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YANKEE DOODLE
(thanks to helen carter)
LOOKING FOR GOD
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
i'm looking for god
go to a book
read the words of a story
but the lover dies
and the woman is left
in the bedroom
with a shadow of herself on the wall
she falls from the bottom, o no
but her arms grow
like pipe cleaners with rubber
bands inside only prettier
she taps the sky and the guy
who died taps back
that is quite a fairy tale
gimme something real
go back re read the very last page
cracking there to feel
a fall from the bottom, o no
how far down do you have to go
like the red balloon
with a pink elephant inside
getting heavier...can't reach the sky
please everything that died come back
in this dream of daily life
i cannot describe
i recognize the words i read
in the wrinkles around your eyes
we all fall down to the bottom...but then
get lifted up again
like a soap bubble
flying past a weeping willow tree
only prettier
to tap the sky
and burst once more to try
i'm looking for god...
G CHORD SONG
(Words and Music by Margaret A. Roche)
everybody writes a rain song
everybody writes what's done 'em wrong
everybody writes the same pain song
and as long
as it's gonna sound just like everybody else's
you might as well
like singin' the tune
everybody writes a war song
everybody writes a G chord song
everybody wants to record some day
what can you say
it's gonna sound just like everybody else's
you might as well
like singin' the tune
everybody tries a fun song
everybody writes a runnin' song
everybody's got their one that belongs to them
it's gonna sound just like everybody else's
you might as well
like singin' the tune
OUT OF THE BLUE
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
you gave me a flower
you gave me a ring
you're making me feel
like i have everything
now what i gotta do
is baby be true
you're making it easy
you're making it fun
you're making me laugh
when the day is all done
true since i love you
i'm out of the blue
and blue is color
i've always been
that's all right...ooo...it's all right
i wasn't asking for any fixing
i came just right out of the blue
you're making me dinner
you're making me sing
youlre making me feel
like i want everything
yeah, it's an old love song
and i'm humming along
you gave me some purple
you gave me some green
you gave me a chance
to not know what i mean
true since i love you
i'm out of the blue
and blue is the color i've always been. . .
NO SUCH THING AS LOVE
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
there was a man in a hat and a vest riding
on the train
with a moustache and glasses
too thick to see his eyes
tucked up next to him a fat overnight bag
with a hole in the side and you could see
one of his ties
flylng through tne sunrise
unloved by the girl in the seat opposite
who he's taking in tears
to the father of her unborn child
there's no such thing as love..,
timidly now he reaches out for her hand
and his heartbeat is the speed of a
hummingbird's wing
she is a blind one with an empty tin cup
begging to strangers who remind her she
don't mean a thing
flying through the sunset...these two
as the see through moon fades away
and she lets him hold her hand
there's no such thing as love...
nowhere for the pain in his heart to go
she as he helps her home
she is crying, oh the anger in her tiger
paws
she don't want to have a baby
just because
he is a kind man really listening to her
his dry eye and warm heart stare
into her waterfalls
flying through the sunset
nowhere for the pain in his heart to go
as he helps her home
home to who?
there's no such thing as love...
COLD HARD WIND
(Words and Music by Jules Shear and Steve Booker)
you can't reason
with a cold hard wind
all you can do is
not let it in
when i'm with you
i can never win
you can't reason
with a cold hard wind
when i met you
you were quiet
if i wanted
you would buy it
doing it your way
everything was great
i tried my way
and watched the weather
change
i didn't love you
so i could suffer
i got tough and
you got tougher
in your frozen eyes
no room for compromise
and our sunny days
filled with blackened skies
i swore at the rain and
i'll do it again
but you can't reason
with a cold hard wind
a cold hard wind
a cold hard wind
you can't reason
with a cold hard wind
TO ALASKA WITH LOVE
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
she tried to push him away with a
ten foot pole
saying i'm just a crusty old donut
without any hole
wearying bewildered bachelor how
could he know
that she'd move her suitcase to his place a year ago
where he stood in the doorway no clothes wearing
asking permission to give all his love and his caring
love and care
theirs is a real thing, a dish in the sink
a dog in the stairwell making a stink
they got a true love so real you can feel it
for christmas he gave her
a silver and gold jewish star
he put it on top of the tree
and said there you are
she giggled and cried and
rolled on the living room floor
and laughed at all of his jokes
so he told her some more
there he stood in the doorway
crumpled and daring
asking permission to give all his love
and his caring
love and care
theirs is a real thing
a working man's shoe
worn through at the sole
as good as new
they got a true love
so real you can feel it
five o'clock by the window pane watching the rain
new york city blues oh, the rain's coming down hard
it's dark out there you gotta have something to do
so one day she said i must go to alaska this winter
he yelled and kicked the table his toe got a splinter
still he escorted her up to the gate at the airport
saying dammit i don't understand what you have to go there for
calendar pages were flipping he stayed home waiting
saying oh this woman i love is so irritating
theirs is a real thing, a welcome home kiss
the smell of his whiskers that she did miss
they got a true love so real you can feel it
LOVE COMES TO TOWN
(Words and Music by Val Haynes and Suzzy Roche)
love comes to town on a blue jeaned leg
in a pick up truck and a plastic crate
it's an act of god hits you in the face
stands you on your head puts you in your place
on the subway train in the crosstown bus
love comes to town for people just like us
don't just sit there sign the dotted line
say yes everytime be a valentine
be brave when love comes to town
loves comes to town
you don't have a prayer
hail mary full of grace with curlers in your hair
sneakin' up on you in the a & p
somewhere in frozen foods there's a tropical breeze
be brave....
love comes to town any town at all
in the factory line and the shoppin' mall
on the tenement stoop sitting two by two
drinkin' dandelion from a dixie cup
laughing into town so forfeit up your crown
you better bow down love cause love's in town
don't just sit there...be brave...
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
there's a train going by
and the railroad cars
rush away like the days in the year
and i'm waving goodbye
cause something is leaving
but things are not how they appear
goodbye cruel world
i'm not going with you
watching you fade away
i won't even miss you
so cool and hard
good times are coming our way
there's a field of golden grass
just growing
clouds moving over the sky
one dark horse just won't run
don't ask me to push her by
so long cruel world...
from now on that whistle blowing
it's a false alarm i won't be going down there
there's a train going by
just an aching pain
just a little brown bruise
and i'm waving goodbye
cause something is leaving
a cow's jumping over the moon
goodbye cruel world...
SUIT AND TIE
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
easy baby no fightin' tonight
time to watch the sun go down
you could put your slippers on
i'm in my nightgown
please the breeze is blowin' our way
let's forget let's forgive
we've been dying for some time
let's live
i don't know why
i don't know how
i don't know when
stories of love crash to an end
we gotta find a way
will you try
we gotta find a way
huh...did you say why
down this dream*
deep into my heart
darling we have traveled far
no one here to help us now
wish upon a star
i'm so sorry for the way that i have been
help me out this paper bag i'm fighting in
we gotta find a way
will you try
we gotta find a way
to say it's a tie...
*borrowed from maggie roche
BORN YESTERDAY
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
i was born yesterday
don't know nothin'
eyes open wide
seem to be on a funny farm
guess i'll go on the nanana
you got to roll roll roll roll
you got to roll roll roll roll roll
on the nanana
it's scrapin' slow
up to the top
i don't really like this
it don't seem right
it's on the top now
zooming down down down
looking around
won't nobody stop this thing
you got to roll...
some of the creatures laughing
with their hands up in the air
others over the edge getting sick
one or two sitting quiet
and mad
like they want their
money back
they wanna get off
but you can't do that...no
you can't do that
you got to roll...
in my cherry apple cheeks
and my cotton candy
mouth
and a stupid fuzzy hat
and a voice with which to shout
i got to roll. . .
till the cows come home
SWEETIE PIE
(Words and Music by Suzzy Roche)
sweetie pie... sweetie pie
bet no one ever called you that
standing there disheveled
in your tattered coat and cowboy hat
put your arms around me
say good bye...say good bye
you are at the bottom
of the corporate ladder totem pole
you wear your heart upon your sleeve
in it is a bullet hole
shot through by every sheriff
with a badge in every town
you stood beneath the street light
with the moon above you and a star
waiting like a gentleman
while i parked a rented car
i have been around the block
chugging hard right off the rail
discarded like a box of chinese food
into the garbage pail
let's look at the college kids go by
college kids go by
honey bunch...sugar cube
you took me for an ice cream cone
we had some belly laughs
and i said, well
i guess i'm goin' home
put your arms around me
say good bye....say good bye
some people gotta roam this earth
never really fitting in
a stranger to the very
chair they're sitting in
sweetie pie.... sweetie pie
o how i depend on you
standing there confused
with your shattered dreams
nothin' to lose
you always say i love you
when you say good bye
when you say good bye, sweetie pie
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