DORY PREVIN - Yada Yada La Scala & The Lady With The Braid (1971)

yada yada yada yada yada
let's top talking talking talking
wasting precious time
just a lot of empty noise
that isn't worth a dime
words of wonder
words of whether
should we shouldn't we
be together
yada yada yada yada yada yada

let's top talking talking talking
taking up out lives
saying things that don't make sense
hoping help arrives
curse my questions
damn your qualms
tomorrow they could be
dropping bombs
and we go yada yada yada yada yada

so we sit
at a restaurant table
discussing reasons
we're unable to commit
that's not it
all i want
is to please and enjoy you
what makes you think
i'll be out to destroy you
if you commit
that's not it
is it something you sense
underneath my defenses
that makes me a threat
that's not it
and yet
suppose that's it
ow wow wow i don't want to
think about that now

let's top talking talking talking
every lame excuse
justifying alibying
listen what's the use
the sparrow chirps
the chipmunk chatters
and we go on as mad as a hatter
and nothing at all gets said
talk to me please
in bed
where it matters
yada yada yada yada yada

...

would you care to stay till sunrise
it's completely your decision
it's just that going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a low and lonely ride

would you hang your denim jacket
near the poster by picasso
do you sleep on the left side or the right
would you mind if i leave on the light
would you mind if it isn't too bright
now i need the window open
so if you happen to get chilly
there's this coverlet my cousin hand crocheted
do you mind if the edges are frayed
would you like to unfasten my braid

shall i make you in the morning
as cup of instant coffee
i will sweeten it with honey and with cream
when you sleep
do you have dreams?
you can read the early paper
and i can watch you while you shave
oh god the mirror's cracked
when you leave
will you come back?
you don't have to answer that at all
the bathroom door is just across the hall
you'll find an extra towel on the rack
on the paisley patterned papered wall
there's a comb on the shelf
i papered that wall myself
that wall
myself

would you care to stay till sunrise
it's completely your decision
it's just the night cuts through me like a knife
would you care to stay awhile and save my life?
would you care to stay awhile and save my life?
i don't know what made me say that
i've got this funny sense of humor
you know i could not be downhearted it i tried
it's just that going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
going home is such a ride
isn't going home is such a low and lonely ride?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mythical
• Kings
• and
• Iguanas
• (1971)
• Dory
• Previn
• Singer-Songwriter
• Folk
• Rock
• Pop
• Guitar
• Female
• Vocal

[bbbfoot1]

@1960janey ding dong

[1960janey]

does this ring a bell my rob? hehe. sure it does.

[1960janey]

hmm

[jacquiarbery]

Love love love it

[hils54]

love the way that each song flows into the next. all with meaning that many people can identify with all these years later.....

[pierocrida]

instructive song..... :-)

[jmcampbelluk]

This was my mums favourite song and singer and I cry everytime I hear it, lovely, so thought provoking!

[michaelhatton1]

@freetoke i like playing old vinyl using a sewing needle on a tin spinnin it round on anything like a bike wheel or a lazy susan, listening like a kid... have this on cassette though, with jennifer warnes' famous blue raincoat on the other side, ♬ i just wanna hold you ♬ ♥ ☺

[freetoke]

just dug out all my old vinyl with nothing to play them on YADA YADA :)

[MrsJiffybag]

Hi saradrivescars I discovered Dory previn at a friends hous an old boyfriend an I used to visit, sadly like you I found out that my old boyfriend had died recently and it makes these lryics all the more poignant. thanks Tuxedocat for posting this song xxx