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A lonely man i know myself to be
It's not as bad as some things i have seen.
The picture painted here is not a dream
The only reality is the way it seems.

The happier you fly
The sadder you fall
The laughter in your eyes
Is never all.

Give me strength to move along.
Give me strength to leave my sweetheart.

I'm riding down swept road in my old car
The moon is almost full except for stars.
The party ended long before the night
She made me feel alive and that's all right.

The happier you fly
The sadder you fall
The laughter in your eyes
Is never all.

Give me strength to move along.
Give me strength to leave while she's gone.

The happier you fly
The sadder you fall
The laughter in your eyes
Is never all.

Give me strength to move along.
Give me strength to move along.
Give me strength to move along.

Never thought love had a rainbow on it
Used to think a cloud was a nightmare
That was up until i first met you
Now i go around hoping you care.

Dance, dance, feel it all around you
Dance, dance, dance,
Never thought love had a rainbow on it
See the girl dance
See the girl dance.

Mississippi mud never touched her fingers
California sand lies in her hand
Love her more than life as the daylight lingers
Early in the morning i'll be her man.

Dance, dance, feel it all around you
Dance, dance, dance,
Mississippi mud never touched her fingers
See the girl dance
See the girl dance.

First performance at the catalyst club, may 1997.


We live in a modern world
With communication between boy and girl
Oh yeah
But under the stars above
We just don't recognize
The power of love is free

We gotta change
We gotta change
We gotta change how we feel
We gotta change
We gotta change

When anger has closed the door
My eyes go blind and i can see inside
I hurt you and you hurt me
Which crimes of love in the first degree
Oh yeah

We gotta change
We gotta change
We gotta change how we feel
We gotta change
We gotta change

We live in a modern world
With communication between boy and girl
Oh yeah
But when there are clouds above
We just don't recognise
The power of love is free

We gotta change
We gotta change
We gotta change how we feel
We gotta change
We gotta change

Just like a young boy running down the road
I'm singing out the same old song
Can't go back the way i started from
The road goes on and on
Won't you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Make my way on home
Help me make my way on home
After berlin.

Lights are shining in the german sky
Clouds make walls between the moon and i
Don't know where i started from
So won't you take me, take me, take me, take me,
Take me, take me, take me, take me,
Just the way i am
Ah, take me, just the way i am
After berlin.

I'll be cruising down the corridor
Seeing things i never seen before
Tomorrow morning in old berlin
Where they lock you out or lock you in
Won't you save me, save me, save me, save me,
Save me, save me, save me, save me,
From the final day
Save me from the final day
After berlin.

Just like a young boy running down the road
I'm singing out the same old song
I can't go back the way i used to go
The road goes on and on
Won't you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Find my way back home
Won't you help me make my way on home
After berlin.

Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help me, help me.

There's plenty of food on the table
Lots of love in the house
The children all do what they're able to do
We got so much to be happy about.

I got a woman standing beside me
She really knows how to stand by her man
She's strong and she's soft and she's honest to me
She really helps me to be a good man.

But nothing is perfect in god's perfect plan
Look in the shadow to see
He only gave us the good things so we'd understand
What life without them would be.

There's plenty of wheat on the prairies
Lots of coal in the mines
We got soldiers so strong they can bury their dead
And still not go back shooting blind.

There's women and men on the workforce
Doing forty hours plus overtime
So the hostages held at the airport
Can come home to something worthwhile.

But nothing is perfect in god's perfect plan
Look in the shadow to see
He only gave us the good things so we'd understand
What life without them would be.

And there's plenty of food on the table
Lots of love in the house
The children all do what they're able to do
We got so much to be happy about.

I got a woman standing beside me
She really knows how to stand by her man
She's strong and she's soft and she's honest to me
It really helps me to be a good man.

But nothing is perfect in god's perfect plan
He only gave us the good things so we'd understand.
No, nothing is perfect in god's perfect plan.

Someone wants to blow up the planet
Johnny wants to find out why
Johnny did a show in st. louis
Love came through the sky.

Oh yeah, they were camped out,
Waiting for the sun to rise
Oh yeah, johnny sang out
Love into the sky.

Johnny found a place out in texas
Waiting for him to come
Made himself a reservation
And hope came, in the gun.

Oh yeah, he was flying,
Waiting for the sun to rise
Oh yeah, color by numbers
Waiting for the sun to rise.

Johnny did some time in the army
Johnny did a stint in vietnam.
Now he can't forget it,
His mind is confused, slipping from his twisted hand.

Oh yeah, he's still back there
With one hand on the gun
Oh yeah, he's still back there
Waiting for the rising sun.

Now johnny likes to go down the highway
The wind singing in his ears
Right up as most things go whirring by
By day everything looks clear.

Oh yeah, johnny ride on
Gonna find a special home
Oh yeah, down the highway
Looking for the rising sun.

Selling papers on the corner,
I saw a man yesterday.
I asked him if he'd wanna
Tell me what made him this way.
He said, when it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

Well, i came home late one night
And much to my surprise
I was thrown right across the kitchen floor
She hit me right between the eyes.
Now i'm living in the doghouse, doghouse
Doghouse, doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse.

I was out with a friend of mine
We were feeling mighty fine
And we sure was movin' fast
And i didn't make it back on time
And she put me in the doghouse, doghouse
Doghouse, doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse.

I had a big tall red with one of my friends
He was feeling mighty fine
When i came home late that night
She hit me right between the eyes
And she put me in the doghouse, doghouse
Doghouse, doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse.

She put me in the doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse,
I'm living in the doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse.

So if you find yourself in a party mood
Let your conscience be your guide
Don't be like me and let lefty win
Or you'll find yourself outside
Living in the doghouse, doghouse
Doghouse, doghouse,
Doghouse, doghouse.

I won't apologize
The light shone from in your eyes
It isn't gone,
It will soon come back again.

Though we go our separate ways
Lookin' for better days
Sharin' our little boy,
Who grew from joy back then.

And it's all because of that love we knew
That makes the world go round.
Separate ways, separate ways.
Separate ways, separate ways.

Me for me, you for you
Happiness is never through
It's only a change of plan
And that is nothing new.

As we go our separate ways.
Lookin' for better days
Sharin' our little boy,
Who grew from joy back then.

And it's all because of that love we knew
That makes the world go round.
And it's all because of the love we knew
It makes the world go round.
Separate ways, separate ways.
Separate ways, separate ways.

If you want to go riding in the tall green grass,
Try to not spook the horse.

If you want to pet that old hound dog,
Make sure he ain't rolled in shit.

There's a pretty little girl, and she's living down there,
Down on her daddy's farm.

If you're going to mess around with that chick,
Be sure to close the barn door.

Try to not spook the horse.
Make sure she ain't rolled in shit.

There's a field of green and an old red barn
Deep in the valley of hearts.

If you want to go riding in the tall green grass
Try to not spook the horse.

Try to not spook the horse.
Try to not spook the horse.

Goodbye dick, goodbye dick.
But i saw you walkin the white house lawn.
Goodbye dick, goodbye dick.
Goodbye rosemary, goodbye rosemary.
I saw you take your typewriter out of the white house door
No one wants you to type here anymore
Goodbye rosemary, goodbye rosemary.

The statue of liberty is breathing in the air
Atlantis is waiting down below.
Late at night, flashing lights are sighted in the air.
It's no secret, what everybody knows.
It really don't matter much, which way i go.
But remember to pull over in the storm.

Have you seen the evening coconut
Bobbing on the bay?
Standing on the water's edge of stone
Someone there besides you
To hear the words you say
To show you things your eyes have never known.

Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut

The statue of liberty is breathing in the air
While atlantis is waiting down below.
Late at night, flashing lights are sighted in the air.
It's no secret, what everybody knows.

Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut
Evening coconut, evening coconut

Trans am
The wagons in the valley had pulled up for the night
Seth said "go get the plow out merle, this place looks just right"
By then they were surrounded, by dawn they all were dead
I heard this from the old trans am, up the road ahead
That cowboy just kept talking, i thought i heard him say
He used to ride the santa fe before the tracks were laid
Trans am

A nasty wind was blowing through the gates of eden park
One was swinging and one was hanging,
And the street lights all were dark
It crawled along the boulevard with two wheels on the grass
That old trans am was dying hard, but still had lots of gas
The golden gate was open wide, the sun came shining through
Where once the angels stood and cried everything was new
Trans am

Global manufacturing, hands across the sea
The hotel filled with dealers, everything was free
Before the competition, ahead of all the rest
The product was presented, it clearly was the best
The power link was ruptured, the hotel shook and rolled
The old trans am just bounced around and took another road
Trans am

An old friend showed up at the door
The mile posts flying by
He said come on, i said what for
He said i'll show you why
I got a call from north of here
They said some girl's broke down
There's good money in it for you and me
If we can get her back to town
She's somewhere north of barstow
Lost on 66
An old trans am by the side of the road
That needs a headlight fixed
Trans am

Selling papers on the corner,
I saw a man yesterday.
I asked him if he'd wanna
Tell me what made him this way.
He said, when it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

He used to pick his friends.
They left him in the end.
An easy thing to lose,
The right to pick and choose.
When it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

He said he left his wife,
The back-bone of his life.
Another came along,
But now i guess she's gone.
When it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

I think i used to see
That old man on tv,
Can you be the same?
It seems like such a shame.
When it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

The world he thought he knew,
Has better things to do.
As i went on my way
I thought i heard him say:
When it's born, it's warm,
Then it gathers strength in lies,
When it falls, it falls all over you.

On the lake, the deep forbidden lake,
The old boats go gliding by,
And the leaves are falling from the trees
And landing on the logs and i
See the turtles heading for the bog
And falling off the log.
They make the water splash,
And feeling no backlash,
They climb the happy banks.

On the boats, the old and creaky boats,
The shoreline goes gliding by,
And the wind, there was a dying breeze,
Is making the banners fly.
See the colors, floating in the sky,
The pride of the captain's eye,
As he glides
His slender craft inside
And opens up the door.

On the coast, the long and tempting coast,
The cards on the table lie,
And a speech, so eloquent in reach,
Was made by a passerby,
Passing by the way between
Here and left behind.
And it ripples through the crowds
Who run and cast their doubts
In the deep forbidden lake.

Yes, it echoes through the crowds
Who run and cast their doubts
In the deep forbidden lake.

Winding paths through tables and glass
First fall was new
Now watch the summer pass
So close to you.

Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too young to leave.

No pass out sign on the door set me thinking
Are waitresses paying the price of their winking?
While stars sit in bars and decide what their drinking,
They drop by to die 'cause it's faster than sinking.

Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too late to keep the change,
Too late to pay,
No time to stay the same
Too young to leave.

Find out that now was the answer
To answers that you gave later
She did the things that we both did before, now,
But who forgave her.

If i could stand to see her crying
I would tell her not to care.
When she learns of all your lyin'
Will she join you there?

Country girl i think you're pretty,
Got to make you understand,
Have no lovers in the city,
Let me be your country man.
Got to make you understand.

Come to see her in the river
She'll be there to wave to you
In the hope that you'll forgive her
She will join you there.

Find out that now was the answer to answers that you gave later
She did the things that we both did before now and who forgave her?

Now you see how down you've fallen
Now you hear your conscience call
Thank yourself alone for not stalling
I'm not there to call

Call me a fool, 'cause i need her and see her but now you're now
Something inside you will tell you
I'm wise to what you're spreading round.

If i could stand to see her cryin'
I would tell her not to care
When she learns of all your lyin'
Will she join you there?

Find out that now was the answer to answers that you gave later.

Your love is good to me
I should be standing tall
And walking proud
Your eyes keep looking out
And your heart keeps beatin' on
Oh yeah, without your love i would surely die.

Some night when i'm alone
I get to wonder what's been shown
And your love is like a light
Showing me the way through the night
Oh yeah, without your love i would surely die.

Your love is good to me
Good to you i try to be
Don't leave me, babe
Yeah, if i get the blues
My love you'll never loose
Don't ever take away your love.
Your love, your love.
Your love, your love.

You can't help nobody, until you help yourself
You can't help nobody, until you help yourself
Nobody's going to help you better than somebody else.

You know a man needs a woman right by his side.
A man needs a woman right by his side.
She keeps him warm at night, he keeps her satisfied.

Soul of a woman, soul of a man
A perfect combination ever since the world began.
Soul of a woman
Soul of a woman, soul of a man.

You can't help nobody, until you help yourself
You can't help nobody, until you help yourself
Nobody's going to help you better than somebody else.

You know a man needs a woman right by his side.
A man needs a woman right by his side.
She keeps him warm at night, he keeps her satisfied.

Soul of a woman, soul of a man
A perfect combination ever since the world began.
Soul of a woman
Soul of a woman, soul of a man.

All through the lonesome night i tossed and i turned
Lost in these dreams of you since the day i learned
How could you give yourself to another man
A fool for your love, fool for your love.
Fool for your love.

Look how your eyes have changed, all the love has gone
Where did i lose you babe, what did i do wrong
How could you give yourself to another man
I'm a fool for your love, fool for your love.
Fool for your love.

Now you won't say goodbye,
But you don't want to stay
I never thought that i
Would lose you this way.

A fool for your love.

All through the lonesome night i tossed and i turned
Lost in these dreams of you since the day i learned
How could you give yourself to another man
A fool for your love, fool for your love.

Fool for your love.
A fool for your love, i hold on your love.
I'm just a fool in love with you.

I'm a fool, fool for your love
I'm just a fool for your love
I'm a fool for you.

Day and night we walk these aisles
In the same old movie show
And look for someone to feel for a while.
There's matinees on saturdays
When we sit in the velvet chairs
Popcorn boxes fly through the air.

Sad movies, they make you cry
Sad movies make you wonder why
You ever came.
Do something to me,
Don't make me wait
Stab something through me,
Don't cry out the good things
That i appreciate.

Day and night we walk these aisles
In the same old movie show
And look for someone to feel for a while
The light's go on, the movie's gone
And the manager's up there
He says he doesn't care
And we take our money back.

Sad movies, they make you cry
Sad movies make you wonder why
You ever came.

If you wake up in the morning light
Something doesn't seem or know is right
Lay back and let your feeling show
Come on and let the people know
Oh, that's the price that you pay
Oh, that's the price that you pay.

Just ____________________ money
Your baby _______________________
________________________________
Now come on boys, ________________
Oh, that's the price that you pay
Oh, that's the price that you pay.

Oh, that's the price that you pay
Oh, that's the price that you pay.

Bad news is just an excuse
Get down and let yourself keep loose
Go on and live for tomorrow
So much spent today in sorrow
Oh, that's the price that you pay
Oh, that's the price that you pay.

My brother went to prison
He's in kingston doin' time
He got seven years for sellin'
What i've been smokin' all my life
Time off for good behavior
But the boy don't feel too good
Locked behind those steel bars
I don't know if he should

Yeh a few years ago they called me
Back home to get a big award
They also called my brother
But they made him say "my lord"
They locked me up in a hall of fame
And threw away the keys
But when they put my brother away
It really did somethin' to me

Now i'm guilty as hell for sayin'
"boy you better go back home"
You know you'll get a fair shake there
We're running all alone
When he called me up from the border
With the mounties on his tail
I said go back to canada
We can raise the bail

Now i get these letters
From a cell with no tv
He says he's outside one hour
And inside twenty three
Time off for good behavior
But the boy don't feel too good
Locked behind those steel bars
I don't know if he should

Now i'm guilty as hell for sayin'
"boy you better go back home"
You know you'll get a fair shake there
We're running all alone
When he called me up from the border
With the mounties on his tail
I said go back to canada
We can raise the bail

My brother went to prison
He's in kingston doin' time
He got seven years for sellin'
What i've been smokin' all my life

Back in the days of covered wagons
A man had his own way
Whether talkin' to a woman
Or crossing the u.s.a.
No telephones were ringing
No angry words exchanged.
I wish i was back in the saddle now
Riding on the range.

Let your fingers do the walking
Call me up some time
I'm listed under broken hearts
Looking for a good time.
I can't reach out and touch you
You're hung up on the line
I'm your disconnected number now
And you're a private line.

Well, i used to be so happy,
When you gave good 'phone.
I could call you up from anywhere
For a little bit of home
But now my heart is aching
After every call
By the way you talk you'd think
You never gave good 'phone at all.

Let your fingers do the walking
Call me up some time
I'm listed under broken hearts
Looking for a good time.
I can't reach out and touch you
You're hung up on the line
I'm your disconnected number now
And you're a private line.

Let your fingers do the walking
Call me up some time
I'm listed under broken hearts.
Looking for a good time.
I can't reach out and touch you
You're hung up on the line
I'm your disconnected number now
And you're a private line.

neil young
Lets roll


I know i said i love you
I know you know its true
I got to put the phone down
And do what we got to do
One's standing in the aisle way
Two more at the door
We got to get inside there
Before they kill some more

Time is runnin out

It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise
Here come the clouds
There's a big wind blowin' through town
The rooster crows
But we're sleepin' in past dawn
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise
When you chase the sun
Chase it half way around the world
The rainbow comes
When you least expect it to.
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise

Sun comes up
Sun comes up.

When you chase the sun
Chase it half way around the world
The rainbow comes
When you least expect it to
When you least expect it to
When you least expect it to
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise
It's rainin' in paradise

Bad news is come to town
He's walking three feet off the ground
He's ordering another round.
Bound by his own ideas,
Lost, doesn't know where she is found.

Bad news is fighting mad
He went and lost the biggest prize he ever had
But a prizefighter can't be sad
When he smiles under golden lights and lamps
Taking daylight fights again and again.

Bad news is come to town
He's walking three feet off the ground
He's ordering another round.
Bound by his own ideas,
Lost, doesn't know where she is gone.

Bad news is fighting mad
He went and lost the biggest prize he ever had
But a prizefighter can't be sad
When he smiles under golden lights and lamps
Taking daylight fights again and again.

Bad news is come to town.

love is a rose but you better not pick it
Only grows when it's on the vine
Handful a thorns and you know you've missed it
Lose your love when you say the word mine

I want to see whats never been seen,
I want to live an angels dream
Boys and girls lets get together
And do the best right now

I want to go to a old hoe-down
Long ago in a western town
Pick me up, my feet are draggin'
Give me a lft and i'll hay your wagon

Love is a rose but you better not pick it
Only grows when it's on the vine
Handful a thorns and you know you've missed it,
Lose your love when you say the word mine

I want to see whats never been seen
I want to live and angels dream
Boys and girls lets get together
And do the best right now.
And do the best right now.

I'm just a passenger on this old freight train
I ride the boxcar through the night
I doesn't matter where i might get off
I doesn't matter where i lie.

I've been to cities, i've been to countries
I've left a lover in many towns
I don't care if i ever get back to
Where i'd already been around.

I'm like an eagle, i like to fly high
I'm like a snake, i like to lay low
I'm like a black man, i'm like a white man
Maybe a red man, i don't know.

I'm just a passenger on this old freight train
I ride the boxcar through the night
I doesn't matter where i might get off
I doesn't matter where i lie.

When you walk in a room
You hold your head up high
You talk to people eye to eye
There's nothing to hide
You're feeling so complete inside
Your heart feels so complete inside
'cause you got love.

If you got love
You know you got it
If you got love
Can't live without it
If you got love
The world you're walking in
Is at your command

You're staring in the face of scorn
You know your spirit can't be torn
You're living like a satellite
Maintain your distance through the night
You know that something isn't right
Your heart tells you it's just not right
'cause you got love.

If you got love
You know you got it
If you got love
Can't live without it
If you got love
The world you're walking in
Is at your command.

If you got love
The world you're walking in
Is at your command
If you got love
To share
If you got love
To share.

The end has come
The sky has lost it's sun
The harm is done
He was the only one
There goes my babe
There goes what might have been
There goes my babe
In the cool morning rain
And now my heart
Lies empty and still again

If he were here
I'd long to hold him near
But now it's clear
The price of love is dear
There goes my babe
There goes what might have been
There goes my babe
In the cool morning rain
And now my heart
Lies empty and still again

Every time you touch her sets your hands on fire,
And every thing you've got is all that she requires.
And you hang on, hang on, hang on to the words of a liar.
You can feel it getting down to the wire.

All the hurt you thought was gone has now returned,
And every thing she's laughing at is all you learned.
And you let go, let go, let go, 'cause you know you're getting tired.
Can you feel it getting down to the wire?

Take the time to close your eyes and look around,
'cause anyone who helped you out can let you down.
And look out, look out, look out, the voice is now the choir.
Can you feel it getting down to the wire?

Run around babe,
I'm only losing my mind
Run around babe,
Don't try to be
Something you weren't meant to be
If you are not loving me
I'll know it's because
You want to be free
Oh, oh, run around babe,
Oh, oh, run around babe.

When we were young
We left our worries behind
When we were young
Left not to be
The worry is back on me
And it's not hard to see
That that's the way it has to be
Oh, oh, run around babe,
Oh, oh, run around babe.

Run around babe,
I'm only losing my mind
Run around babe,
Don't try to be
Something you weren't meant to be
If you are not loving me
I'll know it's because
You want to be free
Oh, oh, run around babe,
Oh, oh, run around babe.

When i think about love
Honey, you always come across my mind
Is it the way that you hold me
Or the way that you told me love is blind
Well, it's a crime of the heart
These things i'm thinking to myself
But i can't forget you, babe
Just can't seem to think of nothing else.

Got a woman at home
A family to feed
Three fine children
They think the lord of me
Now i'm standing at the crossroads
Looking for a sign of true love.

Well, i heard that song
Says girls just wanna have fun
Well, i guess i bought my ticket, honey
'cause it feels as if the ride has just begun
Well, there's two kinds of love
One is wrong and one is right
But i can't forget you baby
Can't forget the way you hold me tight.

I got a woman at home
A family to feed
Three fine children
They think the lord of me
Well, i'm standing at the crossroads
Looking for a sign of true love.

When i think about women
Honey, you always come across my mind
Is it the way that you told me
The way you told me love is blind
Well, it's a crime of the heart
These things i'm thinking to myself now
Can't forget you, babe
Can't forget the way you make me feel.

I got a woman at home
A family to feed
Three fine children
At the crossroads
Looking for a sign of true love.

I waited for you, winterlong
You seem to be where i belong.
It's all illusion anyway.

If things should ever turn out wrong
And all the love we have is gone,
It won't be easy on that day.

Waiting to follow
Through the dreamlight of your way
Is not so easy for me now.

Half the time has passed away
Things we thought of yesterday
Come back now, come back now.

Waiting to follow
Through the dreamlight of your way
Is not so easy for me now.

Half the time has passed away
Things we thought of yesterday
Come back now, come back now.

I waited for you winterlong
You seem to be where i belong.

The summer ends and the winter winds
Begin to holler all around the bend.
We will smile and sail away
This won't be no sadness day
When the winter winds greet the trees back there.

We can watch the turbine turning in the wind
Up on the ridge line, before the fog rolls in.
Falling leaves in the autumn air
People feeling good everywhere
When the winter winds greet the trees back there.

We can watch the turbine blowing in the wind
Up on the ridge line, before the fog rolls in.
We will smile and sail away.
This won't be no sadness day
When the winter winds greet the trees back there.

I don't wanna bring you down
I don't wanna change you
All i want is
Your love again

You and i want different things
But we need each other
All i want is
Your love again

Love is always changin' faces
Who knows what it means
The whole world is tryin' to find
The answer to its' dreams

Why should we lose what we got
We could rearrange it
All i want is
Your love again

I don't wanna break your heart
I just wanna hold you
All i want is
Your love again

You and i knew from the start
Now we gotta make it happen
All i need is
Your love again

When you walked into my life
On the heels of a dream
I thought i saw in your eyes
A little bit of me

I don't wanna change your life
I just wanna share it
All i want is
Your love again

All i want is
Your love again

One day a visitor took a trip through my town
We all were dancin' till he took his beat away
Come to think of it, he thought of every last detail
Slipped out late one night
Completely out of sight
Left his message etched into my brain.

And when the gates are closed on the road of plenty
The fist comes poundin' down you feel it everyday
It's hard to really know if you are full or empty
Here it comes again
You think i'm your old friend
But now we're not so easily found.

Me and my old corvette, we were flying through the night
Chasin' my blonde lover down skyline
She saw the tail lights flash to avoid the crash
It was way too late
When i hit the brakes
And we went spinnin' with a screeching sound.

I was talkin' to my friend, tellin' him i lucked out
He smiled at me and said i'm glad you feel that way
And when i wrote that down on a piece of paper
Beneath a garbage heap
Down upon the street
A mariachi band began to play.

Up in the gold hotel, the money hits the table
The heavies are all there, that's why the deal goes down
With beautiful women all dressed in diamonds and sable
Down upon the street
Beside a garbage heap
A mariachi band began to play.

In eldorado town there lives a great bullfighter
His eyes are screamin' blue, his hair is red as blood
And when the gate goes up, the crowd gets so excited
Then he comes dancin' out
Dressed in gold lami
He kills the bull and lives another day.

All the champs and the heroes
They got a price to pay
They go from sixty to zero
In the split of a hair
They see the face in the window
They feel a shadow out there
They've got the places they can go
They've got the people who stare
They've got to walk in their shoes
They've got to see what they see
They've got the people around them
Getting too much for free
All the pimps and the dealers
All the food they can eat
All the screamers and squealers
When they walk down the street
Yeah.

He's just a rich old man
He never cared for anyone
He likes to count his possessions
He's been a miser from penny one
He never cared for his children
Never cared for his wife
Never made anyone happy
That's the way he lived his life
And one day in the sunshine
He got a bolt from the blue
Unloaded all of his possessions
Sold his investments too
And now he lives with the homeless
Owns 900 hospital beds
He prefers to remain nameless
It's publicity he dreads
Yeah.

There's a judge in the city
He goes to work every day
Spends his life in the courthouse
Keeps his perspective that way
But i respect his decision
He's got a lot on his mind
He's pretty good with the gavel
A little heavy on the fines
One day there was this minstrel
Who came to court on a charge
That he blew someone's head off
Because his amp was too large
And the song he was singin'
Was not for love but for cash
Well, the judge waived the charges
He fingered his mustache
Yeah.

Well, there's a clown in a carnival
He rode a painted horse
He came from somewhere out west
He was very funny of course
But that is not what i noticed
It was the incredible force
With which he held his audience
While he rode on his horse
His jokes were not that off-color
His smile was not that sincere
His show was that not that sensational
Reasons for success were not clear
But he still made big money
One day the circus was his
Now he's married to the acrobat
And they're training their kids
Yeah.

Now the jailhouse was empty
All the criminals were gone
The gate was left wide open
And a buck and fawn
Were eating grass in the courtyard
When the warden walked in
And took a rifle from the prison guard
And said to him with a grin
To shoot those deer would be stupid, sir
We already got 'em right here
Why not just lock the gates and keep them
With intimidation and fear?
But the warden pulled the trigger
And those deer hit the ground
He said nobody'll know the difference
And they both looked around.
Yeah.

Well, the cop made the showdown
He was sure he was right
He had all of the lowdown
From the bank heist last night
His best friend was a robber
And his wife was a thief
All the children were murderers
They couldn't get no relief
The bungalow was surrounded
When a voice loud and clear
Come out with your hands up
Or we're gonna blow you out of here
There was a face in the window
Tv cameras rolled
And they cut to the announcer
And the story was told.
Yeah.

Well, the artist looked at the producer
The producer sat back
He said what we have got here
Is a pretty good track
But we don't have a vocal
And we still don't have a song
If we could get this thing accomplished
Nothin' else could go wrong
So he balanced the ashtray
And he picked up the phone
And said send me a songwriter
Who's drifted far from home
And make sure that he's hungry
And make sure he's alone
And send me a cheeseburger
And a new rolling stone
Yeah.

Well, the sioux and dakota
They lost all of their land
And now a basketball player
Is trying to lend them a hand
Maybe someday he'll be president
He's quite a popular man
But now the chief has reservations
And the white man has plans
There's opposition in congress
The bill is up against cash
There's really no way of predicting
If it will fly or it will crash
But that's the nature of politics
That's the name of the game
That's how it looks in the tepee
Big winds are blowing again
Yeah.

There's still crime in the city
Said the cop on the beat
I don't know if i can stop it
I feel like meat on the street
They paint my car like a target
I take my orders from fools
Meanwhile some kid blows my head off
Well, i play by their rules
So now i'm doing it my way
I took the law in my own hands
Here i am in the alleyway
A wad of cash in my pants
I get paid by a ten year old
He says he looks up to me
There's still crime in the city
But it's good to be free
Yeah.

Now i come from a family
That has a broken home
Sometimes i talk to my daddy
On the telephone
When he says that he loves me
I know that he does
But i wish i could see him
Wish i knew where he was
But that's the way all my friends are
Except maybe one or two
Wish i could see him this weekend
Wish i could walk in his shoes
But now i'm doin' my own thing
Sometimes i'm good, then i'm bad
Although my home has been broken
It's the best home i ever had
Yeah.

Well, i keep getting younger
My life's been funny that way
Before i ever learned to talk
I forgot what to say
I sassed back to my mummy
I sassed back to my teacher
I got thrown out of sunday school
For throwin' bibles at the preacher
Then i grew up to be a fireman
I put out every fire in town
Put out everything smoking
But when i put the hose down
The judge sent me to prison
Gave me life without parole
Wish i never put the hose down
Wish i never got old.

If you travel with
Those who know you well
I can recommend
Stay at love hotel.

Every room a hallway
Softly sell
Don't get stranded on the lift
Of the love hotel
Love hotel, love hotel, love hotel.

Don't deny yourself
It wants simple truth
Ring for give and take
As the floor and room.

Every room a hallway
Who can tell
Don't get stranded by the lift
Of the love hotel
Love hotel, love hotel, love hotel.

Every room a hallway
Softly sell
Don't get stranded by the lift
Of the love hotel
Love hotel, love hotel.