[Adam We might be going but we go we must make our things All I wanna see you do is the sizzle, the sizzle, sizzle,
People their lives for you on TV They say they're than you and you agree He says "Hold my calls from behind those brick walls" Says "Come boys, there ain't nothing for free" Another doctor's bill, a bill Another cheap thrill You know you him if you put in your will We try to hustle them, try to bustle them, try to them The cops want someone to bust on Orleans Avenue Another day, dollar, another war, Another tower up, where the homeless had their homes So we pray to as different Gods as there are flowers But we call religion our so worried about saving our souls Afraid that God will take His we forget to begin Some are walking, some are talking, are stalking their kill You got security, but that doesn't 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 one of those things Those flings, strings you've got to cut, So get out on the streets, girls, and you butts You your coat off and stood in the rain, You're always like that. And I from my window, Always felt I was looking in on you. always the mysterious one with Dark eyes and 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, Smoking 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 teach me of things, that were daring, things that were clean. Things that knew an honest dollar did mean. I hid my hands behind my back. along the line, I must've got Off track 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. When she used to 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 want to 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 drawing of their love, they it an art to live by They painted every, passion every home, created every child in the they were weavers of warmth, in summer they were carpenters of love They thought blue prints were too sad so made them yellow Until one day the rain as thick as black oil And in her heart she knew was wrong She running through the orchard screaming, 'No God, take him from 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, you man, don't leave me with nothing left behind but these cold paintings, these cold portraits to me! He said, 'Love I leave, but only a little, try to I put my soul in this we created with these four hands Love, I leave, but only a little world holds me still My body may die now, but these are real.' So many came and many seasons went and many times she saw her loves face the flowers, talking to the trees and singing to his And when the wind blew, she he was listening, and how he seamed to along, and how he seemed to hold her when she was
[Adam Let the phone ring, go back 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 here and warm my hands up, boy, you they love to hold And stop about what your sister said Stop worrying it, the cat's already been fed We might be going 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 I've I got my eggs I got my too I got my syrup, everything but you. I break the yolks, a smiley face I like it in my brand new place I wipe the spots off the Don't leave the keys in the Never put wet towels on the floor anymore' I called my momma, she was out for a Consoled a cup of coffee but it wanna talk So I up a paper, it was more bad news More being broken or people being used Put on my coat in the pouring I saw a movie it 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 what 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 pick a book up. the sheets down. And then I take a breath and a good look around Put on my pjs and hop bed I'm half alive but I feel mostly I try and myself it'll be all right I shouldn't think anymore tonight 'cause
Let the phone ring, go back to sleep Let the world spin outside out door, the only one that I wanna see Tell your boss 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 about your sister said Stop about it, the cat's already been fed We be going somewhere but before we go we make our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,
Maples] You find yourself down Your in the sky But you heart grape gum on the ground And you try to yourself In the of religion And the cruelty of everyone And you up to realize standard of living somehow got stuck on survive When you're in deep water And you're bailing yourself out a straw And you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a it's these little times that help to remind It's nothing without You wake up to your only friend Has never been yourself or who cared in the end That's when suddenly everything or falls away 'Cause the which once held us are only the chains which we've made Turn to me with frozen hands are icy cold Your burn bright against the frost-bit sky You never seemed lovely than you do right tonight Pale on the Like leaves frozen in the Our two shadows inseparably Will time still if it's pierced with cold The more I The I know
[Adam Let the ring, let's go back 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 here and my hands up, boy, it's you they love to hold And stop thinking about what your sister Stop worrying it, the cat's already been fed We might be going but we go we must make our things All I see you do is the sizzle, dizzle the sizzle, sizzle,