Shaw Blades

Manson lived, Lennon died
You don't know the reason why
I'm crying

Thirty years enough time for me
Tell me who shot Kennedy
I'm dying

Long tall Sally
She comes and goes
Got diamond rings
All through her nose
Is that all we were fighting for?

Somewhere in my hallucination
I thought we were giving peace a chance
But what's a revolution
When the music plays
And no one wants to dance

We paid the price in Vietnam
While crosses burned in Birmingham
I'm sighing

In Memphis now the church bells ring
While L.A. crowns a different king
Can't we all get along

Hi-ho silver
Don't you know
I just got faxed from Tokyo
Is that what we're still fighting for?

Somewhere in my hallucination
I thought we were giving peace a chance
But what's a revolution
When the music plays
And no one wants to dance
Fat chance

Going insane with the fun you've had
Who's to blame when it all goes bad
You never know, whoo
Where you gonna go, whoo

Sliding down on a greasy rope
Check your watch
There goes your hope
Of hanging on yeah

In Yasger's farm
A flower grows
And where it stops
Nobody knows
I'm flying

Somewhere in my hallucination
I thought we were giving peace a chance
So much for resolution

In my hallucination
I heard someone singing
All you need is love
But all I see
Is war and hate
Well I wonder if we'll ever get enough

I don't know what happened
I only know what she wants me to see
I don't know how I got here
I only know just what she burns inside of me

There's no use in pretending
As she rises from the ashes and then
Writes a new happy ending
Riding off into the sunset again

How can I lay me down to sleep
When a part of me is incomplete
Whoa oh

Guide me safely through the night
Everything gonna be all right
Oh yeah

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head

Take what's been given
Forget what has been said
Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend

It all happened so easy
She just loved to let me
Lick all the spoons

I even thought I was crazy
She just laughed and kept on
Kissing my wounds

Now all the king's horses
Little green men
Can't figure out how to
Put me together again
Whoa oh

Cracks in the window
Holes in my soul
How was I to know she was trouble
If I hadn't been told

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head

Take what's been given
Forget what has been said
Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend

Maybe you
Maybe I
Maybe someday we'll look it in the eye

Get you good, get you now
Gonna get you 'till you crying out loud

Dig deep, dig wide
Dig it deep down dirty inside

Good luck, good life
Maybe someday I'll see you on the outside
See you on the outside
Come on baby, won't you dig it down deep and wide

Now here we are
Have you come to be my friend
What pretty pictures
You have dancing in my head

Take what's been given
Forget what has been said

Now here we are
Have you come to be
Come to be my friend
Come to be my friend

When I look at what's been going on
I have to laugh to keep from crying
When I think of how it used to be
And how so much has changed

I never thought to look down that road
To see the distance in your eyes
And now to think of all that might have been
I don't know who to blame

At last to sleep, to dream
Escape the world that might have been
Enough to face the sun again
To feel the love shine through the rain

Don't talk to me anymore
Don't talk to me oh no no no

If I ever get over you
If my memory starts to fade away
Don't be sorry and don't feel sad
That's just the way it should be

A lesson learned is a penny earned
Thank the banker for keeping count of
Keep these treasures buried deep in the ground
Saved for the bridges we burned

A chance to live again
To breathe the air, let freedom in
To face the world a different man
Be who I might have never been

Don't talk to me anymore
Don't talk to me oh no no no

Should our paths cross tomorrow
I won't stay for the night
There can be no forgiveness
Exit dark, enter light

'till you get some religion
'till you're down on your knees
And you're stripped of the madness
Then maybe you can believe

Don't talk to me anymore
Don't talk to me oh no no no

There you were with your umbrella
Standing in the pouring rain
Lining up for a night of expectation

He held you close
And you danced together
Late into the night it seemed
As good as you could have ever imagined

But it's all the same
You wake up empty again
Well you know where there's
A shoulder you can lean on

I stumble in
And I can't help myself from falling
I stumble in and I can't help myself no more
I can't begin to tell you
Everything I'm thinking
Sometimes I'd rather
Just not think at all

Yes I know
What you've been missing
Yes I know I understand
That you need every breath

I will be your destination
I'm your ticket home, my friend
Feel that train arriving
At your station

When it's all the same
You come up empty again
Well you know where there's
A shoulder you can dream on

I stumble in
And I can't help myself from falling
I stumble in and I can't help myself no more
I can't begin to say
What I don't know
We've still got a long long way to go
It makes no sense
Makes no sense at all

Cry baby cry
They say you should have known better
Why baby why
You should be saying no never
Whoa....

I stumble in
And I can't help myself from falling
I stumble in and I can't help myself no more
I can't begin to tell you
Everything I'm thinking

Oh yes, I stumble in
And I can't help myself from falling
Oh yes, I stumble in
And I can't help myself no more

I can't begin to say
What I don't know
I still got a long...way to go

It makes no sense
Makes no sense at all

Everybody needs a place to ramble
Everybody needs a place to hide
In my blue Continental
I got mine

Headed down the coast from Newport
Thought it was time for a change
In my blue Continental
In the rain

If you see me in the morning
Don't ask me why
That road goes on forever
By and by

No, she's never temperamental
She's so smooth and she's so gentle
In my blue Continental
I can fly

Little baby crying for attention
let me tell you I could use some too
A little late for an ounce of prevention
Better think of something else to do

What happened to the days of summer
They came and they went too fast
Should have known it wouldn't last forever
Now it's all just part of the past
Memories, down that highway
Whoa yesterday

Sitting in with the boys and a six-string
Singing every Beatles song we knew
Getting lucky with a girl at the drive-in
Keep me happy for a month or two

School year dragged by so slowly
Seemed like it wouldn't ever end
Summer flew by out of control and
Left me here again with the memories
Down that highway
Whoa yesterday

Now Jimmy got lost somewhere in L.A.
Paco's in trouble with the D.E.A.
J.J. took the easy way out
Little Debbie never knew just what it was all about
She still don't know today

So much for the easy answers
So much for the simple cure
So easy when you start with nothing
Feels good when you get a little more

About time I ought to get happy
About time I ought to feel good
Never know when they call your number
St. Peter gonna lock that gate anyway
Down that highway
Whoa, yesterday
Whoa, yesterday
Whoa...Yesterday

She was a Catholic girl
From a northern town
She'd tell you no
Just to see you crawl

Plastic Jesus
On the dash of her car
Got the feeling
That I wouldn't get far with
Hank Junior
Blasting on the radio

Now it's too late
Cross the wire
We were gonna set
The world on fire
Now it looks as though
You're on your own again

How you gonna get used to this
How you ever gonna learn
To make the change
Sitting along
One the carpet of your living room
The kids are asleep
And he's drunk again

Now and then
In the back of your mind
Get the feeling
You've been left behind when it's
Me you're hearing
Blasting on the radio

How you gonna get used to this
How you ever gonna learn
To make the change
How you gonna go through with this
How you ever gonna
Make it back again

How you gonna get used to this
How you ever gonna learn
To make the change
How you gonna go through with this
How you ever gonna
Make it back again

Did you ever hear the whisper
Of the night as it rolls in
Distant as the moon
And yet it gets beneath your skin

Gets around the promises of no never again
Suddenly it takes the shape
Of an old familiar friend
And oh the night goes on

You reach for your last cigarette
And yeah you ought to quit
You ought to do a lot of things
But sometimes you forget

And still the night is calling
So you take a drive around
And over that horizon is an old familiar town
And oh the night goes on

Oh the night goes on
Ooh ooh the night goes on

When old voices dance through your head
Where you could run from the things that they said
And how could you say let 'em go walk away
Oh no not today
You never run away when you can stay and fight today

And oh the night goes on
Oh the night goes on

When old voices dance through your head
Where you could run from the things that they said
And how could you say
Let 'em walk away
Oh no
Not today

Did you ever hear the whisper
Distant as the moon
And yet it gets beneath your skin

And oh the night goes on
Oh the night goes on
Oh the night goes on
Oh the night goes on

Six o'clock
Time to wake up
Time to play that game again
Put a smile on my face
Tell all the lines in my face
There was a time
When growing up
Seemed so far away

It's eight a.m.
Trapped in a car
Nothing but miles of cars ahead
Look for a star to chase
Dream of a faraway place
There was a time
When you and I didn't care
If we came home at night

It was enough to be
Laying under the sky
It was important to me
To feel you by my side

Can't the world go away
Lock the door
Come back another day
I don't know what to do
So I'm holding on to you
I can live without most everything
But I can't live without you

Now here we stand
It's you and me again
Two strangers each on a mission
Is it too late
Was it worth it all
Remember the night
I laid you down
And we knew it meant forever
We swore forever

Can't the world go away
Lock the door
Come back another day
So many wasted years
Too many lonely tears
I can live without most everything
But I can't live without you
No I can't live without you

And the word never dies
(close you eyes and say goodnight)
Piling up to the skies
(turn around and say good-bye)
Staring into the black abyss
(every night a different world)
And I have to ask
God how did it come to this

Can't the world go away
Lock the door
Come back another day
I don't know what to do
So I'm holding on to you
I can live without most everything

Can't the world go away
Lock the door
Come back another day

So many wasted years
Too many lonely tears
I can live without most everything
But I can't live without you
No I can't live
Without you
No I can't live
Without you
No I can't live
Without you

So this is the end
Time to say good-bye
So this is the end

Where do we go
Where did all the time go
So where do we go
From here

So this is the end
Have you come to be my friend
Time to say good-bye
So this is the end
Will you stay until the end
So this is the end
We'll be coming back again