Jimmy Buffett - If I Could Just Get It On Paper (Somewhere Over China)

If I Could Just Get It On Paper
By: Jimmy Buffett
1981
For William Faulkner
If I could just get it on paper
The things that have happened tonight
That seems to me to be the big key
I'm havin' too good a time to ever turn
Out the lights

Go to bed wake up with a clear head
Recallin' what made it a ball
Yes if I could just get it on paper
I might make some sense of it all

If I could tell half of the stories
The funny way most things begin
Figure ways to disguise all the half-truths and lies
Find the heart of my song with the point of a pen

Simple words can become clever phrases
And chapters could turn into books
Yes if I could just get it on paper
But it's harder than it ever looks

(instrumental)

All alone on the edge of the water
Hidin' out by the Sea of Cortez
With my sketch pads and Flairs
Tapes and battery spares
It's just no comprehendo to what everyone says

Time alone seemed to work well for Faulkner
Time away seems to work for the kid
Life and ink they run out at the same time
Or so said my old friend the squid

Yes if I could just get it on paper tonight
I could tell you what I think I did


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Komentarze:

1
Thanks for putting this up. It's one of my favorites.
Autor: hushpuckena
2
This is REAL music from a REAL artists who writes his own songs and creates the music all by himself. Very rare, one in a billion.
Autor: davemann36
3
jimmy buffet is right up there with bonjove in country rock
Autor: youngrebel1998
4
same here. a true fave for an old parrothead
Autor: SECgatorFAN
5
From attempting to read your post it sounds like you went to Domino College.
Autor: tsilb
6
Wish he would do this in his 09 tours! "Be lonesome and you will be free" and "live a lie and you will live to regret it" 2 of my favorite lyrics - Thanks JB and Mark Twain
Autor: PHPHINPH