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you said the world was magic
i was wide-eyed and laughing we were dancing up to the bright side forget about your ego forget about your pride and you will never have to compromise and you were only joking you were only joking brother we talked about our mothers kissed the wounds of our fathers i could have been your sister i would have been your brother you kissed me like i was a soldier headed for a war i dying man but i don't know what for and you were only joking you were only joking brother you were only joking (wide-eyed and laughing) you were only joking brother (dancing up to the bright side) gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet i bruised my heels on the swollen street we were girls in bars boys on the town bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd you said good friends are hard to come by i laughed and bought you a beer it's too corny to cry well sentiment given oh sentiment lost you shake it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking you were only joking brother you were only joking were only joking brother and you were only joking (gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet) you were only joking brother (i bruised my heels on the swollen street) you kissed me like a soldier heading for a war (joking) i'm a dying man (you were only joking) and you were only joking (don't know what for) (dying man) you were only joking brother (don't know what for) and you were only and you were only and you were only joking brother one two three four ah yeah sha la sha la sha la sha la sha la (wide eyed and laughing) sha la (dancing up to the bright side) sha la (wide eyed and laughing) sha la (dancing up to the bright side) |
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I sit two stories above the street it's awful quiet here since love fell asleep there's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school some long ago when we were taught that for whatever kind of puzzle you got you just stick the right formula in a solution for every fool i remember the time when i came so close with you sent me skipping my class and running from school and i bought you that ring cause i never was cool what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated so i just sit up in the house and resist and not be seen until i cease to exist a kind of conscientious objection a kind of dodging the draft the boy and girl are holding hands on the street and i don't want to but i think you just wait it's more than just eye to eye learn the things i could never apply i remember the time when i came so close to you i let everything go it seemed the only truth and i bought you that ring it seemed the thing to do what makes me think i could start
clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated oh i'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself the things that i do the next time i fall i'm gonna have to recall it isn't love it's only something new i sit two stories above the street it's awful quiet here since love fell asleep there's life down below me though the kids are walking home from school i'm remembering the time when i came so close with you skipping my class and running from school and i bought you that ring cause i never was cool what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated what makes me think i could start clean slated the hardest to learn was the least complicated least complicated |
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I thought the time was passed when I could
find beauty in a verse I set the stage and the scenery rehearsing every word yeah but when i tried to make it more well it was always less and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else oh yeah oh yeah all right with my confidence on fire i set to fixin' up my roles my separation of desires just led me deeper down in the hole yeah when i tried to make it more well it was always less and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else yeah and when i tried to make it more well it was always less it's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else now i'm tryin to get back to what i know that i should be hoping to god that i, that I was just a temporary absentee yeah when i tried to make it more well it was always less it's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else yeah when i tried to make it more well it was always less and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else somebody else oh yeah oh yeah all right |
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| 4. |
| 3:52 |
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it's coming on christmas
they're cutting down trees putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace i wish i had a river i could skate away on but it don't snow here it stays pretty green gonna make a lot of money then i'm gonna quit this crazy scene and i wish i had a river i could skate away on i wish i had a river so wide i would teach my feet to fly i wish i had a river i could skate away on 'cause i made my baby cry you tried hard to help me and you put me at ease then loved me so naughty made me weak in my knees and wish i had a river that i could skate away on i'm so hard to handle i'm selfish and i'm sad now i lost the best baby that i ever had and i wish i had a river that i could skate away on i wish i had a river so wide i could teach my feet to fly i wish i had a river that i could skate away on cause i made my baby say goodbye it's coming on christmas they're cutting down trees putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace but i wish i had a river i could skate away on god i wish i had a river so wide i'd teach my feet to fly i wish i had a river i could skate away on i made my baby say goodbye |
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| 5. |
| 5:13 |
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i come to you with strange fire
i make an offering of love the incense of my soil is burned by the fire in my blood i come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path i want to harbor you from the anger find a refuge from the wrath this is a message a message of love love that moves from the inside out love that never grows tired i come to you with strange fire fire mercenaries of the shrine now who are you to speak for god with haughty eyes and lying tongues and hands that shed innocent blood now who delivered you the power to interpret calvary you gamble away our freedom to gain your own authority find another state of mind you know it's time we all learned to grab hold strange fire burns with the motion of love fire fire when you learn to love yourself you will dissolve all the stones that are cast now you will learn to burn the icing sky to melt the waxen mask i said to have the gift of true release this is a peace that will take you higher oh i come to you with my offering i bring you strange fire this is a message a message of love love that moves from the inside out love that never grows tired i come to you with strange fire fire fire I come to you with strange fire |
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| 6. |
| 5:17 |
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Now the parking lot is empty everyone's gone someplace i pick you up and in the trunk i've packed a cooler and a 2 day suitcase cause there's a place we like to drive way out in the country live miles out of the city limit we're singing and your hand's upon my knee so we're okay we're fine baby i'm here to stop your crying chase all the ghosts from your head i'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed smarter than the tricks played on your heart we'll look at them together then we'll take them apart adding up the total of a love that's true multiply life by the power of two you know the things that i am afraid of i'm not afraid to tell and if we'd ever leave a legacy it's that we loved each other well i've seen the shadows of so many people trying on the treasures of youth a road that fancy and fast ends in a fatal crash and i'm glad we got off to tell you the truth cause we're okay we're fine baby i'm here to stop your crying chase all the ghosts from your head i'm stronger than the monster beneath your
bed smarter than the tricks played on your heart we'll look at them together then we'll take them apart adding up the total of a love that's true multiply life by the power of two all the shiny little trinkets of temptation (make new friends) something new instead of something old (but keep the old) all you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface (and remember what is gold) and it's fools gold fools gold fools gold (what is gold what is gold) and now we're talking about a difficult thing and your eyes are getting wet but i took us for better and i took us for worse and don't you ever forget it is the steel bars between me and a promise suddenly bend with ease and the closer i'm bound in love to you the closer i am to free so we're okay we're fine baby i'm here to stop your crying chase all the ghosts from your head i'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed smarter than the tricks played on your heart we'll look at them together then we'll take 'em apart adding up the total of a love that's true multiply life by the power of two |
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| 7. |
| 4:21 |
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well i woke up this morning
grey dawn with a prayer on my breath you see i lost something precious and god'll save me from losing myself i said i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong now i met the queen and i understand why why she closed the door i'm not making excuses but you know i've been there a few times you know i was i was knocking on the door i said i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong wrong wrong see there's a man he lived in a house had a family of five well he blew up the windows and the doors he said “i just couldn't i just couldn't survive” yeah well we've all been removed in one way or another we don't know our families we don't need our brothers we're pushing the needle too far pushing the needle too far well if you wake up in the morning grey dawn there's a prayer on your breath see maybe you've lost something precious god'll save you from losing yourself you say i think i know what's wrong let me hear you i think i know what's wrong there's the queen who closed the door the family that lies the people who turn the cat that has died a boy that od's a girl with a gun the world on its knees and a band on the run you know you'd help me more (the queen who closed the door) by not giving in (the family that lies) you know you'd help me more (people who turn) by not giving in (and the cat that has died) you know you'd help me more (a boy that od's) by not giving in (and a girl with a gun) i said you'd help me more (the world on it's knees) now don't you give in (and a band on the run) ah now you'd help me more by not giving i said don't you dare (not giving in no) don't you dare (not giving in no) don't you dare (she said) you'd help me more (she said she wouldn't give in) by not giving in i said you'd help me more by not giving in i said i i think i know what's wrong i think i know what's wrong we're pushing the needle too far |
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| 8. |
| 6:04 |
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Some will strut and some will fret
See this an hour on this stage Others will not but they'll sweat In their hopelessness in their rage We're all the same The men of anger And the women of the page They published your diary And that's how I got to know you Key to the room of your own and a mind without end And here's a young girl On a kind of a telephone line through time And the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend So I know I'm all right my life will come my life will go Still I feel it's all right 'Cause I just got a letter to my soul When my whole life is on the tip of my tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughs in my face You say each life has its place The hatches were battened Thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed Battles surrounded the white flag of your youth But if you need to know that you weathered the storm Of cruel mortality A hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof So you know it's all right Your life will come your life will go Still you feel it's all right Someone will get a letter to your soul When your whole life was on the tip of your tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughed in your face Did you hear me say each life has its place The place where you hold me Is dark in a pocket of truth The moon has swallowed the sun and the light of the earth And so it was for you when the river eclipsed your life But sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me And it was my rebirth So we know we're all right Life will come and life will go Still you'll feel it's all right Someone'll get a message to your soul (And then you'll know you're all right) And when my life is on the tip of my tongue (Then you'll feel you're all right) Empty pages for the no longer young (The you'll feel it's all right, and it's all right) You said each life has its place (The you'll feel it's all right, and it's all right) And you said each life has its place And it's all right |
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| 9. |
| 3:53 | 
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| 10. |
| 8:02 |
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early one morning the sun was shining
i was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red her folks they said our lives together sure was gonna be rough they never did like mama's homemade dress papa's bank book wasn't big enough me i'm standing on the side of the road rain falling on my shoes i'm heading out to the east coast lord knows i've paid some dues getting through tangled up in blue she was married when we first met soon to be divorced i helped her out of a jam i guess but i used a little too much force and we drove that car as far as we could abandoned it out west we split up on a sad dark night both agreeing it was best she turned around and looked at me as i was walking away then i heard her say over my shoulder we'll meet again someday on the avenue tangled up in blue i was living in the great north woods working as a cook for a spell i never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell so i drifted down to new orleans where i happened to be employed yeah i was working for a while on a fishing boat right outside of de la croix and all the while i was alone the past was close behind i'd seen a lot of women but she never escaped my mind and i just grew tangled up in blue she was working at a topless bar and i stopped in for a beer i just kept looking at the side of her face in the spotlight so clear now later on as the crowd thinned out and i was just about to do the same yeah but she was standing there at the back of my chair she said don't i know your name well i muttered something underneath my breath she studied the lines on my face i must admit i felt a little uneasy when she bent down to tie the laces of my shoes we were tangled up in blue i know i know i know she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe i thought you'd never say hello she said you look like the silent type and then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an italian poet from the 13th century every one of his words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you tangled up in blue yeah yeah i lived with them on montague street in a basement down the stairs yeah there was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air that's when he started into dealing with slaves yeah something inside of her died just died and she had to sell everything she owned and she froze up inside finally the bottom fell out i became withdrawn the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew tangled up in blue oh yeah now i'm headed back again i gotta get to her somehow and all the people we used to know they're an illusion to me now some are mathematicians some are carpenter's wives i don't know how they all got started i don't know what they're doing with their lives but me i'm still on the road headed for another joint we always did feel the same we just saw it from a different point of view tangled up in blue i know i know i know yeah yeah oh yeah |
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| 3:55 |
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i'm coming home with a stone
strapped onto my back i'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black i'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into my stone a ghost of comfort angels breath to keep this life inside my chest this world falls on me hopes of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me now i woke up in the middle of a dream scared the world was too much for me sejarez said, "don't let go just plant the seeds and watch them grow" i've slept in rainy canyon lands cold drenched to my skin i always wake to find a face to calm these troubled lands ah this world falls on me with dreams of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me now i'm running to the end of the earth and i'm swimming to the edge of the sea and i'm laughing i'm under a starry sky this world was meant for me don't bury me carry me i wish i was a nomad an indian or a saint the edge of death would disappear leave me nothing left to taint i wish i was a nomad an indian or a saint give me walking shoes feathered arms and a key to heaven's gate ah this world falls on me dreams of immortality everywhere i turn all the beauty just keeps shaking me i'm running (this world falls on me) to the end of the earth (with hopes of immortality) i'm swimming (everywhere i turn) to the edge of the sea (the beauty keeps on shaking me) and i'm laughing (this world falls on me) cause i'm under a starry sky (hopes of immortality) this world was meant for me (everywhere i turn) i've got hopes of immortality |
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| 5:09 |
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| 6:03 |
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There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to From our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross, and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret (don't tell a soul) That gets whispered in a hush When I wake the things I dreamt about you (don't tell a soul) Last night make me blush Then you kissed me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like the Piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close In love with your ghost Unknowing captor You'll never know much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it, a cry to be free... Oh, I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me That would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels And my bitter pill to swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me, I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worst at most In love with your ghost (In love) You are shadowing my dreams (with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) |
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we were down at dead man's hill
smoking vines like cigarettes looking through the trashy mags trying to feel what's coming next you told me of crashing cars older brothers and late night bars i told you what i feel most and you kept it like a ghost forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart don't leave a message talk to me face to face talk to me face to face lying on the bright blue jumping mat dinner bell is ringing barking dogs and model planes and the sound of passing trains we watch for bonfires in the sky on the beach in july spin the bottle steal the kiss postcards to the one i miss forever the one i miss forever don't you write it down remember this in your head don't take a picture remember this in your heart i'll leave a message when everything comes apart (talk to me face to face) [talk to me face to face] (everything comes apart) i'll leave a message when everything comes apart i remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of dead man's hill this is what i know of shame forever |
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| 3:46 |
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well you followed me this far
did you find out what's inside can you tell me what i'm doing is it something i should hide i don't know for sure i don't wanna find out what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer or anyone to second guess no you told me all your secrets and i filled you up with lies now i'm living honestly because i said goodbye i can't go home anymore i don't wanna find out what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to second guess i was losing all my senses i was losing all control it was getting so offensive now you want me back for more and i just won't go if you think you know the answers you've got a lot of gall cause it gives you satisfaction knowing nothing at all i don't care anymore and i don't wanna find out what i left there for what i left there for i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no i'm not scared and i'm not lonely saving all my money or my breath yeah i'm not looking for an answer i'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no take a second guess yeah take a second guess yeah (hey) take a second guess yeah (hey) take a second guess yeah take a second guess (i can't talk to you) take a second guess (yeah, yeah i know) take a second guess (well i gotta go okay) take a second guess take a second guess (over one billion served) take a second guess oh yeah |
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| 5:29 |
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Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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| 9:42 |
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be on my side
i'll be on your side there is no reason for you to hide it's so hard staying here all alone you could be taking me for a ride she could drag me over the rainbow send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river dead take my hand i'll take your hand baby together we may get away this much madness is too much sorrow it's impossible to make it today oh baby she could drag me over the rainbow send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river dead be on my side i'll be on your side baby there ain't no reason for us to hide it's so hard staying here all alone you should be taking me for a ride oh baby she could drag me over the rainbow and send me away down by the river i shot my baby down by the river i shot my baby you take my hand (down by) i'll take your hand baby (the river) together we may get away (i shot my baby) this much madness is too much sorrow (down by the river) it's impossible to make it today (i shot my baby) this much madness is too much sorrow (down by the river) it's impossible to make it today (i shot my baby) down by the river |
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During the time of which I speak
It was hard to turn the other cheek To the blows of insecurity. Feeding the cancer of my intellect The blood of love soon neglected Lay dying in the strength of its impurity Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together They've all gone and left each other In search for fairer weather We sit here in our storm And drink a toast to the slim chance of love's recovery. Here I am in younger days star gazing Painting picture perfect maps Of how my life and love would be Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection My compass: faith in love's perfection. I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen Meanwhile my friends we thought were so together Left each other one by one on the road to fairer weather. And we sit here in our storm And drink a toast to the slim chance of love's recovery. Rain soaked and voice choked Like silent screaming in a dream I search for our absolute distinction Not content to bow and bend To whims of culture that swoop like vultures Eating us away, (eating us away). Eating us away to our extinction O how I wish I were a trinity So if lost a part of me I'd still have two of the same to live But nobody gets a life time rehearsal As specks of dust, we're universal To let this love survive be the greatest gift we could give Tell all the friends who think they're so together That these are ghosts and mirages All these thoughts of fairer weather Though its stormy now I feel safe Within the arms of love's discovery. |
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| 3:52 |
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You can go to the East
To find your, inner hemisphere. You say we're under the same sky babe, You're bound to realize, Honey, it's not that clear. I'm not your promise land I'm not your promise one I'm not your Land of Canaan, sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. Well the meanings changed (for what it's worth), It's just a senseless game. I should think of love, but it's fear every time I hear Your heart strain. It's not the fallen man, It's not the call of time, It's just the London skyline Telling me you're not mine. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. My blood is running dry, My skin is, my skin is growing thin For every time you find yourself You lose a little bit of me, from within. It's just a raging cycle, why can't we Bring it all to the end of the line. From inside this existence, sweetheart, Time is not on my side. I'm lonely tonight, I'm missing you now. I'm wanting your love and you're giving it out. I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight, I'm lonely tonight. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one. I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, I'm not your Land of Canaan Sweetheart, Waiting for you under the sun, I'm lonely tonight. |
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| 4:47 |
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Each time you'd pull down the driveway i wasn't sure when i would see you again yours was a twisted blind-sided highway no matter which road you took then oh you set up your place in my thoughts moved in and made my thinking crowded now we're out in the back with the barking dogs my heart the red sun your heart the moon clouded i could go crazy on a night like tonight when summer's beginning to give up her fight and every thought's a possibility and voices are heard but nothing is seen why do you spend this time with me maybe an equal mystery so what is love then is it dictated or chosen does it sing like the hymns of 1000 years or is it just pop emotion and if it ever was here and it left does it mean it was never true and to exist it must elude is that why i think these things of you but i could go crazy on a night like tonight when summer's beginning to give up her fight and every thought's a possibility and voices are heard but nothing is seen why do you spend this time with me maybe an equal mystery oh
but you like the taste of danger it shines like sugar on your lips and you like to stand in the line of fire just to show you can shoot straight from your hip there must be a 1000 things you would die for i can hardly think of two but not everything is better spoken aloud not when i'm talking to you oh the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight breaks a bottle to christen her basking in the exploits of her thief she's a very good listener and maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle of impossibility standing at opposite poles equal partners in a mystery we're standing at opposite poles equal partners in a mystery |
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It's a fish white belly lump in the throat razor on the wire skin and bone piss and blood in a railroad car 100 people gypsies queers and david's star this train is bound for glory measure the bones count the face pull out the teeth do you belong to the human race doctor doctor are you unkind do you shock the monkeys cover our eyes with clear blue skies this train is bound for glory here is a dancer who has no legs here is a teacher who has no face here is a runner who has no feet here is a healer who has no hands here is a builder who has no back here is a thinker who has no head here is a writer who has no voice these are the questions these are the answers stacked like wood this train is bound for glory these are the questions stacked like wood these are the answers here is potential gone for good
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Leaving ain't fair you know
Parting ain't just People got to move on People got to do what they must And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend Growing up free Growing up wild If you want to know the secret behind the smile You got to ask a Tuesday's child And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend Well I guess that highway got a hold of me Thinking crazy thoughts like it was going to set me free This ain't my place you know This ain't my home And I'm not going to feel right Til you get us back behind the microphones And we're back together again And I'm never gonna lose you as a friend No I'm never gonna lose you as a friend No I'm never gonna lose you as a friend |
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| 5:44 |
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I don't know if it was real or in a dream lately waking up i'm not sure where i've been there was a table set for six and five were there i stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair and there was steam on the windows from the kitchen laughter like a language i once spoke with ease but i'm made mute by the virtue of decision i choose most of your life goes on without me oh the fear i've known that i might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own all i've sown was a song but maybe i was wrong i said to you the one gift which i'd adore unwrap a package of the next 10 years unfolding but you told me if i had my way i'd be bored right then i knew i loved you best born of your scolding when we last talked we were lying on our backs looking up at the sky through the ceiling i used to lie like that alone out on the driveway trying to read the greek upon the stars the alphabet of feeling oh i knew back then it was a calling that said if joy then pain the sound of the voice these years later is
still the same i am alone in a hotel room tonight i squeeze the sky out but there's not a star appears begin my studies with this paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears mercy what i won't give to have the things that mean the most not to mean the things i miss unforgiving the choice still is the language or the kiss |
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i am an only child
born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend your time defending my plan dead dog on the highway median cats are growling at me i turn my lights on brighter counting through the night ride and it's one more life for the taker chickenman one more song for the maker chickenman on the road to Athens i saw a dead deer on the highway i slipped into a desert five prairie dogs and a rabbit i was running down on queen street i saw a woman on the sidewalk she was beaten by a stranger danger danger danger nd it's one more life for the taker chickenman chicken-man chickenman hold my hand one more life for the maker hold my hand chickenman i was on the road to Austin i met a man on the highway he sold me junk and conversation he was wise and dirty from the weather i said darkness into darkness all the carnage of my journeys makes it hard to be living he said it's a long road to be forgiven and one more life for the taker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand one more song for the maker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend you time defending my plan i went looking for a car found myself beneath the stars i went looking for a girl found a man and his world chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child hold my hand chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand |
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| 11. |
| 5:05 |
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Midnight train to Georgia
l.a. proved too much for the man (too much for the man) (He couldn't make it) So he's leaving the life he's come to know (he said he's going) He said he's going back to find (going back to find) What's left of his world the world he left behind not so very long ago oh yeah He's leaving (leaving) on that midnight train to georgia (leaving on a midnight train) oh yeah oh ya'll Said he's going back to find (he's going back to find) a simpler place and time (and when he takes that ride) yes he is (guess who's gonna be right by his side) I'll be with him (i know you will) on that midnight train to georgia (leaving on a midnight train to georgia) (whoo whoo) I'd rather live in his world (live in his world) than live without him in mine (world, world) (it's his, his and hers alone) He kept dreaming (dreaming) that one day he'd be a star (a superstar but he didn't get far) But he sure found out the hard way that dreams don't always come true (dreams don't always come true) oh no (uh uh no uh uh) So he sold all his hopes and he even sold his own car And bought a one way ticket back to the life that he once knew oh yes he did he said he would I know he's leaving (leaving) on that midnight train to georgia (leaving on a midnight train) oh yeah oh ya'll said he's going back to find (he's going back to find) a simpler place and time (and when he takes that ride) yes he is (guess who's gonna be right by his side) I've got to be with him (i know you will) on that midnight train to georgia (leaving on the midnight train to georgia) (whoo whoo) I'd rather live in his world (live in his world) than live without him in mine (world, world) (it's his, his and hers alone) he's leaving (he's leaving) on a midnight train to georgia (leaving on a midnight train) oh yeah he said he's going back to find (he's going back to find) a simpler place and time (and when he takes that ride) (guess who's gonna be right by his side) I've got to be with him (I know you will) on that midnight train to georgia (leaving on a midnight train to georgia) (whoo whoo) I'd rather live in his world (live in his world) than live without him in mine (world, world) (is his, his and hers alone) (world is his,his and hers alone) (all aboard) (one world) (her man, his girl) I've got to go (all aboard) I've got to go (one world) I've got to go (her man, his girl) I've got to go (all aboard) I've got to go (one world) I've got to go right now (her man, his girl) (all aboard) (one world) (her man, his girl) (all aboard) (one world) (her man, his girl) |
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| 12. |
| 4:44 |
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I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable And lightness has a call that's hard to hear I wrap my fear around me like a blanket I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee He never did marry or see a B-grade movie He graded my performance, he said he could see through me I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend I woke up with a headache like my head against a board Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before I went in seeking clarity. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. We go to the bible, we go through the workout We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine The closer I am to fine |
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| 13. |
| 4:57 |
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Indian legislation's on the desk of a do right congressman
And he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone And asks the advice of the senator out in indian country A darling of the energy companies ripping off What's left of the reservation I learned the safety rule I don't know who to thank Don't stand between the reservation And the corporate bank They're sending federal tanks It isn't nice but it's reality Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Won't you cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee We got these energy companies Who want to take the land And we got churches by the dozens Trying to guide our hands And turn our mother earth Over to pollution war and greed No no Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee We got the federal marshalls We got the covert spies We got the liars by fire And the fbi They lie in court and get nailed And still leonard peltier goes off to jail (the bullets don't match the gun) Bury my heart at wounded knee An eighth of the reservation Bury my heart at wounded knee Was transferred in secret Bury my heart at wounded knee We got your murder and intimidation Bury my heart at wounded knee My girlfriend anna may Talked about uranium Her head was full of bullets And her body dumped The fbi cut off her hands And told us she died of exposure To bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with your pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Talk about a revolution They stole my land They won't steal my soul We had the gold rush wars Why didn't we learn to crawl? And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl They tell me "don't be so uptight I mean honey you can still be an indian Down at the y on saturday night Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee I said deep in the earth Bury my heart at wounded knee Won't you cover me with your pretty lies Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart at wounded knee Bury my heart It was an eighth of the reservation Bury my heart Yeah was transferred in secret Bury my heart Got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation Bury me Bury me Bury me Bury my heart Bury my heart Bury my heart Bury my heart |
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| 2:44 |
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