Lyrical Response

[Gray Beard]

Good morning mister sunshine, you brighten up my day
Come sit beside me in your way
I see you every morning, outside the restaurants
The music plays so nonchalant

 

Lonely days, lonely nights.
Where would I be without my woman?

[WhoTom]

Mr. Blue Sky

Please tell us why
You had to hide

Away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
Hey there Mr. Blue (Sky)
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

 

[KD in CA]

I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to you
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy

I know my mind is made up
So put away your make-up
Told you once, I won't tell you again
It's a bad way

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light

[Gray Beard]

Red lights are flashin' around me
Yeah, love it looks like they found me
Indiana wants me, Lord, I can't go back there

[Bill from NYC]

My buddies and me are getting real well-known

Yeah the bad guys know us and they leave us alone

I get around

From town to town,

I'm a real cool head,

I'm making real good bread.

[WhoTom]

Got kind of tired of packing and unpacking,
Town to town, up and down the dial
Maybe you and me were never meant to be,
Just maybe think of me once in awhile.

 

 

Edited May 27, 2020 by WhoTom

[Gray Beard]

Alarm clock starts ringin' who could that be singin'
It's me baby with your wake up call
 

How do you like me now
How do you like me now
Now that I'm on my way
Do you still think I'm crazy standing here today
I couldn't make you love me
But I always dreamed about living in your radio
How do you like me now?!

 

[SinceThe70s]

Do you remember lying in bed
With your covers pulled up over your head?
Radio playin' so no one can see
We need change, we need it fast
Before rock's just part of the past
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me

[WhoTom]

The first thing I remember
I was lying in my bed
I couldn't have been no more
Than one or two
I remember there's a radio
Comin' from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it's late in the evening
And the music's seeping through

 

[SinceThe70s]

When I woke up, mom and dad are rolling on the couch.
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my kiss records out.

[KD in CA]

I thank you for the music and your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go
I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough
And papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough

The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man
I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band
I am a living legacy to the leader of the band

[Gray Beard]

Hear the band, hear the band. Won't you let the music take you, hear the band.
And let this night go on forever, and don't you ever stop the music. Let your spirit set you free.
Hear the band, hear the band. You can sing and stomp you feet and clap your hands. 
And these few moments we'll share together, and I'll play for you.

[SinceThe70s]

Hey Lordy... (join the band, be good rascal...)
Hey join the band, be good rascal and join the band
Hey Lordy...

[WhoTom]

When you hear this sound a-comin'
Hear the drummer drumming
Won't you join together with the band
We don't move in any 'ticular direction
And we don't make no collections
Won't you join together with the band

 

[Gray Beard]

Seventy six trombones led the big parade,
With a hundred & ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows,
Of the finest virtuosos,
The cream of every famous band.

[Bill from NYC]

That's the way it's been in town,
Ever since they tore the jukebox down.
Two bit piece don't buy no more,
Not so much as it done before.

I say row Jimmy row, gonna get there I don't know
Seems a common way to go, get out and row, row, row, row, row.

[SinceThe70s]

Why do I have to be different to them?
Just to earn the respect of a dance hall friend,
We have the same old row, again and again.

[Bill from NYC]

You and I travel to the beat of a diff'rent drum
Oh, can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me, Wo oh
You cry, and you moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

[ExWNYer]

One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie

A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky

We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree

The music of her laughter hid my father's words from me:

 

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet

But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

[Gray Beard]

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me
Anyone else but me, anyone else but me
No! No! No!
Just remember that I've been true to nobody else but you
So just be true to me