Carole King - A Night This Side of Dying Lyrics

Lyrics A Night This Side of Dying - Carole King



I remember one young sister with rainbows in her eyes
Standing on a corner with the afternoon′s supply
She spoke of other places, perhaps a better road
Then she asked if I could tell her
Where they kept the mother load
Like a night this side of dying
Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf
When she hears her lifeline crying
Not a thing you say can stop her
When she just can′t stop herself
I remember that July, the panic and the heat
The savage shine of summer, the strychnine in the street
The way that sold each other for a favour in glassine
The best of friends sold brothers
For a dime of quinine dreams
Like a night this side of dying
Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf
Like the shelter she's been buying
Not a thing I′ve got can save her
When she just can′t save herself
She just can't save herself



Writer(s): King Carole, Palmer David


Carole King - Wrap Around Joy
Album Wrap Around Joy
date of release
26-02-1991




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