The Black Hat

Your everlasting summer, You can see it fading fast, So you grab a piece of something, That you think is gonna last, You wouldn't know a diamond, If you held it in your hand, The things you think are precious, I can't understand...

All alone at the end of the of the evening, And the bright lights have faded to blue, I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have, Loved me and I never knew...

Music was my first love, And it will be my last. Music of the future, And music of the past...

I've been walkin' these streets so long, Singin' the same old song, I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway...

I've been walkin' these streets so longm Singin' the same old song, I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway...

I got the key to the highway, Billed out and bound to go. I'm gonna leave here running; Walking is most too slow...

I want my... I want my MTV. I want my... I want my MTV... I want my... I want my MTV.

Johny's in the basement, Mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement, Thinking about the government, The man in a trench coat, Badge out, laid off, Says he's got a bad cough, Wants to get it paid off....

A bottle of white, a bottle of red, Perhaps a bottle of rose instead, We'll get a table near the street, In our old familiar place, You and I - face to face. A bottle of red, a bottle of white, It all depends upon your appetite, I'll meet you any time you want, In our Italian Restaurant

Clair, The moment I met you, I swear I felt as if something, somewhere, Had happened to me, Which I couldn't see, And then the moment I met you again, I knew in my heart that we were friends...

Sun is shinin' in the sky, There ain't a cloud in sight, It's stopped rainin', Everybody's in a play, And don't you know, It's a beautiful new day.

There's sunshine in my stomach, Like I just rocked my baby to sleep. There's sunshine in my stomach, And I can't keep me from creeping sleep, Sleep, deep in the deep.

We got it together, didn't we? We definitely got our thing together, don't we baby? Isn't that nice? I mean, when you really sit and think about it, isn't it really, really nice? I can easily feel myself slipping more and more ways, Slip in world of my own, Nobody but you and me, We've got it together, baby...

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of, What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone..

I can't light no more of your darkness, All my pictures seem to fade to black and white, I'm growing tired and time stands still before me, Frozen here on the ladder of my life, Too late to save myself from falling, I took a chance and changed your way of life, But you misread my meaning when I met you, Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

I leaned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired, The valentines I never knew, The Friday night charades of youth, Were spent on one more beautiful, At seventeen I learned the truth..

And if one day I should become, A singer with a Spanish bum, Who sings for women of great virtue, I'd sing to them with a guitar, I borrowed from a coffee bar, Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you...

In a little while from now, If I'm not feeling any less sour, I promise myself to treat myself, And visit a nearby tower, And climbing to the top, Will throw myself off, In an effort to make clear to whomever, What it's like when you're shattered...

Our town is just like any other, Good citizens at work and play, Normal folks doin' business in the normal way, This morning was like any other, Mommies kissing daddies goodbye, Then the milkman screamed, And pointed up at the sky...

He came from somewhere back in her long ago, The sentimental fool don't see, Tryin' hard to recreate, What had yet to be created once in her life, She musters a smile, For his nostalgic tale, Never coming near what he wanted to say, Only to realize It never really was...

Katy tried I was halfway crucified, I was on the other side, Of no tomorrow, You walked in And my life began again, Just when I'd spent the last piaster I could borrow, All night long We would sing that stupid song, And every word we sang I knew was true.

My brother Jake, Hat, shades, Head in a daze. My brother Jake, Have you though about, Changin' your ways? He goes out, He don't have no doubt, He don't have to know, What the world's about.

When you pray with every breath, You know that is free as the love you have, Where does it end It's too much for me to take, There's no peace, you close your eyes I'm all out of truth, I'm outta alibis, Where does it end, It's too much for me to take...

Felonius my old friend, Step on in and let me shake your hand, So glad that you're here again For one more time, Let your madness run with mine, Streets still unseen we'll find somehow, No time is better than now

Dark and grey, an English film, the Wednesday Play. We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day Won't you stay? Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry, The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain, Saved again.