TONIGHT THERE AIN’T NO HELP FOR ME

TONIGHT THERE AIN’T NO HELP FOR MEI’ve been listening to this absolutely wonderful song by the greatest songwriter on the planet, Jimmy Webb. I love the restless, jumbled tumbling of the words. Such a sad song – love and loss as a madness of empty, relentless activity. Jimmy Webb is the most beautiful of balladeers. Love Susie. x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wRH8OFRkJk

 

Crying in My Sleep

 

I took a walk around the yard

I dug the flowers 'til it got too hard

I smoked my first pack of cigarettes today

And then I watched the dogs playin'

Then I, I went down

Down to Lucy's old café

I put a half a case away

I took a sleepin' pill and I tried to watch TV

But you know baby, the leading lady

Looked too much like you for the likes of me

 

And I woke up cryin' in my sleep

I was talking to your pillow

And I reached out to touch your hand

And knocked the phone off the night stand

The operator said

"May I help you please?"

And I said "No thanks baby, tonight there ain't no help for me

See, I just had a bad dream

That's all that's wrong with me

You see I just had a bad dream."

 

Went out to loosen up the car

Somehow I wound up at the Rainbow Bar

Ah, I had a scotch and soda on the run

But I didn't get too far

Then I, I ran down

Down some friends I used to know

I dragged them out to see the show

I ran myself a bath and I tried to read your book

But you know baby, this time it just didn't seem

Worth all the time it took

 

And I woke up cryin' in my sleep

I was talking to your pillow

And I reached out to touch your hand

And knocked the phone off the night stand

The operator said "May I help you please?"

And I said "No thanks baby, tonight there ain't no help for me

See, I just had a bad dream."

 

I woke up cryin'

Cryin' and try'na find you, babe

Cryin' and try'na find you, babe

Cryin' and try'na find you, babe