Rickie Lee Jones - Little Yellow Town lyrics

Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town
Green life teems up from the underground
Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage
Reach hard in for the ragged star fish
And only her lipstick bleeds
And the color seeds into all
Your paint by number schemes
What was yellow, what was
White, what was day, what was night
And now in soft detective
Voices the past rises
And follows you in shapes of rain and dew
And you walk through the fun house
Those sonic faces hit you like a bus
'Till you're knocked down by the
Doppler waves of trust
And over here I scare myself day after day
Cube after cube, dot after dot laying down
On the kitchen floor
Tapped into the secret code she's a down girl
The acid's eating out her mind
The altered universe, step right up
Door swings both ways and
Now tattooed children, two legged potions
Follow us while lightening
Bugs circle overhead
While lightening bugs circle overhead
We tear their wings off and
Memorize what they said
Chasing us across summer and into sleep
It's down rain, down time
She's a real down girl
The acid's eating out her mind
'Till all is new and all is changed
The altered world
Spells out your name, see if it works