unknown

I called you up today to bridge my sorrow
Carry me over the line to you
How long will it take to reach tomorrow
Seems like a whole lot of time
Just these thoughts to pull me through

I see blue carpet and cold moonlight settled in
Voices whisper doubts of how i should have been
I feel like i'm over the water
But i'm caught in the tide
Tell are you calling for me
Does this come deep from inside
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind

The sound slowly fades and trickles away from the sea
It's only the windows and i
They hear my dream
I'm walking a distance i feel i've been running for miles
Happy times don't last long
I finally got that it's too late to smile
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Over the mind
Carry me away
Under the water
Into your mind

We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
Out of these boxcars
And out of these chambers
Out of the bed where we lay
With ten strangers
We are climbing
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing
On jacob, jacob's ladder

It's a fish white belly
A lump in my throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
One hundred people
Gypsies queers
And david's star

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train
Yeah

Measure the bones
Count the face
Pull out the teeth
Did you get them all?
Do you belong
To the human race
Doctor doctor
Are you unkind
Do you shock the monkeys
Cover our eyes
With clear blue skies


Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory
Ah
This train is bound for glory now
Ah ah
This train

Here is a dancer
Who has no legs
Here is a teacher
Who has no face
Here is a healer
Who has no hands
Here is a runner
Who has no feet
Here is a thinker
Who has no head
Here is a builder
Who has no back
Here is a writer
Who has no voice
These are the questions
These are the answers
Stacked like wood

This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train

This train is bound for glory
This train it carried your mothers
This train is bound for glory
This train it, it carried your fathers
This train is bound for glory now
This train it, it carried your sisters
This train
This train it, it carried your brothers
(here is a teacher)
This train it, it carried my sisters
(here is a writer)
This train it, it carried my brother
(here is a thinker)
This train is
This train is bound for glory

These are the questions
Stacked like wood
These are the answers
Here is potential
And it's gone for good

Don't
Don't give up on me baby
Though we've seen shaky times
There's still solid ground to be found
I said don't
Don't give up on me baby
Though i may seem strong
It's only because
Cause you're around

You know me better than i do
You know how things go to my head
I said a few things to you
Things that were better left unsaid
But don't
Don't give up on me baby
Cause you know i love you
And i always
I always will

Now love
Love's a sweet kind of pain
It can give you wings to fly
Then it drags you on down
But darling
I'll never love this way again, no
You're the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest love
I've ever found

You know me better than i do
You know how things go to my head
I said a few things to you
Things that were better left unsaid
But don't
Don't give up on me baby, no
Cause i love you
And i always
Always will

Now everybody's looking for a little peace of mind
We're a generation running out of time
There's a bomb, there's a man
There's a gun in his hand yeah
Nobody smiles at strangers we're scared from birth
Afraid the man's gonna take us for all that we're worth
Strip us of our pride
Make a strike from inside
Come on and tell me
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Even lovers have trouble at hand
What's your preference where do you stand
You get all uptight about it
Wanna fight about it
Wanna fight about love
No no no
Wanting independence separate but equal
A lover here another there
One more for the sequel to the heartache
How much more can we take
Won't you tell me
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Now i'm talking about
Altruism and unification
We forgotten what that means
Cynicism in this mighty nation
And hatred is spitting us right at the seams

Oh but i still believe that good will prevail
And if we don't ever try
It's damn sure that we'll fail
Lose another day
The american way
So come all believers
Come all races
Start looking at the souls
Not at the faces
And we're there
And we're learning to care
I want to know baby
How long will we be victims of fear
With a man and a gun and the "day after" fear
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family
Jesus smile down upon your children
Smile down upon your family

Love the one you're with
When you're down and confused
And you don't remember who you're talking to
Consentration gonna slip away
Cause your baby is so far away

Honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
If you can't be with the one you love
Honey love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with

Don't be angry and don't be sad
Don't sit crying over bad times you've had
Cause there's a girl sitting next to you
And she's just waiting for something to do

Honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
If you can't be with the one you love
Honey love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do
Do do do

Turn your heartache right into joy
There's a girl honey you're a boy
Well you get it together gonna make it nice
You ain't gonna need any more advice

Honey there's a rose in the fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
If you can't be with the one you love
Honey love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do
Do do do
Do do do

They said some men would be warriors
Some men would be kings
Some men would be owners of land
And other man-made things
False love as the eternal flame
Would move some to think in rings
And gold would be our power
And other foolish things

And you who dream of liberty
Must not yourselves be fooled
Before you get to plea for freedom
You've agreed to being ruled
If the body stays a shackle
Then the mind remains a chain
And that will link you to your destiny
Where by other souls are slain

It won't take long
It won't take too long at all

Three men in a desert wandering
One is knowing and two are scared
They say time is in the river
Oh but the river is not there
Dry in spirit
Dry in body
Two will lend themselves to death
And in grief one weeps into his hands
And drinks his bitter tears

'cause it don't take long
It don't take too long at all
No it don't take long
You may say
I don't know what you're talking about
And i say
You mean to tell me that's all

And i stand before you now
I am hopeful in my rage
You know love has finally called for me
I will not wilt upon its stage
But you know still smaller than my nightmare
Now do i print upon the page
And do we have to live inside its walls
To identify the cage

'cause it takes so long
Why does it take so long
And it takes so long
You may say
I don't really care what you're talking about
I'm gonna ask you
You trying to tell me you don't belong

I am my mother's daughter
But i have seen myself in you
It's this blessing that i follow now
And so i must speak true
I dreamed of thousands dying
It was you and you and you
And while the city sleeps so quietly
There is something we must do

And it wont' take long
It won't take too long at all
It won't take long
May say
I don't know if i wanna know what you're getting at
It makes me wanna say
So long

Grief shall come in measures
Only grief alone will know
And you'll see it on your family
And on your own face it will grow
Then they'll try to keep you hungry
And they'll tell you to eat snow
You know pride can be a moving thing
If we learn the strength of no

And it won't take long
It won't take too long at all
No it won't take long
You may say
I don't think this has anything to do with me
Did you ever think you could be wrong

At noon on one day coming
Human strength will fill the streets
Of every city on our planet
Hear the sound of angry feet
With business freezed up in the harbour
The kings will pull upon their hair
And the banks will shudder to a halt
And the artists will be there

'cause it won't take long
It won't take too long at all
No it won't take long
And you may say
I don't think i can be a part of that
And it makes me want to say
Don't you want to see yourself that strong

Division between the peoples
Will disappear that honoured day
And though oceans lie between us
Lifted candles light the way
Half will join their hands by moonlight
The rest under the rising sun
As underneath the sun and moon
A ritualed wailing has begun

And it won't take long
It won't take too long at all
And it won't take long
And you may say
I don't know how to be a part of what you're talking about
And it makes me want to say
Come on
Come on

Oh beware you sagging diplomats
For you will not hear one gun
And though our homes be torn and ransacked
We will not be undone
For as we let ourselves be bought
We're gonna let ourselves be free
And if you think we stand alone
Take a look around and you will see

We are children in the rafters
We are babies in the park
We are lovers at the movies
We are candles in the dark
We are changes in the weather
We are snowflakes in july
We are women grown together
We are men who easily cry
We are words no quickly spoken
We're the deeper side of try
We are dreamers in the making
We are not afraid of why

In the quiet silent seconds i
I turned off the light switch and i
I came down to meet you in the
Half light the moon left while a
A cluster of night jars sang some
Songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone
Down from the room

Come down in time
I still hear him say
So clear in my ear
Like it was today
Come down in time
Was the message he gave
Come down in time and i'll
Meet you half way

Well i don't know if i should have
Heard him as yet but a
True love like his is a
A hard love to get and i've
Walked most all the way and i
I ain't heard him call and i'm
Getting to thinking
If he's coming at all

Come down in time
I still hear him say
So clear in my ear
Like it was today
Come down in time
Was the message he gave
Come down in time and i'll
Meet you half way

There are men and men and
Some hold you tight while
Some leave you counting the
Stars in the night

At the half moon cafe we drank to our lives
Like pseudo-believers in love
We've been through our holes in the walls and the dives
Where you drink to recall what you once had a vision of
And we talk of our lives in a prison
Though we both know it's better to be
Safe within our indecision
Than taking the risk to be free

And you were to be a great poet
I'd find my fame in song
But we somehow saw failure more closely
Than fame all along
And now you manage a hamburger stand
And i haven't found steady work yet
And we meet here to talk and pretend
That we know no regret

But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
How much is suicide

So you ask of my latest top 40
And i ask of your latest great fiction
As i step outside i see that the moon is full
I have to laugh at the contradiction
Well at least we can laugh at our dreams
Though it's really much more bitter than sweet
Sometimes through all of this fragmentation
I imagine what it feels to be complete

But how much is chance
How much would you decide
How much is murder of our dreams
How much is suicide

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for a new world
And a palace in the sun

And on the shore lay montezuma
With it's coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the world

And the subjects gathered round him
Like the leaves around the trees
His coat of many colors
For the angry gods to see

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
He offered life with sacrifice
So that others might go on

Yeah

Now hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones

And they carried them across the flatland
But they died along the way
(many lives were lost)
Built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today
(many lives were lost)

And i know she's living there
And loves me to this day
I can't remember when
Or how i lost my way
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh
Ah-oh

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, cortez
What a killer

I'm scared as hell
Squeaky's out of jail
I can feel her close behind me
Like the devil on my heels
Well they say she's heading to california
Or maybe for dc
Well i'm sitting here down in georgia
I'm talking with my family

The contras called a truce
And they broke it in an hour
Now someone sitting in the tower of babel
Is giving them that power
They stopped the war in bethlehem
Oh to let sweet jesus pass
But how much does it really mean
They screw him over behind his back

I can feel her closing in
And i hope she understands
That society and me
Now we aren't necessarily hand in hand
She's broken all her bonds
Got no superficial cause
She gave up all her chances
To live inside the law

So squeaky
Peace on earth
Will you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i'd let you in
You might understand
Now squeaky
In your mixed-up mind
You may not be so blind
Ah squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
Now squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i'd let you in
Cause you might understand
God is in my heart
But the devil is in our bones
And squeaky
Oh squeaky
You are not alone
Yeah you are not alone
Give me peace on earth
Give me peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Now squeaky give me peace on earth
And then you tell me what it's worth
From the inside out i would, i would let you in
I think that you might understand
That god, god is in my heart
But the devil
I said the devil
The devil's in our bones
And squeaky
Oh squeaky
We are not alone

Who is counting sleepless nights
Who is counting letters i meant to write
I said who is counting at all
If you are
I look pretty small

But no matter what i do
If i couldn't call you mine
If i couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time

You went searching for me in the night sky
And when i burned away you wondered why
Well i'll tell you babe i could not bear to stall
I fell too fast i fell too far

But no matter what i do
If i couldn't call you mine
If i couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time

Big big fishes in little ponds
I've seen them walk around with magic wands

But no matter what i do
If i couldn't call you mine
If i couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time

There ain't no magician hidden inside of me
So no matter what you hear i hope you see
That just when i'm trying to be tall
That's when i end up looking pretty small

But no matter what i do
If i couldn't call you mine
If i couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time

No matter what i do
(and you know i will burn)
If i couldn't be call you mine
(like a star in the sky)
If i couldn't be with you
(all i'd be doing is)
I'd just be killing time

But no matter what i do
If i couldn't call you mine
If i couldn't be with you
I'd just be killing time

If you ever feel you'll lose your dreams
Or your hope seems too far gone
I'll bring the distance to your door
You couldn't ask for any more

You were around when i needed a friend
You were the means you were the end
You'll be the one i'll turn to now
There's gonna be some hard times coming down

Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself

If ever your candle won't blow out
Or your sorrow seems so interrupted
Well i'll be the first to bring the darkness down
I'll be the silence at your side

Without you the music couldn't move me
The words would ring true
But the tune would feel so empty
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
But myself

Wish i was a slow moving sea
Moving away from the land so cautiously
I'd find me an island to surround
Just like you did as i was feeling down
As i was feeling down

Without you the world would be so crowded
Without you the moon would be so clouded
Without you i can be anyone
Anyone at all but myself
Oh but myself

Wish i was a slow moving sea
Wish i was a slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea
Keeping in touch with eternity
Wish i was a slow, slow, slow, slow moving sea
Love is like a slow moving sea

Emily:
I walked into my favorite place one night
I'd just gotten back from a lecture
And i was feeling kind of uptight
And at the edge of the bar there was this guy
And you know i wasn't really looking
But i caught him out of the corner of my eye
The next thing i know he was moving my way
I thought he wanted to talk
But this is what he had to say

Amy:
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Ya'll sing it with me
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Your lover your lover your lover
One time or another baby
I want to be your lover

Emily:
I have to admit i was a little bit surprised
But i wasn't really scared 'cause i was twice his size
So i said to myself, "okay, i'll play his game"
And when he turned to me
I gave him my name

Amy:
I know your name babe
But i got to know your number
I know your name babe
But i got to know your number your number
I said one time or another baby
I'm gonna be your lover
Yeah i wanna be your lover

Emily:
Well i said to myself "this guy is persistent
He's a little bit dumb but at least he's consistent"
I tried to talk cool but when we touched i went under
I made a quick decision and i gave him my number

Amy:
I know your number
But i don't know what to say babe

Emily:
That's ok

Amy:
I know your number
Your number babe
But i don't know what to say to you
Say to you say to you say to you darling
Oh it don't matter anyway no
I don't talk when i'm make love to you babe
I don't talk when i make love
I wanna be you lover
I wanna be you lover
Lover lover
Lover lover
Lover lover

Emily:
Well you probably won't believe this
But we got married one day
And i still don't know if he speaks english
'cause he doesn't have much to say
It's a damn good thing i like lying around
We don't make much conversation
But love makes sounds
You know what i'm talking about
Ya'll know what i'm talking about
Well one thing i've learned from being in this state

Emily and amy:
There are other ways to communicate

Amy:
I don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Don't know your name babe
But i want to be your lover
Your lover your lover your lover
One time or another baby
I'm gonna be your lover

So
So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skys from grey
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Yeah do you think you can tell

Did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Yeah and did you exchange
A walk on part in this war
For a leading role in a cage

How i wish, how i wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
We're running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Well i wish you were here
I said i wish you were here yeah
Oh how i wish you were here
How i wish you were here
Hey and i wish you were here
Hey my rock star
How did you get so turned around
My rock star
How you did you get so turned around
Oh my rock star
(how did you get so turned around)
Did you get so turned around
Hey my my rock star
(how did you get so turned around
Inside out
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out now
Cut it all out

junkie's lament


Rikki's been kicking the gong
Lickety split didn't take too long
A junkies sick a monkeys strong
That's what's wrong

Well i guess he's been messing around down town
So sad to see the man losing ground
He's winding down behind closed doors
On all fours

Mama don't you call him my name
He can't hear you anymore
And even if he seems the same to you
That's a stranger to your door
Go on ask him what's he come here for

Oh my god a monkey can move a man
Send him to hell and home again
With an empty hand in the afternoon
Shooting for the moon

He's halfway sick and it's halfway stoned
He'd sure like to quit but he's too far far gone
And they'll wind him down with the methadone
He's all on his own

Baby don't you throw your love away
I hate to seem unkind
It's only that i understand the man
That the monkey can leave behind
And i used to think he was a friend of mine

Don't have much say
But i call you up anyway
Just to try and tell you the way
That i feel today
Oh i miss you baby

Sure i'm on the road
I don't need to say much more
I'm just the same old well known stranger
That i was before
Seems like yesterday now

Daddy's all gone
He's just halfway home
He's holding on to the telephone
Saying please don't let the show go on

There's a bus every other hour
Even a midnight train yeah
But that don't leave me the power to see your face again
It's not that simple anymore

Your see there's a room full of smiling faces
And there's a man standing by the door
Oh and he says it's time we take our places
And get down on the floor
Oh i'd like to kill him baby
Ah ah no now

Daddy's all gone
He's just halfway home
He's holding on to the microphone
Singing please don't let the show go on

Sister i'm heading out of alabama
So you better think fast
The wind is gonna pick me up now
The rain won't slack
Headin' down to georgia

Eddie said the beat was wrong
Tom didn't like the tune
The boy with a beard in the corner
Laughed in the middle of a song
He didn't stay very long

Eddie said the lights were low
Tom said the treble was high
The boy with a beard in the corner
Laughed in the middle of a sigh
Don't think we ever even caught his eye

Sometimes i used to find
I'd be singing to you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

Eddie said a friend of his
Is making it big in l.a.
Ah well everybody down at malachy's
Says i'm gonna make it someday

Sometimes i used to write
A song for you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

Sometimes i used to find
I'd be singing to you
As if you were sitting
At the table by the door

I'm not the sort of person
Who falls in and quickly out of love
But to you i gave my affection
Right from the start
I have a lover who loves me
How could i break such a heart
Yet still you get my attention

Why do you come here
When you know i've got troubles enough
Why do you call me
When you know i can't answer the phone
And make me lie when i don't want to
And make someone else
Some kind of an unknowing fool
Make me stay when i should not
Are you so strong
Or is all the weakness in me

Why do you come here
Pretend to be just passing by
I need to see you
I need to hold you
Tightly

Feeling guilty
And i'm worried
And i'm waking from a tormented sleep
'cause this old love
You know it has me bound
But the new love cuts so deep
If i choose now
I'm bound to lose out
One of you is gonna have to fall
I need you
You baby

Why do you come here
When you know i've got troubles enough
Why do you call me
When you know i can't answer the phone
And make me lie when i don't want to
Make someone else
Some kind of an unknowing fool
Make me stay when i should not
Are you so strong or is all the weakness in me

Why do you come here
Pretend to be just passing by
I need to see you
I need to hold you
Tightly

You had your chance to show affection
You had your chance to give me more
And now that she's found new direction
You make your way to my back door
What makes you think the whole world wants you
Give steel a kiss and it will bend
The flesh is weak and when it's all been said and done
The spirit's all that's left in the end

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come-on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse

The way i see it there are few things left
To hold on to and keep your head yeah
When it's your sense of humor and integrity
There's nothing funny about what's being said

There was a day when i would let myself be trampled
As long as it was done by you
(as long as it was done by you)
But i took so much abuse now i've had ample
There's no way that you'll break through

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse

You had your chance to show affection
(you had your chance to show me some affection)
You had your chance to give me more
(you had your chance to give me more baby)
And now that she's found new direction
You make your way to my back door
What makes you think the whole world wants you
Give steel a kiss and it will bend
The flesh is weak and when it's all been said and done
The spirit's all that's left in the end

If you have to saddle your high horse
Go on and ride out of my sight
(ride out of my sight)
You never had the time of day for me you know you didn't
And now you want to spend the night
You're big with the come on like it's no big deal
No big deal to you
You let the wild wind blow your course
(wild wind blow your course)
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse
I do not want the dirt from your shoes
Or from the hooves of your high horse
From your high horse
From your high horse
Yeah

Wysteria
Did you change your face again
Those of us who loved you when
Can't even find you

Wysteria
Did you lose another man
Did you make him understand
That he can't touch you

Wysteria
Did he take you to the fair
Were the folks that you met there
The same that we met

Wysteria
Did he teach you how to dance
Did he bring you paper fans
To hide your secrets

Was he just like all the rest
When he got to the sad part
Did he stay a bit too long
To save his heart

Was he just like all the rest
When he got to the sad part
Did he stay a bit too long
To save his heart

Wysteria
Are your lips still lily white
Do they still bloom just at night
And die at sunrise

Well you
You can sit in your highchairs
Highchairs are for children
You can sit in your highchairs and laugh
I'll give you my best face
I'll give you my freedom
I'll give you my feet and my hands

I'm keeping my eyes
Open open open to the field
Hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield

You can join us together
Break us apart
A wound in the skin is a break in the heart
You can coast on your laughter
High shelf your heart
But laughter's for healing
Not tearing apart

I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the fields
You can hold your dances there
Take the crop
Share the yield

Not a soul is lost
But collapse in the walls
You can dance in the dust
You can walk it off walk walk it off

If you're falling you're falling
Come calling to me
Falling falling
I'll give you my skin
I will give you my skin

I'm keeping my eyes
Open to the field
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
You can hold your dances here
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Take the crop, share the yield
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
I'm keeping my eyes
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Open to the field
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Hold your dances there
(if you're falling you're falling come calling to me)
Take the crop share the yield
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
If you're falling you're falling come calling to me
I will give you my skin

Mama take this badge off of me
I can't wear it anymore
It's getting too dark, too dark to see
And i feel like i'm
Feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I feel like, i feel like i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I said i, i feel i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Mama mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh

Take these guns and put em to the ground
I can't, i can't, i can't
I just can't shoot them anymore
There's a long black cloud
There's a long black cloud
You know it's a, it's a comin' down
I feel i, i feel i, i feel i'm
I feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Now i said mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh now
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Wipe this blood from my face
I can't see through the walls
Six white horses coming to carry me away
I feel i'm knockin' on heaven's door
I'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Gonna take me, gonna take me, gonna take me now
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Wipe this, wipe this, wipe this, wipe this
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh mama i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama take these chains off of me
Cause i don't, i don't want them anymore
They're getting too damn heavy
And i'm crawling across the floor
I feel like, i feel like i'm knockin' on heaven's door
Oh mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Ah mama mama mama
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Gonna take me, gonna take me, gonna take me
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
I'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Oh i'm i i i'm knockin'
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumping
The cotton is high
Oh your daddy's rich
Your mama's good looking
I said hush little baby
Don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're bound to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And take to the sky
But til that morning
Nothing's going to harm you no
With daddy and mama standing by

Summertime
(sweet summertime)
And the living is easy
(living is easy)
Fish are jumping
The cotton is high
(sky high)
Oh your daddy's rich
(your daddy's rich)
And your mama's good looking
(your mama's good looking)
I said hush little baby
Don't you cry

Don't you cry
(don't you cry)
Summertime
(sweet summertime)
Summertime
(sweet summertime)
Summertime

Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and i wrote down this song
But i just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

Won't you look down upon me jesus
You gotta help me make a stand
You just got to see me through another day
My body's achin' and my time is at hand
I won't make it any other way
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

I've been walkin' my mind to an easy time
My back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
But there's hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
I've seen fire and i've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that i thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when i could not find a friend now now now
But i always thought that i'd see you again

Another night in a succession
Thinly glued with beer and wine
It's a precarious profession
Every day at work sees your heart on the line
Maybe i should have gone to business school
Or gained myself a respectable trade
Or stayed in childhood where the shade keeps you cool
Making my living selling lemonade
But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

I remember the folks said give it a try
Or you'll never know who you might have been
And just remember nothing is the end of the world
Until the world comes to an end
Still there's a point to this philosophy
(when you take a look inside)
Of taking a look at who you are
Still sometimes all i have to help me see
Are all the mirrors behind the bar
But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

But running through my veins
Are the words and the refrains
As if they were my lifeblood itself
And you know i can't stay alive on the food of 9 to 5
My dreams are just old picture on the shelf
Oh yeah

Should have never crossed your path
Funny things you want the most
Should soon be taken back
Slap my own hands like a child
Stealing from the candy store
I think i've taken to your smile

And i hunger for your laugh
Do the craziest things like look around
When i know you're nowhere near me
Break my back on a song
Though i know you're not there to hear

Unanswered questions lying on the coffee table
From a song i haven't finished since last summer
Cause i never could decide how much was gin
How much the sea
Or other incidentals clouding what was really me

Everything i am is bare feet and burning sand
Waiting for the calm cool hand of the sea

A madman of emotions waiting for the drug effect
Of the reason and the intellect to comfort me

Half the time i love you like you love the fall's first breeze
Then you seem as distant as the skeletons of trees
Far away outside my window
Where inside i think of you
As if i thought hard enough i'd know which way to turn
And what to do

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

I'm quite sure i'll be alright
We all live with some distraction
It's just too bad
Mine will hang around all day and night
Like an uninvited guest
You can't turn away try hard as you might
Lord knows i've tried

I might let it go and take a long long run
Quit my job and join the coastline baking in the sun
Then again i might just make big plans
And leave them on the table
Like the song i left unfinished
And the words i am unable
I will always be unable to express

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

Day after day i'm more confused
Still i look for the sun through the pouring rain
You know that's a game that i hate to lose
And i'm feeling the strain
Ain't it a shame

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Beginning to think that i'm wasting time
I don't understand the things i do
World outside looks so unkind
And i'm counting on you to carry me through

Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

When my mind is free
You know that a melody can move me
And when i'm feeling blue
The guitars coming through to soothe me

Thanks for the joy that you've given me
I want you to know i believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You've helped me along making me strong


Oh give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away all right
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
(oh now it's time to come on and free my soul)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(we're gonna drift away)
Why don't you give me the beat boys and free my soul
(take me, take me, take me away)
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
(oh)
I said give me the beat boys and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Hey little darling
There's something that you should know
This things gonna hound every soul
This thing they won't let us go
Gonna break us down to nothing
Gonna eat us from the inside out
Hey little darling
I don't want you to feeling the fallout

Ah when the cancer finally took him
I was watching the trucks pull in
Me and your daddy we had a job
Under the ground mining uranium
Some things your daddy leaves you
Some things he don't
Some things are gonna be here anyhow
And some things just won't
One thing i want you to understand
Is you ain't gotta be no mining man
I curse the day that i went down
And i pulled that shit out of the ground

Now we were living over in nevada
That's where your people come from
Your grandma would take me and your daddy
On down to the gunnery range
We sit and watch the bombs blow
Until the sun goes down
All those colors running like the painted desert
And you get to see it now

Them government boys have something so damn secret
They had to hide it in the desert sand
Out there the skies so big
And there ain't no mistaking it
Whose got the winning hand

Ah
Ah ah ah ah


I said i've been all the way to alaska
To a town they call point of hope
Where they took some of what we got down here
Just to see how it would grow
I hear the lichen bought it
And now it's running through the caribou
I said soon little darling
You'll get to feel it too
Get to feel it too
Oh i said soon little darling
You'll get to feel it to
Hmm hmm hmm yeah
Oh yeah hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm
Oh yeah hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm

When this old world starts a getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space

On the roof it's peaceful as can be
And there the world below don't bother me
Oh no

So when i come home feeling tired and beat
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet
And get far away from the hustling crowd
And all that rat race noise down in the street

On the roof that's the only place i know
Where you just have to wish to make it so
Let's go up on the roof

At night the stars they put on a show for free
Yes they do
And darling you can share it all with me

That's what i said i keep on telling you
That right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that's trouble free
And if this old world stars getting you down
There's room enough for two up on the roof

At night the stars they put on a show for free yeah
And darling you can share it all with me

That's what i said i keep on telling you
That right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that's trouble free
If this old world stars getting you down
There's room enough for two up on the roof
Up on the roof oh yeah
Up on the roof

I was taken by surprise
I was haunted by his eyes
And the drink i came her for
Doesn't matter anymore
And the night wind falls
With the moonlight from above
Is it winter is it summer or is it love

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it no
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise

I've been broken
I've been blind
Been afraid to look inside
But his words were soft and warm
What did i come her for
An abandoned garden lost
In bittersweet and queen anne's lace
Looked inside where a single rose grew
There i saw love's face

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise

And it's probably cold outside
But i don't really feel it
Every hour that passes by
Is another heart healer
And you can't stop the rain from falling down
On the new leaves of summer on the ground
And for every bright star that falls from the sky
There's another
Oh another on the rise
On the rise

You can write me a letter
But i won't tell you where i am
Oh you can send me a postcard baby
But i won't tell you where i stand
Well i'm right outside of your window
And i'm walking on through your love
And i'm giving you all i can babe
But i know what you've been thinking of
And now baby it's time
Baby it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line

You may have good intentions
And i may be dead wrong
If what you see here isn't love babe
It's 'cause i'm too tired to be that strong
Now i'm burned out on your affection
Because it comes from a jaded tongue
And i'm burned out on your direction baby
I know i'm not the only one
Baby it's time
Baby it's time
To draw the line
Draw the line

Draw that line baby
Draw that line yeah
Keep it straight
Keep it close
And tell me
What do you have in mind

I'm gonna take this heartache
I'm gonna turn it all inside out
I'm gonna find every livin' last drop of love
Until i'm too sure to have any doubt
Now you can love me if you want me
Or you can turn away and tell me to go
Now you can write me a letter
You can send me a postcard
But don't tell me what you're thinking
If you really don't know baby
Baby it's time to draw the line
Draw the line
Yeah draw that line

Words and music: amy ray
Note: this song is a reincarnation of problem child

Through the dustbowl through the debt
Grandma was a suffragette
Blacklisted for her publication
Blacklisted for my generation
Go, go, go

Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
Just go, go, go

So feed the fire and fan the flame
I know the kids can stand the rain
I know the kids are still upsetters
Cause rock is cool but the struggle is better
I said go, go, go

Raise your hands, raise your hands high
Don't take a seat don't stand aside
This time don't assume anything
This time don't assume anything
I said go, go, go

The truth is i was afraid . . .
. . .i felt inferior. . .
. . .i felt i excelled in competing with others
And i knew instantly that these people
Were not competing at all, that they were acting in a
Strange, powerful trance of movement together.
And i was filled with longing to act
With them and with the fear that i could not.

Did they tell you it was set in stone
And that you would end up alone
Use your years to psych you out
You're too old to care, they're too young to count
Did they tell you you would come undone
If you tried to touch the sun
Undermine the underground
You're too old to care they're too young to count
I said go, go, go

Amy ray: electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Emily saliers: electric guitar, vocals
John reynolds: drums
Dawson miller: percussion
Clare kenny: bass
Carol isaacs: organ and moog
Caroline dale: cello
Joan osborne: backing vocals

Spoken word written by meridel le sueur, from "i was marching."

You're standing in the blood quantum line
With a pitcher in your hand
Poured from your heart into your veins
You said i am
I am
I am

Now measure me
Measure me
Tell me where i stand
Allocate my very soul
Like you have my land

Genocide
Genocide

Colonize you
Christianize you
Patronize you
Advertise you
We loved you genocide

Regulate you
Assimilate you
Appropriate you
We love to hate you

Genocide
(you are a man without a face)
(you're just a number on a page)
Genocide
(there you are a woman without a face)
(we'll just erase you)

There you are a man without a face
You're just a number
(you're just a number on a page)
There you are a woman without a face
We'll just erase you

Conscripted children
Torn from truth
To the boarding school station
Force fed the foreign tongue of fire
And a prison education
Broken knowledge
Pencil scarred
Spit faced
The scattered sage
Wisdom deep within the rock
(the wisdom deep within the rock)
Outlives
(outlives the pretty lies upon the page)


Genocide
(how white the snowy graves)
How red the blood terrain
Genocide
(still pulsing with your dreams)
Above that stubborn stain

There you are a man without a face
(how white the snowy graves)
(how red the blood terrain)
Red the blood terrain
(still pulsing with your dreams)
There you are a woman without a face
(above that stubborn stain)
Above that stubborn stain

Genocide
Genocide
Genocide

There on those days when the sun barely touches the sky
Your eyes are so heavy with the morning
And there you lie on the horizon of my mind
Streams flow through the consciousness of time
And i follow your every movement for a clue to you

You cover my eyes with your deepness
You wrap my soul in the beauty of it all
You take me away from my incompleteness
Lead me all the way or not at all
And time's too precious here
I can't wait for clues to you
I can't wait for clues to you

Don't wake me if i'm dreaming, no, no, no, this is my reality
If i touch you tell me will you blow away
Please don't move now until you set me free - set me free

I can't wait for clues to you

Name the time and i'll be your place
Remove my eyes from this deathly haze
Now i've been living shades of blue and grey
Don't you know i'm ready for a brighter phase
And time's too precious here
I can't wait for clues to you
I can't wait for clues to you

Won't you catch me if i fall too fast
Don't let me fly too high
You've released me from my earthly grasp
And now you've got me in your skies - in your skies

I can't wait for clues to you
Now i don't want to wait anymore for clues

Let it rain
Let it wash on down

Can't wait for clues to you
I don't want to wait anymore for clues

It was christmastime in washington
The democrats rehearsed
Gettin' into gear for four more years
Of things not gettin' worse

The republicans drank whiskey neat
And they thanked their lucky stars
They said "he can not seek another term
They'll be no more f.d.r.s"

I sat home in tennessee
Just starin' at the screen
An uneasy feelin' in my chest
Just wonderin' what it means

So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now

I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin' days
Somewhere i failed to find your trail
Now i'm stumblin' through the haze

There's killers on the highway now
And a man can't get around
So i just sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now i'm stuck here in this town

So come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into jesus
Maybe he can help us out
Come back woody guthrie
To us now

See there's foxes in the henhouse
And there's cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
And their proud red banners torn

But if you listen to the radio
They'll tell you all is well
But you and me and cisco know
It's goin' straight to hell

So come back emma goldman
Rise up old joe hill
The barricades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us malcolm x
And martin luther king
We're marchin' into selma
While the bells of freedom ring

And come back woody guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There's something wrong here there can be no denying
Now one of us is changing
Or maybe we've just stopped trying

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
No

It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy i knew just what to do
But now you look so unhappy and i feel like a fool

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
No

There'll be good times again for me and you
But we just can't stay together don't you see that it's true
Still i'm glad for what we had
And how i once loved you

But it's too late baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and i can't hide
And i just can't fake it
It's too late baby
It's too late now darling
It's too late

Oh people
Look around you
The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
And there's no time to find you now
Well your walls are turning
Your towers are burning
Gonna leave you here
And try to get down to the sea somehow

The road is filled with homeless souls
Every woman child and man
Who have no idea where they will go
But they'll help you if they can
But everyone must have some thought
That's gonna pull them through somehow
While the fires are raging hotter and hotter
The sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

Oh people
Look among you
It's there your hope must lie
There's a seabird above you
Gliding in one place
Like jesus in the sky
We all must do the best we can
And then hang on the that gospel plow
When my life is over
Gonna stand before the father
And the sisters of the sun are gonna
Rock me on the water now

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
Maybe i'll remember
Maybe i'll remember how

Rock me on the water
I said the wind is with me now
So rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

Rock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down the sea somehow

They took away my garden
To make room for a chemical plant
I feel my country's arteries harden
With the aid of a government grant

We are not a bunch of upstarts
Just out looking for a cause
Cause we hunger for our justice
And not applause
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

My water has got cancer
And the rivers have all dried
While i watch my country practice
Nuclear suicide

We are not a bunch of upstarts
(we are not a bunch of upstarts)
Just out looking for a cause
(for a cause)
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

Don't think it's impossible
To see this thing come clean
We're going to save this poor old world's head
From the guillotine

We are not a bunch of upstarts
(we are not a bunch of upstarts)
Just out looking for a cause
(for a cause)
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

They took away my garden
(my water has got cancer)
To make room for a chemical plant
(and the rivers have all dried)
I feel my country's arteries harden
(while i watch my country practice)
Nuclear suicide
(nuclear suicide)
Nuclear suicide

We are not a bunch of upstarts
Just out looking for a cause
We hunger for our justice
And not applause
(not applause)
We don't just make peace signs and meditate
We don't take this thing as a joke
We just want to relate we're in a pretty bad state
And we don't want to go up in smoke

Don't want to see our children
(don't want to see our children)
Oh go up in smoke
Oh we don't want to see our children
Yeah

I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
I said go go go

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything
But go go go

Five generations running fast
These things will not pass
This debtor's blood runs in my veins
I can't change anything
I said no no no

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything
But go go go

So you've learned to cry
But you don't know why
So you've learned to laugh
What are we laughing at

So i am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
And i said go go go
Go go

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside this time
Don't assume anything this time
Don't assume anything
I said go go go

I tried my best to get over you
Kept my distance so i wouldn't have to show
That the things which i kept hidden by my casual smile
Were the things that i needed you to know
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You might have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was i was falling for you

Sometimes i still think i could get to you
Then i laugh and think i could swim the seven seas
It seems when i'm set to fly there's a storm up in the sky
When i'm set to sail there isn't any breeze
You could have seen the acting on the stage
You might have read the writing on the page
You could have noticed that a heart went breaking into two
But you never knew it was i was falling for you

It's been some time now that i saw you in a photograph
Looking just the way you did so long ago
I could almost see you throw your head back and start to laugh
In that gentle way that used to let me know
Things were okay and a hurting song is just a cliche
And what's the use if they only always fade away
Just like the sun just like everyone but you

All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight
And the boys in the band think they look just fine
And i dont even know why i drove this car down congress avenue
Hoping to find you turning on the light

Well you seem like a girl with the world on your side
But its just a point of view
And you know how quickly that could change too
See i heard you were free or someone thinks you should be
And i know just how that feels
I thought maybe we could just talk for a while

Cause baby i got something to stand for
I got somewhere we could go home
I just need someone to stand with
See it ain't no good this feeling alone

When you said that you'd go down to mexico
Well i think that i might go there too
But its probably too late to find someone like you
Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But i heard there's trouble down there if you're chiapas bound

Yeah it sounds really cool to be without a care in some southern town
But i heard there's trouble down there if you're chiapas bound

When i walked you to the door i was feeling mighty fine
I was thinking "hey i've got love to ease my mind"
Then i got to the car and i was staring at your scars
Thinking "hey, this ain't no way to spend my time"

Now i want a true love affair
Not this touch-and-go in the air
You know i don't know if i'm coming or i'm down
I don't want a love touch and go
I want a feeling i only know
Or else you can get me out of this town

When i saw you smile i knew one look into your eyes
And i was thinking "hey, are you in love again"
Then i heard you laugh honey you were laughing at the past
I was thinking "this ain't no way to treat a friend"

You were laughing at the past
Honey you were smiling through your glass
Watching cars drive away in your mind
You were hoping i would leave
Honey i was dreaming i could stay
And this ain't no way to spend my time
This ain't no way to treat a friend
This ain't no way to see me
I'm looking for the end
This ain't no way to treat a friend

Now i want words i want touch
Maybe that's a bit too much
For one so far removed
From what you used to claim
Well if you be cruel, i'll still be kind
You know i've got it in my mind
I'm in love with you
I ain't gonna play your games
If you want my advice
Don't say it's wrong if it feels right
Don't push me down just to see me crawl
I'll be crawling on the floor
Then i'll be reaching for the door
I'll be crawling right out of your eyes
Honey i'll be walking right out of your eyes
Honey i'll be walking right out of your eyes

Tuesday's children
We're falling short of time
Let's hope we never fall short of love
Memories linger like the fog on the sea
Keeping me out of touch with my reality
Nothing could ever mean as much to me
As tuesday's children

Sometimes i feel like i'm falling short of myself
Who i am
What i choose to be
Most of the time tuesday's children
Brings it all back and down to me

These people
These friends of ours
Let's put them on another day
Just leave me tuesdays children
I can face the world my own way

Times like these make me wish
Everyday was a tuesday
Tuesday's children
You've been so good to me
Tuesday's children

When you're down and troubled
And you need some love and care
And nothing, no nothing is going right
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon i will be there
To brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yeah
To see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
You've got a friend

If the sky above you
Should grow dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep you head together
And call my name out loud
Soon i'll be knocking upon your door

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yes i will now
To see you again
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Hey ain't it good to know that you've got a friend
When people can be so cold
Oh they'll hurt you and desert you
Well take your soul if you let them
Oh yeah but don't you let them

You just call out my name
And you know wherever i am
I'll come running oh yes i will now
To see you again
Don't you know about
Winter, spring, summer or fall hey now
All you've got to do is call
And i'll be there
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
(yes i will)
You've got a friend
You've got a friend
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend
(you've got a friend)
You've got a friend
Oh yeah yeah
You've got a friend

Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can i stay here for awhile
Can i see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello ruby in the dust
Has you band begun to rust
After all the sin we've had
I was hoping that we'd turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello woman of my dreams
You know it's not, it's not the way it seems
All these purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
So many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside
This time
Don't assume anything
But go go go

I am a problem child
I've been wild all my days
All my anger and my rage
My senses said it would lead me astray
I said go go go

Raise your hands
Raise your hands high
Don't take a seat
Don't stand aside
This time
Don't assume anything
This time
Don't assume anything
I said this time
Don't assume anything

One two three four
Jump jump jump so high
Watch me let you down
If i stumble i will stumble
If i fall i will fall
Try to hold it like rain in the river
But everything is getting bigger
Better this won't last forever
Touch me and fall
Yeah

Long ago a young man sits
And plays his waiting game
But things are not the same it seems
As in such tender dreams

Slowly passing sailing ships
On sunday afternoon
Like the people on the moon i've seen
Are things not meant to be

Where do those golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is this song so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love

To love is just a word i've heard
When things are being said
Stories my poor head has told me
Can not stand the cold

And in between what might have been
And what has come to pass
Are misbegotten guests alas
And bits of broken glass

Where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love
To love to love to love

Where do your golden rainbows end
(where do the rainbows end)
Why is the song i sing so sad
(why is this song so sad)
Dreaming the dreams i dream my friend
(dreaming the dreams i dream)
Loving the love i love
To love to love to love
Whoa no no no no no

Well evening fell just like a star
Left a trail across the sky
You spit as you walked out the door
If this is love we're crazy
As we fight like cats and dogs
I just know there's got to be more
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain

I'll admit i ain't no angel
I'll admit i ain't no saint
I'm selfish and cold but you're blind
If i exercise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
And they're so hard to find
So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain

We're always at each other's throats
You know it drives me up the wall
Most of the time blowin' off steam
I wish to hell you'd leave me
Wish to god you'd stay
Life's so different than in our dream
Please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Walking in the rain
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Out walking in the rain

It's not time to make a change
Just relax and take it easy
You're still young that's your fault
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl and settle down
If you want well you can marry
Look at me i am old but i'm happy

I was once like you are now
And i know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found
Something going on
Take your time think a lot
Think of everything you've got
You will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not

How can i try to explain
When i do he turns away again
And it's always been the same
Same old story
From the moment i could talk
I was ordered to listen
Now there's a way and i know
That i have to go away
I know i have to go

It's not time to make a change
(wait, wait)
Just sit down and take it slowly
(wait)
You're still young that's your fault
(i have to go)
There's so much you have to go through
(and make this decision)
Find a girl settle down
(i know)
If you want well you can marry
(know)
Look at me i am old but i'm happy

All the times that i cried
(stay, stay)
Keeping all the things i knew inside
(stay)
Well it's hard but it's harder to ignore it
(why must you go)
If they were right i'd agree
(make these decisions)
But it's them they know not me
(i know)
Now there's a way and i know
That i have to go away
I know i have to go

She's been afraid to go out
She's afraid of a knock on her door
There's always a shade of a doubt
She can never be sure
Who comes to call
Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend
Anyone at all
Anything but nothing again

It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too

Seems like even her old girlfriends
Might be talking her down
She's got her name on the grapevine
Running up and down the telephone line
Talking bout someone said someone said
Something bout something else
Someone might have said about her
She always figured that they were her friends
Maybe they can live without her

It used to be her town
It used to be her town too
It used to be her town
It used to be her town too

Well people'd gotten used to seeing them both together
But now she's gone and life goes on
Nothing last forever
Oh no

She gets the house and the garden
He gets the boys in the band
Some of them his friends
Some of them her friends
Some of them understand

Lord knows that this is just a small town city
Yes and everyone can see you fall
It's got nothing to do with pity
I just wanted to give you a call

It used to be your town
It used to be my town too
But you never know til it all falls down
That somebody loves you
Somebody loves you
Darling somebody still loves you
I can still remember
When it used to be her town too

It used to be your town
It used to be my town too
Ah but you never know til it all falls down
That somebody loves you
Somebody loves you

Time where have you left me
Here without a heart
Without an answer
I tried to open my eyes
I tried to see the song
All things considered
This much remains the same

Hit that wall again
The same old barrier
Time after time i've tried
To glimpse the other side
Oh and time surely made me see
I was taking your love so carelessly
Now we know
Though it doesn't do much good anymore
I still feel the old familiar pain

It could be that love is blind
I was blind to all your reasoning
But at the start you were blind to me
Now i guess you could say we're even
Isn't that what we always wanted to be
Putting our souls on the line to win this game
I'm feeling the strain

I'll always love you
Through all this distance
All these barriers
Trying to erase the pain
Erase the pain
Erase the pain

When you set a match to your heart
Fueling it with bitterness and doubt
That's a blaze that once it starts
No amount of tears can put out
I know you're scared
But no one's spared
When you play with matches
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire

Maybe you've been burned by lovers
Maybe you've been scarred by the pain
But baby i'm not like the others
Drawing moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark
Crackling in the dark
Consuming all it catches
And you've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)

You can see the toll it's taking
You can feel the faith it's shaking
You can hear the heart it's breaking now

Baby i've burned by the fever
I've been scorched by desire
But baby i'm not your deceiver
Or your eloquent liar
Your jealous heart is tearing us apart
And turning love to ashes
When you've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
As the flames shoot higher
You've got me walking through fire
(walking through fire)
Walking

I wrote a letter to my senator
Came back address unknown
Put a call in to the president
He wouldn't come to the phone
Now how in the hell can a person
Feel safe and secure at home
When all the decisions are being made
By big boys getting stoned

Now i've been listening and watching
Looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

So took a train to the white house
Wrote this song on the way
I knocked at the oval office
I sure of what i had to say
Well they looked at me kind of funny
Asked me what group i was with
I said i come on my own to represent
The group that don't take no shit

Now i've been listening and watching
Looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

What's wrong in the company
Words been going down
He's jepardizing the future
So he can get what he wants right now
Said level the mountains for gold
Fill up the sea with iron
What the hell jesus is coming
And the waiting is making me tired

Now i've been listening and watching
It looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here

Hey mr. nunn sir
Please tell me this
Why do you boys engage
In pornographic bliss
Up and down to boulevards
Of military towns
T & a and cheap hotels
For them to throw down
It's a release they say
It's the american way
It's not a soldiers preference
That makes him wrong or right
It's how he lives and how he acts
That makes him serve his country right

Now i've been listening and watching
It looks like somethings caught in the gears
I can't seem to find a groove
There's something going on around here
Yeah

Living on free food tickets
There's water in the milk from the hole in the roof
Where the rain came in
But what can you do

Well you got tears from your little sister
Crying cause she doesn't have a dress without a patch
For the party to go
Oh but you know that she's gonna get by

Living in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
As she can
Oh yeah

And it's a good thing you don't have bus fare
It would fall through the whole in your pocket
And you'd lose it in the snow on the ground
You better walk to town and find a job

Oh and you try to keep your hands warm
The hole in your shoe lets the snow come through
And it chills you to the bone
You'd better go home where it's warm

You can live in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
As she can
Oh yeah

Living on a dream ain't easy no
But the closer the knit the tighter the fit
And the chills stay away
We like to keep them in stride for family pride

Faith is your foundation
Got a whole lot of love and a long conversation
But don't forget to pray oh no
It's keeping us strong where we belong

Living in the love of the common people
Smiles from the heart of the family man
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can

Living in the love of the common people
(you know that faith is your foundation)
Smiles from the heart of the family man
(whole lot of love and a long conversation)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(don't forget to pray it's keeping us strong)
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
(where we belong)

Living in the love of the common people
(oh living on a dream ain't easy)
Smiles from the heart of the family man
(but the closer the knit the tighter the fit)
Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to
(we like to keep them in stride)
Mama's gonna love you just as much as she can
(for family pride)
As she can

Soft in the morning
Love without warning
Peace 'cause there's no disguising it
When it's love you can't hide from it

Now i don't want to be the shadow
When you find your new life
I only want to hold you in the dead of night

You don't have to search for me
You don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity

Now i have learned to sing with a steady mind
Fill the void and pass the time
And face this ground and erase the blue
When i leave the scene it all comes down to you

You don't have to search for me
And you don't have to set yourself free
You are free through eternity

Now i know it's gotta be hard to find
That blessed balance - that fine line
But turn around and bless me
Or let me go in peace
I can meet you halfway
And give you all you need

But you don't have to search for me
And you don't ever have to set yourself free
You are free
Through eternity
Eternity
Eternally
You are free eternally
You are free

Her life is a show
One act follows the other everywhere she goes
She takes the leading role
She never plays herself
Save for the time she's on the stage

Color her black or white
Now either one reflects the teardrops
One extreme for the other
Nothing in between
Color her white for the princess she could be
Color her black for the troubled child she plays so well
Well she's dancing through hell on a dream

And blue is soul of the one
Reaching for the man that she hasn't got yet
And holding on to those hearts for lost causes
She could be so bright
But she's reaching for us all
Color her blue for the loneliness she feels
She's hiding her heart in the sky

And this is a thursday afternoon
It's just another thursday afternoon
It's just another thursday afternoon

Color me grey
I'm a little bit of everything today
And i'm not sure just where i'm going
Color me grey
Wishing i was something more of distinction

Color us all 'cause we're just stars
Wishing our lives away
Into the distance
And out of existence

Color her black or white
Color her blue
Or color me grey
Color us all - we're stars
Wishing our lives away
Now we're stars