Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's clouds' illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel When every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way But now it's just another show You leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care don't let them know Don't give yourself away I've looked at love from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads they say I've changed Well something's lost but something's gained In living every day I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all
Desperado Why don't you come to your senses You been out riding fences For so long now Oh you're a hard one But I know you've got your reasons These things that are pleasing you Can hurt you somehow Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy She'll beat you If she's able The queen of hearts Is always your best bet Now it seems to me some fine things Have been laid upon your table But you only want the ones That you can't get Desperado Oh you ain't gettin' no younger You pain and your hunger They're driving you home Freedom That's just some people talking You're prisoners walking Through this world all alone Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine It's hard to tell the night time From the day You're losing all your highs and lows Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away Desperado Why don't you come to your senses Come down from your fences And open the gate It may be raining But there's a rainbow above you You better let somebody love you Let somebody love you You better let somebody love you Before it's too late You better let somebody love you Before it's too late
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, And the first thing that I heard Was a song outside my window, And the traffic wrote the words It came ringing up like Christmas bells, And rapping up like pipes and drums
Oh, won't you stay, we'll put on the day And we'll wear it till the night comes
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, And the first thing that I saw Was the sun through yellow curtains, And a rainbow on the wall Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, Crimson crystal beads to beckon
Oh oh, won't you stay, we'll put on the day There's a sun show every second
Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today And the streets are paved with passersby And pigeons fly and papers lie Waiting to blow away
Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, And the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey And a bowl of oranges, too And the sun poured in like butterscotch And stuck to all my senses
Oh oh, won't you stay, we'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses
When the curtain closes And the rainbow runs away I will bring you incense owls by night By jewel-light, by candle-light If only you will stay
Pretty my darling', won't you wake up, It's a Chelsea morning
Suzanne takes you down To her place far the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night forever
And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China
And just when you want to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you think you'll maybe trust her For she's touched your perfect body With your mind
And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From her lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said "All men will be sailors Then until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think you'll maybe trust him For he's touched your perfect body With his mind
Suzanne takes you down To her place far the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night forever
And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you think you'll maybe trust her For she's touched your perfect body With her mind
[Chorus] As we march down to Fannerio As we march down to Fannerio Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove And we called her by her name pretty Peggy-O
What will your mother think pretty Peggy-O? What will your mother think pretty Peggy-O? What will your mother think but I hear the guineas clink? And the soldiers marchin' behind you O
You shall ride in a coach pretty Peggy-O You shall ride in a coach pretty Peggy-O You shall ride in a coach with your true love by your side As fine as any lady in the country O
And when I return pretty Peggy-O When I return pretty Peggy-O When I return, the city I will burn And destroy all the ladies in the country O
Come trippin' down the stairs pretty Peggy-O Come trippin' down the stairs pretty Peggy-O Come trippin' down the stairs combin' back your yellow hair Bid your last farewell to sweet William-O
Sweet William he is dead pretty Peggy-O Sweet William is dead pretty Peggy-O Sweet William is dead and he died for a maid He's buried in the Louisiana country O
I am a maid of constant sorrow I've seen trials all of my days I'm going back to California Place where I was partly raised
Your friends may say that I'm a stranger My face they'll never see no more There is but one promise that's given I'll sail on God's golden shore
All through this world I'm bound to ramble Through sun and wind and drivin' rain I'm bound to ride the western railway Perhaps I'll take the very next train
I am a maid of constant sorrow I've seen trials all of my days I'm going back to California Place where I was partly raised
What I'll give you since you asked Is all my time together Take the rugged sunny days, The warm and Rocky weather Take the roads that I have walked along, Looking for tomorrow's time, peace of mind.
As my life spills into yours, Changing with the hours Filling up the world with time, Turning time to flowers I can show you all the songs That I never sang to one man before.
We have seen a million stones lying By the water You have climbed the hills with me To the mountain shelter Taken off the days one by one, Setting them to breathe in the sun.
Take the lilies and the lace From the days if childhood All the willow winding paths Leading up and outward This is what I give, This is what I ask you for nothing more.
Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinios Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and 25 sacks of mail
All along a south-bound odyssey The train pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along past houses, farms and fields Passing trains that have no name Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
Good morning America, how are you? Saying don't you know me I'm your native son? I'm the train they call, The City of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles When the day is done
Dealing cards with the oldmen in the club car Penny of point, ain't no one keeping score Say won't you pass the paper bag That holds the bottle Feel the wheels a rumbling 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters And the sons of engineers Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel And mothers with their babes asleep Rockin' to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Good morning America, how are you? Saying don't you know me I'm your native son? I'm the train they call, The City of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles When the day is done
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee Halfway home and we'll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness Rolling down to the sea
But all the towns and people seem To fade into a bad dream And the steel rails still Ain't heard the news The conductor sings his song again The passengers will please refrain This train has got the disappearing Railroad blues
Goodbye America, I love you Saying don't you know me I'm your native son? I'm the train they call, The City of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles When the days is done
I'll be gone five hundred miles When the days is done, I'll be gone
I'll learn to love the fallow way When winter draws the valley down And stills the rivers in their storm And freezes all the little brooks
Time when our steps slow to the song Of falling flakes and crackling flames When silver stars are high and still Deep in the velvet of the night sky
The crystal time the silence times I'll learn to love their quietness While deep beneath the glistening snow The black earth dreams of violets I'll learn to love the fallow times
I'll learn to love the fallow way When all my colors fade to white And flying birds fold back their wings Upon my anxious wonderings
The sun has slanted all her rays Across the vast and harvest plains My memories mingle in the dawn I dream a joyful vagabonds
The crystal times the silence times I'll learn to love their quietness When deep beneath the glistening snow The black earth dreams in of violets I'll learn to love the fallow times
No drummer comes across the plains To tell of triumph or of pain No word far off battle's cry To draw me out or draw me nigh
I'll learn to love the fallow way And gather in the patient fruits And after autumns blaze and burn I'll know the full still, deep roots
That nothing seem to know or need That crack the ice in frozen ponds And slumbering in winter's folds Have dreams of green and blue and gold
I'll learn to love the fallow way And listening for blossoming Of my own heart once more in spring
As sure as time, as sure as snow As sure as moonlight, wind and stars The fallow time will fall away The sun will bring an April day And I will yield to summer's way
Bien sûr nous eume des orages Vingt ans d'amour c'est l'amour folle Mille fois tu pris ton bagages, Mille fois je pris mon envole
Et chaque meuble se souvient Dans cette chambre sans berceau Des éclat de vieilles tempêtes
Plus rien ne ressemblait à rien, Tu avais perdu le goût de l'eau Et moi, celui de la conquête
Mais, mon amour, mon doux, mon tendre, Mon merveilleux amour, De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour Je t'aime encore, tu sais, je t'aime
Moi, je sais tous tes sortilèges Tu sais tous mes envôutements Tu m'as gardé de pièges en pièges Je t'ai perdu de temps en temps
Bien sûr tu pris quelques amants Il fallait bien passer le temps Il faut bien que le corps exulte
Finalement, finalement, Il nous fallu bien du talent Pour être vieux sans être adulte
Mais, mon amour, mon doux, mon tendre, Mon merveilleux amour, De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour Je t'aime encore, tu sais, je t'aime
Et plus le temps nous fait cortège, Et plus le temps nous fait tourment Mais n'est ce pas le pire piège Que vivre en paix pour des amants
Bien sûr tu pleure un peu moins tôt, Je me déchire un peu plus tard Nous protégeons moins nos mystères
On laisse moins faire le hasard, On se méfie du fil de l'eau Mais c'est toujours la tendre guerre
Mais, mon amour, mon doux, mon tendre, Mon merveilleux amour, De l'aube claire jusqu'à la fin du jour Je t'aime encore, tu sais, je t'aime
There are places I remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some are gone and some remain
Oh these places had their meanings With lovers and friends, I still recall Some are dead and some are living In my life, I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers There is no one, compares with you And these memories lose their meaning When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life, I've loved you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life, I've loved you more
Isn't it rich? are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, You in mid-air Where are the clowns?
Isn't it bliss? don't you approve? One who keeps tearing around, One who can't move Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns.
Just when I'd stopped opening doors, Finally knowing the one That I wanted was yours. Making my entrance again with my usual flair Sure of my lines, no one is there.
Don't you love farce? my fault, I fear I thought that you'd want what I want Sorry, my dear, and where are the clowns Send in the clowns Don't bother, they're here.
Isn't it rich? isn't it queer? Losing my timing this late in my career But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns Well, maybe next year.
Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's clouds' illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel When every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way But now it's just another show You leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care don't let them know Don't give yourself away I've looked at love from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads they say I've changed Well something's lost but something's gained In living every day I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all
Desperado Why don't you come to your senses You been out riding fences For so long now Oh you're a hard one But I know you've got your reasons These things that are pleasing you Can hurt you somehow Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy She'll beat you If she's able The queen of hearts Is always your best bet Now it seems to me some fine things Have been laid upon your table But you only want the ones That you can't get Desperado Oh you ain't gettin' no younger You pain and your hunger They're driving you home Freedom That's just some people talking You're prisoners walking Through this world all alone Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine It's hard to tell the night time From the day You're losing all your highs and lows Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away Desperado Why don't you come to your senses Come down from your fences And open the gate It may be raining But there's a rainbow above you You better let somebody love you Let somebody love you You better let somebody love you Before it's too late You better let somebody love you Before it's too late
