Good Nez Gracious: A Tribute to Michael Nesmith

by Jo Elless

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released 15 July 2011
All songs written by Michael Nesmith, performed on this album by Jo Elless.

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Track Name: Texas Morning
Right in the middle of the ten cent scenery
Shuffled and stacked on a post card rack
There's a cute little girl with a Shetland pony
She smiles at me, but I can't smile back
Cactus Jack drinks coffee black
And tells me its my lucky day
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've come a long long way
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've come a long long way

He left me cold on a winter's morning
And cold it's been for a long, long time
He told me Texas was where he was headed
And I came looking, but he's so hard to find
Cactus Jack drinks coffee black
And tells me its my lucky day
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've come a long long way
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've come a long long way

Oh I don't know just where I'll find him
Maybe the soldier with the suitcase saw him
He just said he was going to Texas for a little while
So I'm looking for a boy with light brown hair
Hazel eyes, he's not too pretty
But a beautiful smile
He just said he was going to Texas for a little while.

The cook in the back is getting curious
He asks the waitress where I'm from
She says, "Well, I've never seen her,
She's probably just a California bum."
Cactus Jack, he says, "That's right."
As I walk out into the light
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've got a long long ride
Five o'clock in the Texas morning and I've got a long long ride

Outside, the sun is up
And the wind blows me like a Dixie cup
Down the highway.
Track Name: Grand Ennui
I was overland touring in my new Ferrari
At just about a hundred and ten
I was on my way home from a sophisticated party
Where I got a little drunk on gin

And as the headlights cast a glow on the road
I heard a voice inside of me
It said, "You lost the light
And now you're moving through the night
Running from the grand ennui
Running from the grand ennui"

Well, I reached in my pocket and I pulled out the Omega
That was never one second behind
I knew the horse that I was running at the Southern Talladega
Had won for the twenty-second time

And then the countess I was with bent over with a kiss
And put a jeweled hand on my knee
I knew I'd lost the light
And I was moving through the night
Running from the grand ennui
Running from the grand ennui

Well that night passed in a blaze of glory
With the countess and the car both mine
And each day passes with the same old story
But the countess has a brand new line

Yet still at night I am haunted by the fright
And distant memory
Of the day I lost the light
Moving through the night
Running from the grand ennui
Running from the grand ennui