SHERYL CROW

Tuesday Night Music Club


1. RUN, BABY, RUN
Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald, Sheryl Crow

2. LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell,
David Baerwald, Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts

                Life springs eternal
                On a gaudy neon street
                Not that I care at all
                I spent the best part of my losing streak
                In an Army Jeep
                For what I can't recall
                Oh, I'm banging on my TV set
                And I check the odds
                And I place my bet
                Pour a drink
                And pull the blind
                And I wonder what I'll find

                CHORUS:
                Leaving Las Vegas
                Lights so bright
                Palm sweet, blackjack
                On a Saturday night
                Leaving Las Vegas
                Leaving for good
                Leaving for good


                Used to be I could drive up to
                Barstow for the night
                Find some crossroad trucker
                To demonstrate his might
                But these days it seems
                Nowhere is far enough away
                So I'm leaving Las Vegas today

                CHORUS


                I'm standing in the middle of the desert
                Waiting for my ship to come in
                But no jocker, no jack, no king
                Can take this losing hand
                And make it win

                CHORUS


                Quit my job as a dancer
                At the Lido des Girls
                Dealing blackjack until one or two
                Such a muddy line between
                The things you want
                And the things you have to do

                CHORUS

3. STRONG ENOUGH
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                God, I feel like hell tonight
                Tears of rage I cannot fight
                I'd be the last to help you understand
                Are you strong enough to be my man?
                Nothing's true and nothing's right
                So let me be alone tonight
                You can't change the way I am
                Are you strong enough to be my man?


                Lie to me
                I promise I'll believe
                Lie to me
                But please don't leave


                I have a face I cannot show
                I make the rules up as I go
                It's try and love me if you can
                Are you man enough to be me man?
                When I've shown you that I just don't care
                When I'm throwing punches in the air
                When I'm broken down and cannot stand
                Will you be strong enough to be my man?


                Lie to me
                I promise I'll believe
                Lie to me
                But please don't leave

4. CAN'T CRY ANYMORE
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell

                Took your car
                Drove to Texas
                Sorry, honey
                But I suspected we were through
                And I can't cry anymore


                Since I left
                Been feelin' better, cause that's
                What you get when you
                Stay together too long
                And I can't cry anymore

                CHORUS:
                Wouldn't it be good if we could hop a flight to anywhere
                So long to this life
                So much for pretending
                Bad luck's never-ending


                (Now I know that)
                Money comes in
                But the fact is
                No enough no
                Pay my taxes
                And I can't cry anymore


                Gotta brother
                He's got real brother
                Heroin
                There's just no stopping him tonight
                And I can't cry anymore

                CHORUS


                Could be worse
                Could've missed my calling
                Sometimes it hurts
                But when you read the writings on the wall
                Can't cry anymore

                CHORUS


                So much for pretending
                But luck's never-ending
                Too much time I been spending
                With my heart in my hands
                Waiting for time to come and mend it


                I can't cry anymore

5. SOLIDIFY
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                Pouring in and around the great wellspring
                Of simple feeling
                I need bearings in the face of your
                Cool cool fire


                Walking backwards with the pounding of your voice
                Makes my - soul - tired
                Concrete is
                As concrete doesn't
                And voices can drown


                Why should I
                Why should I
                Why should I
                Why should I


                Solidify


                Make me real


                So - you - can - see - me


                I guess you thought
                I'd hide the sun from my liquid thoughts and
                Make ice for you


                You thought I'd seed my clouds
                With the rain of your personal dreams


                I guess you thought I'd throw confetti
                At your parade of lofty thoughts


                I guess you thought I'd shine good morning
                In some good morning Jack
                Surprise


                Why should I
                Why should I
                Why should I


                Solidify


                Make me real


                So - you - can - see - me

6. THE NA-NA SONG
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                Video countdown cyber phallic optics
                Profligate talk shows scrounging for a topic
                Rock-a-buy Gravy Train cradle's gonna rock me
                37 millions what Larry Parker got me


                World War XIV my first Sony
                Beatles wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni
                Billie Jean Burger King chauvinist pig pen
                U.S. Army only wants a few straight men


                Panaflex Soloflex Genuflect Pope
                What the world needs now is babies, gun and hope
                Guardian angel dust in the wind cries Mary
                Wanna be Madonna but the price is too high, very
                Perfect rhythm Nazis in the pagan rhythm nation
                Everybody's equal in the glow of radiation


                Gotta four-wheel drive and I park it in the driveway
                When I get drunk I drive it on the parkway
                Gotta get a TV set for my car
                Tonight's Battle of the Network Stars


                Saniflush Bud-Bowl makin' me sick
                Cause anybody in a helmet looks just like a dick
                Steely Dan Rather be a hammer than a nail
                The Serbs, the Poles, and the check's in the mail


                Eat sleep lie die record label
                G Gordon Liddy under the table, table, table
                Clarence Thomas organ grinder Frank Dileo's dong
                Maybe if I'd let him, I'd've had a hit song

7. NO ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, Kevin Gilbert, Dan Schwartz

                It's obvious the trouble we're in
                When your father pulls up in a Mercedes Benz
                He says he just happened to be in the neighborhood
                But before he leaves he slips the landlord the rent


                You say, "It's just a question of eliminating obstacles"
                As you throw your dinner out the kitchen door
                You say, "I know how you try"
                But honey, let's eat out tonight

                CHORUS:
                No one said it would be easy
                But no one said it'd be this hard
                No one said it would be easy
                No one thought we'd come this far


                You can't seem to ever fold up a shirt
                I bring it up and you think I'm a jerk
                Bur I think we're here to stay
                I can't imagine it any other way

                CHORUS


                Sometimes I wonder who he's picturing
                When he looks at me and smiles


                No one said it would be easy
                No one said it'd be this hard
                No one said it would be easy
                No one thought we'd come this far
                Oh, and look we've come this far

8. WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
David Baerwald, Sheryl Crow

                I'm so glad you're awake
                That you're not like others
                They're so straightlaced
                No fun
                Gosh that's nice
                That lingerie
                Makes me feel
                Oh, I don't know
                You're a very pretty thing
                You remind me of someone
                You've probably heard
                Some awful nasty things about me


                What I can do for you
                There's no one else
                On God's green earth can do
                What I can do for you
                There's no one else
                On God's green earth can do
                Just ask anybody
                They'll tell you that it's true
                There's no one else on earth
                Can do the things I can for you


                You're never gonna make it
                All by yourself
                You're gonna need a friend
                You're gonna need my help
                I have so much to offer
                If you just be nice
                If you do what I say
                Don't make me say it twice
                Do you mind if I just
                Run my hand up thus
                Come on just my hand
                Come on just my hand
                You got to understand
                I'm gonna be your man
                I'm gonna be your man
                I'm gonna be your man
                I'm gonna be your man

9. ALL I WANNA DO
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
                Says the man next to me out of nowhere, apropos
                Of nothing. He says his name's William but I'm sure
                He's Bill or Billy, Mac or Buddy, he's plain ugly to me,
                And I wonder if he's ever had fun in his life


                We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
                In a bar that faces a giant car wash
                The good people of the world are washing their cars
                On their lucnh break, hosing and scrubbing
                As best they can in skirts and suits
                They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
                Back to the phone company, the record store,
                Well, they're nothing like Billy and me

                CHORUS:
                All I wanna do is have some fun
                I got a feeling I'm not the only one
                All I wanna di is have some fun
                I got a feeling I'm not the only one
                Until the sun comes up ovewr Santa Monica Boulevard


                I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
                And Billy likes to peel the lables
                From his bottles of Bud and shred them on the bar
                Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
                Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
                Before blowing and cursing them out - and he's watching
                The Buds as they spin on the floor
                A happy couple enters the bar dangerously close
                The bartender looks up from his want ads

                CHORUS


                Otherwise the bar is ours, and the day and night
                And the car wash too, the matches and the Buds
                And the clean and dirty cars, the sun and the moon

                CHORUS

10. WE DO WHAT WE CAN
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                Downstairs they're playing Kenton
                The house set to swing
                I lay in my bed
                And listen to everything
                Cause Leo's in rare form tonight
                His trombone sings so sweet
                This is the room where
                They all come to meet
                He said I do what I can
                I live for the moment
                And that's who I am
                And isn't it good
                If we could freeze moments in time
                We all would
                But I do what I can


                Downstairs he's playing Kenton
                The Magnavox sighs
                But oh how the music has changed
                In all of our lives
                He says "Nobody listens
                To modern jazz"
                And I'll never have what these guys have

                CHORUS:
                He says
                I do what I can
                I work for a living
                That's who I am
                Yeah that's who I am


                It's good to be alive
                But everything's different since Leo died
                Since Leo died


                Is this the end of the modern world
                What could it mean for a young girl
                Who sees the pain in his face
                He does what he can


                The procession on the TV screen
                What could it possibly mean for a man
                Who's come this far just to turn around
                He does what he can


                Could there still be life in Kenton's swing
                With the Kennedys gone and everything
                Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colors
                Democrat grandparents and draft-dodging brothers
                Riots down the street and disconnected mothers
                We do what we can


                Downstairs it's quiet
                Less alive somehow
                Somehow he was everything I am now


                He says
                I do what I can
                I work for a living
                That's who I am
                Yeah that's who I am


                It's good to be alive
                These are the choices
                We make to survive
                We do what we can

11. I SHALL BELIEVE
Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald,
Kevin Gilbert, David Ricketts, Brian Macleod

                Come to me now
                Lay your hands over me
                Even if it's a lie
                Say it will be alright
                And I will believe


                Broken in two
                I know you're on to me
                That I only come home
                When I'm so all alone
                But I do believe


                That not everything is gonna be the way
                You think it ought to be
                It seems like every time I try to make it right
                It all comes down on me
                Please say honestly you won't give up on me
                And I shall believe
                I shall believe


                Open the door
                And show me your face tonight
                I know it's true
                No one heals me like you
                And you hold the key


                Never again
                Would I turn away from you
                I'm so heavy tonight
                But your love is alright
                And I do believe


                That not everything is gonna be the way
                You think it ought to be
                Seems like every time I try to make it right
                It all comes down on me
                Please say honestly
                You won't give up on me
                And I shall believe
                I shall believe
                I shall believe
                I shall believe

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