WE BELONG TOGETHER


I say this was no game of chicken,
you were aiming at your best friend
that you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck.
I think you picked this up in Mexico from your Dad.
Now its Daddy on the booze
and Brando on the ice.
Now it's Dean in the doorway
with one more way he can't play this scene twice.
So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
and you told her to stand tall when you kissed her.
But that's not where you were thinking.
How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
But now look who shows up
in the same place.
In this case,
I think it's better
to face it ---
We belong together.
We belong together.

Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
and all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man.
And he entwined her in his finger
and she lay there like a baby in his hand.
Climb up on the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas
and he wraps his jacket across her shoulders,
and he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees.
But the sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
and he turned her into a tattoo
that will whisper
in the back of Johnny's black hair.
Now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain
lookin' for a leather jacket
and a girl who wrote her name forever.
And a promise that ---
We belong together.
We belong together.

Shall we weigh along these streets young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart all left on neon for them?
Who are foolish, who are victim
of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
move into your eyes and lips and every tear
that falls down on the neighborhood now.
I said 'Bird, we just gotta tell them'
and they turn and ignore us.
And the only heroes we got left
are written right before us.
And the only angel who sees us now
watches through each other's eyes.
I can hear him
in every footstep's passing sigh.
He goes crazy these nights
Watching heartbeats go by.
And they whisper ---

We belong together.
We belong together.


- Rickie Lee Jones

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