Heart Upon Demand letra

I dreamed of Judy Garland and of her bottled blues
Resting in a dressing room, shaking star dust from her shoes

She spoke of her beginnings at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
And of touching millions with no one really there
A child of the movies in a pyrite golden age
I never knew the price she paid for a life upon that stage.

Chorus:
Judy had that catch in her voice
That put your heart into her hand
Judy, she had trouble, Judy had no choice
But to give her heart upon demand
She had to give her heart upon demand


She had trouble sleeping and waking for the day
With studio prescriptions to keep her thin and fey
They'd work her to exhaustion propelled by benzedrine
Then call her unreliable if she would miss a scene
From vaudeville in Grand Rapids to the walkway of the stars
Who'd have known a girl so young could have gone that far?

Chorus

The Palladium in London, the Palace in New York
The come-back of a trouper when God wondered at her work
She asked me of the movie stars and singers of today
I said I couldn't think of one she wouldn't blow away
She laughed and then she thanked me and said she had to go
For there were rainbows waiting down along a golden road

Chorus

I dreamed of Judy Garland all on a summer's night
Resting in a dressing room packing stardust for her flight

John Gorka - Letras

• A Saint's Complaint
• After Yesterday
• Airstream Bohemians
• All That Hammering
• Always Going Home
• Amber Lee
• Armed With A Broken Heart
• Around The House
• B.B. King Was Wrong
• Baby Blues
• Bigtime Lonesome
• Blue Chalk
• Blues Palace
• Branching Out
• Brown Shirts
• Campaign Trail
• Can You Understand My Joy?
• Can't Make Up My Mind
• Carnival Knowledge
• Cypress Trees
• Down In The Milltown
• Downtown Tonight
• Dream Street
• Edgar The Party Man
• Flying Red Horse
• Full Of Life
• Furniture
• Good
• Good Noise
• Grand Larceny
• Gravyland
• Hank Senior Moment
• Heart Upon Demand
• Heroes
• Houses In The Fields
• I Don't Feel Like A Train
• I Know
• I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
• I'm From New Jersey
• If I Could Forget To Breathe
• Italian Girls
• Jack's Crows
• Jailbirds In The Bighouse
• January Floor
• Joint Of No Return
• Land Of The Bottom Line
• Let Them In
• Lightning's Blues
• Like My Watch
• Looking Forward
• Love Is Our Cross To Bear
• Mean Streak
• Morningside
• My Invisible Gun
• My New Neighborhood
• Mystery To Me
• Night Is A Woman
• Oh Abraham
• Paradise, Once
• Part Of Your Own
• People My Age
• Promnight In Pigtown
• Raven In The Storm
• Scraping Dixie
• Semper Fi
• Shape Of The World
• Silence
• Silvertown
• St. Caffeine
• Stranger In My Driver's Seat
• Talk About Love
• Temporary Road
• That's How Legends Are Made
• That's Why
• The Ballad Of Jamie Bee
• The Gypsy Life
• The Mercy Of The Wheels
• The Mortal Groove
• The One That Got Away
• The Sentinel
• Thorny Patch
• Thoughtless Behavior
• Treasure Islands
• Two Good Reasons
• Up Until Then
• Vinnie Charles Is Free
• What Was That
• When He Cries
• When I Lost My Faith
• When She Kisses Me
• When The Ice Goes Out
• When You Walk In
• Where The Bottles Break
• Winter Cows
• Wisdom
• Wisheries
• You're On Your Way