When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you.

Now if you see Saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won't even say what it is I've got.

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
And she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind
And careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon.

Up on Housing Project Hill
It's either fortune or fame
You must pick up one or the other
Though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly
You better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you
And man they expect the same.
Now all the authorities
They just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
Into leaving his post
And picking up Angel who
Just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first
But left looking just like a ghost.

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City
I do believe I've had enough.

[skooooo]

1. be still my beating heart...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. Thats the kind of morning I'm havin

my Grandmother's in the hospital about to pass away and I'm callin' in the big guns.

When my thoughts turn to deeper topics Dylan is the only way to go

sorry for the buzzkill :)

[mirandaod]

3. Sorry about your Grandmother.

Peace to you and the family.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. Thank you very much

it is a good thing. I feel deeply moved in a positive way. If that makes sense

[ET Awful]

5. Look out of any window

any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
birds are winging or
rain is falling from a heavy sky -
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
this is all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago
Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you -
What do you want me to do,
to watch for you while you're sleeping?
Well please don't be surprised
when you find me dreaming too

Look into any eyes
you find by you, you can see
clear through to another day
I know it's been seen before
through other eyes on other days
while going home --
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago

Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams
to another land
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted
with words half spoken
and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
to do for you to see you through
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through

Just a box of rain -
wind and water -
Believe it if you need it,
if you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower -
Wind and rain -
in and out the window
like a moth before a flame

It's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare
But it's just a box of rain
or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
and a short time to be there


(if it was good enough for Phil's dad, it's damn sure good enough for your grandma :))

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. OK - you made me cry

thank you :)

[skooooo]

9. I know exactly what you mean..

...sorry about your grandma. :(

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Thanks Skooooo

We're handling iit the best we can

[Mara Steele]

19. I'm so sorry about your grandmother,

Chavez.

My grandmother is 85 now, and I'll be heartbroken when it is her time.

So sorry, my friend...

:hug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Thanks Mara - I appreciate it

:hug:

[latebloomer]

28. Sorry about your grandma

She lived a long life but I know it still hurts.

[mrbill]

7. my favorite place is 'desolation row'

lots of interesting characters and great wisdom.

juarez is my second favorite place. made a pilgimage there once.

it wasn't easter but it was new years and it was cold.

wonder if chimpy mcposerprez ever made the trip to boy's town?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. LOL!!!!

Thanks for the cheer up - tho I'm not technicly down - I'm in Fenario right now :)

[RandomKoolzip]

10. I thought you hated Bob Dylan.

At least you did in high school and college. Ran screaming from the room, I recall, in New Orleans, when I put "Hard Rain" on the turntable. Then again, you didn't like Genesis, either, and we all know you like them now, so......whahoppa?!


Anyways, Josh, sorry to hear about your grandmother. Is this your dad's or your mom's or a step-parent's? Mabe (my mom's mom) had two really bad strokes a few years ago, but she's still kicking (and dyeing her hair black too; some people just can't age with dignity) and every week or so my mther calls me crying, telling me how Mabe isn't long for this world, etc. But she still dances, and *gasp* goes on dates....

Are you at work?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. at work.

1 - Dylan. I always loved EARLY Dylan. Hated later. My tastes have evolved though

2 - My grandmother (Bill's mother - Wolff and Ivans GM as well) is 91 and has lived a long life of kisses and profanity

We'll be alright

[skooooo]

15. you should see my office..

..it's plastered with DYlan posters.

[jukes]

12. tough knock, myman

might lose 1 of my ladies today. i'm bereft.


:pals:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. Then please accept my condolences as well my brother

:hug:

[tigereye]

18. good vibes to your GM Chavez

sorry to hear it. Dylan is good for the soul and heart.

[Mara Steele]

16. oh, no jukes;

i'm so sorry to hear this...

feel free to call if you ever want to, at anytime...


:hug:

[jukes]

21. i'm ok w/it

i think it's her time, is all.

mine's coming, nodowt...

tx for the props, mara & CStheT.

G/M sounds like a great lady, Chav

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. She's a GREAT lady

came from Lithiuania in the 20s when she was a youngster

[FranzFerdinand]

17. i woke today...

I woke today...
And felt your side of bed
The covers were still warm where you'd been layin'.
You were gone...
My heart was filled with dread.
You might not be sleepin' here again

It's alright, 'cause I love you.
And that's not gonna change.
Run me round, make me hurt again and again.
But I'll still sing you love songs
Written in the letters of your name.
And brave the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain.

Did you ever waken to the sound
Of street cats makin' love
And guess from their cries
You were listenin' to a fight?
Well, you know...
Hate's just the last thing they're thinkin' of.
They're only trying to make it through the night.

I only want to hold you.
I don't want to tie you down.
Or fence you in the lines
I might have drawn.
It's just that I've gotten used to
Havin' you around.
My landscape would be empty
If you were gone.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. You folks know just how to cheer me up

thanks!

[latebloomer]

27. That song is so familiar!

Who does it, please?

[redqueen]

23. I'm so sorry to hear about your GM...

It sounds like you're ready. I lost mine just over five years ago but it still seems like yesterday I was visiting her... I still talk to her often.

For some reason, reading this thread reminded me of Isabel Allende, and her comments to Bill Moyers on the death of her daughter, Paula.

I thought I'd find out why, and I did... so here it is. Isabel had just commented that the last year she spent with her daughter was terrible and great. Bill asked why.


ISABEL ALLENDE: Because you hope and hope. And then each day you realize that there's nothing to hope except that she dies without pain. And it was great, because in that year, I threw overboard everything that is not necessarily to keep on walking.

And at the end of the year, I thought I had thrown overboard everything. That nothing was left. And I realize that that's not true. I had what I had given her.

She was... she couldn't... I don't know if she received the love and the care. Maybe she didn't, because she was like a vegetable. But what we gave her as a family made us so much stronger. And it united us in incredible ways. It took away all the fear.

BILL MOYERS: The fear of?

ISABEL ALLENDE: The fear of life. I'm not afraid anymore. What's the worst that can happen, Bill? Death. And that's going to happen to everybody.

BILL MOYERS: And you're not afraid of death?

ISABEL ALLENDE: Not at all. Not at all.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Thank you

thank you!

[noonwitch]

25. Nina Simone did a great cover of this song

It's on the two disc "Sugar in My Bowl" collection from RCA.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. Have it and love it!

Think I'll spin that - thanks

[latebloomer]

29. always liked that song

especially because my name is Melinda and my best friend when the song came out was named Annie.