Put your body next to mine; And keep me company,; There is plenty a room for all,; So please don't elbow me.
Boys in the street beginning to play; Girls like birds flying away
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
I finally realize there's no room for regret
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,; No more booby traps and bombs,; No more decadence and charm,; No more affection that's misplaced, girl
I've already ripped out the phones, honey.; You can't walk the streets in a war
I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World
Yes, I see you on your window ledge; But I can't tell just how far away you are from the edge
I looked at my watch; I looked at my wrist; I punched myself in the face with my fist
There's only one step down from here, baby,; It's called the land of permanent bliss.
What good am I if I say foolish things; And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings; And I just turn my back while you silently die,; What good am I?
You know, the streets are filled with vipers; Who've lost all ray of hope,; You know, it ain't even safe no more; In the palace of the Pope.
An' here I sit so patiently; Waiting to find out what price; You have to pay to get out of; Going through all these things twice.
My head tells me it's time to make a change; But my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange.
A saxophone someplace far off played
My so-called friends have fallen under a spell.; They look me squarely in the eye and they say, "All is well."; Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high; When men will beg God to kill them and they won't be able to die?
People tell me it's a sin; To know and feel too much within.
You were trying to break into another world; A world I never knew.; I always kind of wondered; If you ever made it through.
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
We're both just one too many mornings; An' a thousand miles behind.
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
The night is pitch black, come an' make my; Pale face fit into place, ah, please!
Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't; But not tonight and it won't be here; There are things I could say but I don't; I know the mercy of God must be near
he not busy being born, Is busy dying
Well, You've done it all and there's no more anyone can pretend to do.; What can I do for You?
You don't want a love that's pure; You wanna drown love; You want a watered-down love
Soon as a man is born, you know the sparks begin to fly, He gets wise in his own eyes and he's made to believe a lie.
Now the rainman gave me two cures,; Then he said, "Jump right in."; The one was Texas medicine,; The other was just railroad gin.
I must admit I felt a little uneasy; When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
The door has closed forevermore
If indeed there ever was a door
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin,; Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in.
With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get old
When there is no more,; You cut to the core; Quicker than anyone I knew.
'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind.
And you, you took me in,; You loved me then; You didn't waste time.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties; Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
She once was a true love of mine
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',; But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me
Our conversation was short and sweet; It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
Now, don't crowd me, lady; Or I'll fill up your shoe
If God's on our side; He'll stop the next war.
I was in your presence for an hour or so; Or was it a day? I truly don't know.
The party's over, and there's less and less to say
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,; I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory,; And all your ragin' glory.
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
Satan whispers to ya, "Well, I don't want to bore ya,; But when ya get tired of the Miss So-and-so I got another woman for ya."
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously; But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately.
When the last rays of daylight go down; Buddy, you'll roll no more; I can hear the church bells ringing in the yard; I wonder who they're ringing for
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed; Dignity never been photographed
Could you ever be true?
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
