Come back Mum and Dad
You’re growing apart
You know that I’m growing up sad
I need some attention
I shoot into the light
My father sits at night with no lights on
His cigarette glows in the dark
The living room is still
I walk by, no remark
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference, like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
The borders of our lives
Life is what happens to you,
When you are busy making other plans…
It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
There’s something happening here,
What it is ain’t exactly clear,
There’s a man with a gun over there,
Telling me I got to beware…
I said shotgun
Shoot him 'for he run now
Do the jerk baby
Do the jerk now
Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Bitin’ on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
Shotgun Willie’s got all of his family there
Little Willy, Willy won’t go home,
You can’t push Willy round, Willy won’t go…
Billy, don’t be a hero
Don’t be a fool with your life
Billy, don’t be a hero
Come back and make me your wife
Down on the corner
Out in the street
Willy and the Poor Boys are playin’
Bring a nickel, tap your feet
Sunny Day
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street…
I have not been down these roads
since I was a child.
Down the road I look and there comes Mary,
Hair of gold and lips like cherries…
A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping, somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
Ah, but, two hours of pushin’ broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I’m a man of means by no means, king of the road.
Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man,
Trying to make a livin’ and doin’ the best I can…
And I’ll be taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I’ve been taking care of business (it’s all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime, work out
They hand you a paycheck every week
And steal a piece of your soul every day
Well I don’t need no gold watch in fifty years
Baby let’s be golden today