Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song West Palm Beach, artist - Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Album song Greatest Palace Music, in the genre Альтернатива
Date of issue: 16.05.2008
Record label: Domino, Drag City
Song language: English
West Palm Beach |
I can’t get the sand out of my shoes |
This being in Florida’s done a number on my blues |
Just the way the women walk round here |
Its plain to see the way the sand and the sea have done a number on me |
And the sky is threatening black and gray and the sun is a festering red |
And her head is claiming her stats; |
she ain’t yet risen from bed |
So breakfast again delayed, postponed, I won’t be fed |
The surf has swallowed him up, he’s a memory now |
And the water’s warmer than it has been in weeks |
Grandma lives just down the road, she’s making supper for me tonight |
She’s been nice to me since '73 when her sun lost his lights |
And now his ghost is a rising host above the briny blur |
I would that soon some maid would swoon and his soul would capture her |
He’s still a fine kid, what with all that he did, he’s a fan of mine |
I wasn’t planning to spend so long in town |
But the break in the weather has got the partner down |
She won’t get out, she’s shotgun, seems she’s sewn to the seat |
It’s a dirty old trick that I’ve yet to lick and she’s yet to beat |
You can see it in her eyes, she was born unwise, she was born for me |
If she mourns too long I’ll know something’s wrong and I’ll leave her be |
You can tell by his shoes he was born to lose, he was born for me |