Checkout girl I understand
I guess you can’t be too nice
Ringing up goods on
a lazy Monday morning.
Checkout girl points
the light at a customer’s bag of ice
Ringing up goods on
a lazy Monday morning.
Checkout girl holds
her hand on another bright coffee can
On a lazy Monday morning.
Checkout girl holds
her hand for the money of another nice man
On a lazy Monday morning.
Checking out I’ve
checked around you’re the loneliest girl
Ringing up goods on
a lazy Monday morning.
Checkout girl set me
straight do you want to go on a date
Some starry Monday
evening.
Checkout girl don’t
make me wait let me take you on a heavy date
On a starry Monday
evening.
Checking out I’ve
checked around you’re the loneliest girl
Ringing up goods on
a lazy Monday morning.
Here I sit a trumpet
in a lonely store
What’s the use I wonder?
What’s the use I wonder?
If your lips never
come to my horn
What is it I’m made
for?
Anyone can tell
I was made to love
you well.
Here I stand shining
on the showroom floor
What’s the use I wonder?
What’s the use I wonder?
If your hand never
opens up my door
What is it I’m made
for?
Anyone can tell
I was made to love
you well.
Can I put my whole
life in your hands?
Come and take possession
of your happy man.
Here I sip your loving
cup
What’s the use I wonder,
sometimes?
What’s the use I wonder?
If your lips never
come drink it up
What is it I came
for?
Anyone can tell.
I was made to love
you well
I was made to love
you well
When it comes to Mary
I’m an angel standing
in her sight
No, she won’t stand
for darkness
She’s a 10,000-watt
searching light
But if the light stopped
shining over the world
The plans that I made
will fly over the grave
The ultimate lack
of light
The grave with my
family name will open up in the night
No, she won’t stand
for darkness
She’s a 10,000-watt
searching light
I wouldn’t mess with
Mary
Her eyes are more
black and white
No, you can’t stand
to see her
10,00 watt searching
light
But if her eyes stop
shining over the world
Know that the plans
that I made will fly over the grave
The ultimate lack
of light
The grave with my
family name will open up in the night
No, she won’t stand
for darkness
10,000-watt searching
light
The ultimate lack
of light
The grave with my
family name will open up in the night
All your wishes are
useless
She gave me that withering
look
Do you wish to be
helpless?
Again with that withering
look
She won’t stand for
darkness
10,000 watt searching
light.
What can you say when
you’ve enjoyed your night
But to work in the
morning wouldn’t seem all right
Day off tomorrow
Day off tomorrow
What’s some medicine
that I know taste so good you want to eat it slow?
Day off Tomorrow
Day off Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
I only hope that it’s
understood cause the pain and the medicine will do you good
Stay off the sorrow
Day off Tomorrow
What do you do at
the party tonight with the fear of the terrible morning light?
Day off tomorrow
Day off tomorrow
Tomorrow
You could dance with
me you’ll love it
You can take this
job and treat it like you should
The next record that
I’m holding here
Will make you glad
you remained when we drank the beer
Day off tomorrow
Day off tomorrow
Just listen to what
I say
You don’t have to
answer right away
I want to live with
you at the story’s end
There was an unknown
writer
...praised her name
She did move away
from me for wasting days
I want to live with
her at the story’s end
Can it turn out happily
and the sadness end
Now the lanes look
… around her home
Stone are the barriers
between me and the place she stays
I said just listen
to what I say
You don’t have to
answer right away
Now she’s a well-known
writer that’s just how it is
I want to live with
her at the story’s end
Now the trees are
sentinels around her home
Stone are the barriers
between me and the place she stays
I said just listen
to what I say
You don’t have to
answer right away
I want to live with
you at the story’s end
Just listen to what
I say
Just listen to what
I say
I want to live with
you
Just listen to what
I say
I want to live with
you
Fall keeping me
Red leaves and a sparrow
on a tree
She’s leaving me
Like the leaves that
fall from a high tree
Oh this night keeps
spinning towards the sun
This night I’m blind
to the driving white
Today’s longer nights
and spirit’s free
Fall keeping me
She’s leaving me
Now she hangs her
words from a high tree
Oh this night keeps
spinning towards the sun
This night I’m blind
to the driving white
Today longer nights
and spirits free
Free
Free
And today’s longer
nights and spirits free
Fall keeping me
Now she hangs her
words from a high tree
Though this night
keeps spinning toward the sun
This night I’m blind
to the driving white
This night keeps spinning
towards the sun
This night I’m blind
to the driving white
And today’s longer
nights and spirit’s free
Free
Free
And today’s longer
nights and spirits free
I saw a star upon your
dress
And I have followed
from afar
And I have seen the
neighbor road
Out from the lights
on your blue car
Maria
Maria
Maria
And though Maria is
gone now
We know the rain will
go away
Maria
Oh, Maria
Maria
I know Maria is what
she seems
And I know
I know when
I’ve been redeemed
And I know Maria is
what she seems
It’s been at least
two thousand years
Two thousand years
since I’ve been redeemed
And though Maria is
gone now
We know the rain will
go away
Maria
Oh Maria
Maria
I know Maria is what
she seems
And I know
I know when I’ve been
redeemed
I know Maria is what
she seems
It’s been at least
two thousand years
Two thousand years
since I’ve been redeemed
Ahead in the Distance
Flipped over in the
side lane
An Eighteen Wheeler
lies across the highway
Ambulance squad cars
Red lights in the
sunshine
??????
O I’m frightened
Lady get out your
crystal?
Red blood on the doorways
I don’t want to see
Oh I’m frightened
lady get out your pistol?
Blood on the doorway
I don’t want to see
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
A long line of travelers
On the grassy shoulder
of the highway
Drive by the eighteen-wheeler,
then back up to seventy
I see in the distance
Red lights in the
sunshine
An eighteen-wheeler
Flipped over and sideways
Oh I’m frightened
Lady get out your
crystal?
Red blood on the doorways
I don’t want to see
Oh eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Look at the lady waiting
for a plane
She lay across the
chairs a little makeup ran down
She was a little older
Her hair was all perfectly
done
What could make her
fly away from her town
Lady would you tell
me if your going to live
Did a poison spider
crawl inside your hair
She said if you knew
my lover you wouldn’t be making fun
The man was a liar
and a beautiful one.
As we were talking
I came to watch her lips
And I fell inside
her friendly qualities and wit
Late in the evening
light
And dream of staying
in her hands at night
And the men who know
her if my guess is true
Want to stand beside
her as I already do
When she came aboard
she sat next to me
She made a fuss about
if this was an open chair
She said the man was
a liar but a graceful and dutiful one
Then she closed her
mouth until the liquor came
They made a blinding
vow when they were very young
But it was all one-sided
she was like a slave
She said she was meant
to keep him
But she ceased to
be his only love
Meant to keep him
until the children all moved and went away
And as we were talking
I came to watch her
lips
And I fell inside
her friendly qualities and wit
Late, in the evening
light
And dream of staying
in her hands at night
And the men who know
her if my guess is true
Want to stand beside
her as I already do
Look at the lady waiting
for a plane
Look at the lady waiting
for a plane
She was meant to keep
him though she ceased to be his only love
What have you done
for the world
I held a flame in
my hand
I touched the ball
of her eye
Fool of the Wicked
Kind
You left her name
in the wind
I left a stone on
her hand
I gave my name to
a child
Born in the cold and
blind
Good heavens
I hear
You hear a horn from
the road
You hear
I hear the hounds
of the past
They bark and howl
from behind
Cold to my words and
blind
Good heavens
I fear
You fear that it’s
cold outside
You left
I left her name in
the wind
You did the same for
a child
Truth have I been
unkind
What have you done
for the world
I left a stone on
her hand
I gave my name to
a child
Born in the cold and
blind
Good heavens
I hear
You hear a horn from
the road
You hear
I left the hounds
of the past
They bark and howl
from behind
Cold to my words and
blind
I hear
You hear that it’s
cold outside
You left
I left her name in
the wind
You did the same for
a child
Truth have I been
unkind
What have you done
for the world
Fool of the Wicked
Kind
One day playing with
my little darling
I asked if she would
take me home
So we holed up in
her little playground
She turned off her
telephone
And I took off my
self-defenses
She took off her????
I said little darling
don’t you resist me
She jumped like I
pulled out a gun
Little darling don’t
you resist me
Don’t you resist me
It took a long time
for the story to come out
It happened about
3 years before
Little darling ran
into a bad man
And dragged her down
to the dark train yard
What he did she would
not tell me
But she told me what
he said and she cried
He said “Hey little
darling don’t you resist me”
The candle in her
flickered and died
Little darling don’t
you resist me, don’t you resist me
You read this stuff
in the morning paper
You see it all over
the daily news
But it doesn’t mean
much til your own little darling
Is the one the news
is happening to
Please little darling
let me be your lover
And I’ll take you
down a beautiful road
Bad memories don’t
stay forever
Burned out feelings
turn????
Little darling don’t
your resist me
Don’t you resist me
Little darling don’t
you resist me
Oh don’t you resist
me
I made my world a black
road to taste her wheels
I made my world a
black road, a black road
Until she rides back
down I’ll wait to feel the change
I made my world a
black road, a black road
And she calls (come
down the lane)
And I call (come down
the lane)
And I make (come down
the lane)
Back Down from twisted
times?
And where she rides
Green glow a ton of
walls
It took lanes
of that town to check around
But when the rains
ran down the world we serve
I took the lanes back
down from that town
And I call (come down
the lane)
And she calls (come
down the lane)
And I make (come down
the lane)
Back down from twisted
times?
Back to my world a
black road I’ll wait to feel the change
Under my world a black
road
A black road, a black
road
Earth by revolving
Reversing in the night
Screwed you to the
bed frame in a world of spinning lights
Wound up on a mattress
I believe it was a wheel
Now you beg for mercy
mercy from the turning that you feel
Earth feather mattress
you look like you might take your only rider on a whirly jag tonight
Rise up in the darkness
all above the trees
Are the cause for
all our turning
Sleeps alone beneath
the leaves
There’s my sleeping
woman
In a home by turtle
lake
Where the houses are
the headstones and the bedrooms are the graves
You can tell her world
is peaceful and her dreams are awful white
If you look down from
your head plane at a whirly wicked height
Earth feather mattress
you look like you might take your only rider on a whirly jag tonight
And to rise up in the
darkness all above the trees
Are the cause for
all our turning sleeps alone beneath the leaves
And you rise up in
the darkness in a wall above the trees?
Are the cause for all
our turning sleeps alone beneath the leaves
Well since it’s quiet
and we’ve all had a few
And I know you are
my friends
I’ll talk of Susannah
as I always do
When I have found
an ear to bend
She closed her eyes
And saw nothing of
her own
And I said Susannah,
don’t cry
Then I closed her
eyes and went far from my home
And I sang Oh Susannah
Now when I call Susannah
She goes ahhhh, you’ve
come home
But I’m 800 miles
from her.
Then when she tells
me I want you here
Oooooh, I wish I were
She closed her eyes
and saw nothing of her own
And I said Susannah,
don’t cry
Then I closed her
eyes and soon far did I roam
And I sang Oh Susannah
She closed her eyes
and saw nothing of her own
And I said Susannah
don’t cry
Then I closed her
eyes and went far from my home
And I sang Oh Susannah
Smile all my good men,
blind full of smoke
Leave your blessing
ashes on my floor
Stay all my girlfriends,
howling at a joke
Keep your treasure
here within my door
Why have all my good
friends
Preserved the torch
awhile
I find at the landing
The eyes at the landing
To rise at the stairway
Will lie alone
Stay
Stay
Stay all my girlfriends
blind full of smoke
Leave your blessing
ashes on my floor
Smile all my good
men howling at a joke
Keep your treasure
here within my door
Why have all my good
friends preserve the torch awhile
I find at the landing
the eyes at the landing
To rise at the stairway
Will lie alone
Stay
Stay
Don’t leave me
Seven years ago
She’s the only reason
that I live
She’s the only reason
that I live
Why have all my good
friends preserve the torch awhile
I find at the landing
The eyes at the landing
To rise at the stairway
Will lie alone
Stay all my good friends
Don’t leave me
Seven years to go
She’s the only reason
that I live
She’s the only reason
that I live
She’s the only reason
She’s the only reason
She’s the only reason
that I live
(ooh ooh ooohoooh)
Well I’m weaving down
the highway with my mind on you
I’m running all the
signals cause all the lights are blue
A man is dangerous
on the road when he feels the way I feel
You can’t keep your
eyes on traffic when you can hardly see the wheel
That’s why I’ve given
up on sloe gin, I haven’t downed a beer
I haven’t touched
a drop for weeks, except for my own tears
I can’t stand the
taste of vodka or any of the above
I’m driving under
the influence of love
Wobbling down the boulevard
I saw a flashing light
A squad car was behind
me pulled me over to the right
Hauled me to the sidewalk
and made me walk the line
I said that I was
sober he said, “Son we know your kind”
That’s why I’ve given
up on sloe gin, I haven’t downed a beer
I haven’t touched
a drop for weeks except for my own tears
I can’t stand the
taste of vodka or any of the above
I’m driving under
the influence of love
Motorists around me
may well fear for their lives
But when a man’s beside
himself it’s awful hard to drive
Oooooooooooohhhhh
That’s why I’ve given
up on sloe gin (huh?)
I haven’t downed a
beer (why?)
I haven’t touched
a drop for weeks except for my own tears
I can’t stand the
taste of vodka or any of the above
I’m driving under
the influence of love
Fell into my father’s
bed
Fell into my father’s
bed
Fell into my father’s
bed
And my love was close
behind
Dream dream, I dream
of the river
Came into my sleeping
mind
Fell into my father’s
wealth
And my love was close
behind
Dream dream I dream
of a river
A river of endless
light
Fair love she woke
me with kisses
There baby you were
shaken again
That night I looked
in on a family
That lived in some
ancient time
Well love, she woke
me with kisses
There baby you were
shaken then
That night I looked
in on a family
That night I came
into a fortune
That night we fell
into a river
And my love was close
behind