Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Does she know I still care?
And you never ask questions; When God's on your side.
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
If you're a doctor, I need a shot of love.
We never thought we could ever get old.; We thought we could sit forever in fun
time is running backwards
Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed
You don't want a love that's pure; You wanna drown love; You want a watered-down love
You were trying to break into another world; A world I never knew.; I always kind of wondered; If you ever made it through.
Sometimes the devil likes to drive you from the neighborhood.; He'll even work his ways through those whose intentions are good.
Can't you hear that motor turnin'?; Automobile comin' into style
So take heed, take heed of the western wind
take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
And they're breaking down the distance; Between right and wrong.
I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain; You give something up for everything you gain
Temptation's not an easy thing
Those are the hill of heaven, my love; You and I'll never know
Ain't no reason to go anywhere.
It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit; Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it; Using all the devices under the sun.
Talk about perfection, I ain't never seen none
Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing.
I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
Your cracked country lips,; I still wish to kiss,; As to be under the strength of your skin.
And I, I don't mind the pain; Don't mind the driving rain; I know I will sustain; 'Cause I believe in you.
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.
I just want you to know; I can see through your masks
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take; To find dignity
I been hangin’ on threads
I been playin’ it straight
Now, I’ve just got to cut loose
Before it gets late
It's too hot to sleep time is running away
In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear,; It's done with a flick of the wrist.
Most of the time; I can't even be sure; If she was ever with me; Or if I was with her.
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
Silver and gold; Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold
Wealth is a filthy rag; So erotic so unpatriotic; So wrapped up in the American flag
When He rose from the dead, did they believe?
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
Go melt back into the night, babe,; Everything inside is made of stone.; There's nothing in here moving, An' anyway I'm not alone.
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
Your temperature's too hot for taming
Reality has always had too many heads
I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"; He said, "You're not Him"
You will search, babe, At any cost.; But how long, babe, Can you search for what's not lost?
Leaving men wholly, totally free; To do anything they wish to do but die
If he needs a third eye he just grows it
People disagreeing everywhere you look,; Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
People on the platforms; Waiting for the trains; I can hear their hearts a-beatin'; Like pendulums swinging on chains
Where black is the color, where none is the number
Now, don't crowd me, lady; Or I'll fill up your shoe
Look into infinity, all you see is trouble.
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats; Too noble to neglect; Deceived me into thinking; I had something to protect
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
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.
You know, the streets are filled with vipers; Who've lost all ray of hope,; You know, it ain't even safe no more; In the palace of the Pope.
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,; Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
