Rickie Lee Jones - We Belong Together lyrics

I say this was no game of chicken
You were aiming your best friend
That you wear like a switchblade on
A chain around your neck
I think you picked this up
In Mexico from your dad
Now it's daddy on the booze
And Brando on the ice
Now it's Dean in the doorway
With one more way he can't
Play this scene twice
So you drug her down every drag
Of this forbidden fit of love
And you told her to stand
Tall when you kissed her
But that's not where you were thinking
How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked
Into a scene so custom tucked?
But now look who shows up in the same place
In this case i think it's better to face it

We belong together we belong together

Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
And all the skid kids saw a very
Very proud man
And he entwine her in his finger
And she lay there like a baby in his hand
And climb upon the rooftop docks
Lookin' out on the crosstown seas
And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
And he falls and hugs and
Holds her on his knees
But a sailor just takes a broad down
To the dark end of the fair
To turn her into a tattoo that'll whisper
Into the back of Johnny's black hair
And now Johnny the King walks these streets
Without her in the rain
Lookin' for a leather jacket
And a girl who wrote her name forever
And a promise that

We belong together, yeah we belong together

Shall we weigh along these streets
Young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart
All left on neon for them? Who are foolish
Who are victim
Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
Move into your eyes and lips and every tear
That falls down on the neighborhood now
I said "Bird, we just gotta tell them"
And they turn and ignore us
And the only heroes we got left
Are written right before us
And the only angel who sees us now
Watches through each other's eyes
Ooh, and I can hear him
In every footstep's passing sigh
He goes crazy these nights
Watching heartbeats go by and they whisper

We belong together
Oh, but we belong together
We belong together we belong together