1.Bobby's Back
Well come on.......
Won't ya come on man I hear that Bobby's back for me from
upstate
He learned his lesson so they say
Well I guess we'll wait and see
He's got a new corvette he says
It does a 120 and he says
He's got some catchin' up to do
Some crazy scores to settle
When I first heard Bobby's back
The first thing that I though of
Was how his cheap life up and left with some guy she just met
I don't think that I knew again
Man did that chill right through him
The only thing he ever loved just left with his life's paycheck
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was the last in line
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All my life
He was a friend of mine
Bobby's face looked pale and thin
As if some ghost kept holding him
When he asked my what was new
I wasn't quite sure what to say
How can everybody stick their bloody fingers in my face
I almost cried and said my shutup
Baby cause I'd been used to
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was a losing kind
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
Never had peace of mind
I shook him hard said listen man
You can't go back in time again
I'll never tell the day I die
That I see two fall down Bobby's eyes
Four or five years had gone by when I read about how Bobbie died
He smashed his car into a wall
Messed up on drugs and alcohol
Another brother met a stray
Well I'll be damnd if I go that way
Just say a little prayer for him
He lived a life of just can
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was the last in line
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
Bobby's gone
He was a friend of mine
2.The Knife Feels Like Justice
So you think that you have found a better life then you should
live
And you are through giving it all away, wish there was something
I could say
By the time you looked into the mirror and saw someone else
looking back
I wish I could find the words but there's nothing that even
comes close
Cause there aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
When the sun dies down and the air grows cold
And the moon plays tricks through the night
But I low like a snake out of sight
All you got is no other life
You wanna laugh say i'm insane
Don't ever since to come in from the rain
I don't know why I keep myself
To even try
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
Slip away
Slip away
Slip away
So you think that you won me over
By setting me on fire
When the sound of your beating heart
And your burning heart desire
By the time I looked at your reflection and saw someone else
lookin back
It's a shame things happened that way cause there's no one that
even comes close
And there aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
I said you can't go on when the blade tears inside you
You can't go on when the knife feels like justice
3.Chains Around Your Heart
It's a late cool autumn evening
And the sunset melts into night
With a v-twin throbbing beneath me
And my head's spinning allright
Ritchie and me we started as kids
In a rock 'n' roll band on the street where we lived
It's a long hard ride till the morning
As the trees and wind start to sing
Chains around your heart that bind
Break away and leave them behind
Well once there was a time in this rock 'n' roll dream
This here town would be rip apart at the seams
Now I'm out of money and Billy's out of work
Eddie's pushin' pencils for the county clerk
Everybody's job is getting pushed out of town
Life is just knockin' 'em down
Boyhood dreams are run into the ground
Long dark shadows hang over this town
Cast away the chains that bleed
Break away and I leave you free
Take my hand come leave with me
As nighttime fades away
we'll ride the hills and desert sand
Cross the barren land
All the families have all gone
Their jobs went before them I'm sure
They knocked down the corner barber shop
And put up a super triple level parking lot
There once was a time you could vote for a man
Who wouldn't try and stick a gun in your hands
So cut out all your talkin'
And make love with me through the night
Chains around your heart that bind
Break away and leave them behind
Just leave them behind
Just leave them behind
4.Maria
The rains never came I saw my land die
Maria was sleeping when I kissed her goodbye
I couldn't stand the sound of my children cryin' no more
You get hungry you get mad
A man without hope is a man that turns bad
I'll try my luck in Texas adios Mexico
Wipe away your tears Maria
There's a better life for us somewhere
Let me see you smile Maria
Close your eyes we're on our way there
My country was a great one once upon a time
I wish I lived when you didn't need borderlines
Somebody came and took the heart of my people away
Now I ain't worried baby come hear what I say
My people gonna rise again fightin' someday
I'll be there to see it I'll be there to welcome them home
Wipe away your tears Maria
There's a better life for us somewhere
Let me see you smile Maria
Close your eyes we're on our way there
I saw Texas she looked so fine
I met some other people same story as mine
Laughin' and drinkin' waitin' for the sun to go down
We had life in our eyes as we crossed the border line
Shot six good men without tellin' them why
How could anybody steal the only thing a man has left
Wipe away your tears Maria
There's a better life for us somewhere
Let me see you smile Maria
Close your eyes we're on our way there
5.Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
I don't want to go to sleep and toss and turn all night
I don't want to look up and see shadows I believe all right
Don't want to get lost on a road so long
Your legs get tired and you fall to the ground
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Don't want to get drunk just to sleep at night
My head starts spinning a triple with wine
Don't want to get up and go to work each day
Come back home on my knees and prey
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I wonder where you are
Are you satisfied
To go through life with a chill in your soul
And a memory that lives by your side
Don't want you no more heard enough one day
So take me on down where that Rock and Roll plays
Don't want you to vow how could you lie
With all my life I called you daddy
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I wonder where you are
Are you satisfied
To go through life with a chill in your soul
And a memory that lives by your side
Don't want you no more heard enough one day
So take me on down where that Rock and Roll plays
Don't want to get lost on a road so long
Your legs get tired and you fall to the ground
On the boulevard of broken dreams
On the boulevard of broken dreams
On the boulevard of broken dreams
6.Barbwire Fence
They took the coal from the mountains, ripped the fruit from the
soil
Pulled the fish from the sea, drained the earth of its oil
Took the Christ out of Christmas, pulled the sun from the sky
Their daddies told them to never ask why
The barbwire fence is gettin' higher and higher
We're gettin' ready to fight fire with fire
It's gettin' so there ain't a kind word said
But we gotta keep movin' on, pushin' on ahead
They led a blind man to a cliff, gave a crippled man a kick
Took a poor man to the cleaners and a rich man has his pick
Gave a three piece man a job, took an old man to a whore
Sent a young boy to a place he ain't never been before
The barbwire fence is gettin' higher and higher
We're gettin' ready to fight fire with fire
It's gettin' so there ain't a kind word said
But we gotta keep movin' on, pushin' on ahead
Well if they force me to reason, if they ask me to doubt
I'll fuss then baby and fight 'em baby, ow
East wind is blowin' and a full moon is high
There's just no purpose, there's no reason why
The barbwire fence is gettin' higher and higher
We're gettin' ready to fight fire with fire
It's gettin' so there ain't a kind word said
But we gotta keep movin' on, pushin' on ahead
7.Radiation Ranch
You got me jumpin' like a cat strung up on a wire
Waiting for the sandman to put me to sleep
I got a no show take it slow waiting for the whistle blow
No where job on a dead end street
You ain't got a minute when the siren sounds
Gotta get movin' to the underground
But I gotta woman gonna love me through the night
Slippin' and slidin' and holding me tight
Well here it comes again another Saturday night
Pour another drink I hope I make it home allright
Oh boy oh boy gotta keep headin' for the state line
Makin' time gotta meet a friend of mine
My old Ford runs fine I gotta say
Got a new set of plugs I wish the rain would go away
A hundred U.F.O.'s by the Holiday Inn
I should really go to sleep but baby here I go again
Well take me the hotel no one's there oh well
Whatever happened to news on the radio
Every little place in this little town
Looks like a bomb just leveled to the ground
Drivin' through Jersey headed for D.C.
look at all the boarded up factories
All the kings men have a summerhouse in France
But you and me live on the radiation ranch
8.Breath Of Life
You stepped in and dark turned to light
I knew right there you were the breath of life
Just when I'd given up the fight
I knew right there you were the breath of life
Just when the morning air lost its bitter bite
You never think your heart will butterfly
Ballerina don't you dance your life away
Those years meant nothing till this cold December day
You stepped back to say goodnight
I knew right there you were the breath of life
We looked up at a blinding light
I knew right there you were the breath of life
I never thought that I could say those words again
I think you know the ones I'm sure you know the ones
I've been hiding alone in the night
On and on like a dream that never ends
So come on out don't say goodnight
Out of the shadows to the neon light
Meet you down where that Dixieland plays
Leave all your troubles gonna dance 'em away
Drop my hands by my side let the hours slip away
Don't say nothing let the music play
Twenty years on down when the time is right
I'll turn around and know you were the breath of life
9.Haunted River
With that he cold New England wind
Blowin' through my hair
As my blood and whisky
run through me as one
didn't anybody hear her silent scream
didn't anybody see his twisted grin
All the neighbours wept and cried
By her shallow grave
and her momma prayed the lord her soul to take
and her daddy stood alone he swore revenge
and the haunted river flowed with blood again
Late one night he crossed
The river by himself
The waters surged to reach for him through the night
And the storm raged on and on
on and on and on and on
Everybody wondered what ever happened to
The old reverend Brown who preaches Sunday mess
and the sea turned calm and blue
by the oceans door
and the haunted river flowed with blood no more
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