Jackie Greene

When I feel that lonesome prairie wind
I let my soul get back to you again

And I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Even though this wasn't meant to be
It's gonna break my heart to watch you leave
But I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Why I'm feelin' so, so low
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Why I'm feelin' so, so low,
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go
Why I'm feelin' so, so low
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go
I will never let you, I will never let you,
I will never let you go

Don't you stand there in the doorway
Cause I hate to see you cry
And don't try to ignore me
Just smile and wave your hand goodbye

To you I send a dozen roses
From every town that I've been in
And as long as leaves are falling
You know the shape that I've been in

On the gray side of the mountain
You can hear my train go by
Baby, I can be forgiving
But I'm never satisfied

Chase the rain now from your heart dear
Cause I know you will survive
If I'm not living by the edge dear
Then I might not be alive

And in the winter of December
Turn your good side on the chill
And in the meantime please remember
I loved you then, I love you still

On my window leaves are fallen
And my train is passing by
Baby, I can be forgiving
But I'm never satisfied

Jackie Greene Hollywood Lyrics
She?s a dream, she?s a dream
Getting caught up in the scene
Like a used car bought off of Mr Vaseline
She?s a queen, she?s a queen
Getting? played like a machine
And all the men pretend that they respect her when they leave
Hollywood

There?s a man, there?s a man
At least I think that he?s a man
He?s struttin? down the street with a diamond on his hand
Here?s the band, hear the band
They?re the hottest in the land
Just keeping up their contract for whatever?s in demand
Hollywood

Socialite, socialite
Got a fancy appetite
And a hundred dollar habit that she goes to every night
But tonight, yes tonight
Tonight she?ll do it right
When they find her dead, she won?t be able to deny it
Hollywood

Sometimes I get so God Damned sick of these charades
This town is so opaque, I swear the bums are wearing shades
But I know that I?d be lying if I said it aint a thrill
Don?t say I didn?t warn you when the Devil brings the bill

Movie star, movie star in a tiny little car
Doing 90 on the 10 coming home from the bar
Big cigar, big cigar
And a smoking little car
He ran right off the road he didn?t make it very far
Hollywood

See the Freak, See The Freak
He?s the flavor of the week
The ratings all went up when they discovered he could speak
So let him speak, yes hear him speak
?his tone is so unique?
but by the time commercial hits, you know his fame has reached its peak
Hollywood

Now it doesn?t really matter what I do or what I say
There?s a millionaire buying every hour of the day
If you want to see some change you got to change it from the street
Change it with your hands, change it with your feet

Advertise, advertise
Slick and super size
Buy the car, find true love, and a dozen other lies
Surprise, oh surprise
Its what everybody buys
A fairytale fantasy, a demon in disguise
Hollywood

Molly would if she could
But she?s stuck in Nebraska
I had a truck and so I asked her where she longed to be
?I dunno, you tell me?.life looks better on TV?
I said, ?You might as well
Be living in a plastic factory!
Hollywood

He walks around with his hands in his pockets
got a picture of his baby on a chain in a locket
he needs her love so bad, but she?ll never know
cause he won?t ever tell her

and it?s so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way

Poor Richard?s got himself a banjo
he?s missing four strings but he ain?t even bothered
he says: ?sunshine gonna come my way, look out
kid this might be my lucky day

and it?s so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way

red robin?s been a-workin in the kitchen
got everything she needs, but everything?s a-missing
she grew up with the radio, tattoo on
her hip is to remind her so....

that it?s so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way

you can say what you want
you can do what you do
but sometimes some things are chosen for you
the life that you want and the life that you?ve been given
are sometimes not even the life you?ve been living

I know a man who?s been working for the city
he pays his rent but his life is just a pitty
he says: ?nothing?s gonna change around here,
im the same old man I?ve been for nearly 20 years?

it?s so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way
so hard to find my way

She turns heads wherever she?s a-walking
she never speaks she lets her body do the talkin?
she?s daddy?s little baby girl
but she ain?t living in daddy?s world

There must be something wrong with me
There must be something happening that I don't even see
Whatever it's gonna be
Oh it's just as well

I can't believe the state I'm in
I think I think too much and now my thoughts are wearing thin
Where should I begin
Oh it's just as well

And all I wanted from you
Love me like you wanted
I can't keep your heart if your heart can't be kept satisfied

I like to watch the sun go down
?? on the other side of town
Besides you ain't around, oh it's just as well

So much for those summer days
We use them up so quickly and
Who cares anyway, oh it's just as well

And all I wanted from you
Love me like you wanted
I can't keep your heart if your heart can't be kept satisfied

So even if the walls crumble down
Tumble down on me
I could find my own way out
I could set my own self free

So tell me tell me what's the use
I'm nothing but a singer with my head caught in the noose
Somebody cut me loose
Oh it's just as well

I don't want no sympathy
To feel a beating heart honey is what's ??
I know you don't agree
Oh it's just as well

And all I watned from you
Love me like you wanted
I can't keep your heart if your heart can't be kept satisfied

All I wanted from you
love me like you wanted
I can't break your heart if your heart can't be kept satisfied

Romeo and Juliet
Were made for one another way before they even met
Such a face I can't forget
Oh it's just as well

Don't you stand there in the doorway
Cause I hate to see you cry
And don't try to ignore me
Just smile and wave your hand goodbye

To you I send a dozen roses
From every town that I've been in
And as long as leaves are falling
You know the shape that I've been in

On the gray side of the mountain
You can hear my train go by
Baby, I can be forgiving
But I'm never satisfied

Chase the rain now from your heart dear
Cause I know you will survive
If I'm not living by the edge dear
Then I might not be alive

And in the winter of December
Turn your good side on the chill
And in the meantime please remember
I loved you then, I love you still

On my window leaves are fallen
And my train is passing by
Baby, I can be forgiving
But I'm never satisfied

Well I ain?t gonna ask you what you?re doing here
I know you got your reasons but honey, they ain?t ever clear
And maybe it?s just better that you never stay
I love you more when you?re walking away

I ain?t gonna ask you what?s on your mind
It?s hard enough for my own head to unwind
The world is getting smaller, each and every day
and I love you more when you?re walking away

When you?re walking away
baby, i get high like i never could
you don?t stay, although sometimes I wish you would
everything?s clear when you?re not here

lonesome is a candle in the night
a one-room bedroom window crying-light
you take me for granted, but baby thats ok
i love you more when you?re walking away

When you?re walking away
baby I get high like i never could
you don?t stay, honey sometimes i wish you would
everything?s clear when you?re not here

well i ain?t gonna ask you what you?re doing here
take what you can get and then disapear
ah but that?s alright mama, you can leave me any day
cause i love you more when you?re walking away

Hey poor mama,
what say you?
what say you this day?
Hey poor mama,
where's your baby?
Lost and gone away

She went walking
no goodbye's
she went wandering astray
Hey poor mama
what say you
what say you today?

Cold black devil
left us crying
left us crying in shame
No such Heaven
Heaven gone now
can't go on this way

listen to me
oh listen good
oh listen good
find a good man
strong and able
am i understood?

He came from somewhere
Big city somewhere
Came with smoke in his eye
Spending money
Money, money
Money, lust and pride

He went talking
Talked for miles
Miles of fortunes he told
Charmed our baby
Right from our arms
Right into the cold

Hey poor mama
what say you?
what say you this day?
Hey poor mama
where's your baby
lost and gone away?

oh dig for silver
dig for gold
dig for diamonds too
all that digging
you'll get old
it will bury you

well i'll walk for, 14 miles
and i'll run for 14 too

You can listen to the money
you can listen to your friends
but if you listen to your heartbeat
you might never go home again
you got 1000 miles, and 10 000 more to go
there's blood on the wheel and you feel
like everything?s outta control

well maybe i?m just the foolish kind
keepin' record of what i?ve left behind
yet i find there aint nothing i can do
im getting closer to you

theres trouble down here
theres trouble down there
but everyday that goes by
i swear its harder and harder to care
i fight the good fight i do the best i can
but man sometimes its impossible to
stand where you think you should stand

so hey mister give me something strong
sometimes i feel so good and then that feelings gone but it wont be long before ill be coming through im getting closer to you

some people say never
some people say now
some people get together and do
what some people dont allow
some people like to laugh at the people
who cry and my how
everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody?s
ready to die

Now nevermind my state of mind
neon signs across the borderline
closing time; and i think its time i flew
im getting closer to you

operate a searchlight
From a tower through a window
Many hours I spend looking for you
Ever since you've been gone

So I've been looking for you baby
Every morning and every evening
You never said the reasons
But you said we'd meet again

And when the storms that you once threw
Get thrown back at you
And you just can't stand to stand in your own skin
I'll let you in

I'm nailed to the tail of a whale
At the bottom of an ocean
Any day here I'll have to
Come back up for air

I'll be waiting for you baby
In the city in the jungle
Sitting pretty waiting for you
Knock on my door

So when the friends that you once knew
Don't remember you
And they tell you that you can't be born again
I'll let you in

I control the weather
From a dial in the kitchen
Lighting fires from the burner
It's absurd but it works just fine

I've been thinking about places
I've been to and have loved me
And I've had to been sad to
Had to leave cuz things got lost

[And when the friends that you once knew
Don't remember you]
And you just don't think you'll ever learn again
I'll let you in

stand inside your doorway honey I don?t feel a thing
you?re always looking for the best that I can?t never bring
so now I?m gone...
and don?t you ask me why
it?s been so long since I?ve seen you cry
farwell so long goodbye

I jumped out of your window but i fell right to the ground
I wished you would have told me that your man was still around
so now I?m gone...
and don?t you ask me why
you did me wrong lie after lie
farwell, so long, goodbye

Everybody?s talking about the way things ought to be
but there ain?t anybody that makes any sense to me
so now I?m gone...
and don?t you ask me why
I don?t belong but I dont even try
farewell so long goodbye

Cookie cried for three days, until she couldn?t cry no more
she ate the fridge, jumped the bridge and wound up bloated on the shore
The children they all pointed at another painted score
and somebody asked: ?can I take a picture??

Well the heat down here is brutal, it?s hard to do what?s right
the locals shout that you won?t burn out if you don?t ever shine too bright
and I wish I was in your back pocket or in your bed tonight
I wish that i was loud so you could hear me

but oh, no
what else must I be?
it?s all inside my head I guess but it just reminds me
that I need you, honey I need you
there ain?t nobody who could supersede you
we?re not such strangers, so honey I need you right now

Now all the streets are paved with petals, the parade is coming through
it kind of feels like royalty cause? everyone?s in blue
and yellow flowers falling, from a window too
falling to the feet of such a coward

The mayor is kissing babies, he?s almost way too kind
we?re filled to the brim with honest men, they?re just way too hard to find
so stare into his Public Eyes and watch his clock unwind
then find him old and drowning in the deep end

but oh, now
what else must I see?
It?s all inside my head I guess but it just reminds me
that I need you, honey I need you
there ain?t nobody who could supersede you
we?re not such strangers so honey i need you right now

You see, I long for a hickory morning with a waltz and trumpet flare
i?m doing my best to recover from what time cannot repair
and i?m sick of all this solitude and pre-rehearsed despair
my eyes are a hundred miles away from sleeping

Well I wish you?d write a letter, or telephone to me
this place is dark and there ain?t a spark of who I used to be
so the sick hearts of the unloved tell the brave souls of the sea:
?we?re all closed up, why don?t you come back when we?re open.?

but oh, no
what else must I be?
it?s all inside my head I guess but it just reminds me
that I need you, honey I need you
there ain?t nobody who could supersede you
we?re not such strangers so honey I need you right now

There?s a cracked and pale mirror, hanging on my wall
the church bell rings and the choir sings and I can hear it from the hall
Now you might not believe it, but there was no fire at all
we just danced for seven days wishing for water

Maria tells the fortunes, they line around the bend
a dollar for your problems, and five to know the end
They come from miles around; like a pack of howling men
I wonder what she does with all that money

but oh, now
what else must i be?
it?s all inside my head i guess, but it just reminds me
that I need you, honey I need you
there ain?t nobody who could supersede you
we?re not such strangers, so honey I need you right now

Simple sidewalk painter, says his life is such a bore
spends his time with a jug of wine and a palette on the floor
he screams: ?Heaven! Take my eyes, cause I can?t paint no more.?
Honey, sometimes I feel just like his colors

I?m gonna go down to the ocean, I want to fill my boots with sand
so the next time that you see me, I?ll be a much more grounded man
So go and do whatever it is you do and I?ll do what I can
and when we meet again you can try to know me

oh hey,
what else must I be?
it?s all inside my head I guess but it just reminds me
that I need you, honey I need you
there ain?t nobody who could supersede you
we?re not such strangers so honey I need you right now

they call me pessimistic, but it occured to me
that babies are all born crying and dying is never free
But I still can?t shake that feeling, that Somebody?s watching me....
I just thought that I would tell you

So much depends on first loves and friends
legs for a table
and i painted my room
with judgments and doom
but i still ain't able to sleep
got to sleep
and dream up some dreams i can keep
oh my, my marigold, marigold

i was walking at dawn
when something turned on
but i couldn't name it
so i, i went back home
i did it alone
but i couldn't claim it
i tried, yes i tried
i tried honey i was denied
oh my, my marigold, marigold

well everything becomes much more meaningless
as time passes by
so i hide in the bedorom with strong curtains drawn
so i can't look the world in the eye

i heard you were well
i heard that you fell
back on your feet
well me, i'm still in fear
i planted her here
right in the street
to sleep, so she sleeps
and dreams with the orphans and freaks
oh my, my marigold, marigold

now talk, talk it is cheap
i talk in my sleep
i know what to say
i said, i said you were wise
to let go of my eyes
and push me away
and run, yes you run
you run honey nothing gets done
oh my, my marigold, marigold

but all that i've learned it must be a chemical change
after all i'm no different from the next twisted talker who's taking his lies to the grave

i wasn't myself
i was nobody else
that i couldn't be
like you were nobody too
to somebody who's exactly like me
so sleep, let her sleep
and dream up the dreams we can keep
oh my, my marigold, marigold

Jackie Greene - I Don't Live In A Dream


I don't live in a dream
I don't live in a dream
I don't live in some land forgotten
I don't live in a dream
No I, I don't live in a dream

I don't live on the moon
Drink martinis in the afternoon
I don't pretend to make
The world feel better
I don't live on the moon
No I, I don't live on the moon

I live right here with you
Walk the same as you do
I don't believe
That we're so different
I live right here with you
Yes I, I live right here with you

Your twisted heart
Is a cruel and wonderful thing
It tears me apart
Hanging on every string
I don't live in a dream

[Organ/Guitar solo]

I don't live in a dream
I don't hustle or scheme
I have my faith in politicians
I don't live in a dream
No I, I don't live in a dream
Ohhh, oh yeah