Covenant

Tell me now and i'll understand
Does venus hold you in the palm of her hand
Has her blackness touched your very heart
She'll smile sweetly as your world falls apart

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And i just can't quit it babe
I just can't stand the pain
And i just can't quit it babe
I keep running back again

Little by little piece by piece
Your defenses have all slipped away
And real beauty's such an elusive thing
Somewhere down the line you'll have to pay

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Oh no, its such a cold, cold feeling
Cuts your body to the bone
Oh no, its a strange, strange feeling
Loves been abandoned and i'm so alone

And everyday i see my flame growing dimmer
I've nothing left but this very life to save
And evry night i feel that i'm a winner
She's taking me down to the grave

And everyday i see my flame growing dimmer
I can't seem to chase the ghosts away
And every night i get too high, i'm a winner
I've nothing left but to pray

And every night she makes me feel like a winner
And every night she makes me think i'm a winner

Venus smiles and encircles me
And wraps me in a soft princely gown
Waves of darkness rise like the sea
In her addiction i will drown

(intro)
Fool's gold, sparkling like the midnight sun
Fool's gold, touch the ivory handles on my gun
(sold out to me?), charlatans and thieves
(so wrong not to see?), jokers and the priests?
Fool's gold, stranded on a (point gloss?) sea
Fool's gold, nothing here and nothing to see
(sold out to me?), the weasels and the feared
(and it's so wrong not to see?), the ghosts of the disappeared
All gone away...

(instrumental)
Sometimes, when i'm touched by love, by hate, or by the grace of god
Sometimes, in the dark when hope is fading,
Or no longer flies,
I won't sympathize
Spend my time getting high

Someone came to rescue me, lit up like a christmas tree
Tired of living on my own, someone came and take me home

Sometimes, this jungle life is boring, pawing,
Ready for a feast, someone kill the beast
Outside, streets are teeming, breathing heavy,
Ready to explode, my brother's heavy load,
What you reap is what you sow

Someone came to rescue me
Lit up like a christmas tree
Stranded here on my own
Someone came to take me home

(instrumental)

Someone came to rescue me, lit up like a christmas tree
When i'm out here on my own, someone came and took me home

Someone came to rescue me, lit up like a christmas tree
Stranded here on my own, someone came and took me home

(instrumental fade out)

(instrumental intro)
Going to jamaica,
Warm and coral waters flow
There she goes
Sun kissed her body, in this magic feel love grow,
Love grows
Feel like letting go

Hey mr. saturday night
?? right out the hole
It stops in a minute,
It's right down in it
Hey, we're really back on a roll

I don't know why, i don't know why
Feel so good i could die, i could die
Great escape, i'll be there, by the skin of my teeth, on a wish and a prayer
With a head full of hammers, both feet in the grave, i'm gonna stand i'm gonna rise again

Dream time (lavinia??),
Even though the odds are stacked, she's coming back
(moon monkeys barking?) in a bitter chocolate glow,
There she goes, feel like letting go...

Hey, mr. cool jazz nights, let the fever go,
It stops in a minute, i'm down in it
Hey, play it long and slow
I don't know why, i don't know why,
Feels so good i could die, i could die,
With a great escape, i'll be there, by the skin of my teeth on a wish and a prayer
With a head full of hammers, both feet in the grave, i'm gonna stand i'm gonna rise again

(instrumental)
With a great escape, i'll be there, by the skin of my teeth on a wish and a prayer
With a head full of hammers both feet in the grave, i'm gonna stand i'm gonna rise again
I've been stricken, i'll be there, by the skin of my teeth on a wish and a prayer, and i'm
Not going down, both feet in the grave, i'm gonna stand i'm gonna rise again.

Dream time (lavinia??)
Feel like letting go.
(end!)

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Try to make some changes really on the line
Given your religion, never ever time
All the jokers laughing, queens upon the floor
Mothers understand it, baby needs some more

Head held up to ransom, by a quick hand and a gun
Just your education, hard to understand
Will the teenage legend make a mark on you
Make a big time status, with a pen we'll stab it through

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Mother mary could you ever really feel the same
And would you try to understand a wild colonial boy

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Repeat
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Repeat

(instrumental intro)
Oh my darling will you come to me
Shaking now just like a willow tree
So tell me what's the story
This track we'll ride to glory
Coming home

Pretty karla and her russian clothes
Clapboard house and a different nose
Love keeps a candle burning
These steel wheels are turning
Back for home

Come in out of the rain
Come out of the night
Out on the midnight train
Midnight train
Come out of the light
Come out of the rain
Riding the midnight train
Midnight train

Moscow lights, well they dim and glow
The taste is sweeter than its driven snow
So tell me what's the story
This track to ride to glory
Coming home

Come out of the rain, come out of the lights,
Out on the midnight train, midnight train
Come out of the lights, come out in the rain,
Riding the midnight train, midnight train

(instrumental)

Oh my darling will you come to me
Shaking now just like a willow tree

Come out of the lights, come out in the rain,
Riding the midnight train, midnight train
Out of the rain, live again, riding the midnight train, midnight train
Come of the lights, into the rain, riding the midnight train, midnight train
One little strange, come back again
(instrumental fade out)

(instrumental)

I'm not looking to change your mind,
There's a place, call it home
It's no secret, the world unwinds
Maybe now you're not alone

It's just another day
In the life of cowboy joe
Straitlaced to the bone
(this story will not play?)

You take the wheel and play the chance
Suddenly the room's divided
As in the way of true romance
It's always undecided

It's just another day
In the life of cowboy joe
Shipwrecked to the bay
(this story will not play?)

Every time he climbs back up
Smacked down with a dime
It's evens or odds now
Just ran out of time

(instrumental)

Love's a struggle, there's a fight
No bone of contention
So unhappy, well here's the bite
That's the mother of invention

It's just another day
In the life of cowboy joe
Strange place to play

It's just another day
In the life of cowboy joe
(fade out)

(instrumental intro)
I don't want to settle down
Stop my heart and turn around
Rebel nature, just got to be free
I'm in the right place, right place to be

Washers, dryers, dealers, and souls
Looking into the fire
Flat caps, whippets, lovers, and wives
Balanced out on the wire
And she said
Love is forever babe
Love is a tool
Servant for jesus
A slave for a fool

I look out through love's back door
I escape but not any more
Revelation help me see
I'm in the wrong place, the wrong place to be

Washers dryers dealers and souls
Looking up to rise higher
Flat caps whippets lovers and wives
Balanced out on the wire

And she said
Love is forever babe
Love is a tool
Servant for jesus
Slave for a fool
Love is for worshipped
Love is a test
Love is a firebrand burnin'
A hole in her breast
Love is ...
(instrumental)

Washers dryers dealers and souls
Looking into the fire
Flat caps, whippets, lovers and wives,
Balanced out on the wire
And she said
Love is forever babe
Love is a tool
Servant for jesus
Slave for a fool
Love is for worship
Love is a test
Love is the firebrand burning
A hole in her breast
Love is a blossom
Love is a lie
She said be careful boy
This ain't no wild cherry pie
Love is forever, love is forever, love is forever (fade out immediately)