Subject: Ryan Adams - Gold Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:13:38 +0200 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" @ARTIST: Ryan Adams @ALBUM: Gold 01. New York, New York 02. Firecracker 03. Answering Bell 04. La Cienega Just Smiled 05. The Rescue Blues 06. Somehow, Someday 07. When the Stars Go Blue 08. Nobody Girl 09. Slyvia Plath 10. Enemy Fire 11. Gonna Make You Love Me 12. Wild Flowers 13. Harder Now That It's Over 14. Touch, Feel & Lose 15. Tina Toledo's Street Walkin Blues 16. Goodnight, Hollywood Boulevard @SONG: New York, New York well I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow breaking like a rocket who was making it's way to the cities of Mexico lived in an apartment out on Avenue A had a tar-hut on the corner of 10th had myself a lover who was finer than gold but I've been broken up and busted up since love don't play any games with me anymore like she did before world won't wait so I better shake that thing right out there through the door hell, I still love you New York I found myself a picture that would fit in the folds of my wallet and it stayed pretty good still amazed I didn't lose it on the roof of the place when I was drunk and I was thinking of you every day the children they were singing the tunes out on the streets and you could hear from inside used to take the subway out of Houston and 3rd I would wait for you and I'd try and hide love won't play any games with you anymore if you don't want her to world won't wait, I watched you shake but honey I don't blame you hell, I still love you New York and I still love you New York, New York I remember Christmas in the blistering cold in a church on the Upper West Side babe, I stood there singing, I was holding you arm you were holding my trust like a child found a lot of trouble out on Avenue B but I tried to keep the overhead low farewell to the city and the love of my life at least we left before we had to go love won't play any games with you anymore if you don't want 'em to so we better shake this old thing out the door I'll always be thinking of you I'll always love you though New York I'll always love you though New York @SONG: Firecracker black bird sings slow and softly, breaks a glass of wine broken bluesy whispers, sing to me tonight well everybody wants to go forever I just wanna burn up hard and bright I just wanna be your firecracker maybe be your baby tonight and maybe be your baby tonight lady your kicks of silence cough into your room kiss me slow and softly make me dream of you well everybody wants to go forever I just wanna burn up hard and bright I just wanna be your firecracker maybe be your baby tonight and maybe be your baby tonight so when does the plane go down 'cause I'm gonna ride it 'til it hits the ground then go out with a fight 'cause I just wanna be your baby tonight @SONG: Answering Bell did I slip, I know I stumbled did I trip 'cause I know I fell all's I know is I'll wake up here in my clothes tomorrow oh girl I wish I knew you well oh girl I wish I knew you well but I'm just saying hi to your answering bell did I run, I thought I was walking through your inexhaustible gale the names are changed but the constellation's are still falling oh girl if you could only tell oh girl if you could only tell but I'm just saying hi let your tears fall and touch my skin then your thunderclouds could rage and wail I will collect them all for you in butterfly jars oh girl I'll build your wishing well oh girl I'll build your wishing well but I'm just saying hi to your answering bell did I sleep 'cause I must've been dreaming did I weep 'cause I cried like hell all's I want is your fortress of tears to crumble oh girl I'd tear 'em down myself oh girl the stories they could tell but I'm just saying hi @SONG: La Cienega Just Smiled oh the night, here it comes again it's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt how'd I end up feelin' so bad for such a little girl and I'll hold you close in the back of my mind it feels so good, but damn it makes me hurt and I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now la Cienega just smiles and says I'll see you around and I hold you close in the back of my mind and raise my glass 'cause either way I'm dead neither of you really help me to sleep anymore no one seems to know how you feel anymore How you feel anymore La Cienega just smiles and says it takes her more @SONG: The Rescue Blues everybody wants you to be special and everybody wants you to be high they throw you down a rope when you're in trouble, baby screaming, save me then they charge you with the rescue blues rescue blues everybody wants to see you suffer they know that you need the pain so much they throw you up a rope when you're too high to cruise, baby Lord you lose lady then they charge you with the rescue blues rescue blues everybody wants to see you fall that's why they always love to get you high everybody knows you need the pain so much lady keep in touch baby just don't charge me with your rescue blues rescue blues @SONG: Somehow, Someday I want to tell you something that I should have long ago I wish that you and I had those kids maybe bought us that home I wish that we were stumbling fast down on Irving and 14th Street I wish that we were still in your room, in your bed and you were holding me 'cause there ain't no way I'll ever stop from loving you now there ain't no way I'll ever stop from loving you now no there ain't no way and I'm gonna try and show you somehow somehow and someday, someday, someday I dreamt that you and I were still young laughing like little kids I'll never know just how bad it hurt or what I did I wish that we were stumbling fast down on Irving and 6th I wish that we were still making plans but now there's nothing to fix 'cause there ain't no way I'll ever stop from loving you now there ain't no way I'll ever stop from loving you now no there ain't no way and I'm gonna try and show you somehow somehow and someday, someday, someday @SONG: When The Stars Go Blue dancin' where the stars go blue dancin' where the evening fell dancin' in your wooden shoes in a wedding gown dancin' out on 7th street dancin' through the underground dancin' little marionette are you happy now where do you go when you're lonely where do you go when you're blue where do you go when you're lonely I'll follow you when the stars go blue the stars go blue ... laughing with your pretty mouth laughing with your broken eyes laughing with your lover's tongue in a lullabye where do you go when you're lonely where do you go when you're blue where do you go when you're lonely I'll follow you when the stars go blue the stars go blue ... @SONG: Nobody Girl well, the night makes moves and she shatters like broken glass better play it cool, better let it pass have you been screening your smokes and whispers in an all night bar better off as the fool than the owner of that kind of heart they don't know you anyway they don't know you and they don't watch you walk away just a nobody girl with a radar to the scene when the emptiness finds you you find all the numbers you need say you follow your heart well, honey you're just being lost you could follow your gut well, how much would it cost they don't know you anway they don't know you and they don't watch you walk away you're nobody, girl, you're nobody, girl you're a nobody, girl ... the night plays games and the people they come and go well, they trade in their pieces for a late-night ride on your rodeo if your horses could talk I wonder if they would complain I know they're rested and ready they've been going nowhere for days they don't know you anway they don't know you they dont even mind the weight you're a nobody, girl, you're a nobody, girl nobody, girl @SONG: Sylvia Plath I wish I had a Sylvia Plath busted tooth and a smile and cigarette ashes in her drink the kind that goes out and then sleeps for a week the kind that goes out on her to give me a reason, for well, I don't know and maybe she'd take me to France or maybe to Spain and she'd ask me to dance in a mansion on the top of a hill she'd ash on the carpets and slip me a pill then she'd get pretty loaded on gin and maybe she'd give me a bath how I wish I had a Sylvia Plath and she and I would sleep on a boat and swim in the sea without clothes with rain falling fast on the sea while she was swimming away, she'd be winking at me telling me it would all be okay out on the horizon and fading away and I'd swim to the boat and I'd laugh I gotta get me a Sylvia Plath and maybe she'd take me to France or maybe to Spain and she'd ask me to dance in a mansion on the top of a hill she'd ash on the carpets and slip me a pill then she'd get pretty loaded on gin and maybe she'd give me a bath how I wish I had a Sylvia Plath I wish I had a Sylvia Plath @SONG: Enemy Fire enemy fire, enemy blanks enemy roses, red colored tanks it's too late, baby baby, it's too late learn how to change and maybe I could stay enemy fire, enemy planes enemy roses and red colored chains it's too late, baby baby, it's too late learn how to change and maybe I could stay @SONG: Gonna Make You Love Me riot in the streets, the touch beneath the sheets it's only gonna make you love me more the cops they got the guns, the night destroys the sun it's only gonna make you love me more this old world, well, it was mine to take faith can keep you warm but I'll teach you how to shake and I'll come to you like a little girl it's only gonna make me love you more moonlight on the beach, sweet amphetamines it's only gonna make you love me more bottles and the cans, the idiots go dance it's only gonna make you love me more this old world, well, it was mine to take faith can keep you warm but I'll teach you how to shake and I'll come to you like a little girl it's only gonna make you love me more they say that love is hell but I've only been laughin' ever since I fell it's only gonna make you love me more the Lord will have his way but I'm just a call away it's only gonna make you love me more this old world, well, it was mine to take faith can keep you warm but I'll teach you how to shake and I'll come to you like a little girl it's only gonna make you love me more @SONG: Wild Flowers poor girl, no Ma nothing much to speak of but a rough diamond sleep now and your angels will come, dear poor Matilda, handcuffed hard to the wheel and steering wildly through love's fields, so blindly forever only takes its toll on some but tonight you're sleeping alone without him tonight you're sleeping alone without him and everything went up in smoke like wildflowers wildflowers, dear poor girl, lonely shuffles through the parade of a sleepless circus promenade hold on, dear poor girl, no Ma sister steals her a coat for the windless breezes sleep now and Jesus will come, dear forever only takes its toll on some but tonight you're sleeping alone without him tonight you're sleeping alone without him and everything went up in smoke like wildflowers wildflowers, dear @SONG: Harder Now That It's Over they slapped 'em on you where that bracelet used to be you know the one I bought you in Phoenix where they sell old jewlery I was trying to make you angry but I didn't feed you to the cops when I threw that drink in that guy's face it was just to piss you off 'cause honey it's over now it's harder now that it's over it's harder now that it's over now that the cuffs are off honey it's over now it's harder now that it's over it's harder now that it's over now that the cuffs are off and you're free you're free, free with a history you're free you're free, free with a history I heard your wrists got bruised must've felt just like old times I wish you would've grabbed the gun and shot me 'cause I died and I'm nothing now without you yeah, I'm less than nothing now I'm the one between the bars and lost forever now 'cause honey it's over it's harder now that it's over it's harder now that it's over now that the cuffs are off it's over now it's harder now that it's over it's harder now that it's over now that the cuffs are off and you're free you're free, free with a history you're free you're free, free with a history I'm sorry ... @SONG: Touch, Feel And Lose I knew I was never gonna talk to you tomorrow and oh, the birds how they sing if you were a bird could you sing me a song of sorrow 'cause all I know now from you is grief but I never wanted to be your rollin' train I never wanted to be your dancin' shoes I just wanted you to love me I just wanted you to love me touch, feel and lose cry, cry, cry cry, cry, cry maybe I could be some kind of shelter but oh, your storm how it raged you know your kisses they're like lightning and thunder your smile is sweet and comes down like rain but I never wanted to be your rollin' train I never wanted to be your dancin' shoes I just wanted you to love me I just wanted you to love me touch, feel and lose cry, cry, cry cry, cry, cry I just wanted you to love me I just wanted you to love me touch, feel and lose, honey cry, cry, cry ... @SONG: Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues sweet talkin' Johnny push a John quicker than he spit street walkin' Tina with a crooked crown waitin' for it there she goes she born in Boston but the Amtrak took her away she lives in Brooklyn but she works outta Queens in the black limousines, money in the bank black limousines, money in the bank send it home Tina Toledo got a kid that lives with her Ma she takes the subway after school makes up her face, changes clothes there she goes she feels the rain coming down on Washington Square she gives the cops on the beat a little discount and then, then, then it's black limousines, money in the bank black limousines, money in the bank send it home hard on the knees, money in the bag hard on the knees, money in the bag send it home for medical school rock herself to sleep with the rhythm of the rain beating like the bed against the window frame of her hotel room rock herself to sleep with the tunes on the dash don't take no credit cards, she takes cash says, money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank money, money, money in the bank it ain't no easy life but it pays pretty good keeps her out of the cold it ain't no easy life but it's silver and gold silver and gold silver, silver, silver and gold Tina Toledo's street walkin' blues street walkin', street walkin' blues ... @SONG: Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd it's happening baby they're putting up the chairs taking the money and all we can do is pray pray for tomorrow so close your eyes, close your mouth and do this all in time to the music that screams like a child in the back of your mind, in a clown's saloon so goodnight Hollywood Blvd, goodnight see you soon goodnight Hollywood Blvd, goodnight see you sometime, see you sometime yeah, right, yeah right run away baby back to your lonely house you wanted the honey but you were only just stinging yourself it's hard to watch so I close my eyes and I close my mouth and I do this all in time to the music that dance like fools set on fire flailing their arms in a room full of whores so goodnight Hollywood Blvd, goodnight see you soon goodnight Hollywood Blvd, goddnight see you sometime, see you sometime yeah, right, yeah, right