'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind.
Have you got some unfinished business?;
Is there something holding you back?;
Are you thinking for yourself;
Or are you following the pack?
Now somebody's got to show their hand, time is an enemy
If God's on our side;
He'll stop the next war.
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Oh the fishes will laugh;
As they swim out of the path;
And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard;
I'm sitting here listening to every mind polluting word
The sun's not yellow it's chicken
If the bible is right, the world will explode
As the last fire truck from hell;
Goes rolling by, all good people are praying
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,;
That we could sit simply in that room again.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in;
Sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks
Today on the countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch
Mama, take this badge off of me
She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe;
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said;
"You look like the silent type."
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
The pump don't work;
'Cause the vandals took the handles
Reality has always had too many heads
I'm going back to New York City;
I do believe I've had enough
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Let the wind blow low, let the wind blow high.;
One day the little boy and the little girl were both baked in a pie.
I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble
All I really want to do,;
Is, baby, be friends with you.
No time to suffer or blink;
And no time to think
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
