Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
Has the record been breaking,; Did the needle just skip
If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
All the people we used to know; Are an illusion to me now
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
My head tells me it's time to make a change; But my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange.
Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain; That could hold you dear lady from going insane
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take; To find dignity
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is.
They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with.
Here is your throat back; Thanks for the loan
Was that the thunder that I heard?; My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain
Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,; Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery
On the rising curve,; Where the ways of nature will test every nerve,; You won't get anything you don't deserve,; Where we were born in time.
There's no one here, the gardener is gone
I want to thank You, Lord,; I just want to thank You, Lord,; Thank You, Lord.
Let me ask you one question; Is your money that good
She's a hypnotist collector
The pump don't work; 'Cause the vandals took the handles
I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you; It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues; You can tell by the way she smiles
Those are the hills of hell-fire my love; Where you and I will unite
The country music station plays soft; but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off
We're both just one too many mornings; An' a thousand miles behind.
All the laughter is just making me sad
Reality has always had too many heads
Searching for my double, looking for; Complete evaporation to the core
You could ride like Annie Oakley,; You could shoot like Belle Starr.
All my friends have told me; If I hang around with you; That I'll go blind
Your magnetic movements; Still capture the minutes I'm in.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe; "I thought you'd never say hello," she said; "You look like the silent type."
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
What makes the wind wanna blow tonight?
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',; But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
When I'm all alone; In the great unknown,; I'll remember you.
Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously; But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately.
Your loyalty is not to me; But to the stars above
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?
Shall I hold you close?; Or Shall I let you go by?; Tell me.; Tell me.
I'm already there in my mind; And that's good enough for now
Won't you come with me, baby?; I'll take you where you wanna go.; And if it don't work out, You'll be the first to know
I know all about poison, I know all about fiery darts,; I don't care how rough the road is, show me where it starts,; Whatever pleases You, tell it to my heart.
The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.
Louise, she's all right, she's just near; She's delicate and seems like the mirror; But she just makes it all too concise and too clear; That Johanna's not here
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down.; Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground.
Not one more night, not one more kiss,; Not this time baby, no more of this,; Takes too much skill, takes too much will,; It's revealing.
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?
You were snow, you were rain; You were striped, you were plain,;
