“I can’t look at the rocket launch
The trophy wives of the astronauts
And i won’t listen to their words
’Cause i like
Birds
I don’t care for walking downtown
Crazy auto-car gonna mow me down
Look at all the people like cows in a herd
Well, i like
Birds”
“When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes unfold,
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones.
And rise with me forever across the silent sand,
And the stars will be your eyes and the wind will be my hands.”
“Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I’ve come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shone beat down on bony backs
So far from home where the ocean stood
Down dust and pine cone tracks
We slept like dogs down by the fire side
Awoke to the fog all around us
The boom of summer time”
“Down here, where’s we’re at
The weather changes, that’s the way it goes
Sometimes it snows, when everything’s wrong
Sometimes it snows, but when it does, it doesn’t last long
Down here, where we’re at
All we do is sit out on the porch
And play our songs, and nothing’s wrong
Sometime friends come around, they all sing along
Down here, where we’re at
Everyone is equally poor
Down here, we don’t care
We don’t care what happens outside the screen door”
“Hey, buddy do you got the time?
No I don’t got a watch, can you spare a dime?
I only got two olives and a couple of limes,
Guessin’ that means it’s martini time.”
“There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright and a sunny side too
Though we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view
Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day it will brighten all our way
If we keep on the sunny side of life”
“I can smell your cigarettes in my dreams
I’m filling your pockets with gasoline
Maybe I’ll catch you in the dark
What a beautiful bonfire we could start”
“Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh but mama, that’s where the fun is”
“Come on, girl
Let’s sneak out of this party
It’s getting boring
There’s more to life than this
It’s still early morning
We could go down to the harbor
And jump between the boats
And see the sun come up
There’s more to life than this
I could nick a boat
And sneak off to this island
I could bring my little ghetto blaster
There’s more to life than this”
“So baby let’s sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high society you cry all day
We’ve been so busy
Keepin’ up with the Jones
Four car garage and we’re still building on
Maybe it’s time we got
Back to the basics of love”
“I remember T-shirt weather
I remember some days
We were singing our lungs out
in the backseat together
And the seatbelts were burning our fingers
In the T-shirt weather
I remember sleeping till the early afternoon”
“Oh man, feel so nice
That was a long cold night
But then the sun came out to thaw the ice
Open the window man to smell the peach blossom
The tiger lily, the merry-gold
Oh look at her, she’s got something to say
And I cant wait to hear it
Won’t let her get away”
“A monument to build beneath the arbors
Upon a cliff the that towers towards the trees
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
Lay it’s head on summers freckled knees”
“I’ve had years of cramped up city life
Trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it’s a pity life
Can’t be simple again”
“The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful
The skies are too clear, life’s so easy today
The beer is too cold, the daiquiri’s too fruitiful
There’s no place like home, when it’s this far away
I don’t care what they say”
“Sha, la, la, la, la, la, my lady
In the sun with your hair undone...”
“Well, I might have gone fishin’, I got to thinkin’ it over
The road to the river is a mighty long way
Well, it must be the season, no rhyme or no reason
I’m takin’ it easy, it’s my lazy day.”
“Fell into
A sea of grass
And disappeared among
The shady blades...
Children all
Ran over me
Screaming tag!
You are the one!
He trips her as
Her sandals fail
She says stop!
I’m a girl...
Whose fingernails are made
Of mother’s pearl...
Yellow buttercup
Helicopters
Orange buttercat
Chasing after
The crazy bee
Mad about somebody...
Me and my girlfriend
Don’t wear no shoes
Her nose is painted pepper
Sunlight...
She loves me
I mean it’s serious
As serious can be...
She sings a song and
I listen to what it says:
If you want a friend
Feed any animal...
There was so much space
I cut me a piece
With some fine wine
It brought peace to my mind
In the summertime...
And it rolled
Summer.... oh...
Oh.... the summertime rolls”
“I walked in the restaurant
For something to do
The waitress yelled at me
And so did the food
And the water tastes funny
When you’re far from your home
But it’s only the thirsty
That hunger to roam”
“All the peacock people left their plumes in a pile
They look good to a fault
And the Gulf water’s warm like a bathtub
Full of lavender and epsom salt
See a bleach blond boy put his long board down
Help his girl get her sunscreen on
I thought about you in your little house
Think you’re lonely but I could be wrong”
Bring Limes is dedicated to beaches, bonfires, vagabonds, and doing what you love.
