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Im driving in my car I turn on the radio Im pulling you close You just say no You say you dont like it But girl I know youre a liar Cause when we kiss Ooh, Fire Late at night Im takin you home I say I wanna stay You say you wanna be alone You say you dont love me Girl you cant hide your desire Cause when we kiss Oh, Fire Fire You had a hold on me Right from the start A grip so strong It couldnt tear me apart My nerves all jumpin Actin like a fool Your kisses are warm But your heart stays cool Romeo and Juliet Samson and Delilah Baby you can bet Their love they didnt deny Your words say split But your words they lie Cause when we kiss Oh, Fire Fire Oh, Fire Oh, Fire Oh, Fire Fire

I remember how rough your hand felt on mine On my wedding day And the tears cried on my shoulder I couldnt turn away Well so much has happened to me That I dont understand All I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the beach Tracing your footprints in the sand Trying to walk like a man By Our Lady of the Roses We lived in the shadow of the elms I remember ma draggin me and my sister up the street to the church Whenever she heard those wedding bells Well, would they ever look so happy again The handsome groom and his bride As they stepped into that long black limousine For their mystery ride Well, tonight you step away from me And alone at the altar I stand And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray For the strength to walk like a man Well, now the years have gone and Ive grown From that seed youve sown But I didnt think thered be so many steps Id have to learn on my own Well, I was young and I didnt know what to do When I saw your best steps stolen away from you Now Ill do what I can Ill walk like a man And Ill keep on walkin

In my dream, our love was lost I lived by luck and fate I carried you inside of me Prayed it wouldnt be too late Now Im standin on this empty road Where nothin moves but the wind And, honey, I just wanna be Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again Oh, once I was your treasure And I saw your face in every star But these promises we make at night Oh, thats all they are Unless we fill them with faith and love theyre Empty as the howlin wind And, honey, I just wanna be Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again You came to me with love and kindness But all my life Ive been a prisoner of my own blindness I met you with indifference And I dont know why Now I wake from my dream I wake from my dream to this world Where all is shadow and darkness And above me, a dark sky unfurls And all the love Ive thrown away and lost Im longin for again Now, darlin, I just wanna be Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again Back in your arms Back in your arms again

I get up in the evening And I aint got nothing to say I come home in the morning I go to bed feeling the same way Man, Im nothing but tired Im just tired and bored with myself Hey there, baby I could use just a little help You cant start a fire You cant start a fire without a spark This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark Messages just keep getting clearer Radios on and Im moving around the place I check my look in the mirror I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face Man, I aint getting nowhere Im just living in a dump like this Theres something happening somewhere Baby, I just know that there is You cant start a fire You cant start a fire without a spark This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark You sit around getting older Theres a joke somewhere, its on me Ill shake this world off my shoulders Come on, baby, the laughs on me Staying on the streets of this town Theyll be carving you up alright They say you gotta stay hungry Oh, baby, Im just about starving tonight Im dying for some action Im sick of sitting round here trying to write this book I need a love reaction Come on, baby, give me just one look You cant start a fire Sitting around crying over a broken heart This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark You cant start a fire Worrying about your little world falling apart This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark That’s how it starts We go back to your house We check the charts And start to figure it out And if it’s crowded, all the better Because you know we’re gonna be up late But if you’re worried about the weather Then you picked the wrong place to stay That’s how it starts

Theres a pale horse comin Im gonna ride it Ill rise in the morning My fate decided Im a dead man walkin Im a dead man walkin In St. James Parish I was born and christened Now Ive got my story Mister no need for you to listen Its just a dead man talkin Once, I had a job, I had a girl But between our dreams and actions Lies this world In the deep forest Their blood and tears rushed over me All I could feel was the drugs and the shotgun And my fear up inside of me Like a dead man talkin Neath a summer sky my eyes went black Sister, I wont ask for forgiveness My sins are all I have Now the clouds above my prison Move slowly across the sky Theres a new day dawnin And my dreams are full tonight...

Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night And they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk theyre ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do Now theres trouble busin in from outta state And the D.A. cant get no relief Gonna be a rumble on the promenade And the gamblin commissioners hangin on by the skin of his teeth Everything dies, baby thats a fact But maybe everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight, in Atlantic city Well, I got a job and I put my money away But I got the kind of debts that no honest man can pay So I drew out what I had from the central trust And I bought us two tickets on that coast city bus Everything dies, baby thats a fact But maybe everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight, in Atlantic city Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold But with you forever Ill stay Well be goin out where the sands turn to gold But put your stockings on cause it might get cold Oh, everything dies, baby thats a fact But maybe everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight, in Atlantic city Now Ive been a-lookin for a job, but its hard to find Theres winners and theres losers And I am south of the line Well, Im tired of gettin caught out on the losin end But I talked to a man last night Gonna do a little favor for him Well, everything dies, baby thats a fact But maybe everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight, in Atlantic city Oh, meet me tonight, in Atlantic city Oh, meet me tonight, in Atlantic city

I was born right here on Randolph street in Freehold Here right behind that big red maple in Freehold Well, I went to school right here Got laid and had my first beer In Freehold Well, my folks always lived and worked right here in Freehold I remember running up the street, past the condo to the church here in Freehold Chase my daddy down in these bars First fell in love with this guitar Here in frehold Well, I had my first kiss at the YMCA canteen on a Friday night Maria Espenoza tell me where are you tonight? You were 13 but way ahead of your time I walked home with a limp but I felt fine That night in Freehold Well, the girls at freehold regional they looked pretty fine And my heart broke at least half a dozen times I wonder if they miss me, they still get the itch Would they have dumped me if they knew Id strike it rich? Straight out of Freehold Well, tex, rest in peace, and marion gave us kids a hand in Freehold George and me started up a little rock and roll band in freehold Well, we learned pretty quick how to rock Ill never forget the feeling of that first 5 bucks in my pocket That I earned in Freehold Well, I got outta here really hard and fast in Freehold Everybody wanted to kick my ass back there in Freehold Well, if you were different, black or brown It was a bit of a redneck town Back then in Freehold Well, something broke my daddys back in Freehold In 69 he left and he never come back to freehold cept once he drove from California, 3000 miles in three days Called my relatives some dirty names And pulled straight out of Freehold My sister had her first little baby at 17 in Freehold Well people they can be pretty mean Honey, you had a rough road to go, but you aint made of nothin but soul I love you more than youll ever know We both survived Freehold Well, my buddy Mike, well, hes the mayor now in Freehold I remember when we used to have a lot more hair in Freehold Well, I left and swore Id never walk these streets again, Jack Tonight all I can say is holy shit, Im back! Back in Freehold Well, this summer everything was green in Freehold Rode my kids on the fire engine through the streets of Freehold I showed em where their dad was born and raised And first felt the sun on his face There in Freehold Well, i still got a lot of good friends right here in town I can usually find me a free beer somewhere With offers of free meals I am blessed Should I go crazy, blow all my money and ruin my life, well, at least Ill never go hungry i guess Here in Freehold Well, I got a good Catholic education here in Freehold Led to an awful lot of masturbation here in Freehold Father, it was just something I did for a smile Hell, I still get a good one off once in a while And dedicate it to Freehold Dont get me wrong, I aint puttin anybody down Hell, in the end it all just goes and comes around Its one hell of a town, Freehold!

Ah-one, two, three, four The machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave And the fire eaters lying in a pool of sweat, victim of the heatwave Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallowers blade And circus towns on the shortwave Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn Whoa, fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffing popcorn As the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbos scorn Circus towns been born Whoa, and a press roll drummer go, ballerina to and fro Cartwheeling up on that tightrope with a cannon blast lighting flash Moving fast through the tent Mars bent, hes gonna miss his fall Oh God save the human cannonball And the flying Zambinis watch Margarita do her neck twist And the ringmaster gets the crowd to count along: Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven A ragged suitcase in his hand, he steals silently away from the circus grounds And the highways haunted by the carnival sounds They dance like a great greasepaint ghost on the wind A man in baggy pants, a lonely face, a crazy grin Running home to some small Ohio town Jesus send some good women to save all your clowns And circus boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire And the barker romances with a junkie, shes got a flat tire And now the elephants dance real funky and the band plays like a jungle fire Circus towns on the live wire And the strong man Samson lifts the midget little Tiny Tim way up on his shoulders, way up And carries him on down the midway past the kids, past the sailors To his dimly lit trailer And the ferris wheel turns and turns like it aint ever gonna stop And the circus boss leans over, whispers into the little boys ear Hey son, you want to try the big top? All aboard, Nebraskas our next stop

We sit in the car Outside your house I can feel the heat comin round I go to put my arm around you and you Give me a look like Im way out of bounds Well you let out one of your bored sighs and Lately when I look into your eyes Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down We get dressed up And we go Out - baby for the night We come home early burning - Burning for some fire fight Im sick and tired of you setting me up, yeah Setting me up just to knock, knock, knocking me down Down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down I pull you close, but when we Kiss - I can feel a doubt I remember back when we started My kisses used to turn you inside out I used to drive you to work in the morning Friday night Id drive you all around You used to love to drive me wild but Lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me Down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down Oh, darling Im going down Im going down, down, down, down Im going down, down, down, down

Gray morning light spits through the shade Another day older, closer to the grave Closer to the grave and come the dawn I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on I’m trudging through the dark in a world gone wrong I woke up this morning shackled and drawn I always loved the feel of sweat on my shirt Stand back son and let a man work Let a man work, is that so wrong? I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on Whats a poor boy to do in a world gone wrong? I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Freedoms, son, a dirty shirt The sun on my face and my shovel in the dirt A shovel in the dirt keeps the devil gone I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on Whats a poor boy to do but keep singing this song? I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong... Down here below we’re shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on I’m trudging through the dark in a world gone wrong I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on Whats a poor boy to do but keep singing this song? I woke up this morning shackled and drawn I want everybody to stand up I want everybody to stand up and be counted tonight You know we got to pray together I want you to stand up I want everybody to stand up and be counted tonight

I met a girl and we ran away I swore Id make her happy every day And how I made her cry Two faces have I Sometimes, mister, I feel sunny and wild Lord, I love to see my baby smile Then dark clouds come rolling by Two faces have I One that laughs, one that cries One says hello, one says goodbye One does things I dont understand Makes me feel like half a man At night I get down on my knees and pray Our love will make that other man go away But hell never say goodbye Two faces have I Last night as I kissed you neath the willow tree He swore hed take your love away from me He said our life was just a lie And two faces have I Well go ahead and let him try

Last night I stood at your doorstep Tryna figure out what went wrong You just slipped something into my palm, and you were gone I could smell the same deep green of summer Above me the same night sky was glowing In the distance I could see the town where I was born Its gonna be a long walk home Hey, pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home A long walk home In town, I pass Sals grocery Barbershop on South Street I looked in their faces Theyre all rank strangers to me Well Veterans Hall high upon the hill Stood silent and alone The diner was shuttered and boarded With a sign that just said, Gone Its gonna be a long walk home Hey, pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Hey, pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Its gonna be a long walk home Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again My father said, Son, were lucky in this town Its a beautiful place to be born It just wraps its arms around you Nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone Your flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what well do and what we wont Its gonna be a long walk home Hey pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Hey pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Its gonna be a long walk home Its gonna be a long walk home Hey pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Hey pretty darling, dont wait up for me Gonna be a long walk home Its gonna be a long walk home Its gonna be a long walk home

Well Jimmy Lee was hookin round the far turn of a funky southern Florida dirt track He had mud caked on his goggles and a screamin 350 stacked up on his back Well as he passed the stands he was feelin all tuckered out When through the roar of his engine he heard somebody shout Stand on it, come on boy, stand on it Mary Beth started to drift, she hit the shift but she just couldnt get a hand on it Racin some Red Hill boys, she had the deed to the ranch and a grand on it With eight grand blowin hot on the red line She blew past a hitchhiker out on Route 39 He hollered Stand on it, go head baby, stand on it Well now when in doubt and you cant figure it out Just stand on it Well, if your minds confused, you dont know what youre gonna do Well buddy, stand on it Well if youve lost control of the situation at hand Go grab a girl; go see a rock and roll band And stand on it Come on man, stand on it Well now Columbus he discovered America even though he hadnt planned on it He got lost and woke up one morning when hes about to land on it He wouldnt of got out of Italy, man thats for sure Without Queen Isabella standing on the shore Shouting Stand on it, go ahead man, stand on it Well now when in doubt and you cant figure it out Just stand on it Well, if your minds confused, you dont know what youre gonna do Well buddy, stand on it Well if youve lost control of the situation at hand Go grab a girl; go see a rock and roll band And stand on it Come on man, stand on it Bobby was leadin the pack, he settled back and he got ready for the long haul Well fifty yards from the finish line somebody roared up and they blew him into the wall Well he rolled over twice, lucky to survive Layin in the back of the ambulance more dead than alive Somebody shouted Man, you call that drivin? Why didnt you stand on it?

Now one plus one equals two, that happens every day, that is not magic. Thats the grind. Thats when you get up, one. Go to work, one. Go to bed, two. Two, geniuses, two. But when one plus one equals three, thats when your life changes, and you see everything new, and these are days when you are visited by visions, when the world around you brings down the spirit and you feel blessed to be alive. It is the essential equation of love. There is no love without one plus one equaling three. Its the essential equation of art. Its the essential equation of rock n roll. Its the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible. Its the reason Louie Louie will never be fully comprehensible. And its the reason true rock n roll, and true rock n roll bands, will never die Teardrops on the city Bad Scooter searchin for his groove Whole world walking pretty and you cant find the room to move Everybody better move over, thats all Im runnin on the bad side With my back to the wall Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out Im stranded in the jungle tryna take in all the heat theyre givin Yeah, the night is dark but the sidewalks bright and lined with the light of the living From a tenement window a transistor blasts Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out And Im all alone, Im all alone And I cant go home I cant find my way back home now Now Gary, Danny, Little Steven, Mighty Max, Professor Roy, Nils Lofgren, Patty Scialfa, that is my one plus one equals three. Excellent, grasshopper! But nobody captured my audiences imagination or their hearts like Clarence. Clarence was, Clarence was a figure out of a rock n roll storybook, and together, we told a story that was bigger than any of the ones I had written in my songs. It was a story where not only does Scooter and the Big Man bust the city in half, but we remade the city. We remade the city shaping into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldnt have been such an exceptional thing. First night I saw Clarence he came walkin out of the shadows towards the band stand, nodded to me, got up, stood to my right, for the very first time. He picked up his saxophone, and when he played - when he played, he whispered that story in my ear. And then we whispered it into your ear, and we carried it together for a long, a long good time. The Big Man was big. Everything about him. His personality, his size, his laugh, the sound of his saxophone. When I first heard it I thought it was the biggest sound I ever heard. And it was. His heart, his problems - they were big. But he was elemental in my life. And losing him was like losing the rain. If I were a mystic, if I were a mystic, I guess Clarence and mines friendship would lead me to believe that we, we stood together in other older times, ya know and uh, in other lives, along other rivers, in other ancient cities, in other fields, workin side by side, with the sun settin, doin our modest version of Gods work. Ill see you in the next life Big Man When they made that change uptown And the Big Man joined the band From the coastline to the city All the little pretties raise their hands Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out Ladies and gentlemen lets hear it for the biggest man you ever saw Clarence Big Man Clemons And the legendary E Street Band Thats it Oh yeah, its alright Yeah!

Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed Where the gun is cocked and the bullets cold Where the miles are marked in blood and gold Ill meet you further on up the road Got on my dead mans suit and my smiling skull ring My lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing I got a song to sing, keep me out of the cold And Ill meet you further on up the road Further on up the road Further on up the road Where the ways dark and the night is cold One sunny morning well rise I know And Ill meet you further on up the road Now Ive been out in the desert, just doing my time Searching through the dust, looking for a sign If theres a light up ahead, well brother I dont know But I got this fever, burning in my soul So lets take the good times as they go And Ill meet you further on up the road Further on up the road Further on up the road Further on up the road Further on up the road One sunny morning well rise I know And Ill meet you further on up the road One sunny morning well rise I know And Ill meet you further on up the road

I got a coin in my palm I can make it disappear I got a card up my sleeve Name it, and Ill pull it out your ear I got a rabbit in my hat If you want to come and see This is what will be This is what will be I got shackles on my wrists Soon Ill slip em, and Ill be gone Chain me in a box in the river And Ill rise singing this song Trust none of what you hear And less of what you see This is what will be This is what will be I got a shiny saw blade All I needs a volunteer Ill cut you in half While youre smilin ear to ear And the freedom that you soughts Drifting like a ghost amongst the trees This is what will be This is what will be Now theres a fire down below But its coming up here So leave everything you know Carry only what you fear On the road the sun is sinkin low Theres bodies hanging in the trees This is what will be This is what will be

I got a dollar in my pocket There aint a cloud up above I got a picture in a locket That says Baby, I love you Well, if you didnt look then, boys Then fellas, dont go lookin now Well here she comes a-walkin All that heaven will allow Say hey there, Mister Bouncer Now all I wanna do is dance But I swear I left my wallet Back home in my workin pants Cmon Slim, slip me in, man Ill make it up to you somehow I cant be late, I got a date With all that heaven will allow Rain and storm and dark skies Well now they dont mean a thing If you got a girl that loves you And who wants to wear your ring So cmon, Mister Trouble Well make it through you somehow Well fill this house with all the love All that heaven will allow Now some may wanna die young, man Young and gloriously Get it straight now, mister Hey buddy, that aint me Cause I got something on my mind, yeah That sets me straight and walkin proud And I want all the time All that heaven will allow Yeah I want all the time All that heaven will allow

Im gonna add this song to our set tonight. Alright, this is the final days of Pattis first pregnancy. And I receive a surprise visit from my father at my home in LA. Now hed driven 500 miles unannounced to knock on my door, thats his style. So at 11 a.m. we sit Sunday dining room, and were nursing morning beers, thats his style. Thats my fathers breakfast of champions. When, my dad, never a talkative man, right, blurted out, Youve been very good to us. And I nodded that, that I had, ya know, and uh, and he says, And I wasnt very good to you. And, the room just, was, stood still. As to my shock, ya know, the acknowledgeable was being acknowledged, if I, if I didnt know better I wouldve sworn an apology of some sort was being made, and it was. Here in the last days before I was to become a father, my own father was visiting me to warn me of the mistakes that he had made, and to warn me not to make them with my own children. To release them from the chain of our sins, my fathers of mine and our fathers before, that they may be free, to make their own choices and to live their own lives. We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our childrens lives. We either lay our mistakes, our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying those old burdens down, and we free them from the chain of our own flawed behavior. And as ancestors, we walk alongside of them, and we assist them in finding their own way, and some transcendence. My father, on that day, was petitioning me, for an ancestral role in my life after being a ghost for a long long time. He wanted me to write a new end to our relationship, and he wanted me to be ready for the new beginning that I was about to experience. It was the greatest moment in my life with my dad, and it was all that I needed

Well now on a summer night in a dusky room Come a little piece of the Lords undying light Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon In his mothers arms it was all the beauty I could take Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused Searching for a little bit of Gods mercy I found living proof I put my heart and soul I put em high upon a shelf Right next to the faith the faith that Id lost in myself I went down into the desert city Just tryin so hard to shed my skin I crawled deep into some kind of darkness Lookin to burn out every trace of who Id been You do some sad sad things baby When its you youre tryin to lose You do some sad and hurtful things Ive seen living proof You shot through my anger and rage To show me my prison was just an open cage There were no keys no guards Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars Well now all thats sure on the boulevard Is that life is just a house of cards As fragile as each and every breath Of this boy sleepin in our bed Tonight lets lie beneath the eaves Just a close band of happy thieves And when that train comes well get on board And steal what we can from the treasures treasures of the Lord Its been a long long drought baby Tonight the rains pourin down on our roof Looking for a little bit of Gods mercy I found living proof

Miguel came from a small town In northern Mexico He came north with his brother Luis To California three years ago They crossed at the river levee When Luis was just sixteen And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin They left their homes and family Their father said, My sons, one thing you will learn For everything the north gives It exacts a price in return They worked side by side in the orchards From morning until the day was through Doing the work the hueros wouldnt do Word was out some men in from Sinaloa Were looking for some hands Well, deep in Fresno county There was a deserted chicken ranch There in a small tin shack On the edge of a ravine Miguel and Luis stood cooking methamphetamine You could spend a year in the orchards Or make half as much in one ten-hour shift Working for the men from Sinaloa Ah, but if you slipped The hydriodic acid Could burn right through your skin Theyd leave you spitting up blood in the desert If you breathed those fumes in It was early one winter evening As Miguel stood watch outside When the shack exploded Lighting up the valley night Miguel carried Luiss body over his shoulder Down a swale to the creek side And there in the tall grass Luis Rosales died Miguel lifted Luis body Into his truck, and then he drove To where the morning sunlight fell On a eucalyptus grove There in the dirt he dug up ten thousand dollars All that theyd saved Kissed his brothers lips and placed him in his grave

Well I sought gold and diamond rings My own drug to ease the pain that living brings Walked from the mountain to the valley floor Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward From a house on a hill a sacred light shines I walk through these rooms but none of them are mine Down empty hallways I went from door to door Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Well your hair shone in the sun I was so high I was the lucky one Then I came crashing down like a drunk on a barroom floor Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Tonight I can feel the cold wind at my back Im flying high over gray fields my feathers long and black Down along the rivers silent edge I soar Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward

Ive got a mule and her name is Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal Shes a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal We hauled some barges in our day Filled with lumber, coal, and hay We know every inch of the way From Albany to Buffalo Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, yeah were coming to a town And youll always know your neighbor And youll always know your pal If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal Wed better look around for a job, old gal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal You can bet your life Ill never part with Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal Get up mule, here comes a lock Well make Rome about six oclock One more trip and back well go Right back home to Buffalo Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, yeah were coming to a town And youll always know your neighbor And youll always know your pal If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal Where would I be if I lost my pal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal Id like to see a mule good as my Sal Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal A friend of mine once got her sore Now hes got a broken jaw Because she let fly with an iron toe And kicked him back to Buffalo Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, yeah were coming to a town And youll always know your neighbor And youll always know your pal If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, yeah were coming to a town And youll always know your neighbor And youll always know your pal If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, yeah were coming to a town And youll always know your neighbor And youll always know your pal If you ever navigated on the Erie Canal

Hey Disorder in the house The tub runneth over Plaster falling down in pieces by the couch of pain Disorder in the house Time to duck and cover Helicopters hover over rough terrain Disorder in the house Reptile wisdom Zombies on the lawn staggering around Disorder in the house Theres a flaw in the system And the fly in the ointments gonna bring the whole thing down The floodgates are open Weve let the demons loose The big guns have spoken And weve fallen for the ruse Disorder in the house Its a fate worse than fame Even the Lhasa Apso seems to be ashamed Disorder in the house The doors are coming off the hinges The earth will open and swallow up the real estate I just got my paycheck Im gonna paint the whole town gray Whether its a night in Paris Or a Fresno matinee Its the home of the brave And the land of the free Where the less you know The better off youll be Cut it Woo Disorder in the house All bets are off Im sprawled across the davenport of despair Disorder in the house Ill live with the losses And watch the sundown through the portiere Here we go Alright Hit me hard Hey Huh, end this thing with style Good gosh, Im heading out

I got the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold I got all the bonds baby that the bank could hold I got houses cross the country honey end to end And everybody buddy wants to be my friend Well I got all the riches baby any man ever knew But the only thing I aint got, honey, I aint got you I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art And all the little girls, they wanna tear me apart When I walk down the street, people stop and stare Well, youd think I might be thrilled but baby I dont care Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk But the only thing I aint got, baby, I aint got you I got a big diamond watch sittin on my wrist I try to tempt you, baby, but you just resist I made a deal with the devil, babe, I wont deny Until I got you in my arms, I cant be satisfied I got a pound of caviar sitting home on ice I got a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise I got a hundred pretty women knockin down my door And folks wanna kiss me I aint even seen before I been around the world and all across the seven seas Been paid a kings ransom for doin what comes naturally But Im still the biggest fool, honey, this world ever knew Cause the only thing I aint got, baby, I aint got you

A letter come blowing in On an ill wind Something about me and you Never seeing one another again And what I knew had come Stars struck deaf and dumb Like when we kissed That taste of blood on your tongue Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet Woke up election day Skys gunpowder and shades of grey Beneath the dirty sun I whistle my time away Then just about sundown You come walking through town Your boot heels clicking like The barrel of a pistol spinning round Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet The earth, it gave away The sea rose towards the sun I opened up my heart to you It got all damaged and undone My ship Liberty sailed away On a bloody red horizon The groundskeeper opened the gates And let the wild dogs run Alone I limp through town A lost cowboy at sundown Got my monkey on a leash Got my ear tuned to the ground My faiths been torn asunder Tell me is that rolling thunder Or just the sinking sound Of something righteous going under Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet Dont worry, darling No baby, dont you fret Were living in the future And none of this has happened yet None of this has happened yet None of this has happened yet None of this has happened yet None of this has happened yet Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire Oh-oh-oh Im on fire Tell me now, baby, is he good to you? And can he do to you the things that I do? I can take you higher Oh-oh-oh Im on fire Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull At night, I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head You can cool my desire Oh-oh-oh Im on fire Oh-oh-oh Im on fire Oh-oh-oh Im on fire Ooh-ooh, ooh Ooh-ooh, ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh

Do you walk in the shadows Are your dreams swept with fear Does your heart fill with sadness With night drawing near Do you yearn for the moment When youll be safe and warm Do you search for the shelter From lifes oncoming storms Come to Him through the darkness Come to Him through the rain Walk with Him from misfortune Walk with Him from the pain Hes the light of salvation Hes the head thats never bowed Hes the first step of wisdom Hes the sun through the clouds Walk with him If the winds of disaster Have blown through your night And the dreams you have cherished Cant begin to take flight Take his hand through the sunlight Lift your head high above Let your blood flow forever With the warmth of his love Come to Him through the darkness Come to Him through the rain Walk with Him from misfortune Walk with Him from the pain Hes the light of salvation The head thats never bowed Hes the first step of wisdom Hes the sun The sun through the clouds Walk with Him Blend your life with his blessings Drink the wine of tomorrow Yesterday must be banished With the seeds of your sorrow Do you walk in the shadows Are your dreams swept with fear Does your heart fill with sadness With the night drawing near Do you yearn for the moment When youll be safe and warm Do you search for the shelter From lifes oncoming storms Come to Him through the darkness Come to Him through the rain Walk with Him from misfortune Walk with Him from the pain Hes the light of salvation Hes the head thats never bowed Hes the first step of wisdom Hes the sun through the clouds Walk with Him

Monday morning runs to Sunday night Screaming slow me down before the new year dies Well it wont take much to kill a loving smile And every mother with a baby crying in her arms, singing Give me help, give me strength Give a soul a night of fearless sleep Give me love, give me peace Dont you know these days you pay for everything Got high hopes I got high hopes Got high hopes I got high hopes Coming from the city, coming from the wild I see a breathless army breaking like a cloud Theyre going to smother love, theyre going to shoot your hopes Before the meek inherit theyll learn to hate themselves Give me help, give me strength Give a soul a night of fearless sleep Give me love, give me peace Dont you know these days you pay for everything Got high hopes I got high hopes I got high hopes I got high hopes Give me help, give me strength Give a soul a night of fearless sleep Give me love, give me peace Dont you know these days you pay for everything Got high hopes Got high hopes I got high hopes Got high hopes Tell me someone, whats the price I want to buy some time and maybe live my life I want to have a wife, I want to have some kids I want to look in their eyes and know theyll stand a chance Give me help, give me strength Give a soul a night of fearless sleep Give me love, give me peace Dont you know these days you pay for everything I got high hopes Got high hopes I got high hopes Got high hopes Got high hopes I got high hopes I got high hopes I got high hopes

Well if I could, I surely would Stand on the rock where Moses stood Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Well, Mary wore three links of chain On every link was Jesus name Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Well one of these nights about twelve oclock This old world is going to rock Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Well, Moses stood on the Red Sea shore Smote the water with a two-by-four Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Well, old Mister Satan, he got mad Missed that soul that he thought he had Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Brothers and sisters, dont you cry Therell be good times by and by Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep God gave Noah the rainbow sign No more water, but fire next time Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Oh Mary, dont you weep, dont mourn Pharaohs army got drowned Oh Mary, dont you weep

Dear Masha and Nadia, As the one-year anniversary of your trial approaches, we are writing to assure you that, around the world, people are both still thinking of you and working for your release. Although you were the most visible of the protesters, we know that there were many other young people who have suffered in the protests, about whom we are also very concerned. But, in many ways, through your imprisonment, you have come to represent them. Many artists voiced their concern when these charges were first brought against you, we had every hope that the authorities, in dealing with you, would show some understanding, a sense of proportion, even some of the wonderful Russian sense of humour, but none of the above were forthcoming. The impact of your shockingly unjust trial and imprisonment has spread far and wide. Especially among your fellow artists, musicians and citizens around the world, including the many parents who feel your anguish at being separated from your children. While understanding the sensitivities of protesting in a place of worship, we ask that the Russian authorities review these harsh sentences, so that you may return to your children, your families and your lives. The right to freedom of expression and dissent is a legitimate one and essential in any kind of democracy. You have been accused of what could be described as ‘a victimless’ crime, but in our opinion, in a just society, there can be no crime where there is no identifiable ‘victim’. Your strength, bravery and fearlessness are an inspiration to us all. Yours in solidarity, Bryan Adams, Adele, Alt-J, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Anti-Flag, Arcade Fire, Arch Enemy, Archive, Joan Armatrading, Joan Baez, Beardyman, Jeff Beck, Yasiin Bey, björk, Rubén Blades, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne, Peter Buck, Tracy Chapman, Chase & Status, Neneh Cherry, The Clash, Coldplay, Lily Rose Cooper, Dido, Django Django, Melissa Etheridge, Siobhan Fahey, Paloma Faith, First Aid Kit, Franz Ferdinand, Foster the People, fun., Peter Gabriel, Sir Bob Geldof, Kim Gordon, Debbie Harry, PJ Harvey, Don Henley, The Hidden Cameras, Niall Horan, Billy Joel, Sir Elton John, Ke$ha, Angelique Kidjo, The Knife, Mark Knopfler, Tom Lehrer, Sean Lennon, Annie Lennox, Lykke Li, Sir Paul McCartney, Romy Madley-Croft, Madonna, Zayn Malik, Stephen Malkmus, Marina & the Diamonds, Johnny Marr, Massive Attack, Mike Mills, Moby, Thurston Moore, Tom Morello, Alanis Morissette, James Morrison, Graham Nash, Kate Nash, Youssou N’Dour, Karen O, Yoko Ono, Clock Opera, Ozzy Osbourne, Liam Payne, Peaches, Joe Perry, Phoenix, Portishead, Portugal. The Man, Rain Phoenix, Cat Power, Radiohead, Bonnie Raitt, Rise Against, Patti Scialfa, Scissor Sisters, Paul Simon, Sleigh Bells, Patti Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Stewart, Sting, Michael Stipe, Harry Styles, Neil Tennant, Louis Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, K T Tunstall, U2, Eddie Vedder.

Im riding in your car You turn on the radio Youre pulling me close I just say no I say I dont like it But you know Im a liar Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire fire Late at night Ooh Youre taking me home You say you wanna stay {I say I} wanna be alone I say I dont love you But you know Im a liar Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire Fire You had a hold on me right from the start A grip so tight I couldnt tear it apart My nerves all jumpin, actin like a fool Your kisses, they burn But my heart stays cool Well, Romeo and Juliet Samson and Delilah Oh, baby, you can bet A love they couldnt deny My words they say split But my words may lie Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire fire You had a hold on me right from the start A grip so tight I couldnt tear it apart My nerves all jumpin, actin like a fool Your kisses they burn But my heart stays cool Fire Fire {Woah, ooh} Fire what youre doin now, fire {Touchin me} Touchin me, burnin me Take me home Fire {Woah, ooh} Fire

Now Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man Washed his face in a frying pan Combed his hair with a wagon wheel And died with a toothache in his heel Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Now Old Dan Tucker come to town Riding a billy goat, leading a hound The hound dog barked and billy goat jumped And landed old Tucker on a stump Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Now Old Dan Tucker got drunk and fell In the fire and kicked up holy hell A red-hot coal got in his shoe And oh my Lord, the ashes flew Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Now Old Dan Tucker come to town Swinging them ladies all around First to the right and then to the left Then to the girl that he loved best Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Youre too late to get your supper

DNA, your natural ability, the study of your craft, a development of and devotion to an aesthetic philosophy, balls, naked desire for fame, love, adoration, attention, women, sex, a buck, and then if you wanna take it all the way til to the end of the night you will need a furious fire in your belly that just dont quit burnin. These are some of the elements that will come in handy should you come face to face with 80,000 screaming rock n roll fans. Because these are fans who are waiting for you to pull something out of your hat, out of thin air, something out of this world, something that before the faithful were gathered here today was just a song-fueled rumor. Now I come from a boardwalk town where everything is tinged with just a bit of fraud. So am I. 1972 I wasnt any racecar drivin rebel, I wasnt any corner street front - I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park, but, I held four clean aces. I had youth, I had a decade of hardcore bar band experience already behind me, I had a great group of musicians and friends who really knew my playing style, and I had a magic trick. Now Im here tonight to provide proof of life, to that ever-elusive, never completely believable, particularly these days us - thats my magic trick, and like all good magic tricks, it begins with a setup

Mr. Frog went a courting and he did ride, uh-huh Froggie went a courting and he did ride, uh-huh Froggie went a courting and he did ride A sword and a pistol by his side, uh-huh He went down to Miss Mouseys door, uh-huh He went down to Miss Mouseys door, uh-huh He went down to Miss Mouseys door Where hed often been before, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh He took Miss Mouse upon his knee, uh-huh Said, Miss Mouse, will you marry me? uh-huh Said, Miss Mouse will you marry me? uh-huh Without my uncle Rats consent I wouldnt marry the president, huh-uh, huh-uh, huh-uh Well, Uncle Rat, he gave his consent, uh-huh Yeah, Uncle Rat, he gave his consent, uh-huh Ole Rat he gave his consent And the weasel wrote the publishment, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Well now where will the wedding supper be? Uh-huh Where will the wedding supper be? Uh-huh Well where will the wedding supper be? Way down yonder in a hollow tree, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Yeah the first come in was a flying moth, uh-huh First come in was a flying moth, uh-huh First come in was a flying moth Who laid out the tablecloth, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Well the next to come in was a junie bug, uh-huh The next to come in was a junie bug, uh-huh Next to come in was a junie bug She brought the whiskey in a water jug, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Next to come in was a big black snake, uh-huh Next to come in was a big black snake, uh-huh Next to come in was a big black snake Chased them all into the lake, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf, uh-huh Little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf, uh-huh Little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf If you want any more, you can sing it yourself, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Yip, go! Next to come in was the old gray cat, uh-huh Next to come in was the old gray cat, uh-huh Next to come in was the old gray cat Swallowed the mouse and ate up the rat, uh-huh Mr. Frog went hopping up over the brook, uh-huh Mr. Frog went hopping up over the brook, uh-huh Mr. Frog went hopping up over the brook A lily-white duck come and swallowed him up, uh-huh A little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf, uh-huh A little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf, uh-huh A little piece of cornbread laying on a shelf If you want any more, you can sing it yourself, uh-huh

Its a fairytale so tragic Theres no prince to break the spell I dont believe in magic But for you, I will, for you I will If Im a fool, Ill be a fool Darling, for you Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through There aint no storybook story Theres no never-ending song Our happily ever after Darling Forever come and gone Im moving on If Im going to believe Ill put my faith Darling, in you Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through Sleeping beauty awakes from her dream With her lovers kiss on her lips Your kiss was taken from me Now all I have is this Your kiss, your kiss, your touch, your touch Your heart, your heart, your strength, your strength Your hope, your hope, your faith, your faith Your face, your face, your love, your love Your dream, your dream, your life, your life Im running through the forest With this wolf at my heels My king is lost at midnight When the tower bells peal Weve got no fairytale ending In Gods hands our fate is complete Your heavens here in my heart Our loves this dust beneath my feet Just this dust beneath my feet If Im going to live Ill lift my life Darling, to you Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through Im counting on a miracle Baby, Im counting on a miracle Darling, Im counting on a miracle To come through

War What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, war What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, come on War is something that i despise For it means destruction of innocent lives And thousands words in mothers cry When their sons go out to fight to give their lives War It aint nothing but a heart-breaker War Friend only to the undertaker War is the enemy of all mankind The thought of war it just blows my mind Handed down from generation to generation Induction, destruction, who wants to die? War has shattered many young mens dreams Made them disabled bitter and mean Life is too precious to be fighting wars each day War cant give life it can only take it away Peace, love and understanding it all There must be some place for these things today They say we must fight to keep our freedom But lord theres gotta be another way thats better than Im talking about war

Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it A salesman turned around said, boy, you break that thing you bought it You can look but you better not touch boy You can look but you better not touch Mess around and youll end up in dutch boy You can look but you better not, no you better not, no you better not touch Well I came home from work and I switched on Channel 5 There was a pretty little girly looking straight into my eyes Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen She didnt get me excited she just made me feel mean You can look but you better not touch boy You can look but you better not touch Mess around and youll end up in dutch boy You can look but you better not, no you better not, no you better not touch Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone I found a lovers rendezvous, the music low, set to park I heard a tapping on the window and a voice in the dark You can look but you better not touch boy You can look but you better not touch Mess around and youll end up in dutch boy You can look but you better not, no you better not, no you better not touch

I was born down by the river Where the dirty water flows And the cold wind cut through me It cut right through my clothes And the anger and the yearning Like fever in my veins Set the fire burning She came down from Knightstown With her hands hard from the line From the first time I laid eyes on her I knew that shed be mine Her father was a lawman He swore hed shoot me dead Cause he knew I wanted Jeannie And Id have her like I said Jeannie needs a shooter Shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter We met down by the river On the final day in May And when I leaned down to kiss her She did not turn away I drew out all my money And together we did vow To leave that very evening And get away somehow Jeannie needs a shooter Shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter The night was cold and rainy Down by the borderline I was riding hard to meet her When a shot rang out behind As I lay there in the darkness With a pistol by my side Jeannie and her father rode off into the night Jeannie needs a shooter

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire Im on fire Tell me now, baby, is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do I can take you higher Im on fire Its like someone took a knife, edgy and dull Dug a six-inch valley In the middle of my skull At night, I wake up with the sheets soaking wet Freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire Oh, oh, oh, Im on fire Oh, oh, oh, Im on fire Hey, little girl, is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire Oh, oh, oh, Im on fire And tell me now, baby, is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do I can take you higher Oh, oh, oh, Im on fire Im on fire Im on fire

We met out on open streets when we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat when you said I love you so Then little by little we choked out all the life that our love could hold Oh no Its like we had a noose and baby without check We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other, darlin, to say when Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end We didnt count tomorrows, we took what we could and baby we ran There was no time for sorrow, every place we went I held your hand And when the night closed in I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know But oh no Its like we had a noose and baby without check We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other, darlin, to say when Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end Our love has fallen around us like we said it never could We saw it happen to all the others but to us it never would Well how could something so bad, darling, come from something that was so good I dont know Its like we had a noose and baby without check We pulled until it grew tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other, darlin, to say when Well baby you can meet me tonight on the loose end On the loose end

Times were, though love was not enough So you said, Sorry, Johnny, Im gone, gone, gone You said my act was funny But we both knew what was missing, honey So you lit out on your own Now that pretty form that youve got, baby Will make sure you get along But youre gonna find out some day, honey When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, you aint nothing but alone Now I was young and pretty on the mean streets of the city And I fought to make em my home With just the shirt on my back, I left and swore Id never look back And, man, I was gone, gone, gone But theres things thatll knock you down you dont even see coming And send you crawling like a baby back home Youre gonna find out that day, sugar When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, you aint nothing but alone I knew some day your runnin would be through And youd think back on me and you And your love would be strong Youd forget all about the bad and think only of all the laughs that we had And youd want to come home Now it aint hard feelings or nothing, sugar That aint whats got me singing this song Its just nobody knows, honey, where love goes But when it goes its gone gone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, youre alone When youre alone, you aint nothing but alone

The runway rushed up at him as he felt the wheels touch down He stood out on the blacktop and took a taxi into town He got out down on Main Street and went into a local bar He bought a drink and found a seat in a corner off the dark Well she called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house She checked herself out in the dining room mirror And undid an extra button on her blouse He felt her lying next to him, the clock said 4:00 am He was staring at the ceiling He couldnt move his hands Oh mama mama mama come quick Ive got the shakes and Im gonna be sick Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night Hey now mama dont shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Well on his porch they stretched a banner that said Johnny Welcome Home Bobby pulled his Ford out of the garage and they polished up the chrome His mama said Johnny oh Johnny, Im so glad to have you back with me His pa said he was sure theyd give him his job back down at the factory Oh mama mama mama come quick Ive got the shakes and Im gonna be sick Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night Hey now mama dont shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Dont you shut out the light Well deep in a dark forest, a forest filled with rain Beyond a stretch of Maryland pines theres a river without a name In the cold black water Johnson Lineir stands He stares across the lights of the city and dreams of where hes been

Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? Oh, I, I got a bad desire Oh, Im on fire So tell me now baby, is he good to you? Can he do to you the things I can do? Oh, I can take you higher Ooh, Im on fire Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby Edgy and dull, and cut a six-inch valley Through the middle of my soul At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the Middle of my head Only you can cool my desire Oh, ooh, Im on fire Yeah, Im on fire Ooh, Im on fire Ooh, yeah, Im on fire Ooh, Im on fire

Sometimes I wake up in the morning And it cuts me like a knife I come face-to-face with my longing For another world, another life And a time that never was Oh, a time that never was We drove on, fueled not by the future But by a past we could never touch Forced to run head-on collisions Til we vanished in the dust Of a time that never was The time that never was So kiss me once more, baby One more kiss, baby, you must Dont ever let me forget, girl A time that never was A time that never was The time that never was Oh, the time that never was A time that never was

Some say freedom is free, but I tend to disagree I say freedom is won, through the barrel of a gun Had a brother in Iraq, he didnt come back I ask why oh why, do soldiers gotta die Some say freedom is free, but I tend to disagree I say freedom is won, through the blood of someones son Some say freedom is free, but I tend to disagree I say freedom is won, through the barrel of a gun Daddy died in Vietnam, he was killed at Khe Sanh I ask why oh why, do soldiers gotta die Some say freedom is free, but I tend to disagree I say freedom is won through the blood of someones son Some say freedom is free, but I tend to disagree I say freedom is won through the barrel of a gun Had a brother in Iraq, he didnt come back I ask why oh why, do soldiers gotta die

Well, we bursted out of class Had to get away from those fools We learned more from a 3-minute record, baby Than we ever learned in school Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound I can feel my heart begin to pound You say youre tired and you just want to close your eyes And follow your dreams down Well, we made a promise we swore wed always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender Like soldiers on the winters night With a vow to defend No retreat, baby, no surrender Well, now young faces grow sad and old And hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind And Im ready to grow young again And I hear your sisters voice calling us home Across the open yards Well even we can cut someplace of our own With these drums and these guitars Cause we made a promise we swore wed always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender Blood brothers on a summers night With a vow to defend No retreat, baby, no surrender Huh ah ah ah ah ah ah Huh ah ah ah ah ah ah Now out on the streets tonight the lights are growing dim And the walls of my room are closing in But its good to see your smiling face And to hear your voice again Now we can sleep in the twilight By the river bed With a wide open country in our hearts And these romantic dreams in our hands Cause we made a promise we swore wed always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender Blood brothers on a summers night With a vow to defend No retreat, baby, no surrender No retreat, baby, no surrender

I stood stone-like at midnight Suspended in my masquerade I combed my hair til it was just right And commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain And I walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone And came out with my soul untouched I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd But when they said, Sit down, I stood up Ooh, growin up Well, the flag of piracy flew from my mast And my sails were set wing to wing I had a jukebox graduate for first mate She couldnt sail but she sure could sing I pushed B-52 and bombed them with the blues With my gear set stubborn on standing I broke all the rules Strafed my old high school Never once gave thought to landing I hid in the clouded warmth of the crowd But when they said, Come down, I threw up Ooh, growin up Ive never held an honest job in my entire life. Ive never done any hard labor. Ive never worked nine to five. Ive never worked five days a week until right now. I dont like it. Ive never seen the inside of a factory and yet its all Ive ever written about. Standing before you is a man who has become wildly and absurdly successful writing about something of which he has had - absolutely no personal experience. I made it all up. Thats how good I am. Now how, Im sure youre wondering how did this great miracle come to pass? Well, in the beginning, there was a great darkness upon the waters, as a child, it was Christmas, your birthday, summer vacation, but the rest of life was a lifeless sucking black hole. A lifeless sucking black hole of homework, church, school, homework, church, school, homework, church, school, green beans, green beans, fucking green beans. But then, then a blinding flash of sanctified light, a human being, and just a kid, just a kid from the southern sticks, but uh, new kind of man, he split the world in two, and suddenly, a new world existed. The one below your belt. And above your heart. Sunday night in 1956 at 39 and a half Institute Street into a Coldwater flat and into the mind of a seven year old kid, the revolution had been televised! Right under the noses of the powers that be, who if theyd have known what was actually happening and the great changes, the changes that were about to come, they wouldve shut this shit down, or more likely, signed it up real quick, because we the unwatched, the invisible, the powerless, the kids, would want more. Now more life, more love, and more sex, and more hope, and more truth, and more power, and more soul, and most of all, more rock n roll. So I sat with my mom, my little seven year old mind on fire, staring into a blue tube as fun happened. Fun, the real kind. The joyful, life-affirming, hip-shaking, ass-quaking, guitar-playing, mind and heart-changing, race-challenging, soul-lifting bliss of a freer existence. A freer existence exploded into unsuspecting homes all across America, on a regular Sunday night. The world had fucking changed. In an instant. In a sweating wet orgasm of fun. And all you needed to do to get a taste of it, was to risk being your true self. Because the rock n roll genie had been let out of the bottle and he told us that if you were born in the U.S.A., my fellow citizens, these feelings, these freedoms, this fun, was your birth right. I listened, I believed, and I heard a mighty call to action. So, I studied my new hero. And I noted hes got the same two arms, two legs, two eyes that I got. Yes, hes a human Adonis, and Im - pathetically creepy. But Ill figure that part out, alright. The one thing he had that I didnt have was strapped around his waist. It was the guitar. The guitar, or as my father had christened it, That fucking guitar. But that fucking guitar was the key. It was the sword in the stone, it was the staff of righteousness, and they sell em at Western Auto downtown for 25 dollars! So I begged and I pleaded with my mother just to rent me, cause we couldnt afford to buy a guitar from Mike Deals Music School on South Street. One Saturday afternoon, I brought it home. And I sat on the living room couch. And I unlatched its full alligator case, and I slowly opened it up. And up from the green velvet lining came the sweet smell of a cherrywood cocktail of power, pleasure, salvation, and dreams and dreams and dreams. So I took lessons, dedicatedly, I took lessons for two solid weeks, and I quit. It was too fuckin hard. Learning the guitar, not only was it fucking hard, but the lessons were boring, just give me the three magic chords please! And let me twist! And shout. But I was a seven year old kid and my hands barely fit around the neck and I couldnt waste my mothers hard-earned cash week after week so very shortly I knew, that back it was gonna have to go. But the morning before I returned it, I strapped it on one more time. I took it out into the backyard where the neighborhood kids were. And I put on my first show. Woo! I slapped it. I shook it. I shouted. I sang voodoo nonsense. I burned a hole in the grass. I shook my little seven year old ass, woo! Most importantly, I posed with it. Thats the shit! I danced with it, I did everything but play it. I couldnt do that. I sucked so bad and the kids laughed and laughed at my silly ass. And we brought it back that afternoon. Ridin back home, with my mom in the car, sat in the backseat and I was quiet, was thinking, I was a little disappointed, in myself. But somewhere inside, somewhere inside I knew that for a moment, just a moment, in front of those kids in that backyard, I smelled blood I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere You know its really hard to hold your breath I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared I was the cosmic kid in full costume dress My feet they finally took root in the earth But I got me a nice little place in the stars I swear I found the key to the universe In the engine of an old parked car I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd But when they said, Sit down, I stood up Ooh, growin up Ooh, growin up And it was bye-bye New Jersey! Im gonna be airborne!

Charles, bring us home! I want you all to rise from your seats now please and join us! Come on now! Here we go! Well now, this little light of mine, yeah Im gonna let it shine Well now, this little light of mine, yeah Im gonna let it shine Well now, this little light of mine, yeah Im gonna let it shine Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day Gonna let my little light shine Well jesus gave me light , Im gonna let it shine Well now Jesus gave me light , and Im gonna let it shine Well now Jesus gave me light , Im gonna let it shine Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day Im gonna let my little light shine Well this little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine Well now, this little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine Well now, this little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day Gonna let my little light shine , Gave me the gift of love , Peace came from above , Told me to have more faith , Gave me a little more grace , Told me to watch and pray , Told me what to say , Gave me the power divine This little light of mine This little light of mine, whoa! Im gonna let it shine, whoa! This little light of mine, yeah! Im gonna let it shine, whoa! This little light of mine, this light of mine, Im gonna let it shine Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day Gonna let my little light shine, whoa! This little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine, whoa! This little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine, whoaaa! This little light of mine, Im gonna let it shine Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day Every day , every day , cant hold on to it Every day , every day , gotta save with someone Every day , every day , dont let go Every day , shine every day Im gonna let my little light shine, let my little light shine Yeah!

One, two, three, four Blind man waving by the side of the road In a flatbed Ford carrying a heavy load Sweet thing sipping on a blueberry wine On a flat black highway down in Carolina Black bird slipping in a sky of blue All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you, honey All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you There aint nothing in this world I can do about it All Im thinking about is you Little boy carrying a fishing pole Little girl picking berries from off of the vine Brown bag filled with a little green toad We hook him through the the lip and throw him off with a line Your sweet brown legs got me feeling so blue All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you, honey All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you There isnt nothing in this world I can do about it All Im thinking about is you Black car shiny on a Sunday morn Mama go to church now, Mama go to church now Friday night and Daddys shirt is torn Daddys going downtown, Daddys going downtown Aint no one understand the sweet thing you do All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you, honey All Im thinking about is you, baby All Im thinking about is you Aint nothing in this world I can do about it All Im thinking about is you Field turned up, the seed is sowed Rain coming in from over across the road Big black curtain coming across the field Blind will see, the lame will be healed Brown-eyed girl, turn my back on you, now its lonely All Im thinking about is you, baby And all Im thinking about is you All Im thinking about is you All Im thinking about is you There aint nothing in this world take away these blues All Im thinking about is you All Im thinking about is you All Im thinking about is you Honey, all Im thinking about is you Yeah, all Im thinking about is you Aint nothing in this world I can do about it All Im thinking about is you

Every cloud has a silver lining, every dog has his day She said Now dont say nothing If you dont have something nice to say The tough now they get going when the going gets tough But for you, my best was never good enough Now dont try for a home run, baby If you can get the job done with a hit Remember, a quitter never wins And a winner never quits The sun doesnt shine on a sleeping dogs ass And all the rest of that stuff But for you, my best was never good enough If God gives you nothing but lemons, then you make some lemonade The early bird catches the fucking worm, Rome wasnt built in a day Now lifes like a box of chocolates You never know what youre going to get Stupid is as stupid does, and all the rest of that shit Come on pretty baby, call my bluff But for you, my best was never good enough

With the cornfields as my witness Ive run out of brain Come on down to the place where Im drinking Come on down like the rain And if you dont come quick Im gonna dry up in this world I think its all coming down All cause of a girl And its coming to me Like a baseball to a bat Im only hitting .118 And Im wondering where youre at And the oak on the bar Is like the oak in my heart And like the oak buried deep down in the sand I got a water at heart... And it goes in through my mouth And it slides into my veins And it takes away my head I dont have to feel the same And my eyes go red And my skin goes warm And at the end of the night Im just cryin in my bed Some call it sick Some call it pain Some just laugh at it But honey, its like the rain Its like when thirsty And theres none in the well Its like bringing darkness When darkness has already fell Its like breaking dreams of a broken man And nothing makes it come on down Like the rain came...

For fifteen years Le Bin Son Fought side by side with the Americans In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam In 75 Saigon fell and he left his command And brought his family to the promised land Seabrook, Texas and the small towns in the Gulf of Mexico It was delta country and reminded him of home He worked as a machinist, put his money away And bought a shrimp boat with his cousin And together they harvested Galveston Bay In the morning before the sun come up Hed kiss his sleeping daughter Steer out through the channel And cast his nets into the water Billy Sutter fought with Charlie Company In the highlands of Quang Tri He was wounded in the battle of Chu Lai Shipped home in 68 There he married and worked the gulf fishing grounds In a boat that had been his fathers In the morning hed kiss his sleeping son And cast his nets into the water Billy sat in front of his TV as the South fell And the communists rolled into Saigon He and his friends watched as the refugees came Settled on the same streets and worked the coast theyd grew up on Soon in the bars around the harbor was talk Of America for Americans Someone said You want them out, you got to burn them out And brought in the Texas Klan One humid Texas night there were three shadows on the harbor Come to burn the Vietnamese boats into the sea In the fires light shots rang out Two Texans lay dead on the ground Le stood with a pistol in his hand A jury acquitted him in self-defense As before the judge he did stand But as Le walked down the courthouse steps Billy said My friend youre a dead man One late summer night Le stood watch along the waterside Billy stood in the shadows His Ka-Bar knife in his hand And the moon slipped behind the clouds Le lit a cigarette, the bay was still as glass As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocket Took a breath and let him pass In the early darkness, Billy rose up Went into the kitchen for a drink of water Kissed his sleeping wife Headed into the channel And cast his nets into the water Of Galveston Bay

Got a 32 Ford, shes a 318 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor Shes waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch And he rides with me from town to town We only run for the money got no strings attached We shut em up and we shut em down Tonight tonight the strips just right I wanna blow em all out of their seats Well come on out around the world Were goin racin in the street Well we take all the action we can meet And we cover all the northeast states And when the strip shuts down we run em in the street From the back roads to the turnpike gates Well now some guys they do it for the money Other guys do it cause they dont know what else they can do Well and they just hang around in an empty home Waking up in a world that somebody else owns And tonight tonight the strips just right I wanna blow em off in my first heat Well now summers here and the time is right For racin in the street Well I met her on the strip three years ago In a Camaro with this dude from L.A And I blew that Camaro off my back And I stole that little girl away But now there wrinkles round my babys eyes And she cries herself to sleep at night And when I come home the house is dark She sighs hey baby did you make it all right? She sits on the porch of her daddys house Oh but honey your pretty dress is torn She stared off alone into the night With the eyes of one who hates for just being born For all the blown-off strangers and hot rod angels Stumbling through this promised land Tonight my baby and me were gonna ride to the sea And wash these sins off our hands Tonight tonight the strips just right I wanna blow em off in my first heat Well come on out the time is right Were goin racin in the street

Out here the nights are long, the days are lonely I think of you and Im working on a dream Im working on a dream Now the cards Ive drawns a rough hand, darling I straighten the back and Im working on a dream Im working on a dream Come on! Im working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away Im working on a dream And I know it will be mine someday Rain pouring down, I swing my hammer My hands are rough from working on a dream Im working on a dream Lets go! Im working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away Im working on a dream And I know it will be mine someday Im working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away Im working on a dream And I know it will be mine someday The sun rise come, I climb the ladder The new day breaks and Im working on a dream Im working on a dream Im working on a dream Im working on a dream Hey! Im working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away Im working on a dream And I know it will be mine someday Im working on a dream Though sometimes it feels so far away Im working on a dream And I know it will be mine someday

Jole Blon, Delta flower Youre my darling Youre my sunshine I love you, I adore you And I promise to be true In the evening, in the shadows Ill be waiting by the river When I hear your sweet voice I rejoice, I save my kisses for you Sha la la, sha la la Jole Blon, Cajun angel Let me tell you that I love you In the spring, you Swore wed be married But Im waiting still for you When your hair turns to silver Ill still call you Delta flower Pretty Blon, Ill still love you And I will wait for you Sha la la, sha la la Well go away from this city Well go back, girl, back to our home Some day I promise Ill take you Cause so far away weve roamed And the bells, they will ring From the mountain through the valleys On the banks of the river There you will be my bride Sha la la, sha la la

Trust uh, trust in a relationships a fragile thing. Uh, always been a little complicated for me cause trust requires allowing others to see as much of our real selves as we have the courage to reveal. But I mean uh, I dont wanna see my real self, why would, why would others want to? But it means allowing others to see behind our many masks, masks we wear, overcomin that fear, or rather learning how to love and how to trust in spite of it. It takes a little courage, and a very strong partner. Cause in this life you make your choices and you take your stand and you awaken from that youthful spell of immortality where it feels like the roads gonna go on forever. And you walk alongside your chosen partner with the clock ticking, and you recognize that life is finite, that youve got just so much time, and so together, you name the things thatll give your life in that time its meaning, its purpose, its fullness, its, its very reality. And this is what you build together, this is, what your love consists of. This is what you, this is your life, ya know. And these are things that you can hold onto when the storms come, as they will

You got your book baby with all your fears Let me honey and Ill catch your tears Ill take your sorrow if you want me to Come tomorrow Thats what Ill do Listen to me Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Well you say you got no new dreams to touch You feel like a stranger babe who knows too much You come home late and get undressed You lie in bed and feel this emptiness Well listen to me Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Till every river it runs dry Until the suns torn from the sky Till every feel youve felt burst free Gone tumblin down into the sea Listen to me Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart Janey dont you lose heart

In the tall grass we held hands Down by the river we made plans Of what would and would not be It was impossible to see Their black boots shone in the sun They were waiting on the Annandale train when my baby come Little girl with the long black hair Do you know what lies ’neath the long coats that they wear Once I swore you’d ride with me Down where this river meets the sea Over these dark hills I walk along To lie with you on a bed of stone River blood red with the years You can flood this valley with a thousand tears Wash away all that’s been found But you’ll never wash away the sound Of the stray bullet that shot my baby down Of the stray bullet that shot my baby down Of the stray bullet that shot my baby down Of the stray bullet that shot my baby down

White roses and misty blue eyes Red mornins and nothing but grey skies A cup of coffee, your heart shot clean through Jacket you bought me gone daisy grey-blue Youre smiling now, but youll find out Theyll use you up and spit you out now Your heads spinning in diamonds and clouds But pretty soon it turns out Youll be coming down now, baby Youll be coming down What goes around, it comes around and Youll be coming down Easy street, a quick buck, and true lies Smiles as thin as those dusky blue skies A silver plate of pearls, my golden child Its all yours, at least for a little while Youll be fine long as your pretty face holds out Then its going to get pretty cold out An endless stream of stars shooting by You got your hopes on high Youll be coming down now, baby Youll be coming down What goes around, it comes around and Youll be coming down For a while youll go sparkling by Just another pretty thing on high... Like a thief on Sunday morning It all falls apart with no warning Satin skys gone candy-apple green The crushed metal of your little flying machine Youll be coming down now, baby Youll be coming down What goes around, it comes around and Youll be coming down Youll be coming down now, baby Youll be coming down What goes around, it comes around and Youll be coming down

Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasin sneezin and wheezin, the calliope fell to the ground The calliope fell to the ground Yeah, she was blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I got what it takes She said Ill turn you on, sonny, to something strong, play the song with the funky breaks And go-cart Mozart was checkin out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride The calliope crashed to the ground Yeah, she was blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with the teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasin sneezin and wheezin, the calliope fell to the ground Now Scott with a slingshot finially found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand And some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddys within earshot save the buckshot, turn up the band Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes She said Ill turn you on, sonny, to something strong She got down but she never got tired Shes gonna make it through the night

Tonight my bag is packed Tomorrow Ill walk these tracks That will lead me across the border Tomorrow my love and I Will sleep beneath auburn skies Somewhere across the border Well leave behind my dear The pain and sadness we found here And well drink from the Bravos muddy water Where the sky grows gray and wide Well meet on the other side There, across the border For you Ill build a house High upon a grassy hill Somewhere across the border Where pain and memory Pain and memory have been stilled There, across the border And sweet blossoms fill the air Pastures of gold and green Roll down into cool clear waters And in your arms beneath open skies Ill kiss the sorrow from your eyes There, across the border Tonight well sing the songs Ill dream of you, my corazón And tomorrow my heart will be strong And may the saints blessing and grace Carry me safely into your arms There, across the border For what are we Without hope in our hearts That someday well drink from Gods blessed waters And eat the fruit from the vine I know love and fortune will be mine Somewhere across the border

Take me now, baby here as I am Pull me close, try to understand Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel when Im in your hands Take my hand, come undercover They cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because thе night belongs to us How I doubt when Im alone Lovе is a ring on the telephone Love is an angel disguised as lust Here in our bed til the morning comes Come on now, try and understand The way I feel under your command Take my hand as the sun descends They cant touch you now, cant touch you now, cant touch you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us With love we sleep With doubt the vicious circle turns and burns Without you I cannot live Forgive, the yearning burning I believe its time, too real to feel So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now Oh, because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers If we believe in the night we trust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

Youre riding in my car I turn on the radio Im pulling you closer But you keep telling me no You say you dont like it But I know that youre a liar Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire Fire, la la la la, fire Late at night Youre taking me home You say you wanna stay But I want you to go I say I dont love you But you know Im a liar Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire Fire Fire You had a hold on me Right from the start A grip so tight I couldnt tear it apart My nerves all jumpin Actin like a fool Your kisses might burn But my heart... Stays Cool Well, Romeo and Juliet Samson and Delilah Baby, you can bet They were burnin with desire If I say split If you say split Then you know that Id be lyin I know that youd be lyin Cause when we kiss Ooh, fire Fire Fire Fire When we kiss Im on fire Your tenderness Gives me desire I cant resist Your tender lips When we kiss Ooh Fire Fire Fire Fire When we kiss Im on fire Your tenderness Gives me desire I cant resist Your tender lips When we kiss Ooh Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire

Now everybody, everybody has a love-hate relationship with their hometown. Its just built into the equation of growing up. If you take me, Im Mr. Born to Run. Im Mr. Thunder Fucking Road. I was born to run, not to stay My home, New Jersey - its a death trap. Its a suicide rap. Listen to the lyrics, alright. I had to get out, I gotta hit the highway, Im a roadrunner man, I got the white line fever in my veins, I am gonna bring my girl and I have had enough, of the shit that this place dishes out. I am gonna run, run, run, and Im - well Im never coming back I currently live ten minutes from my hometown. But uh, born to come back, or uh - who wouldve bought that shit? Nobody And in our front yard, only a few feet from our front porch stood the grandest tree in town. It was a towering beautiful copper beach tree, and on sunny days, I lived under its branches, its roots, where a fort for my soldiers and a corral for my horses, and I was the first on my block, to climb high into its upper reaches, leaving behind a world that, I didnt care for much already And up near the top, I had the wind in my face and I had all the dreaming room that you could want. On slow summer nights, Id sit beneath its arms with my pals like the cavalry at dusk, just listening, listening, for the evening bells of the ice cream man. My grandmothers voice calling me into bed I lived on Randolph Street, but my sister Virginia, she was a year younger than me, my parents Adele and Douglas, my grandparents Fred and Alice, and my trusty dog Saddle. We lived spitting distance from the Catholic church, the priests rectory, the nuns convent, the Saint Rose of Lima Grammar School, all of it, just a footballs toss away, across the field of wild grass. I literally grew up surrounded by God Surrounded by God, and my relatives, cause we had cousins and aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpas and great grandmas and great grandpas, so all of us were jammed into five little houses on two adjoining streets, and when the church bells rang, the whole clan would hustle up the street to stand witness to every wedding and every funeral that arrived like a state occasion, in our little neighborhood

For two days the river keeps you down Then you rise to the light without a sound Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards The turtles eat the skin from your eyes, so they lay open to the stars Your clothes give way to the current and river stone Till every trace of who you ever were is gone And the things of the earth, they make their claim That the things of heaven may do the same Goodbye, my darling For your love, I give God thanks Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros banks Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds I walk on twine and tire tread Pockets full of dust, my mouth filled with cool stone The pale moon opens the earth to its bones I long, my darling, for your kiss For your sweet love, I give God thanks The touch of your loving fingertips Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros banks Your sweet memory comes on the evening wind I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again The lights of Brownsville across the river shine A shout rings out, into the silty red river, I dive I long, my darling, for your kiss For your sweet love, I give God thanks A touch of your loving fingertips Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros banks

I got a 007 watch and its a one and only Its got a I-Spy beeper that tells me when youre lonely I got a Batmobile so I can reach ya in a fast shake When your worlds in crisis of an impending heartbreak Now dont you call James Bond or Secret Agent Man Cause they cant do it, like I can Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker - every day Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker If youre hanging from a cliff or youre tied to the tracks, girl Columbo split and you cant find Kojak True love is broken and your tears are falling faster Youre suffering from a pain in your heart or some other natural disaster Now I dont care what kind of shape youre in If they put up a roadblock, Ill parachute in Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker - Im in love Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker - every day Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker - with you So you fell for some jerk who was tall, dark and handsome Then he kidnapped your heart and now hes holding it for ransom Well, like a mission impossible Im gonna go and get it back You know I would have taken better care of it, baby, than that Sometimes I get so hot girl, well, I cant talk But when Im with you I cool off, and I walk Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker, and I talk Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker, every day Im a rocker, baby, Im a rocker, every day

Well Ive been a losin gambler Just throwin snake eyes Love aint got me downhearted I know up around the corner lies My fools paradise In just another roll of the dice All my elevens and sevens been comin up Sixes and nines But since I fell for you baby Been comin on changin times Theyre waitin over the rise Just another roll of the dice Ive stumbled and I know I made my mistakes But tonight Im gonna be playin for all of the stakes Well its never too late so come on girl The tables are waiting You and me and lady luck well tonight Well be celebrating Drinkin champagne on ice In just another roll of the dice High-rollers lay down your bets and Ill raise em Well I know the odds aint in my favor Maybe Im just a clown throwin down Lookin to come up busted Im a thief in the house of love And I cant be trusted Well Ill be makin my heist In just another roll of the dice Just another roll of the dice Move on up Come on seven Roll me baby In this fools heaven

Your scrapbooks filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby dont put my picture in there with them Dont make us some little girls dream that cant ever come true That only serves to hurt and make you cry like you do Well baby dont do it to me and I wont do it to you You see all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home But when the action fades youre left all alone You deserve better than this, little girl, cant you see that you do Do you need somebody to prove it to you? Well you prove it to me and Ill prove it to you Now every night you go out looking for true loves satisfaction But in the morning you end up settling for just lights, camera, action And another cameo role with some bit player youre befriending Youre gonna go broken-hearted looking for that happy ending Well girl youre gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold Cryin alone in the theater as the credits roll You say Ill be like those other guys Who filled your head with pretty lies And dreams that can never come true Well baby you be true to me And Ill be true to you

Tonight down on Union Street Im thinking back baby to you and me The way you used to be Your words come back to me From passing cars Voices sing out And empty bars Where guitars ring out Wed walk and talk about Whod be the ones to get out You said None but the brave No one baby but the brave Those strong enough to save Something from what they gave None but the brave No one baby but the brave In my dreams these nights I see you my friend The way you looked back then On a night like this I know that girl no longer exists Except for a moment in some strangers eyes Or in the nameless girls in cars rushing by Thats where I find you tonight And in my heart you still survive None but the brave No one baby but the brave Those strong enough to save Something from the love they gave None but the brave No one baby but the brave Now tonight once more I search every face on that crowded floor Looking for, I dont know what for Just waitin to see you come walkin through that door Theres a girl standing by the band She reminds me of you and I ask her to dance As the drummer counts away I take her hand, we move away Tonight, now I see old friends Caught in a game theyve got no chance to win Gettin beat and then playin again Til their strength gives out or their heart gives in Now whos the man who thinks he can decide Whose dreams will live and whos shall be pushed aside Has he ever walked down these streets at night and looked into the eyes of None but the brave No one baby but the brave Those strong enough to save Something from the love they gave None but the brave

An icy wind burns and scars Rushes in like a fallen star Through the narrow space between these bars Looking down on prison grove Dug in, hunkered down Hours race without a sound Gonna carry me to where Im bound Looking down on prison grove Iron will hard as rock Hold me up for the fateful knock When they walk me down in a mortal lock Out on prison grove Shine on all these broken lives Shine on, shine the light on me Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Knick knack paddy wack They say, Youll hear your own bones crack When they bend you back to Bible black Then youll find your love Some folks have to die too hard Some folks have to cry too hard Take one last look at the prison yard Goodbye prison grove Shine on all these broken lives Shine on, shine the light on me Hey Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh, oh Oh-oh-oh-oh

Every year when summer comes around They stretch a banner cross the main street in town You can feel somethins happenin in the air Well, from Carols house up on Telegraph Hill You can see the lights going up out in Soldiers Field Getting ready, for the county fair County fair, county fair Everybody in townll be there So come on, hey were goin down there Little girl with the long blond hair Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears Baby, down at the country fair Now youll be hangin tight when we hit the top And that rollercoasters ready to drop And your braggin, how you wasnt even scared Well baby you know I just love the sound Of that pipe organ on the merry-go-round Baby, down at the county fair County fair, county fair Everybody in townll be there So come on, hey were goin down there Little girl with the long blond hair Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears Baby, down at the country fair At the north end of the field they set up a stand And they got a little rock and roll band People dancin out in the open air Its James Young and the Immortal Ones Two guitars, bass and drums Just rockin, down at the county fair County fair, county fair Everybody in townll be there So come on, were goin down there Little girl with the long blond hair Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears Baby, down at the county fair Now its getting late before we head back to town We let that fortune wheel spin around Come on mister tell me whats waiting out there On my way out I steal a kiss in the dark Hope I can remember where our cars parked Baby, out at the county fair Now off down the highway theres the last stream of cars We sit a while in my front yard With the radio playin soft and low I pull Carol close to my heart And I lean back and stare up at the stars Oh I wish, Id never have to let this moment go

Last night I dreamed that I was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the darkness, darkness falls I heard the wind rustling through the trees And ghostly voices rose from the fields I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path With the devil snappin at my heels I broke through the trees and there in the night My father’s house stood shining hard and bright The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms But I ran til I fell shaking in his arms I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again tear us from each others hearts I got dressed and to his house I did ride From out on the road I could see its windows shining in light I walked up the steps and I stood on the porch And a woman I didn’t recognize she came and spoke to me through a chained door I told her my story and who Id come for She said Im sorry son, but no one by that name Lives here anymore Now those whose love we wanted but didnt get, we emulate them. Thats the only way we have, in our power, to get the closeness and love that we needed and desired. So when I was a young man looking for a voice to meld with mine, to sing my songs and to tell my stories, well I chose my fathers voice. Because there was something sacred in it to me. And when I went looking for something to wear, I put on a factory workers clothes, because they were my dads clothes. And all we know about manhood is what we have seen and what we have learned from our fathers, and my father was my hero. And my greatest foe. Not long after he died, I had this dream, I’m on stage, I’m in front of thousands of people, and my dads back from the dead and he’s sitting in the audience and suddenly Im kneeling next to him in the aisle, and for a moment we both watched the man on fire on stage. And then my dad who for years, he sat at the kitchen table, unreachable, but I was too young, I was too stupid to understand was his depression. Well I kneel next to him in the aisle, and I brush his forearm, and I say, Look dad. That guy on stage - thats how I see you. My fathers house shines hard and bright It stands like a beacon calling me in the night Calling and calling so cold and alone Shining ’cross this dark highway Where our sins lie unatoned

Well, the doctor comes round here with his face all bright And he says, In a little while, youll be alright All he gives is a humbug pill A dose of dope and a great big bill Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Me n my old school pals had some mighty high times down here And what happened to you poor black folks, well, it just aint fair He took a look around, gave a little pep talk Said, Im with you; then he took a little walk Tell me how can a poor man stand such times and live? Theres bodies floatin on Canal and the levees gone to hell Martha, get me my sixteen gauge and some dry shells Them whos got, got out of town And them who aint got left to drown Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Go head! Got family scattered from Texas all the way to Baltimore Yeah, and I aint got no home in this world no more Gonna be a judgment, thats a fact A righteous train rollin down this track Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?

Well, Jesus was an only son As he walked up Calvary Hill His mother Mary walking beside him In the path where his blood spilled Jesus was an only son In the hills of Nazareth As he lay reading the Psalms of David At his mothers feet A mother prays, Sleep tight, my child, sleep well For Ill be at your side That no shadow, no darkness, no tolling bell Shall pierce your dreams this night In the garden at Gethsemane He prayed for the life hed never live He beseeched his Heavenly Father to remove The cup of death from his lips Now theres a loss that can never be replaced A destination that can never be reached A light youll never find in anothers face A sea whose distance cannot be breached Well, Jesus kissed his mothers hands Whispered, Mother, still your tears For remember the soul of the universe Willed a world and it appeared

Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter Away you rolling river Ill take her across the water Away, bound away Across the wide Missouri My Shenandoah, I long to meet you Away you rolling river Ill not deceive you Away, bound away Across the wide Missouri For seven years Ive been a roller Away you rolling river Seven years Ive been a roller Away, bound away Across the wide Missouri Shenandoah, I love your daughter The way you rolling river Ill take her across the water Away, bound away Across the wide Missouri

Down at the court house theyre ringing the flag down Long black line of cars snaking slow through town Red sheets snapping on the line With this ring will you be mine The fuse is burning Shut out the lights The fuse is burning Come on let me do you right Trees on fire with the first falls frost Long black line in front of Holy Cross Blood moon rising in a sky of black dust Tell me baby, who do you trust? The fuse is burning Shut out the lights The fuse is burning Come on let me do you right Tires on the highway hissing that somethings coming You can feel the wires in the tree tops humming Devils on the horizon line Your kiss and Im alive Quiet afternoon in the empty house On the edge of the bed, you slip off your blouse The room is burning with the noon sun Your bittersweet taste on my tongue The fuse is burning Shut out the lights The fuse is burning Come on let me do you right

I threw my robe on in the morning Watched the ring on the stove turn red Stared hypnotized into a cup of coffee Pulled on my boots and made the bed Screen door hanging off its hinges Kept banging me awake all night As I look out the window The only thing in sight Is dry lightning on the horizon line Just dry lightning and you on my mind I chased the heat of her blood Like it was the holy grail Descend beautiful spirit Into the evening pale Her appaloosas Kicking in the corral smelling rain Theres a low thunder rolling Across the mesquite plain Is dry lightning on the horizon line Just dry lightning and you on my mind Id drive down to Alvarado Street Where shed dance to make ends meet Id spend the night over my gin As shed talk to her men Well, the piss yellow sun Comes bringing up the day She said Aint nobody can give nobody What they really need anyway Well, you get so sick of the fighting You lose your fear of the end But I cant lose your memory And the sweet smell of your skin Is dry lightning on the horizon line Just dry lightning and you on my mind

When I get home from my job I turn on my TV But I cant keep my mind on the show When I lay down at night, oh, I cant get no sleep So I turn on my radio But the only sound I hear is you whisperin in my ear The words that you used to say Now my days grow longer Cause my love grows stronger And the fever gets worse And Ive got the fever for this girl Got the fever, oh, Ive got the fever Nothing that a po boy can do When hes got the fever for this girl Got the fever, oh, Ive got the fever Left this little boy blue I can remember coming home See you standing at the stove With the dishes on the table Dinner ready to go Well maybe go out to a movie show Something that you like to see Well now you are my sun in the morning And my moon at night I think about you baby I feel alright Now my days grow longer Cause my love grows stronger And the fever gets worse And Ive got the fever for this girl

Hey, little boy, is your mama home? Did she go and leave you all alone? Oh, got a bad desire Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire Tell me now, baby, is she good to you? Does she do to you the things that I do? Oh, I can take you higher Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire Sometimes its like someone took a knife, edgy and blunt Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head But you, you cool my desire Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and blunt Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head But you, you cool my desire Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and blunt Put a six inch valley through the middle of my soul Oh, at night I lay at home with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head But you, you cool my desire Oh, Im on fire

This is a song that sort of explains that whole project We are all traveling in the footsteps Of those thatd come before And well all be reunited On that new and sunlit shore When the saints go marching in When the saints go marching in Lord, how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in And when the sun refuses to shine When the sun refuses to shine Lord, how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in Oh when the saints go marching in Oh when the saints go marching in Lord, how I want to be there on that morning When the saints go marching in When the trumpet sounds its call When the trumpet sounds its call Oh, how I want to be in that number When the trumpet sounds its call When the saints go marching in When the saints go marching in Lord, how I want to be in that number Oh when the saints go marching in Now some say, some say this world of trouble Is the only world well ever see But Im waiting for that morning When the new world is revealed Oh when the new world is revealed Oh when the new world is revealed Lord, how I want to be there on that morning When the new world is revealed Oh when the saints When the saints Go marching in Go marching in When the saints When the saints Go marching in Go marching in Lord I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in Lord, how I want Lord, how I want Be in that number To be in that number When the saints go marching in Yes, Marc Anthony Thompson! Miss Patti Scialfa!

I always, I always thought I was a typical American, so I fought my whole life and I studied and I played and I worked, cause I wanted to hear and I wanted to know the whole American story. I wanted to know my story, and your story. Felt like I needed to understand as much of it as I could in order to understand myself. Ya know, who was I? And where I came from and what that meant. What did it mean to my family? Where was I going? And where were we going together as a people? And then, and, what did it mean to be an American? And to be a part of that story, in this place, and in this time. I wanted to be able to celebrate and honor its beauty, its power, and I wanted to be able to be a critical voice when I thought that thats what the times called for. But most of all, more than anything else, I wanted to be able to tell that story well to you. That was my young promise to myself, and this was my young promise to you. From when I was a very young man, I took my fun very seriously, ya know. And this is what I pursue as my service, I still believe in it as such. This is what I have presented to you all these years as my long and noisy prayer, as my magic trick. I wanted, I wanted to rock your very soul, and have you bring it home and pass it on, and I wanted it to be sung and altered by you and your folks and your children, should they be interested. I wanted it to be something you could call on when things were good, and uh, and when things were not so good - that it might strengthen, help make sense of your story and your life the way that you strengthen me and help me make sense of my life. Youve provided me with purpose, with meaning, and with a great great amount of joy. I hope Ive done that for you and that Ive been a good travelling companion. Remember that the future is not yet written. So when things look dark, do as my mighty mom would insist. Lace up your dancing shoes, and get to work

I got my discharge from Fort Irwin Took a place on the San Diego county line Felt funny being a civilian again Itd been some time My wife had died a year ago I was still trying to find my way back whole Went to work for the INS on the line With the California border patrol Bobby Ramirez was a ten-year veteran We became friends His family was from Guanajuato So the job, it was different for him He said, They risk death in the deserts and mountains Pay all they got to the smugglers rings We send them home, and they come right back again Carl, hunger is a powerful thing. Well, I was good at doing what I was told Kept my uniform pressed and clean At night I chased their shadows Through the arroyos and ravines Drug runners, farmers with their families Young women with little children by their sides Come night wed wait out in the canyons And try to keep them from crossing the line Well, the first time that I saw her She was in the holding pen Our eyes met and she looked away Then she looked back again Her hair was black as coal Her eyes reminded me of what Id lost She had a young child crying in her arms I asked, Señora, is there anything I can do? Theres a bar in Tijuana Where me and Bobby drink alongside The same people wed sent back the day before We met there, she said her name was Louisa She was from Sonora and had just come north We danced, and I held her in my arms And I knew what I would do She said she had some family in Madera county If she, her child and younger brother could just get through At night, they come across the levee In the searchlights dusty glow Wed rush them in our Broncos Force them back down into the river below She climbed into my truck She leaned toward me and we kissed As we drove, her brothers shirt slipped open And I saw the tape across his chest We were just about on the highway When Bobbys jeep come up in the dust on my right I pulled over and let my engine run and stepped out into his lights I felt myself moving My gun resting beneath my hand We stood there staring at each other As off through the arroyo she ran Bobby Ramirez, he never said nothing Six months later, I left the line I drifted to the central valley And took what work that I could find At night I searched the local bars And the migrant towns Looking for my Louisa With the black hair falling down

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed Come on now, try and understand The way I feel when Im in your hands Take my hand, come under cover They cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night Because the night belongs to us Have a doubt, baby, when Im alone Love is a ring; a telephone Love is an angel, disguised as lust Here in our beds til the morning comes Come on now, try and understand The way I feel, under your command Take my hand, as the sun descends They cant touch you now, cant touch you now, cant touch you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to us

Saigon, it was all gone The same Coke machines As the streets I grew on Down in a mesquite canyon We come walking along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge Campsites an hours walk from the nearest road to town Up here theres too much brush and canyon For the CHP choppers to touch down Aint lookin for nothin, just wanna live Me and the brothers under the bridge Come the Santa Anas, man, that dry brushll light Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge Had enough of town and the street life Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someones knife Now I dont want no trouble And I aint got none to give Me and the brothers under the bridge I come home in 72 You were just a beautiful light In your mamas dark eyes of blue I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid Me and the brothers under the bridge Come Veterans Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues I held your mothers hand When they passed with the red, white and blue One minute youre right there, and something slips

Baby, Ive been down, but never this down Ive been lost, but never this lost This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart Baby, Ive been low, but never this low I’ve had my faith shaken but never hopeless This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart I havent always been strong, but never felt so weak All of my prayers, gone for nothing Ive been without love, but never forsaken Now the morning sun, the morning sun is breaking This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart

Let us pause in lifes pleasures and count its many tears While brace against the hard wind at our door Theres a song that will linger forever in our ears Woah, hard times come again no more Its the song of the tired and the weary Hard times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around door Woah, hard times come again no more While we seek mirth and beauty, and music light and gay There are frail forms waiting at the door Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks say Oh, hard times come again no more Its the song of the tired and the weary Hard times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around door Woah, hard times come again no more Soozie! Its the song of the tired and the weary Hard times, hard times, come again no more Many days you have lingered around door Ho, hard times come again no more Oh, hard times come again no more Oh, hard times come again no more Oh, hard times come again no more

I been watching you a long time Trying to figure out where and when We been moving down that same line Time is now maybe we could get skin to skin Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of coming to an end Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of slipping away Lets be friends, baby, lets be friends I know were different you and me Got a different way of walking The time has come to let the past be history Yeah, if we could just start talking Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of coming to an end Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of slipping away Lets be friends, baby, lets be friends Do, do do doo do do do doo Do, do do doo do do do doo Do, do do doo do do do doo Lets be friends Do, do do doo do do do doo Do, do do doo do do do doo Do, do do doo do do do doo Lets be friends Theres a lot of talk going around you Let them talk, you know youre the only one Theres a lot of walls need tearing down Together we could take them down one by one Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of coming to an end Dont know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of slipping away Lets be friends, baby, lets be friends

You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face And you try to see, girl The way things were when we were at your place In the days it was just you and me, girl And you cry because things aint like before Well dont you know they cant be that way anymore But dont worry baby I cant talk now, Im not alone So put your ear close to the phone Cause this is the last dance This is the last chance for hearts of stone If there was something, baby, that I could do Something that would last, honey, I would But we all know, girl, especially you do How you cant return to your past, no So girl close your eyes and Ill be there Hold me once more and we can go anywhere Ah, we could I cant talk now, Im not alone So put your ear close to the phone Cause this is the last dance This is the last chance for hearts of stone And you cry because things aint like before Well dont you know they cant be like that anymore

Well I found me a girl and I settled down In a pretty little house in a pretty little town We got married and promised never to part Then little by little we drifted from each other’s hearts Now I’m drivin’ a stolen car on a pitch-black night And I’m doin’ my best to make it through Well I’m just sittin’ down here at the Stanton light I wanna get caught but I never do At first I thought it was just restlessness That would fade as time went by and our love grew deep But in the end it was something more, I guess That tore us apart and made us weep And I’m drivin’ a stolen car waitin’ on that little red light I keep tellin’ myself everything’s gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear That in this darkness I might just disappear She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote When our love was young and we were bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel a hundred years old There’s a river runs by that little town Down into the sea It was there in the shade I lay my body down As she flowed on so effortlessly Now there’s a party tonight out at County Line There’ll be dancing down at Seven Trees From these banks I can see those party lights shine Maybe she’s there, maybe she’s looking for me Last night I dreamed I made the call I swore to return and stay forevermore Once again we stood on the wedding steps at Victory Hall And walked arm in arm through the chapel door I can remember how good I felt inside When the preacher said “Son, you may kiss the bride” But as I leaned over to touch her pretty lips I felt it all slip away through my fingertips And I’m drivin’ a stolen car through a pitch-black night I keep tellin’ myself everything’s gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear No matter what I do or where I drive Nobody ever sees me when I ride by

Theres a cross up yonder on Calvary Hill Theres a slip of blood on a silver knife Theres a graveyard kid down below Where at night the dead come to life Well above the stars they crackle and fire A dead mans moon throws seven rings We’d put our ears to the cold grave stones This is the song they’d sing We are alive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark Our spirits rise To carry the fire and light the spark To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart A voice cried I was killed in Maryland in 1877 When the railroad workers made their stand Well, I was killed in 1963 One Sunday morning in Birmingham I died last year crossing the southern desert My children left behind in San Pablo Well they’ve left our bodies here to rot Oh please let them know We are alive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark Our souls will rise To carry the fire and light the spark To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart Let your mind rest easy Sleep well my friend It’s only our bodies that betray us in the end Well I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep From my head to my feet my body’s gone stone cold There were worms crawling all around me My fingers scratching at an earth black and six foot low Alone in the blackness of my grave Alone I’d been left to die Then I heard voices calling all around me The earth rose above me My eyes filled with sky We are alive And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark Our spirits rise To carry the fire and light the spark To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart

Pour me a drink, Theresa, in one of those glasses you dust off And Ill watch the bones in your back like the stations of the cross Around your hair, the sun lifts a halo, at your lips a crown of thorns Whatever the deals going down, to this one Im sworn Ill work for your love, dear Ill work for your love What others may want for free Ill work for your love The dust of civilizations and loves sweet remains Slip off of your fingers and come drifting down like rain The pages of Revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue I watch you slip that comb through your hair and this, I promise you Ill work for your love, dear Ill work for your love What others may want for free Ill work for your love Well, tears, they fill the rosary, at your feet my temple of bones Here in this perdition, we go on and on Now I see your pieces crumbled, and our book of faiths been tossed And Im just down here searching for my own piece of the cross In the late afternoon sun fills the room with a mist in the garden before the fall I watch your hands smooth the front of your blouse and seven drops of blood fall Ill work for your love, dear Ill work for your love What others may want for free Ill work for your love What others may want for free Ill work for your love What others may want for free Ill work for your love

We took the highway till the road went black We marked Truth Or Consequences on our map A voice drifted up from the radio We saw the voice from long ago Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The kids asleep in the backseat Were just counting the miles you and me We dont measure the blood weve drawn anymore We just stack the bodies outside the door Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The wise men were all fools What to do The sun sets in flames as the city burns Another day gone down as the night turns And I hold you here in my heart As things fall apart A downtown window flushed with light Faces of the dead at five A martyrs silent eyes Petition the drivers as we pass by Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Wholl be the last to die Wholl be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Darling your tyrants and kings form the same fate Strung up at your city gates And youre the last to die for a mistake

At night I go to bed But I just cant sleep I got something runnin around my head Ooh, that just wont keep In the silence I hear my heart beatin Time slippin away I got a time bomb tickin deep inside of me Im gonna tell you what I wanna say I keep searchin for you darlin Searchin everywhere I go And when I find you Theres gonna be just one thing that you gotta know One thing you gotta know My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down At night I walk the streets Lookin for romance But I always end up stumblin In a half trance I search for a connection In some new eyes But theyre hard for protection From too many dreams passed by I see you standin across the room Watchin me without a sound Im gonna push my way through that crowd Im gonna tear your holy walls down Tear all your walls down My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love Will not let you down Well, hold still now, darlin Hold still for Gods sake Cause I got me a promise I aint afraid to make I aint afraid to make My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down Woo!

Billy had a mistress down on A an 12th She was that little somethin that he did for himself His own little secret didnt hurt nobody Come the afternoon hed take her wadin Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start out standing but end up crawlin Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine This old friend he had a figure in mind It was nothing illegal just a little bit funny He said Cmon dont tell me that the rich dont know Sooner or later it all comes down to money And youre waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start on higher ground but end up crawlin Well I had a friend said You watch what you do Poison snake bites you and youre poison too How beautiful the river flows and the birds they thing But you and I were messier things Theyre aint no one leavin this world buddy Without their shirttail dirty Or their hands a little bloody Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy Woo! Woo

On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and Im just killing time Workin all day in my daddys garage Yeah, drivin all night chasing some mirage Pretty soon darlin Im gonna take charge Well, the dogs on Main Street howl cause they understand If I could take this moment into my hands Mister I aint a boy, no, Im a man I believe theres a promised land Ive done my best to live the right way I get up every morning and go to work each day But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold Sometimes I feel so weak, so weak I wanna explode Explode and tear this whole town apart Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart Try to find somebody itching for somethin to start Well, the dogs on Main Street howl cause they understand If I could take this moment into my hands Mister I aint a boy, no, Im a man I believe theres a promised land Theres a dark cloud rising from the desert floor I packed my bags and Im headed straight into the storm Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That aint got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothin Nothin but lost and brokenhearted Well, the dogs on Main Street howl cause they understand If I could take this moment into my hands Mister I aint a boy, no, Im a man I believe theres a promised land I believe theres a promised land I believe theres a promised land

Dirty old street all slushed up in the rain and snow Little boy and his ma shivering outside a rundown music store window That night on top of a Christmas tree shines one beautiful star And lying underneath a brand new Japanese guitar I remember in the morning, ma, hearing your alarm clock ring Id lie in bed and listen to you gettin ready for work The sound of your makeup case on the sink And the ladies at the office, all lipstick, perfume and rustlin skirts And how proud and happy you always looked walking home from work If pas eyes were windows into a world so deadly and true You couldnt stop me from looking but you kept me from crawlin through And its a funny old world, ma, where a little boys wishes come true Well, I got a few in my pocket and a special one just for you It aint no phone call on Sunday, flowers or a Mothers Day card It aint no house on a hill with a garden and a nice little yard I got my hot rod down on Bond Street, Im older but youll know me in a glance Well find us a little rock n roll bar and well go out and dance Well, it was me in my Beatle boots, you in pink curlers and matador pants Pullin me up off the couch to do the twist for my uncles and aunts Well, I found a girl of my own now, and I popped the question on your birthday She stood waiting on the front porch while you told me to get out there And say what I had to say Well, last night we all sat around laughin at the things that guitar bought us And I laid awake thinkin bout the other things its brought us Well, tonight Im takin requests here in the kitchen This ones for you, ma, let me come right out and say it But if youre lookin for a sad song, hell I aint gonna play it Aint no phone call on Sunday, flowers or a Mothers Day card It aint no house on a hill with a garden and a nice little yard I got my hot rod down on Bond Street, Im older but youll know me, youll know me in a glance Well find us a little rock n roll bar and well go out and dance Well find us a little rock n roll bar and well go out and dance

I bought a bourgeoise house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched round and round til half-past dawn: There was fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on ‎ Well now home entertainment was my babys wish So I hopped into town for a satellite dish I tied it to the top of my Japanese car I came home and I pointed it out into the stars A message came back from the great beyond: Theres fifty-seven channels and nothin on ‎Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Well we mighta made some friends with some billionaires We mighta got all nice and friendly if wed made it upstairs All I got was a note that said, Bye-bye, John Our loves fifty-seven channels and nothin on, ‎ ‎Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on So I bought a .44 magnum, it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast ‎Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbin the almighty peace Judge said, What you got in your defense son? ‎Fifty-seven channels and nothin on, ‎Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on I can see by your eyes, friend, youre just about gone Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on Fifty-seven channels and nothin on

Rode through forty nights of the gospels rain Black sky pourin snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul driver Well if something in the air feels a little unkind Dont worry darlin Itll slip your mind Ill be your gypsy joker your shotgun rider Baby let me be your soul driver Now no one knows which way loves wheel turns Will we hit it rich Or crash and burn Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate This love potions all weve got One toast before its too late If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Then heres to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver

We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder Yeah, were brothers, sisters, all Every rung goes higher and higher Every rung goes higher and higher Every rung goes higher and higher We are brothers, sisters, all Every new rung just, just makes us stronger Every new rung just, just makes us stronger Every new rung just, just makes us stronger Yeah, we are brothers and sisters, all We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder Yeah, were brothers, sisters, all We are climbing higher and higher We are climbing higher and higher We are climbing higher and higher Yeah, we are brothers and sisters and all We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder We are climbing, Jacobs ladder Yeah, were brothers, sisters, all

Sundown, sundown Theyre taking all the tents down Where have you gone my handsome Billy? Sundown, sundown The carnival trains leaving town Where are you now my darling Billy? We wont be dancing together on the high wire Facing the lions with you at my side anymore We wont be breathing the smoke in the fire On a midway Hanging from the trapeze, my wrists waiting for your wrists Two daredevils high upon the wall of death You throwing the knife that lands inches from my heart Sundown Moon rise, moon rise, the light that was in your eyes is gone away Daybreak, daybreak, the thing in you that made me ache has gone to stay Well be riding the train without you tonight The train that keeps on moving Its black smoke scorching the evening sky A million stars shining above us like every soul living and dead Has been gathered together by God to sing a hymn Over your bones Sundown, sundown Theyre taking all the tents down Where have you gone my handsome Billy?