She's driven the roads narrow and wide Invisible woman can't find her pride A hard outer shell protects her inside It's like no home she's ever known
Countryside fairgrounds, colored alive Invisible woman floats ride to ride She can't hear the music dance and dive It's like no home she's ever known
Invisible face with invisible eyes Invisible laughs and invisible cries Invisible whole of invisible parts Invisible loves with invisible heart
Coffee cafe brews ideas and dreams Invisible woman gets lost in the steam She watches the lovers singing their theme It's like no home she's ever known
Invisible face with invisible eyes Invisible laughs and invisible cries Invisible whole of invisible parts Invisible loves with invisible heart
Hush-a-bye Baby down Just save your breath Stop spinning 'round so Just let time drip down My back Down down
Slow down Why do you dance so fast Like a hummingbird in a hicktown Just let time drip down My sides Down down
Let me whisper slowly in your ear Secrets spilled out close and clear We could spend the next 36 years Right here
'Cause I have watched the moon set And I have seen the snow turn into rain and back to snow again And I have watched the lights go out on the towers at the center of town
Hush-a-bye Baby down Might as well save your breath Velocity don't make you younger Just let time drip down My shoulders
Let me whisper slowly in your ear Secrets spilled out close and clear We could spend the next 43 years Right here
Let me whisper slowly in your ear Secrets spilled out close and clear We could spend the next 69 years Right here
Smoke stack breathes into the city And the south side of the Empire State takes a nap in the 6 o'clock sun And I turn and watch the rising moon Don't think I could ever refuse a chance to play this room
And if you hear from down on 12th street Something that makes you stop Don't worry baby I'm just singing on the rooftop
Snake eyes are two towers of woven steel Stretching out across the East River into a Williamsburg afternoon Makes me smile deep at a memory of a night spent between Brooklyn sheets Shakes my head in disbelief And hey there's that old man with his older dog on the street
And if you hear from down on 12th street Something that makes you stop Don't worry baby I'm just singing on the rooftop
Come here, Baby, wrap yourself around my finger Let's be one and one makes two, you and me, sit right here, against my knee, Lean back, check out the view I wanna be in the center of you
And if they hear from down on 12th street Something that makes them stop Don't worry baby We're safe here on the rooftop
Nighttime New Mexico Flooding summer skies I danced to your heartbeat, pressing close to stay dry You brought me honey Spoke in lullabyes Now I tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes
We shaped the hollows, placed our laughter there And I try to replicate the tone in everyone With yellow hair
Blue dawn in Yellowstone Your breath even at my side To be with you all over again, again I'd drive all night You called me honey Under Sweetwater skies Now I tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes
We shaped the hollows, placed our laughter there And now I try to replicate the tone in everyone With yellow hair
A breakdown in Montana become a picnic spot Alleyways of Laramie beside the railroads lots A view of the Rockies stretching on and on and on Where's my silver lining now that you are gone
New day New Mexico Coffee in the sun Could I have known by that Taos mountain that you would be the one You brought me honey You warmed me inside And now I'll tip the neck of this bottle 'til it's pouring out my eyes
If life is just an ocean, with people in and out like the tide Then why can't I just drift along a gentle wave and smile If life is just a tapestry and heartache just a square in its weave Then why can't I just hang it up, praise the winding patterns, and heal
Some words sound better in the rain Sometimes it hurts to hear my name
If life is just a journey with a reason for each stop along the way Then why can't I just leave you behind and welcome the new day If life is just a lesson to be filed away like two and two Then why can't I just close the book on you
Some words sound better in the rain Sometimes it hurts to hear my name
Once I was offered the Eiffel Tower by a Romeo on his knees But what good is the Eiffel Tower once that Romeo leaves Once I was offered a taste of passion by a Romeo in the rain But what good is that taste of passion when it comes with a measure of pain
Some words sound better in the rain Sometimes it hurts to hear my name
If life is just a yellow brick road with a rainbow at the end Then why can't I just close my eyes And why can't I just click my heels and hold my breath and mend
Some words sound better in the rain Sometimes it hurts to hear my name
City lights out my window Can't keep me company Winking and blinking but they don't know The place I'd like to be Is holding you in London Town That village across the sea And that's why those city lights Can't keep me company.
Times Square with all its pageantry It ain't no more my style It's tacky and wacky but it don't see That it can't make me smile But to hold you in London Town I'd gladly walk the miles Because I swear old Times Square Just ain't no more my style.
And hey, New York's okay Its wonders never cease But ooo, babe without you I'm never quite at peace.
Central Park to some is very grand To me it ain't so fine It's crowded and loud, and don't understand The one thing that's divine Is holding you in London Town And knowing you are mine Central Park is just a lark To me it ain't so fine.
And hey, New York's okay Its wonders never cease, But ooo, babe without you I'm never quite at peace.
Times Square with all its pageantry It ain't no more my style It's tacky and wacky but it don't see That what would make me smile Is seeing you in London Town Walking slowly down the aisle Baby Times Square, can't compare To me it ain't so fine.
Long night, big fight, ending up in smiles But was it worth the while? Sunny day, takes her pain away, opens up her eyes Inside her knots untie
Until it turns to rain again Turns to rain again Turns to rain again Turns to rain again
As he sleeps quietly she weeps, staring at the moon And then she turns and studies the room All their things, how it stings, to see how well they fit Like a happy home, but just a parody of it
And then it turns to rain again Turns to rain again Turns to rain again Turns to rain again
She was never one of those girls playing house She'd always been the rock star or the private eye So how did she ever get into this game?
He comes home, probably stoned, and players place your bets It might be fine, their limbs entwined, and gentle eyes, and smiling sighs If she can just keep herself from getting wet
Rain again Turns to rain again Rain again Turns to rain again
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnent les matina Ding Dong Ding
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnent les matina Ding Dong Ding
Brother John, are you sleeping? Come please open your eyes. Brother John, I am pleading Sun is on the rise. Got such an array of possibilities today. Wake up before you waste away. Wake up before you waste away.
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnent les matina Ding Dong Ding
Brother John, are you sleeping? Come please open your eyes. Brother John that sun is creeping Through the noonday skies. Will you come alive at least by four or five? Wake up before you waste away. Wake up before you waste away.
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnent les matina Ding Dong Ding
Brother John, are you sleeping? Come please open your eyes. Brother John, I am pleading Now the moon is on the rise. I've finished what I had to do, now I want to hang with you. Wake up before you waste away. Wake up before you waste away. Wake up,
Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques Dormez-vous? Sonnent les matina Ding Dong Ding Ding Dong Ding Ding Dong Ding
There's a certain quiet like a Sunday morning drive Like a distant tower blinking in a smooth night sky Like the final chord ringing from a baby grand Like the moment when he first met Mary-Anne
There's a certain color like a slow September sunrise Like a southern ocean softly touched by moonlight Like the perfect shell smiling up from the sand Like the blood in his veins when he first kissed Mary-Anne
He felt a certain peace like a house by the sea As he took her hand Like such a lucky man To share the love song with Mary-Anne
There's a certain power like a river rushing free Like an ancient lighthouse guarding over the sea Like a midnight train speeding over land Like his heartbeat the day he married Mary-Anne
Now I live in New York City, the paement's cracked and the air is gritty The whole damn place can be one shitty pity, but hey, that's atmosphere Now New York's a very crowded space, it's real hard to get from place to place And all that damn cigarette smoke blowin' in your face, and comments on your rear
But when the lights on the Empire State are dark And no one with sense goes into Central Park When the rich folk are sleeping up on Carnegie Hill And down on 59th the carriage horses stand still
If you look you just might find me walkin' at night Yeah there's something so right about walking at night
Now most of my friends think that I'm insane, they say "That Sam even walks home in the rain" But I'd just rather get wet than wait around for a train gettin' restless and blue And hungry taxis try to get me to ride; they slow down and pull up to my curbside But I just wait for the light, I don't look them in the eye and then I push on through
And when the bands are loading up their cars And all the stools are up on the bars When the gates have been locked around Tompkins Square And the street urchins dream upon the synagogue stairs
If you look you just might find me walkin' at night Yeah there's somethin so right about walkin' at night
Cause when you ain't got no cash for no cab fare And the subway's down way too deep under there You ain't gonna find a bus anywhere And there's something so serene about that city night air
I had a gig last night, an old friend showed up and boy was he lookin' fine I said hey let's go grab a glass of wine or a coffee So we went outside, he bought me a falafel, and as I munched I thought it wouldn't be awful If I found myself eating an Eggo waffle with him the next day (You catch my drift)
He said my friends are hangin', they're very cool So I went along, but I was a fool They threw a Star Trek movie in the VCR I thought if gettin' some means this then this is going too far
And so I said "Goodbye" and now I'm walkin' at night Yeah there's something so right about walkin' at night Yeah there ain't nothin' wrong with walkin' at night Hell, I wrote this song while I was walkin' at night
