Freedy Johnston

Well I sold the dirt to feed the band
Falling right through my hands
Yes I sold the map up to the sky
Falling down always

Trying to wake up in your head
Trying to cry with the red light on
Trying to tell you I don't know

Well I sold the dirt and bought the road
Let me tell you right where we're going
Yes I sold the house where I Iearned to walk
Falling down always

Fifty bucks to use the van
Trying to find your city
Trying to get back my guitars
Trying to tell you I don't know

Well I sold the dirt for a song
Bleeding on every note
Yes I sold the map up to the sky
Falling down always

Trying to sing what I can't say
Trying to throw my head away
Trying to cry with the red light on
Trying to tell you I don't know

Knock it down
Take it away
We've got work tearin' down this place

Take it away, Take it away, Take it away

Here's the room where they laid awake through a complicated night
He was starin' at the wall and she cried and cried and cried

Under a roof that held the real rain out and covered up the sound
He built her every wall and we have to tear it down

Knock it down
Take it away
We've got work tearin' down this place

Built for a ghost
Haunted by love
Left to decay

Knock it down
Take it away
We've got work tearin' down this place

Take it away, Take it away, Take it away

Here's the door he would walk right out on an undecided night
He was spellin' out her name in the artificial lights

Through this window she could see her man, starin' at the town
He built her every wall and we have to tear it down

Knock it down
Take it away
We've got work tearin' down this place

Built for a ghost
Haunted by love
Left to decay

Knock it down
Take it away
We've got work tearin' down this place

Take it away, Take it away, Take it away

Walking from the bus stop
Couldn't wait to get off
I know I am the lucky one

Walking through the twilight
Cold Nevada twilight
I know I am the lucky one

On the wheels, on the tabletop
On the handles with my shirt off
On the floor, on my heels again
I know I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one

Standing on the corner
If I could find a dollar
I know I'd be the lucky one

Standing in the last light
Artificial daylight
I know I am the lucky one

On the wheels, on the tabletop
On the handles with my shirt off
On the floor, on my heels again
I know I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one

On the wheels, on the tabletop
On the handles with my shirt off
On the floor, on my heels again
I know I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one

Walking to the bus stop
Couldn't wait to get on
I know I am the lucky one

Can you hear me
Now the wind is dead
You fell from the cloud
In the frozen mud

Can you see me
And my idiot son
Down in golden light
Thrown out of the dark

You came down down down down on a midnight storm
You came down down down down on a midnight flash

We've all been looking at you
I must know, is it true
Can you fly
Can you fly
Can you fly

Can you hear the wind
Now the light is dead
You flew from your bed
Woke up on the floor

Can you fly tonight
From my pointless fence
Back up to the cloud
Up into the wind

You came down down down down on a midnight storm
You came down down down down in a midnight flash

We've all been looking at you
I must know, is it true
Can you fly
Can you fly
Can you fly
Can you fly

She has gone to New York City
That old suitcase holds no funny stories
I packed it once on her first birthday
Now that wasted shame has grown up with her

The streets are slick with dew and motor oil
A girl walks in and out of the morning sun
A barred window reflects the cloudless sky
No blue reaches those eyes

She has gone to New York City
Through that arch on a summer night
I went there once on her first birthday
Lay my burning head on the cool stone

Its raining blossoms down in the concrete park
A girl walks in and out of the evening shade
A broken angel weeps through her spray paint smile
No tears can reach me while

I know I'm not responsible
I know I'm not responsible

I know I'm not responsible
I know I'm not responsible

But I want somebody to lie
And release me into the past
And I want to know what I knew
For the secret word to tell you that

I know I'm not responsible
I know I'm not responsible

But I want somebody to lie
And to lock me out of the years
And I want my problem again
And a secret word you will not hear

Goodnight my dear
Goodnight my cold little one
Has your dream begun

She has gone to New York City

I used to love the mortician's daughter
We drew our hearts on the dusty coffin lids
I grieve tonight over this letter
My tears dissolve an image from the careful link

Her father stands in the open door, he's waitin' for her
There's a storm blowin' across the lake, it's late summer
On the broken step is a cardboard box full of wilted flowers
She whispers in my burnin' ear, "it doesn't matter"

I used to love the mortician's daughter
We rolled in the warm grass by the boneyard fence
Her skin so white the first leaf's fallen
This long forgotten night I am there again

Her father stands in the open door, he's waitin' for her
There's a ribbon printed with last respects flowin' down the gutter
And the rain comes in and she drops my hand she's turnin', laughin'
And I used to love the mortician's daughter

I used to love the mortician's daughter
We drew our hearts on the dusty coffin lids
There's a lonely dove out on the telephone wire
I turn my head and she flies away

Mister can you tell me where I've come from
Looked like hell to me, took so long
And it's a frustration
Like I really need one
And the man at the station wouldn't help me at all
Help me at all

They think the Yank is just a jerk
Well this clown hocked his golden gloves
He ran out all ripped apart
Holding that solid gold heart

He paid the witch for a virgin's skinny arms
The warmth of her tiny voice
A little choice she won't recall
A thin veil she would not lift
I am sincere

Mister can you tell me wat to call this place
I've been cheated like I've never been
And it's a frustration
Like I really need one
And the man at the hotel's been breaking my balls
Breaking my balls

They think the Yank is just a jerk
Well this clown hocked his golden gloves
He ran out all ripped apart
Holding that solid gold heart

Down inside I feel the morning, still too dark to see
Down in love I know they're wakin'
No more dreams for me

Down to the street with an early shakin' (down in love)
Down to the park but the park ain't open (down in love)
Down so far you must be jokin' (down in love)

No more dreams for me

The day breaks down and cries a river, sucks me to my heart
Down in love I know they're laughing, tearing us apart

Down to the docks where the wind is blowing (down in love)
Down in the rain the cold and soaking (down in love)
Down so far you can't be broken (down in love)

No more dreams for me
No more dreams for me

Down to the street with an early shakin' (down in love)
Down to the park but the park ain't open (down in love)
Down so far you must be jokin' (down in love)

No more dreams for me

Down to the street with an early shakin'
Down to the park but the park ain't open
Down so far you must be jokin' (down in love)

No more dreams for me

In the middle of her confession
He comes over and holds her hand
I wake up, she is crying
I guess he was here again
Chorus:
Evie's tears are never going to dry
Evie's secret tears burn this bed she comes to
only when it's light
We met in a lonely summer
Two survivors of paradise
She ran up when I first touched her
Now she wakes me every night
Chorus
Faithless girl
You've been dreaming
Staring up your face is what we fear
OK, now I'm listening
You're not mine and he's not here
Now I'm listening
You're not mine and he's not here
In the middle of Evie's garden
In a simple iron chair
Wind's blowing and she is singing
Begs the moon to disappear
Chorus (with

A barefoot whore
Walking by a famous clock
Against her door
Waiting for the chimes to start

Chorus:
Can't sink this town
Pull the gates and bring it down
I'd gladly drown and let you leave me lonely

She pulled the cork
On a night like this she never works
I said,

You oughta see your face
You oughta hear your voice
Last time I was here
I wouldn't turn around
You oughta lock that door
Somebody might get in
Didn't I teach you that

This perfect world
So blue I can't begin to say
This perfect world
I know I never should have gone away
But I still deserve to say goodbye
No matter what I've done

I see her in your face
Hear her in your voice
Last time I was here
They found her in the lake
You oughta see my scar
You think I'm made of stone
Didn't you tell me that

This perfect world
So blue I can't begin to say
This perfect world
They say that soon I will be gone away
But I still deserve to say goodbye
No matter what I've done

Now I've gone around it's far too late
And these pills won't even let me cry
No one knows you even when you're gone
But I still deserve to say goodbye
No matter what I've done
No matter what I've done

You oughta see your face
You oughta hear your voice
Lock this after me

When I woke up
I was already evicted
And when you say lie
Do you think I believe anything?

Cold again
Cold again
Walking over Brooklyn bridge
Cold again
Cold again
Hey, Miss Liberty, where have you been?

When you walked up
I was looking at the wrong life
And now I'm locked out
I will be back in for the (?morning?) spots

Cold again
Cold again
Back alone before the end
Cold again
Cold again
Do you really think I'd turn you in?
Cold again
Cold again
Walking over Brooklyn bridge
Cold again
Cold again
Hey, Miss Liberty, where have you been?

Lovers Cry
One last kiss by the edge they're hand in hand
Two lovers stop their hearts
Better than to be apart

They had run from a father to the highest bridge
Holding together as they jumped in

Lovers lie
On the hill where they once lay side by side
Two lovers stop their hearts
Better than to be apart

She was rich he was common but she wouldn't say no
Lyin' together on the rocks below
They had run from a father to the highest bridge
Holding together as they jumped in

Lovers cry
One last kiss by the edge they're hand in hand
Toe lovers stop their hearts
Better than to be apart

Lover cry, Lovers cry, Lovers cry
Lover cry, Lovers cry, Lovers cry
Lover cry, Lovers cry, Lovers cry
Lover cry, Lovers cry, Lovers cry-

Though you've gone away
I play your favorite song
Feel the blue and gold
With your dark glasses on

I always think I see you
Across the avenue
Walking by where I lost you
It's all I ever do

You just walked away
We'll need tonight, OK?
Going against the light
Run down in front of me

Chorus:
I always think I see you
Across the avenue
Someday I'll come to meet you
On the other side
Across the avenue X 2

Though you've gone away
I wear your favorite shirt
Sitting in the sun
By the lottery lines

Chorus

A red suitcase she'll never miss
A leather coat he used to wear
Thinking tough, looking tired
With momma's money and daddy's ring

Chorus:
He's gone like the water down to
NYC
Sleeping on the 802
Along this river, running down
He's gone like the water down
the deep hole drain
disappering in the city

Twenty-four and growing pale
Growing up, coming back
Drew a face on the ticket stub
With mamma's hands, and daddy's pen

Chorus

Talk all night, cook all day
Looking for a new place to stay
Thinking hard, looking bad
With mama's dollar in daddy's coat

Chorus

Dolores was her middle name
She read the book and everything
Now I know how old I am
Have you ever seen that film?

Talking to a hotel mirror with my glasses off
Now you know just what he's crying about

Dolores was her middle name
Dangling from a silver chain
Where'd you learn to talk that way?
I look like James Mason's ghost.

Talking to a friend after school but you don't see
That she's really looking right at me, yeah, yeah, yeah

Dolores was her middle name
And now her mother's wondering
If I could see my wrinkled face
Paint her lovely toenails red

Writing all my problems in a secret little book
Now I know just what he should've done.
Talking to me like I'm just a little late
Now you know just what he's talking about.

Dolores was her middle name X 2

In the middle of Evie's garden
Was a rock she could never move
Worn away by a faithful handtill
No one knows the date

Chorus:
Bring back the rain
We'll go walking
Bring back the wind
Like you do

Of the flowers in Evie's garden
One would never go out of bloom
Planted over a well forgotten
Opened by the moon.

Chorus

Bring back the rain
To Evie's garden
I'm at the gate
Looking through

In the middle of Evie's garden
Was a rock she could never move
Nearly buried in a night bloom tango
Pale and smooth as skin

Did you take your mother's name
So you could sleep easily
She took you back too late
And now you never even call

Did you take that money drawer
While she was praying
They said you disappeared
Just like water down a drain

Chorus:
Why'd you call me?
Must be back
Disappointed man
Where've you been
Hide yourself so well
In this city
Disappointed man

Did you sell your father's ring
So you could stay one more night
It shone like his glass eye
In the worn velvet case

Did you fill this hired room
with guilty words
Your white piano hands
flutter like poison birds
Chorus

You can really fall
Wake up in a ruined house
Wrapped up in a torn down curtain
And when I get to hell
Will the lovely girls come down
To the banks of that red red river

I can hear the laughs when they find I've fallen down again
I can hear the laughs and it hurts so bad I have to smile

You can take a lot
Put back not a thing
Still come home looking thinner
And when I get to Oz
Will the lovely witch come down
Kiss my pale bleeding brow

I can hear the laughs when they find I've fallen down again
I can hear the laughs and it hurts so bad I have to smile

(Freedy Johnston)
On the way out I'm thinkin'
You get what you take anyway
On the way out you're watchin'
Wonder if I am gonna pay
No I'm just lookin' round
Thanks a lot
I gotta be goin' now
Will I get caught
On the way out I'm smilin'
Look nice, you might be photographed
On the way out you're thinkin'
Looks like he never put it back
Just kinda walk around
Check it out
Take two, put one down
Don't think ya saw it
Back home, another day
What'd ya get
Who needs that anyway
Know what I'm sayin'
On the way out I'm thinkin'
You get what you take anyway
On the way out you're watchin'
Wonder if I am gonna pay
No I'm just lookin' round
Thanks a lot
I gotta be goin' now
Will I get caught
On the way out (repeat many times)

(Freedy Johnston)
I know you're only having fun
You want me to stare into your eyes
Whatever, you're the only one
OK, but I'm not hypnotized
Colored Lights shine through the blinds
You enfold your hand in mine
Give your trance a couple tries
You don't know I'm getting wise
You've got me swinging on a chain
Back and forth between my eyes
Whatever, I'll do anything
OK, but I'm not hypnotized
If you make me disappear
Who will whisper in your ear
Crystal ball and all the gear
I know what you want to hear
I know you're only having fun
You want me to stare into your eyes
Whatever, you're the only one
OK, but I'm not hypnotized
You should wear that all the time
That's some magic I don't mind
Hearts and moons and other signs
Read my fortune every night
You've got me swinging on a chain
Back and forth between my eyes
Whatever, I'll do anything
OK, but I'm not hypnotized

(Freedy Johnston)
A pilot's son won't fly
So it's a two-day drive
Kissed hs brave new wife goodbye
The road ends in a fence
She flies overhead
He starts his lonely trip out west
Western sky
The miles go by
She'll always get there first
And I'll always arrive
Meet you there
You take care
I love that look you get
Before you say goodbye
His conscience dark
Like an AM radio song
Fades in reflected off the clouds
After his father crashed
He moved his family back
And vowed to never leave the ground
Western sky
Between the signs
I'm spelling out your name
In neon passing by
Meet you there
Saturday
Now you be careful love
The road can hypnotize
And exit in the rain
She answered before it rang
But he can only say her name
Western sky
He laughs then signs
I'm only half way home
And stopping for the night
Glad you're there
You know my fear
I need those words you say
Before you say goodbye

You always tell me
I'm just one more thing to break
You wonder why
I wanna fall apart that way

Crack my reason
Wearing you pretty face
Dropped me a couple times
I come around anyway

Demolition by words
Wrecked all over town
Working for one break
Head down, passed out

You always tell me
I'm just one more thing to hide
Your friends don't know me
And they wonder where you go

Take it on another phone
Put-downs in code
I've got my own ring
You might not be alone

Leave me everywhere
Waking up on a floor
Locked in a nightclub
Breaking out the back door

You always tell me
I'm just one more thing to break

He wasn't murdered by love or loneliness
He walked out on his own
It was a holiday night, he was out of state
Before she knew he'd gone

Leaving just enough for the weekly rent
Plus a little change
Taking the long way to any place
In the frozen rain

It was a roadside stop with a broken name
And he sat there all alone
In the used-up mirror he saw
His ghost come slowly walking over

He said, "Where are you goin', son? I'll go too
Listen, don't you think I know
What you've been doin'?"

He wasn't murdered or lost or ransomed off
He walked out on his own
With a rain to wash his conscience off
And an idea where he's goin'

Looking both ways on a one-way street
But the light won't change
Finding just enough behind the seat
To make her telephone ring

Did I wake you up again?
Talking in my sleep
Unfamiliar afternoon

We were out for a little while
Voices from the street
Sunlight in a rented room

I don't know how
You get me lost
Forgotten where I'm running from

I have found
You get me lost
And I don't care where we're going

I'll follow you to your cloud
Or meet you underground
Take me with you either way

What if we'd never met
You lead me to forget
What I was about to say

I'm turned around
You get me lost
Directions wrong, way unknown

I have found
You get me lost
And I don't care where we're going

He hadn't been talking
Parked out of the way
Just say there smoking
Watching the flames

You're going to tell me why
We're first to arrive
She thought she knew him well
Until they had gone to see the fire

When the roof fell in
He lit up again
She thought she knew him well
Until they had gone to see the fire

Friends with her brother
He started to call
Now it's been two months
Summer to fall

A burn on his finger
Smoke in his clothes
Tapping his ashes
Like sending up code

You're going to tell me why
We're first to arrive
She thought she knew him well
Until they had gone to see the fire

When the roof fell in
He lit up again
She thought she knew him well
Until they had gone to see the fire

Down from the attic in your old things
My new girlfriend has a curious streak
Half lit in the hall, she's like you
Twenty years ago

Clothes from a case you'd thrown at me
Orange, yellow, red and chartreuse green
Way back in the day, I lost you
Don't tell me here we go again

Seventies girl, don't come any closer
There's gonna be trouble tonight
You're not staying over

Hey there, seventies girl
Never should have showed her
You wanna be older than you were

She was transcendental then
Her beautiful eyes through your rose specs
Way back, in the day, I loved you
Or something like it anyway

Seventies girl, you've been taken over
You never had a cradle to rock
Now you wanna go there

Hey there, seventies girl
Never should have told her
You wanna be older than you were

We fell apart just like that dress
Then taught ourselves unhappiness
I don't recall much, I confess
But wonder where she's gone

Seventies girl, don't come any closer
There's gonna be trouble tonight
You're not staying over

Hey there, seventies girl
Never should've showed her
You wanna be older than you were

We turned on life
Now it's made us decide
You look so tired
All night praying for advice

If it's true
Make him come down from heaven
Let him decide for you
If it's true
You're gonna be a mother
I don't know what to do

I can't hold you
You've got thorns in your voice
Our hopeless plans
Tangled up in a choice

If it's true
We couldn't stay together
I'm broke and so are you
If it's true
If we can't take each other
Now someone else has to

In a landlocked town
With a backwards name
Selling paintings of the sea
My horizons sit in the parking lot all day

If I won't believe my own advice
I could never fool a child
And they don't forgive you
Once they see you've tried

Our own lives
Had their way at the time
You look so down
You can't agree or deny it

If it's true
I think I know your father
He'll want me to say I do
If it's true
You're gonna be a mother
I don't know what to do

When is loneliness not loneliness?

If you ever get downtown
Why don't you see if I'm around
Maybe I'll waste your time
Like I waste your time
And if you ever get the sense
You're gonna see me again
I'm gonna waste your time
Like I waste your time

Do you still complain
About everything
You make it sound like a compliment

Do you still have spells
Catastrophic bills
You make it look like you intended it

If you ever get downtown
Why don't you see if I'm around
Maybe I'll waste your time
Like I waste your time
And if you ever get the sense
You're gonna see me again
I'm gonna waste your time
Like I waste your time

Do you still forget
Exaggerate the rest
You make it all into an incident

Do you still deny
Shut one eye
Then aim right between the promises

She ain't got no money
Clothes are kinda funny
Hair is kinda wild and free
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me

She talks kinda lazy
People say she's crazy
And her life's a mystery
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me

There's something about her hand holding mine
It's a feeling so fine
That I just gotta say
She's really got a magical spell
And it's working so well
That I can't get away

I'm a lucky fella
And I just gotta tell her
That I love her endlessly
Oh, cause love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me

Yeah, I'm a lucky fella
And I just gotta tell her
That I love her endlessly
Oh, cause love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me

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Written By MACAULAY, TONY / MASON, BARRY (GB)
<i>Lyrics &copy; Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.</i>

Anyone who's ever tried
Knows the way that I feel tonight
And anyone who's ever been let down
Knows what I'm talking about

Did you think I didn't care
Did you think that I'd not be there
You fall to pieces and you don't get none
I had a reason I'd give you one

Anyone
Had to do what you have done
Understands what I'm saying
Time will tell
Time won't lie so listen well
And try not to forget

Anyone who's never right
Knows where to find me tonight
And anybody already done
Knows better than anyone

Anyone
Had to do what you have done
Understands what I'm saying
Time will tell
Time won't lie so listen well
And try not to forget

Anyone who's ever tried
Knows the way that I feel tonight
And anybody already done
Knows better than anyone

Open my eyes
Another day
I see your face
And your eyes

In my dream
In my cold and quiet dream
You could not go outside
In my dream
They would ask where I had been
They would know when I lied

And so I go
Into my day
Low clouds cross the sky

In my dream
In my gray and hollow dream
I went out
You would hide
In my dream
You were never to be seen
Then they appeared outside

I remember when we met
A summer storm wasn't over yet
We discovered our initials matched
Now the radiator's cold
And you're off somewhere I don't know

I pretend it's summer
And go outside
Change the weather
In my mind
Wild roses are in bloom
On a shaded path with you
It's a lonely kind of thing I do

I wonder what made you decide
You took a breath and said goodbye
Left me on that bench alone to cry
Now the ice has had its way
And you're off somewhere who can say

I pretend it's summer
And go outside
Change the weather
In my mind
Days go by and hours pass
You and I lie on the grass
It's the only daydream I have left

Now the ice has had its way
And you're off somewhere who can say
I pick flowers in the snow all day

You call me up late

You're loaded and say

Can I come talk

And I'm thinking no way

You're dumping that guy

And when he asked why

Bet you said hey if you're ready or not you

Changed your mind

You decided maybe that

He wasn't your type

Told him you

Changed your mind

But it's not my problem

No not this time

Now wasn't that great

Remember that date

You never showed up

And you never explained

You did it again

I'm sorry for him

Only too well I remember it when you

Changed your mind

You decided maybe that

I wasn't your type

Baby you

Changed your mind

And it knocked me down

For quite some time

Maybe you

Think I'm blind

Could I be sympathetic for the old times

Baby you

Changed your mind

And you said hey ready or not

If you're ready or not

Goodbye

Ready or not

If you're ready or not

Goodbye