The Very Best of Sheryl Crow
Compilation - 13 ottobre 2003 - Debaser id 82843

This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is L.A.

All I wanna do is
Have a little fun before I die
Says the man next to me
Out of nowhere

It's apropos of nothing
He says his name is William
But I'm sure he's Bill or Billy
Or Mac or Buddy

And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had
A day of fun in his whole life

We are drinking beer
At noon on Tuesday
In the bar that faces
The giant car wash

The good people of the world
Are washing their cars
On their lunch breaks
Hosing and scrubbing
As best they can
In skirts and suits

And they drive their
Shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company,
Record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me

Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up
Over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like a good beer buzz
Early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud

He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match
In an oversized pack
Letting each one burn

Down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and
Cursing them out
He's watching the bottles of Bud
As they spin on the floor

And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads

But all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up
Over Santa Monica Boulevard

Otherwise, the bar is ours
The day and the night
And the car wash, too
The matches and the Buds
And the clean and dirty cars
The sun and the moon

But all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling the party has just begun
All I wanna do is have some fun
I won't tell you that you'e the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up
Over Santa Monica Boulevard

Until the sun comes up
Over Santa Monica Boulevard

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV
I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got

CHORUS:
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun

I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do

CHORUS:
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun

CHORUS

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on

oooh oooh oooh oooh

I woke up and called this morning
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore

I made up the bed we sleep in
I looked at the clock when you creep in
6 AM and I'm alone

Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day, i was just beginning
When you go all i know is
You're my favorite mistake

Now your friends are sorry for me
They watch you pretend to adore me
But I'm no fool to this game

Now here comes your secret lover
She'll be unlike any other
Until your guilt goes up in flames

Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending
To the bad day i've gotten used to spending
When you go all I know is
You're my favorite mistake
you're my favorite mistake

Maybe nothing lasts forever
Even when you stay together
I don't need forever after
It's your laughter
Won't let me go so I'm holding on this way

Well did you know
Could you tell
You were the only one
That I ever loved
When everything's so wrong

Did you see me walking by
Did it ever make you cry
You're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake

I would've given you all of my heart
But there's someone who's torn it apart
And he's taken just all that I had
But if you want I'll try to love again
Baby I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest baby I know
The first cut is the deepest
But when it comes to bein' lucky he's cursed
And when it comes to lovin me, he's worst

I still want you by my side
Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
And I'm sure gonna give you a try
Cause if you want I'll try to love again (tryy)
Baby I'll try to love again but I know (o-oh)

The first cut is the deepest Baby I know
the first cut is the deepest
but when it comes to bein' lucky he's cursed
And when it comes to lovin' me, he's worst
(Guitar solo)

I still want you by my side
Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
But I'm sure gonna give you a try
Cause if you want I'll try to love again (try to love again)
Baby I'll try to love again but I know (o-o-oh)

The first cut is the deepest
Baby I know the first cut is the deepest
But when it comes to bein lucky he's cursed
And when it comes to lovin me he's worst(o-o-oh)

The first cut is the deepest baby I know
The first cut is the deepest
Try to love again

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]

Life springs eternal
On a gaudy neon street
Not that I care at all

I spent the best part
Of my losing streak
In an Army Jeep
For what I can't recall

Oh, I'm banging on my TV set
And I check the odds and I
And I place my bet
I pour a drink
And I pull the blinds
I wonder what I'll find

I'm Leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good

Used to be I could drive up to
Barstow for the night
Find some crossroad trucker
To demonstrate his might
But these days it seems
Nowhere is far enough away
So I'm leaving Las Vegas today

I'm Leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good

I'm standing in the middle of the desert
Waiting for my ship to come in
But now no joker, no jack, no king
Can take this loser hand
And make it win

I'm Leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good

I quit my job as a dancer
At the Lido des Girls
Dealing blackjack until one or two
Such a muddly line between
The things you want
And the things you have to do

I'm Leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a Saturday night
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving for good, for good
I'm leaving for good
I'm leaving for good

I'm leaving Las Vegas
And I won't be back
No I won't be back
Not this time

God, I feel like hell tonight
Tears of rage I cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand
Are you strong enough to be my man?

Nothing's true and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
Cause you can't change the way I am
Are you strong enough to be my man?

Lie to me
I promise I'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave, leave, don't leave

I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
So try and love me if you can
Are you strong enough to be my man?

My man......
Are you strong enough? (to be my man....)
Are you strong enough? (to be my man....)
Are you strong enough? (my.....man)

When I've shown you that I just don't care
When I'm throwing punches in the air
When I'm broken down and I can't stand
Would you be man enough to be my man?

Lie to me
I promise, I'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave

Something's happenin'
everything's different,
but everything is fine, yeahhh

This is the good stuff,
and yesterday is only what you leave behind
it's only in your mind

Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all the light in your eyes
all the light in your eyes

No use pretendin'
you never existed
til you saw the light, yeahh

you're just beginning
you haven't missed it-it's all ahead of you,
and you know what to do

Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all the light in your eyes
all the light in your eyes

Here comes the world and,
she is beautifully mysterious
shes got it all and you sa,
give it to me

Nobody's happy
that's not the world i knew inside
where everybody hides

Chorus:
You gotta talk to the one who made you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all that light in your eyes
all that light in your eyes

You gotta talk to the loves who loves you
talk to the one who understands
talk to the one who gave you
all the light in your eyes
all the light in your eyes

Yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything great and small
yeah, thank you, thank you
for the light in your eyes

yeah, thank you, thank you
yeah, everything great and small
yeah, thank you, thank you,
for the light in your eyes
for the light in your eyes

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

She was born in November 1963
The day Aldous Huxley died
And her mama believed
That every man could be free
So her mama got high high high
And her daddy marched on Birmingham
Singing mighty protest songs
And he pictured all the places
Where he knew that she'd belong
Be he failed and taught her young
The only thing she'd need
To carry on
He taught her how to

Run baby run baby run baby run
Baby run
Past the arms of the familiar
And their talk of better days
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long
Baby loves to run

She counts out all her money
In the taxi on the way to meet her plane
And stares hopeful out the window
At the workers fighting
Through the pouring rain
And she's searching through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she's thinkin' 'bout the places
Where she knows she still belongs
She smiles the secret smile
At shows she knows exactly how
To carry on

So run baby run baby run baby run
Baby run
From the old familiar faces and
Their old familiar ways
To the comfort of the strangers
Slipping out before they say
So long
Baby loves to run

And she's searchin' through the stations
For an unfamiliar song
And she pictures all the places
Where she knows she still belongs
And she smiles the secret smile
Because she knows exactly how
To carry on
So Run Baby Run Baby Run Baby Run......

CAN'T CRY ANYMORE
by SHERYL CROW

Took your car
Drove to Texas
Sorry honey
But I suspected we were through
And I can't cry anymore
Since I left
Been feeling better, cause that's
What you get when you
Stay together too long
And I can't cry anymore

Wouldn't it be good if we
could hop a flight to anywhere
So long to this life
So much for pretending
This bad luck's never ending
And now I know that

Money comes in
But the fact is
There's not enough
To pay my taxes
And I can't cry anymore
Well, got a brother
He's got real problems
Heroin, no
There's just no stopping him tonight
And I won't cry anymore

Wouldn't it be good if we
could hop a flight to anywhere
So long to this life
So much for pretending
Bad lucks never ending
And now I know that
It's never ending

It could be worse
I could've missed my calling
Sometimes it hurts
When you read the writing on the wall
Can't cry anymore

Wouldn't it be good if we
could hop a flight to anywhere
So long to this life
So much for pretending
Bad luck's never ending
And now I know that

And too much time
I've been spending
With my heart in my hands
waiting for time to come and mend it

I can't cry anymore

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)

Hey let's party, let's get down
Let's turn the radio on, this is the meltdown
Get out the camera, take a picture
Drag queens and the freaks are all out on the town
And cowboy Jim's in bed
Nursing a swollen head

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now there goes the neighborhood

Photo chick made to look sickly
Is standing in her panties in the shower
She plays the guitar in the bathroom
While the police dust her mother's plastic flowers
And Schoolboy John's in jail
Making a killing through the U.S. Mail

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now there goes the neighborhood...
Neighborhood...
Well there goes the neighborhood

This is the movie of a screenplay
Of a book about a girl who meets a junkie
Messenger gets shot down
Just for carrying the message to her flunkie
We can't be certain who the villains are
'Cause everyone's so pretty
But the after-party's sure to be a wing-ding
As it moves into your city, oh...

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the stink was about

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustanov
Don't like the scene anyhow
I dropped acid on a Saturday night
Just to see what the fuss was about
Now there goes the neighborhood...
Hood...
Now there goes the neighborhood

There goes the neighborhood

Darling, I'm killed,
I'm in a puddle on the floor,
Waiting for you to return
Oh, what a thrill,
Fascinations galore,
How you tease
How you leave me to burn.
It's so deadly, my dear,
The power of having you near
Until that day
Until the world falls away
Until you say there'll be no more goodbyes
I see it in your eyes
Tomorrow never dies

Darling, you've won,
It's no fun,
Martinis, girls and guns
It's murder on our love affair
But you bet your life, every night
While you're chasing the morning light
You're not the only spy out there.
It's so deadly, my dear,
The power of wanting you near
But until that day
Until the world falls away
Until you say there'll be no more goodbyes
I see it in your eyes
Tomorrow never dies

Until that day
Until the world falls away
Until you say there'll be no more goodbyes
I see it in your eyes

Until that day
Until that day
Until that day...