Unreleased Songs

T Bone Burnett Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Humans From Earth

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

We come from a blue planet light-years away
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here

We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here

Bought Manhattan for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Here's a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here

I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth


2.Every Little Thing

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Bob Neuwirth

For every little thing I did to hurt you
For every little way I made you cry
There's another line etched in my face
Another trace of sorrow in my eyes

For every careless word you spoke against me
For every time I staggered through your lies
There's another tear stain in your face
Another trace of anger in your eyes

Measuring the angle of the pain
Taking all the pleasure that remains
Shadows that follow you
Into this solitude

For every little thing I did to hurt you
For every little way I made you cry
There's another line etched in my face
Another trace of anger in my eyes

Swallowing the bitter and the vain
Seeing madness following in train
Shadows that threaten when
Dancing like skeletons

For every careless word you spoke against me
For every time I staggered through your lies
There's another tear stain in your face
Another trace of anger in your eyes
Another trace of anger in your eyes
Another trace of anger in your eyes


3.Hefner And Disney

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

Somewhere between Never Neverland and Wonderland
In a land called Never Wonderland
There lived a beautiful wealthy young divorceé
With a checkered past and a bad memory
Who should probably remain nameless

And men traveled from far and wide and try to win her hand
And she took in stragglers from all over the known world
Her newest guests were as her mother called them
'The latest Russians to defect'
One's name was Hefner the other's name was Disney

Disney smoked a pipe and was very philosophical
He was constantly surrounded by go go girls
He used to take pictures of them without any clothes on
And sell them to the neighborhood children

Hefner on the other hand was not so introspective
He loved a good story just like anybody else
In fact he loved the myths of Never Wonderland so much
That he made elaborate molded plastic sculptures
Of the characters in the myths

And then he'd set them out in the garden
Until he had built a whole 'nother land in Never Wonderland
Which he called Hefnerland

The neighborhood children loved them
They had lots of fun playing in Hefnerland
And looking at all Disney's go go pictures
Because they didn't know any better
And they didn't know any worse

But the beautiful, wealthy, young divorceé thought
That they were only after her money
Sometimes she even wished they would go back to Russia
But between you and me they were really dupes of the Wicked King
Who wanted to rob the children of their dreams


4.Blinded By The Darkness

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

The laws of God and the laws of man

The laws of man, they don't carry
The same weight as the laws of God
Or the laws of nature in the nomenclature

Do we want to inject
The concept of sin into the constitution?
Is this really necessary?
Does this not make you somewhat wary?

Shouldn't sin be left to the laws of God
And to the laws of nature?
Can we trust this to the legislature?

And shall we trust sin to the wisdom
Of the criminal justice system
Which can't handle the criminals we have now?
Why create a whole new class of them?

Isn't crime dealt with by the laws of man?
Isn't sin dealt with by the laws of God?
Isn't crime dealt with by the laws of man?
Isn't sin dealt with by the laws of God?

Sin were dealt with by the laws of man
Everybody would be in jail for life
In solitary confinement with no one to go his bail
Or else would have gotten death, maybe I should save my breath
But this lunacy is bound to fail

But there would be no one to get the food
Or run the machines, mercy on us, dude

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

In seven days God created evolution
When shall I expect retribution
From the counter revolution

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness

You shine your darkness on me
I am blinded by the darkness
...


5.Baby Don't You Say You Love Me

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me

Every day you haunt me
First you hex me then you taunt me
Then you leave me in this twisted misery

I mean nothing to you
But for now I'm seeing through you
Someone else will save you but it isn't me

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for a day
And then you leave me

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me

Every night you hurt me
First you vex me then subvert me
Then you leave me in this twisted misery

I no longer fear you
I can barely even hear you
Someone else will save you but it isn't me

Baby don't you say you want me
Baby don't you say you need me
Baby don't you say you love me for always
And then deceive me and then deceive me
And then deceive me and then deceive me

And then deceive me and then deceive me
And then deceive me


6.Every Time I Feel The Shift

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

If we were to pass an Eleventh Commandment
In twenty years people would be shocked to learn
That there had once been only ten
And wouldn't care if there had been

It all comes down to a moment of truth
Clock ticking in a soundproof booth
From Corpus Christi to Duluth
From Genghis Kahn to Babe Ruth

If I could only see through glass
I would know what has come to pass
I wouldn't hurry but I'd get there fast
What's last is first, what's first is last

Every time you feel the shift
You conjure fire in a hieroglyph
When you're out for revenge dig two graves
When you run from the truth it comes in waves

We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God

We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God

We're marching up to Zion
The beautiful city of God
...


7.Seven Times Hotter Than Fire

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I never been closer and I never been farther away
I never been closer and I never been farther away
I might say something or I might have nothing to say

Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but it won't bring me down
Love I feel is seven times hotter than fire

If I was dead and buried in the cold, hard ground
If I was dead and buried in the cold, hard ground
I would rise from the grave and come and track you down

Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but with a crazy sound
Love I feel seven times hotter than fire

If you were there on that dark night
You would not have joined the fight
You would have said it wasn't right
Had you been there on that dark night

If you were there on that dark day
You would have turned and walked away
You would not have joined the fray
Had you been there on that dark day
You would have had the words to say
Had you been there on that dark day

I never been closer and I never been farther away
I never been closer and I never been farther away
I might say nothing or I might have something to say

Love I feel seven times hotter than fire
The love I feel is seven times hotter than fire
The world is not flat, the world is not round
The world is square but it won't bring me down
Love I feel is seven times hotter than fire


8.Hollywood Mecca Of The Movies

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Marc S Ribot

Hollywood Mecca of the movies

Who are you and why are you speaking aloud?
In this joint there are no cameramen allowed
He is a personality not a person
Crime being crime wave, the scanner
What a town, what a great town

We didn't build this place to last forever
Sodium penathol, pseudologica fantastica
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises
I said goodbye a long time ago
You must not have heard me

Measurement and signature
How to throw your voice
Dead Pan Alley, extreme consciousness
Power, violence, social engineering
Someone stole my identity and I feel sorry for him

It's a mortal cinch, no resilience
We didn't build this place to last forever
What a town, what a great town

Hollywood Mecca of the movies


9.Zombieland

Lyricist:Turner Stephen Bruton, T-bone Burnett

Accentuate the positive
Destroy all the negatives
Before the black mass media
Get a hold of them

Boy's been sniffing that frog powder
Drinking that genius juice
Shooting that monkey blood

We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland

Machines always do just what you tell them to do
As long as you do what they say
Machines gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
Machines gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland

Look at that boy, he can't see nothing
He can't hear nothing, just put him over there
All the tides in Zombieland are to oblivion

Sniffing that frog powder
Blowing that Egyptian bone
Settling like a fog

We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat down in Zombieland

Speaking hieroglyphics with his pistol and his pills
Phantom conjured to a dark mojo
You want to know but you don't know
You want to know but you don't know

We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp in Zombieland, devil beat in Zombieland
We're gonna stomp that devil beat in Zombieland


10.Fear Country

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Donnie Fritts, Bob Neuwirth

The cat's out of the bag
And it ain't going back
Your plan has hit a snag
It has fallen through the crack

I gotta tell on you
I gotta tell on you

This is fear country
This is fear country
This is fear country

Five years of mercy
And two days of grace
It only took a minute
To fall on your face

I gotta tell on you
I gotta tell on you

This is fear country
This is fear country
This is a fear country

Cowboy with no cattle
Warrior with no war
They don't make imposters
Like John Wayne anymore

This is fear country
This is fear country
This is fear country

Nobody knows what's gonna happen
Nobody knows what's going on
Nobody knows what's coming down
But it's coming down
And it happens in a moment
It happens in a moment

Do this for me or risk eternal agony
This is fear country
This is fear country
And if you don't believe me, I can prove it
This is fear country

This is fear country
And if you don't believe me, I can prove it
This is fear country


11.Earlier Baghdad (The Bounce)

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I am not important
I am a broken man
Throw myself on your mercy
You who have wronged me

I built my life in vainglory
I lost sight of the light
Where, once, I walked down streets of gold
I stumble through the darkness

I offer you my broken image
On the altar of your hatred for me
It's a phantom, it is nothing
But it's all I have to give

Every word we say is crucial
A lie to avoid a lie
Can we bridge the gap between us?
Will you pray with me?

Could you use some quiet?
Can you perform an exorcism?
You've numbed you conscience with sanctimony
I numbed mine with narcissism

I surrender to you
You, who I so long despised
I will expect nothing
Believing you to be kind

Can you accept me, shattered?
Can you speak with one who is no one?
This must all be kept in context
And Yesenia gets a book deal


12.I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

She wore a low-cut black satin dress
Slit up the front and down the back
She wore black high-heeled shoes
With laces that went up her ankles

She wore black velvet gloves
With rhinestone bracelets around them
She had long blond hair, she had long blond hair
(Long blond hair, long blond hair)

And she sat on the jukebox with one leg propped up
And a crowd of boys gathered 'round her
And one tried to kiss her
But she turned her face

And I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she soared across the floor
I wish you could have seen her dance
She did a pirouette and then a Kung Fu step

I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she threw her hair through the air
And I wish you could have seen her dance

I asked her, 'Do you come here often?'
She said, 'I've never been here before'
I asked her, her name and she said
'They call me Kim Boston in England'

'And Kim English in Boston and also in Dallas'
I said, 'How did you like Dallas'
She said, 'It was just like Ireland
Except the wells don't look like wishing wells'

And I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she soared across the floor
I wish you could have seen her dance
She did the Flavo and the Tango and the Flamenco

I wish you could have seen her dance
The way she threw her hair through the air
And I wish you could have seen her dance

I asked, 'Are you an actress'
She said, 'No, but do you think I'm good enough'
She said, 'You look like you belong on
Monty Python, Eric Idle'

She said, 'Do you wanna know what I do for work'
I said, 'Sure'
(She had long blond hair)
I said, 'Alright'
(She had long blond hair)

She said, 'I'm a maid and a dancer
I've danced for three rock bands
And one of the bands
Even wrote a song about me'

And I wish you could have seen her dance
I wish you could have seen her dance
I wish you could have seen her, wish you could have seen her
Wish you could have seen her dance


13.The Bird That I Held In My Hand

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Bob Neuwirth, Billy Swan

If you look out your window as the sun's going down
I'll be there by the side of the road
And I'll ride you away from this dirty old town
And never again leave you alone

For you were the bird that I held in my hand
Till I learned to fly on my own
You're a garden in this God forsaken land
And the only true love I have known

The morning was freezing the sky was still dark
When I last laid eyes upon you
Oh, I know the ache you have held in your heart
For darling, I have felt it too

For you were the bird that I held in my hand
Till I learned to fly on my own
You're a garden in this God forsaken land
And the only true love I have known


14.I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath

We've been going back and forth for a long time
We often did the right thing at the wrong time
We have hurt the ones that we love the most
Till I wonder, did we ever get that close?

Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath

I've been getting over you since the day we met
It might have been as simple as the way we met
Must we live in anger and in shame?
Must we always try to place the blame?

Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath

From fear to fear, from madness to madness
Everything here has been hidden and guarded
From tear to tear, from address to address
I'm on borrowed time and I'm lost and discarded

I can't decipher the questions you ask
I wouldn't blame you for taking me to task
It's hard to move freely in the cubist thing we did
Fractured and slanted, ellipse as pyramid
I'm grateful to you for every hard thing you've done
I'll never replace you, next to you, there is no one

Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
Oh, this death, moment by moment
Darker and darker, down and down
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath
I feel your cold breath, I feel your cold breath


15.Palestine Texas

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

Frank who was swank, robbed a bank
With a tank for a prank
Sam who was glam, ran a scam
From Siam to Vietnam

Dean who was clean, had a scene
With the queen for a magazine
Joe wasn't slow but didn't know how to blow
All the dough from the show

Palestine, Texas, Palestine, Texas

Peter in a two seater for a heater
Had a thirty millimeter
Shecky worked blue for he knew
It was true he would not get his due

Ann knew the plan as she ran from a fan
With a man from the Klan
Phyllis would thrill us, then grill us
Then kill us with bacillus

Palestine, Texas, Palestine, Texas

Presidents come and presidents go
They rise like smoke, they fall like snow
Do you believe the things you say?
Your lofty thoughts are filled with hay

What is this faith that you profess
That led to this colossal mess?
When you awaken from this coma
You'll find you were in Oklahoma

When you crawl out of this self delusion
You're going to need a soul transfusion

This version of the world will not be here long
It is already gone, it is already gone
This version of the world will not be here long
It is already gone, it is already gone


16.Shaken Rattled And Rolled

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I can feel it all slipping
Away from me
So I'll just let it go
And fall through
Whatever is awaiting me

I got shaken last evening
And I get rattled sometimes
And I got rolled in the dim light
Of an hour I can't leave behind

These hard times come
Down like an avalanche
And I'm lost and detached
Along with all who never
Had a chance

I got shaken last evening
And I get rattled sometimes
And I got rolled in the dim light
Of an hour I can't leave behind


17.There Would Be Hell To Pay

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

When all the ladies
Heard that he was dead
Some wore orange dresses
And some wore red

When all the ladies
Heard that he had died
He could hear them wailing
All the way on the other side

Police officer
Walked onto the plan
'Don't come any closer'
Said Curtis to the man

Curtis said to Delia
As she turned to walk away
'You so very beautiful but
You gonna die someday'

Judge he said to Curtis
'What's this noise about?'
Curtis said, 'These evil men
Are trying to put me out'

When all the ladies heard
That he was dead
Some wore black dresses
And some wore red

He unhooked his revolver
And pulled on his gloves
Just before he folded
King, queen, jack, ten
Nine of clubs

He saw Delia leaning
Over by the door
Stood at the table
And he pulled his forty four

Delia started crying fell
On her knees to pray
Delia begged for mercy
But there would be hell to pay

When all the ladies
Heard that he was dead
Some wore orange dresses
And some wore red

When all the ladies
Heard that he had died
He could hear them wailing
All the way on the other side

Curtis said Your Honor
What might be my fine?
The judge said, 'Poor boy
You get ninety nine'
Other existence identity light
Mojo come to my house
Then back into the night

Delia was a gambling girl
She would scream and shout
She placed a rose at Mojos
Tomb then blew the candle out

When all the ladies
Heard that he was dead
Some wore orange dresses
And some wore red

When all the ladies
Heard that he had died
He could hear them wailing
All the way on the other side


18.Image

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I had this image of you
You had this image of me
And your image would talk to my image
And my image would talk to your image
And somewhere along the way
Our image sort of let each other down


19.Over You

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

There's a fine between love and hate
That we erased, that we erased
What started as a mask became a face
The pain untraced, the pain untraced

I been a long time searching for you
I been a long time breaking through
I'm gonna be a long time getting
Over you, over you

Standing in my doorway facing south
The moon comes up, the sun goes down
Wondering what this noise was all about
The dust blows in, the light blows out

I spent a long time looking for you
I spent a long time breaking through
Gonna be a long time getting
Over you, over you

Down the road I see the fog roll in
As thick as fear, as dark as sin
We live in an age lit by lightning
After the flash, we're blind again

I been a long time searching for you
I been a long time breaking through
I'm gonna be a long time getting
Over you, over you, over you, over you


20.Primitives

Lyricist:Henry Burnett

Primitives dress in feathers and masks
To scare away their enemies
The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living

Scientists guess which is worse we will ask
The medicine or the disease
The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living

There's an old man living on the edge of town
Edge of town
With a skull in his window and the shades pulled down
Shades pulled down

And he laughs at fortune and he laughs at fame
Laughs at fame
And he laughs at scandal and he laughs at shame
Laughs at shame

Primitives dress in feathers and masks
To scare away their enemies
The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living

Scientists guess which is worse we will ask
The medicine or the disease
The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living

There's a young girl living on the edge of town
Edge of town
With a light in her window and her hair falls down
Hair falls down

And she loves me crazy and she loves me wild
Loves me wild
And she loves me tender like a lonely child
Lonely child

Primitives dress in feathers and masks
To scare away their enemies
The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living


21.Shut It Tight

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I find it hard sometimes to say the way that I feel
I do the very things I hate to do
I act like a child and I'm afraid of what is real
And so I try to cover up the truth

I stumble like a drunk along this crazy path I walk
I have a hundred thousand questions too
I'll go to any length to prove that nothing is my fault
Then later on I will deny the proof

I don't like to win but then again I hate to lose
And in between is something I can't stand
I don't care what you think and I hope that you approve
I am just an ordinary man

Sometimes I want to stop and crawl back into the womb
And sometimes I cannot tell wrong from right
But I ain't gonna quit until I'm laid in my tomb
And even then they better shut it tight


22.Tear This Building Down

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

She's been told she's very bold
She takes dares seriously
Her face burns bright on our screens tonight
Till we fall asleep deliriously

She does a high kick for a live psychic
She puts her secrets on the line
I love you baby, I love you crazy
I love you till the end of time

If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down
If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down

She must be dreaming, the wires are teeming
She leers a smoky sideways glance
I love this town in its evening gown
I love it at ten cents a dance

So I'd turn it white with dynamite
Set the fuse then strike a match
Watch it fall 'neath the wrecking ball
Start over again from scratch

If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down
If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down
I would tear this building down

If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down
If I had my way, if I had my way
I would tear this building down
I would tear this building down
I would tear this building down


23.The Long Time Now

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Bob Neuwirth

I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now

I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now

I can hear the footsteps following behind me
Trying to find me but when I turn around
I can't see where the path goes
Into the shadows, into the shadows

I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now

I can hear you breathing
Whispering in my ear, 'There is nothing to fear'
But when I turn around
As I see the trees bow, I only hear the wind blow

By mistake I felt alone, in my heart I've always known
You'd be there to bring me home

I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for a long, long time
I been waiting for the long time now
I been waiting for the long time now
I been waiting for the long time now


24.The Murder Weapon

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

It can kill from any distance but you never see it strike
There isn't any warning, no blinding flash of light
It hits you when your back's turned or when your eyes are closed
There isn't any shelter and it cannot be controlled

It can be as subtle as a whisper in the dark
Or as brutal and as cutting as the teeth of a shark

The murder weapon
The murder weapon

There is no good description for the way it makes you feel
It's as lethal as a stiletto and more easily concealed
It sometimes is strategic and sometimes not at all
But you get caught in the fallout, win, lose or draw

There is no escape except to go completely mad
If it doesn't kill you right at first it makes you wish it had

The murder weapon
The murder weapon

The murder weapon
The murder weapon


25.Fatally Beautiful

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

She was born in the back of a thirty four Ford
And raised in a foster home
Her guardian made sexual connection with her
Before she was even grown

When she was fifteen she fell in love
With a boy who had a fast car
But she was timid and withdrawn
So she worshiped him from afar

Still he couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful

She ran away to the city the next year
Disowned out of jealousy
She frightened men with her figure
So they treated here like a sleaze

She lived cross the street from a piss factory
As dark as the sun is bright
The kind where you think you just went blind
When you walk in from the daylight

Still they couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful

She was discovered by a man three times her age
Who worked for a studio
And he bought her dresses and perfume
And moved her into his home

He got her a part in a comedy
Where she played a dumb blond whore
And she posed without clothes for a magazine
And the offers came in by the score

In a restaurant in Brussels she pulls back her hair
Picks up a candle and lights a cigarette
And she's recognized by a tourist
Who can't see her face but knows her silhouette

He imagines her robe as it drops to the floor
He imagines her skin soft to touch
He imagines her naked on silk sheets
The morning she never woke up

Still I couldn't help but notice her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful

I noticed her
She was fatally beautiful
Ever since she was a girl
She was fatally beautiful


26.When The Night Falls

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

As the night falls, as the sun starts to sink
And the street lights blink on the town's yawning
I climb down my stairs to the empty avenue
And follow my shadow till morning

'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely

As I walk past the theaters and stores
And the whores that now work where we first met
I want to hold you so bad that it hurts
And it only gets worse when the sun sets

'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely

And then I see you and call out your name
But down the street you keep walking away
And when I reach you
A stranger looks over her shoulder then it starts all over

Now the moon is a thin silver line
Disappearing behind a skyscraper
And I climb my stairs to my dark hotel room
Through the litter of Sunday newspapers

'Cause when the night falls, it falls on me
And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces
When the night falls, it falls on me
And I'm so lonely

I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely
I'm so lonely, I'm so lonely, so lonely


27.Monkey Dance

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

She slides across the floor
Puts her head on his shoulders
His eyes search for the door
Even as he pulls her closer

She is a raging beauty
He writes I love you truly
In lipstick on her mirror
Which leaves her in a furor

I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy

His fingers brush her face
She quivers like a fawn
He's lost in her embrace
She turns around he's gone

She knows his lies are barefaced
As she descends the staircase
Her clothes are falling off her
He can't resist her offer

You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy

We do the monkey dance, it's a crazy feeling
Monkey dance, what we are concealing
Monkey dance, we shall be revealing

We do the monkey dance, when the blows all glance
Monkey dance, we do the monkey dance

She has a will of iron
He reads her Keats and Byron
Till she can go no further
He starts to read her Thurber

I wanna make you happy
I wanna make you happy
You wanna make me happy
You wanna make me happy

We do the monkey dance, it's a crazy feeling
Monkey dance, what we are concealing
Monkey dance, we shall be revealing

We do the monkey dance, when the blows all glance
Monkey dance, we become advanced
Monkey dance, we do the monkey dance

Monkey dance


28.Power Of Love

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

The power of love
Can make a blind man see
Can bring a man to his knees

The power of love
Can make a sultan grieve
Can make a skeptic believe

The power of love
Is south of south
And scorches out all the doubt

The power of love
Is the name of names
And burns away all the pain

The power of love
Can make a gangster cry
Can make a loser try

The power of love
Can make a strong man weak
Can make a bigot meek

The power of love
Is south of south
And scorches out all the doubt

The power of love
Is the name of names
And burns away all the pain

The power of love
Can make a coward brave
Can make a hero afraid

The power of love
Can make a miser give
Can make a dead man live


29.River Of Love

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

There's a river of love that runs through all times
There's a river of grief that floods through our lives
It starts when a heart is broken in two
By the thief of belief in anything that's true
But there's a river of love that runs through all times

There's a river of love that runs through all times
But there's a river of tears that flows through our eyes
We fight through the night for freedom as it fades
Into a jail where we fail every time we make a break
But there's a river of love that runs through all times

I had to run before I knew how to crawl
The first step was hard but I've had trouble with them all
But now the night grows darker and the day grows dim
'Cause I know I never will see you again
And I almost made you happy

There's a river of love that runs through all times
There's a river of fire that burns with no lights
The flame is the pain of dreams gone up in smoke
From the lies we deny and we breathe them till we choke
But there's a river of love that runs through all times


30.After All These Years

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I heard you saw her again last evening
I heard you'd been with her for two or three days
I still have her picture taped to my mirror
Did she still look the same after all these years?

I remember her as the most beautiful woman
Was her hair still blonde? Were her eyes still blue?
Were they soft and gentle or filled with tears?
Did she still look as hurt after all these years?

I lost track of her way back in the sixties
I even heard that she had tried suicide
There were rumors the government killed her career
Did she still look as scared after all these years?

Will they ever uncover her terrible secret
And untangle the mystery of her life?
Will they ever know why she disappeared?
Was she still as gone after all these years?

Was she still as alluring, still as seductive?
Could she still drive you crazy by the look on her face?
Did she still have a whisper you could hear cross an ocean?
Was she still a scandal still a disgrace?

Was she still as impossible, still as voluptuous?
Still as helpless and full of fears?
Was she still as provocative, still as compelling?
Was she still as late after all these years?


31.Euromad

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I went Euromad out on the road last fall
Between the Roman churches and the German music halls
Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery
I might have never got this far, it would be all the same to me

It started in Bologna when I stepped between the lights
I thought I'd lost my charisma my life flashed before my eyes
The communists rejected me, I didn't fit their plan
And anyway I must assume they're anti-American

It might have been Geneva in a darkened discotheque
And though I met Sophia, I still got it in the neck
A journalist he spied on me like I always knew they would
He wrote me off like a business trip I felt deeply misunderstood

Or maybe it was Paris blazing dignity and pride
It's a city full of heiresses where I very nearly died
I woke up in the circus with a whistling in my ears
I'm ready for the antidote can you tell me what it is

I went Euromad out on the road last fall
Between the Roman churches and the German music halls
Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery
I might have never made it through this Euromisery

Were it not for Mr. Gordon and his fine distillery
I might have never made it through this Euromisery


32.Poison Love

Lyricist:Elmer Laird

For your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and
soul, dear
And I know my life will never be the same
For my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone,
dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame

Into each life a love is born for one and one alone, dear
The love I chose was surely not for me
For your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and
soul, dear
And I know our love was never meant to be

For your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and
soul, dear
And I know my life will never be the same
For my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone,
dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame

But still my heart cries out for you and you alone my darling
And begs me never ever let you go
But my pleadings have all been in vain for your and you alone,
dear
And my better judgment tells me to say no

For your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and
soul, dear
And I know my life will never be the same
For my pleadings have all been in vain for you and you alone,
dear
And you know that you are guilty of the shame


33.House Of Mirrors

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

He was born in Brooklyn
And grew up in the Church of Rome
There was a girl there who loved him and had faith
He loved her like a madman, he loved her like a fool

He got a lot of big ideas
And fought his way up to mad avenue
He navigated that bizarre world easily
He did good work and he was smart
He knew his superiors, he disdained his inferiors
He was proud and dignified and she waited

The more money made, the more he wanted
The more glory he got, the more he wanted
His appetites were never sated

Everything he knew about himself
He drew from what was around him
You know this suit is you, this car is you
This studio is you

People were no different, people were also his mirrors
Often he was their mirror as well
Life became complicated and overstated
And underrated and she waited

The more power he got, the more he wanted naturally
The more women he had, the more he wanted
His appetites were never sated

She finally married a wine salesman and had three children
Sometimes he thinks of her
But it's a gnawing, painful memory
Eventually, like Napoleon, he attacked Russia


34.I'm Coming Home

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

I been lost and all alone like a statue made of stone
But now I'm coming home
I fell for a painted face, thought I'd fallen out of grace
But now I'm coming home

I'm coming home, hold me to your breast
Let me stay and rest in your tenderness
I'm coming home, back where I belong
Still your love is strong, roll away the stone
I'm coming home

I said my prayers, made my plans
Set out for the promised land and now I'm coming home
I saw how you pay the price
For some distant paradise and now I'm coming home

I'm coming home, hold me to your breast
Let me stay and rest in your tenderness
I'm coming home, back where I belong
Still your love is strong, roll away the stone
I'm coming home, I'm coming home


35.It's Not Too Late

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Declan Macmanus, Bob Neuwirth

The wind turns like a dagger, the rain falls like a hammer
The sky has grown dark but it's not too late
The weather crashes down, what's lost cannot be found
The night is closing but it's not too late

It's not too late, it's not too late
It's not too late, it's not too late
The atmosphere is lethal but I will fear no evil

The ocean rolls like thunder, the tempest pulls us under
The dogs are howling but it's not too late
As broken structures rust, false idols turn to dust
All lies in ashes but it's not too late

It's not too late, it's not too late
It's not too late, it's not too late
The atmosphere is lethal but I will fear no evil

In the dark before the dawn, the echo of the siren song
Dies away like a ghost, as the day breaks

It's not too late, it's not too late
It's not too late, it's not too late
The atmosphere is lethal but I will fear no evil


36.Kill Switch

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

We killed 'em at the palace, babe
And we murdered â~em in Rome
We knocked 'em all dead, babe
Then we brought it all back home

The big heat is coming down
Like hail from the sky
Don't look for me in the morning, babe
Only kiss me goodbye

There are those who play for money, babe
There are those who play for fame
There are still those who only play
For the love of the game


37.Shake Yourself Loose

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett

How much rope you gonna give yourself?
How much slack do you need
In order not to hang yourself up on the street?
You say, you learned your lesson
But I know that that ain't true
When I see that feeling come over you

But I don't blame you, baby, 'cause it really ain't no use
I believe that you believe, you're searching for the truth
I don't know what hold that rounder downtown has on you
But keep on shaking, baby, till you shake yourself loose

I'm not running away from trouble, I'm walking away from an
accident
Involving a personality double and a hole with a head in it
Ain't nothing I can say, ain't nothing I can do
When I see that feeling come over you

But I don't blame you, baby, 'cause it really ain't no use
I believe that you believe, you're searching for the truth
I don't know what hold that rounder downtown has on you
But keep on shaking, baby, till you shake yourself loose


38.Song To A Dead Man

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Larry Poons

When I was a kid, I was really young
I fell in love and I got stung
I tried it out and I tried it on
When I was a kid, I was really young

When I was a kid everything was new
I had a lot of friends, I couldn't even get close to
And I tried so hard that I got confused
When I was a kid, everything was new

When I was a kid, I was on my own
I had a mother and a father, till I was almost grown
But when I was alone, I was all alone
When I was a kid, I was on my own

When I was a kid, I got off the track
I walked down the road and I never did turn back
God deliver me from this case in fact
When I was a kid, I got off the track


39.Strange Combination

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Nancy Ann Clarke

He was a strange combination
Part what fathers in movies call a romantic little fool
Part what fathers in Russian novels call a depraved egoist
He won't be missed, I'll persist

First he would fall in love like a building imploding
And not be able to control his emoting
Then he would spend a few speechless weeks
Goggling his beloved and reading Keats and reading Dante's

Next if she gave him a sign, he'd send flowers for a time
Then in one magnificent gesture
He could transform himself into a Bluebeard
But not just an ordinary run of the mill Bluebeard
One who was a lecher then he'll put her out to pasture

What does this have to do with the future?
I'm not too sure
What does this have to do with the present?
It doesn't


40.Born In Captivity

Lyricist:Joseph Henry Iii Burnett

Born in captivity
Born in captivity
Born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
Born in captivity

They make you stand in line for the first grade
They make you kneel in hall to the air raid
They say the saucer's coming any day
To take you and all your friends away
But thirty times it never comes
And still the natives beat the drums

And we're born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
Yes, we're born in captivity
Cossack children of the bourgeoisie

And they burn their images in your brain
And tell you what is valuable
Till it all looks pretty much the same
And you are totally malleable
And it works like magic on everyone
'Cause the camera's mightier than the cannon

And we're born in captivity
We're all born in captivity
And we're born in captivity
Cossack children of the bourgeoisie
Awaiting our delivery


41.No Love At All

Lyricist:Irving Berlin

No love at all
I get no love at all
You say, you love me
But I get no love at all

Outside my window
The rain's poring down
Just like my teardrops
Now you're not around

You say, you love me
But do you really care
Another night I need you so
And you're nowhere near

No love at all
I get no love at all
You say, you love me
But I get no love at all

You hold my hand
And you're kind as you can be
But that's where it ends
When it comes to lovin' me

You say nothing's wrong
But you know that ain't right
Baby, where's that feeling
Oh, won't you hold me tight?

No love at all
I get no love at all
You say, you love me
But I get no love at all

We used to be close to each other
What happened to the way you used to care
Why can't I see the side of you
That loves me anymore? Is it still there?

No love at all
I get no love at all
You say, you love me
But I get no love at all
You say, you love me
But I get no love at all


42.Driving Wheel

Lyricist:Burnett T Bone, Swan Billy

All I want is a love that's hot
Can't be sold and can't be bought
Love don't try to be something it's not

All I need is a love that's real
None won't rob and none won't steal
Love that moves like a driving wheel

All I want is a driving wheel
All I want is a driving wheel
All 'round love, my ideal

All I want is a love that's right
Hold onto with all of my might
Early in the morning and late at night

All I want is a driving wheel
All I want is a driving wheel
All 'round love, my ideal