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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
I'm sitting down by the highway
Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as fast as they can ride I guess they've got a lot to do Before they can rest assured Their lives are justified Pray to God for me baby He can let me slide 'Cause I've been up and down this highway Far as my eyes can see No matter how fast I run I can never seem to get away from me No matter where I am I can't help feeling I'm just a day away From where I want to be Now I'm running home baby Like a river to the sea Baby if you can see me Out across this wilderness There's just one thing I was hoping you might guess Baby you can free me All in the power of your sweet tenderness I can see it in your eyes You've got those bright baby blues You don't see what you've got to gain But you don't like to lose You watch yourself from the sidelines Like your life is a game you don't mind playing To keep yourself amused I don't mean to be cruel baby But you're looking confused Baby if you can hear me Turn down your radio There's just one thing I want you to know When you've been near me I've felt the love stirring in my soul It's so hard to come by That feeling of peace This friend of mine said "Close your eyes, and try a few of these" I thought I flying like a bird So far above my sorrow But when I looked down I was standing on my knees Now I need someone to help me Someone to help me please Baby if you need me Like I know I need you There's just one thing I'll ask you to do Take my hand and lead me To the hole in your garden wall And pull me through |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
I'm sitting down by the highway
Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as fast as they can ride I guess they've got a lot to do Before they can rest assured Their lives are justified Pray to God for me baby He can let me slide 'Cause I've been up and down this highway Far as my eyes can see No matter how fast I run I can never seem to get away from me No matter where I am I can't help feeling I'm just a day away From where I want to be Now I'm running home baby Like a river to the sea Baby if you can see me Out across this wilderness There's just one thing I was hoping you might guess Baby you can free me All in the power of your sweet tenderness I can see it in your eyes You've got those bright baby blues You don't see what you've got to gain But you don't like to lose You watch yourself from the sidelines Like your life is a game you don't mind playing To keep yourself amused I don't mean to be cruel baby But you're looking confused Baby if you can hear me Turn down your radio There's just one thing I want you to know When you've been near me I've felt the love stirring in my soul It's so hard to come by That feeling of peace This friend of mine said "Close your eyes, and try a few of these" I thought I flying like a bird So far above my sorrow But when I looked down I was standing on my knees Now I need someone to help me Someone to help me please Baby if you need me Like I know I need you There's just one thing I'll ask you to do Take my hand and lead me To the hole in your garden wall And pull me through |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
When you look over your shoulder
And you see the life that you've left behind When you think it over do you ever wonder? What it is that holds your life so close to mine You love the thunder and you love the rain What you see revealed within the anger is worth the pain And before the lightning fades and you surrender You've got a second to look at the dark side of the man You love the thunder and you love the rain You know your hunger like you know your name And I know you wonder how you ever came To be a woman in love with a man in search of the flame Draw the shade and light the fire For the night that holds you and calls your name And just like your lover, knows your desire And the crazy longing that time will never tame You love the thunder and you love the rain You know your hunger like you know your name I got your number if it's still the same You can dream But you can never go back the way you came |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
Sun going down in the USA
Down on Main there's a family sleeping in a doorway Around the corner you can hear the sound People dancing around the golden calf Those who have not, those who have On the billboards and the T.V. screens They got food and cars and toys and trucks and jeans Like a homeless child's fitfull dreams Smiling faces free from wanting Life's abundances beyond counting World in motion -- speed your changes Close your distances, find your angels Lose your fears and meet your dangers World in motion Once we were running through smoke and fire Running into the sun In the rush of youth, for love and truth Our deeds were done Now we awake with a world at stake And a race we run We run Sun going down on the USA Sun coming up a hundred years away On another world and another time Things like hunger, greed and hatred One way or another, gonna be eradicated World in motion -- speed your changes Close your distances, drive your angels Lose your fears and meet your dangers World in motion 'Till the world I look out at this world and see Is the world I know this world can be You have a volunteer in me Now come on |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Where were you when the sky cracked open
Waiting for shelter and barely coping Thinking you could ride the storm out Hoping you would be all right Where were you when they gave a warning Hundred-fifty mile winds by morning Category four making landfall in the wild gray light Where were you Where were you Where were you in the social order Lower nine or a hotel in the Quarter Which side of the Quarter between rich and poor... Where were you gonna evacuate to Assuming there was any way to Where if you didn't own a car... Where were you Where were you Where were you when you understood However decent, however good However hard some people try They only barely make it by They're born to live their entire lives In harm's way Where were you when you heard the stranded The injured and the empty-handed Running out of food and water at the Superdome The newborn and the elderly Exposed to even more misery While those in charge of rescue Waited for the Guard to come And those who left the Convention Center Were stopped on the bridge when they tried to enter The safety of the Westbank and higher ground... And when the Guard finally did arrive And got to work on about day five Mainly they were used to keep the looting down... Where were you Where were you Where were you when you realized However strong, however wise However true our leaders appear to be They talk about prosperity However hard this country strives When property is valued more than lives How strong will we ever really be How long do we imagine we'll be free We hold the truth self evident The photograph of the President From Air Force One he viewed the devastation Shaved face and rested eyes Looking down he circles twice On the way home from his vacation Where were you When you got the picture Where were you Where were you when the streets filled up with black water Where were you when defeat and destruction reigned in the Crescent Where were you when it blew from every direction Where were you when the promise was made To retrurn and rebuild To restore to its people The city that gave us the first American music The true inspiration and the freedom to use it Where will we find it again if we lose it And where will we be If we ever cease to love If we ever cease to love |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
I come here for Dr. King
Who gave the people a precious thing He found a light in the darkest hour And the strength for speaking truth to power And in the years since they shot him down You see changes that once were a dream Begin to come around When the walls have begun to crumble When the laws have begun to burn When the winds is singing freedom When the stone begins to turn And I come here to praise Mandela And to send this message to his jailer Your walls may hold the man inside But they'll never ever hold back the tide 'Cause in the years you've shut him away A generation has grown where he stood They're gonna see the day When the walls have begun to crumble When the laws have begun to burn When the wind is singing freedom When the stone begins to turn We come here to sing for freedom And to send our voices to the ones who need them Freedom for South Africa And justice for Nelson Mandela 'Cause in the years they've shut him away A generation has grown where he stood We're gonna see the day When the walls have begun to crumble When the laws have begun to burn When the wind is singing freedom When the stone begins to turn |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
One foot after the other
One place pretty much like another Some folks got a pretty good deal Some are just looking for their next meal Out here where the days go by And the glances never meet the eye It's a walking town And I'm just out here walking 'round Walking 'round this walking town You got a house on top of a hill And a powerful automobile The windows up, the AC high In a world of comfort speeding by Stressed out in the latest style How long has it been since you walked a mile In yours or anybody else's shoes Well, in any life there will be dues It's a walking town And I'm just out here walking 'round Walking 'round this walking town Walking up, walking down Walking back, walking 'round Walking mute, walking bound Walking through your walking town One foot on the concrete shore One foot in the human sea Night falls on the streets of the city And it falls over you and me And all our dreams and our descriptions Of the life this was supposed to be Drift above the rooftops and the houses Until the sunlight finds me where I lay And it's a walking town And I'm back out here walking 'round Walking 'round this walking town |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
Walking slow down the avenue
Through my old neighborhood Don't know why I'm happy I've got no reason to feel this good Maybe it's because I'm all alone And I've got no place to go And everywhere I look I see Another person I'll never know I got a thing or two to say Before I walk on by I'm feeling good today But if die a little farther along I'm trusting everyone to carry on Pretty little girl-- Running up and down the street with no shoes on I got a pretty little girl of my own at home Sometimes we forget we love each other And we fight for no reason I don't know what I'll do if she ever leaves me alone I got a thing or two to say Before I walk on by I'm feelin' good today But if I die a little farther along I'm trustin' everyone to carry on I'm puttin' down my left foot I'm puttin' down my right foot I got a thing or two to say Before I walk on by I'm feelin' good today But if I die a little farther along I'm trusting everyone to carry on |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through
Before this moment fades away I want to know you I've got lightning in my pocket, thunder in my shoe Have no fear I've got something here I want to show you Hey, low, under the falling sky Easily we will lie while I bring it to you It's a low road, a high wire going from me to you And in your eyes the distance left is closing I've got a feeling in my oceans Blood underneath my skin That into your bright fields this prison is opening Hey, low, under the falling sky Easily we will lie while I bring it to you Our shadows wake each day though they don't know why They hope and try - live and die So leave them in their frozen world Come and be my lover If only for one stolen moment we will live forever Forever Warm and lovely mystery, can you hear the choir? Voices can no longer hold my desire Just abandon your sad history and meet me in the fire Our angels wait to take us higher and higher Higher and higher Hey, low, under the falling sky Easily we will lie while I bring it to you |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
There are two of me
And two of you Two who have betrayed love And two who have been true And together we went crashing through Every bond and vow and faith we knew Me and the fool I've been And the two of you Of the two of me One always knew That I would always love you Whatever you might do And the more unfree and troubled you grew I could feel the whole world splitting in two Trying to make the room For the two of you So like a fragile little child More than a little lost and wild How the light would leave the sky when you cried And returned again when you smiled And how the light would invade and divide The darkness I have inside There were two of me And two of you Searching for a passageway Hidden from our view And together we went crashing through Every bond and vow and faith we knew Me and the fool I've been And the two of you |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
There's an angel on a ribbon
Hanging from the armoire door There's a Cupid with his feet crossed On the bird cage by the door There's a baby angel drummer His eyes are open wide And two more tiny cherubs On the mantle side by side Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying There are photographs of children All in their silver frames On the window sills and tabletops Lit by candle flames And upon their angel faces Life's expectations climb Where the moment has preserved them From the ravages of time Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to step out in the morning sun Through the flood of tears I want this darkness gone Your sweet face appears These apparitions coming one by one But there's no end in sight Only the dead of night And too many angels Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying Too many angels Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to step out in the morning sun Through the flood of tears I want to greet the dawn Cast away these fears Forget about the things we could have done Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to watch the children as they run Through the broken years I want this darkness gone Your sweet face appears These apparitions coming one by one But there's no end in sight Only the dead of night And too many angels |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
There's an angel on a ribbon
Hanging from the armoire door There's a Cupid with his feet crossed On the bird cage by the door There's a baby angel drummer His eyes are open wide And two more tiny cherubs On the mantle side by side Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying There are photographs of children All in their silver frames On the window sills and tabletops Lit by candle flames And upon their angel faces Life's expectations climb Where the moment has preserved them From the ravages of time Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to step out in the morning sun Through the flood of tears I want this darkness gone Your sweet face appears These apparitions coming one by one But there's no end in sight Only the dead of night And too many angels Too many angels Have seen me crying Too many angels Have heard you lying Too many angels Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to step out in the morning sun Through the flood of tears I want to greet the dawn Cast away these fears Forget about the things we could have done Bring the morning on Voices sing of day I want to watch the children as they run Through the broken years I want this darkness gone Your sweet face appears These apparitions coming one by one But there's no end in sight Only the dead of night And too many angels |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Time on my side, a stowaway in the slipstream
A time I could glide the shifting currents of my dream In my dream the sunlight was falling from one side And every blade of grass was casting its own shadow And every little bird was singing its own song Time in my mind, the past of least resistance The future almost blind, both in need of assistance In my mind the question: Sunrise or sunset? In my mind I'm certain: Nothing's certain yet With every grain of sand casting its own shadow And every ray of the sun flashing on the sea Time may heal all wounds But time will steal you blind Time the wheel, time the conqueror Time to decide what kind of world I believe in The world open wide, Or the world about to stop breathing In my world I'm standing just inside the door In my world I'm speaking into the ocean's roar And every thought of you casts its own little shadow And everything I wanted, subject to review Time may heal all wounds But time will steal you blind Time the wheel, time the conqueror Time will heal all wounds but time... |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
Till I go down
Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes I've already seen the lies On the faces of the men of war Leading people to the killing floor Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes No no Till I go down Till the world stops spinning around Till I'm six feet under the ground Till there's no sound Till there's no pain I'm gonna swing this chain Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my mouth I'm for the truth to come out About the leader with the iron will And his allegiance to the dollar bill Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
These Days
Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days-- These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do For you And all the times I had the chance to And I had a lover It's so hard to risk another these days These days-- Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long I'll keep on moving Things are bound to be improving these days These days-- These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
These Days
Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days-- These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do For you And all the times I had the chance to And I had a lover It's so hard to risk another these days These days-- Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long I'll keep on moving Things are bound to be improving these days These days-- These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them |
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from Jackson Browne - World In Motion (1989)
A man stands up before God and country
Raises his right hand and takes an oath Swears he has acted in the line of duty And he more than anyone wants to tell the truth But there is a need to keep some things a secret Some weapons shipments--some private wars In the future democracy will be defended Behind closed doors Now the men of Congress who convene to determine If covert war is a business or a crime Are the same men who routinely give their permission For the shedding of blood in security's name And there is a need to keep some things a secret The names of some countries--the terms of some deals And above all the sound of the screams of the innocent Beneath our wheels Does the word justice mean anything to you? Are the features of a lie beginning to come through? In the streets of America the children are buried Caught in an avalanche of weapons and drugs They live and they die in the bowels of a business That's disguised as a war between The Crips and The Bloods And there is a need to keep some things a secret The C.I.A. deals protecting the source And the government policies directly connecting the drugs and our wars Does the word justice mean anything to you? As the battlefield comes home and democracy falls through I am waiting for the time to come When the word will be real for everyone And not just a word but a thing that can be done But justice must be won |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
in the time we've known
that we each are a part of one another we've lost as much as we have won and as our lives have grown we have found that it only brings us pain to hang on to the things that we have done still i've loved the times you've come when you went away taking all that i built my false road on i dropped my life and couldn't find the pieces now you come and go and it's hard but i feel my strength returning we'll see how far this new road reaches we'll see a little more each time we come everybody's gonna tell you it's not worth it everybody's gotta show you their own pain you might try to find your way up around it but the need for love will still remain now we're lying here so safe in the ruins of our pleasure laughter marks the place where we have fallen and our lives are near so it wouldn't occur to us to wonder is this the past or the future that is calling? you know i've loved these times you've come |
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from Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974)
When we come to the place where the road and the sky collide
Throw me over the edge and let my spirit glide They told me I was going to have to work for a living But all I want to do is ride I don't care where we're going from here Honey, you decide Well I spend my time at the bottom of a wishing well And I can hear my dreams singing clear as a bell I used to know where they ended and the world began But now it's getting hard to tell I could be just around the corner from heaven or a mile from hell I'm just rolling away from yesterday Behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet I'm going to get a little higher And see if I can hot-wire reality Now can you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead? They're going to wash this planet clean like the Bible said Now you can hold on steady and try to be ready But everybody's going to get wet Don't think it won't happen just because it hasn't happened yet I'm just rolling away from yesterday Behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet I'm going to get a little higher And see if I can hot-wire reality |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Highways and dancehalls
A good song takes you far Your write about the moon And you dream about the stars Blues in old motel rooms Girls in daddy's car You sing about the nights And you laugh about the scars Coffee in the morning cocaine afternoons You talk about the weather And you grin about the rooms Phone calls long distance To tell how you've been Forget about the losses, you exaggerate the wins And when you stop to let 'em know You've got it down It's just another town along the road The ladies come to see you If your name still rings a bell They give you damn near nothin' And they'll say they knew you well So you tell 'em you'll remember But they know it's just a game And along the way their faces All begin to look the same And when you stop to let 'em know You got it down It's just another town along the road Well it isn't for the money And it's only for a while You stalk about the rooms And you roll away the miles Gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars You're right about the moon But you're wrong about the stars And when you stop to let 'em know You got it down It's just another town along the way |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen. Say it again Amen. I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye When the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again Amen. Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there Ah the laughter of the lovers As they run through the night Leaving nothing for the others But to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm gonna find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put our dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in We'll get up and do it again Get it up again I'm gonna be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy where true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the Pretender. Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender. Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Are you prepared for the pretender? |
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from I Write The Songs: 36 Singer Songwriters Performing... (2005)
I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen. Say it again Amen. I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye When the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again Amen. Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there Ah the laughter of the lovers As they run through the night Leaving nothing for the others But to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm gonna find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put our dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in We'll get up and do it again Get it up again I'm gonna be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy where true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the Pretender. Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender. Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Are you prepared for the pretender? |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen. Say it again Amen. I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye When the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again Amen. Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there Ah the laughter of the lovers As they run through the night Leaving nothing for the others But to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm gonna find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put our dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in We'll get up and do it again Get it up again I'm gonna be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy where true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the Pretender. Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender. Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender? Are you prepared for the pretender? |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
Boy of mine
As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you've been told If some pieces of the picture are hard to find And the answers to your questions are hard to hold Take good care of your mother When you're making up your mind Should one thing or another take you from behind Though the world may make you hard and wild And determine how your life is styled When you've come to feel that you're the only child Take good care of your brother Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let your illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find Among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter But take good care of your mother And remember to be kind When the pain of another will serve you to remind That there are those who feel themselves exiled On whom the fortune never smiled And upon whose life the heartache has been piled They're just looking for another Lonely child And when you've found another soul Who sees into your own Take good care of each other |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way
With everything that I was feeling that I could not say With every doubt and every sorrow that was in my way Tearing around inside my head like it was there to stay Night in my eyes, the night inside me There where the shadows and the night could hide me Night in my eyes Sky full of stars turning over me Waiting for night to set me free I caught a ride into the city every chance I got I wasn't sure there was a name for the life I sought Now I'm a long way gone down the life I got I don't know how I believed some of the things I thought Night in my eyes, the night inside me Here where the shadows gather to decide me Night in my eyes Out at the end of light and gravity Waiting for night It takes the night to clear all of this mess away The obligation, the burden and the light of day It takes the night to fall between the world I obey And a world where I hear angels play Maybe I should go back to Spain I walk around inside the questions of my day I navigate the inner reaches of my disarray I pass the altars where fools and thieves hold sway I wait for night to come and lift this dread away Night in my eyes, the night inside me Here where the shadows and the light divide me Night in my eyes Night full of promise and uncertainty Waiting for night to set me free |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way
With everything that I was feeling that I could not say With every doubt and every sorrow that was in my way Tearing around inside my head like it was there to stay Night in my eyes, the night inside me There where the shadows and the night could hide me Night in my eyes Sky full of stars turning over me Waiting for night to set me free I caught a ride into the city every chance I got I wasn't sure there was a name for the life I sought Now I'm a long way gone down the life I got I don't know how I believed some of the things I thought Night in my eyes, the night inside me Here where the shadows gather to decide me Night in my eyes Out at the end of light and gravity Waiting for night It takes the night to clear all of this mess away The obligation, the burden and the light of day It takes the night to fall between the world I obey And a world where I hear angels play Maybe I should go back to Spain I walk around inside the questions of my day I navigate the inner reaches of my disarray I pass the altars where fools and thieves hold sway I wait for night to come and lift this dread away Night in my eyes, the night inside me Here where the shadows and the light divide me Night in my eyes Night full of promise and uncertainty Waiting for night to set me free |
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from Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said
Knowing she never could pass on a dare And knowing it sounded more desperate than reckless or bold I just put it out there cold, too far gone to care My eyes on the road, she slid herself down in the seat And a vision of paradise swung into view Across those five lanes not one driver glanced over to see The beauty known only to me, and a big rig or two On that freeway the light was receding Her beauty, a sight so misleading I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone On the naked ride home With the trace of a smile and that defiant look in her eye She hurtled through space in a world of her own And turning aside my caress spoke of all that she'd not yet done As if I was the doubting one who would have to be shown On that freeway the light was receding Her beauty, a sight so misleading I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone On the naked ride home She gathered her clothes And ran through the yard in the dark Up onto the porch like a flash, and inside Then one room at a time I watched every light in our house come on Like the truth that would eventually dawn, Forcing me to decide But on that freeway the light was receding Her beauty, a sight so misleading I failed to hear the heart that was beating alone On the naked ride home Words and Music by Jackson Browne (Swallow Turn Music, ASCAP) |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Now the seats are all empty
Let the loadies take to 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 And made the show And that was sweet But I can hear the sound of slamming doors and folding chairs That's sound they'll never know Now roll them cases out And lift them amps Haul them trusses down And get'em up them ramps When it comes to moving me You know 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 bands on the bus And they're waiting to go We've got to drive all night And do the 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 the 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 & B We got disco in eight tracks And cassettes in stereo We've got rural scenes & magazines We've got truckers on the CB We've got Richard Pryor on the video 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 gonna 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 I want you stay just a little bit longer Please, please, please Say you will, say you will I want you stay just a little bit longer Please please stay just a little bit longer Now the promoter don't mind And the roadies 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 - Late For The Sky (1974)
Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you're doing 'cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear Now to see things clear it's hard enough I know While you're waiting for reality to show Without dreaming of the perfect love And holding it so far above That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know (you'd never know) You could be with somebody who is lonely too (sometimes it doesn't show) He might be trying to get across to you (words can be so slow) When your own emptiness is all that's getting through There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking I passed that point long ago (long ago) Now I'm so tired of all this circling And all these glimpses of the end (you know it's useless to pretend) That's all the voices say: "you'll go right on circling Until you've found some kind of friend" I saw you through the laughter and the noise You were talking with the soldiers and the boys While they scuffled for your weary smiles I thought of all the empty miles And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes (looking for your eyes) And now I'm sitting here wondering what to say (that you might recognize) Afraid that all these words might scare you away (and break through the disguise) No one ever talks about their feelings anyway Without dressing them in dreams and laughter I guess it's just too painful otherwise Look-- It's like you're standing in the window Of a house nobody lives in And I'm sitting in a car across the way (let's just say) It's an early model chevrolet (let's just say) It's a warm and windy day You go and pack your sorrow The trash man comes tomorrow Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away |
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from Jackson Browne - The Pretender (1976)
It's coming from so far away
It's hard to say for sure Whether what I hear is music or the wind Through an open door There's a fire high in the empty sky Where the sound meets the shore There's a long distance loneliness Rolling out over the desert floor And the years that I spent lost in the mystery Fall away leaving only the sound of the drum Like a part of me It speaks to the heart of me Forget what life used to be You are what you choose to be It's whatever it is you see That life will become Whatever it is you might think you have You have nothing to lose Through every dead and living thing Time runs like a fuse And the fuse is burning And the earth is turning Though the years give way to uncertainty And the fear of living for nothing strangles the will There's a part of me That speaks to the heart of me Though sometimes it's hard to see It's never far from me Alive in eternity That nothing can kill Oh lord Are there really people starving still? Look out beyond the walls of babylon How long will their needs go unfilled I want to say right now I'm going to be around I'm going to be around When the walls and towers are crumbling When the towers are tumbling down And I will tune my spirit to the gentle sound I want to hear the sound Of the waters lapping on a higher ground Of the children laughing |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
Roll out the drumbs of war
Roll up the cover of the killing floor Roll out the drums of war And let's speak of things worth fighting for Roll out the drums of war Time Comes when everything you ever thought you knew Comes crashing down and flames rise up in front of you Roll out the drums of war Roll back the freedoms that we struggled for What were those freedoms for? Let's not talk about it any more Roll out the drums of war Whatever you believe the necessary course to be Depends on who you trust to identify the enemy Who beats the drums for war? Even before peace is lost Who are the profits for? And who are they who bear the cost When a country takes the low road to war Who gives the orders, orders to torture? Who gets to no bid contract the future? Who lies, then bombs, then calls it an error? Who makes a fortune from fighting terror? Who is the enemy trying to crush us? Who is the enemy of truth and justice? Who is the enemy of peace and freedom? Where are the courts, now when we need them? Why is impeachment not on the table? We better stop them while we are able Roll out the drums of war Whatever you believe the necessary course to be Depends on who you trust to identify the enemy Who took this country to war? Long before the peace was lost Who are the profits for? And who are they who bear the cost And who lay down their lives? And who will live with the sacrifice Of our best and brightest hopes, The flower of our youth, Of freedom, and the truth? |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Running down around the towns along the shore
When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were for I was just trying to hear my song Jimmy found his own sweet sound and won that free guitar We'd all get in the van and play Life became the Paradox, the Bear, the Rouge et Noir And the stretch of road running to L.A. Pages turning Pages we were years from learning Straight into the night our hearts were flung Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from All the world was shining from those hills The stars above and the lights below Among those there to test their fortunes and their wills I lost track of the score long ago Pages turning Pages we were years from learning Straight into the night our hearts were flung Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from Childhood comes for me at night Voices of my friends Your face bathing me in light Hope that never ends Pages turning Pages torn and pages burning Faded pages, open in the sun Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from. Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from. |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
Running down around the towns along the shore
When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were for I was just trying to hear my song Jimmy found his own sweet sound and won that free guitar We'd all get in the van and play Life became the Paradox, the Bear, the Rouge et Noir And the stretch of road running to L.A. Pages turning Pages we were years from learning Straight into the night our hearts were flung Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from All the world was shining from those hills The stars above and the lights below Among those there to test their fortunes and their wills I lost track of the score long ago Pages turning Pages we were years from learning Straight into the night our hearts were flung Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from Childhood comes for me at night Voices of my friends Your face bathing me in light Hope that never ends Pages turning Pages torn and pages burning Faded pages, open in the sun Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from. Better bring your own redemption when you come To the barricades of Heaven where I'm from. |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
The things people do looking for understanding
Defy understanding If only they knew where the love they seek Is truly to be found Into the arms of night with their dreams held tight In their endless flight through the failing light The places you go thinking that love may find you When love is behind you It's all you can do to let the angels Find their own way home Into the arms of night with your endless fright With your face alight and your prey in sight Into the breach in search of the new Though after so many times You will have betrayed that too Into the arms of night with your endless fright With your eyes all bright and your prey in sight Into the arms of somebody new Until that's no longer so, And you are no longer true. |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
She was a friend to me when I needed one
Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done She gave me back something that was missing in me She could of turned out to be almost anyone Almost anyone-- With the possible exception Of who I wanted her to be Running into the midnight With her clothes whipping in the wind Reaching into the heart of the darkness For the tenderness within Stumblin' into the lights of the city And then back in the shadows again Hanging onto the laughter That each of us hid our unhappiness in Talk about celestial bodies And your angels on the wing She wasn't much good at stickin' around--but That girl could sing She could sing... In the dead of night She could shine a light On some places that you've never been In that kind of light You could lose your sight And believe there was something to win You could hold her tight With all your might But she'd slip through your arms like the wind And be back in flight Back into the night Where you might never see her again The longer I thought I might find her The shorter my vision became Running in circles behind her And thinking in terms of the blame But she couldn't have been any kinder If she'd come back and tried to explain She wasn't much good a saying goodbye--but That girl could sing |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
Between the darkness on the street
And the houses filling up with light Between the stillness in my heart And the roar of the approaching night Somebody's calling after somebody Somebody turns the corner out of sight Looking for somebody Somewhere in the night Tender is the night When you hold your baby tight Tender are the motions, tender is the night Between a life that we expected And the way it's always been I can't walk back in again After the way we fight When just outside there are people laughing Living lives we used to lead Chasing down the love they need Somewhere in the night Tender is the night And the benediction of the neon light Tender are the hunters, tender is the night You're gonna want me tonight When you're ready to surrender Forget about who's right When you're ready to remember It's another world at night When you're ready to be tender Tender, tender tender... And in the hard light of an angry sun No one remembers what was said or done Tender are the words they choose You win, I win, we lose Tender Tender is the night Tender The benediction of the neon light Tender Tender are the hunters Tender is the night When they hold each other tight Tender Tender are the undercover Tender The stranger and the secret lover Tender Tender are the motions Tender is the night When you hold your baby tight Tender, tender tender... |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
It used to be there were two sets of footprints in the sand
And there were two silhouettes in the sunset hand in hand But now here beside the sea are the footprints of three And I can't find my own Among the directions they're all going Baby it's alright Break this chain of love and madness It's alright Take this rain as your new address It's alright Take this rain It's alright Take this rain 'cause I've been running all over creation out of my mind Trying to keep our hearts beating together all of the time Going crazier every day Watching our love slipping away 'cause you're the only home I've ever wanted And the only light I've known But baby it's alright Break this chain of love and madness It's alright Take this rain as your new address It's alright Take this rain It's alright Take this rain You're going to be free Some people go through life seeing just what they want to see Take the way I went on believing You might still believe in me And I still want the love I always thought our love could be But some things can't be changed Take this rain You're going to hear my voice in the morning calling your name And know my love and my desperation were one and the same And where our footprints used to be There'll be nothing but the sea And the tide and the wind and the open sky And the unbroken horizon Baby it's alright Break this chain of love and madness It's alright Take this pain and all this sadness It's alright Make this rain into your fortress It's alright Take this rain It's alright Take this rain It's alright Take this rain You're going to be free |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Take It Easy
Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One says she's a friend of mine Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Lighten up while you still can Don't even try to understand Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona With such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me We may lose and we may win But we will never be here again Open up I'm climbin' in to take it easy Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load Got a world of trouble on my mind Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover She's just a little hard to find Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me You know we got it easy We oughta take it easy |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 (2005)
Take It Easy
Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One says she's a friend of mine Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Lighten up while you still can Don't even try to understand Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona With such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me We may lose and we may win But we will never be here again Open up I'm climbin' in to take it easy Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load Got a world of trouble on my mind Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover She's just a little hard to find Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me You know we got it easy We oughta take it easy |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
People stay just a little bit longer 사람들이여 조금만 더 머물러 줘요
We wanna play just a little bit longer 우린 단지 조금만 더 노래하고 싶을 뿐이에요 Now the promoter don't mind 공연 프로모터는 신경 안 써요 And the union don't mind 노조도 개의치 않아요 If we take a little time 조금만 더 시간이 된다면 And we leave it all behind and sing 모든 걸 제쳐두고 노래를 부를 거에요 One more song 한 곡 더요 I want you to stay just a little bit longer 조금만 더 머물러 주세요 Please please please 제발, 제발, 제발 Say you will, say you will 떠나지 않는다고 말해줘요 I want you to stay just a little bit longer 조금만 더 머물러 주세요 Please please stay just a little bit long 제발, 제발 조금만 더 있어주세요 Now the promoter don't mind 공연 프로모터는 신경 안 써요 And the buddies don't mind 친구들도 개의치 않아요 If we take a little time 조금만 더 시간이 된다면 And we leave it all behind and sing 모든 걸 제쳐두고 노래할 거에요 One more song 한 곡 더 |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well
He was alone into his distance He was deep into his well I could guess what he was laughing at, but I couldn't really tell Now the story's told that Adam jumped, but I've been thinking that he fell Together we went traveling, as we received the call His destination India, and I had none at all Well, I still remember laughing with our backs against the wall So free of fear, we never thought that one of us might fall I sit before my only candle, but it's so little light to find my way Now this story unfolds before my candle Which is shorter every hour as it reaches for the day But I feel just like a candle in the way I guess I'll get there, but I wouldn't say for sure When we parted we were laughing still, as our goodbyes were said And I never heard from him again as each our lives we led Except for once in someone else's letter that I read Until I heard the sudden word that a friend of mine was dead I sit before my only candle, like a pilgrim sits beside the way Now this journey appears before my candle As a song that's growing fainter the harder that I play But I fear before I end I'll fade away But I guess I'll get there, though I wouldn't say for sure Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him long And when I stood myself beside him, I never thought I was as strong Still it seems he stopped his singing in the middle of his song Well I'm not the one to say I know, but I'm hoping he was wrong I'm holding out my only candle, though it's so little light to find my way Now this story's been laid beneath my candle And it's shorter every hour as it reaches for the day Yes, I feel just like a candle in the way I hope I'll get there, but I never pray |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
The papers lie there helplessly
In a pile outside the door I've tried and tried, but I just can't remember what they're for The world outside is tugging like a beggar at my sleeve Oh, that's much too old a story to believe And you know that it's taken its share of me Even though you take such good care of me Now you say "Morocco" and that makes me smile I haven't seen Morocco in a long, long while The dreams are rolling down across the places in my mind And I've just had a taste of something fine The future hides and the past just slides England lies between Floating in a silver mist so cold and so clean California's shaking like an angry child will Who has asked for love and is unanswered still And you know that I'm looking back carefully OCause I know that there's still something there for me But you said "Morocco" and you made me smile And it hasn't been that easy for a long, long while And looking back into your eyes I saw them really shine Giving me a taste of something fine Something fine Now if you see Morocco I know you'll go in style I may not see Morocco for a little while But while you're there I was hoping you might keep it in your mind To save me just a taste of something fine |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
The papers lie there helplessly
In a pile outside the door I've tried and tried, but I just can't remember what they're for The world outside is tugging like a beggar at my sleeve Oh, that's much too old a story to believe And you know that it's taken its share of me Even though you take such good care of me Now you say "Morocco" and that makes me smile I haven't seen Morocco in a long, long while The dreams are rolling down across the places in my mind And I've just had a taste of something fine The future hides and the past just slides England lies between Floating in a silver mist so cold and so clean California's shaking like an angry child will Who has asked for love and is unanswered still And you know that I'm looking back carefully OCause I know that there's still something there for me But you said "Morocco" and you made me smile And it hasn't been that easy for a long, long while And looking back into your eyes I saw them really shine Giving me a taste of something fine Something fine Now if you see Morocco I know you'll go in style I may not see Morocco for a little while But while you're there I was hoping you might keep it in your mind To save me just a taste of something fine |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
Well, just look at that girl
With the lights comin' up in her eyes She's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby All the guys on the corner stand back And let her walk on by She's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby She's got to be somebody's baby She's so fine She's probably somebody's only light Gonna shine tonight Yeah, she's probably somebody's baby, all right I heard her talkin' with her friend When she thought nobody else was around She said she's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby 'Cause when the cars and the signs and the streetlights Light up the town She's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby She's got to be somebody's baby She's so She's gonna be somebody's only light Gonna shine tonight Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight I try to shut my eyes But I can't get her outta my sight I know I'm gonna know her But I gotta get over my fright Well, I'm just gonna walk up to her I'm gonna talk to her tonight Ah Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's only light Gonna shine tonight Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight She's gonna be somebody's only light Gonna shine tonight Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight Ah Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Every day I walk out in this torn up world
And I fight to survive I'm laughing when I make it to the Saturday And I'm alive Carrying your smile with me Carrying your smile with me Everywhere I look I see this world slippin' down That low road, day by day And I just go on working for the things I need And making my own way Carrying your smile with me, oh yea Carrying your smile with me Take a walk on the troubled side of this old town Take a walk on the broken streets and the buildings falling down Look at all these kids with nothing but trouble in their eyes Trouble in their future, trouble in their lives Some bridges are falling down Some bridges are still around Take a walk on the shaded uptown avenue Some people are doing well no matter how they do And I know there's more to life than what you own But I see so many good things, things I've never known Some bridges are falling down Some bridges are still around Every night I listen to the sound of the street Lying in my bed I love to see the dreams that are dancing there In the light above your head And sometimes I get so weary And when hope is caving in You fill me with your love and your laughter, baby Until I get back up again Carrying your smile with me (Take a walk on the streets of this divided town) Carrying your smile with me (Take a walk on the smoking edge of the battleground) Carrying your smile with me (Take a look at the situation, the poverty and the desperation) (Take the time for the realization) Everyday I'm carrying your smile with me (Take a walk in the daylight) Carrying your smile with me (Some bridges are falling down) Carrying your smile with me (Some bridges are still around) |
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from Jackson Browne - Lives In The Balance (1986)
God is great, God is good
He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take the slack Stay awake and watch his back But something happens every now and then And someone breaks into the promised land Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is long on hunger This world is short on joy A-E-I-O You speak as if you know What's good for everyone What's good in what you've done? What's good about a world in which War rages at a fever pitch And people die for the little things A little corn, a little beans Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is, this world is Long on hunger Short on joy How much longer You gonna keep the world hungry boy? You measure peace with guns Progress in mega-tons Who's left when the war is won? Soldier of misfortune-- Soldier of an angry call Soldier on foreign soil I'm not here to fight your war I know what you're fighting for Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is, this world is Long on hunger Short on joy How much longer You gonna keep the world hungry boy? |
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from Jackson Browne - I'M Alive (1993)
In the calling out to one another
Of the lovers up and down the strand In the sound of the waves and the cries Of the seagulls circling the sand In the fragments of the songs Carried down the wind from some radio In the murmuring of the city in the distance Ominous and low I hear the sound of the world where we played And the far too simple beauty Of the promises we made If you ever need holding Call my name, I'll be there If you ever need holding And no holding back, I'll see you through Sky blue and black Where the touch of the lover ends And the soul of the friend begins There's a need to be separate and a need to be one And a struggle neither wins Where you gave me the world I was in And a place I could make a stand I could never see how you doubted me When I'd let go of your hand Yeah, and I was much younger then And I must have thought that I would know If things were going to end And the heavens were rolling Like a wheel on a track And our sky was unfolding And it'll never fold back Sky blue and black And I'd have fought the world for you If I thought that you wanted me to Or put aside what was true or untrue If I'd known that's what you needed What you needed me to do But the moment has passed by me now To have put away my pride And just come through for you somehow If you ever need holding Call my name, I'll be there If you ever need holding And no holding back, I'll see you through You're the color of the sky Reflected in each store-front window pane You're the whispering and the sighing Of my tires in the rain You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost In everything I do Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you In the sunlight and the shadows And the faces on the avenue That's the way love is That's the way love is That's the way love is Sky blue and black |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
In the calling out to one another
Of the lovers up and down the strand In the sound of the waves and the cries Of the seagulls circling the sand In the fragments of the songs Carried down the wind from some radio In the murmuring of the city in the distance Ominous and low I hear the sound of the world where we played And the far too simple beauty Of the promises we made If you ever need holding Call my name, I'll be there If you ever need holding And no holding back, I'll see you through Sky blue and black Where the touch of the lover ends And the soul of the friend begins There's a need to be separate and a need to be one And a struggle neither wins Where you gave me the world I was in And a place I could make a stand I could never see how you doubted me When I'd let go of your hand Yeah, and I was much younger then And I must have thought that I would know If things were going to end And the heavens were rolling Like a wheel on a track And our sky was unfolding And it'll never fold back Sky blue and black And I'd have fought the world for you If I thought that you wanted me to Or put aside what was true or untrue If I'd known that's what you needed What you needed me to do But the moment has passed by me now To have put away my pride And just come through for you somehow If you ever need holding Call my name, I'll be there If you ever need holding And no holding back, I'll see you through You're the color of the sky Reflected in each store-front window pane You're the whispering and the sighing Of my tires in the rain You're the hidden cost and the thing that's lost In everything I do Yeah and I'll never stop looking for you In the sunlight and the shadows And the faces on the avenue That's the way love is That's the way love is That's the way love is Sky blue and black |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Sing My Songs To Me
Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Let your voice ring back my memories Sing my songs to me Bring my dreams to me Bring them from the darkness Let the minutes and hours Show my mind strange new flowers But I'd like to know where they go when the morning comes Bring my dreams to me Because it seems to me that there may never be A better chance to see who I am Come timelessly dancing Through my dreams to me |
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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 From 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 past my vacancy sign 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 From 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 past my vacancy sign 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 - The Naked Ride Home (2002)
He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends
Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends He set out from Cinecitt?through the ruined streets of Rome To shoot in Almeria and bring the bodies home He said I'll be rich or I'll be dead I've got it all here in my head He could see the killers' faces and he heard the song they sang Where he waited in the darkness with the Viale Glorioso gang He could see the blood approaching and he knew what he would be Since the days when he was first assisting The Force of Destiny He worked for Walsh and Wyler with the chariot and sword When he rode out in the desert he was quoting Hawks and Ford He came to see the masters and he left with what he saw What he stole from Kurosawa he bequeathed to Peckinpah From the Via Tuscolana to the view from Miller Drive He shot the eyes of bad men and kept their deaths alive With the darkness and the anguish of a Goya or Van Cleef He rescued truth from beauty and meaning from belief |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
In the still of the night
Lying in the darkness I listen to my heart Say it isn't true In the dark and the quiet The movements of our love And the breathing of our children Say it isn't true In the streets and the buildings People in their lives And the jobs they do for livings Say it isn't true And when you think of all the people In the cities of our worlds Who could vanish in a moment Say it isn't true Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the finer things that men have struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true I'm alive in the city In a country of the world And I wanna go on living I wanna see my life unfold You know it's hard to go on looking At the stories of our days And the dangers we are facing Growing worse in every way And you would think with all of the genius And the brilliance of our times We might find a higher purpose And a better use of mind Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the finer things that men have struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But I'm running behind Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But I'm running behind Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe I don't know about anyone but me If it takes all night, that'll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through Looking into their eyes I see them running too Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But I'm running behind Honey you really tempt me You know the way you look so kind I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find Running into the sun but I'm running behind |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
She was standing at the load-in
When the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around Like a half grown female pup She wasn't hard to talk to Looked like she had nowhere to go So I gave her my pass So she could get in and see the show Well I sat her down right next to me And I got her a beer While I mixed that sound on stage So the band could hear The more I watched her watch them play The less I could think of to say And when they walked off stage The drummer swept that girl away But Rosie you're all right -- you wear my ring When you hold me tight -- Rosie that's my thing When you turn out the light -- I've got to hand it to me Looks like it's me and you again tonight Rosie Well I guess I might have known from the start She'd come for a star Might have told my imagination not to run too far Of all the times that I've been burned By now you'd think I'd have learned That it's who you look like Not who you are But Rosie you're all right -- you wear my ring When you hold me tight -- Rosie that's my thing When you turn out the light -- I've got to hand it to me Looks like it's me and you again tonight Rosie |
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from Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)
Oh people, look around you
The signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you To be the one to care You're lost inside your houses There's no time to find you now Your walls are burning and your towers are turning I'm going to leave you here and try to get down to the sea somehow The road is filled with homeless souls Every woman, child and man Who have no idea where they will go But they'll help you if they can Now everyone must have some thought That's going to pull them through somehow Well the fires are raging hotter and hotter But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow Oh people, look among you It's there your hope must lie There's a sea bird above you Gliding in one place like Jesus in the sky We all must do the best we can And then hang on to that Gospel plow When my life is over, I'm going to stand before the Father But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water, maybe I'll remember Maybe I'll remember how Rock me on the water The wind is with me now So rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow |
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from Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol.2 (2008)
Pretty little one
How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the run Little one-- What you gonna do? Little one-- Honey, it's all up to you Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused Little one-- Come on and take my hand I may not have the answer but I believe I got a plan Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine But let me clue you in, it ain't like him To argue or pretend-- Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Well they've got a little list of all those things of which they don't approve They've got to keep their eyes on you or you might make your move Little one-- I really wish you would Little one-- I think the damage would do you good Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line We're going to forget all about the battle It's gonna feel so fine 'Cause he's the missing link, the kitchen sink-- Eleven on a scale of ten Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line I'm going to try to swing you up into my saddle And then we'll run but you'll think we're flyin' Now honey don't just stand there Lookin' like this dream will never end Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Red neck Friend
Pretty little one How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the run Little one-- What you gonna do? Little one-- Honey, it's all up to you Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused Little one-- Come on and take my hand I may not have the answer but I believe I got a plan Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine But let me clue you in, it ain't like him To argue or pretend-- Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Well they've got a little list of all those things of which they don't approve They've got to keep their eyes on you or you might make your move Little one-- I really wish you would Little one-- I think the damage would do you good Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line We're going to forget all about the battle It's gonna feel so fine 'Cause he's the missing link, the kitchen sink-- Eleven on a scale of ten Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line I'm going to try to swing you up into my saddle And then we'll run but you'll think we're flyin' Now honey don't just stand there Lookin' like this dream will never end Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Ready Or Not
Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans Her waist-line seems to be expanding Although she never feels like eating a thing I guess we'll reach some understanding When we see what the future will bring I met her in a crowded barroom One of those typical Hollywood scenes I was doing my very best Bogart But I was having trouble getting into her jeans I punched an unemployed actor Defending her dignity He stood up and knocked me through that barroom door And that girl came home with me Now baby's feeling funny in the morning She says she's got a lot on her mind Nature didn't give her any warning Now she's going to have to leave her wild ways behind She says she doesn't care if she never spends Another night running loose on the town She's gonna be a mother Take a look in my eyes and tell me brother If I look like I'm ready I told her I had always lived alone And I probably always would And all I wanted was my freedom And she told me that she understood But I let her do some of my laundry And she slipped a few meals in between And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in And I was buying her a washing machine My baby's feeling funny in the morning She says she's got a lot on her mind Nature didn't give her any warning But she's feeling better about it all the time She says she's ready for some meaning After all of her running around Well bless my soul, she's got a rock-and-roll bandman Thinking 'bout settling down |
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from Jackson Browne - For Everyman (1973)
Our Lady Of The Well
It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking Draw the water from the well And stare beyond the plains To where the mountains lie so still But it's a long way that I have come Across the sand to find this peace among your people in the sun Where the families work the land as they have always done Oh it's so far the other way my country's gone Across my home has grown the shadow Of a cruel and senseless hand Though in some strong hearts The love and truth remain And it has taken me this distance And a woman's smile to learn That my heart remains among them And to them I must return But it's a long way that I have come Across the sand to find you here among these people in the sun Where your children will be born You'll watch them as they run Oh it's so far the other way my life has gone If you look for me, Maria You will find me in the shade Wide awake or in a dream It's hard to tell-- If you come to me, Maria I will show you what I've made It's a picture for our lady of the well |
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from Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (1983)
You really need someone on your side
But you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get through You've got this wall in front of you You put your arm around me and smile But you're thinking all the while Yeah, your friends only go so far However close friends think they are On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You're gonna pray that your love is enough You've had the world in the palm of your hand Since you turned from child to man No one can tell you a thing you don't know You see your life as a one man show But you're not whole There are things you don't control You're going to know what I'm talking about On the day love finds you out On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You better pray-- It's your life, you try to know Which way the answers lie, which way to go 'Cause you survive, don't mean you grow Open your eyes, look out below Look out-- On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You better pray On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You better pray |
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from Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror (2009)
It was easy for me
Up so high in my tree Living off of Wonderland Living with an unknown band Waiting there for Everyman There was change in the air It was love everywhere Living off of Wonderland Ankle deep in contraband Working on a life unplanned Didn't we believe in love? Didn't we believe in giving it away? That didn't really leave us with the love To find our way After RFK and Martin Luther King Do you feel it today? Love is still on the way Coming over wonderland The world is in your open hand Once again it's at your command Didn't we believe in love? Didn't we believe that love would carry on? Wouldn't we receive enough If we could just believe in one another As much as we believed in John |
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from Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)
Your father was a rounder
He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul The music was his angel And sorrow was his star And those of us who follow Might hope to reach as far They're walking slow in Houston Speechless in D.C. There's no way I could tell you What he meant to me Your mother's a survivor She'll do what must be done Her children will revive her And help her see the sun She almost knew that unison But the singing stopped too soon Now she shares the silence With a man up in the moon To speak of missing persons Tonight there's only one And we all carry with us what the man's begun And you can sing this song On July the Fourth In the sunny south and the frozen north It's a day of loss, it's your day of birth Does it take a death to learn what a life is worth? Your brothers are all older And they'll take it in their stride The world's a little colder But manhood's on their side Now you're the little girl-child And you look so much like him And he's right there inside you Each time you want to sing Sing of missing persons Tonight there's only one But he's where you can find him when it's said and done And we will sing this song On July the Fourth From the sunny south and the frozen north This will always be your day of birth May you always see what your life is worth |
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from Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (1977)
Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine
Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New Jersey, gonna set it up and do it again I got a bottle of wine (pass it over) I got a broken white line (I'm still sober) There ain't nothin but time between this Silver Eagle And that New Jersey line Well it's a rock and roll band or a movie you can take your pick And it ain't bad work if you can get it But you gotta make it stick But getting any kind of sleep on this rolling motel--that's the trick It's just a bottle of wine (pass it over) It's just a broken white line (I'm still sober) It's just a whole lot of time in the twilight zone Between me and these friends of mine |
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from Jackson Browne - Looking East (1996)
Nino, walking around on Sunday
Nino, just one more kid in L.A. With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band His head in the sky, his feet nearly touching the sand Nino, three thousand miles away Nino, la familia stares at the bay Turning off Sunset Boulevard Playing the fence around somebody's yard Thinking of home and keeping tumbao on the hood of a car Nino, people will know you one day Nino, they're going to call you El Rey Nino de la playa y la ciudad Nino de las calles y la verdad El ritmo de tu pueblo se siente aqui Al canto de la tierra que vive en ti La magia de tu mano en el tambor Retumba aqui con alma y con sabor Y al toque de campanas al sonar Los angeles te guardan desde el mar (Child of the beach and the city Child of the streets and of the truth The rhythm of your people is felt here To the song of the country that lives in you The magic of your hand on the drum Resonates here with soul and good feeling And at the strike of bells as they ring The angels guard you from the sea) With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band His head in the sky, his feet nearly touching the sand of the homeland Nino, walking around in L.A. Nino, this will be your town one day |
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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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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