Lyrics Southbound Jericho Parkway - Roy Orbison

Southbound Jericho Parkway - Roy Orbison
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Southbound Jericho Parkway, artist - Roy Orbison. Album song The Singles Collection (1965-1973), in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1988
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English

Southbound Jericho Parkway

There was a man whose memories were made up
Of nothing
He pushed the elevator button, and go home
To nothing
Yes his business had prospered but women get lonely sometimes, now she has the
house
His son in college had dropped out
To expand his mind
And Sarah, his daughter had not spoken to him
Maybe he’d raised her the wrong way
He wondered
He checked his mailbox, with fingers a-tremblin'
No mail, from anyone
«I'm home?»
he said softly, as he opened the door and gazed at his empty
apartment
Aching, thinking
Southbound Jericho Parkway
Is what you call a one-way street
Southbound Jericho Parkway
Is what you call a one-way street
At 7.20, monday after New Year
Mister Henry Johnson leaned against the pedal
Aimed his Lincoln steady and drove himself into a wall
How could a thing sush as this ever happen
All the community said it was shame
He was a good man, he was a clean man.
yeah
That was it: he was a good, clean man
And his landlady said he was an exemplary tenant
They’re always nice and quiet when they’re all alone
At his age
The young man sat, on a small woven mat
While the silken smoke it cirlcled over head
The cigarettes were there to prove he didn’t care
'Bout the contents of the telegram he’d just read
Father, father, father
You always seemed to be so out of reach
And the psychedelyc sign read: peace
Apartment in New York, a girl closes the door
And leans against it with her head bowed low
Thoughts raced through her mind
Of when she was a child
Raised warmly by a man she didn’t know
Father, father, father
She wished she had phoned him yesterday
There were so many things she had to say
Henry, the check is in my hands
Brought by the insurance man to cover all my plans
We’ll have flowers, your broker will be there
And Sarah, if she cares, and our boy with all his hair
And the sun rose, and the sunset
As it always has
And people yet unknown, were busy being born
And time when past

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Artist lyrics: Roy Orbison