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I remember Richard Nixon back in '74
And the final scene at the White House door And the staff lined up to say good-bye Tiny tear in his shifty little eye He said nobody knows me Nobody understands These little people were good to me Oh I'm gonna shake some hands * Somebody line 'em up Line 'em all up Line 'em up Line 'em all up Line 'em up Line 'em all up Line 'em up Line 'em all up At that time my heart was all broke I looked like ashes and smelled like smoke And I turned away from my loving kind Try to leave my body and live in my mind But it's much too much emotion To hold it in your hand They've got waves out on the ocean They're gonna wear away the land *Repeat Oh I've seen corn in Kansas And I've seen picket fences And certain cowboy dances I've gone lining up for shows I've been safely placed in rows Sure I know how it goes Another day goes by Little time machine I'm breaking my brain Over what it might mean Just to claim the time And to turn away To make today today Who waits for you Lonely tired old toad It's your life laid out before you Like the broken white line down the center of the road *Repeat Yeah, big moon landing People all standing up Smiles for the loved ones They go walking on down the aisles Each re-engages stepping into the sun I watch them turn like pages One by one by one *Repeat |
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| 2. |
| 5:27 |
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Almost Fuck-free.
The sun shines on this funeral The same as on a birth The way it shines on everything That happens here on Earth It rolls across the western sky And back into the sea And spends the day퉠 last rays Upon this fucked-up family So long old pal The last time I saw Alice She was leaving Santa Fe With a bunch of round-eyed Buddhists In a killer Chevrolet Said they turned her out of Texas Yeah she burned 'em down back home Now she's wild with expectation On the edge of the unknown * Oh it's enough to be on your way It's enough just to cover ground It's enough to be moving on Home, build it behind your eyes Carry it in your heart Safe among your own They brought her back on a Friday night Same day I was born We sent her up the smoke stack And back into the storm She blew up over the San Juan mountains And spent herself at last The threat of heavy weather That was what she knew the best *Repeat It woke me up on a Sunday An hour before the sun It had me watching the headlights Out on highway 591 'Til I stepped into my trousers 'Til I pulled my big boots on I walked out on the Mesa And I stumbled on this song *Repeat |
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| 3. |
| 3:53 |
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JT on Sony.com: Yer love jones.
Gotta watchdog watching me Watching me packing my bags He knows I'm leaving town I can see that it's a drag Why leave the life I love Here in the great state of Maine Just to ride that shining rail Just to size that ball and chain Gotta spend just a little more time with you That's why Gotta spend just a little more time with you Oh oh oh Gotta spend just a little more time with you Yes I do, yes I do Gotta spend just a little more time with you Oh oh oh oh oh I passed on the cocaine Said bye-bye to my methadone Put down the bottle for one more day Backing off of my Tobacco Jones Still I feel like a hopeless junkie Like a man who can't say no I look back and there's that monkey Rascal won't let go Gotta spend just a little more time with you I get high and I can't come down I get high just hanging around I get high, I go lost and found I get high oh I oh I Gotta spend just a little more time with you |
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| 4. |
| 5:31 |
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JT on Sony.com: There is a theory suggested by the planetologist John Lovelock, that life (on earth) is one inter connected, self regulating organism (watch out). He named it the GAIA theory after the ancient Greek earth goddess (evidently).
Your basic tree huggers anthem. The sky was light and the land all dark The sun rose up over Central Park I was walking home from work GAIA The petal sky and the rosy dawn The world turning on the burning sun Sacred wet green one we live on GAIA Run run run run said the automobile and we ran Run for your life take to your heels Foolish school of fish on wheels GAIA Turn away from your animal kind Try to leave your body just to live in your mind Leave your cold cruel mother earth behind GAIA As if you were your own creation As if you were the chosen nation And the world around you just a rude and Dangerous invasion GAIA Someone's got to stop us now Save us from us Gaia No one's gonna stop us now We thought we ought to walk awhile So we left that town in a single file Up and up and up mile after mile after mile We reached the tree line and I dropped my pack Sat down on my haunches and I looked back down Over the mountain Helpless and speechless and breathless GAIA Pray for the forest pray to the tree Pray for the fish in the deep blue sea Pray for yourself and for God's sake Say one for me Poor wretched unbeliever Someone's got to stop us now Save us from us Gaia No one's gonna stop us now |
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| 5:42 |
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Je t'aime encore means I love you still, c'est pour toujours means I always will.
Tu me manquais trop means I missed you much, je fait ce qu'il faut means I'll do what I must. Me voici a ta fenetre tous les gens me voient ici. Here I am at your window darling for all your people to see me. Ananas laisse moi une fois laisse moi te voir, let me one more time, Ananas. Ananas, I'm loping along, hoping you're home, open up and let me on in. Maybe I rise and maybe I fall, maybe you lie underneath it all, I ain't got nothing but for what you see, even my own heart don't belong to me. Got your river running in my blood, got your fire burning in my heart. You got me falling like a shooting star, just like some tragic work of art. Ananas laisse moi une fois laisse moi te voir, let me one more time, Ananas. Ananas, I'm loping along, hoping you're home, open up and let me on in. Here I am at your window baby, for all your people to see. Howling like a dog in the moonlight, won't you have pity on me? |
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| 3:28 |
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JT on Sony.com: Lilly was not at all sure we could just "set ol' Dan
free" like that. I told her Dan was a huge invisible rat with magical powers. That seems to have shut her up. This land is a lovely green It reminds me of my own home Such children I've seldom seen Even in my own home The sky so bright and clean Just like my home Kind people as have ever been Won't you take me back to my own home * Jump up behind me my love Jump up behind me Old Dan can bear us both Jump up behind me We follow this road 'til we reach the sea Jump up behind me We'll catch the tide and set Dan free Jump up behind me I've been in this world awhile And I've seen a lot of country Many days and many miles All various and sundry I've had my way and I've had my fun And I've had my chance to run free Burning hot beneath the sun Freezing cold and wintry *Repeat I know now Only one thing matters in these days One thing, true love Love and love alone True love I came out of a dream last night Thought I was back in my old home Mom and Dad were both still alive And the babies not yet born, no Felt like a festival Felt like a Christmas morning Felt the darkness fall away Even as the world was turning |
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| 2:21 |
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JT on Sony.com: The song's been waiting for a verse since 1985 when I first put it down at Air Studios, Montserrat. Frank was at the console then too.
Wake up Suzy Put your shoes on Walk with me into this light Finally this morning I'm feeling whole again It was a hell of a night Just to be with you by my side Just to have you near in my sight Just to walk a while in this light Just to know that life goes on Wake up Suzy Put your shoes on Walk with me into this light Another night has gone Life goes on Another dawn is breaking Turn and face the sun One by one The world outside is waking Morning light has driven away All the shadows that hide your way And night has given away To the promise of another day Another day Another chance that we may Finally find our way Another day The sun has begun To melt all our fears away Another day Another day Oh wake up Suzy Put your shoes on Walk with me into this light |
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| 3:47 |
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We were walking in paradise
Never did notice Blind in the Buddha land Looking for solace We had been told of a place Far beyond this vale of tears We could never have guessed We were already blessed There we were, where we are In the garden Didn't we climb on up er mei Temple to temple Yes and all and all along the way The day was simple Didn't we reach the top Didn't we gain our goal Did we finally stop Surprised by the cold We were walking in paradise Never did tumble Blind in the Buddha land Looking for trouble We had been told of a place Far beyond this vale of tears We could never have guessed We were already blessed There we were, where we are In the garden |
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| 5:15 |
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So much for your moment of prayer
God's not at home There is no there there Lost in the stars That's what you are Left here on your own You can only hope to live on this earth This here is it, for all it's worth Nothing else awaits you No second birth No starry crown For an un-believer like you There's not much they can do It would turn you away Though I hate to see you surrender You need to surrender We must find you a way to CHORUS: Look up from your life Up from your life Look on up from your life Look up from your life There's a river running under your feet Under this house Under this street Straight from the heart Ancient and sweet On its way back home Even in the middle of your sadness The everyday madness The ongoing game Even when you can't find a reason Still there is a reason You don't need to name it Look on up Look up from your life Only for a minute To find yourself in it To wait by the stream To drop out of your dream Look on up Look up from your life |
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| 4:53 |
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Oh boy, Botany Bay
Watching the water go by Here's your home so far away Here is a tear for your eye Here is a vast and unknown land Here are the strangers on the sand Oh, seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow Tiny pieces of everything into the water they go Everything changes for the strangers on the shore They are blue and green no more They are yellow and rose Down under got the south side This groovy crazy planet Watching from the outside It's as smooth as a gravy sandwich People play music night for day One caught the sun in a sekere Seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow Tiny pieces of everything into the water they go Everything changes for the strangers on the shore They are blue and green no more They are yellow and rose Remember when we thought we were in California We thought it was the eye of the hurricane Old gypsy woman she tried to warn you "You'll be back this way again Hungry for the rain It's written in your hand, plain" Seeds of the universe ever endeavor to grow Tiny pieces of everything into the water they go Everything changes for the strangers on the shore They are blue and green no more They are yellow and rose Yellow and Rose Yellow and Rose Yellow and Rose |
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| 3:56 |
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Hearts were exploding around us
As we drifted south down the bay The gray up above and gray down below Left us with nothing to say So we drifted along in silence 'Til the tickle of life trickled in And the rhythm began in the hiss of the sand We were catching fire again * Oh boatman, I am the river I am the mountain and the sea Oh boatman, taker and giver Can you deliver me I would forever run free Yeah we finally caught up with legends We were walking along side by side We worked out a plan To go out hand in hand But the long trail just wasn't that wide The water around us was freezing We just laughed and threw ourselves in And although we were old The sting of that cold Pumped up the feeling, here it is again *Repeat Oh I'm a message in a bottle Drifting along on a deep blue sea Waiting for some foreign shore Ready for something to be No longer afraid of falling We cut the strings to the sky We found level ground And we put ourselves down Amazing we all didn¹t die We took each moment as given By second by second they came The ice and the sun and the thundering guns Good God I was finally sane *Repeat |
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| 2:27 |
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Gee it's great after staying out late
Walking my baby back home Arm in arm, over meadow and farm Walking my baby back home We go on harmonizing a song Or she's reciting a poem Owls fly by and they give me the eye Walking my baby back home We stop for awhile She gives me a smile And cuddles her cheek to my chest We start to pet and that's when I get Her powder all over my vest After I kind of straighten my tie She has to borrow my comb It's one kiss then we continue again Walking my baby back home |
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| 2:22 |
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Oh money, oh money, oh where have you gone?
I need me some money to have me some fun Gonna pick up my guitar and write me some hits Build me some houses and blow 'em to bits Gonna furnish them boldly with style and with taste Generate truckloads of solid waste Hangnail, hangnail, hangnail, hangnail Have you ever seen a man with a hangnail? Hangnail, hangnail, hangnail Oh money, oh money, oh where have you gone? I need me some money to have me some fun Gonna pick up my guitar and write me some hits Hangnail, hangnail, hangnail, hangnail Have you ever seen a man with a hangnail? Hangnail, hangnail, hangnail Oh money, oh money, oh where have you gone? |
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