How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Robbie]

Lilac blowing through the warm summer air
Hint of your perfume, the smell of your hair
Sun is setting and the crows all cry
Electrical storm forming in the sky

Got a hurt inside that I just gotta heal
All I can do is feel, feel, feel
Day is dying and the night is born
Baby, don't leave me so lovelorn

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

Birds do it, bees do it, I wanna do it
The only thing we need to do is get down to it
Please hear my plea, know it comes from the heart
Baby, you and me got something to start

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

Why won't you hear me?
I'm a desperate man
Darling don't fear me
Just say we can

Lilac blowing in the warm summer breeze
Floating so soft with the cries in the trees
Sun is setting and the day is dead
How can I get it through your pretty little head?

A hungry dog howls through the trees
It echoes long on the lilac breeze
A blackbird sings a song so sad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad
Girl, I want it bad

(See you in a fortnight.)

[Aruntraveller]

Obvious follow on, but too good not to post:

Birds do it, bees do it
 Even educated fleas do it
 Let's do it, let's fall in love...

 In Spain the best upper sets do it
 Lithuanians and Letts do it
 Let's do it
 Mama, let's fall in love...

 The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
 Not to mention the Finns
 Folks in Siam do it
 Just think of the Siamese twins
 Some Argentines, without means do it
 People say in Boston even beans do it
 Let's do it, let's fall in love...

[Nearly Sane]

 A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with a mouse in and he wasn't grousin'
He sang every morning, "how lucky I am,
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!"


I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the stair!
Where on the stair?
Right there!
A little mouse with clogs on
Well i declare!
Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair
Oh yeah

[ekim]

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!

[Nearly Sane]

Hey, why am i talkin' on like this?
My kid ain't even been born, yet!
I can see him when he's seventeen or so,
And startin' to go with a girl
I can give him lots of pointers, very sound
On the way to get 'round any girl
I can tell him ...
Wait a minute!
Could it be?
What the hell!
What if he is a girl?
What would i do with her?
What could i do for her?
A bum with no money!
You can have fun with a son
But you gotta be a father to a girl
She mightn't be so bad at that
A kid with ribbons in her hair!
A kind o' sweett and petite
Little tin-type of her mother!
What a pair!

(Soliloquy from Carousel)

[Aruntraveller]

You wait little girl
On an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on

Your life little girl
Is an empty page
That men will want to write on

To write on

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby its time to think
Better beware
Be canny and careful
Baby you're on the brink

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads
And grue ways and cads
Will offer you fruit and wine

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone
Older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on 18
I'll take care of you

[Nearly Sane]

Seventeen
And not yet a woman
So-ho clean
Thought that you were never coming
Seventeen
Completely new sensations
Someones dreams
Created your perfection
All the girls
(all the girls just love to hate her)
And all the boys
(all the boys they wanna make her)
They want you
(seventeen)

[Aruntraveller]

I leaned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone

Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems at seventeen

[Robbie]

Put money in my savings
‘Cause anything can happen
Get married and have babies
‘Cause what is life without them
A spiritual awakening
‘Cause life needs meaning
Some social interaction the perfect calculation

Momma always told me
That first impressions matter
To wear nice clothes and makeup
And not get any fatter
To find a guy that suits me
A decent Christian man

You’re young just for a short time
Enjoy it while you can

[Nearly Sane]

Each night seems just like the Fourth of July
 When stars spangle the sky

 The moon at night (shines so bright)
 Seems to shine twice as bright
 When you're young and in love

[Robbie]

They try to tell us we're too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that love's a word
A word we've only heard
But can't begin to know the meaning of

And yet we're not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then someday they may recall
We were not too young at all

[Nearly Sane]

ANd they called it puppy love
Oh I guess they'll never know
How a young heart really feels
And why I love her so

And they called it puppy love
Just because we're, we're seventeen
Tell them all it...
Please tell them it isn't fair
To take away my only dream

[Robbie]

I come home in the morning light
My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?"
Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones
And girls, they wanna have fun
Oh girls just want to have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But girls, they wanna have fun
Oh girls just want to have

[Nearly Sane]

Well the girls can't stand her
 Cause she walks looks and drives like an ace now
 (You walk like an ace now you walk like an ace)
 She makes the indy 500 look like a roman chariot race now
 (You look like an ace now you look like an ace)
 A lotta guys try to catch her
 But she leads them on a wild goose chase now
 (You drive like an ace now you drive like an ace)

 And she'll have fun fun fun
 Til her daddy takes the t-bird away
 (Fun fun fun til her daddy takes the t-bird away)

[Robbie]

Get down, deeper and down
Down down, deeper and down
Down down, deeper and down
Get down, deeper and down
I want all the world to see
To see you're laughing
And you're laughing at me
I can take it all from you
Again, again, again, again, again, again, again

[Udayana]

Well, hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Well it may bring war
Any old thing
Well, look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
Well, look into your mind's eye
See what you can see
There's hundreds of people
Like you and me

[Robbie]

I sit here every day looking at the sky
Ever wondering why I dream my dreams away
And I'm living for today in my mind's eye
Things are clearer than before
Showing me the way, asking me to stay
I'll never close the door
To all these things and more
In my mind's eye

[Nearly Sane]

His sister's black but she is sho 'nuff pretty
 Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
 To walk to school she's got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
 Living just enough, just enough for the city...um hum

 Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many
 His patience's long but soon he won't have any
 To find a job is like a haystack needle
 Cause where he lives they don't use colored people
 Living just enough, just enough for the city...
 Living just enough...
 For the city...

[Robbie]

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl

Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city

[Aruntraveller]

End of night a new day dawning
 And the first birds start to sing
 In the pale light of the morning
 Nothing's worth remembering
 It's a dream, it's out of reach
 Scattered driftwood on the beach

 Summer night city
 Summer night city

 Waiting for the sunrise, soul dancing in the dark
 Summer night city
 Walking in the moonlight, love-making in the park
 Summer night city

[Nearly Sane]

Nobody is an island
 Everyone has to go
 Pillars turn to butter
 Butterflying low
 Low is where your heart is
 But your heart has to grow
 Drifting under bridges
 Never with the flow

And you really didn't think it would happen
 But it really is the end of the line
 So I'm sorry that you turned to driftwood
 But you've been drifting for a long, long time

[Robbie]

You live your life in the songs you hear
On the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends
That's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you out of school
You're a little touched you know, Angie baby

Lovers appear in your room each night
And they whirl you across the floor
But they always seem to fade away
When your daddy taps on your door
Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night
All alone once more, Angie baby

Angie baby, you're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe

[Aruntraveller]

Stars in your eyes, little one
Where do you go to dream
To a place, we all know
The land of make believe

Shadows, tapping at your window
Ghostly voices whisper will you come and play
Not for all the tea in China
Or the corn in Carolina
Never, never ever
They're running after you babe

Run for the sun, little one
You're an outlaw once again
Time to change, Superman
He'll be with us while he can
In the land of make believe

[Nearly Sane]

 Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
 O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
 Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
 message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
 Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
 coming home?
 Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
 but I know you.
 And I've got a message to give to you.
 Here come the planes.
 So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
 as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.

[Aruntraveller]

I don't want to be like old George Reeves
Stuck in a Superman role.
I've got a long way to go in my career
And some day my fame will make it clear
That I had to be a Superman


"I'm red white and blue, I've got justice to do
I'm the man of your fantasy dreams
But I'm an alien man from an alien land
Who's alive on your orthicon screens.
I once ruled the world and when flags were unfurled

I performed for you live not on tape.
But the public is cruel when played for a fool
As you see by the blood on my cape."