Inside looking out of my window
I can see you passing by
With you, it’s right where I wanna be
I wanna call your name but I’m too shy
This emotion is strong
I’ve had a crush for so long
What I should do
Whenever I see you
I wanna be near you
I think that I’m feeling
My first taste of love,
Whenever I’m dreaming at night
It’s only about you
My first taste of love
First taste of love
My friends tell me you’re thinking
That you’re thinking about me too
I got your number, sittin’ by the Telephone
What will I say if I get through
Why do I hesitate
Tell me what will it take
To get next to you
Whenever I see you
I wanna be near you
I think that I’m feeling
My first taste of love,
Whenever I’m dreaming at night
It’s only about you
My first taste of love
First taste of love
This emotion is strong
I’ve had a crush for so long
What should I do….
Whenever I see you
I wanna be near you
I think that I’m feeling
My first taste of love,
Whenever I’m dreaming at night
It’s only about you
My first taste of love
First taste of love
I’ve been dreamin’-dreamin’ of you
I’ve been feelin’ my first taste of love
I’ve been dreamin’-dreamin’ of you
I’ve been feelin’, oh, oh, oh, oh…
You could shoot off a cannon
down the middle of Bond
and attract no attention in downtown St. John’s
This getting nowhere is getting to me
Wondering where can you go
to be all you can be
No regular Joe wants to pull up and go
And wind up homesick
Where there’s no one you know
Just a smoke and a beer
And the sports on TV
Being sorry you left
With no choice but to leave
(Chorus)
No change in the weather
No change in me
I don’t want to leave
but I can’t live for free
Can’t eat the air, can’t drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me
You could shoot off a cannon
From the top of Long’s Hill
And a Gulliver’s taxi might be all that you’d kill
We were promised the sun
and the moon and the stars
We got weathered old clapboard and salt-rusted cars
So I’ll join in the leaving like all of the rest
Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver West
Lay down on the sidewalk
Kick off and die
And watch people not looking
Lights are bright in the circus
The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery
While the white of the curtain closing crushes your heart
The inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
Down
Once the neon is gone
There’s still that golden splinter at your side
His manners are charming
But who are you fooling
You’re still nobody’s bride
And Bukowski’s widow
Haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel
As ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
Down
And outside your window you can see the circus it’s lurching
with rings of smoke
You laugh halfheartedly at the punchline
Not realizing they’ve made you the joke
And inside you’re heart a war is raging
A region still untamed
The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named
Is for the mystery to be named
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
It’s a long slow slide
Down



