We Belong Together Songtext
von Rickie Lee Jones

I say this was no game of chicken
You were aiming your best friend
That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck
I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad
And it′s daddy on the booze
And it's Brando on the ice

Now it′s Dean in the doorway
With one more way he can't play this scene twice
So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love
And you told her to stand tall when you kissed her
But that's not where you were thinking

How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked?
How now look who shows up
In the same place
In this case, I think it′s better
To face it
We belong together
We belong together


Once Johnny the King made a spit ring
And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man
And he entwine her in his finger
And she lay there like a baby in his hand
Climb up on the rooftop docks lookin′ out on the crosstown seas
And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders
And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees
But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair
To turn her into a tattoo
That will whisper into the back of Johnny's black hair

And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain
Lookin′ for a leather jacket
And a girl who wrote her name forever
And a promise that we belong together
We belong together

Shall we weigh along these streets
Young lions on the lam?
Are the signs you hid deep in your heart
All left on neon for them?
Who are foolish who are victim
Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would
Move into your eyes and lips and
Every tear that falls down on the neighborhood now

I said, "Bird, we just gotta tell them"
And they turn and ignore us
And the only heroes we got left
Are written right before us
And only angels who sees us now
Watches through each other's eyes


No wonder I can hear him
In every footstep′s passing sigh
He goes crazy these nights
Watching heartbeats go by
And they whisper
We belong together
But we belong together
We belong together
We belong together