This next song's from the Goodbye L.A.
Big Road album
and it's one of the better songs on the album,
I think
and I don't do it enough and it goes something like this.
♪ I'm back on dry land once again ♪
♪ Opportunity awaits me like a rat in a drain ♪
♪ We're all hunting,
hunting with money to burn ♪
♪ Just a short time to show you the tricks that we've learned ♪
♪ If
the boys all behave themselves here ♪
♪ Oh,
there's a pretty young lady some beer in the rear ♪
♪ You want me to get her to sleep in tonight ♪
♪ Oh,
the price is a charge,
she will see you all right ♪
♪ So she lays down beside me again ♪
♪ The sweet painted lady, the woman no name ♪
♪ Many have used her, many still do ♪
♪ Oh,
there's a place in the world for a woman like you ♪
♪
Sweet painted ladies,
I guess it's always been the same ♪
♪ Getting paid for being lame,
yes, that's the name of the game ♪
♪ Oh, sweet painted ladies,
I guess it's always been the same ♪
♪ Getting paid for being lame,
yes, that's the name of the game, oh ♪
♪ Forget us, we'll have gone very soon ♪
♪ Just forget we ever slept in your rooms ♪
♪ And we'll leave the smile of the sea in your beds ♪
♪ Well, love's just a job and nothing is said ♪
♪ Oh, she lays down beside me again ♪
♪ The sweet painted lady, the woman no name ♪
♪ Many of you still do ♪
♪ Oh,
there's a place in the world for a woman like you ♪
♪ Oh,
sweet painted ladies,
I guess it's always been the same ♪
♪ Getting paid for being lame,
yes, that's the name of the game, oh ♪
♪ Oh, sweet painted ladies,
I guess it's always been the same ♪
♪ Getting paid
for being lame,
yes, that's the name of the game, oh ♪