Back in Your Life Jonathan Richman

Back in Your Life Well, take me way up north to meet your Mom and Dad So they'll see that Jonathan ain't quite so bad.

Hospital Jonathan Richman

Hospital When you get out of the hospital Let me back into your life I can't stand what you do I'm in love with your eyes And when you get out of the dating bar I'll be here to get back into

Important In Your Life Jonathan Richman

Important In Your Life I'm always gonna have to know I'm important in your life. If you try and come see me and I'm not there, Tell me you tried so I know you care.

That Summer Feeling Jonathan Richman

your life.

The Neighbors Jonathan Richman

The Neighbors Jonathan it's late, don't you think that I should go Naw we were just starting to talk now, It was just getting good don't you know. But if I leave here in the morning. Yeah.

Vincent Van Gogh Jonathan Richman

Now in the museum what have we here? The baddest painter since God's Jon Vermeer. He loved he loved he loved life so bad, His paintings had twice the color other paintings had.

Vincent Van Gogh (Album Ver.) Jonathan Richman

Well Have you heard about the painter Vincent Van Gogh Who loved color and who let it show and in the museum what have we here The most soulful painter since Jon Vermeer and He loved he loved life so bad

Just Look at Me Jonathan Richman

Just Look at Me Well, she herself might never come back But she's with me here because A heart that's once known love Is never the way it was.

Dodge Veg-O-Matic Jonathan Richman

Well, that's my Dodge Veg-O-Matic there in the parking lot. My Dodge Veg-O-Matic, there in the parking lot. You know, I like it. You know, I like to watch it rot.

Twilight in Boston Jonathan Richman

Twilight in Boston When it's twilight in Boston That's something I know about Because I've spent many walks Lonely walks in the twilight All through Boston and those Suburbs Right now I'm imagining

Ice Cream Man Jonathan Richman

Well now, ice cream man, upon my street I heard your truck outside, it's really neat. Ice cream man, upon my block Your little chimes, they reel and they rock. Ice cream man, ring your bell.

The Morning of Our Lives Jonathan Richman

The Morning of Our Lives It hurts me to hear, to see you got no faith in yourself. It bothers me now to watch you, you got no faith in your own self.

Miracles Will Start to Happen Jonathan Richman

Miracles Will Start to Happen The lines around your eyes were never there before One day to your surprise they'll be there no more When we love again, Miracles will start to happen Well we'll

The Lonely Little Thrift Store Jonathan Richman

The Lonely Little Thrift Store By the sidewalk there with the cracks in it with the mexican restaurant next to it With the clothes for the big and the fat in it and the moth ball smell to the hats

City Vs. Country Jonathan Richman

I want to be with my friends by the fire and the starlight But I want music, music in my life Yes, I want a bar hoppin' music scene And I want to pick from ten or fifteen I want the city but I want

Surrender Jonathan Richman

With love you can't win If love can't get in And it can't pierce the heart of a defender. To win in love you must surrender. If you're angry then you can't surrender, no.

Fender Stratocaster Jonathan Richman

Fender Stratocaster Born in the 50s looking so bold Fender Stratocaster Everythin' your parents hated about rock 'n roll Fender Fender Fender Wangin' and a twangin, sounding so tough Fender

Party in the Woods Tonight Jonathan Richman

some more At this party in the woods tonight.

Pablo Picasso Jonathan Richman

Pablo Picasso Well some people try to pick up girls And get called assholes This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare and So Pablo

Summer Morning Jonathan Richman

A summer breeze was in the dawnin'. And those smells--summer smelled great to me. Those are the kind of smells that I wait all year for. Summer's so beautiful to me. I like 'em all but...

You Must Ask the Heart Jonathan Richman

You Must Ask the Heart Well don't ask me about love I'm just your mind I see sometimes oh oh But now I'm blind Don't ask me about love Cuz I'm the wrong guy I don't know how love happens

Modern World Jonathan Richman

So share the modern world with me 'Cause I'm in love with the U.S.A. now I'm in love with the modern world now Put down your cigarette And drop out of B.U.

My Little Kookenhaken Jonathan Richman

My Little Kookenhaken When I was a five-year-old, I saw a five-year girl a-walkin' And in my heart a little bell was tolled, and a little voice said Kookenhaken, Kookenhaken.

Walter Johnson Jonathan Richman

And all through baseball he was loved and respected, Well bitterness in Walter Johnson it was never detected.

Parties in the U.S.A. Jonathan Richman

And I know we can't have those times back again, But we can have parties like there were then, We need more parties in the USA, We need more parties in the USA.

Corner Store Jonathan Richman

Corner Store Well I walked past just yesterday And I couldn't bear that new mall no more I can't expect you all to see it my way But you may not know what was there before And I want them to put back

Springtime Jonathan Richman

Springtime Springtime, I'm out here in your morning breezes. And I smell such nectar in your air. But right now the nectar only teases, Cause springtime should be to share.

The Fenway Jonathan Richman

The Fenway Now I was born by the Fenway, in Beth Israel Hospital. Could that help to explain why I love the Fenway so well.

Roadrunner Jonathan Richman

Roadrunner Roadrunner, roadrunner Going faster miles an hour Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop With the radio on I'm in love with Massachusetts And the neon when it's cold outside And the highway

Affection Jonathan Richman

Now, you guys, you all know that your friend Jonathan likes to eat food a lot. And I like to do other things, I like to run around, jump, but affection is the most important thing to me.

I Eat With Gusto, Damn! You Bet Jonathan Richman

You Bet" By one Jonathan Richman. When I eat like I do it, I use not fork nor spoon No grace or culture to it When I call my own tune.

Let Her Go Into the Darkness Jonathan Richman

Let Her Go Into the Darkness Well she's back with her old boyfriend. He don't challenge her. He don't contend with her. And she don't answer the cards you send.

Closer Jonathan Richman

Closer I'm there in the bed with my wife And she's looking for some room to sleep And I'm there touching her shoulder Hoping that maybe we could dream the same dream I stare into space awake I

Abdul and Cleopatra Jonathan Richman

Abdul yearns for Cleopatra in the early morning sun. Abdul loves Cleopatra, she's still the one. You know, I love Cleopatra. I'm just grateful that I know that old girl.

UFO Man Jonathan Richman

Early in the morning Thank you thank you thank you, Over my town. He's moving even faster. Flyin' around. We got to get that thing fixed up, By Mount Shasta.

I was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Jonathan Richman

I was dancing in a lesbian bar. I was dancing in a lesbian bar. Well I was dancing in the lesbian bar In the industrial zone. I was dancing with my friends And dancing alone.

Nineteen In Naples Jonathan Richman

Nineteen In Naples well when I was 19 I was insecure now ain't that 19 I was over intellectual, that's for sure 19 in naples, well 19, 19 in naples.

Abominable Snowman in the Market Jonathan Richman

Abominable Snowman in the Market Well look, see, there's an abominable snowman in the supermarket, And apparently the housewives have never seen anything like that before.

Lonely Financial Zone Jonathan Richman

Lonely Financial Zone In the lonely financial zone By the sea I have walked under moon and stars. Skyscrapers shone in their dark majesty. In this otherwordly land of ours.

Bermuda Jonathan Richman

Bermuda Jonathan, Jonathan, I wanna know something, Well have you ever been to Bermuda? Yeah my band once played down there. What did you like about Bermuda?

When I Dance Jonathan Richman

When I Dance Things were slow, a little slow And I was at the kind of party Where I said I wouldn't go But in the moon, I stay And then I didn't blush at all At the scene I made.

Old World Jonathan Richman

And I still love the old world Oh, I had a New York girlfriend And she couldn't understand how I could Still love my parents and still love the old world So I told her: I want to keep my place in

My Love is a Flower (Just Beginning to Bloom) Jonathan Richman

My Love is a Flower (Just Beginning to Bloom) Well, my love is a flower just beginning to bloom Like those things from your garden that spring from the gloom.

Here Come the Martian Martians Jonathan Richman

Martian time time time Well, it's Martian rhyme time We got a Martian rhyme for Martian Martian time And the Martians got notebooks in their little hand Well they're strangers in this land Martian

To Hide a Little Thought Jonathan Richman

To Hide a Little Thought I tried to hide a little thought The more I tried the worse things got It started out so meek and small But in a week pervaded all Just a stray little stray, stray,

Velvet Underground Jonathan Richman

Velvet Underground They were wild like the USA A mystery band in a New York way Rock and roll, but not like the rest And to me, America at it's best How in the world were they making that sound

Girlfriend Jonathan Richman

Girlfriend If I were to walk to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Well, first I'd go to the room where they keep the Cezanne But if I had by my side a girlfriend Then I could look through the paintings

Government Center Jonathan Richman

gonna transmit Those secretaries will have to stand up, and not be able to sit Oh it's gonna be fun, oh we won't get scared, we can't keep it down Oh that feelin' inside we're gonna transmit it to life

Everyday Clothes Jonathan Richman

She had a black dress that I remember still But in her ordinary clothes the girl was dressed to kill.

Rooming House on Venice Beach Jonathan Richman

It was a rooming house on venice beach Nice and cheap A radiator and a sagging bed On which to sleep I didn't lock it Who would want my cheap guitar And that T-shirt in those paper bags Naw, naw