Wanna be my girlfriend?
Be my lover?
Do you wanna get married?
And sing the Song of Solomon

Be my woman
Be my lover
Do you wanna get married?
And sing the Song
And sing the Song
And sing the Song of Solomon

Boy don’ cum roun’ wit your hellfire
Don’t talk to me about the denial of my desire
Don’t say shame don’t say guilt
Don’t tell me how to celebrate spirit

Cuz I know
Pain ago cum
Bad time ago cum
Crazy jealousy gwane cum torture me
So rest easy
Breathe deeply
Lover touch me sweetly
Lover wrap me up and squeeze me

Mother Father stop the lecture
It don’t help me how you hector
And if you really wanna get along
Money not just sing this song

Pain ago cum
Bad time ago cum
Crazy jealousy gwane cum torture me
So rest easy
Breathe deeply
Lover touch me sweetly
Lover wrap me up and squeeze me

Child child
D’you want to know?
D’you want to know what love is?
Should I tell you?

They sent her away
Paris Florence Istanbul
With her spinster chaperone
To forget about him

Child child
D’you want to know?
D’you want to know what love is?
Should I tell you?

She was fourteen
He changed her birth certificate
Said I’m your father child
Came to the graduation

It’s just like what Daniel Day
Said to Madelaine Stowe
I will find you
Won’t forget you
Years may go by

Child child
D’you want to know?
D’you want to know?
D’you want to know how your Mommy and Daddy made you?

Girl boy party
Springtime back in 1973
We played spin the bottle
We played hide and go seek
And slow danced to The Eagles

14
And good enough to remember it
For the rest of your life

Walkin’ back from high school
Your mother was not at home
Out working all weekend
A friend came over
Knock knock knockin’ on the bedroom door
At midnight with no clothes on and you let her in

16
And bold enough to remember it
For the rest of your life

Frat boy party
You were hangin’ by the keg all night
Someone put on a funk tape
Stevie Wonder singin’ Hotter Than July
‘Round 2:00 am
I wonder what you’re waitin’ for
A couple people talkin’
You fucked me on the bathroom floor

19
And old enough to remember it
For the rest of your life

Walkin’ back from your house
I had a flower I had my guitar in my hand
I saw my Father, he was gettin’ ready to go to work
Said where you been Son?

I waited all day long
Waited by your door
I wanna see you

I waited all night long
Waited by the phone
I hear you calling

Well alright!

I lie awake in bed
Rememberin’ words you said
While you were sleepin’

I’m sleeping by the phone
Wishing you were home
It drives me crazy

Well alright!

El camino es la vida
El camino es la vida
Ay es la verdad
El camino es la vida

And so you’ve ended in dark water
Sultry summer the beach at night
Someone heard thunder splash of fire
Falling glitter dark water

Star decorator Warhol’s lover
I saw your picture down at Water Isle
They found you floating covered with glitter
Naked in summer’s dark water

And I am swimming in the same water
Where your body is floating tonight
We are swimming in the same water
Dark water dark water

High school French class some honeymooners
Getting ready to have the time of your life
Everyone had the right intention
I read your obits in The New York Times

I am another Bridgehampton cousin
And I nearly stepped on another fated flight

And I am swimming in the same water
Where your body is floating tonight
We are swimming in the same water
Dark water dark water

And so you’ve ended in dark water
Falling glitter no parachute
You were another late bloomer
And it is true you exploded en route
Target Paris schedule summer
Intention beauty intention beauty

And I am swimming in those waters…

I start down where your flower petals curl
And move on up to find your little pearl

My face is sopping from your rising flood
Your little pearl hard on my aching tongue

I put my hand inside your open coral
Move like an earthquake on the ocean floor

I start down where your flower petals curl
And move on up to find your little pearl

Love to taste your little pearl
Love to lick your little pearl

I was raised to praise great works of art
Picasso Shostakovitch and Frank Lloyd Wright
And I love to sit in the café and chat
‘Bout how Tarantino and Scorsese is where it’s at

But that don’t drive my body wild
And that don’t make my manhood rise
And that don’t make me sweat and writhe
And that don’t let me come inside
You got to

Praise Woman

Praise the Lord says the preacher of the Christian faith
Blessed be says the pagan Islam says God is great
And I went thru my spiritual phase
And I learned how to meditate

But that don’t drive my body wild
And that don’t make my manhood rise
And that don’t make me sweat and writhe
And that don’t let me come inside
you got to

Praise Woman

And I will make my home
Under the arches of your thighs
And I will savor the flavor that I find
And I will sleep with my face pressed forward in your breasts
And I will breathe the sweetness of your lips
Your moan shall be my music
Your storm I will ride thru it
Come now come now come now Lover
Let’s begin again

Poor young William’s dead
Got the blood planets in his head
I cleaned him up when the blood was drier
His eyes looked up like turf on fire
On fire

Blood came down like river ride
Long as Texas down his side
I cleaned him up when the blood was drier
His eyes looked up like turf on fire
On fire

The blood came down like river ride
Long as Texas down his side

Poor young William’s dead
Got the blood planets in his head
I cleaned him up when the blood was drier
His eyes looked up like turf on fire
Well we got the eight foot garden hose
Cleaned him up leaned him down flat
What fell away we threw away
His head
Was smaller than a rat

Blood came down
Like river ride
Long as Texas
Long as Texas down his side
I cleaned him up when the blood was drier
His eyes looked up like turf on fire
On fire

The blood came down like river ride
Long as Texas down his side

He’s dead

I’m riding I’m riding
Through the dark country

Black feather in my head
I don’t know if I wish my companion well or if
I wish my companion dead

I’m riding I’m riding
Through the dark country

Aura photo showin’ me
The color of all my bad dreams
Got two grand in Vegas
Now we’re headed for Joshua Tree

I’m riding I’m riding
Through the dark country

Is this friend a gift
Or is this friend a poison kiss?
Come to suck my soul’s water
Or to me empower?
And what of this darkness?
Tightening my mouth to quiet
Should I let it riot?
Or through it ride?

And we work and we work
And some of us go to school
And how you gonna make love all day long
Like the rich and beautiful do?
And do I have to wait
To touch you

On vacation
Are you and I just gonna happen
On vacation?
Is our love just gonna live
On vacation?

And we write and we write erotic letters I adore
Absence makes the cock grow harder
And I’m loving you more and more
And do I have to wait to taste you

On Vacation

You told me we’d pay for the pleasure together
The pain of separation is the price of the vacation