Just what do you think you have to guard?
I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain;
You give something up for everything you gain
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.
What drives me to you is what drives me insane.
What good am I if I know and don't do,;
I If I see and don't say, if I look right through you
Leaving men wholly, totally free;
To do anything they wish to do but die
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.
she's true, like ice, like fire
Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?
The night is pitch black, come an' make my;
Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
to live outside the law, you must be honest
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
He bought me with a price,;
Freed me from the pit,;
Full of emptiness and wrath;
And the fire that burns in it.
Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,;
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind;
You could have done better but I don't mind;
You just kinda wasted my precious time
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed;
Dignity never been photographed
You can pound on the President's gate;
But you oughta know by now it's gonna be too late.
I'm in the streets;
With the tombstone blues
We always did feel the same,;
We just saw it from a different point of view
Where black is the color, where none is the number
Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud;
Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame;
I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
The country music station plays soft;
but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off
Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain;
That could hold you dear lady from going insane
there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
Oh, some of us'll end up;
In St. Cloud Prison,;
And some of us'll wind up, To be lawyers and things
People disagreeing everywhere you look,;
Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
