Well I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink; Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
You know, the streets are filled with vipers; Who've lost all ray of hope,; You know, it ain't even safe no more; In the palace of the Pope.
If I shut myself off so I can't hear you cry,; What good am I?
I couldn't see what you could show me; Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid
Has the record been breaking,; Did the needle just skip
I don't want to fake you out
What kind of sign they need when it all come from within
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah,; Makes you stop and all wonder why.
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take; To find dignity
I thought somehow that I would be spared this fate
I gotta go; Find out something only dead men know
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
It was then that I got up to leave; But she said, "Don't forget,; Everybody must give something back; For something they get."
It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit; Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it; Using all the devices under the sun.
Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard; I'm sitting here listening to every mind polluting word
Rock me, pretty baby, rock me 'til everything gets real; Rock me for a little while, rock me 'til there's nothing left to feel; And I'll rock you too
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties; Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
Any day now, any day now,; I shall be released.
They say ev'rything can be replaced
I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture.
Don't trust me to show you the truth; When the truth may only be ashes and dust.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats; Too noble to neglect; Deceived me into thinking; I had something to protect
Give ya delusions of grandeur; And a evil eye; Give you idea that; You're too good to die
I was all right 'til I fell in love with you
No knife could ever cut our love apart
When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
There's no one here, the gardener is gone
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past; I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
But I mean no harm nor put fault, On anyone that lives in a vault, But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too; Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through
You were snow, you were rain; You were striped, you were plain,;
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies; I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit?
While my conscience explodes; The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
Go 'way from my window,; Leave at your own chosen speed.
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
She knows where I'd like to be; But it doesn't matter.
Seen the arrow on the doorpost; Saying, "This land is condemned; All the way from New Orleans; To Jerusalem."
The sun's not yellow it's chicken
She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
Just do your thing, you'll be king; If dogs run free.
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
Satan whispers to ya, "Well, I don't want to bore ya,; But when ya get tired of the Miss So-and-so I got another woman for ya."
I don't need any reminder; To know how much I really care
The angels play on their horns all day,; The whole earth in progression seems to pass by.; But does anyone hear the music they play,; Does anyone even try?
she's true, like ice, like fire
In the hills of mystery,; In the foggy web of destiny,; You can have what's left of me,; Where we were born in time.
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're the one I've been looking for,; You're the one that's got the key.; But I can't figure out whether I'm too good for you; Or you're too good for me.
In the day of confession; We cannot mock a soul.; Oh, when there's too much of nothing,; No one has control.
It's all been designed, he said, "To make you lose your mind,; And when you go back to find it, there's nothing there to find."
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.
