1.Eighth Avenue
I met you at seven
I didn't expect your friends
I'm feeling much older
Somewhat a generation gap
You won't understand
I'm lost in a land
I'm not twenty-seven
Watch the computer
Sit by the telephone
Waiting for hours
Video games
Books on the bed
Cards I never sent
It's not like a dream
I thought it should be
Young and maudlin
You were alright till the end of the night
Counting all your feathers in cap
And a bible black eye
I left my twenties
In bar rooms and bathroom halls
Past twenty-two to forty and four
Eighth Avenue
We walked twenty blocks
Sat on the roof
Played spades and hearts
Young and maudlin
You were alright till the end of the night
Counting all your feathers in cap
And a bible black eye
I left my twenties
In bar rooms and bathroom halls
Past twenty-two to forty and four
Eighth Avenue
We walked twenty blocks
Sat on the roof
Played spades and hearts
Young and maudlin
You were alright till the end of the night
Counting all your feathers in cap
And a bible black eye
2.Friends Of Friends
I wanna go
On the 14th street
In old New York
I'd rather be home
But it's all the same
Crowded bars and planes
New Amsterdam and Old Richmond
I just called
And your girlfriend's coming home
You got friends that are new friends
And friends that are old friends
And friends looking out
Got a cheap dress on
With a wrinkled sleeve
My hat and glove
My money please
Or we might just go
With the burnt black air
I'd rather be home
My president's there
When I call, you don't pick up anymore
But I've got friends that are new friends
And friends that are friends
And friends looking out
When I call, you don't pick up anymore
But I've got friends that are new friends
And friends that are old friends
And friends looking out
3.Betty Wang
Betty Wang, roll your jeans
Cut your hair and clean your sleeves
I don't care where you live
Or how far uptown it is
Across the street we could meet
At the Edison Hotel
Bought you lunch
Bought you sleep
Took you up my stairs to meet
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
If you have to be back by nine
Telephone the report
Take a taxi ten before
You're the only girl on the team
You don't golf
You don't smoke
You don't understand their jokes
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
And if you leave New York
I don't care, I don't care
If you leave New York
I don't care
I will follow you back to Tokyo
Betty Wang, you don't lie
When you give career advice
Off the clock, at a bar
Singing Hammerstein and George
You're the only friend on the team
You don't laugh at my jokes
I appreciate your time
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
Su Chia
4.Julie
Is it gold？
Is it snow？
Is it all the debt I owe？
That money buys on a clock
On a silver studded bead
That I wore back then
When my head was thin
And I sewed and I sewed
All the ribbons on my coat
Seventeen past a year
Only breath could keep my heels
On the street
Thanking broad strong backs that built
All the roads and mines
That were left behind
Digging coal, digging coal
Used their bodies to feed their homes
Picking at the meat, dear
You won't break my wish
I took my half
Throwing out the seeds, dear
Hope this dirt will bind
And grow a tree
Saffron blows in the yard
Getting tossed a tasseled toe
Keep your hair tied for touch
In a brown unfolded bun
When it fell back down
Did it leave your crown
With the cloth that you bought
That was eaten by the moths？
Calling out a wave, dear
Calling out a wave will be your grave
This will last your life, dear
Ocean is a boy who wastes his day
Calling out a wave, dear
Calling out a wave will be your grave
This will last your life, dear
Ocean is a boy who wastes his day
5.The Right Profession
No one really knows
No one really knows
The price of fame
Put it in your pocket
Staring at the wall
Staring at the hall
The same old job
It's not the right profession
I don't want to tell you more
I see you're heading towards the door
Acting like an innocent
There's one more act that follows this
It's hard to change
It's hard to change
Tearing up your shoes
Tearing up your clothes
You can't afford
To ruin your possessions
Ringing rags and knees
Ringing cash and fleas
You won't sustain
It's not the right profession
Staring at the radio
There's one more song before I go
Your mother says your friends are trash
No she's nice, it's not like that
It's hard to change
It's hard to change
6.Sleepover
Moved out in the summer
An army bag of clothes
A coin to call your mother
She didn't answer
Put another quarter
In the colonnade
Hanging around robbers
What would your mother say？
I'm not tired of you staying here
Up all night, don't have to sleep
Let's pretend that we're married
Keep your hat under the sheets
Tall and clean and handsome
Raisin-colored eyes
Taking me for granted
Oh I don't care
Beige chiffon, silk and roses
Lock the door, I'll take your coat
Let's pretend that it's summer
Keep your bags behind the couch
Send a wire to your sister
Take a pill and go to sleep
I'm not tired of you staying here
Lock the door before you leave
7.The Birthday
8.Argonauts
In a boat to Ellis Island
I saw Santa Nina
Don't kiss boys
Mrs. Liberty waits for me
Inside an elevator
Handing out the cash, yeah yeah
She was an arrow
She was an Argonaut
Atalanta
All she did was promise
Beauty, beauty all you say
And that's your only story
Cheat as you enchant, yeah yeah
You are an arrow
You are an Argonaut
Atalanta
All you did was promise
You are an Argonaut
Atalanta
All you did was promise
That the sea would shake
Wind would rain
Bird would fake an arrow
When I was twelve
Dogs would yell
Run and howl
And whistle
And all the sugar melted you
Lock the door and throw the key away
Something told me I should leave right away
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
Lock the key and throw the door away
Something told me I should leave right away
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
Don't forget the bell
9.Liberal Arts
So you found the lock
But not the key that college brings
And all the trouble of a B.A. in English literature
Instead of law or something more practical
You traded all your time for money and the blues
But no trust fund or daddy doctor
What do you have to prove？
So you found your joy on Saturdays
With friends and film
Fingering your girlfriend
Your father's pride was beaming
When you bought your first home in Garden City
Stability outwins fashion or attitude
Long sober walks upstate
You don't miss a thing, do you？
So you found the lock
But not the key that college brings
And all the trouble of a B.A. in English literature
Instead of law or something more practical
You traded all your time for money and the blues
But no trust fund or daddy doctor
What do you have to prove？
10.All Day Today
All day today I met you
Met your face, met your name
And the sirens were calling me outside
All day today I saw you
Saw your arms, saw your eyes
That would flash like a lamp or a streetlight
Don't you know？
Don't you know？
All day today
The sun was out
The winter stayed inside the shade
And I hoped it would last a week or more
All day today
I wrote you
Wrote your name, wrote a rhyme
But the wind blew away the words outside
Don't you know？
Don't you know？
All the little lambs that fall
All the little lambs
That tell you
All day today I left you
Left your home, left your hands
And the road walked away my blues and grays
All day today I saw you
Saw your arms, saw your eyes
That would flash like a lamp or a streetlight
Don't you know？
Don't you know？
All the little lambs that fall
All the little lambs
They tell you
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