Call Of The West

Look at the way they're walking
All these people around are givin' me looks
Keep a big secret on the quiet side
Where's the nearest place to hide?

Chorus:
Look at their way


Been around long enough now
And they'll be around after everyone's gone
A mother makes love to her only son
Turn on the lights and watch them run


Chorus:
Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the floor today



All together now they'll rub their long legs
And play a sad melody, the only one they know
To air and earth and the quiet side
And the mind built a million years ago


Chorus:
Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the calendar
Look at their way
Look at their way
Look at their way on the floor today

Wake up in the morning, pull myself outta bed
Think about the night before and everything i said
I've made lots of promises i know that i can't keep

So i'll do 'em tomorrow
That seems like a pretty good idea to me


Life is movin' faster

Spoken
Hello, hello, this is monkeywrench, come in,
Calling money hutch headquarters.
Tell smoky grayhead the « bus stopper » is a guy.
Tell « mister magden » to check on the « chocolate (shotput?). »
And i thought this was a glamorous job.

Well, there's that man who's got everything that he needs
And when the world is falling in he'll never bleed
He goes by jones in istanbul and smith in peru
His job's never through


It's time to start this little game of cat and mouse
And try to keep one step ahead

Drivin' outta vegas in their automobile
She was in the back seat while he was at the wheel
With the windows wide open

All the money from the store, they'd gambled away
He said "the best laid plans often go astray"


She took the page of a book and turned it down
She lit a cigarette, she didn't make a sound


"and i know, if we'd had just one more chance," he said
"i know, we'd finally hit the big one at last", she said


Chorus:
(instead of) another lost weekend
Lost weekend
Another lost weekend
Lost weekend



"pull over soon," she said, "it's no big deal,
You can take any exit that you happen to feel
Is the right one"
The right one


As she slowly blew her smoke out the rear wind vent
She thought back on all the letters she'd sent
For a contest to be on a quiz game show


"maybe i shoulda stayed in school," he said
"yeah, i know

He got the high sign so he jumped a bus
Along the roads that wind on through
The hot mojave and the jericho
He'd start his whole life anew
And what he left behind he hadn't valued
Half as much as some things
He never knew

Right around sundown...
He got dropped off on a street in town
Where a grey old man looked him up and down and said
"son, this ain't no western movie matinee
You're a long way off from yippie-yi-yay
'cause i can tell at a glance you're not from 'round these parts
You've got a green look about'cha