When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
you remind me of something that used to be; somethin' that crossed over from another century
I'm in a cowboy band
All he believes are his eyes, And his eyes, they just tell him lies
Lost time is not found again
If you're a doctor, I need a shot of love.
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.
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, I don't wanna be your boss.
No time to suffer or blink; And no time to think
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
Well, they're not showing any lights tonight; And there's no moon.
She knows there's no success like failure; And that failure's no success at all.
This wheel shall explode!
You lose yourself, you reappear
The world of illusion is at my door
That long black cloud is comin' down
But I mean no harm nor put fault, On anyone that lives in a vault, But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
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
I'm T-boned and punctured; But I'm known to be calm
Look into infinity, all you see is trouble.
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,; Should I leave them by your gate,; Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
It's the last temptation; The last account; The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount,; The last radio is playing.
Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face; And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
You could make me cry if you don't know.
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
Could you ever be true?
The birds are flyin' low babe, honey I feel so exposed
I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
The vagabond who's rapping at your door; Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
We sat in an empty theater and we kissed,; I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list.
I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
The country music station plays soft; but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off
And they're breaking down the distance; Between right and wrong.
At dawn my lover comes to me; And tells me of her dreams; With no attempts to shovel the glimpse; Into the ditch of what each one means
How did I meet you? I don't know.
Ring them bells, for the time that flies,; For the child that cries; When innocence dies.
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun; "I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one."
And every one of them words rang true; And glowed like burnin' coal; Pourin' off of every page; Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Searching for my double, looking for; Complete evaporation to the core
May you build a ladder to the stars; And climb on every rung.
All my friends have told me; If I hang around with you; That I'll go blind
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past; I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
What makes the wind wanna blow tonight?
I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint.
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,; Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,; Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
The treasure can't be found by men who search
Has the record been breaking,; Did the needle just skip
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is.
Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain; Pay for your ticket and don't complain
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer; It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
I can change, I swear, oh, oh,; See what you can do.; I can make it through,; You can make it too.
Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit?
