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Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would. They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home. Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone. But I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned. Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street. They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat. They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor. They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door. But I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned. They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table. They'll stone ya when you are young and able. They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck. They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck." Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned. Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end. Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again. They'll stone you when you're riding in your car. They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar. Yes, but I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned. Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone. They'll stone you when you are walking home. They'll stone you and then say you are brave. They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave. But I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned. |
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| 2. |
| 3:48 |
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Well, early in the mornin'
'Til late at night, I got a poison headache, But I feel all right. I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too. Well, the hobo jumped up, He came down natur'lly. After he stole my baby, Then he wanted to steal me. But I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too. Won't you come with me, baby? I'll take you where you wanna go. And if it don't work out, You'll be the first to know. I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too. Well, the room is so stuffy, I can hardly breathe. Ev'rybody's gone but me and you And I can't be the last to leave. I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too. Well, they sent for the ambulance And one was sent. Somebody got lucky But it was an accident. Now I'm pledging my time to you, Hopin' you'll come through, too. |
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| 3. |
| 7:31 |
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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We'll sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain Tempting you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise And her lover, so entwined And these visions of Johanna That conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls, they whisper of escapades out on the D Train We can hear the nightwatchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's alright, she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she makes it all to concise and clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of electricity Howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna Have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lot of gall To be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall While I'm in the hall Oh, how can I explain? It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna They've kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say "Jeez, I can't find my knees" Both jewels and binoculars Hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna They make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Saying, "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" But like Louise always says "You can't look at much, can you man?" as she herself prepares for him My Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes "Everything's been returned which was owed" On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play The skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna Are now all that remain |
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| 4. |
| 4:52 |
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I didn't mean to treat you so bad
You shouldn't take it so personal I didn't mean to make you so sad You just happened to be there, that's all When I saw you say goodbye to your friend and smile I thought that it was well understood That you'd be comin' back in a little while I didn't know that you were sayin' goodbye for good But sooner or later, one of us must know That you just did what you're supposed to do Sooner or later, one of us must know That I really did try to get close to you I couldn't see what you could show me Your scarf had kept your mouth well-hid I couldn't see how you could know me But you said you knew me and I believed you did When you whispered in my ear And asked me if I was leavin' with you or her I didn't realize just what I did hear I didn't realize how young you were But sooner or later, one of us must know That you just did what you're supposed to do Sooner or later, one of us must know That I really did try to get close to you I couldn't see when it started snowin' Your voice was all that I heard I couldn't see where we were goin' But you said you knew and I took your word And then you told me later as I apologized That you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm And I told you as you clawed out my eyes That I never really meant to do you any harm But sooner or later, one of us must know That you just did what you're supposed to do Sooner or later, one of us must know That I really did try to get close to you |
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| 3:05 |
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The guilty undertaker sighs, the lonesome organ grinder cries
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns blow into my face with scorn But it's not that way, I wasn't born to lose you I want you I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt me drinking from my broken cup And ask me to open up the gate for you I want you I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you Now all my fathers, they've gone down True love, they've been without it And all their daughters put me down 'Cause I don't think about it Well, I return to the Queen of Spades and talk with my chambermaid She knows that I'm not afraid to look at her She is good to me and there's nothing she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be, but it doesn't matter I want you I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit, he spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn't that cute to him, was I? But I did it because he lied and because he took you for a ride And because time was on his side and because I Want you I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you |
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| 6. |
| 7:03 |
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Ah, the rag man draws circles up and down the block
I'd ask him what the matter was, but I know that he don't talk And the ladies treat me kindly and they furnish me with tape But deep inside my heart, I know I can't escape Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells Speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well And I would send a message to find out if she's talked But the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Mona tried to tell me to stay away from the train line She said that all the railroad men just drink up your blood like wine And I said, "Oh, I didn't know that, but then again, there's only one I've met And he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette" Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Grandpa died last week and now he's buried in the rocks But everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked But me, I expected it to happen, I knew he'd lost control When he built a fire on Main Street and shot it full of holes Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Now the senator came down here, showing everyone his gun Handing out free tickets to the wedding of his son And me, I nearly got busted, and wouldn't it be my luck To get caught without a ticket and be discovered beneath a truck? Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Now the teen preacher looked so baffled when I asked him why he dressed With twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest But he cursed me when I proved to him, then I whispered, said "Not even you can hide You see, you're just like me, I hope you're satisfied" Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Now the rain man gave me two cures, then he said, "Jump right in" The one was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin And like a fool, I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind And now people just get uglier, and I have no sense of time Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? When Ruthie says come see her in honky-tonk lagoon Where I can watch her waltz for free 'neath her Panamanian moon And I say, "Ah, come on now, you know about my debutante" And she says, "Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want" Oh, mama Can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? Now the bricks lay on Grand Street where the neon madmen climb They all fall there so perfectly, it all seems so well-timed And here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice Oh, mama Is this really the end? To be stuck here inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again? |
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| 3:56 |
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Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, you must tell me, baby How your head feels under somethin' like that Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, you look so pretty in it Honey, can I jump on it sometime? Yes, I just wanna see If it's really that expensive kind You know it balances on your head Just like a mattress balances On a bottle of wine Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, if you wanna see the sun rise Honey, I know where We'll go out and see it sometime We'll both just sit there and stare Me with my belt Wrapped around my head And you just sittin' there In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you It's bad for your health, he said Yes, I disobeyed his orders I came to see you But I found him there instead You know, I don't mind him cheatin' on me But I sure wish he'd take that off his head Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat Well, I see you got a new boyfriend You know, I never seen him before Well, I saw him Makin' love to you You forgot to close the garage door You might think he loves you for your money But I know what he really loves you for It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat |
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| 4:50 |
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Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows that baby's got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman Yes, she does, she makes love just like a woman Yes, she does, and she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl Queen Mary, she's my friend Yes, I believe I'll go see her again Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed 'Til she finally sees that she's like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls She takes just like a woman Yes, she makes love just like a woman Yes, she does, and she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl It was raining from the first and I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long-time curse hurts, but what's worse Is this pain in here, I can't stay in here, ain't it clear That I just can't fit Yes, I believe that it's time for us to quit But when we meet again, introduced as friends Please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world Ah, you fake just like a woman Yes, you do, you make love just like a woman Yes, you do, then you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl |
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| 9. |
| 3:27 |
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You say you love me and you're thinkin' of me
But you know you could be wrong You say you told me that you wanna hold me But you know you're not that strong I just can't do what I've done before And I just can't beg you any more I'm gonna let you pass Pass and I'll go last Then the time will tell Who has fell Who's been left behind When you go your way and I go mine You say you're shakin' and you are always breakin' But you know how hard you try You say you're supernatural An' I've never heard much of you I know sometimes you lie Sometimes it gets so hard to care It can't be this way everywhere And I'm gonna let you pass Yes and I'll go last Then the time will tell Who has fell And who's been left behind When you go your way and I go mine The judge, he's holdin' a grudge And he's about to call on you But he's badly built and he walks on stilts Watch out he don't fall on you You say you're sorry for tellin' me stories You know I believe are true Say ya got some other, other kind of lover And yes, I believe you do You say my kisses are not like his Ya, well, I'm not gonna tell you why that is I'm gonna let you pass Pass and I'll go last Then the time will tell Who has fell Who's been left behind When you go your way and I go mine |
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| 5:00 |
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Standing on your window, honey, yes, I've been here before
Feeling so harmless, I'm looking at your second door How come you don't send me no regards? You know I want your lovin', honey, why are you hard? Kneeling 'neath your ceiling, yes, I guess I've been here for a while I'm tryin' to read your portrait, but I'm helpless like a rich man's child How come you send someone out to have me barred? You know I want your lovin', honey, why are you hard? Like a poor fool in his prime Yes, I know you can hear me walk But is your heart made out of stone, or is it lime Or is it just solid rock? Well, I lean into your hallway, lean against your velvet door I watch upon your scorpion who crawls across your circus floor Just what do you think you have to guard? You know I want your lovin', honey, but you're so hard Achilles is in your alleyway, he don't want me here, he does brag He's pointing to the sky and he's hungry, like a man in drag How come you get someone like him to be your guard? You know I want your lovin', honey, but you're so hard |
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| 4:54 |
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Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet With all these promises you left for me But where are you tonight, Sweet Marie? Well, I waited for you when I was a-half sick Yes, I waited for you when you hated me Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic When you knew I had some other place to be Now, where are you tonight, Sweet Marie? Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately Well, six white horses that you did promise Were finally delivered down to the penitentiary But to live outside the law, you must be honest I know you always say that you agree Alright, so where are you tonight, Sweet Marie? Well, I don't know how it happened But the river-boat captain, he knows my fate But everybody else, even yourself They're just gonna have to wait Well, I got the fever down in my pockets The Persian drunkard, he follows me Yes, I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it You see, you forgot to leave me with the key Ah, where are you tonight, Sweet Marie? Well, I been in jail where all the mail showed That a man can't give his address out to bad company And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad In the ruins of your balcony Wondering where you are tonight, Sweet Marie |
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| 4:32 |
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When she said,
"Don't waste your words, they're just lies," I cried she was deaf. And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, Then said, "What else you got left?" It was then that I got up to leave But she said, "Don't forget, Everybody must give something back For something they get." I stood there and hummed, I tapped on her drum and asked her how come. And she buttoned her boot, And straightened her suit, Then she said, "Don't get cute." So I forced my hands in my pockets And felt with my thumbs, And gallantly handed her My very last piece of gum. She threw me outside, I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked. And after finding I'd Forgotten my shirt, I went back and knocked. I waited in the hallway, she went to get it, And I tried to make sense Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair That leaned up against . . . Her Jamaican rum And when she did come, I asked her for some. She said, "No, dear." I said, "Your words aren't clear, You'd better spit out your gum." She screamed till her face got so red Then she fell on the floor, And I covered her up and then Thought I'd go look through her drawer. And, when I was through I filled up my shoe And brought it to you. And you, you took me in, You loved me then You didn't waste time. And I, I never took much, I never asked for your crutch. Now don't ask for mine. |
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| 3:33 |
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Early in the mornin'
Early in the mornin' I'm callin' you to I'm callin' you to Please come home Yes, I guess I could make it without you If I just didn't feel so all alone Don't let me down Don't let me down I won't let you down I won't let you down No I won't You know I can if you can, honey But, honey, please don't I got my black dog barkin' Black dog barkin' Yes it is now Yes it is now Outside my yard Yes, I could tell you what he means If I just didn't have to try so hard Your mama's workin' Your mama's moanin' She's cryin' you know She's tryin' you know You better go now Well, I'd tell you what she wants But I just don't know how Fifteen jugglers Fifteen jugglers Five believers Five believers All dressed like men Tell yo' mama not to worry because They're just my friends Early in the mornin' Early in the mornin' I'm callin' you to I'm callin' you to Please come home Yes, I could make it without you If I just didn't feel so all alone |
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| 14. |
| 11:19 |
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With your mercury mouth in the missionary times
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes And your silver cross and your voice like chimes Oh, who do they think could bury you? With your pockets well-protected at last And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass And your flesh like silk and your face like glass Who could they get to carry you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait? With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace And your basement clothes and your hollow face Who among them did think he could outguess you? With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims And your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns Who among them would try to impress you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait? The kings of Tyrus, with their convict list Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss And you wouldn't know it would have happened like this But who among them really wants just to kiss you? With your childhood flames on your midnight rug And your Spanish manners and your mother's drugs And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs Who among them do you think could resist you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait? Oh, the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide To show you where the dead angels are that they used to hide But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side? How could they ever mistake you? They wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm And with the child of the hoodlum wrapped up in your arms How could they ever have persuaded you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man's come My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait? With your sheet metal memory of Cannery Row And your magazine husband who one day just had to go And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show Who among them do you think would employ you? Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole With your holy medallion in your fingertips now enfold And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul Who among them could ever think he could destroy you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait? |
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Early one mornin′ the sun was shinin′,
I was layin′ in bed Wond′rin′ if she′d changed at all If her hair was still red. Her folks they said our lives together Sure was gonna be rough They never did like Mama′s homemade dress Papa′s bankbook wasn′t big enough. And I was standin′ on the side of the road Rain fallin′ on my shoes Heading out for the East Coast Lord knows I′ve paid some dues gettin′ through, Tangled up in blue. She was married when we first met Soon to be divorced I helped her out of a jam, I guess, But I used a little too much force. We drove that car as far as we could Abandoned it out West Split up on a dark sad night Both agreeing it was best. She turned around to look at me As I was walkin′ away I heard her say over my shoulder, ″We′ll meet again someday on the avenue,″ Tangled up in blue. I had a job in the great north woods Working as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the ax just fell. So I drifted down to New Orleans Where I happened to be employed Workin′ for a while on a fishin′ boat Right outside of Delacroix. But all the while I was alone The past was close behind, I seen a lot of women But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew Tangled up in blue. She was workin′ in a topless place And I stopped in for a beer, I just kept lookin′ at the side of her face In the spotlight so clear. And later on as the crowd thinned out I′s just about to do the same, She was standing there in back of my chair Said to me, ″Don′t I know your name?″ I muttered somethin′ underneath my breath, She studied the lines on my face. I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe, Tangled up in blue. She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe ″I thought you′d never say hello,″ she said ″You look like the silent type.″ Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me From the thirteenth century. And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burnin′ coal Pourin′ off of every page Like it was written in my soul from me to you, Tangled up in blue. I lived with them on Montague Street In a basement down the stairs, There was music in the cafes at night And revolution in the air. Then he started into dealing with slaves And something inside of him died. She had to sell everything she owned And froze up inside. And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn, The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin′ on like a bird that flew, Tangled up in blue. So now I′m goin′ back again, I got to get to her somehow. All the people we used to know They′re an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter′s wives. Don′t know how it all got started, I don′t know what they′re doin′ with their lives. But me, I′m still on the road Headin′ for another joint We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue. |
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| 4:17 |
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They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark. She looked at him and he felt a spark Tingle to his bones. 'Twas then he felt alone And wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate. They walked alone by the old canal. A little confused, I remember well, And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burning bright. He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train Moving with a simple twist of fate. A saxophone someplace far off played As she was walking on by the arcade As the light bust through a beat up shade Where he was waking up. She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate And forgot about a simple twist of fate. He woke up; the room was bare. He didn't see her anywhere. He told himself he didn't care; pushed the window open wide; Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate Brought on by a simple twist of fate. He hears the ticking of the clocks And walks along with a parrot that talks. Hunts her down by the waterfront docks Where the sailors all come in. Maybe she'll pick him out again. How long must he wait One more time for a simple twist of fate. People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within. I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring. She was born in spring, but I was born too late. Blame it on a simple twist of fate. |
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| 4:32 |
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Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me offa my feet And I'm back in the rain Oh, and you are on dry land You made it there somehow You're a big girl now Bird on the horizon, sitting on a fence He's singing his song for me at his own expense And I'm just like that bird Oh, singing just for you I hope that you can hear Hear me singing through these tears Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast Oh but what a shame, that all we've shared can't last I can change I swear Oh, see what you can do I can make it through You can make it too Love is so simple, to quote a phrase You've known it all the time, I'm learning it these days Oh I know where I can find you Oh, in somebody's room It's a price I have to pay You're a big girl all the way A change in the weather is known to be extreme But what's the sense in changing horses in midstream I'm going out of my mind Oh, with a pain that stops and starts Like a corkscrew to my heart Ever since we've been apart |
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| 7:47 |
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Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick but when they will I can only guess. They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy, She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me. I can't help it if I'm lucky. People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts. Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at, I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that Sweet lady. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth, Blowing down the backroads headin' south. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth, You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like. There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of my boxcar door, You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the war After losin' every battle. I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars. You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes, Blood on your saddle. Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb, Blowing through the curtains in your room. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth, You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart. Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped, What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top You're on the bottom. I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look into mine. The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building burned. I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned Slowly into autumn. Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull, From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth, You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I been somebody else instead. Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy, I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory And all your ragin' glory. I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free, I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me. You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above, And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love, And it makes me feel so sorry. Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats, Blowing through the letters that we wrote. Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves, We're idiots, babe. It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves. |
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| 2:55 |
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I've seen love go by my door
It's never been this close before Never been so easy or so slow I been shootin' in the dark too long When something's not right it's wrong You're gonna make me lonesome when you go Dragon clouds so high above I've only known careless love It always has hit me from below But this time 'round it's more correct Right on target so direct You're gonna make me lonesome when you go Purple clover, Queen Anne lace Crimson hair across your face You can make me cry but you don't know Can't remember what I was thinking of You might be spoiling me too much love You're gonna make me lonesome when you go Flowers on the hillside blooming crazy Crickets talking back and forth in rhyme Blue river running slow and lazy I could stay with you forever and never realize the time Situations have ended sad Relationships have all been bad Mine have been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud's But there's no way I can compare All them scenes to this affair, You're gonna make me lonesome when you go You're gonna make me wonder what I'm doing Staying far behind without you You're gonna make me wonder what I'm saying You're gonna make me give myself a good talking to I'll look for you in old Honolulu San Francisco or Ashtabula You're gonna have to leave me now I know But I'll see you in the sky above In the tall grass in the ones I love You're gonna make me lonesome when you go |
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| 4:19 |
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Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha
Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha Honey, we could be in Kansas By time the snow begins to thaw. They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn Honey you wouldn't know it by me Every day's been darkness since you been gone. Little rooster crowin', there must be something on his mind Little rooster crowin', there must be something on his mind Well, I feel just like that rooster Honey, ya treat me so unkind. Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above Well, you know I even outrun the hound dogs Honey, you know I've earned your love. Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship Ain't that just like my heart, babe When you kissed my lips? |
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| 7. |
| 8:51 |
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The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall,
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall. The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down, Anyone who had any sense had already left town. He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts. He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone," he said, Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads. Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin, "Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?" Then he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts. Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the stairs, Lily had two queens, she was hopin' for a third to match her pair. Outside the streets were fillin' up, the window was open wide, A gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside. Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts. Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine, He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine. With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place, He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste. But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts. Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town, She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown. She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear, "Sorry, darlin', that I'm late," but he didn't seem to hear. He was starin' into space over at the Jack of Hearts. "I know I've seen that face somewhere," Big Jim was thinkin' to himself, "Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf." But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him, Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts. Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a child, She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash every time she smiled. She had come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere. But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts. The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined, The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind. It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king. No, nothin' ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts. Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife, She was tired of the attention, tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife. She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide, Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she died. She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts. Lily took her dress off and buried it away. "Has your luck run out?" she laughed at him, "Well, I guess you must have known it would someday. Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of paint, I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint." Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts. The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair. "There's something funny going on," he said, "I can just feel it in the air." He went to get the hangin' judge, but the hangin' judge was drunk, As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk. There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts. No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened pretty quick, The door to the dressing room burst open and a Colt revolver clicked. And Big Jim was standin' there, ya couldn't say surprised, Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes. She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts. Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall And cleaned out the bank safe, it's said they got off with quite a haul. In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground For one more member who had business back in town. But they couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts. The next day was hangin' day, the sky was overcast and black, Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back. And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn't even blink, The hangin' judge was sober, he hadn't had a drink. The only person on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts. The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, "Closed for repair," Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair. She was thinkin' 'bout her father, who she very rarely saw, Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and thinkin' about the law. But, most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts. |
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| 4:48 |
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If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring, is livin' there, I hear Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so. We had a falling-out, like lovers often will And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart. If you get close to her, kiss her once for me I always have respected her for doing what she did and gettin' free Oh, whatever makes her happy, I won't stand in the way Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay. I see a lot of people as I make the rounds And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town And I've never gotten used to it, I've just learned to turn it off Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft. Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast If she's passin' back this way, I'm not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time. |
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| 9. |
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'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm. "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved Everything up to that point had been left unresolved Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost I took too much for granted, I got my signals crossed Just to think that it all began on an noneventful morn "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove And old men with broken teeth stranded without love Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn? "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes I bargained for salvation an' she gave me a lethal dose I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born "Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm" |
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Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears. Buckets of moonbeams in my hand, You got all the love, honey baby, I can stand. I been meek And hard like an oak I seen pretty people disappear like smoke. Friends will arrive, friends will disappear, If you want me, honey baby, I'll be here. I like your smile And your fingertips I like the way that you move your hips. I like the cool way you look at me, Everything about you is bringing me Misery. Little red wagon Little red bike I ain't no monkey but I know what I like. I like the way you love me strong and slow, I'm takin' you with me, honey baby, When I go. Life is sad Life is a bust All ya can do is do what you must. You do what you must do and ya do it well, I do it for you, honey baby, Can't you tell? |
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I'm walking through streets that are dead
Walking, walking with you in my head My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired And the clouds are weeping Did I hear someone tell a lie? Did I hear someone's distant cry? I spoke like a child, you destroyed me with a smile While I was sleeping I'm sick of love But I'm in the thick of it This kind of love I'm so sick of it I see, I see lovers in the meadow I see, I see silhouettes in the window I watch them till they're gone and they leave me hanging on To a shadow I'm sick of love I hear the clock tick This kind of love I'm love sick Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder Sometimes I wanna take to the road and plunder Could you ever be true? I think of you And I wonder I'm sick of love I wish I'd never met you I'm sick of love I'm trying to forget you Just don't know what to do I'd give anything to Be with you |
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Gon' walk down that dirt road till someone lets me ride
Gon' walk down that dirt road till someone lets me ride If I can't find my baby, I'm gonna run away and hide Well, I been pacing around the room hoping maybe she'd come back Pacing 'round the room hoping maybe she'd come back Well, I been praying for salvation, laying 'round in a one room country shack Gon' walk down that dirt road until my eyes begin to bleed Gon' walk down that dirt road until my eyes begin to bleed Till there's nothing left to see, till the chains have been shattered and I've been freed But I been lookin' at my shadow, I been watching the colors up above Lookin' at my shadow, watching the colors up above Rolling through the rain and hail, looking for the sunny side of love Gon' walk on down that dirt road till everything becomes the same Gon' walk on down that dirt road till everything becomes the same Gotta keep on walkin' till I hear her holler out my name |
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I'm walking through the summer nights
Jukebox playing low Yesterday everything was going too fast Today, it's moving too slow I got no place left to turn I got nothing left to burn Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow You left me standing in the doorway, crying I got nothing to go back to now The light in this place is so bad Making me sick in the head All the laughter is just making me sad The stars have turned cherry red I'm strumming on my gay guitar Smoking a cheap cigar The ghost of our old love has not gone away Don't look like it will anytime soon You left me standing in the doorway crying Under the midnight moon Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't But not tonight and it won't be here There are things I could say but I don't I know the mercy of God must be near I've been riding the midnight train Got ice water in my veins I would be crazy if I took you back It would go up against every rule You left me standing in the doorway, crying Suffering like a fool When the last rays of daylight go down Buddy, you'll roll no more I can hear the church bells ringing in the yard I wonder who they're ringing for I know I can't win But my heart just won't give in Last night I danced with a stranger But she just reminded me you were the one You left me standing in the doorway crying In the dark land of the sun I'll eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry And live my life on the square And even if the flesh falls off of my face I know someone will be there to care It always means so much Even the softest touch I see nothing to be gained by any explanation There are no words that need to be said You left me standing in the doorway crying Blues wrapped around my head |
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| 5:52 |
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You took a part of me that I really miss
I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this You told yourself a lie; that's all right mama, I told myself one too I'm trying to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you You took the silver, you took the gold You left me standing out in the cold People ask about you; I didn't tell them everything I knew Well I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you I'm drifting in and out of dreamless sleep Throwing all my memories in a ditch so deep Did so many things I never did intend to do Well I'm trying to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low I need every bit of it for the places that I go Sometimes I wonder just what it's all coming to Well I'm tryin' to get closer, but I'm still a million miles from you Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think Feel like talking to somebody but I just don't know who Well, I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you The last thing you said before you hit the street "Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet" I said, "That's all right mama.... you..... you do what you gotta do" Well, I'm tryin' to get closer; I'm still a million miles from you Rock me, pretty baby, rock me 'til everything gets real Rock me for a little while, rock me 'til there's nothing left to feel And I'll rock you too I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard I'm sitting here listening to every mind polluting word I know plenty of people who would put me up for a day or two Yes, I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you |
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The air is getting hotter, there's a rumblin' in the skies
I've been wading through the high muddy water With the heat risin' in my eyes Every day your memory grows dimmer It dosn't haunt me like it did before I've been walking through the mirror to nowhere Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door. When I was in Missouri they would not let me be I had to leave there in a hurry I only saw what they let me see You broke a heart that loved you Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore I've been walkin' that lonesome valley Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door. People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains I can hear their hearts a-beatin' Like pendulums swinging on chains When you think that you've lost everything You find out you can always lose a little more I'm just goin' down the road feeling bad Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door. I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans They tell me everything is gonna be all right But I don't know what all right even means I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore I've been all around the world, boys And I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door. Gonna sleep down in the parlor and relive my dreams I close my eyes and I wonder If everything is as hollow as it seems Some trains don't pull no gamblers No midnight ramblers, like they did before I've been to sugar town, I shook the sugar down Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door. |
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Well my nerves are exploding and my body's tense
I feel like the whole world got me pinned up against the fence I've been hit too hard; I've seen too much Nothing can heal me now, but your touch I don't know what I'm gonna do I was all right 'til I fell in love with you Well my house is on fire; burning to the sky I thought it would rain but the clouds passed by Now I feel like I'm coming to the end of my way But I know God is my shield and he won't lead me astray Still I don't know what I'm gonna do I was all right 'til I fell in love with you Boys in the street beginning to play Girls like birds flying away When I'm gone you will remember my name I'm gonna win my way to wealth and fame I don't know what I'm gonna do I was all right 'til I fell in love with you Junk is piling up; taking up space My eyes feel like they're falling off my face Sweat falling down, I'm staring at the floor I'm thinking about that girl who won't be back no more I don't know what I'm gonna do I was all right 'til I fell in love with you Well I'm tired of talking; I'm tired of trying to explain My attempts to please you were all in vain Tomorrow night before the sun goes down If I'm still among the living, I'll be Dixie bound I just don't know what I'm gonna do I was all right 'til I fell in love with you. |
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Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep time is running away Feel like my soul has turned into steel I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal There's not even room enough to be anywhere It's not dark yet, but it's getting there Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind She put down in writing what was in her mind I just don't see why I should even care It's not dark yet, but it's getting there Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paree I've followed the river and I got to the sea I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear It's not dark yet, but it's getting there I was born here and I'll die here against my will I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. |
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I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
Well, I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown I went to church on Sunday and she passed by My love for her is taking such a long time to die I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist It's almost like, almost like I don't exist I'm twenty miles out of town, in cold irons bound The walls of pride are high and wide Can't see over to the other side It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay It's sadder still, to feel your heart torn away One look at you and I'm out of control Like the universe has swallowed me whole I'm twenty miles out of town in Cold irons bound There's too many people, too many to recall I thought some of 'm were friends of mine; I was wrong about 'm all Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood I found my world, found my world in you But your love just hasn't proved true I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound Oh, the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds Reality has always had too many heads Some things last longer than you think they will There are some kind of things you can never kill It's you and you only, I'm been thinking about But you can't see in and it's hard lookin' out I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound Well the fats in the fire and the water's in the tank The whiskey's in the jar and the money's in the bank I tried to love and protect you because I cared I'm gonna remember forever the joy that we shared Looking at you and I'm on my bended knee You have no idea what you do to me I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound |
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| 9. |
| 3:31 |
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When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years to make you feel my love I know you haven't made your mind up yet but I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong I'd go hungry I'd go black and blue I'd go crawling down the avenue No There's nothing that I wouldn't do to make you feel my love The storms are raging on the rolling sea and on the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free You ain't seen nothing like me yet I could make you happy Make your dreams come true Nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you to make you feel my love To make you feel my love |
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I can't wait
Wait for you to change my mind It's late I'm tryin' to walk the line Well it's way past midnight And there's some people all around Some on their way up Some on their way down The air burns and I'm tryin to think straight And I don't know how much longer I can wait I'm your man I've tried to recover the sweet love that we knew You understand That my heart can't go on beating without you Well your loveliness has wounded me I'm reeling from the blow I wish I knew what it was that keeps me loving you so I'm breathin' hard standin' at the gate And I don't know how much longer I can wait Skies are gray I'm looking for anything that will bring a happy glow Night or day It doesn't matter where I go anymore I just go If I ever saw you comin' I don't know what I might do I'd like to think I could control myself But it isn't true That's how it is When things disintegrate And I don't know how much longer I can wait I'm doomed to love you I been rollin' through stormy weather I'm thinkin' of you And all the places we could roam together It's mighty funny The end of time has just begun Oh honey, after all these years you're still the one Well I'm strollin' through the lonely graveyard of my mind I left my life with you Somewhere back there along the line I thought somehow that I would be spared this day I don't know how much longer I can wait |
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Well my heart's in the Highlands gentle and fair
Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air Bluebelles blazing, where the Aberdeen waters flow Well my heart's in the Highland, I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go Windows were shakin' all night in my dreams Everything was exactly the way that it seems Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page Same ol' rat race Life in the same ol' cage. I don't want nothing from anyone, ain't that much to take Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery I wish someone would come And push back the clock for me Well my heart's in the Highlands wherever I roam That's where I'll be when I get called home The wind, it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme Well my heart's in the Highland, I can only get there one step at a time. I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound Someone's always yelling turn it down Feel like I'm drifting Drifting from scene the scene I'm wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean? Insanity is smashing up against my soul You can say I was on anything but a roll If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top What would I do with it anyway Maybe take it to the pawn shop My heart's in the Highlands at the break of dawn By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan Big white clouds, like chariots that swing down low Well my heart's in the Highlands Only place left to go I'm in Boston town, in some restaurant I got no idea what I want Well, maybe I do but I'm just really not sure Waitress comes over Nobody in the place but me and her It must be a holiday, there's nobody around She studies me closely as I sit down She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs She says, "What'll it be?" I say, "I don't know, you got any soft boiled eggs?" She looks at me, Says "I'd bring you some but we're out of 'm, you picked the wrong time to come" Then she says, "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me!" I say, "I would if I could, but, I don't do sketches from memory." "Well", she says, "I'm right here in front of you, or haven't you looked?" I say," all right, I know, but I don't have my drawing book!" She gives me a napkin, she says, "you can do it on that" I say, "yes I could but, I don't know where my pencil is at!" She pulls one out from behind her ear She says "all right now, go ahead, draw me, I'm standing right here" I make a few lines, and I show it for her to see Well she takes a napkin and throws it back And says "that don't look a thing like me!" I said, "Oh, kind miss, it most certainly does" She says, "you must be jokin.'" I say, "I wish I was!" Then she says, "you don't read women authors, do you?" Least that's what I think I hear her say, "Well", I say, "how would you know and what would it matter anyway?" "Well", she says, "you just don't seem like you do!" I said, "you're way wrong." She says, "which ones have you read then?" I say, "I read Erica Jong!" She goes away for a minute and I slide up out of my chair I step outside back to the busy street, but nobody's going anywhere Well my heart's in the Highlands, with the horses and hounds Way up in the border country, far from the towns With the twang of the arrow and a snap of the bow My heart's in the Highlands Can't see any other way to go Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns I see people in the park forgetting their troubles and woes They're drinking and dancing, wearing bright colored clothes All the young men with their young women looking so good Well, I'd trade places with any of them In a minute, if I could I'm crossing the street to get away from a mangy dog Talking to myself in a monologue I think what I need might be a full length leather coat Somebody just asked me If I registered to vote The sun is beginning to shine on me But it's not like the sun that used to be The party's over, and there's less and less to say I got new eyes Everything looks far away Well, my heart's in the Highlands at the break of day Over the hills and far away There's a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow But I'm already there in my mind And that's good enough for now |
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