Inevitable

Before this evening draws to a close
And you go home to homework.
Before the moon goes down on lonely street
I know a place where we can go, baby,
Where you can find out just how low life can be.
Has no one told you, you have a future, girl
So bright and filled with promise
Has no one lead you down to club limbo.
That's just the place for us to meet, baby,
Where you can find out just how your life should be.
The clock is ticking and you are picking
Clothes, maybe to wear tomorrow
You haven't met me yet...soon you will
Down at club limbo they still play stardust
Down at club limbo that's the place for love.

They may walk hand in hand
Like lovers through the market square
Selecting leather goods,
Pretending that they just don't care
They say all the boys are monsters
All the girls are whores
So when you lose the one you love
There's always plenty more
They may be in a club
All dressed up waiting to meet you
Or in some garret bleak
Despairing over what to do
All the girls are monsters
All the boys are whores
So when you lose the one you love
There's always plenty more.

I was talking to an oak tree
When the cypress butted in.
Out of car parts, a raven
Made a nest inside my skin.
To understand me better
You all ought to follow me home
I make a wish i clean the fish
I can scream like the cicada
Gin the seed right out of the bowl
Ride the train to memphis
When there's cotton to be sold.
To understand this better
You all ought to follow me home
Make a wish & clean the fish
That's why they call me wash jones.
I feel like driving but my car won't run
I feel like plowing but my mules won't come.
I was lost down in the bottom
I was cutting through the cane
Tied my team up to a rusty trace chain
That's why they call me wash jones.

Danny diamond, she was a star
She took the stage every quarter hour
She was the hottest gig in town, in fact
He was the hottest girl around.
She had the strut, she had the lines
To make a man's heart go 'round about...
She put it all into her act until
One night after the show.
Danny gyrated, wouldn't you know
Something had to go
Down she smack- it was her back
Completely crack- so fade to black...
So ends the act of danny diamond
She was a star.

I've found a new baby, i've found a new girl,
My fashion plate baby got me in a whirl
Her new kind of lovin' done made me her slave,
Her sweet turtle dovin' is all that i crave.
Sweetest miss, with a kiss, full o' bliss, can't resist
Tells me lies, but she's wise, naughty eyes mesmerize.
You know i don't mean maybe, baby.
I just had to fall.
And that is why i say, "swing, you dogs!"
I don't mean maybe. i have found a new baby,
So, baby, that's all!

I sing a song about clouds and rainbows
I hum a tune that sings like a dove.
Rhyme some words about anything
Anything but love.
I paint a picture of my prison
With blue and grey from the skies above
Framed and signed with the title
"anything but love."
He had to go but i won't miss him
I have got better things to do
Like writing stories and painting pictures
Of anything but love.
I write a story about a couple
Steal a plot from an old movie
You can tell what inspired it
Anything but love.

You left me sad and lonely,
Why did you leave me lonely?
I have a heart that's only
For nobody but you.
I'm burning like a flame, dear.
Won't ever be the same, dear.
I always put the blame, dear,
On nobody but you.
Yes, you, you're drivin' me crazy!
My tears for you make everything hazy,
They cloud the skies of blue.
I do! i have friends who would hear me
And cheer me, believe me, if they knew
That you were the kind who would hurt me,
Desert me when i needed you.
Yea, you, you're drivin' me crazy!
What did i do to you?