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Lyrics: Joe Weismann, Music: Jim Kennedy
AND STILL THE WORLD IT GOES
HOW THINGS STAND AT THE
PRESENT
I FULLY INTENDED THIS
TO BE A LOVE SONG
WHAT CAN I SAY?
DESIREE
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
OF WOODBURY
HERE
I'LL BE
YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU DO
PINK LEMONADE
THIS GIRL I KNOW
PASSAGE
TRY ANOTHER
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top
AND STILL THE WORLD IT GOES
It’s happened so many times before
I let a week go and it turned to four
I wonder what it was I waited for
It’s happened oh so many
And still the world it goes spinning on
I looked behind me and you were gone
I add your name to my pantheon
And still the world it will go
And still the world it goes spinning on
Behind each day there waits another one
And night precedes the déjà vu of dawn
And still the world it will go
And everything that I know
CHORUS:
Tries to recreate
A time and place where I had
Love and love was fate
And now in slow succession
Each time you’re replaced
It’s with a derivation
A paler imitation
How did I let it happen once again?
I let a year go and it turned to ten
And I’m no closer than I’ve ever been
How did I let it happen?
And still the world it goes spinning on
I look ahead but my time is done
And then when everything I’ve touched is gone
And still the world it will go
And still the world it goes spinning on…
HOW THINGS STAND AT THE PRESENT
Six Turkish Apricots
Fix surplus Army cots
Float like an astronaut
Smoke some pot
Sleep a lot
Tell you what
Up at the crack of noon
Head like a lead balloon
Sifting through what I’ve strewn
Hum a Tune
Find a Spoon
Maybe Soon
I'll fly
Six Turkish apricots
Sleep with a Cypriot
Sing like an ocelot
Pick a forget-me-not
I FULLY INTENDED THIS TO BE A LOVE SONG
Sat down with pen and paper
Keep putting off till later what I should have done
Tell you you’re my only one
Sat down with good intentions
But now it barely mentions what I want it to
As it drifts away from you
CHORUS:
I fully meant to say
What I meant to say
In a lovely way
But something’s gone awry
I guess so have I
This should have been a love song
But something came along and made it something new
Not sure what this says to you
BRIDGE
The best laid plans of mice and men they
gang aft a-gley (REPEAT)
Road to hell, good
intent, pave away
(REPEAT)
Should have would
have could have would have so I say
(REPEAT)
Say what you mean
and mean what you say
(REPEAT)
WHAT CAN I SAY?
We’ve talked the talk
Now I’ll walk the walk
So baby, what can I say?
I think it’s better this way
Things will be ok
Listen to me
I guess this ends the wait
For those who speculate
Tell me how could I stay
You knew you took in a stray
Back another day
Maybe, we’ll see
Couldn’t catch my breath
Thought I’d catch my death
Figured soon that I'd have nothing left
Still got checks to cash
Still have hopes to dash
And baby what can I say?
Things were good weren’t they?
Let’s keep it that way
I think you’ll agree
Couldn’t stay afloat
Thought I’d missed the boat
Got my hat, but you can keep the coat
Got a fence to patch
Got a plane to catch
So baby what can I say?
I’ll let ‘em fall where they lay
Let’s call it a day
Not meant to be
Couldn’t catch my breath
Thought I’d catch my death
Remember to please take care of yourself…
DESIREE
Desiree, my whole world is in-complete
Disarray, confidentially discreet
Dare I say that it’s all for want of you
Desiree, this is what you’ve brought me to
Here tomorrow, gone today
It’s ok - I’ll be waiting in the yard
Filling in while he’s away
Desiree, never saw I’d fall so hard
Toiling at my wheel
Toy boy wishing to be real
Desiree, mindless fun till my heart got in the way
Now my salad days are done
Desiree, now my one desire is you
Desiree, it’s because we can’t we do
Toiling at my wheel
Toy boy wishing to be real
Think I’ve more in common than I do
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF WOODBURY
All the nails will be pounded down and the
Sharpened corners will be made round and the
People all will look and dress and talk the same
Loving what they know
Everyone makes the same discovery
Everything is every other everywhere you go
All the colors are beige or brown and the
Louder noises will be turned down and the
Places all will look and smell and feel the same
Lined up in a row
Faces come together to
Celebrate the bland
Heads down in the sand
Just can’t understand
How you could disagree
Or is it just me
How could something be
Better, Safer
Every jagged edge will be ground and the
Revolutions will be dumbed down and the
Things will be exactly where you look for them
Come and see the show
Everyone has the same conversation here
Everything is every other everywhere you go
HERE I'LL BE
I went looking for love
And I thought that would be enough
But I found that love wasn't looking for me
I stood waiting for hope
When I reached the end of my rope
In a long line hopelessly waiting to see
I could have given up long ago
Cynically biding my time you know
Everything comes back around and so (so so)
I sat longing for change
In a world so ugly (lovely) and strange
And I hold out searching to set myself free
YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU DO
Tripping up the runway steady
Feeling candy apple ready
Basking in the shoeshine shady
Climbing up the crab-tree
Katie
Three corners come together
How else could it be?
You gotta do what you do
Oooh, I do to, gotta do what I
Wishing on a fish-stick Friday
Cruising up the cold ghost high-way
Slipping on a suntan Mickey
Posing with a shark skin
dickey
Six figures all in order
How else could it be?
Flipping up the rear-view paper
Cooking up a cocktail caper
Meeting with a one time beatnik
Drinking in the Sunday scenic
Nine pieces in their holder
PINK LEMONADE
Motoring down through the parkways
Stop at the lake, and look for a spot in the shade
Wearing the sun in my eyes and watching it set
Sipping a pink lemonade
People cross your life in so many ways
Changing every choice you make
Thinking if we were together today
Perhaps a different path I’d take
For your sake
Dog days of summer stretch out ahead of me now
And give way to autumn’s slow fade
Wond’ring as I often do
what became of you
And sipping my pink lemonade
THIS GIRL I KNOW
Now I never do this, but I'll introduce you to this
Girl I know (she's available)
She'd be so wonderful for a guy like...
You oughta see her, you really gotta meet her
Buddy, don't say no (you'd be crazy to)
You should go for a coffee or dinner
She's such a catch (bat it)
You're such a match (that it'd)
Be such natch-ural mingle
If you're wrapped up (Sonny)
She'll be snapped up (funny)
I'd call myself were I single
I don't mean to sell you but I really gotta tell you 'bout this
Girl I know (she's so beautiful)
Years ago had my chance that I blew through
I guess I still love her but I'm with another so she's
Good to go (and too good to waste)
I could so live vicarious-ly through
You got the crown (brother)
Don't let me down (other)
Girls you've been 'round aren't like her
She's got it all (so now)
Just make the call (go now)
Don't pull a stall
Or you'll lose her like...
I never do this, but I'll
introduce you to this
Girl I know. She'd be so
PASSAGE
Day into to
night
Swim for the
light
Nothing impedes
you
From what receives you
Follow the way
Night into to day
Greeting the others
Sisters and Brothers
Day into night
Fading from sight
Upwardly Falling
Heeding the calling
Sail on away
Night into Day
Twilight impending
Beginning and ending
Future is bright
TRY ANOTHER
Tie it up, ship it out, send it with ribbons and bows.
Make your mind up, this way-end up,
Fix it up, fix it up, fix
it up, fix it up.
Don’t get it
right this time
Well you can buy yourself another.
Forget it one more time.
I’m gonna try another.
Fire out, good luck, it’ll come back someday.
Play it pretty like it was your first. Never you mind if it’s your worst.
Find it, lose it, find it, lose it, find it, lose it, find it, lose it.
(Chorus)
Tie it up, ship it out, send it with ribbons and bows.
A soft white pearl was daddy’s little girl,
Well hurl, hurl, hurl, hurl.
