Lyrics from Burning My Cashmere
c 2004 Guy Ridley. All rights reserved.
Burning My Cashmere 1
Takin A Vacation (From My Medication)
When I
Nineteenth Morning
I Live in My Head
Take Me To The Execution
Lost & Found
The Dog Ate My Lyrics
She's So Last Week
Don't Let Me Blow Away
Aleta (Won't You Get Me Off Your List)
Burning My Cashmere 2


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Burning My Cashmere 1

Burning my cashmere
I'm burning my cashmere
All of my cashmere
Burning to the sky...

Takin A Vacation (From My Medication)

Can't sleep another day in my bed
Cause there's a revolution in my head
They're fightin over who should run the show
There's rumblings that maybe I should go
  I know I shouldn't talk this way
  It always gets me put away
I'm takin a vacation from my medication...

The world is so incredibibly great
You gotta come and help me celebrate
I'm feelin so impossibibly fine
Just to hear you say that you are mi mi mine
   Hope this day will never end
   Least until I crash again
I'm takin a vacation from my medication...

Our finest they have all gone off to war
Guess that leaves me to cheer and keep the score
Someday they'll even figure out what for
At least they're on the side god's rootin for
   All I know's eventually
   Even the future's history
I'm takin a vacation from my medication...

I threw my happy pills right out the window
I sent the little white ones back to Limbaugh
I mailed the loopy-loos back to their maker
I kept the pretty ones to be a shaker

Takin a vacation from my medication...
(repetez et affaiblissez)

When I

When I find myself
In unfamiliar places
And my smiles are lost
On strange and empty faces
Then I long to feel
Your embraces

And when I find myself
In my imagination
I am bathing in
A loving radiation
And you, you're floating to
No destination

Now the season's changing
And so is the weather
And I know you're waiting
Til we can be together
Still I, sometimes I
Wonder

If I stayed until you
Said I must be leavin
Or I left you with
Nobody to believe in
Which path would bring to you
More grievin

Nineteenth Morning

It's the nineteenth morning
Of a love affair
And I turn to hold her
But she's still not there
In my bed, and that's too bad
Cause she's the best lover I never had

Well she paints the weather
On her bedroom walls
But I can't be with her
When her rainbow falls
To the ground, if she never comes around
And I can't keep listening for such an empty sound

   I'm beginning to think that she's just a... tease
   She knows she could have me anyway she... please
   But she only wants me on my... knees

Well I forgot her laughter
And I forgot her voice
And I'd forget those deep dark eyes
You know if I had a choice
But I can let her go, yeah I can leave her behind
And if I didn't love her I wouldn't even mind

Cause it's the nineteenth morning
Of a love affair
And I turn to touch her
But she's only there
In my head, and that's really too bad
Cause she's the very best lover I never had

I Live In My Head

I live in my head
I don't care where I go
You can take me wherever
I'd never know
It's all the same movie
It's all the same show
When you live in your head

I live in my head
Right under my hat
Just back of these eyes
Yes that's where I'm at
I don't need an address
A car or a bed
Cause I live in my head

  It's not how much you have, it's what you share
  It's not the place you are, it's if you're there
So I live in my head...

   Yeah you can waste your time until it's gone
   I'm only watching my life cause it's on

And I live in my head
It's a rather tight fit
I'd ask you to stay
But there's no place to sit
But don't ya go leavin
Just cause I said
I live in my head...

Take Me to the Execution

Take me to the execution
I'll be quiet I'll be good
Heard there's gonna be a big one
Right here in our neighborhood

So take me to the execution
Hurry they'll be starting soon
And I'm so tired of staying here
Locked up all alone in my room

Warden sent me cake and ice cream
Preacher read me fairy tales
Saw my picture in the paper
Maybe it's my birthday today!

So take me to the execution
I've got noplace left to go
And everyone I know will be there
So take me to the execution show...

Lost & Found

Ten years ago you were where you are now
Something didn't change somehow
You settled down it was the thing to do
You hadn't heard that it was up to you
And such a pretty dream the two of you

The sun hits your window every morning it's the same day
I'll be late again tonight you hear somebody say
You had your bags packed once for moving on
Bet ya can't remember what made you turn around
And now your children they're all grown & gone

You met a man who read you like a book
He gave a good review and then he took
You drinking in a very fancy bar
You hoped that he would tell you who you are
But he hadn't read that far

You tried to find yourself in your social work
You tried to lose yourself in the pills you took
You tried to find yourself in the underground
You tried to lose yourself in the latest sound
You feel like a walkin lost & found

The Dog Ate My Lyrics

(instrumental)

She's So Last Week

She's so last week
Can't even speak to her no more
And furthermore she's at the door
Don't know what to say
She always gets her way with me it's true
I got things to do but she doesn't hear a
Thing that I say
And after she says "I'm flyin away" (far away)
I say that's OK, just promise me you'll stay gone
Promise me you'll stay gone

She's so last week
And so unique like all her friends
And when it ends I'll crawl back to my
Previous life
Pick up this knife and carve her name
In the wall of fame above the bed
It won't mean a thing
Cause I've just been winging it by ear (and i fear)
And what I fear, is what if she don't stay gone
What if she don't stay gone

Now she's last year
I never hear from her no more
It's such a bore, can't ask for more
I've taken up art, I've read til I'm smart
Oh there's a void but I'm overjoyed
Well, less annoyed
I'll paint what I see
In front of me, a rain of days (empty days)
My list ablaze, I only hope she stays gone
Darling won't you stay gone, stay gone
Hey why don't you stay gone

Don't Let Me Blow Away

Well I can't be chasing everybody down
Ah no, can't buy the time
And I never play whatever happened to
Anyone I knew from another time
   Cause sitting here with you in a daze
   Is all I want for now in these days
   And though you tell me no time lasts forever
Every day I watch the summer trickle down
Like sand onto the ground
And I lie in bed and listen to the words we said
Fall dead without a sound
   And as the masks are stripped away
   I'm getting lighter every day
   Feel like I could even blow away
But I'm tied up in these tales that you sing and tell
They tell me more than you think you tell
About a life unlearned a corner turned a vision burned
Into my eyes these scenes your hands describe
   That trip you left that left you here
   It's like I've followed watching from the air
   So if you ever turn and see me floating there, floating there
     Don't let me blow away

And I can't take the blame for everyone I loved
Flung wide cause I really tried
To keep 'em all I guess I could've found the perfect word
But sometimes that word's goodbye
   And everyone you leave behind
   Remains a picture in your mind
   Of someone they can never be again
And still I wonder how I want to say to you
Or not, what you want to do about
Thinkin about stayin here until you know
What's it for, and where's it gonna go
   Cause sitting here with you in a daze
   Is all I want for now in these days
   And though you tell me time won't last forever, I say
     Don't let me blow away

   Cause sitting here with you in a daze
   Is all I want for now in these days...

Aleta (Won't You Get Me Off Your List)

I'm first on your list at last
I'm first on your list at last
But I'm presently slippin into your past
Yes I'm presently slippin into your past

I've been waiting such a long time
I've been waiting and waiting such a long time
How come I had to stand in all those lines
Just to see you break this heart of mine

Your life is just a play you've been rehearsin
Your life is just a play you've been rehearsin
It's a play about a cruel and unusual person
Your part's a very cruel and unusual person

You keep me on a leash but you don't take me for no walk
You keep me on a leash but you never take me for no walks
You feed me on the floor and make me sleep in a cardboard box
You feed me on the floor and then I sleep in a cardboard box

It's not normal to be so strange
It's not normal to be so strange
You're crazy if you think you're not insane
You're crazy if you think you're not deranged

The way you turn me on it turns me off
The way you turn me on it turns me off
So I guess this is my stop I must get off
Aleta won't you stop I can't get off
Aleta!

Aleta won't you get me off your list
Aleta won't you get me off your list
Your nine-day weekend is something I wish I'd missed
And yours are two sweet lips I never should have kissed
Don't stare at me like this like you just don't get the gist
You should realize by now I'm getting pissed
So won't you take your razor out my wrist
And let me pick my teeth out from your fist
I'll send the doctor bill to your analyst
So Aleta just you get me off your list
Aleta!

Burning My Cashmere 2

Cashmere
I'm burning my cashmere
All of my cashmere
Burning to the sky

Cashmere
Sick of my cashmere
Soft & sensual cashmere
Burning to the sky (bye bye)

   My scarf and my sweater
   My gloves and my coat
   I'm burning everything cashmere
   (except for the goat)

I hate all my cashmere
Such touchable cashmere
All my beautiful cashmere
Burning to the sky (bye bye)...


All lyrics c 2004 by Guy Ridley. All rights reserved.