And tonight the coastline is quiet. It's quieter than it's ever been. Honey, this town is a prison. With its four walls closin' in. . And they got one pill to make you smaller.
I cut my teeth on the stone of a teenage romance. I was the salt of the earth, I was hard. The last of the independents. . And in the breath from my chest I was blowing kerosene.
Don't write me no more letters. My mailbox is full of bombs. Between you and the kooks on my block. I don't remember the good times. I wasn't there and you were kind.
We were the magnificent dreamers. In secret lamplight hideouts. We swore the world couldn't break us. Even when the world took us down. . So here I am strugglin' out in the mighty jungle.
We are the last of the jukebox Romeos. We are romantics by the light of the fourway. We came to sing out a chorus, reinvent the good times. And bring it all back home again.
The Cool is dead, baby, go on to sleep. Rest your weary head and love a better me. And in the morning we'll start over again. That's how they do it up on the screen.
Not tonight, not tonight. Honey, I am on fire. I can't feel a single thing but the weight of the wires. . Crackin' electric like. Remember baby, we were a stone.
Did you grow up lonesome and one of a kind?. Were your records all you had to pass the time?. Or maybe you were taken by the mysteries of New Orleans.
In the back seats of burned out cars. In the disenchantment lane. The ideal angels twist and turn. And ask forgiveness for future mistakes. . But you and I, we've been through this.
Now the lights go low on the avenue. And the cars pass by in the rain. University boys and the girls fill the bars. While I'm just waiting on the light to change.
Well I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go. I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow. When we float out into the ether into the everlasting arms.
It took so long to get me back on my feet. It takes so long to find the words and the beat. And Charlie's waiting on the end of the phone. To hear you call on him to try to recapture.
On President Street, you'll find the sisters. Praying over. My city's heart. While Union Avenue. Turns to its disciples. Who feels the pressure heat coming on hot?.
Show me your hands. . I wanna know how you dance pretty baby, by the light of the moon. Do you carry your lovers around in a heart like a tomb with a view?.
I don't think I'm goin' out anymore. You better find some other body to comfort.. When I was trembling baby you was a diamond,. But you ain't a diamond no more..
We're having a party, everybody's swingin'. Tonight won't you come down out of your tower?. Don't make me dance all night alone. Alright!. . Call up your girlfriends to come out tonight.
Let it ride, let it ride, let it roll off your mind. Don't say a single world, get back inside. Let me drive, let me drive, disappear in the night. Like I was a ghost in your dreams.
Goodbye, circus wheel, maybe you rest along the seas. I have given you the fire of my youth and the triumph of my enemies. And goodbye, fair weather home and your faithless factories.
I was born in a town where the rivers flow free. On a January night when the cold winds freeze. I got an Irish name and an injury. A blessing and a curse cast down on me.
If I could write. I'd tell you how much I've missed these nights. Where we'd dig around the bones. And try to find peace and patches for the holes. . I lit a cigarette on a parking meter.