unknown

Sometimes i live in the country
Sometimes i live in the town
Sometimes i take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown

Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Last saturday night i got married
Me and my wife settled down
Me and my wife parted
Think i'll take another walk downtown

Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I'll see you in my dreams

I love irene god knows i do
I'll love her all my life
If irene should ever leave me
I'll take morphine and die

Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Stop your rambling stop your gambling
Stop staying out late at night
Come home to your wife and family
Sit by the fireside bright

Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight
Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Goodnight irene
Goodnight irene
I'll see you in my dreams

We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
Out of these boxcars
And out of these chambers
Out of the bed where we lay
With ten strangers
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
On jacob, jacob's ladder

It's a fish white belly
A lump in my throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies queers
And david's star

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train
Yeah

Measure the bones
Count the face
Pull out the teeth
Did you get them all?
Do you belong
To the human race
Doctor doctor
Are you unkind
Do you shock the monkeys
Cover our eyes
With clear blue skies


Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory now
Ah ah
This train

Here is a dancer
Who has no legs
Here is a teacher
Who has no face
Here is a healer
Who has no hands
Here is a runner
Who has no feet
Here is a thinker
Who has no head
Here is a builder
Who has no back
Here is a writer
Who has no voice
These are the questions
These are the answers
Stacked like wood

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train

This train is bound for glory
This train it carried your mothers
This train is bound for glory
This train it, it carried your fathers
This train is bound for glory now
This train it, it carried your sisters
This train
This train it, it carried your brothers
(here is a teacher)
This train it, it carried my sisters
(here is a writer)
This train it, it carried my brother
(here is a thinker)
This train is
This train is bound for glory

These are the questions
Stacked like wood
These are the answers
Here is potential
And it's gone for good

Tonight i've been sleepin on the mountain top
With a billion stars for my witness
In the morning i go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river

Have you been lonely
Yes i've been lonely
Yes i've been lonely too

Said now have you been lonely
Yes i've been lonely
Yes i've been lonely too

Yeah well tonight i've been sleepin on the mountain top
With a billion stars for my witness
In the morning i go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river

Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely too
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely
Sometimes been lonely too

Tonight i've been sleepin on the mountain top
Yeah i got a million stars for my witness
In the morning i go down as the sun comes up
I take a drink from the bitter root river

Have we been workin
Yes we been workin
Yes we been workin too
I said have we been workin
Yes i been workin
Have we been workin too

Now everybody's looking for a little peace of mind
We're a generation running out of time
There's a bomb, there's a man
There's a gun in his hand yeah
Nobody smiles at strangers we're scared from birth
Afraid the man's gonna take us for all that we're worth
Strip us of our pride
Make a strike from inside
Come on and tell me
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Even lovers have trouble at hand
What's your preference where do you stand
You get all uptight about it
Wanna fight about it
Wanna fight about love
No no no
Wanting independence separate but equal
A lover here another there
One more for the sequel to the heartache
How much more can we take
Won't you tell me
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Now i'm talking about
Altruism and unification
We forgotten what that means
Cynicism in this mighty nation
And hatred is spitting us right at the seams

Oh but i still believe that good will prevail
And if we don't ever try
It's damn sure that we'll fail
Lose another day
The american way
So come all believers
Come all races
Start looking at the souls
Not at the faces
And we're there
And we're learning to care
I want to know baby
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Taking off his turban they said is this man a jew
Cause they're working for the clampdown
And they put up a poster saying we earn more than you
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
Train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers

Judge said five to ten - i said double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
Well no one born with a living soul
Could be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall cause governments to fall
How can you refuse it
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
Don't you know that you can use it

The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you

The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing so boy get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal

You grow up and you calm down
Cause you're working for the clampdown
And you start wearing the blue and the brown
Cause you're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
Does it makes you feel big now
And you drift until you brutalize
You've made your first kill now

I say in these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
I said lately one or two have fully paid their dues
Working for the clampdown

Working for the clampdown
Hey you are now
Working for the clampdown
Hey you are now
(working for the clampdown)
Kick over the wall (working for the clampdown)
Cause governments to fall (working for the clampdown)
How can you refuse it (working for the clampdown)
Hey get along now
(working for the clampdown)
Giving away no secrets

Christopher robin and i walked along
As the branches lit up by the moon
Posing our questions to owl and eyore
As our days disappeared all too soon
But i wandered much farther today than i should
And i can't seem to find my way back to the woods

So help me if you can i've got to get
Back to the house at pooh corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of christopher robin and pooh

Winnie the pooh doesn't know what to do
Got a honey jar stuck on his nose
Now he came to me asking help and advice
And from here no one knows where he goes
So i sent him to ask of the owl if he's there
How to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear

So help me if you can i've got to get
Back to the house at pooh corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of christopher robin and pooh

So help me if you can i've got to get
Back to the house at pooh corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of christopher robin
Back to the ways of christopher robin
Back to the ways of pooh

Manys a time i've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes and i've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh but i'm all right
I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home
So far away from home

I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend feels who at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to it's knees
Oh but it's all right
It's all right
We've lived so well so long
Still when i think of the road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help it i wonder
What's gone wrong

And i dreamed i was dying
I dreamed that my soul
Rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And i dreamed i was flying
High up above
My eyes could clearly see
The statue of liberty
Sailing away to sea
And i dreamed i was dying

Oh we come on a ship they call the mayflower
We come on a ship that sailed the moon
We come in the ages most uncertain hour
And sing an american tune
Oh but it's all right
It's all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still tomorrow's going to be another working day
And i'm trying to get some rest
That's all i'm trying
To get some rest

At the half moon cafe we drank to our lives
Like pseudo-believers in love
We've been through our holes in the walls and the dives
Where you drink to recall what you once had a vision of
And we talk of our lives in a prison
Though we both know it's better to be
Safe within our indecision
Than taking the risk to be free

And you were to be a great poet
I'd find my fame in song
But we somehow saw failure more closely
Than fame all along
And now you manage a hamburger stand
And i haven't found steady work yet
And we meet here to talk and pretend
That we know no regret

But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
How much is suicide

So you ask of my latest top 40
And i ask of your latest great fiction
As i step outside i see that the moon is full
I have to laugh at the contradiction
Well at least we can laugh at our dreams
Though it's really much more bitter than sweet
Sometimes through all of this fragmentation
I imagine what it feels to be complete

But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
How much is suicide

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for a new world
And a palace in the sun

And on the shore lay montezuma
With it's coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the world

And the subjects gathered round him
Like the leaves around the trees
His coat of many colors
For the angry gods to see

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
He offered life with sacrifice
So that others might go on

Yeah

Now hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones

And they carried them across the flatland
But they died along the way
(many lives were lost)
Built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today
(many lives were lost)

And i know she's living there
And loves me to this day
I can't remember when
Or how i lost my way
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer

I'm scared as hell
Squeaky's out of jail
I can feel her close behind me
Like the devil on my heels
Well they say she's heading to california
Or maybe for dc
Well i'm sitting here down in georgia
I'm talking with my family

The contras called a truce
And they broke it in an hour
Now someone sitting in the tower of babel
Is giving them that power
They stopped the war in bethlehem
Oh to let sweet jesus pass
But how much does it really mean
They screw him over behind his back

I can feel her closing in
And i hope she understands
That society and me
Now we aren't necessarily hand in hand
She's broken all her bonds
Got no superficial cause
She gave up all her chances
To live inside the law

So squeaky
Peace on earth
Will you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i'd let you in
You might understand
Now squeaky
In your mixed-up mind
You may not be so blind
Ah squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
Now squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i'd let you in
Cause you might understand
God is in my heart
But the devil is in our bones
And squeaky
Oh squeaky
You are not alone
Yeah you are not alone
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Now squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i would, i would let you in
I think that you might understand
That god, god is in my heart
But the devil
I said the devil
The devil's in our bones
And squeaky
Oh squeaky
We are not alone

And now i know
Spanish harlem aren't just
Pretty words to say
I thought i knew
But now i know
That rose trees never grow
In new york city
Until you've seen
This trash can dream come true
Stand at the edge
Have people run you through
I thank the lord
There's people out there like you
I thank the lord
There's people out there like you

While mona lisas and mad hatters
Sons of bankers sons of lawyers
Turn around and say
Good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But the can't and that is why
They know not if it's
Dark outside or light

This broadway's got
Got a lot of songs to sing and
If i knew the tunes
I might join in
I'll go my way alone
Grow my own
My own seed shall be sown
In new york city
Subway's no way
For this good man to go down
Rich man can ride
And the hobo he can drown
I thank the lord
For the people i have found
I thank the lord
For the people i have found

While mona lisas and mad hatters
Sons of bankers sons of lawyers
Turn around and say
Good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But the can't and that is why
They know not if it's
Dark outside or light

And now i know
Spanish harlem aren't just
Pretty words to say
I thought i knew
But now i know
That rose trees never grow
In new york city
Subway's no way
For this good man to go down
Rich man can ride
And the hobo he can drown
I thank the lord
For the people i have found
I thank the lord
For the people i have found

While mona lisas and mad hatters
Sons of bankers sons of lawyers
Turn around and say
Good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But the can't and that is why
They know not if it's
Dark outside or light
They know not if it's
Dark outside or light

Take to the highway won't you lend me your name
Your way and my way seem to be one in the same
Momma don't understand it
She wants to know where i been
I'd have to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to pass that way again
But you know i could feel it
On a country road

Sail on home to jesus won't you good girls and boys
I'm all in pieces, you can have your own choice
I could seen a heavenly band full of angels
And they're a comin' to set me free
Don't know much about the wild wind
But i can tell that it's bound to because i could feel it
On a country road

Guess my feet know where the want me to go
Walking on a country road

Walk on down, walk on down, walk on down
Walk on down, walk on down a country road yeah
La la la la la la la
Country road
Yeah walking on a country road
Country road
Yeah
Walking on a country road

If you ever feel you'll lose your dreams
Or your hope seems too far gone
I'll bring the distance to your door
You couldn't ask for any more

You were around when i needed a friend
You were the means you were the end
You'll be the one i'll turn to now
There's gonna be some hard times coming down

Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself

If ever your candle won't blow out
Or your sorrow seems so interrupted
Well i'll be the first to bring the darkness down
I'll be the silence at your side

Without you the music couldn't move me
The words would ring true
But the tune would feel so empty
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
But myself

Wish i was a slow moving sea
Moving away from the land so cautiously
I'd find me an island to surround
Just like you did as i was feeling down
As i was feeling down

Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
Oh but myself

Wish i was a slow moving sea
Wish i was a slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea
Keeping in touch with eternity
Wish i was a slow, slow, slow, slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea

Emily:
I walked into my favorite place one night
I'd just gotten back from a lecture
And i was feeling kind of uptight
And at the edge of the bar there was this guy
And you know i wasn't really looking
But i caught him out of the corner of my eye
The next thing i know he was moving my way
I thought he wanted to talk
But this is what he had to say

Amy:
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Ya'll sing it with me
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Your lover your lover your lover
One time or another baby
I want to be your lover

Emily:
I have to admit i was a little bit surprised
But i wasn't really scared 'cause i was twice his size
So i said to myself, "okay, i'll play his game"
And when he turned to me
I gave him my name

Amy:
I know your name babe
But i got to know your number
I know your name babe
But i got to know your number your number
I said one time or another baby
I'm gonna be your lover
Yeah i wanna be your lover

Emily:
Well i said to myself "this guy is persistent
He's a little bit dumb but at least he's consistent"
I tried to talk cool but when we touched i went under
I made a quick decision and i gave him my number

Amy:
I know your number
But i don't know what to say babe

Emily:
That's ok

Amy:
I know your number
Your number babe
But i don't know what to say to you
Say to you say to you say to you darling
Oh it don't matter anyway no
I don't talk when i'm make love to you babe
I don't talk when i make love
I wanna be you lover
I wanna be you lover
Lover lover
Lover lover
Lover lover

Emily:
Well you probably won't believe this
But we got married one day
And i still don't know if he speaks english
'cause he doesn't have much to say
It's a damn good thing i like lying around
We don't make much conversation
But love makes sounds
You know what i'm talking about
Ya'll know what i'm talking about
Well one thing i've learned from being in this state

Emily and amy:
There are other ways to communicate

Amy:
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Your lover your lover your lover
One time or another baby
I'm gonna be your lover

Crossroads
Seem to come and go
The gypsy flies from coast to coast
Knowing many, loving none
Bearing sorrow, having fun
But back home he'll always run
To sweet melissa

Freight train
Each car looks the same
All the same
No one knows the gypsy's name
No one hears his lonely sighs
There are no blankets where he lies
In all his deepest dreams the gypsy flies
With sweet melissa

Again the morning's come
Again he's on the run
Sunbeams shining through his hair
Appearing not to have a care
Pick up your gear and gypsy roll on
Roll on

Crossroads
Will you ever let him go
Will you hide the dead man's ghost
Will he lie beneath the clay
Will his spirit float away
But i know that he won't stay
Without melissa
Yes i know that he won't stay
Without melissa

junkie's lament


Rikki's been kicking the gong
Lickety split didn't take too long
A junkies sick a monkeys strong
That's what's wrong

Well i guess he's been messing around down town
So sad to see the man losing ground
He's winding down behind closed doors
On all fours

Mama don't you call him my name
He can't hear you anymore
And even if he seems the same to you
That's a stranger to your door
Go on ask him what's he come here for

Oh my god a monkey can move a man
Send him to hell and home again
With an empty hand in the afternoon
Shooting for the moon

He's halfway sick and it's halfway stoned
He'd sure like to quit but he's too far far gone
And they'll wind him down with the methadone
He's all on his own

Baby don't you throw your love away
I hate to seem unkind
It's only that i understand the man
That the monkey can leave behind
And i used to think he was a friend of mine

Well you
You can sit in your highchairs
Highchairs are for children
You can sit in your highchairs and laugh
I'll give you my best face
I'll give you my freedom
I'll give you my feet and my hands

I'm keeping my eyes
Open open open to the field
Hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield

You can join us together
Break us apart
A wound in the skin is a break in the heart
You can coast on your laughter
High shelf your heart
But laughter's for healing
Not tearing apart

I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the fields
You can hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield

Not a soul is lost
But collapse in the walls
You can dance in the dust
You can walk it off walk walk it off

If you're falling you're falling
Come calling to me
Falling falling
I'll give you my skin
I will give you my skin

I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the field
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
You can hold your dances here
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Take the crop, share the yield
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
I'm keeping my eyes
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Open to the field
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Hold your dances there
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Take the crop share the yield
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
I will give you my skin

It's like an ocean tide
Slowly washing my shores away
It's like the sun above
Now sooner or later
I'll have to face that way

Now she asks me how you're doing
And i tell her you're getting by
But it's pain and numbness
Side by side

You came on the scene
Like a star in the northern night
She spread her love to you
Like the warmth of a southern sky

And so it goes on
You know it's night and day
One always slips away
There's no one left to blame

Love falls down you know and your
And your heart falls to pieces
And your soul might get lost along the way

And all these songs
They used to make you shine
They are just lullabies for your nightmares
I don't want to shed your tears

I followed you northern star
And i shared the fall with you
Now i felt the cold glow of the sunset
And i saw that liar's moon

Some of us will come down to earth
Some of us will burn
Love's not always as bright as it should be
Tell me do you want to be free

Well your love falls down you know
And your heart might fall to pieces
And i saw your soul get lost along the way

All these songs now they used to make you shine
They are just lullabies for your nightmares
And i'll sing them softly now

Lately i've felt the warmth
Of the one who tore down my walls
But then i look at you
And your twilight consumes it all it does

Now i wished upon your falling star
Praying i won't fall that hard
And that my love is all it seems to be
Because i'll swear it set me free

But emily i gotta tell you i understand i understand
When your love flies away well honesty
That's about the best you can the best you can do
But aren't you empty inside
Aren't you

Falling star

I want to live in a holy city
I want to drink from a holy vine
I want to be where the people are pretty
Just because their feeling it deep down inside
I don't want to wait for heaven
I can find what i need right here on earth this time
There's too many people they're waiting for heaven
Oh let me tell you if you can't feel it here
You won't feel it there anyway
Oh anyway

I want to live in a stained glass window
I want to change with the light of day
I'm gonna have the sun shining through me
Causing my existence in every way yeah
I don't want to wait for heaven
I can find what i need right here on earth this time
Too many people their waiting for heaven
Oh let me tell you if you can't feel it here
You won't feel it there anyway
Anyway yeah

I want to live in a heart of love
I want to swim in a mind at peace
I want to be your emotional outlet
I want to be love's sweet release

I'm gonna build me a holy city
I'm gonna drink from a holy, holy vine
I'm want be where the people are pretty
Just because they're feeling it
Deep down deep down
Deep down inside
Oh i don't want to wait for heaven
I can find what i need right here on earth this time
Too many people they're waiting for heaven
Oh let me tell you if you can't feel it here
You won't feel it there anyway
If you can't feel it here
You won't feel it there anyway
Oh if you can't feel it here
You won't feel it there anyway
Ah anyway
Ah anyway
All right

Eddie said the beat was wrong
Tom didn't like the tune
The boy with a beard in the corner
Laughed in the middle of a song
He didn't stay very long

Eddie said the lights were low
Tom said the treble was high
The boy with a beard in the corner
Laughed in the middle of a sigh
Don't think we ever even caught his eye

Sometimes i used to find
I'd be singing to you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

Eddie said a friend of his
Is making it big in l.a.
Ah well everybody down at malachy's
Says i'm gonna make it someday

Sometimes i used to write
A song for you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

Sometimes i used to find
I'd be singing to you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

I'm not the sort of person
Who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you i gave my affection
Right from the start
I have a lover who loves me
How could i break such a heart
Yet still you get my attention

Why do you come here
When you know i've got troubles enough
Why do you call me
When you know i can't answer the phone
And make me lie when i don't want to
And make someone else
Some kind of an unknowing fool
Make me stay when i should not
Are you so strong
Or is all the weakness in me

Why do you come here
Pretend to be just passing by
I need to see you
I need to hold you
Tightly

Feeling guilty
And i'm worried
And i'm waking from a tormented sleep
'cause this old love
You know it has me bound
But the new love cuts so deep
If i choose now
I'm bound to lose out
One of you is gonna have to fall
I need you
You baby

Why do you come here
When you know i've got troubles enough
Why do you call me
When you know i can't answer the phone
And make me lie when i don't want to
Make someone else
Some kind of an unknowing fool
Make me stay when i should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me

Why do you come here
Pretend to be just passing by
I need to see you
I need to hold you
Tightly

You had your chance to show affection
You had your chance to give me more
And now that she's found new direction
You make your way to my back door
What makes you think the whole world wants you
Give steel a kiss and it will bend
The flesh is weak and when it's all been said and done
The spirit's all that's left in the end

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come-on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse

The way i see it there are few things left
To hold on to and keep your head yeah
When it's your sense of humor and integrity
There's nothing funny about what's being said

There was a day when i would let myself be trampled
As long as it was done by you
(as long as it was done by you)
But i took so much abuse now i've had ample
There's no way that you'll break through

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse

You had your chance to show affection
(you had your chance to show me some affection)
You had your chance to give me more
(you had your chance to give me more baby)
And now that she's found new direction
You make your way to my back door
What makes you think the whole world wants you
Give steel a kiss and it will bend
The flesh is weak and when it's all been said and done
The spirit's all that's left in the end

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know you didn't
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse
From your high horse
From your high horse
Yeah

Should have never crossed your path
Funny things you want the most
Should soon be taken back
Slap my own hands like a child
Stealing from the candy store
I think i've taken to your smile

And i hunger for your laugh
Do the craziest things like look around
When i know you're nowhere near me
Break my back on a song
Though i know you're not there to hear

Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table
From a song i haven't finished since last summer
Cause i never could decide how much was gin
How much the sea
Or other incidentals clouding what was really me

Everything i am is bare feet and burning sand
Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea

A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect
Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me

Half the time i love you like you love the fall's first breeze
Then you seem as distant as the skeletons of trees
Far away outside my window
Where inside i think of you
As if i thought hard enough i'd know which way to turn
And what to do

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

I'm quite sure i'll be alright
We all live with some distraction
It's just too bad
Mine will hang around all day and night
Like an uninvited guest
You can't turn away try hard as you might
Lord knows i've tried

I might let it go and take a long long run
Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun
Then again i might just make big plans
And leave them on the table
Like the song i left unfinished
And the words i am unable
I will always be unable to express

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

This is my song
Oh god of all the nations
A song of peace
For lands afar and mine

This is my home
The country where my heart is
Here are my hopes
My dreams my holy shrine

But other hearts
In other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams
As true and high as mine

My countries skies
Are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight beams
On clover leaf and pine

But other lands
Have sunlight too and clover
And skies are everywhere
As blue as mine

Oh hear my song
Oh god of all the nations
A song of peace
For their land and for mine

Mama take this badge off of me
I can't wear it anymore
It's getting too dark, too dark to see
And i feel like i'm
Feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I feel like, i feel like i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I said i, i feel i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Mama mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh

Take these guns and put em to the ground
I can't, i can't, i can't
I just can't shoot them anymore
There's a long black cloud
There's a long black cloud
You know it's a, it's a comin' down
I feel i, i feel i, i feel i'm
I feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Now i said mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh now
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Wipe this blood from my face
I can't see through the walls
Six white horses coming to carry me away
I feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
I'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Gonna take me, gonna take me, gonna take me now
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Wipe this, wipe this, wipe this, wipe this
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh mama i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama take these chains off of me
Cause i don't, i don't want them anymore
They're getting too damn heavy
And i'm crawling across the floor
I feel like, i feel like i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Oh mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Ah mama mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Gonna take me, gonna take me, gonna take me
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm i i i'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come as last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

I saw cotton
I saw black
Tall white fences
Little shacks
And southern man
When will you pay them back
I heard screaming
Bull whips cracking
How long how long
How

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man
Southern man

Lilly belle your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man coming round
I swear by god i'm gonna cut him down
I heard screaming
Bull whips cracking
How long how long
How

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and i wrote down this song
But i just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

Won't you look down upon me jesus
You gotta help me make a stand
You just got to see me through another day
My body's achin' and my time is at hand
I won't make it any other way
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

I've been walkin' my mind to an easy time
My back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
But there's hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now now now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

Another night in a succession
Thinly glued with beer and wine
It's a precarious profession
Every day at work sees your heart on the line
Maybe i should have gone to business school
Or gained myself a respectable trade
Or stayed in childhood where the shade keeps you cool
Making my living selling lemonade
But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

I remember the folks said give it a try
Or you'll never know who you might have been
And just remember nothing is the end of the world
Until the world comes to an end
Still there's a point to this philosophy
(when you take a look inside)
Of taking a look at who you are
Still sometimes all i have to help me see
Are all the mirrors behind the bar
But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

Well there's something in us living
There's something you should know
There was a time for us to fall
Now it's time to grow
But you know it's not the way
That i intended it to be
Crossing hearts and killing souls
And trying to get down to what's real

All i ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand won't you help me find a stone
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
Was to make this house a home

All i needed was your hand to hold
I spent so much time alone
I needed your direction
But we re-aligned my broken bones
Well they're running from a lifeless state
Somehow we lost our hold
All we have with us is change
Left over from what started out as gold

All i ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand - won't you help me find a stone
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
Was to make this house a home

This is what i give to you
It's flesh and blood
It's body and soul
Won't you take what's left of who i am
And try to see it whole

I'm holding you responsible for every word i say
If you feel the brokenness
Won't you try and look the other way
I never meant to be so low
I only wanted you to see
That time was healing someone else
But it's tearing apart the very heart of me

This is what i give to you
It's flesh and blood
It's body and soul
Won't you take what's left of who i am
And try to see it whole

All i ever wanted was to make this house a home
I let go of sinking sand - won't you help me find a stone
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
All i ever wanted
Was to make this house a home
So make this house a home
Make this house a home
Make this house a home

Day after day i'm more confused
Still i look for the sun through the pouring rain
You know that's a game that i hate to lose
And i'm feeling the strain
Ain't it a shame

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Beginning to think that i'm wasting time
I don't understand the things i do
World outside looks so unkind
And i'm counting on you to carry me through

Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

When my mind is free
You know that a melody can move me
And when i'm feeling blue
The guitars coming through to soothe me

Thanks for the joy that you've given me
I want you to know i believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You've helped me along making me strong


Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away all right
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
(oh now it's time to come on and free my soul)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(we're gonna drift away)
Why don't you give me the beat boys and free my soul
(take me, take me, take me away)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(oh)
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
I said go go go

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything
But go go go

Five generations running fast
These things will not pass
This debtor's blood runs in my veins
I can't change anything
I said no no no

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything
But go go go

So you've learned to cry
But you don't know why
So you've learned to laugh
What are we laughing at

So i am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
And i said go go go
Go go

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything this time
Don't assume anything
I said go go go

They took away my garden
To make room for a chemical plant
I feel my country's arteries harden
With the aid of a government grant

We are not a bunch of upstarts
Just out looking for a cause
Cause we hunger for our justice
And not applause
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

My water has got cancer
And the rivers have all dried
While i watch my country practice
Nuclear suicide

We are not a bunch of upstarts
(we are not a bunch of upstarts)
Just out looking for a cause
(for a cause)
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

Don't think it's impossible
To see this thing come clean
We're going to save this poor old world's head
From the guillotine

We are not a bunch of upstarts
(we are not a bunch of upstarts)
Just out looking for a cause
(for a cause)
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

They took away my garden
(my water has got cancer)
To make room for a chemical plant
(and the rivers have all dried)
I feel my country's arteries harden
(while i watch my country practice)
Nuclear suicide
(nuclear suicide)
Nuclear suicide

We are not a bunch of upstarts
Just out looking for a cause
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

Don't want to see our children
(don't want to see our children)
Oh go up in smoke
Oh we don't want to see our children
Yeah

Childhood living
Is easy to do
The things you wanted
Well i bought them for you
And graceless lady
You know who i am
You know i can't let you
Ah slide through my hands

Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer
A dull aching pain
Now you've decided
To show me the same
No sweeping exits
Or offstage lines
Can make me feel bitter
Or treat you unkind

Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away

I know i dreamed you
A sin and a lie
I have my freedom
But i don't have much time
Faith has been broken
Tears must be cried
Come on let's do some living
After we die

Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
We'll ride them someday

You're standing in the blood quantum line
With a pitcher in your hand
Poured from your heart into your veins
You said i am
I am
I am

Now measure me
Measure me
Tell me where i stand
Allocate my very soul
Like you have my land

Genocide
Genocide

Colonize you
Christianize you
Patronize you
Advertise you
We loved you genocide

Regulate you
Assimilate you
Appropriate you
We love to hate you

Genocide
(you are a man without a face)
(you're just a number on a page)
Genocide
(there you are a woman without a face)
(we'll just erase you)

There you are a man without a face
You're just a number
(you're just a number on a page)
There you are a woman without a face
We'll just erase you

Conscripted children
Torn from truth
To the boarding school station
Force fed the foreign tongue of fire
And a prison education
Broken knowledge
Pencil scarred
Spit faced
The scattered sage
Wisdom deep within the rock
(the wisdom deep within the rock)
Outlives
(outlives the pretty lies upon the page)


Genocide
(how white the snowy graves)
How red the blood terrain
Genocide
(still pulsing with your dreams)
Above that stubborn stain

There you are a man without a face
(how white the snowy graves)
(how red the blood terrain)
Red the blood terrain
(still pulsing with your dreams)
There you are a woman without a face
(above that stubborn stain)
Above that stubborn stain

Genocide
Genocide
Genocide

People smile and tell me i'm a lucky one
We've just begun
I think i'm gonna have a son
And he will be like he and me as free as a dove
Conceived in love
The sun is gonna shine above

Even though we ain't got money
Well i'm so in love with you honey
And everything will bring a chain of love
And in the morning when i rise
You bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything is gonna be all right

Love a boy who holds the world in a paper cup
Drink it up
Love him and he'll bring you luck
And if you find he helps your mind
Sister take him home
Don't you live alone
Try to earn what lovers own

Even though we ain't got money
Well i'm so in love with you honey
And everything will bring a chain of love
And in the morning when i rise
You bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything is gonna be all right

And even though we ain't got money
Well i'm so in love with you honey
And everything will bring a chain of love
And in the morning when i rise
You bring a tear of joy to my eyes
And tell me everything is gonna be all right

Well we read best selling novels
So we can talk between the lines
And we often close our eyes
Just to hide the dollar signs
And we're suddenly pretentious
And conform with the stream
We're born and bred believers
In the american dream

And we drink our whiskey straight
Though we do not like the taste
And we dress in obligations
With a top hat show of haste
And we hinder our reactions
As we measure what we say
Until someone starts to cry
And the faces turn away again

Play it again sam
Take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave
And the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you
Better than you've gotten yet
If you play us a happy song
And help us forget
Play it again sam

Well we donate to our charities
To deduct our future taxes
And we flock to bars for drinking
Though one never quite relaxes
And we compromise our standards
If it means we'll get attention
And the things we need the most to say
Are the things we never mention

Play it again sam
Take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave
And the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you
Better than you've gotten yet
If you play us a happy song
And help us all forget
Play it again sam

Now i know god is up in heaven
It's hard to keep in mind
Sometimes when you're searching for relief
And hell is all you find
And i know that i'm a romantic
I might seem a fool to say
I'm know i'm going to see a few hands joined
Before my dying day

Play it again sam
Take it slow and easy
Sing about the land of the brave
And the home of the free
And there's a man who will tip you
Better than you've gotten yet
Just play us a happy song
And help us all forget
Play it again sam
Play it again sam
Play it again sam

Words and music: amy ray
Note: this song is a reincarnation of problem child

Through the dustbowl through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go

Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
Just go, go, go

So feed the fire and fan the flame
I know the kids can stand the rain
I know the kids are still upsetters
Cause rock is cool but the struggle is better
I said go, go, go

Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
This time don't assume anything
I said go, go, go

The truth is i was afraid . . .
. . .i felt inferior. . .
. . .i felt i excelled in competing with others
And i knew instantly that these people
Were not competing at all, that they were acting in a
Strange, powerful trance of movement together.
And i was filled with longing to act
With them and with the fear that i could not.

Did they tell you it was set in stone
And that you would end up alone
Use your years to psych you out
You're too old to care, they're too young to count
Did they tell you you would come undone
If you tried to touch the sun
Undermine the underground
You're too old to care they're too young to count
I said go, go, go

Amy ray: electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Emily saliers: electric guitar, vocals
John reynolds: drums
Dawson miller: percussion
Clare kenny: bass
Carol isaacs: organ and moog
Caroline dale: cello
Joan osborne: backing vocals

Spoken word written by meridel le sueur, from "i was marching."

Well evening fell just like a star
Left a trail across the sky
You spit as you walked out the door
If this is love we're crazy
As we fight like cats and dogs
I just know there's got to be more
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain

I'll admit i ain't no angel
I'll admit i ain't no saint
I'm selfish and cold but you're blind
If i exercise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
And they're so hard to find
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain

We're always at each other's throats
You know it drives me up the wall
Most of the time blowin' off steam
I wish to hell you'd leave me
Wish to god you'd stay
Life's so different than in our dream
Please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Out walking in the rain

I'm just a bartender
I don't like my work
I don't mind the money at all
I see lots of sad faces
And lots of bad cases
Of folks with their backs to the wall

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

I can light up your smokes
And i'll laugh at your jokes
And i'll watch you fall down on your knees
Close down this bar
Gas up my car
Pack up and mail in my key

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going a-stray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

The smoke fills the air
In this honky-tonk bar
And i'm thinking about where i'd rather be
Yeah
But i sunk all my bridges
I burned all my boats
I'm stranded at the edge of the sea
Yeah

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

It was christmastime in washington
The democrats rehearsed
Gettin' into gear for four more years
Of things not gettin' worse

The republicans drank whiskey neat
And they thanked their lucky stars
They said "he can not seek another term
They'll be no more f.d.r.s"

I sat home in tennessee
Just starin' at the screen
An uneasy feelin' in my chest
Just wonderin' what it means

So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now

I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin' days
Somewhere i failed to find your trail
Now i'm stumblin' through the haze

There's killers on the highway now
And a man can't get around
So i just sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now i'm stuck here in this town

So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now

See there's foxes in the henhouse
And there's cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
And their proud red banners torn

But if you listen to the radio
They'll tell you all is well
But you and me and cisco know
It's goin' straight to hell

So come back emma goldman
Rise up old joe hill
The barricades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us malcolm x
And martin luther king
We're marchin' into selma
While the bells of freedom ring

And come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There's something wrong here there can be no denying
Now one of us is changing
Or maybe we've just stopped trying

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
No

It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy i knew just what to do
But now you look so unhappy and i feel like a fool

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
No

There'll be good times again for me and you
But we just can't stay together don't you see that it's true
Still i'm glad for what we had
And how i once loved you

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
It's too late baby
It's too late now darling
It's too late

I took off last night with my coat and my intention
To make connections with the eyes that left me blind
Left my love for the strength of that white, white line
I left one more time i could have heard "i love you"
One more time i could have heard "i care"
One more time when i needed that emotion
One more time i wasn't even there

Through the darkness and the distance
Lie champagne and smoky smiles
Bounded by the sorrow having lost love to the miles
I feel you
You're not a stranger to this white, white line
I watched your eyes chose words so slowly
Illusions to my view
But i laugh and say it's highway 75 that draws me here
It's not me and it's not you
There was one more time when i should have said "i love you"
One more time when i should have told you "i care"
When we sit here in silence
And we miss the ones we love that can't be here
It's the love we leave behind

I tried to lose this restless spirit in a mission of regrets
But i can't survive without this war
And your eyes reflect the visions that i can't forget
I find balance on a darkened highway
I find truth by the side of the road
And someone else's tune to lift me high above the line
That leaves me running from the cold
Running from the cold
Running from the cold

All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight
And the boys in the band think they look just fine
And i dont even know why i drove this car down congress avenue
Hoping to find you turning on the light

Well you seem like a girl with the world on your side
But its just a point of view
And you know how quickly that could change too
See i heard you were free or someone thinks you should be
And i know just how that feels
I thought maybe we could just talk for a while

Cause baby i got something to stand for
I got somewhere we could go home
I just need someone to stand with
See it ain't no good this feeling alone

When you said that you'd go down to mexico
Well i think that i might go there too
But its probably too late to find someone like you
Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But i heard there's trouble down there if you're chiapas bound

Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But i heard there's trouble down there if you're chiapas bound

When you're down and troubled
And you need some love and care
And nothing, no nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon i will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yeah
To see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
You've got a friend

If the sky above you
Should grow dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep you head together
And call my name out loud
Soon i'll be knocking upon your door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yes i will now
To see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Hey ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
When people can be so cold
Oh they'll hurt you and desert you
Well take your soul if you let them
Oh yeah but don't you let them

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yes i will now
To see you again
Don't you know about
Winter, spring, summer or fall hey now
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
(yes i will)
You've got a friend
You've got a friend
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
You've got a friend
Oh yeah yeah
You've got a friend

Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can i stay here for awhile
Can i see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello ruby in the dust
Has you band begun to rust
After all the sin we've had
I was hoping that we'd turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello woman of my dreams
You know it's not, it's not the way it seems
All these purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Words and music amy ray

I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming
On a dirt road that is soon to be paved
Down to the site of my original establishment
And the west end family grave

Cause one day moves into two
(one day moves into two)
And i'm losing
Everything except for you
(everything except for you)
And i would sing you a song of devotion
(i would sing you a song of devotion)
Yeah that's what i should do
(that's what i should do)

Blood runs thick and when it rains it pours down
(blood runs thick)
On the family tree on the fields of war
(the family tree on the fields of war)
I spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound
(i spend my time being broken hearted and grieving bound)
Yeah i haven't much need to look forward

I just let a one day move into two
(one day moves into two)
I'm losing
Everything except for you
(everything except for you)
I would sing you a song of devotion
(i should sing you a song of devotion)

Book of days
(book of days)
The way things lay
(the way things lay)
That's just space and time
(that's just space and time)
I gave it up
(i gave it up)
All for a love
(all for a love)
That won't be defined
(that won't be defined)

I've had enough temporary acquisition
Building fences for no gain
(building fences for no gain)
Taking dead trees down before the winter freeze
(taking dead trees down before the winter freeze)
I said let 'em rot and fall where they may

Just let one day move into two
(one day moves into two)
I'm losing
Everything except for you
(everything except for you)
Ah yeah
I would sing you a song of devotion
(i would sing you a song of devotion)
That's what i should do
(i gotta let them fall where they may)
(cause one day moves into two)
It's the book of days
(i'm losing)
It's the way things lay
(everything except for you)
Now that's just space and time
(i)
(i would sing you a song)
I gave it up
(of devotion)
All for your love
(yeah)
That's what i should do
(that's what i should do)
That's what i should do
(that's what i should do)
Yeah
That's what i should do
(that's what i should do)

She was grasping for a way to tell us all
The hurt she felt inside
We're all too happy she says
"let's have a war"
And the night digs deeper in

They're just some words to pass the time
Some words to pass the time

Now when the silence gets to be too much
I can feel the soul searching
Where do i go when i've lost my cause
We are the stories
Even the good ones let me down
There all just words to pass the time

I used to be so sincere
And maybe i still am
And all this small talk i've been reeling off
Is slowly getting out of hand

I mix real feelings
With the ones i wish i had
And i catch the most important ones
In between them all
Sometimes it seems like they're all just words
To pass the time

And then we've lost our time
And we've wasted out words
And all the strain is gone
Sometimes it's too unreal to believe
Just don't give it all away
Get a grip
Causes sometimes there are just words to pass the time

I said i'm too high i'm too high
And i'm scared of falling down
I've just been grasping for words
To make you want to stay
To make it worthwhile
I don't want spend the rest of my life
Just passing time
I don't want to spend the rest of my life here
Just passing time

Long ago a young man sits
And plays his waiting game
But things are not the same it seems
As in such tender dreams

Slowly passing sailing ships
On sunday afternoon
Like the people on the moon i've seen
Are things not meant to be

Where do those golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is this song so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love

To love is just a word i've heard
When things are being said
Stories my poor head has told me
Can not stand the cold

And in between what might have been
And what has come to pass
Are misbegotten guests alas
And bits of broken glass

Where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love
To love to love to love

Where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love
To love to love to love
Whoa no no no no no

Anybody looking on they can see you're not so good
People in the know they can see i miss you
In the night with no one to hear me i'm afraid and i cry
Seasons change but there's nothing changes my mind

I've been loving you too long and i can't seem to stop
You are my lifeline you make me happy
I said that, had to say it baby
Who on earth ever held me like you
I'd like to see someone try
Love by you and no other loving will do

In your time baby come back to me please
Don't leave this girl lost in space
You're the only one who could guide me out of this maze

Tuesday's children
We're falling short of time
Let's hope we never fall short of love
Memories linger like the fog on the sea
Keeping me out of touch with my reality
Nothing could ever mean as much to me
As tuesday's children

Sometimes i feel like i'm falling short of myself
Who i am
What i choose to be
Most of the time tuesday's children
Brings it all back and down to me

These people
These friends of ours
Let's put them on another day
Just leave me tuesdays children
I can face the world my own way

Times like these make me wish
Everyday was a tuesday
Tuesday's children
You've been so good to me
Tuesday's children

Thought you were one who wouldn't run
Who wouldn't do me wrong
But the song that you were singing
Was the same old heartache song
You treat me fine and you wined and dined
And i believed you when you said
"i love you babe," but your only aim
Was to get me in your bed
Now i don't even like you no more
But i can't get you off of my mind
Baby you've got me livin' in
Heartache central time
Heartache central
Heartache central
Heartache central time

Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows i'd get over you
If only i could find
A way to get my hurtin' heart
Off heartache central time

Remember last september
When you looked into my eyes
I should have known that the love you'd shown
Was nothing more than lies
I fell for you and i know it's true
That i should have stopped myself
But my lonely heart was too alone
To hurt all by itself
Now i don't even like you no more
But i can't get you off of my mind
Baby you've got me livin' in
Heartache central time
Heartache central
Heartache central
Heartache central time

Anytime is a hurting time
With a hurting heart like mine
God knows i'd get over you
If only i could find
A way to get this hurtin' heart
Off heartache central time

Time where have you left me
Here without a heart
Without an answer
I tried to open my eyes
I tried to see the song
All things considered
This much remains the same

Hit that wall again
The same old barrier
Time after time i've tried
To glimpse the other side
Oh and time surely made me see
I was taking your love so carelessly
Now we know
Though it doesn't do much good anymore
I still feel the old familiar pain

It could be that love is blind
I was blind to all your reasoning
But at the start you were blind to me
Now i guess you could say we're even
Isn't that what we always wanted to be
Putting our souls on the line to win this game
I'm feeling the strain

I'll always love you
Through all this distance
All these barriers
Trying to erase the pain
Erase the pain
Erase the pain

Sweet gypsy blowing through my mind
And through my heart so full and empty
Well these days seem strange somehow
A billion years isn't what it appears to be

Now you tell me that you're losing hold of time
You can't seem to find your peace of mind
Well i'm so far away and i'm trying to see you through
I can't help but feel i may be losing you

Should i let you go
For your own sake
Should i hold you close
For mine

Anyway i love you and i couldn't be more sure
These tears cry out "please don't let go"
Oh but their words
They keep haunting me

You can't build your life around a dream
Well it's too late
Now my world is you
There's nothing they could say or do

Well i remember the first time that i fell
I swear i never thought i'd make it up again
I've been flying on the wings of your love
And i'm not getting down just to fall again

Don't it seem like the road is oh so long
Well everybody's moving out
And we're staying on
In this absurdity

Now you don't let go of me
I'm begging you
Now you don't let go of me

Anyway i love you

I wrote a letter to my senator
Came back address unknown
Put a call in to the president
He wouldn't come to the phone
Now how in the hell can a person
Feel safe and secure at home
When all the decisions are being made
By big boys getting stoned

Now i've been listening and watching
Looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

So took a train to the white house
Wrote this song on the way
I knocked at the oval office
I sure of what i had to say
Well they looked at me kind of funny
Asked me what group i was with
I said i come on my own to represent
The group that don't take no shit

Now i've been listening and watching
Looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

What's wrong in the company
Words been going down
He's jepardizing the future
So he can get what he wants right now
Said level the mountains for gold
Fill up the sea with iron
What the hell jesus is coming
And the waiting is making me tired

Now i've been listening and watching
It looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here

Hey mr. nunn sir
Please tell me this
Why do you boys engage
In pornographic bliss
Up and down to boulevards
Of military towns
T & a and cheap hotels
For them to throw down
It's a release they say
It's the american way
It's not a soldiers preference
That makes him wrong or right
It's how he lives and how he acts
That makes him serve his country right

Now i've been listening and watching
It looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

Living on free food tickets
There's water in the milk from the hole in the roof
Where the rain came in
But what can you do

Well you got tears from your little sister
Crying cause she doesn't have a dress without a patch
For the party to go
Oh but you know that she's gonna get by

Living in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
As she can
Oh yeah

And it's a good thing you don't have bus fare
It would fall through the whole in your pocket
And you'd lose it in the snow on the ground
You better walk to town and find a job

Oh and you try to keep your hands warm
The hole in your shoe lets the snow come through
And it chills you to the bone
You'd better go home where it's warm

You can live in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
As she can
Oh yeah

Living on a dream ain't easy no
But the closer the knit the tighter the fit
And the chills stay away
We like to keep them in stride for family pride

Faith is your foundation
Got a whole lot of love and a long conversation
But don't forget to pray oh no
It's keeping us strong where we belong

Living in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can

Living in the love of the common people
(you know that faith is your foundation)
Smiles from the heart of the family man
(whole lot of love and a long conversation)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(don't forget to pray it's keeping us strong)
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
(where we belong)

Living in the love of the common people
(oh living on a dream ain't easy)
Smiles from the heart of the family man
(but the closer the knit the tighter the fit)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(we like to keep them in stride)
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
(for family pride)
As she can

Soft in the morning
Love without warning
Peace 'cause there's no disguising it
When it's love you can't hide from it

Now i don't want to be the shadow
When you find your new life
I only want to hold you in the dead of night

You don't have to search for me
You don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity

Now i have learned to sing with a steady mind
Fill the void and pass the time
And face this ground and erase the blue
When i leave the scene it all comes down to you

You don't have to search for me
And you don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity

Now i know it's gotta be hard to find
That blessed balance - that fine line
But turn around and bless me
Or let me go in peace
I can meet you halfway
And give you all you need

But you don't have to search for me
And you don't ever have to set yourself free
You are free
Through eternity
Eternity
Eternally
You are free eternally
You are free

There's colors on the street
Red white and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There's a warning sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like saton but i am to them
So i try to forget it any way 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 hands
Under an old street light
Next to a garbage can
And she puts the kid away
Cause she wants to get a hit
She hates her life
And what she's done to it
One more kid that will 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
A kinder gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toliet paper
Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
The man in power says to keep our hope alive
Fuel to burn 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

Her life is a show
One act follows the other everywhere she goes
She takes the leading role
She never plays herself
Save for the time she's on the stage

Color her black or white
Now either one reflects the teardrops
One extreme for the other
Nothing in between
Color her white for the princess she could be
Color her black for the troubled child she plays so well
Well she's dancing through hell on a dream

And blue is soul of the one
Reaching for the man that she hasn't got yet
And holding on to those hearts for lost causes
She could be so bright
But she's reaching for us all
Color her blue for the loneliness she feels
She's hiding her heart in the sky

And this is a thursday afternoon
It's just another thursday afternoon
It's just another thursday afternoon

Color me grey
I'm a little bit of everything today
And i'm not sure just where i'm going
Color me grey
Wishing i was something more of distinction

Color us all 'cause we're just stars
Wishing our lives away
Into the distance
And out of existence

Color her black or white
Color her blue
Or color me grey
Color us all - we're stars
Wishing our lives away
Now we're stars