Jay SparrowLily
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Monday, March 22, 2021 8:55:32 PM
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The SOUND Cafe
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The Good Stuff V
Vegetation Station
HONKY FM - a Desperado Revue Station
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What happens in Vegas... rarely stays in Vegas. Lily is a fun dance-able Alt-Country song about the modern American adulterer.

Written, Performed and Produced by Jay Sparrow

I wrote this song after a particularly heinous couple nights in Las Vegas. It is about waking up after the wild night and becoming lucid to the reality of your life... but ignoring it.
In the morning, I got a pretty good start
I'm not the best with the words but I got a big heart
I rolled over, luckily my jeans beside the bed
I rolled back, kissed the girl on her head... Good-bye
She was only wearing a smile so I remember it was hard to say good-bye
but I did it... oh Lily don't cry

Chaka Khan filled the hallways of the casino
I made my way from the room to the camino
I'm a stranger in a strange world
This Las Vegas is a circus as I'm sure you've heard
So good-bye to that girl in room eleven twenty five
Good-bye... oh Lily don't cry

Out the door and out in the parking lot
The day gets simpler, just try and get out of the hot
Crack the window, get out on the highway
Barstow in an hour then I'm on to L.A.
Faster then lightning, come on baby you can win
Leaving is easy when you're leaving the city of sin

Back home, I'll draw a picture for yah
A backyard barbecue with a wife and a daughter
This is life in L.A. my friend and I'll do what I want
Again and again and again, cause I'm an American
oh I'm sure Lily doesn't mind... Oh until maybe next time

Lily gets me on the phone, says "I don't want to cry no more!"
"I'm tired of you going back to your wife and treating me like a whore"
So I said...
Faster then lightning, come on baby you can win
Leaving is easy when you're leaving the city of sin

Faster then lightning, come on baby you can win
Leaving is easy when you're leaving the city of sin

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Song Comments

The Good Stuff V
Thanks, Auset for turning me on to this tune. Dead-on great country song. Great writing, great playing, and great singing all converge into one amazingly downbeat song that sounds so up, you'll be dancing all the way to the tissues.


Vegetation Station
As good as any Ryan Adams' tune that I've heard. And that's a huge compliment.


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