ALL THE UMBRELLAS IN LONDON


if i make it tonight it'll be all right
it'll make a good song or something
i've been trying to give myself reasons to live
and i really can't think of one thing

i drive around, i walk around in circles
'cause i've got no sense of direction
and i guess i've got no sense at all

[chorus:]
all the umbrellas in london couldn't stop this rain
and all the dope in new york couldn't kill this pain
and all the money in tokyo couldn't make me stay
all the umbrellas in london couldn't stop this rain

i don't cry anymore, i go out the door
and i usually keep on walking
i will sit in the bar where the cocktails are
but i really don't feel like talking

i lie around and let the darkness fall
'cause i've got a sense of perfection
and nothing makes much sense at all

[repeat chorus]

ALL YOU EVER DO IS WALK AWAY


Sad as a painted clown, a beautiful boy in an ugly town
but when your circus closes down don't walk away from me
you've been asleep too long, the birds are bruises in the
dawn
the pounds of flesh between us stretch as far as you can
see

But all you ever do is walk away and I know if you'd only
go slow

you could see what it means to be making the scene with
me
But all you ever do is walk away and I think if you tried
you could find a little time
for the life I can see in your eyes, don't go. Don't go.

Sometimes you just explode and no one alive can break
your code
You have a language of your own, an unconnected road
The people you called your friends, the places you won't
go again
The decades lost in finding them, you'll have to let them
go.

But all you ever do is walk away and I know if you'd only
go slow

ALWAYS ALREADY GONE

I tried hard to keep you,
I needn't have tried.
It seems you've decided.
When did you decide?
So this is the last time
I cry in the dark.
It seems you were always,
always already gone.

You never were happy,
You 'had to be free'.
You took all the freedom
You needed from me.
Then you and your freedom
Will flicker and yawn.
You're free to be always,
Always already gone.

I couldn't have dreamed you
But I might as well,
You leave me with only
A story to tell.
But at the beginning,
Our story is done
Because you were always,
Always already gone.
Always already gone.

ANDREW IN DRAG


A pity she does not exist
A shame he's not a fag
The only girl I ever loved was
Andrew in drag

There is no hope of love for me
From here on I'm a stag
The only girl I'll ever love is
Andrew in drag

Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Yeah

I don't know why I even went
It's really not my bag
Just thought it might be funny to see
Andrew in drag

The moment he walked on the stage
My tail began to wag
Wag like a little wiener dog for
Andrew in drag

Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Yeah

I've always been a ladies' man
And I don't have to brag
But I become a momma's boy for
Andrew in drag

I'd sign away my trust fund
I would even sell the Jag
If I could spend my misspent youth with
Andrew in drag

Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Andrew in drag
Yeah

So stick him in a dress and
He's the only boy I'd shag
The only boy I'd anything is
Andrew in drag

I'll never see that girl again
He did it as a gag
I'll pine away forevermore for
Andrew in drag

ASLEEP AND DREAMING

I've seen you laugh at nothing at all
I've seen you sadly weeping
The sweetest thing I ever saw
Was you asleep and dreaming

Well you may not be beautiful
But it's not for me to judge
I don't know if you're beautiful
Because I love you too much

I've seen you laugh at nothing at all
I've seen you sadly weeping
The sweetest thing I ever saw
Was you asleep and dreaming

I've seen you when your ship came in
And when your train was leaving
The sweetest thing I ever saw
Was you asleep and dreaming

BABIES FALLING


Where the workers stand in querulous rows awaiting
dislocation
I will be there too
When you're cashing in your food stamps
When you're sleeping in a cattle train
I'll be with you
Pushing up against the ticket counter window face against
the glass
Bleeding from the waist and kissing to be chaste
It is said that those who will not rest have been cursed
To tramp like soldiers through the marshes
Or that blessed are the ones who leave the stage
Like babies falling fast asleep
So I twice am cursed and twice am stuck
Affixed to this corner of the earth.
That old river keeps on rolling but the old man doesn't
see it,
He just stands there with his eyes closed
Asking "where'd you go?" "where'd you go?"
So wherever you may sleep tonight,
Be it bed or bedrock, home, or open field:
When you begin to yield, then, whatever you have taken as
your pillow,
May it serve as mine as well.
Underneath the weeping willow I will wait for you
forever,
My eyes forever closed, asking "where'd you go?" "where'd
you go?"

BEACH A BOOP BOOP

every day and every night
we are really outta sight

frankie's here, so's annette
we're having fun, looking wet

we're at the beach, we're having fun
we're always surfing, dusk 'til dawn
it's so hard to keep our swimsuits on

I'm gonna get me a groovy tan
so's I can get me a groovy man!

BETTER THINGS

On winter nights
The moon it sings
"I was made for better things.
Better things, dearie, better things"

In early spring
the ghost princess
goes haunting in her pretty dress
pretty dress,
your majesty, pretty dress.

And I have heard
the singing of real birds.
Not those absurd birds
that simply everybody's heard.
Real birds.

In summer
When the moon is full
the wolfboy is adorable
adorable, you're adorable.

I have observed
The winging of real birds.
Not those reserved birds
That simply everyone's observed
Real birds.

BITTER TEARS

Bitter tears keep me going
through the years, freely flowing
What have you done
Only a gun
could stop these bitter tears
The endless streets I walk along
you made them seem pretty
but no I dress in country songs
and wake in New York City...
I cry because it looks so good
I cry, why not, it's free
and there's nothing more interesting
than crying constantly...

BLUE YOU


The moon was singing the blues
The stars in the sky harmonized
singing it too
and I, far below
was singing low and slow
for you
and I know
all the world was singing the blues
The Queen was singing the blues
The President played the saxophone
sounded so along
it was on the news
And from Ursa Minor
in what looked like an all-night diner
came lonely luminous creatures
whose only human feature
was singing the blues
soft and low
The blues was singing the blues
The dead in their graves
and the gods in their caves,
they'd been waiting so long
to sing the blue song
about you