Burnett, T-Bone Filmography

• The 55th Annual Grammy Awards
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Nashville: The Whole Story
  2013, role: composer
• Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
  2013, role: producer
• Americana Honors & Awards Nomination Ceremony
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• A Place at the Table
  2012, role: composer
• The Union
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Big Lebowski Live Cast Reunion
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Original Song
• The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Tough Trade
  2010, role: producer
• The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Original Song
• Crazy Heart
  2009, role: producer
• Crazy Heart
  2009, role: composer
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)/Music Video
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Becoming Cash/Becoming Carter
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Vidiosyncrasy
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Walk the Line
  2005, role: composer
• Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of 'Walk the Line'
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Composer
• Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of 'Walk the Line'
  2005, role: actor , character name: Executive Music Producer
• The 47th Annual Grammy Awards
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Don't Come Knocking
  2005, role: composer
• The 76th Annual Academy Awards
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer: 'The Scarlet Tide'
• This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Words and Music of 'Cold Mountain'
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Words and Music of 'Cold Mountain'
  2003, role: producer
• A Journey to 'Cold Mountain'
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Soul of a Man
  2003, role: actor , character name: Featured Performer
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  2002, role: composer
• Bob
  2001, role: actor , character name: Bob
• Down from the Mountain
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  2000, role: composer
• Down from the Mountain
  2000, role: producer
• Inside Look: Down from the Mountain
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Gringo mojado
  1984, role: composer
• Heaven's Gate
  1980, role: actor , character name: Heaven's Gate band
• Renaldo and Clara
  1978, role: actor , character name: The Inner Voice

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Zombieland - T-Bone Burnett
• When The Night Falls - T-Bone Burnett
• Trap Door - T-Bone Burnett
• The Murder Weapon - T-Bone Burnett
• The Long Time Now - T-Bone Burnett
• The Bird That I Held In My Hand - T-Bone Burnett
• Strange Combination - T-Bone Burnett
• Song To A Dead Man - T-Bone Burnett
• Shut It Tight - T-Bone Burnett
• Shake Yourself Loose - T-Bone Burnett
• Seven Times Hotter Than Fire - T-Bone Burnett
• Monkey Dance - T-Bone Burnett
• Kill Zone - T-Bone Burnett
• Image - T-Bone Burnett
• I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return - T-Bone Burnett
• Im Coming Home - T-Bone Burnett
• I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance - T-Bone Burnett
• Humans from Earth - T-Bone Burnett
• Hula Hoop - T-Bone Burnett
• House Of Mirrors - T-Bone Burnett
• Hollywood Mecca Of The Movies - T-Bone Burnett
• Hefner And Disney - T-Bone Burnett
• Fear Country - T-Bone Burnett
• Fatally Beautiful - T-Bone Burnett
• Every Time I Feel The Shift - T-Bone Burnett
• Every Little Thing - T-Bone Burnett
• Euromad - T-Bone Burnett
• Earlier Baghdad (the Bounce) - T-Bone Burnett
• Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - T-Bone Burnett
• Born In Captivity - T-Bone Burnett
• Boomerang - T-Bone Burnett
• Blinded By The Darkness - T-Bone Burnett
• Baby Don't You Say You Love Me - T-Bone Burnett
• Anything I Say Can And Will Be Use - T-Bone Burnett
• After All These Years - T-Bone Burnett
• You Could Look It Up - T-Bone Burnett
• Over You - T-Bone Burnett
• Palestine Texas - T-Bone Burnett
• Bon Temps Rouler - T-Bone Burnett
• It's Not Too Late - T-Bone Burnett
• Criminals - T-Bone Burnett
• River Of Love - T-Bone Burnett
• Power Of Love - T-Bone Burnett
• No Love At All - T-Bone Burnett
• Kill Switch - T-Bone Burnett
• The Strange Case Of Frank Cash And The Morning Paper - T-Bone Burnett
• Tear This Building Down - T-Bone Burnett
• Primitives - T-Bone Burnett
• Man Don't Dog Your Woman - T-Bone Burnett
• There Would Be Hell To Pay - T-Bone Burnett
• Driving Wheel - T-Bone Burnett

Accentuate the positive
Destroy all the negatives
Before the black mass media
Get a hold of them
Boy's been sniffing that frog powder
Drinking that genius juice
Shooting that monkey blood
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
Machines always do just what you tell them to do
As long as you do what they say
Machines gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
Machines gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
Look at that boy, he can't see nothing
He can't hear nothing, just put him over there
All the tides in Zombieland are to oblivion
Sniffing that frog powder
Blowing that Egyptian bone
Settling like a fog
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat down in Zombieland
Speaking hieroglyphics with his pistol and his pills
Phantom conjured to a dark mojo
You want to know but you don't know
You want to know but you don't know
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland

As the night falls, as the sun starts to sink
And the street lights blink on the town's yawning
I climb down my stairs to the empty avenue
And follow my shadow till morning
'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely
As I walk past the theaters and stores
And the whores that now work where we first met
I want to hold you so bad that it hurts
And it only gets worse when the sun sets
'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely
And then I see you and call out your name
But down the street you keep walking away
And when I reach you
A stranger looks over her shoulder then it starts all over
Now the moon is a thin silver line
Disappearing behind a skyscraper
And I climb my stairs to my dark hotel room
Through the litter of Sunday newspapers
'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely
I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely

It's a funny thing about humility
As soon as you know you're being humble
You're no longer humble
It's a funny thing about life
You've got to give up your life to be alive
You've got to suffer to know compassion
You can't want nothing if you want satisfaction
Tonight the world looks like a different place
Tonight the moon is turning in its place
Tonight we find ourselves alone at last
Watch out for the trap door
Watch out for the trap door
It's a funny thing about love
The harder you try to be loved
The less lovable you are
It's a funny thing about pride
When you're being proud
You should be ashamed
You find only pain if you seek after pleasure
You work like a slave if you seek out the leisure
Tonight the world looks like a different place
Tonight the moon is shining on your face
Tonight we find ourselves alone at last
Watch out for the trap door
Watch out for the trap door
Watch out for the trap door
Watch out for the trap door
Watch out for the trap door

It can kill from any distance but you never see it strike
There isn't any warning, no blinding flash of light
It hits you when your back's turned or when your eyes are closed
There isn't any shelter and it cannot be controlled
It can be as subtle as a whisper in the dark
Or as brutal and as cutting as the teeth of a shark
The murder weapon
The murder weapon
There is no good description for the way it makes you feel
It's as lethal as a stiletto and more easily concealed
It sometimes is strategic and sometimes not at all
But you get caught in the fallout, win, lose or draw
There is no escape except to go completely mad
If it doesn't kill you right at first it makes you wish it had
The murder weapon
The murder weapon
The murder weapon

I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now
I can hear the footsteps following behind me
Trying to find me but when I turn around
I can't see where the path goes
Into the shadows, into the shadows
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now
I can hear you breathing
Whispering in my ear, "There is nothing to fear"
But when I turn around
As I see the trees bow, I only hear the wind blow
By mistake I felt alone, in my heart I've always known
You'd be there to bring me home
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now
I been waiting for the long time now

If you look out your window as the sun's going down
I'll be there by the side of the road
And I'll ride you away from this dirty old town
And never again leave you alone
For you were the bird that I held in my hand
Till I learned to fly on my own
You're a garden in this God forsaken land
And the only true love I have known
The morning was freezing the sky was still dark
When I last laid eyes upon you
Oh, I know the ache you have held in your heart
For darling, I have felt it too
For you were the bird that I held in my hand
Till I learned to fly on my own
You're a garden in this God forsaken land

He was a strange combination
Part what fathers in movies call a romantic little fool
Part what fathers in Russian novels call a depraved egoist
He won't be missed, I'll persist
First he would fall in love like a building imploding
And not be able to control his emoting
Then he would spend a few speechless weeks
Goggling his beloved and reading Keats and reading Dante's
Next if she gave him a sign, he'd send flowers for a time
Then in one magnificent gesture
He could transform himself into a Bluebeard
But not just an ordinary run of the mill Bluebeard
One who was a lecher then he'll put her out to pasture
What does this have to do with the future?
I'm not too sure
What does this have to do with the present?

When I was a kid, I was really young
I fell in love and I got stung
I tried it out and I tried it on
When I was a kid, I was really young
When I was a kid everything was new
I had a lot of friends, I couldn't even get close to
And I tried so hard that I got confused
When I was a kid, everything was new
When I was a kid, I was on my own
I had a mother and a father, till I was almost grown
But when I was alone, I was all alone
When I was a kid, I was on my own
When I was a kid, I got off the track
I walked down the road and I never did turn back
God deliver me from this case in fact

I find it hard sometimes to say the way that I feel
I do the very things I hate to do
I act like a child and I'm afraid of what is real
And so I try to cover up the truth
I stumble like a drunk along this crazy path I walk
I have a hundred thousand questions too
I'll go to any length to prove that nothing is my fault
Then later on I will deny the proof
I don't like to win but then again I hate to lose
And in between is something I can't stand
I don't care what you think and I hope that you approve
I am just an ordinary man
Sometimes I want to stop and crawl back into the womb
And sometimes I cannot tell wrong from right
But I ain't gonna quit until I'm laid in my tomb

How much rope you gonna give yourself?
How much slack do you need
In order not to hang yourself up on the street?
You say, you learned your lesson
But I know that that ain't true
When I see that feeling come over you
But I don't blame you, baby, 'cause it really ain't no use
I believe that you believe, you're searching for the truth
I don't know what hold that rounder downtown has on you
But keep on shaking, baby, till you shake yourself loose
I'm not running away from trouble, I'm walking away from an accident
Involving a personality double and a hole with a head in it
Ain't nothing I can say, ain't nothing I can do
When I see that feeling come over you
But I don't blame you, baby, 'cause it really ain't no use
I believe that you believe, you're searching for the truth
I don't know what hold that rounder downtown has on you

I never been closer and I never been farther away
I never been closer and I never been farther away
I might say something or I might have nothing to say
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but it won't bring me down
Love I feel is seven times hotter than fire
If I was dead and buried in the cold, hard ground
If I was dead and buried in the cold, hard ground
I would rise from the grave and come and track you down
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but with a crazy sound
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
If you were there on that dark night
You would not have joined the fight
You would have said it wasn't right
Had you been there on that dark night
If you were there on that dark day
You would have turned and walked away
You would not have joined the fray
Had you been there on that dark day
You would have had the words to say
Had you been there on that dark day
I never been closer and I never been farther away
I never been closer and I never been farther away
I might say nothing or I might have something to say
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The love I feel is seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but it won't bring me down

She slides across the floor
Puts her head on his shoulders
His eyes search for the door
Even as he pulls her closer
She is a raging beauty
He writes I love you truly
In lipstick on her mirror
Which leaves her in a furor
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
His fingers brush her face
She quivers like a fawn
He's lost in her embrace
She turns around he's gone
She knows his lies are barefaced
As she descends the staircase
Her clothes are falling off her
He can't resist her offer
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
We do the monkey dance, it's a crazy feeling
Monkey dance, what we are concealing
Monkey dance, we shall be revealing
We do the monkey dance, when the blows all glance
Monkey dance, we do the monkey dance
She has a will of iron
He reads her Keats and Byron
Till she can go no further
He starts to read her Thurber
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
We do the monkey dance, it's a crazy feeling
Monkey dance, what we are concealing
Monkey dance, we shall be revealing
We do the monkey dance, when the blows all glance
Monkey dance, we become advanced
Monkey dance, we do the monkey dance

We stood together in the open field
And heard the secret that the night revealed
Then we chased the lie
Racing through the sky
Can we untangle guilt or innocence?
How hard we torture this ambivalence
Night will bring no dawn
Where has power gone?
For I'll steal your dreams while you are sleeping
And sell them for dust and cheap lust
And I'll slit your hope while you are weeping
And wipe the blood clean with morphine
Be my queen
The wind howls the black clouds around the storm at sea
I'm dropping at too great a speed
Come closer to me on your hands and knees
Alone in the kill zone
How much is not enough, how much is through?
How long will I be getting over you?
How much grief and sin 'til a heart caves in?

I had this image of you
You had this image of me
And your image would talk to my image
And my image would talk to your image
And somewhere along the way

Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
We've been going back and forth for a long time
We often did the right thing at the wrong time
We have hurt the ones that we love the most
Till I wonder, did we ever get that close?
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
I've been getting over you since the day we met
It might have been as simple as the way we met
Must we live in anger and in shame?
Must we always try to place the blame?
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
From fear to fear, from madness to madness
Everything here has been hidden and guarded
From tear to tear, from address to address
I'm on borrowed time and I'm lost and discarded
I can't decipher the questions you ask
I wouldn't blame you for taking me to task
It's hard to move freely in the cubist thing we did
Fractured and slanted, ellipse as pyramid
I'm grateful to you for every hard thing you've done
I'll never replace you, next to you, there is no one
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath

I been lost and all alone like a statue made of stone
But now I'm coming home
I fell for a painted face, thought I'd fallen out of grace
But now I'm coming home
I'm coming home, hold me to your breast
Let me stay and rest in your tenderness
I'm coming home, back where I belong
Still your love is strong, roll away the stone
I'm coming home
I said my prayers, made my plans
Set out for the promised land and now I'm coming home
I saw how you pay the price
For some distant paradise and now I'm coming home
I'm coming home, hold me to your breast
Let me stay and rest in your tenderness
I'm coming home, back where I belong
Still your love is strong, roll away the stone

She wore a low-cut black satin dress
Slit up the front and down the back
She wore black high-heeled shoes
With laces that went up her ankles
She wore black velvet gloves
With rhinestone bracelets around them
She had long blond hair, she had long blond hair
(Long blond hair, long blond hair)
And she sat on the jukebox with one leg propped up
And a crowd of boys gathered 'round her
And one tried to kiss her
But she turned her face
And I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she soared across the floor
I wish you could have seen her dance
She did a pirouette and then a Kung Fu step
I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she threw her hair through the air
And I wish you could have seen her dance
I asked her, "Do you come here often?"
She said, "I've never been here before"
I asked her, her name and she said
"They call me Kim Boston in England"
"And Kim English in Boston and also in Dallas"
I said, "How did you like Dallas"
She said, "It was just like Ireland
Except the wells don't look like wishing wells"
And I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she soared across the floor
I wish you could have seen her dance
She did the Flavo and the Tango and the Flamenco
I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she threw her hair through the air
And I wish you could have seen her dance
I asked, "Are you an actress"
She said, "No, but do you think I'm good enough"
She said, "You look like you belong on
Monty Python, Eric Idle"
She said, "Do you wanna know what I do for work"
I said, "Sure"
(She had long blond hair)
I said, "Alright"
(She had long blond hair)
She said, "I'm a maid and a dancer
I've danced for three rock bands
And one of the bands
Even wrote a song about me"
And I wish you could have seen her dance
I wish you could have seen her dance
I wish you could have seen her, wish you could have seen her

We come from a blue planet light-years away
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here
We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here
Bought Manhattan for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Here's a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here
I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to
We're humans from earth

Way up in the hierarchies
Mr. Big picks up his horn
Floats a note down through the lowlands
And another star is born
Then he turns a deep vermilion
And he deals a little scorn
We're all gonna be geniuses
We're all gonna be famous
We'll all get in the TV business
And move up to New York who can blame us
They tell me way up there they got a man pulls
Fifteen feet of chain out of his brain
Hula hoop
Hula hoop
Hula hoop
So if you're bound to hit the big time
Then you better do it right
Go and get yourself some buttons and a healthy appetite
For some overpaid attention and a lot of neon light
Hula hoop
Hula hoop

He was born in Brooklyn
And grew up in the Church of Rome
There was a girl there who loved him and had faith
He loved her like a madman, he loved her like a fool
He got a lot of big ideas
And fought his way up to mad avenue
He navigated that bizarre world easily
He did good work and he was smart
He knew his superiors, he disdained his inferiors
He was proud and dignified and she waited
The more money made, the more he wanted
The more glory he got, the more he wanted
His appetites were never sated
Everything he knew about himself
He drew from what was around him
You know this suit is you, this car is you
This studio is you
People were no different, people were also his mirrors
Often he was their mirror as well
Life became complicated and overstated
And underrated and she waited
The more power he got, the more he wanted naturally
The more women he had, the more he wanted
His appetites were never sated
She finally married a wine salesman and had three children
Sometimes he thinks of her
But it's a gnawing, painful memory

Hollywood Mecca of the movies
Who are you and why are you speaking aloud?
In this joint there are no cameramen allowed
He is a personality not a person
Crime being crime wave, the scanner
What a town, what a great town
We didn't build this place to last forever
Sodium penathol, pseudologica fantastica
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises
I said goodbye a long time ago
You must not have heard me
Measurement and signature
How to throw your voice
Dead Pan Alley, extreme consciousness
Power, violence, social engineering
Someone stole my identity and I feel sorry for him
It's a mortal cinch, no resilience
We didn't build this place to last forever
What a town, what a great town

Somewhere between Never Neverland and Wonderland
In a land called Never Wonderland
There lived a beautiful wealthy young divorceé
With a checkered past and a bad memory
Who should probably remain nameless
And men traveled from far and wide and try to win her hand
And she took in stragglers from all over the known world
Her newest guests were as her mother called them
"The latest Russians to defect"
One's name was Hefner the other's name was Disney
Disney smoked a pipe and was very philosophical
He was constantly surrounded by go go girls
He used to take pictures of them without any clothes on
And sell them to the neighborhood children
Hefner on the other hand was not so introspective
He loved a good story just like anybody else
In fact he loved the myths of Never Wonderland so much
That he made elaborate molded plastic sculptures
Of the characters in the myths
And then he'd set them out in the garden
Until he had built a whole 'nother land in Never Wonderland
Which he called Hefnerland
The neighborhood children loved them
They had lots of fun playing in Hefnerland
And looking at all Disney's go go pictures
Because they didn't know any better
And they didn't know any worse
But the beautiful, wealthy, young divorceé thought
That they were only after her money
Sometimes she even wished they would go back to Russia
But between you and me they were really dupes of the Wicked King

The cat's out of the bag
And it ain't going back
Your plan has hit a snag
It has fallen through the crack
I gotta tell on you
I gotta tell on you
This is fear country
This is fear country
This is fear country
Five years of mercy
And two days of grace
It only took a minute
To fall on your face
I gotta tell on you
I gotta tell on you
This is fear country
This is fear country
This is a fear country
Cowboy with no cattle
Warrior with no war
They don't make imposters
Like John Wayne anymore
This is fear country
This is fear country
This is fear country
Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's going on
Nobody knows what's coming down
But it's coming down
And it happens in a moment
It happens in a moment
Do this for me or risk eternal agony
This is fear country
This is fear country
And if you don't believe me, I can prove it
This is fear country
This is fear country
And if you don't believe me, I can prove it

She was born in the back of a thirty four Ford
And raised in a foster home
Her guardian made sexual connection with her
Before she was even grown
When she was fifteen she fell in love
With a boy who had a fast car
But she was timid and withdrawn
So she worshiped him from afar
Still he couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful
She ran away to the city the next year
Disowned out of jealousy
She frightened men with her figure
So they treated here like a sleaze
She lived cross the street from a piss factory
As dark as the sun is bright
The kind where you think you just went blind
When you walk in from the daylight
Still they couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful
She was discovered by a man three times her age
Who worked for a studio
And he bought her dresses and perfume
And moved her into his home
He got her a part in a comedy
Where she played a dumb blond whore
And she posed without clothes for a magazine
And the offers came in by the score
In a restaurant in Brussels she pulls back her hair
Picks up a candle and lights a cigarette
And she's recognized by a tourist
Who can't see her face but knows her silhouette
He imagines her robe as it drops to the floor
He imagines her skin soft to touch
He imagines her naked on silk sheets
The morning she never woke up
Still I couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful
I noticed her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl

If we were to pass an Eleventh Commandment
In twenty years people would be shocked to learn
That there had once been only ten
And wouldn't care if there had been
It all comes down to a moment of truth
Clock ticking in a soundproof booth
From Corpus Christi to Duluth
From Genghis Kahn to Babe Ruth
If I could only see through glass
I would know what has come to pass
I wouldn't hurry but I'd get there fast
What's last is first, what's first is last
Every time you feel the shift
You conjure fire in a hieroglyph
When you're out for revenge dig two graves
When you run from the truth it comes in waves
We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God
We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God
We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God

For every little thing I did to hurt you
For every little way I made you cry
There's another line etched in my face
Another trace of sorrow in my eyes
For every careless word you spoke against me
For every time I staggered through your lies
There's another tear stain in your face
Another trace of anger in your eyes
Measuring the angle of the pain
Taking all the pleasure that remains
Shadows that follow you
Into this solitude
For every little thing I did to hurt you
For every little way I made you cry
There's another line etched in my face
Another trace of anger in my eyes
Swallowing the bitter and the vain
Seeing madness following in train
Shadows that threaten when
Dancing like skeletons
For every careless word you spoke against me
For every time I staggered through your lies
There's another tear stain in your face
Another trace of anger in your eyes
Another trace of anger in your eyes

I went Euromad out on the road last fall
Between the Roman churches and the German music halls
Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery
I might have never got this far, it would be all the same to me
It started in Bologna when I stepped between the lights
I thought I'd lost my charisma my life flashed before my eyes
The communists rejected me, I didn't fit their plan
And anyway I must assume they're anti-American
It might have been Geneva in a darkened discotheque
And though I met Sophia, I still got it in the neck
A journalist he spied on me like I always knew they would
He wrote me off like a business trip I felt deeply misunderstood
Or maybe it was Paris blazing dignity and pride
It's a city full of heiresses where I very nearly died
I woke up in the circus with a whistling in my ears
I'm ready for the antidote can you tell me what it is
I went Euromad out on the road last fall
Between the Roman churches and the German music halls
Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery
I might have never made it through this Euromisery
Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery

I am not important
I am a broken man
Throw myself on your mercy
You who have wronged me
I built my life in vainglory
I lost sight of the light
Where, once, I walked down streets of gold
I stumble through the darkness
I offer you my broken image
On the altar of your hatred for me
It's a phantom, it is nothing
But it's all I have to give
Every word we say is crucial
A lie to avoid a lie
Can we bridge the gap between us?
Will you pray with me?
Could you use some quiet?
Can you perform an exorcism?
You've numbed you conscience with sanctimony
I numbed mine with narcissism
I surrender to you
You, who I so long despised
I will expect nothing
Believing you to be kind
Can you accept me, shattered?
Can you speak with one who is no one?
This must all be kept in context

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend.
A kiss may be grand,
But it won't pay the rental on your humble flat or help
You at the automat
Men grown cold as girls grow old,
And we all lose our charms in the end.
But square-cut or pear-shape,
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Let's rock
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
diamonds are a girl's best friend.
There may be a time when a hard boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice
but get that ice or else no dice.
He's your guy when stocks are high,
but beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Let rock again
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Born in captivity
Born in captivity
Born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
Born in captivity
They make you stand in line for the first grade
They make you kneel in hall to the air raid
They say the saucer's coming any day
To take you and all your friends away
But thirty times it never comes
And still the natives beat the drums
And we're born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
Yes, we're born in captivity
Cossack children of the bourgeoisie
And they burn their images in your brain
And tell you what is valuable
Till it all looks pretty much the same
And you are totally malleable
And it works like magic on everyone
'Cause the camera's mightier than the cannon
And we're born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
And we're born in captivity
Cossack children of the bourgeoisie

Up in New York City, 'neath the bamboo trees
She was eating sushi, he was on his knees
He tried to say he loved her but he could not win
She just fixed her lipstick and kept ignoring him
She was headed for a crash and it even hurt to laugh
'Cause it ended with a bang
When it all came back like a boomerang
When it all came back like a boomerang
She went to a party, where thieves and debutants
All talked in italics with so much nonchalance
He was on the outside, standing in the rain
He saw her through the window, he could not stand the pain
She was headed for a crash and it even hurt to laugh
'Cause it ended with a bang
When it all came back like a boomerang
When it all came back like a boomerang
She went up the staircase with a sleazy Mideast guest
Who could not help staring through her flimsy cocktail dress
He broke into the bedroom, they put him on the spot
He pulled off his pistol, they never heard the shots
They were headed for a crash and it even hurt to laugh
'Cause it ended with a bang
When it all came back like a boomerang
When it all came back like a boomerang

The laws of God and the laws of man
The laws of man, they don't carry
The same weight as the laws of God
Or the laws of nature in the nomenclature
Do we want to inject
The concept of sin into the constitution?
Is this really necessary?
Does this not make you somewhat wary?
Shouldn't sin be left to the laws of God
And to the laws of nature?
Can we trust this to the legislature?
And shall we trust sin to the wisdom
Of the criminal justice system
Which can't handle the criminals we have now?
Why create a whole new class of them?
Isn't crime dealt with by the laws of man?
Isn't sin dealt with by the laws of God?
Isn't crime dealt with by the laws of man?
Isn't sin dealt with by the laws of God?
Sin were dealt with by the laws of man
Everybody would be in jail for life
In solitary confinement with no one to go his bail
Or else would have gotten death, maybe I should save my breath
But this lunacy is bound to fail
But there would be no one to get the food
Or run the machines, mercy on us, dude
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
In seven days God created evolution
When shall I expect retribution
From the counter revolution
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me
Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me
Every day you haunt me
First you hex me then you taunt me
Then you leave me in this twisted misery
I mean nothing to you
But for now I'm seeing through you
Someone else will save you but it isn't me
Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me
Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me
Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me
Every night you hurt me
First you vex me then subvert me
Then you leave me in this twisted misery
I no longer fear you
I can barely even hear you
Someone else will save you but it isn't me
Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me and then deceive me
And then deceive me and then deceive me
And then deceive me and then deceive me

People tell me I look like hell
Well I am hell
I got a torture-chamber orchestra and a delirium hotel
I got a hallucination rattlesnake to twist my skills through
You're my friend, but I'm gonna kill you.
Somebody's got to monitor all this darkness, darkness, darkness
Somebody's got to locate the bomb. Dot com.
Somebody's got to break out through the night so starless starless
Those who would overthrow the status quo
Sold like smoke thrown into the sky, gotta cry, gotta cry, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go
Target Arab Sheik MK ultra satellite blow up kill the pain, let it rain, let it rain
I will disengage your mastery until all your love is blasphemy
The I'll break in through you idiocies and twist your desire hideously
And when you're the object of complete derision I'll make you a star on television
Then if you want fame and it's greatest strength speak to my girl friday the thirteenth
Got no background, got no files
Come down the cable, Black Hawk, ground zero, no flight zone. All alone, all alone,all alone
This is a story which is based on a true story, which is based on a lie
Don't jack with me, Sahied! I'm history.

I heard you saw her again last evening
I heard you'd been with her for two or three days
I still have her picture taped to my mirror
Did she still look the same after all these years?
I remember her as the most beautiful woman
Was her hair still blonde? Were her eyes still blue?
Were they soft and gentle or filled with tears?
Did she still look as hurt after all these years?
I lost track of her way back in the sixties
I even heard that she had tried suicide
There were rumors the government killed her career
Did she still look as scared after all these years?
Will they ever uncover her terrible secret
And untangle the mystery of her life?
Will they ever know why she disappeared?
Was she still as gone after all these years?
Was she still as alluring, still as seductive?
Could she still drive you crazy by the look on her face?
Did she still have a whisper you could hear cross an ocean?
Was she still a scandal still a disgrace?
Was she still as impossible, still as voluptuous?
Still as helpless and full of fears?
Was she still as provocative, still as compelling?

she seemed to appear
a sultry baggage of about nineteen
she said her name was
daisy buchanan and it might have been
her eyes were limpid pools
her mouth a scarlet wound
she strolled through the room
the dance floor parted like the pharoah's sea
she stopped at the bar
got one mint julep and brought it to me
she looked sort of shy and all
just like lauren bacall
you could look it up
she crossed to the door
looked at me sideways over her shoulders
tossed back her titan hair
and lit the cigarette in her holder
she didn't have to say a word
a dear man overheard

There's a fine line between love and hate
That we erased That we erased
What started as a mask became a face
The pain untraced The pain untraced
I been a long time searching for you
I been a long time breaking through
Gonna be a long time getting
Over you Over you
Standing in my doorway facing south
The moon comes up the sun goes down
Wondering what this noise was all about
The dust blows in the light blows out
I spent a long time looking for you
I spent a long time breaking through
Gonna be a long time getting
Over you Over you
Down the road I see the fog roll in
As thick as fear as dark as sin
We live in an age lit by lightning
After the flash we're blind again
I been a long time searching for you
I been a long time breaking through
Gonna be a long time getting
Over you Over you