we fell in love and i made you the world
i spent all my time tryin’ to satisfy you, girl
just one thing that i can’t figure out [?]
closer i get, farther baby i am out [?]

30 days, 30 days out
well i’m six days runnin’ but i’m 30 days out
30 days, 30 days out
with every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

the roof was leakin’ honey where we live
and i’m wonderin’ what’s that something that you won’t give
i started loving you but i gotta stop
you got me mostly waitin’ for that other shoe to drop

30 days, 30 days out
you keep me six days runnin’ but i’m 30 days out
30 days, 30 days out
with every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

tried to talk about what’s goin’ on
you just smile and tell me "baby there ain’t nothin’ wrong"
in your smile there’s a sign in red
it said "thousand miles of hard road dead ahead"

30 days, 30 days out
yeah i’m six days runnin’ but i’m 30 days out
30 days, 30 days out
with every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

30 days, 30 days out
well i’m six days runnin’ but i’m 30 days out
30 days, 30 days out
with every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

sandy the fireworks are hailin’ over little eden tonight
forcin’ a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this fourth of
july
down in town the circuit’s full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so
sharp
and the wizards play down on pinball way on the boardwalk way past dark
and the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like latin lovers
along the shore
chasin’ all them silly new york girls

sandy the aurora is risin’ behind us
the pier lights our carnival life forever
love me tonight for i may never see you again
hey sandy girl

now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on the
beach all night
them boys in their spiked high heels ah sandy their skins are so white
and me i just got tired of hangin’ in them dusty arcades bangin’ them pleasure
machines
chasin’ the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap
their jeans
and you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
i got on it last night and my shirt got caught
and that joey kept me spinnin’ i didn’t think i’d ever get off

oh sandy the aurora is risin’ behind us
the pier lights our carnival life on the water
runnin’ down the beach at night with my boss’s daughter
well he ain’t my boss no more sandy

sandy, the angels have lost our desire for us
i spoke to ‘em just last night and they said they won’t set themselves on fire
for us anymore
every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven on
their harleys they come and they go
and you can see ‘em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars
parked making love with their babies out on the kokomo
well the cops finally busted madame marie for tellin’ fortunes better than they
do
this boardwalk life for me is through
you know you ought to quit this scene too

sandy the aurora’s rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever

i bought a bourgeois house in the hollywood hills
with a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills
man came by to hook up my cable tv
we settled in for the night my baby and me
we switched ’round and ’round ’til half-past dawn
there was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on

well now home entertainment was my baby’s wish
so i hopped into town for a satellite dish
i tied it to the top of my japanese car
i came home and i pointed it out into the stars
a message came back from the great beyond
there’s fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on

well we might’a made some friends with some billionaires
we might’a got all nice and friendly
if we’d made it upstairs
all i got was a note that said "bye-bye john
our love is fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on"

so i bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast
and in the blessed name of elvis well i just let it blast
’til my tv lay in pieces there at my feet
and they busted me for disturbin’ the almighty peace
judge said "what you got in your defense son?"
"fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on"
i can see by your eyes friend you’re just about gone
fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on…

it’s cloudy out in pittsburgh
it’s rainin’ in saigon
snow’s fallin’ all across the michigan line
well she sits by the light of her christmas tree
with the radio softly on
thinkin’ how a good man is so hard to find

well once she had a fella
once she was somebody’s girl
and she gave all she had that one last time
now there’s a little girl asleep in the back room
she’s gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world
and how a good man is so hard to find

well there’s pictures on the table by her bed
him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
she remembers how the world was the day he left
and now how that world is dead
and a good man is so hard to find

she got no time now for casanovas
yeah those days are gone
she don’t want that anymore, she’s made up her mind
just somebody to hold her
as the night gets on
when a good man is so hard to find

well she shuts off the tv
and without a word
into bed she climbs
well she thinks how it was all so wasted
and how expendable their dreams all were
when a good man was so hard to find
well it’s cloudy out in pittsburgh

it’s cloudy out in pittsburgh
it’s raining in saigon
snow’s fallin’ all across the michigan line
well she sits by the lights of the christmas tree
with the radio softly on
thinkin’ how a good man is so hard to find

well once she had a fella
once she was somebody’s girl
and she gave all she had that one last time
now there’s a little girl asleep in the back room
she’s gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world
and how a good man is so hard to find

well there’s pictures on the table by her bed
him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
she remembers how the world was the day he left
and now how that world is dead
and a good man is so hard to find

she got time now for casanovas
yeah those days are gone
she don’t want that anymore, she’s made up her mind
just somebody told her
as the nights get on
when a good man is so hard to find

well she shuts off the tv
and without a word
into bed she climbs
well she thinks how it was all so wasted
and how expendable their dreams all were
when a good man was so hard to find