Downtown - Greg Brown

Well, yes, I could stay home, read a book or two

Try to get a little bit better at some of these bad things I do

But the night it is young;

so am I for a while

So I put on my hat and coat and pants and my boots and smile

And I’m a gonna go

Downtown, downtown tonight

I’m a gonna go all around the town, check out all the sights

I will be back in the mornin', feelin' bad or good

Well, I do what I want, and I don’t do what I should

Well, some people tell me that they love the mountains best

Far as I can see it’s just one big wilderness

I’ve seen squirrels writin' tickets, dolphins drivin' cars

Blowfish blowin' tubas, grizzly bears in the bars

And I’m a gonna go

Well now if you’ve ever checked it out, you know just what I mean

There’s always a few surprises in that same old scene

You might meet some fella who can really blow the horn

Make you glad for a change you done got born

Don’t ya wanna go

Yes, I might get lucky, run into my friend, Jane

Walk to her apartment in the shiny city rain

Put on a little record;

I get so long and tall

I wish I was the wallpaper;

Jane could be the wall

And I’m a gonna go

Yeah and when those lights come up, so soon, so soon

We might sit and play some music in that trashed-out livin' room

Keep playin' that music 'til the dawn’s early light

Laugh like no one’s business

Man ain’t that the life

And I’m a gonna go

Have you ever known the magic hour just before the dawn?

When the mornin' is still sleeping, but the night is not yet gone

And you’re walkin' home from some little joint with someone you love

With the moon and stars and the bells and birds all ringin' up above

Don’t ya wanna go