Live from Cedar Street, Austin TX: Recent Episodes
Patrick Donahue
When I asked you to throw a lifelineThis wasn’t what I had in mind, oh noSeems I’m always just one step behind A love that lasts a lifetime Should not be so hard to find, oh noSo I’ll just get hung out on the lineAgain this timeMaybe nothing lasts foreverMaybe love is supposed to fadeAnd if we can’t stick togetherJust say the words and I’ll be on my wayI have stood right here before and I will againFeels like the start of the endIf you stare into the sunshineIt’s bound to make you blind, oh yesYou know the rain will fall sometimes I don’t have to read the headlineWhen I can see the signsAnd so I find myself resigned Again this time
Everybody starts feeling good this time of yearBut I got my own reason for holiday cheerWinter is here and the mercury is droppingI can’t wait to see my baby in her Christmas stockingsDays getting short and there’s lights all ‘round the townI start heating up when the sun goes downSnow is falling and it doesn’t look like it’s stoppingI can’t wait to see my baby in her Christmas stockingsRed and green and silver like the colors on the Christmas treeStartin’ down at her toes, endin’ up above her knees Santa don’t bring me nothing and that’s alright with meMe and my pretty baby are warming up on Christmas EveYou can keep the candy and the cookies and the yuletide treatsI got everything I need and it’s just as sweetThe fire is hot and the kindling is poppingI can’t wait to see my baby in her Christmas stockings
I’m watching while you’re walking, down the streetAnd I’m spying while you’re driving, that’s me behind the treeSo welcome to the neighborhood, I hope you’re doing fineI’ll be dropping by here from time to timeI’m looking when you leave, I’m just a few doors downAnd if there’s anything you need, I am always around Said hello when you were out with your dog and that’s a good startI’ll be coming ‘round this evening with a baggie full of chicken heartsCreepy Craig has got his eye on you, oh noCreepy Craig has got his eye on you, let’s goCreepy Craig just might be missing a screwAnd there’s no telling what he’s gonna do, watch out nowCreepy Craig has got his eye on youGo to the shop on the corner and there I may beA case of beer in the morning, well, it’s not what it seems Your daddy gave you a warning about people like meWon’t keep me from trying To get into your lifeI’m gonna keep barking up at your treeI’m stalking from the shadows, dreaming of romanceI’ll be biding my time, hoping that you give me a chance
It’s been quite a while I’ve been wandering down this dusty roadThought there was some secret, I thought by now I’d knowSpinning in circles, same as yesterday Clearing the hurdles yet worse in very wayWhen nothing’s working, I must be doing something wrongJust what the hell is going on?So where is this train going and how long does it take?I can’t help but wonder if I got on by mistakeSpinning in circles, same as yesterday Clearing the hurdles but there’s more here every dayAnd nothing’s working, I must be doing something wrongJust what the hell is going on?Trying to find my foundationThe clock keeps ticking, clock keeps tickingLooking for my destinationThe clock keeps ticking, gonna keep ticking long after I’m gone
The road of life is big and wideI’m just a chicken trying to make it to the other sideFound every pothole along the waySome I fell into and some that I madeEvery day a little nearer to the end of the lineHear the echoes of my footsteps from behindGetting closer all the timeYou might say that I’ve passed half the wayAnd I’m a little more grey than yesterdayWhat you see in the rear-view is only the pastMemories fade but the bad ones lastThere’s much to do before I’m goneTo try to make right for things I did wrongAin’t nobody outrunning the clocksJust one step closer to the pine box
Aren’t you so clever?Aren’t you so cool?You put it all togetherYou took us all to schoolYou executed to perfectionYour subtle misdirection Intentions well disguised behind a grinBut when you’re going underDo you stop to wonderIs this the prize you thought that you would win?So now you know the kind of man you areA swindler in an avatarCaught in the undertowSo now you knowSo now you know the what really makes you tickYou chose the dark it seemed to stick You reap just what you sowSo now you knowRipped out your own pictureTo prove you don’t belongYou’re just a specterYou were missing all alongAnd now you start to witherAfter failing to deliverOn any wayward promise that you madeYou’re standing all aloneYou now really own itYou only played yourself with your charade