Dick Turner

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30 Day Loan

I thought that I heard wedding bells
A-ringing in your voice
I chose to give you all my love
Never doubting in my choice

I put my heart into your care
Like my money in a trust
But now I turn around to see
That's the bank's gone bust

Your words all carried confidence
You held my pride between your hands
It seemed like you were built on rock
And I had found a man

I believed each word that you said
When you spoke of a house and home
I hoped for a lifetime investment
You took out a 30 day loan

I'm sitting here, I'm all alone
Tears running in disgrace
Why'd you go? I'd like to know
I'm feeling so displaced

I bought your words like they were gold
I put my pennies in your cup
But look what a difference one day makes
'Cause it's all gone belly up

When I told our friends of our love
I used a bragging tone
I'm so ashamed, I hide my face
I won't answer the phone

I lent to you on friendly terms
Never dreamed one day I'd moan
Please can't we renegotiate
The length of that 30 day loan?

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Traffic Jam

Lots of cars
Lost my bike
Traffic Jam
I don't like

Can't get down
This crowded street
Cars all go
Beep, beep, beep

Up ahead
I see it now
Some old car
Is broken down

Angry fist
Gesticulates
No one here
Is thinking straight

Keep the traffic
Moving on
I just want
To get on home

Traffic jam
I don't like
Lots of cars
Lost my bike


Can't get over
What got said
Traffic jam
Now in my head

Tow truck come
Haul me away
Use broken parts
Another day

Analysis
You gave me your
Won't listen now
Heard it before

Real nice place
The junkyard seems
Figure out
What this all means

Your explanations
Come too late
Bottle neck
Want to escape

Traffic jam
Now in my head
Can't get over
What got said

Curtains drawn
Now alone
In my room
With windows closed

Can't forget
the traffics roar
I'm stuck out there
Forevermore

The signals change
But I just wait
Just sit here
It all stagnates

This life seems a
Crowded street
Where our closed cars
Will never meet

To the questions
In my mind
Never answers
Will I find

In my room
With windows closed
Curtains drawn
Now alone

I Love You

I can't say
How it feels
I could talk
But talk's not real

It's all locked up
Inside of me
And only you
Can set it free

I'm not the first
To feel this way
But it feels
Like that today

I love you
My only words
You are for me
The universe

I ask myself
What it means
And why is love
A mystery?

When you're here
Next to me
Only answer that I need

I'm not the first
To feel this way
But it feels
Like that today

I love you
Is what this means
Let it stay
A mystery

1

Let's Go and Shop

Let's go and shop
We'll have some fun
Then we'll come home and
We'll make love

When in the store aisles
We'll search on the shelves
And when we're at home
We'll search in ourselves

Sounds great to me
I like doing things with you, you see

Let's go someplace
And get a bite
Then put the top down
And drive through the night

We'll go to the shore
And look at the tides
And later at home
Take a look deep inside

Sounds great to me
I want to spend my life with you, you see

We'll go to the movies
And then we'll come home
Closed all the curtains
Click off the phone

I'll tell you a secreat
It's something I've found
Everything counts
When you are around

It's all great you see
And from here on out, it's just you and me

So let's go and shop
We could use a few things
Sope stuff for the kitchen
A rubber stop for the sink

Maybe a towel
Chili powder or curry
We'll leave in an hour
'Cause there's no real hurry

We'll wait you see
'Cause here you are laying next to me

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Dinosaured

I woke up feeling analog
It's a digital world
I see lots and lots of cavemen
I'm feeling dinosaured

Oh well, that's life
Some things you can't avoid
Besides the specialists tell us
One day we'll be androids

I'm not going to fight it
If I'm out of date
And really what's the difference
If I'm early, now or late?

Oh well, that's life
No ifs, ands or buts
I can't see losing too much sleep
When soon we'll be robots

I just can't get excited
About the latest craze
But I'm not nostalgic either
About the "good old days"

Oh well, that's life
Pne must get used to it
Besides in just a few years
We'll all be full of chips

Sometimes the things around me
Seem like a museum case
Mobile phones, computers
Seem like antique displays

Oh well, that's life
Does it matter what I saw?
Because just down the road they say
We'll all plug into the wall

I see the cavemen coming
They look hungry, they look bored
They all seem set on something
I'm feeling dinosaured

Lucky Stars

There's a box
With a snake
In a basement
Of a house

In the box
With the snake
The man put
The mouse

Then the man
Stood and watched
He felt a bit
Like god

And the mouse
Well all he knew
Was he was feeling
Rather odd

Then the man
Shakes the box
Thinking
"This could take all day"

"Hurry up
Got things to do
Money's time
As they say -
That's what they say"

The mouse looked up
And saw the man
Staring down
At him

He asked himself
What it meant
Hoping things
Aren't what they seem

The snake uncoils
And moves slow
Across the
Sawdust chips

The man looks down
His eyes are wide
there's a tremor
On his lips

The mouse can't move
'Cause he is trapped
Like a bug
Inside a jar

But he still hopes
Hopes he was born
Under a lucky star
A lucky star

In a flash
It is done
And the man
Walks up the steps

He goes outside
Under the sun
He puts some water
On the grass

the snake still lays
In the box
In the basement
Of the house

In his throat
Is a lump
That used to be
A mouse

The man now knows
He's seen the proof
You can't change the
Way things are

But he's no mouse
He is a man
For that he thanks
His lucky stars

3

Sitting, Doing Nothing

We were sitting, doing nothing
Watching the world go by
But it felt like a paid vacation
And I think the reason why was because

We were sitting, doing nothing
As people came and went
But since you were there
It seemed our time was excellently spent by

Sitting, doing nothing
On that summers day 'cause
We were doing nothing
In a very something way when we were

Sitting, doing nothing
I don't think a word was said
But I'm sure I heard a melody
Playing in my head as we

Sat there, doing nothing
You were close to me
That's when we fell in love I think
As we sat there silently just

Sitting, doing nothing
On that summers day
As people came and people went
Each along their way.

Generator

Generator
You inspire something on me
Generator
You increase activity

I must admit
A perfect fit
I missed a part
You found it

Generator
Your invention makes things move
Generator
You got the tongue into the groove

The machine
Is back on track
And there's only you
To thank

Generator
I like your good intentions
Generator - Tell me
But did I fail to mention

You're the best in years
For my spinning gears
So glad that
You are here

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Going Down

I fell into some quicksand
'Cause I couldn't shut my mouth
Now all I do is struggle
I'm trying to get out

I'd try to cast a magic spell
If magic would do the trick
I'd try to write some pretty words
But I can't even think

I just couldn't help it
it was like I was possessed
I try to think about it
But I can't find the sense

Can't fight against the current
I'm trying not to drown
But all this talk is useless
I guess I'm going down

Didn't look where I was going
I may have lost a friend
I feel it pulling at me
I'm in up to my chin

Won't you think it over
Try to understand
Put your arms around me
Pull me back on land

If I could do it over
I'd have listened, not have talked
I'd have kept my eyes wide open
I'd have watched where I had walked

But now it seems it's too late
For words that just don't count
I had my chance I lost it
Looks like I'm going down

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Walking Church

Are you a walking church?
I think you're more than what you seem
You opened up a door
To a place I'd never seen

Living day to day
Can be so hard to do
I found even the truth
Is hard to hold on to

But now I think I've glimpsed
What I've longed to know
You are my waliking church
Stay with me where I go

Are you a walking church?
You seem that way to me
I see in you a picture
Of what were only dreams

I gave up long ago
Asking people to agree
Clever words and arguments
No longer mean a thing to me

It took me all my life
To find the love you hold
You are my walking church
Stay with me where I go

Are you a walking church?
I think that's what you are
All the proof I need
Is within my heart

I serched for something real
But when I looked around
The world seemed an empty place
I despaired at what I found

But some things just don't lie
And now I find I know
You are my walking church
Stay with me where I go

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Billy Jones

When Billy left me I threw a fit
It seemed I cried for days
But now I'm finally over it
'Cause you put me in a daze

I saw you in a magazine
I think it was page two
My heart went thump, thump, thump, thump
And so I say to you

Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt
We're perfect when you think of it
A beach, palm trees
In the tropics with he birds and bees

You'll of course
Get a divorce
You' d do that for me
But act fast, 'causr right here
I see a cute guy on page three

Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
You really seem intense
We could read some L. Ron Hubbard
In the back of our limo Mercedes Benz

Billy'd see you and me
And his jaw would hit the floor
So call me up, 'cause if you don't
Look who's on page four

Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp
You're such a childlike man
We coud go on long bike rides
And build castles in the sand

It'd be fun to that stuff
But I know that it'd get old
Because my heart belongs to one
And his name is Billy Jones

So come on back
Billy Jones
My life seems empty now
When you're here life seems full
Won't you please, please come around

It was absurd to even think
That Johnny, Tom or Brad
Could replace your handsome face
I just miss you, I was mad
Billy Jones... come on back