Jukebox Sparrows

+ Down And Dirty

(Shannon McNally)

Come on in through my screen door

Tell me all your cares

I'm here to lend my ears

Where you been lately

Haven't seen much around here, Oh no

Been hiding out in the shade

Your skins all gone to gray

Did you eat today?

When you coming home to stay?

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean

(Repeat)

If you could see what I see

You'd see a boy who can't face things

Silent is all he is

You been looking around without your vision

Hearing things without listening

Suffering but feeling no real kind of pain

You know I'd like to help but

When I let you ride for free

You drag me into the cheap cheap scene

(Cheap cheap scene yeah)

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean

(Repeat)

You got this thing against

Living with the best

But you sure like to visit me don't you

When the streets get too cold

When you're feeling weary and old

When your chances for survival

Looking oh so slim

When all of a sudden you won't live to be eighty

Maybe ninety

Maybe a hundred and ten

Don't you know

Don't you know

Don't you know

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean

(Repeat)

Oh I know everything ain't

Always what it seems be to

Don't you know I love you baby

Any way I find you

Anyway you come

Any way I find you

Anyway you come

Come on

+ I'll Always Be Around

(Shannon McNally / Kevin Frances Hunter)

I'd love to have you with me

Almost all the time

Life just isn't like that

At least not mine

There's no need for hello

There is little reason for goodbye

I never need to miss you 'cause you're

Always on my mind

No exchanging numbers

Or promises to write

I know I'll see you somewhere

Sometime

I'll always be around

When you're running down

You can call me out

It's better I'll always be around

It's too much like confession

To say your name out loud

So I guard our little mystery

By leaving things out

If you want me just whistle

Just put your lips together and blow

I know I'll see you somewhere

Where I don't know

I'll always be around

When you're running down

You can call me out

It's better I'll always be around

I think that we've got a bond

That's too good to be true

I'll always be around

When you're running down

You can call me out

It's better I'll always be around

I'll always be around, oh yeah

Oh yeah

I'll always be around

I'll always be around

Whenever you need me, whenever you need me

Just call me now baby

Yeah, I'll always be around

I'll always be around

Whenever you need me, whenever you need me

+ Bitter Blue

(Shannon McNally / Ron Aniello / Grange)

And I knew you'd come walking up the middle of the street

Like a ball of fire giving off heat

And I was standing there in my lace of flames

My fingers on fire embers all around

As the walls fell your hands found me in the fog

I heard people talking in that secret dialogue

More's going on than meets the eye

And I'm trying to decipher the lies

Bah bah da da da

Cause I was going under and you saved me

Now I owe it all to you

I was going under and you saved me

My bittersweet my bitter blue

And oh they do get mad baby don't they get angry

When you tell them that you just don't agree

They tell you that you're hard to please

That your na?ve and you're gonna be very very sorry

But I feel so sure and I feel so new

And then there you are in your jeans of blue

Making it all seem so easy

You make the gale winds nothing more than breezy

Bah bah da da da?

Cause I was going under and you saved me

Now I owe it all to you

I was going under and you saved me

My bittersweet my bitter blue

Whoa?. My bittersweet my bitter blue

Color's rising honey don't you realize don't you see

You're for me like Adam was for Eve

See me come laughing through the fields

See me come laughing through the waves

Baby I've been holding out for you ? yeah

See me come laughing through the fields

See me come through the waves

Here I come, here I come

Cause I was going under and you saved me

Now I owe it all to you

I was going under and you saved me

My bittersweet my bitter blue

+ Now That I know

(Shannon McNally / Brazillian)

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you

Now that I see what I see I see it will always be

Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Midweek morning time I wake up next to you

With your head on my pillow and your arms around me,

Oh baby it's so warm

Still I lay here thinking about the way I thought it would be

But all my planning aside

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you

Now that I see what I see I see it will always be

Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to

You follow me and I'll follow you

Yes I'll follow you

Still I lay here thinking 'bout the way I used to be

And man baby with you I've come a long way

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you

Now that I see what I see I see it will always be

Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And it's all a trick till you figure it out

I couldn't hear myself thinking till I started to shout

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you

Now that I see what I see I see it will always be

Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you

Now that I see what I see I see it will always be

Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

+ It Ain't Easy Being Green

(Shannon McNally / Neville)

Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away

He's a songwriter, he got something to say

He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out

This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout"

Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be

There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key

But I know the patron saint of desperate causes

Doesn't ring his fingers with diamonds and ruby roses

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion

What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care?

There's a lonely girl riding the bus in the middle of the night

She calls herself up to hear a friendly voice

And she says, "Hi, this is Casandra, leave your name and your number

And I'll call you back if I have the time or if I remember"

Patty cake, patty cake, barkeep man

Pour me a beer as fast as you can

What to do with all this sadness that I see

Lord knows it ain't easy being green

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion

What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care? Oh yeah

Oh some say, there's no solution to all this disillusion

What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care? Oh yeah

Some say there's no solution to all this disillusion

What am I to say to you who simply doesn't care?

Who simply doesn't care, oh yeah, yeah

+ It Could've Been Me

(Shannon Mcnally)

Hey Joe, have you seen my friend Flo

I was with her last night, I thought it was alright for her to go

Put her in the car, guess she didn't get very far

'Cause they found her shoes and her purse by the off ramp

Don't know why she stopped but I am sure she had a reason

Some creep took it as chick open season

It doesn't look good, no, it doesn't look good

I doubt she's gonna get up and walk out of those woods

But it could have been me, oh

And that strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees, alright

One night my car broke down on the turnpike

I was stuck in Northeast Pennsylvania

It was after midnight and it was gonna snow

I didn't have nowhere to go

I thought to call for help

But when the cars passed me by my cries fell silent

For how many times has the Devil walked among us

Wearing the face of the savior

So I headed out alone not sure whether to stay in the light

Where I could see or in the darkness where they can't see me

It could have been me, oh

Strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees

Oh, it could have been me, oh

Strikes me like a baseball bat across my knees

Oh, across my knees, oh, across my knees

+ Colorado

(Barry Reynolds / Joshua Grange / Shannon McNally)

Nobody move, nobody breathe

No one gets hurt but me

Put the goods in the bag, lay it down easy

Colorado

The horses want to run up Fifth Avenue, yeah

And I'd run too but I'm wearing these high heeled shoes

Someone trip the alarm, sirens come screaming

Colorado, Colorado

Everyone put their hands on their head

And their eyes on the ground

No matter what you hear

Don't turn around

Likely to get messy

And it's likely to get loud, to get loud, to get loud

And I'd prefer to spare everyone but me the sight

Of it all falling down

Cat's in the bag, so lay it down easy

Colorado, Colorado

Never knew how I felt till I felt that gun in my hands

Never knew the sound of my voice till I heard it with that gun in my hand

I'm going out those front doors like butch and sun-dance

Gunning straight down the middle with the sun in my eyes

Wanting for nothing but one bold moment in a fearless life

Today is a may day

With a fair wind blowing

Today no more may days

It's a good day to die

What else could I do?

You see how it goes

You're left with no front door

And a back door that's closed

So when they ask

My name is Colorado, Colorado

Is Colorado, is Colorado

+ Bolder Than Paradise

(Shannon McNally / Brock Patrick Walsh)

Some things are basically

Beyond vision of doubt

Some things I understand

That I'm better off without

Dingy walls painted clean

Broken words unseen

I said maybe the world's as it should be

You disagree

Bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

Carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

Wide open spaces and amber waves of grain

That's where I used to live

In the kingdom of my youthful reign

Before I was a prisoner to silo

Walled into the shadows, shy to the sky, yeah

Bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

Carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

Yeah, bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

And I'm gonna carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

+ Start All Over

(Josh Grange / Kevin Hunter / Shannon McNally)

All this dreaming will drive me crazy

But is it dreaming if it's all I ever do?

The days are bleeding, they just run together

The nights are cold in the deep of Minnesota

From where I lie, I can see the airport

I watch them land and I see them leave

So many things that I've never done

So much ends before it's begun

And I'm so tired, I could cry

I'm so tired, I lie awake at night

Watching the moonlight circle my head

It's just about as blue as blue can get

When I get out of this bed

It's gonna start all over again

Mississippi sun doesn't shine this far north

I'm dreaming of peaches and bare tanned knees

A place that's warm, where they just let you be

Where you can stay forever 'cause the rent is free

And I'm so tired, I could cry

I' m so tired, all I can do is sigh

Watching the moonlight circle my head

It's just about as blue as blue can get

When I get out of this bed

It's gonna start all over again

+ Bury My Heart On the Jersey Shore

(Shannon McNally / Grange / Feldman)

When I die and lay me down

Cast my body to the sea

But bury my heart on the Jersey Shore

And every time you think of me

Know my mother was a beauty queen

My father tended a bar

And they made me beneath Leo's rising star

With Elvis on the radio singing

'Love Me Tender, Love Me True'

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore

Bury my heart

Bury my heart no matter where I run

Bury my heart

Soon as I could walk I ran

Stayed about as still as sand

When I stopped and turned around

Said, ?Man, oh, man, how far I've come

Look at all these things I've done

Now you know I just wanna go home?

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore

Bury my heart

Bury my heart no matter where I run

Bury my heart

I never have stood still in the sun or the rain

Like that old littering pine tree

When time moves on, oh, I go along

But the images will always be

With each passing year, oh, the lines will grow deeper

My memories will grow sweeter

The laughter will grow fainter

And I'll remain the painter of a love song from 1973

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore

Bury my heart

Bury my heart no matter where I run

Bury my heart

Bury my heart on the Jersey Shore

Bury my heart

Bury my heart no matter where I run

+ Jukebox Sparrows

(Shannon Mcnally)

Hey man, you got a dollar for me?

I want to put it in the jukebox machine

Gonna press four buttons and make it sing

lala

Yeah that one, I want to here that one over there No not that one

Screw you and the horse you rode in on, you big jerk

Do you remember where you were when he died?

I cried to hear he was on the other side

Sometimes I think there is no justice to who get s to live and whose got to die

Yeah that one, I like that one. Put that one in, Yeah

Oh Id love to talk to the mind beneath all that hair

Oh, I'd love to break bread and take him out to dinner

Ask him if there is anyway around being a sinner to really sing the blues

I like my Monday night dive bar jukebox collection

Tells you more about the clientele then the trashcan compaction

Patty cake patty cake, bar key man pour a beer as fast as you can

That song struck a chord

It's a bar full of flies and girls with hair dye

Miss Mary mack all dressed in black

How do you do that red heart attack

Theres revolution in the air but she will tell you she doesn't care

So I was thinking maybe the guy in the booth will push a secret button and blow up the PA tooth by tooth

Just seat here all night, hit those magic arrows and hear the glasses clink kachink

Get those jukebox Sparrows

Hey man, you got a dollar for me?

I want to put it in the jukebox machine

And make it sing