Bill Mallonee - Wintergreen

she pops a stick of wintergreen

outside the cash machine

it's lonely being lovely all the time

yeah when the rules all changed

the strange terrain of love's modern games

the ones that you play in your mind


yeah i was across the block

baby when the bomb went off

but i felt it just the same

i knew it was meant for me

but you're a little bad with your trajectory

still my heart's a bit shellshocked


how could you walk away

from this so easily?


dead of night and the city's bright

caught blinking at the traffic light

the tapes are so hard to erase

baby i've been going wrong

ever since you've been gone

are you chasing or being chased?


yeah i got a heart of stone

everybody's got a stain glass soul

i've been sleeping at Gethsemene

got mother Mary and a rosary

you had secrets and i had baggage

together we decided to unpack it

dreamed a dream now you're laughing at it

you're just a girl in a leather jacket


dead of night and the city's bright

caught blinking at the traffic light

it's a drink or an SM-58

baby, we've been going wrong

ever since you've been gone

are you chasing or being chased?