Songs From St. Somewhere (2013)












Somethin' 'Bout A Boat lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Somethin' 'bout a boat sitting on the sea
Out there in the wind, floatin' on the free
Take you 'round the world, bring you back home
Gives a man hope, somethin' 'bout a boat

Something 'bout an old guitar and the way it still sings
After all the smoky bars and the broken strings
Played a million songs, broke a lot of hearts
Made some people stars, somethin' 'bout an old guitar

Ain't it crazy how somethin' seems like nothin' at all?
Take a big old room, make it seem so small
Seein' windows where there are walls
Makes a whole lot of somethin' out of nothin' at all

Somethin' 'bout your dog sittin' by your side
If you had a bad day, she ain't gonna run and hide
Just a-waggin' that tail, grinnin' that grin
Somethin' 'bout my dog makes her my best friend

Ain't it crazy how somethin' seems like nothin' at all?
Take a big old room, make it seem so small
Seein' windows where there are walls
Makes a whole lot of somethin' out of nothin' at all

Somethin' 'bout a dog
Somethin' 'bout an old guitar
Somethin' 'bout a boat
Gives a man hope

Einstein Was A Surfer lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

There's a photo of a genius standing by the ocean
In a pea coat and cool hat, in 1943
On a beach in Santa Barbara, he's looking quite contented
His world is only matter and energy

Past the Channel Islands, out into the cosmos
There are worlds in motion that only he can see
He's smiling as he's thinking, the harbor lights are blinking
He's the smartest cookie ever was, ever will be

Einstein was a surfer
There really is no doubt
'Cause the universe was his home break
And we're still all paddlin' out

On an iceberg off Newfoundland, a lyric sits half-frozen
Waiting for a comet to crash into the sea
It's drifting towards the tropics and melting into topics
Fills the sea with answers that have always worked for me

Bass notes from the chasm at speeds that we can't fathom
Music is the language of the near and distant stars
Black holes humming b-flat, heard only by street cats
Astronauts in orbit and singers in the bars

Einstein was a sailor
With a universal song
His sails were tight, his course was right
So let's just all cruise along

Order to disorder
It's the way we all fly
Light speed is all you need
To pass the future by

There's a YouTube of a genius gliding over liquid
Sultan of the short board in 2010
He looks like Valentino, moving like neutrinos
To the oceans in the heavens where no wave rider's been

Einstein was a surfer
Who found the perfect break
Where the strings of time meet the final chime
It's the path all surfers take

Earl's Dead - Cadillac For Sale lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Earl's dead, Cadillac for sale
An Eldorado sits out on the Tamiami Trail
Sign on the windshield tells the whole tale
Earl's dead, Cadillac for sale

He was a circus man when they first met
He was fired from a cannon into a net
The money was good he always hit the bullseye
Savin' for the car one day he would buy

No, he wasn't thinkin' of some average ride
A human cannonball has a lot of pride
If you're gonna live large you need a hydromatic
Eldorado Biarritz for this wild acrobatic

And Earl's is red with shark-like fins
And that is where this little love tale begins
The rear view mirror puts it all in scale
Earl's dead, Cadillac for sale

She was an Everglades girl, partly Seminole
With an urge for goin' and a wanderin' soul
With a name like Moonvine, she knew she'd never stay
That handsome human bullet stole her heart away

It was a Saturday night after the midnight show
She was starin' at the car when he said "hello"
Didn't take too much to move her off the reservation
Just a good lookin' boy with the right transportation

And now Earl is wed, Moonvine's got her veil
They're towin' that cannon down the Tamiami Trail
He's got the talent, she's got brains
Earl and Moonvine left the land of sugarcane

So they drove down to Panama and back up to Maine
Had so much fun, hell, they did it again
Crossin' cities off the map as they shot down the road
Knowin' towin' a cannon, things could explode

Now a Cadillac was always an Elvis thing
Polished chrome and gold, it was the birth of bling
They came with personality, they made you a star
God may have made the earth, but man made that car

Now all the way back to the time of James Dean
Car crash songs chewed up heroes and machines
Sick minds, stop signs, and uncontrolled swerves
But Earl and his Caddy could handle killer curves

So when the big top folded, Early took his last drive
Moonvine kissed her boy goodbye, his exit had arrived
She shot his ashes 'cross the Gulf from that ancient rusty gun
Nomads know when the show is done

And Earl's dead, he's been airmailed
And that Eldorado's waitin' on the Tamiami Trail
For some shameless entertainer to blow in like a gale
Earl's dead, Cadillac for sale

Earl's dead, Earl's dead, amen

Too Drunk To Karaoke lyrics - Jimmy Buffett (feat. Toby Keith)

Too drunk!
Too drunk!

Last night at the bar it was karaoke night
Yeah, everybody down there was feeling alright
They got big margarita pitchers, two-for-one (yum-yum)
They were feeling footloose and ready for some fun
When I signed up, I was ready to go
But they didn't call my name for an hour or so
Damn if they didn't make me wait too long
I was in no kind of shape to sing a Jon Bon song

Too drunk to karaoke
Too drunk to karaoke
If you keep on drinking, you're gonna be
Too drunk to karaoke, just like me
Too drunk to karaoke
Too drunk to karaoke

Well, the place got rocking, temptation was strong
All the pretty girls kept a egging me on
Well, I shoulda kept my flip-flops glued to the chair
But no, I jumped right up and slicked back my hair

Too drunk to karaoke
Too drunk to karaoke

Well you can sing in the shower 'til you sound real good
You can terrorize the whole damn neighborhood
But when you hit that stage with that mic in your hand
You better pace yourself, son, if you wanna have fans

Too drunk to karaoke
Too drunk to karaoke (play it, boys)

If you ask me, hell, I killed that song
When I looked around, everybody was gone
Except a couple of bouncers 'bout half my age
They grabbed the microphone and threw me off the stage
You're too drunk to karaoke, that's what they told me
You're too drunk to karaoke, how can that be?
You don't have to be good, don't have to be refined
You just have to be a legend in your own mind
Don't have to rehearse, or even sing on key
Just prove that theory of drunkativity

Too drunk to karaoke
Too drunk to karaoke (look at me!)
You're too drunk to karaoke
Just like me
Too drunk to karaoke
(That's what I'm talking about)

Serpentine lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Maybe it's just age or a thousand other fears
That took me back tonight to my early carnival years
I can see the parade movin' like the source of the old gulf stream
Oh what a lovely dream

Adolescent lust was begging for a start
As I side-stepped those brothers with their sacred hearts
Yet for those two weeks a year, it was all about sin
Folly's chasin' death, you can count me in

There's a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
Here comes the float of the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine

Hands up high, eyes open wide
Throw me something mister, that's why you ride
Cracker Jacks with toys inside
Real beyond our wildest dreams
Floats and masks and a two mule team
Some things really are the way they seem

Beads and confetti were littering the air
When the Queen looked at me with her Ava Gardner stare
Though tomorrow would bring ashes and penance by the ton
Mardi Gras's where I learned to have fun

There's a flambeaux man with a gold earring
And the cold north wind smells like kerosene
I'm still in love with the Carnival Queen
I want to wrap her in serpentine

Still want to wrap her in serpentine
It was the devil!

Useless But Important Information lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

I've got some useless but important information
Got a hot tip on a filly in the third
Skyping with a pretty girl who lives halfway around the world
Won't be long 'til everybody's heard

I have sworn and I cannot reveal my sources
I can tell you, though, that it's not Nancy Grace
I've been forced to change my plans, won't be travelin' to Sudan
My destination could be outer space

Where am I bound, it don't matter
Pocket dialing halfway 'cross the nation
What do I hear, mindless chatter
All this useless and important information

There are camera crews for blocks outside her trailer
The whole thing's going viral as we sing
Are they fake or are they real, looks like her boyfriend cut a deal
She'll be Dancing with the Stars before the spring

You see, she spent her whole Katrina check on implants
Crisis over, destiny fulfilled
Blue tarp or silicone, either way, the money's gone
I guess there's more than one way to rebuild

Who really cares, trillions twitter
I can't comprehend the titillation
Breakin' news, world's in the shitter
Covering useless and important information

Gold starts out in the ground 'til very clever men
Dig it up and weigh it, they they bury it again
Mostly comes from Africa and ends up in Fort Knox
Only gets its value from the guards and chains and locks
Pretty rocks

Where am I bound, it don't matter
Pocket dialing halfway 'cross the nation
What do I hear, mindless chatter
All this useless and important information

Where am I bound, it don't matter
Whole world's now viewed with car-wreck fascination
If I were you, I'd just keep driving
Past all this useless and important information

All this useless and important information

I Want To Go Back To Cartagena lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

I want to go back to Cartagena
I want to sail to the south right away
I need to hear vallenatos a la Victrola
Time, if you haven't noticed, is still wasting away

I want to get lost in old Habana
I long to walk down the wide Malecón
Quiero hablar con los pescadores y oler las flores
And drive in a '56 Caddy right into the dawn

What am I doin'? Deja vu'in'
Still singing and swearing and wearing my traveling clothes
What am I sayin', can't imagine not playin'
Just show me the way to the bar and a nomad who knows

I have to get back to Ushuaia
The southern constellations are calling to me
I need to dance a midnight tango, hear some Django
There's a boat waiting there, bound for the far Tasman Sea

I want to go back to Cayo Hueso
Back where they sing the sun into the sea
I want to dance with circus gypsies, talk with hippies
Where the past and the future still walk down that same sandy street
The importance of elsewhere is still that important to me

Yes, the importance of elsewhere is still so important to me
I want to go back to Cartagena

Soulfully lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

You give me all you got and that's a lot
Yes, I understand that I'm a lucky man
To have you in my life, you make me feel so free
Soulfully

I know you can be tough, but just enough
Yes, you're tender too, you know just what to do
Give me what I need
Soulfully

Soulfully, with smiles and laughter
Soulfully, with words so kind
Soulfully, here ever after
Soulfully, say you'll be mine

I send a little prayer way up there
A prayer of gratitude to give my thanks for you
And all the love you bring
Soulfully

Soulfully, with smiles and laughter
Soulfully, with words so kind
Soulfully, here ever after
Soulfully, say you'll be mine

I'll never feel alone, I'm at home
Wrapped up in your arms, your lovin' charms
Kisses oh so sweet that you give to me
Soulfully

Soulfully, with smiles and laughter
Soulfully, with words so kind
Soulfully, here ever after
Soulfully, say you'll be mine

Soulfully

Rue De La Guitare lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

A Sunday off in gay Paris
I was bound for the sacred street
God's the draw up on Montmartre
But not Rue de la Guitare
Ne pas Rue de la Guitare

Like melodies that never fade
B-girls perform their masquerades
Pigale is still a strange bizarre
Down on Rue de la Guitare
Rue de la Guitare

Windows filled with long lost dreams
Unfinished songs on rusty strings
From Nazareth across the sea
She'd somehow caught up with me
Her fait accompli

I read the wood and felt the scars
They spoke of nights in smoky bars
How many songs, how many beers
Had caused her journey here

A toast to those who love to hear
A D-18 play Lightfoot clear
Music still lives in shops and bars
Along Rue de la Guitare
Rue de la Guitare

Now over here, people sing
"Comment ca va, monsieur Buffett?
Un verre de vin, une chanson a jouer"
Vive Rue de la Guitare

I'm No Russian lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

I'm no Russian, not even Prussian
Doorman at the yacht club was my one claim to fame
Some say I'm nervy, hell, I'm from Jersey
This chasin' money can do things to your brain

How does a shore boy like me
Wind up out on the Black Sea?

Dropped out of Harvard, then joined the Coast Guard
Manned a faithful fifty on a boat in Gitmo
Did my duty, but missed the booty
I heard that St. Barth was the place I should go

How could a coastie like me
Sail off into infamy?

I couldn't surf or sing or play the guitar
All I ever did was steal an oligarch's car
My million dollar joy ride was not the perfect crime
Those bad boys from Little Odessa don't believe in wasting time
A Lamborghini Elemento ain't your average island car
"Park it close," the driver told me, sounding like some kind of czar
With a bucket of Cristal and devil weed inside
I thought it would be crazy not to take a ride
Flying through Gustavia, passing Mini Mokes
Gendarmes at the roundabout didn't get the joke
Speeding down the hill like a Dassault Mirage
Parked it on the runway and headed for la plague

Bar on fire, den of desire
Dancing on a table, she was waving me in
Her name was Kira, she knew no fear-a
Then introduced me to her vampirish friends

I'd never seen such a girl
Was she from some future world?

Over thousand dollar vodka and kilos of caviar
I told them how I'd commandeered the oligarch's car
They were laughing, speaking Russian and getting over served
When Kira looked at me and said, "could you take us round some curves?"

A chick drone strike is a lethal attack
You never see it comin' and you can't fight back
They feel entitled to all access from clubs to army camp-as
If you don't believe it, ask those generals down in Tampa
The KGB and coppers soon joined the chase
Spectators lined the roads like a Grand Prix race
Dropped the girls at Ti St. Barth to get them out of the commotion
Then I missed the curve at Toiny and drove into the ocean

Underwater, my world is sinking
Will I wind up like Pussy Riot, that's what I'm thinking
Feeling foolish, my fate's a mystery
Don't want polonium rolled up in my sushi

Oh baby Jesus, come through
I am in need of rescue

Now we can't leave this white boy drowning in the dark
What the hell was he thinkin', you don't fuck around with sharks
Turns out the lovely Kira held a most important tool
It was her daddy's Lamborghini and she saved that crazy fool

No he couldn't surf or sing or play the guitar
They made an artificial reef out of the oligarch's car
It was Kira, lovely Kira who got him off the hook
Then they took her yacht to Istanbul just to take a look

No, I couldn't surf or sing, or play the guitar
All I ever did was steal an oligarch's car
My million dollar joy ride was not the perfect crime
But I'm not dead, still have my head
This margarita needs more lime

Tides lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Every sailor's son is taught when they are young
That the pull of the moon lingers on
Something we can't escape, from Bimini 'round the cape
Mix in the wind and the sea and sing along

To whom it may concern, I've always tried to learn
That the good days need to last
Seasoned with a lot of laughter, here and in the ever after
With poetry and painters from my past

So I follow the tides on currents far and wide
Chalking up the stories and the miles
Yes, I follow the tides, big blue rides
And that's the reason I will never lose my smile

Hoping to catch a ray, looking to misbehave
As my lucky stars still shine above the sea
Watching the ships roll in, I play that Otis song again
For the tourists and some mermaids by the sea

And I follow the tides down my song lines, far and wide
The world to me should still be free and wild
Yes, I follow the tides, give me more, big blue rides
And that's the reason I will never lose my smile

Every sailor's son is taught when they are young
That the pull of the moon lingers on
Something we can't escape, is it salt water or just fate?
Mix in the wind and the sea and sing along

And we'll follow the tides down our song lines, far and wide
It seems to me my life's still free and wild
Yes, we'll follow the tides, give us more big blue rides
And that's the reason I will never lose my smile

And that's the reason you should never lose your smile

The Rocket That Grandpa Rode lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

There's an old gypsy moth, made of glue and cloth
That lands in a horse filled field
An unusual event for those palomino gents
Who just stared at their future revealed

Why, oh why-oh did he fly out of Ohio?
Before we knew that genes held the code
But taking to wing is a haunting, taunting thing
Just like that rocket Grandpa rode

Yeah, it was the rocket that Grandpa rode
Sounds like braggin' but it's true, I'm not tryin' to big-time you
Shot up into space and he said look out down below
Gotta love that rocket that Grandpa rode

And the kids turned to flying machines
With their arms open wide like wings
But one solitary boy knows a plane is not a toy
I'm talkin' 'bout the man on the moon

I still remember July of '69
We all got to stay home from school
In stark black and white, we followed the flight
And the whole world was in that capsule

Oh, on the rocket that Grandpa rode
Sounds like braggin' but it's true, I'm not tryin' to big-time you
Oh what a flight, you'd better look out down below
Yeah, that's the rocket that Grandpa rode

Spacemen and women on this bus, an obese driver I don't trust
We're goin' to watch the shuttle fly away, last day
And for some kids behind my seat, there's a very special treat
More than just history on parade

Giant nozzles, bolts and beams, they called her Atlas by all means
Blood, sweat and tears were her payload
She was a stairway to heaven, old Apollo 11
The rocket ship their Grandpa drove

Oh, on the rocket that Grandpa rode
Sounds like braggin' but it's true, I'm not tryin' to big-time you
Rising up from that lagoon, we beat those Commies to the moon
Yeah, on the rocket their Grandpa rode
Yeah, on the rocket their Grandpa drove

Thank you, Neil
Thank you, NASA
Thank you, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock
Scotty, Lieutenant Uhura and Chekhov
Yeah, the rocket that Grandpa rode

I Wave Bye Bye lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Just out on the harbor, all the ships asleep
Maybe one cold watchman walks a lonely beat
And way out on the water, a ship is under sail
Leaving wavy starlight and a dreamer in her trail

I wave bye bye, I pray Godspeed
I wish you lovely weather, more luck than you need
You'll only sail in circles, so there's no need to cry
Oh, I see you again one day and then I'll wave bye bye

The sailing ship reminds me of a certain girl
Who left a certain dreamer to sail into her world
A very friendly postcard from very far away
But they just remind me of a certain day

I wave bye bye, I pray Godspeed
I wish you lovely weather, more luck than you need
You'll only sail in circles, so there's no need to cry
Oh, I see you again one day and then I'll wave bye bye

Colour Of The Sun lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Touching down, high wire clown
Balances dreams that he's chosen
Northern lights all draped around
Melting stream that was frozen

Bicycles with rusted wheels
The frame in need of adjusting
Red sky night that Fred Neil feels
Back when the Grove wasn't bustling

The working tide will come around again
A serenade lies waiting in the wind

For all your worldly treasures
There's nothing to be won
Nothing left to measure
Just you and me and the colour of the sun

Wild-eyed child wonders how
The sky connects to the ocean
Spinning fast then as now
She's unaware of the motion

The wise men and the fools keep taking turns
Every day more bridges seem to burn

With all your vaults of treasure
Would you trade them for some fun?
What's the price of pleasure
Just you and me

You can add subtract divide or multiply
Watch the particles collide
And trust the stars up in the sky

Sand dunes gone, snatched by a storm
Are the poles really shifting?
Gypsy rains wash o'er the plains
Wood and dreams are still drifting

The best the times can still somehow be found
Even the worst of beaches will never let you down

For all your worldly treasures
For your battles lost and won
Nothing left to measure
Just you and me and the colour of the sun

Oldest Surfer On The Beach lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

The sun's dropping out of the picture, soon be time to move
It hasn't been a real big day, but I don't have a thing to prove
I've still got the old nose rider, I still surf old style
I'll go out beyond the breakers, sit alone and rest a while

There's nothing that I wanna do
No place I'm trying to reach
Only time is now more precious to
The oldest surfer on the beach

The oldest surfer on the beach

I stopped searching for perfection many waves ago
What really matters is the here and now and that's about all I know
Gonna catch me a big ol' roller, sun setting on the sea
Riding in on her glassy shoulder, the water going gray like me

There's nothing that I wanna do
No place I'm trying to reach
Only time is now more precious to
The oldest surfer on the beach

The oldest surfer on the beach
The oldest surfer on the beach
The oldest surfer on the beach

I Want To Go Back To Cartagena (Spanish Version) lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

I want to go back to Cartagena
I want to sail to the south right away
I need to hear vallenatos a la Victrola
Time if you haven't noticed is
Still wasting away

I want to get lost in old Habana
I long to walk down the wide Malecon
Quiero hablar con los pescadores
Y oler las flores
And drive in a '56 Caddy right into the dawn

What am I doin'? Deja vu-ing
Still singing and swearing
And wearing my traveling clothes
What am I sayin'? Can't imagine not playin'
Just show me the way to the bar and
A nomad who knows

I have to get back to Ushuaia
The southern constellations
Are calling to me
I need to dance a midnight tango
Hear some Django
There's a boat waiting there
Bound for the far Tasman Sea

I want to go back to Cayo Hueso
Back where they sing the sun into the sea
I want to dance with circus gypsies
Talk with hippies
Where the past and the future
Still walk down that same sandy street
The importance of elsewhere
Is still that important to me

Yes, the importance of elsewhere
Is still so important to me

I want to go back to Cartagena