Vienna in the Rain

It might all be wine and roses, everything on track

But inside of everyone is a little undergrad

a second-guessing fresh-faced debutante

forever struggling to figure out what we really want

I want 52nd street in ’49

To be thrown across the Goldilocks Zone on the taxpayer’s dime

To see Sugar Ray fight and to play in the Austin High Gang

I want Candy Mountain and Daisyland

All the time

I want Vienna in the rain and Veracruz by night

I want to hear LaVern Baker sing, ‘Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes’

I want to shoot Bobby Ballantine and Waco Johnny Dean

I want to be blinded by a light and in love with something

I want everything I’ve ever seen

On a CRT TV, at the Music Box, on a silver screen

I’ve got to wonder sometimes

Those memories I cling to like a tamarin

Keep like diamonds in a box

Are they something I have, or something I’ve lost?

I want 52nd street in ’49

To be thrown across the Goldilocks Zone on the taxpayer’s dime

To see Sugar Ray fight and to play in the Austin High Gang

I want Candy mountain and Daisyland

All the time

I want Vienna in the rain and Veracruz by night

I want to hear LaVern Baker sing, ‘Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes’

I want to shoot Bobby Ballantine and Waco Johnny Dean

I want to be blinded by a light and in love with something

I want everything I’ve ever seen

(Everything I’ve ever seen)

On a CRT TV, at the Music Box, on a silver screen