High And Mighty

Here comes trouble
In the shape of a lady
She started cool but now
She's coming around daily
She's got some big ideas
About being my baby
It's her game
With the name of love

Now she's sure pretty
That i have to confess
But no five-star fox is
Getting me in a mess
Let's buy a ring, she says
Let's go and get blessed
It's her game and she calls it love

Rock and roll rules my soul
Pushing everything and everyone
To one side
But when all grows old
Chill's still cold
When i sing with my sweet guitar
When i sing with my sweet
My sweet guitar

Don't waste your tears on me
Go cry in the river
What you need i ain't
About to deliver
I'm my own man and
That's how i'm gonna stay
¡®cause music is
The name of the game

Rock and roll rules my soul
Pushing everything and everyone
To one side
But when all grows old
The chill's still cold
While i sing with my sweet guitar
While i sing with my sweet
My sweet guitar

I just lay down wonderin'
What to lay down
Lately i can do it
Every day undisturbed
I think i know what
But i can't find out how
The morning didn't show me
What it was worth

Miles and miles of smiles
Getting me nowhere
Opportunities i just can see
Can't lead me to the slaughter
¡®cause i'll already be there
I've been up that street
And i know what's waiting for me
Just waiting

Midnight, moonlight
Day into day
No escape i must stay
Midnight, show me the way
Show me the way
Give me something to play
Something to play
To help me make the new day

Take me out of the darkness
Into the light
I've no friends to stand by me
Here in the night
It's an affair of
A sad and weary heart
Take me out of the darkness
Back to the start

I just lay down wonderin'
What to lay down
Lately i can do it
Every day undisturbed
I think i know what
But i just can't find out how
The morning didn't show me
What it was worth

You who thought
Your eyes could tell no lies
So your life became a compromise
And it was you
Who had seen men dyin'
You heard their children cryin'
While their women weep in silence

And you who thought
You were so wise
Succeeded only in disguise
Now and then
You'd find a bridge to cross
Reach the other side
And you'd still be lost
Evaded by the sweet smell of life

And the people that you try
To show the way
Never believe you
Never believe you - no way

While your women weep in silence
Your women weep in silence
Women weep in silence

I walked you to your doorstep
Believin' we could make a little love
And i let you have my heart
I was as certain as the stars above

Looked here and there
Every everywhere
I even searched beyond the dawn
But you were nowhere to be found
And i was going round and round
Lost like i'd never been born

Time after time
I've lost my love for a rhyme
A reason seemed good enough
You always put me down
While you made me run around
I can't take anymore of that stuff

Time after time
I've lost my love for a rhyme
And my reason
Seemed good enough
You always put me down
And you make me run around
I can't take anymore of that stuff

I can't stop singing
I can't see the end
Just a new beginning
As long as i keep on trying
I'll survive just fine
Free to take my time

Ridin' the moon in the midnight sky
I can see through
The man who lies with eyes
And the real thing that's wrong is
He has no song to lean on
So i'll take my time
Just to give you my rhyme
To try to be sure and open the door
'cause there's much more to life
Than a day and a night to dream on

Now i ain't confessin'
To same kind of blessin'
I'm trying to say
Why i'm happy today
I'm not preachin', teachin',
Makin' some speech in dedication
'cause it's no good me sayin'
Where the blame should be layin'
For with that kind of reason
It comes out the same
With an ear to the ground
Each day i found inspiration

I can't believe y'all are still sayin'
We're a long way from rock'n'roll
You won't look for the good
In the tunes we're playin'
Prefer to say we got no soul

But day after day in town after town
People say we're doin' alright
We play and we stay boogyin' down
And rockin' on into the night

It's breath and words
And time you're wastin'
When you should be tryin'
To have a good time
For a good few years
It's been yours we've tasted
So here's a little piece of our mind

We'll roll and we'll roll
And we'll roll and we'll roll
Till we run out of reason to try
If it happens you don't approve
It don't matter we won't ask why

You can't keep a good band down
You'll never find the solution
You won't stop us runnin' around
You're dealin' with an institution

We'll fill our cup with wine while you
Fill your head with high ideals
You know so much
But you still can't touch
Till you find out how it feels

It'll take much more
Than the high and mighty
To bring down the king of the road
We could still be friends
And quit this fightin'
And let the real story be told

You can't keep a good band down
You'll never find the solution
You won't stop us runnin' around
With your paragraphs of pollution