Jill's Song

Jill’s Song

It was just another scene
From a motion picture
Living in a celluloid dream
Gambling for the future

There were flowers and jewels
French perfumes
Hollywood and Malibu
Gold Tequila it was almost June
Amphetamines your cocaine and you

You were only twenty-one
Running like nothing mattered
I was only twenty-four
Slow and a little scattered

The tide was turning
The ocean floor
Living on the edge
Of the night before
Holding our breath for a little
More
Time

This is too romantic you said
Besides there is another
That’s the story of my life I said
I’ll wait while you think it over

But the summer’s coming
You have to move on
There’s threatening clouds and thunderstorms
Lonely highways
Prairie songs
Windshield wipers
The rain’s begun