John Hiatt's sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt's songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night, and the Neville Brothers, yet it took him 13 years to reach the charts himself. Of course, it nearly took him that long to find his own style. Hiatt began his solo career in 1974, and over the next decade he ran through a number of different styles from rock & roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock & roll, country, blues, and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family.
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Lipstick Sunset Lyrics
John Hiatt
Theres a lipstick sunset
Smeared across the august sky
Theres a bitter sweet perfume
Hanging in the fields
The creek is running high
And I left my lover waiting
In the dawn somewhere to wonder why
By the end of the day
All her sweet dreams would fade
To a lipstick sunset
Well, a radio was playing
And that ol summer heat was on the rise
I just had to get away
Before some sad old song
Brought tears to my eyes
And lord I couldnt tell her
That her love was only killing me
By the end of the day
All her sweet dreams would fade
To a lipstick sunset
Well its pretty as a picture baby
Red and blushing just before the night
Maybe loves like that for me
Maybe I can only see
As you take away the light
So hold me in the darkness
We can dream about the cool twilight
til the dawning of the day
When I make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset
There will come another day
When I make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset
There will come another day
Then Ill make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset