Classic Masters

I hear you're driving
someone else's car now...
She said you came and
took your stuff away -
All the poetry, and the trunk
you kept your life in -
I knew that it would
come to that someday...
Like a sad hallucination,
when I opened up my eyes,
the train had passed the station,
and you were trapped inside...
Yet I never wonder where you went,
I only wonder why,
I wonder why...

Oh Caroline
Oh, whoa-oh Caroline
oh, oh Caroline
whoa whoa whoa, Caroline

Well I hear you're using someone else's number;
She said she saw you in the store today.
It doesn't matter whose address
you're listed under,
I only know they'll never make you stay.
Like a memory in motion,
you were only passing through...
that is all you've ever known of life,
that's all you'll ever do.
There's a dream I have where I sail away;
looking back I wave at you,
and I wave goodbye...

Oh Caroline
Oh, oh whoa oh, Caroline
Oh, oh Caroline
Oh

In another life I see you
as an angel flying high,
and the hands of time will free you -
you will cast your chains aside -
and the dawn will come and kiss away
every tear that's ever fallen
from your eyes...
behind those eyes,
I wonder

Oh, Caroline... oh, oh, oh...
Oh, oh... Caroline...
Sometimes I wonder...
Oh... Caroline
Sometimes I,
Sometimes I wonder...

It is complete now two ends of time are neatly tied
A one-way street, she? walking to end of the line
And there she meets the faces she keeps in her heart and mind

They say 'good byeTomorrow, Wendy, you?e going to die
They say 'good byeTomorrow, Wendy, you?e going to die

Underneath the chilly gray November sky
We can make believe that Kennedy is still alive and
We?e shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie? driving by and

They say 'good tryTomorrow Wendy is going to die
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die

I told the priest, ?on? count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming!
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us!
No, I don? wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us?
Hey, hey, good bye
Tomorrow Wendy? going to die

Hey, hey, good bye
Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry
Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry

Only God says jump
So I set the time
'Cause if he ever saw it
It was through these eyes of mine!
And if he ever suffered it was me who did his crying

Hey hey, good bye
Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry
(Tomorrow Wendy? going to die)
Tomorrow Wendy? going to die
(Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry)
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die

Hey, hey, good bye
Tomorrow Wendy is going to cry

Hey, hey, good bye
Tomorrow Wendy is going to cry
Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry
Tomorrow Wendy? going to cry

Say it's been too hard
Say it's been too long
You say it's all too much
The thrill has long been gone
Well I thought you could
Yes I thought you could
And you thought you could too


But it's a place and time
Where the years behind are piled up high
But never mind
It's time to crash and burn or fly
And I thought you could
You know I thought you could
You know I thought you could too

Go to sleep now
Go on dream away
Is it easy easy babe
And I hope
And I dream
And I pray
That sometime
We'll find a way

Some say easy come
Some say easy go
Some say time flies by too fast
Some say it drags on all too slow
Well I thought you could
You know I thought you could
And I thought I could too

But if you never find
The heart to start all over again
Remember I was one
Who tried to be a friend to you, I
Well you know I tried
Yes you know I tried
And I know you tried too

*Go to sleep now
Go on dream away
Is it easy easy babe
And I hope
And I dream
And I pray
That sometime
We'll find a way

*repeat

There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair
It's like a moment frozen forever there

Mom and dad had a lot of big plans for their little man
"...So proud."
Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's shot down
By some teenage car chase war out of bounds
It was the wrong place wrong time wrong end of a gun.

Shoot straight from the hip
Gone forever in a trigger slip
You know, it could have been
It could have been your brother.
Shoot straight shoot to kill
Blame each other, blame yourselves
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone

They're gonna call me sir they'll all stop picking on me
Well I'm a high school grad I'm over 5 foot 3
I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D.
They'll see
He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand
But when the guy came at him, well he panicked and ran
And it's thirty long years before they give him another chance
And it's sad sad sad

John Lennon, Doctor King, Harvey Milk
all for goddamn nothing
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone

The stars above shine down below
the fever you hold on this night
deathly cold
I can feel from this side of the door
I can feel Eleanor
He said, sun don't rise...
he said sun don't shine
he said don't bring tomorrow
to justify tonight
The moon is full-the stars are bright
and the sky is a poisonous garden
tonight.
Sip your Tequila. Give me some time
to unlearn all I've learned for the
spring to unwind
and then came your sweet mouth
I began to move mine.
They knew with the dawn-
they knew with the day
they knew what they had
would be young naked prey
and attacked from all sides
by a world filled with
poison and hate
Eleanor trembles. Eleanor moans.
Somehow, this body is someone
she always has known
she cries tears on his chest
O so silent and slow-
She said please don't go. Please don't go-
and she cried and she died in his arms
and he cried nevermore
the moon is full, the stars are bright
and the sky is a poisonous garden
tonight.

Sometimes we laugh like children
Go running holding hands
I never felt like this before,
I never will again
Sometimes we cry like babies
I hold you to my heart.
I just can't stand to see you sad,
It tears me all apart

And we're so afraid and it's such a shame,
There is no reason we should doube it.
The things we want to say we'ver never said!
And we look away and it's all ok and
Never really talk about it
It's a shame the way we dance along the edge
Dance along the edge.

We always seem so careful,
We're always so unsure.
Our past mistakes they make us shakey...eyes on the door.
When do we stop searching
For what we're searching for?
Then when it comes, we question love and try for more!

And we're happy here, but we live in fear
We've seen a lot of temples crumble.
Some of flesh and blood from love under glass.
Will we come undone? Will we turn and run?
And will we know it when we find it?
It's a game the way we dance along the edge.
And we'll walk the line and we'll do our time
For just as long as we've been given,
And pretend that we don't hear the things they've said.
Can we promise love? Is it all too much
And do our old souls still believe it?
It's insane the way we dance along the edge.