A Balladeer

I peek at you in secret I ignore you just in time I giggle like a schoolgirl I convince you that I'm fine I'd do anything and more to make you mine I curse your taste in lovers I judge your lack of spine I put you down in public I manipulate, malign I'd do...

you rave on about a car drive somewhere out in Germany you had dinner near some river like you can't get that with me and it all sounds so familiar I make sure to bite my tongue it's done nothing else but trouble kind of like our song and all because all I...

alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up I've been steady out of focus now for long enough don't talk about my heyday being way, way over just a touch of make-up here and I'm off I'm gonna be loved I'm gonna be loved L.O.V.E.D. you fake it till you m...

I wasn't even seventeen when I believed the grass was greener where life is one big movie scene of beauty queens and paper boy achievers Wednesday nights at Mary's house I tried to open up to Jesus cause I had seen them raise their brows to the only non-belie...

so here we go again straight into reverse now that I have made these scenes I could hardly make it worse but I hate to see you 'happy' how you've gotten on with life and bored with me so quickly it hurts, but I tell you that it's that blank that kills me so...

Nobody on the road Nobody on the beach I feel it in the air The summer's out of reach Empty lake, empty streets The sun goes down alone I'm driving by your house Though I know that you're not home But I can see you Your brown skin shining in the sun Your got...

The copper shades you wore Were very big and green And I was only feather-light Above the engine-roar In the smell of gasoline You'd make sure I'd hold on tight And there we'd go with no direction Anywhere the wind would blow And I would ask you all these qu...

Look at you now In such a rush but one big step behind You need a clue now All blinded by the gypsy of your mind If you give me your hand – I’ll do what I can to get you Calm By making up the meaning of the lines in your palm Look at you now Uptight and de...

Our fireworks at New Year were the bomb The fun was short in a bar miles further on The drama it was all over the news I was up watching from the couch all night With no one there to release my tunnel sight Where were you when all hell broke loose Just a few...

I've got a job back in Texas Cutting the grass before breakfast Cleaning the park I'm there til it's dark But I'm saving up for a Lexus I know it's fun But I've got to leave Over the sea with my family Just for a smile To be there for a while And the differen...

and then there was a fload of tears the secrecy, the question and the answer with the silence treat and then, there was phony smile of irony, a double bad with single sheet the sealing mirror with a focus switch a black as nine and a lack of mine lore lips ti...

It was a cloudless day that day When you semi-sadly said: 'Why does it always rain on me' And I felt really bad I saw you hiding from the rain today From underneath your hood You pulled a funny face And I felt really good 

there was this long-haired girl down in Texas she had a mission to convert my mind she bought a Bible meant as a present in which she wrote down and underlined: "see, in Him there is no darkness" He is light! He is light! He is light! Jesus doesn't love me,...

And here I am again Crying Back again Trying to think clear But it's hard to see straight Through hasty heaping tears Please, let these be left-over tears Lost These have to be left-over tears They must… And there you were again Sitting On my cou...

We met at redhead Mary's house On a Bible study night I heard she was a rebel Once until she saw the light Then in the backseat of a crowded car After weeks of holding hands She was slipping me the tongue Among her Christian friends We could chuckle and talk...

he'd asked her to come to California where it's even warmer than in Texas he tells her twice to lose her glasses as they pass the masses on the streets Jackie she sees what a lady is not supposed to see Jackie she starts to scream and gets up on her knees it'...

it could be the Christmas season why I want to get away and just lately for no reason I've been thinking of LA there's a place called Laurel Canyon where Houdini still has fun I've been dying for some action and a little bit of sun let's catch a plane to Cal...

I was this dreamer in advance Then life showed up in the middle of my plans So maybe it was not the pact It sure was good – the best in fact I may say I have changed? I have cried and sworn a lot Once it was gone I saw what I got I reminisce more than I shou...

Look, I took the rope off. So you might find your way. Now you go grease those wooden wheels. Don't stay another day. Panama is waiting. I see it's not a whim. If you want to leave this simple house Just clap your hidden wings or swim. The river here will le...

so here's the plan: you take the car and drive it down to somewhere south I love the smell of tar that melts but that is not important now this is me believing this is free America this is me believing we'll fool around and flip the bird fucked up on ampheta...

The smell of the sage bush reaches your brain. The scent of the pines from the snow-covered rain you came out to Laramie, in search of a friend, but the Wyoming wind wants to play with your pains. Hang on, handsome, we are going to get you out of here quick....

Just a perfect day For this time of year We're making away With riding the rear An Indian Summer song Red Berlin ahead The sky's so pretty Through the open roof And I so witty The laughter my proof All your plea Through your hand on my knee The memories of...

Well, it's been a few days now, so how have you been Not that I should know what state you're in I could care less Well, I just bawled my eyes out and feel really relieved Not that I threw up enough to fully retrieve I'm still a mess But what really...

rumor had it you'd move abroad about a year ago this guy from work he knows this girl you know so I guess you finished school and you got your degree the ostrich thing worked for you now let it work for me it is not like I could care you do what you have to d...

You had a thing with water You took me out to sea You had a thing with legends You had a thing for me I used to have a vision I used to hide my tears I cried you an ocean With a shell to my ear 

Damn, this is bad – this is so bad I get out of the crash thinking no one survived Big eyes from the backseat To my surprise I see all three alive You're losing blood in the grass there On the side of the road in your summer stripe dress The boy runs off to s...

The Benz fans Are turned up high Land pans Before your eyes Flashback To father's suntanned thighs Hopped on In driver's seat Up front With dangling feet Chest belt His muscled arm around And the sun goes down The lake wakes A hard blue sky Wa...

Skipping streets in springtime chasing sunlight on my bike and I could chalk the sidewalk any color that I liked Blowing dandelions fairground rides and climbing trees and mother's kiss or candy for every injured knee There are no action heroes out there to...

Sam here says he lost his call On the day Cousteau had died The ocean was a tub of sharks With Jacques Yves as a guide Sam here says the water's safe That man should not have left the seas Called the Human Bathyscaphe He's King of Expertise REFRAIN: So if so...

Life wasn't easy, Belle would confide You couldn't stop crying when Patrick had died The story continues at the microphone stand Family dramas with no happy end I remember picture perfect A few summers back now, a field in the sun The six of us out there – ta...

Nobody on the road Nobody on the beach I feel it in the air The summer's out of reach Empty lake, empty streets The sun goes down alone I'm driving by your house Though i know that you're not home But I can see you Your brown skin shining in the sun Your got...

They've shut down Marks & Spencer The windows all are blind No more English breakfasts But no one seems to mind After Christmas sales have started The trees are out there on the streets Another year of resolutions And I still drag my feet The memor...

So here we are all stuck between These Fire Island men of means You must believe me when I say I like you, Jimmy Dean Let's take that Spyder for a ride Please, don't say you came by bike I know a game that we could play And it goes like Ting-a-ling They are...

so welcome to Vegas where lights are like stars out in the desert it's all sevens and bars I'm over-aware that a beggar can't choose so let's place a bet fast may the best man lose watch the neon screaming for us dreamers like some sort of an alarm I will not...

you see, I have this picture, all perfect and pretty in which all is all that it seems with a white picket fence home away from the city to live the American Dream and it's you girl that I see beside me it's you girl you're still on my mind and it's you girl...

You never were a beauty queen, though but Mr. Greenfeld paid you good, where are you, Bambi Woods? You looked around the cowboy town and put your head and pompoms down, you had your share of Hollywood. Where are you, Bambi Woods? Where are you, Bambi Woods?...

that was your mum who I just informed go back to bed while it's still warm not one thing you need that is not in this lair just lay down your arms – you're under my care close those eyes goodnight-night to you go and doze this cold winter through and see wha...