LOST AMERICAN NIGHTS : LYRICS & POEMS by Michael Ubaldini Editors: Lee Mallory, Ricki Mandeville, Michael Miller ISBN: 978-1-59975-219-8 $15.00 Ubaldini's soulful roots-rock has provided a soundtrack to Orange County for nearly twenty years — to the point where the Los Angeles Times once declared him the equal of Bruce Springsteen. This book collects some of his most popular lyrics and shows off his poetic gifts as well.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Ubaldini is an award-winning recording artist, songwriter and rock-n'-roll poet. His long-awaited book Lost American Nights is filled with his acclaimed lyrics and poems, complete with photographs. He has toured the world and written over 500 songs. His stark, realistic and hard-hitting imagery has gained him a loyal following in both music and literary circles. He is an American rebel. Learn more at: RocknRollPoet.com

Lost American Night (Greasers' Paradise)

Cigarette lighter
The sound of the clip
The smell of butane
My hands on yours
My sweet baby's hip
Leaning back in your flower summer dress
On my '62 Cutlass Old's
'neath the stars
Lighting up tar pit skies
Beer bottle clankin' the top of the hood
My black leather jacket 'round you
My sweet baby's shoulders
Wastin' the night away
Embraced in a solitude
Pure

Here the whole world stops
All the hate
All the murders
All the politics
All the cynicism
For tonight the moon is shining
Bright as chrome on
Hubcap wheels

Your chest pressed firm to my heart
Against my dirty T-shirt
Raise the staff and watch
The red sea highway
Of hot asphalt part
The ragtop down

Our life's eight millimeter film
On life's celluloid reel
For tonight my sweet angel
You give the kiss
Most men wish to claim or steal
But the only crime is the truth
That exists in our hearts

So let's hold on to this moment
In a lifetime gone wrong
Catch one dream in a glimpse
In fury's existence belong
The treasure jewel lives on eternal
A greasers' paradise
Beauteous and tragic
In a lost American night