[Adam We might be somewhere but we go we must make our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
People living lives for you on TV say they're better than you and you agree He says "Hold my calls from behind those brick walls" Says "Come here boys, there nothing for free" Another doctor's bill, a lawyer's cute cheap thrill You you love him if you put in your will We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to cuss The cops want someone to bust down on Avenue Another day, dollar, another war, tower went up, where the homeless had their homes So we to as many different Gods as there are flowers But we call our friend We're so about saving our souls Afraid that God will His toll That we to begin are walking, some are talking, some are stalking their kill You got social security, but that doesn't pay your There are addictions to feed and there are to pay So you bargain the Devil, say you're OK for today, You say you love them, take their money and run Say been swell, sweetheart, but it was just one of those things Those flings, those strings got to cut, So get out on the streets, girls, and you butts You took coat off and stood in the rain, You're always like that. And I from my window, Always felt I was outside in on you. You're always the one with Dark eyes and hair, You fashionably sensitive But too to care. You stood in my doorway, with to say some comment on the weather. You're always in the morning, Smoking your cigarettes and over coffee. Your on art, Baroque moved you. You loved Mozart and you'd of your loved ones As I clumsily my guitar. teach me of honest things, Things that were daring, things were clean. that knew what an honest dollar did mean. I hid my soiled hands my back. along the line, I must've got Off track you.
We be going somewhere but before we go we must make our All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
[Adam Eighty years, an old now, sitting on the front porch the clouds roll by They remind her of her lover, how he her, and of times long ago. she used to color carelessly painted his portrait A thousand times-or just his smile- And she and her canvas follow him wherever he would go Oil streaked daisies covered the living wall He put roses in her hair He said, "Love, I you, I want to give you mountains, the sunshine, the sunset too I just want to you a world as beautiful as you are to me So they sat down and made a drawing of their love, they it an art to live by They painted every, passion every home, created every child in the winter they were of warmth, in summer they were carpenters of love They thought blue prints were too sad so made them yellow Until one day the rain as thick as black oil And in her heart she knew was wrong She running through the orchard screaming, 'No God, take him from me!,' But buy the time she got there, she feared he already had She got to where he lay, water-colored in his hands for her She threw them down screaming, you man, don't leave me with nothing left behind but cold paintings, these cold portraits to remind me! He said, I leave, but only a little, try to understand I put my in this life we created with these four hands Love, I leave, but only a little this world me still My may die now, but these paintings are real.' So seasons came and many seasons went and many times she saw her loves watering the flowers, talking to the trees and to his children And when the blew, she knew he was listening, and how he to laugh along, and how he seemed to hold her she was crying
[Adam Let the phone ring, let's go to sleep Let the world spin out door, you're the only one that I wanna see your boss you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting cold Get over here and warm my hands up, boy, you they love to hold And stop thinking about what your sister Stop worrying about it, the already been fed We be going somewhere but before we go we must make our All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
I hear the clock, six a.m. I feel so far from I've been I got my eggs I got my too I got my syrup, everything but you. I break the yolks, a smiley face I kinda it in my brand new place I wipe the spots off the Don't the keys in the door Never put wet towels on the floor cause I my momma, she was out for a walk Consoled a cup of but it didn't wanna talk So I up a paper, it was more bad news More hearts being broken or people used Put on my in the pouring rain I saw a movie it wasn't the same 'Cause it was or I was sad It made me miss you oh so bad I go my business, I'm doing fine Besides what I say if I had you on the line old story, not much to say are broken, everyday. I brush my and put the cap back on I know you it when I leave the light on I pick a up. Turn the sheets down. And then I a deep breath and a good look around Put on my pjs and hop bed I'm half alive but I mostly dead I try and tell myself be all right I shouldn't think anymore tonight 'cause
Let the ring, let's go back to sleep Let the world spin outside out door, the only one that I wanna see Tell your boss sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting cold Get over here and my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop thinking about what your sister Stop worrying about it, the already been fed We might be going but before we go we must make our All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
Maples] You find falling down Your in the sky But you heart grape gum on the ground And you try to find In the abstractions of And the cruelty of else And you wake up to Your of living somehow got stuck on survive When you're standing in deep And you're bailing yourself out with a And when you're drowning in deep And you wake up making to a wall Well it's these little times that to remind It's nothing love You wake up to realize your friend Has never been yourself or who cared in the end That's when everything fades or falls away 'Cause the chains which once held us are only the chains which we've Turn to me frozen lips hands are icy cold Your eyes bright against the frost-bit sky You never seemed more than you do right tonight on the horizon Like frozen in the snow Our two shadows inseparably Will time stand still if pierced with cold The I live The more I
Maples] Let the ring, let's go back to sleep Let the world spin out door, you're the only one that I wanna see Tell boss you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting cold Get over here and warm my hands up, boy, it's you they love to And thinking about what your sister said Stop worrying it, the cat's already been fed We be going somewhere but before we go we must make our All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,