These are just the Zevon-penned songs from the album.
Follow Me
Warren Zevon & Violet Mary Santangelo
@1966 EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
Tommy Tedesco: Guitar
Dennis Budmir: Guitar
Larry Knechtel: Piano and Organ
Lyle Ritz: Fender Bass
Hal Blaine: Drums
Bones Howe: Percussion
Stars are hidden me
My lids I just can't keep on
Going now you're mine
Skies are falling, you
Are calling me and I will
Fall behind you tell me
Where we're going to
See the rain softly falling
On my window pane
Don't know where
But I don't care
I will follow him
Until the stars grow dim
Until the wind has blown
Away hey you tell me where
We're going to follow me (follow me, follow me)
My head is goin' 'round
My empty wrists are pounding
I don’t know what to do
But I will follow you
Wind is cryin' trees
Are sighin' birds are flyin'
Higher now you're mine
Now the night is still
Wander where you will and I
Will find you tell me
Where we're going to
See the rain softly falling
On my window pane
Don't know where
But I don't care
I will follow him
Until the stars grow dim
Until the wind has
Blown away hey you tell me
Where we're going to
Follow me, follow me, follow me
My restless heels don't heed me
I'll wander where you lead me
But I don't know what to do
But I will follow you
Like The Seasons
Warren Zevon
©1966 EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
Tommy Tedesco: Guitar
Dennis Budmir: Guitar
Larry Knechtel: Piano and Organ
Lyle Ritz: Fender Bass
Hal Blaine: Drums
Bones Howe: Percussion
Lenny Malarsky: Violin
Joe DiFiore: Viola
Joe Saxon: Cello
Jessie Erlich: Cello
I have learned that love can turn
Like the seasons
And I know you had to go
You've got your reasons
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
And I believe that love's light leaves in September
But Fall; and all I do is remember
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
How I have wronged you
Oh, how I long to hold you again
Like summer never ended
But winter must fall and I will give all
Of my love to someone new
For summer must follow too, and you
And I have learned that love can turn
Like the seasons
And I know you had to go
You have your reasons
Still I wish you would stay.......
I'll Go On
Warren Zevon & Violet Mary Santangelo
©1966 EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
Tommy Tedesco: Guitar
Dennis Budmir: Guitar
Larry Knechtel: Piano and Organ
Lyle Ritz: Fender Bass
Hal Blaine: Drums
Bones Howe: Percussion
The sky is gray
The day is turning
Dark begins to fall
At night I cannot help but think about you
Though I'm lonely
It is only
Love and that is all
So I will come and go my way without you
Though I'm feeling sad I know
There'll be another sunrise
Now I'm lonely; I'm resigned
To live my life in loneliness
Who was I to bring you down
I didn't have the right
Now you're gone but I'll go on
And I will be all right
Close your eyes
Don't look back
Just turn and walk away
Hey, hey, hey
The sky is gray
The day is turning
Dark begins to fall
At night I cannot help but think about you
Though I'm lonely
It is only
Love and that is all
So I will come and go my way without you
(You Used To) Ride So High
Warren Zevon
©Mr. Bones Publishing (BMI)
Warren Zevon: Guitar and Bass Guitar
Bones Howe: Drums and Percussion
You used to drive all night
You used to drive all night, yeah
You used to do alright for yourself
Didn’t think about nobody else
You used to drive all night
You used to ride so high
(You used to ride so high)
You used to ride so high, yeah
Now you don’t seem to get around
Somebody must’ve shot you down
You used to ride so high, yeah
Sorry to see you couldn’t be what you wanted to be
But I couldn’t forget you could’ve done better
You could’ve done better by me, now, baby
You used to shake ‘em on down
(You used to shake ‘em on down)
You used to shake ‘em on down, yeah
You thought you couldn’t help a friend
Somebody must’ve done you in
You used to shake ‘em on down, yeah
Sorry to see you couldn’t be what you wanted to be
But I couldn’t forget you could’ve done better
You could’ve done better by me, now, baby
You used to ride so high
(You used to ride so high)
You used to ride so high, yeah
You used to ride so high
(You used to ride so high)
You used to drive all night
(You used to drive all night)
You used to shake ‘em on down
(You used to shake ‘em on down)
You used to ride so high
(You used to ride so high)
You used to drive all night
(You used to drive all night)
You used to shake ‘em on down
(You used to shake ‘em on down)
Outside Chance
Warren Zevon & Glenn Crocker
© 1966 EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
You can try to please me
But it won't be easy
Stone walls surround me
I'm surprised you even found me
And you don't stand an outside chance
You don't stand an outside chance
But you can try
Whatever you do, girl
You know you can't get through, girl
Can’t bring me down
Hang me up or even hang around
And you don't stand an outside chance
You don't stand an outside chance
But you can try
I try now
Oh, you think you’ll get me
I'm only flesh and bone
But you might as well forget me
Because my heart is stone
You better leave me alone . . . yeah
You can try to please me
But it won't be easy
Stone walls surround me
I'm surprised you even found me
And you don't stand an outside chance
You don't stand an outside chance
But you can try
Keep tryin’, baby
(Whoo) Try a little harder
You got to try a little harder
Got to, got to, got to, got to
Try a little harder, baby
Yeah, yeah
Try a little harder
Keep on tryin’
I See The Lights
Warren Zevon
© EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
I see the traffic in the streets
I hear the song the subway sang beneath our feet
And is it rain or tears that I feel
Upon my face? The city seems unreal
I see the lights, I see the lights
But there’s no warmth or shelter in the night
People pass me on my way
And they see my eyes are filled with yesterday
When you were here I felt your heartbeat near
Now the dark sky’s never clear
I see the lights, I see the lights
But there’s no warmth or shelter in the night
I’ve been this way before
A thousand times or more
And though the places are the same,
The faces all are yours
ohhh...ohhh...ohhh....ohhh...
I see the lights, I see the lights
But there’s no warmth or shelter in the night
I see the traffic in the streets
I hear the song the subway sang beneath our feet
And is it rain or tears that I feel
Upon my face? The city seems unreal
I see the lights, I see the lights
But there’s no warmth or shelter in the night
I see the lights, I see the lights
But there’s no warmth or shelter in the night
And If I Had You
Warren Zevon
© EMI Longitude Music (BMI)
Though I have diamonds bright
Their light can light the dark that hours that I’ve
Spent here in solitude
Who’d have thought I need somebody
Like I do
I need you
And if I had you, babe
My whole life through, babe
And if I had you, maybe I’d feel better
And I could forget all the loneliness
I have the stars above
What use are they without your love? I
Can’t see beyond the night
Though they write my name in lights
I’m no one
I can’t go on
And if I had you, babe
My whole life through, babe
And if I had you, maybe I’d feel better
And I could forget all the loneliness
Yes, I guess, my life would be complete
I’d have everything I need
I know it’s true
And if I had you, babe
To tell my troubles to, babe
And if I had you, maybe I’d feel better
And I could forget all the loneliness
And if I had you, babe
My whole life through, babe
And if I had you, babe
And if I had you
And if I had you, babe
A Bullet For Ramona
Warren Zevon & Paul Evans
© Mr. Bones Music Publishing (BMI)
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me
Two years, I've been searchin' for her
Two years, she's been free
Well, I found her in a dance hall in Laredo
And she told me that she wanted only me
And I held her in my arms the way I used to
But when morning came she begged me to set her free
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me
Two years, I've been searchin' for her
Two years, she's been free
Well, I tried and tried to ride away and leave her
With my head hung low, teardrops filled my eye
I rode back to town and found her with a drifter
And I knew right then Ramona had to die
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me
Two years, I've been searchin' for her
Two years, she's been free
Well, I'm writing you this letter from Laredo
And tonight I'll ride across the Rio Grande
If I never live to see another sunrise
I loved her, Ma, I hope you understand
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me
Two years, I've been searchin' for her
Two years, she's been free