She Was Good

movie: matt kerns

She Was Good

Words & Music: Walter Becker

1992/2018: Zeon Music LLC

Hey there Janie girl

You’re looking good all over

Sashaying your way on down that luggage line

Yes a sight beyond compare

Lookin at you standing there

So glad and happy just to be a friend of mine

Jumping in your little white car

Screaming down the I-280

There’s that Golden Gate

Shining like a string of diamonds

This Bay City just rolls on and on and on

That’s right — you told me twice

You want to pick up something nice

To help this evening last way past the dawn

Hang a left at Chinatown

Ready for the 3-flight walk-up

Maybe I just rest my eyes on you a while

Dressed up like you are

In nothing but your Sunday smile

Good — she was good — good for nothing

Nothing but that one thing, as far as I could tell

That was enough to believe in

And all else is forgotten

Maybe just as well.

And I know Janie girl

This whole world’s gone crazy

When the cops pick up a fine young thing like you

Yes I go your bail

The check is in the mail

You’ll find my heart out in that mailbox too

Special delivery girl so

Handle it nice and easy

You don’t want to meet my mom

You don’t want to have my baby

You just want to kick and scratch

And party all night long

What we got is God’s own buzz

Guess that’s all it ever was

Love is only skin deep girl

So how could we go wrong

Better than it is right now

Not in a month of Sundays

This could be our shining hour I suppose

So come on girl let’s get it on

Before this bathtub overflows

Good — she was good — good for nothing

Only just her bad self

Was all I’d ever know

That was a lot to hold on to

Hard enough to handle

But harder to let go

Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now baby

Hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now, hey now baby