Burning The Daze

I don't know where i'm goin'
Now that i am gone
I hope the wind that's blowin'
Helps me carry on

Turn on your radio, baby
Listen to my song
Turn on your nightlight baby, baby
I'm gone

Turn on your radio

I don't know how it happened
Now that i am gone
I hope i'll never hear it, baby,
Just in case i'm wrong

Turn on your record player
Listen to my song
Turn on your nightlight baby, baby
I'm gone
Really long gone

I don't know where life's goin'
But soon it will be gone
I hope the wind that's blowin'
Helps me carry on
Turn on your radio, baby
Baby listen to my song
Turn on the nightlight, baby, baby
I'm gone
Long gone

Turn on your record player

(turn on your record player...)

And listen to my song

Everybody had a hard year
And everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream
And everybody saw the sunshine
Everybody had a good year
And everybody let their hair down
Everybody put their socks up
And everybody put their foot down

Listen, listen

I was driving down ninth avenue
As the sky was getting dark
Didn't have nothin' else to do
So i kept on riding to battery park
I stepped out in the damp and misty night
As the fog was rolling in
Man said, "last boat leaving tonight
Is the boat for ellis island"

As my feet touched solid ground
I felt a chill run down my spine
I could almost hear the sound
Of thousands pushing through the lines
Mothers and bewildered wives
That sailed across the raging sea
Others running for their lives
To the land of opportunity
Down on ellis island

"what is this strange paradise?"
They must've wondered through their cries and moans
After all they've sacrificed
Their faith, their families, friends and homes
Then on the inspection stairs
They were counted out or counted in
Frozen while the inspectors stared
Down on ellis island

Now me i only stumbled in
Just to wander around that empty hall
Where someone else's fate had been
Decided in no time at all
And cases filled with hats and clothes
And the belongings of those who journeyed far
They're strange reminders i suppose
Of where we're from and who we are

But as the boat pulled off the shore
I could see the fog was lifting
And lights i never seen before
Were shining down on ellis island
Shining down on ellis island

They say my final masterpiece
Was this house upon the hill
High above the great and mighty river
My hand could not hold the brushes
Yes i guess i lost my will
And you can't keep painting paradise forever
Oh forever

From the andes to niagara
To where we stand today
I drew the great creations of my master
'til the oil and the canvas
Lord i threw them all away
And traded them for stone and brick and plaster
I traded them all for you

(winter wind blows and the river lies frozen at my feet)
I traded them all for you
(springtime come and the river wanna run above the street)

She came to me one night
While i was tossing in my dreams
She said she'd give my family protection
I recall the night i died
Beneath her arches and her beams
I thanked her for the shelter and direction
I was lost until olana

(sun beat down on a summertime town -- he left me there)
I was lost until olana
(watching these hills turning gold for one more year)

Oh i've been from jerusalem to rome
Now i'm floating through these rooms tonight alone
And looking back on everything
All i ever wanted was a home

I was lost until olana
How sweet the sound
How sweet the sound

They say my final masterpiece
Was this house upon the hill

Chorus

Got your call from california
But i could hardly hear your voice
Through the hissing of the highway
And all that other noise
You said "i might lose you in the canyon"
Then you went riding up the coast
Now all these things we leave unspoken
Seem to haunt me like a ghost

Chorus:
I lost you in the canyon
Guess you tried to let me know
Lost you in the canyon
A long, long time ago
Lost you in the canyon
Brother you fade out slow

There were times i thought i knew you
Before these changes came to pass
But you don't think about it do you?
From up there in your house of glass
The earth is shifting underneath you
The land is sliding all around
Do you ever stop to wonder
About that paradise you've found?

Chorus

I hear you moving through the mountains
Through the fires and the floods
But i can't fix this bad connection
In the wires or the blood

Chorus

Verse 1:
I'm coming to see you, tomorrow sometimed
Gonna bring you some roses, gonna tear
Off the vines
Gonna talk to the wind that blows through the trees
Kiss you like always from down on my knees

Bridge:
Gonna ask you some questions, get no replies
Wipe all the tears, falling down from my eyesem
'cause the one that i wanted, i never could know
Girl of mysterious sorrow
Girl of mysterious sorrow

Verse 2:
Gonna park in the street, gonna open the gate
Walk to the spot where you always wait
I'll be shaking my head like i usually dod
'cause the name and the dates tell me nothing
About you

Bridge:
But i'll sit in the shadows and let you explain
All of the sadness and all of the painem
Did it all seem so hopeless you just had to let go?
Girl of mysterious sorrow
Girl of mysterious sorrow

Chorus:

Mysterious ... mysterious
Mysterious ... mysterious

Verse 3:
Yeah i'm coming to see you but i really can't wait
There's just a few things i needed to say
Like why were you hiding so much of yourself?
Why were you living for somebody else?

Bridge:

Well i know that i've always been looking for you
But lately it's not such a hard thing to doem
'cause it seems like inside every woman i know
There's a girl of mysterious sorrow
A girl of mysterious sorrow

Chorus:
Mysterious ... mysterious
Mysterious ... sorrow ...

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