Blue gardenia Now I'm alone with you And I am, oh, so blue She has tossed us aside And like you, gardenia Once I was near her heart After the teardrops
if I sleep I might not make it in this world of fools I might come up missin' if I'm slippin' in these County Blues Niggaz fuck around in they County Blues
I was sitting in my car the other night Behind a couple of High School kids Light turned green and they didn't go They were locked in a red light kiss
It was Indiana, a summer day And I was three years old My momma said go out to play Well, I did what I was told She never saw it comin' When I turned
She had stars in her eyes, in her dreams every night So she packed her bags and took a ride out to Hollywood She took the town by storm, another star
I'm not sayin', I feel sad about The way you broke my heart But the last time that I lost this bad I had to sell my car Somebody call me a doctor Somebody
She's her momma's baby she's her daddy's pride an' joy They've kept her under wraps she ain't been hangin' out With any ugly I can boy, hardly ever been
They used to make me go to church, clip on tie, starch the shirt. I never heard the preacher's words all slouched down in that pew. These days going
You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the
Madeline rode away last night On a rockin' horse Straight into the pale moonlight Make believe of course What's a little girl of eight Supposed to do
Rolling around this hotel bed awake at 3 am Cleaning out the mini bar ringing you again I've already called you 14 times just to say goodnight I need
At a red stop light in some sleepy town An old truck pulled up with the windows down That song from the past was playin' full blast And all at once
Baby when we fell in love I packed my El Camino up never looked back A tank of gas, twenty bucks left behind a cloud of dust And all we had gave up everything
That ?73 Monte Carlo had a car load of Schlitz and innocence Half a pack of daddy?s cigarettes and a cassette of Jimmy Hendrix We parked beside the railroad
Sunday Driver His left elbow is hanging out the window His left finger steerin' the wheel His right arm is wrapped around his sweetheart and it's paradise
Everybody covets everybody lies Everybody?s done it some time in their lives We all slip, we don?t mean to That don?t mean you can?t make it right It
At a red stop light in some sleepy town An old truck pulled up with the windows down That song from the past was playin' full blast And all at once I
Shootin? Dr. Pepper cans with your brand new red Ryder That old folding lawn chair makes the perfect x-wing fighter Those no name baseball cards spinning
