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Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the night Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie But I say why Why deny the obvious child? Why deny the obvious child? And in remembering a road sign I am remembering a girl when I was young And we said These songs are true These days are ours These tears are free And hey The cross is in the ballpark The cross is in the ballpark We had a lot of fun We had a lot of money We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny Sonny gets married and moves away Sonny has a baby and bills to pay Sonny gets sunnier Day by day by day by day Doh, doh, doh, doh Doh, doh, doh, doh Well, I've been waking up at sunrise I've been following the light across my room I watch the night receive the room of my day Some people say the sky is just the sky But I say Why deny the obvious child? Why deny the obvious child? Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself How it's strange that some rooms are like cages Sonny's yearbook from high school Is down from the shelf And he id-ly thumbs through the pages Some have died Some have fled from themselves Or struggled from here to get there Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the night Some people say a lie's is just a lie But I say the cross is in the ballpark Why deny the obvious child |
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| 2. |
| 3:37 |
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I can't run but
I can walk much faster than this Can't run but I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but A cooling system Burns out in the Ukraine Trees and umbrellas Protect us from the new rain Armies of engineers To analyze the soil The food we contemplate The water that we boil I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but Oo-we Oo-we I had a dream about us In the bottles and the bones of the night I felt a pain in my shoulder blade Like a pencil point? A love bite? A couple was rubbing against us Rubbing and doing that new dance The man was wearing a jacket and jeans The woman was laughing in advance I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but A winding river Gets wound around a heart. Pull it Tighter and tighter Until the muddy waters part Down by the river bank A blues band arrives The music suffers The music business thrives I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but Oo-we Oo-we |
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| 3. |
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A family of musicians took shelter for the night
In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea This is a lonely life Sorrows everywhere you turn And that's worth something When you think about it That's worth some money That's worth something When you think about it That is worth some money A trip to the market A trip into the pearl gray morning sunlight That settles over Washington A trip to the market A trip around the world Where the evening meal Is negotiable, if there is one. This is a lonely-lone, lonely life Sorrows everywhere you turn And that's worth something When you think about it That's worth some money That's worth something When you think about it That is worth some money To prove that I love you Because I believe in you Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have money If I have children Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah Summer skies and stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah Summer skies and the stars are falling All along the injured coast We are standing in the sunlight The early morning sunlight In the harbor church of St. Cecilia To praise a soul's returning to the earth To the Rose of Jericho and the Bougainvillea To prove that I love you Because I believe in you Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have money If I have children Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have weaknesses Don't let them blind me now Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah Summer skies, stars are falling Leaving the shadow of the valley behind me now All along the injured coast Ooh-wah Ooh-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah Summer skies and stars are falling All along the injured coast Ooh-wah Ooh-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah |
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| 4. |
| 4:40 |
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Soon our fortunes will be made, my darling
And we will leave this loathsome little town Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby Silver foil to trim your wedding gown It's true the tools of love wear down Time passes A mind wanders It seems mindless, but it does Sometimes I see your face As if through reading glasses And your smile seems softer than it was Proof Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know Proof Sane people go crazy on you Say "No man, that was not The deal we made I got to go,l got to go" Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom line for everyone My face, my race Don't matter anymore My sex, my cheques Accepted at the door Proof Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know Proof Sane people go crazy on you Say "No man, that was not The deal we made I got to, I got to go" Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom line for everyone Half moon hiding in the clouds, my darling And the sky is flecked with signs of hope Raise your weary wings against the rain, my baby Wash your tangled curls with gambler's soap Proof Some people gonna call you up Tell you something that you already know Sane people go crazy on you Say "No man, that was not The deal we made I got to,l got to,l got to" Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof is the bottom line for everyone |
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| 5:36 |
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There may come a time
When you'll be tired As tired as a dream that wants to die And further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Maybe you will find a love That you discover accidentally Who falls against you gently As a pickpocket Brushes your thigh Further to fly Effortless music from the Cameroons The spinning darkness of her hair A conversation in a crowded room going nowhere The open palm of desire Wants everything It wants everything It wants everything Sometimes I'll be walking down The street and I'll be thinking Am I crazy Or is this some morbid little lie Further to fly Further to fly Further to fly A recent loss of memory A shadow in the family The baby waves bye-bye I'm trying, I'm flying There may come a time When I will lose you Lose you as I lose my light Days falling backward into velvet night The open palm of desire Wants everything It wants everything It wants soil as soft as summer And the strength to push like spring A broken laugh a broken fever Take it up with the great deceiver Who looks you in the eye And says baby don't cry Further to fly There may come a time When I will lose you Lose you as I lose my sight Days falling backward into velvet night The open palm of desire The Rose of Jericho Soil as soft as summer The strength to let you go |
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| 6. |
| 5:04 |
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I feel good
It's a fine day The way the sun hits off the runway A cloud shifts The plane lifts She moves on But feel the bite Whenever you believe that You'll be lost and love will find you When the road bends And the song ends She moves on I know the reason I Feel so blessed My heart still splashes Inside my chest, but she She is like a top She cannot stop She moves on A sympathetic stranger Lights a candle in the middle of the night Her voice cracks She jumps back But she moves on She says "Ooh my storybook lover You have underestimated my power As you shortly will discover" Then I fall to my knees Shake a rattle at the skies I'm afraid that I'll be taken Abandoned, forsaken In her cold coffee eyes She can't sleep now The moon is red She fights a fever She burns in bed She needs to talk so We take a walk Down in the maroon light She says "Maybe these emotions are As near to love as love will ever be" So I agree The the moon breaks She takes the corner that's all she takes She moves on She says "Ooh, my storybook lover You have underestimated my power As you shortly will discover" Then I fall to my knees I grow weak, I go slack As if she captured the breath of my voice in a bottle And I can't catch it back But I feel good It's a fine day The way the sun hits off the runway A cloud shifts The plane lifts She moves on |
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| 7. |
| 3:48 |
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Down among the reeds and rushes
A baby boy was found His eyes as clear as centuries His silky hair was brown Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time Me and my buddies we are travelling people We like to go down to restaurant row Spend those Euro-dollars All the way from Washington to Tokyo I see them in the airport lounge Upon their mother's breast They follow me with open eyes Their uninvited guest Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time Too many people on the bus from the airport Too many holes in the crust of the earth The planet groans Every time it registers another birth But down among the reeds and rushes A baby girl was found Her eyes as clear as centuries Her silky hair was brown Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time |
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| 8. |
| 4:33 |
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Moves like a fist through traffic
Anger and no one can heal it Shoves a little bump into the momentum It's just a little lump But you feel it In the creases and the shadows With a rattling deep emotion The cool, cool river Sweeps the wild, white ocean Yes Boss. The government handshake Yes Boss. The crusher of language Yes Boss. Mr. Stillwater, The face at the edge of the banquet The cool, the cool river The cool, the cool river I believe in the future I may live in my car My radio tuned to The voice of a star Song dogs barking at the break of dawn Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm And these old hopes and fears Still at my side Anger and no one can heal it Slides through the metal detector Lives like a mole in a motel A slide in a slide projector The cool, cool river Sweeps the wild, white ocean The rage of love turns inward To prayers of devotion And these prayers are The constant road across the wilderness These prayers are These prayers are the memory of God The memory of God And I believe in the future We shall suffer no more Maybe not in my lifetime But in yours I feel sure Song dogs barking at the break of dawn Lightning pushes the edges of a thunderstorm And these streets Quiet as a sleeping army Send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven For the mother's restless son Who is a witness to, who is a warrior Who denies his urge to break and run Who says: Hard times? I'm used to them The speeding planet burns I'm used to that My life's so common it disappears And sometimes even music Cannot substitute for tears |
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| 9. |
| 3:56 |
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We sailed up a river wide as a sea
And slept on the banks On the leaves of a banyan tree And all of these spirit voices rule the night Some stories are magical, meant to he sung Song from the mouth of the river When the world was young And all of these spirit voices rule the night By moon We walk To the brujo's door Along a path of river stone Women with their nursing children Seated on the floor We join the fevers And the broken bones The candlelight flickers The falcon calls A lime-green lizard scuttles down the cabin wall And all of these spirit voices Sing rainwater, sea water River water, holy water Wrap this child in mercy?heal her Heaven's only daughter All of these spirit voices rule the night My hands were numb My feet were lead I drank a cup of herbal brew Then the sweetness in the air Combined with the lightness in my head And I heard the jungle breathing in the bamboo Saudacoes Greetings! Da licenca um momento Excuse me, one moment Te lembro I remind you Que amanha That tomorrow Sera tudo ou sera naoa It will he all or it will be nothing Depende, coracao It depends, heart Sera breve ou sera grande It will be brief or it will be great Depende da paixao It depends on the passion Sera sujo, sera sonho It will be dirty, it will be a dream Cuidado, coracao Be careful, heart Sera util, sera tarde It will be useful. it will be late Se esmera, coracao Do your best, heart E confia And have trust Na forca do amanha In the power of tomorrow Lord of the earthquake My trembling bed The spider resumes the rhythm Of his golden thread And all of these spirit voices rule the night |
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| 4:13 |
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If I have weaknesses
Don't let them blind me Or camouflage all I am wary of I could be sailing in seizures of laughter Or crawling out from under the heel of love Do my prayers remain unanswered Like a beggar at your sleeve Olodumare is smiling in heaven Smiling in heaven I do believe Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark To overcome an obstacle or an enemy To glide away from the razor or a knife To overcome an obstacle or an enemy To dominate the impossible in your life Always a stranger when strange isn't fashionable And fashion is rich people waving at the door Or it's a dealer in drugs or in passion Lies of a nature we've heard before Do my prayers remain unanswered Like a beggar at your sleeve Babalu-aye spins on his crutches Says leave if you want If you want to leave Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark A reach in the darkness Reach in the dark To overcome an obstacle or an enemy To glide away from the razor or a knife To overcome an obstacle or an enemy To dominate the impossible in your life Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark To overcome an obstacle or an enemy To dominate the impossible in your life Reach in the darkness A reach in the dark |
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| 3:50 |
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Down among the reeds and rushes
A baby boy was found His eyes as clear as centuries His silky hair was brown Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time Me and my buddies we are travelling people We like to go down to restaurant row Spend those Euro-dollars All the way from Washington to Tokyo I see them in the airport lounge Upon their mother's breast They follow me with open eyes Their uninvited guest Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time Too many people on the bus from the airport Too many holes in the crust of the earth The planet groans Every time it registers another birth But down among the reeds and rushes A baby girl was found Her eyes as clear as centuries Her silky hair was brown Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whispering Born at the right time |
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| 4:15 |
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If a feeling's born and no one complains
Well that's good luck Running through young veins And if life is a blessing That brushes the tops of the trees Well it's a short walk In a sweet breeze I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you All for the taste of your sweet love thelma If a heart is an open memory book That was the chance I took The more I searched, the more shook with thelma Last night I slept on a rented pillow A silver moon above my head A thirsty dreamless sleep released me And I reached for the phone By the side of the bed Now the first time that I saw you I thought "she's beautiful, but she's too young to be caught" People aware of my history Trying to steer you away from me I left a message at your hotel Don't let management poison the well I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you All for the taste of your sweet love thelma The phone is ringing and I realize We are timezones and oceans apart The words I speak in the middle of my night They fall on your yesterday scars If the sun don't shine, the wind don't break The clock don't jump off the wall Thelma, my darling, I will cushion your fall I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you Without the taste of your sweet love thelma I am only a man who has skirted the edge of despair For a long time now, and I don't care I watch you sleeping a the hospital bed The baby curled up in a ball Winter sunlight hits the family tree And everything else becomes nothing at all |
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| 5:13 |
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A family of musicians took shelter for the night
In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea This is a lonely life Sorrows everywhere you turn And that's worth something When you think about it That's worth some money That's worth something When you think about it That is worth some money A trip to the market A trip into the pearl gray morning sunlight That settles over Washington A trip to the market A trip around the world Where the evening meal Is negotiable, if there is one. This is a lonely-lone, lonely life Sorrows everywhere you turn And that's worth something When you think about it That's worth some money That's worth something When you think about it That is worth some money To prove that I love you Because I believe in you Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have money If I have children Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah Summer skies and stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo-wop a Doo-wah Summer skies and the stars are falling All along the injured coast We are standing in the sunlight The early morning sunlight In the harbor church of St. Cecilia To praise a soul's returning to the earth To the Rose of Jericho and the Bougainvillea To prove that I love you Because I believe in you Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have money If I have children Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast If I have weaknesses Don't let them blind me now Summer skies, stars are falling All along the injured coast Oo-wah Oo-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah Summer skies, stars are falling Leaving the shadow of the valley behind me now All along the injured coast Ooh-wah Ooh-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah Summer skies and stars are falling All along the injured coast Ooh-wah Ooh-wah Doo Wop a Doo Wah |
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| 3:50 |
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We sailed up a river wide as a sea
And slept on the banks On the leaves of a banyan tree And all of these spirit voices rule the night Some stories are magical, meant to he sung Song from the mouth of the river When the world was young And all of these spirit voices rule the night By moon We walk To the brujo's door Along a path of river stone Women with their nursing children Seated on the floor We join the fevers And the broken bones The candlelight flickers The falcon calls A lime-green lizard scuttles down the cabin wall And all of these spirit voices Sing rainwater, sea water River water, holy water Wrap this child in mercy?heal her Heaven's only daughter All of these spirit voices rule the night My hands were numb My feet were lead I drank a cup of herbal brew Then the sweetness in the air Combined with the lightness in my head And I heard the jungle breathing in the bamboo Saudacoes Greetings! Da licenca um momento Excuse me, one moment Te lembro I remind you Que amanha That tomorrow Sera tudo ou sera naoa It will he all or it will be nothing Depende, coracao It depends, heart Sera breve ou sera grande It will be brief or it will be great Depende da paixao It depends on the passion Sera sujo, sera sonho It will be dirty, it will be a dream Cuidado, coracao Be careful, heart Sera util, sera tarde It will be useful. it will be late Se esmera, coracao Do your best, heart E confia And have trust Na forca do amanha In the power of tomorrow Lord of the earthquake My trembling bed The spider resumes the rhythm Of his golden thread And all of these spirit voices rule the night |
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