CASINO
IN RENO In the Casino
Love
starts to ramble away
I never discuss
The feelings that eat at the fray
And
I sip on the rum
The lights are flashing
Not sure if I'm young
But memories
are rehashing again
As the beautiful women
Shuffle on by
I am not sure
what the score
Will be when the dreams fly
To the place where they wander
And die
Don't tell me, Jim
That I can't repeat the past
I'm already
aware of that
So many good things never last
Struggling to breathe
I
throw down the cards
I once vowed that I never could gamble
But gamblin'
makes it so
You don't seem so invisible
Read about heroes
And how they
fell
Makes you feel good
That they didn't fare so well
But you've got
a price
A responsibility
For putting yourself
Above the common man JEZEBEL
AND THE JAZZ PIANIST
"Has
the dream died with the dreamer?" - Terrence Scott Gerard On
a white night
Her car pulled into the driveway
I had something to tell her
And
I wanted her to stay
Sometimes the things you need
Are the things you push
away Jezebel was just the type
To open up
her heart
Never wanted to hurt no one
But can't help do her part
Why
is it that all the perfectly built
And most beautiful things
Fall apart? She
packs up
And burns the engine
Wants to pass the time
Thinks she'll find
herself
Down on Hollywood and Vine
The water is cool on her face
She'll
always be the most beautiful
One in the place
My friends have convinced
me
That she has an angel's grace He plays
jazz piano
On lonely nights
No one knows that he's a genius
He wonders
about his talent
And the places he's been
Makes meaning of the places
He
wants to repeat the past again
Smoke rings in the room
People enter, then
leave too soon
SUITCASE
Your best friend married on Sunday
She was feeling strange
You've got
a suitcase full of clothes
And where you're headed, God knows The
elegant restaurants
On 5th Avenue
Make you realize what you got to do Both
of us are getting older
You're determined to not go and fit the mold
Foggy
nights
Glassy lights
Sun would shatter
That cold façade Your
life could be packed in a suitcase FRENCH
RIVIERA Let us stay on the French
Riviera
We'll talk over wine and tea
We'll laugh at our new acquaintance
We'll
be who we'd like to be But when every new friend
Is
just an acquaintance
You have no chance to
Build something beautiful And
the French Riviera
Loses its meaning
You must have connection
In order
to understand the beauty
7th
AVENUE I know some things can't
be replaced
I know what we had was new
And I am reminded by the rain
On
7th Avenue
That I'm glad I knew you Say
goodbye
To everything you ever knew
Things fall apart
You should feel
lucky that you met me
I hope you don't forget me
When I push you away Thank
you for making me remember
What I truly love
I was lost in how beautiful
you looked
Singing from above
God may forgive you
Your family may too
And
I will always wonder what
Amazing things you're up to THE
PROBLEM OF HAVING EVERYTHING YOU WANT Lately
I keep meeting people
Who want to be elegant
They stir my imagination
They
make me create But when they leave me empty
Falling
short of my capacity for wonder
I lay lonesome in their wake I
can't find the words
To tell you how much it hurts
When you leave me alone
You
turn around
And switch things up on me
As I race for the phone People
like you
Don't need to worry about the breaks
You have to deal with
The
problem of having everything you want
I could deal with the problem
WATER COLORS A dog barks
A gust
of wind blows through the cars
You smile at the stars
And tell me that you'll
be OK when
You fall in love I paint water
color pictures
Of things that never were
And fall over in all night bars
And
wonder why I always
Want the things I cannot have So
you say you don't want a normal life
You'd rather look beyond
Travel the
world
But you'll notice you won't get very far
No matter where you travel
to There is something you build
Someone
can't break
That money and drag cannot take
I'm not sure you know
What
is at stake
WHITE
PICKET FENCES
You say you'd
be happy
If you found your one true love
You would stay together
And
fade into the skies above You're getting older
now
And you know more and more
What it is you want, some high school jaunt?
That
isn't some makeshift idea Well, I hope it's
legal
And I hope you leave some clues
If you find the white picket fences
Please
give me the news
Cuz I have yet to see anybody
Who has figured out the answers
To
the questions that you choose Why do we want
things so bad
That are pulled away?
Even when we discover they fall
Short
of how we built them up
A mansion and a hideaway Take
me to the alter
White lace and kisses to be stolen
After we make our vows
Let's
set out on a path
Red with roses I offer
you no answers
Only questions about your solutions
You propose
To want
something so much
That you just can't have
THE SUN IN 1983 You
sing out the praises of the lost
Forgotten shows that you can't see
Look
through old pictures of when
You were young and saw the sun in 1983 So
you buy the car and the clothes
You didn't have when you were younger
Maybe
that's what's missing
And why you feel so empty now What
is that foul powder
That became of your fluid dreams
The dust is floating
by
Your dreams have gone dry Maybe it's
wrong to shoot farther
But nothing great was ever
Achieved by people who
didn't aspire
In this great country I hope
one of those people can be me I wish I wasn't
so cynical
At such a young age
Overwrought plans
And visions of writing
a brand new page Did it bring you down
When
you found there were so many like you? THE
SAIL ON, SAILOR Catch the vibe from
a sailor
Who left his family and home
At the age of seventeen
About the
time you started
To crystallize the corners of your dream
And wonder if
he's got it over you
Can you tell by his scars? TWENTY-TWO
BEAUTIFUL YEARS OLD Well you live
your life
The best way you can
And God can strip away
Almost everything But
the bones of a man
Unless you happen to be
One who's been spared
Don't
tell me how to live You are so beautiful
You
are only twenty-two
You remind me of a girl I loved
When I was as old as
you
Twenty-two beautiful years old I want
to stop right now
And scream out loud
That I can be someone
The time
will go on Whether you want it to or not
I
get so frustrated
Want to quit this job
Head out into the unknown Dreaming
of the past
Trying to make up for lost time
Choices I've made
Living
and dying a little each day Try to forgive
and hide away
Dreaming of the past
Trying to repeat it
And get it right
on this pass OMAHA I
am left with vague memories of the past
I am left with cloudy versions of the
facts
If you see traces of the world you took back
To Omaha, long ago, a
period that's gone black I would say Goodbye,
Goodbye to all that Pack your stuff and take
it from my place
Sunglasses hide the tears on your face
It's impossible
to know if we've made a terrible mistake
All my friends have gone away, left
me stranded in Omaha I say Goodbye, Goodbye
to this fray I think I'll go get my old job
back
You could be a banker or a Wall Street jack
I will sing the sorrows
of the heartbreak
That comes with a waste of potential I
say Goodbye, Goodbye to today A
BRIGHT FUTURE BEHIND Pack up all
your boxes
File away the photographs
There's a dream that you had once
You
can never get it back But do you remember
When
you were sixteen?
And wanted to make the most
Of these hours and these dreams The
older you get
The better you were
The better sixteen
Seems to have
been You stood so tall
Proudest on the highest
stair
Count your successes
You thought life was a romantic affair Somebody's
got an axe to grind
The business closed because it was time
Pain and pleasure
are so close together
Between success and failure is such a thin line BOBBY
Bobby looks out the window
From
his Ravenna home
Mountains are cascading
Never has he felt so deathly alone The
sound of trumpets fading
Here are the thoughts of the one
The truest of
his loves
She's sailing away from his home
THE SIMPLE SENTIMENTS Things
fall apart
You always want what you can't have
Appreciate what you have
You
will miss it when it goes
Love hurts
Don't fall in love
You always set
yourself up for heartbreak
I'm in love for all the wrong reasons
Push, for
what you want is just beyond
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