Cleaning out the closet.

I’m housecleaning, meaning all the unfinished snippets, incomplete thoughts, directionless ramblings are getting thrown out on display so I can be castigated and mercilessly pilloried. At the very least the clutter will subside.

This jewel comes to you from September of ’06. I’m not entirely sure what it was that prompted me to pull song lyrics for posting on the blog. I’m usually better than that and not quite as sappy – the only thing I can think of is a flash of melancholy thinking about Madame X.

It is a really good song though and I was able to track down a live performance worth watching – Stevie Wonder still kicking out goodies even during the eighties (though people don’t think of the period as a productive part of his career).

Her parents said, girl don’t leave home
But her heart kept cheering her on
She had a real good man, steady job
But the two of them just weren’t in her heart


She only wanted to be close to me
To give me the love she knew someday I’d need
But I kept saying girl you’re wrong, go home


Long days, short nights when you’re on the road
For a pretty girl it’s a heavy load
And even so who’ll pay your fare
She said I’ll make it on a wing and a prayer


She only wanted to be close to me
To give me the love she knew someday I’d need
But I kept saying girl you’re wrong, go home

She said I’ve no right to tell her how life should be
Especially when the only one she ever cared about in life was me
But she agreed to go along with my final word


As fate would have life come around
My world started tumbling down
I lost my family, my friends and job
And set free the only one who stuck with me from the start


She only wanted to be close to me
To give me the love she knew someday I’d need
But I kept saying girl you’re wrong, go home


She said I’ve no right to tell her how life should be
Especially when the only one she ever cared about in life was me
But she agreed to go along with my final word, my final word


As fate would have life come around
My world started tumbling down
I lost my family, my friends and job
And set free the only one who stuck with me from the start


She only wanted to be close to me
To give me the love she knew someday I’d need
But I kept saying girl you’re wrong, go home
She only wanted to be close to me
To give me the love she knew someday I’d need
But I kept saying girl you’re wrong, go home
Go home baby, you better go home right now
Go home, little girl you better go home