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Composer: John Prine

John Prine - Donald and Lydia lyrics



Small town, bright lights, Saturday night
Pinballs and pool halls flashing their lights
Makin' change behind the counter
In a penny arcade
Sits the fat girl daughter
Of Virginia and Ray... Lydia...

Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat
Behind her small eyes, sunk deep in her fat
She read Romance magazines up in her room
And felt just like Sunday on a Saturday afternoon

But dreamin' just comes natural
Like the first breath from a baby
Like sunshine feedin' daisies
Like the love hidden deep in your heart

Bunk beds, shaved heads, Saturday night
A warehouse of strangers with sixty-watt lights
Staring through the ceiling, just wanting to be
Lay one of too many, a young P.F.C... Donald...

There were spaces between Donald and whatever he said
Strangers had forced him to live in his head
He envisioned the details of romantic scenes
After midnight in the stillness
of the barracks latrine

But dreamin' just comes natural
Like the first breath from a baby
Like sunshine feedin' daisies
Like the love hidden deep in your heart

Hot love, cold love, no love at all
A portrait of guilt is hung on the wall
Nothing is wrong and nothing is right
Donald and Lydia made love that night... Love...

They made love in the mountains
They made love in the streams
They made love in the valleys
They made love in their dreams
But when they were finished
There was nothing to say
'Cause mostly they made love
From ten miles away

But dreamin' just comes natural
Like the first breath from a baby
Like sunshine feedin' daisies
Like the love hidden deep in your heart
Songs list of album: Souvenirs (2000)
         Title Rating
01   Souvenirs lyrics   -
02    Fish and Whistle lyrics Add lyrics   -
03   Far from Me lyrics   -
04   Angel from Montgomery lyrics   -
05   Donald and Lydia lyrics   -
06    Christmas in Prison lyrics Add lyrics   -
07   Storm Windows lyrics   -
08   Grandpa Was a Carpenter lyrics   -
09   The Late John Garfield Blues lyrics   -
10   Blue Umbrella lyrics   -
11   Six O'Clock News lyrics   -
12   People Puttin' People Down lyrics   -
13   Sam Stone lyrics   -
14   Please Don't Bury Me lyrics   -
15   Hello in There lyrics   -
 

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