Little Feat

[fox69]

"Livin' On Dreams"

"Livin' On Dreams"


Another grey dawn another day gone
Deeper in debt as the night draws in
There's something inside me
Rings like a melody
Pullin' my heart like a frozen wind

Seems like most of my life's spent gettin' by day to day
Fendin' off new hard times arrival
Little by little I try as the days go by
Waitin' around on some kind of luck's revival

There's a full moon risin' just about midnight
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long

The sleep comes hard and money does too
So I wake up worried in the mornin' light
As the sun comes through the tears in the window shades
It don't seem fair that it has to be such a fight
The women keep comin' 'round
Spendin' my hard earned pay
Bent on the minimization of my survival
Been holdin' me down
But one fine day
Gonna break these chains of denial

There's a full moon risin' just about midnight
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long

Little by little I try as the days go by
To find some way to break these chains of denial

There's a full moon risin' just about midnight
A high tide comin' 'round just about dawn
But I know it can't last
Livin' on dreams and the shadows they cast
Got to be strong
One of these days I gotta be gone
Been livin' on dreams just a little too long

 

[fox69]

"Loco Motives"

"Loco Motives"


Outside my hotel window, my eyes they spy the rails
While lost in the horizon, the mystic balley trail
Southwestern transportation tighten up the cotton belt
Those santa fe steamers, hot 'nuff to make me melt

Give me a big train... a big train rollin' all night long
Put me on the track that will take me back to you
Give me a big train.. big train' rollin' - loco mo
Got some loco motion
Got some loco mo
Got some loco motives I'm dyin' to try on you

Boring days... frantic nights
Sittin' round waitin' for delayed flights
Meters runnin' in brand new shoes
Sordid rhythms rockin' black and blues
Hometown drama, highway trauma
Phone bill's got at least one comma
Achin' skull at the end of my rope
Give me some money, send me some hope

Give me a big train... all night long
Put me on the track that will take me back to you
Give me a big train.. big train' rollin' - loco mo
Got some loco motion
Got some loco mo
Got some loco motives I'm dyin' to try on you

Steel wheel's singin' such a lonesome song
Engines whinin' been gone too long

Boiler burnin' - 'bout to burst
Like a drownin' man, I'm dyin' of thirst
When you hear the whistle moan
Means the southern pacific is bringing me home
Hey girl, get your new dress on
Big train's rollin' in at dawn
Oh baby don't you cry no more
Big train's a rollin' up to your door

Give me a big train... a big train rollin' all night long
Put me on the track that will take me back to you
Give me a big train.. big train' rollin' - loco mo
Got some loco motion
Got some loco mo
Got some loco motives I'm dyin' to try on you

 

[fox69]

"Long Distance Love"

"Long Distance Love"


Oh, hello...give me missing persons, they said
"What is it that you need"?
I said oh, I need her so...They said you've
Got to stop your pleading

And no matter what I do,
Even pray to heaven above,
All you'll ever get from her is
Long distance love

I read the papers
And I got the blues
I was so sad to hear the news
Help wanted, but not enough
You know these times are gettin' rough

Cos no matter what I do
I even pray to heaven above
All I ever get from her is long distance love
(Whoo-oo-oo)

You know her toes were so pretty
And her laugh so sweet
I wonder does she know
Does she know she hurt me so

And no matter what I do
I even pray to heaven above
All I seem to get from her is
Long distance love
Long distance love
(oo-oo-oo)

 

[fox69]

"Long Time Till I Get Over You"

"Long Time Till I Get Over You"


Baby what's wrong with you
Have to tell ya it seemed like we were through
And your memory's almost gone
Met this girl in New York City
That took the night train all the way from Buffalo
Just to see the midnight show
And every time I start to feelin' stronger
You call me up with just the right line
Keep me hangin' on a little longer
That's where I stumble every time

I keep thinkin' it'd be all right
Wondrin' when you'd come back home
Come to your senses girl and hold me tight
Love me like ya used to do
It's gonna be a long time till I get over you

I don't mind the lonely days so much
Can't take those long nights dreamin' bout your tender touch
Lyin' awake waitin' for the phone to ring
Got to my courage up
And find a way that I can cut you loose
But it don't seem to be no use
Got to tell ya every time I start to feelin' stronger
You call me up with just the right line
Keep me hangin' on a little longer
It get me every time

I keep thinkin' it'd be all right
Wondrin' when you'd come back home
Come to your senses girl and hold me tight
Love me like ya used to do
It's gonna be a long time till I get over you

Seem like every time I start to feelin' stronger
You call me up with just the right line
Keep me hangin' on a little longer
And don't it get me every time

I keep thinkin' it'd be all right
Wondrin' when you'd come back home
Come to your senses girl and hold me tight
Love me like ya used to do
It's gonna be a long time till I get over you

 

[fox69]

"Loved And Lied To"

"Loved And Lied To"


Wanna go back home, but I'm afraid to fly
Wanna fall in love, but the price is way too high
And I'd like to go to heaven, but I don't wanna die
And I'd like to hang around, but I'm not about to lie

Oh you really laid me low last night
A beautiful deception
You're messin' with my line of sight
Changing my perception
Of the push and shove that come with love
And the pain you put me through
You see I'd never been loved and then lied to

And I don't need no final glance
Don't need a romance left to circumstance
It's much too high a price to pay
Don't need to know the reason why you walked away

Loved and lied to, brought down broken hearted
Hung out to dry alone and left to take a chance
To try and find someway to take me back to where we started
Brought down, laid low, turned around and loved and lied to

And I wanna fall in love again with sweet infatuation
Wanna rise above the cares and heartaches of my station
And I'm dreamin' of a life that I could live with resignation
Where I wouldn't be loved and denied to

Don't give me that solemn gaze
Don't start in talkin' 'bout better days
Don't start turnin' things around
Don't try to make me think you didn't mean to let me down

Loved and lied to, brought down broken hearted
Hung out to dry alone and left to take a chance
To try and find someway to take me back to where we started
Brought down, laid low, turned around and loved and lied to

 

[fox69]

"Marginal Creatures"

"Marginal Creatures"


The hens came home to roost
While I was counting my blessings
Staggering on to the truth now
Without ever confessing
If the joke is on me
How come they're laughing at you
Don't get any better than this
Who's buying tickets to the execution
Marginal creatures at best

In disaster's frenzied waters
Feeding sharks smell the blood
What kind of fool asks the victims
How do you feel about the flood
No season; no reason
There's no license, to normalcy's test
Your disguise can't hide all the features
Of marginal creatures at best

Bobby's goin' downtown
Wearin' momy's ballgown
People in the coffee shop
Are freakin' oh yeah
Otis can't ignore
Gonna nail him to the barn door
Gotta make him pay
See the error of his ways

Sordid stories meant to humble
Humiliating tabloid tales
Turn the table, start to stumble
Bare your claws when all else fails
Your all part of the show
And everyone knows
The tue of live and let live
The bleachers are filled with the laughter
From marginal creatures at best

Bobby's goin' downtown
Wearin' momy's ballgown
People in the coffee shop
Are freakin' oh yeah
Gotta get that boy
Gonna nail him to a barn door
Gotta make him pay
See the error of his ways

 

[fox69]

"Mellow Down Easy"

"Mellow Down Easy"


You jump, jump here, jump, jump there
Jump, jump baby, everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby,
'fore you you go in time
You outta mellow down easy, baby,
Please don't stop

You gotta move, move here, move, move there
Move, move baby, move, move baby
Move, move baby everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby,
'fore you you go in time
You gotta mellow down easy, baby,
'fore you you go in time

Move, move here, move, move there
Move, move baby, move, move baby
Move, move baby everywhere
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You gotta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby
You outta mellow down easy, baby

 

[fox69]

"Mercenary Territory"

"Mercenary Territory"


Is it the lies?
Is it the style?
It's a mercenary territory
I wish you knew the story
I've been out here so long dreamin up songs
I'm temporarily qualmless and sinking

I've did my time in that rodeo
It's been so long and I've got nothing to show
Well I'm so plain loco
Fool that I am I'd do it all over again

Is it the style?
Is it the lies?
Is it the days into nights
Or the "I'm sorry"s into fights

Now some kind of man, he can't do anything wrong
If I see him I'll tell him you're waiting
'Cause I'm devoted for sure but my days are a blur
Well your nights turn into my mornings

Well I did my time in that rodeo
Fool that I am I'd do it all over again

Is it love keeps you waiting so long
Makes you say I'll see you around
The forces that be, they just don't see
While your nights turn into my mornings

Is it the style?
Is it the lies?
Is it the days into nights
Or the "I'm sorrys" into fights

 

[fox69]

"Missin' You"

"Missin' You"


Missin' You, I'm Missin' You
All Those Lovely Things You Do
I Tell Ya True, It Hurts Theway I'm Missin' You

Nashville At Sunrise
Rains Poundin' On My Window
Draws My Sleepless Eyes
To Witness One More Dawn a Break
Winter's Cold Outside
Oh I Broke Down and Cried

'cause I'm Missin' You, I'm Missin' You
And All Those Lovely Things You Do
I'll Tell Ya True It Hurts the Way I'm Missin' You

'cause I'm Missin' You, I'm Missin' You
And All Those Lovely Things You Do
I'll Tell Ya True It Hurts the Way I'm Missin' You

 

[fox69]

"Mojo Haiku"

"Mojo Haiku"


I got a juju on my haiku
I got a mojo on my sutra too
And all she did was barely look my way
State of grace in the wink of an eye
One startlin' moment face to face and I was through
Finished with this folderol
Free from all this lah-dee-dah and whoop-dee-do

She took me like a rollin' river runnin' wide
Just like some sacred recitation
Fulfill some longin' somewhere deep inside
Somethin' that defies communication

I'm enlightened since she looked my way
Gave me what I needed all this time
Walked right through he door
And I saw what I was lookin' for
The kinda place where words ain't worth a dime

I was spendin' too much time alone
Seekin' liberation in some sacred rhyme
Too much thought, too much idle time
But that all changed with the touch of her hand
She brought some fundamental passions into play
No doubt about it, I felt the darkness start to slip away

No way I could keep from fallin'
Hallelujah I could hear my callin'
Ringin' through the moonlit night
Givin' me the eyes to see the light

I'm enlightened since she looked my way
Gave me what I needed all this time
Walked right through he door
And was just what I was lookin' for
The kinda place where words ain't worth a dime

I'm talkin' 'bout the land beyond the pale
The kinda thing that ain't for sale

I'm enlightened since she looked my way
Gave me what I needed all this time
Walked right through he door
And I saw what I been lookin' for
The kinda place where words ain't worth a...

I'm enlightened since she looked my way
Gave me what I needed all this time
Walked right through he door
And I saw what I been lookin' for
The kinda place where words ain't worth a dime