Lyrical Response

[Gray Beard]

There's an old piano
And they play it hot behind the green door
Don't know what they're doing
But they laugh a lot behind the green door
Wish they'd let me in so I could find out 
What's behind the green door

[PastaJoe]

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

 

Giant doin' cartwheels, statue wearin' high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancin' on the lawn
Dinosaur Victrola list'nin' to Buck Owens
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

[WhoTom]

Down with disease
And I'm up before the dawn
A thousand barefoot children outside dancing on my lawn

And I keep

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful but now I'm on my way
But when I think it's time to leave it all behind
I try to find a way but there's nothing I can say to make it stop

[Gray Beard]

Up with the sun, gone with the wind,
She always said I was lazy.
Leaving my home, leaving my friends,
Running when things get too crazy.
Out to the road, out 'neath the stars,
Feeling the breeze, passin' the cars.

 

Women have come, women have gone,
Everyone trying to cage me.
Some were so sweet, I barely got free,
Others, they only enraged me.
Sometimes at night, I see their faces,
I feel the traces they've left on my soul.
Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul,
I tell you, those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

 

[SinceThe70s]

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past

[PastaJoe]

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind

 

To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

[Gray Beard]

Away out here they've got a name
For rain and wind and fire
The rain is Tess,
The fire's Joe
And they call the wind Maria

[SinceThe70s]

Who's peekin' out from under a stairway
Calling a name that's lighter than air
Who's bending down to give me a rainbow
Everyone knows it's Windy

[WhoTom]

(I hope I don't get sued for reprinting this)

 

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

 

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do, so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets?
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow

Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold

[Gray Beard]

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took

 

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful world this would be

 

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for

 

But I do know one and one is two
And if this one could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be

[WhoTom]

One and one is two
Six and two is eight
Come on baby don't ya make me late
Hi-dee-hey
Baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago

 

[SinceThe70s]

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin' if you wanna be with me

[PastaJoe]

Maybe someday, saved by zero
I'll be more together
Stretched by fewer thoughts that leave me
Chasing after my dreams, disown me, loaded with danger
So maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)

[ExiledInIllinois]

"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one

No is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know

'Cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
One is the loneliest number, whoa-oh, worse than two..."

[WhoTom]

It's been one week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side and said I'm angry
Five days since you laughed at me saying
Get that together come back and see me
Three days since the living room,
I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

[Gray Beard]

Look at me 
I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud
I can't understand
I get misty, just holding your hand

 

Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play
Or it might be the sound of your hello
That music I hear
I get misty whenever you're near

 

[SinceThe70s]

Now they're some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Oh yes I'm the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I'm not; you see
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around.

Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

[Gray Beard]

Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown

 

I gotta stand tall
You know a man can't crawl
When he knows you're tellin' lies and he hears 'em passing by
He's not a man at all