Landing On Water

I'm just a drifter
I'll stay until you try to tie me down
I'm not a quitter, baby
I'd like to stay and see the whole thing go down.

Don't try to tell me
What i gotta do to fit
Don't try to rescue me,
I'm gonna go with my ship.

What about you, did i ever take a thing from you?
What about me, how do i know that your love is true?
What about you, how can i count on you to count on me?

I like to drive my car
If i've got someplace to go
I like to feel the wheel
Put down the top and let it roll.

Don't try to fence me in,
Don't try to slow me down
Don't try to speed me up,
Or tie my feet down to the ground.

What about you, did i ever take a thing from you?
What about me, how do i know that your love is true?
What about you, how can i count on you to count on me?

I'm just a drifter
I'll stay until you try to tie me down
Don't try to rescue me,
Don't try to rescue me
I like to feel the wheel,
I like to feel the wheel
I like to feel the wheel.

Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine
Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine.

Every time you're feelin' fine
Got another good one on the line
It slips away,
You feel it slip away, slip away.

I don't want no more from you
Won't do what you want me to
Turn me loose
Come on turn me loose, turn me loose.

Every time i'm feelin' good
The phone rings and i knock on wood
Hoping that it won't be you
Calling like you always do.

All you ever seem to say is
How much bad luck came your way
You won't try to start again
You just count on your old friends.

Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine
Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine.

Now you call up every day
Got no money no place to stay
That girl made a mess of you
You got what was comin' too.

Build her up and let her down
Tastin' everythin' in town
Treat her right, you never
Treat her right, treat her right.

Now she's gone and you're alone
Bite your fingers to the bone
Slip away,
You feel it slip away, slip away.

You don't know what's goin' on
How you lost it, what went wrong
What ever happened to
The love that you once knew.

Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine
Don't tell me hard luck stories
And i won't tell you mine.

Take my advice
Don't listen to me
It ain't paradise
But it used to be
There was a time
When the river was wide
And the water came running down
To the rising tide
But the wooden ships
Were just a hippie dream
Just a hippie dream.

Don't bat an eye
Don't waste a word
Don't mention nothin'
That could go unheard
'cause the tie-dye sails
Are the screamin' sheets
And the dusty trail
Leads to blood in the streets
And the wooden ships
Are a hippie dream
Capsized in excess
If you know what i mean.

Just because it's over for you
Don't mean it's over for me
It's a victory for the heart
Every time the music starts
So please don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine.

Another flower child goes to seed
In an ether-filled room of meat-hooks
It's so ugly
So ugly.

Here comes the night
Here comes the anger
Hidden so deep inside
No one can see
Behind these eyes
There walks a stranger
Wandering through the dark
Following me.

Control the violent side
Control the violent side
Control the violent side
Control the violent side.

Electric light
Shining on your block
Sayin' to everyone
The power is on
While your alarm
Set up for safety
Keeps out invaders who come
But still can't control.

Control the violent side
Control the violent side
Control the violent side
Control the violent side.

Got to fight to control the violent side
Every day and night
I've got to fight to control it.

People on the street need a place to go
People on the street need a place to go
Walkin' with the beat if it's not too slow
Walkin' with the beat if it's not too slow
When the night's dark shadow falls
On the sidewalk scenes and the concrete canyon walls.

People on the street need a place to go
People on the street need a place to go.

Walkin' through the night up and down the avenue
Lookin' for a place,
A place to go,
A place to go.

There's a muffled scream from the alley scene
From the alley scene comes a muffled scream
And the siren wails while the system fails
In the steaming heat people walk in the street
People can't run and hide
If you want to feel good then you gotta feel good inside.

People on the street need a place to go
People on the street need a place to go.

Rising through the grates come the fumes of industry
Floating to the sky
Keep walkin' with the beat, walkin' with the beat
Keep walkin' with the beat, walkin' with the beat
Keep walkin' with the beat, walkin' with the beat
When the night's dark shadow falls
On the sidewalk scenes and the concrete canyon walls.

People on the street need a place to go
People on the street need a place to go.