We Belong Together Lyrics - Rickie Lee Jones

I say this was no game of chicken, you were aiming your best friend 

That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck 

I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad 

And it's daddy on the booze and there's a Brando on the ice 

Now it's dean in the doorway 

With one more way he can't play this scene twice 

So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love 

And you told her to stand tall when you kissed her 

But that's not where you were thinking 

How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked? 

But now look who shows up in the same place in this case I think it's better 

To face it, we belong together, we belong together 

Now once Johnny the King made a spit ring 

And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man 

And he entwine her in his finger and she lay there like a baby in his hand 

And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas 

And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders 

And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees 

But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair 

And to turn her into a tattoo that'll whisper 

Into the back of Johnny's black hair 

And now Johnny the king walks these streets without her in the rain 

Lookin' for a leather jacket and a girl who wrote her name forever 

And a promise that we belong together, we belong together 

Shall we weigh along these streets young lions on the lam? 

Are the signs you hid deep in your heart all left on neon for them? 

Who are foolish, who are victim of the sailors and the ducky boys 

Who would move into your eyes and lips and every tear 

That falls down on the neighborhood now 

I said, "Bird, we just gotta tell them" and they turn and ignore us 

And the only heroes we got left are written right before us 

And the only angel who sees us now watches through each other's eyes 

And I can hear him in every footstep's passing sigh 

He goes crazy these nights, watching heartbeats go by 

And they whisper we belong together, but we belong together 

We belong together, we belong together