PAINTED DAYGLOW SMILE
(Levitt/Gorgoni)
When she sleeps, dreams escape her
No-one
makes a sound and none would dare to wake her
When she walks, strangers
follow
Calling for a look and still her eyes are hollow
What is it they
see, could not find?
Is there something she believes
Save the stalk of
hair she weaves?
And her painted dayglow smile to hide behind
When she cries, no-one sees her
Who is there
to tell it to and who'd believe her?
When she loved, he forgave her
Leaving nothing more and it was all he gave her
Even that was hard for
him to lend
How was he to know it then
Loving only frightened him
Now his painted dayglow smile had pealed away
If you ask him, he'll say
it's too late, too late
Isn't hers the gayest laughter
She can wash
it off the morning after
Isn't it great to be alive
Live in the sun and
never hide?
Wondering why she's lonely
When she has a mirror to see
And isn't hers a gay reflection?
No demands and no objections
Isn't
it great to be alive
Live in the sun and never hide?
PAXTON QUIGLEY'S HAD THE COURSE
(Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde)
Paxton Quigley's had the course
And he's
feeling kinda run down
Paxton Quigley's had the course
And he's feeling
kinda slowed down
Paxton Quigley's had the course
And he's
feeling kinda run down
And he's feeling kinda slowed down
By the life
that he leads
Things just couldn't be worse
For he's out of
condition
A case of malnutrition
You are going to seed, Paxton Quigley
Turn around, take a look at yourself
And
wonder why
Your world is coming to an end
But there's no use in crying
over spilled milk
You reap that which you sow
But you planted
without thinking
Now the cup from which you're drinking
Had shattered to
the ground, Paxton Quigley
You had a good thing going but you just weren't
satisfied
You had to prove yourself to be the number one, record breaking
Playboy of the month
That's all very well, but not with my daughter
you don't
If it's left up to me, by God, I'll make sure that you won't
No, not if I have my way, you won't be leading my daughter astray
I
didn't fight the war to see my little girl become a . . . .
I don't deny it, there have been others
You
may not buy it, but I'm beginning to see
I've seen quite a few, but I must
say that you
Are the most beautiful thing that's happened to me
Paxton Quigley's had the course
And he's
feeling kinda run down
Paxton Quigley's had the course
And he's feeling
kinda slowed down
PAXTON'S
SONG (Smoke) (from the motion picture 3 in the
Attic)
(Chad Stuart)
See the smoke
that weaves its own disguise
Blue grey circles fill the air
And as it
fades away
Then you will find it leaves behind
No trace except a
tear
Grey eyed lady, treat him tenderly
Better love him while you
may
The day will surely come
When you will find that love is blind
And
he'll be on his way
Who can tell what time may bring?
We can only
guess
Men don't leave you anything
And women leave you
less
PENNIES
(C. Powers)If you find a
penny, put it in your pocket
Take it with you every where you go
Tiny,
shiny penny, made to fit your pocket
Take it with you every where you
go
Every where you go
When I was a wee boy, on my way to London
I
found a penny there along the way
I took it to the market and I bought some
cinnamon candy
For a penny what a remarkable day
What a remarkable
day
When you find your true love, offer her you penny
Then she'll know
that your love is really so
Your love is really so
If you find a
penny, put it in your pocket
Take it with you every where you go
Every
where you go
Every where you go
PIPEDREAM
(Jeremy
Clyde)
Throw a pebble in the lake and watch the ripples
grow
Bursting like a flower in the midstream
Try some wild guesses about
the changes you have made
In the daily lives of sleepy, sunken fishes
And thus the time will come
All the people
singing
Fifty thousand people
A hundred million people
Together
Standing in the kitchen or smiling on the street
Around you all the radios receiving
In a survey taken recently of babies
at their birth
Seven out of ten were tuned to smiling
And thus the time will come
All the people
singing
Fifty thousand people
A hundred million people
Together
Must be something there
But I don't know, and
what is more, I don't care
You'll never change a thing
Too few of us,
too many of them
But no, the faces are beginning to show
And the hands
are beginning to reach out to each other
Together
A thousand pebbles tumbling at the bottom of a
stream
A thousand babies smilling in the sunshine
A thousand years of
weeping at the altar of a dream
A thousand years of blind young soldiers
dying
And thus the time will come
All the people
singing
Fifty thousand people
A hundred million people
Together
THE RAVEN
(Chad Stuart
& Jeremy Clyde)
Do not cry, do not weep,
For the dark ship is
taking us
To the time where all is sleep
And the raven who is wise
Unruffled takes a feather
To cast it in the dying sea
Far from
mortal eyes
He knows the time has come
And watching,
waits above the sails
To catch the last remaining sun
And that ship
without a crew
Unshaken by the weather
Laughing, cuts the waves of tears
And the passenger is you
REST IN PEACE
(Chad
Stuart)
My name it is Matthews, and I've got it made
A memorial maker - it's a profitable trade
I don't solicit business;
there's no point in trying
What I like about my customers - they just keep
on dying
Here lies Frederick, mourned by his wife
He
lead a blameless life
He couldn't win the way she treated him
His
gravestone should have read
Here lies Fred - he's better off dead
Rest in peace, rest in peace
My name it is Matthews, and I've got it made
A memorial maker - it's a profitable trade
They bring the names of
husbands, they bring the names of wives
They want me to perpetuate their
awful, dreary lives
Here lies John, run over by a bus
He was loved by
all of us
His time on earth, what was it worth
When all
is said and done?
Here lies John - we're rather glad he's gone.
Rest in peace, rest in peace
They come to me and spend all they've got
'Cause it costs quite a lot to be remembered
They think it is the only
way
What would the neighbors say anyway?
It's so prestigious, even
though you're not religious
Maybe one day I will carve a stone
Big enough
for everyone
And written there for those who care
In letters ten feet
high:
"Here they lie who were born to die"
Rest in peace, rest in peace
Rest in peace,
rest in peace now my friend, it's the end
Rest in peace, rest in peace now
my friend, it's the end
My name it is Matthews, and I've got it made
A memorial maker - it's a profitable trade
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