Fickle Heart

The tables were clean where the fine foods had been The servants had turned all the lights off and left for the day What could I do The limousines gone with the wealth and the fame Of the people who lived with a view from their window That we never k

Doing all right A little jiving on a Saturday night And come what may Gonna dance the day away Jenny was sweet She always smiled for the people she'd meet On trouble and strife She had another way of looking at life The news is blue (the news is blue

From that blue horizon where the wind blows Where the deal deciders run on dynamos Make play with our ambitions charge our vanities Then track us in the slipstream of a cool breeze Well you've got to be crazy love Yes you've got to be a dream To mean

When ships were ships and times were good And everyman knew his place And the future was a treasure trove For the whole human race Women they were women then And the cards were there to call But all this happened long ago Before a kid like you were b

Are you confounded by doubt, feeling left out Waiting for something, to turn you about Are there eyes in the night, that feed and excite Would the flick of a finger, incite you to riot Do the feverish trees, conspire with the breeze To seduce you to

Carve your name on my door You can say you've been here before Get down and learn the law - on your own Then take it back home By your side all night long There were times when I didn't know If I should come and go - roll slow Or take it back home An

Walking down that home mile on Friday Like a dog without a bone Pay packet hot in my pocket Why should feel so all alone I walked away in anger Came back out of need Someone stole my thunder And gave to me New lines on loving New lines on love New li