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Geraldine
i'm calling you from the city, geraldine i know it's not the best way to say goodbye but when you read it in the paper in the morning i don't want you to be surprised they're going to say some things about me and some of them are true but while i never told you everything honey, i never lied to you geraldine, there's a lot of things i've seen and the less you know the better someday i'll write you a letter filled with cigarettes and girlie magazines geraldine everybody's got their secrets, geraldine i know everybody has got a past but i was never really one for confessions and you never thought to ask i know you'd probably come with me but i'm better off alone i'm going to keep this conversation short just in case they've tapped your phone geraldine, some people can be mean but this time i've got a head start oh, you'll always be my sweetheart of the rodeo and south new jersey queen geraldine my mother was a factory girl my father was a railroad song and if i had an extra day or so i'd tell you about all of these things that i have done wrong when you wake up in the morning, geraldine if all goes well i will be miles away where i'm going, how i'll get there, if i'll see you again i'm not at liberty to say i know you'll ask yourself some questions and then you'll probably start to cry and i know you want to hear i love you but baby, i don't want to lie geraldine, these lights are turning green i can't speak to you much longer that buzzing sound is getting stronger and i'm afraid you've led them straight to me geraldine Wake Up she calls me up from somewhere down in texas it was just what i expected that doesn't make it easier for a year she's been someone else's lover now she's someone else's mother and someone else's wife wake up you sentimental bastard it's the same song just played a little faster and you wish that you could ask her how it goes i'm alone while her belly's getting bigger i would have pulled the trigger but i could not find a gun they wait breathless anticipation the whole fightin' aggie nation for the belle of houston town don't rock the boat she needs to get some sleep tonight caught in my throat it's my favorite alibi bye-bye i wrote a poem the tone was reverential this is my new york confidential i'm still in love with her Beneath a Crescent Moon Come dance with me as traces of twilight die in a space caught between the past and the future this is my prison and you are the ball and chain like the stone around your finger that weighs down my soul and i i will sing for you songs of hope of love, everlasting and redeeming and i i will give up these things for you here beneath a crescent moon Come dance with me and i will ask nothing more of this life for what else can it offer no joy in heaven nor sin under a cloudless sky can compare to a rhythym and a sliver of moonlight Come dance with me your voice can wring tears from stone and your hands are soft as the breath of children i fear to touch and tarnish the silver there for i fell from grace so long ago Postmodern Love Song my love is a wild rose staring through the windows in poorly fitting street clothes but she carries it well and i, in equal measure, am a boy of easy leisure give me love or give me pleasure and something to sell 'cause we all have stories to tell perfect when she's sleeping so like it in the dreaming i am trouble breathing a pallbearer's son but nothing breaks the silence solitary, childless love is always violence and she is a gun but we are the fortunate ones she is all i need is all i wanted her to be i don't wonder why don't want to break this down tonight everybody needs this so they cut it into pieces while the bitter friend of jesus kicks in the door swinging on its hinges familiar little twinges like love in the syringes or maybe something more but i have been wrong before Silver Line I put you on a train silver line 12:05 I feel sick and dirty I feel naked and alive Stepping in and out of the light In the eye of someone's satellite But I will love you no matter where you sleep tonight So I am staring at the TV at the phone You don't have to say anything Just call me When you get home Breathe in once and turn away 'Cause I don't know what it is I could say But I will love you no matter where you wake today Baby, is there someone on your mind? Baby, it could be different this time And I will love you no matter if I call you mine I stepped on a train silver line 12:05 I don't know how to find you But I know I have to try stepping in and out of the light In the eye of someone's satellite But I will love you no matter If I sleep tonight |
