The Smithereens

Cigarette

(chorus)
cigarette cigarette
burning up time
cigarette cigarette
watch the smoke climb
cigarette cigarette
wastin' away
just like this cigarette
our time is running down
only one hour til you're
leaving this town

went to the corner store
bought us another pack
held my arm round you
as we headed back
i tried to change your mind
didn't want you to go
I want you more it seems
than you could ever know

(chorus)

just like this cigarette
our time is running down
only one hour til you're
leaving this town
smoked one last cigarette
sat in bed for awhile
thought of your face and that
brought me a smile

Behind the Wall of Sleep

(chorus)
now i lie in bed and think of her
sometimes i even weep
then i dream of her
behind the wall of sleep

well she held a bass guitar
and she was playing in a band
and she stood just like bill wyman
now i am her biggest fan
now i know i'm one of many
who would like to be your friend
and i've got to find a way
to let you know i'm not like them

(chorus 2X)

got your number from a friend of mine
who lives in your hotel
called you up to have a drink
your roommate said you weren't around
now i know i'm one of many
who would like to be your friend
and i've got to find a way
to let you know i'm not like them

(chorus)

behind the wall of sleep
behind the wall of sleep
behind the wall of sleep

Blood and Roses

(chorus)
i want to love but it comes out wrong
i want to live but i don't belong
i close my eyes and i see
blood and roses

love flowers in the springtime
october we were wed
in wintertime the roses died
the blood ran cold
and then she said

(chorus)

it was long ago
seems like yesterday
saw you standing in the rain
then i heard you say

i need your love but it comes out wrong
i try to live but i don't belong
i close my eyes and i see
blood and roses
(fade)

Only a Memory

(chorus)
only a memory
of what our love was going to be
only a memory
broken bits of you and me
only a memory
only a memory

in a world of pain i have no fear
you'd fade away and disappear
and no i have to learn the game
where no one wins or takes the blame
but it's

only a memory
of what our love was going to be
only a memory
now that we are history
only a memory
only a memory
but it's

(chorus)

why should it matter if i cry
i sit around and wonder why
now i feel much too weak to live
i've got nothing left to give
but it's

(chorus)

only a memory
(fade)

Drown in My Own Tears

(chorus)
maybe i won't be afraid to love somebody new
maybe i can open up my heart
then i won't drown in my own tears
drown in my own tears

there's a place where we used to meet
everyday
and a time when we used to love
veryway
all that's left is the pieces
of a broken heart
and a house where nobody lives
since we're apart

(chorus)

there's a light in the window
that tells me you're home
i've a dove that you hear
that i call my own
there's a time i remember
when i called you mine
memories of your kisses
much sweeter than wine

(chorus)

drown in my own tears
(fade)

Spellbound

one look and i wear my heart upon my sleeve
one touch of you and i just can't believe

(chorus)
i am spellbound
spellbound
leave me spellbound
spellbound

once i cried but now i find
i have left those days behind
my mind's racing round and round
i was lost but now i've found

one look and i wear my heart upon my sleeve
one touch from you and i just can't believe

(chorus)

leave me spellbound
spellbound
leave me spellbound
spellbound

i have met my destiny
baby for the life of me
i had seen your face it seems
on some lonely street of dreams

one look at you and the room is spinning round
one touch of you and my feet leave the ground

(chorus fade)

A Girl Like You

(chorus)
i'll say anything you want to hear
i'll see everything through
i'll do anything i have to do
just to win the love of a girl like you
a girl like you

people talk and people stare, tell them i don't really care
this is the place i should be
and if they think that it's strange for a girl like you
to be in love with someone like me
i want to tell them all to go to hell
that we're doing very well without them you see
i am yours, and you are mine the way it should be

(chorus)

now if i seem a little wild, there's no holding back
i'm trying to get a message to you
i won't take anything from anyone
i won't walk and i won't run, i believe in you
london, washington, anywhere you are i'll run
together we'll be
inside, outside, got my pride
i won't let him take you from me

(chorus)

Blues Before and After

(chorus)
the blues before and after
i get the blues before and after i'm with you
the blues before and after
i get the blues before and after i'm with you

sometimes i need to hear your voice
sometimes i don't want to know
(i get so tired of tryin' to win you i just don't want to know)
you're takin' just what you need
and then you're well on your way
(i hear the same old story almost every day)

(chorus)

it's a shame that you won't see me when i need you tonight
cause i know that if you did then everything would be right
and i've tried my very best to give the things that you need
but the blues they seem to follow me i never succeed

i wanna take you in my arms and you just don't wanna know
(when i finally get to touch you, feels like forty below)
just as always, you have gotten your way
just a normal complication in a typical day

(chorus fade)

Yesterday Girl

well now i'm not the same guy that you used to know
i used to be the guy that had some place to go

(chorus)
but that was yesterday girl, yesterday girl
yesterday girl, yesterday girl
and you're my yesterday girl, yesterday girl
yesterday girl, yesterday girl

i never wanna find an answer cause
i don't like the truth
and if i find just what i'm looking for
i've something to lose
so please don't go and ask me questions
i just won't feel the same
and when i think about religion
well, there's no one to blame

now i'm not the same guy that you used to now
i used to be the tippy fellow with some place to go

(chorus)

tell me something new
then i might agree with you
i live for today
not yesterday

i never think about the future
i just live for today
and if you want an easy answer
i've got nothing to say
now i'm not the same guy you used to know
i used to be the guy with some place to go

(chorus)

Cut Flowers

cut flowers sent to a girl with sentimental ways
cut flowers meant more to her on ordinary days

a gentle girl who needed all the love i had to give
but i was blind to her and would not give her
what she needed most to live

cut flowers sent to a girl with sentimental ways
cut flowers meant more to her on ordinary days

cut flowers pressed between the pages of a book she gave
i go to her and say "i'm sorry"
then i put cut flowers on her grave

cut flowers sent to a girl with sentimental ways
cut flowers meant more to her on ordinary days

Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong

and now it's gone gone gone
tell me when did things go so wrong

we used to laugh in their face at the things that they said
and if we had to be them, then we'd rather be dead
and now we all stand in line like the rest of them do
we let it all slip away, tell me what did we do?

and now it's gone gone gone
tell me when did things go so wrong
all right--yeah
and now it's gone gone gone
tell me when did things go so wrong

we used to walk in the sun with our heads held up high
we used to stand on our own, and we never asked why
we used to do everything we were told not to do
but now we all stand in line like the rest of them do

and now it's gone gone gone
tell me when did things go so wrong
and now it's gone gone gone
tell me when did things go so wrong

Evening Dress

every time i think you've gone away
there's only one thing left on my mind
and every time i think about your pretty face
my arms around you tight
in your evening dress tonight
in your evening dress tonight

time after time--you've put up with me
time after time--i've refused to see
time after time--you're in misery
but what more could i do?

i've been thinking about you all day long
and now that you are here i can't believe
and now i know that i would give up everything
to see you in the light
in your evening dress tonight
in your evening dress tonight
in your evening dress tonight
in your evening dress tonight

Indigo Blues

and then it starts all over again
and then it starts all over again

i want you to know
just what she's done to me
i want it all told
the way it was meant to be
i'm talkin' to myself again
and no one at all
i'm losin' my mind again
cause of nothin' at all

and then it starts all over again
and then it starts all over again

here we go baby here we go
indigo baby indigo

i want you to know
about my indigo
i want you to see
just what she's done to me
i'm talkin' to myself again
talkin' to the wall
i've got no self respect again
got nothin' at all

and then it starts all over again
and then it starts all over again

Girl in Room 12

a girl in room 12 and she's waiting alone
she waits in the bed with her head by the phone
she can't understand why it just couldn't be
a girl in room 12 and she's waiting for me

girl in room 12
girl in room 12
girl in room 12

well, she came from new york
and she moved to this town
took a one room apartment
for no money down
she feels so alone and she needed a man
now i just can't recall how it got out of hand

a girl in room 12 and she's waiting alone
she waits in the bed with her head by the phone
she can't understand why it just couldn't be
a girl in room 12 and she's waiting for me

girl in room 12
girl in room 12
girl in room 12