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All Washed Up

by David Starlight*

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1.
It’s like surgery On my hands and feet Like a drum Tryin to find a beat Babe I don’t believe what I see It’s happened to me I’m all washed up Like a diary I forgot to keep Like a drug To help me sleep Babe I don’t know what to believe But it’s plain to see I’m all washed up The ship is sunk The goose is cooked Ain’t got no watch To walk off and hawk As it stands I can hardly talk It’s just my luck I’m all washed up I’m all washed up And that must mean that Somethin’s about to change I’m all washed up Stuck here on the sidewalk Feelin strange I’m all washed up I’ll take a good look around And see what’s left that I can save The ship is sunk The goose is cooked The deal is done This ain’t no fun I’m all washed up I’m all washed up I’m all washed up I’m all washed up Desesperado Arruinado Hundido Jodido Desesperado Arruinado Hundio Tranquilo
2.
Ransom Note 04:03
There is a ransom note Flickers in the wind And you might stay out all night If you stop to look at it And when your heart feels hard You think that it might rust Do what you must And then when you toss and turn Then turn around and laugh There’s still that ransom note Breathin down your back Just don’t say anything Til you know exactly what to ask And don’t look back Now where did you go last night When you ran and disappeared With thunder in your eyes And fire comin out your ears There were no fingerprints No signs that I could find Where do you hide Now rain pours frequently In streams around my feet And sirens strange come scream Then beat on down the street While you’re inside warm and waiting for When we will meet What do you see
3.
The whippoorwill Sends a chill Through the mountain Turning in Straight on through the canyon And out again So will you write Or send a note Scribble sunsets And inkblot moons On the corner of the postcard If there's any room Now Carolina Desdemona Is this real And is it all that you want Magdelena Desert feeler Sing to me I’m so pent up But Carolina come inside Tonight I might like to Get it right Get it right The stolen change The wind and rain The clang in my pockets Where all these pennies shake As I clamor down the boardwalk Like a hurricane Through tired lights And dirty streets The city brags Of that same old misery As my feet quickstep the pavement In a blur of heat Now Carolina When you find a mystery And I start showin up You won't know what Magdelena means to me And you don't know what she does You don’t know what she does Carolina come inside Tonight I just might like To finally get it right Carolina come inside Oh tonight I just might die To finally get it Finally get it right Finally get it Finally get it right Finally get it Finally get it right Finally get it Finally get it right
4.
When the prison bell Is ringin out the yard I just can’t tell It all comes on so hard With your drunken feet Tryin to find the door Now I just can’t keep I just can’t keep this secret anymore In them quiet streets You’re really never sure What’s good to keep And what’s worth waitin for I’d like to be The shadow on your wall I’d like to be Busy makin music and moonlight by the door Waitin by Waitin by the door Waitin by the door Until that prison keep Dozes off and starts to snore And them stone white sheets They keep feelin tired and worn Don’t ya speak And don’t ya wait one moment more Don’t ya weep Cause I’m busy makin music and moonlight by the door Waitin by Waitin by the door Waitin by the door Don’t ya weep And don’t ya wait one moment more Don’t ya speak Cause I’m waitin by the door Until that prison bell Rings out loud and long I still can’t tell Cause I’m busy makin music and moonlight by the door I’m waitin by Waitin by the door I’m busy makin music and moonlight by the door I’m busy makin music and moonlight by the door Waitin by Waitin by the door Waitin by the door Waitin by the door Waitin by the door
5.
She said There’s too much in my heart It just can’t fit That’s why I’m lyin round waitin And wondrin what to do with it Now babe some days You’re gonna feel like this With your heart tween your hands And the heartache in your hips So when your lowdown lovely footsteps Hit the street A cool wind comes Blows leaves all round your feet Like ramblin hearts that stumble into the beat While the muse and the tune and the blues Keep you company And now the full moon shows up Everywhere you walk Like she’s cryin from the sky Tryin to get a point across And most ways you wind up feelin lost And that’s round bout the time That the full moon drags you off She staggers you into the bar room Then sits you down She shines a light in every corner Til the rest of the bar fills out Then she says Daisy it’s got too loud to shout So let me come and whisper to you I got so much to tell you now Now Now Now Daisy Daisy Give me your answer do There’s a whole lot of life we ain’t not yet got to And if I’m feelin sad and blue Daisy I wake up feelin sad and blue And that ain’t nothin new You see the full moon stays out late Straight past dawn And the player piano just keeps playin on And Daisy sometimes everything feels wrong But babe let’s do it we can move it We can make it to another song So bring the music back And call up all the band Daisy I think you can be The queen of all my dying lands And most things we’ll never understand Like this moment when we got it And another one breakin in Like this moment when it’s here And another one about to begin Kinda like your heart between my hands Beside your hips Like this moment when it happens And another one about to end
6.
Otra 03:48
Strung to the ballast Losing my head I been reading all about it But I’d rather forget Just wait that magic trumpet’s bout to Stand up and blast With a song With the right one A song that will last I been starin off the starboard bow While the waves crash up the hull I keep the engine running But the currents push and pull So wait them waves come crash Then they climb against the wall With a song Here it comes That new song’s about to fall I been slowly losin interest And barely makin sense It’s like tryin to read the compass But I just see spinning hands I don’t want to believe it And I don’t know what to do But that same bright song that got you lost Is the song to get you through So I’m keepin with the rhythm I keep tryin to catch a lead Everything that grows up tall and strong Starts off like a little seed I’m tryin to find the image Tryin to clear out all the doubt With a song A song you can sing A song you can shout I been reading all about it But I’d rather forget It feels like the end is coming But the end ain’t happened yet So wait that magic trumpet Well she’s bound to really blow With a song A midnight melody that moans One more song for the road
7.
All night waitin in the sitting room Babe ain’t nothin else to do Them midnight gamblers sure play hard When the waitress screams out Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god With the candles lit The shadows split And you’re sittin there and waitin For the music to hit The shadows grow And the people moan Babe that’s what it feels like In the sitting room Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god A door slams shut The shadows look up You keep your head bowed down Keep countin your luck The shadows play a dirty game But you’re stuck there waitin And playin the same A table flops And the cards all fly Now everybody’s wondrin who’ll be next to die A tall lank cowboy turns around Then another table flops Another table down And it’s alright The wall’s about to fall It feels just fine When no one feels at all She’ll pick you up Then set you down where you are It’s alright Babe it’s like a heartbeat dyin to be born Babe it’s like a heartbeat bangin down the door It’s alright The wall’s about to fall It feels just fine When no on feels at all She’ll pick you up Then set you back down right where you are It’s alright Babe it’s like a heartbeat bangin down the door Babe it’s like a heartbeat dyin to be born Babe it’s like a heartbeat bangin down the door Babe it’s like a heartbeat dying to be born It’s alright It’s alright It’s alright

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Recorded Summer 2012 at Joe’s in the Mission District in San Francisco, CA.

Studio Engineer / Eric Moffat
Contrabass (Plucked and Bowed) / Bill Noertker
Drums and Percussion / Dave Mihaly
Pedal Steel / Tom Heyman
Violin / Autumn Turley

Mixed and Mastered by Eric Moffat at Unsound, San Francisco.

All songs, compositions, lyrics, production C & P 2013 Starlight*

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released January 17, 2013

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David Starlight* San Francisco, California

David Starlight* makes up songs, and he also records many of them. Today he releases new songs and music videos through his own label, Outsider’s Soirée. *

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