Talkin' Midtown Women-Jackie Greene

[ti:Talkin' Midtown Women] [ar:Jackie Greene] [al:Dig Years 2001-2005] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talkin' Midtown Women - Jackie Greene (杰基·格林) [00:10.98]Well Monday morning had me down [00:12.89]By Tuesday evening I'd come around [00:15.10]Friday found me singing on the stage [00:17.65] [00:19.64]Well I don't mind working late [00:21.17]It keeps the beans on my plate [00:23.70]If it weren't for singing [00:24.93]I might be in the cage [00:26.33] [00:28.02]Now I got me a basement with a view [00:30.02]And I can sleep till 12 past two [00:32.69]Some folks call me lazy some call me brave [00:35.34] [00:37.20]But it don't matter anyway [00:38.68] [00:39.24]We do our own things day to day [00:41.39]I just ain't no one else's slave [00:43.93] [00:45.88]And all the while the world turns [00:47.81]With petty talk and lame concerns [00:50.24]And arguments over what you should believe [00:52.89] [00:54.76]And all the while the world burns [00:56.64]It's clear as day but nobody learns [00:58.84]Cause no one wants a cure for this disease [01:01.72] [01:05.63]Now I see women everywhere [01:07.70]On the street and on the stair [01:10.09]Sometimes it's so hard to keep my cool [01:12.85] [01:14.90]Platinum blondes who've gone brunette [01:16.83]And some who ain't decided yet [01:18.92]Lord sometimes they make me feel just like a fool [01:21.83] [01:23.85]I know girls with strange tattoos [01:25.96]And I know girls who like their booze [01:28.45]And I know girls who don't do nothing but cry [01:31.00] [01:32.85]I know girls with plastic faces [01:34.97]Their picture's on their pillowcases [01:37.38]I know girls who live to love and lie [01:40.03] [01:41.75]And everytime I turn around [01:44.09]Another grave is in the ground [01:46.52]They're selling all kinds of crap on my TV [01:48.91] [01:50.95]And everytime I turn around [01:53.05]Someone says they think they've found [01:55.33]The answer to some old mystery [01:58.04] [02:02.05]Now outside the apartment gates [02:04.17]There's vanity on license plates [02:06.65]And a dozen different kinds of coffee shops [02:09.23] [02:10.88]I go walking down that avenue [02:13.27]Same as them same as you [02:15.63]Difference is my feet don't ever stop [02:18.30] [02:20.06]Now I know married girls who cheat [02:22.16]They say their lives are incomplete [02:24.59]And I know girls who say they've been betrayed [02:27.27] [02:29.19]I know girls who speak of fate [02:31.24]And they don't ever hesitate [02:33.57]They say life is made of moments being made [02:36.48] [02:38.20]But come midnight it's all the same [02:40.54]It melts into a picture frame [02:42.78]And suddenly everything's so clear [02:45.46] [02:47.43]The night is cool the moon is tame [02:49.40]And there's nothing but some crazy dame [02:51.88]It's always these d**n women that keep me here [02:54.53] [03:16.06]Wintertimes my favorite time [03:18.10]I get to see old friends of mine [03:20.16] [03:20.67]Everybody's running from the cold [03:22.98] [03:24.93]But I know someday it'll all be gone [03:26.97]When youth decides to pass me on [03:29.41]And time decides to turn my body old [03:32.26] [03:33.90]But I'll always love that cheap perfume [03:36.28]Messin' with my afternoons [03:38.72]And all those pretty women passing by [03:41.49] [03:43.19]We all sing the same old tune [03:45.65]Like the locals in the loud saloon [03:48.09]Just doing what were doing till we die