Dan Bern - I Need You Lyrics
Walking around the happiest place in the world,but all I do is wonder if your hair is still curled.South of Brownsville, Texas, south of Miami beachbut all it means to me is that your further out of reach.Everywhere is sand and sun, blue sky water too.I..... I need you.Spanish moss is hanging and you find a polished stone.Pocket it for luck, and then you walk on alone.They'll rent you a bicycle with the tires blown.They'll cook you up a blackened fish, and strip it to the bone.The slave ship just came in, I've been talking to the crew.I...... I need youIn that house Hemingway is boxing in the backI go to the library and check out all the facts.Nowadays it's hard to write a line my own thoughts bore meI found me an island kid who says hell do it for meIm wiping all my tears away so no one has a clueThat I need youThe last plane out of Saigon did not know that it wasEvery man in prison thinks he's locked up for a causeI need something to do, my violin needs to soundIm going to see if Ernest wants to go a couple roundsSometimes you get lost, then you find something newI need youSome birds flapping in the road on some crazy madman's stringSomethings messed up with his wing, something's messed up with my everythingSo here's the truth at last, I tell you, Hemingway is deadAnd everybody wants to find a steak that's slightly redI thought I could escape myself by just not getting dressedI thought I could escape you by coming to Key WestSometimes you get lost and you don't find something newI need you
