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The Horses|Close
We will fly
Way up high
Where the cold wind blows
Or in the sun
Laughing having fun
With the people that she knows
And if the situation
Should keep us separated
You know the world won't fall apart
And you will free the beautiful bird
That's caught inside your heart
Can't you hear her?
Oh she cries so loud
Casts her wild note
Over water and cloud
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
We'll be riding on the horses, yeah
Way up in the sky, little darlin'
And if you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up
You will grow
And until you go
I'll be right there by your side
And even then
Whisper the wind
And she will carry up your ride
I hear all the people of the world
In one bird's lonely cry
See them trying every way they know how
To make their spirit fly
Can't you see him?
He's down on the ground
He has a broken wing
Looking all around
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
You go riding on the horses, yeah
Way up in the sky, little darlin'
And if you fall I'll pick you up, pick you up
Can't you hear her?
Oh she cries so loud
Casts her wild note
Over water and cloud
I'll pick you up darlin' if you fall
Don't worry 'bout a thing little girl
Because I was young myself not so long ago
And when I was young
When I was young
And when I was young, oh I was a wild, wild one
Just My Baby|Close
It seems lately when I walk down the street
There's something in my neighborhood
It's getting stronger every day
There's a rumor that lights up all of me
And it whispers from the rooftops up above
I must hold on or I'll fly away
Oh, no, not the autumn leaves
Lift you up like a flower in the cool night breeze
My heart's just flying when he walks by
Oh, but he's my inspiration
Yes indeed my pride and joy
Don't you say nothing bad about
What's between me and my baby boy
My mom has her point of view
"You'll learn the hard way
If that's what you're gonna do"
My sister don't have much to say
My girlfriend told me when I was young
You'll know him the minute that he's there
Oh can't you feel it coming in the air?
Oh no, not a summer song
Makes the night feel better
When the day goes wrong
My heart's just a singer when he walks by
Oh no, not a summer night
You forget about tomorrow
Cause the world seems right
There goes my baby walking by
Oh, but he's my inspiration
Yes indeed my pride and joy
Don't say nothing bad about
What's between me and my baby boy
There goes my baby walking
There goes my baby walking by ...
Ghetto Of My Mind|Close
Saving all my money all week long
So I can go out driving with you
Down on Hollywood Boulevard
On Friday night, dressed right
I don't take no trouble smoke at the wall
But I still have that leopard-skin hat
That you gave me way back
Before it was cool
And they took it to school
Here in the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Hey we wild it up, wild it up
I like to dance with my rooner
Cuz when we dance I feel like
We are who we've meant to be
He puts his arms around me
I put my arms around him
And I feel satisfied and free
One night I tried my bandanna around his wrists
And we started to sway and it felt so good
And he said " looky here mamma, looky here
I think I better just see you
Safely out of the neighborhood"
That is to say
The ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Hey we wild it up, wild it up
Outside my window the noise is all I've got
There are no stars in the sky
Just the sirens and queens
Breaking glass down in the parking lot
That's the world where I live
Sometimes I wonder, oh how can I go on ?
But I know that the world you make inside your head
That's the one you see around, that's what I said
And the one you see
Is the one you make
Inside of the ghetto
The ghetto of your mind
Y aqui, the ghetto
The ghetto of my mind
Hey we wild it up, wild it up
Rodeo Girl|Close
Out on the range
The quiet, endless still
Where the wild S.S.I
Whispers from these hills
It's a petrified forest
Trailer parks and fords
And there ain't no goin' back
Rodeo girl
Saddle up
There's no more credit in this bank
Try your luck
Up in the East
Down in the West
Hold on tight
To the pony that you love the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Rodeo girl, rodeo girl
Count all the boxcars
The blue and white stars
That fall for ya rodeo girl
You're lost in the desert
And it's too hot to think
You gotta know about the milk truck
If you want a drink
And when the cowboy's sing
Bobby sands and the bear
You can wet your lips
In the cool pools of despair
Up in the East
Down in the West
Hold on tight
Now you gotta be better than the best
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
There's a medicine at the gate
And a number on your back
This world is all jacked up like a cadillac
Painted by a rodeo girl
Rodeo girl
Satellites|Close
We were born forever
We are twinned in a fugitive mind
Friends should stay together and
Light the world with the fugitive kind
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
I just saw you walking
Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight
Thinks he could not tell you
You'll never read it more than you will tonight
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Ahh, walking satellites
We were born forever
Tunneled into the fugitive night
Friends must stay together
Code the world with the fugitive light
I just saw you walking
Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight
Casting runes on the rooftops and alleys
You'll never read it more than you will tonight
So you keep talking in many languages
Telling us the way you feel
Don't stop confiding in the road you're on
Don't quit, you're walking satellites
Walking satellites
She laughs satellites
A room filled with satellites
Ahh, walking satellites
Ghost Train|Close
Well I decided to take the bus
It was about 6:05
Cuz I could hardly walk
In fact, I was just barely alive
Under the bridges and over the street
Now every shadow that I meet
They all know my name
And they whisper
" What's a matter hon
Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train"
Jupiter Ray got on the bus
I remember when Jupiter came to town
He was one of the best of us
Oh, that stuff can really take you down
Hey, Jupiter Ray is on the bus
I remember when Jupiter was alive
Come to think of it
You all have a strange translucence in your eyes
What's a matter son?
Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train
You just buy your ticket
And get on board
This train don't stop
Cuz we like to ride, ride ride ride
We just wanna ride, ride ride ride
Ding goes the trolley
Bang goes the bell
Somebody call my second cousin
I'm not feeling very well
This is where little blondes check-in their furs
This is where little blondes check-in their hat
Don't worry about where you were at
We took care of that
Mr. Driver is this my stop ?
Mr. Driver tell me how to get off
Any way you can, any way
Come back into the light
You wanna get to heaven
Take the devil by the hand
And you slide right into the promised land
Cuz this could be the night
And this could be the gate
Everybody's waitin' for you darlin'
So don't be late
What's a matter honey ?
Didn't you pay your money for the ghost train ?
Well I decided to take the bus
It was about 6:05
Cuz I could hardly walk
In fact, I was just barely alive
Flying Cowboys|Close
Down there by the river is a man
Whose born is twisted into shapes
Unknown to the wicked and the wise
And he bears the look of an animal
Who's seen things no animal should ever see
He has been driven beyond all towns
And all the systems until now though it is
Long past too far he keeps going
Because it's a desert
Because it's a desert
We come to the river
We'll walk away from all this now
We come to the water
We'll walk away from all this now
She first saw him he was standing in the doorway
Illuminated from behind by a light
Though imaginary posses chased them
To these distant adobes
Standing on the cliffs today
I thought I saw you below
My shadow growing smaller
It's a desert because
Because it's a desert
They'll be asking me about you forever
I guess
We come to the river
We'll walk away from all this now
We come to the water
We'll walk away from all this now
Long coats on the prairie
Lying in the dust
Who can I turn to ?
Who can I trust ?
Were you walking on the water ?
Playing in the sun ?
But the world is turning faster
Than it did when I was young
When I was young
When I was young
Oh, when I was young I was a wild, wild one
Don’t Let The Sun, Catch You Crying (BMI)|Close
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
The night's the time for all your tears
Your heart may be broken tonight
But tomorrow with the morning light
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
The nighttime shadows disappear
And with them go all your tears
Cuz the morning will bring joy for every girl and boy
So don't let the sun catch you cryin'
We know that cryin's not a bad thing
But stop your cryin' when the birds sing
It may be hard to discover
That you've been left for another
But don't forget that love's the game
That can always come again
So don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Don't let the sun catch you cryin'
Oh, no.
Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive|Close
Love's gonna bring us back alive
Love's gonna bring us back alive
Over mountains where no one goes
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
We've been runnin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gotta keep runnin'
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
'Til love brings us back alive
We've been outlaws on the run
Sometimes outlaws on the run
I was just a baby when I fired my gun
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
That's why I keep a-runnin', runnin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gotta keep a-runnin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah
'Til love brings us back alive
Well the river's only water
And the mountain's only gold
They'll get old
Tell me, will you walk through this world alone?
Over mountains
We'll come home
Through the desert
We're gonna come home
There's no water
Where this wind has blown
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Well the rain come down
Oh yeah, yeah , yeah
But we can't stop now
Oh baby, love will bring us back alive
Hey! hey !
Away From The Sky|Close
For all that it cost him
He never did complain
The chicken-headed man
Feathering the rain
But the last bus is tired
And everybody's gone
The horses are waiting
In the middle of the lawn
Gone for the rodeo
Gone from the tundra,
Gal, it's after the fair
That's when I see you there
She's sleeping in the canvas
The fat man hollers who?
Tender is the night
Is it bleeding out of you?
"Come into my trailer
We'll toast a little bread
Oh look, you've left a hole
Where you laid on my bed"
He said
But you keep what you can keep
When you dive into the deep
There's year after frozen year
That's where I saved you there
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
But everybody's gone now
It's after the fair
And the horses are painted
With the waiting of the air
You turn the carousel on
When the lights have closed down
And watch your ponies run
Through the middle of town
So there ya go, little gal, there ya go
Gone from the tundra now
It's after the fair
That's where I...
Over the fences again
And the vacuums in the hall
And the planes up in the air
That's where I hear you best
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Oh, away from the sky
Atlas’ Marker|Close
Maybe you want another world
One where heaven doesn't weigh so much
Maybe you'll find another girl
One you can feel when you do not touch
Well I've got something
Warm inside me
It won't let you fall
'Til I see
Somewhere better than this place
Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away
Somewhere better than the world
I'm an aviator now
Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly
Over this tenement waterfall
This wet buries all the tears we've cried
I dream of you coming to me
Swimming in a water
Of many hearts I've known
Beneath new stars they're calling
Somewhere better than this place
Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark
Go find the arc
Show them the atlas' marker
You walk into school like you got nothin' to win
They won't let you in without atlas' marker
Oh, my sister's buried here so deep
I hear her digging in her sleep
Somewhere better than his place
Sometimes she closes her eyes
And she's out in space
Somewhere better than the world where we live
Discography|Close
Flying Cowboys (1989, GEFFEN)
▒ Track
1. The Horses (4:47)
2. Just My Baby (4:44)
3. Ghetto Of My Mind (6:12)
4. Rodeo Girl (4:50)
5. Satellites (4:54)
6. Ghost Train (4:16)
7. Flying Cowboys (5:02)
8. Don’t Let The Sun, Catch You Crying (BMI) (4:13)
9. Love Is Gonna Bring Us Back Alive (4:51)
10. Away From The Sky (5:30)
11. Atlas’ Marker (5:58)
▒ Information
released: 1989
producer: Walter Becker
Rickie Lee Jones performed vocals and background vocals. She also played String Synthesizer, Keyboards, Steel Drum, Synthesizer, Guitar, Drum Program, Organ, and Acoustic Guitar. She also played all of the instruments on "Rodeo Girl."
Ed Alton - Acoustic Bass
Walter Becker - Synthesizer/Bass
Michael Bernard - Programmer/Programmer for Strings/Keyboard Program
Sal Bernardi - Electric Guitar/Background Vocals
Michael Boddicker - String Synthesizer
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Gary Coleman - Vibes
Paulinho da Costa - Percussion
Chris Dickie - Drum Program
Kevin Dorsey - Background Vocals
Peter Erskine - Drums
Buzz Feiten - Electric Guitar/Acoustic Nylon String Guitar
Michael Fisher - Percussion
Jim Keltner - Drum Machine Effects
Marty Krystall - English Horn/Clarinet/Tenor Sax
Greg Mathieson - Hammond B-3
Vince Mendoza - Trumpet
Michael Omartian - Piano
Pascal Nabet-Meyer - Synthesizer/Percussion/Keyboard Program
Dean Parks - Electric Guitar/Acoustic Guitar/Acoustic Steel String Guitar
Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards
John Robinson - Drums
Michael Ruff - Background Vocals
Vonda Shepard - Background Vocals
Bob Sheppard - Sax/Tenor Sax
Chris Smith - Harmonica
Leslie Smith - Background Vocals
William "Smitty" Smith - Organ
Neil Stubenhaus - Bass
Rob Wasserman - Bass
The Waters - Background Vocals
Bob Zimmiti - Percussion
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