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August

Round Here

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again. Where? I don't know. Maria says she's dying through the door I here her crying why? I don't know. Round here we always stand up straight. Round here something radiates. Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis. She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land just like she's walking on a wire in the circus. She parks her car outside of my house takes her clothes off, says she's close to understanding Jesus. She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous. Round here we're carving out our names Round here we all look the same Round here we talk just like lions but we sacrifice like lambs Round here she's slipping through my hands. Sleeping children got to run like the wind out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning. she says, "It's only in my head."she says, "Shhh...I know it's only in my head." But the girl in the car in the parking lot says: "Man you should try to take a shot Can't you see my walls are crumbling?" Then she looks up at a building and says she's thinking of jumping. She says she's tired of life: She must be tired of something. Round here she's always on my mind. Round here I got a lot of time. Round here we're never sent to bed early Nobody makes us wait. Round here we stay up very very very very late.

Omaha

Start tearing the old man down run past eh heather and down to the old road. Start turning the grain into the ground. Roll a new leaf over. In the middle of the night, there's an old man treading around in the gathered rain. Well Mr. If you're going to walk on water, Could you drop a line my way Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door. Start threading a needle. Brush past the shuttle that slides through the cold room Start turning the wool across the wire Roll a new life over. In the middle of the night, there's and old man threading his toes through a bucket of rain. Hey Mr. You don't want to walk on water you're only going to walk all over me Omaha Somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters. It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door. Start running the banner down, drop past the color come up through the summer rain start turning the girl into the ground. Roll a new love over. In the middle of the day, there's a young man rolling around in the earth and rain. Hey Mr. if you're going to walk on water, you know you are going to walk all over me. Omaha Somewhere in middle America get right to the heart of matters. It's the heart that matters more. I think you better turn your ticket in and get your money back at the door.

Mr. Jones

I was down in New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer She dances while her father plays guitar She's suddenly beautiful We all want something beautiful. So come dance this silence down through the morning Cut up, Maria! Show me some of those Spanish dances Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones. Believe in me. Help me believe in anything. I want to be someone who believes. Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales. Stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. No, No, she's looking at me." Smiling in the bright lights coming through in stereo. When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely. I will paint my picture. Paint myself blue, red, black and gray. All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful. Gray is my favorite color. I felt so symbolic yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a gray guitar and play. Mr. Jones and me look into the future. Stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so, she's looking at me." Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely. I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats. We all want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that. Believe in me, because I don't believe in anything and I want to be someone to believe. Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio. Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women. "She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me." I want to be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky. When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be. Mr. Jones and me staring at the video. When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me. We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be. Mr. Jones and me, we're going to be big stars...

Perfect Blue Buildings

Just down the street from your hotel, baby. I stay at home with my disease and ain't this position familiar darling. Well, all monkeys do what they see. Help me stay awake I'm falling... Down on Virginia and La Loma where I got friends who care for me You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted I got an attitude of need Help me stay awake I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from me It's 4:30AM on a Tuesday. It doesn't get much worse than this. In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless. Help me stay awake, I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion Try to keep myself away from myself and me I got bones beneath my skin, Mister... There's a skeleton in every man's house. Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody There's a dead man trying to get out Please help me stay awake I'm falling... Asleep in perfect blue buildings beside the green apple sea Gonna get me a little oblivion baby. Try to keep myself away from me.

Anna Begins

My friend assures me "it's all or nothing" I am not worried I am not overly concerned My friend implores me " for one time only, make an exception." I am not not worried Wrap her up in a package of lies Send her off to a coconut island I am not worried I am not overly concerned with the status of my emotions "oh", She says, "were changing." But were always changing It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love and I guess I'm going to have to live that but, I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray or something in between and I can always change my name if that's what you mean My friend assures me "it's all or nothing` But I am not really worried I am not overly concerned You try to tell your self the things you try tell your self to make yourself forget to make your self forget I am not worried "If it's love" she said, "then were gonna have to think about the consequences" She can't stop shaking and I can t stop touching her and..... This time when kindness falls like rain It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind "these seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days" she says. And I'm not ready for this sort of thing But I'm not gonna break And I'm not going to worry about it anymore I'm not gonna bend. And I'm not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore It seems like I should say "as long as this is love..." But it's not all that easy so maybe I should just snap her up in a butterfly net Pin her down on a photograph album I am not worried I've done this sort of thing before But then I start to think about the consequences Because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...The time when kindness falls like rain It washes me away and Anna begins change my mind And every time she sneezes I believe it's love and oh lord.... I'm not ready for this sort of thing She s talking in her sleep-it s keeping me awake And Anna begins to toss and turn And every word is nonsense but I understand it and oh lord. I m not ready for this sort of thing Her kindness bangs a gong It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away It's chasing me away. She dissappears, and oh lord I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Time and Time Again

I wanted so badly somebody other than me staring back at me but you were gone I wanted to see you walking backwards and get the sensation of you coming home I wanted to see you walking away from me without the sensation of you leaving me alone Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself I wanted the ocean to cover over me I wanna sink slowly without getting wet Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely and I'll walk on water every chance I get Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself So when are you coming home, sweet angel? You leaving me alone? All alone? Well if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own I wish I was traveling on a freeway beneath this graveyard western sky I'm gonna set fire to the city and out in the desert we're gonna ride Time and time again time and time again time and time again I can't please myself

Rain King

When I think of heaven Deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers And all other instruments of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird. Don't try to feed me I've been here before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been crying and I've been thinking And I am the Rain King And I said mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone I can't go outside I'm scared I might not make it home I'm alive, I'm alive But I'm sinking in If there's anyone at home at your place, darling Why don't you invite me in? Don't try to bleed me I've been there before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been lying and I've been sinking And I am the Rain King Hey, I only want the same as anyone Henderson is waiting for the sun Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends After all the dreaming I come home again When I think of heaven Deliver me in a black-winged bird I think of dying Lay me down in a field of flame and heather Render up my body into the burning heart of God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to bleed me I've been here before And I deserve a little more I belong in the service of the queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been dying and I've been drinking And I am the Rain King

Sullivan Street

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water and home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Prett soon I won't come around I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly fallen to her knees Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street where all the bodies hang on the air If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet Either way now I don't really care I'm almost drowning in her seas she's nearly crawling on her knees She's down on her knees Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street I'm just another rider burned to the ground I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly crawling on her knees It's almost everything I need I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees

Ghost Train

I took a cannonball down to the ocean across the desert from sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation fiftly million feet of earth between the buried and me "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?" She buys a ticket because it's cold where she comes from she climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?" I took the cannonball down to the ocean watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves love is a ghost train howling on the radio "Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains." "How do you do?" She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Raining In Baltimore

This circus is falling down on its knees The big top is crumbling down It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east Where you should be, no one's around I need a phone call I need a raincoat I need a big love I need a phone call These train conversations are passing me by And I don't have nothing to say You get what you pay for But I just had no intention of living this way I need a phone call I need a plane ride I need a sunburn I need a raincoat And I get no answers And I don't get no change It's raining in Baltimore, baby But everything else is the same There's things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could? I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard And I wish it was a small world Because I'm lonely for the big towns I'd like to hear a little guitar I think it's time to put the top down I need a phone call I need a raincoat

A Murder of One

Blue morning Blue morning Wrapped in strands of fist and bone Curiosity, Kitten, Doesn't have to mean you're on your own You can look outside your window He doesn't have to know We can talk awhile, baby We can take it nice and slow All your life is such a shame, shame, shame All your love is just a dream, dream, dream Are you happy when you're sleeping? Does he keep you safe and warm? Does he tell you when you're sorry? Does he tell you when you're wrong? I've been watching you for hours It's been years since we were born We were perfect when we started I've been wondering where we've gone All your life is such a shame All your love is just a dream I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows One for sorrow Two for joy Three for girls and four for boys Five for silver Six for gold and Seven for a secret never to be told There's a bird that nests inside you Sleeping underneath your skin When you open up your wings to speak I wish you'd let me in All your life is such a shame All your love is just a dream Open up your eyes You can see the flames of your wasted life You should be ashamed You don't want to waste your life I walk along these hillsides In the summer 'neath the sunshine I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me Change, change, change

Satellites

Catapult

All of the sudden she disappears just yesterday she was here somebody tell me if I am sleeping someone should be with me here (cause I don't wanna be alone) I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand and I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult What a big baby won't somebody save me please You won't find nobody home all of these quiet battered voices wait for the hunger to come we got little revolvers and stupid choices and no one to say when we're done (Well I don't wanna bring you down) I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes `cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence of so much rejection in every connection I make I can't find nobody home I wanna be the last thing you hear when you're falling asleep....

Angels of the silences

Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now Where'd you come from? Where am I going? Why'd you leave me 'till I'm only good for... Waiting for you All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming Every night these silhouettes appear above my head Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper Every time I fall asleep Every time I dream "Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for... Waiting for you" All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book Suck my blood, break my nerve offer me their arms Well, I will not be an enemy of anything I'll only stand here Waiting for you All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming

Daylight fading

Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you It's getting cold in California I guess I'll be leaving soon Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading We leave just before it's gone She said "everybody loves you," she says, "everybody cares" But all the things I keep inside myself they vanish in the air If you tell me that you'll wait for me I'll say I won't be here I want to say good-bye to you Good-bye to all my friends Good-bye to everyone I know Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading We leave just before it's gone

Im not sleeping

She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping She comes to me when I'm alone She comes to me, she holds my head when I'm crying She comes to me, she shuts my eyes She brings me home But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore She tells me when you look at me, she tells me when you're lying She tells me when you talk about me, she lays me on the floor She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked She tells me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore 1-2-3-4-5-6-7a.m. All alone again But I've been through all this shit before Spend my nights in self defense Cry about my innocence But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more I see her on the TV, I see her in the movies I see her in these animals that dance inside my head I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore But I'm not sleeping anymore, anymore I'm not sleeping I'm not sleeping anymore I said rain rain go away come again some other day, cause I got all this shit to say but I've gone back to find my way. My sister's mother's favorite son lost among the chosen one, but I've got news for everyone cause I'm going out that door

Goodnight Elisabeth

I was wasted in the afternoon Waiting on a train I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth had disappeared again I wish you were inside of me I hope that you're ok I hope you're resting quietly I just wanted to say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth We couldn't all be cowboys So some of us are clowns Some of us are dancers on the midway We roam from town to town I hope that everybody can find a little flame Me, I say my prayers, then I just light myself on fire And I walk out on the wire once again And I say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth I will wait for you in Baton Rouge I'll miss you down in New Orleans I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain And if you're the queen of California Baby I am the king of the rain And I say Goodnight Elisabeth Goodnight Elisabeth

Children in Bloom

Children in bloom cooking in the sun Waiting for a room of our own Leave my sister alone She don't deserve this She is a flower and I am a flower and We are all alone I gotta get out on my own I gotta get up from this waiting at home I gotta get out of this sunlight It's melting my bones I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home All these wasted dreams Just waiting for the sun to open up my heart to anyone Bring me some rain Because I'm dying and I can't get this damn thing closed again

Have You Seen Me Lately

Get away from me This isn't gonna be easy But I don't need you Believe me You got a piece of me But it's just a little piece of me And I don't need anyone And these days I feel like I'm fading away Like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio Have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? I remember me And all the little things that make up a memory Like she said she loved to watch me sleep Like she said: "It's the breathing, it's the breathing in and out and in and..." Have you seen me lately? I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? I guess I thought that someone would notice I guess I thought somebody would say something If I was missing Can't you see me? Come on color me in Come on color me in Give me your blue rain Give me your black sky Give me your green eyes Come on give me your white skin Come on give me your white skin Come on give me your white skin I was out on the radio starting to change Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain Could you tell me the things you remember about me And have you seen me lately? Have you seen me lately

Miller's Angels

Miller's angels in black and white Welcome everyone in Children dreaming of wrong and right Wrapped in grace and in sin They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue They come out of the blue sky But you never know where they're gonna go Hey Romeo Miller's fingers are traveling down the length of her thigh But Miller's mind is still wandering Staring up at the sky They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue They come out of the blue sky But you never know where they're gonna go Hey Romeo Don't, don't come around here Miller's angels are hovering in between the earth and the sun In the shadow of god's unwavering love I am a fortunate son They come out of the blue sky They come out of the blue

Another Horsedreamers' Blues

Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day Tiyuri to win Perfect Dozen to place Money is the matter that's been on her mind Time ticks by her one race at a time She's trying' to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses Looking' at a green sky Sun like a red eye Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by She's tired and lonely Scared and depressed Her visions of one day go racing the next She's trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses Margery doesn't say anything all the way home So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and TV dinners and letters she won't send, and Every race night is shot through with sunlight Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for... Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and Boys who can't tell one girl from another So she takes her pills Careful and round One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down But she's trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of... Trying to be a good girl And give 'em what they want But Margery's dreaming of horses

Recovering the Satellites

Gonna get back to basics Guess I'll start it up again I'm falling' from the ceiling You're falling from the sky now and then Maybe you were shot down in pieces Maybe I slipped in between But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see Just you and me So why'd you come home to this sleepless town It's a lifetime commitment Recovering the satellites All anybody really wants to know is... When you gonna come down Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays And she watches as her babies drift violently away 'Til they see themselves in telescopes Do you see yourself in me? We're such crazy babies, little monkey We're so fucked up, you and me So why'd you come home to this faithless town Where we make a lifetime commitment To recovering the satellites And all anybody really wants to know is... When are you gonna come down She sees shooting stars and comet tails She's got heaven in her eyes She says I don't need to be an angel But I'm nothing if I'm not this high But we only stay in orbit For a moment of time And then you're everybody's satellite I wish that you were mine So why'd you come home to this angels town It's a lifetime decision Recovering the satellites Everybody really knows for sure... That you're gonna come down That you're gonna come down

Monkey

All dressed up No place to go Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me? I know all the wrongs and rights And I just want a little light to fall on me Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? We'll I'm all messed up That's nothing new Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming But all I ever need is everything Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been? Just get the world off your shoulders And close your pretty blue eyes Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise? Got nowhere but home to go Got Ben Folds on my radio right now I'm in trouble for the things I need Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too? Hey monkey, where you been? This lonely spiral I've been in Hey monkey, when can we begin? Hey monkey, where you been?

Mercury

She is trapped inside a month of gray And they take a little every day She is a victim of her own responses Shackled to a heart that wants to settle And then runs away It's a sin to be fading endlessly Yeah, but she's all right with me She is leaving on a walkaway She is leaving me in disarray In the absence of a place to be She stands there looking back at me Hesitates, and then turns away She'll change so suddenly She's just like mercury Yeah, but she's all right with me Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds For the things that die before their time For the restlessly abandoned homes The tired and weary rambler's bones And stay beside me where I lie She's entwined in me Crazy as can be Yeah, but she's all right with me

A Long December

A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaven' Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California...I think you should Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself To hold on to these moments as they pass And it's one more day up in the canyon And it's one more night in Hollywood It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

Walkaways

Gotta rush away she said I've been to Boston before anyway, this change I've been feeling doesn't make the rain fall No big differences these days Just the same old walkways Someday Im going to stay

This Desert Life

Hangin Around

she sat right down on the sofa says where have you been? i been waiting for you Cause last night i had something so good these days get so long and i got nothing to do i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town so long i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town way too long we spend all day getting sober just hiding from daylight watching tv we just look a lot better in the blue light well you know i gotta get out well i'm stuck so tight weighed by the chains that keep me hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town too long i been hangin' around this town on the corner i been bummin' around this old town way too long this girl listens to the band play she says where have you been? I been lying right here on the floor (right here on the floor) well I got all this time to be waiting For what is mine to be hating What I am after the love has faded Hangin' around this town on a corner I been bummin' around this old town so long I been hangin' around this town on a corner I been bummin' around this old town for way way way way way too long way way way way too long way way way way too long way way way way too long

Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

Well I woke up in mid afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast Well I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame If you've never stared off into the distance then your life is a shame And though I'll never forget your face sometimes I can't remember my name Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't cry Hey, Mrs. Potter, I know why But, hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me Well there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said Oh and the ghosts of the tilt-o-whirl will linger inside of your head Oh and the Ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead When I see you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't go, I said Hey, Mrs. Potter, I don't know, but Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me Well all the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream Well I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem Aw, but I'd sure like to find out So why don't you climb down off that movie screen Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't turn Hey, Mrs. Potter, I burn for you Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor And orders another Well, I wonder what he did that for That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door. Yeah. We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars We stand up in the Palace, like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars Aw, we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars Well, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Aw, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far Hey, Mrs. Potter, I won't touch and Hey, Mrs. Potter, it's not much but Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me

Amy Hit The Atmosphere

If I could make it rain today And wash away this sunny day down to the gutter I would Just to get a change of pace Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better And that's all that really matters to me Well, Amy hit the atmosphere Caught herself a rocket ride out of this gutter And she's never coming back I fear Anytime it rains she just feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long Meanwhile all the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come There has to be a change I'm sure Today was just a day fading into another And that can't be what a life is for And anything she said well she feels a lot better And that's all that really matters to me We've waited so long For someone to take us back home It just takes so long Meanwhile all the days go drifting away And some of us sink like a stone Waiting for mothers to come I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know All I really know is I wanna know And all I really know is I don't wanna know

Four Days

All I want is something good It gets harder every time She is leaving here tonight take a breath take your time spread your wings and rise Make a mark upon the wall Paint your face and pass the time Close your eyes as she ascends Hold your breath and ease your mind Forty thousand times Time ...fades into the night They descend and then they climb Feathers falling through the night Have you seen Ohio rise? It has been four days and nights All I want is something fine It gets harder every time She is sleeping far away Take a breath take your time Spread your wings and rise Rise into the black Ohio skies

All My Friends

Thought I might get a rocket ride When I was a child But it was a lie That I told myself when I needed something good At 17 had a better dream Now I'm 33 and it isn't me But I'd think of something better if I could All my friends and lovers Will leave me behind And I'm still looking for a girl One way or another I'm just hoping to find a way To put my feet out in the world Caught some grief from a falling leaf As she tumbled into the dirty ground And said I should have put her back there if I could Well everyone needs a better day And I'm tryin' to find me a better way To get through the things I do and the things I should All my friends and lovers Will leave me alone To try to have a little fun One way or another I just wish I had known To go out walking in the sun To find out if you were the one does it make you wanna come a little closer now and did you want to dance with me Did you wanna hum a little harder now can you see her? waiting there can you see her? because I'm almost there can you see her waiting there for someone like me Well all you want is a beauty queen But not a superstar But everybody's dream machine All you want is a place to lay your head You go to sleep dreamin' how you would Be a different kind if you thought you could But you come awake the way you are instead All my friends and lovers They shine like the sun Well I just turn and walk away One way or another I'm not comin' undone I'm just waiting for the day All my friends

High Life

Such a life Such a life Such a life"such a life, such a life,such a life, All my friends got flowers in their eyes But I got none this season All of last year's blooms have gone and died Time doesn't give a reason well hey maybe you ask yourself Sometimes what you need to be forgiven Everything that you ever done wrong Is the reason that I'm driven Straight to tears Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I get me ends and my beginnings mixed up, too Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two It's just like answers that come in small packages that go in the mail Waiting for the trains that just never come Beginning to believe in The disappearing nature of the people we have been We have begun to change Into the worst kind of people So unkind Oh apologies No apologies This apology doesn't describe The way it feels to feel for you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I find myself slowly disappearing, too Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to help me to remain with you I just wanna stay for a little while I wanna stay a little while Oh, come on Cause there's a night light just falling down on me I just feel like a change But if the southern summer sea of flowers Won't bloom without the rain But oh this desert life This high life Here at the dying of the day I wasn't made for the scene, baby But I wasn't made in this scene, baby It's just my way I don't wanna go home alone I wanna come on home to you Waiting here for you Wanting to tell you How I line my sky with all the silver I can get Just the way you do I thought if I told you You might want to stay for just another day or two Isn't that just like disappearing into the sum of yourself and the person you are disappearing into it's like one plus one equals nothing at all one plus two equals nothing at all one plus me equals nothing at all one plus you equals one plus you equals you equals you and you and you and nothing at all

Colorblind

I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am Taffy stuck, tongue tied Stuttered shook and uptight Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am...fine I am covered in skin No one gets to come in Pull me out from inside I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding I am colorblind Coffee black and egg white Pull me out from inside I am ready I am ready I am ready I am...fine I am.... fine I am fine

I Wish I Was A Girl

The devil's in the dreamin' He tells you I'm not sleepin' In my motel room alone With nothing to believe in You dive into the traffic rising up And it's so quiet You're surprised and then you wake For all the things you're losing You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain I wish I was a girl So that you could believe me And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep I wish for all the world That I could say Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right These days The devil's in the dreamin' You see yourself descending From the building to the ground And you watch the sky receding And you spin to see the traffic Rising up and it's so quiet And you're surprised and then you wake For all the things I'm losing I might as well resign myself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain I wish I was a girl So that you could believe me And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep I wish for all the world That I could say Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right These days And one of these dreams You forgive me It makes me think of the bad decisions That keep you at home How could anyone else have changed But these are wrong conclusions That leave you alone How could everyone rearrange How could everyone else have changed What I see I believe For all the things I'm losing I might as well resign myself to try and make a change And I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things That they find crawling round my brain Well I can't sleep at night

Speedway

I get so nervous - I'm shaking It's so I got no pride at all It gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more Guess I just get off on that stuff thinkin bout taking some time thinkin about leavin soon I got some things I can't tell anyone I got some thing's I just can't say There the kinda things that no one knows about just need somebody to talk to me I'm thinkin about leaving tomorrow I'm thinkin about being on my own Think I've been wasting my time thinkin about getting out thinkin about getting out In all this time the bottom line you dont know how much I feel you say you see but I dont agree. Dont know - dont know how I feel. Just trying to get myself some gravity your just trying to get me to say. Sometimes I sit here looking down upon los angeles sometimes Im floating away Thinkin about breaking myself Thinkin about getting back home Think Ive been waiting way to long Thinkin bout getting out Thinkin bout getting out Thinkin bout getting out

St. Robinson and his cadillac dream

Staring out of his window as the world rushes by Arthur Robinson closes the glass and replies, "I dream of ballerinas and I don't know why? But I see Cadillac's sailing. I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay Maryland and Virginia have faded away And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today So I am endlessly waiting The comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean Out there in the shadow of the modern machine walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream Carrie's down in her basement all toe shoes and twinned With the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins, From where you think you will end up to the state that you're in Your reflection approaches and recedes again. Yeah And the comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean Out in the shadow of the modern machines Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream I had a dream of a black car that shimmers and drives Down the length of the evening to the carnival's side In a house where regret is a carousel ride We are spinning and spinning and spinning Theres a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell There's a girl in the basement coming out of her shell And there are people who will say they knew me so well I may not go to heaven.. I hope that you go to hell! The comet is coming between Me and the girl who could make it all clean out there in the shadow of a modern machine Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream In his dream. St. Robinson in his dream. Some people are never quite what they seem Come on baby come on baby Lets just Get into my car and drive.

Kid things

What's there that makes you want to be lonely What's there to keep you sitting at home He'd always say no no no as if he wanted you to be hungry well the same things you're missing could get you into something else Better leave when to stay is only nothing but being alone what I wanted you to know is Kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was Kid things seemed like nothing at all but kid things make it better than it was hey what you got that makes you want to be lonely hey what you got that makes it a better way to be she said No no no i can't get any love and it's a sunday. I said oh yeah what makes you think I wanted it that way. cause one or two more smiles from you and I don't need anything else. what I wanted you to know is kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was we're just kids we spend all night on the phone it's a kid thing but i sleep better when i'm not alone what i want right now is just some more gimme more.. Hey what you think is you're not getting any younger What i know is that you're not really very old i know you wanna say No no no it feels much better in the summer well if it isn't warm where you're sittin' then kitten come on in out of the cold Cause all I know is when I'm with you well I don't need anything else. what I wanted you to know is Kid things seemed like nothing at all and kid things make it better than it was We're just kids... we spend all night on the phone It's a kid thing.. so i sleep better when i'm not alone Kid things seemed like nothing at all kid things make it better than it was We're just kids... Just like driving a car... it's a kid thing and the further out the closer in you are

Hard Candy

On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summers Where my shadows used to be And she is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary girl And in the evenings on Long Island When the colors start to fade She wears a silly yellow hat That someone gave her when she stayed I didn't think that she returned it We left New York in a whirl Time expands and then contracts When you are spinning in the grip of someone Who is not an ordinary girl And when you sleep you find your mother in the night But she stays just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning covers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy you're remembering again You send your lover off to China And you wait for her to call You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summers back in a letter And I hide it from the world All the regrets you can't forget Are somehow pressed upon a picture In the face of such an ordinary girl And when you sleep you find your mother in the night But she fades just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning showers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again

American Girls

She comes out on Fridays every time Stands out in a line I could've been anyone she'd seen She waits another week to fall apart She couldn’t make another day I wish it was anyone but me It could've been anyone you see She had something breakable just under her skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle up to my hand Making me feel so incredible She comes out of closets every night But then she locks herself away Where she could keep everything from me I could have been anyone you see She’s nothing but porcelain underneath her skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle up to my hand Making me feel so incredible Little shivers shaking me every day But I could get the same thing anywhere So if she goes away Well it's alright and I'm okay "Hey", she said, "Come back again tonight" I said, "I might I might I might" She said, "Well that's alright If it's alright with you, then it's alright with me" I waited for an hour last Friday night She never came around She took almost everything from me I’m going through my closets Trying on her clothes almost everyday I could've been anyone you see I wish it was anyone but me Theres nothing but pills and ashes under my skin American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle right up to my hand Making me feel so incredible If I made you cry, please tell me why Cause I'll try again if you let me try American girls all feathers & cream Come into bed so edible

Good Time

The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes He don't know what to do He just wants to look good for you So he rushes in to tell you what he did today but he can't think of what to say I think you listen anyway. He wants to have a good time just like everybody He doesn't want to fall apart You watch him as he stutters over what to say It's just a little game you play It's no easier for you some days You wish you could tell him it'll be okay But you feel a little shy these days Cause everybody goes away You just want to have a good time Just like everybody else You don't want to fall apart this time I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in Well darling, if it's shit came out Then I suppose that it's shit went in Even though I couldn't say I've been the places that you've been You know he made my heart real strong Even if he made my head real thin I want to have a good time Just like everybody And I don't want to fall apart I just want have a good time Just like everybody else And I don't want to fall apart this time So would you please invite me in I really love the red haired girls I'm just another boy from texas Come on and take a spin I got a brand new set of wings

If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel is Dead)

Got a message in my head That the papers had all come Richard Manuel is dead And the daylight's coming on I've been wandering through the dark Now I'm standing on the lawn If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things I do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time that is running out on you It was cold when I awoke And the day was halfway done Nearly spring in San Francisco And I cannot feel the sun You were sleeping next to me But I knew you'd be gone If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things I do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time That is running out on you Take some time before you go To think of mondays coming down And the people that you knew And ones that aren't around You've been fading day to day I've been moving town to town If I could give all my love to you I could justify myself But I'm just not coming through You're a pill to ease the pain Of all the stupid things i do I'm an anchor on the line Of a clock that tells the time That is running out on you

Goodnight L.A.

I said, "Goodnight L.A." Cause I’m awake in my room I been up for 38 hours And it don’t look like sleep’s coming soon Cause I could break like a bird Or I could swallow the sea It seems like the daylight is coming And no one is watching but me But I don’t mind the dark discovering the day Cause the night is a beautiful bright blue and grey And what brings me down now is love Cause I can never get enough And it’s a dangerous time for a heart on a wire Shuttled from station to station noisily Not knowing why So I put my head on the ground And the sky is a wheel Spinning these days into things that I’ve lost But you can keep all the years But I don’t mind the days gone rolling away Cause all this sunlight Feels warm on my face today And what brings me down now is love Cause I can never get enough of love

Butterfly in Reverse

Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They took a lot of time Getting it right on this girl I said, Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl Had a lot of girlfriends I should have known them Click your heels and count back from three Do you want to go back? You should have known That the butterfly in reverse here is me Mary-Ann You’re better than the world They took a lot of timeGetting it right on this girl I said, Mary-AnnYou’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl Where’d you want to go to With nothing beside you But webbing and curfews and rain? And everything that hurts you Is locked up inside you Like butterflies with wings And other perfect things We go swimming in the sunshine Dangling from clotheslines Separate and fall into me But did you ever see me ? Me, absolutely ? Me, but all you, but still me? Mary-Ann you’re better than the world They took a lot of time Getting it right on this girl, I said Maryann You’re better than the world They did a lot of things right on this girl

Miami

I guess I think I feel alright You come circling through the light The skyline is bright tonight What more perfect rendezvous? The sundown paints the shadows through The daylight, Amy, on what we do It looks like darkness to me Drifting down into Miami Can I say , "I wish that this weather would never leave"? It just gets hard to believe That god sent this angel to watch over me Cause my angel She don’t receive my calls Says I’m to dumb to Fuck To dumb to fight To dumb to save Well, maybe I don’t need no angel at all It looks like darkness to me Drifting down into Miami She could pull the sunlight through me Coming down into Miami Make a circle in the sand Make a halo with your hands I'll make a place for you to land The bus is running It’s time to leave The summer’s gone And so are we So come on baby, Let’s go shut it down in New Orleans.

New Frontier

Miracle people with marvelous hair And a knack to do anything better than anyone I got a home with electrical air And I live in a world smaller than anyone's But I got a line on the new frontier I got a line on the new America All of the people are vanishing here I could be huge if I could just get From the outside of everything To the inside of you Purest Aluminum people are walking The streets of London So hysterical Nobody here gets a word that I say And the problems, I'm told, are more than medical But I got a friend from the new frontier And Galen, she says, "This is not America You need a girl with electrical hair. And the word that you wanted was aluminium." From the outside of everything To the inside of you I was in bed with the girl at the end of the world She said "I'm going home. You should come home too." But I'm at the end of the new frontier Here at the edge of the flat earth ending I'm getting off to get lost in the air At the end of the world Where the light is bending From the outside of everything To the inside of you

Carriage

If anything It should have been a better thing From underneath you staring at the ceiling There’s another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards That hides inside of all this tension that I’m feeling But it’s all inside of you Surprise Surprise I miss your hair You miss my eyes And all this solitude is my confidence eroding So we slide inside of someone’s mouth and someone’s eyes Until there’s the sound of something intimate exploding But it's all inside of you I wish that I was anaesthetized and sterilized And then you wouldn’t have this evidence congealing Surprise Surprise Another pair of lips and eyes And that is the consequence of actually feeling It was all inside of you

Black and Blue

Fading everything to black & blue You look a lot like you'd shatter In the blink of an eye But you keep sailing right on through Every time you say you're learning You just look a lot like me Pale under the blistering sky White & red black & blue You’ve been waiting a long time To fall down on your knees Cut your hands Cut yourself until you bleed But fall asleep next to me Wait for everyone to go away And in a dimly lit room Where you got nothing to hide Say your goodbyes Tell yourself we’ll read a note that says, "I’m sorry everyone. I’m tired of feeling nothing. Goodbye." Wash your face dry your eyes Cause you’ve been waiting a long time To fall down on your knees Cut your hands Cut yourself until you bleed But fall asleep next to me And have a dream I’m falling down on my face I scrape my knees I scrape my hands until they bleed Cause you're fast asleep next to me

Why Should You Come When I Call?

It's 1:30 in the morning but that's alright by me Weren't you just waiting by the phone? I should give a little warning But I need the things I need I'm not proud to need a hand, but I just don't understand... So why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Ain't necessarily a bad thing to believe the things I say Cause you can make yourself feel good You know it's really not a good thing to give everything to me I'm just waiting for the show cause I got nowhere to go So why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own Cause nothing makes me feel so good Or gets me high so I sleep at night And let's me know that everything's alright I feel nice I'm so sorry in the morning You can believe what you believe I'm used to waking up alone And if you think about it Anyone you think about is better love than me But if you're not fallen quite asleep I might call tonight If that's alright... Why should you come when I call? I never say nothing at all Why do I go when I go? It's leaving me here all alone You ought to get out on your own

Up All Night (Frankie Miller goes to Hollywood)

Is everybody happy now Is everybody clear We could drive out to the dunes tonight Because summer's almost here I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip away I might sleep all day... And when the roads are clear You head on out of here And if you're coming back I'll see you in the morning I'm just staring at The ceiling staring back at me Just waiting for daylight To come crawling in on me I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip away I might sleep all day... It's too late to get high now Fix your hair just right Put your jeans on tight Or wear a dress so I can get it off real easy I been thinking I'd like to see Your eyes open up real wide The minute that you see me But if you don't come through I wouldn't wait for you I understand that everyone goes disappearing Into the greater grey that covers over everyday And hovers in the distance... I've been up all night I might sleep all day Get your dreams just right Then let 'em slip awayI might sleep all day... It's too late to get high now

Holiday in Spain

Got no place to go But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico She's got a bottle of tequilaA bottle of gin And if I bring a little music I could fit right in We got airplane rides We got California drowning out the window side We got big black cars And we got stories how we slept with all themovie stars I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drink my worries down the drain Fly away to somewhere new Hop on my choo choo I'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit If you dress me up in pink and white We may be just a little fuzzy 'bout it later tonight She's my angel She's a little better than the one that used to be with me Cause she liked to scream at me Man, it's a miracle that she's not living up in a tree I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane And fly away to someone new Everybody's gone They left the television screaming that the radio's on Someone stole my shoes But there's a couple of bananas and a bottle of booze Oh well, happy new years baby! We could probably fix it if we clean it up all day Or we could simply pack our bags And catch a plane to Barcelona cause this city's a drag I may take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Flush my worries down the drain Then fly away to somewhere new Take a holiday in Spain Leave my wings behind me Drive this little girl insane And fly away to someone new

Big Yellow Taxi (Hidden track)

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them No, no, no

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples,

Leave me the birds and the bees Please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took my girl away Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Well, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey hey hey

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

I don't wanna give it Why you wanna give it Why you wanna giving it all away Hey, hey, hey Now you wanna give it I should wanna give it Now you wanna giving it all away Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot

Films About Ghosts

Friend of the Devil

(Grateful Dead)

I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep last night 'till the morning came around. Set out runnin' but I take my time

A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills. Set out runnin' but I take my time, a friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air. Set out runnin' but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night, The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie, and she's my hearts delight. The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail, And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail. Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee

The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me. Set out runnin' but I take my time, A friend of the devil is a friend of mine, If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

She don't want nobody near

She don't want nobody nearBut you can't get away from thatThey appear and disappear And they all get a string attached Pretty soon they've got you hanging on the line Pretty soon they're singing one by one, the same old rhyme They say, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" She don't want nobody home Cause it's a little too crowded then But she don't want to be alone So they just keep pouring in Pretty soon they've got her headed for the door She comes home to find that they're not hanging 'round no more She says, "I'm alright, you just can't get home tonight" Don't you wonder what she looks like in the light? She says "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" Pretty white-washed lies, endless alibis and reasons that need cleaning every night Half a world away You can't wash away the stain of the deceiving And the things that you cannot believe And well, she don't want no one around Cause she don't want anybody to see What she looks like when she's down Cause that's a really sad place to be Pretty soon she gets them crawling up the walls Then she wonders why they beg her please to never call She says "I'm ok, it's alright, hey look who's on TV tonight" She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" Don't you wonder why it's dark outside at night? She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight"

Rare Songs

Einstein on the beach

Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive type His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked If everything is nothing, then are we anything Is it better to be better than to be anything? And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolled All his wings are slowly sinking The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here All the king's men reappear For an eggman, on and off the wall Who'll never be together again Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand Cause everything he believes in is shattered What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay We all get burned as: One more sun comes sliding down the sky One more shadow leans against the wall The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, on and off the wall Who'll never be together again Albert's waiting in the sun On a field American For the cause of some inflated form of hit and run One more sun comes sliding down the sky One more shadow leans against the wall The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, fallin' off the wall Will never be together again Albert's fallen on the sun Cracked his head wide open The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, falling, falling The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, fallin' off the wall Will never be together again No never be together again No no never never never again, uh huh What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway

Barely Out of Tuesday

Woke up to this morning staring at the ceiling hoping for deliverance from the distances in you. this room feels like an oven somewhere south of no where north of nothing barely out of Tuesday seen seven hours of Wednesday And I guess got regrets maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me can you see her waiting there down by the sea with a hat on, with her eyes in there looking for me. if you see me coming home turn me away everybody tries to go back somewhere someday Wont you give me the distance 52 weeks later, your still the same I'm standing im my basement making my arrangements waiting for the telephone to ring to ring to ring So I left for Minnesota where the weather is getting colder people are changing maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me can you see her waiting there down by the sea & how arrangements made there for welcoming me? if you see me coming home turn me away everybody tries to go back somewhere someday And for all this distance aint going to bring you to me what's the point of all this patience its not your nature you just keep what you need and you got some pictures of me woke up Wendsday morning sometime Wednesday evening hoping for a piece of something easy to believe we live out on the border of everything and nothing theres nothing but waking and dreaming barely out of tuesday theres no one to receive me nothing is changing maybe you could leave a light on leave a light on for me can you see her waiting there down by the sea there's a light on but there's no body waiting for me. if you see me coming home turn me away everybody tries to go back somewhere someday everybody tries to go back somewhere someday everybody tries to go back somewhere someday everybody tries to go back somewhere.........

Shallow days

Mary Jane says it's all right She's just around the corner from the main light. Any day now, it's all right She's standing on the precipice of big time. And I know I'm a little uptight, I've got to go before the sun shines. We're just a couple small people squeezing out a life, We need a little good time It's not far from the edge, Mary comes and goes. Drifting through the scenery of the shallow days below, That is anybody knows. You follow trains out of town and they vanish somewhere under the horizon. Yeah well I saw Mary Jane dragged her shadow down the tracks, Stare off in the distance. It's not far from here, Mary waves hello. Smiling though she's sinking in the shallow days below, I can't find a way out of here. Out on the road again, I'm much, much too concerned about Mary Jane. I'm all alone again, I like what she said, not what it means. She leaves me drowning through the shallow days, down below. You know I heard a band playing waltzes in a grange hall The sun is sinking lower. People staring, Mary Jane humming softly to herself, Nobody really knows her. Any day now it's all right, She tells herself that this will be the last time. Mary Jane pulls her hair back and wonders what she'll do with all her free time. Not too far from here, Mary turns to go. Smiling while the waltz begins, dancing down the road Hey hey Mr. Freedom, What are we supposed to think? 'Cause I'm a very tiny person and it worries me. I'm all alone again, I like what she says, not what it means. She leaves me drowning in the shallow days way down below. "I'm sorry", she said, "I know it's not the kind of thing you want." I'm falling, falling down. "I'm sorry", she said. "I know I'm not the kind of girl you want." We're falling, falling, falling, falling down.

MARGERY

In the still water she lies down Shaking in the press of sunlight We rolled into Lexington She shakes off the drop of daylight Water beading up her chest Bleeding down between her knees Rivers in Kentucky flow Between the bluegrass wavy seas But oh, Margery Twists the knife once more inside of me Breathless with anticipation Baited breathers set their hooks Tuck their heads beneath the high grass And lie and wait beside the brooks Were infants pushing slowly through Frustration leading back along The alleys of a childhood That will not release us willingly But oh, Margery ..sticks the knife in while I couldn't see (strait into me baby) Dust me off and shut me down And dream of where I haven't been Close the door inside my heart Stuck in the south Atlantic wind I have hollow eyes Haunting only to myself Even so, I can't stop calling These great big hollows in my self I took the train form California To the far side of the continent Woke up in Kentucky Where a wedding was about to end I looked up at Anna She turned back to look at me It's best to kill the ones that matter Render blind the ones who see But oh, Margery Takes the blade and walks away from me Oh, Margery Love like blood is pouring out of me Oh, Margery My heart won't stop bleeding over me baby Oh, I can't shut it in It's got far too many doors to block the wind Oh, I can't shut it in It's got far too many doors to block the wind

Good luck

Larry's in vegas..with some chick from La the best things are severed and sex is just ok so please stay she said just stay cause there's a show at 11 and the drinks are all free you can do better for yourself but not me .... ...so please stay and keep me company. All the while thinking this is the good luck, stays with her most of the time takes time to make these machines work, people are so unkind Gets kinda nervous used to be hard. She takes the edges off evenings in bedrooms and back seats in big cars. All the while thinking this is the good luck stays with her most of the time it takes time to make these machines work people are so unkind. People are so unkind She looks in the mirror to make she's here she keeps disappearing and dreaming of movie stars- weddings and nothing is happening He tries not to notice She thinks he doesn't care. Capture yourself in a jar and you stay there, until you vanish thin air all the while thinking this is the good luck stays with her most of the time it takes time to make these machines work but he aint got time while she's riding in black cars and pokes at the sky to see if he can make stars and people are so unkind people are so unkind.. People are so unkind.. People are so unkind... people are so unkind People are so.. UNKIND..

Open all Night

Exit 8 Small cafe Georgia moonlight It's three a.m. I've been driving all night Got a funny air Red-brown hair In the porch light She said 'We're open all night So won't you come inside It's gonna be all right' She said tired I said I'm a little bit unstable She said 'Honey, I will help you if I'm able There's a bottle of relief upon the table And we're open all night So won't you come inside It's gonna be all right' She said 'I was born the year the rockets landed Circa 1969 and I got stranded Yeah, but the comet's getting close And I can't stand it.' She said 'We're open all night So won't you come inside Exit A Small cafe Smoke at three Georgia moonlight It's eight a.m. I've been drinking all night And there is nothing I will not do to make it all right She said 'We're open all night So won't you come inside It's gonna be all right'

Love and Addiction

Put on your bad self get out your party dress and fix up your makeup try to make a good impression this is a new world - were all the same here, well maybe not the same you know what I mean. I've got everything that you want I've got everything and someday Ill be president. I've for everything that you want.. I've got everything except the single thing you really need. Separate, love from addiction its not the same I know I see desperation pulling my strings. Hey eliza now what do you want? I play piano and I sing like a humming bird and oh I forgot that humming birds don't sing, it doesn't matter really you know what I mean. I've got everything that you want I've got everything and its a brand new world eliza. I've got everything that you want.. I've got everything except the single thing you really need. Sail away blood and rejection ..they isolate. I know I see, a generation staring back at me.. Wasted away.... wasted my time this picture you see is nothing like the one I wanted painted of me. "Eliza says it's all right with me, if your sure ... it wouldn't be the first time, you know it's happened a couple of times before and.. I don't even expect much anymore and anyway... it's not as if I was waiting for you to come and make it all okay". Shut away to to wing blood and rejection they isolate I know I see visions of people grabbing hold of me. Wasted away... wasted my time... this picture you see is nothing like the one I wanted painted of me. Put on your bad self, get out your party dress and fix up your makeup try and make a good impression..

The Greening of America

She's closing all the shades she finds the daylight just a little frightening she pulls the pedals overhead each day but she's opening her business is blooming nightly and every time it does it gets me hazy the color of her head changing every day a little breath of wind and I just go crazy the greening of Americas progressing smoothly cuz she's choosing me it's later then I said and all the worlds a shade of black and purple everybody else has gone to bed but when she makes me happy I just fly in circles and every time she does I just get teary the color of head changing everyday a little puff of wind and she's always near me the greening of America is progressing nicely it's all right with me if there's another life, and if get to chose I'd like to be a daisy I'll stay up waiting for my dusky wife to open and get high with just my jasmine baby and every time she does it gets me crazy the color of her head changing every day a little breath of wind and I just get crazy the greening of Americas progressing nicely it's all right with me-every time she she does just get teary the color of her head changing every day a little breath of wind and she's always near me the greening of Americas progressing smoothly cuz she's choosing me

Closer to you

come a little closer if you can just forget your fears come to me cause where I want to be is closer to you put your little hand into my hand throw off this disquise come to me cause I just want to be closer to you I'm oh so tired of this awefull fight cant get by without you I dont know how I'm gonna be alright But Im all messed up ya im all messed up ya I am dont you wish we were younger these things go to fast come to me because I used to be closer to you Oo come to me cause I need to be closer to you

Were only love

Who built the ball that is this earth? Gave me life, and water for my thirst. Home for a heart till death from birth And we're only love, at it's best or worst. Love calling your name I will live on Calling your name Who wrote the pages of our lives? In black and white, and taught me wrong from right It's your heart that held you tight But we're only love Spin me around and round and round Love calling your name I will live on Calling your name And the world seems like my enemy The waterfall of frowns And the wave of life will capture me And I'm falling down upon love C'mon now darling I'm falling falling down on love I'm falling down, falling down on love I'm falling down on love

Suffocate

Good morning baby, guess you wanna touch me now You wanna put your hands on my face Tell me you love me, Tell me you need me Don't say you love me Don't say anything... 'Cause I am not that kind of man, I'm much less than you think I am... So many people are just like Jesus, They drag all this weight, to get to anything better than... Where they've been Or where they are Well tell me what the hell's the reason when we never get anywhere... But you want me to say "Hey, it's okay..." But I'm so dizzy baby, just get the hell away from me... How can you breathe? How can you see? I can't even sleep when you're with me... I'm sick of summertime I know, all of the best things in life are unkind To be everything I could be, anything But all the time I'm thinking, "If I only had a pair of wings..." But you want touch me Just get your hands off me Don't touch me And baby, I can't see that you see How can you see? How can you breathe? I can't feel a thing when you're with me... I can't take it this way, I hope you understand, Don't you fucking touch me I can hardly stand to look at you How can you breathe? How can you see? How can you breathe? How can you see? I can't even sleep when you're with me How can you breathe? How can you see? I can't feel... I can't feel a thing... Can't feel a thing... Can't feel a thing... Can't feel a thing...

40 years

I was born in the jungle With the sickening smell of cinnamon in the air I was born in a white hole and I can't believe the colors here today Stalk on a circle Well I've never been blessed with elephant's memory Riding a red line nowhere If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir If it takes 40 years I'll walk the thunder and the rain I was born in a good home Where the rising cost of raising children Was not a factor and you can't believe the things it does to me I'm filled with the white noise Well I never did much of anything anyway Jump on a big train no whereI If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir If it takes 40 years I'll walk the thunder and the rain I wanna buy me a good heart, and a conscience, and maybe raise some children I wanna get me a good wife, and a garden, garden, garden, garden. Wanna start me a new life with a six foot color television- Wanna start me a new life somewhere. I was born on a warm night On the right coast, of southeastern America. Dead on arrival, but you can't believe the things you hear today. I'll fly me a white plane over water -over blue and green and land in the ocean somewhere.

Bulldog

Hey now bulldog dont you rush in with your eyes wild hey there big bear take a moment to decide All these angels together walk the wire line scarecrow angels says the bulldog with a smile they catch you in a corner shut your eyes they come at you at night they catch you in a corner shut your eyes they come at you at night One less bell to warn you.. One more chance to say goodbye I dont I dont I dont think I understand you.. dont really think I do I dont I dont I dont ..think I understand you dont really think I do Hey Louise whats the barrier between love and need? How far is it from love underneath What are you supposed to mean to me what do you mean to me? they catch you in a corner shut your eyes they come at you at night they catch you in a corner shut your eyes they come at you at night one less bell to warn ya one more song to play.. Im going back to california your gonna get your chance to say goodbye Hey mathew, is anybody mean to you and dont you harbor points of view secretly belive in your doom I dont think I understand you I dont really think I do I dont think I understand you I dont really think I do Well ya got One less bell to warn ya One more song to play Im going back to California gonna get your chance to say goodbye One less bell to warn ya, one more chance to say goodbye...

A Mona Lisa

I Heard my Lisa say "I can't believe you could leave me looking this way." When ever music plays... I smile and I can't feel anything all I want to say..(All I want to say) is everything's all right and I'm OK Heard my Lisa today "say he wants to paint the same me every single day" "what's wrong with him anyway?" cuz sometimes I can't feel anything all I want to say..(All I want to say) is everything's all right and I'm ok.. I'm OK My body's mapped before me.. On a flying carpet through the sky The same things that destroy me... we'll hang there waiting for me upon a wall outside of me yeah. Heard my Lisa say "god blesses the same things every single day." How'd he miss me anyway? 7 days and I can't feel anything. My paint is smeared upon his wall.. Its a portrait we are 4 feet tall.. Just Leanardo passing days with a Mona Lisa cant feel anything. All I want to say..(All I want to say) is everything's all right and I'm OK all I want to say....(all I want to say) is everything's all right and I'm OK

Chelsea

I never go to New York City these days Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me Maybe in a month or two, Maybe when things are different for me, Maybe when things are different for you You know all of this shit, just sticks in my head Is there anything different these days? The light in her eyes goes out I never had light in my eyes anyway Maybe things are different these days It's good for everybody to hurt somebody once in a while The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me Is there anything different these days? The light in her eyes goes out, I never had light in my eyes anyway Maybe things are different these days I dream I'm in New York City some nights. Angels flow down from all the buildings Something about an angel just kills me I keep hoping something will Is there anything different these days? The light in her eyes goes out, I never had light in my eyes anyway Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe maybe things are different, Maybe things are different these days The light goes out I never had light in my eyes anyway Maybe things are different ......these days.

Lightning

Its crazy but often clear often clear.. We shimmer and disappear In color in black and white black and white.. We slowly fade out of site but these days were lit by lightning thin lines of light Its crazy but somehow clear somehow clear we ride in silence out of fear We've spoken seem come alive come alive we prefer the silence of the blindBut these days were lit by lightning thin lines of light these days were lit by lines of sharp white shock white ice hard cold white light were crazy but often kind often kind we rage in violence blind Together and then alone then alone we race in small circles home but these days were lit by lightning Thin lines of light These days were lit by lines of sharp white light these days Were lit by lightning Thin lines of light..... These days.. were lit by light

Baby, I'm A Big Star Now

Gonna get out on the road tonight Cause, I got a hollow in my head Checking it up Baby, one more time for you Checking it up Until the pot hits the sky It's like I think I'm sick of cocaine Got a feeling like It's running in my veins Checking it up Baby, one more time for you Checking it up Until the pot hits the sky Even the best years Leave a lot to be desired When they pass you by All these seasons All this time Spinning round Until they leave you Far behind Lay me down in the circle Where the spotlight shines All this pleasure gets me high Some people will cut you Until you're bleeding But not me I just want to do it to myself Checking it up Baby, one more time for you Checking it up Until the pot hits the sky Even the best years Are a waste of time But, Baby, I'm a big star now All these seasons All this time Spinning round Until they leave you Far behind Lay me down in the circle Where the spotlight shines All this pleasure gets me high All these seasons All this time Spinning round Until they leave you Far behind Lay me down in the circle Where the spotlight shines Turn your back back on the people Who draw the line Put your faith in the answers That you can find Hit the Ground hard running down That highway line Say a prayer for the ones You have left behind All this pleasure gets them high I don't want to give it back...

She Don't Want Nobody Near

She can't keep away from them Waits here and disappears From the wrong things she intends Pretty soon they've got you hanging on a line Pretty soon they string you one by one, same old rope She says, 'I'm alright, just take me home tonight She don't want nobody home cause its a little too crowded there She don't want to be alone So they just keep pouring in Pretty soon they've got her heading for the door She comes home to find they cannot hang around no more She says, 'I'm alright, just take me home tonight' Pain won't rationalize all those alibis and reasons that keep creeping in tonight You're half a world away But I just can't wash away the stain of every single thing that you could not believe oh well She don't want no one around she don't want anybody to see what she looks like when she's down cause the truth's a sad place to be Pretty soon she gets them crawling up the walls Every sunday morning the bed bleeds and you never saw ? She says, 'I'm ok, its alright, hey look what do we want to do tonight?' She says, 'I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight.'

My Love

my love lives out at the end of the road takes what you give her and goes says things that everyone knows shes only willing to kiss me again lights me on fire sprays me with water and she lights me up again said my love burried my head in the sand screams just as loud as she can sings me to sleep when I cant shes always willing to kiss me again she wakes up the neighbors Goes down for water and then she comes up again I said good love lives on the radio dial never goes out of style makes all the children run wild we keep on thinking Strait to the end? now its completly we just just shout for the moment and then we vanish again my love waits at the end of the road takes what you give her and goes says things that everyone knows ya shes my love talking about my love ya shes my love my love my love shes my love

Here Comes That Feeling Again

here comes that feeling again you're always around me this highland life never ends it just circles inside me and when we're older we'll go back to being friends but oh, here comes that feeling again i better get away from all these oh-so-familar places that i see i gotta find a place without so many familar faces in front of me when i wake up in the morning and there's no one there but me i'll remember i'll remember here comes that feeling again you're always around me this highland life never ends it just circles inside me and when we're older we'll go back to being friends but oh, here comes that feeling again gotta keep on moving through these distances between yesterday and now as if all this riding on these white lines will make them fade away somehow do you try not to remember the things you cannot forget and are you sorry for what hasn't happened yet i stare at everyone it makes me wonder why i can't see anyone but you then i change and all these faces reappear in different places i can't see a thing but you here comes that feeling again you're always around me this highland life never ends it just circles inside me and when we're older we'll go back to being friends but oh, here comes that feeling again

Covers

Four white stallions

(Patrick Winningham)

She had four white stallions coming around the bend Four strong angels at her command descend four more seasons for all that's broken to mend I got four more reasons Why I cant go back there again she had skin like a statue milky white and pure carved by an artist who's hand is demure got a mind I like a saber razor sharp and sure God how I hate myself for still wanting her... Damn these nights are dreaming.. Visions soft and sure Cause I wake to find there's nothing left of me in her.. Nothing more than a heart still a war.. She had four white stallions coming around the bend.. Four strong angels already sinned I got four good reasons for all that's broken to mend..I got four more seasons for all that's broken to mend.. I got four more reasons Why I cant go back there again..I got four good reasons why I cant go back there again.

Caravan

( Van morrison)

And the caravan is on its way I can hear the merry gypsies play Mama mama look at Emma Rose she's out playing with her radio lets go say la la la la la la la la la la la la la la and the caravan have all my friends they will stay with me until the end Gypsy Robin, Sweet Emma Rose tell me everything I need to know So here we go say..la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la turn up your radio let me hear let me hear your song Switch on your electric light so we can get down to what is really wrong cause I long to hold you tight so that I can feel you. Sweet lady of the night. I shall revere you... through the door say turn it up, turn it up little bit higher radio turn it up just enough so U know radio said la la la la la la la la la la la la la la and the caravan is painted red and white that means every body staying overnight... Barefoot gypsy player round the campfire sing and play And a woman tells us of her ways ..Everybody say.. La la la la la la la la la la la turn up your radio.. Listen closer so we can get down to the show (shake it ven shake it ven) switch on your electric light we can get down to what is really right I long to hold you tight so that I can feel you sweet little -witch sweet little witch of.. I shall I shall revere you baby turn it up- turn it up ah well little bit higher... radio said turn it up..just enough.. So U know U know its go soul then.. radio come radio said.. Turn that little bit up said lalallalallallallalalallalallala Turn up your radio then listen to the witch say goodnight darlin turn up the radio listen to the witch cry...llala lalallala lallala wont ya take me down to the river baby wash my hands wash my feet take me down to the river darlin where the sun don't sleep I said sweet lady of the night..I shall revere you

The Richest man

(C.J Chenier)

If I had a dollar For every time you broke my heart messed up my mind Id be the richest man Id be the richest man In the world If bad times paid interest I d have U to thank Ill be driving a new car Have money in the bank ID be the richest man Id be the richest man In the world baby baby money cant buy love the kind I dream of That's so hard to find a good woman's touch in the morning when I rise baby Id give up every single dime money cant buy love the kind I dream of That's so hard to find for a good woman's touch in the morning when I rise baby Id give up every single dime If tear drops were diamonds from the African mines if heartaches were silver my whole life would shine Id be the richest man Id be the richest man in the world baby baby... oooooo

Maggie May

(Rod Stewart)

Wake up Maggie, I think I've got something to say to you It's late September and I really should be back at school I know I keep you amused But I fell I'm being used Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more You led me away from home Just to save you from being alone You stole my heart and that's what really hurts The morning sun when it's in your eyes really shows your age But that don't worry me none, in my eyes you're everything I laughed at all of your jokes My love you didn't need to coax Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more You led me away from home Just to save you from being alone You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without All I needed was a friend to lend a helping hand But you turned into a lover and mother, what a lover, you wore me out All you did was wreck my bed And in the morning kick me in the head Oh Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more You led me away from home 'Cause you didn't want to be alone You stole my heart, I couldn't leave you if I tried I suppose I could collected my books and go on back to school Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living at playing pool Or find myself a rock and roll band That needs a helping hand Oh Maggie, I wished I'd never seen your face You made a first class fool out of me But I'm as blind as a fool can be You stole my heart but I love you anyway I'd never seen your face I'll get on back home, one of these days

The ghost in you

(Psychedelic Furs)

A man in my shoes runs a light All the papers lie tonight but falling over you is the news of the day Angels fall like rain and love , is all of heaven way inside you the time moves and she don't fade the ghost in you she don't fade away The race is on, IM on your side but hearing you my engines died I'm in the mood for you or for running away All the stars come down in you but love, love, love you cant give it away inside you the time moves and she don't fade the ghost in you she don't fade inside you the time moves and she don't fade away don't you know she don't fade don't you go it makes no sense and all these talking superman just take away the time just to get it away aint it just like the rain cause love,love,love,love is only heaven away inside you the time moves and she don't fade the ghost in you she don't fade away inside you the time moves and she don't fade away the ghost in you she don't fade A man in my shoes runs a light but all the papers lie tonight falling over you is the news of the day and love will not fade away and love love love will not fade away

Jumping Jesus

(Sordid Humor)

Jumpin Jesus my oh my he's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumpen Jesus why oh why take the time to get inside to get inside So what's a wall with so much yellow for? I don't know what it's for So what's a wall has so much yellow for? I don't know what it's for Jumpen Jesus my oh my he's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumpen Jesus why oh why take the time to get inside to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside..of Odessa - he lives with his life and his child on a house boat Yea he likes sunflowers and big pictere frames and van goghs Jumpin Jesus my oh my he's got a great big bottle of sunshine Jumpin Jesus why oh why take the time to get inside to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside na na na na na na na na la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaa laaaa laaaa

Wiseblood

(Kurt Stevenson, Patrick Winningham, & Chris Boesel)

I'm an outcast that no one can save anymore and the days of my youth, have all long gone by I was the kind of boy the devil would offer a smoke or a drink to or a ride downtown to some God forsaken land. One Sunday morning at dawn you know they baptized my soul but they held me down so long Christ I almost drowned Yeah I was the kind of boy who never learned to smile so I kicked and I screamed 'till I tore myself lose from all these great big hands Oh Yeah Chorus: Wiseblood knows I walk the way the wind blows Wiseblood hears grace whisper right behind My momma, she turned around and said "Little boy you better wake up.... cause your the walking dead" Oh she was the kind a girl who never touched a smoke or a drink she just smoldered like an empty church left to burn in the wind

A good year for the roses

(George Jones)

I can hardly stand the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray. Lying cold the way you left them, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed. Or the lip print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink. But at least you thought you wanted it which is so much more than I can say for me. It's been a good year for the roses Many blooms still linger there. The lawn could stand another mowing It's funny, I don't even care But as you turned and walked away As the door behind you closes The only thing I thought to say Was what a good year for the roses After three, four years of marriage It's the first time that you haven't made the bed I guess the reason we're not talking, is there's so little left to say that we haven't said While a million thoughts go racing through my mind I guess I haven't said a word From the bedroom, the familiar sound of our one baby's crying goes unheard

This Must be the place

(Talking heads)

Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me round I feel numb - burn with a weak heart (So I) guess I must be having fun The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky It's OK I know nothing's wrong . . nothingHi yo I got plenty of time Hi yo you got light in your eyes And you're standing here beside me I love the passing of time Never for money Always for love Cover up + say goodnight . . . say goodnight Home - is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home - -she lifted up her wings Guess that this must be the place I can't tell one from another Did I find you, or you find me? There was a time Before we were born If someone asks, this where I'll be . . . where I'll be Hi yo We drift in and out Hi yo sing into my mouth Out of all those kinds of people You got a face with a view I'm just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two And you love me till my heart stops Love me till I'm dead Eyes that light up, eyes look through you Cover up the blank spots Hit me on the head Ah ooh

Six different ways

(The Cure)

This is stranger than I thought Six different ways inside my heart And every one I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give them more and more I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give the world and more They think I'm on my hands and head This time they're much too slow Six sides to every lie I say It's that American voice again "It was never quite like this before Not one of you is the same... " This is stranger than I thought Six different ways inside my heart And everyone I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside

Return of the grevious Angel

( Gram Parsons)

Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich And welcome me back to town Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor And I'll show you how it all went down Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every single town Oh, and I remember something you once told me And I'll be damned if it did not come true Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you `Cause I headed West to grow up with the country Across those prairies with the waves of grain And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee We flew straight across that river bridge, last night a half past two The switchman wave his lantern goodbye and so long as we went rolling through Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel And now I know just what I have to do And the man on the radio won't leave me alone He wants to take my money for something that I've never been shown and I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee The news I could bring I met up with the king On his head an amphetamine crown He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt And lighted out for some desert town Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every single town Oh, but I remembered something you once told me And I'll be damned if it did not come true Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down And they all lead me straight back home to you

Carmelita

(Warren Zevon)

I hear mariachi static on my radio And the tubes, they glow in the dark And I'm there with you in Ensenada And I'm here in Echo Park : Carmelita, hold me tighter. I think I'm sinkin' down. And I'm all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town. ): Well, I pawned my Smith and Wesson, and I went to meet my man. He hangs out down on Alvarado Street, at the Pioneer Chicken stand Well, I'm sittin' here playin' solitaire with my pearl handled deck. The county won't give me no more methadone and they cut off your welfare check

She doesn't exsist anymore

(Robyn Hitchcock)

I used to ring you and put down the phone, once wore a hole in your dress. Even tried Voodoo outside your home, but these days I couldn't care less. She doesn't exist any more, She doesn't exist any more. I let her go like the fool that I was, thought I'd get over her soon. I smell her perfume when my eyes are closed, and I see her face in the moon. She doesn't exist any more, She doesn't exist any more. I tell myself it would be different now, I wouldn't treat her that way. I wouldn't be me if she wasn't her, and it's far too late, anyway. 'Cos she doesn't exist any more, She doesn't exist any more. Only inside you the ghost of the love, that is wordless and painful and old. There's no one else in the whole outside world, that matches to her in your soul. But she doesn't exist any more, She doesn't exist any more.

Oceanside

( ROBYN HITCHCOCK )

Did you ever hover in the distance?Did you ever swoop down from the sky To the bright green rocks all draped with seaweedAnd the deep blue ocean rolling by? Maybe I will find today Maybe I will lose tomorrow Gonna rock on to the oceanside Did you ever see into the future? See the big red sun that won't go down? And the giant moths upon the cliffside In the deep red scar that was our town? Maybe I will find today Maybe I will lose tomorrow Gonna rock on to the oceanside Baby, we're the king and queen of nothing Everybody glows and then they're numb We can make a moment last forever Gaze across the ocean to the sun Maybe I will find today Maybe I will lose tomorrow Gonna rock on to the oceanside Gonna rock on to the oceanside Gonna rock on to the oceanside Baby, we're the king and queen of something Everybody goes and then they come

How can I live without you?

(Cracker)

You can still come and make me coffee in the mornin You can still come and cook me chicken fried steak You can live your life with whomever you please to, as long as someone takes good care of me you know I don't mind. How can I live without you if it means I gotta get a job? You could still come, bring me those fancy pastries. You can still come round, crawl into my bed. You can live your life with whomever you please to, as long as someone takes good care of me you know I don't mind. How can I live without you if it means I gotta get a job?

Low

(cracker)

Sometimes I wanna take you down. Sometimes I wanna get you low. Brush your hair back from your eyes. Take you down let the river flow. Sometimes I go and walk the street Behind the green sheet of glass. A million miles below their feet A million miles, a million miles I'll be with you girl Like being low hey hey hey like being stoned. I'll be with you girl Like being low hey hey hey like being stoned. A million poppies gonna make me sleep. Just one rose and knows your name The fruit is rusting on the vine The fruit is calling from the trees Hey don't you wanna go down Like some junkie cosmonaut A million miles below their feet A million miles a million miles Blue blue is the sun. Brown brown is the sky. Green green of her eyes. A million miles a million miles Hey hey don't you wanna go down Like some disgraced cosmonaut A million miles below their feet A million miles a million miles

Crossing muddy waters

(John Hiatt)

My baby's gone and I don't know why She let out this morning Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky Left me without warning Sooner than the dogs could bark and faster than the sun rose Down to the banks in an old mule car she took a flatboat across the shallow Left me in my tears to drown she left a baby daughter Now the water's wide and deep and brown She's crossing muddy waters Tobacco standing in the fields be rotten come November And a bitter heart will not reveal a spring that love remembers When that sweet brown girl of mine her black eyes are ravens We broke the bread and drank the wine from a jug that she'd been saving Baby's crying and the daylight's goneThat big oak tree is groaning In rush of wind and river of song I can hear my sweetheart moaning Crying for her baby child or crying for her husband Crying for that river's wild to take her from her loved ones

Pancho & Lefty

(Townes Van Zandt)

Livin' on the road, my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean But now you wear your skin like iron And your breath as hard as kerosene You weren't your mama's only boy But her favorite one, it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit, boys His horse as fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match, you know On the deserts down in Mexico No one heard his dyin' words Ah, but that's the way it goes All the federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose Lefty he can't sing the blues All night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down South Ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low Lefty split for Ohio Where he got the bread to go There ain't nobody 'knows All the federales say They could have had him any day We only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose The poets tell how Pancho fell And Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold And so the story ends, we're told Pancho needs your prayers, it's true But save a few for Lefty, too He only did what he had to do And now he's growin' old All the federales say We could have had him any day They only let him go so long Out of kindness, I suppose A few old gray federales still say We could have had him any day We only let him go so long Out of kindness, I suppose

Useless stuff

(Cracker)

I'm so fucking sick I'm the king of the world I'm a genius of useless stuff Some people they gotta work well I just hang around dreaming up useless stuff So if I call you from time to time I said my life is such a drag I feel like a hag please shut me up Girl would you like to live my life And I'll be with you tonight I'll be your useless stuff Now everybody wants to be our friend so we act real Zen and hang around with movie stars So if I call you from time to time I said my life is such a drag I feel like a hag kick me in the ass Girl would you like to live my life And I'll be with you tonight I'll be your useless stuff I'll be your useless stuff Can I be your useless stuff?

Bad time

(Grand Funk Railroad)

I'm in love with a girl Im talking about im in love with a girl I cant live without Im in love but I sure picked a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love Let her be somebody elses queen I dont want to know about it too many others who know what I mean thats why I got to live without it said Im in love with a girl Im talking about Im in love with a girI cant live without Im in love but I feel like Im wearing it out im in love but I must have picked a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love The story is coming back to me from my friends and the people I dont want to see the things they're saying I know just couldnt be true at least not untill I hear it from you cause I love a little girl Im talking about Im in love with a girl I cant live without Im in love but I feel like Im wearing it out im in love but I must have picked a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love a bad time to be in love

Dancing Days

(Led Zeppelin)

Dancing days are here again As the summer evenings grow I got my flower, I got my power I got a woman who knows. I said it's alright You know it's alright I guess it's all in my heart You'll be my only, my one and only Is that the way it should start? Crazy ways are evident In the way that you're wearing your clothes Suppin' boze is precedent As the evening starts to glow. I told your mamma I'd get you home But I didn't tell her I had no car I saw a lion he was standing alone With a tadpole in a jar. Dancing days are here again As the summer evening grows You are my flower, you are my power You are my woman who knows.

For the sake of the song

(Townes Van Zandt)

Why does she sing her sad songs for me, I'm not the one to tenderly bring her soft sympathy I've just begun to see my way clear and it's plain, if I stop I will fall I can lay down a tear for her pain, just a tear and that's all. What does she want me to do? she says that she knows that moments are rare I suppose that it's true then on she goes to say I don't care, and she knows that I do Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song and who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong. She'd like to think that I'm cruel, but she knows that's a lie for I would be no more than a tool if I allowed her to cry all over me. Oh my sorrow is real even though I can't change my plan If she could see how I feel then I knowthat she'd understand Oh does she actually think I'm to blame? Does she really believe that some word of mine can relieve all her pain? Can't she see that she grieves just because she's been blindly deceived by her shame? Nothin's what it seems, maybe she'll start someday to realize If she abandons her dreams, then all the words she can say are only lies when will she see that to gain is only to lose? All that she offers me are her chains I got to refuse Oh but it's only to herself that she's lied she likes to pretend it's something that she must defend, with her pride and I don't intend to stand her and be the friendfrom whom she must hide

Atlantic City

(Bruce SpringSteen)

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night now they blew up his house too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight gonna see what them racket boys can do Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state and the D.A. can't get no relief Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade and the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by the skin of its teeth Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Well I got a job and tried to put my money away But I got debts that no honest man can pay So I drew what I had from the Central Trust And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold but with you forever I'll stay We're goin' out where the sand's turnin' to gold so put on your stockin's baby `cause the night's getting cold And everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end So honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your hair up nice and set up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Thunder Road

(Bruce Springsteen)

The screen door slams Mary's dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey that's me and I want you onlyDon't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again Don't run back inside darling you know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking That maybe we ain't that young anymore Show a little faith, there's magic in the night You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright Oh and that's alright with me Oh oh come take my hand Driving out tonight to case the promised land Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road Show a little faith, there's magic in the night You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright Oh and that's alright with me

Live forever

(Oasis)

Maybe I don't really want to know How your garden grows'Cos I just want to flyLately did you ever feel the painIn the morning rain As it soaks you to the bone Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don't want to dieMaybe I just want to breathe Maybe I just don't believe Maybe you're the same as me We see things they'll never see You and I are gonna live foreverI said Maybe I don't really want to know How your garden grows 'Cos I just want to fly Lately did you ever feel the pain In the morning rain As it soaks you to the bone Maybe I will never be All the things that I want to be Now is not the time to cry Now's the time to find out why I think you're the same as me We see things they'll never see You and I are gonna live forever Maybe I don't really want to knowHow your garden grows 'Cos I just want to fly Lately did you ever feel the pain In the morning rain As it soaks you to the bone Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don't want to dieMaybe I just want to breathe Maybe I just don't believe Maybe you're the same as me We see things they'll never see You and I are gonna live forever Gonna live forever Gonna live forever Gonna live forever Gonna live forever Gonna live forever Gonna live forever

Mercy

(Kurt Stevenson, Patrick Winningham, & Chris Boesel)

I got a feeling of unrighteousness bitter cold hollow bitterness down the road I walk with loneliness mercy will follow me I'm told Beneath this skin there lies a heart of stone Its growing old so very far, from home but a heart of gold I may someday own? and mercy will follow me, I'm told mercy will you follow me mercy will you follow me to the final breath at last I take mercy will you follow me mercy will you follow me Till the chain of this old world I finally break.My sister sang songs so sweet and sad bout a man whos love I never had there's a train bound for gillian? mercy will follow me im told mercy will you follow me mercy will you follow me till my final breath at last I take mercy will you follow me mercy will you follow me Till the chains of this old world I finally break Till the chains of this old world I finally break Till the chains of this old world I finally break

Sweet Home Alabama

(Lynyrd Skynard)

Big wheels keep on turning Carry me home to see my kin Singing songs about the southland I miss my family once again and I think it's a sin Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her Well I heard Ol' Neil put her down Well I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you In Birmingham they love the governor Boo-Hoo-Hoo Now we all did what we could do Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you Tell me true Here I come Alabama Now Muscle Shoals has got the swampers, theyve been known to pick a song or two Lord They get me off so much They pick me up when I'm feelin' blue Now How about you Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Oh Sweet home Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you And the gov'nor's true Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Oh Yeah Sweet home Alabama Lord I'm coming home to you Yeah Yeah