What you gonna do
What you gonna do about me
What you gonna do
What you gonna do about me, oh
You used to bury me, way underground
I thought it had to be this way
But I've been watching, watching you
And I get smarter every day
Take the voices from your mouth
I got the key to this door
I've learned to work the new machines
And I'm not afraid anymore
I'm not saying
What you gonna do, hey there
What you gonna do about me, yeah
What you gonna do, oh
What you gonna do about me, oh
You've been stealing all the air
And you've been using all the sound
But I made a deal with the ocean
I made a deal with the ground
I say, what you gonna do
Oh, what you gonna do about, about, about, hey
What you gonna do
What you gonna do about me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I am riding on the bus
I am working at my job
I am calling out your name
I am standing at your door
I am counting up the money
I am carrying up my child
I am coming down your driveway
I am giving you a chance
And I say
What you gonna do, hey there
What you gonna do about me, yeah
What you gonna do, oh
And what you gonna do about me, oh
Did you slip on that last step
Was it just too steep a climb
Don't look down - just hold on tight now
Put your hand in mine
These strong winds can blow you over
And the air is so damn thin
The hardest part is to begin now
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
Did your words freeze on your breath
Did your thoughts get trapped inside
You know talk's so overrated
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
Put your hand in mine
We may be walkin'
For a long long time
Put your hand in mine
If we reach out for each other
We can build upon our love
It's so close now I can feel it
I look at him and he looks at me
In his eyes I see the sea
Don't see what he sees in a girl like me
He says he loves me
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
Far as I can see, he loves me
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
Far as I can see, he loves me
Yeah, his eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
I look at him and he looks at me
In his eyes I see the sea
Don't see what he sees in a girl like me
He says he loves me
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
His eyes, his eyes
His eyes are a blue million miles
Get up Jack, crack your head
Sweatin' whiskey in my bed
Ain't you heard a word I've said
Get up Jack
Get up Jack, read the news
See if you can tie your shoes
Find another friend to use
Get up Jack, get up Jack
And come down, come down
Long enough to see my face
Come down, come down
Get up Jack, Jack
Get up Jack, run and hide
Tell us all how hard you tried
Burn your bridges, drown your pride
And get up Jack
And get up Jack and crack your head
It's been so long since I fed
You ain't heard a word I've said
Get up Jack, get up, get up now
And come down, come down
Long enough to see my face
Come down, down, down
Get up Jack, Jack
If I came in a bottle
It was a mighty good year
How come I don't get you high
How come you're still here
God, you were so beautiful
I used to only watch you sleep
God, God so beautiful
Too much promise to keep, now now
Get up Jack and go to hell
Baby I can taste the smell
Wish I didn't, truth to tell
Know you, know you so damn well
Get up Jack
Get up Jack, get up now now now now
Come down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down, down
Come down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down, down
Down, down
Comin' out of the window
Watchin' down from the wall
Billie listens to your heartbeat
Floatin' down the hall, floatin' down the hall
You think my eyes are covered over
You think my heart has crawled away
Billie listens to your heartbeat
When I don't know what to say
I meant to be your drivin' wheel
I meant to be your swing
If I had a tongue like that
I would keep you safe, I would keep you safe
I would keep you safe from everything
I made a deal with the ocean
I made a deal with the ground
Billie listens to your heartbeat
When I'm not around
When I'm not around
I have stood upon the mountain
I have seen the other side
I have wrestled with the devil
I have wrestled with my pride
I have been down in the valley
I have stood out in the rain
I have seen my love forsaken
Felt the pleasure and the pain
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a mighty world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
I have cried in tears of sadness
I have cried in tears of joy
I have found a life worth livin'
From the peace within the noise
I have turned by back on hatred
Lyin', prejudice and greed
Found the future in the present
Found hope within a seed
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a mighty world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
Passin' thru, passin' thru
It's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
We're only passin' thru
I have seen my bucket empty
I have seen my well run dry
But there's water down the road
And I'm only goin' by
If I'm settin' on dead ready
When my chances come and knock
I'll make it where I'm going
I'll be tall just like a rock
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a wicked world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
Passin' thru, passin' thru
It's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
We're only passin' thru
Yea, it's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
We're only passin' thru
On Raglan Road on an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
that her dark hair would weave a snare
that I might one day rue.
I saw the danger yet I walked
along the enchanted way.
And I said, "Let grief be a fallen leaf
at the dawning of the day."
On Grafton Street in November,
we tripped lightly along the ledge
of a deep ravine where can be seen
the worth of passions pledge.
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts
and I not making hay.
Oh, I loved too much by such, by such
is happiness blown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret sign that's known
to the artists who have known the true
gods of sound and stone.
And word and tint I did not stint
for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her dark hair,
like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
away from me so hurriedly.
My reason must allow,
that I had ruled, not as I should.
A creature made of clay.
When the angel woos the clay,
Chorus:
Up along the Ohio River
Over on the old Kentucky shore
Once dwelt a fair young maiden
Now there's a crepe upon her door
I walk down to the graveyard
Down by the Church of God
I looked upon the one I love
That would soon be covered with sod
Repeat Chorus
The angels took my darlin'
God needed the one I love
I reached the old Kentucky shore too late
I'll make my plans and meet her up above
The last words that my darling spoke
Was tell the one I love goodbye
I'd like to see him before I go
But I'll meet him in the sky
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
'm younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An' the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
Tender as a peach
Someone I would love to teach
Started as a joke
Just a lazy little poke
Woke up one sweet day
And I could not run away
This will start to bleed
No I cannot take this speed
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love, yeah
It was innocent
Wonder where your manners went
How was I to know
It would never let me go
Drag it through the mud
Will we ever see some blood
You would try to leave
Something I cannot conceive
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love, yeah
Take me in your fist
Prove to me that you exist
Be as plain as day
Watch my body melt away
There in black and white
Victim of my appetite
Make me understand
Do you want to be the man?
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love, yeah
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love (Baby Love)
I'm in Baby Love, yeah
(Baby Love)
(Baby Love)
I'm in a baby love and a'
I'm in a baby love and a'
I'm in a baby love again
Tonight I feel so weak
But all in love is fair
I turn the other cheek
And I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air
And I know you're only human
And I haven't got talking room
But tonight while I'm making excuses
Some other woman is making love to you
(chorus)
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil, sweet Devil's got my soul
When will this aching pass
When will this night be through
I want to hear the breaking glass
I only feel the steel of the red hot truth
And I'd do anything to get it out of my mind
I need some insanity that temporary kind
Tell me how will I ever be the same
When I know that woman is whispering your name
(chorus)
Oh, Devil's got my soul
Tonight is dying
I need some company
Let's go to your place
Call it serility
I won't talk about your drinking
You won't tell me "comb my hair"
We won't say nothing
we'll just sit there and stare
Into the beautiful side of madness
Into the beautiful side of madness
Oh, won't you take me back again
We lost a lot of laughter
We lost a lot of nights
But I ain't seen nobody
Oh, that always get it right
I like your eyes
Just a little madness in the blue
And I know I'm goin' crazy
But at least I'm going there with you
Into the beautiful side of madness
Oh yes, into the beautiful side of madness
Oh, won't you take me back again
You're sucha languid lover
Ohhh, it's a long slow ride
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Nobody knows, nobody knows
How beautiful it is on the other side
Into the beautiful side of madness
Oh yes, into the beautiful side of madness
Oh, won't you take me back again?
Won't you take me back again?
At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
At last the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped in clover
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I could call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never, never known
Oh, you smiled
And then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine at last
You are mine at last
You are mine at last
Why do we isolate each other
All the walls we build between us
Make it so hard to be together
How can we tear at one another
When the thing we have in common
Is an uncommon love
Walls can fall
Tears can mend
Why can't we reach across the line
And touch each other
Here on two sides of the truth
We've a middle ground in common
An uncommon love
Me - I get lost in my emotions
And I say things in the moment
And sometimes I hurt you
You - think it's a hopeless situation
But there's something you've forgotten
We share an uncommon love
Time can heal
And hearts can mend
So why can't we reach across the line
And touch each other
When will we ever learn
That the thing we have in common
Is an uncommon love
The sun is warm as the day is long
Just got the feeling I can do no wrong
Got a long way to walk can't afford my next meal,
I tell a few lies, but my hunger is real and it...
Chorus:
won't mean thing in 100 years
no it won't mean a thing in 100 years
Mademoiselle tell me do you play
well if she shakes her head well
then that's OK
I watch her walk away in haste
there's just no accounting for
some people's taste
and it...
Chorus
Big angry men in the doorway there
Just keep on walking like I don't care
Why you giving such an evil eye
could it be you were ignored by
every passerby
and it...
Chorus
Play in the park for tobacco and food
then I excuse myself but they think I'm rude
Tourist don't want me to end his show
but this colorful attraction got
place to go
and it...
Chorus
Sit at the pier watch the sun go down
Another lost little boy in a big old town
I want to laugh, I want to cry
but no matter how hard I may try
There is safety in numbers
And people and things
And in big wads of money
And great big platinum rings
And no one will ever
Get near me again
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
There are people who watch you
In your windows at night
And they follow your movements
In the cold fluorescent light
They wait for their moment
They'll get you in the end
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
I was just like you before
You want somebody to love
Since that day I learned the score
I know how to rise above
There is shelter in power
And promises of pain a
Ad in lovers and lawyers
And dogs pulling at the chain
And no one will ever
Get near me again
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
You will find me well protected
When you come around today
So remember what I told you
And continue on your way
'Cause no one will ever
Get near me again
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
There is safety in numbers
In numbers my friend
Well, I think it's time to get ready
To realize just what I have found
I have been only half of what I am
It's all clear to me now
My heart is on fire
My soul's like a wheel that's turning
My love is alive
My love is alive
There's something inside that's making me crazy
I'll try to keep it together
But what I say may not happen the same way
Now could mean forever
My heart is on fire
My soul's like a wheel that's turning
My love is alive
My love is alive
My love is alive
My love is alive
Is there a movie inside my mind
Reflecting the love that you shine on me
But hold on now to that feeling
Let it go, let it grow
My heart is on fire
My soul's like a wheel that's turning
My love is alive
My love is alive
My heart is on fire
My soul's like a wheel that's turning
My love is alive
My love is alive
I am a genius, I am a diamond
My pretty tongue gives you a freezer burn
I think above you in three dimensions
Come in here, you can never return
Like a hurricane
In the face of the wind and the rain
Like a hurricane
When you open you open a vein
I see your headlights across my ceiling
You are a puppet of a wish I made
They never touch me, they say I'm crazy
I was born from my mother's brain, my mother's brain
Like a hurricane
In the face of the wind and the rain
Like a hurricane
When you open you open a vein
You plant a seed in my mind
I walk around and I speak your message
For myself I don't know what to say
I walk around and I speak your message
Like a hurricane
In the face of the wind and the rain
Like a hurricane
When you open you open a vein
Give me more give me more Novocain
I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
And he could see just fine
Dreamed about Ray Charles last night
And he could see just fine, you know
I asked him for a lullaby
He said, "Honey, I don't sing no more"
No more, no more
No more, Ray don't sing no more
He said, "Since I got my eyesight back
My voice has just deserted me
No 'Georgia On My Mind' no more
I stay in bed with MTV"
Then Ray took his glasses off
And I could look inside his head
Flashing like a thunderstorm
I saw a shining spider web
Spider web, spider web
Spider web in Ray Charles' head
I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
He took me flying in the air
Showed me my own spider webs
Said, "Honey, you had best take care"
The world is made of spider webs
The threads are stuck to me and you
Be careful what you're wishing for
'Cause when you gain you just might lose"
You just might lose your
Spider web, spider web
Spider web, what Ray Charles said
When you're feelin' lonely
When you're hidin' in your bed
Don't forget your string of pearls
Don't forget your spider web
When I go to sleep tonight
Don't let me dream of brother Ray, no, no, no, don't
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he sees
Just like him best the other way
Spider web, spider web
Spider web in Ray Charles' head
Oh spider web
Spider web in Ray Charles' head
Spider web
All I got's my spider web
Keepin' me alive
All I got's my spider web
Keepin' me alive
C'mon Ray
Well, I found him in Pensacola
In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand
He was squinting and stubbled
And standing in the door
He said, "If you've come to take the car away
I don't have it anymore
I don't have it anymore"
He got the gospel on the radio
And the gospel on TV
He got all of the transcripts
Back to 1963
Back to 1963
He said, "I sold my blood for money
There wasn't any pain
But I just can't stand the feeling
It's in someone else's veins
It's in someone else's veins"
Momma took me aside
And she tried to change my mind
She said, "Don't waste your time in looking
There's nothing, nothing left to find
Nothing, nothing left to find"
So I left him in Pensacola
In a trailer in the sand
The man from the picture
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Creased and yellowed in my hand
Only you know and I know
All the love we've got to show
So don't refuse to believe it
By reading too many meanings
'Cause you know that I mean what I say
So don't go and take me the wrong way
You know you can't go on gettin' your own way
'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday
Now if I sing to mislead you
It's just my craziness comin' through
But when it comes down to just two
I ain't no crazier than you
'Cause you know that I mean what I say
So don't go and take me the wrong way
You know you can't go on gettin' your own way
'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday
Yeah, yeah, yeah, appear to be pleasin'
Oh no, no, not deceivin'
But it's hard to believe it
When you been so mistreated
'Cause you know that I mean what I say
So don't go and take me the wrong way
You know you can't go on gettin' your own way
'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday
Only you know and I know
Only you know and I know, oh yeah
[Incomprehensible]
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why
Why can't we live together?
Tell me why, tell me why
Why can't we live together?
Everybody wants to live together
Why can't we be together?
No more war, no more war, no more war
Just a little peace
No more war, no more war
All we want is some peace in this world
Everybody wants to live together
Why can't we be together?
No matter, no matter what color
You are still my brother
I said no matter, no matter what color
You are still my brother
Everybody wants to live together
Why can't we be together?
Everybody wants to live
Everybody's got to be together
Everybody wants to live
Everybody's going to be together
Everybody's got to be together
Everybody wants to be together
I said no matter, no matter what color
You're still my brother
I said no matter, no matter what color
You're still my brother
Everybody wants to live together
Why can't we be together?
Gotta live together
Together
If God had a name what would it be?
And would you call it to His face?
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question?
And yeah, yeah God is great
Yeah, yeah God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see?
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets
And yeah, yeah God is great
Yeah, yeah God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Tryin' to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome
Yeah, yeah God is great
Yeah, yeah God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Just tryin' to make His way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make His way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome
These arms of mine
They are lonely, lonely and feeling blue
These arms of mine
They are yearning, yearning from wanting you
And if you would let them hold, hold you
Oh, how grateful I would be
These arms of mine
They are burning, burning from wanting you
These arms of mine
They are wanting, wanting, wanting to hold you
And if you would let them hold you
Oh, how grateful I would be
Come on, come on baby
Just be my man, just, just be my lover
'Cause I need me somebody to treat me right
And I need somebody to hold me tonight
And I need tender lip to kiss me tonight
These arms of mine
They are burning, burning from wanting you
(Orbison/ Crowell)
The good times are all gone
The night keeps coming on so strong
You cant hold on, no matter what you do
Will there be someone who cares for you
When the blue hour comes?
When the blue hour comes?
And when your restless heart
Tears your world apart
And everywhere you turn
Its falling down on you
Will there be a light that shines for you?
When the blue hour comes for you
If theres anything that you would have me do
Just call on me and Ill be coming through
I will always be there for you
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes
Good times dont last forever
Sometimes its now or never
Darling, reach out for me
You know where Ill be
I will always be there for you
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes for you
If theres anything that you would have me do
Just call on me and Ill be coming through
I will always be there for you
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes
I will always be there
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes
When the blue hour comes....(repeat to fade)
All the ladies on the lake they start to dance
It's been a long time don't you wish you had the chance
What do you wish you were?
Do you wish you were the silence of the moon?
Nobody knows but maybe you will be soon
I used to think that the sidewalk was the way
Always waiting for my lucky day
Over and over, every patch of gray
One day inside me I was lucky anyway
What do you wish you were?
Do you wish you were the light of every star?
Nobody knows but maybe that's just what you are
All night, count all the singing stars
All right is where you want to know you are
What do you wish you were?
Do you wish you were the light of every star?
Nobody knows but maybe that's just what you are
Nobody knows but maybe that's just what you are
I'll just keep on falling in love
Til I get it right
Right now I'm like a wounded bird
Hungry for the skies
But if I try my wings
And try long enough
I'm bound to learn to fly
I'll just keep on falling in love
Til I get it right
My door to love has opened out
More times than in
I'm either fool or wise enough
To open it again
Cause I'll never know what's beyond the mountain
Til I reach the other side
I'll just keep on falling in love
Til I get it right
If practice makes perfect
Then I'm near about as perfect
As I'll ever be in my life
I'll just keep on falling in love
Til I get it right
Fare you well, my honey, fare you well my only true one.
All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone.
Going to leave this brokedown palace,
On my hand and knees, I will roll, roll, roll.
Make myself a bed in the waterside,
In my time, I will roll, roll roll.
Make myself a bed by the waterside I will lay my head.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.
River going to take me, sing sweet and sleepy,
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home.
Its a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago.
Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home.
Goin home, goin home, by the riverside I will rest my bones,
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.
Going to plant a weeping willow,
On the banks green edge it will grow, grow, grow.
Sing a lullaby beside the water,
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.
Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell,
Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul.
I was a troubled soul
I had a worried mind
Drifting from place to place
I was the restless kind.
Right there in front to me
bright as the light of day
you saw a broken girl
You loved me anyway
And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
cause Faith is a mystery that
rocks me for days and days and days
and
I could be in the street
I could be on a train
or stuck in some doorway down
in the pouring rain
Now there is not one place
that doesn't feel like home
No matter where I go
I know I'm not alone
(chorus)
I've never been so sure of love
And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
cause faith is a mystery that
rocks me for days and days and days
Oh you can ask me once
And I will tell you twice
No one's convincing me
this isn't paradise
And if I cause you pain
I'd only hurt myself
cause we have a righteour love
I feel for no one else
(choruse)
I've never been so sure of love
(repeat)
Guess I had to find out the hard way
The things that I have come here to learn
Fire of this pleasure, it can warm me
But in the end it only burns
He could put me high on a pedestal
He could rob me of my shame
He could hold me down under water
Till I could not remember my own name
In my mind, I see the house I'm buildin'
In my hands, the hammer and the nail
Gonna send my wishes up to Glory
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
In my time I've done some meanness
Brought the ones I love so much pain
Pride, it was eatin' all my heart away
My soul it was rustin' in the rain
And all these sins I am confessin'
They still come knockin' on my door
But I know better than to answer
I tell them that girl don't live here anymore
In my mind, I see the house I'm buildin'
In my hands, the hammer and the nail
Gonna send my wishes up to Glory
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
Every livin' thing is callin' out to me
The leaves on the trees wave me on
Got a wind to lift me when I'm fallin'
Got a road to put my feet upon
In my mind, I see the house I'm buildin'
In my hands, the hammer and the nail
Gonna send my wishes up to Glory
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
In my mind, I see the house I'm buildin'
In my hands, the hammer and the nail
Gonna send my wishes up to Glory
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
Gonna shake that devil off my trail
Can you see me rising since your
disappearance safe to say
that I've regained myself
Sleeping like a baby still I wonder maybe
if we'll ever
meet up somewhere else
I'm bouncing you a message
off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
How you walk around with all that
contempt inside you I'm
amazed that you can stand up straight
Turned up the volume when you heard
me saying to you how
does somebody switch from lvoe to hate
I'm bouncing you a message
off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
(chorus)
I know you feel it
It's right behind you
It's getting closer
You said yourself
You're running out of time
If I ever sit to write the story
I'll say something nice
about you when you're dead
Moving like the ocean
safe inside the notion that I can
read it layin' in my bed
I'm bouncing you a message
off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
(chorus)
I know you feel it
It's right behind you
It's getting closer
You said yourself
You're running out of time
Yes it's complicated if the feelings faded
still it's better
to have no regrets
When you think about me if you think
about me please
remember that I've done my best
Can you see me rising since your
disappearance,safe to say
that I've regained myself
Crawling like a baby.
still I wonder maybe if we'll ever
meet up somewhere else cause
(chorus)
I know you feel it
It's right behind you
It's getting closer
You saind yourself
You're running out of time
Smiling faces sometimes
Pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within
The truth is in the eyes
'Cause the eyes don't lie, Amen
Remember, a smile is just a frown turned upside down
My friend, so hear me when I'm saying
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Beware, beware of the handshake that hides the snake
Beware, beware of the pat on the back, it just might hold you back
Jealousy, jelousy, misery, misery
Envy, envy, I tell you, you can't see behind
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Your enemy won't do you no harm
'Cause you'll know where he's coming from
Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice I'm only try' to school ya
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
Don't be pulled in by the charm
A million dollar smile
Can be quiet constantly
Baby hair with a woman’s eyes
I can feel you watching in the night
All alone with me and were waiting for the sunlight
When I feel cold you warm me
When I feel I cant go on you come and hold me
Its you... and me forever
Sara smile
Wont you smile a while for me, Sara
If you feel like leaving you know you can go
But why dont you stay until tomorrow?
And if you want to be free, all you have to do is say so
When you feel cold, Ill warm you
And when you feel you cant go on, Ill come and hold you
Its you... and me forever
Sara smile
Wont you smile a while for me, Sara
Sara smile
This may be our last good night together
We may never pass this way again.
Just let me enjoy it 'til it's over, or forever
Please don't tell me how the story ends.
See the way our shadows come together
Softer than your fingers on my skin
Someday these may be all we remember of each other
Please don't tell me how the story ends.
Never's just the echo of forever
Lonesome as a love that might have been.
Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over
Please don't tell me how the story ends.
Your memory comes back to me
to stangle me with its sweet taste
See God would never be so cruel
to make me live without your face
Now that I have made you crawl
It does you good to see me fall
Like poison apples from the tree
as heavy as a honey bee
(chorus)
Hallelujah
I gave you away so easily
It makes me wonder why
Moving through you every night
The lovely girls in dressed tight
The angels dancing on a pin
The people we are downing in
Like a needle going in
Into the shining city skin
Oh I recall the moment when you ruined me for other men
(chorus)
Hallelujah
I gave you away so easily
It makes me wonder why
(repeat)
If I die before you do
believe me I'll be haunting you
I'll come upon you while you sleep
to drown you in a kiss
So deep
L.A. proved too much for the man
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world
The world he left behind Not so long ago
He's leaving
On that midnight train to Georgia
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine
He kept dreamin'
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
And he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket back
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,He said he would
And now he's leavin
On that midnight train to Georgia
He said he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time
I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine
Go, gonna board
Gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train.
Gotta go, gonna board
Gonna board
Love's In Need Of Love Today
by Joan Osborne
Good morn or evening friends
Here's your friendly announcer
I have serious news to pass on to every-body
What I'm about to say
Could mean the world's disaster
Could change your joy and laughter to tears and pain
It's that love's in need of love today
Don't delay, send yours in right away
Hate's goin' round breaking many hearts
Stop it please before it's gone too far
The force of evil plans
To make you its possession
And it will if we let it
Destroy everybody
We all must take
Precautionary measures
If love and peace you treasure
Then you'll hear me when I say
Oh that love's in need of love today
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay Don't delay
Send yours in right away, right away
Hate's goin' round breaking many hearts
Stop it please before it's gone too far
Gone too far
People you know that
Love's in need of love today
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's, hate's goin' round
Breaking many hearts
Stop, stop it please before it's gone too far
It's up to you cause
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's, hate's goin' round
Breaking, hate's tried to break my heart many times
Don't_you've got to stop it please
Before before before it's gone too far
Love's in need of love love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's goin' around
And it tried to break up many hearts
You've got to
I've got to
They've got to stop it before it's gone too far
Love's love's in need of love
Did you ever think that love would be in need of love today
Don't delay
Hate's goin' round
Bring it down a little love is very peaceful
So bring it down a little
Just give the world LOVE
Don't ask her how she knows, but she knows
It's gonna be great
Don't ask her how she knows, but she knows
And she can't wait
Hey, hey, hey, flyaway
Hey, hey, hey, hey flyaway
Number one for takeoff
To that big drowning pool in the sky
Number one for takeoff
And her dress wavin' you goodbye
Hey, hey, hey, flyaway
Hey, hey, hey, hey flyaway
Gone up in rapture
Gone, see your mother
Take off your heavy head
Gone up in rapture
Life's better when you're dead
Bones light as eggshells
Look down on main street
See all the people run
Laugh if you want to
She's goin' to the sun
Hey, hey, hey, flyaway
Hey, hey, hey, hey flyaway, flyaway
Hey, flyaway
Oh, flyaway, flyaway
Why does it take so long for you to leave me once you've said goodbye?
I wish it could be over quickly, clean and painless and dry
But your kiss has left it's taste with me and your hands have left their mark
My ears are full of whispers and murmurs in the dark
Why does it take so long for you to leave me now that you're not here?
I wish that I could fight this feelin' and make you disappear
But my body has a memory and it holds you close within
The smell of you at midnight, the flavor of your skin
Now I feel your fingerprints on my heart
I thought that I could handle you, I thought I was so smart
I feel your fingerprints, nothin' I can do
Oh, ain't it touching how I can't get over you
I can't believe I can't forget you, you didn't matter that much
Is it gonna take another man to wash away your touch?
Now I feel your fingerprints on my heart
I thought that I could handle you, I thought I was so smart
Now I feel your fingerprints, nothin' I can do
Oh, ain't it touching how I can't get over you
Ain't it touching how I can't get over, can't get over you
Oh, ain't it touching how I can't get over you
Everybody is a star
Who can rain and chase the dust away
Everybody wants to shine
Ooh, come out on a cloudy day
Until the sun that loves you proud
Oh when the system tries to bring you down
Every hand to shine tonight
You don't need darkness to do what you think is right
Everybody is a star
I can feel it when you shine on me
And I love you for who you are
Not the one you feel you need to be
Ever catch a falling star
There ain't no stopping till it's in the ground
Everybody is a star
One big circle going round and round
The sun goes down too early
The wind goes down my back just like it owns me
I work my job, I get my check
I'm tryin' not to let myself get lonely
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
I used to hear my heart cry out, I used to feel it pound in me
I used to think it'd break me right in two
But now that seems so long ago
I'm feelin' like there's nothin' I can't do
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
I've got so for you
Sometimes I can see your face, taste your lovin' in my mouth
Baby I am comin' back for more
Can't you see me comin', can't you feel me comin'?
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door?
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
Oh, yeah
One more baby
Dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
I've got so much love for you, baby
I've got so much love for you, baby
I've got so much love for you, baby
I've got so so much, yeah
Comin' out of the window
Watchin' down from the wall
Billie listens to your heartbeat
Floatin' down the hall
You think my eyes are covered over
You think my heart has crawled away
Billie listens to your heartbeat
When I don't know what to say
I meant to be your drivin' wheel
I meant to be your swing
If I had a tongue like that
I would keep you safe
I would keep you safe from everything
I made a deal with the ocean
I made a deal with the ground
Billie listins to your heartbeat
When I'm not around
When I'm not around
I was struck down by your angel face
I had a father, I had a brother
I had a husband and I had a lover
I had a son, he filled me with wonder
But I was struck down by your angel face
I was a woman, I was a mother
Wake in a fever from what I've been under
You made my heart beat
Like God made the thunder
Said, I was struck down by your angel face
Oh, did I tell you? Did I bother to mention?
You're keeping me worried, building up tension
Spinning out of control
Don't trust my intention
Since I was struck down by your angel face
Said, I was struck down by your angel face
I was struck down by your angel face
Your angel face
Your angel face
Your angel face
Axis: Bold As Love
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Anger, he smiles,
towering in shiny metallic purple armer
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're bold as love, just as bold as love
Yeah, they're bold as love
Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of horror,
and ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young and full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frigthened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
I'm as bold as love, I'm as bold as love
Just as bold as love
Just ask the axis
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
It's not warm when he's away
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
And he’s always gone too long anytime he goes away
Wonder this time where he's gone
Wonder if he's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime he goes away
And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know
Hey I'll leave the young thing alone
But ain't no sunshine when he's gone
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
Only darkness everyday
Ain't no sunshine when he's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime he goes away
Anytime he goes away
Anytime he goes away
I can't laugh
I can't moan
I can't leave myself alone
After Jane
After Jane
I was hers
She was mine
We were together all the time
Oh, my Jane
Oh, my Jane
Maybe it's the right thing, and maybe it's wrong
You know I lay awake and wonder all night long
Maybe it's over and maybe we're free
You know this lonely feelin' is drownin' me
Will I rise up again?
Will I ever know a friend, like my Jane?
Oh, my Jane
Maybe it's the right thing and maybe it's wrong
You know I lay awake and wonder all night long
Maybe it's over and maybe it's not
You know this lonely feelin' is all I got
Will I rise up again?
Will I ever know a friend, like my Jane?
Oh, my Jane
After Jane
After Jane
Oh, my Jane
Oh, my Jane
You would make a mistake
If you think I'm not awake
I know what's goin' on
You've been lying to me
But I don't want to set you free
I know what's goin' on
I'm the one who makes you happy,
You got to know that for sure
(can't we give our love just one more try
Make it better than it was before)
Did you try to resist
Was she longing to be kissed
I know what's going on
Does she whisper does she sing
Does she say you're everything
I know what's going on
I will wait for this to end
Cause I know you'll need a friend
When at last she breaks your heart
Cause the only way to win
Is to get you back again
Until then I'll fall apart
I know what's going on
Alt verse
(You have changed who you are
The wind goes down my back just like it owns me
I work my job I get my check
I'm tryin' not to let myself get lonely
I'm just dreamin' about the day that I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
I used to hear my heart cry out
I used to feel it pound in me
I used to think It'd break me right in two
Now that seems so long ago
I'm feelin' like there's nothin' I can't do
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
Sometimes I can see your face
Taste your lovin' in my mouth
Baby I am comin' back for more
Can't you feel me comin'
Can't you see me comin'
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door?
I'm just dreamin' about the day when I can
Show you all the love I've got for you
As I walk this land with broken dreams
I have visions of many things
Love's happiness is just an illusion
Filled with sadness and confusion
What becomes of the brokenhearted
Who had love that's now departed?
I know, I've got to find
Some kind of peace of mind maybe
The fruits of love grow all around
But for me they come a tumblin' down
Every day heartaches grow a little stronger
I can't stand this pain much longer
I walk in shadows, searching for light
Cold and alone, no comfort in sight
Hoping and praying for someone to care
Always moving and goin' to where
What becomes of the broken hearted
Who had love that's now departed?
I know, I've got to find
Some kind of peace of mind maybe
I'm searching, though I don't succeed
But someone look, there's a growing need
Oh, he is lost, there's no place for beginning
All that's left is an unhappy ending
Now what's become of the brokenhearted
Who had love that's now departed?
I know, I've got to find
Some kind of peace of mind
I'll be searching everywhere
Just to find someone to care
I'll be looking everyday
I know, I'm gonna find a way
Nothing's gonna stop me now
I'll find a way somehow
I was a troubled soul
I had a worried mind
Drifting from place to place
I was the restless kind
Right there in front of me
Bright as the light of day
You saw a broken girl
You loved me anyway
And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
'Cause faith is a mystery that rocks me
For days and days and day and days and
I could be in the street
I could be on a train
Or stuck in some doorway
Down in the pouring rain
Now there is not one place
That doesn't feel like home
No matter where I go
I know I'm not alone
I've never been so sure of love
I've never been so sure of love
And if I sprouted wings
I would not be amazed
'Cause faith is a mystery that rocks me
For days and days and days and days and
Oh, you can ask me once
And I will tell you twice
No one's convincing me
This isn't paradise
And if I cause you pain
I'd only hurt myself
'Cause we have a righteous love
I feel for no one else
I've never been so sure of love
I've never been so sure of love
I've never been so sure of love
I've never been so sure of love
I've never ever been so sure of love
Never, never, never
Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you
Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you
'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
except for you
I got nothing to believe in
Whatcha looking for?
If you want it I will find it.
Yeah, whatcha looking for?
If you want me let me find it.
'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
except for you
I got nothing to believe in
And I feel fine
I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine
'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
except for you
I got nothing to believe in
except for you
I got nothing to believe in
I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine
I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine
Billy Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit, he'd come along
When they gathered 'round and started talking
Cousin Billy would take me walking
Through the back yard, we'd go walking
Then he'd look into my eyes, Lord, knows to my surprise
The only boy who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
He was, yes, he was, oh yes, he was
Being good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I tried
When he started sweet talking to me
He'd come and tell me everything is alright
He'd kiss and tell me everything is alright
Can I get away again tonight?
The only boy who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
He was, yes, he was, oh yes, he was
How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealing kisses from me on the sly
Taking time to make time
Telling me that he's all mine
Learning from each others knowing
Looking to see how much we'd grown
The only boy who could ever move me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever groom me
Was the son of a preacher man
He was, yes, he was, oh yes, he was
I need a Ken doll pilot
with a sexy smile and a flying limousine
To pick me up, go the extra mile
and deliver me to the scene
I need five more hours in the average day
One to get the work done, four to play
Be a devil and angel
You know what I mean?
Stand back
Out of my way
Stand back
You're crowding my day
No time for good manners, do what I say
If you're not here to help
then you're just in the way
The road is littered with the faint of heart,
the fools who fell from stress
It's a fact of life that you can't catch up,
better learn how to love the mess
So I'll just kick back, ignore the noise,
have my way with the pretty boys,
What I dream at night
don't even try to guess
Stand back
Stand back
Out of my way
Stand back
Stand back
You're crowding my day
Now this is my time
to step up to the mike
Like rock'n'roll lightning
I'm ready to strike
Stand back
Stand back
Stand back
My reputation in the neighbourhood
is that I do my best when I'm up to no good
If you know me at all there's one thing you should have learned
Get close enough to me you'll be blistered or burned
Stand back
Out of my way
Stand back
You're crowding my day
Stand back
Stand back
Stand Back
Call me home, call me home
Baby, when you comin' home?
I can't stand it so alone
Rodeo
They all say they're proud of you
Though you're still the boy I knew
What has fightin' done to you?
Rodeo
I been dreamin', boy, since you been gone
'Bout a cowboy risin' with the dawn
It's just a dream but it keeps me hangin' on
Oh rodeo, you been gone too long
A hee
Yippee a yay, yippee a yo
A hee
Yippee a yay, yippee a yo
Up all night, I'll be here
Dancin' with my darkest fear
Whisperin' your home is here
Rodeo
Call me home, call me home
Baby, when you comin' home?
I can't stand it so alone
Rodeo
I been dreamin', boy, since you been gone
'Bout a soldier risin' with the dawn
It's just a dream but it keeps me hangin' on
Oh rodeo, you been gone too long
A hee
Yippee a yay, yippee a yo
A hee
Yippee a yay, yippee a yo
Rodeo, oh, rodeo
Oh, rodeo, oh
When you coming home?
When you coming home?
When you coming home?
Your memory comes back to me
To strangle me with its sweet taste
See God would never be so cruel
To make me like without your face
Now that I have made you crawl
And it does you good to see me fall
Like poison apples from the tree
As heavy as a honey bee
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
I gave you away so easily
It makes me wonder why?
Moving through you every night
The lovely girls in dresses tight
The angels dancing on a pin
The people we are downing in
Like a needle going in
Into the shiny city skin
Oh I recall the moment when
You ruined me for other men
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
I gave you away so easily
It makes me wonder why?
I don't know why? I don't know why?
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
I gave you away so easily
It makes me wonder why?
If I die before you do
Believe me I'll be haunting you
I'll come upon you while you sleep
To drown you in a kiss so deep
When the rain is blowin' on your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evenin' shatters and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawlin' down the avenue
No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The storms are ragin' on the rollin' sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowin' wild and free
You ain't seen nothin' like me yet
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
There is nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love
Lumina
Come and wrap around me
Lumina
Take me through the snow
Eve take a train, Eve took a train
Went to see her man
Melting inside, melting away
Like butter in the pan
Lumina
Come and wrap around me
Lumina
Take me through the snow
Eve took a fruit, Eve bit the fruit
Just ran down her chin
Babies will put things in their mouths
Never heard of sin
Lumina
Open like the sea
Lumina
Sing me in the dark
Eve had to ask, Eve had to ask
What is wrong with this?
Here is the place, now is the time
Let's invent the kiss
Lumina
Come and wrap around me
Lumina
Come and wrap around me
Come and wrap around me
Come and wrap around me
Come and wrap around me
Chorus:
She's a brick house
She mighty mighty just lettin' it all hang out
A brick house
The lady's stacked and that's a fact
I ain't holding nothing back
She's a brick house
We're put together everybody knows
And here's how the story goes
She knows she got everything
A woman needs to get a man
How can she lose when she is
36-24-36, what a winning hand
Chorus
She's a brick house
She's the one, the only one
Built like an Amazon
The clothes she wears, the sexy ways
Make the old man wish for younger days
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough to knock a strong man to his knees
Chorus
Shake it down, shake it down now
She's a brick house
She mighty, mighty, mighty just lettin' it all hang out
A brick house
We're put together everybody knows
And here's how the story goes
Shake it down, shake it down now
Chorus
Where are the bones on that one?
What if the cure is worse than the disease?
Serve me up some pretty, pretty people
Serve me up somebody, I can believe
Don't feel sorry for me
I hate that look on your face
You say, "Just let go"
You say, "Come back home"
I say, "I'm just fallin' from grace"
I'm naked in a hotel room
My station comin', comin' in loud and clear
I'm makin' out with my one true love
I'm makin' this hotel room disappear
Stop feelin' sorry for me
I hate that look on your face
You say, "Just let go"
You say, "Come back home"
I say, "I'm just fallin' from grace"
I said, that I like fallin' from grace
You never know it to look at me a the Dracula moon
See love come down any way you want to
Doesn't ask for your permission
Open up your arms and we will break you in two
Stop feelin' sorry for me
I hate that look on your face
You say, "Just let go"
You say, "Come back home"
I say, "I'm just fallin' from grace"
I said that I'm just fallin' from grace
I said that I'm just fallin' from grace
Just fallin', oh oh, I'm just fallin'
Oh oh, I'm just fallin', oh, oh, I'm just fallin'
Fallin' fallin' fallin', just fallin'
No, I'm just fallin', no, I'm just fallin'
Fallin' fallin' fallin', fallin' fallin' fallin'
I'm smooth and heavy all over the world
I'm smooth and heavy all over the world
I have been unfaithful
I have been untrue
How'd I find the road that
Brought me back to you?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
In this crowded city
I was so alone
Stranger to my own eyes
Heart without a home
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
On the riverside drive
On the red of night
In the churches of Brooklyn
Underneath the Chelsea lights
Up in Battery Park
And up in Morningside Heights
Hallelujah
Suns are in the sky now
Suns are in my veins
Throw me in the fire now
Love is what remains
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
The obliteration of your isolation
The complete explosion of your fondest notion
This disintegration is your elevation
It's a grand illusion, it's a grand illusion
You're crying, you're trying so hard now
You'll be laughing a hundred thousand years
There is only one day and tonight is the night
It's a grand illusion
The devastation of your separation
The disillusion of your constitution
It's exhilaration, it's your liberation
It's a grand illusion, it's a grand illusion
You're crying, you're trying so hard now
You'll be laughing a hundred thousand years
There is only one day and tonight is the night
It's a grand illusion
It's a grand illusion
It's a grand illusion
It's a grand illusion
Illusion
Grand illusion
Grand illusion
sometimes i go walkin through fields
where we walked
long ago in the sweet used-to-be
and the flowers still grow
but they don't smell as sweet
as they did when you picked them for me
and when i think of you
and the love we once knew
how i wish we could go back in time
do you ever think back on old mem'ries like that
or do i ever cross your mind
(chours)
do you ever wake up lonely
in the middle of the night
because you miss me,do you darlin
oh and do your mem'ries ever take you back
into another place and time
and do you ever miss the feelings and the love
we shared when you were with me,do you darlin
i just wonder do i ever cross your mind
oh how often i wish that again i could kiss
your sweet lips like i did long ago
how often i long for those two lovin arms
that once held me so gentle and so close
and when i think of you and the love we once knew
how i wish we could go back in time
do you ever recall these old mem'ries at all
or do i ever cross your mind
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Are flown, except you alone
Going to leave this brokedown palace
On my hand and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll
In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside
I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home
It's a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago
Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home
Goin' home, goin' home, by the waterside
I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
Going to plant a weeping willow
On the banks clean edge it will grow, grow, grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
[Humming]
Anger he smiles
Towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Clean jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her firey green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life giving orders
Taken forgranted they quietly understand
Once happy turquoise always lay opposite
Ready but wonder why the fight is on
But they're bold as love
Just as bold as love
Yeah
Yes, they're bold as love
Just ask the Axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war
And ribbons of uphoria
Orange is young and full of daring
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frightend like me
All these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
I'm as bold as love
I'm as bold as love
Just as bold as love
Just ask the Axis
[Humming]
Yes I'm bold as love
I'm as bold as love
Just as bold as love
Yeah
I'm as bold as love
Just as bold as love
Just ask the Axis
In the shadows of tall buildings
Of fallen angels on the ceilings
Oily feathers in bronze and concrete
Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
The line moves slowly past the electric fence
Across the borders between continents
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
The architecture is slowly peeling
Marble statues and glass dividers
Someone is watching all of the outsiders
The line moves slowly through the numbered gate
Past the mosaic of the head of state
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
Of open arches endlessly kneeling
Sonic landscapes echoing vistas
Someone is listening from a safe distance
The line moves slowly into a fading light
A final moment in the dead of night
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
August in the city 90 degrees
The streets are full of arms and legs
The audience is hangin' on the corner
Just waitin' for some bones to beg
The sniper and the moving target
I can't talk talk until my face turn blue
Hey girl, you, girl put that right here
This what I'll do to you
I live, I live, I live on this street, oh yeah
I live, I live, I live on this street
The dogs are speakin' the men are howlin'
When we take our parts out for a walk
I could say, I should say, I would say
Does your mama know about the way you talk
Somewhere in Egypt I'm worth 4 camels
A strong healthy girl like me
On 42nd Street it's a quarter to look
But the women outside are free
I live, I live, I live, I live on this street
Oh I, I live on this street, yeah
[Incomprehensible]
All that he can't see, baby
Let us, let you stay girl
[Incomprehensible]
Ruler of the pavement
He owns all that he can see
On 42nd Street it's a quarter to look
But the women outside are free
I live
I live, I live, I live on this street
[Incomprehensible]
I live on this street, oh no, I livin'
I live on this street
[Incomprehensible]
I live, I live, I live on this street
Whenever I'm with him
Something inside
Starts to burnin'
And I'm filled with desire
Could it be the devil in me
Or is this the way love's supposed to be
Just like a heatwave
Burning in my heart
Can't keep from cryin'
It's tearing me apart
Whenever he calls my name
So slow, sweet and plain
I feel, yeah, yeah
Well, I feel that burning flame
Has my blood pressure got a hold on me
Or is this the way love's supposed to be
Just like a heatwave
Burning in my heart
Can't keep from cryin'
It's tearing me apart
Sometimes I stare in space
Tears all over my face
I can't explain it, don't understand it
I ain't never felt like this before
But that doesn't mean it has me amazed
I don't know what to do, my head's in a haze
Just like a heatwave
Burning in my heart
Can't keep from cryin'
It's tearing me apart
Don't pass up this chance
This time it's a true romance
Heatwave
How will we stay on the sidewalk
When there is no gravity?
Piece of paper floating upwards
But no one stops to see
And you think that I'm the right one
'Cause I know just what to say
And you ask me to convince you
That you won't blow away
In this wild wild world
In this wild wild world
In this wild wild world
By the river
Well we made them to be broken
Sorry if they let you down
Sorry if the ones you know
Are vanishing all over town
And I need someone to hold me
And I ask you to be fair
And you'd like to give me something
But we both know there ain't a lot, ain't a lot to spare
In this wild wild world
In this wild wild world
In this wild wild world
By the river
Oh are you listening
To make sure I'm still here?
Oh did you know, know
That the river burns like gasoline?
They can't turn on the rain machine
They tell me there is no more space
Won't you turn around
'Cause I hate it when I cannot see your face
In this wild wild world
Oh, in this wild wild world
In this wild wild world
By the river
Wild wild wild world
Wild world, yeah
Wild wild world
By the river
I get into my car, turn the radio on
Drive by your house, your window, your bed
Well, it's been two years gone, since we've been over and done
Ah, but your voice is still ringing in my years
Who divided up the days into hours, the hours into minutes
How could they be really that smart
Who divided up the minutes into seconds, they must have had a broken
Must have had a broken heart.
I saw you way up town, another girl by your side
I knew by your smile she was more than just a friend
I'm gonna bury my heart in a coffin so deep, Lord
Know when I'll never feel your arms again
Who divided up the days into hours, the hours into minutes
How could they be really that smart
Who divided up the minutes into seconds, they must have had a broken
Must have had a broken heart.
`Cause when love is over, you're gonna learn about time
You're gonna plot and scheme, you're gonna weep and moan
You're gonna wonder why, why, why
It's 3:00 a.m. says the clock on the wall
Here in the dark of the night the world stands still
I'm reaching for the phone, that old number to paw
Oh, but I know I can't stand to feel that chill
Who divided up the days into hours, the hours into minutes
How could they be really that smart
Who divided up the minutes into seconds, they must have had a broken
Must have had a broken heart.
Who divided up the days into hours, the hours into minutes
How could they really be that smart
Who divided up the minutes into seconds, they must have had a broken
Must have had a broken heart, oh, they must have had a broken heart
I'm just a poor Wayfarin' Stranger
travelin' through this world of woe
there's no sickness toil nor sorrow
in that bright world to which I go
I'm going there to see my father
I'm going there no more to roam
I'm just a going' over Jordan I'm just a going' over
home
ya see I'm a concrete buffalo soldier
I gotta chip it's like boulder on my shoulder
look in my eyes and you can see a red marble
like Nostradamus I'm the promise of tomorrow
traveling the city with my mexican cargo
cotton mouth - I take a dry swallow
to the nearest corner watering hole
the bartender with the deed for my soul
satisfaction no I can't get no
lotsa bad habits that I need to control
recite the Psalms but no emancipation
church for food and liquor stores for salvation
some day I'll make
it home to see my father
he saw the man who shot the coal miner's daughter
and if I had a dime for every gamble I risked
I could buy a diamond for the woman I miss ya see
I'm just a poor Wayfarin' stranger
ya check with me ya checking in with danger
I'm just a poor Wayfarin' stranger
roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger
I'm goin' there to see my Mother
she said she'll meet me when I come
I'm just a goin' over Jordan I'm just goin' over home
Jordan river roll river Jordan roll River Jordan roll on
Gee ain't it funny - how time slips away I wanna rewind the tape to see
my life replay
I soak up the sun - just as a reminder
that I was born a sick side winder
call me a vagrant, no machine to read your fax
I'll never pledge allegiance to your blood sweat and taxes
don't ever mistake me being docile for contentment
don't my anger for resentment
it's just the calm before the storm that's why I'm quiet
ya always mistaking an uprising for a race riot
you can take my life life - but there's no escape
'cause you can't shoot yer way through the pearly gates
so swing low sweet cadillac
coming for to carry me home
swing low pink cadillac
stepping over Jordan I roam
I'm just a poor Wayfarin' stranger
ya check with me ya checking in with danger
I'm just a poor Wayfarin' stranger
roaming the streets seeking Jesus in a manger
(chorus)
When the road is callin' yonder, when the road is callin' yonder
When the road is callin', when the road is callin' yonder I'll be there
When people think of holidays they
think of cold weather
"Let's spend this frozen wonderland together"
Chorus:
not me, I'm into warmer days
don't want to hear 'bout your winter wonderland
I am into...I'm into warmer days
Well frozen fingers, frozen toes,
topped with a frozen stare
numb your heart, and you numb
your mind, pretend that
you don't care
Chorus
Well say what you want about Santa Claus
go on ahead do your thing
and solace yourself in your righteous cause
while you're holding out for spring
Chorus
When you were young you walked to school
uphill both ways in freezing rain
and when I'm frozen in solid ice
how dare I even complain
Not me, but I'm into warmer days
don't want to hear 'bout your winter wonderland
I am into, I'm into warmer days
...don't want to hear 'bout your winter wonderland, I am into
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
Friend only to the undertaker
War means tears
To thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight
And their daughters lose their lives in
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Tell me war
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
War, it's an enemy of all mankind
The news of war
It breaks my heart and close my mind
War has laid waste to a whole generation
Induction then destruction
And who wants to die in a
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Tell me war
What is it good for?
Ask yourself this question
Oh peace, love and understanding
Tell me, is there no place for them today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord, Lord, Lord there's got to be a better way
Say war
What is it good for?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
What is it good for?
What is it good for?
What is it good for?
Ohh, can you tell me now?
There's got to be a better way
I can't believe that after all this time
You keep slipping back across my mind
Did we maybe leave the love behind afraid of what we felt
Other loves I've had have come and gone
I don't know why, they just don't last too long
There are questions that go on and go
That time won't tell
Time won't tell me how it might have been
And time won't make what's wrong alright
It can only take me back again
And re-run those memories in black and white
I watch us kiss good-bye that day
Here's where you turn around and walk away
Where were the words that would have made you stay
Well, time won't tell
Time won't tell me how it might have been
And time won't make what's wrong alright
It can only take me back again
And re-run those memories in black and white
You never see the road you didn't take
You never feel the love you failed to make
But you never know might be the words to say
And time won't tell
You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free
I didn't even know you. You couldn't 'o been too much more than 10
Let's go back let's go back let's go way on back when
I ain't no psychiatrist I ain't no doctor with degrees
But it don't take too much IQ to see what you're doin' to me
You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free
Freedom (freedom), Freedom (freedom)
There ain't nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin' things I don't
You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free
People walkin' 'round everyday planning games and taking scores
Tryin to make other people lose their minds well be careful you don't lose
yours
You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free
You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain't nothing we can do
(vamp)
Oh Freedom (freedom) Freedom (freedom) . . .
There ain't nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin' things I don't
You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free
You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain't nothing we can do
(vamp)
Freedom . . .
Pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead
Just need a place where I can lay my head
Hey mister can you tell me where a girl might find a bed?
He just grinned, shook my hand, 'No' was all he said
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Right on me
I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw carmen and the devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey, carmen, come on, let's go downtown"
She said, "I gotto go but my friend can stick around"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And put the load right on me
No right on me
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack, if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, won't you feed him when you can, yeah?"
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Put the load right on me
Right on me, right on me
Go down Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say
It's just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' for the judgement day
Well Luke my friend, "What about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, won't you stay an' keep Anna Lee company?'
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on
Take a load off Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny
And you put the load right on me
Put the load right on me
Yeah, put the load right on me
Com'n and put the load right on me
Catch the cannon ball now, now take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Flood tide below me
With the sun in my eyes
And I reach for the feeling
That the world is my prize
I'm crossing Brooklyn ferry
With the clouds to my west
And I know what I'm missing
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
Well, you climbed in my window
And you painted me gold
It was stone recognition
It was truth being told
And we burn down the winter
With the fire we possess
And I wish you could know this
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
And I wish you well, and I wish you well
And I wish you well
Oh, I wish you well, and I wish you well
And I wish you well
Well, well, well
Some days I wonder
If it's time to go home
But this dream I've been dreaming
Will not leave me alone
I can go where I want to
And I'm doing my best
But I know what I'm losing
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
Oh, some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Than the rest
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
Some are sweet but you were sweeter
I take my baby to the cornfield
I lay him down between the rows
I ask him if he really loves me
He tells me only heaven knows
If I owned a TV station
This is the message I would send:
A hundred strenuous acquaintances can't meet the loss of one true friend
Give me his old Montana jacket
His favorite shirt is Panama
And I can tell you where he's buried
Tell you the last thing that he saw, saw...
I am the keeper of your fetish
There is so much that you don't know
You're gonna drown in your own bathtub
You're gonna miss me when I go
If I owned that big transmitter
This is the message I would send:
A hundred strenuous acquaintances can't meet the loss of one true friend
And on the mornings after parties
I pick the bottles from the floor
I open every single window
I cough until my ribs are sore
Callin' out to all you vampires,
"I got molasses in my veins!
I think it's time I should be leavin'
And you can fight for my remains!"
For every word on every paper
For every dollar you will spend
A strenuous acquaintances can't meet the loss of one true friend
Sit down on the corner, just a little climb
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash
She bold as the street light, dark and sweet as hash
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa higher than the moon
Reach down for the sweet stuff, when she looks at me
I know any man sees you like I see
Follow down the side street movin' single file, she say
That's where I'll hold you, sleeping like a child
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa higher than the moon
Just what I've been needin', feel it rise in me, she say
Every stone a story, like a rosary
Corner St. Teresa, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa higher than the moon
You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot to tell me
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me
Show me my Teresa, feel it rise in me
Every stone a story, like a rosary
Can you see me rising
Since your disappearance?
Safe to say that I've regained myself
Sleeping like a baby still I wonder
Maybe if we'll ever
Meet up somewhere else
I'm bouncing you a message off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
How you walk around
With all that contempt inside you
I'm amazed that you can stand up straight
Turned up the volume
When you heard me saying to you
How does somebody switch from love to hate
I'm bouncing you a message off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
I know you feel it, it's right behind you
It's getting closer, you said yourself
You're running out of time
If I ever sit to write the story
I'll say something nice
About you when you're dead
Moving like the ocean
Safe inside the notion that I can
Read it layin' in my bed
I'm bouncing you a message off the night sky
You'll get it in a while
I know you feel it, it's right behind you
It's getting closer, you said yourself
You're running out of time
Yes, it's complicated if the feeling's faded
Still it's better to have no regrets
When you think about me if you think about me
Please remember that I've done my best
Can you see me rising
Since your disappearance?
Safe to say that I've regained myself
Crawling like a baby still I wonder
Maybe if we'll ever
Meet up somewhere else 'cause
I know you feel it, it's right behind you
It's getting closer, you said yourself
You're running out of time
Let me use your toothbrush
Have you got a clean shirt?
My panties in a wad
At the bottom of my purse
I walk into the street
The air's so cool
I'm wired and I'm tired
And I'm grinnin' like a fool
I've been on the floor lookin' for a chair
I've been on a chair lookin' for a couch
And I've been on a couch lookin' for a bed
Lookin' for a bed, lookin' for my, my
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
If he can't fix it, I don't know who can
The sinsemilla salesman
And the cops on the block
They know what I been doin'
They see the way I walk
I wonder what they see now
I wonder what they do
To feel somebody want them
The way I'm wanting you
I've been on the floor lookin' for a chair
I've been on a chair lookin' for a couch
And I've been on a couch lookin' for a bed
Lookin' for a bed, lookin' for, to really be
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
Use me up if you think you can
I've been on the floor lookin' for a chair
I've been on a chair lookin' for a couch
And I've been on a couch lookin' for a bed
Lookin' for a bed, lookin' for my
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
Say, "My right hand, my right hand man"
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, my right hand man
My right hand, ooh oh
My, my, my, my, my, my
If he can't fix it, gonna find a boy who can
Think I'm getting over him
The sap is risin' in the tree
The blood is runnin' in my heart
Brings desire back to me
I wonder who will the next fool be
There is a Spanish boy who also rides the A train
I want to tag him like a tiger
So I can track him as he moves around the city
So I can guard him like an angel
I wonder who will the next fool be
I wonder who will the next fool be
I got no more tears to cry
I can see it in the sky
In a bedroom by and by
I know it's comin' (oh yeah, ooh ooh)
I wonder who will the next fool be
I wonder who will the next fool be
I go out to the bars where the hearts are full of scars
And I lay mine out in the neon light
It's ragged and it's worn but it's about to be reborn
Honey, are you gonna take me home tonight?
When I meet each man I know
I look him deeply in the eye
Will it be a sweet old friend
Or a pretty little stranger passin' by?
I wonder who will the next fool be
I wonder who will the next fool be
I wonder who will the next fool be
I wonder who will the next fool be
… will the next fool be
Why do I keep my mind on you all the time
And I don't even know you
Why do I feel this way
Thinking about you every day
And I don't even know you
Take me in your arms
Thrill me with all of your charms
And I'll take to the sky on a natural high
(I want to take to the sky)
Loving you more 'till the day I die
(On the natural high)
Take to the sky on a natural high
(I want you to be mine)
Loving you more.
If you have anything to do
Call me and I will do it for you
And I don't even know you
If I only had one wish to give
That wish would be for you to live forever and ever.
When I see you on the street
My heart skips a beat
And I'll take to the sky on a natural high
(I'll just take to the sky)
Loving you more till the day I die
(on a natural high)
Take to the sky on a natural high
(Loving you more and I don't know you)
Loving you more
I'm gonna try to do
All the things you want me to
If you'll just give me a chance
I'm trying to make something out of a nothing romance
And I don't even know you
Take me in your arms
Thrill me with all of your charms
And I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving you more 'till the day I die
(To the sky)
I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving you more
And I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving you more 'till the day I die
I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving loving you
I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving you more 'till the day I die
I'll take to the sky on a natural high
Loving loving you
Close enough to touch
Nothing I can see, but I am feeling
The presence of a ghost who haunts me still
Trapped between the walls of his illusions
Trapped with only time to kill
Here lies an actor with no drama
here lies a leader with no plan
And I do not exist
But for one exception, I am nothing
But witness to this Misanthropic Man
Nothing else seems true
Nothing but to know this game we're playing
Nothing but this scene we're walking through
Nothing matters, even what he's saying
Nothing I could tell you
Here lies a thief confused by stealing
Here lies a player who can't jam
And I do not exist
But for one exception, I am nothing
But witness to this Misanthropic Man
So play another hand
Try to find some meaning in your chaos
There's no context fitting for you now
There's no tiny light to guide your footsteps
You want to take it all in hand, but
You're not the dealer at this table
You're not the one to call the dance
You're nearly obsolete
But for your existence, you are nothing
Early in the morning when I'm still in bed
I start thinking 'bout last night
My imagination gets the best of me
And I can feel the match burn twice
Baby, have I told you that I love your way
Only once will never suffice
They say that love is always sweeter the second time around
And I can feel the match burn twice
Oh, I take my time, time
Oh, I must confess
Oh, oh, here comes the part I like the best, the best, oh
So even when you're miles and miles away from me
Baby, it's no sacrifice
They say that love is always sweeter the second time around
And I can feel the match burn twice
Oh, shake that, baby girl
Sexy, sexy
Oh yeah
Oh, I take my time, time
Oh, I must confess
Oh, oh, here comes the part I like the best, the best, oh
So even if you're never comin' back no more
Baby, it's no sacrifice
They say that love is always sweeter the second time around
And I can feel the match burn twice
They say that love is always sweeter the second time around
And I can feel the match burn twice
Oh sure, I can feel the match burn twice
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high
There's a soft cotton dress on the line, hangin' dry
The window's wide open, African trees
Bent over backwards in a hurricane breeze
Not a word, a goodbye, not even a note
She's 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 quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat
Preacher was talkin' 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
One, two
There are no mistakes in life some people say
It's true sometimes you can see it that way
People don't live or die, people just float
She give her heart to the man in the long black coat
There's smoke on the water, it's been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted in the high crescent moon
Hear the pulse and vibrations and the rumblin' force
Somebody's out there beating on a dead horse
She never said nothin', there was nothin' she wrote
She's gone with the man in the long black coat
She's gone with the man in the long black coat
She's gone, she's gone, gone with the man in the long black coat
Gone with the man in the long black coat
Love's In Need Of Love Today
by Joan Osborne
Good morn or evening friends
Here's your friendly announcer
I have serious news to pass on to every-body
What I'm about to say
Could mean the world's disaster
Could change your joy and laughter to tears and pain
It's that love's in need of love today
Don't delay, send yours in right away
Hate's goin' round breaking many hearts
Stop it please before it's gone too far
The force of evil plans
To make you its possession
And it will if we let it
Destroy everybody
We all must take
Precautionary measures
If love and peace you treasure
Then you'll hear me when I say
Oh that love's in need of love today
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay Don't delay
Send yours in right away, right away
Hate's goin' round breaking many hearts
Stop it please before it's gone too far
Gone too far
People you know that
Love's in need of love today
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's, hate's goin' round
Breaking many hearts
Stop, stop it please before it's gone too far
It's up to you cause
Love's in need of love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's, hate's goin' round
Breaking, hate's tried to break my heart many times
Don't_you've got to stop it please
Before before before it's gone too far
Love's in need of love love today
Don't delay send yours in right away
You know that hate's goin' around
And it tried to break up many hearts
You've got to
I've got to
They've got to stop it before it's gone too far
Love's love's in need of love
Did you ever think that love would be in need of love today
Don't delay
Hate's goin' round
Bring it down a little love is very peaceful
So bring it down a little
I know what you're hidin' from me
You know what I'm hidin' from you
I know that you hurt me real bad
You know that I hurt you bad too
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It's a trip and a half
Here comes that story again
All about that television show
Here comes my typical response
Won't you tell me something I don't know?
And I'm pissed off about bein' on cops
And you're pissed off about bein' a maid
And how long till they shut off the phone
Till the next time we get laid?
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It's a trip and a half, trip and a half
We've been together so long
I hope it wasn't just the drugs
What happened to the energy we had
The morning glories and the rodeo hugs?
And I know you like the back of my hand
With a stamp that says,"I paid to get in"
And yes, I am your television show
And you're the nicest place I've ever been
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It wouldn't be so bad
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Let's just get naked
It's a trip and a half, trip and a half
Let's just get naked
Just for a laugh
Just for a laugh
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
I'm standin' here in your closet
Unbuttonin' all your clothes
I sleep in your bed tonight
But I never find you home
You're givin' me crooked answers
I'm crackin' your little code
I'm learnin' another language
So full it's about to explode
You give me a ladder now
I surely believe I'll climb
It don't even matter now
I'm willing to take my time
I'm gonna love you anyway
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
I'm gonna love you anyway
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
I wanted it to be easy
I know that I'll make you tired
Some tell me you're slow and lazy
Some tell me you're so inspired
You wanted a long flirtation
Your plane doesn't ever land
Some things I don't want to look at
I don't want to understand but
You give me a ladder now
I surely believe I'll climb
It don't even matter now
I'm willing to take my time
I'm gonna love you anyway
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
I'm gonna love you anyway
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today and everyday
Today, today and everyday
Everyday, everyday
Everyday, everyday
Everyday, everyday
Floating above you
Beyond the naked eye
Blue dreams about you
Keep playing in my mind
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
I'm just a satellite so lazy in the breeze
Ready to fly away, I need your gravity
When I run down the path the turns look all the same
And if I lose my way your mind will call my name
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
Let's go outside to a dark place
Where the kitty cat hides
Put on your fake wings
Give the moon a ride
When you're lonely for the angel inside
3:30 in the morning is too easy for you
But when it comes without a warning
What are you gonna do this time?
You gonna do this time?
Floating above you beyond the naked eye
Blue dreams about you comes rushing through my mind
Branded with thoughts of you they're tattooed on my sou
Why don't they seem to fade is what I'll never know?
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
Oh, if I was
Oh, if I was your man
I've Got to Use My Imagination
I've really got to use my imagination
To think of good reasons
To keep on keepin' on
Got to make the best of a bad situation
Ever since that day
I woke up and found
That you were gone
Darkness all around me
Blackin’ out the sun
Old friends call me
But I just don't feel like talkin’ to anyone
Emptiness has found me
And it just won't let me go
I go right on livin'
But why I just don't know
Staring down reality
Don't do me no good
'Cause our misunderstanding
Is too well understood
Such a sad, sad season
When a good love dies.
Not a day goes by
When I don’t realize
I've really got to use my imagination
To think of good reasons
To keep on keepin' on
I got to make the best of a bad situation
Ever since that day
I woke up and found
GIRL: Whew! You sure gotta climb a lot of steps to get to this Capitol Building here in Washington! But I wonder who that sad little scrap of paper is?
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capitol city
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee
But I know I'll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill
GIRL: Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage!
BILL: Well I got this far. When I started, I wasn't even a bill. I was just an idea. Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed, so they called their local congressman and he said, "You're right, there oughta be a law." Then he sat down and wrote me out and introduced me t Congress, and I became a bill. And I'll remain a bill until they decide to make me a law.
I'm just a bill
Yes I'm only a bill
And I got as far as Capitol Hill
Well, now I'm stuck in committee
And I'll sit here and wait
While a few key congressmen discuss and debate
Whether they should let me be a law
How I hope and pray that they will
But today I am still just a bill
GIRL: Listen to those congressmen arguing! Is all that discussion and debate about you?
BILL: Yeah, I'm one of the lucky ones. Most bills never even get this far. I hope they decide to report on my favorably, otherwise I may die.
GIRL: Die!
BILL: Yeah, die in committee. Ooh! But it looks like I'm gonna live! Now I got the House of Representatives and they vote on me.
GIRL: If they vote yes, what happens?
BILL: Then I got the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again.
GIRL: Oh no!
BILL: Oh yes!
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the President to sign
And he signs me then I'll be a law
How I hope and pray that he will
But today I am still just a bill
GIRL: You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the President can still say no?
BILL: Yes, that's called a veto. If the President vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress, and they vote on me again, and by that time you're so old...
GIRL: By that time, it's very unlikely that you become a law. It's not easy to become a law, is it?
BILL: No!
But how I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill
CONGRESSMAN: He signed you, Bill! Now you're a law!
This is our fork in the road
Love's last episode
There's nowhere to go
You made your choice, now it's up to me
To bow out gracefully
Though you hold the key
Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around
I knew just what to say
Now I found out today
All the words had slipped away
But I know there's always a chance
A tiny spark remains, and sparks turn into flames
And love can burn once again
Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around
So whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around
Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
I'll be around
Whenever you call me, I'll be there
Whenever you want me, I'll be there
Whenever you need me, I'll be there
I'll be around, I'll be around
I'll be around, baby I'll be around
Before you got to say
If you really want me
I have seen the other side
I have wrestled with the devil
I have wrestled with my pride
I have been down in the valley
I have stood out in the rain
I have seen my love forsaken
Felt the pleasure and the pain
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a mighty world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
I have cried in tears of sadness
I have cried in tears of joy
I have found a life worth livin'
From the peace within the noise
I have turned by back on hatred
Lyin', prejudice and greed
Found the future in the present
Found hope within a seed
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a mighty world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
Passin' thru, passin' thru
It's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
We're only passin' thru
I have seen my bucket empty
I have seen my well run dry
But there's water down the road
And I'm only goin' by
If I'm settin' on dead ready
When my chances come and knock
I'll make it where I'm going
I'll be tall just like a rock
There's one thing that's for certain
One chord that rings true
It's a wicked world we live in
But the truth is, we're only passin' thru
Passin' thru, passin' thru
It's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
We're only passin' thru
Yea, it's a mighty world we live in
but the truth is
How sweet it is
To be loved by you
How sweet it is
To be loved by you
I needed the shelter of someone's arms
And there you were
I needed someone to understand my ups and downs
And there you were
With sweet love and devotion
Deeply touching my emotion
How sweet it is
To be loved by you, okay
How sweet it is
To be loved by you
I close my eyes at night
Wondering where would I be, without you in my life
Everything I did was such a bore
Everywhere I went it seems I'd been there before
But you brighten up for me all of my days
With a love so sweet in so many ways
I just wanna stop and thank you baby
I just wanna stop and thank you baby
I just wanna stop and thank you baby
I just wanna stop, thank you baby, baby
Oh baby, oh baby
How sweet it is
You were better to me than I was for myself
For me, there's you and there ain't nobody
Nobody, nobody else
How sweet it is, oh God
To be loved by you
How sweet it is
To be loved by you
How sweet it is
To be loved by you
How sweet it is
To be loved
On a pitch black highway lookin' for a road
Sleepin' on a stormy bed, honey, who will be your coat
Came to be my drivin' wheel, you came to be my man
Now you're rollin' like a baby boy in the backseat of a van
Holy waters, holy way
Holy waters, sweetest way
Mississippi and Missouri
Where the sun swims with the moon
Rainbows run through chapel rooms
Pourin' honey by the spoon
I came to bring you watermelons
Bring you scented wine
Now I'm burning up in hot breath
And the river's rollin' out of time
Holy waters, holy way
Holy waters, sweetest way
I listen to a seashell out on a purple shore
I heard a song so wild and sweet it moved me to the core
So while the road is dancin' you let your love know how
Moving like the ocean, like waves from here to now
Holy waters, holy way
Holy waters, sweetest way
Holy waters, holy way
Holy waters, sweetest way
Holy waters, holy way
Holy waters, sweetest way
Holy waters, holy way
You gotta help me baby, I can't do it all by myself (repeat 2x)
If you don't help me daddy
Gotta find somebody else
Put on your nightshirt baby, hand me my morning gown (repeat 2x)
Don't feel sleepy
I just feel like lyin' down
Gotta help me baby, help me baby
Can't do it all by myself
If you don't help me daddy
Gotta find somebody else
Oooh, real quiet, real quiet, real quiet...
You gotta help me baby, gotta help me baby
Help me baby (repeat 2x)
Oooh, oooh, oooh...
Just want a little lovin' before you pass away (repeat 2x)
Leanin' against the window of a white hotel room
Lookin' down at Dallas, shining in the heat
Honey when you move it's graceful as a pnther
Open up your lips and my heart skips a beat
You suffer so pretty like a ragged apostle
You burn oh so brightly like a soldering gun
And I gave my body and soul to relieve you
But now you have told me that I'm not the one
And if I'm not the one
Baby if I'm not the one
Who's gonna dive down to the floor of the ocean
Who's gonna save you from being alone
Who's gonna hold you when you cry in the nighttime
Who's gonna carry your heart
Your heart of stone
I believed my love
Could chase away your darkness
Was strong enough to fight all the demons in your dreams
(Little did I know the weight would pull me under
Living in your world is so much harder than it seems)
Bit if I'm not the one
Baby if I'm not the one
Who's gonna dive down to the floor of the ocean
Who's gonna save you from being alone
Who's gonna hold you when you cry in the nighttime
Who's gonna carry your heart
Your heart of stone
Alt verse lyric
(Little did I know it would pull me under
Children, go where I send thee.
How shall I send thee?
I'm gonna send thee by one;
One's for the little itty Baby,
Born, born Lord,
Born in Bethlehem.
Children, go where I send thee.
How shall I send thee?
I'm gonna send thee two by two, 'cause
Two was a Paul and Silas, and
One was the little itty Baby,
Born, born Lord
Born in Bethlehem
Children, go where I send thee.
How shall I send thee?
I'm gonna send thee three by three, 'cause
Three was the Hebrew children, and
Two was a Paul and Silas, and
One was the little itty Baby,
Born, born Lord,
Born, in Bethlehem.
Children, go where I send thee.
How shall I send thee?
I'm gonna send thee four by four, 'cause
Four was the poor came knockin' on the door, and
Three was the Hebrew children, and
Two was a Paul and Silas, and
One was the little itty Baby,
Born, born Lord,
Do you think about the days when we were in love
When I whispered word to send us both to heaven
Now I'll press a kiss but I know it doesn't move you
But oh, I just can't seem to let it go
Dead letters with words that are no longer true
Dead silence where your promise used to be
You don't want me anymore but I'd rather be with you
Dead roses are still beautiful to me
Well, I still hang around, put money in the jukebox
Play those songs, let him ring the tears for me
Friends all shake their heads and tell me to go on home
But that's where all those memories will be
Dead letters with words that are no longer true
Dead silence where your promise used to be
You don't want me anymore but I'd rather be with you
Dead roses are still beautiful to me, yeah
Dead letters with words that are no longer true
Dead silence where your promise used to be
You don't want me anymore but honey I'd rather be with you
Dead roses are still beautiful to me