All right, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
Now, when I was just a bawlin' child,; I saw what I wanted to be
You were trying to break into another world; A world I never knew.; I always kind of wondered; If you ever made it through.
Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag; Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag; Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove
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.
Oh, some of us'll end up; In St. Cloud Prison,; And some of us'll wind up, To be lawyers and things
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can't buy her
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere; Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave
My heart's in the Highlands at the break of dawn; By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan; Big white clouds, like chariots that swing down low; Well my heart's in the Highlands; Only place left to go
Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues; You can tell by the way she smiles
You can't get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag.; Put your goodness next to God's and it comes out like a filthy rag.
We pointed out the way to go; And scratched your name in sand,; Though you just thought it was nothing more; Than a place for you to stand.
We never thought we could ever get old.; We thought we could sit forever in fun
I'm going out of my mind; With a pain that stops and starts
People on the platforms; Waiting for the trains; I can hear their hearts a-beatin'; Like pendulums swinging on chains
The way is long but the end is near, Already the fiesta has begun
Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,; Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery
You think you can hide but you're never alone,; Ask Lot what he thought when his wife turned to stone.
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
And they're breaking down the distance; Between right and wrong.
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.
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
People are crazy and times are strange
When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
People tell me it's a sin; To know and feel too much within.
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
You speak to me; In sign language; As I'm eating a sandwich
Don't the moon look good, mama, Shinin' through the trees?
All he believes are his eyes, And his eyes, they just tell him lies
Ain't complaining 'bout what I got; Seen better times, but who has not?
The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.
Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun?; Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one.
She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts
Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came.
I'm sick of love but I'm in the thick of it
It's mighty funny; the end of time has just begun
What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?
There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances,; Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
Any day now, any day now,; I shall be released.
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,; See like me or be like me.
I been hangin’ on threads
I been playin’ it straight
Now, I’ve just got to cut loose
Before it gets late
And every time you get this close; It makes me want to scream
The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen,; But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine.
I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,; That we could sit simply in that room again.
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',; But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
Sooner or later, one of us must know; That I really did try to get close to you
I can smile in the face of mankind.; Don't even remember what her lips felt like on mine; Most of the time.
Everything passes,; Everything changes,; Just do what you think you should do.
Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line,; Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.
When you think that you lost everything; You find out you can always lose a little more
You know, news of you has come down the line; Even before ya came in the door.; They say in your father's house, there's many mansions; Each one of them got a fireproof floor.
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
As the last fire truck from hell; Goes rolling by, all good people are praying
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame; I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
God is in heaven; And we all want what's his; But power and greed and corruptible seed; Seem to be all that there is
