Lyrics

Melinda

Sunset Boulevard somewhere on the coast, somebody knows Melinda
Don’t she look sweet Lord standing on the street corner thumbing for a ride
Eighteen going on sixty, she looks twelve years old in the moonlight
Men in limousines pay big money to take Melinda for a ride

Big-shouldered farm boys never turned her on back home in Minnesota
Big dreams, fast dreams, Hollywood screen dreams filled up her nights
Time crept by as she waited in high school for emancipation
Late one night by the pale moon light Melinda took her flight

(C) Oh no, that’s how it goes; mistaken for a minute, regret it for a lifetime
Oh yeah, no turning back now; life disappears like long lean legs in the moonlight

Cars move fast, cool people pass, everybody says hello baby
Melinda cruises through like a Queen through her retinue, graciously aloof
She knows every dark corner when she needs to score some heavy, heavy fuel
She’s burning high octane, glowing like the picture of a Saint flaming at the stake (C)

A weathered white farm house, the lowing of a milk cow; a cold winter’s day
Tiny soft footprints pressed in the snow, curl away toward the lane
A tired old farmer walks out from the barn, carrying a pail
He pauses for a moment, gazes down the down the road, then he gently shuts the gate (C)

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