 Genius Lyrics
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Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
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Come on - Joey get out of school / We got places to go / A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts / And the girls like to touch it / Just to find out if it works / But don't look
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Rickie Lee Jones – Easy Money
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There was a Joe / Leanin' on the back door / A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills / Their eyes was statin' / They was waitin' / To get their hands on some easy money
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Rickie Lee Jones – A Lucky Guy
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[Verse 1] / Oh, he's a lucky guy / Oh, he's a lucky guy / He doesn't worry about me / When I'm gone / He goes to sleep at night / He don't turn off the light / And wonder how to
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Rickie Lee Jones – Bonfires
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There's just one thing before I go / You are the sweetest boy I know / I've lived my whole life in the past / I awoke last night at last / I thought I'd finally won your heart that
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Rickie Lee Jones – Dat Dere
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Hey mama, what's that there? / And what's that doing there? / Hey mama, up here! Mama, hey look at that over there! / And what's that doing there? / And where're they going there
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Rickie Lee Jones – Wild Girl
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Wild girl, you must have been a terror when you were young / Or your mamma must have let you run, let you run free / But it wasn't very nice eating, eating all that sugar and spice
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Rickie Lee Jones – Altar Boy
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A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe / That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode / As he follows a path filled with harried desire / And mimics his footsteps and
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Rickie Lee Jones – Coolsville
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[Verse 1] / I and Braggar and Junior Lee / Well that's the way we always thought it would be / In the Winston lips of September / How we met / Decked out like aces / We'd beat
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Rickie Lee Jones – Magazine
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Homeboys / Calling from the corners / Station to station / For the magazine / But her pages are turning / Out the lights in the windows / And all that you're reading / Is the
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Rickie Lee Jones – Remember Me?
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With my face against the glass / I call your name as you walk past / You look, but you see yourself / Ill give you all the things Ive got / I know its late, I know its hot / But
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Rickie Lee Jones – Living It Up
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[Verse 1] / Eddie's got one crazy eye / That turns him into a cartoon / When a pretty girl comes by / But there's nothin' here to do anymore / He sits on the stoop all day / Like
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Rickie Lee Jones – Night Train
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Here I'm going / Walkin' with my baby in my arms / 'Cuz I am in the wrong end of the eight ball black / And the devil, see, he's right behind us / And this worker said she's gonna
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Rickie Lee Jones – We Belong Together
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[Verse] / I say this was no game of chicken / You were aiming your best friend / That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck / I think you picked this up in Mexico
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Rickie Lee Jones – Satellites
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[Verse 1] / Well we were born forever / We are twinned in a fugitive mind / Friends should stay together and / Light the world with the fugitive kind / [Chorus] / So you keep
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Rickie Lee Jones – Company
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[Verse 1] / I'll remember you too clearly / But I'll survive another day / Conversations to share / When there's no one there / I'll imagine what you'd say / [Pre-Chorus] / I'll
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Rickie Lee Jones – Danny's All-Star Joint
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[Verse 1] / Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint / They've got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt / The vice is nice, it stays in the back all day / But when the nighttime comes, hey-
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Rickie Lee Jones – Danny's All-Star Joint
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[Verse 1] / Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint / They've got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt / The vice is nice, it stays in the back all day / But when the nighttime comes, hey-
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Moon Is Made Of Gold
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[Verse 1] / Don't feel bad because the sun went down / The night has wealth untold / Just keep watching and you soon will see / The moon is made of gold / [Verse 2] / Now the stars
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Albatross
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There, there is my ship / Finally come in / I see the mast rolling on the steps / Over the garden wall / I hear the sailor's call / I see the albatross / Over and down now I'll go
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Rickie Lee Jones – Rodeo Girl
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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
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Returns
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[Verse] / After all / There are such things / And these are the things / Who'll turn your memories back into dreams again / Oh, it's all flying and waving / For you to keep trying
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Rickie Lee Jones – Elvis Cadillac
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Wrote a letter to my father / I thought I'd tell him where I am / I knew that he was hoping / I'd come home again / I'm standing in the doorway / But I'm happy living here
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Rickie Lee Jones – September Song
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[Verse 1] / When you meet with the young boys in early spring / They court you with song and rhyme / And they give you a poem and a clover ring / But if you could examine the goods
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Rickie Lee Jones – Weasel and the White Boys Cool
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[Verse 1] / Sal was working at Nyro's Nook in downtown / Selling articles of congress to these people downtown / He was pretty sleazy when I met him / A weasel in a poor boy's wool
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco
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A long stretch of headlights / Bends into I-9 / Tiptoe into truck stops / And sleepy diesel eyes / Volcanoes rumble in the taxi / And glow in the dark / Camels in the driver's seat
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Rickie Lee Jones (Ft. Joe Jackson) – Show Biz Kids
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Originally Steely Dan’s chosen lead single from their sophomore album, Countdown to Ecstasy, “Show Biz Kids” was a perverse choice for radio release by Fagen & Becker’s label, ABC
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Rickie Lee Jones – Chuck E.’s In Love
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This song was Rickie Lee Jones' biggest hit, charting at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Its inspiration was Chuck E. Weiss, a friend of hers and Tom Waits' (her boyfriend at
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Rickie Lee Jones – Rorschachs (The Unsigned Painting / The Weird Beast)
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[Part 1: The Unsigned Painting] / [Intro] / There must be a golden frame / Coming to me / ‘Cause where are you? / Where are you? / Where are you? / [Verse 1] / The day where you
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Rickie Lee Jones – After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight)
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[Verse 1] / All the gang has gone home / Standing on the corner / All alone / [Verse 2] / So you and me, streetlight / We'll paint the town—grey / Oh, we are so many lamps / Who
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Real End
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Once I had a sweet love / Always followed me around / The way I treated my little lamb was like / The Marquis D. Sade and Her new clown / I guess I hurt him / I guess I hung up / I
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Rickie Lee Jones – Runaround
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My baby's alvvays crying / My baby wants to see me cry, too / Chain on my heart is going to break / Cuz every tear that falls in here / Is a dime for the Juke Box Fury / So punch
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Rickie Lee Jones – Second Time Around
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Love is wonderful, the second time around / Just as wonderful, with both feet on the ground / It's that second time you hear your love song sung / Makes you think perhaps that love
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Horses
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Rickie Lee Jones – Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking
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[Intro, spoken] / Hey, hey hey Junior! / Man, who does that look like walkin' down the street? / Hey, hey [?] / Hey, hey hey Bones! Ey, what're you doin' back in town, man? / Man
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Rickie Lee Jones – Old Enough
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Something's changed, it's not that I fear but / Maybe it's that I took care of you too many times / And you grew weaker for a kindness / And sometimes kindness from a friend can
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Rickie Lee Jones – Traces of the Western Slopes
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We go down round / The far side of the tracks / Lolitas playing dominoes and poker / Behind their daddy's shacks / Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys / On a pearl splashing glass / If
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Rickie Lee Jones – Rainbow Sleeves
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You used to dream yourself away each night / To places that you'd never been / On wings made of wishes / That you whispered to yourself / Back when every night the moon and you
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Rickie Lee Jones – Flying Cowboys
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Down there by the river is a man / Whose horn 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
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