..."Learning How to Smile" Lyrics Continued...
01. Song From an American Movie, Part One
The only thing that ever made sense to me is the words to a song from an American movie. The only thing that ever made sense in my life is the sound of my little girl laughing through the window of a summer night. I sit alone in the backyard wishing I could be inside. Just the sound of my little girl laughing makes me happy to be alive.
02. Here We Go Again
Oh, you know I like to watch you sleep. No, I don't wanna touch you, you'll get mad at me. No, I don't wanna think about the bad times. Oh, anyone can have a bad year. Now I don't want you to show me, do not want you to know me. The way I used to be all these good things we have would not mean a damn to me. I don't wanna hear those words you feel you have to say when you find out how I used to be, back in the day. Yeah, you know I like the way you slide. Yes, I like it when you do that slow glide. Please don't bad talk all those good times. Don't ask for answers, baby, that you do not wanna hear. I don't want you to make me, do not need you to break me of all my childish ways. I'm still the same you know. Don't walk hard...??? I still hear the voices calling me from back in the day. Oh, baby, can't you see there ain't no place I'd rather be then watching dirty movies in that happy room with you. Sittin' on my mattress in the corner, eating Chinese food. I hear that voice in my head say, "Here we go again." Now, here we go again. I know you like the way I rock. Sometimes I just need to drown out all the bad talk. I could not care less what your friends say, someone's always talking shit about the old day. You do not need to remind me that I left it all behind me, those things I used to do. I don't want that older life, cause I am so in love with you. I can barely hear it calling me from back in the day. Oh, baby, can't you see there ain't no place I'd rather be than watching dirty movies in that happy room with you. Sittin' on my mattress in the corner eating Chinese food. I hear that voice in my head say, "Here we go again." Now here we go again. I know, I know, I know... Oh baby, baby, can't you see. Yes, I know you have some doubts, I know you don't believe. I know you think I'm crazy and I know you're just like me. When I hear that voice inside me, makes me wanna jump right in, say "Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go." Lets go watch some dirty movies. Yes, in that nasty little room. Sit there on the mattress while we eat that greasy Chinese food. I hear that voice in my head say, "Here we go again." Baby, here we go again.
03. AM Radio
(Spoken:) "KHJ Los Angeles. Portions of today's programming are reproduced by means of electrical transcriptions or tape recordings." You can hear the music on the AM radio. Go! VCR's and DVD's. There wasn't none of that crap back in 1970. We didn't know about a world wide web. It was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid. Want to get down in a cool way? Picture yourself on a beautiful day, big bell bottoms and movie long hair just a walking in style with a portable CD player. No, you would listen to the music on the AM radio.Yeah, you can hear the music on the AM radio. Go! Flash back to '72: Another summer in the neighbrohood hanging out with nothing to do. Sometimes we'd go driving around in my sister's Pinto, crusing with the windows rolled down. We'd listen to the radio station. We were too damn poor to buy the 8-track tapes, but wasn't it a good time? Don't wanna be inside. My momma wanna watch that TV all Goddamn night. I'd be in bed with the radio on, I would listen to it all night long just to hear my favorite song. You'd have to wait, but you could hear it on the AM radio. Yeah, you could hear the music on the AM radio. I can still hear momma say, "Boy turn that radio down!" (Art talking:) "Awww, Mom, not that show again! I don't wanna watch that show. Can't we watch Good Times and Chico and the Man or something cool? Turn it off!" Things changed back in '75. We were all growing up on the end of the outside. We got in trouble with the policemen, got busted for getting high in the back of my friend's van. I remember 1977. I started going to concerts and I saw the Led Zeppelin. I got a guitar on Christmas Day, I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come to Santa Monica and teach me to play. Teach me to play. Yeah, isn't any place that I need to go. Isn't anything that I need to know I did not learn from the radio. Yeah, my face gets stupid and I just don't know. When I find I'm happy, I listen to the music on the AM radio. You can hear the music on the AM radio. I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco. We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco. AM radio. (No we never liked disco.) AM radio.