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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.

Well, i'm goin', i'm goin'
Goin' on a downhill slide.
I'm goin', i'm goin'
Goin' on a downhill slide.
Things feel so easy
I'm never gonna change my mind.

I'm goin', i'm goin', i'm goin'.

Well, ride me babe
Hang on to my hat
Ride me babe
Hang on to my hat
I'll howl like a wolf
Scream like an alley cat.

I'm goin', i'm goin', i'm goin'.

Don't wanna change my mind.
Don't wanna reel it in.
Don't wanna stop this slidin' honey
That's the shape i'm in.

I'm goin', i'm goin' on a downhill slide.
Things feels so easy
I'm never gonna change my mind.

I'm goin', i'm goin', i'm goin'.

Goin', goin', goin', goin', goin'.

I'm goin' on a downhill slide.

Watch me now, watch me now.

Goin', goin', goin', goin', goin'.

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.

No, i'm not gonna to hide my feelings
Couldn't if i tried
No, i'm not holding them inside
Holding back is so close to stealing
Though we both have tried
We could lose it all if we lied.

Someday it's later than
The feelings we have now
It's of the ground
I've always played around
But now i don't know how.

Listen easy because i'm saying
What i mean this time
Sharing words i always said were mine
I was breezy, now i'm swaying
Like the tree we climbed
Asking you to give me one more sign.

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.

Well, hello lonely woman
Won't you take a walk with me.
I know a place where we can go
Grab a bite to eat.

Hello lonely woman.
Are you feelin' all right?
Well, you look just like heaven
On a clear clear night.

Well, i know you're a lonely woman
And i know what's on your mind
I won't ask you any favors
I'm familiar with your kind.

I know you need me
Like a river needs rain
I won't ask you any favors
Until i pass this way again.

Well, hello lonely woman
Won't you take a walk with me.
I know a place where we can go
Grab a bite to eat.

Hello lonely woman.
Are you feelin' all right?
Well, you look just like heaven
On a clear clear night.

Well, i know you're a lonely woman
And i know what's on your mind
I won't ask you any favors
I'm familiar with your kind.

I know you need me
Like a river needs rain
I won't ask you any favors
Until i pass this way again.

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.

There was an ill wind blowing
Through my hair last night
That froze me in my blue jeans.
I couldn't find a light
I know that something's coming
I can feel it in my bones
Thank god for those old country boys,
I ain't out here alone.

My friends all tell me
I got daggers in my eyes
There's an anger in my heart
That they don't realize
I'm mad as hell at something
That i don't understand
Thank god i'm on the road tonight
With this old hillbilly band.

Thank god i'm on the road tonight
With this old hillbilly band.
We may not be good looking
But we sure get outta hand
Was that the devil's stagecoach
Flying over the rio grande?
Thank god i'm on the road tonight
With this old hillbilly band.

I swear that the devil
Came visiting me last night
Surrounded my old stagecoach
With his eerie light
He was pounding on my windows
Rattling my wheels
I may not be the devil
But i know just how he feels.

Thank god i'm on the road tonight
With this old hillbilly band.
We may not be good looking
But we sure get outta hand
Was that the devil's stagecoach
Flying over the rio grande?
Thank god i'm on the road tonight
With this old hillbilly band.

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.

Now, new york city on a friday night
A lot of things happenin', a lot of bright lights.
Saw a pretty woman all dressed in red
She turned to me and this is what she said
She said, honey i got the blues
I got the blues from ridin' all night in these high heel shoes.

Well, she took me to the corner that she called her home
Turned around and we were all alone.
Come on in, she said with a smile
Come on in and we can rest a while.
Well, honey i got the blues
I got the blues from ridin' all night in these high heel shoes.

I said, listen here, honey, i been around
You ain't foolin' me, 'cause i know what you've found.
She bent kinda low and then she tickled my lips.
She said, listen here, son. i'm gonna give you a tip
Honey i got the blues
I got the blues from ridin' all night in these high heel shoes.

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

If you're looking for me
You'll find me resting in the shade
Of the mountains and trees
Beneath the cool summer breeze
And i don't mind if you stay
Everybody's alone
Everybody's alone

People talking to me
Someone saying that i'm not the same
That's not so easy to be
But when i'll learn to be free
I wonder if i'll miss the pain
Everybody's alone
Everybody's alone

All i want you to know
Is that i love you so much
I can hardly stand it
When everybody's alone
Everybody's alone
Everybody's alone
Everybody's alone

Down the highway, all across the nation
Trucks are moving rough, we pass the break of day
Sure looks like we're all gonna rock forever.
Rock, rock, rock.

After midnight you see the big trucks rolling
Pushing metal on down the super slab
Sure hard to tell from here where we are going
Rock, rock, rock.

Do it inside, do it outside, baby
Do it over again in the same old way
From now on we're all gonna rock together.
Rock, rock, rock.

Sure looks like we're all gonna rock forever.
The way we just keep rolling on and on
Yeah, sure looks like we're all gonna rock forever.
Rock, rock, rock.

There's a world you're living in
No one else has your part
All god's children in the wind
Take it in and blow hard.

Look around it, have you found it
Walking down the avenue?
See what it brings, could be good things
In the air for you.

We are leaving. we are gone.
Come with us to all alone.
Never worry. never moan.
We will leave you all alone.

In the mountains, in the cities,
You can see the dream.
Look around you. has it found you?
Is it what it seems?

There's a world you're living in
No one else has your part
All god's children in the wind
Take it in and blow hard.

In a dusty town a clock struck high noon, two men stood face to face.
One wore black and one wore white, but of fear there wasn't a trace.
Two hundred years later two hot rods drag through the very same place,
And a half a million people
Moved in to pick up the pace, a factory full of people.
Makin' parts to go to outer space, a train load of people.
They were aimin' for another place, out of town people.

There's a man in the window with a big cigar, says everything's for sale.
The house and the boat and the railroad car, the owner's gotta go to jail.
He acquired these things from a life of crime, now he's selling them to raise his bail.
He was rippin' off the people.
Sellin' guns to the underground, tryin' to help the people.
Lose their ass for a piece of ground, rippin' off the people.
Skimmin' the top when there was no one around, tryin' to help the people.

He was dealing antiques in a hardware store but he sure had a lot to hide.
He had a backroom full of the guns of war and a ton of ammunition besides.
Well, he walked with a cane, kept a bolt on the door with five pit bulls inside,
Just a warning to the people
Who might try to break in at night, protection from the people.
Selling safety in the darkest night, tryin' to help the people.
Get the drugs to the street all right, ordinary people.

Well, it's hard to say where a man goes wrong, might be here and it might be there.
What starts out weak might get too strong, if you can't tell foul from fair.
But it's hard to judge from an angry throng of hands stretched into the air,
The vigilante people.
Takin' law into their own hands, conscientious people.
Crackin' down on the druglord's land, government people.
Confiscatin' all the dealer's land, patch-of-ground people.

Down at the factory, they're puttin' new windows in.
The vandals made a mess of things, and the homeless just walked right in.
Well, they worked here once, and they live here now, but they might work here again,
They're ordinary people.
And they're livin' in a nightmare, hard workin' people.
And they don't know how they go there, ordinary people.
And they think that you don't care, hard workin' people.

Down on the assembly line, they keep puttin' the same thing out.
But the people today, they just ain't buyin', nobody can figure it out.
Well, they try like hell to build a quality end, they're workin' hard without a doubt,
They're ordinary people.
And the dollar's what it's all about, hard workin' people.
But the customers are walkin' out, lee iacocca people.
Yeah, they look but they just don't buy, hard workin' people.

Two out of work models and a fashion slave try to dance away the michelob night.
The bartender poured himself another drink, while two drunks sat watchin' the fight.
The champ went down, then he got up again, and then he went out like a light,
He was fightin' for the people.
But his timing wasn't right, for las vegas people
Who came to see a las vegas fight, high rollin' people.
Takin' limos though the neon night, fightin' for the people.

And then a new rolls royce and a company car they went flyin' down the street.
Each one tryin' to make it to the gate before employees manned the fleet.
The trucks full of products for the modern home, set to roll out into the street
Of downtown people.
Tryin' to make their way to work, nose-to-the-stone people.
Some are saints, and some are jerks, hard workin' people.
Stoppin' for a drink on the way to work, alcoholic people.
Yeah yeah, they're takin' it one day, one day at a time.

Out on the railroad track, they're cleanin' up number nine.
They're scrubbin' the boiler down, well, she really is lookin' fine.
Awe, she's lookin' so good, they're gonna bring her back on line,
Ordinary people.
They're gonna bring the good things back, nose-to-the stone people.
Put the business back on track, ordinary people.
I got faith in the regular kind, hard workin' people,
Patch-of-ground people.

How can i bring you
To the sea of madness
I love you so much
It's gonna bring me sadness
I've never seen you
Through these eyes before
Now i don't believe it
I think i'll take it
Or leave it.

All i need
Is your sweet sweet loving
Fill my life with happiness
All i want is your heart
Every time i think of you
Mine falls apart.

I went to heaven
And i stood at the crossroads
I'll love you tomorrow
As sure as the wind blows
Silver rain
On the mountain clover
Washes away
Until the music is over.

One mornin' when i was ridin'
In my old pickup truck
A beautiful bluebird came flyin' down
My eyes caught the color
As it lead me down the road
Dippin' and bobbin' in the sun
I've never seen that blue before
'cept in one place
And she's not here with me right now
So i followed all the way
To the top of the hill
That's where she kept on climbin' lord
Someday i will

Beautiful bluebird
See how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window
Where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird
I'd come flyin' back to you

Well it kind of struck me funny
Sort of made me smile
After all these years on this old road
How god could show me somethin'
Never say a word
There's so much that i don't know
I've never seen that blue before
Except in one place
And she's not here with me right now
I followed all the way to the top of the hill
That's where she kept on climbin' lord
And someday i will

Beautiful bluebird
See how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window
Where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird
I'd come flyin' back to you

Beautiful bluebird
See how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window
Where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird
I'd come flyin' back to you

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?

Down the mountainside
To the coastline
Past the angry tide
The mighty diesel whines.

And the tunnel comes
And the tunnel goes
Round another bend
The giant drivers roll.

I rode the highball
I fired the daylight
When i turned sixty-five
I couldn't see right.

It was mr. jones,
We've got to let you go
It's company policy
You've got a pension though.

Roll on, southern pacific
On your silver rails
On your silver rails
Roll on, southern pacific
On your silver rails
Through the moonlight.

I put in my time
I put in my time
Now i'm left to roll
Down the long decline.

I ain't no brake man
Ain't no conductor
But i would be though
If i was younger.

Roll on, southern pacific
On your silver rails
On your silver rails
Roll on, southern pacific
Roll on, on your silver rails.

Well, i'm a little light-headed
But my body feels the same
And it feels like fallin' on down
And find another name
But the sand in my shoes
May trickle to my brain
Well, i ain't got the blues
But something more tame
Oh yeah, something more tame
Oh yeah, something more tame.

Well the sound of the drums
Is pounding in my head
Like ten thousand dancers
With bodies full of lead
And i feel like a bull
With an eye-full of red
Well, i ain't got the blues
But something better bred
Oh yeah, something better bred
Oh yeah, something better bred.

If tomorrow sees another
Kind of farm i know
Well, the people and the soldiers
And the gypsies groan
It would be like a wonder
And i cannot let it go
Well, i ain't got the blues
But something more slow
Oh yeah, something more slow
Oh yeah, something more slow.

But the people in the cities
And the other ones too
Ain't got too many wonders
That they're not tied to
And i can't help but feeling
As i'm wearing straight through
Well, i ain't got the blues
But something more true
Oh yeah, something more true
Oh yeah, something more true.

There's a face in the window
Lookin' back at me
There's a face in the window
I just can't see.
That face in the window
Keeps haunting me.

I went walking after midnight
Up and down the street
I went walking after midnight
Up and down the street
When i stopped for a smoke
I heard shuffling feet.

Well, i stopped for a smoke
What did i see?
A face in the filter
Lookin' back at me.

Ah, listen to me baby
Hear what i have to say.
Yeah, listen to me baby
Hear what i have to say.
These midnight blues
They won't go away
These midnight blues
Won't go away.

Yeah, i stopped for a smoke
What did i see?
A face in the filter
Lookin' back at me.

I'm walking after midnight
Well, i'm walking after midnight.

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.

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.