Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too;
Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through
I gotta go;
Find out something only dead men know
Too many thoughts get in the way in the day
I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells;
I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through
They tell me everything is gonna be all right;
But I don't know what "all right" even means
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
You got a lotta nerve;
To say you are my friend
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink;
Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
I'll remember you;
When the wind blows through the piney wood.
Lookin' at my shadow watching the colors up above
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
Reality has always had too many heads
Glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow
as long as the world keeps a-turnin', I just keep a-turnin' too.
There was music in the cafes at night;
And revolution in the air.
I couldn't see where we were goin';
But you said you knew an' I took your word
Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun?;
Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
They say you're usin' voodoo, I seen your feet walk by themselves
May you build a ladder to the stars;
And climb on every rung.
Leaving men wholly, totally free;
To do anything they wish to do but die
What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood
I must admit I felt a little uneasy;
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed;
You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road
If you want to live easy
Baby pack your clothes with mine
Dark Beauty;
Meet me at the border late tonight
Nations are angry, cursed are some,;
People are expecting a false peace to come.
She says, "What'll it be?";
I say, "I don't know, you got any soft boiled eggs?"
