Aretha's Gold

Over that new paved highway

There is a house where love was made

Not with screaming and touching

But with the records quietly spinning

And it was Aretha's Gold

and it was the way you told

me to just shut up and try to enjoy myself.

but that i could never do.

so now it's Joanie's blow

and dreams and dreams and dreams and dreams of you

so if you can't treat her like a woman then

treat her like a baby doll

and just leave her in that bedroom

where you watch the summer tumble and fall

over the gardens, through the schools

she waits alone by a swimming pool

a storm is brewing in her soul

when did it start? i like to think i know.

well it was a summer night

a sweet and i just died

she turned the corner and i knew

all was about to change

and then i kissed your mouth

i felt your past somehow

and your whole life flashed before my eyes

so if you want to treat her like a woman

then pick her up like a baby doll

and rock her gently and tell her that you're sorry

and then be willing to let her go

because you, you're as tameless as a notion

i want to love you but commotion

it ravages me whole,

oh let me, i'm as dramatic as the thunder,

my lioness, scared as she rolls over

oh yeah, she needs to get some sleep.

oh and you, you'll be as famous as the notion

they'll try to name but commotion

oh, it'll ravage on the whole,

oh but me, i'm as dramatic as the thunder,

my lioness, scared as she rolls over

oh yeah, she needs to get some sleep.