Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,;
I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.

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?

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them

I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain;
You give something up for everything you gain

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,;
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,;
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,;
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

to live outside the law, you must be honest

You were snow, you were rain;
You were striped, you were plain,;

The drinks are ready and the dogs are going to war

Now, when I was just a bawlin' child,;
I saw what I wanted to be

You could ride like Annie Oakley,;
You could shoot like Belle Starr.

Go 'way from my window,;
Leave at your own chosen speed.

Time is all I have to give

What kind of sign they need when it all come from within

Well the desert is hot, the mountain is cursed,;
Pray that I don't die of thirst,;
Baby, two feet from the well.

When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?

You were trying to break into another world;
A world I never knew.;
I always kind of wondered;
If you ever made it through.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I see you kiss her on the cheek ev'rytime she gives a speech

Here is your throat back;
Thanks for the loan

Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule

Put your body next to mine;
And keep me company,;
There is plenty a room for all,;
So please don't elbow me.

Oh, the only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk;
Was to haul your picture down off the wall near the cage where I used to work.;
Was I a fool or not to try to protect your identity?;
You looked a little burned out, my friend,;
I thought it might be up to me.

Now at midnight all the agents;
And the superhuman crew;
Come out and round up everyone;
That knows more than they do

But is your heart made out of stone, or is it lime;
Or is it just solid rock?

people don’t live or die, people just float

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night

The country music station plays soft;
but there's nothing, really nothing, to turn off

Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave,;
"Let's go and play Adam and Eve.";
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin';
When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin',;
You see what happened last time they started."

You can't get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag.;
Put your goodness next to God's and it comes out like a filthy rag.

Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?

You don't need a weather man;
To know which way the wind blows

The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.

There's some people that;
You don't forget,;
Even though you've only seen'm;
One time or two.

I been hangin’ on threads I been playin’ it straight Now, I’ve just got to cut loose Before it gets late

Do I need your permission to turn the other cheek?;
If you can read my mind, why must I speak?

Well, you're on your own, you always were,;
In a land of wolves and thieves.

Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain

the cops don't need you;
and man they expect the same

Do you know where we're headin'?;
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?

I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop

Gonna sleep down in the parlor;
And relive my dreams

When you think that you lost everything;
You find out you can always lose a little more

The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

And then you told me later, as I apologized;
That you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm

So long, New York.;
Howdy, East Orange.

I'll remember you;
When the wind blows through the piney wood.

Every time you leave and go off someplace,;
Things fall to pieces in my face

Always on the outside of whatever side there was,;
When they asked him why it had to be that way, "Well," he answered, "just because."

Gon' walk on down that dirt road 'til I'm right beside the sun

Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,;
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery

Someone else is speakin' with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart.

Well, the road is rocky and the hillside's mud;
Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood

What makes the wind wanna blow tonight?

Your cracked country lips,;
I still wish to kiss,;
As to be under the strength of your skin.

The way is long but the end is near, Already the fiesta has begun

Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time

If I had wings and I could fly,;
I know where I would go.

For I know that you know that I know that you know;
Something is tearing up your mind.

When destruction cometh swiftly;
And there's no time to say a fare-thee-well,;
Have you decided whether you want to be;
In heaven or in hell?

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