Patty Larkin - Still Green - 2013 Best of Intentions by Patty Larkin The man in the hallway is cleaning up grief While travelers chase after time like a thief With oversized bags they wait for relief in the dawn The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long The highway is frozen with cold working stiffs Who sit in their well heated cars tightly lipped Wait for the light to change red to green then move on The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long Sooner or later The good and the bad All end up being just times that we had Don’t take it too hard Thinking you figured it wrong The sun went away and it ain’t coming back It would be a shame if you forgot how to laugh Would be a shame turning your back on a song The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long I told you I loved you And tried not to cry Told you the angels all know how to fly Cross my heart This ain’t goodbye, just so long Red sky at night is a sailor’s delight So I put on my skates and I’m crossing the ice Holding my breath, I think once or twice about God The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long The man in the hallway is cleaning up grief The faithful will always fall back on belief I wish there was something I could believe to belong The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long The Best of Intentions all get up and leave before long Down Through The Wood by Patty Larkin Down through the wood I go tramping in With my crust of bread And my tea again chorus With all this time All this time All this time All this time And I hear the road Tires fade to black And my footsteps know I’m not coming back chorus There’s a red rose sky Hanging purple clouds Moving fast and high Over orange sundown Like a ringing bell Or a siren’s call I know it well Always knew it all chorus Down through the wood I go tramping in ‘Till my skin feels good On my bones again chorus It Could Be Worse by Patty Larkin Oh, it could be worse They say it will not hurt This day is the first It’s like no other Oh, we’re here again Where conversation ends Wondering why we’ve been Without each other All of the hours Lost in sand dollar towers When you turn your face to mine Oh, my beach plum love Beware the mourning dove Let’s fly high above Like a feather All of the hours Lost in sand dollar towers When you turn your face to mine One more time Oh the days are long Nothing can go wrong For life is but a song My nature lover Soon As I'm Better by Patty Larkin Soon As I’m Better I’ll come running Soon As I’m able to walk alone Soon As I’m Better That’ll be something Soon as I’m able to make it home chorus All of my worries will be Gone gone gone gone Where all the worries tend to go Soon as I’m Better I’ll be funny Soon as I’m able to laugh alone Soon as I’m Better I’ll see it all coming Soon as I’m able to roll like a stone chorus Soon as I’m Better I’ll say something Soon as we’re able to be alone Soon as I’m better We’ll be humming Some little ditty, some little poem chorus Bon Vivants by Patty Larkin Come on, the best of Bon Vivants, They all have valleys You can’t just give up when you want, You gotta tell me Ahhhh This isn’t what we had in mind, When we were younger Who knew life could be so unkind You could go under Ahhhh Wake up, wake up You sleepy head Get up, get up Get out of bed Cheer up, cheer up The sun is red Come on, the best of Bon Vivants They all have valleys You choose the nightmare that you haunt Or the dream you marry Ahhhh Get up, get up You sleepy head My love, my love Get out of bed Cheer up, cheer up The sun is red Run Green Behind The Ears by Patty Larkin I was still slightly fuzzy in shady spots and the tenderest lime. It was lovely, as I look back, but not at the time. For it is hard to be green and take your turn it’s hard to be green and take your turn hard to be green and take your turn as flesh. So much freshness To unlearn So much freshness to unlearn So much freshness to unlearn My Baby by Patty Larkin All the tables have been turned All the bridges have been burned And I empty my pockets Just to talk about My Baby All the love songs that I dread All the poems jangling in my head They’re all on target It’s all been said about My Baby chorus The curtain falls down I’m kneeling on hallowed ground I can’t believe that I found My Baby I hear voices in the hall I cast my shadow at the wall And I look up, And I start to call My Baby Too long in the midnight sun Too long living under the gun I turn around And I start to run to My Baby chorus All the tables have been turned All the bridges have been burned And I empty my pockets Just to talk about My Baby Mando Drum by Patty Larkin Just gimme a cup of coffee Yeah, a double shot Double double mocha mocha grande That’s what I want You tell me you’re optimistic Yeah, you’re an optimist Wait a minute, let me put on my liptick Gimme a kiss Just getting my two left feet going To hullabaloo Shindigging with my GPS on I’m going to follow you Life is a laugh track Even with the mess There’s something to laugh at When you shimmy like this Just gimme my high heeled sneakers Yeah, my velvet dress Crank up my little tiny speakers You’re gonna remember this You tell me you’re futuristic World’s coming apart Wait a minute, let me put on my lipstick, I look good in the dark New Hotel by Patty Larkin In the New Hotel By the highway I watch the cars going Somewhere Hurry hurry up Better step on it Better hurry and get there Just a year ago Cows were standing here Hanging out Spinning long tails Reminiscing on Pastoral childhoods Running o’er hill And down dale So I’ll go on my Merry way and I’ll Write it down In some lost book There’s this New Hotel By the highway, I hope they soon get a Starbucks So Cold by Patty Larkin So Cold only dogs are out with their masters bundled up So Cold that my pen won’t write and my car, it won’t start up chorus Why isn’t anybody screaming Why isn’t anybody crying Why isn’t anybody screaming enough Well, I have had enough of this endless winter I have had enough and I’m crying Uncle, sister chorus So Cold that my thoughts are freezing      I cannot speak a word So Cold give me one good reason to tell you everything I heard Why isn’t anybody praying Why isn’t anybody Jesus Why isn’t anybody praying enough Well, I have had enough of this endless winter I have had enough and I’m crying Uncle, sister chorus So Cold that the dogs are out and the doctors have gone home So Cold dialing 911 ‘cause the switchboard has been closed Why isn’t anybody breathing Why isn’t anybody laughing Why isn’t anybody breathing enough Well, I have had enough of this endless winter I have had enough and I’m crying Uncle, sister chorus Nothing Else Really Matters by Patty Larkin Tonight I’m gonna spread my arms I’m gonna fly away Tonight my tears will turn to charms Along the Milky Way chorus ‘Cause Nothing Else Really Matters Nothing Else Really Matters Nothing Else Really Matters anymore Tonight police will blow their sirens And I’ll turn away Tonight belief will carry Science To a better day chorus Tonight I’ll look into your eyes And I will watch your face Tonight I’ll wait for you to call me From a different place chorus Tonight we’ll taste the bitter truth About the price you pay Tonight we’ll chase a sweeter youth As we lie awake chorus Tonight the Winter howls around us Like a lion’s head Tonight fluorescent halls remind us That we are not dead chorus Tonight I’m gonna spread my arms Tonight I’m gonna spread my arms Tonight I’m gonna spread my arms chorus Because of This by Patty Larkin Because of This I am tearful and grateful Heart full and thankful for this Because of this I could Tell you an earful And fill up your plate full of bliss Because of This I can See with my eyes wide I’m not going to hide what I missed Because of This I would lay down my own life Without asking why or what it is Because of This I’ve got stories to tell All those fairy tales pale Next to all that I feel Because of This Oh, I’m doing quite well While all those Grimm Brothers fail Because of This I am tearful and grateful heart full and thankful and blessed Because of This I could tell you an earful 'Till I tell you I'm soul full How we're all only here for a kiss Yeah, we're all only here Because of This