Old 97's

[fox69]

"Buick City Complex"

"Buick City Complex"


Do you wanna mess around?
Do you wanna spend the night?
I've known both kinds of love
But I want to get it right this time
I don't wanna settle down
I don't want to make no plans
Except for what I'm gonna do
With a pair of idle hands
[Chorus:]
They're tearing the Buick City Complex down
I think we're the only people left in town
Where are you gonna move, where are you gonna move?
Do you wanna mess around?
Do you wanna be my girl
Do you wanna be my friend
Do you wanna start it off
Just to see how it will end
Do you wanna mess around?
I mean deep down in your bones
In hotel swimming pools
On public telephones
They're tearing the Buick City Complex down
I think we're the only people left in town
Where are you gonna move, Where are you gonna move?
Do you wanna mess around?
[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Busted Afternoon"

"Busted Afternoon"


There was a fine rain
There was a red wine
There was a long whistle
It was a good sign

There was a band playin'
Somewhere off-screen
There was a girl sayin'
'Come clean.'

[Chorus:]
In a dream
On a bus
On a busted afternoon
In a haze
On a bus
On a busted afternoon
In a bad way
On a busted afternoon

There was a sad truth
There was a punch line
There was a long whistle
It was a good sign

There was a long goodbye
There was a long goodbye

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Can't Get A Line"

"Can't Get A Line"


Can't get a line to telephone you
Why you holing your company?
I been moaning oh, lonesome me
You made a pigeon of my heart

And I'd go anywhere to know you
Take a long way coming back
Be your yellow bedroom cab
Making bread in your heaven

And you're the reason I'm losing all my sleep
'Cause I just can't get what I want
I'm spinning out I'm pocket sized
I'm gonna catch that flyer
I'm gonna see it shine
Yeah you're waking up my one desire
But I can't get a line

Can't get a to telephone you
And I ponder your hold on me
I been moaning oh, lonesome me
You made a pigeon of my heart

And I'd go anywhere to know you
Take the long way coming back
Be your yellow bedroom cab
Making bread in your heaven

And you're the reason I'm losing all my sleep
'Cause I just can't get what I want
I'm spinning out I'm pocket sized
I'm gonna catch that flyer
I'm gonna see it shine
Yeah you're waking up my one desire
But I can't get a line

 

[fox69]

"Champaign, Illinois"

"Champaign, Illinois"


The bottom line's been snorted
The bottom card's been dealt
No one knows like you know right now
How truly bad it felt

All your life you wasted
On dreamin' about the day
Worker bees kill off their queen
And carry all her eggs away

Oh, then if you die fearin' God
And painfully employed
No, you will not go to Heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

Up north in Chicago
Where booze makes no one blush
Memories come back to you
In a double Bourbon rush

Memories that aren't all bad
And neither, my friend, are you
There is an argument there must be some Heaven meant
For hearts that are half true

Oh, and if you spend your whole life
Rollin' horses into Troy
No, you will not go to heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois
No, you will not go to heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

Roll on blacktop highway
Circles towards the sun
Springfield's in the distance
And that's the last big one

After that comes judgment
Oh, and judgment will be swift
You will be eliminated
But here's a parting gift

Oh, if you die fearin' God
And painfully employed
No, you will not go to Heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois
No, you will not go to heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

No, you will not go to heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

 

[fox69]

"Coahuila"

"Coahuila"


I turned my microwave on and I cooked my chicken ravioli
The last ten years of my life I've been feeling kind of lonely
I don't do love I don't do women named Hannah
And I don't do red haired girls from Louisiana

[Chorus:]
I'm suffering from a kind of indecision
About what I'm gonna watch on television
And I'll dream tonight I'm dancing in Coahuila
With a little brown haired girl and her tequila

My momma always seemed to sing the same song
"You'll never meet no decent girls at Dallas honky tonks"
What she says is true with that I must agree
Cause any girl worth having wouldn't have a thing to do with me

[Chorus]

I'm sitting here just sucking on my cavity, cavity
Thinking of the things you used to say to me, tragedy

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue"

"Color Of A Lonely Heart Is Blue"


Well the sun's done gone,
Don't have me no light.
Moon and the man'll be rollin' all night.
Scorpio's up, bleeding all day into pasture.
And the hours behind are always too few;
Miles between can't begin to undo
The feeling that you will never see another like her.

Damn the lonesome ways
And the young and foolish days
And the kid who made the man who'd leave you.
With the sink of a ship,
I'm gonna dip into that hue
'til they color me like I colored you:
the color of a lonely heart.
The color of a lonely heart is blue.
[x4]

Stars go off like flash-pot dots;
The sparkle of the candle power is stark.
Lift up your light
'Cause you'll never see a night that's blacker.
And the weight of it all gets heavier still.
Time (as?) it crawls a little slower until
Scorpio's up, bleeding all day into Cancer.

Damn the lonesome ways
And the young and foolish days
And the kid who made the man who'd leave you.
With the sink of a ship,
I'm gonna dip into that hue
'til they color me like I colored you:
the color of a lonely heart.
The color of a lonely heart is blue.
[x4]

 

[fox69]

"Crash On The Barrelhead"

"Crash On The Barrelhead"


You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son
You'll regret the things that you done
One of these days you're gonna rue
All the messed up things you do

You're gonna die the way you live
And the way you drink you're like a ri-
ver bound for falls and not much fun
You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son

[Chorus:]
You're gonna wake up in your shoes
No one you love a'watching you
You'll hate you're face when the morning shines
On the mirror frame and you're guilty mind.

You're gonna crash on the barrelhead son
And do the walls know what you done?
And do they listen in on you?
Do the walls know what you do?

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Cryin' Drunk"

"Cryin' Drunk"


Cryin', cryin'
Cryin' drunk

Walker lives on the island
I'm still stuck in the south
Walker lives off his hands now
I still live off my mouth

The only difference is you've got integrity, I don't
Only difference is I'll do a lot of things you won't
You'd like to think I'm sleeping very peacefully, I'm not
I'm cryin' drunk, I'm cryin' drunk, I'm cryin'

Walker says you're a Cancer
I just think you're a flu
Oh, but then again I'm a Virgo
I'm no match for you

Yeah, the only difference is that I pretend that it's alright
So cut up pretendin' I can make it through the night
You'd like to think I'm sleeping very peacefully, I'm not
I'm cryin' drunk, I'm cryin' drunk
I'm cryin', I'm cryin', I'm cryin', I'm cryin' drunk

The only difference is you've got integrity, I don't
Only difference is I'll do a lot of things you won't
You'd like to think I'm sleeping very peacefully, I'm not
I'm cryin' drunk, I'm cryin' drunk, I'm cryin' drunk

I'm cryin'

 

[fox69]

"Curtain Calls"

"Curtain Calls"


In a western town, beneath the northern lights
Where the pine trees pine for the fall of night
You believe in cards and you believe in signs
And I'll be leavin' soon, but I'm here tonight

On a mountainside, well below the stars
You keep your lovers eyes in Mason jars
And I should be scared, but I feel no fear
'Cause I'll be leavin' soon, but tonight I'm here

And even if you are the one
And even if the cards are all true
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
And when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?

Well the Southern P. moved her family down
Then along came me to her sleepy town
I don't believe in cards, I don't believe in signs
But I'll be leavin' soon, I'm here tonight

And even if you are the one
And even if I tried to be true
When the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
And when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?

In a western town, beneath the northern lights
Where the pine trees pine for the fall of night
Don't believe in me, did I make that clear?
'Cause I'll be long gone soon, but tonight I'm here

And even if you were the one
I didn't wanna walk out on you
But when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
But when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?
And when the curtain calls, oh baby, what's a boy to do?

 

[fox69]

"Dance With Me"

"Dance With Me"


Underneath the foreign stars
In a foreign place
Where they don't love you, I do
Turn in the pale moonlight
Your eyes are wide
And the band plays
Everybody wants you

He takes your hand, tenderly
And he whispers sweet surrender
Nothing, is how he feels about girls like you
With your flip flop smiles
And your big blue eyes on vacation

Dance with me into the ocean
Roll with me into the sea
Don't tell me the world is in trouble
Do you want to dance with me

Love changes hands
As the big waves crash
And the dream don't die but I do
Where were you when I needed you
Right now, the telephone just rings
I'm cannot find you

Dance with me into the ocean
Roll with me into the sea
Don't tell me the world is in trouble
Do you want to dance with me?
Oh, do you want to dance with me?

Underneath the foreign sun
With a foreign man who's gone
And almost forgotten
Drink everything you see
And remember us and wonder
If you will be forgiven

Dance with me into the ocean
Roll with me into the sea
Don't tell me the world is in trouble
Don't tell me the world is in trouble

Dance with me into the ocean
Roll with me into the sea
Don't tell me the world is in trouble
Do you want to dance with me
Do you want to dance with me
Oh, do you want to dance with me