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   now it’s daddy on the booze   and 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?   but 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   and climb upon 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   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 the only angel who sees us now   watches through each other’s eyes   and 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.