rag top down

I took your feather off the wall, and I carefully placed it in its box
And everything that reminds me of us and secured that box with a lock
and I sent it home to you


'cause there's still a lot of life in me and a good many of good years
and I want to ride with the rag top down and the sun in my face and the wind in my ears


So tonight in the light of the Blue Moon, I'm standing, gazing up into the sky
but there's not much that I can remember, and not much that I can identify
without you at my side to explain it's so easy to get lost
but you shot our ship to splinters and a line, has been crossed


There's still a lot of miles in me and the white line is calling me
I want to ride with the rag top down and the crank the radio up and sing


So  I combed my hair and I shaved my face and I carefully chose what to wear
I' m heading into town tonight and there's a chance that my past or my future might find me there


but I'm not gonna call and I'm not gonna beg and I won't shed one fucking tear
I think I'll take a ride with the rag top down and the sun in my face and the wind in my ears

How could

How could I forget – every “One last cigarette”
On your balcony, sharing thoughts so easily?
How could I unlearn - every insight every word?
You brushed the dust off the colours of my mind
And you taught me how to fly.

 How could you feel small, when I told you you were all?
Don’t you know how much I grew, learning what you already knew?

Why did you lie, when there were questions on your mind?
I wanted you more than anything, but I’d never, ever want you without your wings 

How could we let go, knowing what we know ?
How could we let go, knowing what we know ?

Were the treasures that we shared, or were the not, the salt of the earth? 

How could you forget every “one last cigarette”
How could we let go How could we let go
Or was it just for show or was it just for show
Or was it just a lie of the mind or was it just a lie of the mind
Was it too much or were we blind ?

Good for the heart

Lookin’ back on a year in which I could hardly sleep
The fear and the anger all  - cut so deep
was a time when I  drank  too much wine
in a useless attempt to wash the blackness from my mind.

Don’t know why I did it, I guess it was alright for a start
bad for the body but – good for the heart

 You pulled up to my house today, careful enough
You had asked me not to overthink and I tried not to talk too much
And yet we’re both kinda ready to cut back on keeping up our guard
Ain’t nothing yet except it’s – good for the heart 

I watch your taillights disappear
And I already wish, you’d be pointing the hood - Of that big bad car of yours, back up here.  

We took a walk down to the reservoir
Nothing big and certainly - not too far.
Now, we loosened up and I let out this weird remark
And you burst out into this million dollar megawatt laugh

Ain’t nothing yet, maybe a start
But that big, big laugh’s so good for the heart

 I watch your taillights disappear
And I wish that silver bullet will one day find it’s way – back up here
Watch your taillights disappear
And I already wish that silver bullet will one fine day find it’s way back up here

Lo vamos a necesitar

We decided to run up the stairs
instead of taking the funiculaire
and we made love all night to the candles
we stole from Sacre Coeur.

 Crazy love – we didn’t take the time to ask-
What could we do ? The river was running so fast.
We had about a million reasons
to not want anybody to know.
But every body who could see us
would know, what was going on.

How could we expect to keep it secret?
we played together in the band
and we harmonized on “Milk and Honey”
like lovers do, not like just friends.

 Crazy love, nothing could stop us.
Tell me, when did you know, it would not last.

 And then the day dawned
and in the cold, hard light
things looked different
from what they’d looked like in the night.  

We said goodby, you said “don’t go away to far”.
I said “Keep your hands on the wheel, baby, lo vas a necesitar” 

Godspeed and Goodbye, you said “don’t go away too far”.
“Let’s keep our eyes on the road, lo vamos a necesitar”.