Phoebe Snow Lyrics

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Songs Written by Phoebe Snow

All Over

Nine of diamonds, Nine of diamonds
Lord, that's a lucky card.
We'll celebrate it, when we've made it,
I'll jump all over your yard,
I'll jump all over your yard, I'll jump all over...
I don't know what hit me but I'm seeing Stars.
This comic book life is like being on Mars.
Thousands of warm hands are touching me.
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.
The night queen fright wig street Parade may fade.
When we laugh at the statues of gods we have made.
Oceans of love-waves are washing me
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.
Nine of diamonds, Nine of diamonds
Lord, that's a lucky card.
We'll celebrate it, when we've made it,
I'll jump all over your yard,
I'll jump all over your yard, I'll jump all over...
When you feel that your train of thought's been derailed
Let out your wild wishes from where they've been jailed
You feel the future embracing you
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.
All over, All over, I hope this will never be all over.

©1976 Tarka Music Company

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Either or Both

Sometimes these hands get so clumsy
That I drop things and people laugh
Sometimes these hands seem so graceful
I can see them signin' autographs

What I want to know from you
When you hear my plea
Do you like or love
Either or both of me
Do you like or love
Either or both of me

Sometimes this face looks so funny
That I hide it behind a book
But sometimes this face has so much class
That I have to sneak a second look

Sometimes this life gets so empty
That I become afraid
Then I remember you're in it
And I think I might still have it made

Electra

She loved a man who was sweet and lean
With a Madison Avenue scar
And wherever he went to get away
He took their luxury car
Where can you run
When the old house shakes
And it's too hot to make any plans
The sidewalks crack, and the whole world quakes
'Cause you know that you chose the wrong man

Chorus:
Electra, the spirits tease
High up a bluff
And down on her knees
She's looking down
At kingdom come
Come back Electra
Don't jump, don't jump!

With a camera, he caught the mood
When a pen he caught what she thought
And everything worth having he mistook
For something you bought
Where can you run
When the old house shakes
And it's too hot to make any plans
The sidewalks crack, and the whole world quakes
'Cause you know that you chose the wrong man

Repeat Chorus:

©1977 Tarka Music Company

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Harpo's Blues (I Wish I Was A Willow)

I wish I was a willow
And I could sway to the music in the wind
And I wish I was a lover
I wouldn't need my costumes and pretend
I wish I was a mountain
I'd pass boldly thru the clouds and never end
I wish I was a soft refrain
When the lights were out I'd play
and be your friend
I strut and fret my hour upon the stage
The hour is up
I have to run and hide my rage
I'm lost again
I think I'm really scared
I won't be back at all this time
And have my deepest secrets shared

I'd like to be a willow
A lover, a mountain or a soft refrain
But I'd hate to be a grown-up
And have to try to bear my life in pain

I wish I was a soft refrain
When the lights were out I'd play
and be your friend
I strut and fret my hour upon the stage
The hour is up
I have to run and hide my rage
I'm lost again
I think I'm really scared
I won't be back at all this time
And have my deepest secrets shared

I'd like to be a willow
A lover, a mountain or a soft refrain
But I'd hate to be a grown-up
And have to try to bear my life in pain

©1973 Tarka Music Company

I Don't Want The Night To End

Oh mommy mommy
Oh mommy mommy, yeah
I stood too near the gaslight
And I cried
The dirty city mist
Had seeped too deep inside
It took me on some kind
Of heady ride
They told me Charlie Parker died
And I don't want the night to end
And I don't want the night to end

Oh daddy daddy
Oh daddy daddy
Waiting half my life
On platforms underground
The other half I wasted
As a desperate clown
My problem now is
That you're not around
In dark delicious dreams of you
I'll drown
And I don't want the night to end

Oh baby baby
Oh baby baby
Wrapped around your soul
Is where I wanna be
But in the night blue music's
All I seem to see
The drunks out in the rain
Down on one knee
And what is to become
Of you and me
And I don't want the night to end

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It Must Be Sunday

And I watched the world surround me
From inside a phone booth
And it began to astound me
I tried to keep my couth
I said it must be Sunday
'Cause ev'rybody's tellin' the truth
And then again it might be Monday
Yeah it might be Monday
'Cause ev'rybody's drinkin' vermouth
She lent her hand
At the kissing stand
But she gave 'em away for free
With an acid joke and a box of smoke
She can barely see
She drives her bus at dusk
With headlights off
And headphones up
And for tomorrow
She has planned a shopping spree
There's a man who loved so hard
He was like a billboard grin
He toasted life and beauty
'Til his head began to spin
He pressed his cheek
On rainwashed streets
And he wept into his gin
Reincarnation
And he came back as himself again
December thirty-first
Is the very worst time of the year
You got to think of people
That you like enough
To share your beer
Just when you're having fun
It's January one
And you wait for explanations
To appear

Majesty of Life

Oh, majesty of life, please don't escape me.
It's getting later and the windowshades are down.
I'm not the best that I could be
But I'm trying to wait and see
What can happen to a girl in her hometown

Chorus:
Oh, the wilderness
The unmade bed
The aching head
And oh the greying afternoon
The diary that ends too soon

Oh sweet belief in love, I know you're somewhere
No love is perfect but a true one must exist
It's getting farther down the year
I hope my autumn eyes will clear
And let me recognize his soul
When we have kissed

Repeat Chorus

©1977 Tarka Music Company

No Show Tonight

There'll be no show tonight
No the music won't sound right
The audience is being impolite
And I can't act tonight
Don't make me
And I can't act tonight
I guess I missed my cue, yeah
When he said we were through
He walked off stage
With some ingenue
And all I can act is blue
I really mean it
And no stand-in will do
Take back your Oscar
Your horseshoe made of flowers
You'll find me down
At the local pool hall
Tying up the phone for hours
Who could have guessed how
He'd rewrite the script
For me, yeah
I might be Sarah Heartburn
But I can't cover up this jealousy
And I can't cover up this jealousy
Let me fly again soon
And give me back my toy balloon
He's got me grounded
In my dressing room
And he's got me grounded
In my dressing room

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Poetry Man

You make me laugh
Cause your eyes they light the night
They look right through me
You bashful boy
You're hiding something sweet
Please give it to me yeah, to me

Talk to me some more
You don't have to go
You're the Poetry Man
You make things all rhyme

You are a genie
All I ask for is your smile
Each time I rub the lamp
When I am with you
I have a giggling teen-age crush
Then I'm a sultry vamp

Talk to me some more
You don't have to go
You're the Poetry Man
You make things all right

So once again
It's time to say so long
And so recall the cull of life
You're going home now
Home's that place somewhere you go each day
To see your wife

Talk to me some more
You don't have to go
You're the Poetry Man
You make things all rhyme

© 1973 Tarka Music Company

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Ride the Elevator

He's got front wheel drive, lots of money, but he don't scare me
He's the trigger, I'm the gun--he just does not scare me

Chorus: Man, you know he's so uptown, I'm so earthbound
He sez "Ride the elevator! Do it now or do it later"
How far we fall when we get off the wall, and
We ride the elevator

Schoolgirl Annie sez he's uncanny but he don't scare me
She throws rose petals, he shows his medals, but he don't scare me

Repeat chorus

He is just a comedian and he don't scare me
He can squeeze a woman like a milk-fed hen but he don't scare me

Repeat chorus

© 1977 Tarka Music Company

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Take Your Children Home

We see these manifold expressions
All at once on his face
And that's when we make our confession
He has conquered inner space
Take your children home
I am one, I am one
Take your children and tell them
All the peoples of the world
Should be as one
So take your children home
I am one

He kept on tickling us until
We laughed screamingly for mercy
And we marveled at his skill
He said I'm glad you didn't curse me
He might be my demise
Cause he's such a good magician
I'd like to get behind his eyes
And sing and cry from that position

The Middle of the Night

Thank you but I'm just looking
Shopping endless malls, waiting for phone calls
It rings--it's you--all right--the middle of the night
I'm the forgotten fledgling
Grounded by broken song, just a sparrow of
The blues, till you come by--the middle of the night
Trapped inside of my tired TV
I survive until you rescue me--yeaahh
Then I forget appointments
Future's so far like Mercury, Moon and Mars
You're here, turn out--that light
The middle of the night

© 1977 Tarka Music Company

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Two-Fisted Love

My baby's out there with his lantern
Searching for an honest man.
Oh, it's crisis time
Stuck in the suburbs,
Dying on the vine.
He knows how to give me gifts from above.
He knows how to give me two-fisted love.
Two-Fisted Love,Two-Fisted Love,
Two-Fisted Love
Oh, help us, Mary Jane
We are wand'ring out on this desert plain
Oh, we have no canteen,
Can the thirsty stay sane after what they've seen?
My baby's out there in his spacecraft
Searching for some energy. Geeeee
Oh that devil moon,
How can you create when you can't stay stay in tune?
But he knows how to give me gifts from above.
He knows how to give me two-fisted love.
Two-Fisted Love,Two-Fisted Love,
Two-Fisted Love
Oh, help us, Mary Jane
We are wand'ring out on this desert plain
Oh, we have no canteen,
Can the thirsty stay sane after what they've seen?
Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo etc.

© 1976 Tarka Music Company

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We're Children

We're children at the awkward stage
With moods we can never show
That's why it's best to turn this page and go
Just go--just go--just go--just go

Chorus:
You never stay around when I'm feeling fine
You're back in time for pain
And so my love some bad news
Your ring fell down the drain

You're staring so I turn my head
My eyes give it all away
It hurts to know we still have things to say
To say
To say
To say
To say

Repeat chorus

You're leaving but I'm not afraid
Or lost without company
I'll spend this time with somone new
Me, it's me, it's me, it's me

Repeat chorus

© 1977 Tarka Music Company

I'm Your Girl

You are my blood my soul
And my life line
You are the song I sing
Night after night

I can still feel your heart
Pressed close to mine
I tell passing strangers
That you are my light

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

You're my world
My little world
Ceilings, floors and hallways

You're my world
My little world
My seasons and my days

Everything good I am
You taught me
Everything good I am

You don't have to keep on paying
For what you bought me
Just look at me here I stand

Cause I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

You're my world
My little world
Ceilings, floors and hallways

You're my world
My little world
My seasons and my days

You'll never be gone
When you're deep inside
I still hear your voice
It's so deep and wide

Cause I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

You're my world
My little world
Ceilings, floors and hallways

You're my world
My little world
My seasons and my days

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

I'm your girl
Your little girl
Then and now and always

"Something Real" c 1989 Elektra.Asylum Records
(Phoebe Snow; SBK April Music Inc. / Phoebe Snow Music Co., ASCAP)