Down In The Valley Woe - Jackie Greene

So long, sentimental lady

Is there something that

You’re trying to say to me?

Cinderella complicated

It ain’t how you thought

That it would be

So if I die before I wake

It must have been a bad mistake

Depending on the pills you take

Can complicate and devastate

Now estimate!

Your time on earth;

Do you recall your place of birth?

And can you tell what it’s all worth

And are you really satisfied?

Paint me a picture of a baby

(I want to see how lonesome I can be)

I don’t want no one to save me

And I’m not going to leave here silently

Now what I have and what I’ve lost and

Every coin I’ve fountain tossed;

Like every line I thought I crossed

Just cut me when the winter frost

I paid the cost;

your rebel dreams

Suitcases and magazines

And I know I ain’t alone

If I make it to the city

Won’t you do your best and honey pray for me?

They say that all the girls are pretty

They say that they don’t dance for free

But forks and knives and rusted spoons

Bottomless in basement rooms

Your worn-out brides and reckless grooms

Are building tombs with pink balloons

Then darkness looms an airless night;

Just a matchbook and some dynamite

And it won’t matter who’s wrong or right

Cause they’re too tired to care

I can’t help it but to ramble

I don’t ever stay too long

Daddy warned you not to gamble

He said: 'just pass your chips along'

Nursery rhymes and valentines

'Blessed Be The Tie That Binds'

A thousand mouths can speak one mind

(while love is still left undefined)

And undermined, misunderstood;

She hides beneath her happy hood

Saying: 'what is God?'

and 'What is Good'

And 'Why am I still here?'