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There's colors on the street, red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet, people sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like satan but i'm to them
So i try to forget it anyway i can

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand
Under an old street light near a garbage can
Now, she's put the kid away and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she's done to it
That's one more kid that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man
We got a kindler, gentler, machine gun hand
We've got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world

Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Oh lay down your arms and love me peacefully. yea.
Use your arms for squezing and pleasing the one that loves you so.
Oh there ain't no reason for you to declare war on the one who loves you so.
So forget the other boys because my love is real.
Come off your battlefield.
Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Yea lay down your arms and love me peacefully. yea.
Use your arms for squezing and please cuse that's the way it has to be.
The weapons you're using are hurting me bad.
But someday you're going to retreat.
Cause my love baby is the truest you've ever had.
A soldier of love that's hard to beat.
Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Lay down your arms and love me peacefully. yea.
Use your arms to hold me tight. baby i don't wanna fight no more. (x2)
Oh baby, lay down your arms. (x7)
Please baby lay down your arms.

I wished for so long...
I cannot stay
All the precious moments...
Cannot stay
It's not like wings have fallen...
I cannot say
Still something is missing...
I cannot say

Holding hands of daughters and sons
In their phase they're falling down
Down, down, down

I have wished for so long...
How i wish for you again

Will i walk the long road?
I cannot stay
There's no need to say goodbye

Oh, the friends and family...
All the memories going round
Round, round round...

I have wished for so long...
How i wished for you today

And the wind keeps rollin'
And the sky keeps turning grey
And the sun is set
The sun will rise another day

I have wished for so long...
How i wish for you today

I have wished for so long...
How i wish for you today
Will i walk the long road?
We all walk the long road

Oh, tonight began with anything
Shadows, a light, a warm breath and a scream, ah yeah
Oh, tamper if you like between the doors, oh yeah
Oh, can't expect to go out ... to go out
With anything ... anything more
Oh, reach the door, a breath and a scr... oh reach the door
And a nada lada yeah
Life ain't what it's worth, a breath and a scr... oh, reach the door

All these reaching hands out grabbin' things, grabbin' me
Day in, day out, accumulating, ah yeah
Whoa, i suggest you step out on your porch
Oh yeah, huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah
Run away my son, to see it all ... oh, see the world
Oh reach the door, a breath and a scr... oh reach the door
Oh, and a nada lada yeah
Life ain't what it's worth, a breath and a scr... oh, reach the door

Come ... here it comes ... there it goes ... when it comes
Where it goes ... where it comes, can't see through the faith
Oh, come ... here it goes, grasp what you can
Don't you know there's something inside your hand, yeah

Oh, if i knew where it was i would take you there
There's much more then this, oh ... whoa, much more then this
Oh, see the world ... much more then, oh

Much more then ...
Why?

where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord took her away from
Me. she's gone to heaven, so i've got to be good. so i can see my baby when i
Leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car. we hadn't driven very far. there in
The road, straight ahead. a car was stalled, the engine was dead.

I couldn't stop, so i swerved to the right. i'll never forget the sound that
Night. the screamin tires, the bustin glass. the painful scream that i heard
Last.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord took her away from me. she's gone
To heaven, so i've got to be good. so i can see my baby when i leave this world.

When i woke up the rain was pourin down. there were people standin all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes. but somehow i found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said. "hold me darling, just a little
While." i held her close, i kissed her our last kiss. i found the love that i
Knew i had missed.

Well now she's gone. even though i hold her tight. i lost my love, my life,
That night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord took her away from me. she's gone
To heaven, so i've got to be good. so i can see my baby when i leave this
World.

Don't even think about reachin' me
I won't be home
Don't even think about stoppin' by
Don't think of me at all
I did, what i had to do
If there was a reason, it was you...

Don't even think of gettin' inside
Voices in my head, voices
I got scratches, all over my arms
One for each day, since i fell apart
I did, what i had to do
If there was a reason, it was you...

Footsteps in the hall, it was you, you
Pictures on my test, it was you
It was you...

I did, what i had to do
And if there was a reason
Oh, there wasn't no reason, no
And if, there's something you'd like to do
Just let me continue, to blame you

Footsteps in the hall, it was you, you
Pictures on my chest, it was you, you

I don't need anyone, don't need no mom and dad
Don't need no good advice, don't need no human rights
I got some news for you, don't even need you too

I got my time machine, got my 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer, ain't no loser
Got a sonic reducer, sonic reducer

People out on the streets, they don't know who i am
I watch them from my room, they are just passing by
I'm not just anyone

I got my time machine, got my little 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer, ain't no loser
Sonic reducer, sonic reducer

I'll be your bearer soon, love on some cotton doom
Things will be different then, the sun will rise from here
Then i'll be ten feet tall, then you'll be nothing at all

I got my time machine, got my little 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer, ain't no loser
Sonic reducer, sonic reducer
Sonic reducer, sonic reducer
Sonic reducer, sonic reducer , sonic reducer

Cold wind blows on the souls of my feet
Heaven knows nothing of me
I'm lost, nowhere to go

Oh, when i was a kid
Oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep
It's christmas time

Flowered winds was where i lived
Thought you burned, not froze for your sins
Oh, i'm so tired and cold

Oh, when i was a kid
Oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep
It's christmas time

Oh ... oh, when i was a kid
Oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep
It's christmas time

Oh ... oh, when i, if i was a kid
Oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me dream
It's christmas time

she lived on a curve in the road, in an old tar-paper shack
On the south side of the town, on the wrong side of the tracks
Sometimes on the way into town we'd say:
"mama, can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side
Wild eyed, crazy mary

Down along the road, past the parson's place
The old blue car we used to race
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
Said "no l-o-i-t-e-r-i-n-g allowed"
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

One night thunder cracked mercy backed outside her windowsill
Dreamed i was flying high above the trees, over the hills
Looked down into the house of mary
Bare bulb on, newspaper-covered walls, and mary rising up above it all

Next morning on the way into town
Saw some skid marks, and followed them around
Over the curve,through the fields, into the house of mary

That what you fear the most, could meet you halfway
That what you fear the most, could meet you halfway
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around