Sadness - Greg Brown


    Sadness come to my house
    with a stinking bouquet,
    smiled with her thin gray lips
    and said, "Honey, I'm home to stay."

    [chorus:]
    And I said,
    "Go away and leave me alone.
    Go away and leave me."

    She handed me rotgut whiskey
    and a lit cigarette,
    danced all around my room and sais,
    "Are we having fun yet?"

    [repeat chorus]

    She took off her party dress
    and her tear stained brassiere,
    came so close I could smell her
    and said "Kiss me here and here."

    [repeat chorus]

    She lay down on my bed
    and open her thin legs,
    raised up her arms and said,
    "Honey, I ain't too proud to beg."

    [repeat chorus]

    She said, "Don't you remember
    what you did to that one, to the other one, too?
    Well, I've just come to do exactly
    the very same thing to you."

    [repeat chorus]

    I said, "I'm gonna get out my shotgun.
    I'm gonna get out my Bowie knife -
    and if you don't clear on outta here,
    I'll kill you within an inch of your life."

    [repeat chorus]

    She said, "Honey, I've come to love you.
    I'm gonna hook you 'til you burn -
    and then I'll go and you will never know
    just when I may return."

    [repeat chorus]

    I will go out in the mountains,
    way out in the desert somewhere,
    where the sun shines down on rocks and bushes
    and there ain't no Sadness there.

    [repeat chorus]

    Copyright © 1994 Brown-Feldman Publishing

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