Silver and gold;
Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances,;
Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
Most of the time;
I can't even be sure;
If she was ever with me;
Or if I was with her.
How can I explain?;
Oh, it's so hard to get on
Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,;
I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.
He got an all girl orchestra and when he says;
"Strike up the band," they hit it
You lose yourself, you reappear
If he needs a third eye he just grows it
Well, you're so bad and nasty;
But I love you, yes I do
If God's on our side;
He'll stop the next war.
take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Go melt back into the night, babe,;
Everything inside is made of stone.;
There's nothing in here moving, An' anyway I'm not alone.
I was in your presence for an hour or so;
Or was it a day? I truly don't know.
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies;
I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
There's no one here, the gardener is gone
He bought me with a price,;
Freed me from the pit,;
Full of emptiness and wrath;
And the fire that burns in it.
Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun?;
Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
Nations are angry, cursed are some,;
People are expecting a false peace to come.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her
I see, I see lovers in the meadow;
I see, I see silhouettes in the window;
I watch them 'til they're gone and they leave me hanging on ;
To a shadow
Gon' walk on down that dirt road 'til I'm right beside the sun
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
She knows there's no success like failure;
And that failure's no success at all.
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
Now, I can't go back to what was, baby,;
I can't unring the bell.
If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
Mama, take this badge off of me