lyrics
Lyrics to the songs of the shorewoods
The songs from "long weekend"
Leaves Me SHaking
Emerald Downs
To Be or Not to Be, or Else
You Said it All
Pageboy of Chance
Leaves Me Shaking
The stupid little ones don't matter.
Those of import get a lecture:
Wrapped in wrinkled metal,
Standing in the snowfall.
That's the way it goes.
It'll be okay.
I know the rules, it's just like a game.
And so it goes.
It'll be okay.
Sometimes it's the blues on a beautiful day.
When I'm kneeling on a carpet
Somewhat like a hermit
If only for a moment
I remember the first cigarette
I walk in open sandals slowly
Turning in circles, stirred by the wind
As you begin to explain your mother:
How she is gray and varicosed veined.
I won't mind the gray
But the varicose veins make me afraid
Of aging that way.
Veins that press out from the skin
Like a blue-ish plant or frozen lightning.
I'm particular to sleek and shaven
When you smile, that starts me shaking.
I thought I was all right.
I was mistaken.
Cause when you smile, when you smile, when you smile
It leaves me shaking.
When I sleep I am one with the trees.
Like a bush I'm asleep in a forest of dreams.
I'm on my insides I'm always on my insides.
Until I wake up and make it to the table.
The tea leaves tell no fortunes
In a cup of milky porcelain.
It's just me for an hour in the morning
Drinking tea and thinking up stories.
Then I glide away in my automobile of dented gray
Through the hazy rain.
The sky is void of (raw) brightness or being.
I feel weird; what's happened to me?
I'm particular to sleek and shaven
When you smile, that starts me shaking.
I thought I was all right.
I was mistaken.
Cause when you smile, when you smile, when you smile
It leaves me shaking.
Emerald Downs
Show me some green
I'm not horsing around
If you know what I mean (yeah, yeah)
I won the lottery last week
It's up to you to add to my streak
And my ticket's here in my right hand
Daily double or nothing
Emerald Downs
Show me some green
I'm not horsing around
If you know what I mean (yeah, yeah)
I robbed the liqour store this week
It's up to you to add to my treat
And my ticket's here in both my hands
Double-barreled or nothing
Oh Emerald
Hey Emerald Downs, I'm up with you
Yeah Emerald
Oh beautiful, wow! Now, take your cue
Hey! Emerald Downs
Emerald Downs
Show me your greed, all your greed
I'm not horsing around
If you know what I mean (yeah, yeah)
I won the lottery last week
It's up to you to add to my streak
And my ticket's here in all my hands
Daily double or nothing
I'm double-barreled or nothing
Emerald Downs
Bad girls on the move this morning,
Have I got a job for you
and a warning, too.
Big girls you say to me, who are you?
In your department store costume
following your golden rules
I'm just one person
Not so defensive
I can't be serious or even introspective
Only one of me, alloted to myself
To be or not to be or else.
To be or not to be or else.
Good food on the stove this evening
I can smell it from my bus stop
as I start to walk
Small wonders in this neighborhood
of happy couples doubling up
to fill their guts with love
I'm just one person
Not so defensive
I can't be serious or even introspective
Only one of me, alloted to myself
To be or not to be or else.
To be or not to be or else.
Who am I to say you're not right for me now today?
Tomorrow's coming on
It's coming on so strong
I'm just one person
Not so defensive
I can't be serious or even introspective
Only one of me, alloted to myself
To be or not to be or else.
To be or not to be or else.
You said it all.
You used up the words I'd been trying to save
for the rainiest of days.
Now I've got no reason for the idling of my stride.
Welcome me with your voice.
Fill me with good grace.
Don't set me down, don't you grade me so rough.
Downsize your company and learn to love.
Don't set me down, don't you set me down.
Don't set me down, don't set me down, don't set me down (down down).
The words you said are inside my head.
Are they what I heard?
Did you hear my call?
I used your real name instead of a symbol.
There's much more to a name.
Like a changing of the seasons
I have come to you again.
In degrees of validation I will lose the days of when
Don't set me down, don't you grade me so rough.
Downsize your company and learn to love.
Don't set me down, don't you set me down.
Don't set me down, don't set me down, don't set me down (down down).
The words you said are inside my head.
Are they what I heard?
Words you said are inside my head
aching for more words.
But you said them all.
The way that woman treated me:
Like a new joke.
She told her friends
She made me up from odds and end.
As to newfound royalty:
I was taken in.
Empress or queen,
Duchess or princess supreme.
Silly pageboy of chance
Oh, flat discovery!
Were you dazzled by jewels
in the crown of her hair?
Silly pageboy, no chance
of full recovery.
Were you baffled by
promises of time in the kingdom
of short affairs?
(let me tell ya)
So I strolled around the grounds
of lady fair.
During the days
kept my head down
I couldn't dare to meet her gaze.
But in the courtyard when the sun had gone.
She had her way, she had her means.
She had herself and she had me.
Silly pageboy of chance
Oh, flat discovery!
Were you tempted by the touch
in the palm of her hands?
Silly pageboy no chance
of full recovery.
Were you wasted by
promises of time in the kingdom
of short affairs?
Thanks very much for your common touch.
I'm sure it wasn't enough for you,
believe me, the last one, yes
he thought that, too. (oh!)
Silly pageboy of chance
Oh, flat discovery!
Were you dazzled by jewels
in the crown of her hair?
Silly pageboy, no chance
of full recovery.
Were you wasted by
promises of time in the kingdom
of short affairs?