Boys in the street beginning to play;
Girls like birds flying away
The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.
I've been hit too hard, I've seen too much;
Nothing can heal me now, but your touch
It was then that I got up to leave;
But she said, "Don't forget,;
Everybody must give something back;
For something they get."
Never could learn to drink that blood;
And call it wine
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.
I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells;
I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through
I couldn't see what you could show me;
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid
Mama, take this badge off of me
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
you remind me of something that used to be;
somethin' that crossed over from another century
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously;
But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately.
If I ever lose her I will go insane;
I go half crazy when she calls my name
Just what do you think you have to guard?
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Reality has always had too many heads
What looks large from a distance,;
Close up ain't never that big.
Every brain is civilized,;
Every nerve is analyzed,;
Everything is criticized when you are in need.
I must be guilty of something,;
You just whisper it into my ear.
Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?
Shall I hold you close?;
Or Shall I let you go by?;
Tell me.;
Tell me.
Lost time is not found again
Tell ev'rybody;
Down in ol' 'Frisco;
That Tiny Montgomery's comin';
Down to say Hello
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."
Trees that've stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall.
And then you told me later, as I apologized;
That you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm
Radiant jewel, mystical wife.
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea;
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
Ain't no reason to go anywhere.
There was music in the cafes at night;
And revolution in the air.
What drives me to you is what drives me insane.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim,;
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him
Oh, man has invented his doom, First step was touching the moon.
Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast;
Oh, but what a shame if all we've shared can't last.
Now the rainman gave me two cures,;
Then he said, "Jump right in.";
The one was Texas medicine,;
The other was just railroad gin.
Everybody must get stoned.
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."
Something there is about you that brings back a long forgotten truth
You don't want a love that's pure;
You wanna drown love;
You want a watered-down love
Cities on fire, phones out of order
When there is no more,;
You cut to the core;
Quicker than anyone I knew.
If God's on our side;
He'll stop the next war.
He looks so truthful, is this how he feels;
Trying to peel the moon and expose it
Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,;
I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.
If your mem'ry serves you well,;
You'll remember you're the one;
That called on me to call on them;
To get you your favors done.
You don't need a weather man;
To know which way the wind blows
Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too;
Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
That's how it is when things disintegrate
Now, a very great man once said;
That some people rob you with a fountain pen.;
It didn't take too long to find out;
Just what he was talkin' about.
I'm sick of love but I'm in the thick of it
He said, Are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch?;
I said, I got no money. He said, That ain't necessary.
Yes, I see you on your window ledge;
But I can't tell just how far away you are from the edge
They said it was the land of milk and honey,;
now they say it's the land of money.;
Who ever thought they could ever make that stick.
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere;
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Now, don't crowd me, lady;
Or I'll fill up your shoe
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
When I met you, baby,;
You didn't show no visible scars.