Song Description
Funny where songs come from. I remember being in Philadelphia on a rainy night, looking out the window of the top floor of a house overlooking Fairmount Park, the Art Museum and the neighborhood beyond, thinking the lines: "you must have been like a waterfall, to slip away so gracefully." Something about the rain and streetlights and headlights reflecting in the wet windowpane triggered an ache of loneliness and a loping melody line..."out across the rooftops of a rainy Yankee town...."
The
| Song Length |
4:03 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Serene, Glad |
Subject |
Gourmet Food, Evolution |
| Similar Artists |
Jimmy Buffett, Jim Croce |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Western Avenue
You must have been a beautiful baby to become such a lovely child
You must have been born of noble parents to have so much natural style
It must have been in one of our previous lives; I know I?ve been with you before
Even after years this conversation?s still alive like guys that play chess by telephone
Out across the rooftops of this rainy Yankee town
Someone?s singing his love to you
I hope the sun is shining where you?re walking now
In the flat prairie town
off Western Avenue
You must have been like a falling star; the way your light captured me
You must have been like a waterfall to slip away so gracefully
It must have been you I?ve seen when I dream; in the morning I recall details
Seems I was a vessel on the open sea, I heard your voice and it filled my sails
©2002 James F. Curley