Milkwood - "How's the Weather" (1972)

• With You With Me (3:16)
• Dream Trader (4:00)
• Lincoln Park (2:50)
• Bring Me Back (4:18)
• Timetrain Wonderwheel (6:02)
• Makeshift Pawn (3:03)
• The Light Won't Burn (4:53)
• Along the Way (4:30)
• We've Been All Through (4:11)
• Winter Song (2:40)

With You With Me

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

And I ask you one more time

If you find me in your mind in the morning

When you wake up from your dancing sleep

Making the things in life seem so discrete

Will I go, will you stay, will you come along

Cause I'll be gone for a mighty long day

Did you know what I could see

Did you feel what we could be with you with me

Seems a spring was yestereve

When were taking all we could unweave

Nights have come to pass with hour glass-like destiny

Days cling to dripping sunshine shadows of the memories

Seasons pass like centuries, while life's an endless climb

Dream Trader

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

There was a man from Maryland

They said he could not feel

He had a hard time telling what was real

To lie beneath the frozen sky

Searchin' for a sign

The clouds did billow gracefully in strange design

Like crystalline

And as he watched them he went

Driftin' off to sleep

To dream of sailing ships on down

The Chesepeke

He might have stayed there all day

Feelin' so fine, just chugging wine

He was so fine, just chugging wine

They found him in the morning

Face down beside a stream

He never did awaken from that dream

Lincoln Park

Lead Vocal: Benjamin Orzechowski

Old men playing cards

Smiling they speak in foreign words

And every day at three

They sit and play like children

After school, oh ain't that cool

And they lived here all their lives

In Lincoln Park

I took a morning picture of you

Caught you in the right light

Now ain't that so very nice

And I still feel a loneliness

Without you, and I miss you too

Could you come and play

In Lincoln Park

Lovely lady would you like to

Walk with me and my white wolf dog

Shauna blue eyes, warmth of sunshine

Stay with me tonight, till tomorrow's day

Portrait of you is this song

Shadowed because you're not here

And old men still dealin' their cards

And I keep wishin' you were here

It could be nice, if we could live a time

By Lincoln Park

Bring Me Back

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

Morning song bring me back to my sences

There's something wrong when you don't appear

Morning song let me mend my fences

Let me leave my troubles here

There ain't no tellin' what I'm gonna feel today, it's alright

The changes I've been through to see a bright new day, it's alright

Wake up the people there's a scene outside

That needs to be learning what it has to provide

There's a lot of things, going down and you cannot decide

well look around there's another kind of way

To look at life in a very simple way

There ain't no plan for tomorrowland, it's alright

You know that it's coming and it won't be long

There ain't no plan for tomorrowland, it's alright

You know every mountain will soon turn to sand, it's alright

You know that it's coming and it won't be long

You had all the visions but you had no song

Still you managed to take out what did not belong

Well, look around there's another kind of way

To look at life in a very simple way

There ain't no telling what I'm gonna see today, it's alright

Timetrain Wonderwheel

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

You speak in child like gesture

You talk about the trees the sand dunes and the seas

You try to make me wonder

What you're all about I'll never figure out

You're lost in the timetrain wonderwheel

Spinning round and about

Oh I'm left out

You see the silent shadows

Flicker on the wall and somehow they will call you

Into the lovely sideshow

What it's all about I'll never figure out

Makeshift Pawn

Lead Vocal: Jas. Goodkind

I was around this morning

I thought I'd drop down and say hello

I wanted to bring you up from

Where you chose to go

When I was there last springtime

We had some tea and we shared a cup

And I didn't know that

Down for you was up

But I know it now

And I'll have to say it grieves me

You still made it somehow

And that surely did deceive me

Cause we were traveling down

Some empty roads

I was around this morning

Your neighbor said you'd been gone for days

He said you had to go and

Loosen up the haze

But it's been so long

And I'll have to say it grieves me

Like a makeshift pawn

You surely did deceive me

Cause we were traveling down

Some empty roads

The Light Won't Burn

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

Somewhere in the fallen night

He dreamt about a friend

And you never got along

You were too uptight

But now you're back again

The grace upon your face is gray

And your gifts are smeared with words

And they don't mean much to a confused child

Cause there's too much he ain't heard

Turn, turn, the light won't burn

And there's something you don't know

Because you would not turn again

He left you long ago

Walkin' down a Sunday road

With the peach sun in his eyes

He left his home at the age of ten

And he never said goodbye

The grace upon your face is gray

And your gifts are filled with lies

And they don't mean much to a broken man

When his kids are out getting high

Turn, turn, the light won't burn

There's something you don't know

Because you would not turn again

He left you long ago

Now the emptiness is closing in

And your head is pretty old

The creases in your face are deep

And your shoes have been half soled

Turn, turn, the light won't burn

And there's something you don't know

Because you would not turn again

You left him long ago

Along the Way

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

If I could beg your pardon

Speak softly with a sigh

You might reply too harshly

To keep yourself inside

You never let me know you

You talked of being free

And talk was just as senseless

As senseless talk could be

I never quite caught on to that

I built a sheilding wall

And lost the broken sunshine dreams

Beneath the call

We tried to talk it over

And over it we talked

And everything we tried to say

It seemed to run not walk

Into the deepest corners

Eventually to drown

What makes us lose that feelin'

What made us so profound

I never quite caught on to that

You know I never wanted to

I never really felt like feelin' blue

In case you change your mind my love

And that's askin' a bit much

And try remembering my love

The things we used to touch

I know you won't be lonely long

So what am I to say

I hope you find another

Along the way

We've Been All Through

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

I seem to fall too often into worlds I cannot touch

Deciding whether you can handle this one's too much

You stand up and tremble I stumble and fall

Like a woman used and so confused

You can't decide where to crawl

You went to Macon, Georgia taken everything you own

Some letters froma dusty box, and a broken gramaphone

Your rivers are ending, I'm slipping away

Like a woman used and so confused

You came by to waste away

An embers Glowing you remember growing fast

And I was there to watch you fly

I still was shaken from the words I heard at last

As they whispered in the sky

Like a broken lullaby

You know you can reach me in the swirlin' mist of something left unsaid

You couldn't know know that you were sinkin' way above your head

Cause we've been all through and there's nothing new

In your life or in mine

Winter Song

Lead Vocal: Richard Otcasek

I remember what you told me before the winter snow

It came, drifting down, you said it would be cold without you

And that was true, I didn't even know what you were

Talkin' bout, I guess I'm finding out too late

I heard that you were fallin' out with some of my old friends

Well, how's the weather, I've had a lot of rain follow me around

From frown to towal, everyone's so out and down

I think I'm tired of running think I'm tired of being here alone

Inside this honeycomb

I cannot shake this sense, I cannot calm this innocence

This time I should have known

That I'd be walking far and free and endlessly away from

What we had, you know it isn't bad without you

But that's not true, I didn't even know what you were

talkin' bout, I guess I'm finding out too late

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