Rickie Lee Jones

Oh, he's a lucky guy Oh, he's a lucky guy He doesn't worry about me When I'm gone He goes to sleep at night He don't turn off the light And wonder how to find me Or if I'm alone Oh, he's a lucky guy I wish I was like him Cuz when he talks about me...

All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - gray Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way Say goodnight, America The world still loves a dreamer And all the gang has gone home And I'm stan...

Maybe you want another world One where heaven doesn't weigh so much Maybe you'll find another girl One you can feel when you do not touch Well, I've got something Warm inside me, It won't let you fall 'til I see Somewhere better than this place Somewhere bette...

For all that it cost him he never did complain The chicken-headed man feathering the rain But the last bus is tired and everybody's gone And the horses are waiting in the middle of the lawn Gone from the rodeo, Gone from the tundra, gal, It's after the fair,...

There’s a house at Bayless Street I left when I was tired, There’s a dog in a backyard He watches the moon for me. Lay down All these easy times And we’ll Meet me there With the book you brought from Bayless Street A child on Bayless Street Left the...

There's just one thing before I go You are the sweetest boy I know I've lived my whole life in the past But I awoke last night at last I thought I’d finally won your heart And that forever never part And in sweet love we would grow old Now I'm just a scaveng...

Oh, pack up all my care and woe, Here I go, Singing low, Bye bye blackbird, Where somebody waits for me, Sugar's sweet, so is he, Bye bye Blackbird! Because No one here can love or understand me, Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me, So make my bed and...

How come he don't come and P.I.P. with me Down at the meter no more? And how come he turn(ed) off the t.v. And hang(ed) that sign on the door? Well we call and we call "How come?" we say Hey what could make a boy behave this-a way, yeah? And he learn(ed)...

Sun's goin' down I'm goin back to my cave I've got no one to meet No one to save I like the music In my head I think I'll go away For her instead, yeah I draw a circle in the sand Draw a circle in the sand Draw a circle in the...yeah Soft sweet devil lights...

The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone And through an open window where no curtain hung I saw you, I saw you, comin' back to me One begins to read between the pages of a look The shape of slee...

I'll remember you too clearly But I'll survive another day Conversations to share When there's no one there I'll imagine what you'd say I'll see you in another life now, baby I'll free you in my dreams But when I reach across the galaxy I will miss yo...

I and Braggar, and Junior Lee, well that's the way we always thought it would be In the Winston lips of September, how we met Decked out like aces, we'd beat anybody's bet Cuz we was Coolsville... cuz we was Coolsville Well you stick it here; you s...

Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day But when the nighttime comes, hey-hey There's this cat down there that makes a bad kinda soup I come around struttin' my luck in m...

Hey mama, what's that there? And what's that doing there? Hey mama, up here! Mama, hey look at that over there! And what's that doing there? And where're they going there? And mummy can I have that big elephant over there? Who's that in my chair? And what's h...

These stars no one else can see Trapeze the height of thee, vanish as they call These blues no one else can hear No one else can sing this one for you Can they, dear? Things that you do are always with me You're laughing, you're always here What's the...

Don't let the sun catch you cryin' The night's the time for all your tears Your heart may be broken tonight But tomorrow with the morning light Don't let the sun catch you cryin' The nighttime shadows disappear And with them go all your tears Cuz the morning...

You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town on your donkey You're coming into town on your donkey tonight You're coming into town, coming into, yeah yeah It will permeate across the ages Coming into town on your donkey tonight And y...

There was a Joe Leanin' on the back door A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills Their eyes was statin' They was waitin' To get their hands on some easy money They flipped a dime One said " well, I'll take heads this time" One stepped up One...

Wrote a letter to my father I thought I'd tell him where I am I knew that he was hoping I'd come home again I'm standing in the doorway But I'm happy living here Everybody always tries so hard To sing a song no one can hear And yes, my heart was broken Yeah b...

All my old friends have gone underground They fall so hard I am the last of my kind in this town Out in the yard... my feet hardly touch the ground. my feet hardly touch the ground. Life moves on the Eucalyptus Trail Vishnu’s Ocean, Wagon-wheel motel. Cowboy...

Honey-skinned girl She's light on her feet Twirling on Apollo But she's going down there for something to eat On the corner We see him coming Followed by the rabbis With their soft shoes humming We're falling up, yeah yeah We're falling up Come on Try to re...

Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel Love comes to the first thing love sees Love comes to the first thing that makes it real, makes it real Everybody's been hit, everybody's been hurt Everybody's been kicked, everybody's been dirt...

Down there by the river is a man whose horn is twisted into shapes unknown to the wicked and the wise and he bears the look of an animal who has seen things no animal should ever see He has been driven beyond all towns and all systems until now and though it i...

Your day breaks, your mind aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you She wakes up, she makes up She takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry She no longer needs you And in her eyes you see nothing No...

Now we went up to the garden Beneath the olive tree The bells were ringing The rooster crows The men were standing all around Other men are laying on the ground And I am standing by myself I just let them sleep awhile I just let them sleep awhile You know y...

Saving all my money all week long So I can go out driving with you Down on Hollywood Boulevard (On Friday night, dressed right) I don't take no trouble smoke at the wall ('cause that's passe, that's what I say) But I still have that leopard-skin hat That you g...

Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 'Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive Under the bridges and over the street Now every shadow that I meet They all know my name And they whisper "What's the matter, hon, Don't you know you're...

There are wounds that stir up the force of gravity A cold that will wipe the hope from your eyes Young girl standing underneath the "El" train Standing there, watching the trains go by ... You think that nobody knows where you are, girl You think that nob...

I would call him, Hey Bub He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - He was so in love He moved us to a home there A place where he'd take care of me And I'd always know where he'd be I don't know, it happened so fast sometimes all I see is l...

A song of love is a sad song Hi-Lili, hi-Lili, hi-lo A song of love is a song of woe Don't ask me how I know A song of love is a sad song For I have loved and it's so I wake up this morningand watch the rain Hi-Lili, hi-Lili, hi-lo Tomorrow, I'll probably lo...

And when you arrive shining and new Forgotten by the fear and pain you put your body through On His Jeweled Floor We are every one Laying in His starry arms, On His Jeweled Floor we are standing now See me as I am... You’ll come in the afternoon of a hard tr...

Take my advice It doesn't get easier watching the golden orbs floating out of the bars And into space there's Frank Sinatra on the Juke box Pause in the ketchup your face in the reflection in the mirror He walked through the rocks, you know He walked through...

I won't grow up I don't wanna go to school Just to learn to be a puppet And recite a silly rule If growing up means it would be Beneath my dignity to climb a tree I won't grow up, won't grow up, won't grow up Not me. I won't grow up I don't wanna wear a tie...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Cathedral bells were tolling And our hearts sang on, Was it the spell of Paris Or the April dawn? Who knows, if we shall meet again? But when the morning chimes ring sweet again: I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That this heart of...

It makes me laugh When I think about us The way we light up the way home It's you for us And one for all It caught me in its ray But it hurts to be here It hurts to be here It hurts to be here When you're gone Now we've got a sunny day We earned this, every...

It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love that we keep trying to hear 'Cuz I imagined this kind of wonderful choice I imagine you hear the very same voice When I speak to you But you say "That's just my imagination" Oh no, no, no It must b...

Polly and I went to the circus Polly got hit with a rolling pin We got even with the circus We bought tickets but we didn't go in... You won't like it here when I first take you, He's in the back doing his Father O'Riley for the cops But you'll like Wo...

It seems lately when I walk down the street There's something in my neighborhood It's getting stronger every day There's a rumor that lights up all of me And it whispers from the rooftops up above I must hold on or I'll fly away Oh, no, not the autumn leaves...

Once your journeyed into the wilderness To listen to John the Prophet You called "The baptiser" He spoke to you of truth He was a burning, shining light And you were willing for a while To follow him Now one has come... The lamp of the body is the eye The l...

Eddie's got one crazy eye that turns him into a cartoon when a pretty girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the stoop all day like there's something he's waiting for Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley he's got all th...

Love's gonna bring us back alive Love's gonna bring us back alive Over mountains where no one goes Oh yeah, yeah, yeah We've been runnin' Yeah, yeah, yeah Gotta keep runnin' Oh yeah, yeah, yeah 'Til love brings us back alive We've been outlaws on the run Some...

Dented bodies, broken souls Wilted roses, hearts grow cold Unhappy endings and shattered dreams There go all the nearly-real things Where's the candlelight, where's the smiles? Man, this place goes on for miles There's heaps and heaps of wedding rings Equal s...

I, I used to visit all these very gay places Those come what may places Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life To get a feel of life From jazz and cocktails The girls I knew had sad and sullen grey faces With distintgue traces That used to be th...

My funny Valentine, My sweet comic Valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks, they are laughable Baby they're un-photographable But still, still you're my favorite work of art Is your figure less than Greek Is your mouth a little weak When you open...

The very thought of you makes my heart sing Like an April breeze on the wings of spring, And you appear in all your splendor, My one and only love. The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms In the hush of night while I'm in your arms. I feel your lips,...

Here I'm going Walkin' with my baby in my arms 'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black And the devil, see, he's right behind us And this worker said she's gonna take my little baby My little angel back But they won't getcha, 'Cuz I'm right he...

For a thousand years I've lay upon the Lake Victoria I was winged and many-colored And nobody knew my name For a thousand years I fell out of the sand into the Guadeloupe And I made many songs into the air And nobody knew my name I fell like water In sweet g...

Something’s changed It’s not that I fear but Maybe it’s that I took care of you too many times, And you grew weaker for a kindness Sometimes kindness from a friend can break a man I can understand You sit there like a child-man I never meant to make you cry I...

The most as you'll ever go Is back where you used to know If grown-ups could laugh this slow Where as you watch the hour snow Years may go by So hold on to your special friend Here, you'll need something to keep her in : "Now you stay inside this foolish grin...

When you were young and on your own How did it feel to be alone I was always thinking of games that I was playing Tryin' to make best of my time But only love can break your heart Try to be sure right from the start Only love can break your heart What if your...

Come on - Joey get out of school We got places to go A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts And the girls like to touch it Just to find out if it works But don't look at me It wasn't me Joey live on the edge of the corner Of living on the run I lik...

You used to dream yourself away each night To places that you'd never been On wings made of wishes That you whispered to yourself Back when every night the moon and you Would sweep away to places That you knew Where you would never get the blues Well...

Got your mother in a whirl 'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey, babe, your hairs alright Hey, babe, let's stay out tonight You like me, and I like it all We like dancing, and we look divine You know fans when they play it hard They want...

With my face against the glass I call your name as you walk past You look, but you see yourself I’ll give you all the things I’ve got I know it’s late, I know it’s hot, But don’t you hang up, and don’t you tell lies. Don’t you know you’re blowing away? Don’t...

Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild S.S.I. Whisper from the hills It's a petrified forest of Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' back Rodeo girl, Saddle up There's no more credit in this bank Try your luck Up in the east, down...

My baby's always crying, My baby wants to see me cry, too. Chain on my heart is going to break 'Cuz every tear that falls in here Is a dime for the Juke Box Fury So punch it in, shake the chain And listen to the song you're playing Shake the chain, Sha...

Wewere born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you'r...

If you believe You are light as air If you believe You will fly There is no tear that is stronger than The faith that's in your eye Look now at my body Broken there by the sin And all my friends who drink my wine They're all drunk again We can make another...

She was pregnant in May Now they're on their way Dashing thru the snow To St. John's, here we go Well, it could be a boy But it's okay if he's a girl Oh, these things that grow out of The things that we give We should move to the west side They stil...

You'll always find what you're after, baby You'll find the sun and laughter So long, my darling, so long You're alone Can't seem to find you anywhere But I know you're better there So long, my darling, so long Lie awake Thinking about you endlessly...

Something cool I'd like to order something cool It's so warm here in town And this heat gets me down And I'd like something cool My, it's nice Just to sit down and rest awhile Hey, you know it's a shame But I can't think of your name But I remember y...

Spring this year has got me feeling Like a horse that never left the post I lie in my room Staring up at the ceiling Spring can really hang you up the most Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers And to them I'd like to drink a toast I walk in the park Just to...

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he's got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when Bu...

Sing a song of sad young man Glasses full of rye All the news is bad again so Kiss your dreams goodbye All the sad young men Sitting in the bars Knowing neon nights Missing all the stars All the sad young men Drifting through the town Drinking up the night T...

Didn’t you hear? Black is a criminal, White is a crime, Poison is the pen Writing down this children’s nursery rhyme. Didn’t you see him standing next to me? The seeds of change have grown, We don’t have to hide anymore. Lololololololo, that means trouble f...

We will fly Way up high Where the cold wind blows Or in the sun Laughing having fun With the people that she knows And if the situation Should keep us separated You know the world won't fall apart And you will free the beautiful bird That's caught inside your...

A long stretch of headlights Bends into I-9 Tiptoe into truck stops And sleepy diesel eyes Volcanoes rumble in the taxi And glow in the dark Camels in the driver's seat A slow, easy mark But you ran out of gas Down the road a piece Then the battery...

Homeboys calling from the corners Station to station for the Magazine But her pages are turning out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading is the Braille night I can't come out and play Paddy with the Precinct boys no more But you and me...

Don’t feel bad because the sun went down The night has wealth untold Just keep watching and you soon will see The Moon is Made of Gold Now the stars appear And as they do Heaven they unfold Don’t feel bad because the sun went down The Moon is Made of Gold S...

Once I had a sweet love Always followed me around The way I treated my little lamb was like The Marquis D. Sade and her new clown I guess I hurt him I guess I hung up I guess I should have called him back I guess I didn't care Maybe I left him there Maybe a wo...

But after all There are such things And these are the things Who'll turn your memories back into dreams again Oh, it's all flying and waving For you to keep trying You're so close. So close. All the returns One of these days, One of these days, One...

Love is wonderful The second time around Just as wonderful With both feet on the ground. It's that second time You hear your love song sung Makes you think perhaps That love, like youth, is wasted, is wastedon the young. Love's more comfortable T...

There must be a golden frame Coming to me 'Cuz where are you? Where are you? Where are you? The very day when you first heard Your heart beat listens for you still So I think it's not so much the painting As what you give yourself by what you leave Y...

I brought the Weird Beast here From Van Nuys Boulevard So I would not be without a man When the Tartars reign Flooded the empty streets of Paris... And on one of these Passing boats I thought I saw the Weird Beast Speaking in the Russian tongue Will...

We go down round The far side of the tracks Lolitas playing dominoes and poker Behind their daddy's shacks Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys On a pearl splashing glass If they give us any flack If they come up on our ass We'll just give 'em the go-by The Ca...

'Round here we don't need no one trying to set us straight Heck, I got a red neck in plaid suit And he's on TV real late balalaikas tolling Sheba plays the flute There's a communist and capitalists They all think I'm cute You know, I'm out of rehab You know,...

When the sun beats down And melts the tar up on the roof And your shoes get so hot You wish your tired feet were fire-proof Under the Boardwalk Down by the sea, yeah On a blanket with my baby's Where I`ll be Oh there's the park And the carousel Ooh you know...

Tell me everything I just want to talk to you I won't do you no harm I just want to know about your different lives On this is here people farm I heard some of you got your families Living in cages tall and cold And some just sit there and dust away Past the...

A distant light finds me when I'm with you A distant light knows me when I'm through Once I mistake you For somebody else Mistook you for somewhere, mistook you A distant light that binds me A distant sound that finds me When I'm through True Vessels of Light 

I say this was no game of chicken You were aiming your best friend That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad Now its daddy on the booze And Brando on the ice Now it's Dean in the doorw...

Sal was working at Nyro's nook in downtown Selling articles of congress to these people downtown He was pretty sleazy when I met him A weasel in a poor boy's wool Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey Buys his meat from a whore next door Wants it...

I wanted to pray I wanted to let you go on your way I wanted to know why they laid there Dying in the streets next to the restaurant Where people were eating and yes I wanted to pray How do you pray in a world like this You know, I see the people on TV And th...

Wild girl, you must have been a terror When you were young Your mamma must have let you run, Let you run free... But it wasn’t very nice Eating all that sugar and spice – What they want a girl to be And all the things a child learns On their way from hope t...

Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue To find the Stax and Sun They was reaching to get to They was a rappin the fat scat Diamond dialectos of points and taps Between the chicken and the back They drew themselves a bebop Midnigh...

Take a walk around midnight in the City Young Blood is hiding there somewhere If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe today Here come Pepe and she's got a friend in a Chevro...