whitesail

Firewalker by Rickie Lee Jones

Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel
Love comes to the first thing love sees
Love comes to the first thing
that makes it real

Everybody’s been hit,
Everybody’s been hurt
Everybody’s been kicked,
Everybody’s been dirt
Everybody had to drive all night
To reach L.A. in the morning light
I try to lighten up, I always bear down
I want to back you up
But you just back down

Julie got some Brown girlfriend,
Got it for a coin
Her landlord threw her clothes out on the Street in the Tenderloin

Everybody’s been a dog
Everybody’s had to beg
Everybody’s been a moth, been a moth,
When she woke up on her knees,
Everybody made her say please.
I was in a wild place where I go,
I couldn’t hear you

Julie found God in a bus station
And she liked it a lot
You put your money in the basket that comes,
You remember the first God you bought

Everybody starts out innocent,
Starts out ridiculous,
Starts out beautiful
But nobody wants to be alone
Out here I’m all on my own
I try to lighten up, I always bear down,
I want to back you up, but…

Julie found a sailor boy,
Sailed off to the deep blue sea
So Firewalker
You can walk on me