Hollywood Schemer

Drums: Tom Susino

Bass: Jeff Adam

Acoustic guitar: Jack DuPont

Sax: Bruce Kapler

Engineer: Mario Salvati

I’ve been a runner

And I’ve been a dreamer

A Hollywood schemer and a fool

A loser and a winner

But seldom a sinner

A man who has played by the rules

But something has happened

I lost my direction

Alone in my bedroom I lie

And now in the evening

I sit by the window

And silently stare at the sky

Off in the distance

And over the river

Asleep at the end of her day

A night in the city

With never a silence

I know that she likes it that way

The times I remember

When we were together

Have somehow been left in the past

I couldn’t believe when

I found myself leaving

I always had thought it would last

Now when I’m driving

I listen to music

The classical kind

Sweet and low

I darkness I ride

With nothing inside

And searching for somewhere to go

In Boston I called you

I’ve no one to talk to

I always was talking to her

I’m glad you were home

And could answer the phone

I only could hope that you were

But I didn’t tell you

How bad I was feeling

And you were too drunk to care

But what can you do

When your friend is your lover

And suddenly she isn’t there

Now when I’m driving

I listen to music

The classical kind

Sweet and low

I darkness I ride

With nothing inside

And searching for somewhere to go

I’ve been a runner

And I’ve been a dreamer

A Hollywood schemer and a fool

A loser and a winner

But seldom a sinner

A man who has played by the rules

But something has happened

I lost my direction

Alone in my bedroom I lie

And now in the evening

I sit by the window

And silently stare at the sky

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