[Adam We might be going but before we go we must make our All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
People living their for you on TV They say they're better you and you agree He says "Hold my calls from those cold brick walls" Says "Come here boys, there nothing for free" Another doctor's bill, a bill Another cheap thrill You you love him if you put in your will We try to them, try to bustle them, try to cuss them The cops want someone to down on Orleans Avenue Another day, dollar, another war, Another tower went up, where the had their homes So we pray to as many different Gods as there are But we call our friend We're so worried about saving our Afraid that God take His toll That we to begin Some are walking, some are talking, some are stalking their 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 that you love them, take money and run Say it's been swell, sweetheart, but it was just one of things flings, those strings you've got to cut, So get out on the streets, girls, and you butts You took your coat off and in the rain, You're always like that. And I watched my window, Always I was outside looking in on you. You're the mysterious one with eyes and careless hair, You were sensitive But too to care. You stood in my doorway, nothing to say Besides comment on the weather. You're brilliant in the morning, Smoking your cigarettes and over coffee. Your on art, Baroque moved you. You loved Mozart and speak of your loved ones As I strummed my guitar. You'd me of honest things, Things that were daring, that were clean. Things that what an honest dollar did mean. I hid my soiled behind my back. Somewhere the line, I must've got Off track you.
We might be somewhere but we go we must make our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
[Adam Eighty years, an old lady now, sitting on the porch the clouds roll by They her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago. she used to color carelessly painted his portrait A times-or maybe just his smile- And she and her canvas would him wherever he would go Oil streaked covered the living room wall He put water-colored in her hair He said, "Love, I love you, I want to you mountains, the sunshine, the sunset too I want to give you a world as beautiful as you are to me So they sat down and a drawing of their love, they made it an art to live by They painted every, passion home, created every beautiful child in the winter they were weavers of warmth, in they were carpenters of love They thought blue were too sad so they made them yellow Until one day the rain as thick as black oil And in her heart she something was wrong She running through the orchard screaming, 'No God, take him from me!,' But buy the time she got there, she he already 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, cold portraits to remind me! He said, 'Love I leave, but only a little, try to I put my soul in this life we created 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 came and many seasons and many times she saw her face watering the flowers, talking to the trees and to his children And the wind 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 ring, let's go back to sleep Let the world spin outside out door, you're the one that I wanna see Tell your you're 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 worrying 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 where been I got my I got my pancakes too I got my maple syrup, but you. I break the yolks, make a face I kinda it in my brand new place I wipe the off the mirror Don't leave the keys in the Never put wet towels on the anymore' cause I called my momma, she was out for a Consoled a cup of but it didn't wanna talk So I up a paper, it was more bad news More hearts broken or people being used Put on my coat in the rain I saw a movie it just wasn't the 'Cause it was or I was sad It made me you oh so bad 'cause I go about my business, I'm fine Besides what would I say if I had you on the Same old story, not to say are broken, everyday. I brush my and put the cap back on I you hate it when I leave the light on I pick a book up. the sheets down. And then I take a deep breath and a look around Put on my pjs and hop bed I'm half but I feel mostly dead I try and tell it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight
Let the ring, let's go back to sleep Let the world spin outside out door, you're the only one that I see Tell your boss you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting Get over and warm my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop thinking what your sister said Stop worrying about it, the cat's already fed We might be going but before we go we make our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
[Adam You find yourself falling hopes in the sky But you heart like gum on the ground And you try to find In the abstractions of And the of everyone else And you up to realize Your standard of somehow got stuck on survive When you're standing in deep And you're bailing yourself out a straw And you're drowning in deep water And you wake up love to a wall Well it's these little that help to remind It's nothing without You up to realize your only friend Has never yourself or anybody who cared in the end That's suddenly everything fades or falls away 'Cause the which once held us are only the chains which we've made Turn to me with lips 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 still if it's pierced with cold The more I The more I
[Adam 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 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 sister said worrying about it, the cat's already 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,