Eighty years, an old lady now, sitting on the front porchWatching the clouds roll byThey remind her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago.When she used to color carelessly painted his portraitA thousand times-or maybe just his smile-And she and her canvas would follow him wherever he would go‘Cause they […]
Category Archives: Jewel
Break Me
I will meet youIn some placeWhere the light lends itselfTo soft reposeI will let you undress meBut I warn youI have thornsLike any roseAnd you could hurt meWith your bare handsYou could hurt meWith with the sharp endOf what you sayBut I’m lost to you nowAnd there’s noAmount of reasonThat could save meSo break meTake […]
Deep Water
You find yourself falling downYour hopes in the skyBut your heart like grape gum on the groundAnd you try to find yourselfIn the abstractions of religionAnd the cruelty of everyone elseAnd you wake up to realizeYour standard of living somehow got stuck on survive When you’re standing in deep waterAnd you’re bailing yourself out with […]
Everybody Needs Someone Sometime
Mary heard boys talking in voices low Said she weren’t no spring chicken Like she didn’t already know So she called up Jack from a few years back She turned him down once in his one room shack She said "Now baby, you don’t look that bad" [CHORUS:]Cuz everybody needs someone sometime Everybody needs someone, […]
Adrian
Adrian came home again last summerThings just haven’t been the same around herePeople talk, and people stareOh Adrian, come out and play An unforunate accident in a canoeDr. said "i’m sorry not much i can do’The air was so still, his eyes did not blinkOh Adrian, come out and play Little Mary Epperson liked himShe […]
Jupiter
Venus de Milo in her half-baked shellUnderstood the nature of love very wellShe said, "A good love is delicious,You can’t get enough too soon.It makes you so crazy you want to swallow themoon."Oh, oh JupiterOh, oh be still my little heartOh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tameTake these stars from my crownLet […]
Foolish Games
You took your coat off and stood in the rain,You were always crazy like thatI watched from my window,always felt I was outside looking in on youYou were always the mysterious onewith dark eyes and careless hair,You were fashionably sensitive, but too cool to careThen you stood in my doorway, with nothing to saybesides some […]
All By Myself
When i was youngi never needed anyoneand making love was just for funthose days are goneliving alonei think of all the friends i’ve knownand when i dialled a telelphonenobody’s home chorus:All by myselfdon’t wanna be all by myselfanymore Hard to be suresometimes i feel so insecureand love’s so distant and obscureremains the cure chorus x2 […]