1.Take Me Down
I'm a one man line at the twenty-four hour store
I'm in a town that reminds me of my home town streets
I roamed the aisles a thousand miles from what i was looking for
A familiar face that would smile at me sweetly
(if you)
Take me down
To where i'm whole
Where everybody knows me
Deep as a soul can go
If you take me down
I gotta know
Did you really know me,
Deeply,
As a soul can go？
We'd drive up the canyon to watch the stars fall down
Watch them turn off the lights on the church down on second
street
There's jack's old man, he's still the only cop in town
He's patrolling the sidewalk on the graveyard beat
And everybody needs a place to call home
A roof over head a bed for dreams of their own
I've never been so lonely as when i told you i was leaving
This time i'm really leaving
2.I'm The One To Save
He's in an emotional prison
The self-inflicted kind
You're like a nun on a mission
To help that boy unwind
I said, 'nobody's ever escaped alcatraz
It's too cold in san francisco bay'
You just turned and watched the buildings pass by
And said, 'i wouldn't have him any other way'
I can't believe you didn't save me
When the angels came to watch me drown
And though the pirates behaved quite bravely
They took the treasure when i went down
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Hey, hey
I'm drowning
Hey, hey
Wave by wave
Hey, hey
Heart pounding
Hey, hey
I'm the one to save
I am the one to save
The wind turned cold on the ferry
We were in the shadow of the golden gate
I said 'there's a movie at the castro you might like'
You said, 'i think it's getting kind of late'
Now six months later you'll come and tell me over coffee
That you've turned to someone else's hand
So you're onto another is it the martyr or the mother
That's attracted to a straight jacket man
I couldn't believe you didn't save me
When the angels came to watch me drown
And though the pirates behaved quite bravely
They stole the treasure when i went down
(chorus)
And if i told you
What would it change
What would it change
What would it change
3.Seven
Seven times i traced your number
Just one finger to your voice
Seven times i put the receiver down
Seven times i tried to write you
But i cannot make your choice
Your lips they move,
But they make no sound
And what the cost
What the price
I'm the brunt of friends' advice
Don't look up till you feel the ground . . .
I'm letting go 'cause holdin' on is killing me
My timing can be criminally slow
Too little too late
Criminally slow
Seven times i asked forgiveness
Seven times i'll wait you out
Seasons will change before words come round
And in my search for reasons
I will wash away the doubt
That came wrapped inside a wedding gown
And what the price
What the cost
Is this the poetry of loss
The past we build is all torn down？
I'm letting go 'cause holdin' on is killing me
My timing can be criminally slow
Is it never too late？
Criminally slow
4.She Loves A Girl
You grew up thinking you knew her
Nothing could keep you apart
You remember nothing peculiar
She always spoke from the heart
You took your parents' religion
And you drank it down like a coke
It helped to quench your confusion
Now look who's heart that it broke
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She loves a girl
She loves a girl
She loves a girl
What are you gonna do --
If you love her too？
A gold and white invitation
Your parents will not attend
They put a knife to the blood line
When the couple became more than friends
The preacher sang 'hallelujah'
But it rang more like a curse
One love at the cost of another
Man, that's when love really hurts
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So take a seat
In the world of the open minded
And when you speak, tell them
Even love can be blinded
You think more of the future
When change brings your past to an end
Use your love like a suture
That's a good place to begin
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5.Bring Me Backwards
Street corner, cityside lane
People cross borders
When green lights change
And isn't that strange
A face on someone
I almost said your name
Can you blame me？
But i was foiled again
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Bring me backwards
I can't fool time
I'm walking in circles
I've committed no crime
Bring on the witness
The truth is divine
You stand there bleeding
But the blood is mine
And you'd say,
'pain is just a relative thing'
I'd say, 'thank you, mr. einstein'
You go on about space,
This place in time
But that's no way to explain it
Believe me,
When you're mining it
'cause it's all feel
Not thought
But there i'm caught
Trying to untangle it
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6.Did I Ever Know You
So you found yourself a corner apartment
With a view of the town all your own
All your friends say
The city's gonna kill you or cure you
Five flights of stairs to your home
And even now,
It's changed how you walk in the street
Past cabbies and chimney sweeps
Be careful with strangers you speak to
(chorus)
What has this city done to you？
Has it taken the small town out of you
And turned you into someone i never knew？
When we were kids
In the warmth of a porch light
You'd smuggle out twin cigarettes
We'd blow smoke in the air
With typical hometown flair
Two futures we could not predict
And look at you now,
The dreamer with the back porch plan
For the writer and the music man
Our faces on magazine stands
(chorus)
What has this city done to you？
Has it taken the innocence out of you
And turned you into someone i never knew？
Did i ever know you？
Do you know how you light up these buildings？
You can turn the head of a man whose grown old
You're a candle when the streets grow cold
I can hear a cricket in your fifth floor apartment
It's 3 am
Back home he'd put me to sleep
But he's fighting to be heard
He can't get in a word
'cause there's a fool
Laughing outside in the street
Where are you now？
I lost you outside on montague street
To the city that never will sleep
Is it the sideshow in you
That it speaks to？
(chorus)
Hey did i ever know you？
Did i ever know you？
7.Live In The Now
I've got a farm house,
It's a big white farmhouse
And forty acres in my head
You got a kitchen,
It's an oak floor kitchen
And a big brass feather bed
And there in the parlor,
An old upright piano
And a precocious blue-eyed kid
Playing the keys
Playing the keys
Live in the now
A room with a view of cambridge
Live in the now
Traffic, noise, and neighborhood kids
We're sitting in the kitchen
You reach cross the table
And put a finger on my wrinkled brow
You say, 'live in the now,
Live in the now'
'cause life is what happens
When you're busy making plans
That's what john lennon said
Then he quit the phuckin' band
Tell me which part
Is it the castle, or the sand
That you miss when the tide comes along？
I'm alone on a highway
Only silos break the view
A field of sunflowers
A scarecrow paying dues
And i think to myself
'man, that's not what i'd choose '
But here i am, and look where i've gone
All for the song
Till the tide comes along
Live in the now
An audience is waiting
Live in the now
Whose day are you creating？
I slip into to the hotel
I put the phone on a pillow
Your voice makes it better somehow
You say, 'live in the now'
'live in the now'
8.The World Ain't Slowin' Down
I found you sitting on a suitcase crying
Beneath my feet i feel the rumble of a subway train
And i laugh out loud
ëcause it's the one thing i hadn't been trying
The train came in breathless
The passenger's restless
You say, 'baby, you'll never change'
(chorus)
You gotta get gone
You gotta get going
Hey, the world ain't slowin' down
For no one
It's a carnival calling out to you
And it sounds like a song
It hits you like scripture
You paint the picture
With colors squeezed from your hand
Weren't you the kid
Who just climbed on a merry-go-round
Hey, look, the world ain't slowin' down
Out on the sidewalk
The pigeons do the moonwalk
I'll be dancing like fred astaire
The lampposts are rockin'
The whole town is talking
Like a fool in a barber's chair
And i get the sensation
It's joy and frustration
Like getting caught by a drop of cold rain
Freedom can numb you
When there's no place to run to
It feels just like novocain
(chorus)
You packed up all your handbags
You're throwing off the sandbags
I let go when you stepped free
I didn't want to lose you
You said, 'you didn't choose to --
It's just how your karma came'
But thanks for the vision,
And the twenty-twenty wisdom
It hit me like a south-bound train
(chorus)
9.Angel In Manhattan
Tell the man who repairs the wings for angels
That one has fallen among the mortals on bleeker street
I lent a hand, she looked up at the steeples
As if to blame them for the pavement beneath her feet
She said, 'i never much liked flying, but the job requires
trying
The hard part's avoiding buildings and concrete'
(chorus)
Spread the news, 'cause there's an angel in manhattan
Call out the paparazzi and the television crews
Let the people choose
Would a little faith come to harm them？
Print the headlines up in the new york daily news
It was just another day
Like any other, other day
A tuesday afternoon
I hailed a cab, a crowd gathered as it pulled beside us
And somebody tore at her wings, but i helped her safely inside
'i'm much obliged,' she said, but the driver he looked shaken
He said, 'you're fakin', lady, who's taking who for a ride'
But then we floated up over the traffic, she turned the radio to
static,
And she sang to him in billy holiday's sweet voice
(chorus)
Spread the news, 'cause there's an angel in manhattan
Call out the paparazzi and the the television crews
Hey if you choose
Would a little faith come to harm you？
Print the headlines up in the new york daily news
It was just another day
What will the mayor say？
'good afternoon'
We flew down the length of fifth avenue
She threw out miracles, it was a hysterical ride
And if the crowd on the sidewalk looked skeptical
She took the blue right out of their cynical eyes
'it's all in what you feel inside'
She shook the mayor's hand, and he declared
That he'd hold a press conference,
The fans and protesters blocked the stairs to city hall
'i'd like to thank you all,' he said
And when she stepped before the cameras
It felt like a trial, but she smiled as the questions were
called,
'what do you say to detractors, who claim you're just some
actor？'
She said, 'the question here, is 'do i believe in you？''
It was just another day
Like any other, other day
(chorus)
Spread the news, i saw an an angel fly from manhattan
In front of paparazzi, in front of television crews
And me i choose
I know a little faith wouldn't harm me
Despite what they print in the new york daily news
It was just another day
Like any other, other day
Like any day
10.I Won't Cry Over You
Maggie looks out her window,
Sees a cab in the street
Lets out a point-blank whistle,
It stops with a screech
She picks up the last box,
That sits in the corner
She turns around to take
A mental photograph
She says to herself,
'i think a toast is in order,'
And she holds up
An invisible wine glass
(chorus)
'here's to the fool i was
Here's to the bride i could never be
I've gotta know what's truth and what's fiction
I gotta feel like my love's got conviction
So tell me truth
'cause i got me suspicions
And i tell you if it's the last thing i do
I won't cry over you . . . '
Maggie sits in the kitchen
Of miss bethany jones
Whose pouring the coffee
And gathering stones
'you gave him ultimatums
They did not even scare him
He'd walk a plank
Before he'd step down the aisle
Take care of yourself, girl
He's the one who's gotta change him
Let him ponder bachelorhood for a long while'
(chorus)
'cause i'm done with that
I'm done with crying
Seems like it's the only thing
That i've been trying
They're taking it down
To the heart of the matter
Talking the big picture
Like it's a little tiny thing
Smaller than a bread box
Thinner than a whisker
They split like an atom
Then the telephone rings
He says,
(chorus)
'i just had to call you
I feel like i've been spinning my wheels
I just had to tell you how i feel
I'm not asking you to
If only you'd listen
Don't cry '
11.Translucent Soul
I get a call from vance he's an old friend
He's got some you-won't-believe-story to share
He's the place that i go when i need someone who knows me
He brings the smile of a billionaire
And i laugh when he pretends he's a white guy
'cause he knows how bad i fail playing black
He says, 'if even you could, i don't advise that you should
'cause once you go there you might not want to turn back'
(chorus)
There isn't a thing
In this god-all-mighty world that i wouldn't do
To help him outta trouble
Seein' as how we're friends and
That goes deeper than skin can go
To a translucent soul
Deeper than color will show
Translucent soul
He says, 'now, you and i, i know we look a little different,
But, i was raised middle class, same as you.
But, let's make it clear even on the way here,
I had to watch for blue lights in the rear view '
He says, 'last week, i was visiting l.a.,
Walking the streets where the riots went down.
You got black killing black killing black killing black,
While all the whites were sweating bullets across town'
(chorus)
He says, 'in l.a., they're whispering race war,
Like it's something that has yet to begin
Like they can plug up the cracks
In four hundred years of history
And prove that the melting pot's not broken'
He says, 'in the event of some unlikely disaster,
We find ourselves armed, and face to face '
I said, 'i'd turn around, i would protect your ground'
He said, 'i'd do the same thing for you at your place'
(chorus)
There isn't a thing
In this god-all-mighty world that he wouldn't do
To help me outta trouble . . .
Embrace what you have in common,
Celebrate what sets you apart
It takes more than the color
That you find on a palate
To turn humanity into an art
Into the form of an art
Translucent soul
Translucent soul
Soul
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