I need a dump truck mama to unload my head
Now at midnight all the agents;
And the superhuman crew;
Come out and round up everyone;
That knows more than they do
the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming
I'm walking through streets that are dead
to live outside the law, you must be honest
In your teardrops, I can see my own reflection
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
I couldn't see what you could show me;
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid
If this is love then gimme more;
And more and more and more and more.
I'm in the streets;
With the tombstone blues
She's got everything she needs,;
She's an artist, she don't look back
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.
Ring them bells, for the time that flies,;
For the child that cries;
When innocence dies.
There's some people that;
You don't forget,;
Even though you've only seen'm;
One time or two.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,;
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.
What was it you wanted;
When you were kissing my check?
The vagabond who's rapping at your door;
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
You're the other half of what I am, you're the missing piece
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere;
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
If God's on our side;
He'll stop the next war.
But is your heart made out of stone, or is it lime;
Or is it just solid rock?
All he believes are his eyes, And his eyes, they just tell him lies
I believe in the impossible, you know that I do
Let me ask you one question;
Is your money that good
I got a poison headache,;
But I feel all right
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
Don't trust me to show you love;
When my love may be only lust.
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind.
Trees that've stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall.
Gon' walk on down that dirt road 'til I'm right beside the sun
But I will be back, I will survive,;
You'll never get rid of me as long as you're alive.
Leaving men wholly, totally free;
To do anything they wish to do but die
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances;
My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
You don't need a weather man;
To know which way the wind blows
Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?
Go 'way from my window,;
Leave at your own chosen speed.
I don't want to fake you out
Never could learn to drink that blood;
And call it wine
The way is long but the end is near, Already the fiesta has begun
I can smile in the face of mankind.;
Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine;
Most of the time.
Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain;
That could hold you dear lady from going insane
I still got my voice left, I can take it anywhere I go
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
It's many a guard;
That stands around smilin',;
Holdin' his club;
Like he was a king.
Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift
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.
You can't get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag.;
Put your goodness next to God's and it comes out like a filthy rag.
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',;
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down