Put your head on my shoulder
You need someone who’s older
A rubdown with a velvet glove
There is nothing you can take
To relieve that pleasant ache
You’re not sick
You’re just in love
Doctor, doctor gimme the news,
I gotta bad case of lovin’ you,
Got no pills to cure my ills,
I got a bad case of lovin’ you…
One pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
Big dreams in a small town
Eighteen and glory bound
Nothing here to tie us down
Big dreams in a small town.
Got nothing against a big town
Still hayseed enough to say
Look who’s in the big town
But my bed is in a small town
Oh, and that’s good enough for me
Well I was born in a small town
And I can breathe in a small town
Gonna die in this small town
And that’s probably where they’ll bury me
Just a small town girl living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a city boy born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere
He’s leaving (leaving)
On the midnight train to Georgia
(Midnight train to Georgia)
To a different place and time…
So I pick up the pieces
I get on the midnight train
I got my reasons
But darling I can’t explain
I was standin’ at the station,
Ten to midnight in the rain
I was mindin’ my own bus’ness,
Waiting for that midnight train
Nobody in sight, starin’ at my shoes,
I took out my paper to find me some good news
Mindin’ my own bus’ness,
When the ticket man calls my name
Yeah, yeah, babe
Shes got a ticket to ride,
But she don’t care…
I don’t care if you hurt me some more
I don’t care if you even the score
You can knock me and I don’t care
You can mock me and I don’t care
You can rock me just about anywhere
It’s alright
'Cause you’re all I’ve got tonight
You’re all I’ve got tonight
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care if you don’t care
I don’t care.
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care…
I wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars
Don’t worry your pretty head
I’ll always be around,
I’ll never let you down,
Blue angel (sha na na, doo wah dee)
Blue angel…
Angel eyes, I really love you so
Angel eyes, I’ll never let you go
Because I love you, my darlin’ angel eyes
(Pretty, pretty, pretty little angel eyes)
Pretty woman, walkin’ down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I’d like to meet
Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this?
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, they’re shootin’ up the street.
And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin’ loose, but he gets blown right off his feet.
And some kid comes blastin’ 'round the corner, but a cop puts him right away.
He lays on the street holding his leg, screaming something in Spanish, still breathing when I walked away.
And somebody said, “Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud!”
I wonder what the dude was sayin’, or was he just lost in the flood?
If a man ever needed dyin’, he did
No one had the right to say what he said about you
And it’s so cold and lonely here without you
Out there the law’s a comin’
I’m gettin’ so tired of runnin’
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can’t go back there
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can’t go back there
I wish I had you to talk to