Midnight Radio

1990 Big Records
Available on Cassette & CD

                                

Vincent of Jersey
Vincent of Jersey.
He's wearing a red and white t-shirt.
He's loving the ladies upon his floor.
A bottle of brandy, a hard box of Camels.
Waiting for love to come knocking on his door.
                      
And he says something like ...
Someday somebody's gonna love me
Someday it's me they're looking for
Someday somebody's gonna want me ‘cause I'm ...
Vincent of Jersey.
                                      
Leaving Song
Think ahead before you open your mouth
I might be thinking it through.
Gonna pack my things and catch a train headed South.
Or step right out of my car, into the
Rain drippin' down my fingers,
Into my eyes, you won't see me cryin' but,
What will you do when I am gone.
                 
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but,
what will you do when I am gone.
                        
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but
I’m on a train bound for glory,
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you
but What will you do, when I am gone?
                    
How the hell you ever get to be so damn cool?
Suck down my money and throw my love away.
How the hell did you ever get to be so damn slick?
You’ll come slidin’ slidin’ down some day but,
I'm on a train bound for glory.
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you but,
What will you do when I am gone?
                                        
Dinner with Ivan
I took dinner at seven. With a tablecloth and wine.
And my poor brother Ivan. Who could laugh but
couldn't smile.
Stories filled the evening. Of his job and of his wife.
How they somehow cheated him. How they
took his life.
                        
Chorus:Welcome to the wild world brother.
Sometimes it's gonna rain on you.
It rains all over the world, brother.
Sometime's it's gonna rain on you.
                        
The evening went on and on.
But was it time to say goodbye. To all the
big decisions
And dirty dishes in his life. Take some money
Out of your savings brother, have yourself a good time.
But ain't he just too lazy, to wipe the tears
from his eyes.
                 
Chorus
                     
The evening went on and on.
but was it time to say goodbye. To all the big decisions
And dirty dishes in his life. Get in my car, brother.
Turn the key and take a drive.
But ain't I just too lazy, to wipe the tears
from my eyes.
                      
Chorus
                   
Bittersweet
A little light looks through
Her bedroom window. She dances and I dream, she's
Not so far as she seems.
Brighter meadows, melting sunsets, her hair
Blowing in the breeze ... And she can't
See me watching.
                 
Chorus: Love.
It's bittersweet. More sweet than bitter.
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender
                
I'm older now. I work in the city. We live together.
But it's different than my dream.
Morning light fills the room I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted.
                    
Chorus
                             
I know we don't talk about it.
We don't tell each other. All the little things
that we need.
We work our way around each other.
As we tremble and we bleed.
                       
Chorus.
                             
The Moose Song
I have seen, babe I haven't heard.
Did someone put you down.
Was your lover just another scheme?
That never did work out?
                 
Chorus: When it hurts, when it hurts inside.
Why can't you see it's only you he's thinking of.
Who ever told you it was your right to be alive?
If your heart is breaking, you're just lucky to be in love.
                 
You keep claiming that you paid too high a price.
You want something for your own.
So worried about the change he puts in to your pocket.
You can't see that he's dead and gone.
                      
Chorus
                        
Babe get into your car. And turn and turn
and turn around.
Yeah the road it ain't inside you.
You need some help to get you there.
                    
Chorus
                         
Cold Blooded
Should have known better ...
Should have known but I ...
Didn't know better.
How can you be so
Cold blooded.
                             
Soul Children
We are soul children.
Children of many colors. Walkin on a big black street
We all want different things.
We are soul children
Children of Freedom. Children of rock and roll.
Children of confusion.
                       
Chorus: We are running faster, reaching higher
burning in the sun.
We are reaching farther but we have lost our
Soul Children
                  
We are soul children.
Yes I'm a brother, yes I do believe.
We are soul children. We must rise up from the deep.
We are soul children, try to feed our families and keep
our mind free.
We are soul children, looking for a leader who'll do
everything for ‘me’.
                    
Chorus
               
We are soul children. Yes I'm a brother.
Yes I do believe.
We are soul children. We must rise up from the deep.
We are soul children. Children of a God better than the
one on t.v.
We are soul children. We must rise up from the deep.
We can't lose our soul children.
                              
Love Betsy
She left her father, been thirty years.
She drew some water, to dry his tears.
She said I'm sorry, I've been lonely. I need another ...
                      
She crossed through deserts and rivers wide.
She walked through valleys and mountains high.
She crossed the seas, through storm and night
To find a lover ...
                 
Love Betsy.
Somebody is going to love you some day.
                      
She worked the night shift, to buy a dress.
She'd break her back. She'd look her best.
She'd sell her soul for tenderness.
But she's still waiting ...
                   
Love Betsy.
Somebody is going to love you some day.
                            
Midnight Radio
Driving far from home. On a midnight radio.
Reckless and alone. On a long black road.
The city is burning like a dream. Like a lady smoking in
the night.
And she lets out a silent scream. So far
from the morning light.
                     
And I don't know where to go.
And I don't know where I've been.
And I don't know If I'll still be here. When the
sun rises again.
But somewhere in the distance. There's a tower
and a light.
Broadcasting a resistance. Through the rain and through
the night.
Hold me in the darkness.
Love is playing in the darkness.
On a midnight radio.
                      
So grab your little sister.
Wake up your children and your wife.
Cause a new train's coming mister.
Around the boarders of the night.
Wavelengths of love are playing on a midnight radio.
Through the static and the rain.
On a midnight radio ...
                              
City on Fire.
Woke up this morning in a bed of fire
People and buildings in my head,
burning there tonight.
Tonight as I lay sleeping.
I try to hold your hand.
One eye open and dreaming. That this city
Is on fire.
                          
Tell me sweet things in the middle of the night
It's the middle of the night.
Open my window and the room is filled.
Filled with burning light.
Tonight as I lay sleeping I try to hold your hand.
One eye open and dreaming. That this city
Is on fire.
                                    
Monument in Green
Well I rode the green across this country.
Horses lived and died to take me.
Men I killed to help me get there, further West I died to
take me.
Blackened face and dirty laundry. Many days since
I have eaten. Found myself a family. Broke my back
So I could feed them.
                       
Chorus: High in the wind. Standing in the sun.
We're going to raise up the heavens.
With a shovel and a gun.
I was so much younger then. I would never ever listen.
I am so much older now. I thought that things would
end up different.
Farewell, lover in green.
                    
Elizabeth she is my lady. Says the prayers and
does the learning.
Waking up all the children.
Making love in the early morning.
We took to building up the cities. we built the churches
in our cities.
Happy in the green country. In the green
they buried me.
                         
Chorus
                   
Well I'm dead now. My wife Elizabeth is at my side.
I've got children all around me. I've got grandchildren.
I've got great grandchildren. I've got great
great great great
Grandchildren. Too many for me to remember.
Maybe one of them is you ...
             
Ann Arbor Grandfather
He left one Tuesday morning
Didn't have any bills to pay.
Just the silver dollars in his pocket.
And the ring upon his finger.
Ann Arbor Grandfather.
                       
Early on a Sunday morning
A deacon wipes the tar off his feet.
Drawing pictures during the sermon.
Oh yeah Grandfather, I think it's funny.
Ann Arbor Grandfather
                  
There's a picture on a wall in Duluth.
Another Grandma has passed away.
Her children rummage through her leavings.
They put them in new boxes,
And they put the new boxes in new attics.
Ann Arbor Grandfather.
                     
Elvis
Somewhere in the smoke and light.
Oh the king he sings of Heaven.
Oh yes he believes there is a paradise.
And a band is playing there.
            
There is a black car waiting somewhere outside.
Filled with lovely ladies for celebration.
He wipes the tears from his eyes.
For all his lonely lovemaking.
Oh babe. Whenever will you love me?
                           

All songs and lyrics written by Todd Park Mohr

  

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