Shine your light, shine your light on me;
Ya know I just couldn't make it by myself.;
I'm a little too blind to see
Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring.
the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,;
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past;
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Rock me, pretty baby, rock me 'til everything gets real;
Rock me for a little while, rock me 'til there's nothing left to feel;
And I'll rock you too
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
The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.
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
I am hanging in the balance, of the reality of man;
like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand
Everybody must get stoned.
She's a hypnotist collector
She's got everything she needs,;
She's an artist, she don't look back
What looks large from a distance,;
Close up ain't never that big.
Whatever you wanted;
Slipped out of my mind
We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex,;
It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects.
The country music station plays soft;
but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off
Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand,;
And rivers that ran through ev'ry day.
It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun;
"I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one."
I seen the kingdoms of the world and it's makin' me feel afraid.
Everybody's wearing a disguise;
To hide what they've got left behind their eyes
I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells;
I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through
Never could learn to drink that blood;
And call it wine
When we meet again;
Introduced as friends;
Please don't let on that you knew me when;
I was hungry and it was your world.
