unknown

I called you up today to bridge my sorrow
Carry me over the line to you
How long will it take to reach tomorrow
Seems like a whole lot of time
Just these thoughts to pull me through

I see blue carpet and cold moonlight settled in
Voices whisper doubts of how i should have been
I feel like i'm over the water
But i'm caught in the tide
Tell are you calling for me
Does this come deep from inside
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind

The sound slowly fades and trickles away from the sea
It's only the windows and i
They hear my dream
I'm walking a distance i feel i've been running for miles
Happy times don't last long
I finally got that it's too late to smile
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Into your mind

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

Welcome to why the church has died
And the heart of the exile and the kingdom of hate
Who owns the land and keeps the commands
And marries itself to the state

Modern scribes write in jesus christ
Everyone is free
And the doors open wide to all straight men and women
But they are not open to me

Who is teaching kids to be soldiers
To be marked by a plain white cross
And we kill just a little to save a lot more
The philosophy of loss

Now there are a few who would be true
Out of love and love is hard
And don't think that our hands haven't shoveled the dirt
Over their central american graveyards

Doctors and witch hunters stripped you bare
Left you nothing for your earthly sins
Yeah but who made this noise just a bunch of boys
And the one with the most toys wins

And who is teaching kids to be gamblers
Life is a coin toss
And of course what you give up is what you gain
The philosophy of loss

Whatever has happened to anyone else
Could happen to you and to me
And the end of my youth was the possible truth
That it all happens randomly

So who is teaching kids to be leaders
And the way that it is is meant to be
The philosophy of loss

I like the way you wanted me
Every night for so long baby
And i like the way you needed me
Every time things got rocky

(ah ah ah ah)
I was believing in you
(ah ah ah ah)
Was i mistaken
Do you say
Do you say what you mean
I want our love to last forever

But i'd rather you be mean
Than love and lie
I'd rather hear the truth
And have to say goodbye
I'd rather take a blow
At least then i would know
But baby don't you break my heart slow
No

I like the way you'd hold me
Every night for so long baby
I like the way you'd say my name
In the middle of the night
While you were sleeping

(ah ah ah ah)
I was believing in you
(ah ah ah ah)
Was i mistaken
Do you mean
Do you mean what you say
When you say our love could last forever

Well i'd rather you be mean
(you be mean)
Than love and lie
(than lie)
I'd rather hear the truth
(hear the truth)
And have to say goodbye
(goodbye)
I'd rather take a blow
(i would know)
At least then i would know
But baby don't you break my heart slow
No

Your would run around and lead me on forever
Oh while i wait at home still thinking we're together
I wanted our love to last forever
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

(ah ah ah ah) i was believing in you (ah ah ah ah)

I'd rather you be mean
(you be mean)
Than love and lie
(than lie)
I'd rather hear the truth
(hear the truth)
And have to say goodbye
(say goodbye)
I'd rather take a blow
(oh)
At least then i would know
But baby don't you break my heart slow
(no)
Don't love and lie
(don't lie)
I'd rather hear the truth
(wanna hear the truth)
And have to say goodbye
(say goodbye)
I'd rather take a blow
At least then i would know
But baby don't you break my heart slow
Baby don't you break my heart slow

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

So
So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skys from grey
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Yeah do you think you can tell

Did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Yeah and did you exchange
A walk on part in this war
For a leading role in a cage

How i wish, how i wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
We're running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Well i wish you were here
I said i wish you were here yeah
Oh how i wish you were here
How i wish you were here
Hey and i wish you were here
Hey my rock star
How did you get so turned around
My rock star
How you did you get so turned around
Oh my rock star
(how did you get so turned around)
Did you get so turned around
Hey my my rock star
(how did you get so turned around
Inside out
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out

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

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

Sister i'm heading out of alabama
So you better think fast
The wind is gonna pick me up now
The rain won't slack
Headin' down to georgia

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

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

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

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

Through the wind and the rain
I hear my mother's cry
She says "i know my baby's out there"
Just couldn't bear to ask her why
From my womb into the world
Lord i wish the child would call
You know i'm needing some company
She makes my life so full"
Take my advice
Go ahead and live your own life
But everybody's waiting
For someone to come home

Like the fire waits for the sand
This world is burning
With the tension of human hands
Waiting to be cleansed
Waiting for their ace of spades
They say "i sure hope he's coming
'cause i feel like i've just been saved"
Take my advice
Go ahead and live while you're alive
Everybody's waiting
For someone to come home

"come to me and cleanse my soul"
I'm free, i'm free
"only with you am i whole"
Can't you see that i am me
"i'll be waiting by the window"
I'll be heading for the door

I was driving down highway 85 yeah
Had to pull off the road
Just to hear my radio coming in clearer
Lord this life's so full i said
Why do we ask for more
While we're waiting for the man to come
We forgot what he's coming for
Won't take my advice
Go ahead and live while you're alive
Everybody's waiting
For someone to come home
"i'll be waiting by the window"
Everybody's waiting
For someone to come home
"i'll be waiting by the window"
Everybody's waiting
For someone to come home
Come home

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

As i was wading through your distance
I heard you say "there's no way out"
And i was just thinking as my independence faded
Well there's no way in for me

There's no way out and you know
There's no way in
We're on either side
Scared to say we're friends

Now i found jesus and you found yourself
Sometimes i still feel like i'm losing out
But we both found that it's just too hard to know for sure
Just what we can lean on when we're falling down

You always did see
The other side of things and sometimes
I'm bound to wonder
Do you see through me

With all the voids i tried to fill
And all the emptiness i tried to tell you about
There was never time enough
There are never words enough
And i'll never have the guts enough
But i'll tell you i've been needing you so bad

There's no way out and you know
There's no way in for me now
And we're on either side
And we're crying for a friend

There's no way out and you said
There's no way in for me now
And we're on either side
And we're scared to say we're friends

Old pirates yes they rob i
Sold i to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom
Cause all i ever had
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them are gonna stop the time
How long must they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom
Cause all i ever had
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

I was taken by surprise
I was haunted by his eyes
And the drink i came her for
Doesn't matter anymore
And the night wind falls
With the moonlight from above
Is it winter is it summer or is it love

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it no
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise

I've been broken
I've been blind
Been afraid to look inside
But his words were soft and warm
What did i come her for
An abandoned garden lost
In bittersweet and queen anne's lace
Looked inside where a single rose grew
There i saw love's face

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise
On the rise

Couple in the next room's bound to win a prize
Cause they've been going at it all night long
And i'm trying to get some sleep
But these motel walls are cheap
And lincoln duncan is my name
And here's my song
And here's my song

My father was a fisherman my mom a fisherman's friend
And i was born in the boredom and the chowder
When i reached my prime
I left my home in the maritimes
And i, i headed down the turnpike
For new england
Sweet new england

Had holes in my confidence
And holes in the knees of my jeans
And i was left without a penny in my pocket
And ew-whee i was desitute as a girl could be
And i wished i wore a ring so i could hock it
I'd surely hock it

I met a young girl in the parking lot
She was preaching to the crowd
By singing sacred songs and reading from the bible
Well i told her i was lost
And she told me all about the penticost
And i seen that girl as a road to my survival

Later on the very same night
She crept to my tent with a flashlight
And these long years of innocence ended
Took me to the woods
I said her comes something that feels so good
And just like a dog i was befriended
I was befriended

I said what a night
What a garden of delight
Even now that sweet memory lingers
I was lying under the stars just playing my guitar
But i was thanking the lord for my fingers
For my fingers

I know i know i know i know
I know i know

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

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

There are some things you can't cover up
With lipstick and powder
I thought i heard you mention my name
Can't you talk any louder
Don't come any closer don't come any nearer
My vision of you can't get any clearer
Oh i wanna hear girls talk

I got a loaded imagination
Being fired by girls talk
Oh but i can't say what you want to hear
I suppose we're gonna have to play it by ear
Right here and now
Girls talk and they want to know how
Girls talk and they say it's not allowed
Girls talk if they say that it's so
Don't you think that i know by now

That they word upon everyones lips
That your dedicated
Although you may be an old fashioned girl
Your still gonna get dated
Ah was it really murder
Were you just pretending
Lately i have heard you are the living end
Girls talk and they want to know about her
Girls talk they want to know if i care
Girls talk and they want to know where
I just want to hear girls talk

I gotta loaded imagination
Being fired by girls talk
Oh but i can't say what you want to hear
I suppose we're gonna have to play it by ear
Right here and now
Girls talk and they want to know how
Girls talk and they say it's not allowed
Girls talk
Girls talk and they want to know about her
You know they want to know where
Wanna know if i care
I said girls talk

Oh people
Look around you
The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
And there's no time to find you now
Well your walls are turning
Your towers are burning
Gonna leave you here
And try to get down to the sea somehow

The road is filled with homeless souls
Every woman child and man
Who have no idea where they will go
But they'll help you if they can
But everyone must have some thought
That's gonna pull them through somehow
While the fires are raging hotter and hotter
The sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

Oh people
Look among you
It's there your hope must lie
There's a seabird above you
Gliding in one place
Like jesus in the sky
We all must do the best we can
And then hang on the that gospel plow
When my life is over
Gonna stand before the father
And the sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
Maybe i'll remember
Maybe i'll remember how

Rock me on the water
I said the wind is with me now
So rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

In my mind i'm going to carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moon shining
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
It hit me from behind
And i'm going to carolina in my mind

Karen she's a silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shining
Watch her watch the morning come
A silver tear appearing now i'm crying ain't i
I'm going to carolina in my mind

There ain't no doubt it no ones mind
That loves the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
Hey babe the sky's on fire i'm dying well ain't i
I'm going to carolina in my mind

In my mind i'm going to carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moon shining
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
And i'm going to carolina in my mind

Dark and silent late last night
I think i might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
Signs that might be omens say i going going
I'm going to carolina in my mind
Now with a holy host of others standing round me
Still i'm on the dark side of the moon
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If i'm up and going to carolina in my mind

In my mind i'm going to carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moon shining
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
And i'm going to carolina in my mind
Going to carolina in my mind
Going to carolina in my mind

It was you who walked into my life
You were the one
You hear my cries of loneliness
Through my cool cautious eyes
Can't you see me reaching out for you
Can't you feel me there
Won't you please believe me
I could never touch you for the fear
That i might never let you go

It was you with the courage and the commitment
To start your new life
You make me believe in mine
But can't you see the confusion
Through my troubled smile
I'm torn between losing me
Losing me and gaining you

Maybe i've been distant
Maybe i've been cold
But i've done it for my own existence
And i do believe i do believe it's getting old

I might never say that i love you
I might never say i care
But i will tell you now
That i'll always be there

When i walked you to the door i was feeling mighty fine
I was thinking "hey i've got love to ease my mind"
Then i got to the car and i was staring at your scars
Thinking "hey, this ain't no way to spend my time"

Now i want a true love affair
Not this touch-and-go in the air
You know i don't know if i'm coming or i'm down
I don't want a love touch and go
I want a feeling i only know
Or else you can get me out of this town

When i saw you smile i knew one look into your eyes
And i was thinking "hey, are you in love again"
Then i heard you laugh honey you were laughing at the past
I was thinking "this ain't no way to treat a friend"

You were laughing at the past
Honey you were smiling through your glass
Watching cars drive away in your mind
You were hoping i would leave
Honey i was dreaming i could stay
And this ain't no way to spend my time
This ain't no way to treat a friend
This ain't no way to see me
I'm looking for the end
This ain't no way to treat a friend

Now i want words i want touch
Maybe that's a bit too much
For one so far removed
From what you used to claim
Well if you be cruel, i'll still be kind
You know i've got it in my mind
I'm in love with you
I ain't gonna play your games
If you want my advice
Don't say it's wrong if it feels right
Don't push me down just to see me crawl
I'll be crawling on the floor
Then i'll be reaching for the door
I'll be crawling right out of your eyes
Honey i'll be walking right out of your eyes
Honey i'll be walking right out of your eyes

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

I tried my best to get over you
Kept my distance so i wouldn't have to show
That the things which i kept hidden by my casual smile
Were the things that i needed you to know
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You might have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was i was falling for you

Sometimes i still think i could get to you
Then i laugh and think i could swim the seven seas
It seems when i'm set to fly there's a storm up in the sky
When i'm set to sail there isn't any breeze
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You might have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was i was falling for you

It's been some time now that i saw you in a photograph
Looking just the way you did so long ago
I could almost see you throw your head back and start to laugh
In that gentle way that used to let me know
Things were okay and a hurting song is just a cliche
And what's the use if they only always fade away
Just like the sun just like everyone but you

Dancing shoes
On the wall above your bedside
Saw it all as we performed our pirouette
Fleshes fused
As the flicker of the candles
Threw upon the wall a single silhouette

Tu es dans ma coeur et dans ma tete

Dancing shoes
We have loved on distant beaches
Where the winter never reaches
There we fell
Dying swan
On the dawn you danced before me
Though your eyes were dark and stormy
I stood still

Qui peut dire le faux et le re'el

Dancing shoes
Though the distances divide us
There's a paradise inside us
We can't lose
Me and you
Dance a 'pas de deux'
Forever
And i pray you never
Shed your dancing shoes

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

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
This time
Don't assume anything
I said this time
Don't assume anything

One two three four
Jump jump jump so high
Watch me let you down
If i stumble i will stumble
If i fall i will fall
Try to hold it like rain in the river
But everything is getting bigger
Better this won't last forever
Touch me and fall
Yeah

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

When we get back to winthrop
A few miles from the airport
On a plastic chair
On a deck where my friends live
I watch the taking off airplanes
I watch the ocean waves crashing
With all of this movement something's got to give

Down at the high tide
Passed down through the family
The fishermen gather to complain about the catch
They talk about time
They talk about tides
The pull of the moon and the coffee deep night black
And i listen to them
And i listen to you
And for everyone there is something never coming back

But for all that we've been through
For all that we've promised
Your wayward direction seems insensible
Words fall off like breathless fish
All flopping and scattered
And hearts picked over deemed dispensible

Down at the high tide
We're there for our last meal
The broken loaves are still enough for all
And we talk about time
And we talk about tides
Under the moon with the deep night coffee black
I hear the dim roar of the last flight out
And for someone there is someone never coming back

We talk about time
We talk about tides
Under the moon and the deep night coffee black
I hear the dim roar of the last flight out
And for someone there is someone never coming back

I cried the night you left me
I never cried so hard
I never felt so helpless
Except the night that we made love

From beauty to disaster
I held you in my arms
Long enough to reach around you
To keep my fingers warm

Through egos, bars, and pills
You kept me in my place
You saved me from this spotlight
Well i guess i'm living in disgrace

From beauty to disaster
I held you in my arms
Long enough to reach around you
To keep my fingers warm

I wonder how is california
Is it the blonde-haired blue-eyed life
Is it okay for me to ask you
Do you have a husband or a wife

From beauty to disaster
I never cried so hard
I never felt so helpless
I cried with all my might

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

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

When you set a match to your heart
Fueling it with bitterness and doubt
That's a blaze that once it starts
No amount of tears can put out
I know you're scared
But no one's spared
When you play with matches
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire

Maybe you've been burned by lovers
Maybe you've been scarred by the pain
But baby i'm not like the others
Drawing moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark
Crackling in the dark
Consuming all it catches
And you've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)

You can see the toll it's taking
You can feel the faith it's shaking
You can hear the heart it's breaking now

Baby i've burned by the fever
I've been scorched by desire
But baby i'm not your deceiver
Or your eloquent liar
Your jealous heart is tearing us apart
And turning love to ashes
When you've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
As the flames shoot higher
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
Walking

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

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

Words and music emily saliers

Jet fuel and traffic lines
Pulling up to the delta signs
Distant shape of my hometown
Black stain where the wheels touch down

I pick up the morning news
I pass the man who's never shined my shoes
Through security and to the train
That will take me to the airplane

Count the miles on the highway
(count the miles on the highway)
The sum of all my days
(the sum of all my days)
There's a postcard there's a call
(there's a call)
And there's a picture for your bedroom wall
(bedroom wall)

But do you ever wonder through and through
Who's that person standing next to you
(who's that person standing next to you)
And after all the nights apart
Is there a home for a travelling heart

But if i weren't leaving you
(if i weren't leaving, if i weren't leaving you)
I don't know what i would do
(i would do)
But the more i go the less i know
Will the fire still burn on my return
Keep the path lit on the only road i know
Honey all i know to do is go

A cup of coffee and my bags are packed
(coffee and my bags are packed)
The same vow not to look back
(same vow not to look back)
(if i weren't leaving)
Familiar emptiness inside
(familiar emptiness inside)
As the distances grow wide
(if i weren't leaving)

And though i vow to memorize
(i vow to memorize)
The last look in your loving eyes
(the last look in your loving eyes)
It's here dusk and there dawn
Oh it's like a curtain getting slowly drawn

But if i weren't leaving you
(if i weren't leaving, if i weren't leaving you)
I don't know what i would do
(i would do)
But the more i go the less i know
Will the fire still burn on my return
Keep the path lit on the only road i know
Honey all i know to do is go

But if i weren't leaving you
(if i weren't leaving, if i weren't leaving you)
I don't know what i would do
(i would do)
(leaving you)
But the more i go it seems the less i know
(but the more i go the less i know)
Will the fire still burn on my return
(will the fire still burn on my return)
Keep the path lit on the only road i know
(keep the path lit on the only road i know)
Honey all i know to do is go

I don't think you understand
Oh the rhythm of my heart
There's a strong line to mind and soul
I feel it tearing apart
I've been searching for new words
Gonna make you understand in a different way
When i told you i'd hang on forever
I threw my choice away
And it's cold as ice
I can't let go
It's cold as ice
Baby but i need your love

And i wish i could have been the first one
Oh to walk out the door
The more i find myself to blame
The less there is to come back for
You wish you could have been the last one
To tell me how you really feel
Cause when you closed the door oh deep inside
My heart it still seemed so sincere
And it's cold as ice
I can't let go oh
It's cold as ice
Baby but i need your love

It's cold as ice
I can't let go
It's cold as ice
Baby but i need your love

If there's a message to this madness
Well it still seems quite unclear
If i really need to save myself
Why can't i just walk out of here
There's a message in your eyes
And you make it perfectly plain
Either i leave your heart behind
Or crack beneath this freezing
Freezing freezing freezing rain
Cold as ice
(cold as ice)
I can't let go
(but i can't let go)
Cold as ice
Baby but i
But i need your love


All right
I said i'm cold
Cold i'm cold
(cold as ice)
Cold i'm cold
(baby)
Cold i'm cold
(cold as ice darling)
Cold as ice
(cold as ice)
Oh no but i can't let go
(i said i'm freezing, freezing)
Oh no no i can't let go
(freezing, freezing, freezing, freezing)
No no i'm cold as ice
(whoa whoa baby yeah)
I'm cold as ice
But i can't let go
No

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