Little pink dress, hanging by her knees Just overhead on the old trapeze In the old tent tonight, spotlight going ?round One of these nights, the old
Light it up, baby Light up that fire ?Cause I don't know what's gonna save me From the cold now And these sorrows I'm crying over And these sorrows I
Oh, baby, I'm getting ready I'm getting ready to let you go My hands shake, my heart's unsteady Oh, how I once loved you so I know all the magic's gone
I'm no kid in a kid's game Did what I did, I got no one to blame But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up It's all I got, it's my claim to fame
He took a silver train All the way to Maine On the way to everything Railroad wings There's things you don't know you know I thought anger told me what
Have you ever been baptized in the cool winter water On a Sunday morning, when the sky was gray? We filed out of the churchyard, so cold, it was silver
Little old man, little old man staring down the road Waiting on the bus, it's getting kinda cold Bus finally gets there, he got nowhere to sit down And
Maybe one day, along the way You'll remember me, on this island Smiling at you, how I used to Maybe one day, you'll remember And it won't be sad to think
We wait for the bus that's going to Bangor In my plaid dress and burgundy shoes In your red lipstick and lilac kerchief You're the most pretty lady in
I went up to the mountain Because you asked me to Up over the clouds To where the sky was blue I could see all around me Everywhere I could see all around
Oh, heavenly day All the clouds blew away Got no trouble today with anyone The smile on your face, I live only to see It's enough for me, baby, it's
You know you've done enough when every bone is sore You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
Don't bring me bad news, no bad news I don't need none of your bad news today You're a sad little boy, anyone can see it Just a sad little boy That's
I am no longer young, I'm an old man's daughter We got caught with the sun going down We spent most of our days adrift on the water That's how I know
Closed down the house now on this sad affair very last step of a thousand steps there and will we every reach the sky now I won't care He called me liar
Daddy, we're rocking, big daddy How 'bout that, how 'bout that Here he comes again Me and my friends, we all laugh at him 'Cause he's so funny, warm
Here on the inside looking at the outside losing my memory faster than my pride Here I am baby, blind as a bat outta hell Cut me loose of that ball and
You might get lucky some days, not a drop of rain And you're too long on the town and you leave your trouble on the train And then there's only doubt
