Too Long In Exile

Wasted years been brainwashed by lies
Oh yes i have
Oh wasted years
I'm talking about wasted years
Oh i'm not seeing eye-to-eye
I just can't see the things i should see
Wasted years, baby
I was taking the wrong advice
I know you was, i know you was
And i was too
All alone i'm travelling
Travelling through these wasted years
For so long, so long, so long i was
Oh, i must have gained some wisdom
Down through the years i did
Somewhere along the way
Oh yes, i did, oh yes i did
Thet's why there can't be no more
No more
No more wasted years today
I got wise, i got wise to myself
Well baby the great sadness
Oh, you've got to let it all go
Oh yeah, oh yeah van
Live in the present
Live in the future john lee, ain't that so
Oh, it's a sad feeling, oh yeah
Oh, you've gotta find something
To carry you through, carry you through,
Carry you through
I've learned my lesson
I ain't gonna do it no more, yeah
Now van
Now john
I've learned my lesson
I should have a long time ago
That's right
All these wasted years, wasted years
I finally woke up and got wise
I ain't gonna be, ain't gonna be no fool no more
Now van, now van
Ain't gonna be nobody's body's fool no more
Sing the song van, sing it with me
Well all alone, all alone i've been travelling
Yeah
Travelling all along through these wasted years
Dark, dark wasted years
So dark here
Dark, dark, dark, dark wasted years
I must have gained something
Yeah
Oh travelling along the lonely way
Yeah, i've learned a lesson
I'm gonna make damn sure baby, make damn sure
There's no more wasted years today

Too long in exile
Too long not singing my song
Too long in exile
Too long like a rolling stone
Too long in exile

Too long in exile
Baby those people just ain't, just ain't your friends
Too long in exile my friend
You can never go home again

Well that isolated feeling
Drives you so close up against the wall
Till you feel like you can't go on
You've been in the same place for too long

Too long in exile
Baby you can never go back home
Too long in exile
Anyway you want

Oh that isolated feeling
Drives you up against, up against the wall
'cos you've been on the mainland baby
Been on the mainland, comin'on strong

Too long in exile
Too long people keep hanging on
Too long in exile
Too long like a rolling stone

And the wheeling and the dealing
All takes up too much time
Check your better self baby
You'd better satisfy, satisfy your mind

Too long in exile
Too long you've been grinding at the mill
Too long in exile
Man, i've really just had my fill

Too long in exile
You can never go back home again
Too long in exile
You're about to drive me just insane

Too long in exile, been too long in exile
Just like james joyce, baby
Too long in exile
Just like samuel beckett baby
Too long in exile
Just like oscar wilde
Too long in exile
Just like george best, baby
Too long in exile
Just like alex higgins, baby
Too long in exile

She come around here about midnight
She come around here about midnight
Make me feel so good
Every night about midnight
Come around
Make me feel alright
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Walking down the street
She knock on my door
Come in my room
Make me feel so good
Like a woman do
Well why do you make me feel alright
She's a natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Natural born woman
Natural born soul sender
Come here about midnight, yeah! yeah!

Did i tell you about my baby
Well, she comes around
Five feet four
From her head to the ground
Comes around here
Just about midnight
Makes me feel so good
Makes me feel alright
And her name is g . l . o . r . i . a
G.l.o.r.i.a, g.l.o.r.i.a
G.l.o.r.i.a, g.l.o.r.i.a
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every day

Oh, oh, oh midnight, midnight, midnight
She come around here
She makes me feel alright about midnight
Walking down on the street
Come knock on my door
Knock, knock on my door
Then come in my room
Make me feel alright
Feel, feel, feel, feel
Feel, feel, alright, alright
She's a sender, she's a lover
She's a sender, she's a killer

What's her name?
Her name is gloria
G . l . o . r . i . a
G.l.o.r.i.a
Gonna shout it every night
Gonna shout it every day
G.l.o.r.i.a, g.l.o.r.i.a
I wanna shout it every night
I wanna shout it every day
And every day, and every day
And every day child
And every day child, every day
Makes me feel good
Feel, feel
Mamma look, feel, feel, so good
She's a sender, she's a sender

Well, they told me to come on over
I made my way to new york
And they tried to have me deported
Stop me from getting work
Blacklisted me all over
They were vicious and they were mean
They were bigtime operators
Baby, on the music business scene

Oh, they looked like politicians
But underneath they were thugs
And they spread malicious rumours
Threatened to have me busted for drugs
They had nothing on me
Oh man, i was really clean
But they were bigtime operators
On the music business scene

They put a bug in my apartment
To listen in on my calls
I was looking for some motivation
I couldn't find any, any motivation at all
They were very desperate people
Riding in long black limousines
But they were bigtime operators
On the music business scene

They were glorified by the media
They were heroes who had names
They said that they would bury me
If i didn't play their game
They said i didn't know the score
And that i was young and green
They were bigame operators
On the music business scene

Tried to hold me to a phoney contract
I said i didn't agree
Had to get out of the clutches
Had to go underground you see
Now i'm living in another country
But i know exactly just where i've been
Stay away from bigtime operators
Baby, on the music business scene

Well, baby bigtime operators
On the music business scene
Oh baby, bigtime operators
On the music business scene
Well, full of names and places
Baby, you know who i mean

By the sacred grove, where the waters flow
We will come and go, in the forest

In the summer rain, we will meet again
We will learn the code of the ancient ones
In the forest

By the waterfall, i will hold you in my arms
We will meet again by the leafy glade
In the shade of the forest

With your long robes on, we will surely roam
By the ancient roads, i will take you home
To the forest

In the forest, in the forest
In the forest, in the forest

With your long robes on, we will surely roam
By the ancient roads, i will take you home again
To the forest

Satisfy the soul baby
Birds sing all day long of the mother lode
We can let it roll, in the forest

With your long robes on
I know where you're coming from
By the big oak tree you've gotta come and go with me

In the forest, in the forest
In the forest, in the forest

By the waterfall
I will hold you in my arms, and we will meet again
By the leafy shade, in the, in the forest

Satisfy the soul
Birds sing all day long of the mother lode
We can surely let it roll, in the forest

With your long robes on
I know where you're coming from
We will surely roam, down by the ancient roads