How about this one? This song and the one before it are band songs, but at the moment I'm really trying to work on the lyrics. Any critiques, no matter how harsh, will be appreciated and I'm not the type to argue back - I'll take it all on board instead and include it in the process if appropriate.
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THE GIRL ON THE STREET
Arrived in the city
And found a cheap room
Where neon signs light up the gloom
I sit at a window
Looking over the road
The traffic still moving below
The girl handing out flyers
At the corner of the curb
She looks so hot that I can’t find the words
Can’t stop looking at her
The way she moves her mouth
Speaking while she hands that paper out
I could spend days watching her on the street
Hearing her talk in a language that I cannot speak
From where I am there are so many things to be seen
But I prefer looking at her from my balcony
Am I going crazy
Becoming obsessed
With the girl in an orange dress?
Should I speak to her
Before we jet away
What would I try to say?
Across the surface of the world tonight
They’re drawing the curtains and turning off lights
Girl, its happening everywhere
We should just go with the flow
I have spent days watching you on the street
Your skirt-tail creating a haze in this summer of heat
If we don’t take our chances the time here will pass us so fleet
The nights may be short but there’s still time to spend them with
The Spanish nights they start so late
The warmth at midnight serves to create
The atmosphere that brought me here
The Spanish bars, the Spanish beer
The permanent heat of the latin world
The Spanish streets, the Spanish girls
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