Wiser for the Time (Live)

Black Crowes Wiser for the Time (Live) Lyrics
1.Only Halfway to Everywhere (Live)

You could be so energy
Electricity
You could be lightening
You could be anything
A masterpiece
A revolutionary
You can see what, you want to see
Can you let it be?
Learn or teach


I'm only halfway to everywhere

I'm thinking positively
Positively
This is possible
They can say right or wrong
Never hear this song
Or look you in the eye
I'm getting rid of negativity
Lose the loss in me
Call it equality
Good luck is a frame of mind
Call it humankind
And say it's destiny


2.A Conspiracy (Live)

Look here, did you ever hear the one about last year
Said it was all a lie, ain't it funny how time flies
Said what we gonna do baby, what's left for us to prove

Never stolen nothing, no not a thing
Said I've always tried to stay away from this year's big thing
It ain't as easy as it seems to find a mutual dream

Well, can you tell me wrong from right
Well, do you know when to freeze or take flight
Can you tell me more or less, I got to know, confess ... Oh, yes

Don't neglect me, no no
C'mon on and be, be my conspiracy ... Yeah
No no, don't neglect me baby
C'mon on and be, be my conspiracy ... Yeah

So now you got a question about your answer ... Yeah, yeah, yeah
Well, try your Adam's apple, oh you talk it, try it, like it,
right
Say do you wanna fight, well alright, say let's step outside

I got tradition, it's in addition
My definition, it don't hold me back
Well, what you think about that
What you don't understand, this is a very old land
So, can you tell me wrong from right
C'mon, do you know when to freeze or take flight
Can you tell me more or less, 'cause I got to know, confess ...
Yes

Say, don't neglect me, no no
C'mon on and be, be my conspiracy
No no baby, don't neglect me
Just want you to c'mon on and be my, my conspiracy ... Yeah

Got to know baby, I got to know, can you tell me wrong from
right
Do ya, do ya know when to freeze or take flight
Can you tell me more or less, I got to know, confess ... Oh,
yeah

Don't neglect me, no no
C'mon on and be, be my conspiracy ... Yeah
I'll tell ya, no no, don't neglect me baby
'Cause I want ya to be my conspiracy
I said, no no, don't neglect me baby
'Cause I want ya, oww, my conspiracy
I tell ya and I beg ya and I beg ya
And I pray and I pray every night and day, be my conspiracy


3.Title Song (Live)

You know I never wanted it to be like this
I've been lost in sandstorms
Left naked by your kiss
In the face of God
Of God, oh and his poison leaves
The way it feels right now oh yeah
I really want it to believe

So then you look on me with sad black eyes
Well I heard it coming yeah
And you know I lost my smile
In a January that never ends
The gold affections of my past
Are now just rusted tin, yeah

Well I really want to see you again
I miss my lover, as my best friend
Yeah baby I , I want you right by my side
With you baby, I spend all my time

They said they'd write a book someday
About a boy who'd always strayed
And a girl who took the fog away
Man, if it could be that way
Then I would come without delay
Yes, with a smile on my face
And I would not be lost for long
If I could be your title song

So every now and then I get sad, yes it's true
Well you've known me long enough now baby yeah, it's nothing new
Like, like, when I'm feeling bad
I feel underwater I feel blue
And you know the only thing I ask from you baby
Well, is can I swim to you, yeah

Well I really want to begin this again
Cause I miss you as my lover, I miss my best friend
Oh baby I, I just want you right by my side
Yeah cause with you girl I would spend all my time

Said we'd write a book someday
About a boy who'd always strayed
And a girl who took the fog away
Man, if it could be that way
Then I would come without delay
With a smile on my face
And I would not be lost for long
And you could be my title song
Yeah

Well baby, I, yes I want to begin this again
Well cause I miss my lover, and yes I miss my best friend
Oh baby you know I want you right by my side
Down with you baby, I'll spend all my time

We said we'd write a book someday
About a boy who'd always strayed
A girl who took the fog away
Man, if it could only be that way
I would come without delay
With a smile on my face
And I would not be lost for long
And you could be my title song
Well I won't be lost for long
If you could be my title song
My title song


4.My Morning Song/Stare It Cold (Live)

Dizzy found me last night
Saw some kind of new light
I woke up in a whirlwind
Just you watch my head spin
The spectacle that made you cry
It's a thrill a minute plane ride
It's over time at ring side, no lie

March me down to the seven seas
Bury me with a ruby ring
Kiss me baby on an Easter Sunday day
Make my haze blow away

I hide I seek and I find
Truth in a fable faith in a rhyme
So why you want to bad talk me
Are you surprised by what we see?
Like the tables and the tides turn
On my bed the emperor worn
Is that enough for me, could be

If music got to free your mind
Just let it go cause you never know, you never know
If your rhythm ever falls out of time
You can bring it to me and I will make it alright
And if your soul is let go
Oh you never know, no you never know
And if your heart is beating free
For the very first time it'll be alright


5.Cursed Diamond (Live)

I lose myself, I forget myself, sometimes I fault myself
Yes, I might fight myself but then I make amends
I freeze myself, rain on myself, ok so I stone myself
And I might even find myself but then again what happens if I do
So unzip my pride
Baby, open me up wide now, so I can show this to you

Oww, I want to shine for you
Baby I want to sparkle too
I tell ya, just like a diamond cursed
Well, you know it don't get no worse
babe, you know that I'll save you time, your trouble now is mine
Hold me baby, hold me girl
And I will laugh with you
Laugh with you if you want me to
Roll me in your splendor
I'll envy your surrender
And show, show you victory

Well, I hate myself, doesn't everybody hate themselves
So what, I scare myself, it's alright, 'cause I tell myself
I tell myself that it's all, all in my mind
So I let the poison go, 'cause baby I always know it'll be there
for me

I want to shine for you
Baby I want to sparkle too
I tell ya, just like a diamond cursed
Yeah, you know it don't get no worse
Babe, you know that I'll save you time, your trouble now is mine
Hold me baby, hold me girl
And I will laugh with you
Laugh with you if you want me to
Roll me in your splendor, I'll envy your surrender
And show, I'll shsow you victory ... Easy baby

Owwwww, I want to shine for you
Ohh babe, I want to sparkle too
I tell ya, just like a diamond cursed
Well, you know it don't get no worse
Babe, you know that I'll save you time, your trouble now is mine
Hold me baby, hold me girl
And I will laugh with you
I will laugh with you only if you want me to
Roll me in your splendor, I'll envy your surrender
And show, show you victory


6.Sister Luck (Live)

Worried sick my eyes are hurting
To rest my head I'd take a life
Outside the girls are dancing
'Cause when you're down it just don't seem right

Feeling second fiddle to a dead man
Up to my neck with your disregard
Like a beat dog that's walking on the broadway
No one wants to hear you when you're down

Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name
Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name

A flip of a coin
Might make a head turn
No surprise, who sleeps
Held my hand over a candle
Flame burnin' but I never weep

Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name
Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name

What a shame

Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name
Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else's name


7.Smile (Live)

I wonder why
You spend so much time
Staring at the sky
Always feeling outside

When you call, I come
When you call I come
When it's over and done
Over and done
A game nobody won
Nobody wins (I said nobody wins, no)
A song already sung
Already sung

All I want, is for you to smile
I haven't seen it in such a while
All I want is for you to smile
Even just for a little while

Feeling counter clockwise
Its too late to cry (Well its too late to cry)
One last backslide

When you call, I come
When you call I come
When its over and done
Over and done
A game nobody won
Nobody wins (I said nobody wins, no)
A song already sung
Already sung (Sing it now)

All I want, is for you to smile
I haven't seen it in such a while
All I want is for you to smile
Even just for a little while

All I want, is for you to smile
I haven't seen it in such a while
All I want is for you to smile
Even just for a little while


8.Tied Up And Swallowed (Live)

I forgot I found you tied up and swallowed
A mess with the magic and the knot
You touch my teeth and say you like the way I bite ya
Sin, skin, sounds wrong but it's not

Everybody says that you're such a pity
Well baby, they, they out to know
Everybody says you're such a pity
Tell ya baby, they, they out to know

Touch from up above and touch between your legs
But which one, baby, burns
So you've been touched so many times so many ways
Come on baby, who gets hurt


See ya


9.Downtown Money Waster (Live)

To my low down downtown
Money waster
Your only saving grace
Is that I like to taste ya
But your flower is spoiled
Too easy to make ya
You got a .38 and your book of revelations
I got a .44 and a lead of temptation
I am a rounder, like to round around
Two for one at the store on the corner
Little girl like to drink and sniffin' powders
Like the bars that stay open after hours
Like the boys that go 24-7
Too many late nights and you don't go to heaven


10.Better When You're Not Alone (Live)

I love you in the worst way
The only way I know
They say the clearer the water
The more that it shows
They say the deeper the river
The stronger the love
Your eyes don't lie to me
And your smile is worth its weight in gold

This Life
This life aches
And this life moans
This life is great
This life is great
And it's better when you're not alone
Not alone

You love me in the worst way
The only way you know
They say the higher the mountain
The more love that grows
They say the stronger the wind blows
The farther we'll go
I hope you don't lie to me
There's nothing better than your
touch

How many times does this happen
Two people like us meet
As I try to be humble
And lay down at your feet


11.Darling of the Underground Press (Live)

So the story goes that you
Sold your soul for delusions of beauty and courage
While young at heart is a nice place to start
Can the truth hold all this baggage

So tell all you foes
Because my friends know
That your white flag ain't no sign for surrender
And those books that you've read have gone straight to your head
And made you the great pretender

I've heard that it's good to think before you speak
Though I've heard that it's good to bathe once a week

So tell me how it feels it if even seems real
To be the darling of the underground press
Baby please can I see some ID
I don't believe you come from a royal family

I've heard that it's good to think before you speak
Though I've heard that it's good to bathe yourself once a week
Oh I've heard that it's good to look before you cross
No one, no one will ever find you if you don't get yourself lost


12.Jealous Again (Live)

Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
Well I feel like dirty laundry
Sending sickness on down the line
Tell you why

'Cause I'm jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, I'm jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Always drunk on Sunday
Try'n to feel like I'm at home
Smell the gasoline burning
Boys out feeling nervous and cold


Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain't afraid of ever losing faith in you

Never felt like smiling
Sugar wanna' kill me yet
Find me loose lipped and laughing
Singing songs ain't got no regrets


Don't you think I want to
Don't you think I would
Don't you think I'd tell you baby
If I only could
Am I acting crazy
Am I just too proud
Am I just plain lazy
Am I, Am I, Am I, ever


13.Hotel Illness (Live)

Oh good heavens, baby where's my medicine?
I must have left it outside with my etiquette
The undertaker's rule of thumb
It's hard to talk with a novocain tongue

This room smells like hotel illness
The scars I hide are now your business
I can't seem to make hair nor hide of this
No baby love is not a punishment.

Hypnotize by your rotten behavior
This week's fashion is last year's flavor
I got a head full of sermons and a mouth full of spiders
The politics of the world's greatest liar

So tell me baby is it true all those things that they say about
you...


14.Thunderstorm (Live)


15.Oh the Rain (Live)


16.Soul Singing (Live)

I've been down
Cascading and blue w/out a sound
Now I've traded my black feathers for a crown
So feed me milk & honey
Lay me down
Lay me down
Look around
Show me holy places not yet found
Let's disappear and we'll hide underground
We'll get high and we'll feel safe & sound
It comes around Arayayayound

You got my soul singing my soul singing
You got my soul singing my soul singing
You got my soul singing my soul singing
You got my soul singing my soul singing

Home bound
Tired of tired of running town to town
Tired of my heart turned upside down
Now my life's a smile not a frown
The sound
The sound


17.Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Live)


18.Exit (Live)

Never fought with these dark clouds
Nor the handful of rain
Today my dust hit my pavement
Went overboard again

Yeah I've heard all the songs of protest
So much reason for the rage
People so blind in their conquest
They forgot the title page

So don't you pity me
Misplace my intentions
Don't, don't mistake me
This is no illusion
This is an exit

Baby I've been your trophy
Yes I've been your hole
Well I been your constellations your constitution
I've even been your parole
So if you want to beat me
Be prepared for a shock
Cause baby baby, with your crime yeah
You will find, who holds the key and who holds the lock

So don't you pity me
Call me a desert
Don't mistake me
Call me deserter
This is an exit

So don't you pity me
Don't misplace my intentions
Don't mistake me
This is no illusion
This is an exit


19.No Speak No Slave (Live)

Rooster crows at the break of dawn
A mother dies without her only son
A doctor laughs in the face of disease
I never once heard a preacher say please

And you, you want to be heard
But none of us understand a word
And you, you want to be free
Then don't speak like a slave to me.

Policemen who break the laws
Politicians rise and fall
A baby crying for its mothers milk
A daddy's secret hidden guilt


20.Make Glad (Live)

Ballad and Dagger, Amazing Grace
Sons of rock bottom take your rightful place
Glad tooth and top hat with an ace up your sleeve
Show me your pistol so I can believe

Make Glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make Glad
May your heart always be open
Make Glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make Glad
And I will see you in the other

Turpentine babies with one foot in the south
Turned out the turnkey for runnin' his mouth
'Jump', said the sheriff - 'Get up out of that hole
Get in line and do what you're told!'

Make Glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make Glad
May your heart always be open
Make Glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make Glad
And I will see you in the other


21.Waiting Gulity (Live)

Oh mother, tell me, have you ever cried
Shed a tear and never wondered why
Lonely feeling that feeling leave a warm man dry
Unless (the) thunder, baby, rolls across the sky

Waitin guilty, baby, wanna send me home
Waitin guilty
Waitin guilty, baby, gotta send me home

So never ever wanna waste my time
See me living just abunch of lies
Hanging jury want to look my way
I ain't praying, baby you know it ain't my game

Waitin guilty, baby, wanna send me home
Waitin guilty
Waitin guilty, baby, gotta send me home
Waitin guilty
Waitin guilty, baby, wanna send me home
Waitin guilty
Waitin guilty, baby, gotta send me home

On whoa, yea, yeah

Waitin guilty, baby, wanna send me home
Waitin guilty
Waitin guilty, baby, gotta send me home
Waitin guilty


22.She Talks to Angels (Live)

She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company.
Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family.

She paints her eyes as black as night now.
She pulls those shades down tight.
Yeah, she gives me a smile when the pain comes.
The pain gonna make everything alright.

Says she talks to angels.
They call her out by her name.
Oh yeah, she talks to angels.
Says they call her out by her name.

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket.
She wears a cross around her neck.
The hair is from a little boy,
And the cross from someone she has not met, well, not yet


She don't know no lover,
None that I ever seen.
Yeah, to her that ain't nothing
But to me it means, means everything.

She paints her eyes as black as night now.
Pulls those shades down tight.
There's a smile when the pain comes.
Pain's gonna make everything alright.


23.Willin' (Live)

I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I'm drunk and dirty don't ya know,
and I'm still, willin'
Out on the road late at night,
Seen my pretty Alice in every head light
Alice, Dallas Alice
I've been from Tucson to
Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign I'll be willin', to be movin'
I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet and I'm still...
willin'
Now I smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico
baked by the sun, every time I go to Mexico, and I'm still
And I been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
and you show me a sign I'll be willin', to be movin'


24.Hot Burrito #1 (Live)


25.Hot Burrito #2 (Live)


26.Garden Gate (Live)

Brown eyed girl, precious flower
From your slumber, awake
We have come to this fateful hour
And our love cannot wait

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Don't tell your mother, don't tell your father
We both know it's far too late
When we fly, they won't come after
They will know our love is great

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate, all right

You are sweet as you are tender
You are wise beyond your years
You are a jewel amongst the cinders
So don't shed a sorry tear

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise, now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate