The Tiki Bar Is Open lyrics

Well, you met her there on a New York City stair
You were throwing up on your shoes
Tryin' to write the great book when it really had you shook
With a bad case of wintertime blues

So you drag her down to the ragged side of town
She had a taxi to carry her home
Then she left her handkerchief there beside you on the seat
As if to emphasize that you were all alone

There's a mad little kid at the top of the stair
And his eyes, they gather no lie
Well, his mom and his dad, they're too high to care
And his cries drift off in the night

And I've been that kid, yeah it's true
And I've been both of those parents too
I'm ashamed when I lost my way
But I'd do anything just to come home to you

The twilight captures the sorrow of time

Well the prize was right there underneath our eyeballs
And when it all came down we were looking for the pitfalls
Until Junie said baby get yourself to going
And we were so far gone we had no way of knowing

Everybody went low
Everybody went low
Everybody went low

Well she was pretty as a junebug jumpy as a nerve end
And when she pulled the rug out my tires started swerving

Friends of mine they don't hear
Clocks ticking all around their ears
They don't expect a thing
Bridges moving while the river sings

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Long lost love
Where do we go from here
Farther stars
Different atmospheres

The river sings us back from the time
Drawn to heaven with a voice so fine
Final joys final cries
On and off like starlight in her eyes

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If I could go back to love's first blush
Oh my lordy it would be a big rush
But I know you can't go back
You gotta keep moving that's a natural fact

So here we are still in love
I swear to you honey by the stars above
It's an old man's dreams that a young man fears
Well I learned that honey just hangin' round here

I'm proud of my mistakes

I know a place
Where the dogs ain't barking
I know a place
Where the sun don't shine

I know a place
Where the gosts do the talking
In the back of my mind
In the back of my mind

I know a place
Little thirteen-year-old cousin
Blood running high
Got a knife in his hand

No daddy would do
Those things to his mama
So he opened that blade
And he stuck that man

I know a place

I would have thought time would erase
I'll never get over you
The feeling's lost in your embrace
I'll never get over you

But still I try
And still I cry
Still I'm wondering why

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I'll never get over you
I'll never get over you
I'll never get over you

I tell myself my heart will find
A way to get over you
When I've already lost my mind
Tryin' to get over you

The voice goes on

I thought we were gonna make that bridge, what did I know
Me and my expectations was always high
"Like a Rolling Stone" is playing on the radio
It made you cry
But we got by

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My old friend
You make me feel young again
My old friend
You're just as pretty as you were back then

A Corvair with no floorboards, a Gibson Hummingbird

It ain't like I'm so tough
You shook me to the heart
You shook me sure enough

Turned my whole world upside down
I tried to run away but I just ran aground

On the rock of your love
On the stone hard truth
On the rock of your love
I found my living proof

You pierced through armor plated steel
You tore into my soul
And forced me to be real
I feel the strength of 20 men

There's something broken in my heart
Oh it was nothing you done
There's something broken in my heart
I guess that's just the way it comes

There's something broken in my heart
Something I just can't fix
There's something broken
Something broken in my heart

I've tried every powder and every pill
To put it back together somehow
Rode high with the fool up on the hill

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Thank God the tiki bar is open
Thank God the tiki torch still shines
Thank God the tiki bar is open
Come on in and open up your mind

I was out on a leave of absence
From any resemblance to reality
I felt like a rocket launched to the great blue yonder
From the boys down at Kennedy

I was driving by his majesty's court hotel
Where the sign said praise his name

I like to party with my peeps, cruzins' great, Playing 3 car monty on these crazy streets. Strait hustler, Pull a scam in a minute. So low to the flo' pick a pocket in a midget. Slick shister, the pest myster. Live life in Miami's best. Sma see nobody messes with the frog see, what's everybody sayin' now. Na na na na na na na na na na na na.

A moment of steel, a dry eyed house
Did he say goodbye to you, or did you kick him out
I know you're not afraid to go alone
But this was a marriage of spirit, flesh and bone

Now what you gonna do when the planets shift
What you gonna do, gonna slit your wrists
Bleed all over the milky way
The stars in your eyes look red today

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Cry love, cry love
The tears of an angel