Lyrically Speaking....

[Desire]

Shine on you crazy diamond - pink floyd
Remember when you were young,
You shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

next word: martyr

[mabd]

Accidentally Like a Martyr

Warren Zevon

The phone don't ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time

We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder

The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh
Never thought I'd ever be so lonely
After such a long, long time
Time out of mind

We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder

next word: shadow

Never thought I would miss WZ, but oddly, I do.

Maeve

[lolapunk]

I didn't really become a fan of Warren until a friend gave me a copy of 'Genius' shortly before I heard of his diagnosis. I glommed onto the desperation in some of his lyrics, the irony, social commentary, dark humor and dry wit in others and it was instant love. I remember where I was exactly when I heard on my car radio that he had passed and cried.


A little Pat Benatar now...

We're running with the Shadows Of The Night
So baby take my hand, it'll be all right
Surrender all your dreams to me tonight
They'll come true in the end

You said - oh girl, it's a cold world
When you keep it all to yourself
I said you can't hide on the inside
All the pain you've ever felt
Ransom my heart, but baby don't look back
Cause we got nobody else


new word: ransom

[mabd]

Hi ms.ll, how are you? missed reading you! nice choice of music and an even nicer libation for WZ. Linda Ronstadt did some interesting covers of his stuff...

And thanks for sending me off to find some Pat Benatar -- it is just the right touch.

Robert Earl Keen
Sonora's Death Row

Me and the boy's we cinched up our saddles and rode to Sonora's last night
Gun's hanging proud, daring out loud for any one looking to fight
Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes when the boys from the old broken O
Rode up and reined on the street that they named
Sonora's Death Row

Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico
They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas who won't want to let you go
You'd never believe such a gay happy time on the street called Sonora's Death Row

Inside Amanda's we was a dancin' with all of Amanda's gals
I won some silver at seven card stud so I was out doin' my pals
But the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars drove me outside for some air
Somebody whispered "Your life or your money", I reached but my gun wasn't there

I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley aware of the fool I had been
Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester and entered Amanda's again
Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols and throwing my money around
Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them fell to the ground
Amanda's got silent like night in the desert, my friends stared in pure disbelief

Amanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy plainly expressing her grief
And as I bowed my head a trembled shot through me my six-gun was still at my side
I felt my pockets, there was my money, I fell to my knees and I cried
A nightmare of mescal is all that it was for no one had robbed me at all
I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows they're testing just outside the wall

The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old Broken O
I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's Death Row

next word is pockets

Maeve

[Phalon]

This song rolls through my head every Wednesday.

Just Got Paid ~ ZZ Top

I just got paid today,
Got me a pocket full of change.
Said, I just got paid today,
Got me a pocket full of change.
If you believe like workin' hard all day,
Just step in my shoes and take my pay.

I was born my papa's son,
When I hit the ground I was on the run.
I had one glad hand and the other behind.
You can have yours, just give me mine.
When the hound dog barkin' in the black of the night,
Stick my hand in my pocket, everything's all right.

I just got paid today,
Got me a pocket full of change.
Said, black sheep, black, do you got some wool?
Yes, I do, man, my bag is full.
It's the root of evil and you know the rest
But it's way ahead of what's second best.

Next word: sheep

[fallenangel]

Mary Jane : Alanis Morisette


What's the matter Mary Jane, you had a hard day
As you place the don't disturb sign on the door
You lost your place in line again, what a pity
You never seem to want to dance anymore
It's a long way down
On this roller coaster
The last chance streetcar
Went off the track
And you're on it.
I hear you're counting sheep again Mary Jane
What's the point of trying to DREAM anymore
I hear you're losing weight again Mary Jane
Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for
Well it's full speed baby
In the wrong direction
There's a few more bruises
If that's the way
You insist on heading
Please be honest Mary Jane
Are you happy

next word : DREAM

[lolapunk]

Roy Orbison - In Dreams

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep. everything is all right.

I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night. I softly say
A silent prayerlike dreamers do.
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

In dreams I walk with you. in dreams I talk to you.
In dreams youre mine. all of the time were together
In dreams, in dreams.

But just before the dawn, I awake and find you gone.
I cant help it, I cant help it, if I cry.
I remember that you said goodbye.

Its too bad that all these things, can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams in beautiful dreams.


I'm going to have to get out my Roy Orbison today. Sigh.

next word: stardust

[Desire]

Lady Stardust - David Bowie

People stared at the makeup on his face
Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
Lady Stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and disgrace

And he was alright, the band was altogether
Yes he was alright, the song went on forever
Yes he was awful nice
Really quite out of sight
And he sang all night long

Femme fatales emerged from shadows
To watch this creature fair
Boys stood upon their chairs
To make their point of view
I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey
Lady Stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and dismay

And he was alright, the band was altogether
Yes he was alright, his song went on forever
And he was awful nice
Really quite paradise
And he sang all night, all night long

Oh how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name

For he was alright, the band was altogether
Yes he was alright, and his song went on forever
He was awful nice
Really quite paradise
He sang all night long

next word: darkness

[mabd]

Desire of the Down Under Bard, how cool you used "Ziggy." STP just was given a wee little tabby -- she named him Ziggy. He is just a mite. And is too adorable. He hops a lot. I mean, a whole lot. I love strange connections.

Yinyang, now I must find Alanis. Now. This minute. <grin>

Sounds of Silence
Simon an Garfunkel

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

next word: seeds

Maeve

[Siren]

Thanks, Maeve. Your chosen word, "seeds", reminded me of a lovely old Kathy Mattea song, written by Pat Alger and Ralph Murphy, with just that word as the title.

BTW, a friend of mine had a cat named Ziggy, too. So, you're a cat person, eh? See, I knew I liked you!

~~~~~~~

Sometimes I stop on my way home, and watch the children play
And I wonder if they wonder what they'll be some day
Some will dream a big dream and make it all come true
While others go on dreaming of things they'll never do

We're all just seeds
In God's hands
We start the same
But where we land
Is sometimes fertile soil
And sometimes sand
We're all just seeds
In God's hand

I saw a friend the other day I hardly recognized
He'd done a lot of living since I'd last looked in his eyes
He told his tale of how he'd failed, the lessons he'd been taught
But he offered no excuses
And he left me with this thought

We're all just seeds
In God's hands
We start the same
But where we land
Is sometimes fertile soil
And sometimes sand
We're all just seeds
In God's hand

As I'm standing at a CROSSROADS once again
I'm reminded, we're all the same when we begin
And in the end...

We're all just seeds
In God's hands
We start the same
But where we land
Is sometimes fertile soil
And sometimes sand
We're all just seeds
In God's hands
We're all just seeds
In God's hands

next word: crossroads

[Phalon]

Gotta be "Crossroads" performed by Cream.


I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above for mercy, "Save me if you please."

I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
Nobody seemed to know me, everybody passed me by.

I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
I'm going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
You can still barrelhouse, baby, on the riverside.

You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down.

knees

[lolapunk]

When I Was a Boy - Dar Williams

I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand
I said I was a boy; I'm glad he didn't check.
I learned to fly, I learned to fight
I lived a whole life in one night
We saved each other's lives out on the pirate's deck.

And I remember that night
When I'm leaving a late night with some friends
And I hear somebody tell me it's not safe,
someone should help me
I need to find a nice man to walk me home.

When I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
Climbed what I could climb upon
And I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew.

And you can walk me home, but I was a boy, too.

I was a kid that you would like, just a small boy on her bike
Riding topless, yeah, I never cared who saw.
My neighbor come outside to say, "Get your shirt,"
I said "No way, it's the last time I'm not breaking any law."

And now I'm in this clothing store, and the signs say less is more
More that's tight means more to see, more for them, not more for me
That can't help me climb a tree in ten seconds flat

When I was a boy, See that picture? That was me
Grass-stained shirt and dusty knees
And I know things have gotta change,
They got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in,
they've got implants to remove

But I am not forgetting...that I was a boy too

And like the woods where I would creep, it's a secret I can keep
Except when I'm tired, 'cept when I'm being caught off guard
And I've had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds its way
To catching fire-flies out in the backyard.

And I so tell the man I'm with about the other life I lived
And I say now you're top gun, I have lost and you have won
And he says, "Oh no, no, can't you see

When I was a girl, my mom and I we always talked
And I picked flowers everywhere that I walked.
And I could always cry, now even when I'm alone I seldom do
And I have lost some kindness
But I was a girl too.
And you were just like me, and I was just like you

new word: grass-stained

[Desire]

Reunions-Carly Simon

First one in the city
Wearin' all those grass stained jeans
Nothing is forgotten, everyone is pleased
Someone got his hair cut
The girls have lots to say
His friends had felt more comfortable
With it worn the other way
And I don't know if I'll see you again

Next one at the old house
Snow is on the ground
Photographs and wine are passed around
Someone toasts an absent friend
Another takes his seat
They gather round the dying fire
But the circle's not complete
And I don't know if I'll see you again

Last one by the highway
Wind blows through thin smiles
Someone made a wrong turn
Missed a joke by miles
Someone got their hair cut
A tear is in her eye
But no one even comments
Except to say, except to say
'Goodbye'
And I don't know if I'll see you again


Next word: smiles

[mabd]

Hey Siren, want a cat? We have 6 -- all rescued cats, and 2 somewhat calm feral cats [ok, 8 cats] (yes, we are just daft enough to run a heater on the back porch for them in the winter...), a couple of friendly feral dogs, a trio of possums. And that is the in town list...good thing we have close to an acre of land -- well, we would if we could lay it flat.

I couldn't resist this one:

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

Yodel: Ho-la-la-ee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay-ee-la-ee-ay-ee-lee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay Ho-la-la-ee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay-ee-la-lee-ay-lee-o-lee-ay

(repeat)

I'd like to dance and tap my feet
But they won't keep in rhythm
You see, I washed them both today
And I can't do nothing with 'em

Chorus:

Ho hum the tune is dumb
The words don't mean a thing
Isn't this a silly song
For anyone to sing?
I chased a polecat up a tree
Way out on upon a limb
And when he got the best of me
I got the worst of him

next word: tree

Maeve

[Siren]

Yes, they'll all come to meet me
In the SHADE of that old oak TREE
As they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home

Porter Wagoner - Green Green Grass Of Home

next: shade

[fallenangel]

Mama ~ Beth Hart

Mother may I, I would say
Yes sweet baby take it away
It won't be long, just remember that
Powerful is the woman in you
Stay true
And she'd come to me when fire and water was gone
To caress the empty with a song
Saying why cry for anger that bullets the sky
Just remember I'll remember and mama
I'll get by....
I know my face seems crazed and wild
But I got her eyes
A mama's child am I
She's blessed with grace and is smooth as a line
And when I shade she helps me SHINE
And she comes to me when there's nothing I believe
And holds me so high yes I am free
Saying why hold the anger
It won't let you fly
Just remember I'll remember and mama mama

NEXT WORD : SHINE

[Phalon]

Shine Down ~ Godsmack

So tired sleeping through the day
Bloodshot eyes and sweat from my body
And I picked my head up yesterday
Found the reason of hope left inside of me

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone above

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground

Haunted silence overwhelming me
Deny takes it's toll on my sanity
And I know I've been away too long
All these years I've been hiding
I'm feeling I'm coming strong

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone that's up above
Show me a path to find my way
And give me a reason pray

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
And shine down, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground
Shine down
Shine down
Oh, shine down

Haunted is the next word.

[Siren]

Go down the road called Yesterday
Take a left on a lost highway
And make a right on Memory Lane
Drive until you feel the pain

And at the river of tears take one last turn
And cross the bridge that just won't burn
A run down house is love's graveyard
That's where you'll find my haunted heart

Well my HAUNTED heart can't rest in peace
It's BURIED with her memory
And it's a living hell here after dark
All alone with a haunted heart

Late at night a slamming door
Shadows move across the floor
Footsteps fall on silent stairs
I hear her call but no one's there

Her photograph hangs by the bed
A grim reminder love is dead
A love I killed just won't depart
It's living in my haunted heart

Well my haunted heart can't rest in peace
It's buried with her memory
And it's a living hell here after dark
All alone with a haunted heart
I said I'm all alone with a haunted heart

Sammy Kershaw - "Haunted Heart"

next: buried

[mabd]

Buried Alive In The Blues

Janis Joplin

All caught up in a landslide, bad luck
pressing in from all sides
Just got knocked off of my easy ride,
Buried alive in the blues

Sunday morning everybody’s in bed, I’m
On the street, I’m talking out of my head,
This dumb brick wall ain’t heard a word
That I’ve said,
I’m buried alive in the blues

I’m buried alive, oh yeah, in the blues
I’m buried alive, somebody help me, in the blues

I beg for mercy, I pray for rain,
I can’t be the one to accept all this blame,
Something here’s trying to pollute my brain,
I’m buried alive in the blues.

It’s real hard you know, it’s real hard being buried alive
It’s real hard being buried alive
When you’re buried alive they walk right on by you.
When you’re buried alive they never care about you.
When you’re buried alive, oh, you reach out for somebody,
And when you’re buried alive you get can’t seem to press on through
Being buried alive is a bad condition; it’s a real weird situation

next word: brain

Maeve

[Desire]

Show me your soul-RHCP

In a world that can be so insane
I don't think it's very strange
For me to be in love with you
I wanna know more than your BRAIN

Into my life you were injected
Not something that I expected
Now I smile from your affection
We have made a soul connection
Just for whom does your bell TOLL
Don't be cold show me your soul

Chorus
Sentimental Gentlemen are not afraid to show you when
I am you, you're my best friend
Show me your soul

Verse 2
In a world that can be so insane
I don't think it's very strange
For me to be in love with you
I wanna know more than your brain

Yes, I find you so appealing
When you show me how you're feeling
You, my friend, should not be kneeling
Open up and start revealing
Trust in me my heart is sole
I need to see, show me your soul

Chorus

Verse 3
In a world that can be so insane
I don't think it's very strange
For me to be in love with you
I wanna know more than your brain

Don't expect too much from me
Perfection is no test for me
Because the best I'll ever be
Is just like you: A human being
You won't offend, I need to know
Please, my friend, show me your soul

Next word-toll

[Siren]

The loneliness within me takes a heavy TOLL
'Cause it burns as slow as whiskey through an empty aching soul
And the night is like a DAGGER, long and cold and sharp
As I sit here on the front steps blowing smoke rings in the dark

Gary Allan - Smoke Rings In The Dark

next: dagger

[mabd]

Dolly Dagger
Jimi Hendrix

Here comes Dolly Dagger
Her love's so heavy, she's gonna make you stagger
Dolly Dagger, she drinks her blood from a jagged edge
Been riding broom sticks since she was 15
Blowing out all the other witches on the scene

She got a bull whip just as long as your life
Her tongue can ever scratch the soul of the devil's wife
Well I see her in action at the players choice
Turning all the love men into doughnut boys

Hey, red hot Momma step aside
This chick's gonna turn you to a block of ice - look out!
Look at burned out superman
Trying to shoot his dust on the sun
Captain Coconut is dead on the run
The words of love, do they ever touch Dolly Dagger
Better get some highway and clear out of town

next word: captain

Maeve

[Desire]

I'm sailing away
Set an open course for the virgin sea
'Cause I've got to be free
Free to face the life that's ahead of me

On board I'm the CAPTAIN
So climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow
On every shore
And I'll try, oh Lord, I'll try
To carry on

I look to the sea
Reflections in the waves SPARK my memory
Some happy, some sad
I think of childhood friends
And the dreams we had

We lived happily forever
So the story goes
But somehow we missed out
On the pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on

(yeah)

A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said

Come sail away
Come sail away
Come sail away with me
(you guys)

Come sail away
Come sail away
Come sail away with me

Come sail away
Come sail away
Come sail away with me
(you guys ha)

Come sail away
Come sail away
Come sail away with me

I thought that they were angels
But much to my surprise
We climbed aboard their starship
And headed for the star thay said'

Come sail away
Come sail away
Come sail away with me

next word:spark

[mabd]

Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell

Love came to my door
With a sleeping roll
And a madman's soul
He thought for sure I'd seen him
Dancing up a river in the dark
Looking for a woman
To court and spark

He was playing on the sidewalk
For passing change
When something strange happened
Glory train passed through him
So he buried the coins he made
In People's Park
And went looking for a woman
To court and spark

It seemed like he read my mind
He saw me mistrusting him
And still acting kind
He saw how I worried sometimes
I worry sometimes

"All the guilty people," he said
They've all seen the stain-
On their daily bread
On their Christian names
I cleared myself
I sacrificed my blues
And you could complete me
I'd complete you

His eyes were the color of the sand
And the sea
And the more he talked to me
The more he reached me
But I couldn't let go of L.A.
City of the fallen angels

next word: court

Maeve

[Siren]

I remember walking 'round the court square sidewalk
Looking in windows at things I couldn't want
There's Johnson's Hardware and Morgan's Jewelry
And the ol' Lee King's apothecary
They were the little man
The little man

I go back now and the stores are all empty
Except for an old Coke sign from 1950
BOARDED up like they never existed
Or renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man
There goes the little man

Now the COURT square's just a set of streets
That the people go round but they seldom think
'Bout the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut him down
And killed the little man
Oh the little man

He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat
The new stores came where you do it yourself
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
Forget the little man
Forget about that little man

He hung on there for a few more years
But he couldn't sell slurpees
And he wouldn't sell beer
Now the bank rents the station
To a man down the road
Who sells velvet Elvis and
Second-hand clothes
There goes little man
There goes another little man

Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
You can buy the whole world with just one trip
And save a penny cause it's jumbo size
And they don't even realize
They're killing the little man
Oh the little man

It wasn't long ago when I was a child
An old black man came with his mule and his plow
He broke the ground where we grew our garden
Back before we'd all forgotten about the little man
The little man

Long live the little man
God bless the little man

Alan Jackson - "Little Man"

Is that song brilliant, or what? But I hate that he chickened out, and didn't nail the listener with "YOU'RE killing the little man" instead of changing tense in the middle of the verse, and saying "They're killing the little man".

anyway, next word: boarded

[mabd]

Walking in Memphis
Marc Cohn

Put on my blue suede shoes
And I boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues
In the middle of the pouring rain
W.C. Handy — won’t you look down over me
Yeah I got a first class ticket
But I’m as blue as a boy can be

Then I’m walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel

Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue
Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
Then I watched him walk right through
Now security they did not see him
They just hovered ‘round his tomb
But there’s a pretty little thing
Waiting for the King
Down in the Jungle Room

(Chorus)

They’ve got catfish on the table
They’ve got gospel in the air
And Reverend Green be glad to see you
When you haven’t got a prayer
But boy you’ve got a prayer in Memphis


Cool song Siren. Heard the new Rondstadt? That woman can sing anything!! Felt a little let down by Emlou's and Mark's CD.

anyway, next word: catfish

Maeve

[Siren]

That's such a cool, descriptive song from Mark Cohn. No Maeve, I haven't heard the new Ronstadt. But just yesterday I was listening to the "Trio" album with her and Emmylou and Dolly. What a super sound they had!

~~~~~~~~~~

Well, I built me a raft and she’s ready for FLOATIN'
Ol’ Mississippi, she’s callin’ my name
CATFISH are jumpin’
That paddle wheel thumpin’
Black water keeps rollin’ on past just the same

Doobie Brothers - "Black Water"

next: floatin’

[Desire]

Well I said he had a lot of potential
He was only misunderstood
You know he didnt really mean to treat me so bad
He wanted to be good
And I swore one day I would tame him
Even though he loved to run hog wild
Just call me cleopatra everybody, cause Im the queen of DENIAL

I knew he didnt have any money
Yeah thats why he couldnt buy me a ring
Oh and just because he bought himself a brand new pickup truck
Really didnt prove anything
And he never had to say he loved me
I could see it every time he smiled
Just call me cleopatra everybody, cause Im the queen of denial

Oh queen of denial, buyin all his alibis
Queen of denial, floatin down a river of lies

Well Im not gonna jump to conclusions
Or throw away this perfect romance
Even though I caught him dancin last night
With a girl in a leopard skin pants
Yeah, hes probably stuck in traffic
And hell be here in a litte while
Just call me cleopatra everybody, cause Im the queen of denial

Oh queen of denial, buyin all his alibis
Queen of denial, just FLOATIN down a river of lies

next word-denial

[Siren]

Finally came up with one for "denial". You nearly stumped me, Desire. I knew there was a song with that word, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. But when I quit thinking about it so hard, my brain kept working away and came up with it later, right out of the blue. Weird how that works.

This old boy stood up in the aisle
Said he'd been living a life of DENIAL
And he cried as he talked about WASTED years
I couldn't believe what I heard
It was my life word for word
And all of the sudden it was clear

It's the simple things in life
Like the kids at home and a loving wife
That you miss the most, when you lose control
And everything you love starts to disappear
The devil takes your hand and says no fear
Have another shot, just one more beer
Yeah, I've been there, that's why I'm here.

from "That's Why I'm Here" by Kenny Chesney

next: wasted

[mabd]

Wasted Years
Iron Maiden

From the coast of gold,
across the seven seas
I’m travelin on, far and wide
But now it seems, I‘m just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do,
it isn‘t me but someone else
I close my eyes and think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain’t it funny how it is
You never miss if till it is gone away
And my heart is lying there
And will be till my dying day

Refrain:
So understand
Don’t waste your time always searching for
Those wasted years
Face up... make your stand
And realize you’re living in the golden years

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Siren, I'm hoping it is about time for another Trio CD. It amuses me to no end that Linda, who once broke her foot kicking a wall because she couldn't hit a note "right," says she totally defers to Emlou on the Trio stuff.

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Maeve