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Take it easy baby
But take as much as you can
Cause i got all the sweet loving
You could possibly stand
I'll take your tears for drinking water
Make your pain sweet company
You can lay all your burdens on my shoulder
Girl you mean that much to me

Chorus 1:
I could climb the highest mountain
To show the world i could survive
But without your lovin' baby
I wouldn't even be alive
Cause your love is like blood
Cause your love is like blood to me

Like a river baby
Your love is running thru me
And with ev'ry beat of our hearts
We're defying gravity
Just a little bit further on up the stream
There's a shady resting place
Where you can lose all your blues and your troubles
With just one sweet embrace

Chorus 2:
Now i could do a million things
Just to prove that i'm a man
But there's only one woman
Who holds my life in her hands
Your love is like blood to me
Your love it's just like blood to me

I don't care what your people say
Over my dead body will they ever take you away
And any man cutting in on me
Well he just better stop cause i can't spare a drop
Your love is like blood to me

Your love is like blood to me

My baby's gone and i don't know why
She let out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
Left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
And faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
She took a flatboat across the shallow

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Left me in my tears to drown
She left a baby daughter
Now the water's wide and deep and brown
She's crossing muddy waters

Tobacco standing in the fields
Be rotten come november
And a bitter heart will not reveal
A spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine
Her black eyes are ravens
We broke the bread and drank the wine
From a jug that she'd been saving

Chorus

Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
That big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
Or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
To take her from her loved ones

Chorus twice

What i feel is like an old freight train
Five miles long in the pouring rain
Rolling out of detroit loaded up with shiny cars
And i'm sitting in a cadillac smoking on a big cigar
What i feel's like an engine room
Open it up and smell the perfume
I love that diesel burning up the atmosphere
When you hear me blow well honey baby know i'm here

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Well i'm going down to lincoln town
Turn your pretty little head around
Take the next train outward bound
Carry you out of lincoln town

Well babe you know my home is with you
There ain't no town or city will do
I need a rolling partner carrying me down the line
And i'm a-comin' into lincoln town baby right on time
Well love is like an automobile
Or maybe a freight train dependin' on how you feel
Big wheels rolling listen to that engine whine
Well rubber or steel honey baby i don't mind

Chorus

When you see that old black smoke
You know it's time to pack you a coat
Meet me at the station about a quarter to nine
You can ride in my cadillac honey you can ride the blinds

Chorus twice

One in one and one makes three
Baby, you know that it ain't no big mystery
Just from where you're at
You never had these feelings to burn
You took my love and baby you turned

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Is it all in my mind
Or is it a cruel game
This love in flame

I was up so high
Where eagles fly
I just never looked down

Oh, but you were down there
With the wind in your hair
And your feet on the ground
We might have had the stars in the sky
You never had the courage to try

Chorus
Love in flames

Love in flames
Is it the same
As passion flooding in the name of love
Or is it fear of pain
When love comes crashing down from above

Tonight i lay me down to sleep
On your side of the bed
I pray so hard for somebody to keep
Keep you out of my head
But it's no use the sheets take your form
Into the dawn the ashes still warm

Chorus
Love in flames

Who'll take the only hearts they got
And throw them into the fire?
Who'll risk their own self-respect
In the name of desire?
Who'll regret every thing they've done
And who'll get the bill?
Lovers will

Who'll hurt each other all the time
And never give it a though?
Who'll like about where they've been
And hope they never get caught?
Who'll say each other's kisses
No longer thrill?
Lovers will

Lovers will do almost anything
For the thrill that only love can bring
If love is a healer, who'll be the first ones ill?
Lovers will

Who'll never know what they've got
Until its just about gone?
And whose arms will gather up whats left
To carry on?
And who'll stalk that little bit of love
That hasnt been killed?
Lovers will

I woke her up twice in the middle of the night
To ask what her name is and where she might live
To ask how many fingers she saw in this light
To ask if she might know what gives

She said we rolled that camaro like a cowboy cigarette
Out on the highway in a puddle of beer
That's just about how close to death you're gonna get
Till the only thing standing is fear

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Singing, oh darling, faces were changed
The names of the innocent, the story at five
Oh darling, faces get strange
But only the song survives

She said, now don't you remember they put a patch on your eye
Like dread pirate roberts, you looked so unplanned
They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry
A one-eyed niagara falls man

Chorus

I said, but i never married - i said with surprise
And is this the diamond you said that you lost
It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes
Hell and i don't know what the thing cost

Chorus twice

But i woke up sweating to breakfast in bed
And there were my children, and there was my wife
Post-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the head
Or maybe the ride of my life

Chorus twice

I thought i had your number - there must be some mistake
I dialled 6 - 3 - 7 - 11 - 88
I got some geezer; said his girlfriend's on the town
I said, "i've got the wrong number," and i slammed the phone down

Thought about it for a minute 'til the anger went away
I figure every dog in town is gonna have his day
Well, i could count the teardrops, or i could wonder why
Well i used to be your lover - now i don't even try

It was champagne parties and sweet love sins
Now it's warm beer at midnight and girlie magazines
I stack the empty cans up like a freshman in school
It's the kind of thing you're into when you ain't nobody's fool

Got my socks in the oven, something's growing in the sink
I can't begin to face the day without a couple of drinks
Ain't had a decent meal since you made me cry
Well i used to be your lover - now i don't even try

Memories, take a look at what you've done to me
It's gettin' so all i do is watch tv
Can't even prove that i'm alive

Well, i thought i had your number - there must be some mistake
I dialled 6-3-7-1-1-8-8
I got some geezer; said his girlfriend's on the town
I said, "i've got the wrong number," and i slammed the phone down

But i know the number's right and you're his girl
Though i wouldn't want to face it for the whole wide world
Don't come back baby, i think i'm gonna die
Well i used to be your lover, now i don't even try
I used to be your lover, now i don't even try

Well hes got her going up and down like a yo-yo
And she never feels better than ever, just so-so
Like a shrunken head on a rear view mirror
She rides along in his atmosphere
Like furry dice or some voodoo thing
Hes got that girl on a string

Since they tied the knot he keeps her in stitches
And when she ain't banged up, shes sewing his britches
Like a line between the orange juice cans
Shes strung out on his childish demands
To meet him out by the backyard swing
Hes got that girl on a string

Girl on a string, just a little play toy
Girl on a string, for a little bad boy
Girl on a string, hes dragging her around
Girl on a string, hes tying her down

She carries his baby straddled on her hipbone
And theres another on the way, just wait till they get home
The deeper into darkness they get
The more she sees the silhouette
Of a girl who wanted pretty things
Not that girl on a string

Dry your eyes pretty girl
I just got news from the outside world
I dont know how they got our names
But yesterday this letter came:

Mr. and mrs. resident dweller, your lucky number is
You may already be a winner

I've suspected this for years
Still in all its good to hear
They're pulling for us in the post
To you my dear, i raise this toast

A house of our dreams, an el dorado, a ten-speed blender
You may already be a winner

Now ive never counted my chickens before they're hatched
And i know there is always a catch
But i've felt from the start that our hearts were the perfect match

I know you're tired of the same old dress
I know the car's been repossessed
I know this house is just a shack
But there's this love we cant hold back

Would you like a beer with your tv dinner?
Oh, my darling, you may already be a winner

Well, harry had a good job working' for the secret service
He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous
He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental
And he had this aching feeling that his life was accidental

So one day he burned his pinstripe suit and his leather shoulder holster
He snapped a polaroid and made a giant wanted poster
He took it to a print shop and ordered up a thousand flyers
And walked next door to the laundromat and blew his brains out in the drier

And the tag on his toe read: death by misadventure
Ain't that some way to go? death by misadventure

Well, harry's wife estella took this matter rather lightly
She could have cried and cried but then her looks might come unsightly
She thought about her wardrobe and how much it was outdated
And how this trumped up family thing was vastly overrated

Her kids both turned against her and they took to drugs and stealing
Some junkie killed 'em both for two dime bags they were dealing
And sitting home alone disgusted by it all
She blew the sole survivor off with ninety nembutals

And the tag on her toe read: death by misadventure
Ain't that some way to go? death by misadventure

So be careful how you choose your path and who you pick to go with
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death
Some folks get confused and never quite know how they're going
When you're laid out on that slab we're all the worse for knowing

That the tag on your toe reads: death by misadventure
What a silly way to go. death by misadventure