ARCADE

Well step on back for the pinball wizards

They cut through this crowd like sharpened scissors

They seek the dark back where they can hide like lizards

And they can focus on a serious game

The instant photo booth is kept up front

For the perfect four poses all the girls want

The boys eyeing em like on a fox hunt

Hanging around outside the curtain frame

Everybody’s got a special thrill that sets them off

Everyone’s looking for that big payoff

And you can find your perfect shade

In the arcade

Jump back here comes a couple they must be tourist

They’re In their own world they’re going to ignore us

They feed the machine their cash which is as porous

As that teddy bear slipping through the metal claw

Skeeball is like our county fair

Some lay wagers some don’t care 

Some break a sweat some only stare

That’s skeeball

Payouts are flowing

Pop music rolling

Games are going

Everyone’s got a thrill to set them off

And you can find your perfect shade

In the arcade

The spinning prize wheel catch the eye of passerby’s

Girls push their guys burning cash through many tries

Looking to beat the science and the odds

When their number hits it’s the heroes bliss 

She yells a little he gets a kiss

The losers only curse and hiss

They play again while shaking a fist 

Up to the bad luck gods

Ladies playing poker to wins some pots and pans

Here everyone comes in with a dream and plan

Find your perfect shade

In the arcade

Where’s your favorite spot

When the moment is all you got

Find your perfect shade

In the Arcade

MELODY BY THE SEA

Lo-oh-co crazy

There’s a tiki bar called By The Sea

Ten cent drafts and girls get in free

We make it a stop on bar band nights

Turn it on until they turn out the lights

And there’s a couple types of girls at By The Sea

Some wear a sign saying “Don’t bother me”

And some seem as friendly as can be 

Then disappear real quietly

My types well that’s one I never see 

I’m just looking for a girl who’s crazy like me

Lo-oh-co crazy

Lo-oh-co crazy

I can see Melody was following me

Melody By The Sea

In the bar mirror I see she’s looking at me

Guys can get distracted so easily

An old Stone song move me to the pit

She jumped on my back and rode me a bit

Lo-oh-co crazy

Lo-oh-co crazy

This stuff only happens By The Sea

I met a girl as crazy as me

Lo-oh-co crazy

Lo-oh-co crazy

Melody By The Sea

I met a girl as crazy as me

We kept playing hide and seek

She flashed the band and kissed my cheek

We did shots at the bar but when we clapped off beat

That’s when they tossed us to the street

ALL NIGHTER

After the souls of complication are gone

All night - All nighter

We will make it if we make it to dawn

In an in between state

Not quite asleep or awake

A cold sweat vision raced through my heart

If we could stay up all night

Make it to the break of light

Then nothing could ever break us apart

All night - All nighter

We will make it if we make it to dawn

Something would appear in our eyes

Something from that shared sunrise

We’d connect in the light of a new day

This is the test all loves must pass

Share the last grain in the hourglass

It’s a love that will always stay

All night - All nighter

We will make it if we make it to dawn

I give you a gentle shake

We gotta gotta stay awake

For reasons I can’t quite explain

You smile though the reason’s weak

It’s a nice night no need to speak

Let’s stargaze til the sun rises again

After the souls of complication are gone

All night - All nighter

We will make it if we make it to dawn

FOUR YEAR THING

Here comes another four year thing 

Just like the other four year thing 

So quickly then it’s done 

In 4-3-2-1 

Year one you never hit the ground running 

No matter how hard you try 

It hits back and then you’re spinning sink or swim Do or Die

Well you say you’ll do better

Overcome the nasty weather

Next time you’ll know what to do

The second was as bad as the first one you had

Now year three is staring at you

Here comes another four year thing 

Just like the other four year thing 

So quickly then it’s done 

In 4-3-2-1 

Year three can be fine but the time it starts to fly

And you can see you’re nearing the end

Four should be fun but you know your time will come

And you gotta start it all over again

Here comes another four year thing 

Just like the other four year thing 

So quickly then it’s done 

In 4-3-2-1 

SAXER AVENUE

John Saxer written ever in history

John Saxer had an avenue named after he

The frontier land began a stone’s throw from City Hall

Ben Franklin hunted game in Delco in the fall

John Saxer, son of a man of old world pride

The Wanamakers introduced him to his bride

John Saxer knew one day he’d be on the Western Trail

and down the Pacific Ocean he would sail

He prepared for his trip a stone's throw from City Line

From his modest ranch in the Springfield pines

John Saxer written ever in history

John Saxer had an avenue named after he

The weather would turn and send a year into the wind

There were no thoughts of leaving when the fever came in

Lost a son and daughter and some next of kin

He was forever heading out next spring

Never could stop what the winter would bring

John Saxer Found himself here every fall

Lived to get mail from a grandson in Utah

He was an elder statesman of the town

Springfield’s treasure of a great local renown

John Saxer died and as thing tend to do

They named his family’s road Saxer Avenue

John Saxer the road will always do what it does

John Saxer his road ends where his heart always was

John Saxer written ever in history

John Saxer had an avenue named after he

I grew up in a Springfield subdivision waved a flag at the Bicentennial parade

From central school I bought baseball cards on Saxer’s business promenade

Got married at the church at Saxer’s northern end

Moved out of Springfield and never went back again

CAMPGROUNDS OF AMERICA

The Quiet Man is driving and daydreaming of Elsa

Meeting her in college she pirouettes into the dining hall

Everything changed after turned a page on his history

From that youthful chaos - he sees how the pieces would fall

And as I watched the miles roll across the land

6th grade  summer vacation in the back of a van

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Ten dollars a night all amenities

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Freedom, the road, and family

City kids of the depression travel like packs in the city streets

Spend a lot of time on their own and running from the city heat 

Upstate coal country a kid could just go fishing all day

Served his country overseas and thought that was where he’d stay

I see Rushmore and Yellowstone and Custer’s Last Stand

The Gateway Arch and we're back in Pennsylvania again

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Ten dollars a night all amenities

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Freedom, the road, and family

The hours were rotten

The old life forgotten

This was all that mattered now

I look at the driver and I don't understand

What’s the backstory for the Quiet Man

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Ten dollars a night all amenities

Gonna see America

Campgrounds of America

Freedom, the road, and family