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Nobody's fault but mine if i don't read my soul gets lost
Nobody's fault but mine
Had a bible in my hand, had a bible in my arm

My mother she taught me how to read
If i don't read my soul gets lost
Nobody's fault but mine, nobody's fault but mine

This is a man's world, this is a man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl

You know man made a car to take us over the road
Man made the train to carry heavy loads
Man made electric lights to take us out of the dark
Man made a boat for the water just like noah made the ark

Think about a little baby girl and a little baby boy
Man makes then happy 'cause man makes them toys
And after man has made everything, everything in the world he can
Man makes money to buy some other man

I'm a king bee buzzing around your hive
Now i'm a king bee darling buzzing around your hive
Yeah, i can make some honey babe if you let me fly up inside
Cause i'm young and able to buzz all night long
I'm young and able mama, lord to buzz all night long
And you know together we can make some honey
Like the world ain't never known

Cause i'm asking king bee, won't you be my queen
Now i'm a king bee rider, won't you be my queen
Because you know we can make some sweet little honey
Like the world ain't never seen
Drive your car up in my driveway
Cut your bright lights way down low
Drive your car up in my driveway, mama
Cut your bright lights way down low
I'm gonna wind up your transmission
Till your motor won't run no more

Oh sinning is a gentilized journey, take jesus as your daily guide
Though you may feel pure and saintly without him walking by your side
And when you come to make your crossing at the end of the pilgrim's way
If you ever will meet your savior, you will surely meet him on that day

Now look at that cold jordan, look at its deep water
Look at that wide river oh heavy mighty billows roll
You better take jesus with you, he's a true companion
Oh i'm sure without him that you never will make it home

That awful day of judgment is coming in the by and by
We'll see our lord descending in the glory from on high
Oh, let us get in touch with jesus and in the special love of god
And maybe ever get ready when he comes on jordan's tide
Now look at that cold jordan, look at its deep water
Look at that wide river oh heavy mighty billows roll
You better take jesus with you, he's a true companion
Oh i'm sure without him that you never will make it home

Now what you gonna do, oh what you gonna say
Oh how you gonna feel when you come to the end of the way?

Anxious hope and thoughts of love will never let me down, not let me go
Inside, my heart's a cage of ice loved and lost,
Still toss the lonely dice
I burned the whole night long my thoughts were never far from you
Love that locks and binds must die
But when it dies a part of you dies too.

Born, born, born upon the world the restless heart keeps flying,
Trying to become the heart of home.
Love, love, love, it picks you up and spins you round,
Sits you right back down where you belong.

I don't fit my hat sometimes, i get so full of clouds
Every time i pass your door i hear you cry out loud
Sometimes i look the same to you as you have looked to me
My eyes get filled so full of stars, i don't know when i leave

Born, born, born upon the world the restless heart keeps flying,
Trying to become the heart of home.
Love, love, love, it picks you up and spins you round,
Sits you right back down where you belong.

Love is like the april rain that makes the harvest grow
And when it grows it's like the summer gold
Love is like the coloured leaves that drift down from the trees
One by one 'til every tale is told

Now if i go a dancing out across the yellow moon
I'll be home by morning if it doesn't come too soon
If you seek protection go and find a safer man
And if he can't give you what you want then come on by again.

Priestess of the sun and moon and goddess of the wind
You know too much to ever lose and not enough to win
Though you built your house upon the rock and not upon the sand
You're still looking out your window for another travelin' man.

Born, born, born upon the world the restless heart keeps flying,
Trying to become the heart of home.
Love, love, love, it picks you up and spins you round,
Sits you right back down where you belong.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
When you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it.
And louise holds a handful of rain temptin' you to defy it.
Lights flicker from the opposite loft.
In this room the heat pipes just cough.
The country music station plays soft,
But there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off.
Just louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of johanna that conquer my mind.

In the empty lot where the ladies play
Blindman's bluff with the key chain,
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "d" train.
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight,
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane.
But louise she's all right, she's just near,
She's delicate and seems like the mirror,
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That johanna's not here.
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face.
Where these visions of johanna have now taken my place.

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously.
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously,
And when bringing her name up he speaks of her farewell kiss to me.
He's sure got a lot of gall to be so useless and all,
Muttering small talk at the wall while i'm in the hall.
Oh, how can i explain? it's so hard to get on
And these visions of johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.

Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while.
But even mona lisa must have had the highway blues,
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze.
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze,
Hear the one with the mustache say "jeeze, i can't find my knees."
Jewels and binoculars hag from the head of the mule,
But these visions of johanna they make it all seem so cruel.

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him.
Saying "name me someone that's not a parasite and i'll go out
And say a prayer for him."
But like louise always says "ya can't look at much can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And madonna she still has not showed,
We see this empty cage now corrode,
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed,
The fiddler, he now steps to the road,
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes.
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of johanna are now all that remain.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

Round, round robin run round, got to get back to where you belong,
Little bit harder, just a little bit more,
A little bit further than you gone before.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Small wheel turn by the fire and rod,
Big wheel turn by the grace of god,
Every time that wheel turn 'round,
Bound to cover just a little more ground.

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?
Won't you try just a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

I saw her standing on the corner, yellow ribbon in her hair
I knew at once i was a goner, said lookie there, lookie there
Youngblood, youngblood, youngblood, i can't get you out of my mind

I tried to talk, my tongue was fractured
I tried to walk, but i was lame
Could'nt stop myseld from shouting
What's your name, what's your name?

Crazy stuff, sure look tough, had to follow her all the way home
Things went bad, i met her dad
He said "you better leave my daughter alone"

I could'nt sleep that night for trying, i saw the rising of the sun
All night long my heart felt like crying
You're the one, you're the one

You must leave, now take what you need you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun;
Crying like a fire in the sun.

Look out; all those saints are coming through
And it's all over know baby blue.
And it's all over know baby blue.

The highway is for gamblers, you better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.

The sky too is folding under you,
And it's all over know baby blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your empty-handed armies are all going home.
Your lover who has just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.

The carpet too is moving under you,
And it's all over know baby blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, there's something calls for you
Forget about the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.

Strike another match go start anew,
And it's all over know baby blue.
And it's all over know baby blue.
And it's all over know baby blue.

Everybody's building the big ships and the boats.
Some are building monuments, others jotting down notes.
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy,
But when quinn the eskimo gets here everybody's gonna jump for joy.

Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty quinn.

Now i like to do just like the rest, i like my sugar sweet.
But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat.
Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees
Feeding pigeons on a limb.
But when quinn the eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him.

Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty quinn.

A cat's meow and a cow's moo, i can't recite 'em all.
Just tell me where it hurts and i'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get any sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes.
But when quinn the eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze.

Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty quinn.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty quinn.

If you wanna know what time it is, you don't have to ask
If you wanna know what something is, you don't have to ask
If you wanna know whats real or not, you don't have to ask
If you wanna know what time is now, you don't have to ask
You don't have to ask, you already know

If you wanna leave just close your eyes, you don't have to ask
If you wanna go and lose your mind, you don't have to ask
If it's peace that you're looking for
You got the key to every door, you already know

If there's a way out you'll find out and free all and be all beyond
You never wonder what sky you been under that made you forget all this time

If you're looking for it, you don't have to ask
You can see it plain as day, you don't have to ask
If you try to find us true, just take a look at you, you don't have to ask

You come to tell me something, you say i ought to know
That he don't love me anymore and i have to let him go
Oh, you say you're gonna take him, but i don't think you can
'cause you ain't woman enough to take my man

Oh, women like you they come a dime a dozen,
For you to get him i'll have to move over
And i'm gonna stay right here
Well it'll be over my dead body, you better get out while you can
'cause you ain't woman enough to take my man

I know these rails we're on like i know my lady's smile,
We see a dozen dreams in every passing mile.
Can't begin to count the trips she and i have made,
But i wish i had a dollar for each time we've both been down this grade.

And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll.
The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, her engine's sure to blow.
And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control,
She's more a rollercoaster than the train i used to know.

It's one hell of an understatement, to say she can't be beat.
She's tempermental, more a bitch than a machine.
She wasn't built to travel at speed or through mud slides.
These wheels are bound to jump the tracks before they burn like the ties

And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll.
The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, her engine's sure to blow
And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control
She's more a rollercoaster than the train i used to know.

Murphy sure out done himself to pick this stretch of track
I can only hope my luck is ridin' in the back.
Well i have pray to god this ain't the day we meet,
I've done about everything, but try dragging my feet.

And 100,000 tons of steel, made to roll.
The brakes don't work and this grade's too steep, her engine's sure to blow
And 100,000 tons of steel, out of control,
She's more a rollercoaster than the train i used to know.

Oh, oh i want to go down slow.