Fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
There’s a hole in this world, like a great black pit
And it’s filled with people who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world inhabit it
And it goes by the name of London
England swings like a pendulum do
Swingline throughout the backyards of the midwest
Lean back, baby, in your seat on the train
Look through the window pane
Look at that kid over there with no underwear
And a silly dog who doesn’t care
His mother stretches to reach the clothes line
While a mean neighbor leans on the population sign
I just really miss your face
Though, by now, I must disgust you
I had tried to be the stubbornest mule
′Cause I knew life was cruel
So I guess I was foolish to trust you
But I wait here just in case
Though I know I′m being senseless
How could I have ever been so naive
And wear my heart on my sleeve
When I knew it would leave me defenseless?
And if the world was perfect, you would be here in my embrace
But since the world denied me one last kiss
I’ll just miss your stupid face
Doo-doo-doo-doo
I won’t ask for promises
So you won’t have to lie
We’ve both played this game before
Say I love you
Say goodbye
I’m not talking ‘bout movin’ in
And I don’t want to change your life
But there’s a warm wind blowing the stars around
And I’d really love to see you tonight
“Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight
I saw you, and the world went away
Tonight, tonight, there’s only you tonight
What you are, what you do, what you say”
“Today, all day, I had the feeling
A miracle would happen
I know now, I was right”
“For here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight”
Little girl, it’s a great big world
But there’s only one of me
You can’t touch 'cause I cost too much but
Tonight, I’m gonna rock you
Tonight, I’m gonna rock you
Tonight
Mr. Big Stuff
Who do you think you are
Mr. Big Stuff
You’re never gonna get my love
Now because you wear all those fancy clothes (oh yeah)
And have a big fine car, oh yes, you do now
Do you think I can afford to give you my love (oh yeah)
You think you’re higher than every star above
You’re a rich girl, and you’ve gone too far
'Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
You can rely on the old man’s money
You can rely on the old man’s money
It’s a bitch, girl, but it’s gone too far
'Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
Say money but it won’t get you too far
Get you too far
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People call, say “Beware, doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all a-kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
It was the third of September
That day I’ll always remember, yes I will
Cuz that was the day that my daddy died
I never got the chance to see him
Never heard nothing but bad things about him
Mama, I’m depending on you to tell me the truth
And Mama just looked at me and said, “Son…
Papa was a rolling stone
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left is was alone”
Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin’ cotton and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinnertime we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door y’all remember to wipe your feet
And then she said I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
You ask how much I need you, must I explain?
I need you, oh, my darling, like roses need rain
You ask how long I’ll love you, I’ll tell you true
Until the 12th of never, I’ll still be loving you
Remember in times gone by, promises we both made?
What are the reasons why nothing stays the same?
There were the nights holding you close
Somehow, I’ll try to forget them
As soon as my heart stops breaking
Anticipating
As soon as forever is through, I’ll be over you
Don’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby
Going to take us apart
I’ll put us back together at heart, baby
Messages keep getting clearer
Radio’s on, and I’m moving round my place
I check my look in the mirror
Wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
And I ain’t getting nowhere
I’m just living in a dump like this
There’s something happening somewhere
Baby, I just know that there is
You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark
This gun’s for hire, even if we’re just dancing in the dark
We dress like students, we dress like housewives
Or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle so many times now
I don’t know what I look like
I imagine his wife, she don’t look nothing like a fool
She picks her kids up from some private school
She remembers what he told her
He was late at work too long
But there’s more than a suspicion in this lingering cologne
And the kids just won’t be quiet as she runs a traffic light
And she drives into the night
She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles
That weren’t there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way?
She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion
As something comes into her mind
Slowly starts dancing remembering her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line