In the year of the yellow cab
Shadow of the great world war
The third kid grandmom had
Came into this world
On a rolling farm in Maryland
When Wilson was the president
As summer blew her goodbye through the trees

A child of changing times
Growing up between the

Well my old friend said to me
I ain't being what I'm supposed to be
Well I don't know, it could be true
I know I wasn't always there for you

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Now you're ready to walk out, you're ready to run
Talk to me, can't you see
I would never want to do what it seems I

The wind came round and blew this place apart
It's you and me now sitting in the dark
The lights are out and everybody's home
Its you and me and we are both alone

The lines are down there's just no getting through
You stare at me and I stare back at you
And in the dark

She says she hates to sleep alone but she'll do it tonight
She wants to grab her telephone but she knows it ain't right
So if he won't call she'll survive
And if he don't care she'll get by
Climb into bed bury her head and cry, cry
From the beginning he was all anyone could b

Alice works the desk at the East Bay Hotel
In Grand Marais, Minnisota
I came in one night, She said "I loved your show"
We sat and talked on the sofa
She's on her own since her husband passed away
Some surgeon screwed up, there's nothing left to say
Now she works this des

The sun is shinin', makin' this room so bright
And the cats are sleepin', right up on the table,
Breakin' all the rules in plain sight.
There's a cloud colored moon floatin' in the blue
Not waitin' for the sun to go away
I just wish I could walk with you and talk with you

I'm almost everything you have ever wanted
I'm almost your best dream come true
We fit so perfectly
Oh I almost can't believe
How I'm almost all I need to be

There's something now in your smile
Just this side of distant
And something else just that side of true

I wish I could fall in love
Though it only leads to trouble, oh I know it does
Still I'd fool myself and gladly, just to feel I was
In love, in love
I wish I could feel my heartbeat rise
And gaze into some gentle, warm excited eyes
And give myself as truly as an arrow fli

If you're gonna go, if that's how it's gonna be
All this talk just seems like empty words to me.
Future plans, closest friends
Baby I don't know, maybe you should just go.

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And as soon as words are all I need
As soon as intentions will get me by
We can talk

She sits and stares into space
He's wearing the same old face
She hates him half the time
And swears he doesn't mind
No kind word no fond embrace

She says they don't talk enough
He feels like she talks too much
She sites her years of patience
In all their conver

Didn't we come far, haven't we been there
Weren't we something way back when
Didn't we wonder how would we come here
Trading our dreams so they'd never end
All those sweet dark nights where the warm air sings
We could close our eyes stretching still folded wings
Waiting f

Thought you'd bide your time and play your part
but you were wrong dear.
Somewhere down the line your lonely heart
could not belong here.
And in some frame of reason, beyond our vision,
Your love lagged behind and fell apart
Without a soul to hear

On a night like th

Dancing in our rooms, you knew all the moves
Thinkin of Mom in saddle shoes, it was amazing
Laughing family, long Monopoly
Sunday night TV, Adam and Hop Sing

We were as blessed as blessed can be
You and Mom and Dad and me
Singin? in 4 part harmony
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Well it's a wonderful feelin'
I got a marvelous idea
Why don't the two of us
Take ourselves away from here

`Cause you got the bluest eyes since faces
You got the sweetest smile I know
And you take my heart to places
I wouldn't ordinarily go

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Oh I t

The cats are lyin' in the yard next door and they turn me a sleepy eye,

roll in the grass and spring so fast for a lazy butterfly.
And it's a blue summer day
Breezes blow and curtains sway
A new comer, blue summer day

The felines file to the backyard fence and they crouch

I think about you often
I think this is the year
That you'll be gone from me
About as long as you were here
I know you had some problems
And now I've got some too
And every year I feel a little more like you

And I hear people talkin'
About their family scars

Last night you had me so scared
I'd never seen the likes of it before I met you
You caught me so unaware
Tellin me how you would hurt me if I slipped and let you

I said be kind, you said no
You said love me you said go
Tell me please I've got to know
Have you got a

Life is short, but the days and nights are long
Time will heal all these wounds
Some day soon
I'll be rising I'll be strong

But now I'm loosing all my battles
Now I'm down and dropping still
And this snow's blowing through
Like some ghost
With this blue I know t

Baby won't you give me some light
Keep me in the dark and it is hard to see things
I just wanna do what is right
And I can't pay the piper till I know what he sings

Don't you keep on looking at me
Sighin in your voice and your eyes complainin
If you'd take a look you wo

I used to hope the aliens would please pick me
Now if I saw a spaceship
I would u-turn and floor it
Ta-ta ET
Maybe my sense of adventure receded from focus
To dwindle and then disappear
Or maybe it's just getting hard not to notice
There's plenty to do around here