[Adam We might be somewhere but before we go we must our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
People living lives for you on TV They say better than 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 lawyer's Another cute cheap You know you love him if you put in will We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to them The cops want someone to bust down on Orleans Another day, another dollar, war, Another tower went up, where the homeless had homes So we to as many different Gods as there are flowers But we call our friend We're so worried about saving our that God will take His toll That we forget to Some are walking, are talking, some are stalking their kill You got social security, but doesn't pay your bills There are addictions to and there are mouths to pay So you with the Devil, say you're OK for today, You say you love them, take their money and run Say it's been swell, sweetheart, but it was one of those things Those flings, strings you've got to cut, So get out on the streets, girls, and you butts You took coat off and stood in the rain, You're crazy like that. And I watched my window, Always I was outside looking in on you. You're the mysterious one with Dark eyes and hair, You were sensitive But too to care. You in my doorway, with nothing to say Besides some on the weather. You're always in the morning, Smoking cigarettes and talking over coffee. Your philosophies on art, Baroque you. You loved Mozart and you'd speak of your ones As I clumsily my guitar. You'd me of honest things, Things that were daring, things that clean. Things that knew what an honest did mean. I hid my soiled behind my back. Somewhere along the line, I got Off with you.
We might be going but we go we must make our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
Maples] Eighty years, an old now, sitting on the front porch Watching the clouds by They remind her of her lover, how he left her, and of long ago. she used to color carelessly painted his portrait A thousand maybe just his smile- And she and her canvas would him wherever he would go Oil streaked daisies covered the room wall He put water-colored roses in her 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 of their love, they made it an art to live by They painted every, passion every home, created every beautiful in the winter they were weavers of warmth, in they were carpenters of love They thought blue prints were too sad so they made yellow Until one day the rain fell as as black oil And in her heart she something was wrong She running through the orchard screaming, 'No God, don't take him 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, 'Damn you man, leave me with left behind but these cold paintings, these cold portraits to remind me! He said, I leave, but only a little, try to understand I put my soul in this life we created with these hands Love, I leave, but only a little this holds me still My body may die now, but paintings are real.' So many seasons came and many seasons and many she saw her loves 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 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 you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm getting Get over here and warm my up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop thinking about what 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,
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 maple syrup, but you. I break the yolks, make a face I like it in my brand new place I wipe the spots off the Don't leave the in the door put wet towels on the floor anymore' cause I called my momma, she was out for a Consoled a cup of coffee but it didn't wanna So I up a paper, it was more bad news More hearts being broken or people being Put on my coat in the rain I saw a movie it just 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 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 hate it when I leave the on I pick a book up. 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 feel dead I try and tell myself be all right I just shouldn't think tonight 'cause
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 boss you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm cold Get here 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 already been fed We be going somewhere but before we go we must our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
Maples] You find yourself down hopes in the sky But you heart like gum on the ground And you try to find In the abstractions of And the cruelty of else And you up to realize Your standard of somehow got stuck on survive When you're in deep water And you're yourself out with a straw And when you're in deep water And you wake up love to a wall Well it's these little times that help to It's nothing without You wake up to realize your only Has never been yourself or anybody who in the end That's when suddenly everything or falls away 'Cause the chains which once held us are only the chains which made Turn to me with lips Your are icy cold Your burn bright against the frost-bit sky You never seemed more lovely than you do tonight on the horizon Like leaves frozen in the Our two merge inseparably Will time stand still if it's pierced cold The I live 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 boss you're sick, hurry, get back in I'm cold Get over here and warm my hands up, boy, it's you they love to And stop thinking about what your said worrying about it, the cat's already been fed We be going somewhere but before we go we make our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,