For the Along Came Jones CD release show Dennis asked me to write little introductory texts for each of the songs, so I'll present them here 12-nights-of Xmas fashion. Jimmy, now that the line at the post office should be shorter I'll resend the CD. Still the Singapore address?
We didn’t think it could happen but it did, every time we thought, well at least things can’t get any worse they did and then they’d get worse than that. It seemed as if everyone was leaving and I certainly couldn’t blame them. Some of the guys said, hey Johny you should come with us, but I couldn’t, I should have but I didn’t. I knew things would get bad, but I, first of all, I wanted to see the old man one more time. And then, even though I knew you’d be gone, I knew it was ridiculous, but I went to the old places just to see if you’d be there. Of course not. Everyone was getting out, no one was looking back, and even though I knew it was going to get worse I just went to bed and lay down. I lay down and I waited. For what? For Santa Claus? I don’t know. For the end of the world? I don’t know. I lay down in bed and thought about you. I could hear the bells up in the sky—but what were they? Were they, like, sleighbells, jing jing jing, or was it that other thing, you know, the toll of the bell, the end of the world. And then I see the moon’s full, and it’s all red, and a shadow crosses it, it’s Santa, right? That’s Santa, isn’t it? And I see your face in the moon, just like Jackie Gleason’s, smiling seraphically above us all, and I don’t know what to do. It’s the end or it’s the beginning. It’s the longest night of the year.
Longest Night lyrics
We didn’t think it could happen but it did, every time we thought, well at least things can’t get any worse they did and then they’d get worse than that. It seemed as if everyone was leaving and I certainly couldn’t blame them. Some of the guys said, hey Johny you should come with us, but I couldn’t, I should have but I didn’t. I knew things would get bad, but I, first of all, I wanted to see the old man one more time. And then, even though I knew you’d be gone, I knew it was ridiculous, but I went to the old places just to see if you’d be there. Of course not. Everyone was getting out, no one was looking back, and even though I knew it was going to get worse I just went to bed and lay down. I lay down and I waited. For what? For Santa Claus? I don’t know. For the end of the world? I don’t know. I lay down in bed and thought about you. I could hear the bells up in the sky—but what were they? Were they, like, sleighbells, jing jing jing, or was it that other thing, you know, the toll of the bell, the end of the world. And then I see the moon’s full, and it’s all red, and a shadow crosses it, it’s Santa, right? That’s Santa, isn’t it? And I see your face in the moon, just like Jackie Gleason’s, smiling seraphically above us all, and I don’t know what to do. It’s the end or it’s the beginning. It’s the longest night of the year.
Longest Night lyrics
2 comments:
Yup. Thank you, honey.
On the way. If you miss this one, you'll just have to download the album illegally.
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