Palisades Park

Somebody screamed

All of Jim Jeffries' dreams

Explode into a black fist

He falls to the floor

He stares up at the sky

And he may wish he knew why

But you can't go back there no more

The future sounds so crazy

We all heard that song before

Tomorrow's the name

we changed from yesterday to blame

When the train just don't stop here any more

I got starry-eyed

On the coaster ride

Andy said, "Man, I need a break from the world outside"

These days my life just careens

Through a pinball machine

I could do so much better

But I can't get off the tilt

And there's a photograph on the TV, black and white

Andy says something to you

Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like

Sheesh, I forget myself sometimes, too

But out past the doorways

Where we are sleeping

Well, the white queen's creeping

The tom cat's peeping

Now I'm not breaking

The train's just shaking

I never made it here before

And there's a wild mouse spinning the girls around

Til they can't take it any more

I used to dream in the dark, in Palisades Park

Up over the cliffs and down among the spark

It's a long life

Full of long nights

But it's not what I was waiting for

Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore

It's a miracle they don't make them any more

So

Make up ladies

Wake up baby

You walked into the bar like some Saturday star

Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves

And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde

Gin-tight and aging, but well preserved

Remember Andy outside your bedroom window

Saying, "Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades

Keep going til we hit Reno, Nevada"

I don't see Andy all that much these days

Still there are pages in back of the action stacks

Where the white queen's creeping

The tom cat's peeping

The train's not breaking

The track's just shaking

I never made it here before

And there's a sky rocket turning the world around

Til I can't take it any more

And you carry that spark from Palisades Park

Down over the cliffs and out into the dark

It's a long life

Full of long nights

But it's not what I was looking for

Everybody dreams of horses flying 'round the shore

It's a bad dream we're not having any more

Man

Have you seen Andy?

Hey man, hey man

Seen him around

Hey man, have you seen my Andy?

Hey man, have you seen him have you seen her

have you seen him have you seen her

Hey, have you seen Andy around?

Dressed up in a pirate vest

All leathers and feathers and pearls

Andy said, "Look at me, man! I'm cooking

These hands could finger up this whole world"

He said, "Come outside

Climb out your bedroom window

Shimmy down the fire escape

And say goodbye"

"Come outside"

Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie

Changing all the time

My leopard spots to polka dots"

"And say goodbye"

"Come outside "

Well maybe we can move to California

Just meet me at the subway

"And say goodbye"

"Come outside"

The cops all think we're crazy

If you stay, you'll just get married

To a girl who'll never know you

And then say goodbye

Hey man, have you seen Andy?

I lost her in the sun

I was high as a kite

But on lovely in white

Man, you can lose anyone

Hey hey man, have you seen Andy?

I don't know where she's gone

Real love outlives teenage lust

We could get wet and it keeps us warm

Love is like angel dust

Lovely sometimes changes us

Sometimes not

Have you been aching with trust or just

Have you been waking yourself with lust?

Have you been making us up or just

Taking us home?

It's a long wait

At a long light

Cars frozen in flight

All the traffic stops to stare

At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada

Where nothing but air

And a pair of gray paper wings

Andy thinks that I have got nothing to wear

We got nothing new and

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear