Tim Buckley

Aren't you the girl who used to call me names?
Aren't you the girl who used to play at games?
Weren't you the one who said she'd never fall?
Now you're the one who's cryin' not so tall.

Yes you're the one,
Shall I throw you a crumb?
Shall I come and pass you by?
Would that make you want-a try?
Shall I come and kiss your lips?
Would that make your rain slip?
Shall I come and dry your eyes?
Will that make you realize?

Oh I know what it's like.
It's happened many times to me.
Oh do you ache inside,
Do your eyes want-a cry?
Do you want me back again?

Aren't you the girl who used to call me names?
Aren't you the girl who used to play at games?
Weren't you the one who used to run and hide?
Now you're the one who's cryin' way inside.

Oh I know what it's like.
It's happened many times to me.
Oh do you ache inside,
Do your eyes want-a cry?
Do you want me back again?

I've got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.
I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

I got heartaches, I got stingin' water fallin' out of the sky.
I got a long lost lover, got a reason to die.
I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.
I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

I got sorrow.
I'm in a storm that'll spare no travelin' man.
I fear tomorrow.
Got a love that died long before it began.
I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.
I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

Got a cold chain.
I got rain fallin' on my head from above.
I got a bad pain.
I got a gal don't know the meaning of love.
I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.
I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

I got heartaches, I got stingin' water fallin' out of the sky.
I got a long lost lover, got a reason to die.
I got ten thousand troubles, a million woes.
I got grief in my soul nobody knows.

Summer princess, midnight maiden
When I first saw you I just breathed
Into your smile my past went fadin'
Inside your voice, my mind was sheathed
In lost lagoon, we waited, wadin'
Along the streets we went paradin'
Never looking back to where we'd been

Autumn temptress, sundown angel
Inside your blood you aren't so young
I came to you a loving vandal
And heard your heart and touched your tongue
Day became a lighted candle
Sky fell down beneath your sandal
In your eye I began to spin

Winter harlot, moontime lover
I can't speak when I feel this way
Don't keep your feelings undercover
Tell me what you want today
Don't leave me in the air to hover
Sing it out don't make me suffer
Don't be ashamed love is no sin

Springtime woman, sunrise girl
I am hiding behind the sea
Trick or treat, the Hallowe'en world
Hide and seek but you can't catch me
I won't chase you until you hurl
Your wing to me, and make me twirl
You're alive underneath my skin

It happens every time.
Give my love,
She leaves me behind.
It happens every time.
The sorrow makes me lose my mind.
If she'd only be as true as I am,
And listen to my love that's sayin',

Oh baby won't you stay mine
Your lovin' makes me feel so fine
And someday baby you'll find
My love was gentle and kind.
Someday you'll know that leaving me was wrong.
But don't bother all that time is gone.

And it happens every time.
Now I know it's not worth the tryin'
So baby don't turn around
Let my tears fall to the ground.
If she'd only be as true as I am,
And listen to my love that's sayin',
Oh Oh Oh Oh....

She is the day that gives me time to live and ???? love my life.
Till nite comes on with sundown scythe to end the puzzle pantomime.
She is a day of love.

She is the day thru which I walk toward the bridge where she stands.
She is the air I breathe to sing, she is a smile without demands.

She is the bridge on which I wait to watch the river 'neath me flow.
All spinning, surging far below
???? ???? ?????
She is a bridge of love.

She is the day thru which I walk toward the bridge where she stands.
She is the air I breathe to sing, she is a smile without demands.

She is the air I breathe ?????
Awake, asleep in ??? calm.
A wind to wash my lifted palm,
A sky that calls me out to dance.
She is the air of love.

She is the day thru which I walk toward the bridge where she stands.
She is the air I breathe to sing, she is a smile without demands.

She is the smile that keeps me warm with matchless laughter, eyes ablaze.
A mischief mystery she plays upon the flute of early morn.
She is a smile of love.

She is the day thru which I walk toward the bridge where she stands.
She is the air I breathe to sing, she is a smile without demands.

When I sing I can't bring everything on the wing
Flying down from dizzy air
To the ground because I care
You will be love and your love will live

When I smile I beguile all the while every mile
As I walk across the sky
of the clockwork of your eye
You will be love and your love will live

Casting spells from the well I can tell you the bells
listen to my magic voice
Learn the tune of children's toys
You will be love and your love will live

When I die do not cry hear my sigh passing by
after I have turned to win
I will try to help you then
You will be love and your love will live

With your beautiful hair
And your sixteen years
You kissed me as I lay still
If I can see you never,
Then I'll sleep forever
All my lonely love to kill.

Just for you with your open hands
Waiting for the touch of man
Clutching with your blackened gloves
You try to capture all the doves
That flee into
The forest before you

You wish to catch and cage me now
I wonder if you remember how
Hard it was to say the names
Of mirror dreams and cheated games
And on the wall
You framed your first lover

Your form intrigues me with the glow
I'll remember you I know
Though I forgot to lock the chain
Around you with a prayer for rain
To bring the call
To drive you back into my bed

Ahhh....
She turns away
Telling me to follow for a while
Ahhh....
She waits

You'd be touched if you would touch
But you only reach and taunt
Will my taste stay grey and blue
If I try to turn from you

Well let me tell all you pretty women
One tiny word of advice
Tell you pretty woman
One tiny word of advice
Just do me one favor
Won't you understand your man

You gotta wake up in the mornin'
Keep your lovin' daddy by your side
Wake up in the mornin'
Keep your lovin' daddy by your side
Just do me one favor
Won't you please understand your man

Well let me tell you, Miss Molly
Tell you 'bout my lovin' back home
I got a sweet little woman
You know that she'd never make me roam
She's the only woman that I know ever understand her man

You came to me with fire inside
Your movements and your pride
And asking to be rescued from
The pain you had become

I tore apart the prison and I hid you in my hand
In the blue light of Christmas-time Santa Claus was kind

I wonder if you'll ever grow
Oh far enough to throw
Away the lies of no and yes
And love my quietness

Or will you only freeze and frown and lose what you have found?
In the white light of Easter seas'n will you live again?

Today the coin is in the air
And we are here and there
And where and when have caught us in
The web of violence

I pray to all the world as one that day will bring the sun
In the scarlet light of Valentine's our paper hearts are blind

Although you've spoken many times before,
A sight of birth he leaves you by a door.
And now you know he doesn't understand.
And all you need is the warmth of his hand.

And if he'd smile your loving blood would dance,
One silent kiss leaves you in a trance.
And now you know you cannot live alone,
But you will find your future is unknown.
One day the questions rise.
On wings of chance you fly.

And on that day your laughs and tears will die,
And fall as free as seabirds climb the skies.
And you will love when love comes your way.
And when it comes there's nothing more to say.
And now you know he doesn't understand,
And now you know you don't need his hand.
One day the questions die,
On wings of chance you fly.

The singer cries for people's lies
He will sing for the day to bring him night
The circus burns in carnival flame
And for a while you won't know my name at all
But sing and dance and love for pennies and gold

The juggling clown smiles to me
And every frown we agree is glad
The nighttime comes to bring the bums
From Bowery heat to Crimson Streets of wine
But magic lands will never touch our sands



Your children smile in single file
They learn mistakes that others make
They see although they cannot know
The needs they'll need to have their greed grow wild
But dance and sing for others bring the shame
And for a while you won't know my name

The antique people are down in the dungeons
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
Are not really riddled with widening cracks
And I wave goodbye to iron
And smile hello to the air

O the new children dance -- I am young
All around the balloons -- I will live
Swaying by chance -- I am strong
To the breeze from the moon -- I can give
Painting the sky -- You the strange
With the colors of sun -- Seed of day
Freely they fly -- Feel the change
As all become one -- Know the Way

The velocity addicts explode on the highways
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger

Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast
And I wave goodbye to speed
And smile hello to a rose

O the new children play -- I am young
Under the juniper trees -- I will live
Sky blue or gray -- I am strong
They continue at ease -- I can give
Moving so slow -- You the strange
That serenely they can -- Seed of day
Gracefully grow -- Feel the change
And yes still understand -- Know the Way

The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
All their possessions and transient treasures
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
On which is playing the late late commercial
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
And I wave goodbye to Mammon
And smile hello to a stream

O the new children buy -- I am young
All the world for a song -- I will live
Without a dime -- I am strong
To which they belong -- I can give
Nobody owns -- You the strange
Anything anywhere -- Seed of day
Everyone's grown -- Feel the change
Up so big they can share -- Know the Way

The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons
While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun
And I wave goodbye to murder
And smile hello to the rain

O the new children can't -- I am young
Tell a foe from a friend -- I will live
Quick to enchant -- I am strong
And so glad to extend -- I can give
Handfuls of dawn -- You the strange
To kaleidoscope men -- Seed of day
Come from beyond -- Feel the change
The Great Wall of Skin -- Know the Way

The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
And in secret divorce they will never survive
And I wave goodbye to ashes
And smile hello to a girl

O the new children kiss -- I am young
They are so proud to learn -- I will live
Womanwood bliss -- I am strong
And the manfire that burns -- I can give
Knowing no fear -- You the strange
They take off their clothes -- Seed of day
Honest and clear - Feel the change
As a river that flows - Know the Way

The antique people are fading out slowly
Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide
Godless and sexless directionless loons
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
The new children will live for the elders have died
And I wave goodbye to America
And smile hello to the world

I saw you walking
Only yesterday
When I ran to catch you
You disappeared
And the street was gray

The candle died
Now you are gone
For the flame was too bright
Now you are gone

I heard you laughing
With your laugh of gold
When I called out to you
Silence returned
And the air was cold

The castle fell
Now you are gone
And no more rings the bell
Now you are gone

I found a letter
On the day it rained
When I tore it open
There in my hands
Only ash remained

The castle fell


Now you are gone
And no more rings the bell
Now you are gone

I felt you breathing
As I fell asleep
When I reached out to touch you
No one was there
And the night was deep

The candle died
Now you are gone
For the flame was too bright
Now you are gone

I saw you walking
Only yesterday
When I ran to catch you
You disappeared
And the street was gray

The castle fell
Now you are gone
No more rings the bell
Now you are gone

O I never asked to be your mountain
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didn't understand my love
You don't know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And damn the reason why

The flying pisces sails for time
And tells me of my child
Wrapped in bitter tales and heartache
He begs for just a smile
O he never asked to be her mountain
He never asked to fly
And through his eye he comes his love
And tells her not to cry

She says, "your scoundrel father flies
With a dancer called a queen
And with her stolen cards he plays
And laughs, but never wins"
O the child dreams to be his hands
In the counting of the rain
But only barren breasts he feels
For her milk will never drain

As I die I can't remember
Where I saw the rain:
Could it be that her laughter
Drove me down again?
Charming dancer will you stop,
Stop and talk to me?
Is there someone else you feel
In your dreams? you will, you see:
In midnight gazes
I've found you far from me:
If you lead me on


Please leave me down

O flying flying fish
Please flutter by my door:
Yes you can drink my lies
If first you read my eyes:
Each one is titled
"i'm drowning back to you":
I can't swim your waters
And you can't walk my lands:
I'm sailing all my sins
And I'm climbing all my fears
And soon now I'll fly

O I never asked to be your mountain
I never asked to fly
Remember when you came to me
And told me of his lies
You didn't understand my love
You don't know why I try
And the rain was falling on that day
And that's the reason why

Sweet lover, will you come back
And love me for a while?
Please take my hand
Leave all your fears behind

I've been gone too long
Now I'm home to stay
Please don't leave me
Again this way

Please come home

I lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by,
And I waited in my fleeting house

Before he came I felt him drawing near;
As he neared I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer,
And I waited in my fleeting house

"Tell me stories," I called to the Hobo;
"Stories of cold," I smiled at the Hobo;
"Stories of old," I knelt to the Hobo;
And he stood before my fleeting house

"No," said the Hobo, "No more tales of time;
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime;
I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb,"
And he walked away from my fleeting house

"Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo;
"Leave me alone," I wept to the Hobo;
"Turn into stone," I knelt to the Hobo;
And he walked away from my fleeting house

Photographs of guns and flame
Scarlet skull and distant game
Bayonet and jungle grin
Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men

Lookouts tremble on the shore
But no man can find the war
Tape recorders echo scream
Orders fly like bullet stream

Drums and cannons laugh aloud
Whistles come from ashen shroud
Leaders damn the world and roar
But no man can find the war



Is the war across the sea?
Is the war behind the sky?
Have you each and all gone blind
Is the war inside your mind?

Humans weep at human death
All the talkers lose their breath
Movies paint a chaos tale
Singers see and poets wail
All the world knows the score
But no man can find the war

Once I was a soldier
And I fought on foreign sands for you
Once I was a hunter
And I brought home fresh meat for you
Once I was a lover
And I searched behind your eyes for you
And soon there'll be another
To tell you I was just a lie

But sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you ever remember me?

Though you have forgotten
All of our rubbish dreams


I find myself searching
Through the ashes of our ruins
For the days when we smiled
And the hours that ran wild
With the magic of our eyes
And the silence of our words

And sometimes I wonder
Just for a while
Will you ever, ever, ever remember me?
Ever remember me

If a fiddler played you a song, my love
And if I gave you a wheel
Would you spin for my heart and loneliness
Would you spin for my love

If I gave up all of my pride for you
And only loved you for now
Would you hide my fears and never say
Tomorrow I must go



Everywhere there's rain my love
Everywhere there's fear



If you tell me a lie I'll cry for you
Tell me of sin and I'll laugh
If you tell me of all the pain you've had
I'll never smile again



I can plainly see that our parts have hanged
Our sands are shifting around
Need I beg to you for one more day
To find our lonely love

You don't remember what to say, Lord
You don't remember what to do, Lord
You don't remember where you've been
And you don't remember who to choose

You wheel and you steal
But you're feeling honey when you kneel down
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down

All the stony people
Walking round in Christian licorice clothes
Lord, I can't hesitate
Lord, no way I can't wait for pleasant street
The pleasant street

The sunshine reminds you of concreted skies
You thought you were flying
Till you opened up your eyes, honey
And you found yourself falling
Back down to yesterday's lies
Hello, pleasant street, Lord we're back again



You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down
Down, down, down, down, down, down, down

All the stony people
Walking round in Christian licorice clothes
Lord, I can't hesitate
Lord, no way I can't wait for pleasant street
I love my little pleasant street

At twilight your lover comes to your room
He's gonna spin you darlin'
He's gonna weave 'em all, all around his emerald loom
But softly, he whisper all around your ear
Sweet lover, Lord, I love my pleasant street

Lord, I wheel and Lord, I steal and Lord, I feel
My way down to kneel
Down, down, down, down, down, down

Ooh, it's a happy time inside my mind
When a melody does find a rhyme
And says to me, "I'm comin' home to stay
I'm comin' home to stay, I'm comin' home to stay"

Oh, now it's just the same old story
Somethin' about love for glory
A nickel and a dime, a dozen fame
Oh, it's such a shame, the way they use your name

Oh, but it's only mine to sing a song
Hopin' that you'd cross along my way
Before we have to move along
Oh, now move along, oh, but we will get back again



Oh, it's a happy time inside my mind
When a melody does find a rhyme
And says to me, "I'm comin' home to stay
I'm comin' home to stay, I'm comin' home to stay"

Oh, sleep late, my darling
Let the mornin' sun warm your bed
Sleep late, my darling
Let the wind blow through your head
Sleep late, my little girl

Here I am believin' words again
Here I am tryin' to find your love again
Here I am down on my knees again
Prayin' for a love that we used to know

Both of us know how hard it is
To love and let it go
Both of us know how hard it is
To go on living that way

When so few understand what it means
To fall in love
And so few'll know how hard it is
To live without it

Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind

To hold something real and not believe it
To live in her life and never trustin'


To give all you know and never feel it
To hold back each day, until it dies away

Both of us know how hard it is
To love and let it go
And both of us know how hard it is
To go on living that way

When so few understand what it means
To fall in love
So few know how hard it is
To live without it

Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Yes, I must have been blind

I live by the river and I hide my house away
Then just like the river, I can change my ways
Oh, if you come to love me, you'll stay forever
Inside my heart, inside my dreams
And time will fade, in time we'll love

In the street we walk as beggars, in the alley, faithless kings
Ah, but it's the truth of life that chains us in between
Those lost moments we steal to keep our love alive
And our prize, so tired after all the pain


And time will fade, in time we'll love

I live by the river and I hide my house away
Then just like the river, I can change my ways
Oh, if you come to love me, you'll stay forever
Inside my heart, inside my dreams
And time will fade, in time we'll love

Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home

Oh, hear the mountains singing
Lord, I can hear them ringing, darlin',
Out your name
And tell me if you know
Just how the river flows
Down to the sea

Now I wanna know
Everything about you
I wanna know
Everything about you

What makes ya smile
What makes ya wild
What makes ya love me this way
Darlin' I wanna know
Darlin' I wanna know

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home

A-walkin' hand in hand
And all along the sand
A seabird knew your name
He knew your love was growin'
Lord, I think it knows it's flowin'
Thru you and me

Ah, tell me darlin'
When I should leave you,
Ah, tell me darlin'
I don't want to grieve you....

Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so....

Lady, time fly away
I've been thinking 'bout my yesterday
Oh, please listen, darlin', to my empty prayers
Sleep inside my dreams tonight
All I need to know tonight are you and my child

Oh, is he a soldier or is he a dreamer?
Is he mama's little man?
Does he help you when he can?
Or does he ask about me?

Oh, just like a soldier boy
I've been out fighting wars


That the world never knows about
Oh, but I never win them loud
There's no crowds around me

Oh, when I get to thinkin'
'Bout the old days
When love was here to stay
I wonder if we'd ever tried
Oh, what I'd give to hold him

Yes I come around
Never know a little sooner
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me....
Gypsy woman
Gypsy woman
Gypsy woman....

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning
Now mama don't you lie
You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky
Oh, gypsy woman
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Oh, gypsy woman

Mama, everytime you turn around the fire
Mama, keep me inbetween the devil and the sky
And every time you look my way
Mama how you hypnotize
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me
That gypsy woman casts a spell on me

But if you come runnin' with desire


Oh, gypsy woman knows how to get your blood hot higher

Well, asked your daddy
Your papa wouldn't deny it
Asked your mama
Lord, she was quick to agree
I didn't have to fight your brother
And your sister's still standin' in line
Oh, please tell me gypsy woman
How do you hypnotize me?

We're gonna go down to the river
Walk in the water
Oh, we're gonna get all clean
Then we're gonna do, gonna do
Exactly darlin' what you
Came and set your mind on

Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me...

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning
Now mama don't you lie
You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me, darlin'.....

I got this strange strange feelin'
Deep down in my heart
I can't tell what it is
But it won't let go
It happens every time
I give you more than what I have
But now all I need is a little time to sing this song
And I think we're gonna find a way to lose this strange feelin'

All around I feel ya, darlin', feel ya darlin'
When you're home all alone
Oh, don't you need somebody to talk your troubles to
Ah, lord I know I wanna catch the morning train, lord the first thing
Oh, I wanna hear you say we're gonna take that strange feelin'
Oh, take it all away

Well it's just like a mockingbird a-singing on a hillside
Churping at his morning song
But don't you weep don't you fret don't you wail don't you moan
Can't you hear that whiporwill a-callin?
Now don't you worry
Your daddy's comin' home
He's gonna chase those blues away
And believe me when I say
We're gonna lose that strange feelin' all around all around...

I had a talk with my woman late last night
And she reassured me everything was alright
And time hung still like a falling rain
Now I know at last that my love is safe

Ah, but when I go away my love I leave
Lord I'm but half a man, without her by my side
She's this memory that I hold all around
She's this dream that I always hold to believe

I wanna go upon a mountain, oh, Lord
And sing my love, and sing my love
I wanna sing it high, sing it down low
Then I'm gonna know how long it's gonna last
Then I'm gonna know how long it's gonna last

Well, you know your Moses, oh Lord he lost his way


Ah, and Your Jesus don't remember the words
Well, then I guess it's just you and me brother
All alone in this cold world, all alone in this cold world

Ah, you gotta go upon on mountain
And learn to sing your love, learn to sing your love
You know I can sing it high, sing it down low
Then we gonna know how long it's gonna last
Then we gonna know how long she's gonna last

Hard rain, sweet rain, fall a little while longer
Wash down the city skies, Lord bring the streets alive
Make it like it was long before I was born
You know I wanna walk around

You caught me staring
So gently you tease me
And turn away

Unlike the young ones
Your movements you savor
Like a tango

My hideaways
Are longing
For you

You slyly conjure
These moments surrounding
Keep me tonight

All your practiced ways
You secretly
Entice me
Come here woman

Like an old window
I need a little shade
Like an old tomcat


Lord, I love to parade
Like a broken old man
Lord, I need sun

Ah, I need you darlin'
'Cause I just ain't done
I need you darlin'
'Cause I just ain't done

While wheel waters set
Now my blood yearns
Your mouth opens woman

Give me broken lies
When you don't feel pain
Let me smell your thighs, mama
Let me drink down a little rain, man

While we're drifting cold
Out beyond the seas
We wither time into a coil of fear

Way down on the borderline
Down where white folks tread easy
That sun beats so hot sun beats so hot
When a little girl pass by
You can smell the way she walks
You can smell, you can smell the way she walks
In late afternoon
Ah, in late
Little girl little girl little girl


Smile so brightly
Come on boy come on boy
Oh Take a walk with me

Now the sun
Sits on my hand
Oh, where
Are you?

Walking the wind
I fly above
The shore of the town

To the hills
Where I can hear
The harbor bells
Ring slavery

Where the fortune teller sighs to me
Oh, I see your woman in the raw

Ride
A mare of stone
And howl

I woke up
While morning built


The world
With light

Crossing their hearts
Twelve sailor boys
All stood in a ring
'Round our bed

Out of the grass
A dancer rose
Shivering

Oh, the sailor's pointing
Out to sea
And the dancer diving
Up the sky

Sing
'Til we forgot
The day

Somewhere old memories
Echoed from the street in a crying hole
Just a song from long ago
When I lost my easy gods to the Harlem insect laws

I heard your baited moans
And the passing cars and the swirling
Songs and the black man's bones
Through the walls and the stalls and the cackling calls

You were there


You were an island behind the sun
Yes, an island
Where my love could live and life breathes

From deep inside
Deep, deep, deep, deep inside
Mama Lie, I love you like a jungle fire

Under a loop of stars
In the vulgar cold
The dead airport lay
By the pebbles of the highway

Through the snail clouds
You soared to your lover
I hurried away my darling
With a howl in my throat

Hiding inside the weeds
In the orange grove


The black rooster crowed
Through the hollow of the midnight

With my shot blood
With stains on my fingers
I run with the damned, my darling
They have taught me to laugh
To laugh, to laugh

'comme la chanson est belle'
Chantez la mademoiselle
Dansant dans le moulin rouge

'love is a leap' she sighed
'someday I'll be your bride,
When I leave the moulin rouge'
Je vais marier ma fille de danse
Et habiter en france

'comme la chanson est belle'
Chantez la mademoiselle
Dansant dans le moulin rouge
Dansant dans le moulin rouge
Dansant dans le moulin rouge

'oh la la la' she sang


Spinning till midnight swang,
Dancing in the moulin rouge

I love her love I do,
All of her children too,
Oh I thank you, moulin rouge!
Je vais marier ma fille de danse
Et habiter en france

'comme la chanson est belle'
Chantez la mademoiselle
Dansant dans le moulin rouge
Dansant dans le moulin rouge
Dansant dans le moulin rouge

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle

And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks

For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not


Come back tomorrow
Oh, my heart, oh, my heart
Shies from the sorrow'

I am as puzzled as the oyster
I am as troubled at the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or should I lie with death my bride?

Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Oh, my heart, oh, my heart
Is waiting to hold you'

I got so tired of meaningful looks
I got so tired of comin' up tame
I was so bothered by those balmy breezes
I was side swiped by smoke fever
They was a crawlin'
Oh down beneath my skin
Til mama come a runnin'
A mama came a runnin'
Mama came a runnin'
Lord said she got a recipe
Oh and she don't need no fancy sauce
Yah those devil eyes
Lord they stare right through me
Those devil eyes
Look right through me
Aww melt my soul down
Long for those devil eyes

Like a slow burn slow burn,
Ya move that mama over to me
Get on top of me woman
Get on top
Let me see what you learned tonight
Then I talk in tongues mama
Oh when I love you
Yes I talk in tongues

Get on top of me woman


Get on top,
Get on top of me woman
I just wanna see what you learned

Well like a bitch dog in heat we had those bed springs a
Squeakin' all day long
And didn't you hear those walls a talkin'

Sittin' in a Hong Kong bar
Sweet dreams of you darling
Ah when we were sweet sixteen
Mama makin' love in the belly of an old freight train
Life was so simple and easy
Oh the sun went down
You took care of the children darlin'
Then you felt like movin' away,
Lord now you didn't stand and stare
You felt like movin' and leavin' darlin'
Didn't I treat you fair
It's all right now darlin'
It's alright now darlin'

And those diesel rigs
Aw they're ramblin' by
Now if I go lame I just flag a ride
I'm lookin' out for
For a street corner girl
I'm lookin' out
For a street corner girl
And she's gonna beat me whip me spank me
Aw make it right again,
Come on and beat me whip me spank me
Mama make it right again

I went down to the meat rack tavern
And found myself a big ol' healthy girl
Now she was drinkin' alone
Aw what a waste of sin
So I went on over to sweet talk that girl
Lord I moved on in
Lord I whispered come on and move with me
Move with me move with me move with me darlin'
Aw don't be shy
I'm gonna mess witcha, mess witcha, mess witcha,
Mess witcha, mess witcha mind

Well, I don't care if you tell me you're married
Cause I can be your man when your husband ain't home
Now if he should walk in you just tell him I'm your houseboy
And that you just can't stand to sleep here alone...no more

I want to move with you, move with you, move with you,
Move with you darlin'
I want to mess witcha mess witcha mess witcha
Mess witcha mind

Well now he finally walked in
And Lord that man filled up the doorway
Well he grabbed me by my throat
And he bounced me down the stairs
And Lord I swear, he broke every bone in my body
But it was worth every second that I was there
Cause she would whisper to me...

Move with me, move with me, move with me,
Move with me darlin'
I'm gonna mess witcha, mess witcha, mess witcha,
Mess witcha mind

Well now I

I was a nighthawkin' in my taxi
My fare was a shaky ol' lush
So I kicked it over and took off
Then he whipped out this switch blade
Straight outta nowhere level to my throat
He said "See reb I've been over to the war boy"
I said "I was a combat paratrooper daddy"
Well now he slupped back cool and he pocket that steel
He said "Get me down to fourth and main"

Now you wanna know the reason
Why I cheated on you
Well I had to be a hunter again
This little man had to try
To make love feel new again
'cause there's just a few things honey
I'm not old enough to do for you
You just never care to show me
Showed him how to tango
And when they tangoed it'd send their hearts a flutter
Young and tender


Seemed to surrender in so sweet surrender
In sweet surrender
Ahh sweet surrender to love
But now you're gonna go out and get yourself
A reputation
But I'm gonna have to show you where to start
And then you're gonna bring back your little reputation
And prove to me what I could not prove to you

Operator, number please
It's been so many years
She'll remember my old voice
While I fight the tears

Hello, hello there, is this Martha?
This is ol' Tom Frost
Now I'm calling long distance
Don't worry 'bout the cost

It's been twenty years or more
Now Martha please recall
And meet me out for coffee
Where we'll talk about it all

And those were days of roses
Of poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you
And all you had was me

There was no tomorrow
We packed away our sorrows
And saved 'em for a rainy day
And I remember quiet evenings
Trembling close to you



I feel so much older now
You're much older too
How's the husband
And how's the kids
You know I got married too

Lucky that you found someone
Who makes you feel secure
We were all so young and foolish
Now we are mature

I was always so impulsive
Guess that I still am
But all that really mattered then
Was that I was a man

Guess that our bein' together
Was never meant to be
But Martha, Martha, I love you
Can't you see and

Each and every day, every little way
I've been lovin' you
I can't live without your lovin' at night
Makes it hard to say it's wrong
When I know it's right

Even though the years won't be kind
I love you more than I care about myself
I love ya, hate ya for what you're doin' to my health
I love ya, hate ya for all the love ya make me feel
I love ya, darlin' 'cause ya know I can't leave

But when you're gone
I'm little boy lost in the storm
With the wolves and flames all around
I talk to myself and pray to the rain
That this lonely curse won't drive me insane

I run into the sea but the sea only sighs
Look at the fool that love brings me
Look at the fool that love brings me


Look at the fool that love brings me

Each and every day, every little way
I've been lovin' you
I can't live without your lovin' me at night
Makes it hard to say it's wrong
When I know it's right

Even though the years won't be kind
I love you more than I care about myself
I love ya, hate ya for what you're doin' to my health
I love ya, hate ya for all the love ya make me feel
I love ya, darlin' 'cause ya know I just can't leave

Look at the fool that love brings me
Look at the fool that love brings me
Look at the fool that love brings me
...

Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home

Oh, hear the mountains singing
Lord, I can hear them ringing, darlin',
Out your name
And tell me if you know
Just how the river flows
Down to the sea

Now I wanna know
Everything about you
I wanna know
Everything about you

What makes ya smile
What makes ya wild
What makes ya love me this way
Darlin' I wanna know
Darlin' I wanna know

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so

That's how I know I found a home
That's how I know I found a home

A-walkin' hand in hand
And all along the sand
A seabird knew your name
He knew your love was growin'
Lord, I think it knows it's flowin'
Thru you and me

Ah, tell me darlin'
When I should leave you,
Ah, tell me darlin'
I don't want to grieve you....

Just like a buzzin' fly
I come into your life
Now I float away
Like honey in the sun
Was it right or wrong
I couldn't sing that song anyway

Oh, but darlin'
Now I remember
How the sun shown down
And how it warmed your prayin' smile
When all the love was there

You're the one I talk about
You're the one I think about
Everywhere I go
And sometimes honey
In the mornin'
Lord, I miss you so....

I got so tired of meaningful looks
I got so tired of comin' up tame
I was so bothered by those balmy breezes
I was side swiped by smoke fever
They was a crawlin'
Oh down beneath my skin
Til mama come a runnin'
A mama came a runnin'
Mama came a runnin'
Lord said she got a recipe
Oh and she don't need no fancy sauce
Yah those devil eyes
Lord they stare right through me
Those devil eyes
Look right through me
Aww melt my soul down
Long for those devil eyes

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child
And all about the times when we were running wild
I've been out searching for the dolphins in the sea
Ah, but sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me

This old world will never change the way it's been
And all the ways of war won't change it back again
I've been out searchin' for the dolphin in the sea
Ah, but sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me

This old world will never change

Like a slow burn slow burn,
Ya move that mama over to me
Get on top of me woman
Get on top
Let me see what you learned tonight
Then I talk in tongues mama
Oh when I love you
Yes I talk in tongues

Get on top of me woman
Get on top,
Get on top of me woman
I just wanna see what you learned

Well like a bitch dog in heat we had those bed springs a
Squeakin' all day long
And didn't you hear those walls a talkin'

Well I wish I was your sweet little honey man,
Just a hanging 'round the rising sun,
You know you can't hold out against a boy who's
A whiskey fast and a honey slow;
I wish I was, I wish I was your,
I wish I was your honey man,
I wish I was your, sweet little honey man;
And when the bee's inside the hive,
You gonna holler in the thick of love,
I'll buy you all the jag I can,
This honey man's gonna' sting you again;

A when I come a home to you honey,
Oh, your little eyes never flicker,
I wished I was that cool,
And then your love just a wouldn't matter at all

You don't remember what to say
You don't remember what to do
You don't remember where to go
You don't remember what to choose
You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

All the stony people
Walking 'round in Christian licorice clothes
I can't hesitate
And I can't wait
For Pleasant Street

The sunshine reminds you of concreted skies
You thought you were flying but you opened your eyes
And you found yourself falling back to yesterday's lies
Hello, Pleasant Street, you know she's back again
You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

All the stony people
Walking 'round in Christian licorice clothes
I can't hesitate
And I can't wait
For Pleasant Street

At twilight your lover comes to your room
He'll spin you, he'll weave you 'round his emerald loom
And softly you'll whisper all around his ear
"Sweet lover, I love Pleasant Street
I wheel, I steal, I feel my way down to kneel"

All the stony people
Walking 'round in Christian licorice clothes
I can't hesitate
And I can't wait
For Pleasant Street

You don't remember what to say
You don't remember what to do
You don't remember which way to go
You don't remember who to choose
You wheel, you steal, you feel, you kneel down

Sally go round the roses (4x)
Oh, Sally don’t you go down
Oh, darlin’, don’t you go down

Honey, the saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is to find your woman been with another girl
Sally, don’t you do down
Aw, darlin’, don’t you go down

I’m going downtown
Lord, I’m drinkin’ tonight
I’m goin downtown
Gonna drink myself blind
Goin’ downtown
Gonna be dancin’ tonight
Goin’ down town
Gonna kick ‘em up high (?)

It’s been a long time
Since I’ve had my way
It’s been a long time
Since I’ve had my way at all
I want to do that (drunken?)belly rub
I want to sing that juke box melody
I want to stroll
Like we used to stroll
Way back home in Baltimore

Sally go round the roses (4x)
Sally, don’t you go down
Oh, darlin don’t you go down
The saddest thing in this whole wide world
Is to find your baby been with another girl

Sally, don’t you go down
Oh, mama, don’t you go down town

I’m singin’ Sally go round the roses. . .

Just like the sun chase the moon around,
Just like the fox--he chase the rabbit down,
Well I've been wantin' you woman,
But it ain't no habit,
No don't you come too near me,
'Cause I'm a liable to grab it:
'Cause I'm a stone in love,
I can almost taste it, I can almost taste it,
Lord I'm a and I was born not to waste it, mmm..,
Born not to waste it Lord,
Oh, now baby; I got midnight fever,
You're young enough to catch me,
And you're old enough to tease me,
When we start shakin'
Down to the bone,
I get so crazy
I can't leave you alone;

Oh, now woman a we're gonna roll you,
We're gonna' shake it on down to the bone;
We're gonna party, honey
All night long
'Til the folks next door move back to Cocomo

Now you wanna know the reason
Why I cheated on you
Well I had to be a hunter again
This little man had to try
To make love feel new again
'Cause there's just a few things honey
Now you wanna know the reason why I cheated on you, well i had to be a hunter
again this little man had to try to make love feel new again cause theres just
a few things I'm not old enough to do for you
And they're the things mama You just never cared to show me
And so this loverboy found him a flamingo
and this flamingo showed him how to tango and when they tangoed it would send
thier hearts a flutter,tease him 'till he stutterd
made him so young and tender sweet to surrender was so young and tender
sweet to surrender was so young and tender.
Well now your gonna go out and get yourself a reputation.
But I gonna have to show you where to start.
And then your gonna bring back your little reputation.
And prove to me what I could not prove to you.
Cause I was just to young and hard, just too cold honey
Just too hard to care, just too hard. To surrender, surrender to love.
Sweet surrender, surrender, if we could, just surrender love would heal the
mess we made.
So give it up mama aint gonna be no good to go round and round. You hurt me,
then I hurt you again. Oh there's left to do, give it up, give it up and
surrender to love.

Yes I come around
Never know a little sooner
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me....
Gypsy woman
Gypsy woman
Gypsy woman....

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning
Now mama don't you lie
You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky
Oh, gypsy woman
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Oh, gypsy woman

Mama, everytime you turn around the fire
Mama, keep me inbetween the devil and the sky
And every time you look my way
Mama how you hypnotize
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me
That gypsy woman casts a spell on me

But if you come runnin' with desire


Oh, gypsy woman knows how to get your blood hot higher

Well, asked your daddy
Your papa wouldn't deny it
Asked your mama
Lord, she was quick to agree
I didn't have to fight your brother
And your sister's still standin' in line
Oh, please tell me gypsy woman
How do you hypnotize me?

We're gonna go down to the river
Walk in the water
Oh, we're gonna get all clean
Then we're gonna do, gonna do
Exactly darlin' what you
Came and set your mind on

Casts a spell on me
Casts a spell on me...

Well, you were out trying to turn the tide this morning
Now mama don't you lie
You knew it was in the moon and you knew it was in the sky
Tell me please, gypsy woman
Casts a spell on me, darlin'
Casts a spell on me, mama
Casts a spell on me, darlin'.....

I had a talk with my woman late last night
And she reassured me everything was alright
And time hung still like a falling rain
Now I know at last that my love is safe

Ah, but when I go away my love I leave
Lord I'm but half a man, without her by my side
She's this memory that I hold all around
She's this dream that I always hold to believe

I wanna go upon a mountain, oh, Lord
And sing my love, and sing my love
I wanna sing it high, sing it down low
Then I'm gonna know how long it's gonna last
Then I'm gonna know how long it's gonna last

Well, you know your Moses, oh Lord he lost his way


Ah, and Your Jesus don't remember the words
Well, then I guess it's just you and me brother
All alone in this cold world, all alone in this cold world

Ah, you gotta go upon on mountain
And learn to sing your love, learn to sing your love
You know I can sing it high, sing it down low
Then we gonna know how long it's gonna last
Then we gonna know how long she's gonna last

Hard rain, sweet rain, fall a little while longer
Wash down the city skies, Lord bring the streets alive
Make it like it was long before I was born
You know I wanna walk around

I got this strange strange feelin'
Deep down in my heart
I can't tell what it is
But it won't let go
It happens every time
I give you more than what I have
But now all I need is a little time to sing this song
And I think we're gonna find a way to lose this strange feelin'

All around I feel ya, darlin', feel ya darlin'
When you're home all alone
Oh, don't you need somebody to talk your troubles to
Ah, lord I know I wanna catch the morning train, lord the first thing
Oh, I wanna hear you say we're gonna take that strange feelin'
Oh, take it all away

Well it's just like a mockingbird a-singing on a hillside
Churping at his morning song
But don't you weep don't you fret don't you wail don't you moan
Can't you hear that whiporwill a-callin?
Now don't you worry
Your daddy's comin' home
He's gonna chase those blues away
And believe me when I say
We're gonna lose that strange feelin' all around all around...

Well I was born a blue melody
A little song my mama sang to me
It was a blue melody
Such a blue
You've never seen

There ain't no wealth
That can buy my pride
There ain't no pain
That can cleanse my soul
No just a blue melody
Sailing far away from me

One summer mornin'
I was raised
But I don't know
One summer morning
I was left
But I don't know
One summer morning
So all alone

Late in ev'ning
I'll sing in your dreaming

Down from the mountain
Along with the breezes
So close inside
Love grew smiles

So if you hear that blue melody
Won't you please send it home to me
It's just my
Blue melody
Callin' far away to me