Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Robert Hunter
A lyric in Hunter's Box Of Rain that he performed a few times in 1982;
I got a wartorn stripperIn performances, he varied the lyrics slightly and added an extra verse:
Keeps her price list in a loving cup
I got a wartorn stripper
Keeps her price list in a loving cup
I get so low at times
it's only to believe that I don't give it up
I look in all those faces
I hear words but no reply
I look in all those faces
I hear words but no reply
You want to be my baby?
You must be crazy, ain't no lie
Only to believe
It's only to believe
Only to believe and not
for any other reason I can see
I got consolidated rebop
Plush-lined veranda and a velvet cane
I got consolidated rebop
Laid out flat and
I call your name
If you had a lick of sense
you'd send me back directly where I came
Only to believe
It's only to believe
Only to believe and not
for any other reason I can see
I got a wartorn stripperWhen Hunter first performed this on 18 October 1982, he said"
Keeps her price list in a loving cup
I know this wartorn stripper
Keeps her price list in a loving cup
I sink so low at times
it's only to believe that I don't give it up
Only to believe
Yes only to believe
It's only to believe and not
for any other reason I can see
I look in all those faces
I hear words but no reply
I look in all those places
I see words but no reply
You want to be my baby?
You must be crazy, ain't no lie
It's only to believe
Only to believe and not
for any other reason I can see
Got a consolidated rebop
Plush-lined veranda and a velvet cane
Consolidated rebop
Laid out flat and
I call your name
If you had a lick of sense
you'd send me back directly where I came
It's only to believe
It's only to believe
It's only to believe and not
for any other reason I can see
I'm working for a living in a dungeon with a pick-axe mining pearls
Yeah, I'm working for a living in a dungeon with a pick-axe mining pearls
I got no time to relax and I've got no time for silly country girls
It's only to believe
So do believe
It's only to believe and not
for any other reason that I can see
Only to believe and not
for any other reason that I can see
"That's a new one folks, and it's gonna be the last song I write in B-flat. Too many bar chords, press down and then your hands drop off. I mean my philosophy, if it isn't easy, screw it."