Tommy Bolin [Guitar]

After the last race is run
The betting's over, the gate is closed
And then you remember who I am
And then you call, and we do it all again, again

And now the book has reached the end
We're running out of time, still we pretend
And I've got no time left to spend
And then you call and we do it all again, again

Again, again, again, again

After the last race is run
The betting's over, the gate is closed
And then you remember who I am
And then you call, and we do it all again, again

And now the book has reached the end
We're running out of time, still we pretend
And I've got no time left to spend
And then you call and we do it all again, again

Again, again, again, again

Sometimes I sit and I stare at the rain
Isn't rain filled with sorrow?
Wonder if I'll see my home again
Will it be dry tomorrow?
Time passes softly and I'm a day older
But still I m living days gone by
Ashes to ashes, the rain's turning colder
Finding tomorrow, the ashes, the rain and I

Sometimes I sit and I stare at the rain
Isn't rain filled with sorrow?
Wonder if I'll see my home again
Will it be dry tomorrow?
Time passes softly and I'm a day older
But still I m living days gone by
Ashes to ashes, the rain's turning colder
Finding tomorrow, the ashes, the rain and I

Listen to my bluebird sing
She can't tell you why
Deep within her heart, you see
She knows I must cry
Yeah, cry

If she sits, a lofty perch
Strangest color blue
Flying is forgotten now
She just thinks of you
Yeah you

So, get all those blues
Must be a thousand hues
And each is differently used
You just know

You sit there mes-o-merized
By the depth of her eyes
Can't be categorized

She got soul
She got soul
She got soul
She got soul

Do you think she loves you?
Do you think at all?

Soon she's going to fly away
Worries of her own
Find herself another day
And go home, go home

The sky is red, I don't understand,
past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
The city's a blaze, the town's on fire.
The woman's flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her liar.
All I hear is "Burn!"

I didn't believe she was devil's sperm.
She said, "Curse you all, you'll never learn!
When I leave there's no return."
The people laughed till she said, "Burn!"
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear "Burn!"

You know we had no time,
we could not even try.
You know we had no time.

You know we had no time,
we could not even try.
You know we had no time.

The sky is red, I don't understand,
past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
she makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin, we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear "Burn!"

Goin' today, just passin'
The road I know so well
Seems the more I ride you
You give me more
You'll tell
And if I try
Soon it will show
To keep me strong
And know that I've had times
So good
From coast to coast
Leavin' my hard times behind



And if I try soon it will show
To keep me strong
And know that I've had time
So good from coast to coast
Leavin' my hard times behind

Oh I love the coast
I love the coast

Oh yeah, oh yeah
I love the coast

Joe Walsh; Patrick Cullie

Blue for the blue I feel when I'm feelin down on the ground
Feelin' down
That could be most any day
Green for the eyes, take look around
When the sun goes down and the sun goes down
In the strangest way
Red for the light, got to stop this thing
Find a song to sing that is everything
That I meant to say
Meant to say

Three for the mice that are blind like the world
Never see the good that is done, just the bad
It's too late to see
Two of us make it easier to read the signs
Memorize the lines
Will you play with me?
One for the road, I'll be on my way
Come another day, when the things we say
Find a way to be
Way to be

Autumn calls for a change of year, bringing winter near us
Green to brown and the sky's a sign
Wintertime is a razor blade that the devil made
It's the price we pay for the summertime
Spring days come, it's hard to know
Where the rain comes from, where the children go
It's a nursery rhyme
Nursery rhyme

My mama showed me how to rock in the cradle
But I learned how to roll along
My papa said "son, gotta git some fun,
Cos when your old it ain't too good on your own"
Been so long since you heard my song
Gonna pick up my guitar and play
Felt so bad when I had to leave you
But I knew that I'd be back some day

So I'm comin' home
To give you more than you bargained for
Comin' home
No mistake I'm gonna shiver 'n' shake
Comin' home
Gonna rock 'n' roll an' give you my soul
Comin' home
I got over the pain I'm comin' home again

Groovin to American Bandstand
B.B. onstage with 'Lucille'
The thrill is gone but it won't be for long
Cos you know I like to play how you feel
Now that we're back together
Gonna shiver 'n' shake all night
I just gotta say the music I play
Will sure enough make you feel alright

Though I learned how to rock in the cradle
An' rollin' came so easy to me
All the years I travelled the world
Made it so clear to see
It's been so long since you heard my song
Gonna pick up my guitar 'n' play
Felt so bad when I had to leave you
But I knew that I'd be back some day

Comin' home
To give you more than you baragained for
Comin' home
No mistake I'm gonna shiver and shake
Comin' home
Gonna rock 'n' roll and give you my soul
Comin' home
I got over the pain I'm comin' home again
Comin' home
Shiver 'n' shakin' anticpatin'
Comin' home
The thrill is gone but it won't be for long

If you fool around
With the dealer
Remember soon
You'll have to pay
He'll creep behind you
Like a hunter
Just to steal your soul away
I don't want no one
Messing with my woman
But just the same
I don't see nobody
Fooling with you
If you're snowblind
Madonna can hold you
But if you don't understand
There is nothing she can do for you

Running from the dealer
Trying to save your soul

I can feel the fire
Coming from inside you
I know what it's like
Cos I've been burned before
Ain't no mercy
In the hunger but
You're a fool to yourself
Cos your dealer keeps you begging for more

Running from the dealer
Trying to save your soul

In the beginning all you wanted
Was the calm before the storm
If the bluebird plays the eagle
He finds his song will turn to stone
Dealer

halfway gone, halfway back
you are always dreaming about what you'd like
you are taking your time in your busy day
to sit by the tract and watch the train roll away

* dreamer i know what you are thinking
i can see it in your face
maybe before you were happy
but now your thoughts are on disgrace

you've begun to change now baby, i don't see
oh, but i know you well
and it's clear to me
you think that chains hold you near, now baby
they don't exist to me,
you don't have to stay now
i won't insist

* repeat

so take the train today,
and don't look back again
live the dreams you have, don't dwell on what has been
your futures brighter now,
there's brighter days ahead
and your sad farewell words, better off unsaid.

* repeat

halfway gone, halfway back
you are always dreaming about what you'd like
you are taking your time in your busy day
to sit by the tract and watch the train roll away

* dreamer i know what you are thinking
i can see it in your face
maybe before you were happy
but now your thoughts are on disgrace

you've begun to change now baby, i don't see
oh, but i know you well
and it's clear to me
you think that chains hold you near, now baby
they don't exist to me,
you don't have to stay now
i won't insist

* repeat

so take the train today,
and don't look back again
live the dreams you have, don't dwell on what has been
your futures brighter now,
there's brighter days ahead
and your sad farewell words, better off unsaid.

* repeat

halfway gone, halfway back
you are always dreaming about what you'd like
you are taking your time in your busy day
to sit by the tract and watch the train roll away

* dreamer i know what you are thinking
i can see it in your face
maybe before you were happy
but now your thoughts are on disgrace

you've begun to change now baby, i don't see
oh, but i know you well
and it's clear to me
you think that chains hold you near, now baby
they don't exist to me,
you don't have to stay now
i won't insist

* repeat

so take the train today,
and don't look back again
live the dreams you have, don't dwell on what has been
your futures brighter now,
there's brighter days ahead
and your sad farewell words, better off unsaid.

* repeat

I was born a rambling man
An' I never got the chance
To settle down an' get a hold on love
Takin' air an' movin' around
Is all I can see that I'm doin'
An' it is bringin' me down
Drivin' on a highway going nowhere
Desolation destination
Guess I'll find it somewhere
I know if there's trouble
I ain't takin' the blame
That's why I keep movin'
So nobody knows my name

Born a loser
I'm beyond the law
Women behind me
Never can find me
They can never get together
What I've been here for
Cos I'm a drifter

Rollin' on
Ain't wastin' my time no more

Walsh

See the people on their way
Going nowhere, waste their day
And it's strange, strange

And so I sit in padded cells
Through the bars, I might as well
And it's strange, strange

Though I'll stay here 'til my end
I'm better off than you, my friend
And it's strange, strange

Well I’m sitting in the middle of a story
Would you like to read my line
Sipping on a morning glory
Would you like to taste my wine
Don’t forget to tell the sun
I sleep through the day
See him when the morning comes
Everything’s OK

The captain’s in the chartroom
Navigating on a star
Can’t know where we’re going
'Cause he don’t know where we are
Don’t you think I don’t know
How to tell the time
Can’t you see you can’t sell me
Something that is mine

You just sit to talking
And I’m sure there’s nothing said
Your book is lying open
And I don’t think much is read
The dog is outside barking
At something he can’t see
The garden gate is closing

When night time comes
And I'm ten thousand miles away
Just lose yourself
And watch the band kick back and play

Get up--keep in line
It's gettin' tighter all the time
You say you're feelin' fine
It's gettin' tighter all the time

Get a load off your mind
This place is right
It's hard to find
The mood is set alright
It's gonna be a long long night
You keep spinnin' 'round
You find it hard to touch the ground
And time is all it takes
You'll find it easy once you make

Get up--keep in line
It's gettin' tighter all the time
Gettin' tighter
Gettin' tighter

John Tesar; Tommy Bolin

Take your empty headed stare
Give it to the Stars
Take your lean 'n hungry love

Take your lonely Heart
and Give it to someone
Who's got time to care

I don't think that you'll go under
You're just tryin' to raise some thunder

(Chorus:)
Ain't Got No Time for Trouble
I got plenty of my own
Ain't got no time for trouble
I got plenty of my own
Ain't got no time for trouble
All ya do is sit and moan

Ain't got no time for trouble
I got plenty of my own

I'm so busy drownin'
There is no way
I could bouy (pull) you up

I'm so busy drownin'
There is no way
I could bouy you up

I don't think that you'll go under
You're just tryin' to raise some thunder

(Chorus)

No Time for Trouble

We talked for hours of the travels
And all the beauty you had seen.
The south of France where the spring is beginning,
Sunset on the Thames from the village green.
We rolled on and on through the pages,
Of the books you'd taken from the shelf.
Unfamiliar faces and forgotten places,
Landscapes green and rich in wealth.
You've got a gypsy soul, and you love to wander.
Coast to coast to the Canadian border.
In the summer sun, yeah, yeah.
From my window you saw the ocean,
And all the changes that has been.
The south of France where the spring is beginning,
Sunset on the Thames from the village green.

Slowly that scent reaches me,
the perfume you wear I can’t forget.
Floating so lightly ‘pon the air,
just like the smoke from a cigarette.
I just turned around and there you were,
returning almost faster than you’d gone.
My, but times been good to you,
sleek and graceful as a swan.
And by the way, hello again.
I’m so pleased to have your company.
We’ll count the stars under misty sky,
and watch them fall into the sea.

Your voice so whispers soft and smooth,
telling me tales of a human cloud.
Who walked a thousand miles,
just to touch their ladies gowns.
A noble thought, there’s no doubt,
and I must confess I can’t compete.
Clouds that walked a thousand miles,
just to touch their ladies feet.

I keep singing the same old song
Like I did before
When you left me
You left me in darkness
I'd never known before
I was restless
A fool for your time
Waiting 'round for you to call
But now I've found me
An angel of mercy
I don't feel bad at all

Your body was honey
I tasted a lot
But let me tell you babe
I need more than you got
I want someone to hold me
An' keep me satisfied
I need love

I've got nothing to do
Ain't got nothing to say
Just live your life
The way you know
When you moved on
You took all the sweetness
Was I a fool to let you go
With the woman I forget for the moment
All the times we knew before
Though I'm still singing
The same old love song
I don't want you knocking on my door