Hard To Think of Leaving

Autumn leaves are falling all around
and soon the winter frost will chill the ground
I'm frightened when you talk of letting go
Somewhere inside, someone I used to know

Time is going faster than the eye can see
you turn around one day and then you're old
your eyes tell me you don't know who I am today
I wanna stop the film, put life on hold
you're in the fall

You take me back to 1965
I'm in your kitchen feelin so alive
love flow thru me crystal clear and pure
where is it now, in this stony moor?

Time is going faster than the eye can see
you turn around one day and then you're old
your eyes tell me you don't know who I am today
I wanna stop the film, put life on hold
you're in the fall

You look at me as if you wanna say
swear you won't remember me this way
the sun bursts into view, the clouds disperse
then beeping sounds, a tone, a frantic nurse

Time is going faster than the eye can see
you turn around one day and then you're old
your eyes tell me you don't know who I am today
I wanna stop the film, put life on hold
you're in the fall

you're in the fall
you're in the fall

In The Fall

Santa Split Blues

Santa Split

Gum On The Shoe of the World (Live at the Belly Summer Stage)

Gum On The Shoe of the World (For Iryna) (Unplugged)

baby baby baby you've been giving me hell
and thats why sometimes i just have to yell:
Hell's Belle!
Oh babe you're the belle from hell

she was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
you were working as a server in a cafeteria
i leaned across the counter and i asked you out
my friends made brutal fun of me - dude what's that all about

when i came to your parents house to pick you up
you had to beg your dad for 20 bucks to fill your cup
without a word he threw 20 singles on the floor
it was all that i could do to get us both out the door

a few dates later, you whine "you're too old"
you're 19, I'm 23, has your brain gone cold?
Then for no clear reason you move to the UK
I visit you there, i lose my luggage on the way

baby baby baby you've been giving me hell (givin me hell)
and thats why sometimes i just have to yell:
Hell's Belle!
Oh babe you're the belle from hell

the UK didn't work out, now you move out west
I visit you there cuz - I'm just the best
waitin at the bar for your shift to end
unaware the bartender is your special friend

you make me take you to a vegan place, it really stinks
then you tell me you fuck the dude just served me drinks

baby baby baby you've been giving me hell (givin me hell)
and thats why sometimes i just have to yell:
Hell's Belle!
Oh babe you're the belle from hell

baby baby baby you've been giving me hell (givin me hell)
and thats why sometimes i just have to yell:
Hell's Belle!
Oh babe you're the belle from hell

A few years later and you phone me up
say you're livin in the city in a Brooklyn walkup
you whine about the latest guy who shacks up with you
too unstable to get through a job interview

I pity you as I sit watching you on your bed
sorry darling: I'm engaged to be wed
you dug yourself a hole, and I can't get you out
but thanks for years of misery, embarrassment and doubt

Sure you were pretty back in the day.
But some things are more important than a lovely face.
I gave you all I had and woulda done so much more;
My reward you telling me I made you feel like a whore?

baby baby baby you been giving me hell (givin me hell)
and thats why sometimes i just have to yell:
Hell's Belle!
Oh babe you're the belle from hell

baby you're the belle from hell (from hell)
baby you're the belle from hell (bell from hell)
baby you're the belle from hell (hell's bell)
baby you're the belle from hell

Hell's Bell

Fourth of July (for Charlie)

Sassafrass

A little boat in the harbor
tied with two ropes
one is her dreams
the other her hopes

her whole world's this cove
and what storms may occur
the two lines hold her fast
calm and unperturbed

one day the sky turned black
the wind tossed the sea
and somehow or another
one line broke free

that little boat was set adrift
everything all turned around
home was far and far was home
light dark and quiet sound

one rope gone
but still in the slip
she kept it together
keepin short trips

then light failed again
the temperature dropped
and once more she began to roll
on that rolling, misty chop

she watched in disbelief
as that last rope broke
nothing left to hold her fixed
all wind and salt & diesel smoke

that little boat was set adrift (set adrift)
everything all turned around (turned around)
home was far and far was home
light dark and quiet sound

that little boat was set adrift (set adrift)
everything all turned around (turned around)
home was far and far was home
light dark and quiet sound

Two Lines

out on the town, you in your gown
me in my tuxedo messing around
from new york to cleveland
from LA to Dallas
baby and I dance the Crystal Palace

fragrance of perfume mixed with cigar
manhattans and martinis on tap at the bar
Take the A Train to Cartier
E Train to Kew Gardens
She wants me to dance, begging your pardon

Come with us and shake a leg
Grab your blues, take 'em down a peg
don't you ever tell me there's nothing to do
paint the town red, paint over the blue

out on the town, you in your gown
me in black tie, just messing around
from swing street to Savoy
from Cotton to Connie's
out among the Bettys and Johnnies

fragrance of perfume mixed with cigar
manhattans and martinis in our black car
Take the A Train to Maxine's
The E Train to Queens
I gotta go dance if ya know what i mean

Come with us and shake a leg
Grab your blues, take 'em down a peg
don't ever tell me there's nothing to do
paint the town red, paint over the blue

Come with us and shake a leg
Grab your blues, take 'em down a peg
don't ever tell me there's nothing to do
paint the town red, paint over the blue

Two Lines

ankle