Candy from Diego by Carla Tollefsrud

CANDY

Candy where’d you go, go on Candy
Kids hold court on the dickery dock
Of Hannigan’s Market at the end of the block
Pepsi bottles and a girl that I like
The 10 cent deposits and the 3-speed bikes
With the playing cards in the wire spokes
It’s the afternoon brigade

Sweet talk and taffy, everyone laughing
Candy don’t tell no lies

Candy where’d you go?
You sent me flying then you laid me low
Chocolate chip dragons and one more show
But Candy you come and go
Go on Candy

Hoist that speaker on top of the stand
Ain’t no kick like a rock’n’roll band
Mutts and misfits coming of age
The pickups, the riffs, the door to the stage
Nobody said it would last forever
Sometimes you fade away

Lost tambourine, Boston Baked Beans
Candy you harmonize

CHORUS

You like your sugar, man, you like your haze
You score the ticket and it always pays
You write the script, you never fulfill it
You can poison the pain
But you can never quite kill it
Somebody said it will last forever
You better run away

Shoot for the moon, fumble the spoon
Candy might get you by

CHORUS

• 1970s rock
• Americana
• Rock
• acoustic rock
• candy
• folk
• Minneapolis