We Belong Together Lyrics

                            Rickie Lee Jones
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       I say this was no game of chicken
       You were aiming 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 whet 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?
       How 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 entwine her in his finger
       And she lay there like a baby in his hand
       And climb upon 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 a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
       To turn her into a tattoo
       That will whisper
       Into the back of Johnny's black hair
       And 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
       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
       And I can hear him
       In every footstep's passing sigh
       He goes crazy these nights
       Watching heartbeats go by...
       And they wisper ---
       We belong together
       We belong together



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