They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
While my conscience explodes; The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
Oh, some of us'll end up; In St. Cloud Prison,; And some of us'll wind up, To be lawyers and things
Every day of the year's like playin' Russian roulette
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
He bought me with a price,; Freed me from the pit,; Full of emptiness and wrath; And the fire that burns in it.
This wheel shall explode!
If he needs a third eye he just grows it
Does she know I still care?
Oh, baby, that god you been prayin' to; Is gonna give ya back what you're wishin' on someone else
She says, "What'll it be?"; I say, "I don't know, you got any soft boiled eggs?"
Well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe,; To see that you're madly in love.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.
Just do your thing, you'll be king; If dogs run free.
It was then that I got up to leave; But she said, "Don't forget,; Everybody must give something back; For something they get."
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live,; When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give
Somebody's got to find your trail,; I guess it must be up to me.
Can't you make any sound?
We always did feel the same,; We just saw it from a different point of view
Any day now, any day now,; I shall be released.
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more.
Did I miss the mark or; Over-step the line; That only you could see?
I don't want to fake you out
They don't want me around; 'Cause I believe in you.
You think you can hide but you're never alone,; Ask Lot what he thought when his wife turned to stone.
I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough
I was in a whirlwind, now I'm in some better place.
Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand,; And rivers that ran through ev'ry day.
Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time
I just can't fit; Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
My love for her is taking such a long time to die
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.
Guess it's too late to say the things to you; That you needed to hear me say.
May you build a ladder to the stars; And climb on every rung.
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
She once was a true love of mine
You could make me cry if you don't know.
Thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth
Your magnetic movements; Still capture the minutes I'm in.
What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?
The birds are flyin' low babe, honey I feel so exposed
Well, I wake in the morning, Fold my hands and pray for rain.; I got a head full of ideas, That are drivin' me insane.
Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift
For all eternity I think I will remember; That icy wind that's howling in your eye.
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,; All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
All I really want to do,; Is, baby, be friends with you.
For the loser now; Will be later to win
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
Most of the time; I can't even be sure; If she was ever with me; Or if I was with her.
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
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
Tell ev'rybody; Down in ol' 'Frisco; That Tiny Montgomery's comin'; Down to say Hello
You cast your spell and I went under,; I find it so difficult to leave.
the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
It's too bright a light, he said, "For anybody's eyes,; If you've never seen one it's a blessing in disguise."
