Classic Cars-Bright Eyes

[00:03.46]She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts [00:10.29]Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars [00:16.98]So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar [00:23.57]To think of them, all alone in the dark [00:31.12]So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen [00:38.36]She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean [00:44.49]Gave me anything I wanted, oh, the generosity [00:50.87]I took all that I could, it was free [00:58.88]Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint [01:04.74]It's a room I'm renovating, it's a name I got to change [01:12.47]If I get out of California, I'm going back to my home state [01:18.98]To tell them all that I made a mistake [01:24.83]And I keep looking for that blindfold faith, lighting candles to a cynical saint [01:32.16]Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape [01:37.49]You can go right out your mind trying to escape [01:45.73]From the panicked paradox of day to day [01:51.02]If you can't understand something, then it's best to be afraid [02:08.39]The whole world, it loves you if you are a chic chameleon [02:14.46]Intersecting circles, she could hang with anyone [02:20.12]But when conducting business, she would lie about where she's from [02:26.71]Saying, "Life is how it is, not how it was" [02:35.16]I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school [02:41.67]She'd talk forever about the phases of the moon [02:47.68]Saying, "Everything's a cycle, you've got to let it come to you [02:54.18]And when it does, you will know what to do" [03:02.91]Without even knowing, I guess I took up her advice [03:09.27]Painted her front door, it seemed a suitable goodbye [03:16.02]It's not that often but I think of her sometimes [03:22.17]Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night [03:27.71]And they keep moving at a glacial pace, turning circles in a memory maze [03:34.70]I made a new cast of the death mask that's gonna cover my face [03:41.00]I had to change the combination to the safe [03:47.52]Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait [03:53.54]And never trust a heart that's so bent, it can't break [04:08.81]