Down By The Old Mainstream

(murphy)

Wasn't much of a union
Denial and confusion
Meant something to you, i bet you would have stayed
Stumbled on some good times
Turned them into land mines
You know you can turn the other way

You say you've been meaning
To sort through all your demons
If there's some room, are you gonna let me in?
You've been hung dry by your close friends
Your inner child's an orphan
You're so far down, you don't know where you been

So many things you don't know
If you want me to leave, just say so

Chorus:
It's the kind of thing i like
Curse cast in the night
So ill fated
So ill fated

Goodbye with reservations
Regrets and salutations
Something in there somewhere that i didn't say
It's you i think of only
Whenever you get lonely
An' i got more than years to give away
I've been dying to start living
You're just living to be dying
We can't seem to find no common ground
You hate me when i'm lonely
I'm lonely when you hate me
Mostly i'm just there to kick around

Soaring high and low
First to leave, last to know

(chorus)

It's the kind of thing i like
Curse cast in the night
So ill fated

(louris, johnson)

When i was down she was full of advice
'cause she'd been there once or twice
With a ring on the side of her nose
Wearing other people's clothes
She had her highs and she had her lows
In between she'd show
When she smiled everything else died
V let off a good vibe

Chorus:
As if in a dream
The one and only v
As if in a dream
The one and only v

Buying shots and breaking hearts
She used to wait on us down at the bar
Never took as much as she gave
She's still giving to this day
Staying up half the night
Mood swing yet we cried
On a cold december day
V up and went away

(chorus)

Staying up half the night
Mood swing yet we cried
On a cold december day
V up and went away

(chorus)

(perlman, murphy, johnson)

It don't matter if i lose
It's how i play the fool
Somewhere down the line it all got
Twisted, torn, and tossed and thrown away
It all looks the same to me
What you want i'll never be

Chorus:
And i can't seem to get it right
But i wanna get off right now
I can't seem to get it right
But it's all so wrong, somehow
Did you think i wouldn't return. did you think i wouldn't return
Did you think that i was dead. did you think that i was dead
Did you think i'd crash and burn
Did you think it was my turn

Radio plays, i'm coming down
Road stretches out, but it ain't - lord i'm home
I'm not big on being amazed
I'm in a haze, i'm lost - nowhere bound
And all my friends they jumped the wagon
Parked today, tails a-waggin'

(chorus)

(tweedy)

As i walk along and stumble
Trains rumble in my head
As i breeze along and grumble
Think about you instead

And a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all i want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all i want is you

Sometimes i get so hungry
Think about pie all day
Just a little whipped cream
Honey, i'm on my way

With a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all i want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all i want is you

Just a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all i want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all i want is you

Now, don't you call me key lime
You are the apple of my eye
Don't you know i'll be fine
Whenever you're by my side

With a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all i want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all i want is you
All i want is you (*4)

(tweedy, louris)

Let's go down, together
3 am tomorrow night
I'll take you over anything
Let's go out, together
Broad daylight in the street
I'll take you anywhere

Chorus:
Your music fills my car
Your voice breaks every time
I'm still wondering
If i know who you are
I hang on every line

Let's go down, together
Down by the old mainstream
I'll take you over anything
Let's go back in time 1959
I'll take you, radio king

(chorus)

(johnson)

Yesterday is just the day before today
Sat and watched it, watched it slide away
Yesterday cried. oh, yesterday cried
Looking at me through those tiny eyes
Why did you do it, why'd you have to lie
Yesterday cried. oh, yesterday cried

Chorus:
All you ever wanted, and all you'll ever need (*4)
Oh, yesterday cried

My main line's gone a different way
I woke up, and it was yesterday
Yesterday cried. oh, yesterday cried
Times been good, times they been bad
When i was with you, you know it made me sad
Yesterday cried. oh, yesterday cried

(chorus)

Yesterday cried
By the shape of things i'm in
I'll just watch it slide away
Yesterday. yesterday. yesterday

(tweedy)

There's a man on tv claims he killed 23
Burnt their bodies and collected their teeth
There's another man at home with his wife and family tree
Who agreed this would make a good movie?
And i'm sitting here, wondering what this is all doing to me

He sold the book rights, and he was set for life
A woman on a talk show wants to be his wife
Another man decides to purchase his knife
A court decides he's got the right
And i'm sitting here, wondering how he can ever sleep at night

I don't want to walk where he walked
I don't want to talk to who he stalked
I don't want to walk where he walked

First it was a book, and then it was a movie
They cut it all up and they put it on the tv
The starring role was played by christopher lee
He was fine, he was something to see
And i'm sitting here, wondering what this is all doing to me

(chorus)
Oh lord, i didn't catch how he got caught