✥

 

Light stretched down from heavn'

Voice cut through 'at dream

Said "sir you can't be campin'

not overnight on public streets"

Shame you're second in line, to decide

Where I can and cannot sleep

So if I'm due a ticket

Write it out to 'Josephine'

 

Oh now Josephine

We sure did have good fun

Oh now Josephine

Ain't never known a better run

But it seems we've hit an end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

​

My love done almost dropped 'at tea

When 'ey found out where I'd been

Introduce me to the street

When 'ey found out who I's hangin' with

I've said it's through 'tween 'Jose and me

But we've got that history

Now my bed's in the car, and I'm talkin to the law

Because of Josephine

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Oh now Josephine

We sure did have good fun

Oh now Josephine

Ain't never known a better run

But it seems we've hit an end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

​

[instrumental]

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My baby don't like Josephine

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

Baby don't like Josephine

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

I know she ain't no good for me

Say whoah, no, no Josephine

Know she ain't no good to me

So officer I'm beggin' please

​

Tomorrow swear I'll end it

Take responsibility

Till then just leave me in this car

To blame 'ol  ...

 

Whoah, whoah Josephine​

Lord, did we have fun

You know, ol' Josephine

But now it's time to put 'er down

Cause it seems we've hit the end, ol' friend

Took a damned long while to see

One more drop of Josephine

could all but finish me

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[vamp]​

​

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Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

© 2025 Aleksey Porcelli

✥

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It’s obvious, black and white

Can’t explain why it feels so right

Eighty-eight keys I learned how to play

Repaired my soul when the music slipped away

​

How do you carry something, without any weight 

Then when you put it down, you bend and you break?

​

 I slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Aint a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Built us a fire, found us a lake

Six months later, same first date

I'm wrapped into you, you're wrapped into me

And just the water, the pines and stars get to see

​

How do you carry something, without any weight?

Just can't put it down, or you'll bend and you'll break

​

 I slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' onto somethin' 

[that I believe in]

[that I believe in]

​

Whoah!

[Ain't a better peace of mind]

Somethin' I believe in

[finer place I've been]

Somethin' I believe in

[better peace of mind]

Somethin' I believe in

[whoah] Can't you feel, we're weightless?

​

Just look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

Slow down, look across these fingers

Fall in love with what I see there

Ain't a better peace of mind

Finer place I’ve been than

Holdin' somethin' I believe in

​

​

Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

© 2025 Aleksey Porcelli

✥

​

If somehow I could ask you

I’d ask ‘do we go bald?’

Favorite place you've traveled?

Favorite thing bout Mom?

Were you a musician?

Or had music chosen me?

Did you stomp around your own small town

Waitin' on eighteen?

 

I'm playin' 20 Questions

collectin' miles on this 'ol Jeep

If I pay it half attention

You're right here, in that seat

Comin' up within conversion

Till I break down, till I see

I’m playin' 20 Questions with me

 

Have any good stories

from that first place on your own?

Is it scary getting married

Is it scary growing old?

When you'd drive, was every window down

blasting music, feeling free?

And when June, it reaches twenty

Do you still remember me?

 

Yeah, I'm playin' 20 Questions

collectin' miles on this 'ol Jeep

If I pay it half attention

You're right here, next to me

Comin' up within conversion

Till I break down, till I see

I’m playin' 20 Questions with me

 

Have I passed you on this highway?

Would you know me in a crowd?

If I only had one question, Dad

Be did I make your proud?

 

Is it better where you made it?

Is it brighter where you are

Did it ever cross your mind back then

You’d leave me with these scars

 

Playin’ 20 Questions

collectin' miles on my 'ol Jeep

Payin’ half attention

I guess who you might be

Comin' up within conversion

Fallin' down a one-way street

I guess who you might see, who you might see

Lost in conversation, makin' conversation

Playin' 20 Questions with me

​

Writers: Aleksey Porcelli

© 2025 Aleksey Porcelli