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