Reeling In The Years
Your everlasting summer you can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last
You wouldn't even know a diamond if you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious I can't understand
Are you reeling in the years stowing away the time
Are you gathering up the tears have you had enough of mine
Are you reeling in the years stowing away the time
Are you gathering up the tears have you had enough of mine
You been telling me you're a genius since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean
The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned
The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand
I spent a lot of money and I spent a lot of time
The trip we made to Hollywood is etched upon my mind
After all the things we've done and seen you find another man
The things you think are useless I can't understand
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
We hear you're leaving, that's OK
I thought our little wild time had just begun
I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run
But if you have a change of heart
Rikki don't lose that number you don't wanna call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself
Rikki don't lose that number it's the only one you own
You might use it if you feel better when you get home
I have a friend in town, he's heard your name
We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row
We could stay inside and play games, I don't know
And you could have a change of heart
You tell yourself you're not my kind
But you don't even know your mind
And you could have a change of heart
You tell yourself you're not my kind
But you don't even know your mind
And you could have a change of heart
Kid Charlemagne
While the music played you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights you were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
You turned it on the world that's when you turned the world around
Did you feel like Jesus did you realize that you were a champion in their eyes
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene but yours was kitchen clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall you must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare and you'd go it alone could you live forever could you see the day
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away
Get along, get along Kid Charlemagne
Get along Kid Charlemagne
Now your patrons have all left you in the red your low rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange all those dayglow freaks who used to paint the face
They've joined the human race some things will never change
Son you were mistaken you are obsolete look at all the white men on the street
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car I think the people down the hall know who you are
Careful what you carry because the man is wise you are still an outlaw in their eyes
Book Of Liars
Bye and bye we'll get over the things we've done and the things we said
But not just now I can't remember exactly what it was I thought we had
Because I waited so long and I came so far
To find out you're not always who you say you are
And there's a star in the book of liars by your name
And there's a star in the book of liars by your name
Santa Claus came home in late last night drunk on Christmas wine
Fell down hard in the driveway hung his bag out on the laundry line
There's a cobra gunship for his golden boy
And there's a hello kitty for his pride and joy
And a silver star in the book of liars by your name
They hung a star in the book of liars by your name
Stars imploding the long night passing electrons dancing in the frozen crystal dawn
Here's one left stranded at the zero crossing with a hole in it's half-life left to carry on
But now the world's much larger than it looks today
And if my bad luck ever blows me back this way
Then I'll just look in my book of liars for your name
I'll just look in the book of liars for your name
Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
A race of angels bound with one another
A dish of dollars laid out for all to see
A tower room at Eden Rock his golf at noon for free
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
His lady's aching to bring a body down
She daily preaches on where she wants to be
An evening with a movie queen a face we all have seen
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
A case of aces done up loose for dealing
A piece of island cooling in the sea
The whole of time we gain or lose and power enough to choose
Brooklyn owes the charmer under me
The Royal Scam
And they wandered in from the city of St. John without a dime
Wearing coats that shined both red and green colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron they looked upon the promised land where surely life was sweet
On the rising tide to New York City did they ride into the street
See the glory of the royal scam
They are hounded down to the bottom of a bad town
Amid the ruins where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings their dark companions
While the memory of their southern sky was clouded by a savage winter
Every patron saint hung on the wall, shared the room with twenty sinners
See the glory of the royal scam
By the blackened wall he does it all he thinks he's died and gone to heaven
Now the tale is told by the old man back home he reads the letter how they are paid in gold
Just to babble in the back room all night and waste their time
And they wandered in from the city of St. John without a dime
See the glory of the royal scam
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