Standing Right There

Author: Ryan Adams

Official Appearance:

N/A

Unofficial Appearance:

N/A

Played Live: 

08/08/98

Lyrics:  

Apartment windows with their parchment promenades
And televisions flickering right on through the shades
A fallen curtain rod like a moth caught in a lamp
This city reads just like a stack of postcards all missing a stamp
And I felt the rain gently settling right at my feet
And I left my baby standing there, standing right there on the street
Somewhere back home, my mama's trying hard to sleep
Her precious [???] bag of toys, lost from some old Christmas eve
One telephone beside her bed, one telephone beside the couch
She keeps the damage we all weather, yeah, right there to herself
And she's felt the rain gently settling right at her feet 
She's held her babies close to her, standing right there on the street 
It's always nighttime at the movies, that’s what my mama said
That’s why the folks who have bad days at work, they all end up there
Oh, drive-in screen's [??] and they're covering with weeds
Private investigators are in search of my old memories
And I felt the rain gently settling right at my feet 
I left my baby standing there, standing right there on the street 
And detectives felt the rain gently settling right at their feet 
And come back empty-handed, saying there just ain't no leads

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