If dogs run free, why not me; Across the swamp of time?
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere; Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
They say ev'rything can be replaced
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties; Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her
Oh the fishes will laugh; As they swim out of the path; And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
Every brain is civilized,; Every nerve is analyzed,; Everything is criticized when you are in need.
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea; Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I don't want to fake you out
No time to suffer or blink; And no time to think
You'd better do somethin' quick; She's your lover now.
All the people we used to know; Are an illusion to me now
Now at midnight all the agents; And the superhuman crew; Come out and round up everyone; That knows more than they do
We sat in an empty theater and we kissed,; I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list.
Our conversation was short and sweet; It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
Oh, some of us'll end up; In St. Cloud Prison,; And some of us'll wind up, To be lawyers and things
Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain; Pay for your ticket and don't complain
I could say that I'd be faithful, I could say it in one sweet, easy breath; But to you that would be cruelty and to me it surely would be death.
Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
When you know as well as me; You'd rather see me paralyzed
In the day of confession; We cannot mock a soul.; Oh, when there's too much of nothing,; No one has control.
Put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground,; You ever feel like you're never alone even when there's nobody else around?; Since the beginning of the universe man's been cursed by trouble.
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies; I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with.
Darkness at the break of noon
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,; He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
I can change, I swear, oh, oh,; See what you can do.; I can make it through,; You can make it too.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
There was music in the cafes at night; And revolution in the air.
It's many a guard; That stands around smilin',; Holdin' his club; Like he was a king.
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
Just do your thing, you'll be king; If dogs run free.
I see, I see lovers in the meadow; I see, I see silhouettes in the window; I watch them 'til they're gone and they leave me hanging on ; To a shadow
For the loser now; Will be later to win
Put my tears in a bottle
Screw the top on tight
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Those are the hills of hell-fire my love; Where you and I will unite
I believe in the impossible, you know that I do
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
How does it feel
At the corrida we'll sit in the shade; And watch the young torero stand alone.; We'll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed; When they rode with Villa into Torreon.
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
Oh, baby, that god you been prayin' to; Is gonna give ya back what you're wishin' on someone else
If the bible is right, the world will explode
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
How can I explain?; Oh, it's so hard to get on
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
And they're breaking down the distance; Between right and wrong.
I'm hungry and I'm irritable; And I'm tired of this bag of tricks.; At one time there was nothing wrong with me; That you could not fix.
I'm going out of my mind; With a pain that stops and starts
Now the rainman gave me two cures,; Then he said, "Jump right in."; The one was Texas medicine,; The other was just railroad gin.
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
Pardon, monsieur," the desk clerk says,; Carefully removes his fez,; "Am I hearin' you right?"
