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
Nobody feels any pain
Oh, the only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk; Was to haul your picture down off the wall near the cage where I used to work.; Was I a fool or not to try to protect your identity?; You looked a little burned out, my friend,; I thought it might be up to me.
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.
Mama, take this badge off of me
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,; No more booby traps and bombs,; No more decadence and charm,; No more affection that's misplaced, girl
Time is all I have to give
My head tells me it's time to make a change; But my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
It's the last temptation; The last account; The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount,; The last radio is playing.
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,; And the dust of rumors covers me.
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn
What happened to the real you, you've been captured but by whom?
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
Never could learn to drink that blood; And call it wine
At the corrida we'll sit in the shade; And watch the young torero stand alone.; We'll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed; When they rode with Villa into Torreon.
I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized
Our conversation was short and sweet; It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
You were trying to break into another world; A world I never knew.; I always kind of wondered; If you ever made it through.
Well, there's voices in the night trying to be heard; I'm sitting here listening to every mind polluting word
Ain't complaining 'bout what I got; Seen better times, but who has not?
Don’t think twice, it’s all right
On the rising curve,; Where the ways of nature will test every nerve,; You won't get anything you don't deserve,; Where we were born in time.
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?
Don't follow leaders; Watch the parkin' meters
The treasure can't be found by men who search
When there is no more,; You cut to the core; Quicker than anyone I knew.
You don't want a love that's pure; You wanna drown love; You want a watered-down love
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
I hate myself for lovin' you and the weakness that it showed; You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road
What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood
Those are the hills of hell-fire my love; Where you and I will unite
What drives me to you is what drives me insane.
Lost time is not found again
Don't trust me to show you the truth; When the truth may only be ashes and dust.
For all eternity I think I will remember; That icy wind that's howling in your eye.
Heart of mine be still,; You can play with fire, But you'll get the bill
I got nothing left to burn
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer; It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
When destruction cometh swiftly; And there's no time to say a fare-thee-well,; Have you decided whether you want to be; In heaven or in hell?
May you always know the truth; And see the lights surrounding you.
Don't know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you; It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
There's always some new stranger sneakin' glances,; Some trigger-happy fool willin' to take chances
I need a dump truck mama to unload my head
You could ride like Annie Oakley,; You could shoot like Belle Starr.
Well, I try my best; To be just like I am,; But everybody wants you; To be just like them.
Today on the countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch
When he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious
She knows there's no success like failure; And that failure's no success at all.
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
Oh, man has invented his doom, First step was touching the moon.
Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress
Ring them bells, for the time that flies,; For the child that cries; When innocence dies.
You will search, babe, At any cost.; But how long, babe, Can you search for what's not lost?
