LONG WAY HOME

Well I stumbled in the darkness
I'm lost and alone
though I said I'd go before us
and show the way back home
is there a light up ahead
I can't hold on very long
forgive me pretty baby but
I always take the long way home.

Money's just something you throw
off the back of a train
I got a head full of lightning
a hat full of rain
I know that I said
I'd never do it again
I love you pretty baby but
I always take the long way home.

I put food on the table
and a roof over our head
but I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead
watch your back
keep your eyes shut tight
your love's the only thing I've ever known
one thing's for sure pretty baby
I always take the long way home.

You know I love you baby
more than the whole wide world
you are my woman
you know you are my pearl
let's go out past the party lights
where we can finally be alone
come with me and we can
take the long way home...
come with me and we can
take the long way home ...

(Tom Waits / Kathleen Brennan)

(Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards; 2006, ANTI-Epitaph)

CUT YOUR HAIR

Darlin' don't you go and cut your hair.
Do you think it's gonna make him change?
"i'm just a boy with a new haircut"
And that's a pretty nice haircut.
Charge it like a puzzle, hit me wearin' muzzles.
Hesitate to die, look around, around, the second drummer's drowned
His telephone is found.


Music scene is crazy, bands start up each and every day.
I saw another one just the other day.
A special new band.
I remember lying,
I don't remember a line,
I don't remember a word,
but I don't care, I care, I really don't care.
Did you see the drummer's hair?


Advertising looks and chops a must:
NO BIG HAIR !!!
Songs mean a lot,
when songs are bought.
And so are you
bitch, rant down to the practice room.
Attention and fame so
career, career, career....

(Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Matador Records, 1994)

NEON RAINBOW

The city lights, the pretty lights,
they can warm the coldest nights.
All the people going places,
smiling with electric faces.
What they find the glow erases,
and what they loose the glow replaces, and life is love

In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.

Moving lines, flashing signs,
blinking faster than the minds.
Leading people with suggestions,
leaving no unanswered questions.
You can live without direction,
and it don't have to be perfection, and life is love

In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.

But in the daytime everything changes,
nothing remains the same.
No one smiles anymore,
and no one will open his door
until the night time comes.
And then the ...

City lights, the pretty lights,
they can warm the coldest nights.
All the people going places,
smiling with the electric faces.
What they find the glow erases,
and what they loose the glow replaces, and life is love

In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.

(Wayne, Carson, Thompson)

(The Box Tops - The Letter/Neon Rainbow; Bell, 1968)

WHITE RIOT

(The Clash - The Clash UK; CBS, 1977)