Songs for a Blue Guitar
Have
You Forgotten
Song for a Blue Guitar
Make Like Paper
Priest Alley Song
Trailways
I Feel the Rain Fall
Long Distance Runaround
All Mixed Up
Revelation Big Sur
Silly Love Songs
Another Song for a Blue Guitar
I can't let you be cause your beauty won't
allow me
wrapped in white sheets like an angel from a bedtime story
shut out what they say cause your friends are fucked up anyway
and when they come around somehow they feel up and you feel down
when we were kids, we hated things our parents
did
we listened low to Casey Kasem's radio show
that's when friends were nice, to think of them just makes you feel nice
the smell of grass in spring and october leaves cover everything
have you forgotten how to love yourself
I can't believe all the good things that you
do for me
sat back in a chair like a princess from a faraway place
nobody's nice when you're older your heart turns to ice
and shut out what they say, they're too dumb to mean it anyway
when we were kids we hated things our sisters
did
backyard summer pools and Christmases were beautiful
and the sentiment of colored mirrored ornaments
and the open drapes look out on frozen farmhouse landscapes
have you forgotten how to love yourself
Song
for a Blue Guitar
when everything we felt failed
and some music soft in distant sails
but it don't sound like it did before
then I know I'm left with nothing more
than my own soul
when pretty pictues face back
but your coats aren't hanging on the rack
and blue water turns to
a place that I can't get to
a place I can't
in a room all I feel
is the cold that you left
through the air all Isee
is your face full of blame
what's left to see
what's there to see
in the room all I feel
is the cold that you left
through the air all I see
is your face full of blame
what's left to see
what's there to see
what's left to see
halloween in new york
on the way home from london
eight weeks on tonight still
but all the other winters I spent
she lived in a house
where mission street bends
she slept in a room
where I didn't feel welcome
leaves are turning brown
all over the ground
leaves make like paper
make like paper sounds
way back, back then
I considered you my best friend
but the last time I saw you
I knew I'd never see you again
you lived in a place
off the chamblee-dunwoody way
I took up his space
when they took your father away
leaves are turning round
all over the ground
leaves make like paper
make like paper sounds
going past golden gate elementary everyday
kids down colorful hill recess and fire drill
she likes the side without the heat
where the sun don't beat
she likes the cooler side of washington street
hummingbirds, pigeons and doves hover rooftops above
light shine down into the tides
over hillsides
see where the bridge and mountian meet at the mouth of the sea
and where the sailboats live a day and turn away
with the purple evening
losing our loving hold in the skies flourescent
glow
she takes her thoughts and cares into the moonlit alley stairs
still in my hand I feel the sting
the sound of bells ring
and the memory of the face
never washes away
the current evening
how have you been
Caroline
living ok
home in PA
see how the color left from our faces
from when, when we were younger
just yesterday I was making the reach
went for a swim in lover's beach
and there I met friends and I neared the bay
until I felt sick
but you were my friend
don't you know how I needed you then
I felt nervous when you shook and cried
the circles under your eyes
made love til you reached the clouds
through the ceilings and walls that surround
one time you drove through heat and hard rain
three hundred miles in the roots of your pain
things get so far back in your mind
that we don't connect
but you were my friend
at the turn of my life's events
I felt weak in the hold of your soul
and your blood-red eyes even more
but the feelings that stay with you now
get lost over time somehow
I feel the rain fall
down my back
I'm going back
to my place of work
to get things done
to get them right
but I'll mess them up
and I always do
buried in words about you
this year, oh what a year
I laid around
just feeling down
and from our happy room
I watched the seasons as they flew
and then when Christmas came
I laid my head
to rest in shame
cause with my finished work
I turn my head back
still didn't work
and I put it to bed
you often swore
to find me dead
too many times enough
to start again
and to give it up
and then the morning came
to light the day
to light my way
cause with my finished work
I turn my head back
still didn't work
I feel the rain fall
down my back
I'm going back
Long Distance Runaround - Jon Anderson
Long distance runaround
Long time waiting to feel the sound
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Letting in the sunshine
Did we really count to one hundred
Cold summer listening
Hot color melting the anger to stone
I still remember the dream there
I still remember the time you said goodbye
Did we really tell lies
Did we really count to one hundred
All
Mixed Up - Ric Ocasek
she shadows me in the mirror
she never leaves on the light
and some things that I say to her
they just don't seem to bite
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
she tricks me into thinking
that I can't believe my eyes
I wait for her forever
but she never does arrive
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
she said leave it to me
everything will be alright
she said leave it to me
everything will be alright
she's always out making pictures
she's always out making scenes
she's always out the window
when it comes to making dreams
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
she said leave it to me
everything will be alright
she said leave it to me
everything will be alright
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
it's all mixed up
I can't make anything
of why the brightest light fades
or how you slept a sleepless slumber
and through the rhythm of the timeless season
and you are the dark on my soul
and it's your love that I steal
and you're my cuts that won't close
and this I'm certain
and this I'm certain
and this I'm certain
I don't see anything
through all your worries and the worst in people
and you're the builder of your own high temple
and that's the magic of your mind
and you're the reason that I'm down
but you're the promise that I've found
and you're all that I've got
who's the meanest
and who's a genius
and who's mine
and from the bed you lay and wonder
and from the morning come like thunder
it's the downfall of your time
and you're the dark of our home
but still the home that I feel
won't let up or let go
and this I'm certain
and this I'm certain
Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney
You'd think that people would have had enough
of silly love songs.
I look around and I see it isn't so
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, and what's wrong with
that?
How I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again.
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I can't explain the feeling's plain to me.
Now, can't you see? she gave me more, she gave it all to me
What's wrong with that?
How I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again.
How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?
Another Song for a Blue Guitar
she comes apart at the seams cause she never
dreams
as she lays up awake cause her feelings ache
and the one thing she found as she gazed at the sea
was that she lost her faith, her faith in me
and in the early morning
I can't make up a thing
and I barely can play I don't like to sing
so I picked up my brush painted blue guitar
and I ripped off the chords from 'bron y' aur"
so I played her a song but the timing was wrong
poor choices of chords and the words are forced
and the one thing that I found as I gazed at the sea
was that she lost all hope, all hope in me
and the one thing that I found as I looked at the sea
was that she lost all hope, all hope for me
and the one thing that she found as she gazed at the sea
was that she lost her faith, her faith in me