Megan Mullally
THE SWEETHEART BREAK-IN

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1. SWEETHEART
 
2. TEN CENTS A DANCE

I work at the Palace Ballroom,
but, gee that Palace is cheap;
when I get back to my chilly hall room
I'm much too tired to sleep.
I'm one of those lady teachers,
a beautiful hostess, you know,
one that the Palace features
at exactly a dime a throw.

Ten cents a dance
that's what they pay me,
gosh, how they weigh me down!
Ten cents a dance
pansies and rough guys
tough guys who tear my gown!
Seven to midnight I hear drums.
Loudly the saxophone blows.
Trumpets are tearing my eardrums.
Customers crush my toes.
Sometime I think
I've found my hero,
but it's a queer romance.
All that you need is a ticket
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.

Fighters and tailors and bowlegged sailors
can pay for their tickets and rent me!
Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors
are sweethearts my good luck has sent me.
Though I've a chorus of elderly beaux,
stockings are porous with hole at the toes.
I'm here till closing time.
Dance and be merry, it's only a dime.

Sometime I think
I've found my hero,
but it's a queer romance.
All that you need is a ticket
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance

4.  HOW INSENSITIVE
 
How insensitive
I must have seemed
when he told me that he loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When he said it so sincerely
Why, he must have asked,
Would I just turn and stare in icy silence?
What was I to say?
What can you say when a love affair is over?

Now hes gone away
And Im alone
With the memory of his last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still, all his heartache in that last look
How, he must have asked,
Would I just turn and stare in icy silence?
What was I to do?
What can one do...
When a love affair is over?

6.  KING OF THE ROAD (INSTRUMENTAL)
 
8.  IN THE GLOAMING

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
When the lights are dim and low,
And the quiet shadows falling,
Softly come, and softly go.

When the trees are sighing faintly,
With a gentle lull of woe,
Will you think of me and love me,
As you did once long ago?

In the gloaming, oh my darling,
Think not bitterly of me,
Though I passed away in silence,
Left you lonely, set you free.

For my heart was crushed with longing,
What had been could never be,
It was best to leave you thus dear,
Best for you, and best for me.

It was best to leave you thus,
Best for you, and best for me.

 
 

10.  I REMEMBER

I remember sky
It was blue as ink
Or at least I think
I remember sky

I remember snow
Soft as feathers
Sharp as thumbtacks
Coming down like lint
And it made you squint
When the wind would blow
And ice like vinyl on the streets
Cold as silver, white as sheets
Rain like strings
And changing things like leaves

I remember leaves
Green as spearmint
Crisp as paper
I remember trees
Bare as coat racks
Spread like broken umbrellas
And parks and bridges
Ponds and zoos
Ruddy faces, muddy shoes
Light and noise
And bees and boys
And days

I remember days or at least I try
But as years go by
They're a sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky

12.  SCARLET RIBBONS

I peeked in to say goodnight
and I saw my child in prayer.
"...and for me, some scarlet ribbons,
scarlet ribbons for my hair."

All the stores were closed and shuttered,
all the streets were dark and bare.
In our town, no scarlet ribbons,
scarlet ribbons for hair.
Through the night, my heart was aching,
just before the dawn was breaking.

I peeked in and on her pillow,
on her pillow lying there.

Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons,
scarlet ribbons for her hair.

If I live to be a hundred,
I will never know from where

Came those ribbons, scarlet ribbons,
scarlet ribbons for her hair.

14.  SURABAYA JOHNNY

I was young, I was just sixteen then,
when you came up from
Burma one day.
And you told me to pack up my suitcase,
and I did, and you took me away.
When I asked how you earned your living
Oh, I can still hear what you said to me
You had some kind of job with the railroad,
and had nothing to do with the sea.
You said a lot, Johnny. All one big lie.
You sure had me fooled, Johnny, from the minute we met.
I hate you when you laugh at me like that.
Now, you take that pipe out of your mouth, you rat.

Surabaya Johnny. Why'd you treat me so rough?
Surabaya Johnny. And I do love you so.
Surabaya Johnny. Why am I feeling so low?
You have no heart, Johnny, and I do love you so.

At the start, every day was Sunday
'til I packed up and went off with you.
And it lasted two weeks until one day
you laughed at me and you hit me too.
You dragged me all over the cities,
up the river and down to the sea.
Now when I look at myself in the mirror,
there's an old woman looking back at me.
You didn't want love, Johnny, you wanted cash.
But I saw your lips, Johnny, and that was that.
You wanted it all, Johnny. I gave you more.
Now you take that damn pipe out of your mouth, you rat.

Surabaya Johnny. Why'd you treat me so rough?
Surabaya Johnny. And I do love you so.
Surabaya Johnny. Why am I feeling so low?
You have no heart, Johnny, and I do love you so.

I would never have dared to ask you
how you got that peculiar name,
but at every hotel that we stopped at,
I found out, but I love you all the same.
And one day in a Cuban flophouse
I wake up to the roar of the sea.
And you leave without one word of warning
on that ship waiting down on the Key.
You have no heart, Johnny. You're just no good.
How can you go, Johnny and leave me flat?
You feel my love, like that very first day.
Now you take that goddamn pipe out of your mouth, you rat.

Surabaya Johnny. Why'd you treat me so rough?
Surabaya Johnny. And I do love you so.
Surabaya Johnny. Why am I feeling so low?
You have no heart, Johnny, and I do love you so.

16.  JOHNSBURG, ILLINOIS

She's my only true love
she's all that I think of
look here in my wallet
that's her

She grew up on a farm there
there's a place on my arm
where I've written her name
next to mine
you see I just can't
live without her
and I'm her only boy
and she grew up outside McHenry
in Johnsburg, Illinois

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3.  MARIE
 
You looked like a princess the night we met
With your hair piled up high
I will never forget
And I'm drunk right now baby
But I've got to be
Or I never could tell you
What you mean to me

I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you, Marie

You're the song that the trees sing when the wind blows
You're a flower; you're a river; you're a rainbow
Sometimes I'm crazy
But I guess you know
And I'm weak and I'm lazy
And I've hurt you so
And I don't listen to a word you say
And when you're in trouble, I turn away

But I love you
And I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you, Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you, Marie

5.  IT NEVER WAS YOU

I've been running through rains
and the wind that follows after
for one certain face
and an unforgotten laughter.

I've been following trains
and staring after ships
for a certain pair of eyes
and a certain pair of lips.

Yes, I've looked everywhere
you can go without wings
and I found a great variety
of interesting things.

But, it never was you.
It never was anywhere new.

An occaisional sunset reminded me
or a flower hanging by on a tulip tree
or one red star hung low in the west
or a heartbreak call from a meadowlark's nest
Made me think for a moment maybe it's true
I found you in the star,
in the calm, in the blue

But, it never was you.
It never was anywhere you.
Anywhere,
Anywhere you

7.  FAR FROM ME

 
As the cafe was closing
on a warm summer night
And Kathy was cleaning the spoons
The radio played the hit parade
And I hummed a long with the tune
She asked me to change the station
Said the song just drove her insane
But it weren't just the music playing
It was me that she was trying to blame.

And the sky is black and still now
On the hill where the angels sing
Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring
But it's far, far from me

Well, I leaned on my left leg
in the parking lot dirt
And Kathy was closing the lights
A June bug flew from the warmth he once knew
And I wished for once I weren't right
Why we used to laugh together
And we'd dance to any old song.
Well, ya know, she still laughs with me
But she waits just a second too long

And it's far, far from me

Well, I started the engine
and I gave it some gas
And Kathy was closing her purse
Well, we hadn't gone far in my beat-up old car
And I was prepared for the worst.
"Will you still see me tomorrow?"
"No, I got too much to do."
Well, a question ain't really a question
If you know the answer too.

And the sky is black and still now
On the hill where the angels sing
Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle
Looks just like a diamond ring
But it's far, far from me

9.  RUBY'S ARMS

I will leave behind all of my clothes
I wore when I was with you
All I need's my railroad boots
and my leather jacket

As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms
though my heart is breaking
I will steal away out through your blinds
soon you will be waking

The morning light has washed your face
and everything is turning blue now
Hold on to your pillowcase
there's nothing that I can do

As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms
you'll find another soldier
And I swear to God by Christmas time
there'll be someone new to hold you

The only thing I'm taking is
the scarf off of your clothesline
hurry past your chest of drawers
and your broken wind chimes

As I say goodbye
I say goodbye
I say goodbye
to Ruby's arms

I will feel my way
down the darkened hall
and out into the morning
The hobos at the freight yard
have kept their fires burning

And I said, Jesus Christ
this goddamn rain
will someone put me on a train
I'll never kiss your lips again
or break your heart

As I say goodbye
I say goodbye
I say goodbye
to Ruby's arms

11.  ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?

Are you lonesome tonight,
do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Is my memory still in your heart?

Are you lonesome tonight,
do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Do your memories stray to a bright summers day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorway and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Oh my dear, are you lonesome tonight?

13.  JOHANNA

I feel you, Johanna, I feel you.
I was half convinced I'd waken
satisfied enough to dream you Happily, I was mistaken, Johanna!

I'll steal you, Johanna, I'll steal you!
Do they think that walls can hide you?
Even now, I'm at your window
I am in the dark beside you,
buried sweetly in your yellow hair!

I feel you, Johanna,
and one day, I'll steal you.
'Til I'm with you then, I'm with you there
buried sweetly in your yellow hair!

15.  GUILTY

Yes, baby, I been drinkin'
And I know I shouldn't come by no more
But I found myself in trouble, darling
And I had nowhere else to go

I got some whisky from a bar
and I got some cocaine from a friend
and I just had to keep on movin', darling
Til I was back in your arms again

You know I'm guilty
Baby, I'm guilty
And I'll be guilty the rest of my life
How come I never do what I'm supposed to do?
Nothin' that I try to do ever turns out right

You know, how it is with me, baby
You know, I just can't stand myself
And it takes a whole lot of medicine, darlin'
For me to pretend that I'm somebody else