Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings lyrics

I'm a Russian Jew American
Impersonating African Jamaican
What I want to be is an Indian
I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end
I guess I bought a gun
because it impresses all the little girls I see
and then they all wanna sleep with me
Oh where did we disappear
into the silence that surrounds us and then
drowns us in the end
Where these people who impersonate our friends

I'm always thinking of someone new
I'm never sitting ok with you
There's always something else on my mind
There's always something I can't find

You think about anything you can
I think about you
I'll think about anything
It's true

I'm almost perfect some of the time
I'm also sinking some of the time
I'm almost ready
It's almost true
For almost anyone but you

You think about anything you can

Gonna get out on the road tonight
Cause, I got a hollow in my head
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
Until the pot hits the sky

It's like I think
I'm sick of cocaine
Got a feeling like
It's running in my veins
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
Until the pot hits the sky

Even the best years
Leave a lot to be desired
When they pass you by

Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been?
Little pieces blowing' gently on the wind
They have flown down California
They have landed in L.A.
Little pieces slowly settling on the waves

I'm one of a million pieces fallen on the ground
It's one of the reasons when we say goodbye
We'll still come around We will come around

I have waited for tomorrow from December 'til today

Cowboys on the road tonight
Crying in their sleep
If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand
And some promises to keep
Who wanted to change the world
Whats as easy as murder?
Its all headlights and vapor trails
And Circle K killers

And I could look at anyone but you now
I could fall into the eyes of anyone but you now

So come on, come on, come on, come on,
Come on through now

She brings her friends so we wont have to be alone
Fear I might lose my composure without warning
I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires
And I was born inside the sun this morning

This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree

Can you see me
Up on the building
From down on the pavements
Or out in the crowd

Can you see me
Through the glare of the lampposts
Im walking a tightrope
Into the moon

I dont wanna feel so different
But I dont want to be insignificant
And I dont know how to see the same things different now

Oh, can you see me
Im one in a million
I am Icarus falling
Out of the sun

Wasted time running scared
When all a love needs is to be believed in
All those Springs come and gone
Past like trains and boxcars leaving
But I would be lying
If I didn't tell you the truth
They will leave you
They will leave you
So come now
Let's go dance to siren's song
Come now
Leave your damage behind and gone
Some are lost to you
Wasted time running scared

Dancing like the nights are down in Nashville
But I seem to know the ghosts who like to run
I got a call to go to a late night picture show
So I traded in the darkness and i'm already glad
I'm already there

And i'm trying to make some friends
So if you see that movie star and me
If you see my picture in a magazine
Or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV

A picture of Amsterdam
Bare trees under glass
Framed in the afternoon light
Of a winter long past
When I was a raiser
To Dublin I'd roam
She was a bareback rider
Some miles from home
Come back to me
She's a carnival driver
Hung in the sky
Cutting through time like a memory
Strung on a wire
The color of anything
Fades in the air
But she is the film of a book of the story
Of the smell of her hair

Take a message to your head
Just stay beside her in the bed
You were so stupid
To believe in things you couldn't see
Then make them all you want
If you haven't got the reasons
Just make up any reasons
Then pick them 'til they're torn
Take it all away
You took your coat today
But they all go back in the morning
Make a time to find your way
I got a little further today

Coloured rubbers and a bedroom set
I wouldn't know it if it hit me
You take a little step and then it feels like love
I think I better get a little bit of it in me
Give me a kiss, I think it feels like love
Give me a kiss, I think it feels like sunshine
C'mon baby, well light me up
I wanna look into your eyes until I go blind

You think that you can do without me
I can't do anything at all

I sold my piano
It couldn't come with me
I locked up my bedroom
And I walked out into the air
When nothing I needed
Is left there behind me
I walk out through the shadows
Of Washington Square

I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley
And I heard the songbirds of Valley Paurine
I love like a fountain
And it left me with nothing
Just the memories of walking through Washington Square

You know I dont like you
But you want to be my friend
There are bodies on the ceiling
And they are fluttering their wings
Its ok, Im angry
But youll never understand
When you dream of Michelangelo
They hang above your hands

And I know, she is not my friend
And I know, cause there she goes
Walking on my skin again

And I cant see why
You want to talk to me

Anything's hard to change
But hey I got you down on your knees again
You watch the sky
It's a pale parade of passing clouds
That cover
The bed upon which we laid
In the dark
And the memories that I made
Of a laughing girl
But you're just my toy
And I can't stop playing with you, baby

If you think you need to go
If you wanted to be free
There's one thing you need to know