Riot on the streets, the touch beneath the sheets It's only gonna make me love you more The cops they got the guns, the night destroys the sun It's only gonna make me love you more
This old world, well, it was mine to take Faith can keep you warm, but I'll teach you how to shake And I'll come to you like a little girl It's only gonna make me love you more
Moonlight on the beach, sweet amphetamines It's only gonna make you love me more Bottles and the cans, the idiots go dance It's only gonna make me love you more
This old world, well, it was mine to take Faith can keep you warm, but I'll teach you how to shake And I'll come to you like a little girl It's only gonna make me love you more
They say love is hell, But I've only been laughin' ever since I fell It's only gonna make me love you more The lord will have his way but I'm just a call away It's only gonna make you love me more
This old world, well, it was mine to take Faith can keep you warm, but I'll teach you how to shake And I'll come to you like a little girl It's only gonna make me love you more
This is where the summer ends In a flash of pure destruction, no one wins Goin' nuclear. Nuclear. The violets in my eyelids goin' red Sentimental geek Shut up and go to sleep
They combed the beach and the remains Of the bathing suits and Porsches all in flames Goin' nuclear. Nuclear. When I saw her, the Yankees lost to the Braves Sentimental geek Sentimental geek Sentimental geek Shut up and go to sleep
Give me an answer Give me an answer Give me an answer Give me an answer Give me an . . . Give me an . . .
When they call your name Will you walk right up With a smile on your face Will you cower in fear In your favorite sweater With an old love letter
I wish you would I wish you would Come pick me up Take me out Fuck me up Steal my records Screw all my friends They're all full of shit With a smile on your face And then do it again I wish you would
When you're walking downtown Do you wish I was there Do you wish it was me With the windows clear And the mannequin's eyes Do they all look like mine You know you could
I wish you would Come pick me up Take me out Fuck me up Steal my records Screw all my friends Behind my back With a smile on your face And then do it again I wish you would
I wish you'd make up my bed So I could make up my mind Try it for sleeping instead Maybe you'll rest sometimes I wish I could I wish I could I wish I could
The stars they sink In the oceans of ink Long black ribbons of cars And in the taxi You ask me how I'm doing But you already know
Beyond, beyond is not through It's only a reflection of you And somethings at the window It motions with its fingers Calling me beyond
The sadness is mine The sadness is mine It's why you're not helping me Whatever has come for me Oh, I can give you whatever you're wanting Just take it and spare me spare me Please, oh tell me this is only a warning, no Please have mercy let me go
If only a day to let her know Without her I'm nothing at all The change is happening and I'm almost gone In her heart is my faith
And it wins against the sadness
The train it moves through the desert The horses they will challenge its stride And into the boxcar she leaps And is my hero And penetrates the demons inside
The clouds they pass But they're moving so fast I watch them collide Collide and collapse in her arms like a newborn child And I am at once reborn
The sadness is mine The sadness is mine It's why you're not helping me Whatever has come for me Oh, I can give you whatever you're wanting Just take it and spare me spare me Please tell me this is only a warning, no Please have mercy let me go
If only a day to let her know Without her I was nothing at all The change is happening and I'm almost gone In her heart is my faith
And it wins against the sadness
The fog in the mote As he grabs my throat It lifts as she comes She opens her cloak and it's the color of the blood And is the sign of what now must come
Deny, deny me my destiny I am not ready to go I am the horror that brings us to the morning Where I will have to stand and fight God!
The sadness is mine The sadness is mine It's why you're not helping me Whatever has come for me Oh, I can give you whatever you're wanting Just take it and spare me spare me Please, oh tell me this is only a warning, no Please have mercy let me go
If only a day to let her know Without her I was nothing at all The change is happening and I'm almost gone In her heart is my faith
If everything you want is something you couldn't have Go outside a while, look up and count the clouds Can you draw a picture of the backyard of the house You grew up in, can you remember how it smelled?
Don't worry up your mind People are sick and mean sometimes They're only words They're only words
If everybody is grateful, how come nobody's satisfied If a tree falls in the woods and there ain't no one around
If you heard it you could go over and whittle out a wishing box You could write her name on something and put it inside
Don't worry up your mind People are sick and mean sometimes Don't worry up your mind They're only words Its only words Its only words
Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River I was leaving on the Delta Queen I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Twenty-seven years of nothin' but failures and promises that I couldn't keep
Oh lord I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Let it ride Let it ride easy down the road Let it ride Let it take away all of the darkness Let it ride Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home Let it ride Let it roll Let it go
Loaded like a sailor Tumbling off a ferry boat I was at the bar till three Oh Lord, and I wasn't ready to go I'm never ready to go Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me
And I ain't ready to go I'm never ready to go Let it ride let it ride easy down the road Let it ride Let it take away all of this darkness Let it ride Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home Let it ride Let it roll Let it go
I want to see you tonight Dancing in the endless moonlight In the parking lot in the headlights of cars Someplace on the moon Where they moved the drive-in theater Where I left the car that I can't find but I still got the keys to
Let it ride Let it ride easy down the road Let it ride Let it take away all of this darkness Let it ride Let it rock me in the arms of strangers, angels until it brings me home Let it ride Let it roll Let it go
You come for me in the worst of places You come for me, you come and try to take me home I'm always in need and it's hard to be reciprocating The fabric of our life gets torn And everything's changing so how i am to know How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control You an i together But only one of us in love And everybody knows He says her name, it echoes in my head like it was a canyon He says her name, he says it and i know what's up You come to me sometimes when i'm thinking like a cannonball shooting out a canyon And i forget whatever it was i was thinking about With everything changing how am i to know How i'm going to hold on to you when i'm spinning out of control With out and i together But only one of us in love And everybody knows
I'd like to say that I tried it fits in with all the suggestions and lies and empty tables with food untouched I couldn't see the future I liked the past too much and I've been going from door to door like i've got something to sell wandering like a fool through the halls of a blue hotel
so go on and rain down on us go on and rain go on and rain down on us I give up ooooh i give up
well there's something about her that's cold blowing through the trees leaving me raw the words come out and they get confused I get shadowed like a light bulb on an october moon and she's inside me like a secret and I'e got no one to tell wandering like a fool, through the halls of a blue hotel
so go on and rain down on us go on and rain go on and rain down on us I give up ooooh I give up I give up I give up
Bury me softly in this womb I give this part of me to you Sand rains down and here I sit Holding rare flowers In a tomb, in bloom
Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved See my heart I decorate it like a grave You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be Look at me now a man who won't let himself be
Down in a hole, feeling so small Down in a hole, losing my soul I'd like to fly But my wings have been so denied
Down in a hole and they've put all the stones in their place I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth I will speak no more of my feelings beneath
Down in a hole, feeling so small Down in a hole, losing my soul I'd like to fly But my wings have been so denied
Bury me softly in this womb (Oh I want to be inside of you) I give this part of me for you (Oh I want to be inside of you) Sand rains down and here I sit Holding rare flowers (Oh I want to be inside of you) In a tomb, in bloom (Oh I want to be inside)
Down in a hole, feeling so small Down in a hole, losing my soul Down in a hole, feeling so small Down in a hole, out of control I'd like to fly But my wings have been so denied
Let me sing a song for you That's never been sung before All the words were meant for you And never been said before She kisses when she sleeps She kisses when she's sleeping Let me sing a song for you A song that's worth the dreaming
Don't waste my time This is it This is really happening
What's the use in marigolds These flowers are for you All the lights go after burn The sky it splits in two I kiss her on her teeth I kiss her on her teeth, hmm Let me sing a song for you that alters your belief
don't waste my time This is it This is really happening
For all the hours here that move too slow There's all this letting go, that don't pass If all this love is real, how will we know? If we're only scared of losing it, how will it last? If I am a stranger now to you I will always be, I will always be Stronger now then me, stronger then you Our love will always be And if we let it go, I will try to be there for you If I can, what if I can't? Today is yesterday when you don't know How to rebuild the walls that someone has knocked down To tell the truth it's hard enough about a lover Who you want to hide your darkness from So they won't let you down If I am a stranger now to you I will always be, I will always be Stronger now then me, stronger then you Our love will always be And if we let it go, I will try to be there for you I will try and be there for you If I can, what if I can't? For all the hours here that move to slow There's all this letting go, that won't pass If all this love is real, how will we know? And if were only scared of losing it, how will it last? If I am a stranger now to you I will always be, I will always be Stronger now then me, stronger than you Our love will always be If we let it go, I will try to be there for you I will try to be there for you I will try to be there for you If I can, what if I can't?
Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July I had a firecracker waiting to blow Breakin' like a rocket who was makin' its way To the cities of Mexico Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A I had a tar-hut on the corner of 10th Had myself a lover who was finer than gold But I've broken up and busted up since
And love don't play any games with me Anymore like she did before The world won't wait, so I better shake That thing right out there through the door Hell, I still love you, New York
Found myself a picture that would fit in the folds Of my wallet and it stayed pretty good Still amazed I didn't lose it on the roof of the place When I was drunk and I was thinking of you Every day the children they were singing their tunes Out on the streets and you could hear from inside Used to take the subway up to Houston and 3rd I would wait for you and I'd try to hide
And love won't play any games with me Anymore if you don't want it to The world won't wait and I watched you shake But honey, I don't blame you Hell, I still love you, New York Hell, I still love you, New York New York
I remember Christmas in the blistering cold In a church on the upper west side Babe, I stood their singing, I was holding your arm You were holding my trust like a child Found a lot of trouble out on Avenue B But I tried to keep the overhead low Farewell to the city and the love of my life At least we left before we had to go
And love won't play any games with you Anymore if you want 'em to So we better shake this old thing out the door I'll always be thinkin' of you I'll always love you though New York I'll always love you though New York, New York, New York
Black birds slow and softly breaks a glass of wine Broken bluesy whisper sing to me tonight Well, everybody wants to go forever I just wanna burn up hard and bright I just wanna be your firecracker And maybe be your baby tonight Maybe be your baby tonight
Lady, your kicks of silence cough into your room Kiss me slow and softly make me dream of you Well, everybody wants to forever I just wanna burn up hard and bright I just wanna be your firecracker And maybe be your baby tonight Maybe be your baby tonight
So when does the plane go down 'Cause I'm ride it till it hits the ground Then go out with a fight 'Cause I just wanna be your baby tonight
