Butterfly In Reverse

Maryann you’re better than the world They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl I said Maryann you’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl I had a lot of girlfriends I should have known them Click your heels […]


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American Girls

She comes out on Fridays every time Stands out in a line I could have been anyone she’d seen She waits another week to fall apart She couldn’t make another day I wish it was anyone but me I could have been anyone you see She had something breakable just […]


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Hard Candy

On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summer’s Where my shadows used to be She is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary […]


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Black And Blue

Fading everything to black and blue You look a lot like you Shatter in the blink of an eye You keep sailing right on through Every time you say you’re learning You just look a lot like me Pale under the blistering sky White and red Black and blue You’ve […]


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Miami

Guess I think I feel alright You come circling through the lightThe skyline baby is bright tonightOne more perfect rendezvous Sundown paints the shadows through Daylight aiming? on what we do It looks like darkness to me, oh Drifting down into Miami Miami Can I say I wish that this […]


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Goodnight L.A.

I said goodnight LA Cause I’m awake in my room I’ve been up for 38 hours And it don’t look like sleep’s coming soonCause I could break like a bird Or I could swallow the sea It seems like the daylight is coming No one is watching but me But […]


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New Frontier

Come on children mind the gapAmerican people with marvelous hairAnd a knack to do anything better than anyoneI got a home with electrical airAnd I live in a worldSmaller than anyoneI got a line on a new frontierI got a line on a new AmericaAll of the people are vanishing […]


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Carriage

If anything it should have been a better thing From underneath you staring at the ceiling There’s another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards That hides inside of all this tension that I’m feeling But It’s all inside of you Yeah, it’s all inside of you Surprise surprise I […]


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Good Time

The gentle man caller in the blue suede shoesHe don’t know what to dohe just wants to look good for youSo he rushes in to tell you what he did todaybut he can’t think of what to sayI think you’ll listen anyway.He wants to have a good timejust like everybody […]


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If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dea

Got a message in my head that the papers had all come. Richard Manuel is dead, and the daylight’s coming on. I’ve been wandering through the dark. Now I’m standing on the lawn. If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself, but I’m just not […]


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Holiday In Spain

Got no place to go but there’s a girl waiting for me down in Mexico She’s got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin And if I bring a little music I can fit right in We’ve got airplane rides We got California drowning out the window side We’ve […]


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