New Year's Eve

Spread across these memories Cast in iron and in time
Is that a spark of electricity?
Or just a flash inside the mind

Always knew we’d meet on down the road
Always thought that you’d be alone
Can’t you see I’m traveling light?
But heavy hearted deep inside

On New Year’s Eve I wanted to kiss you
Somehow it felt wrong
Would you believe I was thinking that I missed you?
Sad that you were gone

I guess another year is done
There’s no stopping those gears of time
What’s your resolution I can’t think of one
Except to get you back here at my side

As we go around the sun
Let’s keep our eyes fixed on the stars
Keeping warm in this old atmosphere
On a planet like this we won’t be far

On New Year’s Eve . . .

I went to sleep beneath the coffee table
Too much to drink to even dream
I where to think if I was only able
I’d never be alone

No Blanket

Yes I like these northern lands
After the south has kicked us out again
But we’re all still in love with California

Its only when I’m heading west
I’m broken down in need of rest
I need something to keep me going
Keep me going on

The moon was only partly gone
She’d been eclipsed, was rising wrong
Just like my spirits rise and fall
Like they rise and fall

Before the sun rose
I pulled her down beneath an oak
With no blankets on the ground
I laid her down

The birds drove me crazy
I saw a red one watching me
Just as the sun was rising like
A disc of blazing fire

Soon we started walking
Through the brambles our legs where scratching
I was wishing for a bed to sleep in
To close my tired eyes

Before the sun rose . . .

Nothing But Trouble

She’s nothing but trouble
But that’s half of her appeal
She’s nothing but trouble
She says exactly what she feels
She’s nothing but trouble
But that’s why I love her

And it’s hard to say good bye
When you’re afraid of a black eye

She’s nothing but trouble
That’s what my friends say
She’s nothing but trouble
You better stay away
She’s nothing but trouble
And I’m gonna get it

And it’s hard to say good bye
When you’re afraid of a black eye

Nothing Changes

A thunder storm is coming
I see it through the door
If I get struck by lightning
My heart won't beat any more

In other words
Nothing changes

I went down to the river
The water's turning brown
If the levee breaks
I will surely drown

In other words
Nothing changes

I'm driving through a field
A fields sown with corn
I saw a dead dog lying on the side of the road
My baby left me yesterday
She packed up all her cloths
She said that I would never change

Nothing changes

This bottle's almost empty
I cannot catch a buzz
The radio's a tragedy
Of country songs and fuzz

In other words
Nothing Changes

Day light always fails me
There are no secrets he can keep
Midnight will embrace me
But she will not let me sleep
In other words
Nothing changes

Today there was a thunder storm
It came in from a-far
Lightning bolts came beating down
The earth was burnt and scarred
My baby left me yesterday
She drove off in her car
She said that I would never change

Nothing Changes

The kitchen clock is ticking
The faucet's got a leak
And like the water dripping
I'm on the path that resists the least

In other words
Nothing changes

I'm falling to the bottom
Bottom of a hill
Where rich men build their mansions
And marry pretty girls

In other words
Nothing changes

And if I had a little
Of what they've got up there
If things where different
If life was fair
My baby'd be beside me now
Together through this storm
But something you cannot change

Nothing changes

The night is awful quiet
There's no one for me to call
I'm standing on a wooden chair
And if I should fall
Nothing would change

Nothing changes

It's that which hangs you up
That holds me down
Yes, It's that which hangs you up
That holds me down

Nuclear Radio

Jessica’s nuclear radio
Has got a room to itself
At the end of the hall
With five speakers, five speakers
Two left and three right
When the morning is bright
She turns the volume up high
To make everything right

Jessica’s nuclear radio
Jessica’s nuclear radio
With a record collection of thousands
But no record player

Jessica’s nuclear radio
Plays broadcasts from space
On five speakers, five speakers
And miles of tape
I can’t concentrate
‘Cause the walls often shake
And my mind is quite baked

By Jessica’s nuclear radio
Jessica’s nuclear radio
With a record collection of thousands
But no record player

Jessica’s nuclear radio
Caused my fillings to shake
And the windows to brake
With five speakers, five speakers
The wires are frayed
But I can’t stay away
From the music she plays
On her atomic rays

High low fast and slow
Only put it in if its rock ‘n roll
Russia China don’t go wrong
Jessica’s radio’s got the bomb