[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 their lives for you on TV They say better than you and you agree He says "Hold my from behind those cold brick walls" "Come here boys, there ain't nothing for free" Another doctor's bill, a bill cute cheap thrill You know you love him if you put in will We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to them The want someone to bust 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 as there are flowers But we religion our friend We're so about saving our souls Afraid that God will take His That we to begin Some are walking, some are talking, some are stalking kill You got social security, but that doesn't pay your There are addictions to and there are mouths to pay So you bargain the Devil, say you're OK for today, You say that you them, take their money and run Say it's swell, sweetheart, but it was just one of those things Those flings, strings you've got to cut, So get out on the streets, girls, and bust you You took coat off and stood in the rain, You're crazy like that. And I from my window, Always felt I was outside in on you. You're always the one with eyes and careless hair, You fashionably sensitive But too to care. You stood in my doorway, with to say Besides comment on the weather. always brilliant in the morning, Smoking cigarettes and talking over coffee. Your philosophies on art, moved you. You loved and you'd speak of your loved ones As I strummed my guitar. You'd teach me of things, Things were daring, things that were 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 somewhere but we go we must make our things 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 her of her lover, how he left her, and of times long ago. she used to color carelessly painted his portrait A thousand times-or maybe his smile- And she and her canvas would follow him wherever he go Oil streaked daisies covered the living room He put water-colored roses in her He said, "Love, I love you, I 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 home, created every beautiful child in the winter they were weavers of warmth, in summer were carpenters of love They thought blue were too sad so they made them yellow one day the rain fell as thick as black oil And in her heart she something 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 had gone She got to where he lay, roses in his hands for her She threw down screaming, 'Damn you man, don't leave me with nothing left behind but these cold paintings, these cold portraits to 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 holds me still My may die now, but these paintings are real.' So many seasons came and seasons went and many times she saw her loves face the flowers, to the trees and singing to his children And when the blew, she knew he was listening, and how he seamed to laugh along, and how he seemed to her when she was
[Adam Let the phone ring, 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 here and warm my hands up, boy, you they love to hold And stop thinking what your sister said Stop worrying it, the cat's already been fed We might be somewhere but before we go we must our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
I hear the clock, six a.m. I so far from where I've been I got my I got my pancakes too I got my syrup, everything but you. I the yolks, make a smiley face I kinda like it in my brand new I the spots off the mirror Don't the keys in the door put wet towels on the floor anymore' cause I my momma, she was out for a walk Consoled a cup of coffee but it didn't wanna So I picked up a paper, it was bad news More hearts being broken or people used Put on my in the pouring rain I saw a it just wasn't the same it was happy or I was sad It made me miss you oh so bad I go my business, I'm doing fine Besides would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not to say are broken, everyday. I brush my teeth and put the cap on I you hate it when I leave the light on I a book up. Turn the sheets down. And then I take a deep breath and a good look Put on my pjs and hop bed I'm half alive but I feel dead I try and tell it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore 'cause
Let the phone ring, let's go back to Let the world spin 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 here and my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop about what your sister said worrying about 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,
Maples] You find yourself down hopes 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 standard of living somehow got stuck on survive When you're standing in water And you're bailing out with a straw And you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making to a wall Well it's these little times that to remind It's nothing without You up to realize your only friend Has never been yourself or who cared in the end when suddenly everything fades or falls away 'Cause the chains which once us are only the chains which we've made to me with frozen lips Your hands are icy Your eyes burn bright the frost-bit sky You never seemed more lovely than you do tonight on the horizon Like frozen in the snow Our two shadows inseparably Will time stand still if it's with cold The I live The more I
[Adam Let the phone ring, go back to sleep Let the world spin 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 here and warm my hands up, boy, it's you love to hold And stop thinking about what your sister Stop worrying about it, the cat's already fed We might be somewhere but before we go we make our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,