Happiness
Words and music by Deb Talan
Friday 13, lights go red, green, in a coffee shop
I'm giving you the look
While someone else
Is fingering your wallet in my pocketbook
Chorus:
It's a mean town but I don't care
Try and steal this
Can't steal happiness
Got a charger, no cell phone, I can't call out
Unless it's to cry your name out the open window
To a sky that looks right back
And says it's never seen rain
Sometimes you gotta start clean
You gotta begin not begin again, oh no
Repeat chorus
And as we fly around the sun
We know we're not the only ones
Love for the lonely
It's been a long time coming
Can you hear that hopeful heart?
Night settles, still working on a way to breathe
Don't you go, don't you go down
Take a helium taxi home to me
Repeat chorus
All That I Want
Words and music by Deb Talan and Steve Tannen
Out in the harbor
The ships come in, it's Christmastime
The kids all holler carols 'cross the water
Stars that shine
All that I want, all that I want
Above the rooftops
The full moon dips its golden spoon
I wait on clip-clops, deer might fly
Why not? I met you
All that I want, all that I want
And when the night is falling
Down the sky at midnight
Another year is stalling
Far away a good bye, good night
All that I want., all that I want, all that I want
So small a turning
The world grows older every day
An ache, a yearning
Soften when I hear you say
All that I want, all that I want
And when the cold wind's blowing
Snow drifts through the pine trees
In houses lights are glowing
Likewise in your eyes that find me here
With all that I want.
Out in the harbor
The ships come in, it's Christmastime
It's Christmastime
It's Christmastime.
Vegas Baby
Words and music by Steve Tannen and Greg Tannen
Friday I can't see the use
Get the hell right out of Dodge
Slip the traffic like a noose
On the trail of some mirage
Chorus:
Every time it comes
I think my luck will stay
Drive all the way
To Vegas baby
Got no aces up my sleeve
Got nowhere to rest my head
Got no money sir to lose
And the sky is turning red
And I change out of my jeans
On the road beside the lake
Like the skies that I have seen
When I have been asleep-awake
Repeat chorus
Take the rain as a sign
Get myself dressed to the nines
And I will pay for this
Somewhere down the line
And I'm flying through the heat
The Mexicali radio
Every car is like a prayer
Searching for somewhere to go
Somebody Loved
Words and music by Deb Talan and Steve Tannen
Rain turns the sand into mud
Wind turns the trees into bone
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved.
Nights when the heat had gone out
We danced together alone
Cold turned our breath into clouds
We never said what we were dreaming of
But you turned me into somebody loved.
Someday when we're old and worn
Like two softened shoes
I will wonder on how I was born
The night I first ran away from you.
Now my feet turn the corner back home
Sun turns the evening to rose
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved.
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Jolene
Words and music by Steve Tannen
It always rained around you
We tried to go inside and it would rain there too
It came pouring through the roof when we traveled underground
Whiskey, water, and tears 'til I thought that we would drown
Chorus:
Jolene, Jolene
Is it still raining everywhere you are?
We didn't hide from it at all
No we just let it fall
In the morning she was gone and everything was dry
The city streets were crowded and I felt like I would die
Repeat chorus
Now there's sunshine and flowers everywhere
And I don't care
All of these clouds will disappear
Like we were never here
But I swear there was a time I thought that it would never stop
And now I only think about you if it's raining or it's not
Repeat chorus
Simple Life
Words and music by Deb Talan
Can i get up in the moming
Put the kettle on
Make us some coffee, say "hey" to the sun...
Is it enough to write a song and sing it to the birds?
They'd hear just the tune
Not understand my love for words
But you would hear me and know
I want only this, I want to live
I want to live a simple life.
I dreamed you first
But not so real
And everyday since I've found you
Such moments we steal
Like little thieves, we rub our hands
We hold our hearts between them.
But will you hear me and know?
I want only this, I want to live
I want to live a simple life.
Move on, move on
Time is accelerating.
Drive on all night
Traffic lights and one-ways.
Move on, move on
Parking violations waiting
Turn off the car, breathe the air
Let's stay here.
I'll kiss you awake, and we'll have time
To know our neighbors all by name
And every star at night.
We'll weave our days together like waves
And particles of light.
I want only this, I want to live
I want to live a simple life.
Dating a Porn Star
Words and music by Steve Tannen
Dating a porn star, it isn't all roses
She leaves you home on a Saturday night
You can go crazy with thoughts and supposes
Lose the thin thread between what's wrong and right
Chorus:
So Starlight won't you kiss me
For I have missed you so
Just like the others
And all of their brothers
I've come to see the show
The strip club crowd looks like a sad constellation
But I hold your heart like the sky holds the moon
I'm cast down outside 'cause they don't allow boyfriends
Star won't you tell me you're coming home soon
Repeat chorus
Playing cards with the bouncer to let me back in
I hear them announce her and I hear her begin
Sometimes I think that I was born to lose
My money, my shirt, my socks and my shoes
Dating a porn star, it's bad news brother
You wonder how long 'til the coming of day
And wait by the sparkly curtains of heaven
The stars look so pretty from so far away
Repeat chorus
Keep It There
Words and music by Deb Talan and Steve Tannen
Got three dollars burning in my pocket, I know I know
Got three dollars burning in my pocket, I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep it there.
Got an old ghost locked in my closet, I know I know
Got an old ghost locked in my closet, I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep it there.
Came down on a bottle rocket
Found my heart right where I locked it
Last night like rain on chalk
It's gone like money in my pocket.
See those stars shining in your eyes and I know I know
See those stars shining in your eyes and I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep it there.
Came down on a bottle rocket
Found my heart right where I locked it
Last night like rain on chalk
It's gone like money in my pocket.
All my troubles in the rear view mirror, I know I know
All my troubles in the rear view mirror, I know I know
I got, I got, I got to keep them there.
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