Songs To Orphans (Part 2, 1) ACTION IN THE STREETS Well don't move Why don't you listen to what I'm saying And hey you You better get up if you plan to be staying Get loose You got to listen to what the band is playing Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're boppin' to the big beat - go Get up off your seat and roll At school The girls you know their dancing, mister's, just my speed And hey cool If action is the thing you need Well don't fool The kid's satisfaction guaranteed Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're boppin' to the big beat - go Get up off your seat and roll Well hey man Yeah don't let the little girl sigh Understand If you just move your body side to side Raise your hand Shout until you're satisfied Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're boppin' to the big beat - go Get up off your seat and roll Songs To Orphans (Part 2,2) RICKIE WANTS A MAN (OF HER OWN) Well look out Mama your little girl she has changed She cut her baby curls and she's got her act rearranged Look out Daddy what she needs now, she can't find at home Oh Rickie wants a man of her own She wants a man of her own Rickie wants a man of her own Mama says her little girl won't talk to her anymore She just goes in her room, turns on the radio and shuts the door She's got her own bathroom, TV, stereo, extension phone Oh but Mama, Rickie wants a man of her own She wants a man of her own Rickie wants a man of her own Well Daddy says when he drops her off Friday night at the gym She slides way down in the front seat So the kids won't see her with him She don't do no work She won't tell nobody when she's coming home And she makes poor Daddy wait down on the corner At midnight all alone Well Daddy's pullin' out his hair He says that girl ain't got no direction She don't care to bring her girlfriends home to pass Daddy's inspection Now we're left peeking through the curtains Everytime that we hear a horn blow Well I guess Rickie wants a man of her own Mama says :Son, talk to her, she'll listen to you" Yeah, she listens real nice and she does what she wants to do Well Daddy says "She wears her jeans so tight Well, you change 'em or you're stayin' home" Ah but Daddy, Rickie wants a man of her own She wants a man of her own Rickie wants a man of her own She's almost grown Rickie wants a man of her own She wants a man of her own Rickie wants a man of her own Songs to Orphans (Part 2,3) CINDY I pick you up with flowers When you get off from work It's like you don't even care It's like I'm some kind ofjerk I take you out on a date And then you won't even kiss me Boy when I ain't around I'll bet you don't even miss me I don't know why I love you like I do I try and try You treat me like a fool It makes me wanna cry It makes me feel so blue But I just do, baby I just do I call you up Just to pass the time Soon as you hear my voice You disconnect the line And when I call you back Your mother says you ain't home Cindy I know that it's you At the other end of this phone Oh in this world There ain't another like you My little candy girl So hard-hearted and cruel I think that's what Keeps me coming back I'm a fool for you Cindy And I love you like that I came to get you last night Cindy at a quarter to six Your daddy came to the door He said Cindy got sick She got sent home from work With a note from the nurse And that my very presence Would make your condition worse But it ain't your health 'Cause wll you sure look for fine Little girl it's something else That's on my mind Whatever you've got Well you can give it to me 'Cause if it's good enough for you It's good enough for me I don't know why I love you like I do You make me cry And feel like such a fool I huess I like it When you hurt me this way You dish it out and I just put it away Songs To Orphans (Part 2,4) DON'T LOOK BACK Cold rain running down the front of my shirt I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt Angel makes her face up out on baker Street She's straddlin; the shifter in my front seat There's nothing to lose It's a set-up (heartbreak) The deck's stacked So put your foot to the floor And darling don't look back Well making night tracks through the blazing rain Blow them pistons, work (move) in the fast lane White line burning, pockets full of cash Angel writes her name in lipstick on my dash There's nothing to lose It's a set-up (except a heartbreak) (just a bad break) The deck's stacked (baby we're back) Tonight we'll blow off the doors (Put your foot to the floor) And honey we won't look back (And darling don't look back) We held it in our hearts in the puring rain We made it through the heart of a hurricane We tore it apart and put it together again We'll wash out sins, girl down in the sea Angel won't you believe in love for me (Come on meet me tonight darlin' out in the street) We'll move with the city in the dark You got to walk it talk it in your heart There's nothin' to lose It's a set-up (just a heartache) The deck's stacked So put your foot to the floor (and) darling Tonight we'll blow out (off) the doors darling (baby) Put your foot to the floor (we're gonna even the score) And darling don't look back (honey we won't look back) Don't look back Ah, baby, don't look back Songs To Orphans (Part 2,5) FRANKIE Dark weekends in the sun, out on Chelsea Row Descending the stairs, Frankie my love Check your make-up in the mirror Come on, babe, let`s go We`ll dance round this dirty town Till the night is all done Let all the finer things sleep alone tonight Let all the minor kings lose their thrones tonight Don`t worry about me baby, I`ll be alright There`s machines and there`s fire On the outside of town Young boys for hire Waiting to blow us all down There are strange flashes in the sky up above I`ll spend the night at the movies With my secret love At dusk the stars all appear on the screen Just like they do each night in my dreams But tonight`s no dream, Frankie I can feel myself move Living and dying Like I was born to do Walk softly tonight little angel (stranger) I wanna be alone with you Talk softly to me tonight angel Make all my dream world(s) (dreams) come true I remember standing in the freezing rain Reading them "Want Ads" out on Chelsea Row Winging down the street in search of new games Hustling through the night packs where the actors go Frankie they are crazy, let`s run and hide (Frankie tonight we`ll leave it all behind) In the darkness there`ll be hidden worlds that shine When all of the glory (fury ?) in this desperate land Will rise like raindrops in the palm of our hands Walk softly tonight little angel Into the shadows where lovers go Talk softly to me tonight angel Whisper your secrets so soft and low... Songs To Orphans (Part 2,6) I WANNA BE WITH YOU So let the frozen sands crumble, crumble and fall Yeah that's all right, i don;t mind at all Well let it all tumble right into the sea Yeah that's all right, that's fine with me Since you came down the line I don't sleep at night I got one thing on my mind And so every day, every night I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do 'Cause you're so out of sight I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Well I lost my job at the Texaco station Instead of pumping gas I dreamed of you I got thrown out of my house I got such a bad reputation 'Cause all I wanna do is be seen with you They gave me my pay and said walk I don't care what they ask Go ahead and let 'em all talk Until the world falls apart I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do Until they rip out my heart I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do Bedtime, hold tight, love me just a little bit All night, a little bit more Tonight, tonight,... Oh I don't know, I don't know I don't understand it You ain't pretty at all But I come when you whisper I run when you call And bay I can't stand it And baby that's all Ridin' by your side in my car Oh, oh, I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Darling, don't you know Oh, oh, I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Because I love you so Songs To Orphans (Part 2,7) BYE BYE JOHNNY Well she drew out all her money from the Central trust And she put her little boy on the Greyhound bus Leavin' Memphis with aguitar in his hand On a one-way ticket to the promised land Now hey little girl with your red dress on There's a party tonight down in Memphis town I'll be going down there if you need a ride Come on, come on, let's go tonight How many have fallen with their dream denied Now tell me baby are you lonesome tonight 'Cause the man on the radio says Elvis Presley died Come on, come on, let's go tonight Down in Dixie tonight the sky is hard and black Comin' up over the ridge one long white Cadillac They stand along the roadside waitin' in the heat Bound together forever in the promise of an endless sleep Well they found him slumped up against the drain With a whole lot of nothin' runnin' through his veins Well bye-bye Johnny, Johnny bye-bye You didn't have to die, you didn't have to die Songs To Orphans (Part 2,8) LINDA LET ME BE THE ONE Midnight boys are outside Scrapin' tears up off the street Standing guard over the window Where the lonely Linda sleeps There's a kid named Eddie Walks like an angel in defeat The ashes of a romance come Traces Linda's name in a seat Calls Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one In a room full of contenders Shadow boxin', Eddie's strong Till he drops through a feigned surrender To the canvas draped in scarves Stole from Linda's bedroom The night he laid at her feet And the midnight boys were wasted Down on King Street He calls out Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Midnight's base is St Mary's Midnight boys hide from the rain Stay with the stolen sisters Till the streets are dry again Talking fast cars and chrome parts Different worlds and strange girls Empty homes, busted hearts And kneeling with Linda in the dark Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Songs To Orphans (Part 2,9) LOOSE ENDS We met out on open streets When we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat When you said "I love you so" Then little by little We choked out all the life that out love could hold No, no It was like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Now baby you can leave me wonight on the loose end We didn't count tomorrows We took what we had and baby we ran There was no place for sorrow Every place we went I held your hand And when the night closed in I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know But oh no It was like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Well baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end Our love has fallen around us Like we saaid it never would We saw it happen to all the others But to us it never would Well how could something so bad, darling Come from something that was so good I don't know But it's like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Well baby you can leave me tonight on the lose end On a loose end Songs To Orphans (Part 2,10) OUTSIDE LOOKIN' IN It's over now the thing we had I ain't sorry babe, I just feel mad You walk real pretty and you talk real fine Night after night you wrote the lines My life's the same story Again and again I'm on the outside lookin' in On the outside lookin' in Hey, make-believe ain't real I don't doubt the way I feel You walk real pretty and you talk real sweet Well baby I was born in the driving seat My life's the same story Again and again I'm on the outside lookin' in The outside lookin' in Yes I'm on the outside lookin' in It's over now the thing we had I ain't sorry babe, I just feel mad You walk real pretty and you talk real fine Night after night you wrote the lines My life's the same story Beginning to end Beginning to end I'm on the outside lookin' in On the outside lookin' in Yes I'm on the outside lookin' in Yes I am Yes I guess I am Baby I'm on the outside lookin' in Songs To Orphans (Part 2,11) THE PROMISE I Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band looking for that million-dollar sound Me I don't do nothing much, I spend a lot of time alone Some nights I go to the drive-in and some night I stay home You see I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the screen With a built-up Challenger down route 9 Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my old dreams You see I built that Challenger by myself But I needed money and so I sold it And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself But I got drunk one night and I told it All my life I fought that fight The one that I can't ever win And everyday it just gets harder to live The dreams I'm believing in Thunder Road I stay up every morning until it turns light Thunder Road There's something dying on the Highway tonight Well now I won big once and I hit the coast Oh but somehow I paid the big cost Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits Of all the other ones who lost When the promise is broken you go on livin' But it takes something from down in your soul Like when the truth is spoken And it don't make no difference Something in your heart turns cold You see I followed that dream, me and some guys Through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars When the promise was broken I was drunk and far away from home Sleeping with a stranger in the back seat of a borrowed car Thunder Road Here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games Thunder Road Here's one for the tyres rushin' by in the rain Thunder Road I remember when me and Billy we'd always say Thunder Road We were gonna take it all And throw it all Away Songs To Orphans (Part 2,12) THE PROMISE II Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band looking for that million-dollar sound Me I got a little job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go Some nights I go to the drive-in and some night I stay home You see I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the screen With a built-up Challenger down route 9 Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my old dreams You see I built that Challenger by myself But I needed money and so I sold it And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself But I got drunk one night and I told it All my life I fought that fight The one that I can't ever win And everyday it just gets harder to live The dreams I'm believing in Thunder Road Oh baby you were so right Thunder Road There's something dying on the Highway tonight Well now my Daddy taught me how to walk quiet And how to make my peace with the past And I learned real good to tighten up inside And I don't say nothin' unless I'm asked When the promise is broken you go on livin' But it takes something from down in your soul Like when the truth is spoken And it don't make no difference Something in your heart turns cold You see I followed that dream, me and some guys Through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars When the promise was broken I was drunk and far away from home Sleeping with a stranger in the back seat of a borrowed car Thunder Road And when it washes away with the rain Thunder Road You learn to walk among the remains Thunder Road I remember when me and Terry we'd always say Thunder Road We were gonna take it all And throw it all Away Songs To Orphans (Part 2,13) RESTLESS NIGHTS Wished we ran and lived as one In another world my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets of pain And the childhood games we play Have faded away But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights On late night movie screens Youngs lovers look so sure Lost in wide awake dreams That they can't afford Once I held you in my arms On a bed of stone Now we have grown (But darling) Well my baby she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby she has restless nights Wished we ran and lived as one A different world my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets of pain But here inside my heart It all falls apart But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights (With thanks to Andy Kessler) Songs To Orphans (Part 2, 14) ROULETTE We left the toys out in the yard I took my wife and kids and I left my home unguarded We packed what we could into the car No one here knows how it started Suddenly everything was so out of control Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know I hear all the talk, but I don't know what you're sayin' But I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playing Roulette, that's the name Roulette, that's the game now Roulette, I don't believe what they're sayin' Roulette, and everybody's playin' I grew up here on these streets where nothing moves, just a strange breeze In a town full of worthless memories there's a shadow in my backyard I got a house full of things that I can't touch Well all those things won't do me much good now I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job Mister I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed I'm the big expendable, my liufe's just cancelled null and void But what you're gonna do about your new boy Roulette, you're playin' with my life Roulette, with my kids and my wife Roulette, everyday the stakes get bigger Roulette, a different finger on the trigger Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlightas And shortwave radios squawk, the police patrol the streets But I've left behind the man I used to be, everything he believed and all that belonged to me I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate They put me in detetntion but I broke loose and then I ran They said they want to help me but I think they had other plans Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin' I think those guys just wanna keep on playin' Roulette, with my life Roulette, with my kids and my wife Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger Roulette, surprise, you're dead Roulette, the gun's to your head Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click No further danger Songs To Orphans (Part 2,15) SHE'S SO FINE (RIDE ON SWEET WILLIAM) Hey bay She's vicious as a razor Resting on your mainline She's brutal as an ace Laid on the table at just the right time She's like a devil-woman But she's locked in over-drive Her eyes are cold stone But she's backed by a power-glide She's sweet, she's educated She knows about history, geometry She's so fine Well the boys down there say She swings the silver rod Some kids call her angel All the boys call her God, down on Lover's Lane Well the kids down in houston Say she's cold but dynamite Ah they know that lady wears them blue jeans oh so tight She gets in my car and the highway bursts to life And way down on E Street That only happens once or twice She's sophisticated She's a lady, you know what I mean ? She's so fine Oh she says I ain't got the love I ain't got the time Ain't gonna give you no kiss Ain't gonna hand ya All I want's a ride, Sweet William All I want's a ride, Sweet William And it's oh baby, oh baby Won't you come, don't you wanna go for a ride I'll get in my car and burn it up Now switch on the radio and turn it up And we're gonna be burnin' down a straight load I want some love and I got to truck along (travel along) Well she's vicious as a razor Resting on your mainline She's brutal as an ace Laid on the table at just the right time She's like a devil-woman But she's locked in overdrive Her eyes are cold stone But her body's backed by a power-glide She's so educated She's got a nice mama She's got a nice pop She's so fine Oh and the boys say she swings a silver rod The kids call her Angel Some kids call her God, down on Lover's Lane Be my bay Won't you be my lover Come on bay I said hey baby Songs To Orphans (Part 2, 16) SPANISH EYES Little Christine We're takin' one more run Secret heart, when the time has begun Come to part And hey, you're the one And now we know My heart is sold And though we tried You took me with your Spanish eyes Hey badlands Realise That someone else is yearnin' Special Sunday night And baby there's time Time enough to cry With all our sad stories And all the bad that we've done And all the times we rode for glory And ... And you took me with your Spanish eyes [section omitted] Stretch out baby And call your daddy home Cause I'm runnin' tonight Couldn't be all alone Yes I know how something died But baby it was just for kicks It was just for fun Even with all the bad that we done They can't say we didn't try And I fell for your Spanish Eyes Saturday night special Waitin' in the streets Oh come on Talk to me, my sweet And I'll try to make it complete this time Come close and let me dry your eyes Let me try to turn the leis ... And let me kiss your Spanish eyes Let me kiss your Spanish eyes Let me kiss your Spanish eyes Let me kiss your Spanish eyes Come here, baby Songs To Orphans (Part 2, 17) TAKE EM AS THEY COME I still have three wheels runin' through the airplanes Tears stream her pretty face all burned red Once you're dead not much remains Down the highway another stranger comes You gotta take 'em as they come Little girl put on your red dress 'Cause we're goin' out on the town tonight And when I hold this switchblade Be sure some fool is gonna want to fight You gotta take 'em as they come You gotta take 'em Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em baby as they come God save the rider in the black night Save the man who taught that it was right To do what we have begun You gotta take 'em when they come Little girl gone are birthdays Faded away into the clear blue night And all the promises we made Lie shattered and broken in the morning light You gotta take 'em baby when they come You gotta take 'em Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em baby as they come I know your heart is breaking I can feel it too, girl Though my finger on the trigger is shaking There's just one thing we can do girl Winners and losers All look the same from the other side But we could choose here, kid We could try, couldn't we,hon ? Take 'em baby when they come Take 'em Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em as they come, girl Take 'em baby as they come Songs To Orphans (Part 2,18) THE WAY The way your heart beats when I hold you tight The way you sigh when we kiss goodnight The way the wind blows through the trees Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you warm me baby when I'm cold The way you make me want you body and soul The way the rivers run to the sea Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you soothe me when I'm in pain The way you make the blood rush in my veins The way the wind rush through the trees Well hey, that's the way you belong to me When I lose faith you take my hand The way you make me feel like I'm a man The way the sun belongs to the sea Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you make me feel like I belong And if I could girl though I know it'd be wrong I'd lock you deep inside till the last rains fall And hide you from the emptiness of it all Soemtimes at night I lie awake I pull you close and feel each breath you take The way the rivers belong to the seas Well hey, that's the way you belong to me Well hey, that's the way you belong to me