It's time that I was leavin'
Shoulda left here long ago
You'd rather see me sorry
Than knowin' what I know
I wish it was asleep instead
Of hangin' here up above my head
I'm cryin' in the winter time goin'
Pull all my shit together
Try for another breath
Lonely livin' sorrow
Holdin' on like death
From the play of lights below
Is that church bells ringin' or my whistle blowin'
I don't care, I'm gone
Shootin' up and down the tracks
Mornin' comes, cold chills and shakes
Just remindin' me of my mistake
Well, alright, now get your smell off of me mama
It's time that I was leavin'
I left here long ago
You'd rather see me sorry
Than knowin' what you know
Wish it was asleep instead
Of hangin' here up above my head
Lady, lady midnight crawlin'
On a dead high wire we'll make a connection
Never knowin' my shepherd never knowin' my witness
Ah c'mon now honey, you're so sick and pretty
C'mon now sugar, 'cause you know it ain't easy
Bang bang bang let me shoot it all over
(Go down people give me your love)
You're another mistake, you're a sign of disaster
(Go down people give me your love)
Gonna shake shake shake as a matter of course
(Going down goin' down people give me your love)
It fights like a bitch and it kicks like a horse
(Goin' down goin' down people give me your love)
Whoo!
Ain't you glad, ain't you glad, ain't you glad little sister?
(Go down people give me your love)
Sideways in reverse I don't know any better
(Go down people give me your love)
You gotta keep it running clean keep on fixing the machine
Gonna give me your love
(Goin' down goin' down people give me your love)
Keep it running clean keep on fixin the machine
Gonna give me your love
(Goin' down goin' down people give me your love)
Whoo!
Goin' down people give me your love
Goin' down people give me your love
Goin' down goin' down people give me your love
Goin' down goin' down
Goin' down goin' down
Goin' down goin' down
People give me your love
Fix, it's true
Keeps on rainin', baby
It's all crystalline
Your word in my head
Gonna watch from the balcony
Sing backwards and we
Fix, it's true
Keeps on raining, baby
There's no explainin', baby, yeah, yeah
Gonna drive that Terraplane
Across the frozen ocean
We've always been together as good
Love will be what's hidden
Every single fragment
I look and I fly
A flower born from you
I am joined with you
And adorned with you, yeah
Fix, it's true
Gonna keep raining, baby
Oh, yeah, yeah, yes
And it's you that I'm missing
Won't come up missing
Well, I'm torn from you
Want to be reborn with you
It's all crystalline, baby
Fix, it's true
Keeps on rainin', baby
Keeps on rainin', baby
Drive that Terraplane
Down into the ocean
We've always been together as good
Got no need for shelter
Everything's forgotten
All is forgiven and understood
A flower born from you, reborn in you
And adorned, baby, when I am joined with you
Fix, it's true
Keeps on rainin', baby
I know you're tryin' to be a big girl
And keep the tears from your eyes
And it's going to be a little hard
To lift your head up high
And you're gonna need a man
A man who'll understand
Whoa, darlin' darlin' darlin'
Please consider me
Well, I know that all your friends
Have left you all alone
And all the good times
You had with them are gone
So you need yourself a man
Yeah, and I'll understand
Well, darlin' darlin' darlin'
Please consider me
Baby, oh I've felt
This way before
Many many many many many
Times before
So you've got to have a man
Yeah, and you know I'll understand
Whoa, darlin' darlin' darlin'
Just consider me
I don't want to be left on the outside
Please consider me babe
I don't want to be left all alone
Please consider me, yeah
I don't want to be left on the outside baby
We got some poison in us
Cyanide and nicotine
More than you've ever seen
More than I can believe
Woe, woe, woe, woe
Guns, guns they all got guns
Now they wanna shoot someone
I'd rather be drunk than dead
Or go where Jesus fled
So I'll get drunk again
Or maybe not
Woe, woe, woe, woe
I saw on a tombstone
He came in this world alone
Spent all his time alone
He left this life alone
On Jesus' program
I'll wade out in the deep
Oh yes, I will
On Jesus' program
Oh, I cannot sleep
On Jesus' program
The Holy Spirit will creep
I know He'll take me, shake me
Make me what I have to be
On Jesus' program
I'm working for Christ
Oh yes, I am
On Jesus' program
I know someday I'll rise
On Jesus' program
To mansions in the sky
Where I'll be free to live on
To live on eternally
I'm workin' on the program every day
When this life is all over
I'm going home
When this life is all over
The leaving trains
Leaving hollywood
Sunset to the sea
Where the waves
Ride in on horses
I'm looking for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
The seas and the trees
Calling me
She's a river between day and night
I'm looking for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
She's comin down
From her mountian
Shinin white light
Like a fountain
And I'm lookin for her light
Creeping coastline of lights
And I'm lookin for her light
Got so sad today
She done too much
And though I had the same
She done too much
And it's a bad, bad feeling
That you get
When you get so lonely
Nothing to talk about
As another summer dies
And not a thing in this world to do
From the dive down to the wet
Usually I fall, tell myself
It doesn't matter anyway
That this is just another day
I don't speak the truth too much
Hear the roars and the hush
And the cold chill of time
And I'm happy murderin' my mind
Oh, I remember your voice
Turnin' around and around
And around in my head
Now it's just like you said
Everything inside is dead
From the pillar to the post
I kill what I can miss the most
Of the blame when you get in touch
Another town, another torch
Thought I saw you in a dream
Fill the hours in between
When I call myself alone
Then I disappear below
I remember your face
But it's been a long
Been a long, been a long, long day
What I did along the way
Would you put on that long white gown
And burn like there's no more tomorrows?
Will you walk with me underground
And forgive all my sicknesses and my sorrows?
Will you be shamed if I shake like I'm dyin'
When I fall to my knees and I'm cryin'?
Will you visit me where my body rests?
Will you put on that long white dress?
Ba dadada, da, badadadada dadada
Ba dadada, da, badadada
The end could be soon, we'd better rent a room
So you can love me
Will you put on that long white dress
While I burn when there's no more tomorrows?
Will you remember me through the years I'll miss
And forget all the sadnesses and the sorrows?
Ba dadada, da, badadadada dadada
Ba dadada, da, badadada
We got buried in the fever
Now you love me
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I would shiver all night through
Her husband was a hard-workin' man
Til a mile and a half from here
His head was found in a dried up well
And his body never was found
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I would shiver all night through
(shiver for me now)
My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm goin' where the cold winds blow
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
When all is done and turned to dust
And insects nest inside my bones, I see
I stagger in a daze outside my tent
No time for being alone to bleed
The hopeless singing of a round
That much we know to do
Before we go back underground
No easy action
Sparks fill the air some nights
Crows look for food behind my skin
Beneath, try our best to dig it in
And keep the cold away, I see
That the sky is a vanishing place
And then there's nothing to miss
No time to get out of the ice
No easy action
Although all else may turn to dust
And insects nest inside my bones, I see
I stagger in a daze to find what you meant
Where it's good to be alone, bleed
The hopeless singing of a round
Before that vanishing place
Before we're back underground
You hear them call your name
From your room, far removed
Don't let 'em use you in, every way
Stay unchained, around and 'round you go
They'll never know, what you've seen
Why have you turned away, you can believe, believe in me
Couldn't you try one time
See if they'll run, for a while, it's a solitary star
Shining precious light, light on me
When I see your eyes
Tell me what you find
But I oughtta know, by now
Did you hear them call your name
From your room, far removed
I'd only use you in, every way
Stay unchained, it's a solitary star
I feel your blood run cold
And it's a rainy Sunday morning
I count the million miles
I'm driftin' from here, to hell
Today
Behind their windows people stare
Can't recognize the kindness there
Just prayers for drownin' ships at sea
None for me
And you
It'll take a hard rain to wash your taste away
Still I wish there was a reason left to stay, yeah
I'm drunk half blind and it's an ugly Sunday morning
The wind arrives with the clouds refusing to break apart, like me
Why if all the world's stopped turnin', how can all this rain keep fallin'
Washin' me a million miles away
From you
Why if I'm so alone now
Is it getting hard, to say, goodbye, now
Goodbye
Goodbye
Together again
My tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights
Are now at an end
The keys to my heart
You hold in your hand
And nothing else matters
We're together again
Together again
The gray skies are gone
You 're back in my arms
Now where you belong
The love that I knew
Is living again
And nothing else matters
We're together again
And nothing else matters
Sunrise
Forgot to cover up my eyes
Sunrise
Should've covered up my eyes
Beauty wasted on me
Winds are shakin' my tree
With a woman too good to believe
Take the first ride out that I see
Sunrise
Skies are servin' my plan
Grounds are movin' where I stand
Pull an airplane down with my hand
And take the first flight out that I can
Sunrise
Forgot to cover up my eyes
Beauty wasted on me
Winds are movin' my trees
With a woman too good, to believe
Take the first ride out that I see
Water will forgive me, I'm just tryin' to forget
Starin' at the water as the waves turn ruby red
Remembering
Fear and paranoia run together in my dreams
Water will accept me give me a peace, I've never seen
Remembering
Wrap your arms around me
And I'm as light as anything
Through the air, I can't breathe
Your lips form a curious smile
Water will forgive me for everything, I never should
Water will accept me for all the things I never could
Wrap your arms around me
And I'm as light as anything
Oh, an artery is not a vein
No history can tell, my skeleton won't tell
Why some like moths draw to a surgeon's drill
And blood shot hits to marrow
The snake's eating through her clothes and
Her charms that won me over
DeGama breached this lofty reach
Balboa left his bones upon the beach, left there to bleach
Rose breaks in my fingers
Pullin' nickels through the stem too much has took a toll
Smoke crawls low along the ceilings
And all is quiet, but I keep listening
Come to kill me
Oh, she just left, you missed her
Go on home, the sex theater is closed
Cracked mouth too dry to drink
At least the sand is cold
Wish the sea would drown the freeway
Instead, girls stare in dead-eyed wonder
They can't walk with fallen soldiers
Used by cops who fucked inside abandoned boarding houses
Go on fast before the beast catches the bastard
Draggin' the chain down, down, down
Who'll say it, tell me
No one else is here, come on
Nothin' to believe is to be blissed, come on
Who's layin' low, you said
Whether veins, the bones to be
Good or bad, the death of me
Just make it quietly
Oh, who knows my sister
Can't anyone admit the fact that they infected her
She said, the sun was gonna burn and blister
My blood, Godspeed, God love her
Farewell, honey, yeah
No, morning sun'll move her
No, help in amen or hallelujah
Prayers are for the dead left over
The breach never to reach that sandy beach
Poor baby girl's gone under
To each their own grave buried in
Underneath abandoned boarding houses
Sidewalks and streets, sidewalks and streets
Though my skeleton won't tell
Some could see
Why moths draw to surgeon's drills
I know you've been hurt by someone else
I can tell by the way you carry yourself
But if you'll let me, here's what I'll do
I'll take care of you
I loved and lost same as you
So you see I know
Just what you've been through
So if you'll let me, here's what I'll do
I got to take care of you
You won't ever have to worry
You won't ever have to cry
I'll be there beside you
To dry your weeping eyes
So darlin' tell me that you'll be true
'Cause there's no doubt in my mind
I know what I want to do
And just as sure as one and one are two
I just got to take care of you
As it begins so too it ends
Crawls to a stop and starts again
Those highlights you've forced to shine
Show me my way through wilderness
And someday far from here I'll send a kiss
Out of nowhere
At times you see a ghost down on the street
Walks the hallway knocking door to door
Where are you from night till nine a.m.?
Only a dark skinned Jesus knows
Why suddenly your room is turnin' cold
Cold is nowhere
And as it ends so it begins
Crawls to a stop and starts again
Those highlights you've made are mine
Show me my way through wilderness
To someone who's blind I'll send a kiss
Here ya are at the top of the tower
Could a body take that much
Alone through every waking hour
Asleep without nobody to touch
Whoa, whoa, whoa and
Only silence here
Whoa, whoa, whoa and
Lonely silence here
And I'm not the one
Make your house a home
Makes no sense to stay
Through one more lonely last day
Oh no babe, it's not right
Here ya are cryin' in the night
Could a body take that much
Find yourself standin' outside
You ain't got nobody to touch
Whoa, whoa, whoa and
There's only silence here
Whoa, whoa, whoa and
There's only silence here
And I'm not the one
Make your house a home
Makes no sense to stay
Through one more lonely last day
Tail lights through silver rain
Somebody's excited to be goin' away
Spring like December on the corner now
Let the memory fade and I'll forget
Well, I hope she's not alone
Smiling everywhere she goes, so sweet
Then I remember she's a little older now
I'd let that fade but I don't know how
And when the sun comes up dead
You get sick of it, makes a howling in your head
All the time
Springtime or December, can't find cover now
Children they get excited when the sun comes around
I'm gonna walk in silver rain, look for mine the same
Walk for miles 'til the memory fades
And when the sun comes up dead
Makes it hard when you know
Day, end of day
Each hanging spiral
Where is the shore
From this clear blue silence
Up to the heavens that you daydream
Remembering the sun and the deep green ivy
I know that sleep walking too
In trying to be free
Of all this damage in my eyes
Making confusion in my mind
When I hear a resurrection song
Night lays me down when I'm fading
I can't go home because they hate me
To sing that resurrection song
Day, end of day
Each hanging spiral
What do you make
Of this clear blue silence
Now that the engine driver
Has grown to be a deep sea diver
And the street has got no end
Better keep your heart strong little friend
Thought I heard a resurrection song
Not feelin' any pain but I know that it's real
Never see the color of the day, in the darkness I kneel
Prayin' for sleep, prayin' that it will come easy
But there's something else, I see it miles away
Don't know what time of year it is, I can remember the fall
Yet all my strange and simple games, play out on top of a wall
Prayin' for sleep, prayin' for something so easy
Jesus Christ been here and gone
What a painful price to pay
He's left his life in a thunderstorm
Tears cold dark eyes upon
Swing pendulum, swing low
Got no place to call my own
Oh, my Lord, don't you bother me
I'm as tired as a man can be
I'm as tired as a man can be
Jesus Christ been here and gone
What a painful place to leave
With frost on the limbs of a cherry tree
This cold, cold wind is buryin' me
Swing pendulum, swing slow
Got no time to call my own
Oh, my Lord, don't you bother me
I'm as tired as a man can be
Love you little girl
Better than I love my
Better than I love myself
Want you and me
Forever, ever and ever
Just so far from home
Just so far from home
Love you little girl
Better than I love my
Better than I love myself
Want you and me
Forever, ever and ever
Just so far from home
Just so far from home
Love you little girl
Love you little girl
Love you little girl
Hit it
Wake up, wake up
Children don't ya hear me comin'
Get up, get up
Because I got to have the honey
I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin' children keep on rollin'
Rollin' children keep on rollin'
Keep the light turned low and the back door open
My love rain down like sugar so sweet
Yes children I will
Tall lawman rides
With his uniform clean, shine on his shoes
My radio plays
Methamphetamine blues
Who tell all the news
I'm rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Wake up children
Get right soul church keep a lock on the kitchen
Do risks for your daddy
Keep your eyes wide open and my shotgun loaded
'Cause I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
My love rain down like sugar so sweet
Yes baby
Tall lawmen rides
With his uniform clean, shine on his shoes
My radio plays
Methamphetamine blues
That tell all the news
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
On a first time in love
Was electrocution
But I fell out on the down
Blind with injection
Strawberries wake or naked
Out here you're alone
These streets get very cold you should know
Yea and don't I know
Are we gonna be judged
Judged on these lonely deeds?
Are we gonna cry, yeah
Are we gonna freeze
Morning glory wine
Good people don't drink it
So I'm alone not thinkin', please
How you thrill me love?
How you kill me love? Mm
Like electrocution
Monday's all that's lost to love
Tuesday shakes and plead
Friday comes and calls you bluff
Sunday's on her knees
It's how you do me love
If you knew me love
But there ain't no one to turn to
'Cause it's hard when you're on your own
And you lost your way home
Morning glory wine
Good people don't drink it
So on my own not thinkin', please
It's how you knew me love, mm
It's how you do me love
Like electrocution
It's like electrocution
Oh yea
Morning glory wine
Good people don't drink it
Ah when you're on you're own
You lost your way home
There ain't nobody baby
Nobody to turn to
I need somebody
Somebody to turn to
And this somebody baby
Someone to turn to
Morning high
Morning glory wine
But there ain't nobody baby
I need someone to turn to
I need somebody
I wanna get high
I wanna get high
Your voice is a mockingbird
Calling me when the day is gone
You please yourself with every word
Telling me where I'm going wrong
Telling me where I've gone wrong
Get me out, it's starting to burn
I can't let go for the life of me
Some hold tight, and some turn
Another fire out in front of me
My whole life out in front of me
You can't kill what's already dead
But I don't blame you for trying it
The sun comes up and falls away
Two little birds makin' sense of it
I promise you a miracle
And it will be done
Upon this one last disappearing
Bells toll, new lands
And I look up sometimes
To see this old black Mary
Reach down for me
I need someone for my plaything
So lonesome in my playground
You, baby, go straight to my head
And make it seem like a miracle
And make it something beautiful
Oh, it's good
Baby, to make me forget
Oh, so good
Baby, so good to make me forget
Forget myself again
I walk down the steps to the river with my outfit
Full set to deliver and the minute it's done
There's nothin' but time on a pay telephone
I send a message to mine
Yeah, it's good, so good, baby
Because it makes me forget
Oh, so good, so good, baby
Because it makes me forget
Forget myself again
Upstairs, slower on my feet got to get to the corner
And I know it's getting late at the cold polar ice
End of the line if I don't wake up
Send a message to mine
Oh it's good, so good, baby
Because it makes me forget
Forget myself again
Seventeen steps down to the river with my outfit
Full set to deliver and the floodlights shine
Blindin' my eye on the pay telephone
I send a message to mine
Back down, early in the morning
Same building, different story
Well, the room here's free and it's easy to find
The tricks of her frame send a message to mine
Yeah, so good, so good, baby
Because it makes me forget
Oh, so good, so good, baby
Because it makes me forget
Forget myself again
Yeah, so good, so good, baby
Yeah, it's good, baby
It makes me forget
Oh, so good
Because it makes me forget 'bout myself again
Forget myself again
Forget myself again, baby
It's gonna make me forget
It's a matter of time, we always get lost
By going very far, it's a matter of time
Like I told you before, things are alright
If I fall to the floor, it's for closing my eyes
I came to this place, so tired at first
Kimiko's dream house
So many things, that girls know before
Kimiko's dream house
There's so many things, that I've known before
To make matters worse, the trains are on time
Lost at the station, still lost in our minds
Thrown the rivers, we kicked and cursed
Kimiko's dream house
So many things, that girls know before
Kimiko's dream house
So many things, that I've know before
It's swallowing us but dream we must
Kimiko's dream house
So many things, that girls know before
Kimiko's dream house
So many things, that I've known before
There's nothin' I could do
Where's Willie John? Dead so long
Born to fall, nothin' at all
Who's gonna grieve when you're gone?
I once believed I wouldn't bleed
Seen all these good lookin' women
While I'm gettin' off the plane
Remember where my baby is
Start thinkin' 'bout my baby
All she ever knew was trouble and for much I was to blame
But when I heard the news that night, I went down like a satellite
And when my world stood still that night
I dropped like a satellite
She never knew how much I loved her
She never knew how much I cared
I thought I'd get back to my special one
I thought I'd get on a lucky run, ah
I said, "I'd get back to my special one"
I said, "I'd get on a lucky run, god damn"
Where's Willie John? Dead so long
Born to fall, like nothin' at all
Now who's gonna grieve when you're gone?
I once believed I'd never bleed
But Lord I'm all alone tonight
Don't the sun love it's satellite? Ah
Lord I'm all alone tonight
Don't the sun love it's satellite? I don't know
Seein', seein' all these good lookin' women
Remember where my baby is
Start thinkin' 'bout my baby
Remember where my baby is
Start me thinkin' 'bout my baby
Won't break my heart
I won't hope to die if before Lexington I could slow down
They say a chariot's waiting when you get cut loose
The place start swinging when it's me on the noose
Mother do you think that your children cry?
'Cause they want to shake your chain?
I walked miles today one for every year of my life
In this stinking fucking rain
Ooh, Just to slow down
So I could slow down
So I could slow down, yeah
Work for me luck just one last time
Spare me a chance, I've wasted mine
Shine on me light, don't you know I would
Reach for you there if only I could?
If I could slow down
If I could slow down
If I could slow down
Just slow down
I don't mind being stoned they say, Jesus was
And I like being alone and I can take living low
Forgive my being cruel if ever I was say a word for me too
When I'm under the gun it wouldn't break my heart
If I could slow down
Let the place start swinging
If there's a chariot waiting
Wouldn't break my heart
If I could slow down
Let the place start swinging
There's a chariot waiting
Night train is groovy
An orange jubilee
Feels good comin' and goin'
I'm warm all over me
Fire up the crack boys
And tie off my arm
Cinch up my diaper
Turn the TV on
Give me another blow job
Before I'm on the nod
Say, you'll always love me and never do me harm
Never do me harm, never do me harm
Well, you're a preacher's daughter
Baby, you're goin' down in the dark
Show my lonely night is fallin'
I don't have very long
I think my blood might boil
Then my veins might burn
And you're gonna make it better for a little while
Baby, you're gonna die someday
See you when you're crawlin', wasted
Then you'll start to fade
That won't be so, I'm sinkin' faster
I wouldn't wait so long
It won't get any easier in the dark
Oh yeah, you will
You will, you will
You will, you will
Baby, you're goin' down in the dark
Think my lonely night is fallin'
I don't have very long
Think my blood might boil
And then my veins might burn
And you're gonna make it better for a little while
Oh yeah, you will
You will, you will
You will, you will
You will, you will
You will, you will
Cool water divine
Now, I'm thirstier with nowhere to go
And what else do we find
But sorrow and misery untold
I know you got somebody new
Much better than me
When that change starts to swing
Keep in mind one thing
Don't forget me dear
And when you're lost, I feel it too
Woman make life sweet
Because of what you do
All my world is you
Now, I know it's not easy
Don't believe them when they say I'm not right
Don't put a hex on me baby
Because I don't know what's wrong or right
I know that there's somebody new
Much better than me
But because my love is true
All my best to you
Don't forget me dear
And when you're alone, please take care
Don't go walking after dark
Shine a light behind the stair
Remember what might be in there
Cool water divine
Now I'm thirstier with nowhere to go
It's sorrow that we find
I'm thirstier with nowhere to go
I know that there's somebody new
Much better than me
When that change starts to swing
Keep in mind one thing
Don't forget me dear
Because my love is true
Give my best to you
You were a ragged
Turquoise and twilight coat
I got my head hung down for you
Some day you're gonna need it
But it's worn or the, cloth gets torn
And there's only one way to go
It's gone dead, dead
It's gone dead on you
Take off your ragged
Turquoise and twilight coat
I got my head hung down for you
Someday you're gonna need it
But it's worn or the, cloth gets torn
And then there's only on way to go
It's goin' dead, dead
It's going dead, dead
Let's walk down to the water
There's hyacinth in bloom
I spend my days lovin' you
I left these fields because I never knew
To be a horse, to be a train
I wouldn't have the heart
And next to the tracks
You find an apple cart
Maybe we'll stay at home
And be together
No more to move alone
Together, no more to move alone
See the water, it's mixed with light
For you, I've been shaken
Regarding the fields
See through the eyes of a child
And it won't be real
Eyes neither hateful or cruel
No lies conceal
Eyes that wander, eyes that strayed
While the shame in your heart remains
Cryin' were the eyes of a child
In pain, tonight
Tears that I bled on you
From the heart of an angel of fear tonight
We can wander, we could stray
But the shame remains
See through the eyes of a child
And it won't be real
I have loved your eyes, neither hateful or cruel
No lies conceal
We could wander, we could stray
But the shame has remained, has remained
Come to me
'Light on my shoulder
Come to me
Burn your starry crown
Mmm, my dark angel
I've tried, I can't get over
'Cause when I think I'm climbing
I'm really so far down
Time takes a while
To break ya
And now only fire
Can wake ya
Oh, weeping willow
Coughing up my heart
Ask God to see my shadow
And kept us apart
Through my mind's every riot
Or revelation
(You've just now)
You've just now gone
As I arrive
(Every station)
At every station
Oh, come to me
(Come to me)
(Come to me)
Either early or late
I've learned this by habit
Now I know how to wait
(Ohh, yeah)
Come
Come to me
Aah, come to me
Come
Don't give a damn for money
Never did I give a damn for gold
Tell me little doll, talk some sweet nothing
A river runs deep and cold
Don't know why but it keeps running
Don't know why I can't come down
Moses has stood on the mountain
Devil made it thunder and rain
Girl, I ain't afraid of temptation
No, I ain't afraid of some pain
Watchin' little doll she just come runnin'
Running straight away
Straight to me I got sweet nothing
And only myself to blame
I don't know why I just keep running
Don't know why I can't come down
Walk, don't you walk on me
Don't you step, don't you step on me
Don't you walk, don't walk on me
Don't you step on me
Don't have no thing for money
Got no jones for gold
All I got today is some sweet nothing
Nothing to take away
Don't know why I just keep running
Don't know why I can't come down
Don't know why somebody
Somebody hears today
Don't know why, sweet nothing
Nothing to take away
No, I ain't afraid of temptation
No, ain't afraid of some pain
No, I ain't afraid of some pain
Somebody, somebody
Somebody, can't come down
Somebody, can't come down
Can't come down
Somebody, can't come down
Can't come down
Can't come down
Don't know why I can't come down
Fred neil
I get so tired
Hanging round this town
Oh this old city life
Sure brings a fella down
Ba da da da da da
Ba da da da da da da
Ba da da da da da
Ba da da
I sure get tired
Trying to sleep at night
Oh these old city lights
They keep on burning bright
Ba da da da da da
Ba da da da da da da
Ba da da da da da
Ba da da
I get so tired
Hanging round this town
Oh this old city life
Sure brings a fella down
Ba da da da da da
Ba da da da da da da
Ba da da da da da
(instrumental)
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are you still the same?
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways
And so many tears
Your letter never survived the heat of my hand
My burning hand, my sweating hand
Your love never survived the heat of my heart
My violent heart, in the dark
Carry home, I have returned
Through so many highways
And so many tears
Come down to the willow garden with me
Come go with me, come go and see
Although I've howled across fields
And my eyes turned gray
Are yours still the same?
Are those halos in your hair
Or diamonds shining there
Without a hope, without a prayer
This rain beats down like death
You turn your eyes to better men
Before I go, I'll hang in a cross on nails
I hung on for you in there
Girl lay your shame to rest
Hope lies close to your breast
You stoop to feed the crows
Some scraps of truth already cold
Before I go, I'll hang in a cross on nails
I hung on for you in there
And every kingdom of rain comes fallin' down
'Cause I loved you somewhat
'Cause I loved you somewhat
Would you put halos in your hair
Without a hope, without a prayer
With lies close to your breast
You finally lay your shame to rest
Before I go, I'll hang in a cross on nails
I hung on for you in there
And every kingdom of rain comes fallin' down
'Cause I loved you so long
'Cause I loved you so long
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Trouble comes in slowly
A neverlasting light come to shine all over me
Bright in the mornin'
Like all of heaven's love come to shine on me
And to you who never need
Fuck yourselves, I need some more room to breathe
Here comes the devil, prowl around
One whiskey for every ghost
And I'm sorry for what I've done
'Cause it's me who knows what it cost
It breaks and it breathes
And it tears you apart
It bites and it bleeds
And this desert turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, prowl around
One whiskey for every ghost
And I'm sorry for what I said
I said, ?I just don't care anymore?
A fool can feed on the notion
Sees and believes
And this desert
Turns to ocean over me
Trouble comes in slowly
A neverlasting light come to shine all over me
At the dead end to mornin' darlin'
With all of heaven's love come to shine on me
The fool that feeds on the notion
Sees and believes
And this desert
Turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, buy the round
One whiskey for every ghost
And I'm sorry for what I done
Lord it's me who knows what it costs
The fool that feeds on the notion
Sees and believes
And this desert
Turns to ocean over me
Here come the devil, prowlin' 'round
One whiskey for every ghost
And I'm sorry for what I said
I said, ?I just don't care anymore?
It breaks and it breathes and it tears you apart
Gonna bite, gonna bleed
'Til this desert
Night train, silver moon
You ask me why, I'm flyin'
To float on ashen wings
To choke on dust and feather
I learned you are a liar
It's right we should pretend
And lie with one another
It's right we should be twins
For I have loved no other
Look for me baby
Well I'm draggin' lonliness
And it's ten miles long
I thought I heard you scream baby
In the wheels of a train that crawls
When I don't wanna go
Cause you forget me when I'm gone, whoa
Look for me baby
Whenever ice is glistening upon the glass
D'ya ever find your dream baby
Well God knows I never hear mine close enough
I watched 'em slip away like this, whoa
I've been from one end of this street to the other
Now I want the gifts ya promised me lover
Look for me baby
Crow fly by with sister and brother
Deadly as a kiss, a sin to one another
Look for me baby
Well I'm draggin' lonliness and it's ten miles long
I thought I heard you scream baby
In the wheels of a train that crawls
And I don't wanna go
Cause you forget me when I'm gone, whoa
Night train, silver moon
You ask me why am I flyin'
To float on ashen wings
To choke on dust and feather
My dreams will go no further
Won't calm my violent river
Oh guardian of peace
Let the beggar walk in the winter
Look for me baby
Look for me baby
Look for me baby
Look for me baby
We came to walk on this boulevard
Love, don't care where we're goin'
While it's true in time, we might close our eyes
This won't die
Now, we stop by the oceanside
Love, you are all I see
And it isn't wrong that we don't belong
Anymore
We came to walk on this boulevard
Love, I don't care where we're goin'
While it's true in time, we might close our eyes
(Lanegan)
Early morning, I don't mind
That's when I find you
Find you under orange skies
I'm gonna try and shine
Blue drownin' days
Thought I might go crazy
Blue lonesome nights away
Early evening, I don't mind
That's when I find you
Find you under orange skies
Makin' me try and shine
Blue drownin' days
Thought I was insane
Blue lonesome nights away
The heart will pound until the breath is gone
You know what I love so, put me on
Something has badly gone wrong with me
Livin's not hard, it's just not easy, always keepin' the dogs off
Down like the rain, down like the rain
Comin' down like the rain, comin' down
Oh, I wanna be there, by your side
'Cause this feels like dyin' baby
Let me stay around, let me stay around
You take my heart, and my breath is gone
You know what I love so, put me on
Feel a little light-headed, you know I'd have to be
Believin' ain't hard, it's just not easy, stayin' blind to the obvious
Down like the rain, down like the rain
Comin' down like the rain, comin' down
Oh, I wanna be there, by your side
'Cause this feels like dyin' baby
Let me stay around, let me stay around
Down like the rain, down like the rain
Comin' down like the rain, comin' down
Oh, I wanna be there, by your side
'Cause this feels like dyin' baby
Traditional
Went out last night, take a little round
Met little sadie and I blowed her down
Then I run right home and went to bed
With a forty-four smokeless under my head
The girls all heard little sadie was dead
They went home to be ragged in red
Come a slippin' and a slidin' down the street
In their loose mother hubbards and their stocking feet
Well I began to think what a deed I'd done
Grabbed my hat and I started to run
I made a good run just a little too slow
And they overtook me in jericho
Standing on the corner reading a bill
Up stepped the sheriff of thomasville
Said young man is your name lee brown?
Remember the night you blowed sadie down?
Yes I said my name is lee
I murdered little sadie in a first degree
First degree and a second degree
If ya got any papers, read 'em to me
Took me downtown, dressed me in black
Put me on a train and send me back
Didn't have no one to go on my bail
Throw me back in the county jail
Judge and the jury took their stand
Judge had the papers in his hand
Forty-one days and forty-one nights
You take me back to the place
Where I cease to exist
To find in a kiss
Something I've missed
You burn away my disguise
And galaxies fall
Because of this
Because of this
It hurt, God knows that it does
And when it hurts, sometimes
You're there to quiet my mind
Because of this
Because of this
You pry open my eyes
I resist but you do
And when I stumble and bleed
You give your body to me
Because of this
Because of this
Because of this
Because of this
Because of this
Oh, and it hurts sometimes
'Cause you're there to quiet my mind
You take me back to the place
Where I cease to exist
To find in your kiss
Something I've missed
You burn away my disguise
And the heavens fall
Because of this
Because of this
And it hurts, God knows that it does
But when I stumble and bleed
You give your body to me
Because of this
Because of this
Because of this
So sad the girl I had
Lost her head and it went so bad
Blue her two eyes they were dead
"Mirror mine and see", she said
One of these mornings
I don't know her
One of these mornings
I think I owe her
Once she signed a piece of my mind
Girlie scenes and gasoline
Porno pony she did ride
Forsaken long lost Limousine
I hear her talkin'
I like to hear her talkin'
See her walkin'
Like to watch watch her come walkin'
She lost it and
Man did it get bad
Lazy eyes were dead
"Mirror mine and see", she said
Once she drew a picture
Stuck it in my pocket
Find somewhere to reach her
'Cause she let me rock it
See her walkin'
Tim rose
hey hey
Boogie boogie boogie now
Boogie boogie boogie now
Boogie boogie boogie now
Love there are flowers, hangin' in the vine
So high you cannot see
Now my mind, must go on holiday
Torn from it's hook, a broken Valentine
I see the smoke from a revolver
Will I get hit? I hardly care
When I'm bombed, I stretch like bubblegum
(Gum)
And look too long, straight at the morning sun
Love there are flowers along the avenue
All things perfectly in place
I build a shrine, I set a monument
Because you're fire
Wishin', hopin', for that old familiar feeling
that takes you miles above, yeah it's called love
would you do it for me
'cause I'm feelin' lonely
prayin', hopin', and I leave the door wide open
I see you and you catch your spill
but come and sit by me
'cause I'm feelin' lonely
maybe I'm a stupid fool
chasin' butterflies like you
on these days they seem so cruel
but honey, child what can I do
maybe I'm a stupid fool
chasin' butterflies like you
on these days they seem so cruel
but honey, child what can I do
Pay no mind to her
She only wants to play
But she's not for you
She's not for you
And I'm the only one
Who would let her act this way
But she's not for you
She's not for you
So she told you she found
Heaven in your eyes
Well I think it only fair
To warn you that
Sometimes she lies
But it's your heart
I can't tell you
What to do
But she's not for you
She's not for you
[ guitar ]
She just looks for
Greener pastures now and then
And when she grows tired
She knows Old Faithful
Will just take her back again
So just leave her here
I'm used to feeling blue
She's not for you
She's not for you
She's not for you
I have given to you jane
A torn and tattered love
But do you hear the tolling bells
That ring down from above?
Thought I'd rule like charlemagne
But I've become corrupt
Now I crawl the promenade
To fill my empty cup
And you're free
You're free again
One more time
Now if you found a razorblade
And took it to your wrist
Then I'd be here in my electric chair
Because of this
All last night and night before
I stood on the pier and cried
But I don't want to turn away
For fear of going blind
And you're free
You're free again
One more time
I have given to you jane
A bruised and beaten love
But do you see the cold white light
That shines down from above?
Thought I'd rule like charlemagne
But I've become corrupt
Now I'll crawl the promenade
To fill my empty cup
And you're free
You're free again
Goodbye my friend, I hate to see you go
You brought me down the stars
The last one in the world, I hear you cry
But let's not waste this night
The last one in the world
Within your lonely room
I hear you whisper see you soon
I sense a dying spark
I watch you falling through the dark
Goodbye my friend, thank you for the dream, oh
The last one in the world, I hear you cry
But let's not waste this night
The last one in the world
And I listen to you call
I hardly hear you at all
I walk the quiet night
Watch the river rolling by, oh
The last one in the world
The last one in the world
The last one in the world
Put out the lions and close the door
I need you more
Than I did before
Old jack's been killed and buried away
Let's hang alone
Outside the gate
Flames scare the lions as do their dreams
That's the way it'll always be
Better close the door
That's the way it'll alway be
Better close the door
Some fools forever don't ask for much
With frozen hand, calm judas touch
Some towers of fire can be redeemed
Just let me burn
Sixteen, oh, sixteen
Sixteen, sixteen, oh
Light ahead proves that the wheels broke down
Here I am, still hangin' on, well alright
Shadows only disappear
Just look around there's no one here
A little spirit turned my light on out and now
Can never be no doubt
You got to walk in the morning sun
And got to smile at everyone
Go my love on your way to bigger and
Bright better days
And I'll go crazy for it all
And I won't stop lovin' you, baby
Oh, yeah, here I am
This feeling inside a body
Light ahead proves that the wheels broke down
Here I am, still spinnin' round
Shadows only disappear
Just look around there's no one here
A little spirit turned my light on out and now
Can never be no doubt
I'm gonna wait till the stars come down
My little love smiles on a wing
For all a raindrop and tears not wasted there
Been pourin' down all day
Runnin' round catchin' 'em, baby
Run around catchin' 'em, baby
Whichever way they fall
Won't stop lovin' you, baby
Whichever way you go, oh, yeah
Here I am, here I am
Just runnin' round catchin' 'em
Tomorrow night
Will you remember what you said tonight
Tomorrow night
Will all the thrill be gone
Tomorrow night
Will it be just another memory
Or just another song
That's in my heart to linger on
Your lips are so tender,
Your heart is beating fast
And you willingly surrender
To me, but darling will it last
Tomorrow night
Will you be with me when the moon is bright
Tomorrow night
Will you say those lovely things you said tonight
Your lips are so tender,
Your heart is beating fast
He wrote a name with the needle gun
In black and blue, your eyes are stone she said
Beautiful and dead, and I wish you well
I took a turn on this carousel
How long ago now, I never can tell
I never stopped to wonder
Maybe a morning, maybe a thousand years
I only walk high wires attend a needing
The magnolia's dying, long coarse and primitive
I wish love, Lord, I wish love could live forever
What I once saw burning bright as hell
Now here comes that weird chill, I don't stop to wonder
Threaded a name, through the needle's eye
As a frame, tied the ends and stitched it up
And hung my head down and wept
But I wish you well, who'll pray for the killer's sake
I used to be so wide awake
Like certain mornings that last a thousand hours
Long coarse and primitive
I wish love, Lord, I wish love could live forever
I'm burning bright at hell, here comes that weird chill
But I wish you well, your eyes are stone she said
Truly beautiful and dead, I wish you well
I want to ride on this carousel
(lanegan)
I have to watch you come back to earth
Now it's all I can do
Will you still be convinced wild flowers
Are waiting for you
In my mind I've done good things
And never cared why
And my mind is an open door, with nothing inside
Looks like the autumn is upon us
It's turnin' so cold
When everything said's either faded out
Or written in stone
If you could find an easier road, you'd take it today
You could have taken me anywhere
You just take it away
I have to watch you come back to earth
If it's all I can do
Will you still be convinced wild flowers
Are waiting for you
Have we ever done good things
And never cared why
Did you call for the night porter?
You smell the blood runnin' warm
I stay close to this frozen border
So close, I can hit it with a stone
Now something crawls right up my spine
That I always got to follow
Turn out the lights
Don't see me drawn and hollow
Just blood runnin' warm
No one needs to tell you that
There's no use for you here anymore
And where are your friends? They've gone away
It's a different world, they left you to this
To janitor the emptiness, so let's get it on
When the sun is finally goin' down
And you're overdue to follow
But you're still above the ground
What you got comin' is hard to swallow
Like blood runnin' warm
Did they call for the night porter?
And smell the blood, blood runnin' warm
Well I've been waitin' at this frozen border
Tim hardin
It is so cold in shiloh town
Birds can hardly sing
Pretty girls gonna leave the town
They won't be back 'till spring
War is done they've come back home
But they're the ones that lost
See a man and a woman alone
Was it worth the cost?
I'll sing hallelujah
You'll sing hallelujah
We'll all sing hallelujah
When they arrive at home
Sun is out it's hot to today
Children all come out to play
Some are quick to come back home
Others, gone to stay
Gets so cold in shiloh town
Birds can hardly sing
Pretty girls gonna leave the town
They won't be back 'till spring
I'll sing hallelujah
You'll sing hallelujah
We'll all sing hallelujah
Saw God staring from the wall
I was alone and lost
Here to take me from this world
Still alone and lost
Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
Saw a ghost in the shadows smile
I was sick in my soul
All tied up in a winding sheet
Still sick in my soul
Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
With the setting sun
With the setting sun
With the setting sun
Tired I lay me back on thorns
Full of fear in my head
Lay me back so I could not rise
Full of fear in my head
Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
With the setting sun rose with the setting sun
With the setting sun
The night is born, my time has come
With the setting sun
With the setting sun
Jesus touch my hand
Please touch my hand
Please touch my hand
Oh, the river rise and it's a mile high
Is this worth tryin'? Is this worth tryin'?
'Cause I could fall like a tear
Well, there's nothing else I can do
When I'm not alone nothing's beside me
What one eye sees, the other's blind in
Well, I could fall, as if I was young
With a lifetime to think of you
Fire one for losing and two for hiding
Keep river moving, movin' right by me
I could fall
And there's nothin' else I can do
Ah, the river rise and it's a mile high
Has this world turned? Has this world tried?
'Cause I could fall like a tear
Well, there's nothin' else I can do
Up on the river rise
The party is over now
So draw the curtains down
Your secret is safe to keep
Unzip your velvet gown
And let your hair hang loose
Kick off your satine shoes
Throw back the hided down
Farewell to the friday’s clown
Circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby dry your eyes
Fixed up something to heap
Still water still run deep
The dogs are barking now
The bag ar’out on the street
Circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
So Ruby dry your eyes
The party is over now
Stop howling at the moon
You need a different being
You need a different tune
Remember that old song
We heard when we were young
Life was an empty page
The world would write upon
Do you recall the mat of grass we sitted and watched the hours pass
He was such a good girl
Then no Ruby dry your eyes
Circus is leaving town
No Ruby roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
So Ruby dry your eyes
You’re searching when you walk
You’re searching when you talk
You could make me believe
That the sun sets in the east
The sun sets in the east
I see they're comin', just tell me it ain't true
How lonely sorrow and I fall back to you
One time or another like I want
She is alone and I don't walk that tall
Memories amounting to nothin' I can't keep
Just as soon forgotten
Hate is all that her tears ever show
Saying sing, well, come on black cat sing
Hate is gone, drippin' lies from the tongue
Demanding my all, well, I don't walk that tall
I see they're comin'
Just tell me it ain't true
Head down in sorrow and I stumble back to you
One time or another, you might find
Hate is all that her tears ever show
Sayin' sing, well, come on black cat sing
I don't walk that tall
Can you stay here next to me?
We'll just keep drivin'
Because of you I see a light
The Buick's a century, 73 like you
Some strange religion
I get my hands on some money, Momma
An' a shot in the night
Stared down the past an' just scarred my eyes
Now, I know there's no easy ride
She's been the kind who would take it in stride
Some jack of diamonds kicked her heart around
Did they know they were walkin' on holy ground?
Almost called it a day, so many times
Didn't know what it felt like to be alive
Till you been a friend to me, like nobody else could be
Keep my hands on the wheel now, Momma
I gonna honestly try
She looked past the scars an' the burned out eyes
An' could see I'm no easy ride
She's just the kind who might get you to buy
Some strange religion
This jack of diamonds kicked her heart around
Should 'ave known they were walkin' on holy ground
This life might eventually
Just be the end of me
Will I still be with you?
Get in next to me, just keep driving
'Cause of you I been alive
And this Buick's a century, 73 like you
Some strange religion
And this Buick's a century, 73 like you
(Lanegan)
Heavy head and harbour mine
Red soaked cloud at my blood shot eye
The faithful scatter, they're running away
Along for the ride
With all of my shame
Now I need someone
Oh sleep with me, sleep with me
Dark night coming won't you, sleep with me
Those feral girls will suit me more than
Gloss from drugstore magazines
Their werewolf teeth flicker and gleam
You're someone who saw the same way I see at the
Turn of a century
Skip thin dimes on sheets of ice
Got my eyes on you
You got your eyes on me
The angels have scattered, swearing to god
The albatross dies in a firing squad
I need someone
Ah, sleep with me
Sleep with me
Dark night fallin', come on, sleep with me
Heavy head and asphalt blind
Gift horse pissed in my bloodshot eye
Dead dream on beyond stares
The ambulance crawl
The siren I hear and I
Find me anywhere
The faithful scatter, running away
Along for the ride, when all of my shame
Cause I need someone
Oh you're looking at me, I've got my eyes on you
Mmmhmm
The world, is falling away
Mmmhmm
I'll tell you how I woke up on the line
My sister, I almost saw the light
Look my hands are tied
I'll see you in another hallway
Some other time
Well, I don't understand this big parade
It's a five star decoration day
Look my hands are stained
I was washin' 'em in the water
Well, the water fell away
I'll tell you how I woke up on the line
Sorry for a soul in heaven, passin' by
Look my hands are tied
I will see you in another station
Steven harrison paulus
*note:it has been said that the version
Of this song done by dave van ronk is the one
That inspired lanegan to record it.
A shanty man's life
Is a wearisome one
Though some say it's free from care
It's the swinging of an axe
From morning 'till night
In the forest wild and drear
Transported as we are
From a lady so fair
To the banks of some lonely stream
Where the wolf, bear, and owl
Give a terrifying howl
And disturb our nightly dreams
Oh sleeping at night
In our bunks without cheer
While the cold winter winds do blow
But as soon as the morning
Star does appear
To the wild woods we must go
Had we ale, wine, or beer
Our spirits far to cheer
When we're in those woods so wild
Where a glass of whiskey shone
When we're in the woods alone
For to pass away our long exile
A shanty man's life
Is a wearisome one
Tho some say it's free from care
It's the swinging of an axe
From morning 'till night
I met a man whom I'll never doubt
Flew into the sun, our bodies on fire
Betrothed to a mate, pray it is not so
Invoke father time, then he let her go
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
I know a dog much blacker than night
Who lives in a house where nothing is right
All sorrow and loving riches at bay
All watching a few to the ...
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Some dream of coins or some beauty's find
But I want the truth while I serve my time
Most complex and pain, I'll share it with you
The moon looks bright, so come say I'll do
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If we’re good (???) for dusty highways and such
Be alright to look her up
The faded priestess of the highways and crutch
Calling when you’re down on luck
By the disused railroad road station you go
To the house of dirty pearl
Her existential situation you know
She is not like other girls
She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave
See the sapphire in the skylines so blue
See the diamond in the dirt
When you think the subject won’t turn to you
She got demons up her skirt
Isn’t sure of her reflection at all
Is seduced by all things past
A pleasure-seeker of dejection
Gazing into her looking glass
She may ask you what you believe
But the mirror doesn’t see me
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
Saturday’s gone
Now a sundown comes, a new day for her
Tired of dress and ??
You’d be a fool to ask her to lift you up
Why go up when we go down?
You should tire of ties that bind you
Film of fever leaves so fast
You’ve got trouble far behind you
Well knows nothings’ made to last
See how God hears a lion roar
Watch the serpent crossing the floor
Saturday’s gone
Dyin' mama, barely breathin' in a bed of nails
To wander through the ruin smokin' and pale
Came upon an angel and a nightingale
Back where the darkness comes
Between the earth and skies above
Dead weight on my body's bones
I think I dug too deep a hole
Think I dug too deep a hole
Better run for cover babe, you better hide
Don't do no good to wait 'til time decides
Time decides, time, time
I need a little more time
Riding on my nightingale
So many years to, to ride
Hiding on my nightingale around my heart
Climbing down the stairs at last
I wouldn't touch me right
You're too proud and I'm too scared
And I'm neither here nor there
It's only fear, we'll open up the doors
And let me breathe that air
Better run for cover babe, you better hide
Just don't do to wait 'til time decides
Time decides, time, time
I need a little more time
Mama, I'm gonna cry now, cry
I'm gonna cry now, oh, you're makin' me cry
Now cry, I'm gonna cry now, oh, no, no
No, no, no, I'm gonna cry, cry, I'm gonna die cryin'
Better run for cover babe, you'd better hide
Just don't to wait 'til time decides
Tied around my nightingale
So many years to, to hide
Fly my nightingale around my heart
Who's riding on my nightingale?
Who's riding on my nightingale?
Who's riding on my nightingale?
Who's riding on my nightingale?
Who's riding on my nightingale?
Who's riding on my nightingale?
[Whispering]
Now after all, don't feel like nothing
like walking away
like a mouth full of rain
at twelve o clock
the bell starts ringing
a dog starts barking
and you're still missing
still missing something
you've never known what it was
and I'm not one for thinking twice
but I know this much is true
the earth will turn, the pot'll burn
and you are my revolver
just waking up
some dogs start barking
a bell starts ringing
and you're still missing
and after all, don't feel like nothing
like walking away
like a mouth full of rain
I'm holding on
'cause you're my revolver
and I dreamed of ending
I can settle down
And be doing just fine
Till I hear an old freight
Going down the line
Then I hurry straight
Home and pack
And if I didn’t go
I believe I’d blow my stack
I love you baby
But you must understand
When the Lord made me
He made a ramblin' man
Some folks may say (Got my loving arms to keep you warm)
That I’m no good (In the kitchen cooking up a storm)
That I wouldn’t settle (If uncle tells me stay away from you)
Down if I could (That is something I could never do)
But when that open road (You're my baby, you're my loving man)
Starts calling me (When you're in trouble, do the best you can)
There's something over the hill (I'm naked daddy just for you)
That I’ve gotta see (Force of nature and you're coming through)
Sometimes it's hard (Loving you, going hot and cold)
But you gotta understand (Loving you, getting good and soaked)
When the Lord made me (How I know you hate to see me cry)
He made a ramblin' man (Happens every time I say goodbye)
I love to see (What's the use, you poor seductive man)
The towns passing by (Don’t get feelings and you'll understand)
And to ride these rails (Lying on somebody just like me)
'Neath God's blue skies (Got you dancing to my melody)
Let me travel this land (God knows how I need your loving arms)
From the mountains to the sea (If you lose me baby, telephone)
Cause that's the life (Try to pieces, stay away from harm)
I believe He meant for me (You're my baby though you do me wrong)
And when I’m gone (Love your nature, though I walk the line)
And at my grave you stand (Loving dreams, you're just a waste of time)
Just say God's called (Baby please don’t stay away too long)
The dark descends through the Promised Land
Down kingdom come and the acid ban
I'm bad alone, burned inside out
Nothin' to kill it, I hit the city
In Marianne I dug a hole
And watched her trip on my heart of stone
And in the end all that crawled, was my skin
I couldn't kill it, I hit the city
I hit the city
Ghost arrives at it's bitter end
To the Promised Land and the dark descends
I'm bad alone, burned inside out
Nothin' to kill it, I hit the city
I hit the city
(I hit the city)
I I I I I hit the city
(I hit the city)
One two three four
Stars and the moon
Aren't where they're supposed to be
For the strange electric light
It falls so close to me
Love, I come to the ride
I'm not sea sick, rolling wave
And you know that I am
Just trying to get it out
Oh, the glorious sound
Oh, the one way street
But you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
When I'm dressed in white
Send roses to me
I drink so much sour whiskey
I can hardly see
And everywhere I've been
There's a world that howls my name
From the one tiny sting
To that vacant fame
Oh, the deafening roar
Remember that's called a one way street
And you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
Mysteries aside
You can't get out
In a psychotropic light
You can't get out
Love, I come to the ride
I'm not sea sick, rolling wave
As a way that I fall
I'm trying to get out
Oh, the glorious sound
Of the one way street
And you can't get
Can't get it down without crying
Oh, the deafening roar
(Lanegan)
When the willow bends towards the end of day
And twilight falls again
To the funny sound that a blackbird makes
Twilight falls again
As no good reason remains, I'll do the same
Thinking of you
One day a ship comes in, one day a ship comes in
But I can't say how or when
But I know somewhere the ship comes in every day
There is no morphine, I'm only sleeping
There is no crime to dreams like this
And if you could take something with you
It would be right
Something good
From my fingertips, the cigarette throws ashes to the ground
I'd stop and talk to the girls who work this street, but I got business farther down
Like one long season of rain, I will remain
Thinking of you
One day a ship comes in
From far away a ship comes in
One hundred days you wait for it
And you know somewhere the ship comes in every day
There is no morphine, I'm only sleeping
There is no crime to dreams like this
And if you could take something with you
It would be bright
Just like something good
One day a ship comes in
One hundred days you wait for it
Something bright
Something so good
One hundred days
A ship comes in every day
You know it's good
You know it's good
A ship comes in every day
One day a ship comes in
Its good
I'm so sorry
I know exactly what you mean
Tired of being devilish
Sick of being wicked
Habitual and untrue
Another starting over
Although it is the ending
I send regards to you
Standing on the steps
Steps of the Cathedral
Watch the summer fade
Just trying to get to somewhere
Trying to get just anywhere
You see yourself in your true love's eyes
Something strange, something blind
Close the window and lay down to sleep
With graveyard scenes and violent dreams
And love doesn't see a thing
Love makes a marionnette
Dance on silver strings
There's a mirror in your true love's eyes
Remember where those sparks were thrown
Then think of me as well
As the light starts fading and his fingers crawl through your dark hair
Here's where you learn something
What makes a marionette
Dance on silver strings
Dance in the mirror of your true love's eyes
One reflection sees the other blind
Look deep in each
Two tombstones shine
Close the window and lay down to sleep
With graveyard scenes and violent dreams
And everywhere that sparks are thrown
Then think of me as well
As the light starts fading and his fingers crawl through your dark hair
My love is no living thing
My love makes a marionette
Dance on silver strings
And there's a mirror
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry
Windows wide open African trees
Are bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze
Not a word of goodbye, not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat
Somebody seen him hangin' around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask
Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat
Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
It ain't easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It is true sometimes you can see it that way
But people don't live or die people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat
There's smoke on the water it's been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote
Love with my will
Love just what I can
Blood, it's all there is
In times of trial and loneliness
Too dark for finding my ground
And trees shiver and sway
If you ever seen something go down
To keep in mind all of your days
Lord, you know where I been
And you know why I came
Look, I'm all done in
Pray don't send me back again
Tell her I wanted to say goodbye
Before the light was dead and gone
Tell her I didn't want to lie
Left here well enough alone
Lord, you know where I been
And only you know why I came
Blood, it's all there is
Pray don't send me back again
If I stayed away too long
Many times I lost my way
If you ever been skeleton low
If you ever heard somebody say
After the deadlock and dazzle
As good as, or better than gold
I lay down my guns on the table
First scarlet, then blue growing cold
Black light and smoke
Making a joke
In the haze of a setting sun
Leviathan waits in the water
Skeletons hide in the trees
The hours crawl by like a spider
Hangman is following me
At sorrow's door
A century more
In the rays of a setting sun
After the deadlock and dazzle
Glitters at night like it's gold
You lay down your heart if you're able
First scarlet, then blue growing cold
Everyday a prayer
For what I never knew
The sun is gone, and that's all I really know
No angels in the air
With hearts as good as gold
The closer you stand to the gates
The more the gates are closed
These darkened days
Make somebody's hunger and thirst
The blessed burns the sun
He's throwin' shadows on the earth
The shadow you find at the gate
And all the gates are closed
Oh yeah
Anytime you find your race is run
Felt much colder standin' in the sun
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older than I really was
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
The sun is gone, yeah that's all I really know
No angels in the air
With hearts as good as gold
The closer you stand to the gates
The more the gates are closed
Anytime you find your race is run
Felt much colder standin' in the sun
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older than I really was
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older standin' in the sun'
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Anytime you find your race is run
Felt much colder standin' in the sun
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older than I really was
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older standin' in the sun'
Well, I'm so tired of driving but here comes the highway
Don't wanna go cold Turkey
Ride with me Jesus, so high on the mainline
It's the last time I'll drive death valley
Remember her kiss is like kerosene
The rest of her only a memory
Don't feel so bad 'cause you made me
A picture so clear
A picture so clear that it's crystalline
Better run to the doctor, girl run to the medicine
Don't wanna go cold Turkey
I'll be your Napoleon be your crippled Alexander but
Don't wanna go up the country
Shame as nothing to hang it on
Except for this wreck that you made of me
A blackbird singin' a mourning song, sing along
Sing to the end of a century
Sing it
Well, I can't stand the thought of many more miles but
I don't wanna go cold Turkey
Here comes the highway can't you see what it made me
It's the last time I'll drive death valley
Remember her kiss is a kerosene
The exile lives in a memory
A scarecrow singin' a mourning song, so sing along
Sing to the end of a century
Are you still with me Jesus so high on the mainline?
Don't let me go up the country
Girl better run, better run for the medicine
Don't let me go cold Turkey
Don't let me go cold Turkey
Don't wanna go
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
In the still of the night once again I hold you tight
Though you're gone, your love lives on when moonlight beams
And as long as my heart will beat, lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams
[first line difficult to understand]
don't you ever come down?
Tied newspaper pages
are scattered across the ground
lost on the violent sea
gone for endless days
I've tried to free myself
but it's been hard to break away
so long light you're bound to fall
and isn't that a shame?
testing shadows on the wall
to late to learn another game
transfixed by what isn't seen
and what will never change
the times I've tried to free myself
It's been hard to look away
It's a deep black vanishing train
on a very long track
standing on the sidewalk in the rain
hands behind my back
lost on a violent sea
day on endless day
I've finally freed myself
Early morning, I don't mind
That's when I find you
Find you under orange skies
I'm gonna try and shine
Blue drownin' days
Thought I might go crazy
Blue lonesome nights away
Early evening, I don't mind
That's when I find you
Find you under orange skies
Makin' me try and shine
Blue drownin' days
Thought I was insane
Had to run so far to find a clear spot
Sun's all hottin' in the rotten hot
Swamp's all rotten and stinkin', buh
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in the bayou in an old rotten cot
Can't find my kind of carin' fun
Have to run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot
Cave shattered down on the sun baked ground
Mosquitoes and moccasins, steppin' all around
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
Sun's all hottin' and a rotten hot
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in the bayou on an old rotten cot
Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
I gotta run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot
Cave shattered down on the sun baked ground
Mosquitoes and moccasins, steppin' all around
And I'm gonna get hit
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
I run so far to find a clear spot
Where in the world have you been
It's as strange as I've ever lived
So you're comin' along to the sideshow
I'll be fallin' all over like Dominos
For girls are sad in their eyes
They're all standin' around bein' hypnotized
And walkin' me back to the firin' line
You smile to get in the door
You can't keep it closed anymore
Tell your ma that you're gone to the freak show
I'm crawlin' all over the carnival
Just scratchin' a stitch' in a skin
I'm moanin' for more of the medicine
In the mornin' you're wonderin' where ya been
Just turnin' your back to the ghost
And tryin' to look like you just might know
That all of the good that you've seen
Just went down and into the drain
Oh kids, am I straight out for now?
In the mornin', I'm gonna find it on out
What in the world can it be
It's as strange as I've ever seen
The girls are dead in their eyes
Just standin' around like they're hypnotized
Who'll follow me back to the freak show
I'm crawlin' all over the carnival
And I am gone
The kid's in a straight out for now
In the mornin', I'm wanna find it on out
What in the world can it be
It's as strange as I've ever seen
The girls are dead in their eyes
Just standin' around like they're hypnotized
Who'll follow me back to the freak show
I'm crawlin' all over the carnival
Catch a boat to England, baby
Maybe to Spain
Wherever I have gone
Wherever I've been and gone
Wherever I have gone, the blues run the game
Send out for whiskey, baby
Send out for gin
Me and room service, baby
Me and room service, honey
Me and room service, well we're living like a sin
When I'm not drinking, baby
You are on my mind
When I'm not sleeping
When I'm not sleeping
When I'm not sleeping, well you know, you`ll find me crying
[*this section came from the Nick Drake site, though it was not performed by Mark
Try another city, baby
Try another town
Wherever I have gone
Wherever I've been and gone
Wherever I have gone, the blues run the game
Well maybe someday, baby
Somewhere down the line
I`ll wake up older, honey
So much older I`ll wake up older and just stop all my trying*]
Living is a gamble baby
Loving's much the same
Where ever I have gone
Where ever I've been and gone
Where ever I have gone
The blues have run the game
Catch a boat to England, baby
Maybe to Spain
Wherever I have gone
Wherever I've been and gone
I bring you a tale of the broken seas
and I'm drowning in whisky and beer
my doctor reports if I don't stop soon
I'll drown in an ocean of tears
I looked to you and saw my desire
went from the frying pan into the fire
surrendered to sorrow and was undone
now I'm praying that it won't be long
we fucked up the sun into kingdom come
you are under my blood and my skin
living life at each other's throats
in the gilded sailboat of sin
ours was an ocean to swim around in
ours was an ocean I should have drowned in
my doctor reports that we must be strong
They say you've found somebody new
But that won't stop my loving you
I just can't let you walk away
Forget the love I had for you
Guess I could find somebody new
But I don't want no one but you
How can you leave without regret?
Am I that easy to forget?
Before you leave be sure you find
You want his love much more than mine
'Cause I'll just say we've never met
If I'm that easy to forget
They say you've found somebody new
But that won't stop my loving you
How could you leave without regret?
Am I that easy to forget?
Guess I could find somebody new
But I don't want no one but you
How can you leave without regret?
A taste of honey
Tasting much sweeter than wine.
I dream of your first kiss, and then,
I feel upon my lips again,
A taste of honey
Tasting much sweeter than wine.
I will return, yes I will return,
I'll come back for the honey and you.
Yours was the kiss that awoke my heart,
There lingers still, 'though we're far apart,
That taste of honey
Tasting much sweeter than wine.
I will return, yes I will return,
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