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Remember when the days were long
And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn't have a care in the world With mommy and daddy standin' by But "happily ever after" fails And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since Daddy had to fly But I know a place where we can go That's still untouched by men We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass waves in the wind You can lay your head back on the ground And let your hair fall all around me Offer up your best defense But this is the end This is the end of the innocence O beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since Daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass waves in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defense But this is the end This is the end of the innocence Who knows how long this will last Now we've come so far, so fast But, somewhere back there in the dust That same small town in each of us I need to remember this So baby give me just one kiss And let me take a long last look Before we say goodbye Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair fall all around me Offer up your best defense But this is the end This is the end of the innocence |
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Woke up with a heavy head
And I thought about leavin' town I could have died if I wanted to-- Slipped over the edge and drowned But, oh no baby, I won't give up that easy, no Too many tire tracks in the sands of time Too many love affairs that stop on a dime, well Ooh baby, think it's time to make some changes 'round here Yeah, I'm gonna tear it up Gonna trash it up I'm gonna round it up gonna shake it up Oh no baby, I will not lie down I'm brave enough to be crazy I'm strong enough to be weak I see all these heroes with feet of clay Whose mighty ships have sprung a leak And I, want you to tell me darlin' Just what do you believe in now? Well, c'mon over here baby You 'bout to gimme a heart attack wanna wrap my lovin' arms Around the small of your back Yeah, and I'm gonna pull you, pull you, pull you Pull you right up close to me, yeah Yeah, we're gonna tear it up We gonna trash it up Gonna round it up Gonna shake it up Oh, no no no, I will not lie down Turn this thing around I will not go quietly I will not lie down I will not go quietly I will not lie down I will not go quietly I will not lie down No, I will not lie down, no Well, don't you ever get lonely? Don't you ever get down? Don't you ever get tired Of all the wicked tongues in this town? Oh baby, just wanna take you away from here I ain't no tiger I ain't no little lamb Suppose you tell me mama Who do you think I think I am? oooh baby, don't you give a damn? Yeah I'm gonna tear it up gonna trash it up gonna round it up gonna shake it up Oooh hoh baby I will not lie down Turn this thing around I will not go quietly I will not lie down I will not go quietly I will not lie down I will not go quietly I will not lie down I will not lie down |
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I know you broke up with him
And your heart's still on the shelf It's been over two years for me And I'm still not quite myself You can't be with someone new And you can't go back to him You're beginning to realize That it's sink or swim I see you around sometimes And my heart just melts You're lookin' like if you had your wish You'd be somewhere else And it just breaks my heart To see you here this way Someday I'll get the nerve To walk up to you and say This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend Just gimme a chance To show you how to love again This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend Cause I'll be there When your broken heart is on the mend Every night it's the same old crowd in smokey rooms You catch a faint glimpse of love sometimes But it never blooms I've been around this block a time or two And I've made some big mistakes But girl I promise you, I promise you This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend Just gimme a chance To show you how to love again This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend Cause it won't be long Til your little heart is on the mend (time, time, tickin, tickin, tickin away) (time, time, tickin, tickin, tickin) (time, time, tickin, tickin, tickin away) (time, time, tickin, tickin, tickin) People inside their houses With the shades pulled down God knows we could use some romance In this sleepy bedroom town I know you're still afraid to rush into anything But there are just so many summers, babe And just so many springs And this is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend, baby Just gimme a chance, gimme a chance To show you love again This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend Cause it won't be long Til your little heart is on the mend That you'll have to spend Just gimme a chance, darlin To show you how to love again This is the last worthless evening That you'll have to spend 'cause it won't be long Til your little heart is on the mend |
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Harry got up, dressed all in black
Went down to the station, and he never came back They found his clothing scattered somewhere down the track And he won't be down on Wall Street in the morning now He had a home, love of a girl But men get lost sometimes as years unfurl One day, he crossed some line, and he was too much in this world But I guess it doesn't matter anymore In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute, things can get pretty strange In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute Lying here in the darkness, I hear the sirens wail Somebody going to emergency, somebody's going to jail You find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail The wolf is always at the door In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute, things can get a little strange In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute And in these days, darkness falls early And people rush home to the ones they love You'd better take a fool's advice than take care of your own One day they're here, next day they're gone Pulled my coat around my shoulders, took a walk down through the park Leaves were falling around me, groaning city in the gathering dark On some solitary rock, a desperate lover left his mark "Baby, I've changed, please come back" What the head makes cloudy, the heart makes very clear I know the days were so much brighter in the time when she was here I know that somebody somewhere can make these dark clouds disappear But until that day, I have to believe, I believe, I believe In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute, you can get out of the rain In a New York minute, everything can change In a New York minute |
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Every day's a new day
That's what I've been told Try to hold your head high The world runs hot and cold It's hard to follow footprints In the shifting sand Another thirsty rider Behind the caravan You had no idea Just what was waiting out there You never thought you'd carry the weight Of the world On your pretty blond haie This ain't no shangri-la To you no shangri-la This ain't no shangri-la Nobody knows no shangri-la Hey! there's a whole lotta people Wonderin' who you are They think you walk without a care in the world But they've been wrong so far This ain't no shangri-la To you no shangri-la This ain't no shangri-la Nobody knows no shangri-la |
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"A new age is dawning
On fewer than expected Business is usual" That's how the headline read Some shaky modern saviors Have now been resurrected In all this excitement You may have been misled People want a miracle They say "Oh Lord, can't you see us? We're tryin' to make a livin' down here And keep the children fed" But, from little dark motel rooms to "Six Flags Over Jesus" "How are the mighty fallen" So the Bible said You don't have to pray to a little tin god Step out of the way for a little tin god You might fear the reaper, you might fear the rod But you never have to get down on your knees You don't have to holler, "please, please" No, you never have to get down on your knees For a little tin god The cowboy's name was "Jingo" And he knew that there was trouble So in a blaze of glory He rode out of the west No one was ever certain What it was that he was sayin' But they loved it when he told them They were better than the rest But you don't have to pray for a little tin god Step out of the way for a little tin god You might hate to system, hate the job But you never have to get down on your knees You don't have to holler, "please, please" No, you never have to get down on your knees For a little tin god Throw down a rope from heaven And lead the flock to water The man in the middle would have you think That you have no other choice But to wander in the wilderness Of all the upturned faces If you stop and listen long enough You will hear your own small voice But you don't have to pray to a little tin god Step out of the way for a little tin god You might fear the reaper, fear the rod But you never have to get down on your knees You don't have to holler, "please, please" No, you never have to get down on your knees You don't have to holler, "please, please" You never have to get down on your knees For a little tin god |
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Baby picks off your plate-yours looks better
And she throws hers on the floor Here, in the home of the brave And the land of the free The first word that baby learns is "more" So you're out there floating like a big, puffy cloud With the pool and the charcoal and the kids and the wife 'Til the reruns of your dreams are interrupted And you step out into life And it's still gimme, gimme what you got Gimme, gimme what you got (I want it, I want it) Gimme, gimme what you got I said gimme, gimme what you got (I want it, I want it) Gimme, gimme what you got Now it's take and take and takeover, takeover It's all take and never give All these trumped up towers They're just golden showers Where are people supposed to live? You can arm yourself, alarm yourself But there's nowhere you can run 'Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money Than any man with a gun I said gimme, gimme what you got Said gimme, gimme what you got Gimme, gimme what you got Gimme, gimme what you got You got the price of admission- You don't have to ask permission To take somethin' from another man You cross a lawyer with the godfather, baby Make you an offer that you can't understand From Main Street to Wall Street to Washington From men to women to men It's a nation of noses pressed up against the glass They've seen it on the TV And they want it pretty fast You spend your whole life Just pilin' it up there You got stack and stacks and stacks Then, Gabriel comes and taps you on the shoulder But you don't see no hearses with luggage racks Gimme, gimme what you got I said gimme, gimme what you got I said gimme, gimme what you got (I want it, I want it) Gimme, gimme what you got |
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Walkin' like a millionaire
Smilin' like a king He leaned his shopping cart against the wall He said, "I been a lot of places And I seen a lot of things But, sonny, I seen one thing that beats 'em all I was flyin' back from Lubbock I saw Jesus on the plane ...or maybe it was Elvis You know, they kinda look the same Hey, look out, Junior, you're steppin' on my bed" I said, "I don't see nothin" He just glared at me and said, If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars I wouldn't worry anymore Lookin' like a beauty queen Loyal as a wife She raised her little voice and testified, "I am a good girl I've been one all my life" But her virtue was as swollen as her pride She should've had the Oscar She must have been miscast Her fifteen minutes went by so fast I said, "Now, baby, have you got no shame?" She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly Like cows at a passing train If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars I wouldn't worry anymore We got the bully pulpit And the poisoned pen We got a press no better Than the public men This brave new world Gone bad again God's finest little creatures Looking brave and strong Whistling past the graveyard Nothing can go wrong Quoting from the scriptures With patriotic tears We got the same old men With the same old fears Standing at attention Wrapped in stars and stripes They hear the phantom drummers And the nonexistent pipes These days the buck stops nowhere No one takes the blame But evil is still evil In anybody's name If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars If dirt were dollars We'd all be in the black |
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I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear
But I knew that it would come An old true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone She said you found someone And I thought of all the bad luck, And the struggles we went through And how I lost me and you lost you What are these voices outside love's open door Make us throw off our contentment And beg for something more? I'm learning to live without you now But I miss you sometimes The more I know, the less I understand All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore These times are so uncertain There's a yearning undefined And people filled with rage We all need a little tenderness How can love survive in such a graceless age The trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness They're the very things we kill, I guess Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms And the work I put between us, You know it doesn't keep me warm I'm learning to live without you now But I miss you, Baby The more I know, the less I understand All the things I thought I figured out, I have to learn again I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But everything changes And my friends seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore There are people in your life who've come and gone They let you down you know they hurt your pride You better put it all behind you, baby; 'cause life goes on You keep carryin' that anger, it'll eat you up inside I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore |
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