American Music Club California

Firefly

C'mon beautiful we'll go sit on the front lawn
We'll watch the fireflies as the sun goes down
They don't live too long, just a flash and then they're gone
We'll laugh at them and watch the sun go down

You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go

Tell my why you don't sleep anymore
Tell me what you sit up all night waiting for
Are you waiting for lonliness to paralyze
Are you waiting for Sister Midnight to unleash the tide

You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go

Finish the prayer that started as a kiss
The overwhelming dream of happiness
I'll give you all of my good luck
For the overwhelming dream that's killing us

You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go

C'mon we'll go sit on the front lawn
I'll hold you in my arms and we're gone
Here and gone, firefly



Somewhere

She's all dressed up and waiting for a bus in the hot sunshine
She just wants to kill some time
But it looks like time's gonna kill her first
So she goes to the cocktail lounge to lounge and says
"I'm gonna have a real good time."
As she sinks into the capitalist chair
I don't think that she really cares

If somewhere there's people living

She finally gets on the bus and sinks next to a very nice lady
Who just got out of the hospital
She had a major operation
The doctor left a knife in her throat
And now it picks up radio waves
You can turn the dial 'til it comes up in your hand
Maybe you'll pick up a populated land

Somewhere there's people living

C'mon let's go out and greally drunk tonight
You can be Miss Bottomless pit of 1983
And I can be Mr. Out Like a Light
C'mon we got a lot to lose
So maybe we can lose it all tonight
And then when they shoot us down
We won't be around

We'll be somewhere where there's people living



Laughing Stock

Laughing stock proves that the world is made of rock
That some grow happily on, but that's hard for some
You and your friend and all the rest of God's sweet children
Never weak, always strong
That's hard for some

You ask me why

You're just a couple of strangers in a bar
Giving me the chance to explain myself away
Some entertainment to give away

In your eyes I see the rest of life just passes by
And that's hard for some

You ask me why
That's your alibi
Isn't everything clear
No clouds in the sky

The laughing stock proves that the world is made of rock
That's hard for some



Lonely

Well you don't want me to touch you
You just want me to shut up
You don't want me to think what I'm thinking
Or the devil in my throat to come up
And you get so nervous that everything's a joke

If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone

So I go back to my room
To my room by the freeway
I fall onto my bed like snow
Like the cold I never woke you
And the killing followed me home
Hey what's song you whistling

If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone

When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
And that life is so rewarding
And I guess that you're the grand prize my dear

When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone



Pale & Skinny Girl

Pale and skinny girl lives in the middle of a mountain
Long golden hair, someone pull her out
She walks across a parking lot with two quarters in her hand
She just wants to take a little break from nothing

Never sees the daylight
Never needs the daylight

Outside the air pocket, there's no one around
She's frozen with terror like an animal
Baby take your first walk out into the wasteland
On every horizon, nothing

Never needs daylight

Never sees the daylight
Never needs daylight



Blue & Grey Shirt

I sat up all morning and I waited for you
With my blue and grey shirt on
Yeah I thought that's my lucky one

I'll sit and face the road now
I don't have a heavy load now
I got nothing to keep me hanging around here
From now on

Where's the compassion
To make your tired heart sing
I'm tired of being a spokesman
For every tired thing

There's nothing in the world outside
Just somethings that I see from the side
I'm just a shy boy sitting in a house
When everyone is gone from now on

I sat up all morning and I waited for you
With my blue and grey shirt on
Yeah that's my favorite one
I sat up all morning so why did you call?
'Cause now I just sing my songs
For people that are gone from now on



Bad Liquor

Bad liquor, bad liquor
Who took the good out of the bottle
Salt water, salt water
----
The moon, that moon
It's the saddest bugger of them all
Bad liquor, bad liquor
At the bottom of Niagara Falls

Bad liquor, bad liquor
It's pulling my strings tonight
Salt water, salt water
There's nothing that I do right
And all you people, you people
You're the luckiest people of all
Bad liquor, bad liquor
At the bottom of Niagara Falls

Bad liquor, bad liquor
It's pulling my strings tonight
Salt water, salt water
There's nothing that I do right



Now You're Defeated

I thought there was more life than finishing a dream
I thought gravity helped you to dance but it just makes you sink
I stand in the way of people who stopped caring
Numb hands and feet and ears long past hearing

They sing now you're defeated baby
Fall on your face in the devine way
Don't worry about anything, no
It's just the world having its little way

Justice ain't going to be yours tonight
You got a pure bright soul but Heaven don't need it
Sit on your hands and talk to the friend you never had
Angels laugh with joy and they make you scream
At the strong open crowd, want the great fight
Push up against you and then sustain the right

Now you're defeated baby
World revolves around you
Now you're defeated baby
I really showed you

Now you're defeated baby
Now that you're too big to hold
Now you're defeated baby
You're worth more to me than gold



Jenny

Here you are again
Another stupid party again
A celebration for nothing

Your eyes are following
The kings and the queens of the zoo
Immune in their black clothing
They let the world down

And they let you go
Please don't go home now
Home is a place to rob
Home is alone in the mob
Home is an unheard sob
Jenny don't go home now
Please don't you go home now

Here you are again
Another stupid party again
Everyone here thinks that when they die
You will be there to let them in
Jenny don't go
Please don't go home now



Western Sky

Time for me to go away
I'll get a new name, I'll get a new face
Time for me to go away
No I don't belong in this place

But I'm not gonna ask you why
You think the parade has passed you by
Or if everything good is gone into the western sky

I hate to see you look that way
All the beauty has left your face
That's such an easy thing to give away
That's impossible to replace

So I'll take you in my two weak hands
And I'll throw you so high
Watch you fall forever in the western sky
And when you land you'll turn into some kind of prize
Into somebody's sweet prize

I won't see you no more
Who am I to rate that high
The world's a shadow of what went before
The world gives off none of its own light

So please be happy baby
And please don't cry
Even though the parade has passed us by
Well you can still see it shining in the western sky
So why won't you stop crying
You can still see it shining



Highway 5

Try and try, leave a trace
And all we ever leave is a sour taste
You're half asleep when I crash through
I'm like a drop of water on the dry sand
I'm a scar across your face
I'm an itch that's driving you mad

Highway five

Takes so much to make us feel like we're alive
A weary traveler at a smooth seventy-five
Make pretend the landscape ain't so dry
Do anything to maintain a lie
To the left, a beautiful California landscape
Dead ends in the sky
And to the right, beautiful mountains rise
High and dry
Another futile expression of bitterness
Another overwhelming sensation of uselessness

Make pretend that the landscape ain't so dry
Do anything to maintain a lie
Make pretend that the lover ain't so barren
Though in Los Angeles things like that don't matter

Highway five



Last Harbor

Some of them are kind and it's phony
Some of them are kind and it's okay
Generous but where's the charity
To lose or give away

Some of them smile and it's phony
Some of them smile and it's not
Some of them never tell you
Just how much they've got

Falling
Hey, I don't see the bottom
Are you gonna be my last harbor

She'll soon find a way to make you feel fine
She's laughing and she's clapping her hands
As she walks across your cup of wine

She'll make it real easy for you
All you have to do is remember her name
She's almost your passport to the world
She's almost your ticket out again

Falling
Hey, I don't see the bottom
Are you gonna be my last harbor

Some of them smile and it's phony
Some of them smile and it's okay
Some of them never tell you
Just how much they'll give away