Тексты песен «Ellis Paul»

Maggie looks out her window, Sees a cab in the street Lets out a point-blank whistle, It stops with a screech She picks up the last box, That sits in the corner She turns around to take A mental photograph She...

He's in an emotional prison The self-inflicted kind You're like a nun on a mission To help that boy unwind I said, "nobody's ever escaped alcatraz It's too cold in san francisco bay" You just turned and...

The time, 11:33 on a saturday, november, 1923 I'm synchronized, it's wise to keep my wits about me My name is roy, a one-time choir boy Now I'm sixteen, man, and I'm nobody's toy I'm gonna take to the wind and get...

(spoken intro) I get this message on the message machine that she's cooking dinner Tonight so I go out and pick up a bottle of wine and when I get there I'm a little nervous And I run out of things to say So I...

King of 7th avenue I can count all the lights in the city from the ledge on the twenty- seventh floor. There must be ten thousand window or more. It's a hobby I can count on, helps me forget about the cold. And I get...

Preacher won't you preach to me, I need a pint of philosophy. I'm hurt and thirsty, set me on my way. Mondays come and mondays go, But this one seems to be sort of slow. Can you tell me sir, when will there come a...

You said, "don't wait up, don't count the minutes." So here I am watching paint fade from the walls. On the tv, planes are dancing to the national anthem, So the whole world knows it's long past last call...

You're my flesh and blood But we're not the same A common name And now A common distance I looked up to you In your plush armchair Respect or fear I couldn't see the difference Lay your wager down Who'll be...

I've got a farm house, It's a big white farmhouse And forty acres in my head You got a kitchen, It's an oak floor kitchen And a big brass feather bed And there in the parlor, An old upright piano And a...

I'm only seventeen, but I want much more than a small town girl should bargain for More than standing in one place, waiting for the next james dean I live in a town that's Gripped in the Bible belt man, I bared my...

This time let's not bring up my disasters Or put me on some couch like Sigmund Freud Your textbooks filled with hypothetical answers So to summarize she called it null and void What do you want me to tell you?...

I stepped into the room late last night Because late is the time I keep You were sleeping warm as coal In a pocket of comfort and white sheets But you don't startle anymore when I step into the room Though the...

She fell to the mattress With the grace of an actress You're falling like a thief from a roof. She's asking for proof , "are you staying? " Outside you hear mission bells. Welcome to maria's beautiful...

Leo's is the bar up in heaven Where all the martyrs hang out Gandhi staggers in with john lennon They'll start a bar fight, no doubt Chorus When you lead, we follow When you bleed, oh the masses feel your pain...

Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a storm Unto the streets of new york city Once we're inside, it's a carnival ride That brings a white knuckle kind of dizzy She takes me up on her rooftop, Framed by a...

Mrs. Jones wakes up, got a lover in her bed She don't even know the boy's last name And whatever excuse she makes up For what happened in the sheets Lord knows, some things have got to change. Chorus Cover Me...

Becky's playing a piece by gershwin on her old piano She's been playing since her childhood, "too long to recall..." But the chords that fall from her fingertips, are the same She played when she could...

And it ain't shining, it ain't shining, shine, shine, shine... There's cracks in the walls in the town of jericho, sirens blaring out a lifetime never told rembrandt at the wall his palate's small, his hopes are tall...

We were drunk fools in paris, stumbling on the sidewalk That runs along the seine, and on the cathedral All the gargoyles watched us laughing, "two stupid americans..." We were at the mercy of this...

While hollywood sleeps, A young man is dying On the concrete of a sidewalk downtown. As his brother weeps, The sirens come calling And the medics feed him lines on the ground. Run, river, run... The director...