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The Girl at table 4 (1978)
Vivaldi's Song (1978)
Lady, when you love me
I feel home, sweet home
Inside of you
This garden is sure to grow
You know our love
Is just like summertime.
Parrots eye the fruit
And we make love
Between the harpsichords and glutes
Our green limbs intertwine
You know our love
Is just like summertime.
Our souls collide
We slip and slide
We feel no pain
And with our lives locked together
We weather the wind and rain
We're on the farm
We're safe from harm
Inside this circle of summertime
Both of us know is our love.
Lovers from the past
With poison smiles
All pray our love will never last
But we are trees, not vines
You know our love
Is just like summertime.
As the song begins
These shipwrecks fade
Behind a wave of violins
Vivaldi made us rhyme
You know our love
Is just like summertime.
Our souls collide
We slip and slide
We feel no pain
And with our lives locked together
We weather the wind and rain
We are the farm
We're safe from harm
Inside this circle of summertime
Both of us know is our love.
Lonely People
The limousine's ariving
The night is warm and flying
Beautiful people are standing out
To see what they can find
Lonely people
Can afford conversation
Looking for love, anticipation
Lonely people
Looking for love
In the night time.
All the bars are closing
See the neon lights shut down
It's always just the lonely ones
Left to hang around.
Lonely people
Can afford conversation
Looking for love, anticipation
Lonely people
Looking for love
In the night time.
Other People's Room
Here I am, on your phonograph again
What kind of place
Did you bring me to this time
Is it a room so small
But there's hardly room at all.
Other people's rooms are they cheery are they bright?
Other people's lives, do they always turn out right?
Do they always lock the door?
Wishing they had someone to open it for?
Just a little room of there own
And all the music that I play,
Is just for the times that I get to slip away
And lose myself in other people's rooms.
Other people's rooms, are they fancy or just plain?
Other people's dreams, are they really just the same?
Everyone needs a corner of their own
Everyone needs a place to come home
Just a little room of their own.
And all the music that I play
Is just for the times that I get to slip away,
And lose myself
In other people's rooms
Hear the music play,
In other people's rooms
All the love is there,
In other people's rooms,
Hear the music play
In other people's rooms
All the love is there
In other people's rooms.
The City
Well, last night I slept in the open
Down by a redwood tree
Yes, last night I slept last night in the open
Just to let, just to let, just to let my soul free.
I don't want to know, I don't want to go,
I don't want to go back into the city.
I don't want to know, I don't want to go,
I don't want to go back into the city.
It's just a long long long long lonely taxi ride
Going nowhere.
Going nowhere.
Well, I slept last night in the open
(It gets so hot in the city)
Down by a redwood tree
(It gets so hot in the city)
Yes, I slept last night in the open
Just to let, just to let, just to let my soul free.
I don't want to know, I don't want to go,
I don't want to go back into the city.
I don't want to know, I don't want to go,
I don't want to go back into the city.
It's just a long long long lonely taxi ride
Going nowhere ...
Going nowhere ...
New York State of Mind
Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighbourhood
Hop a flight to Miami Beach
Or to Hollywood, yeah, yeah
Me I'm taking a Greyhound
On the Hudson River Line
I'm in a New York state of mind.
I've seen all the movie stars
With their fancy cars and their limousines
Been high in the Rockies under the evergreens
But I know what I'm needing
I don't want to waste more time
Cause I'm in a New York state of mind.
Comes down to reality
And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide
Don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside drive, yeah
I don't have any reasons
I've just left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind.
Nightmusic
The Bay
What Am I Living For
What I say to my best friend:
Can't you see for a mess I made?
Daddy, you talked me to drink whisky
But my mama, she died from a drinking gin.
My brother, he works any coal mine
Works so hard, got his pain
My sister, she believes in sweet Lord Jesus
And she's waiting for redemption day.
I said hey! What am I living for?
I said hey! Why am I living?
Why am I giving all my life to bring up
The family children and wife
Tell me my friend hasn't that been done before?
I remember my first job
I was singing with the band
When every payday came around
I take my money from the man.
And he said "Now, spend it wisely, boy
Or save it while you have the time."
I could drunk on a stand
And I blew the bag
Now you'll find in the unemployment line.
I said hey! What am I living for?
I said hey! Why am I living?
Why am I giving all my life to bring up
The family children and wife
Tell me my friend hasn't that been done before?
I said hey! What am I living for?
I said hey! Why am I living?
Why am I giving all my life to bring up
The family children and wife
Tell me my friend hasn't that been done before?
I had need a sweet woman
Until the sun don't shine
I came home one morning early
I found her with a friend of mine.
It's not so much I needed her
But, oh God
How to stay away?
I packed my bag and I hit the road
And I've never seen her to these days
I said hey! What am I living for?
I said hey! Why am I living?
Why am I giving all my life to bring up
The family children and wife
Listen my friend that's all been done before.
Just a Friend
I see her every day, but she turns her face away
Her eyes tell me the pain in her heart.
Why I ask myself again
"Does she stay with the man who brings her pain?"
But she forgives him just the same.
When she cries she comes to me - as a friend, just a friend
And I know she loves me - as a friend...
But, if she could know the pain I feel when she goes to him again
The memory still remains.
He will greet me with a smile as he does everyday
Questions crying in his eyes - I turn away
But comes the night refrain I'll be with her again
Even though I'm just a friend.
But comes the night refrain
I'll be with you again
Even though I'm just a friend - just a friend ...
The Ghetto
Here I am, standing all alone.
Seems like I'm a thousand miles from home.
You know I never did I have a friend.
You know I never had a dollar that I could lend.
And sometimes I get down on my knees
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
New York City is where I'm from.
Down there in the ghetto, where you don't come.
Seems like my life has passed me by.
And you tell me tears of joy,
But I tell you, I cry
And sometimes I get down on my knees
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
Don't give me liquor for my pain.
All my friends they never came back again.
Nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide.
Just me in the ghetto with you looking in from outside.
And sometimes I get down on my knees
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
And sometimes I get down on my knees
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
I wonder if He sees.
You Look Just Like A Girl Again
I know you must get weary
Of the years you can not hide
But sometimes when your eyes, smiling
I can still see the girl, inside
In the dark I can be so many men
In the dark you're every woman then
But in the light I can see your face again
In the light, you look just like a girl again
You look just like a girl again.
All these tender moments that we had our dreams upon
Can we ever be as children or are we now so far beyond
And the light gets me drifting way back when
Tonight in the light, oh baby,
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again,
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again.
And the light gets me drifting way back when
Tonight in the light, oh baby,
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again
You look just like a girl again, like a girl again.
Then I Have You
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