1.Back Together Again
Leaving ain't fair you know
Parting ain't just
People got to move on
People got to do what they must
And we're back together again
And i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
Growing up free
Growing up wild
If you want to know the secret behind the smile
You got to ask a tuesday's child
And we're back together again
And i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
Well i guess that highway got a hold of me
Thinking crazy thoughts like it was going to set me free
This ain't my place you know
This ain't my home
And i'm not going to feel right
Til you get us back behind the microphones
And we're back together again
And i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
No i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
No i'm never gonna lose you as a friend
2.Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee(Live)
Indian legislation's on the desk of the do right congressman
Now he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone
And asks the advice of the senator out in indian country
A darling of the energy companies their ripping off
What's left of the reservation
I learned the safety rule
I don't know who to thank
Don't stand between the reservation
And the corporate bank
They're sending federal tanks
It isn't nice but it's reality
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Deep in the earth
I said cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
They got these energy companies
Who want to take the land
And they got churches by the dozens
Trying to guide our hands
And turn our mother earth
Over to pollution war and greed
Well
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
They got the federal marshalls
We get the covert spies
We get the liars by fire
We get the fbi
They lie in court and get nailed
And still leonard peltier goes off to jail
(the bullets don't match the gun)
Bury my heart at wounded knee
An eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart at wounded knee
It was transferred in secret
Bury my heart at wounded knee
We got your murder and intimidation
Bury my heart at wounded knee
My girlfriend anna may
Talked about uranium
Her head was full of bullets
And her body dumped
The fbi cut off her hands
And told us she died of exposure
Yeah right
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Oh deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Talk about a revolution
We had the gold rush wars
Why didn't we learn to crawl？
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell me ' honey you can still be an indian
Down at the y on saturday night''
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
And cover me with your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart
It was an eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart
It was transferred in secret
Bury my heart
Got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation
Bury me
Bury me
Bury me
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
3.Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee(Studio)
Indian legislation's on the desk of a do right congressman
And he don't know much about the issues so he picks up the phone
And asks the advice of the senator out in indian country
A darling of the energy companies ripping off
What's left of the reservation
I learned the safety rule
I don't know who to thank
Don't stand between the reservation
And the corporate bank
They're sending federal tanks
It isn't nice but it's reality
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Won't you cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
We got these energy companies
Who want to take the land
And we got churches by the dozens
Trying to guide our hands
And turn our mother earth
Over to pollution war and greed
No no
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
We got the federal marshalls
We got the covert spies
We got the liars by fire
And the fbi
They lie in court and get nailed
And still leonard peltier goes off to jail
(the bullets don't match the gun)
Bury my heart at wounded knee
An eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Was transferred in secret
Bury my heart at wounded knee
We got your murder and intimidation
Bury my heart at wounded knee
My girlfriend anna may
Talked about uranium
Her head was full of bullets
And her body dumped
The fbi cut off her hands
And told us she died of exposure
To bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Talk about a revolution
They stole my land
They won't steal my soul
We had the gold rush wars
Why didn't we learn to crawl？
And now our history gets written in a liar's scrawl
They tell me 'don't be so uptight
I mean honey you can still be an indian
Down at the y on saturday night''
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
I said deep in the earth
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Won't you cover me with your pretty lies
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart at wounded knee
Bury my heart
It was an eighth of the reservation
Bury my heart
Yeah was transferred in secret
Bury my heart
Got your murder, murder, murder and intimidation
Bury me
Bury me
Bury me
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
Bury my heart
4.Chickenman
I am an only child
Born of the wild
Riddled to spend my time
Defending my land
You are the only one
Born in the sun
Riddled to spend your time
Defending my plan
Dead dog on the highway
Median cats are growling at me
I turn my lights on brighter
I'm counting through the night ride
And it's one more life for the taker
Chickenman chickenman
One more song for the maker
Chickenman chickenman
On the road to athens
I saw a dead deer on the highway
I slipped into a desert
Five prairie dogs and a rabbit
I was running down on queen street
I saw a woman on the sidewalk
(danger danger)
She was beaten by a stranger
(danger danger danger danger)
Danger danger danger
And it's one more life for the taker
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
One more song for the maker
Hold my hand
Chickenman
I was on the road to austin
Met a man on the highway
He sold me junk and conversation
He was wise and dirty from the weather
I said darkness into darkness
All the carnage of my journeys
Makes it harder to be living
He said it's a long road to be forgiven
One more life for the taker
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my had
One more song for the maker
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
I am an only child
Born of the wild
Riddled to spend my time
Defending my land
You are the only one
Born in the sun
Riddled to spend your time
Defending my plan
I went looking for a car
Found myself beneath the stars
I went looking for a girl
Found a man and his world
Chickenman chickenman
(i went looking for a car)
Chickenman hold my hand
(found myself beneath the stars)
Chickenman chickenman
(i went looking for a girl)
Chickenman hold my hand
(found a man and his world)
I am an only child
(chickenman chickenman)
(chickenman hold my hand)
Hold my hand
(chickenman chickenman)
(chickenman hold my hand)
I am an only child
(chickenman chickenman)
(chickenman hold my hand)
Hold my hand
(chickenman chickenman)
(chickenman hold my hand)
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
Chickenman chickenman
Chickenman hold my hand
5.Closer To Fine
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all
Yeah
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till i sank it
I'm crawling on your shores
I went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
I looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less i seek my source for some definitive
(the less i seek my source)
The closer i am to fine
The closer i am to fine
And i went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
Got my paper and i was free
I went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
I looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less i seek my source for some definitive
(the less i seek my source)
The closer i am to fine
The closer i am to fine
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
And i woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as i'd been the night before
And i went in seeking clarity.
I went to the doctor, i went to the mountains
I looked to the children, i drank from the fountains
Yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
We look to the children, we drink from the fountains
Yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less i seek my source for some definitive
(the less i seek my source)
The closer i am to fine
The closer i am to fine
The closer i am to fine
6.Dead Man's Hill
We were down at dead man's hill
Smoking vines like cigarettes
Looking through the trashy mags
Trying to feel what's coming next
You told me of crashing cars
Older brothers and late night bars
I told you what i feel most
And you kept it like a ghost forever
Don't you write it down
Remember this in your head
Don't take a picture
Remember this in your heart
Don't leave a message
Talk to me face to face
Talk to me face to face
Lying on the bright blue jumping mat
Dinner bell is ringing
Barking dogs and model planes
And the sound of passing trains
We watch for bonfires in the sky
On the beach in july
Spin the bottle steal the kiss
Postcards to the one i miss forever
The one i miss forever
Don't you write it down
Remember this in your head
Don't take a picture
Remember this in your heart
I'll leave a message
When everything comes apart
(talk to me face to face)
(everything comes apart)
I'll leave a message
When everything comes apart
I remember cats on fire
Gasoline a burning spiral
Standing underneath the night
Fighting back with all my might
Empty cans and charred remains
Find them in the heat of day
On the top of dead man's hill
This is what i know of shame forever
7.Down By The River
Be on my side
I'll be on your side
There is no reason for you to hide
It's so hard staying here all alone
You could be taking me for a ride
She could drag me over the rainbow
Send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
Dead
Take my hand
I'll take your hand baby
Together we may get away
This much madness is too much sorrow
It's impossible to make it today
Oh baby
She could drag me over the rainbow
Send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
Dead
Be on my side
I'll be on your side
Baby there ain't no reason for us to hide
It's so hard staying here all alone
You should be taking me for a ride
Oh baby
She could drag me over the rainbow
And send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river
I shot my baby
You take my hand
(down by)
I'll take your hand baby
(the river)
Together we may get away
(i shot my baby)
This much madness is too much sorrow
(down by the river)
It's impossible to make it today
(i shot my baby)
This much madness is too much sorrow
(down by the river)
It's impossible to make it today
(i shot my baby)
Down by the river
8.Galileo
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up for truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night
And now i'm serving time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of galileo
King of night vision, king of insight
And then i think about my fear of motion
Which i never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must have crashed his little airplane
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of galileo
King of night vision, king of insight
I'm not making a joke, you know me
I take everything so seriously
If we wait for the time till all souls get it right
Then at least i know there'll be no nuclear annihilation
In my lifetime i'm still not right
I offer thanks to those before me
That's all i've got to say
'cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now i have to pay
But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
But she'll say 'look what i had to overcome from my last life
I think i'll write a book'
How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach the highest light
Except for galileo god rest his soul
(except for the resting soul of galileo)
King of night vision, king of insight
How long
(till my soul gets it right)
How long
(till my soul gets it right)
How long
9.Ghost
There's a letter on the desktop
That i dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to
In our adolescent war
And i start to feel the fever
From the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons
Shadowing my dreams
And the mississippi's mighty
But it starts in minnesota
At a place that you could walk across
With five steps down
And i guess that's how you started
Like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me
And i start to drown
And there's not enough room
In this world for my pain
Signals cross and love gets lost
And time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits
I need you the most
I'm in love with your ghost
I'm in love with your ghost
Dark and dangerous like a secret
That gets whispered in a hush
(don't tell a soul)
When i wake the things i dreamt about you
Last night make me blush
(don't tell a soul)
And you kiss me like a lover
Then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river
Play your memory like a piper
And i feel it like a sickness
How this love is killing me
I'd walk into the fingers
Of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity
I've never been this close
I'm in love with your ghost
Unknowing captor
You never know how much you
Pierce my spirit
But i can't touch you
Can you hear it
A cry to be free
Oh i'm forever under lock and key
As you pass through me
Now i see your face before me
I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island
As the sand beneath me slips
As i burn up in your presence
And i know now how it feels
To be weakened like achilles
With you always at my heels
This bitter pill i swallow
Is the silence that i keep
It poisons me i can't swim free
The river is too deep
Though i'm baptized by your touch
I am no worse than most
In love with your ghost
You are shadowing my dreams
(in love with your ghost)
(in love with your ghost)
(in love with your ghost)
10.I Don't Wanna Know
Well you followed me this far
Did you find out what's inside
Can you tell me what i'm doing
Is it something i should hide
I don't know for sure
I don't wanna find out what i left there for
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely
Saving all my money or my breath
I'm not looking for an answer
Or anyone to second guess no
You told me all your secrets
And i filled you up with lies
Now i'm living honestly
Because i said goodbye
I can't go home anymore
I don't wanna find out what i left there for
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely
Saving all my money or my breath
I'm not looking for an answer
I'm not asking anyone to second guess
I was losing all my senses
I was losing all control
It was getting so offensive
Now you want me back for more
And i just won't go
If you think you know the answers
You've got a lot of gall
Cause it gives you satisfaction
Knowing nothing at all
I don't care anymore
And i don't wanna find out what i left there for
What i left there for
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely
Saving all my money or my breath
I'm not looking for an answer
I'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no
I'm not scared and i'm not lonely
Saving all my money or my breath yeah
I'm not looking for an answer
I'm not asking anyone to take a second guess no
Take a second guess yeah
Take a second guess yeah
(hey)
Take a second guess yeah
(hey)
Take a second guess yeah
Take a second guess
(i can't talk to you)
Take a second guess
(yeah, yeah i know)
Take a second guess
(well i gotta go okay)
Take a second guess
Take a second guess
(over one billion served)
Take a second guess
Oh yeah
11.Joking
You said the world was magic
I was wide-eyed and laughing
We were dancing up to the bright side
Forget about your ego
Forget about your pride
And you will never have to compromise
And you were only joking
You were only joking brother
We talked about our mothers
Kissed the wounds of our fathers
I could have been your sister
I would have been your brother
You kissed me like i was a soldier
Headed for a war
I dying man but i don't know what for
And you were only joking
You were only joking brother
You were only joking
(wide-eyed and laughing)
You were only joking brother
(dancing up to the bright side)
Gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet
I bruised my heels on the swollen street
We were girls in bars
Boys on the town
Bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd
You said good friends are hard to come by
I laughed and bought you a beer
It's too corny to cry
Well sentiment given
Oh sentiment lost
You shake it off with a smirk and a toss
And you were only joking
You were only joking brother
You were only joking
Were only joking brother
And you were only joking
(gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet)
You were only joking brother
(i bruised my heels on the swollen street)
You kissed me like a soldier heading for a war
(joking)
I'm a dying man
(you were only joking)
And you were only joking
(don't know what for)
(dying man)
You were only joking brother
(don't know what for)
And you were only
And you were only
And you were only joking
Brother
One two three four
Ah yeah
Sha la
Sha la
Sha la
Sha la
Sha la
(wide eyed and laughing)
Sha la
(dancing up to the bright side)
Sha la
(wide eyed and laughing)
Sha la
(dancing up to the bright side)
12.Jonas And Ezekial
I left my anger in a river running highway 5
New hampshire, vermont, bordered by
College farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks
Voices in the woods and the mountaintops
I used to search for reservations and native lands
Before i realized everywhere i stand
There have tribal feet running wild as fire
Some past life sister of my desire
Jonas and ezekial hear me now
Steady now and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose turn is it anyway？
Anyway？
Now when i was young my people taught me well
Give back what you take or you'll go to hell
It's not the devil's land, you know it's not that kind
Every devil i meet becomes a friend of mine
Every devil i meet is an angel in disguise
Jonas and ezekial hear me now
Steady now and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose angel are you anyway？
White - chain - rope - fear
(hush my darling)
Be still my dear
A bullet in the head, now he's dead
A friend of a friend, someone said
He was an activist with a very short life
I think there's a lesson here - he died without a fight
In the war over land where the world began
Prophecies say it's where the world will end
But there's a tremor growing in our backyard
Fear in our heads, fear in our hearts
Prophets in the graveyard
Jonas and ezekial hear me now
Steady now and don't come out
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose turn is it anyway？
Jonas and ezekial hear me now
Steady now i feel your ghost about
I'm not ready for the dead to show it's face
Whose angel are you anyway？
I said there's prophets in the graveyard
(now i walk in beauty)
Prophets in the graveyard
(beauty is before me)
Prophets in the graveyard
(beauty is behind me)
(above and below me)
13.Land Of Canaan
You can go to the east to find your
Your inner hemisphere
You say we're under the same sky babe
Your bound to realize honey it's not that clear
I'm not your promised land oh no
I'm not your promised one
I'm not the land of canaan sweetheart
Waiting for you under the sun
I'm lonely tonight
I'm missing you now
I'm wanting your love
And you're giving it out
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
Well, the meanings changed
For what it's worth
It's just a senseless game
Well i should think of love
But it's fear every time i hear
Honey your heartbeat strain
It's not the fallen man
It's not the call of time
It's just the london skyline sweetheart
Telling me you're not mine
I'm lonely tonight
I'm missing you now
I'm wanting your love
And you're giving it out
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
My blood is running dry
My skin is, my skin is growing thin
For every time you find yourself
You loose a little bit of me honey from within
It's just a raging cycle
Why can't we bring it all to the end of the line
From inside this existence, sweetheart
Time is not on my side
I'm lonely tonight
I'm missing you now
I'm wanting your love
And you're giving it out
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
I'm lonely tonight
I'm not your promised land
(i'm lonely tonight)
I'm not your promised one
(honey i'm trying to tell you that i'm lonely tonight)
I'm not your promised land
I'm not your promised one
I'm not the land of canaan
(i'm lonely tonight)
I'm not your land of canaan
(i'm lonely tonight)
I'm not the land of canaan sweetheart
Waiting for you under the sun
I'm lonely tonight
14.Language Or The Kiss
I don't know if it was real or in a dream
Lately waking up i'm not sure where i've been
There was a table set for six and five were there
I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair
And there was steam on the windows from the kitchen
Laughter like a language i once spoke with ease
But i'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And i choose most of your life goes on without me
Oh the fear i've known
That i might reap the praise of strangers
And end up on my own
All i've sown was a song but maybe i was wrong
I said to you the one gift which i'd adore
The package of the next 10 years unfolding
But you told me if i had my way i'd be bored
Right then i knew i loved you best born of your scolding
When we last talked we were lying on our backs
Looking at the sky through the ceiling
I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway
Trying to read the greek upon the stars
The alphabet of feeling
Oh i knew back then
It was a calling that said if joy then pain
The sound of the voice these years later
Is still the same
I am alone in a hotel room tonight
I squeeze the sky out but there's not a star appears
Begin my studies with this paper and this pencil
And i'm working through the grammar of my fears
Oh mercy what i won't give
To have the things that mean the most
Not to mean the things i miss
Unforgiving the choice still is
The language or the kiss
15.Least Complicated
I sit two stories above the street
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though
The kids are walking home from school
Some long ago when we were taught
That for whatever kind of puzzle you got
You just stick the right formula in
A solution for every fool
I remember the time when i came so close to you
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
And i bought you that ring cause i never was cool
What makes me think i could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So i just sit up in the house and resist
And not be seen until i cease to exist
A kind of conscientious objection
A kind of dodging the draft
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
And i don't want to but i think you just wait
It's more than just eye to eye
Learn the things i could never apply
I remember the time when i came so close with you
I let everything go it seemed the only truth
And i bought you that ring, it seemed the thing to do
What makes me think i could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So what makes me think i could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
I'm just a mirror of a mirror myself
All the things that i do
And the next time i fall i'm gonna have to recall
It's isn't love it's only something new
I sit two stories above the street
It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep
There's life down below me though
The kids are walking home from school
I'm remember the time when i came so close with you
Sent me skipping my class and running from school
And i bought you that ring cause i never was cool
What makes me think i could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So what makes me think i could start clean slated
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
The least complicated
The least complicated
16.Love's Recovery
During the time of which i speak
It was hard to turn the other cheek
To the blows of insecurity
Feeding the cancer of my intellect
The blood of love soon neglected
Lay dying in the strength of its impurity
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
They've all gone and left each other
In search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery
There i am in younger days, star gazing
Painting picture perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road i should have seen
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one on the road to fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
To the slim chance of love's recovery
Rain soaked and voice choked
Like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
Not content to bow and bend
To the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
Eating us away, eating us away
Eating us away to our extinction
Oh how i wish i were a trinity
So if i lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal
As specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive
Would be the greatest gift that we could give
Tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages
All these thoughts of fairer weather
Though it's storming out i feel safe within the arms
Of love's discovery
17.Midnight Train To Georgia
L.a. proved too much for the man
(too much for the man)
(he couldn't make it)
So he's leaving the life he's come to know
(he said he's going)
He said he's going back to find
(going back to find)
What's left of his world
The world he left behind
Not so very long ago
Oh yeah
He's leaving
(leaving)
On that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
Oh yeah
Oh ya'll
Said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
A simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
Yes he is
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I'll be with him
(i know you will)
On that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(it's his, his and hers alone)
He kept dreaming
(dreaming)
That one day he'd be a star
(a superstar but he didn't get far)
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true
(dreams don't always come true)
Oh no
(uh uh no uh uh)
So he sold all his hopes
And he even sold his own car
And bought a one way ticket back
To the life that he once knew
Oh yes he did
He said he would
I know he's leaving
(leaving)
On that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
Oh yeah
Oh ya'll
Said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
A simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
Yes he is
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I've got to be with him
(i know you will)
On that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on the midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(it's his, his and hers alone)
He's leaving
(he's leaving)
On a midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train)
Oh yeah
He said he's going back to find
(he's going back to find)
A simpler place and time
(and when he takes that ride)
(guess who's gonna be right by his side)
I've got to be with him
(i know you will)
On that midnight train to georgia
(leaving on a midnight train to georgia)
(whoo whoo)
I'd rather live in his world
(live in his world)
Than live without him in mine
(world, world)
(is his, his and hers alone)
(world is his)
(his and hers alone)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
I've got to go
(all aboard)
Ive got to go
(one world)
I've got to go
(her man, his girl)
I've got to go
(all aboard)
I've got to go
(one world)
I've got to go right now
(her man, his girl)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
(all aboard)
(one world)
(her man, his girl)
18.Mystery
(handed down and made by hand)
Each time you'd pull down the driveway
I wasn't sure when i would see you again
Yours was a twisted blind sided highway
No matter which road you took then
Oh you set up your place in my thoughts
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs
My heart the red sun
Your heart the moon clouded
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possibility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery
So what is love then is it dictated or chosen
(handed down and made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of 1000 years
Or is it just pop emotion
(handed down and made by hand)
And if it ever was there and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why i think these things of you
I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possibility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
May be an equal mystery
But you like the taste of danger
It shines like sugar on your lips
And you like to stand in the line of fire
Just to show you can shoot straight from you hip
There must be a 1000 things you would die for
I can hardly think of two
But not everything is better spoken aloud
Not when i'm talking to you
Oh the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight
Breaks a bottle to christen her
Basking in the exploits of her thief
She's a very good listener
Maybe that's all that we need
Is to meet in the middle of impossibility
We're standing at opposite poles
Equal partners in a mystery
(handed down and made by hand)
We're standing at opposite poles
Equal partners in a mystery
19.Power Of Two
Now the parking lot is empty
Everyone's gone someplace
I pick you up and in the trunk i've packed
A cooler and a 2-day suitcase
Cause there's a place we like to drive
Way out in the country
Five miles out of the city limit we're singing
And your hand's upon my knee
So we're okay
We're fine
Baby i'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
You know the things that i am afraid of
I'm not afraid to tell
And if we ever leave a legacy
It's that we loved each other well
Cause i've seen the shadows of so many people
Trying on the treasures of youth
But a road that fancy and fast
Ends in a fatal crash
And i'm glad we got off
To tell you the truth
Cause we're okay
We're fine
Baby i'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
All the shiny little trinkets of temptation
(make new friends)
Something new instead of something old
(but keep the old)
All you gotta do is scratch beneath the surface
(but remember what is gold)
And it's fools gold
(what is gold)
Fools gold
(what is gold)
Fools gold
Now we're talking about a difficult thing
And your eyes are getting wet
I took us for better and i took us for worse
Don't you ever forget it
Now the steel bars between me and a promise
Suddenly bend with ease
The closer i'm bound in love to you
The closer i am to free
So we're okay
We're fine
Baby i'm here to stop your crying
Chase all the ghosts from your head
I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
Adding up the total of a love that's true
Multiply life by the power of two
20.Pushing The Needle Too Far
Well i woke up this morning
Grey dawn
With a prayer on my breath
See i lost something precious
And god'll save me
From losing myself
I said i think i know what's wrong
I think i know what's wrong
Now i met the queen and i understand why
Why she closed the door
I'm not making excuses
But you know i've been there a few times
You know i was
I was knocking on the door
I said i think i know what's wrong
I think i know what's wrong
Wrong wrong
There's a man
He lived in a house
Had a family of five
Well he blew up the windows and the doors
He said 'i just couldn't
I just couldn't survive'
We've all been removed
In one way or another
We don't know our families
We don't need our brothers
We're pushing the needle too far
Pushing the needle too far
Well if you wake up in the morning
Grey dawn
There's a prayer on your breath
See maybe you lost something precious
God'll save you
From losing yourself
I said i think i know what's wrong
Let me hear you
I think i know what's wrong
There's queen who closed the door
The family that lies
People who turn
The cat that has died
A boy that od's
A girl with a gun
The world on its knees
And a band on the run
You know you'd help me more
(the queen who closed the door)
By not giving in
(the family that lies)
You know you'd help me more
(people who turn)
By not giving in
(and the cat that has died)
You know you'd help me more
(a boy that od's)
By not giving in
(and a girl with a gun)
I said you'd help me more
(the world on it's knees)
Now don't you give in
(and a band on the run)
Ah now you'd help me more
By not giving
I said don't you dare
(not giving in no)
Don't you dare
(not giving in no)
Don't you dare
You'd help me more
By not giving in
I said you'd help me more
By not giving in
I said i
I think i know what's wrong
I think i know what's wrong
We're pushing the needle too far
21.River
It's coming on christmas
They're cutting down trees
Putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish i had a river
I could skate away on
But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
Gonna make a lot of money
Then i'm gonna quit this crazy scene
And i wish i had a river
I could skate away on
I wish i had a river so wide
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish i had a river
I could skate away on
'cause i made my baby cry
You tried hard to help me
And you put me at ease
Then loved me so naughty
Made me weak in my knees
And wish i had a river
That i could skate away on
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and i'm sad
Now i lost the best baby
That i ever had
And i wish i had a river
That i could skate away on
I wish i had a river so wide
I could teach my feet to fly
I wish i had a river
That i could skate away on
Cause i made my baby say goodbye
It's coming on christmas
They're cutting down trees
Putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
But i wish i had a river
I could skate away on
God i wish i had a river so wide
I'd teach my feet to fly
I wish i had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye
22.Strange Fire
I come to you with strange fire
I make an offering of love
The incense of my soul is burned
By the fire in my blood
I come with a softer answer
To the questions that lie in your path
I want to harbor you from the anger
Find a refuge from the wrath
This is a message
A message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire
Fire
Mercenaries of the shrine
Now who are you to speak for god
With haughty eyes and lying tongues
And hands that shed innocent blood
Now who delivered you the power
To interpret calvary
You gamble away our freedom
To gain your own authority
Find another state of mind
You know it's time we all learned
To grab hold
Strange fire burns
With the motion of love
Fire
Fire
When you learn to love yourself
You will dissolve all the stones that are cast
Now you will learn to burn the icing sky
To melt the waxen mask
I said to have the gift of true release
This is a peace that will take you higher
Oh i come to you with my offering
I bring you strange fire
This is a message
A message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire
Fire
Fire
I come to you with strange fire
23.Tangled Up In Blue
Early one morning the sun was shining
I was laying in bed
Wondering if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like mama's homemade dress
Papa's bank book wasn't big enough
Me i'm standing on the side of the road
Rain falling on my shoes
I'm heading out to the east coast
Lord knows i've paid some dues
Getting through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam i guess
But i used a little too much force
And we drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out west
We split up on a sad dark night
Both agreeing it was best
She turned around and looked at me
As i was walking away
Then i heard her say over my shoulder
We'll meet again someday
On the avenue
Tangled up in blue
I was living in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
I never did like it all that much
And one day the axe just fell
So i drifted down to new orleans
Where i happened to be employed
Yeah i was working for a while on a fishing boat
Right outside of de la croix
And all the while i was alone
The past was close behind
I'd seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind
And i just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was working at a topless bar
And i stopped in for a beer
I just kept looking at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
Now later on as the crowd thinned out
And i was just about to do the same
Yeah but she was standing there at the back of my chair
She said don't i know your name
Well i muttered something underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit i felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces
Of my shoes
We were tangled up in blue
I know i know i know
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
I thought you'd never say hello she said
You look like the silent type
And then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an italian poet
From the 13th century
Every one of his words rang true
And glowed like burning coal
Pouring off every page
Like it was written in my soul
From me to you
Tangled up in blue
Yeah yeah
I lived with them on montague street
In a basement down the stairs yeah
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air
That's when he started into dealing with slaves yeah
Something inside of her died just died
And she had to sell everything she owned
And she froze up inside
Finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn
The only thing i knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on
Like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
Oh yeah
Now i'm headed back again
I gotta get to her somehow
And all the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives
I don't know how they all got started
I don't know what they're doing with their lives
But me i'm still on the road
Headed for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point
Of view
Tangled up in blue
I know i know i know
Yeah yeah oh yeah
24.Thin Line
I thought the time was passed when i could
Find beauty in a birds
I set the stage and the scenery
Rehearsing every word
Yeah but when i tried to make it more
Well it was always less
And it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
And pleasing somebody else
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
All right
With my confidence on fire
I set to fixin' up my roles
My separation of desires
Just left me deeper down in the hole
Yeah when i tried to make it more
Well it was always less
And it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
And pleasing somebody else
Yeah and when i tried to make it more
Well it was always less
It's a thin line between pleasing yourself
And pleasing somebody else
Now i'm tryin to get back
To what i know that i should be
Hoping to god that i was just
A temporary absentee
Yeah when i tried to make it more
Well it was always less
It's a thin line between pleasing yourself
And pleasing somebody else
Yeah when i tried to make it more
Well it was always less
And it's a thin line between pleasing yourself
And pleasing somebody else
Somebody else oh yeah
Oh yeah
All right
25.This Train Revised
It's a fish white belly
A lump in the throat
Razor on the wire
Skin and bone
Piss and blood
In a railroad car
100 people
Gypsies queers
And david's star
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train
Measure the bones
Count the face
Pull out the teeth
Do you belong
To the human race
Doctor doctor
Are you unkind
Do you shock the monkeys
Cover our eyes
With clear blue skies
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train
Here is a dancer
Who has no legs
Here is a teacher
Who has no face
Here is a healer
Who has no hands
Here is a runner
Who has no feet
Here is a thinker
Who has no head
Here is a builder
Who has no back
Here is a writer
Who has no voice
These are the questions
These are the answers
Stacked like wood
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory
This train is bound for glory now
This train
This train is bound for glory
This train gonna carry my mother
This train is bound for glory
This train gonna carry my father
This train is bound for glory now
This train gonna carry my sister
This train
This train gonna carry my brother
(here is a teacher)
This train gonna carry my sister
(here is a healer)
This train gonna carry my brother
(this is a builder)
This train gonna carry my sister
This train is
This train is bound for glory
These are the questions
Stacked like wood
These are the answers
Here is potential gone for good
26.Virginia Woolf
Some will strut and some will fret
See this an hour on the stage
Others will not but they'll sweat
In their hopelessness and their rage
We're all the same the men of anger
And women of the page
They published your diary
And that's how i got to know you
The key to the room of your own and a mind without end
And here's a young girl
On a kind of a telephone line through time
And the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend
So i know i'm all right
Life will come and life will go
Still i feel it's all right
Cause i just got a letter to my soul
And when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say 'each life has its place'
The hatches were battened
The thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed
The battle surrounded the white flag of your youth
If you need to know that you weathered the storm
Of cruel mortality
A hundred years later i'm sitting here living proof
So you know you're all right
(all right)
Life will come and life will go
(life will come and go)
Still you'll feel it's all right
(all right)
Someone'll get a letter to your soul
(someone gets your soul)
When your whole life is on the tip of your tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughed in your face
Did you hear me say 'each life has its place'
The place where you hold me
Dark in a pocket of truth
The moon had swallowed the sun and the light of the earth
And so it was for you
When the river eclipsed your life
And sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me
And it was my rebirth
So we know we're all right
(all right)
Though life will come and life will go
(though life will come and life will go)
Still you'll feel it's all right
(all right)
Someone'll will get a letter to your soul
(someone gets your soul)
Then you know you're all right
(when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue)
Then you feel you're all right
(empty pages for the no longer young)
And your hear dry you eyes
(you said)
And you know it's all right
(each life has it's place)
And your hear dry your eyes
(you said)
And you know it's all right
(each life has it's place)
And it's all right
(it'll be all right)
27.World Falls
I'm coming home with a stone
Strapped onto my back
I'm coming home with a burning hope
Turning all my blues to black
I'm looking for a sacred hand
To carve into my stone
A ghost of comfort
Angels breath
To keep this life inside my chest
This world falls on me
Hopes of immortality
Everywhere i turn
All the beauty just keeps shaking me
Now i woke up in the middle of a dream
Scared the world was too much for me
Sejarez said, 'don't let go
Just plant the seeds and watch them grow'
I've slept in rainy canyon lands
Cold drenched to my skin
I always wake to find a face
To calm these troubled lands
Ah this world falls on me
With dreams of immortality
Everywhere i turn
All the beauty just keeps shaking me
Now i'm running
To the end of the earth
And i'm swimming
To the edge of the sea
And i'm laughing
I'm under a starry sky
This world was meant for me
Don't bury me
Carry me
I wish i was a nomad
An indian or a saint
The edge of death would disappear
Leave me nothing left to taint
I wish i was a nomad
An indian or a saint
Give me walking shoes
Feathered arms
And a key to heaven's gate
Ah this world falls on me
Dreams of immortality
Everywhere i turn
All the beauty just keeps shaking me
I'm running
(this world falls on me)
To the end of the earth
(with hopes of immortality)
I'm swimming
(everywhere i turn)
To the edge of the sea
(the beauty keeps on shaking me)
And i'm laughing
(this world falls on me)
Cause i'm under a starry sky
(hopes of immortality)
This world was meant for me
(everywhere i turn)
I've got hopes of immortality
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