Hey Julianna you must be tired
You've been running all day and running all night
Now the sun′s coming up in a big pink sky
You got the radio on you look just fine
Now with the radio on, you look just fine
Hey Julianna I won't leave town
Just lie right here and I won't make a sound
When you wake up you can talk me down
When I′m walking around with my head in the clouds
Just a walking around with my head in the clouds
Find myself hummin′ the songs you'd sung
I remember you singing when we were young
Just driving around on high school drugs
We had that sunrise kind of love
Just driving around on high school drugs
Saw her just sitting there, sunk in her shoulders
And this kind of thing, will usually blow over′
But, it ain't blowin' over
She cries for the boy with no name
She says "Waltz with me Darlin,
Watch the stars fallin, and know that I came
This heartache's a game that nobody wins right away"
And it′s always the same,
When she cries for the boy with no name.
Creased in the corner, cards on the table
Between secrets and dreams, who's got the angle
And time is a spy that grows blinder each day
When she cries for the boy with no name
And, they just broke her down
But, she was younger then
And man I hope she works it out
Never meant to do what she did
And your brother's up in New York City
The city that he loved so well
And he′s plagiarizing promises
With the ghost of Dylan Thomas
On the ninth floor of the Chelsea Hotel
So I dressed up the truth,
And I walked the old girl right down to the service,
And they all asked about you,
And the troubles you've had
And everyone seemed to believe
I 'm trapped here by the sound
Of the sleeping soldiers now
And the cars out on the street
Well they never screamed so loud
And the voices in my head
They whisper true and proud
And something that they've said has got a whole new meaning now
Drinkin' sacramental wine
Got me swimming toward the sky
Til I get caught up in a bind
Lucky, I built the kids a shrine,
That we worship all the time
We just roll the dice and pine
All the loss of love and crime
Man, I left her all alone
She was crying on the phone
Man, I couldn′t bear to listen
So I screamed 'til I was tired
I was full of kerosene and lies
I told her, I forgot her eyes
And couldn't give a damn to kiss her
And we were left with only broken glass,
And memories of good things past
Convinced myself that nothing lasts
And went to tell the others... And I told em
And we'll wave goodbye to the punch drunk world
Sugarcoat so sweet, little gum drop girl
And I′m hopeless to believe in
But, if you'll just stay a while
I met the last of the great painters
Selling grass in Central Park
He painted all he was afraid of
′Til all the world was art
And he's a brilliant conversationalist
His topics ranging near and far
From the price of tea in China
To the fastest foreign cars
He knows a lot about the cars
But he doesn′t have a license
Doesn't leave the neighborhood
He doesn't quite know where his wife is
But he hopes she′s doing good
She ran off to south of Sante Fe
With some hippie throwing copper
That was seven years ago today
Well, he heard she had a daughter
Well, he heard she had a daughter
Oughta send her something nice he thought
A book, a piece of jewelry
But he don′t know what she likes
And he thinks her name is Julie
Partially and mostly right
Probably pretty, probably shy
Probably gets it from her momma
She had a real good looking momma
Not a single day goes by,
He doesn't think of her and wonder,
Why she up and left him for some turquoise wearing sculptor
But she always liked a dry heat
She was raised in Arizona
It′s a hundred ninety-five degrees
Doo do doo, do doo doo, doo do do, doo doo do
I was walking through the park
Trying to score a joint or two
I was probably lying when I said I was a singer,
Said he saw it in my eyes I was just an in-betweener
Never stood up to a giant
Never said nothing so defiant, so that anyone'd believe it
No one′s gonna believe it
Saw a lot of things he′d like to paint
But, he never could quite feel it
And I've felt the same of song
When there was no one there to listen
But, it never was for them
No, it never was for them
No, it never was for anyone but me
He said, I am not a wise man
But I know you are mistaken
Until the second you create it
And I may have had a wife once
And I may have been a painter
But, right now I got these bags man
And they're fifty bucks an eighth
So, I thought I′d pick one up for ya
Doo do doo, do do doo, do do doo, do do doo
I was walking throught the park
And I was on my way to see ya
You rolled dice last night with Coretta
Rolled twice and won me the world
But you'd give it away if I let ya
Crazy I tell ya, make me laugh out loud
Like that time that I caught you in Austin,
And you were carrying ten times your weight,
I loved you as quick as I lost you
But cost ain′t nothing to a rich man like me,
I melted my thumb like a candle,
Sealed a letter that I′ll never send
I wondered who taught you, the art of a scandal
Is 99 5/16 what you put in, and we both put in.
You lived through the war out on Wilcox
Got bored with the billionaire's tie
You carried your teeth in a pillbox,
Those nice pearly whites,
Let me see you smile like one more time.
She′s the last true believer
She's walking the Boulevard
She′s handing out leaflets
Cause they know all the secrets
And the don't need a reason
And this ain′t no kind of scene, babe
Why in the world would you follow me here
And this ain't no kind of scene
Why in the world would you follow me here