richard cortez - the song for when everyone's gone

the song for when everyone's gone

stoned and alone
in the heart of new york
watch the rain come down outside
swallowing my pride
living out of cardboard boxes
just a wasin' my time

and i been keeping busy doing nothing
how bout you?
has the weather been okay?
did you call your mom today?
you know i love you so much...
guess that's all i wanted to say

and i don't wanna be more than a person
i wear the same jeans everyday
but i got nothing much to say
it's getting harder and harder to write a song but i do it anyway...

and this is a song
for when everyone's gone
and nobody's there
to pick up the phone
and when you don't belong
or you just don't care
this song will be there
to carry you home

well it seems like everybody's going crazy!
what with the 80's back in style...
i've been confused for awhile.
and i've been wandering around astor place
looking for my misplaced smile...

and everybody's trying to sell me something.
well, i say we tell em' that we're broke,
and that we're lookin' for a toke,
and that we're down on our luck,
we don't give a fuck,
and the government is a joke..

and this is a song
for when everyone's gone
and nobody's there
to pick up the phone
and when you don't belong
or you just don't care
this song will be there
to carry you home

my refrigerator's empty-
i'm sailing down the avenue.
well the bodies are a plenty -
but the souls are a few.
my guitar is outta tune and i don't know what to do...

it's asking me - "who are you?"

and this is a song
for when everyone's gone
and nobody's there
to pick up the phone
and when you don't belong
or you just don't care
this song will be there
to carry you home

c'mon and carry me home...

because i'm stoned and alone
in the heart of new york...
watch the rain come down outside...
swallowing my pride...
living out of cardboard boxes just a wastin' my time...

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[baprid3clarinette]

you have an amazing voice!!! :)

[rickydickypants]

<3 aw. thank you so much!  -rec

[braxtonry2]

I love this song. It has gotten me through a lot of rough times. Kudos cuite.

[rickydickypants]

<3 - thank you, thank you, thank you. i wrote it to get me through a tough time and to know that it's helped others makes my writing it all worth the while. -rec

[macupausini]

yo' rick! can you still tune the guitar with the capo on?

[rickydickypants]

haha - i'm fierce like that. -rec

[djboony]

"every beer ive ever had, is on a shelf above my bed, ohhhhhh yeah oh yeah yeah"

[boyfive5]

you stole that shirt from me when i clearly stole it fair and square from Todd

[apiratesbooty]

this is the other one i was triyng to think of last night <3

[rickydickypants]

well, i mean, wow. this is so sudden? where will we honeymoon? gay paris? -rec