Sheryl Crow
Album - 23 settembre 1996 - Debaser id 11713

Ten years living in a paper bag
Feedback baby, he's a flipped out cat
He's a platinum canary, drinking falstaff beer
Mercedes Ruehl in a rented Lear
Bottom feeder, insincere
Profit low-fi pioneer
Sell the house and go to school
Get a young girlfriend, daddy's jewel

A change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)

God's little gift is on the rag
Poster girl person in a fashion mag
Canine, feline, Jekyll and Hyde
Ya wear your fake fur on the inside
Queen of South Beach, aging blues
Dinner's at six, wear your cement shoes
I thought you were singing your heart out to me
Your lips were syncing and now I see

A change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)


''[Interlude]''

A change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)


Chasing dragons with plastic swords
Jack-off Jimmy everybody wants more
Scully and Angel on the kitchen floor
And I'm calling Buddy on the Ouija board
I've been thinking 'bout catching a train
Leave my phone machine by the radar range
"Hello it's me, I'm not at home,
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone"

I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)

"Hello it's me, I'm not at home,
If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone"

I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
Oh I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)
Oh I think a change (a change'd do you good) would do you good
(A change'd do you good)

I woke up this morning
Now I understand
What it means to give your life
To just one man
Afraid of feeling nothing
No bees or butterflies
My head is full of questions
And my house is full of lies

Chorus:

This is home, home
And this is home, home
This is home

I found you standing there
When I was seventeen
Now I'm thirty-two
And I can't remember what I'd seen in you
I made a promise
Said it everyday
Now I'm reading romance novels
And dreaming of yesterday

Chorus

I'd like to see the Riviera
And slowdance underneath the stars
I'd like to watch the sun come up
In a stranger's arms

Chorus x2

I'm going crazy
A little every day
And everything I wanted
Is now driving me away
I woke this morning
To the sound of breaking hearts
Mine is full of questions
And it's tearing yours apart...

I've been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos,
And drank til I was thirsty again
We went searching through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and fan

Well, o.k. I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

Chorus:
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad

You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well who hasn't been there before?
I come round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you french toast again

Well, o.k. I still get stoned
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home

Chorus x2

We've been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos
And everywhere in between
Well, o.k. we get along
So what if right now everything's wrong?

Chorus

I've wept for those who suffer long,
But how I weep for those who've gone.
Into rooms of grief and questioned wrong,
But keep on killing.
It's in the soul to feel such things,
But weak to watch without speaking.
Oh what mercy sadness brings,
If God be willing.

There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate.
And on the way, child and man
And woman wait, watch and wait.
For redemption day.

Fire rages in the streets,
And swallow everything it meets.
It's just an image often seen,
On television.

Come leaders, come you men of great,
Let us hear you pontificate.
Your many virtues laid to waste
And we aren't listening.
What do you have for us today,
Throw us a bone but save the plate.
Oh why we waited til so late,
Was there no oil to excavate
No riches in trade for the fate
Of every person who died in hate
Throw us a bone, you men of great.

There is a train that's heading straight
To heaven's gate, to heaven's gate.
And on the way, child and man
And woman wait, watch and wait.
For redemption day.

It's buried in the countryside,
It's exploding in the shells of night,
It's everywhere a baby cries,
Freedom, freedom.
Freedom, freedom.
Freedom.

I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man
He said he's been down this road more than twice
He was high on intellectualism
I've never been there but the brochure looks nice
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low,
These are the days when anything goes

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer feeling fine

He's got a daughter he calls Easter
She was born on a Tuesday night
I'm just wondering why I feel so all alone
Why I'm a stranger in my own life
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes

[Chorus]

I've been swimming in a sea of anarchy
I've been living on coffee and nicotine
I've been wondering if all the things I've seen
Were ever real, were ever really happening

[Chorus]

Here she comes, she's all dressed up in daisies,
Half the time, you'd swear that she is crazy.
Flowered drinks and a low-cut dress,
That's the way I know her best.
She says she's lonely, how could she be?
Every night she's got company.

Oh Marie,
I sure hope you're happy.
Oh Marie,
What about me, Marie.

She likes the way she looks in her Camaro,
She likes lingerie but he prefers the sombrero.
She's so famous on the block,
She stumbles home around four o'clock.
She claims the guys are hard to please,
She wears teen perfume behind her knees.

Oh Marie,
I sure hope you're happy.
Oh Marie,
What about me, Marie.

All day long she fills me up with dogma,
She's all magazines and benzedrine and vodka.
There was one man she truly loved,
He took everything but her bear-skin rug.
And now and then it's clear to me,
That need is love and love is need.

Oh Marie,
I sure hope you're happy.
Oh Marie,
What about me, Marie.
Oh Marie,
What are you looking for?
Oh Marie,
Always an open door.
What are you looking for?

Let's all go downtown,
I got friends doing nothing but hanging around...well
I feel like there's something I could be missing.
You know you look alright,
You got cheap shoes, and Malibu, and big public fights,
Well, there's no one else I would rather be kissing.
Baby when you start to bleed, you look so sweet.
Everybody's watching you cause everybody wants to be

Little superstar. Well baby that's what you are.
Little superstar. Oh honey that's what you are.

I got a backstage line,
I call you up been watching you for quite some time...Well
I beat around the streets like Bandini looking for Camilla.
I'll be satin and speed,
If you and I are still alive we'll get off these streets...Well
There was a time I would've hung around just to be seen.
Hey man, it's a shame when you start to fade.
Diamond rings and sparkily things won't make your shine stay.

My little superstar. Oh baby that's what you are.
My little superstar. Oh honey you break my heart.
My little superstar. Oh honey you know you are.
My little superstar. Oh honey you break my heart.

Oh. Hey man, well it's a shame when you fade away.
Diamond rings and sparkily things won't make your shine stay.

My little superstar. Oh baby that's what you are.
My little superstar. Oh honey you break my heart.
My little superstar. Oh honey you know you are.
My little superstar. Oh honey you break my heart.

I read your book,
And I find it strange.
That I know that girl and I know her world,
A little too well.
And I didn't know,
By giving my hand.
That I would be written down, sliced around, passed down,
Among stranger's hands.

Three days in Rome.
Where do we go?
I'll always remember,
Three days in Rome.

And never again.
Would I see your face.
You carry a pen and a paper and no time and no words you waste.
Oh you're a voyeur,
The worst kind of thief.
To take what happened to us,
To write down everthing that went on between you and me.

Oh. Three days in Rome.
And I stand alone,
I'll always remember, mmm
Three days in Rome.

And what do I get?
Do I get revenge?
While you lay it all out,
Without any doubt,
Of how this would end.
Sometimes it goes,
Sometimes we come.
To learn by mistake that the love you once made,
Can't be undone.

Oh. Three days in Rome.
I laid my heart out,
I laid my soul down.
I'll always remember,
Three days in rome.

I left a man,
Asleep in the nude.
Name in my pocket,
With lipstick and rouge.
Everything I ever wanted, what a lovely pie you've baked, is anybody listening?
Don't painted birds ever fly away.

It's just an ordinary morning.
It's just an ordinary day.
And I'm just an ordinary woman,
Slipping away.

The walls have been talking,
About me again.
I'm good for a joke but when I awoke,
The dream didn't end.
Now everytime I turn around I'm only sleeping, John is anybody out there?
Don't the wounded birds still sing.

It's just an ordinary morning.
It's just an ordinary day.
And I'm just an ordinary woman,
Slipping away.

It's just an ordinary morning.
It's just an ordinary day.
And I'm just an ordinary woman,
Slipping away.

Don't you wanna slip away?
Don't you wanna slip away?
I said now. Don't you wanna?
Don't you wanna? Don't you wanna?
Don't you wanna slip away?

I know you hate me, I see that now
If I was unhappy I'd be someone you could still care about
I think it's stupid and sad that everything turned out so bad
And enemies make the most interesting friends

I'm gonna write you a long letter
I'm gonna get you on a telephone
Three little words to make it all better
Maybe I'll leave this whole thing alone

It's a sad sad world without you in it
And I'm a bad bad girl for letting you down
And I remember every crazy minute
Oh, it's a sad sad world with out you around

We're to much alike for our own good
We both hate fighting no matter how misunderstood
But I wanna tell you that you're stubborn
I wanna tell you I never lied
And I wanna tell you that your friends talk way too much
And I wanna know what happened to that friend of mine

It's a sad sad world without you in it
And I was a bad bad girl for letting you down
And I remember every crazy minute
Oh, It's a sad sad world without you around

Oh, It's a sad sad world without you in it
And I'm a bad bad girl for letting you down
I remember every fucked up minute
Oh, It's a sad sad world without you around