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I get out of my car
Step into the night
And look up at the sky
And there's something bright
Travelling fast
Just look at it go
 
I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa
Tennessee to Tennesse Chicopee,
Spirit Lake Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man Crossed the desert's bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
 
I'm going back to 505
If it's a seven-hour flight or a 45-minute drive
In my imagination, you're waiting lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs
 
If you like your coffee hot
Let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots, babe
I just wanna be yours
 
There's a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was
And there's ash in the pages
Now I've got myself lost

I was writing to tell you
That my feelings tonight
Are a stain on my notebook
That rings your goodbye
 
You drink your coffee and
I sip my tea and we're
Sitting here, playing so cool, thinking
What will be, will be

Well, it's getting kind of late now
Oh, I wonder if you'll stay now, stay now, stay now, stay now
Or will you just politely say, "Goodnight"?
 
What chance of meeting
So far out here
As if repeating
What's never clear

The verdant meadows
The smoky coil
The air and ether
The boiling soil

I read your novel
The names were switched
I heard you travel
You must be rich

Those distant cities
Are safe and warm
Within their walls
Of chloroform
 
Years ago
I was an angry young man
And I'd pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now, it's only fields and trees
Where? Where is the town?
Now, it's nothing but flowers
 
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
 
Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady Mercy won't be home tonight, yeah
 
She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said, I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed that cop down at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion No. 9
 
So I sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When I get through
And feel you near me
Driving in my car
I'm driving home for Christmas
 
Don't leave me alone with her
Every home is Rome alone with her
And if you all go, who'll say no to her
Don't leave me alone with her
Don't my sweat and shaking register
Cause if you all go, who'll say no to her
 
Get into the car
We'll be the passenger
We'll ride through the city tonight
See the city's ripped backsides
We'll see the bright and hollow sky
We'll see the stars that shine so bright
Oh, stars made for us tonight
 
We lived our little drama.
We kissed in a field of white
And stars fell on Alabama last night.

I can't forget the glamour.
Your eyes held a tender light
And stars fell on Alabama last night.

I never planned in my imagination
A situation so heavenly.
A fairy land where no one else could enter
And in the center, just you and me, dear.

My heart beat like a hammer.
My arms wound around you tight
And stars fell on Alabama last night.
 
It's cold outside
It gets so hot in here
The boys and girls collide
To the music in my ear

I hear the children crying
And I know it's time to go
I hear the children crying
Take me home
 
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
 
Summers are what I recall, the sun gave credence to it all
We'd waste a lot of time, this, that postponed
Someday we'd do useful things, we'd rise above, be kings and queens
But new cheap chairs will always be our thrones
 
I want no other, no other lover
This is our life, our time
When we are together, I need you forever
Is it love?
 
It's not in the way that you hold me
It's not in the way you say you care
It's not in the way you've been treating my friends
It's not in the way that you'll stay 'til the end
It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you do
 
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