In Northern California (Where the Palm Tree Meets the Pine)

歌詞

O'Keefe It was closin' time tryin' to beat the clock Waitin' for a woman as fast as her talk When up limped a crippled woman Lookin' just a little too slick She said, There's only two kinds in the end of it The dead, of course, and the quick And the dead, of course, stand naked With their backs against the wall Now there's two ways you can have it son, she said Mine or not at all She'd thrown away her crutches But I knew that I'd need mine In Northern California Where the palm tree meets the pine She was a much older woman You can always tell by the shoes She dealt in fools and gamblers And boys who played the blues Her body smelled like roses look Her nails were sharp and long Her heart, she said, was an open book And on every page a song So I helped her with her braces Said the pleasure was all mine (m'am) In Northern California Where the palm tree meets the pine Like all of us she had her dreams Not the least was true romance But I knew I'd lost the handle When she softly sighed, "Let's dance" She love me like she knew I was An outlay on the run And in the morning, when I woke I was the crippled one She'd left me like she found me Right in the nick of time In Northern California Where the palm tree meets the pine Yup, in Northern California Where the palm tree meets the pine