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i'd sooner forget but i remember those nights
when life was just a bet on the race between the lights
you had your head on my shoulder had your hand in my hair
now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
well just stay with me baby and i'll take you away
from out of this darkness and into the day
from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
from the anger that lives on the streets with these names
as i run every red light on memory lane
i seek desperation explode into flames
and i don't wanna see it again
from all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed
all the way down the telegraph road

and i can remember the fourth of july
runnin through the backwoods bare
and i can still hear my old hound dog barkin
chasin down a hoodoo there
chasin down a hoodoo there

born on the bayou
born on the bayou
born on the bayou

wish that i was on the bayou
rollin with some cajun queen
wish that i was a fast freight train
a just a truckin on down to new orleans

born on the bayou
born on the bayou
born on the bayou

sweet surrender on the quayside
you remember we used to run and hide
in the shadows of the cargos i take you one time
and we're countin all the numbers down to the waterline

near misses on the dog leap stairways
french kisses in the darkened doorways
foghorn blowing out wild and cold
policeman he shines a light on my shoulder

up comes a coaster fast and silent in the night
over my shoulder all you can see are pilot lights
no money in our jackets and our jeans are torn
your hands are cold but your lips are warm

she can see him on the jetty where they used to go
she can feel him in the places where they used to know
when she's walking by the river or the railway line
she can still hear him whisper
let's go down to the waterline

i remember the thirty five sweet goodbyes
when you put me on the wolverine up to annandale
it was still september
when your daddy was quite surprised
to find you with the working girls in the county jail
i was smoking with the boys upstairs
when i heard about the whole affair
i said oh no
william and mary won’t do

well i did not think the girl could be so cruel
and i’m never going back to my old school

there's nothing you can do that can't be done
nothing you can sing that can't be sung
nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
it's easy

there's nothing you can make that can't be made
no one you can save that can't be saved
nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
it's easy

all you need is love
all you need is love
all you need is love, love
love is all you need

timeless as the day you fall upon my waking eyes
inviting and inciting me to rise
and through the window in the wall comes streaming in on sunlight wings
a million bright ambassadors of morning

and no one sings me lullabys
and no one makes me close my eyes
so i throw the windows wide
and call to you across the skies

one day you'll look to see i've gone
but tomorrow may rain so i'll follow the sun
some day you'll know i was the one
but tomorrow may rain so i'll follow the sun

and now my time has come and so my love i must go
and though i lose a friend in the end you will know
oh

one day you'll find that i have gone
but tomorrow may rain so i'll follow the sun

i'm closing up shop and locking my doors
won't let you inside no more
cause never again will this happen to me
never again i won't let it

i'm closing up shop this is my shop
and locking my doors, they're my doors
won't let you inside on my side
i'm locking my doors once more

when we were young and went to school there were certain teachers
who would hurt the children anyway they could
by pouring their derision upon anything we did
exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids

but in the town it was well known when they got home at night
their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives

in the year of 39 a simple year of volunteers
in the days when the lands were few
and the ships sailed out on a blue and misty morn
sweetest site ever seen
and the night followed day and the story tellers say
that the score brave souls inside
through so many lonely days sailed across the milky seas
ne'er looked back never feared never cried

can't you hear my call though you're many years away
can't you hear me calling you?
write your letters in the sand
for the day i take your hand
in the land that our grandchildren knew

words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
they slither while they pass
they slip away across the universe
pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind
possessing and caressing me
j'ai guru deva
om
nothing’s gonna change my world
nothing’s gonna change my world

i keep a close watch on this heart of mine
i keep my eyes wide open all the time
i keep the ends out for the tie that binds
because you're mine, i walk the line

i find it very very easy to be true
i find myself alone when each day's through
yes i'll admit that i'm a fool for you
because you're mine, i walk the line

as sure as night is dark and day is light
i keep you on my mind both day and night
and happiness i've known proves that it's right
because you're mine, i walk the line

spasm waiter dropping to his knees sees
slander on wrap paper ties
lifting up his head he feels the sunlight in his eyes

grasp a kettle top and shoot the breeze please
ramble while slop scraper sighs
tossing in his bed at night he’ll dream until he dies

operations at the sink
the dribble liquid visible beneath his troubled eyes
feels it tilt and start to slide

mask a pretty hopper’s foot with squeeze cheese
dangle some grape apple pies
tranquil and serene until he runs out of supplies

your hands and feet are mangos
you’re gonna be a genius anyway

your hands and feet are mangos
you’re gonna be a genius anyway

there's so many different worlds so many different suns
and we have just one world but we live in different ones

we keep it gangster, say "fo shizzle" "fo sheezy" and "stayin crunk"
it's easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees and we stay drunk
yo activism, attackin the system
blacks and latins in prison
numbers have risen
they're victim black in the vision
@!#% and all they got is rappin to listen to
i let em know we missin you
the love is unconditional
even when the condition is critical
when the livin is miserable
your position is pivotal
i ain't bulls---in you

generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses
evil minds that plot destruction
sorcerors of death's construction
in the fields the bodies burning
as the war machine keeps turning
death and hatred for mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds
oh lord yeah!

politicians lock themselves away
they only started the whole war
why don't they go out into the fight?
they leave that role to the poor

time will tell on their power minds
making war just for fun
treating people just like pawns in chess
wait till judgement day comes

now in darkness world stops turning
ashes where the bodies burning
no more war pigs have the power
hand of god has struck the hour
day of judgements god is calling
on their knees the war pigs crawling
begging mercy for their sins
satan laughing spreads his wings

I had this dream where I relished
The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in , into a pocket
Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
Off the coast of France, Dear

One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
Five hundred more were thrashing madly as parasites might in your blood
Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
Anything that systematic would get you hated.
It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated.
The selection was quick, the crew was picked and
those left in the water got kicked off our pant leg and we headed for home.

Then the dream ends when the phone rings
You doing alright he said it's out there, most days and nights
But only a fool would complain
Anyway Susan if you like our conversation is as faint as the sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on the hull

floating down through the clouds
memories come rushing up to meet me now
but in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
i had a dream
i had a dream
goodbye max goodbye ma
after the service when you're walking slowly to the car
and the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air
you'll hear the tolling bell
and touch the silk in your lapel
and as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
you take her frail hand
and hold on to the dream

a place to stay enough to eat
somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears
and what's more
no one ever disappears
you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
you can relax on both sides of the tracks
and maniacs
don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
and everyone has recourse to the law
and no one kills the children anymore
no one kills the children anymore
night after night going round and round my brain
this dream is driving me insane
in the corner of some foreign field the gunner sleeps tonight
what's done is done
we cannot just right off this final scene
take heed of the dream
take heed of the dream

Fool enough to almost be it
Cool enough to not quite see it
Doomed
Pick your pockets full of sorrow
And run away with me tomorrow
June

We’ll try and ease the pain
But somehow we’ll feel the same
Well, no one knows
Where our secrets go

I send a heart to all my dearies
When your life is so, so dreary
Dream
I’m rumored to the straight and narrow
While the harlots of my perils
Scream

And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

Mother weep the years I’m missing
All our time can’t be given
Back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
That cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling
So bad

When I can, I will
Words defy the plan
When I can, I will

Fool enough to almost be it
And cool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, I’ll always feel this

No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

hey old man in woman's shoes
i wonder if he knows i think he's crazy
when he was young did he have dreams of
wearing women's shoes and being lazy

it makes me wonder when i grow to be that age
will i be walking down the streets begging for your spare change
or will i grow that old?
will i still be around?
the way i carry on i'll end up six feet underground
and waste away

when the old man was in school
did the golden rules make him go crazy
or did he hide away from hopes
behind a smile and smoking dope it's crazy

it makes me wonder when i grow to be that age
will i be walking down the streets begging for your spare change
or will i grow that old?
will i still be around?
the way i carry on i'll end up six feet underground
and waste away

it seems so frightening
time passes by like lightning
before you know it you're struck down
i always waste my time on
my chemical emotions
it keeps my head spinning around
and waste away

Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,
Twenty four
and there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.

Love lost, such a cost,
Give me things
that don't get lost.
Like a coin that won't get tossed
Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true.

Lullabies, look in your eyes,
Run around the same old town.
Doesn't mean that much to me
To mean that much to you.

I've been first and last
Look at how the time goes past.
But I'm all alone at last.
Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true.

Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.

i caught you knocking at my cellar door
i love you baby can i have some more
gone gone the damage done

i hit the city and i lost my band
i seen the needle take another man
gone gone the damage done

i sing the song because i love the man
i know that some of you don't understand
milk blood to keep from running out

i seen the needle and the damage done
a little part of it in everyone
but every junkie's like the setting sun

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hold
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

End of passion play, crumbling away
I’m your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction

Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror

Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, master, where’s the dreams that I’ve been after?
Master, master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season

Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior
is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
when everywhere is war
war
me say war

and until there's no longer first class or second class citizens of any nation
until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of the sky
me say war

and until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race
this is war

and until that day
the dream of lasting peace
world citizenship
and the rule of international morality
will remain but a fleeting illusion
to be pursued but never attained
now everywhere is war

in the howling winds comes a stinging rain
see them driving nails into the souls on the tree of pain
from the fireflies a red orange glow
see the face of fear running scared in the valley below

bullet the blue sky
bullet the blue sky
bullet the blue
bullet the blue

in the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome
you plant a demon seed
you raise a flower of fire
see them burning crosses
see the flames get higher and higher

bullet the blue sky
bullet the blue sky
bullet the blue
bullet the blue

this guy comes up to me his face red like the rose of a thornbush
like all the colors of a royal flush
and he's peeling off those dollar bills
slapping em down
100
200

and i can see those fighter planes
and i can see those fighter planes
across the mud huts where the children sleep
through the alleys of a quiet city street
you take a staircase to the first floor
turn the key and slowly unlock the door
as a man breathes into a saxophone
through the walls you hear the city groan
outside it's america
outside it's america
across the field you see the sky ripped open
see the rain coming through the gaping wound
pounding on the women and children who run
into the arms
of america

...Come down and waste away with me, down with me
Slow how, you wanted it to be, I'm over my head, out of her head she sang
And I wonder when I sing along with you if everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when she sang...

...Call me blind but I didn't see it comin and
everybody was runnin but I couldn't
hear nothin, except gun blast, it happened so fast
I didn't really know this kid though I sat by him in class.
Maybe this kid was reachin out for love or
maybe for a moment he forgot who he was or
maybe this kid just wanted to be hugged,
whatever it was I know its because

We are We are the youth of the nation...

they put kids in jail for a life they ain't even get to start
that's murder too and it's breakin my heart
it's breakin this nation apart
we gave the youth all the anger it's just we ain't taught them how to express it and so it's dangerous
you can't talk to them unless your language is relating to what they going through
so busy ignoring them you can't see what they showing you
and you wonder why we called baby-daddy's and baby-momma's
when we grow up we can learn to be adult mothers and fathers
yo, i'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl
every day they bring joy to my world

and i tried to make this place my place
i ask for providence to smile upon me with his sweet face
but i tell you

my place is of the sun and
this place is of the dark and i
i do not feel the romance
i do not catch the spark

my place is of the sun and
this place is of the dark and i
i do not feel the romance
i do not catch the spark

well i asked my friend 'where is that black smoke coming from?'
he just coughed and changed the subject said 'um i think it might snow some'
so i left him sippin his tea
and i jumped in my chariot to run off and see
just why and who could it be this time

sisters and brothers daddies mothers aunt and uncline
when i reached the scene the flames were making a ghostly whine
so i stood on a horse's back
and i screamed without a whack
i said oh baby why'd you burn your brother's house down?

hey
look at the sky turn a hell fire red lord
somebody's house is burning down down down down
look at the sky turn a hell fire red lord
somebody's house is burning down down
down down down

i don't like whips
i don't like chains
i don't go chopping up
my neighbor's brains
don't really even like shopping
cept at the flea mart and
i hate wal-mart

now you may wonder
what's all this fuss?
if you don't like the train
take the bus
i've found religion
and just between us
i hate wal-mart

if you didn't hear the story
well here's how it is
big company sell below cost
drive mom and pop out of biz
pretty soon all over this land
one big square store identical brand
and that's why i hate wal-mart

used to be you could drive around
and stop in at three or four towns
encounter different sights and sounds
different if not unique
different accents different smells
different things to buy and sell
now it's all taco bell
i hate wal-mart

roads used to dip and wind
you drive slow relax your mind
never knew what you'd find
around the next bend
but now the freeway goes so straight
it'd go right past the pearly gates
i don't feel human i feel like freight
i hate wal-mart

i like to roam
i like to meet
individuals on the street
you always know the one you meet
is one of a kind
but more and more it seems to me
reflections of something on tv
when we're all alike nobody's free
i hate wal-mart

i boycott burger king
i boycott newt gingrich
i boycott everything which i've seen advertised
i used to go out to dinner in a diner
now they say fast food is finer
but it tastes like it fell out of an airliner
it's enough to make you weep

i don't like board games
i don't like brand names
they make inflated claims
they're full of bleep
everyone i know is a high tech dealer
want to sell me a digital potato peeler
and i don't like garrison keeler cause
he's so white

turn on my radio dial
like to hear something new once in awhile
but it's the same old crap in a brand new style
it's audio rape
but still i try to pick and choose
i turn the dial but i always lose
they only play the worst rock and roll
and once in awhile if you're lucky maybe one little rhythm and blues
and that's why
god made tapes

used to be we wore beads and bells
made our own clothes in our own way
now we all wear uniforms that say
hard rock cafe
we're in a state of sartorial decay
and that's why i hate wal-mart

if there's a pretty spot they'll pave it over
put a cloverleaf over a four leaf clover
black paint on the white cliffs of dover
it never fails

hope you like this song
thanks a bunch
could go on but i gotta go eat lunch
if you didn't like it i've got a hunch
you work in sales

so grow your own
make your own
be careful what you own
develop non-shopping to an art
and whatever you do
don't shop at wal-mart

emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
none but ourselves can free our minds
have no fear for atomic energy
cause none of them can stop the time

how long shall they kill our prophets
while we stand aside and look?
they say it's just a part of it
we've got to fulfill the book

won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom
cause all i ever had
redemption song
redemption song
redemption songs

i'll sink manhattan
right under the sea
i'll find the sweetest spot to watch as it goes away

you were so happy
with the things that you said
like he's my lower half
you laughed
but you're gonna cry

a river of tiny tears flow from your crocodile eyes
too late to apologize i say as flood waters rise

i'll sink manhattan
i'll sacrifice friends
i think they'd understand my plans
i'll never be sure

i've got a message
so before i get through
i'll find your answering machine and i'll sink it first

burn your forget me nots
admit that true love can die
no i won't apologize my love
just kiss me goodbye

stepping out to angelucci's for my coffee beans
checking out the movies and the magazines
the waitress she watches me crossing from the barroca bar
i get a pickup for my steel guitar
i saw ya walking out shaftsbury avenue
scuse me talking i wanna marry you
this is seventh heaven street to me don't seem so proud
you're just another angel in the crowd
and i'm walking in the wild west end
walking in the wild west end
walking with your wild best friend

now the conductress on the number 19 she was a honey
pink toenails and hands all dirty with the money
greasy greasy greasy hair easy smile
she made me feel 19 for awhile
i went down to chinatown
in the backrooms its a man's world
all the money that goes down
duck inside the doorway duck to eat
just ain't no way you and me we can't beat
walking in the wild west end
walking in the wild west end
walking with your wild best friend

now a gogo dancing girl yes i saw her
the dj he says here's mandy for ya
i feel alright seeing her do her stuff
she's dancing high i move on by
closeups can get rough
when you're walking in the wild west end
walking in the wild west end
walking with your wild best friend.

well all the late night bargains have been struck
between the satin beaus and their belles
prehistoric garbage trucks have the city to themselves
echos roars dinosaurs
they're all doing the monster mash
most of the taxis and most of the whores are only taking calls for cash

i don't know how it happened
it all took place so quick
but all i can do is hand it to you
and your latest trick

my door was standing open
security was laid back and lax
but it was only my heart that got broken
you musta had a pass key made out of wax
you play robbery with insolence
and i play the blues in 12 bars down on lovers lane
and you never did have the intelligence to use
the twelve keys hanging off of my chain

i don't know how it happened
it all took place so quick
but all i can do is hand it to you
and your latest trick

well now it's past last call for alcohol
past recall's been here and gone
the landlord he finally paid us off
the satin jazzmen have put away their horns
and we're standing in sight of this wonderland
looking so bereaved and so bereft
like a bowery bum when he finally understands
the bottle's empty and there's nothing left

i don't know how it happened
it was faster than the eye could flick
but all i can do is hand it to you
and your latest trick

livin easy livin free
season ticket on a one way ride
askin nothing leave me be
taking everything in my stride
don't need reason don't need rhyme
there ain't nothin that i'd rather do
goin down party time
my friends are gonna be there too

i'm on the highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell

no stop signs or speed limit
nobody gonna slow me down
like a wheel gonna spin it
nobody gonna mess me around
hey satan pay my dues
playin in a rock and roll band
hey mama look at me
on my way to the promised land

i'm on the highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell

don't stop me

i'm on the highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell
highway to hell
and i'm goin down
all the way
i'm on the highway to hell

how many roads must a man walk down 42!
before you call him a man?
how many seas must the wild duck sail
before she sleeps in the sand?
how many times can the cannonballs fly
before they are forever banned?
the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind
the answer is blowing in the wind

i have run i have crawled
i have scaled these city walls
these city walls
only to be with you

but i still haven't found what i'm looking for

well here i am again in this mean old town
and you're so far away from me
where are you when the sun goes down
you're so far away from me

so far away from me
so far i just can't see
you're so far away from me
you're so far away from me

i'm tired of making love babe all alone
when you're so far away from me
tired of making out on the telephone
cause you're so far away from me

you're so far away from me
so far i just can't see
you're so far away from me
you're so far away from me