1.Love Throw A Line
Let's write a story of a tidal wave
We run out of luck, we run out of days
We run out of gas
a hundred miles away from a station
There's a war and a plague
smoke and disaster
Lions in the coliseum
screams of laughter
Motherless children
a witness and a bible
Nothing but rain ahead
no chance for our survival
Just before the flood comes
Just before the night falls
Just before the blood runs
Into the valley
Just before my eyes go
Just before we can't go no further
Love throws a line to you and me
I heard someone calling me from very far away
Sister oh sister, did I hear them say
Prisoner of this endless story of pain
You hold the key
try to find the way
And ust before the flood comes
Just before the night falls
Just before the blood runs
Into the valley
Just before my eyes go
Just before it all blows to pieces
Love throw a line to you and me
Love, you better pick up your pace
If we're gonna win this race
Love, we're running out of time
Pull yourself out from behind
Love, throw a line
Love, throw a line
2.Cold As It Gets
To the end of the earth
I search for your face
For the one who laid
all of our beauty to waste
Threw our hope into hell
and our children to the fire
I am the one who crawled through the wire
There's a million sad stories
on the side of the road
Strange how we all just
got used to the blood
Millions of stories
that will never be told
Silent and froze in the mud
I know a cold as cold as it gets
I know a darkness
that's darker than coal
A wind that blows
as cold as it gets
Blew out the light of my soul
I dream in my sleep
I dream in my days
Of some sunny street
not so far away
Where up in a window
a curtain will sway
And you and I'll meet down below
You and I'll meet down below
I know a cold as cold as it gets
I fight a war I may never see won
I live only to see you live to regret
Everything that you've done
3.Kite Song
The Sunday after, there was laughter in the air
Everybody had a kite
they were flying everywhere
And all the trouble went away
and it wasn't just a dream
All the trouble went away
and it wasn't just a dream
In the middle of the night
We try and try with all our mights
To light a little light down here
In the middle of the night
We dream of a million kites
Flying high above
the sadness and the fear
Little sister, just remember
as you wander through the blue
The little kite that you sent flying
one Sunday afternoon
Made of something light as nothing
Made of joy that matters too
How the little dreams we dream
are all we can really do
In the middle of the night
The world turns with all its might
A little diamond colored blue
In the middle of the night
We keep sending little kites
Until a little light gets through
4.Standing
I'm standing in the shadow of the hill
I'm standing in the shadow of the hill
I feel a fear everywhere
I hope it don't get me killed
I'm standing in the shadow of the hill
I'm standing in the shadow walking blind
I've been unfair and unkind
I've turned away from your suffering
far too many times
Now I'm standing in the shadow walking blind
Sister, brother
there's a fire on the hill
And it's burning like a lantern
Making all this time stand still
Now I'm standing, standing....
Mother I am weak but I am strong
Standing in the darkness this long
But in the deepest darkness
I listen for your song
Mother I am weak, but I am strong
Now I'm standing
Standing in the shadow of the hill
5.Useless Desires
Say goodbye to the old street
That never cared much for you anyway
And the different colored doorways
You thought would let you in one day
Goodbye to the old bus stop, frozen and waiting
The weekend edition has this town way over-rated
You walk across a baseball field
The grass has turned to straw
A flock of birds tries to fly away from where you are
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend
I can't make you stay
I can't spend another ten years
Wishing you would anyway
How the sky turns to fire
against the telephone wire
And even I'm getting tired
of useless desires
Every day I take a bitter pill
it gets me on my way
For the little aches and pains
The ones I have from day to day
To help me think a little less
about the things I miss
To help me not to wonder
how I ended up like this
I walk down to the railroad track and ride a rusty train
With a million other faces
I shoot through the city veins
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend
You wanted to be free
Somewhere beyond the bitter end
is where I wanna be
How the sky turns to
fire against the telephone wire
And even I'm getting tired
of useless desires
Say goodbye to the old building
That never tried to know your name
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend
You won't be seeing me again
Goodbye to all the window panes
shining in the sun
Like diamonds on a winter day
Goodbye, goodbye to everyone
How the sky turns to fire
against a telephone wire
It burns the last of the day down
And I'm the last one hanging around
Waiting on a train track
and the train never comes back
And even I'm getting tired
of useless desires
6.Top Of The World
I wished I was smarter
I wished I was stronger
I wished I loved Jesus
The way the my wife does
I wished it'd been easier
Instead of any longer
I wished I could've stood
Where you would've been proud
But that won't happen now
There's a whole lot of singing
That's never gonna be heard
Disappearing every day
Without so much as a word
Somehow
I think I broke the wings
Off that little songbird
She's never gonna fly
To the top of the world
Now
To the top of the world
I don't have to answer
Any of these questions
Don't have no God to
Teach me no lessons
I'd come home in the evening
Sit in my chair
One night they called me for supper
But I never got up
I stayed right there
In my chair
There's a whole lot of singing
That's never gonna be heard
Disappearing every day
Without so much as a word
Somehow
I think I broke the wings
Off that little songbird
She's never gonna fly
To the top of the world
Now
To the top of the world
I wished I'd have known you
I wished I'd have shown you
All of the things
I was on the inside
But I'd pretend to be sleeping
When you'd come in in the morning
To whisper good-bye
Go to work in the rain
Now I don't know why
I don't know why
'Cause everyone's singing
We just want to be heard
Disappearing every day
Without so much as a word
Somehow
I wanna grab a hold
Of that little songbird
Take her for a ride
To the top of the world
Right now
To the top of the world
7.Rowing Song
As I row, row, row
Going so slow, slow, slow
Just down below me is the old sea
Just down below me is the old sea
Nobody knows, knows, knows
So many things, things, so
so out of range
Sometimes so strange
Sometimes so sweet
Sometimes so lonely
The further I go
more letters from home never arrive
And I'm alone
all of the way
All of the way
alone and alive
Just have to go, go, go
Where, I don't know, know, know
This is the thing
somebody said
Somebody told me
a long time ago
The further I go
more letters from home never arrive
And I'm alone
all of the way
All of the way
alone and alive
8.When It Don't Come Easy
Red lights are flashing on the highway
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight
Everywhere, the water's getting rough
And your best intentions may not be enough
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight
If you break down, I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love, I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
Mmmm...
I don't know nothing except change will come
Year after year, what we do is undone
Time gets moving from a crawl to a run
I wonder if we're gonna ever get home
You're out there walking down a highway
And all of the signs got blown away
Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction
But if you break down, I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love, I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
When it don't come easy
So many things that I had before
That don't matter to me now
Tonight I cry for the love that I lost
And the love I've never found
And when the last bird falls and the last siren sounds
Someone will say what's been said before
It's only love we were looking for
When you break down, I'll drive out and find you
If you forget my love, I'll try to remind you
And stay by you when it don't come easy
When it don't come easy
9.Florida
A couple of young girls went
Sailing down A1A
Into the arms of Florida
Sailing down the highway
Singing their heads off
Protected by the holy ghosts
Flying in the ocean
Driving with their eyes closed
The night wants to kiss you deep
And be on his way
Pretend he don't know you
The very next day
Isn't it hard sometimes
Isn't it lonely
How I still hang around here
And there's nothing to hold me
You slide down into the seat
From twelve hours on your feet
And get the tide to wash you away
For thousands and thousands of days
And someone you never meet
Signs a check you get every week
You try and still can't forget
All the strangers that you have met
The night never owed you
Nothing anyway
Makes promises that he never intends
To keep everyday
Isn't it hard sometimes
Isn't it lonely
How I still hang around here
And there's nothing to hold me
Everytime, every year
The travelers come and go
You see them landing with their pale wings
And flying back to the snow
And the summer comes marching in
With his heavy boots on
Kicking along the backtop
Sidewalks of A1A
The young girls in their bare feet
Cigarette smoking
Looking every which way
Wishing and hoping
And you want the night just to let you sleep
And be on his way
Wrap you up in some cool sheets
And have nothing to say
Isn't it hard sometimes
Isn't it lonely
How I still hang around here
And there's nothing to hold me
10.Mother Of God
All you kids get out the back door
I've never seen her so mad before
She took all her favorite things down from the window
and broke them then all over her clean floor
It's Saturday at the mansion
The oldest boy walks with a slouch
The young ones are wild in back of the house
and she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch
Something as simple as boys and girls
Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world
Something as hard as a prayer on your back
Can wait a long time
For an answer
When I was little I'd stare at her picture
and talk to the mother of god
I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move
like she was trying to say something to me
When I was eighteen I moved to Florida
like everyone sick of the cold does
and I waited on old people waiting to die
I waited on them until I was
Something as simple as boys and girls
Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world
Something as hard as a prayer on your back
Can wait a long time for an answer
So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor
But one day I won't live here anymore
And some will wonder who lived here before
and went on their way
I live too many miles from the ocean
and I'm getting older and odd
I get up every morning with a my cup of coffee
and I talk to the mother of god
11.Icicles
Tonight
I sing soft and low
Just like the moon over the snow
I hear icicles falling in the dark
In the dark
We're just like anyone else
We just want a little bit of sun for ourselves
And a little bit of rain to make it all grow
Maybe a minute or two to get lost in the glow of love
There's always someone throwing matches around
Waving the shiny new knife
The first to run when the house burns down
I've seen it every day of my life
I must confess, there appears to be
Way more darkness than light
I want to fall like a pearl to the bottom of the sea
Where no one will find us tonight
Tonight
it might look pretty bad
We might lose everything we thought that we had
But shadows will pass, smoke it will clear
If something survives of us around here
I'll be glad 'cause I know
I was lost in the glow of love
12.Chief
Chief had been out of the army
For fifteen years or more
He was still marching up and down that street
Just like he was walking to war
They called him the chief 'cause he was Indian
It was a name they said behind his back
In the summer he'd march without any shoes
Till the soles of his feet turned black
Till the soles of his feet turned black
His hands wouldn't work the machinery
'Cause his brain told them what to say
It was a helluva of a life
But its somebody's life
Up and down the street all day
Honey, I've been put through the paces
Running like a dog on the track
The wheels keep on going as fast as you get there
You don't ever get to go back
I don't really know what I'm doing
Just watching myself in some play
And the actress looks like she wants to go home
And lie in her bed all day
Yeah lie in a big bed all day
Her hands won't work the machinery
'Cause her brain tells them what to say
It's a helluva of a life
But its somebody's life
Up and down the street all day
Well I wish you could see me
When I'm flying in my dreams
The way I laugh there way up high
The way I look when I fly
The way I laugh
The way I fly
Chief got out of the army
Jesus went to live with the poor
I'm still marching up and down that street
I don't know what I'm doing that for
I don't know what I'm doing that for
I don't know what I'm doing that for
13.Truth
World of pain I try in vain
to stand in the mist, the smoke and the stain
the brittle years too full of tears
all this crying out yeah
nobody gives a damn
All of these hungry women, all of these hungry men
All of these angry children what do you do with them？
Oh world of pain, oh world of pain
lying, lying in a world of pain
say it don't feel like the truth
when we're together baby, ohhhhhh
it don't feel like the truth
when we're together, yeah ohhhhhh
You're over there in your chair
no touching allowed so I only stare
But I do not believe, oh I am not deceived
It's raising Cain to the sound of the rain
All of these hungry feelings all of these angry feelings
set in motion goes into angry oceans
World of pain oh world of pain
lying, lying in the world of pain
say it don't feel like the truth
when we're together baby ohhhhh
it don't feel like the truth
when we're together yeah ohhhh
Son of a bitch has stole my boat
locked the chain around my throat
threw the ball out in the moat
wave goodbye and hope it floats
do I scream a little louder？ do I scream a little louder？
Should I scream a little louder, baby？ Yeah
Day was quiet as the night
I was standing every day
Promised I'd stay out of sight
promised I'd feel and never say
Do I scream a little louder？
Should I scream a little louder？
Do I scream a little louder,
baby？ Yeahh
Sit on the shore waiting for someday
sit in the cold waiting for one day
I do not believe I do not believe oh
lying lying in the world of pain
World of pain world of pain
Lying lying in the world of pain
It don't feel like the truth when we're together
It don't feel like the truth when we're together
It don't feel like the truth when we're together
It don't feel like the truth when we're together
14.Rain
It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart
Beating close to mine
Pounding up against the stone and steel
Walls that I won't climb
Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep
You think that you're gonna drown
Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep
With all this rain falling down
Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm holding on underneath this shroud
Rain
Its hard to know when to give up the fight
The things you wanted that will never be right
It's never rained like it has tonight before
I don't want to beg you baby
For something maybe you could never give
I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live
Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm still alive underneath this shroud
Rain
Strange how hard it rains now
Rows and rows of big dark clouds
When I'm still alive underneath this shroud
Rain
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