Тексты песен «Matraca Berg»

At nine o'clock each morning down on Charlotte Avenue The bus driver stops and lets her off Before the first shampoo Alice started working there when she was just a girl And now she mans the second chair At Thelma's Cut...

If love is like a roller coaster Pretty as a circus poster Would you pay for a day at the fair? I'd like to sit in the very last car Baby, don't hold onto the bar Just throw up your hands in the air Life can be such a...

He came into town in the early springtime To work with my daddy down in the mines It was hot in the summer when he said goodbye And he left me a secret I can no longer hide Now the only thing here that is welcoming me...

Oh no, here we go, and there you go again, When we disagree, you leave when you don't win Honey, your sidewalk babytalk don't get it with me no more The next time around the block when you go by my door Baby, walk on...

Came down from the Cadillac Dude ranch, health spa Nestled on the edge of town For fourteen days I've been Herbal wrapped, mud packed Now I'm bustin' out Well, I thought the wild west wasn't for me You walked up like a...

I guess you had to be there, she said, you had to be She handed me a yellowed photograph And then said, See This was my greatest love, my one and only love And this is me Back when we were beautiful, see I don't feel...

Here we are Clinging to what left of a broken heart It's gone too far but I don't think you know it It ain't over yet We were walking out the door when our eyes met How did we forget where we were going Oh bittersweet...

Sweet Abilena looked out at the midwestern sky Sweet seventeen with a far away look in her eyes. She said "I feel like a bird in a cage, "But come September I'm flying away." I said "I'll miss you," then I made her...

If the sun Ain't shining bright And the moon, the moon Won't shine for you tonight And you feel Feelin' real low down today And the stars in the sky gone away If life gets hard to understand And the whole thing gets...

(matraca berg/wendy waldman/josh leo) Well, all the girls you see walkin' in here Acting like you're heaven sent You tightrope-walkin' song of a gun You think you're the main event But the minute our eyes met Baby,...

Spent my life looking for Happiness like it was buried treasure Somewhere behind the secret door Surely there were riches beyond measure I would take my sanity to task Walk across broken glass to find it And no...

I go to work from 10:30 until 6 a.m. Raking up those dimes and quarters Slinging eggs and ham Scrambled, poached, or over easy Coffee black and strong Jukebox of scratchy records I play 'em all night long Eternal blue...

The world is waiting in the drive, another day begins We wake up barely half alive, here we go again We pay our bills and we don't complain We just drive faster in the carpool lane Are we in love or are we insane, Baby...

She fixes her hair every morning Long before seven o'clock She'll tell you with her hair that piled up She feels closer to God And she fires up that old Chevy Gets to the truckers in time Serves up the biscuits and...

The world explodes in violence While the angels cry in vain 'Cause they know the enemy is silent And knows us all by name -- all by name She's living in the suburbs She's watching in the dark There's a finger on the...

Blackbird shivers on the old clothes line When I oughta be hanging out my sheets Just when I get to thinking that the sun's gonna shine Well, here you come Here you come raining on me A shadow passes like a slow coal...

I can't eat, I can't sleep, I got nubs where my fingernails used to be And my cat is lookin' kinda worried 'bout me. The phone rings and I pounce I'm like O.J. Simpson jumping over the couch It ain't you, I'm answering...

Well, I like to walk my dog in the middle of the night You can hear us howling in the silvery light Of the lamp post in the alley, dancing in the rain And when the sun goes down tomorrow, we'll do it all again Life is...

I hear an echo through the aching distance I know your injured voice You stand behind this wall of ice between us I guess you had no choice You had to save yourself, I understand You're afraid to put your heart into my...

They say I latched onto you Like you was the last train leaving town But you just kept on moving, boy Left me here to live you down Momma said she'd send a wire And cried on the phone Said, you'll always be my angel...