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O the dragons are gonna fly tonight
They're circling low and inside tonight It's another round in the losing fight Out along the great divide tonight. We are aging soldiers in an ancient war Seeking out some half remembered shore We drink our fill and still we thirst for more Asking if there's no heaven what is this hunger for? Our path is worn our feet are poorly shod We lift up our prayer against the odds And fear the silence is the voice of God. And we cry allelujah, allelujah We cry allelujah. Sorrow is constant and the joys are brief The seasons come and bring no sweet relief Time is a brutal but a careless thief Who takes our lot but leaves behind the grief. It is the heart that kills us in the end Just one more old broken bone that cannot mend As it was now and ever shall be amen And we cry allelujah, allelujah We cry allelujah. So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Gaililee. Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain become the pearl Cryin' allelujah, allelujah We cry allelujah. And we cry allelujah, allelujah We cry allelujah... |
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Last night I dreamed about you
I dreamed that you were older You were looking like Picasso With a scar across your shoulder You were kneeling by the river You were digging up the bodies Buried long ago Michelangelo. Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed you were a pilgrim On a highway out alone to find The mother of your children Who were still unborn and waiting In the wings of some desire Abandoned long ago Michelangelo. Were you there at Armageddon Was Paris really burning Could I have been the one to pull you From the point of no returning And did I hear you calling out my name Or was it forgotten long ago Michelangelo. Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed that you were riding On a blood red painted pony Up where the heavens were dividing And the angels turned to ashes You came tumbling with them to earth So Far below Michelangelo. Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed that you were dying In a field of thorn and roses With a hawk about you crying For the warrior slain in battle From an arrow driven deep inside you Long ago Michelangelo. Did you suffer at the end Would there be no one to remember Did you banish all the old ghosts With the terms of surrender And could you hear me calling out your name Well, I guess that I will never know Michelangelo. Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed that you were weeping And your tears poured down like diamonds For a love beyond all keeping And you caught them one by one In a million silk bandanas that I gave you long ago Michelangelo... |
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Some say it's destiny
Whether triumph or tragedy But I believe we cast our nets out on the sea And nothing we gather Comes for free. I would have paid down through the years A price beyong rubies beyond tears To keep you safe with me But your suspicion and your fear Your vow to let nobody near was your trinity Such a tragedy. I drew the best hand you'd ever hold Then cashed my winnings in long ago Settled for silver how could I know You were waiting with the gold. I could have caused your heart to yield But I was only a disturbance in the field Of your dreams And I will never see you cry You won't be with me when I die A waste of you and me A tragedy. We took the wrong train to Kingdom come now No more damage Can be done baby It's just what the world don't need It's another stinkin tragedy. That's how the story goes Our chapter's coming to a close We are history But I will always think of you Every day until my days are through You made me believe In tragedy... |
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Me and my best friend Lillian
And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade Singin every song the radio played Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just across the line And a little southeast of Meridian. She loved her brother I remember back when He was fixin' up a '49 Indian He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again." He never got farther than Vietnam, I was standin there with her when the telegram come For Lillian. Now he's lyin somewhere About a million miles from Meridian. She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is the great big world Thats where I'm bound And the stars might fall on Alabama One of these days I'm gonna swing My hammer down Away from this red dirt town I'm gonna make a joyful sound. She grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard, Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard Got in trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle down So she dug right in Across a red dirt line Just a little southeast of Meridian Yeah she tried hard to love him but it never did take It was just another way for the heart to break So she learned to bend. One thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got 'em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't no end. At least not for Lillian. Nobody knows when she started her skid, She was only 27 and she had five kids. Coulda been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills, Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. But there won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Named Lillian Who never got any further Across the line than Meridian. Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground... |
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My baby needs a sheperd
She?s lost out on the hill Too late I tried to call her When the night was cold and still And I tell myself I?ll find her But I know I never will My baby needs a sheperd She?s lost out on the hill My baby needs an angel She never learned to fly She?ll not reach sanctuary Just by looking to the sky I guess I could have carried her But I didn?t even try My baby needs an angel She never learned to fly Oh I ran so far through a broken land I was following that drummer Beating in a different band And somewhere on the highway I?let go of her hand Now she?s gone forever Like her footprints in the sand Toora loora loora lo First the seed and then the rose Toora loora loora li My kingdom for a lullaby My baby needs a pilot She has no magic wand To help her part the troubled waters Of the Rubicon But in my soul I know she?ll Have to go this one alone After all that is only way she?s ever known But there is no lamp in all this dark That could chase away her shadow From the corners of my heart I pray she?s ride a dolphin But she?s swimming with the shark Out where none can save her Not even Noah and his ark Toora loora loora lo To the cradle comes the crow Toora loora loora li My kingdom for a lullaby My baby needs a mother To love her till the end Up every rugged mountain And down every road that bends Sometimes I hear her cryin? But I guess it?s just the wind My baby needs a mother To love her till the end |
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I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war And what you saw across a bridge too far Did it leave a scar. Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal And still you found the ground beneath your wheels How did it feel. Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly To dust be returning from dust we begin Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy Above and below me world without end. I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed There was still that line that you would never cross At any cost. I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed With nothing but your heart up your sleeve And if you ever really were deceived By the likes of me. Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly To dust be returning from dust we begin Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy Above and below me world without end. Gone now is the day and gone the sun There is peace tonight all over Arlington But the songs of my life will still be sung By the light of the moon you hung. I meant to ask you how to plow that field I meant to bring you water from the well And be the one beside you when you fell Could you tell. Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly To dust be returning from dust we begin Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy Above and below me world without end... |
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J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout
Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout Ce que j'ai pu I have seen some trouble Been around the way Rode the streetcar of desire and I paid And if you want a witness I will testify To what I saw through a wandering eye 'Cause nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do I heard all about it You don't need an alibi There was no medicine I did not try You lost your Mona Lisa Got burned by Jezebel You can always draw water from my well 'Cause nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do J'ai fait tout. j'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout I will give everything I am to you J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout. You know it's true J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout You can go and leave me But you'll come back for more I know where all your old secrets are stored My history is written My heart is still pure You crave redemption and I got the cure 'Cause nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do Nobody loves you like I do J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout. j'ai fait tout, Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout. j'ai fait tout, Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout. j'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout |
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Let's take a ride to the seaside
We can go out swimming in the high tide Just wear your shorts and your long hair Don't forget the lawn chair. Everybody's gone to the movies Everybody's gone and its groovy They went to the one about the big war I didn't I'd seen it before. I guess I'm taking my chances Giving up the ring throwing in my gloves I guess I'm taking my chances Trading in my things For a couple wings A little white dove And one big love, one big love One big love, one big love. Everybody do like a monkey If you want to go on and be funky No need to talk like a hero Talk a walk count down to zero. No sense defending your honor Just go on and kiss him if you wanna Everything before is gone or going somewhere. I guess I'm taking my chances Giving up the ring throwing in my gloves I guess I'm taking my chances Trading in my things for a couple wings On a little white dove And one big love, one big love One big love, one big love. I don't know where we are And I don't care And now we're out of gas And riding on air And one big love, one big love One big love, one big love. Let's take a ride to the seaside We can go out swimming in the high tide. Everybody's gone to the movies Everybody's gone and its groovy Everybody do like a monkey If you want to go on and be funky. No need to talk like a hero Talk a walk count down to zero No sense defending your honor Just go on and kiss him if you want... |
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I have seen your soul turn black
And then retreat To that dark place where no one else may follow I waited here for your returning To roll your cigarette And wash your bloodied feet. You have heard the silent running Of my dreams Broke me from the grip of grief and fever With the sound of your voice speaking my name And a kiss That I will feel forever. In the hour of gold, the hour of lead WG did forge our wedding bed On a hard and holy road We lay down our head In tha hour of gold, the hour oi lead. I have watched you riding on The wall of death And when il finally breaks you and you fall I will tear this dress of muslin that you gave me To bind the fatal wound And catch your last sweet breath. In the hour of gold, the hour of lead We did forge our wedding bed On a hard and holy road We lay down our head In the hour of gold, the hour of lead. But the world will be my witness when They excavate my heart And find the image of your face Imprinted there like some Shroud of Turin That neither time Nor tundra could erase. In the hour of gold, the hour of lead We did forge our wedding bed On a hard and holy road We lay down our head In the hour of gold, the hour of lead... |
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He said Oh, my love. Oh, my Antonia
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin Tonight I am going from Santa Maria Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again. She held me, she kissed me, begged me not to leave her To cross on 1he mountain my fortune to win But a letter now tells me she died of a fever I'll never see her in this world again. You are my sorrow, you are my splendor You are my shelter through storm and through strife You are the one I will always remember All off the days of my life. I curse the ambition that took me far from her For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers The fire in her heart and the smell of her hair. She left me a note that cried Do not weep for me Behold you are with me as sure as the stars That rise in the evening to shine down upon me Behold I am with you wherever you are. I can still hear him. he calls to me only What once was begotten shall come to no end But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely My soul just to hold him in this world again. You are my sorrow, you are my splendor You are my shelter through storm and through strife You are the one I will always remember All of the days of my life. Oh my love, Oh my Antonia You with the dark eyes and palest of skin How could I know thai night in Santa Maria I'd never see you in this world again... |
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You don't love me this I know
Don't need a bible to tell me so I hung around a little too long I was good but now I'm gone. Like the buffalo That boy from Tupelo Any way the wind can blow That's where I'm gonna go I'll be gone like a five and dime It'll be the perfect crime Just ask the boy from Tupelo He's the king and he oughta know. The shoulder I've been leanin on Is the coldest place I've ever known There's nothin left for me round here Looks like it's time to disapear. Like the buffalo That boy from Tupelo The old wall down in Jericho Maybelle on the radio I'll be gone like the five and dime It'll be the perfect crime Just ask the boy from Tupelo He's the king and he oughta know. You don't love me, this I know Don't need a bible to tell me so It's a shame and it's a sin Everything I coulda been to you. Your last chance Texaco Your sweetheart of the rodeo A juliet to your romeo The border you cross into Mexico I'll never understand why or how Oh, but baby its too late now Just ask the boy from Tupelo He's the king and he oughta know... |
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