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 back and I took the welts I only pray to get out of here
Maybe someday I’ll find out if the world is green
(chorus) There is nothing to do in this town at night But sit in my car and watch the streetlights
Or stare out the window at the pizza joint What’s the point? I wish I could buy my Ford a sail
Hey, hey, look at the wind blow
Now the life of the local beauty queen is tied to the captain of the baseball team
They got a baby on the way At least that’s what the kids are saying And the wedding I’m told, well it must take place
To save both families from disgrace But the whole town knows You see, it ain’t like she’s not showing…
(chorus)
Tommy Bates sits in his car and he waits For his girl down at Lucky’s Diner
They’re at the end of the loop and he’s drinking soup While she puts on more eyeliner
I passed them once, and I’ll pass them twice, and I’ll pass them back again They bought an old Range Rover from the next town over
And their headlights are my friends, yeah, those headlights are my friends…
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
With rose petal kisses
Smother me
With wet perfume
Hover over me,
Like you’re pulling at the ocean
Tugging at the sand
Oh, sweet Gravity’s hands
Fill me like the light fills the moon.
Headlights in the driveway
Somebody’s in a car, a door slams
Clip clop your man’s come home
There’s a tumble, there’s a shakeup
A knife falls to the floor
God damn, that turns marrow to bone
Chorus
There’s a man inside the parlor
His heartbeat paints the floor
A voice on his shoulder is whisperin’ his name
In the heart of a desperate hour
Love knocks down all doors
Knowing too well it’s too late to lay blame.
Chorus
When he looked
Into a starry sky upon Jupiter,
With it’s cold moons
Making their weary rounds.
Did he know that the Pope
Would claim that he ran with Lucifer
And a prison cell
Would be where he’d lay his head down?
Was he wearing a thorny crown?
When he plotted the motion of planets,
Was Mercury in retrograde?
But he found the truth when a lie was what was demanded.
When the judges asked him pointedly
He was a’ trembling that day.
Chorus
Did Galileo pray?
Did Galileo pray?
Did Galileo pray?
Did Galileo pray?
And he said,
Sandy has seen a tornado more times than she’s seen the Grateful Dead…
She lives in Oklahoma,
where the storms come prairie fed,
And the numbers keep on mounting,
It’s been twenty times and counting
that she’s been in the path of
splintered trees and twisted lead
That connect the dots between trailer parks
with destruction that’s painted blood red
And now she wants to chase them,
with ME, in my Honda Civic,
The black strapless dress fits just right
The calendar’s marked 6 Friday night
She puts on a little makeup
First time since the break up
But if she’s moving on, she’s gonna do it right
Chorus
So tell me the story
of all your past glories
the lovers, the losers, the friends.
Spill all your magic,
the good times, and the tragic
Tonight will this mystery end?
When we begin, when we begin.
His cab driver says,