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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
I am a child in these hills
I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Who will show me the river and ask my name? Is there nobody here who'll do that? Well I have come to these hills I will come to the river As I choose to be gone from the house of my father I am a child in these hills I am a child Chased from the gates of the city where no one had touched me I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Who will show me the river and ask me my name? Is there nobody here who'll do that? Well I have come to these hills I will come to the river As I choose to be gone from the house of my father I am a child in these hills I am a child I am a child I am a child |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
I kept my eyes open and tried to see
The point of what went on in front of me I kept what moved me, forgot about the rest And took my young imagination to the acid test And it was easy then to say what love could do It's so easy when your world is new It's been so hard sometimes to find my way I let my pleasure lead my little world astray And if I'm truthful I'll say that I was blind To everything about this life but what I had in mind And it was easy then to say where love could go It's so easy when there's so much you don't know About my imagination, it got me through somehow Without my imagination, I wouldn't be here now And it was easy then when love was guaranteed It's so easy when love is all you need About my imagination I'm making this investigation Into my imagination According to my computations We're overdue for a transformation Or is it my imagination? I keep my eyes open and try to see This life in terms of possibility With so much changing, and changing for the worse You got to keep your head up, Baby From the cradle to the hearse And it was easy then to say where love could go It's so easy when love is all you know About my imagination I'm getting ready for the celebration I'm bringing my imagination Taking charge of my elevation No fear, no trepidation Register my affirmation No doubt, no hesitation People get ready for the embarkation About my imagination Calling out across the nation It's time for some kind of re-dedication Not talking 'bout just my generation I'm sending out this invocation I keep getting these excitations More light, more love More truth, and more innovation |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
I want to live in the world, not inside my head
I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willing With the open and the strong With the voices in the darkness Fashioning daylight out of song And the millions of lovers Alive in the world I want to live in the world, not behind some wall I want to live in the world, where I will hear if another voice should call To the prisoner inside me To the captive of my doubt Who among his fantasies harbors the dream of breaking out And taking his chances Alive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world With its beauty and its cruelty With its heartbreak and its joy With it constantly giving birth to life and to forces that destroy And the infinite power of change Alive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
I want to live in the world, not inside my head
I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willing With the open and the strong With the voices in the darkness Fashioning daylight out of song And the millions of lovers Alive in the world I want to live in the world, not behind some wall I want to live in the world, where I will hear if another voice should call To the prisoner inside me To the captive of my doubt Who among his fantasies harbors the dream of breaking out And taking his chances Alive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world With its beauty and its cruelty With its heartbreak and its joy With it constantly giving birth to life and to forces that destroy And the infinite power of change Alive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
All good things got to come to an end
The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bills will be paid And the pleasure will mend All good things got to come to an end God I wish I was home Laying 'round with my friends The call of the wild Caution thrown to the wind The fall of the child Where the longing begins All good things got to come to an end Like a river flows Rolling 'till it ends in the sea Our pleasure grows Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Now as the dark gathers into the sky And legions of might go thundering by Regions of light grow dim and then die And we with our wings Wait for morning to fly Like a river flows Rolling 'till it ends in the sea Our pleasure grows Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Here where the angels Have appeared and are gone Your face like an ember Glows in the dawn But I want you to remember All wild deeds live on All good times, all good friends All good things got to come to an end The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bills will be paid And the pleasure will mend All good things got to come to an end All good times, all good friends All good things got to come to an end |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
All good things got to come to an end
The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bills will be paid And the pleasure will mend All good things got to come to an end God I wish I was home Laying 'round with my friends The call of the wild Caution thrown to the wind The fall of the child Where the longing begins All good things got to come to an end Like a river flows Rolling 'till it ends in the sea Our pleasure grows Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Now as the dark gathers into the sky And legions of might go thundering by Regions of light grow dim and then die And we with our wings Wait for morning to fly Like a river flows Rolling 'till it ends in the sea Our pleasure grows Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Rolling 'till it ends in you and me Here where the angels Have appeared and are gone Your face like an ember Glows in the dawn But I want you to remember All wild deeds live on All good times, all good friends All good things got to come to an end The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bills will be paid And the pleasure will mend All good things got to come to an end All good times, all good friends All good things got to come to an end |
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from Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested (1995)
I am an old woman
named after my mother an old man is another child who's grown old If dreams were thunder lightning was desire this old house it would've burned down a long time ago Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go When i was a young girl I had me a cowboy it wasn't much to look at it was a free ramblin' man There was a long time no matter how I tried the years they just rolled by like a broken down dance Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go There's flies in the kitchen I can hear them there buzzin' And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today But how the hell can a person go on to work in the morning to come home in the evening and have nothing to say Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go |
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from Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested (1995)
I am an old woman
named after my mother an old man is another child who's grown old If dreams were thunder lightning was desire this old house it would've burned down a long time ago Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go When i was a young girl I had me a cowboy it wasn't much to look at it was a free ramblin' man There was a long time no matter how I tried the years they just rolled by like a broken down dance Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go There's flies in the kitchen I can hear them there buzzin' And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today But how the hell can a person go on to work in the morning to come home in the evening and have nothing to say Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rodeo Just give me one thing that I can hold on to to believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
Time will come when we know what happened here
Change will come in time and make it clear We learn one thing if we learn at all In the secret wars we call our lives Anything can happen We watch the days, we make our plans We change in ways a life demands But what ever pleasure this life may allow I'll give you the love I have for you now Because anything can happen In a world so full of fear Dreams are whispered in the dead of night And people disappear But you hear my heart and you know I'm still here Although you know and I know you know While I swear I'll never let you go Anything can happen Yeah, if this love can happen here Anything can We watch the days we make our plans We change in ways a life demands I'll always remember this time, this place The hope in your voice, the light on your face Because anything can happen In a world so full of pain People give their lives to making war And we call those people sane But I love you where your dreams remain Though you never say it anymore One day there'll be an end to this war And who knows We may see what we're here for Anything can happen Yeah, if this love has found us here Anything can Can happen |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
How long did you blind me baby how long?
How long did you blind me baby how long? With your little girl laugh and your siren song Was I right about you girl or was I wrong? Was I right about you lyin' or was I wrong? You had another man lovin' you all along You said "Baby I love you, I wouldn't trade you in if I could" You said "Look at me baby, if I wanted to leave you I would" Yeah you had me hangin' on Every time while you were gone I believed you were hurryin' home to me, baby But you were never on time How long did you lie to me baby how long? How long did you lie to me baby how long? With your love light shut off and your runnin' light on You said "Baby I love you, I wouldn't trade you in if I could" You said "Look at me baby, if I wanted to leave you I would" Yeah you had me hangin' on Every time while you were gone I believed you were hurryin' home to me, baby But you were never on time How long did you blind me baby how long? How long did you blind me baby how long? With your little girl laugh and your siren song With your little girl laugh and your siren song |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future With the energy of the innocent They were gathering the tools They would need to make their journey back to nature While the sand slipped through the opening And their hands reached for the golden ring When their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge In the troubled years that came before the deluge Some of them knew pleasure And some of them knew pain And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered And on the brave and crazy wings of youth They went flying around in the rain And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered And in the end they traded their tired wings For the resignation that living brings And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow For the glitter and the rouge And in a moment they were swept before the deluge Let the music keep our spirits high Let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky Some of them were angry At the way the earth was abused By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power And they struggled to protect her from them Only to be confused By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour And when the sand was gone and the time arrived In the naked dawn only a few survived And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge Let the music keep our spirits high Let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by, by and by When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
Long before you ever saw your chances
You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame it on the ones who slowed you down Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here Blame it on the sickness going 'round Going round and round in the night With your heart out of sight With your world burning bright Like a moth 'round a light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the search you half remember Setting out on at the start Is burning like an ember in your heart Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out Tell them that you've gone to find a person Someone you lost track of long ago Tell them that it's someone you need worse than Anybody else you'll ever know Ticking like a bomb in the night You were strong, you were light You were fast, you were bright Then you were gone in the light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the high ideals and the promise You once dressed the future in Are dancing in the embers with the wind Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
Down on the boulevard they take it hard
They look at life with such disregard They say it can't be won The way the game is run But if you choose to stay You end up playing anyway It's okay- The kids in shock up and down the block The folks are home playing beat the clock Down at the golden cup They set the young ones up Under the neon light Selling day for night It's alright- Nobody rides for free Nobody gets it like they want it to be Nobody hand you any guarantee Nobody The hearts are hard and the times are tough Down on the boulevard the night's enough And time passes slow Between the store front shadows and the street lights glow Everybody walks right by like they're safe or something They don't know- Nobody knows you Nobody owes you nothin Nobody shows you what they're thinking Nobody baby Hey, hey, baby You got to watch the street, keep your feet And be on guard Make it pay baby It's only time on the boulevard |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
가수 : Jackson Brown
Now the seats are all empty Let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They′re the first to come and last to leave Working for that minimum wage They′ll set it up in another town Tonight the people were so fine They waited there in line And when they got up on their feet they made the show And that was sweet-- But I can hear the sound Of slamming doors and folding chairs And that′s a sound they′ll never know Now roll them cases out and lift them amps Haul them trusses down and get′em up them ramps ′Cause when it comes to moving me You guys are the champs But when that last guitar′s been packed away You know that I still want to play So just make sure you got it all set to go Before you come for my piano But the band′s on the bus And they′re waiting to go We′ve got to drive all night and do a show in Chicago or Detroit, I don′t know We do so many shows in a row And these towns all look the same We just pass the time in our hotel rooms And wander ′round backstage Till those lights come up and we hear that crowd And we remember why we came Now we got country and western on the bus R an B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo We got time to think of the ones we love While the miles roll away But the only time that seems too short Is the time that we get to play People you′ve got the power over what we do You can sit there and wait Or you can pull us through Come along, sing the song You know you can′t go wrong ′Cause when that morning sun comes beating down You′re going to wake up in your town But we′ll be scheduled to appear A thousand miles away from here STAY People stay just a little bit longer We want to play -- just a little bit longer Now the promoter don′t mind And the union don′t mind If we take a little time And we leave it all behind and sing One more song |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
Daughter of a woman who comes and goes
Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up about the things People know to do How to take a love and tear it in two No no no that isn't how it's gonna be For Candy She wants to be in love But she doesn't know why Candy You think she's a child Look at her now My my Candy Step by step this is her debut Looking for love that's made to stay true Step by step she' looking for more than I see Candy Candy You know what your love is worth It's a good thing baby Candy If you're looking for a real love It's a ghost town Candy Step by step this is her debut Looking for love that's made to stay true Step by step she' looking for more than I see Candy |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
In a weapons producing nation under Jesus
In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land The way the hammer shapes the hand Gleaming faces in the checkout counter at the Church of Fame The lucky winners cheer Casino Nation All those not on TV only have themselves to blame And don't quite seem to understand The way the hammer shapes the hand Out beyond the ethernet the spectrum spreads DC to daylight, the cowboy mogul rides Never worry where the gold for all this glory's gonna come from Get along dogies, it's coming out of your hides The intentional cultivation of a criminal class The future lit by brightly burning bridges Justice fully clothed to hide the heart of glass That shatters in a thousand Ruby Ridges And everywhere the good prepare for perpetual war And let their weapons shape the plan The way the hammer shapes the hand |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
Casino Nation
In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land The way the hammer shapes the hand Gleaming faces in the checkout counter at the Church of Fame The lucky winners cheer Casino Nation All those not on TV only have themselves to blame And don't quite seem to understand The way the hammer shapes the hand Out beyond the ethernet the spectrum spreads DC to daylight, the cowboy mogul rides Never worry where the gold for all this glory's gonna come from Get along dogies, it's coming out of your hides .. The intentional cultivation of a criminal class The future lit by brightly burning bridges Justice fully clothed to hide the heart of glass That shatters in a thousand Ruby Ridges And everywhere the good prepare for perpetual war And let their weapons shape the plan The way the hammer shapes the hand The way the hammer shapes the hand ................................... Lyrics by Jackson Browne Music by Jackson Browne, Kevin McCormick, Mark Goldenberg, Mauricio Lewak, Jeff Young |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
Lying next to you in the dark
Listening to your pounding heart The sheets are tangled around your waist I watch the dream moving on your face Feel you shake, hear your cries Running in the dark trying to open your eyes Come on baby, wake up I've followed you across the days and years Been there for the thrills and the tears Chasing you from state to state Waking, dreaming, I try to relate Why should I be somebody you fear When you're asleep and I'm so near? Don't even know why I'm in your dreams I got control over none of these things Morning comes, hard and bright And I'm exhausted from running after you all night Chasing you into the light Yeah I've been reaching for you baby As if I could reach you when you dream at night But I never can quite I ain't lying here awake by myself You better wake up There's something I want to talk to you about You better wake up I love you girl, tell the world I do There's nothing I wouldn't do for you I want to rescue you like you rescued me From a life of doubt and uncertainty That's why I'm chasing you Chasing you into the light Go for a walk on the pier with me baby Now as the dawn comes over the night Watching the stars in the sky disappear maybe You'll find a way to let go of your fright The sea is deep, the world is wide Ships are leaving for the other side This whole city will be waking soon And in the east Clouds are strung out behind the moon Chasing her into the light Wake up |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
You take Sally and I'll take Sue
Their ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'round my brain Headin' down Scott, turnin' up Main Looking for that girl that sells cocaine Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain Late last night about a quarter past four Ladanyi come knockin' down my hotel room door Where's the cocaine-- It's runnin' all 'round my brain I was talking to my doctor down at the hospital He said, "Son, it says here you're twenty-seven, But that's impossible Cocaine-- you look like you could be forty-five" Now I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow It's such a fine line-- I hate to see it go Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Colors Of The Sun
Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Picking for a coin Many other tiny worlds Singing past my hand Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seeming just to be this way Dying men draw numbers in the air Dream to conquer little bits of time Scuffle with the crowd to get their share And fall behind their little bits of time Voices in the air Sympathetic harmony Coming from the trees Hanging at my door Many shiny surfaces Clinging in the breeze Oh, leave me where I am I am not losing If I am choosing not to plan my life Disillusioned saviors search the sky Wanting to just to show someone the way Asking all the people passing by Doesn't anybody want the way I say goodbye to Joseph and Maria They think I see another sky And from my fallen window I still see them I'll never free them from the sky |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
I live in a small town . . . deep in LA
About five miles north of where the Lakers play Everybody here's from someplace else Working all together just like Santa's elves Baby, Culver me And I'll Culver you When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew When the lights are glowing with the mists of June And the whole world is lit up by the Culver Moon Baby don't worry 'bout Angelyne She ain't the prettiest thing I've ever seen Nothing she wears ever fits her right And her complexion is just a little too tight And the way she looks down from so high above Makes me think the poor child's never been in love Baby, Culver me And I'll Culver you When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew When the lights are glowing with the mists of June And the whole world is lit up by the Culver Moon Baby I'm going to love you 'til the stars come down 'Til they park their limos and they walk to town 'Til the L.A. river overflows its banks 'Til the whole alternative nation bows its knobby head in thanks 'Til the fish are jumping in Ballona Creek 'Til the earth is inherited by the meek Baby, Culver me And I'll Culver you When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew When the lights are glowing with the mists of June And the whole world is illuminated by the Culver Moon Under the rainbow and behind Versailles From the aisles of Fedco to the 405 From MGM to Veteran's Park Way down at Chippendale's fumblin' in the dark Where the ghostly specter of Howard Hughes Hovers in the smoke of a thousand bar-b-ques Baby, Culver me And I'll Culver you When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew When the lights are glowing with the mists of June And the whole world is lit up by the Culver Moon |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
Cut it away
Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away And help me find my way back to the start Yeah, before I knew what I was looking for Yeah, when we were lovers and nothing more I wanted you And I did everything that I could do To capture you I let you see The part of me You'd want to see A fantasy I'm finding now I don't know how To make it good I wish I could Cut it away This crazy longing for something more Cut it away The question I don't have an answer for Why I hunger For something I can't see Cut it away The dream I wanted life to be I know I've got to let you go I know You should have left a long time ago Protected by the night Two cities lay Two hearts, two lives Connected by our sight Worlds away Two hearts, two lives Inspected by the light Two hearts, two cities in decay Two lives Repair them as we might Two hearts Just go on crumbling Now come on Cut it away I want to cut away this thing inside Cut it away This thing that hid from you and schemed and lied I know I've got to let you go I know You should have left a long time ago Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away Before it tears my whole life apart I love you I love you still I do I always will |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
A dirty wind blows through the sky
And the Autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wishing I could follow Though among the regrets that I can't get by There are just one or two Unkind things I said to you Daddy what was I supposed to do? I don't know why it was so hard to talk to you I guess my anger pulled me through No sooner had I hit the streets When I met the fools that a young fool meets All in search of truth and bound for glory And listening to our own heart beats We stood around the drum Though it's fainter now The older I become Living your life day after day Soon all your plans and changes Either fail or fade away Leaving so much still left to say But Daddy I want to let you know somehow The things you said are so much clearer now And I would turn the pages back But time will not allow The way these days just rip along Too fast to last, too vast, too strong Somewhere something went wrong Or maybe we forgot the song Make room for my forty-fives Along beside your seventy-eights Nothing survives But the way we live our lives |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
Down the side streets and the avenue
There be sisters walkin' two by two Their dresses and their shoes are new But their hearts are weary thru and thru And it's a long way into the light of the day While the juke box and the radio play Where the days turn into the nights People move into the sounds and sights Like the moth is drawn into the lights Like the tight-rope walker into the heights It's in their hearts, it's in their hips, It's in their feet, it's on their lips Tonight's the night I'm gonna make you mine Gonna dance right out onto the edge of time When the sound starts pumpin' And the lights are flashin' And my hearts-a-thumpin' And I feel the passion And the world is right there waiting At my finger tips Disco... apocalypse In the dawn the city seems to sigh And the hungry hear their children cry People watch the time go by They do their jobs and live and die And in their dreams they rise above By strength, or hate, or luck, or love Tonight's the night I'm gonna make you mine Gonna dance right out onto the edge of time When the world starts turnin' And the dreams are burnin' And the skies awaken Through the wind and the fire They will be dancing still It's in their hearts, it's in their hips, it's in their feet, it's on their lips A single sound that never ends They die each night and live again I'm gonna make you mine Tonight's the night Out on the edge of time With the dreams of flesh and love dancing in my mind Dancing through the fire on the edge of time |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Doctor, my eyes Tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long 'Cause I have wandered through this world And as each moment has unfurled I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams People go just where there will I never noticed them until I got this feeling That it's later than it seems Doctor, my eyes Tell me what you see I hear their cries Just say if it's too late for me Doctor, my eyes Cannot see the sky Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry |
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from My Girl 2 (마이 걸 2) by Cliff Eidelman [ost] (1994)
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years
And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Doctor, my eyes Tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long 'Cause I have wandered through this world And as each moment has unfurled I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams People go just where there will I never noticed them until I got this feeling That it's later than it seems Doctor, my eyes Tell me what you see I hear their cries Just say if it's too late for me Doctor, my eyes Cannot see the sky Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go?
Where the light is breaking and the cold clear winds blow Don't you want to be there in the golden glow Don't you want to be there, don't you want to fly? With your arms out, let a shout take you across the sky Don't you want to be there when the time's gone by Times there was love all around you Times you were strong and alone Times you believed love had found you And you fell through time like a stone And those you have wronged, you know You need to let them know some way And those who have wronged you, know You'll have to let them go someday Don't you want to be there? Don't you want to cry when you see how far You've got to go to be where forgiveness rules Instead of where you are Don't you want to be there, don't you want to know? Where the grace and simple truth of childhood go Don't you want to be there when the trumpets blow Blow for those born into hunger Blow for those lost 'neath the train Blow for those choking in anger Blow for those driven insane And those you have wronged, you know You need to let them know some way And those who have wronged you, know You'll have to let them go someday Don't you want to be there? Don't you want to see where the angels appear Don't you want to be where there's strength and love In the place of fear |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown
Downtown they got to think a little quicker 'cause they're downtown Downtown the breaks are harder Downtown the thieves are smarter I've got this place I'm renting It cost me next to nothing downtown Nobody comes around telling me I gotta turn the sound down Broadway -- down on the corner The bible screamer, the plasma donor Buses, carhorns, ghetto blasters The shouts and cries of the human disasters It's all music It's all music Downtown It's all music It's all music I feel alright when I'm downtown My feet are light when I'm downtown I cast my hopes on the human tide I place my bet and let it ride I'm open wide when I'm downtown Downtown there's every kind of people walkin' round downtown Downtown there's every language, every human sound downtown Downtown the nights are longer Downtown the sights are stronger Downtown wandering all around downtown It's all music Eight blocks south of city hall The rats run free and the winos crawl Darkness falls on the vast machine Where the future stalks the American dream I feel alright when I'm downtown My head feels light when I'm downtown It's all in sight when I'm downtown I feel alright when I'm downtown |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
You used to stand on the tables
You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on I-19 In your blue leopard tights You got the vote of your high school Most likely to exceed But not likely to ever get enough Enough of what you need Enough of the night Enough of the night And now the carnival lights come down The sounds of laughter receed You sit and drink in this cardboard town The fast lane gone to seed You used to laugh about the damage done But there was no way to know How little distance you had actually come And how far you'd have to go It's tough to do baby It's tough to make it When the heart is naked It's tough for you baby It's tough for me too Without all this pain to see through Now I want to see you smile You know how It's just been awhile Don't allow Another night to close on your empty cup You've had enough of those Enough of the night Enough of the night You used to count on the miracles The old shot in the dark You used to wait for the setting sun To help you hit your mark You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You dressed right out of the fables Like the Arabian Nights But you were never the princess More like the queen of the thieves And my heart was never more than one of the many A queen receives It's tough to do baby It's tough to make it When the heart is naked It's tough for you baby it's tough for me too Without this disdain to see through Now I want to see you smile You know how It's just been awhile Don't allow Another heart to pass beyond your reach Say "Baby not so fast" You've had enough of the night To fill the street with tears You've had enough of those empty hours To last a thousand years Enough of the night Enough of the tears |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
You used to stand on the tables
You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on I-19 In your blue leopard tights You got the vote of your high school Most likely to exceed But not likely to ever get enough Enough of what you need Enough of the night Enough of the night And now the carnival lights come down The sounds of laughter receed You sit and drink in this cardboard town The fast lane gone to seed You used to laugh about the damage done But there was no way to know How little distance you had actually come And how far you'd have to go It's tough to do baby It's tough to make it When the heart is naked It's tough for you baby It's tough for me too Without all this pain to see through Now I want to see you smile You know how It's just been awhile Don't allow Another night to close on your empty cup You've had enough of those Enough of the night Enough of the night You used to count on the miracles The old shot in the dark You used to wait for the setting sun To help you hit your mark You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You dressed right out of the fables Like the Arabian Nights But you were never the princess More like the queen of the thieves And my heart was never more than one of the many A queen receives It's tough to do baby It's tough to make it When the heart is naked It's tough for you baby it's tough for me too Without this disdain to see through Now I want to see you smile You know how It's just been awhile Don't allow Another heart to pass beyond your reach Say "Baby not so fast" You've had enough of the night To fill the street with tears You've had enough of those empty hours To last a thousand years Enough of the night Enough of the tears |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
I hear your heart beating everywhere
When we're apart I can hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go People say that I must be in love The way I forget what we're speaking of The way I stand there smiling straight ahead And walk away without hearing a word they said I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can close my eyes and hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go In the middle of the football game At the beach in the pouring rain Standing on a hillside staring at the sun People hurry by the unfortunate one With the faraway eyes and the mystery smile Moving my body in a ragamuffin style I can't sit down when I hear it start I hear you heart everywhere I go People say that I must be a fool Cause when I'm near you I cannot be cool I don't quite make sense when I talk to you And when you smile I forget everything I knew I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can close my eyes and hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go Standing in the market where I buy my bread With a hunger in my belly and a rhythm in my head Looking all around for something good to eat Between the butter and the beans and the mops and the meat Coffee from the mountain, honey from the bee Nothing tastes as good as you taste to me Rocking in the aisle to my inside song People staring at me think I got a walkman on I hear your heart beating everywhere I hear your heart I hear your heart beating everywhere I hear you heart Beating everywhere I go |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Far from the arms of hunger
Far from the world disorder Beyond the reach of warfare Blinded by faith no longer No longer free to plunder No longer safe to rule A world no longer ours alone Where people walk in wonder And speak to one another And recognize as brother The face across the border Across a sea of differences Across the drifting sands The joining of our hands in time When will we find We can no longer look away When will we mind The killing in our name each day When we decide That all our might just weighs us down Then will we find The means to turn our world around When will we find When will we mind When we decide The means to turn our world around Far from the arms of hunger Far from the world disorder Beyond the reach of war There is a world where we belong |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
In my early years I hid my tears
And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams like nets were thrown To catch the love that I'd heard of In books and films and songs Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy In the place where the real world belongs Still I look for the beauty in songs To fill my head and lead me on Though my dreams have come up torn and empty As many times as love has come and gone To those gentle ones my memory runs To the laughter we shared at the meals I filled their kitchens and living rooms With my schemes and my broken wheels It was never clear how far or near The gates to my citadel lay They were cutting from stone some dreams of their own But they listened to mine anyway I'm not sure what I'm trying to say It could be I've lost my way Though I keep a watch over the distance Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday And the angels are older They know not to wait up for the sun They look over my shoulder At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun Now the distance leads me farther on Though the reasons I once had are gone I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for In the sand beneath the dawn But the angels are older They can see that the sun's setting fast They look over my shoulder At the vision of paradise contained in the light of the past And they lay down behind me To sleep beside the road till the morning has come Where they know they will find me With my maps and my faith in the distance Moving farther on |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must've thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you're nowhere to be found I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear But I can't sing I can't help listening I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round Crying is they ease you down 'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing Dancing our sorrow away (Right on Dancing) No matter what fate chooses to play (There's nothing you can do about it anyway) Just do the steps that you've been shown By everyone you've ever known Until the dance becomes your very own No matter how close to yours Another's steps have grown In the end there is one dance you'll do alone Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near Just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don't let the uncertainty turn you around (The world keeps turning around and around) Go on and make a joyful sound Into a dancer you have grown From a seed somebody else has thrown Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own And somewhere between the time you arrive And the time you go May lie a reason you were alive That you'll never know |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must've thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you're nowhere to be found I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear But I can't sing I can't help listening I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round Crying is they ease you down 'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing Dancing our sorrow away (Right on Dancing) No matter what fate chooses to play (There's nothing you can do about it anyway) Just do the steps that you've been shown By everyone you've ever known Until the dance becomes your very own No matter how close to yours Another's steps have grown In the end there is one dance you'll do alone Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near Just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don't let the uncertainty turn you around (The world keeps turning around and around) Go on and make a joyful sound Into a dancer you have grown From a seed somebody else has thrown Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own And somewhere between the time you arrive And the time you go May lie a reason you were alive That you'll never know |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
Open the door, baby turn on the light
We're gonna have a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker I know it's late and you're already down You ain't ready for people around I'm gonna tell you something I found out Whatever you think your life is about Whatever life may hold in store Things will happen that you won't be ready for I've got a shirt so unbelievably bright I'm gonna dig it out and wear it tonight For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker Don't have to change, don't have to be sweet Gonna be too many people to possibly meet Don't have to feed 'em, they don't eat They've got their power supplies in the soles of their feet They exist for one thing, and one thing only To escape living the lives of the lonely For a friend of mine, from the neighborhood Moving down the line, after tonight he'll be gone for good Here comes Ricky, Danny, and Doerge They got Petie's number and they're looking at me Russell and Bobby setting up the drums Gonna pound on 'till the landlord comes Don't want to argue, I don't want to fight But there will definitely be a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker 'Till the morning comes, 'till the car arrives 'Till we kill the drums, 'till we lose our lives Hey Jenny, tell Peggy Sue We're gonna do the only thing you can do For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker For a rocker There's a party tonight! There's a party tonight! There's a party tonight! There's a party tonight! |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed And the safety of my own head I went on speaking of the future While other people fought and bled The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America It's in my blood and in my bones By the dawn's early light By all I know is right We're going to reap what we have sown As if freedom was a question of might As if loyalty was black and white You hear people say it all the time- "My country wrong or right" I want to know what that's got to do With what it takes to find out what's true With everyone from the President on down Trying to keep it from you The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms Who send their sons to the Vietnams Will they really think their way of life Has been protected as the next war comes? I have prayed for America I was made for America Her shining dream plays in my mind By the rockets red glare A generation's blank stare We better wake her up this time The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
For Everyman
Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warning Standing alone Each has his own ticket in his hand And as the evening descends I sit thinking 'bout Everyman Seems like I've always been looking for some other place To get it together Where with a few of my friends I could give up the race And maybe find something better But all my fine dreams Well thought out schemes to gain the motherland Have all eventually come down to waiting for Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand Waiting here for Everyman-- Don't ask me if he'll show -- baby I don't know Make it on your own if you think you can Somewhere later on you'll have to take a stand Then you're going to need a hand Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one Who can give them the answers And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun Where sweet childhood still dances Who'll come along And hold out that strong and gentle father's hand? Long ago I heard someone say something 'bout Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand I'm not trying to tell you that I've seen the plan Turn and walk away if you think I am-- But don't think too badly of one who's left holding sand He's just another dreamer, dreaming 'bout Everyman |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
For Everyman
Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warning Standing alone Each has his own ticket in his hand And as the evening descends I sit thinking 'bout Everyman Seems like I've always been looking for some other place To get it together Where with a few of my friends I could give up the race And maybe find something better But all my fine dreams Well thought out schemes to gain the motherland Have all eventually come down to waiting for Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand Waiting here for Everyman-- Don't ask me if he'll show -- baby I don't know Make it on your own if you think you can Somewhere later on you'll have to take a stand Then you're going to need a hand Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one Who can give them the answers And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun Where sweet childhood still dances Who'll come along And hold out that strong and gentle father's hand? Long ago I heard someone say something 'bout Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand I'm not trying to tell you that I've seen the plan Turn and walk away if you think I am-- But don't think too badly of one who's left holding sand He's just another dreamer, dreaming 'bout Everyman |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin'
Now you've been working through the rubble of a shattered mind Yeah Baby, tell me why the tears are falling from your eye Tears of laughter, tears of grief, are they the tears of a captured thief? You thought that you were home free, thought you had her well in hand But there were things about her you didn't understand Yeah Baby, tell me how you're gonna keep that promise now? To live your life without regret and make it work with what you get You didn't then, but now you know When she began to lie-you really should have let her go You're learnin' how to talk about it, you're learnin' how to bend It's like you're learning how to walk all over again Yeah Baby, tell me who you're gonna give your lovin' to? That girl who catches every eye Or the one you can set your compass by You set it by her soulful smile The fire in her eye And the way she goes that extra mile The love you wanted this to be Is somewhere down the line You'll find her eventually Your grandma and her grandma Sittin' 'round heaven discussin' the law Lovin' that girl was not your crime, Livin' without her gonna take some time Lovin' that girl next thing you knew, You'd turned away from the thing you do Lovin' that girl, you couldn't see Living without her gonna make you free Words and Music by Jackson Browne (Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP) |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn't show your spirit quite as true You were turning 'round to see who was behind you And I took your childish laughter by surprise And at the moment that my camera happened to find you There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes Now the things that I remember seem so distant and so small Though it hasn't really been that long a time What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all Although for a while our path did seem to climb When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right And it's good to see your smiling face tonight Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams But that magic feeling never seems to last And all the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past I'm just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you In my lessons at love's pain and heartache school Where if you feel too free and you need something to remind you There's this loneliness springing up from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes but now you're all right And it's good to see your smiling face tonight Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn't show your spirit quite as true You were turning 'round to see who was behind you And I took your childish laughter by surprise And at the moment that my camera happened to find you There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes Now the things that I remember seem so distant and so small Though it hasn't really been that long a time What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all Although for a while our path did seem to climb When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right And it's good to see your smiling face tonight Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams But that magic feeling never seems to last And all the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past I'm just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you In my lessons at love's pain and heartache school Where if you feel too free and you need something to remind you There's this loneliness springing up from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes but now you're all right And it's good to see your smiling face tonight Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Did you see our brother? He was here the other day
But he only came to say that he was leaving Did you see his lady? She was looking where he'd gone But she wasn't letting on that she was grieving She's bound to go Perhaps she'll find him waiting for his boat in some city far away She's bound to go Lately I remember afternoons of smoke and wine There was nothing we could find but peace and pleasure And with a smile he told me that he wanted just to be On his way across the sea no man can measure He won't be back And the sun may find him sleeping in the dust Of some ruin far away He won't be back Early today as I watched while the skyline was shaking I heard a rumbling Early today the mechanical city was waking And I ran out stumbling, mumbling Out through the laughter of children and dogs Did you see our brother? He was here the other day But he only came to say that he can't breathe here Did you see his lady? She was reaching for his hand Just a if to tell her man that she can't either They're bound to go And the sun may find me running after them seeing something far away We won't be back (Someone who had been away Suddenly came back today And I allowed him home today into my mind For... Evil packed upon the place Long ago he meant to stay out there this time Oh what do you know The love that I've been feeling The past is healing so slow By tomorrow gone from sorrow) |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Pretty Nova, one year over
Legal age of consent In the flower of sweet youth our Days of heaven were spent Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Rock 'n' Roll, and freeing your soul, and Giving that heaven away I'm looking 'round for that sixties sound - Those days are gone And all us acid dropping, world stopping, be bopping Freaks are just hanging on Little Nova, did you have to show the Whole world how to rebel? Standing there with your long brown hair Like a cool breeze blowing through hell Giving That Heaven Away Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Back in those days we all were so crazy Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Ooooooowh Giving that heaven away Seems like the whole world's at a fire sale But I might be wrong With all the home shopping, Bling bling and hip hopping Maybe it's just going strong But hey now Nova, we both know the Ones who're always making it pay Well any fool can sell a jewel But an angel will give it away Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Oooooooh I'm going go down singing And giving that heaven away Where did the day go in that Winnebago? The two of us hot as a stove Fools for pleasure, digging for treasure Down in that Black Oak grove Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Oooooooh Giving that heaven away |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Sometimes I get to feeling low
Wish I could just pick up and go Somewhere new change my point of view Maybe somewhere I don't know Toss the idea to and fro Not sure what makes it come and go There it is again sweet music on the wind Over the Gulf of Mexico I'm going to down to Cuba someday soon Following that Caribbean moon It's been too long since I've been there I'm going down there to see my friends Down where the rhythm never ends Where women wear gardenias in their hair People will tell you it's not easy You're not supposed to go, they say They say that Cuba is the enemy I'm going down there anyway I'm going down to Cuba to see my friends Down where the rhythm never ends And no problem is too difficult to solve Yeah times are tough down there it's true But you know they're gonna make it through They make such continuous use of the verb to resolve They've got to deal with that embargo Enough to drive any country insane They might not know the things you and I know They do know what to do in a hurricane Maybe I'll go through Mexico Old Jesse Helms don't have to know Anyway all the allies of the USA Travel to Cuba everyday I'm going down to Cuba to see my friends Down where the rhythm never ends Where by comparison my trouble will just unravel I'm North American, you know Don't like to hear where I can't go Free people will insist on the freedom to travel I'm gonna drink the running mojito And walk out on the malecon In one hand a monte cristo And in the other an ice cream cone I'm going down to cuba with my band We're going to formulate a plan Whereby we obtain that cultural delusion If I told you once I told you thrice It'll put a smile on your face to see a Chevrolet with a soviet transmission I bet the country cast a spell And there are things I think of still Like the beauty of that woman that spoke to me In the hotel nacional I'm gonna book my flight today I'm definitely on my way Just hold my place and I'll get back in the race And I'm back in the USA |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
Here come those tears again
Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it through Another night without missing you Thinking I might just be strong enough after all When I hear your footsteps echoing in the hall Baby here we stand again Like we've been so many times before Even though you looked so sure As I was watching you walking out my door But you always walk back in like you did today Acting like you never even went away Well I don't know if I can Open up and let you in baby Here come those tears Here come those tears again I can hear you telling me How you needed to be free And you had some things to work out alone Now you're standing here telling me How you have grown Here come those tears again Now you'll tell me how to hold them in Here come those tears Here come those tears again Some other time baby When I'm strong and feeling fine maybe When I can look at you without crying You might look like a friend of mine But I don't know if I can Open up enough to let you in Here come those tears Here come those tears again Just walk away I'm going back inside and turning out those light And I'll be in the dark but you'll be out of sight |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
Hold on hold out, keep a hold on strong
The money's in and the bets are down You won't hold out long They say you'll fall in no time at all But you know they're wrong They've known it all along Yea- Hold on hold out, keep a hold on still If you don't see what your love is worth No one ever will You've done your time on the bottom line And it ain't no thrill There's got to be something more Keep a hold on still You know what it is you're waiting for Now you just hold on Hold on hold out, hold on Give up your heart and you lose your way Trusting another to feel that way Give up your heart and you find yourself Living for something in somebody else Sometimes you wonder what happens to love Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough Hold a place for the human race Keep it open wide Give it time to fall or climb But let the time decide Sometimes you wonder what's in this for you But you wait, and you see 'Cause it's all you can do Just to hold on Hold on hold out, hold on For the countless souls beaten by their goals Keep a hold on now And the ones betrayed by the deals they made Keep a hold on If you hold your ground it'll turn around Keep a hold somehow Hold on hold out, keep a hold on tight Tonight's the night Wake up and turn on the light You fight, and you're right-- It's gonna take all your might... You're a hold out Well I'm a hold out too But it took me all this time to figure out Something you already knew Will love be true? Can it pull you through? How long? How strong? Some things depend on you See-- I always figured I was gonna to meet somebody here and I don't know why Why should love suddenly come down and just sweep me away I want to fly But there are so many things in my way Anyway... I guess you wouldn't know unless I told you I.. I love you And just look at yourself-- I mean what else would I do? Hold on-- |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
Baby, I guess you know my story.
Baby, I guess you've heard my side. Seems I've traded love for glory, But I'm still not satisfied. Livin' all the years, All the cries and cheers, Don't amount to much more than pride. Take my love for you, take tomorrow too, There's not much left inside. How we laughed when we first knew love, Singing dum de lum de lie I taught you how to see light through love, And I taught you how to fly. Though I must've known How easily love is thrown, I took some chances, I don't know why. There's not much you can do, Wish that I'd been true, Darlin' so do I. You better hold out, Go on and hold out. Go ahead and hold out, What ya know love can be. Move on and hold out, Don't let your love get sold out. Cause anyone that knows about it, Babe that's me. Dry your eyes Can't forget the way I lied. Time has seen you grow Ya lived your life alone. Though ya tried and tried, Ya cried and cried |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
When you look into a child's face
And you're seeing the human race And the endless possibilities there Where so much can come true And you think of the beautiful things A child can do How long -- would the child survive How long -- if it was up to you When you think about the money spent On defense by a government And the weapons of destruction we've built We're so sure that we need And you think of the millions and millions That money could feed How long -- can you hear someone crying How long -- can you hear someone dying Before you ask yourself why? And how long will we hear people speaking About missiles for peace And just let it go by How long will they tell us these weapons Are keeping us free That's a lie If you saw it from a satellite With its green and its blue and white The beauty of the curve of the earth And its oceans below You might think it was paradise If you didn't know You might think that it's turning But it's turning so slow How long -- can you hear someone crying How long -- can you hear someone dying Before you ask yourself why? And how long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned How long? |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous Someday I was walking with my brother And he wondered what's on my mind I said what I believe in my soul Ain't what I see with my eyes And we can't turn our backs this time I am a patriot And I love my county Because my country is all I know I want to be with my family The people who understand me I've got nowhere else to go And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous Someday And I was talking with my sister She looked so fine I said, "Baby, what's on your mind?" She said, "I want to run like the lion" Released from the cages Released from the rages Burning in my heart tonight And I ain't no communist And I ain't no capitalist And I ain't no socialist And I ain't no imperialist And I ain't no democrat And I ain't no republican I only know one party And it is freedom I am, I am, I am I am a patriot And I love my country Because my county is all I know And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous And the river opens for the righteous Someday And the river opens for the righteous... |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
I Thought I Was A Child
It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing And came upon the wisdom in your eyes Surprise-- I've spent my whole life running 'round Chasing songs from town to town Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me down So lonely and so wild until you turned and smiled By now I should have long been gone But here I am still looking on As if I didn't know which way to run It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me As if you know how it feels to never be who you wanted to be I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time Alone within the boundaries of my mind I thought I was a child |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
You hold a life there in your hands
You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Somewhere long ago Think about the things we've done and where we've been Your touch made me a king I don't want to live without your love again I'll do anything To make you see what I'm imagining To know the pleasure your smile can bring To keep the light from vanishing I'll do anything I fly this airplane upside down I walk out on the wing To see you watching from the ground I'll do anything When I see the light upon your upturned face I can hear the angels sing Don't ever let another take my place I'll do anything To make you see what I'm imagining To know the pleasure your smile can bring To keep the light from vanishing I'll do anything I make this world a place for you and me I make your happiness my responsibility To make this world the world you want to see I'll do anything When I see the light upon your upturned face I can hear the angels sing To see that no one ever takes my place I'll do anything To make you see what I'm imagining To know the pleasure your smile can bring To keep the light from vanishing I'll do anything |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone
I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to keep you if I'd known How unhappy you had become While I was dreaming of you With my heart in your hands And I was following though With my beautiful plans Yeah now I'm rolling down this canyon drive With your laughter in my head I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive cause those dreams are dead And I'm alive I want to go where I will never hear your name I want to lose my sorrow and be free again And I know I've been insane When I think of places I could have been But I was dreaming of you With my heart in your hands And I was following through With my beautiful plans Standing here by the highway side Watching these trucks blow by Inches from my face Yeah thinking 'bout the time I've wasted And the pleasure we once tasted Looking up and down this road I've been here before Can't be here no more Yeah now I'm rolling down California five With your laughter in my head I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive cause those dreams are dead And I'm alive |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down
And I am there with a smile, prepared to bring you around You're thinking that you've got me trained I'm aware of that But when you need your outlook changed Baby, I'm the cat Baby, I'm allowed to be late when I'm coming home You know I'll be there when I want to And you let me roam You think you've got me figured out I don't know about that But when you want to twist and shout Baby, I'm the cat Baby, I might not be all that Your fortune cookie promised you But I will do I'm the cat Baby I . . . Baby I'm the cat Oh yeah . . . Baby I'm the cat Baby, I'm in love with the way you scratch my back You've got the only thing I want And that's a fact And when sometimes we disagree You take me to the mat But when I get you spinning free Baby I'm the cat Baby, I might not be all that The gypsy woman prophesized But be advised I'm the cat Baby I might not be all that Your Magic 8 Ball said I'd be But you will see I'm the cat Baby I . . . Baby I'm the cat Oh yeah . . . Baby I'm the cat |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
It was a ruby that she wore
On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and regret And the shape of a heart And the shape of a heart I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of belief and belonging Try to fit some name to their longing People speak of love There was a hole left in the wall From some ancient fight About the size of a fist Or something thrown that had missed And there were other holes as well In the house where our nights fell Far to many to repair In the time that we were there People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Reach out to each other through the push and shove Speak in terms of a life and the learning Try to think of a word for the burning You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know What breaches and faults are concealed In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was the ruby that she wore On a stand beside the bed In the hour before dawn When I knew she was gone And I held it in my hand For a little while Dropped it into the wall I let it go and heard it fall I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of a life and the living Try to find the word for forgiving You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know The shallows and the unseen reef That are there from the start In the shape of a heart |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
It was a ruby that she wore
On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and regret And the shape of a heart And the shape of a heart I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of belief and belonging Try to fit some name to their longing People speak of love There was a hole left in the wall From some ancient fight About the size of a fist Or something thrown that had missed And there were other holes as well In the house where our nights fell Far to many to repair In the time that we were there People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Reach out to each other through the push and shove Speak in terms of a life and the learning Try to think of a word for the burning You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know What breaches and faults are concealed In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was the ruby that she wore On a stand beside the bed In the hour before dawn When I knew she was gone And I held it in my hand For a little while Dropped it into the wall I let it go and heard it fall I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of a life and the living Try to find the word for forgiving You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know The shallows and the unseen reef That are there from the start In the shape of a heart |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world
We bring good things to life The news you need from people you can count on Doing what we do best The heartbeat of America Your true voice You're in good hands Now more than ever before And in the flickering light and the comforting glow You get the world every night as a TV show The latest spin on the shit we're in, blow by blow And the more you watch, the less you know Beyond the hundred million darkened living rooms Out where the human ocean roars Into the failing light, the generations go Heading for the information wars Do people really spend millions upon millions To make us think we care about the planet At the same time polluting and looting the only world we've got So they can maximize their profit? People do. The heartbeat of America Your true voice For the life of your business It's everywhere you want to be And there's a front row seat for the precious few The latest war as a pay-per-view Famine and disaster right in front of you And the more you watch, the less you do Beyond the hundred million darkened living rooms Out where the human ocean roars Into the failing light, the generations go Heading for the information wars |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
They shot a man into the sky
The moon and stars became his bed He saw the sun rise seven times And when he came back down he said It is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one They shot a man if Africa At a time of rivalry and war He had some dreams of a good life But dreams aren't what they killed him for Now people stand themselves next to the righteous And they believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one One - the deep blue ocean One - the endless sky One - the purple mountains One - you and I It's not a world of our own choosing We don'd decide where we are born This life is a battleground between right and wrong One way or other we are torn And people stand themselves next to the righteous And they believe the things they say are true And speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one It is one, it is one, it is one, it is one One - the deep blue ocean One - the endless sky One - the purple mountains One - you and I |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well
As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would not tell We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bell Jamaica, say you will Help me find a way to fill these empty hours Say you will come again tomorrow The daughter of a captain on the rolling seas She would stare across the water from the trees Last time he was home he held her on his knees And said the next time they would sail away just where they pleased Jamaica, say you will Help me find a way to fill these lifeless sails And stay until my ships can find the sea Jamaica was a sweet young one, I loved her true She was a comfort and a mercy through and through Hiding from this world together, next thing I knew We had brought her things down to the bay what could I do Jamaica, say you will Help me find a way to fill these sails And we will sail until our waters have run dry |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
I wanted to be somebody you see
When you're feeling good I started looking for your little MG In my neighborhood I started feeling kind of funny and free When you were around And I began to cook up a plan to Take you out of town Not really dating, we were relating And we were friends It's hard to say where the relating leaves off And where loves begins A friend will tell you all kinds of stuff That a lover won't And you would think you would see love coming But of course, you don't I want to hold you, don't want to mold you Into someone else I never could have invented you Or written you so well I never met another woman who Possessed your particular charms I want to be that man who will see that You never come to harm Must have been you I dreamed of Yeah that was you all right You were the laughter I was listening to Standing in the light You were the lover in the sunrise who Had begun to slip away Though I was just a kid I must have known You'd be real someday I want to know you, I want to show you That you're not alone You've been the only thing steadyin' me And I guess we've both known Maybe you haven't been that ready to see That I could take you there Well that was then, but this is when I need to hear you say yeah Baby just say yeah |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
Knock on any door
Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you lookin' for Yeah, yeah, baby now you know It's a cold world like they told you so Knock on any door Save your tears for some occasion Keep your heartache to yourself Knock on any door It's a simple operation Just trade your memory for your health Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on It's insane girl, you can't run away It's the same world it was yesterday Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on Now, now, now how do you survive With a pain so real, in a world so jive Knock on any door Look through any window Peek through any shade Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
The words had all been spoken
and somehow the feeling still wasnt right and still we continued through the night tracing our steps from the beginning until they vanished into the air Trying to understand how our lives had led us there Looking hard into your eyes there was nobody I'd ever known such an empty surprise to feel so alone Now for me some words come easy but i know that they don't mean that much Compared with the things that are said when lovers touch you never knew what I loved in you i don't know what you loved in me maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping i might be Awake again I can't pretend and i know I'm alone and close to the end of the feeling we've known How long have I been sleeping how long have i been drifting alone through the night how long have i been dreaming I could make it right if I closed my eyes and tried with all my might to be the the one you need Awake again I can't pretend and i know I'm alone and close to the end of the feeling we've known How long have i been sleeping how long have i been drifting alone through the night how long have I been running for that morning flight throught thte whispered promises and the changing light Of the bed where we both lie Late For The Sky |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
Papa hit him, Mama kissed him
Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him another kind of wisdom When to run and when to fight Up at the playground after school Listening to tales of the prison system And those lawless avenues Dawn on a half darkened street A child's footsteps repeat And something there turns them Down those lawless avenues Silent Joe went down so bad He was the strongest fighter the avenues had Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging Someone from some other part of town No one even seen it coming down And you don't hear no church bells ringing And in the violent night the police light Sweeps across the lots and the yards Following those lawless avenues Down on a half darkened street Armies advance and retreat And struggle to take control From those lawless avenues Manuelito's sister Rosa Ran away with a surfer from Hermosa Manuelito, cuida a Rosa, Hay mira como estan las cosas! (Manuelito take care of Rosa --Look at how things are) But who could blame her after she saw Every boy die who could have gotten close to her Rosa es joven u solo quiere ver la belleza del mundo (Rosa is young and only wants To see the beauty of the world) Manuel said-- "You gotta fight for what you want in this life" Just before they shipped him overseas to 'Nam Otra guerra sin razon Otra guerra sin fin, sin honor (Another war without reason, Another war without end, without honor) And she was fighting to understand When they shipped Manuelito's body home All she heard was one more shot Echoing down lawless avenues Hoy amigo, tal igual como ayer, La lucha en el barrio no cambia Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer Por ley de la calle, viviendo entre abrazos Y chingazos (Today my friend, just like yesterday, The struggle in the barrio doesn't change. Our children are the ones to grow up By the law of the street Living between hugs and blows) Down on a half darkened street Fathers' and sons' lives repeat And something there turns them Down those lawless avenues En el calor de la calle (In the heat of the street) Buscan valor en la calle (Looking for valor in the street) Hasta final de la calle (Till the end of the street) |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
I can't keep up with what's been going down
I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings In their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled cries of lawyers in love God sends his spaceships to America the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays Tuned into Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capital The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will Now we've got all this room We've even got the moon And I hear the USSR will be open soon As vacation land for lawyers in love Lawyers in love Lawyers in love |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
Here's to lights and virtues
Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to light the darkness The search for things of your own Here's to lights and virtues Here's to reaching higher ground A life of hope and purpose Here's to strength yet to be found Honor -- though it goes unrecognized And truth -- though liars abound The pleasure of love and friendship The courage to be alone |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
At the moment the music began
And you heard the guitar player starting to sing You were filled with the beauty that ran Through what you were imagining Dreaming of scenes from those songs of love I was the endless sky And you were my Mexican dove Now the music that played in your ears Grows a little bit fainter each day And you find yourself looking through tears At the love you feel slipping away Though it's not the kind Of love you might hope to find If tears could release the heart From the shadows preferred by the mind Like a wind that comes up in the night Caressing your face while you sleep Love will fill your eyes with the sight Of a world you can't hope to keep Dreaming on after that moment's gone The light in your lover's eyes Disappears with the light of the dawn But the morning brings Strength to your restless wings And some other lover sings To the sun's bright corona I know all about these things Linda Paloma Fly away Linda Paloma |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
I went to the live nude cabaret
To see what I could see And I saw the ladies dancing An I guess that they saw me Neither did I vanquish, or surrender to desire Was just more fuel on the fire I’ve heard form follows function And I think that must be true Especially when you think of What the female form will do Its lines and shapes are everywhere As if they follow me Repeating my own longing in everything I see Star of happiness, star of love Lead us to the shore That only women hold the promise of Men would give them money And men would give them gold And shower them with promises Of luxury untold And make their vessels of creation The temples of our souls Ohhhhh let my people go Sea of loneliness, sea of love Carry me upon your endless depths And bear my heart above For I would give her money And I would give her jewels And lead her to the palace my imagination rules And fashion from her nakedness The innocence that’s gone Gone as the time she’s given the suffering of fools |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you've seen it before Where a government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war And there's a shadow on the faces Of the men who send the guns To the wars that are fought in places Where their business interest runs On the radio talk shows and the T.V. You hear one thing again and again How the U.S.A. stands for freedom And we come to the aid of a friend But who are the ones that we call our friends-- These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can't take any more And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone There are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire There's a shadow on the faces Of the men who fan the flames Of the wars that are fought in places Where we can't even say the names They sell us the President the same way They sell us our clothes and our cars They sell us every thing from youth to religion The same time they sell us our wars I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are But they're never the ones to fight or to die And there are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you've seen it before Where a government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war And there's a shadow on the faces Of the men who send the guns To the wars that are fought in places Where their business interest runs On the radio talk shows and the T.V. You hear one thing again and again How the U.S.A. stands for freedom And we come to the aid of a friend But who are the ones that we call our friends-- These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can't take any more And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone There are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire There's a shadow on the faces Of the men who fan the flames Of the wars that are fought in places Where we can't even say the names They sell us the President the same way They sell us our clothes and our cars They sell us every thing from youth to religion The same time they sell us our wars I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are But they're never the ones to fight or to die And there are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west
Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs and possessions, stopped at the frontier in my chest At the edge of my country, my back to the sea, looking east Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the mansion, hunger in the rented room Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the laughing and the rage In the absence of light And the deepening night Where I wait for the sun Looking east How long have I left my mind to the powers that be? How long will it take to find the higher power moving in me? Power in the insect Power in the sea Power in the snow falling silently Power in the blossom Power in the stone Power in the song being sung alone Power in the wheatfield Power in the rain Power in the sunlight and the hurricane Power in the silence Power in the flame Power in the sound of the lover's name The power of the sunrise and the power of a prayer released On the edge of my country, I pray for the ones with the least Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age And an absence of light In the deepening night Where I wait for the sun Looking east |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west
Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs and possessions, stopped at the frontier in my chest At the edge of my country, my back to the sea, looking east Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the mansion, hunger in the rented room Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the laughing and the rage In the absence of light And the deepening night Where I wait for the sun Looking east How long have I left my mind to the powers that be? How long will it take to find the higher power moving in me? Power in the insect Power in the sea Power in the snow falling silently Power in the blossom Power in the stone Power in the song being sung alone Power in the wheat field Power in the rain Power in the sunlight and the hurricane Power in the silence Power in the flame Power in the sound of the lover's name The power of the sunrise and the power of a prayer released On the edge of my country, I pray for the ones with the least Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age And an absence of light In the deepening night Where I wait for the sun Looking east |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Well I looked into a house I once lived in
Around the time I first went on my own When the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of And my friends and I were one Now the distance is done and the search has begun I've come to see where my beginnings have gone Oh the walls and the windows were still standing And the music could be heard at the door Where the people who kindly endured my odd questions Asked if I came very far And when my silence replied they took me inside Where their children sat playing on the floor Well we spoke of the changes that would find us farther on And it left me so warm and so high But as I stepped back outside to the grey morning sun I heard that highway whisper and sigh Are you ready to fly? And I looked into the faces all passing by It's an ocean that will never be filled And the house that grows older and finally crumbles That even love cannot rebuild It's a hotel at best, you're here as a guest You oughta make yourself at home while you're waiting for the rest Well I looked into dream of the millions That one day the search will be through Now here I stand at the edge of my embattled illusions Looking into you The great song traveler passed through here And he opened my eyes to the view And I was among those who called him a prophet And I asked him what was true Until the distance had shown how the road remains alone Now I'm looking in my life for a truth that is my own Well I looked into the sky for my anthem And the words and the music came through But words and music can never touch the beauty that I've seen Looking into you -- and that's true |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done
Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone Cold as a stone Rolling down that hill into the night I could see the surprise and the hurt in your eyes There behind each flashing city light Love needs a heart And I need to find If loves needs a heart like mine Love won't come near me She don't even hear me She walks by my vacancy sign And love needs a heart Trusting and blind I wish that heart was mine Proud and alone Cold as a stone I'm afraid to believe the things I feel I can cry with the best I can laugh with the rest But I'm never sure when it's real And it may be the hardest thing I've ever done But apart from all that I hope to find Where's the heart that's been looking for mine? I hope it finds me in time Love needs a heart and I need to find If love needs a heart like mine |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done
Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone Cold as a stone Rolling down that hill into the night I could see the surprise and the hurt in your eyes There behind each flashing city light Love needs a heart And I need to find If loves needs a heart like mine Love won't come near me She don't even hear me She walks by my vacancy sign And love needs a heart Trusting and blind I wish that heart was mine Proud and alone Cold as a stone I'm afraid to believe the things I feel I can cry with the best I can laugh with the rest But I'm never sure when it's real And it may be the hardest thing I've ever done But apart from all that I hope to find Where's the heart that's been looking for mine? I hope it finds me in time Love needs a heart and I need to find If love needs a heart like mine |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
I got my head down between my knees
I got my back against this bedroom wall I hear my voice saying baby please But I know you don't hear me call You're staring at that far horizon I don't even know why you stay It's like you're already miles and miles away We got this life so far turned around We only talk about what happened last We try to move ahead but we're losing ground To the heartache and the pain of the past Staring at that far horizon I don't even know why I stay You're already miles and miles away. Miles Away From these sad deliberations From a life in disarray And all these recriminations And these stones all in your passway You got this rage choking up your voice And you're behaving like an orphan child I want to be your friend but I got no choice Than to fight when you're so mean and wild Staring at that far horizon I don't even know why you stay It's like you're already miles and miles away Miles Away From these sad deliberations From the innocence betrayed The abandoned expectations And the stones that we have laid |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
A lady stands before an open window
Staring so far away She can almost feel the southern wind blow Almost touching her restless day She turns from her window to me Sad smile her apology Sad eyes reaching to the door Daylight loses to another evening And still she spares me the word goodbye And sits alone beside me fighting her feelings Struggles to speak but in the end can only cry Suddenly it's so hard to find The sound of the words to speak her troubled mind So I'm offering these to her as if to be kind: There's a train every day leaving either way There's a world, you know There's a way to go And you'll soon be gone -- that's just as well This is my opening farewell A child's drawings left there on the table And a woman's silk lying on the floor And I would keep them here if I were able And lock her safe behind this open door But suddenly it's so clear to me That I'd asked her to see what she may never see And now my kind words find their way back to me There's a train every day leaving either way There's a world, you know You got a way's to go And I'll soon believe -- it's just as well This is my opening farewell |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
My personal revenge will be the right
Of our children in the schools and in the gardens My personal revenge will be to give you This song which has flourished without panic My personal revenge will be to show you The kindness in the eyes of my people Who have always fought relentlessly in battle And been generous and firm in victory My personal revenge will be to tell you good morning On a street without beggars or homeless When instead of jailing you I suggest You shake away the sadness there that blinds you And when you who have applied your hands in torture Are unable to look up at what surrounds you My personal revenge will be to give you These hands that once you so mistreated But have failed to take away their tenderness It was the people who hated you the most When rage became the language of their song And underneath the skin of this town today Its heart has been scarred forevermore It was the people who hated you the most When rage became the language of their song And underneath the skin of this town today Its heart has been scarred forevermore And underneath the skin of this town today Red and black, its heart's been scarred Forevermore |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
To love and get away before the walls have arisen
You've got to be free But to go on attempting to break into the prison You'ld have to be me I wait for the sun to rise over the mountain I wait for your touch I wait for your angels to carry me home But I wait too much Waiting for you I have no problem telling right from wrong Fiction from what's true No problem telling the dream from the dawn My problem is you Waiting here for you I wanted to live in the realm of the senses You've got to know how And for some kinds of pleasure there are no defenses I know that now Our love is a crackling ladder of lightning Our love is a fire Our love is a wave moving deep in an ocean Of need and desire Waiting for you I have no problem with this crooked world I play the cards I drew No problem with the changes life has hurled My problem is you Waiting here for you I need your wonder and I need your light I need your tender touch to heal the night I need you laughing and I need you free And I need to lock you away deep inside of me Waiting for you I have no problem telling right from wrong The way some people do I know exactly where these arms belong My problem is you Waiting here for you And I don't worry about the ozone layer Just let those rays come through When I'm outside I keep my clothes on My problem is you Waiting here for you And I don't worry about Madonna Or the next thing she might do And I don't worry about your mamma My problem is you Waiting here for you |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
What with all my expectations long abandoned
And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunning mystery companion I know that you don't want to be Out here forever on this road Or live among the boxes Where all my past lives have been stowed Maybe you're thinking of someplace With a garden by the sea Where we could slow down And you could put a little more work in on me What with all my expectations long abandoned My solitary nature notwithstanding You're the one who pulled me Out of that crash landing My stunning mystery companion Right now I can't quite remember The cause of all my tears I hear you laughing and somehow The past just disappears Maybe you were joking when you said You'd take me for ten years and no more Maybe you've had the best of me But you could take another ten years and be sure What with all my expectations long abandoned And a life that just gets more and more demanding There's no doubt that you're the reason I'm still standing My stunning mystery companion |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
My Stunning Mystery Companion
What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunning mystery companion I know that you don't want to be Out here forever on this road Or live among the boxes Where all my past lives have been stowed Maybe you're thinking of someplace With a garden by the sea Where we could slow down And you could put a little more work in on me What with all my expectations long abandoned My solitary nature notwithstanding You're the one who pulled me Out of that crash landing My stunning mystery companion .. Right now I can't quite remember The cause of all my tears I hear you laughing and somehow The past just disappears Maybe you were joking when you said You'd take me for ten years and no more Maybe you've had the best of me But you could take another ten years and be sure What with all my expectations long abandoned And a life that just gets more and more demanding There's no doubt that you're the reason I'm still standing My stunning mystery companion ... (Words and Music By Jackson Browne) |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
There are times when I see you, Baby
Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices we made You never held me to blame But you had some dreams when you were a girl Some ideas about the world And you see how some things will never be the same (And how some things never change) And I remember how you helped me, Baby And all the times you had my back And how you wrapped me in your sweetness And held my eyes with your eyes When my train was off the track Now I've got some things that I want to do And I want to do them with you If you'll just stand by me, and don't look back And never stop coming up with all of that love for me Never stop coming with your faith in what a love can be Never stop coming up with all of that lovev Keep on rising above And never stop coming up on the world love wants to see And the world has been showing you how It's no place for your tender heart now In a world that keeps turning you down Only the heart knows where the strength can be found Never stop coming up with all of that love for me Never stop coming with your faith in what a love can be Never stop coming up with all of that love Keep on rising above And never stop coming up on the world love wants to see Remember when you look into my eyes I'm the one who took you by surprise The time has come and gone and come back 'round again And I'm still here to take you by surprise my friend Show me your eyes, tell me again Where you want to go Now the night is glowing beneath your skin And when you smile I'm the richest man I know |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
Never Stop
There are times when I see you, Baby Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices we made You never held me to blame But you had some dreams when you were a girl Some ideas about the world And you see how some things will never be the same (And how some things never change) And I remember how you helped me, Baby And all the times you had my back And how you wrapped me in your sweetness And held my eyes with your eyes When my train was off the track Now I've got some things that I want to do And I want to do them with you If you'll just stand by me, and don't look back And never stop coming up with all of that love for me Never stop coming with your faith in what a love can be Never stop coming up with all of that lovev Keep on rising above And never stop coming up on the world love wants to see And the world has been showing you how It's no place for your tender heart now In a world that keeps turning you down Only the heart knows where the strength can be found Never stop coming up with all of that love for me Never stop coming with your faith in what a love can be Never stop coming up with all of that love Keep on rising above And never stop coming up on the world love wants to see .. .. Remember when you look into my eyes I'm the one who took you by surprise The time has come and gone and come back 'round again And I'm still here to take you by surprise my friend Show me your eyes, tell me again Where you want to go Now the night is glowing beneath your skin And when you smile I'm the richest man I know ............................................. Lyrics by Jackson Browne Music by Jackson Browne, Kevin McCormick, Mark Goldenberg, Mauricio Lewak, Jeff Young |
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