Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Olivia lyrics

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He left home when she was seventeen

We came back to see her

She was older cold and even mean

Not like we remembered

Out along the old road

Where the Indian Paintbrush grows

She began to cry and said she wanted us to know

There were hard times

When the family was broken

There were hard times

Then she lit up a smoke and said

Gonna open up my umbrella and keep it off of me

It's so easy to go somewhere

But so hard to leave

I move far away and still the memories find me there

When I hear the clock and see the dust come off the chair

There were hard times

I don't wanna remember

There were hard times

And I don't want to see ya

Let the wind and white sheet blow through the room

I can live with the ghosts but not with you

It was never so easy saying goodbye

Sitting at a bus stop

Waiting for euphoria

I've heard so much bad news today

I don't think I can take anymore

Of the hard times

Shadows on the horizon

All the hard times

Rusty glow in the sunriseOlivia

Lights on the river bridge roll to the water's edge

Filling the harbor with halos

The night was cold and black when they were walking back

He held her hand in the shadows

My favorite

There is so much more to see

Why stay behind

When you could go on with me?

Icicle centuries burst into gentle breeze

Somewhere a curse has been lifted

She turned around in her chair and he touched her hair

And the universe shifted

My favorite

There is so much more to see

Why stay behind

When you could go on with me?

Olivia

Why don't you let your heart come home?

Olivia

Leave those wild young boys alone

Out on the stormy cliff silvery waters lift

High with a wild wind behind them

Vaporous rippling like a drug or a dream

Eyes in the lamplight were shining

My favorite

There is so much more to see

Why stay behind

When you could go off with me?

Olivia

Won't you let your heart come home?

Olivia

Leave those wild young boys alone