..."Learning How to Smile" Lyrics Continued...
04. Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison Cover)
Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came down in the hollow playing a new game, laughing and a-running, hey, hey, skipping and a-jumping in the misty morning fog with our, our hearts a-thumping and you, my brown-eyed girl. You, my brown-eyed girl. Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow going down to the old mine with a transistor radio. Standing in the sunlight laughing, hide behind a rainbow's wall, slipping and a-sliding all along the waterfall with you, my brown-eyed girl. You, my brown-eyed girl. Do you remember when we used to sing sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah? Just like that. Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah. La dee dah. So hard to find my way now that I'm all on my own. I saw you just the other day. My, how you have grown! Cast my memory back there, Lord, sometime I'm overcome thinking about making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you, my brown-eyed girl. You, my brown-eyed girl. Do you remember when we used to sing sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah? Laying in the green grass. Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah. Dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee. Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la, dee dah la dee dah la dee dah la.
05. Learning How to Smile
Five miles outside of Vegas when we broke down, threw my keys inside the window and we never looked back. Got all drunk and sloppy on a Greyhound bus. We passed out. All them losers, they were laughing at us. I will never let them break your heart. No, I will never let them break me. We got lost in Phoenix, seemed like such a long time. Seven months of living, swimmin' on those thin white lines. Did some time for selling acid to the wrong guy. Life just keeps on getting smaller and we never ask why, why there is no perfect place. Yes, I know this is true. I'm just learning how to smile. That's not easy to do. I know there will come a day when we can leave and just go running away. We was broke outside of Philly when the storms came. I was working in New Jersey hitchin' rides in the rain. You was happy talking dirty at that phone sex place. Life just keeps on getting better for us everyday. You say there is no perfect place. I say I know this is true. I'm just learning how to smile. That's not easy to do. We both live for the day when we can run away. We can leave it all behind like we do every time. Just leave a note for the day. When we can leave and just go running away? No, I will never let 'em break your heart. No, I will never let 'em break me. Five miles outside of Vegas, five years down the line. We got married in the desert and the sunshine. I can't handle all the hell that happens everyday. When you smile and touch my face you make it all just go away. Yes, I know there ain't no innocent. I know this never ends. I'm just learning how to fall, climb back up again. I know there's nothing perfect, I know there's nothing new. We are just learning how to live together. Me and you. You know I live for the day when you say, "Baby, lets just run away." Oh, baby we can leave and run away. Yes, we can leave this place and run away. Baby we can leave and run away. We can leave this place and run away. We can leave and run away.
06. The Honeymoon Song
You know I love you baby, and I know you love me too. But the fun that day didn't start until we left on our honeymoon. Stepped off the plane into a warm sunny day and we got leid together. The sun shines down on a holiday town and the fish all smile 'cause they know us. Our wedding day was warm and sunny. Our friends and family came from out of town. We said, "I do" and ate some food, and smiled till the sun came down. We'll take the zodiac cadillac round the North Shore then we'll head back to see turtles come to greet us. So let's get loaded tonight, we'll drink on the flight. Back home the honeymoon is over. You know I love you baby, and I know you love me too. But the fun that day didn't start until we left on our honeymoon. We're on our honeymoon. We're on our honeymoon. The fun that day didn't start until we left on our honeymoon.
07. Now That It's Over
Yeah right! (One, two, three, four.) Break down shakes me. Nothing ever ends the way you want it to be. Nothing even tastes right now that it's over. Break down. Skake for me. Don't write words unless you want me to read them. Nothing really matters now that it's over. Maybe we can be friends now that we're over. We can have fun like we did in the old days, now that it's over. Yeah right! Break down. Shake for me. Nothing ever seems the way it oughtta be. Nothing ever seems right now that it's over. Yeah, and maybe we can be friends. Maybe we can be closer. We can have fun like we did in the old days now that it's over. Oh yeah... My bad dreams just don't seem the same, baby, without you. Oh, I wish you were willing to accept the blame, yeah, for everything you do. My nightmares just don't scare me now, baby, without you. I wish that I could find the words to tell you the best way possible for you and your friends to go to hell. Yeah right! Whoa... Breakup time is never easy to do. Nothing ever ends the way you want it to. Nothing seems to make sense now that it's over. Yeah, now maybe we can be friends. Yeah, now that you're leaving. You can be nice to me, maybe I'm dreaming. I am alive, baby, now I'm doing just okay. Maybe I'm just waking up in my own way now that its over. Now that it's over. My bad dreams just don't seem the same, baby without you. I wish you were willing to accept the blame, yeah, for all the shitty things you do. Nightmares just don't scare me now, baby, without you. I wish that I could find the words to tell you to politely go fuck yourself. Yeah, now that it's over. Now that it's over. ("Congratulations, a fetishist and an obsessive. You'll be very happy together.")
08. Thrift Store Chair
Baby, go to bed, put out the light. We both know if we talk anymore we're gonna end up in a great big fight. You can have your way again. Yeah, you believe what you want to believe. You can walk all over me tomorrow, but tonight can we both pretend to sleep. I think we are headed for a big fall, I think we are headed for a bad time. Gonna go downstairs and sit in that chair you like. Gonna put a John Prine record on. I think we need to slow it down for awhile. Yeah, I wish we never bought a king size bed. Yeah, the only damn thing that it's ever been good for: Plenty room for the real good sex. Lay in the bed in the dark and all that I can see, yeah, is the distance in the worlds between us. You seem so far from me, I think we're headed for a real big fall. Yes, we're headed for a bad time. Yeah, gonna go downstairs. Sit by myself all alone in the middle of the night. Gonna put a John Prine record on. Guess we need to slow it down for awhile. Gonna go downstairs, smoke cigarettes in a thrift store chair tonight. Gonna put a John Prine record on. Yeah, we need to slow it down for awhile. We need to slow it down for awhile.