I want to take you down to the side of the city Where the sun doesn't shine and the moon isn't pretty The slow train crawls in the nights and the days
From Northerton to Northern California Folk don't really change And there's always the rain From Southport Beach to Sunday in the Hamptons Never could
To the corner of the market Place your wager to the price of tea in China And the smell of dirty money On your fingers, in the honey pot, is empty Fall
When you're nothing to no one And you're less than you can And you're looking for someone Who won't cling to anything So you're stuck in some motel With
I was woken up at four A.M. By your screams and anguished cries Your mother was singing in the bathroom She will never be my child Oh baby, talks in her
Don't hesitate, there is no time like now For you to break the habits of a lifetime Babe, get on your pony and ride Make no mistake, we're gonna cry at
I took 15 years to break your spell I loved you then, I love you still I wake up cold, I wake up wet My body weak, my mind is spent I fill my days, I
Once you were an angel Jesse honey, is it hard to take Does it feel so bad to be twenty-eight You were twenty-three and you could do anything Now you
I was out stumbling in the rain Staring at your lips so red You said, "blah, blah, blah, I got a pillow stuck in my head" How could I argue
This one's from the hip Oh mother you have sorely misjudged me It should have been whipped Out of me Without a father figured i Yeh I concluded then that
There you go again Alma tell me when Will you never learn And now you`re underweight And overpaid You will not be saved And you`re pushing 38 Heaven knows
You walk in my house with her lipstick over your face You tell me you got news for me, well, do you think I can't see straight? Do you think I can't recognize
Holier than thou, yes, it's true I'm too good for you Higher than heaven, taller than Jesus Charlie knows just what you need is We're going down, down
Never doubting Always faithful She returns She says she loves me And I could always Come to her She can't imagine how Another lover Could turn her head
Lay your head upon my shoulder Let it rest there for a while I guess that I'm still good for something Once in a while And if you need someone to talk
Yes, you're takin' it badly, I know, I know And you feel so alone Everybody's got to tell you What you already know It's alright, it's all wrong, it'
Heaven is a shadow of your live I'm a lonesome Alcoholic for your kiss Should I sit around and wait Well, I had a chance I hesitate To ask you for the
High tide In the cool of the mist Walking in the shadows of the trade ships I`ll be your baby I will not be your man I will not be around when you call