Evening Song To Sally-Simon Joyner

[ti:Evening Song To Sally] [ar:Simon Joyner] [al:Lost With The Lights On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Evening Song To Sally - Simon Joyner [00:31.12]I couldn't stand another second in your room staring [00:38.28] [00:42.89]The easy gestures of your wrist [00:46.49] [00:47.00]Spreading perfume sparingly [00:50.91] [00:54.39]Behind the ears and across the [00:57.71]Neck I once studied so carefully [01:02.81] [01:06.03]It had been too long [01:10.17] [01:12.51]It had been too long [01:14.56] [01:17.67]It had been too long since I had watched you move [01:22.84] [01:31.48]I had to cut out for some fresh air on the landing [01:37.63] [01:41.19]But I got nothing but the smell [01:42.94]Of rotten fruit rising up from the alley [01:48.77] [01:52.67]Suddenly I realized I wasn't young anymore [01:56.73]And I was still hiding out from your daddy [02:01.03] [02:04.34]I had spent so long [02:08.48] [02:10.77]I had spent so long [02:12.66] [02:15.51]I had spent so long loving you [02:20.32] [02:29.51]My mother she built her name on getting [02:33.47]Out of sorry situations [02:37.10] [02:41.48]My father bought a piece of land [02:43.91] [02:44.62]He didn't care to ever stray from [02:49.94] [02:52.74]And I was the very worst kind of cool combination [03:00.61] [03:03.96]I wanted to stay [03:07.74] [03:10.12]I wanted to stay [03:12.54] [03:14.88]I wanted to stay but I always go [03:20.13] [03:28.90]I don't know if I can go and drink with you again on Saturday [03:36.21] [03:40.78]I've been dizzy inside this dirty [03:43.29]Window since that last time you walked away [03:48.25] [03:51.69]Well the cars and trucks bolt [03:54.95]And fizzle like fireworks on the freeway [04:00.28] [04:03.64]But I wonder where they go [04:07.66] [04:09.64]I wonder where they go [04:12.45] [04:14.44]I wonder where they go to explode [04:20.45] [04:28.60]You and me I guess we were just born to be free Sally [04:35.78] [04:38.01]That's the kind of thing you [04:39.34]Say when you lose your grip on something [04:45.72] [04:47.70]I pushed my way this far [04:49.31]But now I don't know how to stop runing [04:55.25] [04:58.77]I can't stand still [05:02.58] [05:05.28]I can't stand still [05:07.41] [05:09.83]I can't stand still and follow you [05:15.36] [05:33.48]I don't mind losing everything that I lived for once [05:41.02] [05:43.23]The earth spins for seventy-five [05:45.42]Cents down at the local laundromat [05:50.85] [05:54.40]Chris says you've got to lose [05:57.64]Your head something to save your neck [06:03.28] [06:06.20]So Sally go on [06:09.68] [06:12.47]Sally go on [06:14.89] [06:17.31]Sally go on and that's just what I'll do