Curtis Eller's American Circus - Buster Keaton lyrics

Since they started in with the talkies, you can't get a moments peace But they're talking just to hear their own voices, well at least... That's what it seems like 'Cause there's nothing that I've heard that bears repeatin' Won't you come back to the movies Buster Keaton You know it barely took a decade for those negatives to decay But what the Hell, there was nitrate in the filmstock from those days.. I guess that's the problem But I'm not tired enough to admit that I've been beaten Won't you come back to the movies Buster Keaton I wish that I was Buster Keaton when they took it all away Gettin' drunk every night on Irish whisky Or maybe Fatty Arbuckle when the headlines finally declared "Well I guess that it's just a mystery" But I'm not gonna be like Charlie Chaplin, jumpin' on the first boat And sail away before they have a chance to miss me No, I'm stayin' here...here in New York City I don't care how bad it gets Well they keep on making pictures, but they're worthless and they're sad And they never will make up for the silence that we had And now we're stuck with it... And the kids are watching T.V. while they're eatin' Won't you come back to the movies Buster Keaton Won't you come back to the movies Buster Keaton