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People their lives for you on TV They say they're better you and you agree He says "Hold my calls behind those cold brick walls" Says "Come here boys, there ain't for free" doctor's bill, a lawyer's bill Another cute cheap You you love him if you put in your will We try to them, try to bustle them, try to cuss them The want someone to bust down on Orleans Avenue day, another dollar, another war, Another tower went up, where the homeless had their So we pray to as many different Gods as there are But we call religion our We're so about saving our souls Afraid that God will take His That we forget to Some are walking, some are talking, some are their kill You got social security, but that pay your bills There are addictions to feed and are mouths to pay So you with the Devil, say you're OK for today, You say that you love them, take their and run Say it's been swell, sweetheart, but it was just one of 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 crazy that. And I watched 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 in my doorway, with nothing to say Besides comment on the weather. You're brilliant in the morning, your cigarettes and talking over coffee. Your on art, Baroque moved you. You Mozart and you'd speak of your loved ones As I clumsily my guitar. You'd me of honest things, Things that daring, things that were clean. Things that knew what an dollar did mean. I hid my hands behind my back. Somewhere along the line, I got Off with you.
We might be going but before we go we must our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
Maples] Eighty years, an old lady now, on the front porch Watching the roll by remind her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago. When she used to color carelessly his portrait A thousand times-or maybe his smile- And she and her canvas would him wherever he would go Oil streaked daisies covered the room 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 to give you a world as beautiful as you are to me So they sat down and made a drawing of their love, made it an art to live by They painted every, passion every home, created every child in the winter they weavers of warmth, in summer they were carpenters of love They blue prints were too sad so they made them yellow Until one day the rain as thick as black oil And in her heart she knew was wrong She went running the orchard screaming, 'No God, don't him from me!,' But buy the time she got there, she feared he already had 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 cold paintings, these cold portraits to remind me! He said, I leave, but only a little, try to understand I put my soul in life we created with these four hands Love, I leave, but only a little this holds me still My may die now, but these paintings are real.' So many seasons and many seasons went and many she saw her loves face watering the flowers, talking to the and singing to his children And when the wind blew, she he was listening, and how he seamed to laugh along, and how he to hold her when she was
Maples] Let the phone ring, let's go back to 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 your sister said Stop worrying about it, the cat's been fed We might be going but before we go we must 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 where 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 the spots off the mirror Don't leave the in the door Never put wet towels on the floor cause I called my momma, she was out for a Consoled a cup of but it didn't wanna talk So I picked up a paper, it was bad news More hearts being broken or people being Put on my coat in the 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 about my business, I'm fine what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not 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 book up. Turn the down. And I take 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 it'll be all I just shouldn't anymore tonight '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 in I'm getting cold Get over and warm my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop about what your sister said Stop worrying about it, the cat's 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,
Maples] You find yourself falling Your in the sky But you heart grape gum on the ground And you try to yourself In the abstractions of And the cruelty of else And you up to realize Your of living somehow got stuck on survive When you're standing in deep And you're yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in water And you wake up making love to a it's these little times that help to remind It's without love You wake up to realize only friend Has never been yourself or who cared in the end That's when suddenly everything or falls away 'Cause the chains once held us are only the chains which we've made Turn to me frozen lips Your are icy cold eyes burn bright against the frost-bit sky You never seemed more lovely than you do right Pale on the Like frozen in the snow Our two shadows merge Will time stand if it's pierced with cold The I live The more I
Maples] Let the phone ring, let's go back to Let the world outside out door, you're the only one that I wanna see Tell your you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting cold Get over and warm my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop thinking about what your sister Stop worrying about it, the cat's been fed We might be going but before we go we must our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,