Dylan, Bob New York: Knopf, 1985 Some songs missing. Refrains may not be complete. Lyrics after Desire have not been checked. 1962-1985 DylLyriFREE The Free-wheeling Bob Dylan 1962 Blowing In The Wind how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? yes and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? yes and how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned? the answer my friend is blowing in the wind the answer is blowing in the wind. how many times must a man look up before he can see the sky? yes and how many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry? yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died? how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea yes and how many years can some people exist before they're allowed tobe free? yes and how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? Girl Of The North Country well if you're travelling in the north country fair where the winds hit heavy on the borderline remember me to one who lives there she once was a true love of mine well if you go when the snowflakes storm when the rivers freeze and summer ends please see if she's wearing a coat so warm to keep her from the howling winds please see for me if her hair hangs long if it rolls and flows all down her breast that's the way I remember her best I'm a-wondering if she remembers me at all many times I've often prayed in the darkness of my night in the brightness of my day Down The Highway well I'm walking down the highway with my suitcase in my hand lord I really miss my baby she's in some far-off land. well your streets are getting empty, lord, your highway's getting filled. well the way I love that woman, I swear it's bound to get me killed. well, I been gambling so long, lord, I ain't got much more to lose. right now I'm having trouble, please don't take away my highway shoes. well, I'm bound to get lucky, baby, or I'm bound to die trying. well, meet me in the middle of the ocean and we'll leave this old highway behind well the ocean took my baby my baby stole my heart from me. she packed it all up in a suitcase, lord, she took it away to Italy, Italy. so, I'm a-walking down your highway just as far as my poor eyes can see, from the golden gate bridge all the way to the statue of liberty. Masters Of War come you masters of war you that build all the guns you that build the death planes you that build the big bombs you that hide behind walls you that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks. you that never done nothing but build to destroy you play with my world like it's your little toy you put a gun in my hand and you hide from my eyes and you turn and run farther when the fast bullets fly. like Judas of old you lie and deceive a world war can be won you want me to believe but I see through your eyes and I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down my drain. you fasten the triggers for the others to fire then you sit back and watch when the death count gets higher you hide in your mansion as young people's blood flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud. you've thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled fear to bring children into the world for threatening my baby unborn and unnamed you ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins. how much do I know to talk out of turn you might say that I'm young you might say I'm unlearned but there's one thing I know though I'm younger than you even Jesus would never forgive what you do let me ask you one question is your money that good will it buy you forgiveness do you think that it could I think you will find when your death takes its toll all the money you made will never buy back your soul. and I hope that you die and your death will come soon I will follow your casket in the pale afternoon and I'll watch while you're lowered down to your deathbed and I'll stand over your grave till I'm sure that you're dead. Bob Dylan's Blues well the Lone Ranger and Tonto they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles everybody's except mine somebody musta told them that I was doing fine oh you five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads I got a real girl I'm loving and lord I'll love her till I'm dead go away from my door and my window too right now lord, Iain't going down to no race track see no sports car run I don't have no sports car and I don't even care to have one I can walk anytime around the block. well the wind keeps a-blowing me up and down the street with my hat on my hand and my boots on my feet watch out so you don't step on me. well lookit here buddy you want to be like me pull out your six-shooter and rob every bank you can see tell the judge I said it was all right yes! A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall oh where have you been my blue-eyed son ? oh where have you been my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard and it's a hard, and it's a hard,it's a hard, and it's a hard it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. oh what did you see my blue-eyed son? oh what did you see my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleeding I saw a white ladder all covered with water I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children and what did you hear my blue-eyed son? and what did you hear my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder it roared out a warning heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening heard one person starve I heard many people laughing heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley oh who did you meet my blue-eyed son? who did you meet my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony I met a white man who walked a black dog I met a young woman whose body was burning I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow, I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded with hatred oh what'll you do now my blue-eyed son? oh what'll you do now my darling young one? I'm a-going back out 'fore the rain starts a-falling I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest where the people are many and their hands are all empty where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison where the executioner's face is always well hidden where hunger is ugly where souls are forgotten where black is the color, where none is the number and I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it and reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking but I'll know my song well before I start singing Don't Think Twice It's All Right it ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe it don't matter anyhow if you don't know by now when your rooster crows at the break of dawn look out your window and I'll be gone you're the reason I'm travelling on don't think twice it's all right it ain't no use in turning on your light babe that light I never knowed I'm on the dark side of the road still I wish there was something you could do or say to try and make me change my mind and stay we never did too much talking anyway it ain't no use in calling out my name gal like you never did before I can't hear you anymore I'm a-thinking and a-wondering all the way down the road I once loved a woman, a child I'm told, I give hermy heart but she wanted my soul I'm walking down that long lonesome road babe where I'm bound, I can't tell but goodbye's too good a word gal so I'll just say fare thee well I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could have done better but I don't mind you just kinda wasted my precious time Bob Dylan's Dream while riding on a train going west I fell asleep for to take my rest I dreamed a dream that made me sad concerning myself and the first few friends I had. with half damp eyes I stared to the room where my friends and I spent many an afternoon where we together weathered many a storm laughing and singing till the early hours of the morn by the old wooden stove where our hats was hung our words were told, our songs were sung, where we longed for nothing, and were quite satisfied talking and a-joking about the world outside. with haunted hearts through the heat and cold we never thought we could ever get old we thought we could sit forever in fun but our chances really was a million to one. as easy it was to tell black from white it was all that easy to tell wrong from right. and our choices were few and the thought never hit that the one road we travelled would ever shatter and split. now many a year has passed and gone, and many a gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by many a friend and each one I've never seen again. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain that we could sit simply in that room again ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that. Oxford Town oxford Town, Oxford Town everybody's got their heads bowed down the sun don't shine above the ground ain't a-going down to Oxford Town he went down to Oxford Town guns and clubs followed him down all because his face was brown better get away from Oxford Town oxford Town around the bend he come in to the door, he couldn't get in all because of the color of his skin what do you think about that my friend? me and my gal, my gal's son we got met with a tear gas bomb I don't even know why we come going back where we come from oxford Town in the afternoon everybody singing a sorrowful tune two men died 'neath the Mississippi moon somebody better investigate soon Talking World War Three Blues some time ago a crazy dream came to me I dreamed I was walking into world war three I went to the doctor the very next day to see what kinda words he could say he said it was a bad dream. I wouldn't worry 'bout it none though they were my own dreams and they're only in my head. I said "hold it doc, a world war passed through my brain" he said "nurse get your pad, the boy's insane he grabbed my arm, I said ouch as I landed on the psychiatric couch he said"tell me about it" well the whole thing started at three o'clock fast, it was all over by quarter past I was down in the sewer with some little lover when I peeked out from a manhole cover wondering who turned the lights on. well, I got up and walked around and up and down the lonesome town I stood a-wondering which way to go I lit a cigarette on a parking meter and walked on down the road. it was a normal day. well, I rung the fallout shelter bell and I leaned my head and I gave a yell "give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man" a shotgun fired and away I ran I don't blame them too much though I know I look funny down at the corner by a hot-dog stand I seen a man, I said "howdy friend I guess there's just us two." he screamed a bit and away I flew thought I was a communist. well I spied a girl and before she could leave "let's go play adam and eve." I took her by the hand and my heart was thumping when she said "hey man, you crazy or something you see what happened last time they started." well I seen a cadillac window uptown and there was nobody around I got into the driver's seat and I drove down forty-second street in my cadillac good car to drive after a war well, I remember seeing some ad so I turned on my conelrad. but I didn't pay my con ed bill so the radio didn't work so well. turned on my record player it was rockaday johnny singing "tell your ma, tell your pa our loves are gonna grow ooh-wah ooh-wah." I was feeling kinda lonesome and blue I needed somebody to talk to so I called up the operator of time just to hear a voice of some kind "when you hear the beep it will be three o'clock" she said that for over an hour and I hung up well the doctor interrupted me just about then saying"hey I've been having the same old dreams, but mine was a little different you see, I dreamed the only person left after the war was me. I didn't see you around." well now time passed and now it seems everybody's having them dreams. everybody sees themselves walking around with no-one else. half of the people can be part right all of the time some of the people can be all right part of the time but all of the people can't be all right all of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. "I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours I said that. Corrina, Corrina corrina, Corrina gal, where you been so long? I been worrying 'bout you baby babyplease come home. I got a bird that whistles I got a bird that sings. but I ain't a-got Corrina life don't mean a thing corrina Corrina gal, you're on my mind I'm a thinking 'bout you baby I just can't keep from crying Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance honey just allow me one more chance to get along with you well I'm walking down the road with my head in my hand I'm looking for a woman needs a worried man just one kind favor I ask of you ... to ride your aeroplane to ride your passenger train well I've been looking all over for a girl like you I can't find nobody so you'll have to do well looking for a woman that ain't got no man is just looking for a needle that is lost in the sand I Shall Be Free well I took me a woman late last night I was three-fourths drunk she looked uptight she took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said "how do I smell?" I hot-footed it bare-naked out the window! well sometimes I might get drunk walk like a duck and stomp like a skunk don't hurt me none, don't hurt my pride cause I got my little lady right by my side right there proud as can be I was out there painting on the old woodshed when a can of black paint it fell on my head I went down to scrub and rub but I had to sit in back of the tub cost a quarter and I had to get out quick someone wanted to come in and take a sauna well my telephone rang it would not stop it's president Kennedy calling me up he said "my friend Bob what do we need to make the country grow?" I said "my friend John, Brigitte Bardot anita Ekberg Sophia Loren" put em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine! well I got a woman sleeps on a cot she yells and hollers and squeals a lot licks my face and tickles my ear bends me over and buys me beer. she's a honeymooner a june crooner a spoon feeder and a natural leader oh there ain't no use in me working so heavy I got a woman who works on the levee pumping that water up to her neck every week she sends me a monthly check she's a humdinger folk singer dead ringer for a thing-a-muh jigger late one day in the middle of the week eyes were closed I was half asleep I chased me a woman up the hill right in the middle of an air raid drill it was little bo peep I jumped a fallout shelter I jumped a beanstalk I jumped a ferris wheel now the man on the stand he want my vote he's a-running for office on the ballot note he's out there preaching in front of the steeple telling me he loves all kinds of people he's eating bagels he's eating pizza he's eating chitlins he's eating bullshit oh set me down on a television floor I'll flip the channel to number four out of the shower comes a grown-up man with a bottle of hair oil in his hand it's that greasy kid stuff. what I want to know mr football man is what do you do about Willy Mays and Yul Brynner charles de Gaulle and Robert Louis Stevenson? well the funniest woman I ever seen was the great-granddaughter of mr clean she takes about fifteen baths a day wants me to grow a cigar on my face she's a little bit heavy! well ask me why I'mdrunk all the time it levels my head and eases my mind I just walk along and stroll and sing I see better days and I do better things I catch dinosaurs I make love to Elizabeth Taylor catch hell from Richard Burton! Mixed Up Confusion I got mixed up confusion man it's a-killing me well there's too many people and they're all too hard to please well my hat's in my hand babe I'm walking down the line and I'm looking for a woman whose head's mixed up like mine well my head's full of questions my temperature's rising fast well I'm looking for some answers but I don't know who to ask but I'm walking and wondering and my poor feet don't ever stop seeing my reflection I'm hung over hung down and hung up! DylLyriTIME The times they are a changing 1964 The Times They Are A-changing come gather round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone if your time to you is worth saving then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone for the times they are a-changing. come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen and keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again and don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin and there's no telling who that it's naming for the loser now will be later to win come senators congressmen please heed the call don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall for he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled there's a battle outside a-raging it'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls come mothers and fathers throughout the land and don't criticise what you can't understand your sons and your daughters are beyond your command your old road is rapidly aging please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand the line it is drawn the curse it is cast the slow one now will later be fast the order is rapidly fading and the first one now will later be last Ballad Of Hollis Brown hollis brown he lived on the outside of town with his wife and five children and his cabin falling down you looked for work and money and you walked a rugged mile your children are so hungry that they don't know how to smile your baby's eyes look crazy they're a-tugging at your sleeve you walk the floor and wonder why with every breath you breathe the rats have got your flour bad blood it got your mare if there's anyone that knows is there anyone that cares? you prayed to the lord above oh please send you a friend your empty pockets tell you that you ain't got no friend your babies are crying louder it's pounding on your brain your wife's screams are stabbing you like the dirty driving rain your grass it is turning black there's no water in your well you spent your last lone dollar on seven shotgun shells way out in the wilderness a cold coyote calls your eyes fix on the shotgun that's hanging on the wall your brain is a-bleeding and your legs can't seem to stand your eyes fix on the shotgun that you're holding in your hand there's seven breezes blowing all around the cabindoor seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar there's seven people dead on a south dakota farm somewhere in the distance there's seven new people born With God On Our Side oh my name it is nothing my age it means less the country I come from is called the midwest I was taught and brought up there the laws to abide and that the land that I live in has God on its side oh the history books tell it they tell it so well the cavalries charged the indians fell the cavalries charged the indians died oh the country was young then... oh the Spanish American war had its day and the civil war too was soon laid away and the names of the heroes I was made to memorize with guns in their hands and... oh the first world war boys it closed out its fate the reason for fighting I never got straight but I learned to accept it accept it with pride for you don't count the dead when... when the second world war came to an end we forgave the Germans and we were friends though they murdered six million in the ovens they fried the Germans now too have... I've learned to hate russians all through my whole life if another war starts it's them we must fight to hate them and fear them to run and to hide and accept it all bravely... but now we've got weapons of chemical dust if fire them we're forced to then fire them we must one push of the button and a shot the world wide and you never ask questions when... in many a dark hour I've been thinking about this that Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss but I can't think foryou you'll have to decide whether Judas Iscariot had... so now as I'm leaving I'm weary as hell the confusion I'm feeling ain't no tongue can tell the words fill my head and fall to the floor if God's on our side he'll stop the next war One Too Many Mornings down the street the dogs are barking and the day is a-getting dark as the night comes in a-falling the dogs lose their bark and the silent night will shatter from the sounds inside my mind for I'm one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind from the crossroads of my doorstep my eyes they start to fade and I turn my head back to the room where my love and I have laid and I gaze back to the street the sidewalk and the sign it's a restless hungry feeling that don't mean no one no good when everything I'm a-saying you can say it just as good you're right from your side I'm right from mine. we're both just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind North Country Blues come gather round friends and I'll tell you a tale of when the red iron ore pits ran plenty but the cardboard filled windows and old men on the benches tell you now that the whole town is empty in the north end of town my own children are grown but I was raised on the other in the wee hours of youth, my mother took sick and I was brought up by my brother. the iron ore poured as the years passed the door, the draglines and the shovels they was a-humming. till one day my brother failed to come home the same as my father before him well a long winter's wait from thewindow I watched my friends they couldn't have been kinder and my schooling was cut as I quit in the spring to marry John Thomas, a miner oh the years passed again and the giving was good with the lunch bucket filled every season. what with three babies born the work was cut down to a half a day's shift with no reason. then the shaft was soon shut and more work was cut and the fire in the air it felt frozen till a man came to speak and he said in one week that number eleven was closing. "they complain in the east they are paying too high they say that your ore ain't worth digging that it's much cheaper down in the south american towns where the miners work almost for nothing" so the mining gates locked and the red iron rotted and the room smelled heavy from drinking where the sad silent song made the hour twice as long as I waited for the sun to go sinking I lived by the window as he talked to himself the silence of tongues it was building then one morning's wake the bed it was bare and I was left alone withthree children. the summer is gone the ground's turning cold the stores one by one they're a-folding my children will go as soon as they grow well there ain't nothing here now to hold them. Only A Pawn In Their Game a bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood a finger fired the trigger to his name. a handle hid out in the dark a hand set the spark two eyes took the aim behind a man's brain but he can't be blamed he's only a pawn in their game a south politician preaches to the poorwhite man, "you got more than the blacks, don't complain. you're better than them, you been born with white skin, "they explain. and the negro's name is used it is plain for the politician's gain as he rises to fame and the poor white remains on the caboose of the train but it ain't him to blame the deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid, and the marshals and cops get the same, but the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool. he's taught in his school from the start by therule that the laws are with him to protect his white skin to keep up his hate so he never thinks straight bout the shape that he's in but it ain't him to blame from the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks and the hoofbeats pound in his brain and he's taught how to walk in a pack shoot in the back with his fist in a clinch to hang and to lynch to hide 'neath the hood to kill with no pain like a dog on a chain he ain't got no name but it ain't him to blame the day Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught they lowered him down as a king but when the shadowy sun sets on the one that fired the gun he'll see by his grave on the stone that remains carved next to his name his epitaph plain only a pawn in their game Boots Of Spanish Leather oh I'm sailing away my own true love I'm sailing away in the morning. is there something I can send you from across the sea from the place that I'll be landing no there's nothing you can send me, my own true love there's nothing I wish to beowning just carry yourself back to me unspoiled from across that lonesome ocean. oh but I just thought you might want something fine made of silver or of golden either from the mountains of Madrid or from the coast of Barcelona oh but if I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss for that's all I'm wishing to be owning but I might be gone a long time and it's only that I'm asking is there something I can send you to remember me by to make your time more easy passing. oh how can, how can you ask me again it only brings me sorrow the same thing I want from you today I would want again tomorrow. I got a letter on a lonesome day it was from her ship a-sailing saying I don't know when I'll be coming back again it depends on how I'm a-feeling well if you my love must think that-a-way I'm sure your mind is roaming I'm sure your heart is not with me but with the country to where you're going so take heed, take heed of the western wind take heed of the stormy weather and yes there is something you can send back to me spanish boots of Spanish leather. When The Ship Comes In oh the time will come up when the winds will stop and the breeze will cease to be breathing. like the stillness in the wind fore the hurricane begins the hour when the ship comes in oh the seas will split and the ship will hit and the sands on the shoreline will be shaking then the tide will sound and the wind will pound and the morning will be breaking oh the fishes will laugh as they swim out of the path and the seagulls they'll be smiling and the rocks on the sand will proudly stand and the words that are used for to get the ship confused will not be understood as they're spoken for the chains of the sea will have busted in the night and will be buried at the bottom of the ocean a song will lift as the mainsail shifts and the boat drifts onto the shoreline. and the sun will respect every face on the deck then the sands will roll out a carpet of gold for your weary toes to be a-touching and the ship's wise men will remind you once again that the whole wide world is watching oh the foes will rise with the sleep still in their eyes and they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreaming but they'll pinch themselves and squeal and know that it's for real the hour when the ship comes in. then they'll raise their hands saying we'll meet all your demands but we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered and like Pharoah's tribe they'll be drownded in the tide and like Goliath they'll be conquered The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll william Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll with a cane that he twirled round his diamond ring finger at a Baltimore hotel society gathering and the cops were called in and his weapon took from him as they rode him in custody down to the station and booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears take the rag away from your face now ain't the time for your tears william Zanzinger who at twenty-four years owns a tobacco farm of six-hundred acres with rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him and high office relations in the politics of Maryland reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders and swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarling in a matter of minutes on bail was out walking hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchen she was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children who carried the dishes and took out the garbage and never sat once at the head of the table and didn't even talk to the people at the table who just cleaned up all the food from the table and emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane that sailed through the air and came down through the room doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle. and she never done nothing to William Zanzinger. in the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel, to show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level and that the strings in thebooks ain't pulled and persuaded and that even the nobles get properly handled once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em and that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom stared at the person who killed for no reason who just happened to be feeling that way without warning and he spoke through his cloak most deep and distinguished and handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance, william Zanzinger with a six-month sentence. oh but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears bury the rag deep in your face for now's the time for your tears. Restless Farewell oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend be it mine right or wrongfully I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends to tie up the time most forcefully but the bottles are done we've killed each one and the table's full and overflowed. and the corner sign says it's closing time so I'll bid farewell and be down the road oh every girl that ever I've touched I did not do it harmfully and every girl that everI've hurt I did not do it knowingly but to remain as friends and make amends you need the time and stay behind and since my feet are now fast and point away from the past I'll bid farewell and be down the line oh every foe that ever I faced the cause was there before we came and every cause that ever I fought I fought it full without regret or shame but the dark does die as the curtain is drawn and somebody's eye must meet the dawn and if I see the day I'd only have to stay, so I'll bid farewell in the night and be gone. oh every thought that's strung a knot in my mind I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung but it's not to stand naked under unknowing eyes it's for myself and my friends my stories are sung but the time ain't tall yet on time you depend and no word is possessed by no special friend and though the line is cut it ain't quite the end I'll just bid farewell till we meet again. oh a false clock tries to tick out my time to disgrace distract and bother me and the dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust of rumors covers me but if the arrow is straight and the point is slick it can pierce through dust no matter how thick so I'll make my stand and remain as I am and bid farewell and not give a damn. DylLyriANOT Another side of Bob Dylan 1964 All I Really Want To Do I ain't looking to compete with you beat or cheat or mistreat you simplify you, classify you deny defy or crucify you. all I really wanna do is baby be friends with you no and I ain't looking to fight with you frighten you or tighten you drag you down or drain you down chain you down or bring you down I ain't looking to block you up shock or knock or lock you up, analyse you categorize you finalize you or advertize you I don't want to straight-face you race or chase you,track or trace you or disgrace you or displace you or define you or confine you I don't want to meet your kin make you spin or do you in or select you or dissect you or inspect you or reject you I don't want to fake you out take or shake or forsake you out I ain't looking for you to feel like see like me or be like me Black Crow Blues I woke in the morning wandering wasted and worn out wishing my long-lost lover will walk to me, talk to me, tell me what it's all about I was standing at the side road listening to the billboard knock well my wrist was empty but my nerves were kicking ticking like a clock. if I got anything you need babe let me tell you in front you can come to me sometime night time, day time anytime you want sometimes I'm thinking I'm too high to fall other times I'm thinking I'm so low I don't know if I can come up at all. black crows in the meadow across a broad highway though it's funny honey I just don't feel much like a scarecrow today Spanish Harlem Incident gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem cannot hold you to its heat. your temperature is too hot for taming your flaming feet burn up the street I am homeless, come and take me into reach of your rattling drums let me know babe all about my fortune down along my restless palms gypsy gal, you got me swallowed I have fallen far beneath your pearly eyes so fast and slashing and your flashing diamond teeth the night is pitch black, come and make my pale face fit into place ah please let me know babe, I got to know babe if it's you my lifelin es trace I been wondering all about me ever since I seen you there on the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding, I know I'm round you but I don't know where you have slayed me you have made me I got to laugh halfways off my heels I got to knoow babe will I be touching you so I can tell if I'm really real. Chimes Of Freedom far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll we ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing as majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight and for each and every underdog soldier in the night and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. in the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched with faces hidden while the walls were tightening as the echo of the weddings bells before the blowing rain dissolved into the bells of the lightning tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake, tolling for the luckless the abandoned and forsaked tolling for the outcast, burning constantly at stake, through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder striking for the gentle, striking for the kind, striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind and the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales for the disrobed faceless forms of no position tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts all down in taken-for-granted situations tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute for the mistreated mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute for the misdemeanor outlaw, chased and cheated by pursuit even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed and the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless seeking trail for the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale and for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail starry-eyed and laughing as I recall when we were caught trapped by no trap of hours for they hanged suspended as we listened one last time and we watched with one last look spellbound and swallowed till the tolling ended tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed for the countless confused accused misused strung-out ones and worse and for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe I Shall Be Free Number Ten I'm just average, common too I'm just like him, the same as you I'm everybody's brother and son I ain't different from anyone it ain't no use a-talking to me it's just the same as talking to you. I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay I said "fee fie fo fum Cassius Clay here I come 26 27 28 29 I'm gonna make your face look just like mine 5 4 3 2 1, Cassius Clay you'd better run 99 100 101 102, your ma won't even recognise you 14 15 16 17 18 19 gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen well I don't know but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first wowee! pretty scarey! now I'm liberal, but to a degree I want everybody to be free but if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door and marry my daughter you must think I'm crazy I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba well I set my monkey on the log and ordered him to do the dog he wagged his tail and shook his head and he went and did the cat instead he's a weird monkey,very funky. I sat with my high-heeled sneakers on waiting to play tennis in the noonday sun I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist and my wig hat was falling in my face but they wouldn't let me on the tennis court. I gotta woman she's so mean she sticks my boots in the washing machine sticks me with buckshot when I'm nude puts bubblegum in my food she's funny, wants my money, calls me honey. now I gotta friend who spends his life stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife dreams of strangling me with a scarf when my name comes up he pretends to barf I've got a million friends now they asked me to read a poem at the sorority sisters home I got knocked down and my head was swimming I wound up with the dean of women yippee! I'm a poet, and I know it hope I don't blow it. I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange so I look like a walking mountain range and I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse out to the country club and the golf course carry the new york times shoot a few holes, blow their minds nowyou're probably wondering by now just what this song is all about what's probably got you baffled more is what this thing here is for it's nothing it's something I learned over in England. To Ramona ramona come closer shut softly your watery eyes the pangs of your sadness shall pass as your senses will rise the flowers of the city though breathlike get deathlike at times and there's no use in trying to deal with the dying though I cannot explain that in lines. your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss as to be under the strength of your skin your magnetic movements still capture the minutes I'm in but it grieves my heart love to see you trying to be a part of a world that just don't exist it's all just a dream babe a vacuum, a scheme, babe that sucks you into feeling like this I can see that your head has been twisted and fed by worthless foam from the mouth I can tell you are torn between staying and returning on back to the south you've been fooled into thinking that the finishing end is athand yet there's no-one to beat you no-one to defeat you except the thoughts of yourself feeling bad. I've heard you say many times that you're better than no-one and no-one is better than you if you really believe that you know you got nothing to win and nothing to lose from fixtures and forces and friends your sorrow does stem they'll hype you and type you making you feel that you must be exactly like them. I'd forever talk to you but soon my words would turn into a meaning less ring for deep in my heart I know there's no help I can bring. everything passes everything changes just do what you think you should do and someday maybe who knows baby I'll come and be crying to you Motorpsycho Nightmare I pounded on a farmhouse looking for a place to stay I was mighty mighty tired I had gone a long long way I said "hey hey in there is there anybody home I was standing on the steps feeling most alone well out comes a farmer he must have thought that I was nuts he immediately looked at me and stuck a gun into my guts. I fell down to my bended knees saying "I dig farmers don't shoot me please he cocked his rifle and began to shout "you're that traveling salesman that I have heard about I said "no no no I'm a doctor and it's true I'm a clean-cut kid and I've been to college too then in comes his daughter whose name was Rita she looked like she stepped out of la Dolce Vita I immediately tried to cool it with her dad and told him what a nice pretty farm he had he said "what do doctors know about farms pray tell?" I said I was born at the bottom of a wishing well well by the dirt beneath my nails I guess he knew I wouldn't lie "I guess you're tired he said kinda sly I said "yes ten thousand miles today I drove he said "I got a bed for you underneath the stove. just one condition and you can go to sleep right now, that you don't touch my daughter and in the morning milk the cow" I was sleeping like a rat when I heard something jerking there stood Rita looking just like Tony Perkins she said "would you like to take a shower I'll show you up to the door" I said "oh no no I've been through this movie before" I knew I had to split but I did not know how when she said "would you like to take that shower now?" well I couldn't leave unless the old man chased me out cause I'd already promised that I'd milk his cows. I had to say something to strike him very weird so I yelled out "I like Fidel Castro and his beard." rita looked offended but she got out of the way as he came charging down the stairs saying "what's that I heard you say?" I said "I like Fidel Castro I think you heard me right" and ducked as he swung at me with all his might rita mumbled something bout her mother on the hill as his fist hit the icebox he said he's gonna kill me if I don't get out the door in two seconds flat, you unpatriotic rotten doctor commie rat well he threw a Readers Digest at my head and I did run I did a somersault as I seen him get his gun and crashed through the window at a hundred miles an hour and landed fully blast in his garden flowers rita said "come back as he started to load the sun was coming up and I was running down the road well I don't figure I'll be back there for a spell even though Rita moved away and got a job in a motel he still waits for me constant on the sly he wants to turn me in to the FBI me,I romp and stomp thankful as I romp without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp. My Back Pages crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas asmy maps we'll meet on edges soon said I proud 'neath heated brow ah but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now. half-wracked prejudice leaped forth rip down all hate I screamed lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull. I dreamed romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep somehow... girls' faces formed the forward path from phony jealousy to memorizing politics of ancient history flung down by corpse evangelists unthought of though somehow a self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool spouted that liberty is just equality in school "equality" I spoke the word as if a wedding vow... in a soldier's stance I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preached my pathway led by confusion boats mutiny from stern to bow.... yes my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect deceived me into thinking I had something to protect good and bad I define these terms quite clear no doubt somehow... I Don't Believe You I can't understand she let go of my hand and left me here facing the wall I'd sure like to know why she did go but I can't get close to her at all though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime she said she would never forget but now morning is clear it's like I ain't here she just acts like we never have met it's all new to me like some mystery it could even be like a myth yet it's hard to think on that she's the same one that last night I was with from darkness dreams are deserted am I still dreaming yet? I wish she'd unlock her voice once and talk instead of acting like we never have met if she ain't feeling well then why don't she tell instead of turning her back to my face without any doubt she seems too far out for me to return to her chase though the night ran swirling and whirling I remember her whispering yet but evidently she don't and evidently she won't if I didn't have to guess I'd gladly confess to anything I might have tried if I was with her too long or have I done something wrong, I wish she'd tell me what it is, I'll run and hide though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played her mouth was watery and wet but now something has changed for she ain't the same I'm leaving today I'll be on my way of this I can't say very much but if you want me to I can be just like you and pretend that we never have touched and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say "it's easily done you just pick anyone and pretend that you never have met!" Ballad In Plain D I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze with the innocence of a lamb she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone gone as the season she's taken. through young summer's breeze I stole her away from her mother and sister though close did they stay each one of them suffering from the failures of their day with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us of the two sisters I loved the young with sensitive instincts she was the creative one the constant scapegoat she was easily undone by the jealousy of others around her for her parasite sister I had no respect bound by her boredom her pride to protect countless visions of the other she'd reflect as a crutch for her scenes and her society myself for what I did I cannot be excused the changes I was going through can't even be used for the lies that I told her in hopes not lose the could-be dream-lover of my lifetime. with unknowing consciousness I possessed in my grip a magnificent mantelpiece though its heart being chipped noticing not that I'd already slipped to a sin of love's false security from silhouetted anger to manufactured peace answers of emptiness, voice vacancies till the tombstones of damage read no question but "please what's wrong and what's exactly the matter?" and so it did happen like it could have been foreseen the timeless explosion of fantasy's dream. at the peak of the night the king and the queen tumbled all down into pieces. "the tragic figure!" her sister did shout "leave her alone, God damn you, get out!" and I in my armor turning about and nailing her to the ruins of her pettiness. beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound her sister and I in a screaming battleground. and she in between, the victim of sound, soon shattered as a child 'neath her shadows. all is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight. I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight. my mind it was mangled, I ran into the night leaving all of love's ashes behind me. the wind knocks my window, the room it is wet. the words to say I'm sorry I haven't found yet. I think of her often and hope whoever she's met will be fully aware of how precious she is. ah my friends from the prison they ask unto me, "how good, how good does it feel to be free?" and I answer them most mysteriously "are birds free from the chains of the skyway?" It Ain't Me Babe go away from my window leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want babe I'm not the one you need you say you're looking for someone never weak but always strong to protect you and defend you whether you are right or wrong someone to open each and every door but it ain't me babe no no no it ain't me babe it ain't me you're looking for babe go lightly from the ledge babe go lightly on the ground. I'm not the one you want babe I will only let you down. you say you're looking for someone who will promise never to part someone to close his eyes for you someone to close his heart someone who will die for you and more go melt back in the night babe everything inside is made of stone. there's nothing in here moving and anyway I'm not alone. you say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call a lover for your life and nothing more DylLyriBRIN Bringing it all back home 1965 She Belongs To Me she's got everything she needs she's an artist, she don't look back. she can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black. you will start out standing proud to steal her anything she sees. but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees. she never stumbles she's got no place to fall. she's nobody's child the law can't touch her at all. she wears an egyptian ring that sparkles before she speaks. she's a hypnotist collector you are a walking antique. bow down to her on Sunday salute her when her birthday comes. for halloween give her a trumpet and for Christmas buy her a drum. Subterranean Homesick Blues johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement thinking about the government the man in the trench coat badge out laid off says he's got a bad cough wants to get it paid off look out kid it's something you did god knows when but you're doing it again you better duck down the alley way looking for a new friend the man in the coon-skin cap in the big pen wants eleven dollar bills you only got ten maggie comes fleet foot face full of black soot talking that the heat put plants in the bed but maggie says that many say they must bust in early may orders fromthe da look out kid don't matter what you did walk on your tip toes don't try 'no doz better stay away from those that carry round a fire hose keep a clean nose watch the plain clothes you don't need a weather-man to know which way the wind blows get sick, get well hang around a ink well ring bell, hard to tell if anything is gonna sell try hard, get barred get back, write braille get jailed, jump bail join the army if you fail look out kid you're gonna get hit but users cheaters six-time losers hang around the theaters girl by the whirlpool looking for a new fool don't follow leaders watch the parking meters ah get born keep warm short pants romance learn to dance get dressed, get blessed try to be a success please her please him buy gifts don't steal don't lift twenty years of schooling and they put you on the dayshift look out kid they keep it all hid better jump down a manhole light yourself a candle don't wear sandals try to avoid the scandals don't wanna be a bum you better chew gum the pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Maggie's Farm I ain't gonna work on maggie's farm no more well I wake up in the morning fold my hands and pray for rain I got a head full of ideas that are driving me insane it's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more well he hands you a nickel he hands you a dime he asks you with a grin if you're having a good time then he fines you every time you slam the door I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more well he puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks his bedroom window it is made out of bricks the national guard stands around his door I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more well she talks to all the servants about man and God and law everybody says she's the brains behind pa. I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more well I try my best to be just like I am but everybody wants you to be just like them they say sing while you slave and I just get bored Love Minus Zero No Limit my love she speaks like silence without ideals or violence she doesn't have to say she's faithful yet she's true like ice like fire people carry roses make promises by the hours my love she laughs like the flowers valentines can't buy her in the dime stores and bus stations people talk of situations read books repeat quotations draw conclusions on the wall some speak of the future my love she speaks softly she knows there's no success like failure and that failure's no success at all. the cloak and dagger dangles madams light the candles in ceremonies of the horsemen even the pawn must hold a grudge. statues made of matchsticks crumble into one another my love winks,she does not bother she knows too much to argue or to judge the bridge at midnight trembles the country doctor rambles bankers' nieces seek perfection expecting all the gifts that wise men bring the wind howls like a hammer the night blows cold and rainy my love she's like some raven at my window with a broken wing. Outlaw Blues ain't it hard to stumble and land in some funny lagoon especially when it's nine below zero and three o'clock in the afternoon ain't gonna hang no picture ain't gonna hang no picture frame well I might look like Robert Ford but I feel just like Jesse James. well I wish I was on some australian mountain range I got no reason to be there but I imagine it would be some kinda change I got my dark sunglasses I'm carrying for good luck my black tooth don't ask me nothing about nothing I just might tell you the truth I got a womanin Jackson I ain't gonna say her name. she's a brown-skin woman, but I love her just the same. On The Road Again well I wake up in the morning there's frogs inside my socks your mama she's a-hiding inside the icebox your daddy walks in wearing a Napoleon Bonaparte mask then you ask why I don't live here honey do you have to ask? well I go to pet your monkey I get a face full of claws I ask who's in the fireplace and you tell me Santa Claus the milkman comes in he's wearing a derby hat honey how come you have to ask me that? well I ask for something to eat I'm hungry as a hog so I get brown rice, seaweed and a dirty hot dog I've got a hole where my stomach disappeared honey, I gotta think you're really weird. your grandpa's cane it turns into a sword your grandma prays to pictures that are pasted on a board everything inside my pockets your uncle steals honey I can't believe that you're for real well there's fist fights in the kitchen they're enough to make me cry the mailman comes in even he's gotta take a side even the butler he's got something to prove honey how come you don't move? Bob Dylan's Hundred-and-fifteenth Dream I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land I yelled for captain Ahab I'll have you understand who came running to the deck said "boys, forget the whale look on over yonder cut the engines change the sail haul on the bowline we sang that melody like all tough sailors do when they are far away at sea I think I'll call it America" I said as we hit land I took a deep breath I fell down I could not stand captain Ahab he started writing up some deeds he said "let's set up a fort and start buying the place with beads" just then this cop comes down the street crazy as a loon and throws us all in jail for carrying harpoons ah me I busted out don't even ask me how I went to get some help I walked by a Guernsey cow who directed me down to the Bowery slums where people carried signs around saying ban the bums I jumped right into line saying "I hope that I'm notlate" when I realized I hadn't eaten for five days straight. I went into a restaurant looking for the cook I told them I was the editor of a famous etiquette book the waitress he was handsome he wore a powder blue cape I ordered some suzette, I said could you please make that crepe" just then the whole kitchen exploded from boiling fat food was flying everywhere I left without my hat. now I didn't mean to be nosy but I went into a bank to get some bail for Ahab and all the boys back in the tank they asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants they threw me in the alley when up comes this girl from France who invited me to her house I went but she had a friend who knocked me out and robbed my boots and I was on the street again. well I rapped upon a house with the us flag upon display I said "could you help me out I got some friends down the way" the man says "get out of here I'll tear you limb from limb" I said "you know they refused Jesus too he said "you're not him get out of here before I break your bones I ain't your pop" I decided to have him arrested and went looking for a cop. I ran right outside and I hopped inside a cab I went out the other door this Englishman said "fab" as he saw me leap a hot dog stand and a chariot that stood parked across from a building advertizing brotherhood I ran right through the front door like a hobo sailor does but it was just a funeral parlor and the man asked me who I was I repeated that my friends were all in jail, with a sigh. he gave me his card he said "call me if they die" I shook his hand and said goodbye ran out to the street when a bowling ball came down the road and knocked me off my feet a pay phone was ringing it just about blew my mind when I picked it up and said hello this foot came through the line well by this time I was fed up at trying to make a stab at bringing back any help for my friends and captain Ahab I decided to flip a coin like either head or tails would let me know if I should go back to ship or back to jail so I hocked my sailor suit and I got a coin to flip it came up tails it rhymed with sails so I made it back to the ship well I got back and took the parking ticket off the mast I was ripping it to shreds when this coastguard boat went past they asked me my name and I said captain Kidd they believed me but they wanted to know what exactly that I did I said for the pope of eruke I was employed they let me go right away they were very paranoid well the last I heard of Ahab he was stuck on a whale that was married to the deputy sheriff of the jail but the funniest thing was when I was leaving the bay I saw three ships a-sailing they were all heading my way I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck he said his name was Columbus I just said "good luck." Mr Tambourine Man hey mr tambourine man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to in the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping my weariness amazes me I'm branded on my feet I have no-one to meet and the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship my senses have been stripped my hands can't feel to grip my toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade I promise to go under it though you might hear laughing spinning swinging madly across the sun it's not aimed at anyone, it's just escaping on the run and but for the sky there are no fences facing and if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme to your tambourine in time it's just a ragged clown behind I wouldn't pay it any mind it's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind down the foggy ruins of time far past the frozen leaves the haunted frightened trees out to the windy beach far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves let me forget about today until tomorrow. Gates Of Eden of war and peace the truth just twists its curfew gull just glides upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides with his candle lit into the sun though its glow is waxed in black all except when 'neath the trees of Eden the lamppost stands with folded arms its iron claws attached to curbs 'neath holes where babies wail though it shadows metal badge all and all can only fall with a crashing but meaningless blow no sound ever comes from the gates of eden the savage soldier sticks his head in sand and then complains unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf but still remains upon the beach where hound dogs bay at ships with tattooed sails heading for... with a time-rusted compass blade aladdin and his lamp sits with utopian hermit monks side-saddle on the golden calf and on their promises of paradise you will not hear a laugh all except inside... relationships of ownership they whisper in the wings to those condemned to act accordingly and wait for succeeding kings and I try to harmonize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings there are no kings inside... the motorcycle black madonna two-wheeled gypsy queen and her silver-studded phantom cause the gray flannel dwarf to scream as he weeps to wicked birds of prey who pick upon his breadcrumb sins and there are no sins inside... the kingdoms of experience in the precious wind they rot while paupers change possessions each one wishing for what the other has got and the princess and the prince discuss what's real and what is not it doesn't matter inside... the foreign sun, it squints upon a bed that is never mine as friends and other strangers from their fates try to resign leaving men wholly totally free to do anything they wish to do but die and there are no trials inside... at dawn my lover comes to me and tells me of her dreams with no attempts to shovel the glimpse into the ditch of what each one means at times I think there are no words but these to tell what's true and there are no truths outside... It's Alright Ma I'm Only Bleeding darkness at the break of noon shadows even the silver spoon the handmade blade, the child's balloon eclipses both the sun and moon to understand you know too soon there is no sense in trying. pointed threats they bluff with scorn suicide remarks are torn from thefool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn plays wasted words proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. temptation's page flies out the door you follow, find yourself at war watch waterfalls of pity roar you feel to moan but unlike before you discover that you'd just be one more person crying so don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear it's alright ma, I'm only sighing. as some warn victory, some downfall private reasons great or small can be seen in the eyes of those that call to make all that should be killed to crawl while others say don't hate nothing at all except hatred disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark make everything from toy guns that spark to flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark it's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred while preachers preach of evil fates teachers teach that knowledge weights can lead to hundred dollar plates goodness hides behind its gates but even the president of the united states sometimes must have to stand naked and though the rules of the road have been lodged it's only people's games that you got to dodge and it's alright ma, I can make it advertizing signs they con you into thinking you're the one that can do what's never been done that can win what's never been won meantime life outside goes on all around you you lose yourself you reappear you suddenly find you got nothing to fear alone you stand with nobody near when a trembling distant voice unclear startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really found you a question in your nerves is lit yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy, insure you not to quit to keep it in your mind and not forget that it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to and though the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools I got nothing ma to live up to for them that must obey authority that they do not respect in any degree who despise their jobs, their destinies speak jealously of them that are free cultivate their flowers to be nothing more than something they invest in while some on principles baptized to strict party platform ties social clubs in drag disguise outsiders they can freely criticize tell nothing except who to idolize and then say God bless him while one who sings with his tongue on fire gargles in the rat race choir bent out of shape from society's pliers cares not to come up any higher but rather get you down in the hole that he's in. but I mean no harm nor put fault on anyone that lives in a vault but it's alright ma, if I can't please him. old lady judges watch people in pairs limited in sex they dare to push fake morals insult and stare while money doesn't talk it swears obscenity who really cares propaganda all is phoney while them that defend what they cannot see with a killer's pride, security it blows their minds most bitterly for them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. my eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards false gods, I scuff at pettiness which plays so rough walk upside-down inside handcuffs kick my legs to crash it off say okay I've had enough what else can you show me and if my thought-dreams could be seen they'd probably put my head in a guillotine but it's alright ma, it's life and life only It's All Over Now Baby Blue you must leave now, take what you need, you think will last but whatever you wish to keep you better grab it fast yonder stands your orphan with his gun crying like a fire in the sun look out the saints are coming through and it's all over now baby blue the highway is for gamblers better use your sense take what you have gathered from coincidence the empty-handed painter from your streets is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets the sky too is folding under you all your seasick sailors they are rowing home all your reindeer armies are all going home your lover who just walked out the door has taken all his blankets from the floor the carpet too is moving under you leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you forget the dead you've left they will not follow you the vagabond who's rapping at your door is standing in the clothes that you once wore strike another match go start anew DylLyriHIGH Highway 61 revisited 1965 Like A Rolling Stone once upon a time you dressed so fine threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? people called saying "beware doll you're bound to fall" you thought they were all kidding you you used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out now you don't talk so loud now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging around for your next meal how does it feel how does it feel to be on your own with no direction home like a complete unknown like a rolling stone? you've gone to the finest school all right miss lonely but you know you only used to get juiced in it nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street and now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it you said you'd never compromise with the mystery tramp, but now you realize he's not selling any alibis as you stare into the vacuum of his eyes and say "do you want to make a deal?" you never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all come down and did tricks for you you never understood that it ain't no good you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you you used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat ain't it hard when you discover that he really wasn't where it's at after he took from you everything he could steal princess on the steeple and all the pretty people they're drinking and thinking that they got it made exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe you used to be so amused at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used go to him now he calls you, you can't refuse when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose you're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal Tombstone Blues the sweet pretty things are in bed now of course the city fathers they're trying to endorse the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse but the town has no need to be nervous. the ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits to Jezebel the nun she violently knits a bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits at the head of the chamber of commerce mama's in the factory she ain't got no shoes daddy's in the alley he's looking for the fuse I'm in the streets with the tombstone blues the hysterical bride in the penny arcade screaming she moans "I've just been made" then sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade says "my advice is to not let the boys in" now the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside he walks with a swagger and he says to the bride "stop all this weeping, swallow your pride you will not die, it's not poison" well john the baptist after torturing a thief looks up at his hero the commander-in-chief saying "tell me great hero but please make it brief is there a hole for me to get sick in?" the commander-in-chief answers him while chasing a fly saying "death to all those who would whimper and cry" and dropping a barbel he points to the sky saying "the sun's not yellow it's chicken" the king of the Philistines his soldiers to save puts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves puts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves then sends them out to the jungle gypsy davey with a blowtorch he burns out their camps with his faithful slave pedro behind him he tramps with a fantastic collection of stamps to win friends and influence his uncle. the geometry of innocence flesh on the bone causes Galileo's math book to get thrown at Delilah who sits worthlessly alone but the tears on her cheeks are from laughter now I wish I could give brother bill his great thrill I would set him in chains at the top of the hill then send out for some pillars and Cecil B DeMille he could die happily ever after where ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bedroll tuba players now rehearse around the flagpole and the national bank at a profit sells roadmaps for the soul to the old folks home and the college I wish I could write you a melody so plain that could hold you dear lady from going insane that could ease you and cool you and cease the pain of your useless and pointless knowledge. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry well I ride on a mailtrain baby can't buy a thrill I've been up all night baby leaning on the windowsill well if I die on top of the hill and if I don't make it, you know my baby will don't the moon look good mama shining through the trees? don't the brakemen look good mama flagging down the double-ee don't the sun look good going down over the sea don't my gal look fine when she's coming after me? now the wintertime is coming the windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody but I could not get across I wanna be your lover baby I don't wanna be your boss don't say I never warned you when your train gets lost From A Buick-six I got this graveyard woman you know she keeps my kid but my soulful mama you know she keeps me hid she's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread well if I go down dying you know, she's bound to put a blanket on my bed well when the pipeline gets broken and I'm lost on the river bridge I'm cracked up on the highway and on the water's edge she comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with a thread well she don't make me nervous she don't talk too much she walk like bo diddley and she don't need no crutch she keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead well you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead I need a dump truck baby to unload my head she brings me everything and more, and just like I said Ballad Of A Thin Man you walk into the room with your pencil in your hand you see somebody naked and you say "who is that man?" you try so hard but you don't understand just what you will say when you get home because something is happening here but you don't know what it is do you, mister Jones? you raise up your head and you ask"is this where it is" then somebody points to you and says it's his" and you say "what's mine?" and somebody else says "where what is?" and you say "oh my God am I here all alone?" you hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak and says "how does it feel to be such a freak?" and you say "impossible as he hands you a bone you have many contacts among the lumberjacks to get you facts when someone attacks your imagination but nobody has any respect anyway they already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organizations you've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks with great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks you've been through all of f. Scott Fitzgerald's books you're very well read it's well known well the sword swallower he comes up to you and then he kneels he crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels and without further notice he asks you how it feels and he says "here is your throatback thanks for the loan" now you see this one-eyed midget shouting the word "now" and you say "for what reason and he says "how?" and you say "what does this mean and he screams back "you're a cow give me some milk or else go home well you walk into the room like a camel and then you frown you put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground there ought to be a law against you coming around you should be made to wear earphones Queen Jane Approximately when your mother sends back all your invitations and your father to your sister he explains that you're tired of yourself and all of your creations won't you come see me queen Jane? now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you and the smell of their roses does not remain and all of your children start to resent you now when all the clowns that you have commissioned have died in battle or in vain and you're sick of all this repetition when all of your advisers heave their plastic at your feet to convince you of your pain trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic now when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to all lay down their bandanas and complain and you want somebody you don't have to speak to Desolation Row they're selling postcards of the hanging they're painting the passports brown the beauty parlor is filled with sailors the circus is in town here comes the blind commissioner they've got him in a trance one hand is tied to the tight-rope walker the other is in his pants and the riot squad they're restless they need somewhere to go as lady and I look out tonight from desolation row cinderella she seems so easy it takes one to know one" she smiles and puts her hands in her back pockets bette Davis style and in comes Romeo he's moaning you belong to me I believe" and someone says "you're in the wrong place my friend you better leave and the only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on... now the moon is almost hidden the stars are begining to hide the fortunetelling lady has even taken all her things inside all except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame everybody is making love or else expecting rain and the good Samaritan he's dressing he's getting ready for the show he's going to the carnival tonight... now Ophelia she's 'neath the window for her I feel so afraid on her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid to her death is quite romantic she wears an iron vest her profession's her religion her sin is her lifelessness and though her eyes are fixed upon noah's great rainbow she spends her time peeking in to... einstein disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk passed this way an hour ago with his friend a jealous monk he looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette then he went off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet you would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago for playing the electric violin on... dr filth he keeps his world inside of a leather cup but all his sexless patients they are trying to blow it up now his nurse, some local loser she's in charge of the cyanide hole and she also keeps the cards that read have mercy on his soul" they all play on penny whistles you can hear them blow if you lean your head out far enough from... across the street they've nailed the curtains they're getting ready for the feast the phantom of the opera a perfect image of a priest they're spoonfeeding Casanova to get him to feel more assured then they'll kill him with self-confidence after poisoning him with words and the phantom's shouting to skinny girls "get out of here if you don't know casanova is just being punished for going to... now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do then they bring them to the factory where the heart-attack machine is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go check to see that nobody is escaping to... praise be to Nero's Neptune the Titanic sails at dawn and everybody's shouting which side are you on?" and Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow and nobody has to think too much about... yes I received your letter yesterday about the time the doorknob broke when you asked me how I was doing was that some kind of joke? all these people that you mention yes I know them they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name right now I can't read too good don't send me no more letters no not unless you mail them from... Highway Sixty-one Revisited oh God said to Abraham "kill me a son abe says "man you must be putting me on god say "no" Abe say "what?" god say "you can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you better run" well Abe says "where do you want this killing done?" god says "out on highway sixty-one" well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose welfare department they wouldn't give him no clothes he asked poor Howard where can I go howard says "there's only one place I know" sam said "tell me quick man I got to run" old Howard just pointed with his gun and said "that way down on highway sixty-one" well Mack the finger said to Louie the king "I got forty red white and blue shoe strings and a thousand telephones that don't ring do you know where I can get rid of these things" and Louie the king said "let me think for a minute son and he said"yes I think it can be easily done just take everything down to highway sixty-one" now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night told the first father that things weren't right "my complexion" she said "is much too white" he said "come here and step into the light..hm you're right let me tell the second mother this has been done" but the second mother was with the seventh son and they were both out on highway sixty-one now the roving gambler he was very bored he was trying to create a next world war he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor he said "I never engaged in this kind of thing before but yes I think it can be very easily done we'll just put some bleachers out in the sun and have it on highway sixty-one" Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues when you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's eastertime too and your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue they got some hungry women there and they really make a mess out of you now if you see sweet Annie please tell her thanks a lot I cannot move my fingers are all in a knot I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot and my best friend my doctor won't even say what it is I've got sweet Melinda the peasants call her the goddess of gloom she speaks good english and she invites you up into her room and you're so kind and careful not to go to her soon and she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon up on housing project hill it's either fortune or fame you must pick up one or other though neither of them are to be what they claim if you're looking to get silly you better go back to from where you came because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same now all the authorities they just stand around and boast how they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post and picking up angel who just arrived here from the coast who looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough but the joke was on me there was nobody even there to call my bluff I'm going back to New York city I do believe I've had enough Positively Fourth Street you got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend when I was down you just stood there grinning you got a lot of nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend you just want to be on the side that's winning you say I let you down you know it's not like that if you're so hurt why then don't you show it you say you lost your faith but that's not where it's at you had no faith to lose and you know it I know the reason that you talk behind my back I used to be among the crowd you're in with do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with the one who tries to hide what it don't know to begin with you see me on the street you always act surprised you say "how are you? good luck!" but you don't mean it when you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralysed why don't you just comeout once and scream it no I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace if I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them and now I know you're dissatisfied with your position and your place don't you understand it's not my problem I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes and just for that one moment I could be you yes I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes you'd know what a drag it is to see you. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? he sits in your room his tomb with a fist full of tacks preoccupied with his vengeance cursing the dead that cannot answer him back I'm sure that he has no intentions of looking your way unless it's to say that he needs you to test his inventions can you please crawl out your window use your arms and legs it won't ruin you how can you say he will haunt you? you can go back to him any time you want to. he looks so truthful, is this how he feels trying to peel the moon and expose it with his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel if he needs a third eye he just grows it he just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk or pick it up after he throws it why does he look so righteous while you're face is so changed are you frightened of the box you keep him in while his genocide fools and his friends rearrange their religion of the little ten women that backs up their views but your face is so bruised come on out the dark is begining DylLyriBLON Blonde on Blonde 1966 Rainy Day Women Numbers Twelve And Thirty-five well they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good just like they said they would when you're trying to go home when you're there all alone but I would not feel so all alone everybody must get stoned. when you're walking along the street when you're trying to keep your seat when you're walking on the floor when you're walking to the door when you're at the breakfast table when you are young and able when you're trying to make a buck and then they'll say "good luck" and say that it's the end and then they'll come back again when you're riding in your car when you're playing your guitar when you walk all alone when you are walking home and then say you are brave when you are set down in your grave Pledging My Time well early in the morning till late at night I got a poison headache but I feel all right I'm pledging my time to you hoping you'll come through too well the hobo jumped up he came down naturally after he stole my baby then he wanted to steal me won't you come with me baby I'll take you where you wanna go and if it don't work out you'll be the first to know well the room is so stuffy I can hardly breathe everybody's gone but you and me and I can't be the last to leave well they sent for the ambulance and one was sent somebody got lucky but it was an accident Visions Of Johanna ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet we sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it and louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it lights flicker from the opposite loft in this room the heat pipes just coughed the country music station plays soft but there's nothing really nothing to turn off just louise and her lover so entwined and these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind in the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain and the all night girls they whisper of escapades out on the d train we can hear the night watchman click his flashlight ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane louise she's all right she's just near she's delicate and seems like the mirror but she just makes it all too concise and too clear that Johanna's not here the ghost electricity howls in the bones of her face where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously he brags of his misery he likes to live dangerously and when bringing her name up he speaks of a farewell kiss to me he's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall how can I explain it's so hard to get on and these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn inside the museums infinity goes up on trial voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while but Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles when the jelly-faced women all sneeze hear the one with the mustache say "jeeze I can't find my knees" oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule but these visions of Johanna theymake it all seem so cruel the peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him saying "name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" but like Louise always says you can't look at much can you man?" as she herself prepares for him and Madonna she still has not showed we see this empty cage now corrode where her cape of the stage once had flowed the fiddler he now steps to the road he writes everything's been returned which was owed on the back of the fishtruck that loads while my conscience explodes the harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain and these visions of Johanna are now all that remain One Of Us Must Know Sooner Or Later I didn't mean to treat you so bad you shouldn't take it so personal I didn't mean to make you so sad you just happened to be there that's all when I saw you say goodbye to your friend and smile I thought that it was well understood that you'd be coming back in a little while I didn't know that you were saying goodbye for good but sooner or later one of us must know you just did what you're supposed to do sooner or later one of us must know that I really did try to get close to you I couldn't see what you could show me your scarf had kept your mouth well hid I couldn't see how could know me but you said you knew me and I believed you did when you whispered in my ear and asked me if I was leaving with you or her I didn't realize just what I did hear I didn't realize how young you were I couldn't see when it started snowing your voice was all that I heard I could'nt see where we were going but you said you knew and I took your word and then you told me later as I apologized that you were just kidding me you weren't really from the farm and I told you as you clawed out my eyes that I never really meant to do you any harm I Want You the guilty undertaker sighs the lonesome organ-grinder cries the silver saxophones say I should refuse you the cracked bells and washed-out horns blow into my face with scorn but it's not that way I wasn't born to lose you I want you,I want you I want you so bad honey I want you the drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep and the saviors who are fast asleep they wait for you and I wait for them to interrupt me drinking from my broken cup and ask me to open up the gate for you now all my fathers they've gone down true love they've been without it but all their daughters put me down cause I don't think about it well I return to the queen of spades and talk with my chambermaid she knows that I'm not afraid to look at her she is good to me and there's nothing she doesn't see she knows where I'd like to be but it doesn't matter now your dancing child with his chinese suit he spoke to me I took his flute no, I wasn't very cute to him, was I? but I did it though because he lied because he took you for a ride because time was on his side and because I ... Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again oh the ragman draws circles up and down the block I'd ask him what the matter was but I know that he don't talk and the ladies treat me kindly and they furnish me with tape but deep inside my heart I know I can't escape oh mama can this really be the end to be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again? well Shakespeare he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells speaking to some french girl who says she knows me well and I would send a message to find out if she's talked but the post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked mona tried to tell me to stay away from the train line she said that all the railroad men just drink up your blood like wine and I said "oh I didn't know that but then again there's only one I've met and he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette" grandpa died last week and now he's buried in the rocks but everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked but me I expected it to happen I knew he'd lost control when he built a fire on main street and shot it full of holes now the senator came down here showing everyone his gun handing out free tickets to the wedding of his son and me I nearly got busted and wouldn't it be my luck to get caught without a ticket and be discovered beneath a truck now the preacher looked so baffled when I asked him why he dressed with twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest but he cursed me when I proved it to him then I whispered "not even you can hide you see, you're just like me I hope you're satisfied." now the rainman gave me two cures then he said jump right in. the one was Texas medicine the other was just railroad gin and like a fool I mixed them and it strangled up my mind and now people just get uglier and I have no sense of time when Ruthie says come see her in her honkytonk lagoon where I can watch her waltz for free neath her Panamanian moon and I say "ah come on now you must know about my debutante" and she says "your debutante just knows what you need but I know what you want" now the bricks lay on Grand Street where the neon madmen climb. they all fall there so perfectly it all seems so well timed and here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice. Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat well I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat well you must tell me baby how your head feels under something like that well you look so pretty in it honey can I jump on it sometime? yes I just want to see if it's really the expensive kind you know it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine well if you want to see the sun rise honey I know where we'll go out and see it sometime we'll both just sit there and stare me with my belt wrapped around my head and you just sitting there well I asked the doctor if I could see you it's bad for your health he said yes I disobeyed his orders I came to see you but I found him there instead you know I don't mind him cheating on me but I sure wish he'd take that off his head well I see you got a new boyfriend you know I never seen him before well I saw him making love to you you forgot to close the garage door you might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for Just Like A Woman nobody feels any pain tonight as I stand inside the rain everybody knows that baby's got new clothes but lately I see her ribbons and her bows have fallen from her curls she takes just like a woman, yes she does, she makes love just like a woman, yes she does and she aches just like a woman but she breaks just like a little girl queen mary she's my friend yes I believe I'll go see her again nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed till she sees finally that she's like all the rest with her fog her amphetamine and her pearls it was rain from the first and I was dying there of thirst so I came in here and your longtime curse hurts but what's worse is this pain in here I can't stay in here ain't it clear that I just can't fit yes I believe it's time for us to quit when we meet again introduced as friends please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world ah you fake just like a woman, yes you do you make love just like a woman, yes you do then you ache just like a woman but you break just like a little girl. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine you say you love me and you're thinking of me but you know you could be wrong you say you told me that you want to hold me but you know you're not that strong I just can't do what I've done before I just can't beg you anymore I'mgonna let you pass and I'll go last then time will tell just who has fell and who's been left behind when you go your way and I go mine. you say you disturb me and you don't deserve me but you know sometimes you lie you say you're shaking and you're a lways aching but you know how hard you try sometimes it gets so hard to care it can't be this way everywhere the judge he holds a grudge he's gonna call on you but he's badly built and he walks on stilts watch out he don't fall on you you say you're sorry fortelling stories that you know I believe are true you say you got some other kind of lover and yes I believe you do you say my kisses are not like his but this time I'm not gonna tell you why that is Absolutely Sweet Marie well your railroad gate you know I just can't jump it sometimes it gets so hard you see I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet with all those promises you left for me but where are you tonight, sweet Marie? well I waited for you when I was half sick yes I waited for you when you hated me well I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic when you knew I had some other place to be well anybody can be just like me, obviously but then now again not too many can be like you fortunately well six white horses that you did promise were finally delivered down to the penitentiary but to live outside the law you must be honest I know you always say that you agree well I don't know how it happened but the river-boat captain he knows my fate but everybody else even yourself they're just gonna have to wait well I got the fever down in my pockets the Persian drunkard he follows me yes I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it you see you forgot to leave me with the key now I been in jail where all the mail showed that a man can't give his address out to bad company and now I stand here looking at your yellow railroad in the ruins of your balcony wondering where you are tonight sweet Marie Temporary Like Achilles standing on your window honey yes I've been here before feeling so harmless I'm looking at your second door. how come you don't send me no regards you know I want your loving honey why are you so hard? kneeling 'neath your ceiling yes I guess I'll be here for a while I'm trying to read your portrait but I'm helpless like a rich man's child how come you send someone out to have me barred? like a poor fool in his prime yes I know you can hear me walk but is your heart made out of stone or is it lime or is it just solid rock? well I rush into your hallway lean against your velvet door I watch upon your scorpion who crawls across your circus floor just what do you think you have to guard? achilles is in your alleyway he don't want me here he does brag he's pointing to the sky and he's hungry like a man in drag how come you get someone like him to be your guard? Obviously Five Believers early in the morning I'm calling you to please come home yes I guess I could make it without you if I just didn't feel so all alone don't let me down I won't let you down no I won't you know I can if you can honey but honey please don't I got my black dog barking yes it is now outside my yard yes I could tell you what he means if I just didn't have to try so hard your mama's working your mama's moaning she's crying you know she's trying you know you better go now well I'd tell you what she wants but I just don't know how fifteen jugglers five believers all dressed like men tell your mama not to worry because yes they're just my friends early in the morning I'm calling you to please come home Fourth Time Around when she said don't waste your words they're just lies" I cried she was deaf and she worked on my face until breaking my eyes then said "what else you got left it was then that I got up to leave but she said "don't forget everybody must give something back for something they get I stood there and hummed I tapped on her drum and asked her how come and she buttoned her boot and straightened her suit then she said "don't get cute" so I forced my hands in my pocket and felt with my thumbs and gallantly handed her my very last piece of gum. she threw me outside I stood in the dirt where everyone walked and after finding out I'd forgotten my shirt I went back and knocked I waited in the hallway, she went to get it and I tried to make sense out of that picture of you in your wheelchair that leaned up against her Jamaican rum and when she did come I asked her for some she said "no dear I said "your words aren't clear you'd better spit out your gum she screamed till her face got so red that she fell on the floor and I covered her up and then thought I'd go look through her drawer and when I was through I filled up my shoe and brought it to you and you, you took me in you loved me then you didn't waste time and I, I never took much I never asked for your crutch now don't ask for mine. Sad-eyed Lady Of The Lowlands with your mercury mouth in the missionary times and your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes and your silver cross and your voice like chimes oh who among them do they think could bury you with your pockets well protected at last and your streetcar visions which you place on the grass and your flesh like silk and your face like glass who among them do they think could carry you? sad-eyed lady of the lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes my warehouse eyes, my arabian drums should I leave them by your gate or sad-eyed lady should I wait? with your sheets like metal and your belt like lace and your deck of cards missing the jackand the ace and your basement clothes and your hollow face who among them can think he could outguess you? with your silhouette when the sunlight dims into your eyes where the moonlight swims and your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns who among them would try to impress you? the kings of tyrus with their convict list are waiting in line for their geranium kiss and you wouldn't know it would happen like this but who among them really wants just to kiss you? with your childhood flames on your midnight rug and your spanish manners and your mother's drugs and your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs who among them do you think could resist you? oh the farmers and the business men they all did decide to show you the dead angels that they used to hide but why did they pick you to sympathize with their side oh how could they ever mistake you? they wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm but with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm and with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms how could they ever ever persuade you? with your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row and your magazine husband who one day just had to go and your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show who among them do you think would employ you? now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole with your holy medallion which your fingertips fold and your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul oh who among them do you think could destroy you? DylLyriBASE Basement Tapes 1967 Quinn The Eskimo everybody's building big ships and boats some are building monuments others are jotting down notes everybody's in despair every girl and boy but when Quinn the eskimo gets here everybody's gonna jump for joy come all without, come all within you'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn I like to do just like the rest I like my sugar sweet but guarding fumes and making haste it ain't my cup of meat everybody's beneath the trees feeding pigeons out on a limb all the pigeons gonna run to him a cat's meow and a cow's moo, Ican recite them all, just tell me where it hurts you honey and I'll tell you who to call nobody can get any sleep there's someone on everyone's toes everybody's gonna wanna doze Down In The Flood crash on the levee mama water's gonna overflow swamp's gonna rise no boat's gonna row now you can train on down to williams point you can bust your feet you can rock this joint but oh mama ain't you gonna miss your best friend now! you're gonna have to find yourself another best friend somehow now don'tyou try and move me you're just gonna lose. there's a crash on the levee and mama you've been refused well it's sugar for sugar and salt for salt if you go down in the flood it's gonna be your fault well that high tide's rising mama don't you let me down pack up your suitcase mama don't you make a sound. now it's king for king queen for queen it's gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen. Nothing Was Delivered nothing was delivered and I tell this truth to you not out of spite or anger butsimply because it's true now I hope you won't object to giving back all of what you owe the fewer words you have to waste on this the sooner you can go nothing is better, nothing is best take heed of this and get plenty of rest. but I can't say I sympathize with what your fate is going to be yes for telling all those lies now you must provide some answers for what you sell has not been received and the sooner you come up with them the sooner you can leave. and it's up to you to say just what you had in mind when you made everbody pay yes and someone must explain that as long as it takes to do this then that's how long that you'll remain. I Shall Be Released they say everything can be replaced yet every distance is not near. so I remember every face of every man who put me here I see my light come shining from the west unto the east any day now any day now I shall be released. they say every man needs protection they say every man must fall yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall standing next to me in this lonely crowd is a man who swears he's not to blame all day long I hear him shout so loud crying out that he was framed. Million Dollar Bash well that big dumb blonde with her wheel in the gorge and turtle that friend of hers with his checks all forged and his cheeks in a chunk with his cheese in the cash they're all gonn a be there at that million dollar bash ooh baby oo-ee, ooh baby oo-ee it's that million dollar bash. everybody from right now to over there and back the louder they come the harder they crack come now sweet cream don't forget to flash we're all gonna meet well I took my counselor out to the barn silly nelly was there she told him a yarn then along came Jones emptied the trash everybody went down well I'm hitting it too hard my stones won't take I get up in the morning but it's too early to wake first it's hello goodbye then push and then crash but we're all gonna make it well I looked at my watch I looked at my wrist punched myself in the face with my fist I took my potatoes down to be mashed then I made it over Open The Door Homer now there's a certain thing that I learned from jim that he'd always make sure I'd understand and that is that there's a certain way that a man must swim if he expects to live off of the fat of the land open the door Homer I've heard it said before but I ain't gonna hear it said no more. now there's a certain thing that I learned from my friend mouse a fellow who always blushes and that is that everyone must always flush out his house if he don't expect to be housing flushes take care of all of your memories said my friend Mick for you cannot relive them and remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick that you must always first forgive them Please Mrs Henry well I've already had two beers I'm ready for the broom please mrs Henry won't you take me to my room I'm a good old boy but I've been sniffing too many eggs talking to too many people drinking too many kegs please mrs Henry, mrs Henry please I'm down on my knees and I ain't got a dime well I'm groaning in your hallway pretty soon I'll be mad won't you take me to your dad I can drink like a fish I can crawl like a snake I can bite like a turkey I can slam like a drake now don't crowd me lady or I'll fill up your shoes I'm a sweet bourbon daddy and tonight I am blue I'm a thousand years old and I'm a generous bomb I'm t-boned and punctured but I'm known to be calm now I'm starting to drain my stool's gonna squeak if I walk too much farther my crane's gonna leak look mrs henry there's only so much I can do why don't you look my way and pump me a few? Tears Of Rage we carried you in our arms on independence day and now you'd throw us all aside and put us on our way oh what dear daughter beneath the sun would treat a father so to wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him no tears of rage, tears of grief why must I always be the thief come to me now you know we're so alone and life is brief we pointed out the way to go and scratched your name in sand though you just thought it was nothing more than a place for you to stand now I want you to know that while we watched you discover there was no-one true most everybody really thought it was a childish thing to do. it was all so very painless when you went out to receive all that false instruction which we never could believe and now the heart is filled with gold as if it was a purse but oh what kind of love is this which goes from bad to worse? Tiny Montgomery well you cantell everybody down in old Frisco tell them tiny Montgomery says hello now every boy and girl's gonna get their bang cause tiny Montgomery's gonna shake that thing skinny Moo and half-track Frank they're gonna both be getting out of the tank one bird book and a buzzard and a crow scratch your dad do that bird suck that pig and bring it on home pick that drip and bake that dough now he's king of the drunks and he squeezes too watch out Lester, take it Lou join the monks, the cio now grease that pig and singpraise go on out and gas that dog trick on in honk that stink take it on down and watch it grow play it low and pick it up take it on in in a plucking cup three-legged man and a hot-lipped hoe... This Wheel's On Fire if your memory serves you well we were going to meet again and wait so I'm going to unpack all my things and sit before it gets too late no man alive will come to you with another tale to tell but you know that we shall meet again if your memory serves you well this wheel's on fire rolling down the road best notify my next of kin this wheel shall explode. I was going to confiscate your lace and wrap it up in a sailor's knot and hide it in your case if I knew for sure that it was yours but it was oh so hard to tell you'll remember you're the one that called on me to call on them to get you your favors done and after every plan had failed and there was nothing more to tell you knew that we should meet again Too Much Of Nothing now too much of nothing can make a man feel illat ease one man's temper might rise while another man's temper might freeze in the day of confession we cannot mock a soul oh when there's too much of nothing no-one has control. say hello to valerie say hello to Vivian send them all my salary on the waters of oblivion too much of nothing can make a man abuse a king he can walk the streets and boast like most but he wouldn't know a thing now it's all been done before it's all been written in the book nobody should look can turn a man into a liar it can cause one man to sleep on nails and another man to eat fire everybody's doing something I heard it in a dream it just makes a fellow mean. Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread well the comic book and me just us, we caught the bus the poor little chauffeur though she was back in bed on the very next day with a nose full of pus yea heavy and a bottle of bread it's a one-track town, just brown and a breeze too pack up the meat, sweet, we're heading out for Wichita in a pile of fruit get the loot, don't beslow, we're gonna catch a trout now pull that drummer out from behind that bottle bring me my pipe we're gonna shake it slap that drummer with a pie that smells take me down to California baby You Ain't Going Nowhere clouds so swift rain won't lift gate won't close railings froze get your mind off wintertime you ain't going nowhere whoo-ee! ride me high tomorrow's the day my bride's gonna come oh oh are we gonna fly down in the easy chair! I don't care how many letters they sent morning came and morning went pick up your money and pack up your tent buy me a flute and a gun that shoots tailgates and substitutes strap yourself to the tree with roots genghis Khan he could not keep all his kings supplied with sleep we'll climb that hill no matter how steep when we get up to it Lo And Behold I pulled out for San Anton I never felt so good my woman said she'd meet me there and of course I knew she would the coachman he hit me for my hook and he asked me for my name I gave it to him right away then I hung my head in shame lo and behold! lo and behold looking for my lo and behold! get me out of here my dear man! I come into Pittsburgh at six-thirty flat I found myself a vacant seat and I put down my hat what's the matter Molly dear, what's the matter with your mound what's it to you Moby Dick? this is chicken town I bought my girl a herd of moose one she could call her own well she came out the very next day to see where they had flown I'm going down to Tennessee get me a truck or something gonna save my money and rip it up now I come in on a ferris wheel and boys I sure was slick I come in like a ton of bricks laid a few tricks on them going back to Pittsburgh count up to thirty round that horn and ride that herd gonna thread up! Clothes Line after a while we took in the clothes nobody said very much just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants which nobody really wanted to touch mama came in and picked up a book and papa asked her what it was someone else asked "what do youcare?" papa said "well just because then they started to take back their clothes hang them on the line it was january the thirtieth and everybody was feeling fine. the next day everybody got up seeing if the clothes were dry the dogs were barking, a neighbor passed mama of course she said hi "have you heard the news?" he said with a grin "the vice-president's gone mad where?" "downtown" "when" "last night hmm, say, that's too bad well there's nothing we can do about it "said the neighbor it's just something we're gonna have to forget" "yes I guess so" said ma then she asked me if the clothes was still wet I reached up touched my shirt and the neighbor said "are those clothes yours I said "some of them not all of them" he said "you always help out around here with the chores?" I said "sometime not all the time then my neighbor he blew his nose just as papa yelled outside mama wants you to come back in the house and bring them clothes well I just do what I'm told so I did it of course I went back in the houseand mama met me and then I shut all the doors. DylLyriJOHN John Wesley Harding 1968 John Wesley Harding john Wesley Harding he was a friend to the poor he travelled with a gun in every hand all along this countryside he opened many a door but he was never known to hurt an honest man twas down in chaynee county the time they talk about with his lady by his side he took a stand and soon the situation there was all but straightened out for he was always known to lend a helping hand all across the telegraph his name it did resound but no charge held against him could they prove and there was no man around could track or chain him down he was never known to make a foolish move. As I Went Out One Morning as I went out one morning to breathe the air around Tom Paine's I spied the fairest damsel that ever did walk in chains I offered her my hand she took me by the arm I knew that very instant she meant to do me harm. "depart from me this moment I told her with my voice said she "but I don't wish to said I "but you have no choice" "I beg you sir" she pleaded from the corners of her mouth "I will secretly accept you and together we'll fly south" just then tom paine himself came running from across the field shouting at this lovely girl and commanding her to yield and as she was letting go her grip up Tom Paine did run "I'm sorry sir" he said to me I'm sorry for what she's done." All Along The Watchtower "there must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief "there's too much confusion, I can't get no relief business men they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth none of them along the line know what any of it is worth" "no reason to get excited" the thief he kindly spoke "there are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke but you and I we've been through that, and this is not our fate so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." all along the watchtower, princes kept the view while all the women came and went, barefoot servants too, outside in the distance a wildcat did growl two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine I dreamed I saw saint Augustine alive as you or me tearing through these quarters in the utmost misery with a blanket underneath his arm and a coat of solid gold searching for the very souls whom already have been sold. "arise arise" he cried so loud in a voice without restraint "come out ye gifted kings and queens and here my sad complaint no martyr is among ye now whom you can call yourown so go on your way accordingly but know you're not alone I dreamed I saw saint Augustine alive with fiery breath and I dreamed I was amongst the ones that put him out to breath oh I awoke in anger so alone and terrified I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried. The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest well Frankie Lee and Judas Priest they were the best of friends. so when Frankie Lee needed money one day judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens and placed them on a footstool just above the plotted plain saying "take your pick Frankie boy my loss will be your gain well Frankie Lee he sat right down and put his fingers to his chin but with the cold eyes of Judas on him his head began to spin "would you please not stare at me like that" he said "it's just my foolish pride but sometimes a man must be alone and this is no place to hide well Judas he just winked and said "all right I'll leave you here but you'd better hurry up and choose which of those bills you want before they all disappear" "I'm gonna start my picking right now just tell me where you'll be" judas just pointed down the road and said "eternity!" "eternity?" said Frankie Lee with a voice as cold as ice "that's right" said Judas Priest "eternity, though you might call it paradise I don't call it anything" said Frankie Lee with a smile all right" said Judas Priest "I'll see you after a while." well Frankie Lee he sat back down feeling low and mean when just then a passing stranger burst upon the scene saying"are you Frankie Lee the gambler whose father is deceased? well if you are there's a fellow calling you down the road and they say his name is priest oh yes he is my friend" said Frankie Lee in fright I do recall him very well, in fact he just left my sight yes that's the one" said the stranger as quiet as a mouse well my message is he's down the road stranded in a house well Frankie Lee he panicked he dropped everything and ran until he came up to the spot where Judas Priest did stand what kind of house is this"he said "where I have come to roam it's not a house" said Judas Priest "it's not a house it's a home well Frankie Lee he trembled he soon lost all control over everything which he had made while the mission bells did toll he just stood there staring at that big house as bright as any sun with four and twenty windows and a woman's face in every one well up the stairs ran Frankie Lee with a soulful bounding leap and foaming at the mouth he began to make his midnight creep for sixteen nights and days he raved but on the seventeenth he burst into the arms of Judas Priest which is where he died of thirst no-one tried to say a thing when they took him out in jest except of course the little neighbor boy who carried him to rest and he just walked along alone with his guilt so well concealed and muttered underneath his breath " nothing is revealed well the moral of this story the moral of this song is simply that one should never be where one does not belong so when you see your neighbor carrying something help himwith his load and don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road. Drifter's Escape "oh help me in my weakness I heard the drifter say as they carried him from the courtroom and were taking him away "my trip hasn't been a pleasant one and my time it isn't long, and I still do not know what it was that I've done wrong." well the judge he cast his robe aside a tear came to his eye "you fail to understand" he said why must you even try?" outside the crowd was stirring you could hear it from the door inside the judge was stepping down while the jury cried for more "oh stop that cursed jury cried the attendant and the nurse "the trial was bad enough but this is ten times worse" just then a bolt of lightning struck the courthouse out of shape and while everybody knelt to pray the drifter did escape. Dear Landlord/please Don't Put A Price On My Soul my burden is heavy my dreams are beyond control when that steamboat whistle blows I'm gonna give you all I got to give and I do hope youreceive it well depending on the way you feel that you live please heed these words that I speak I know you've suffered much but in this you are not so unique all of us at times we might work too hard to have it too fast and too much and anyone can fill his life up with things he can see but he just cannot touch. please don't dismiss my case I'm not about to argue I'm not about to move to no other place now each of us has his own special gift and you know this was meant to be true and if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you. I Am A Lonesome Hobo I am a lonesome hobo without family or friends where another man's life might begin that's exactly where mine ends I have tried my hand at bribery blackmail and deceit and I've served time for everything except begging on the street well once I was rather prosperous there was nothing I did lack I had fourteen carat gold in my mouth and silk upon my back but I did not trust my brother I carried him to blame which led me to my fatal doom to wander off in shame kind ladies and kind gentlemen soon I will be gone but let me just warn you all before I do pass on stay free from petty jealousies live by no man's code and hold your judgement for yourself lest you wind up on this road. I Pity The Poor Immigrant I pity the poor immigrant who wishes he would have stayed home who uses all his power to do evil but in the end is always left so alone that man whom with his fingers cheats and who lies with every breath who passionately hates his life and likewise fears his death whose strength is spent in vain whose heaven is like ironsides whose tears are like rain who eats but is not satisfied who hears but does not see who falls in love with wealth itself and turns his back on me who tramples through the mud who fills his mouth with laughing and who builds his town with blood whose visions in the final end must shatter like the glass I pity the poor immigrant when his gladness comes to pass. The Wicked Messenger there was a wicked messenger from Eli he did come with a mind that multiplied the smallest matter when questioned who had sent for him he answered with his thumb for his tongue it could not speak but only flatter. he stayed behind the assembly hall it was there he made his bed oftentimes he could be seen returning until one day he just appeared with a note in his hand which read the soles of my feet I swear they're burning oh the leaves began to falling and the seas began to part and the people that confronted him were many and he was told but these few words which opened up his heart "if ye cannot bring good news then don't bring any." Down Along The Cove down along the cove I spied my true love coming my way I say "lord have mercy mama it sure is good to see you coming today" I spied my little bundle of joy she said lord have mercy honey I'm so glad you're my boy we walked together hand in hand everybody watching us go by knows we're in love yes they understand I'll Be Your Baby Tonight close your eyes close the door you don't have to worry anymore I'll be your baby tonight shut the light shut the shade you don't have to be afraid well that mockingbird's gonna sail away we're gonna forget it that big fat moon's gonna shine like a spoon we're gonna let it you won't regret it kick your shoes off, do not fear bring your bottle over here. DylLyriNASH Nashville Skyline 1969 To Be Alone With You to be alone with you just you and me now won't you tell me true ain't that the way it ought to be to hold each other tight the whole night through everything is always right when I'm alone with you at the close of the day with only you in view while evening slips away it only goes to show that while life's pleasures be few the only one I know is when I'm alone with you they say that nighttime is the right time to be with the one you love too many thoughts get in the way in the day but you're always what I'm thinking of I wish the night was here bringing me all of your charms when only you are near to hold me in your arms I'll always thank the lord when my working day is through I get my sweet reward I Threw It All Away I once held her in my arms she said she would always stay but I was cruel I treated her like a fool I threw it all away once I had mountains in the palm of my hand and rivers that ran through every day I must have been mad I never knew what I had love is all there is, it makes the world go round love and only love, it can't be denied no matter what you think about it you just won't be able to do without it take a tip from one who's tried so if you find someone that gives you all of her love take it to your heart, don't let it stray for one thing that's certain you will surely be a-hurting if you throw it all away. Peggy Day peggy Day stole my poor heart away by golly what more can I say love to spend the night with Peggy Day peggy Night makes my future look so bright man that girl is out of sight love to spend the day with Peggy Night well you know that even before I learned her name you know I loved her just the same and I tell em all wherever I may go just so they'll know that she's my little lady and I love her so turned my skies from blue to gray Lay Lady Lay lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed whatever colors you have in your mind I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine stay lady stay, stay with your man awhile until the break of day let me see you make him smile his clothes are dirty but his hands are clean and you're the best thing that he's ever seen stay lady stay, stay with your man awhile why wait any longer for the world to begin you can have your cake and eat it too why wait any longer for the one you love when he's standing in front of you stay lady stay, stay while the night is still ahead I long to see you in the morning light I long to reach for you in the night. One More Night one more night, the stars are in sight but tonight I'm as lonesome as can be oh the moon is shining bright lighting everything in sight but tonight nolight will shine on me. oh it's shameful and it's sad I lost the only pal I had I just could not be what she wanted me to be I will turn my head up high to that dark and rolling sky I was so mistaken when I thought that she'd be true I had no idea what a woman in love would do one more night I will wait for the light while the wind blows high above the tree oh I miss my darling so I didn't mean to let her go Tell Me That It Isn't True I have heard rumors all over town they say that you're planning to put me down all I would like you to do is tell me that it isn't true they say that you've been seen with some other man that he's tall dark and handome and you're holding his hand darling I'm counting on you... to know that some other man is holding you tight it hurts me all over, it doesn't seem right. all of these awful things that I have heard I don't want to believe them, all I want is your word so darling you'd better come through.... Country Pie just like old saxophone Joe when he'sgot the hogshead up on his toe oh me oh my love that country pie listen to that fiddler play when he's playing till the break of day raspberry strawberry lemon and lime what do I care bluberry apple cherry pumpkin and plum call me for dinner honey I'll be there saddle me up on my big white goose time me on her and turn her loose I don't need much and that ain't no lie ain't running any race give to me my country pie I won't throw it up in anybody's face shake me up that old peach tree little Jack horner'sgot nothing on me Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You throw my ticket out the window throw my suitcase out there too throw my troubles out the door I don't need them anymore cause tonight I'll be staying here with you. I should have left this town this morning but it was more than I could do oh your love comes on so strong and I've waited all day long is it really any wonder the love that a stranger might receive you cast your spell and I went under I find it so difficult to leave I can hear that whistle blowing I see that station master too if there's a poor boy on the street then let him have my seat DylLyriSELFP Self Portrait 1970 All The Tired Horses all the tired horses in the sun how 'm I going to get any writing done? DylLyriNEWM New Morning 1970 If Not For You if not for you babe I couldn't find the door couldn't even see the floor I'd be sad and blue if not for you. babe I'd lay awake all night wait for the morning light to shine in through but it wouldnot be new my sky would fall rain would gather too without your love I'd be nowhere at all I'd be lost if not for you and you know it's true oh what would I do? winter would have no spring couldn't hear the robin sing I just w ouldn't have a clue anyway it wouldn't ring true Day Of The Locusts oh the benches were stained with tears and perspiration the birdies were flying from tree to tree there was little to say there was no conversation as I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree and the locusts sang off in the distance such a sweet melody and they were singing for me I glanced into the chamber where the judges were talking darkness was everywhere it smelled like a tomb I was ready to leave, I was already walking but the next time I looked there was light in the room yeah it gave me a chill their high whining trill outside of the gates the trucks were unloading the weather was hot nearly ninety degrees the man standing next to me his head was exploding I was praying the pieces wouldn't fall on me I took down my robe, picked up my diploma took hold of my sweetheart and away we did drive straight for the hills, the black hills of dakota sure was glad to get out of there alive.. Time Passes Slowly time passes slowly up here in the mountains we sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains catch the wild fishes that float through the stream time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-looking we sat in the kitchen while her mama was cooking stared out the window to the stars high above time passes slowly when you're searching for love. ain't no reason to go in a wagon to town ain't no reason to go to the fair ain't no reason to go up, ain't no reason to go down ain't no reason to go anywhere time passes slowly up here in the daylight we stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right like the red rose of summer that blooms in a day time passes slowly and fades away. Went To See The Gypsy went to see the gypsy staying in a big hotel he smiled when he saw me coming and he said "well well well" his room was dark and crowded lights were low and dim. "how are you?" he said to me I said it back to him I went down to the lobby to make a small call out a pretty dancing girl was there and she began to shout "go on back to see the gypsy he can move you from the rear drive you from your fear bring you through the mirror he did it in Las Vegas and he can do it here." outside the lights were shining on the river of tears I watched them from the distance with the music in my ears I went back to see the gypsy it was nearly early dawn the gypsy's door was open wide but the gypsy was gone and that pretty dancing girl she could not be found so I watched the sun come rising from that little Minnesota town Winterlude winterlude winterlude, oh darling winterlude by the road tonight tonight there will be no quarreling everything is gonna be all right oh I see by the angel beside me that love has a reason to shine you're the one I adore, come over here and give me more then winterlude, this dude thinks you're fine winterlude winterlude, my little apple winterlude by the corn in the field winterlude let's go down to the chapel then come back and cook up a meal well come out when the skating rink glistens by the sun near the old crossroads sign the snow is so cold but our love can be bold winterlude don't be rude, please be mine winterlude winterlude, my little daisy winterlude by the telephone wire winterlude it's making me lazy come on, sit by the logs in the fire the moonlight reflects from the window where the snowflakes they cover the sand come out tonight, everything will be tight winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand. If Dogs Run Free if dogs run free then why not we across the swooping plain? my ears hear a symphony of two mules trains and rain the best is always yet to come that's what they explain to me just do your thing, you'll be king if dogs run free if dogs run free, why not me across the swamp of time? my mind weaves a symphony and tapestry of rhyme oh winds which rush my tale to thee so it may flow and be to each his own, it's all unknown if dogs run free then what must be must be, and that is all true love can make a blade of grass stand up straight and tall in harmony with the cosmic sea true love needs no company it can cure the soul, it can make it whole New Morning can't you hear that rooster crowing rabbit running down across the road underneath the bridge where the water flowed through so happy just to see you smile underneath this sky of blue on this new morning, new morning on this new morning with you. can't you hear that motor turning automobile coming into style coming down the road for a country mile or two so happy just to see you smile the night passed away so quickly it always does when you're with me can't you feel that sun a-shining ground hog running by the country stream this must be the day that all of my dreams come true so happy just to be alive... Sign On The Window sign on thewindow says lonely sign on the door said no company allowed sign on the street says you don't own me sign on the porch says three's a crowd her and her boyfriend went to california her and her boyfriend done changed their tune my best friend said "now didn't I warn you brighton girls are like the moon looks like nothing but rain sure gonna be wet tonight on main street hope that it don't sleet. build me a cabin in utah marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout have a bunch of kids who call me pa that must be what it's all about One More Weekend slipping and sliding like a weasel on the run I'm looking good to see you yeah, and we can have some fun one more weekend, one more weekend with you one more weekend, one more weekend will do. come on down to my ship honey, ride on deck we'll fly over the ocean just like you suspect we'll fly the night away hang out the whole next day things will be okay you wait and see we'll go someplace unknown leave all the children home honey why not go alone just you and me? coming and going like a rabbit in the wood I'm happy just to see you yeah, looking so good like a needle in a haystack I'm gonna find you yet you're the sweetest gone mama that this boy's ever gonna get The Man In Me the man in me will do nearly any task and as for compensation there's little he would ask takes a woman like you to get through to the man in me storm clouds are raging all around my door I think to myself I might not take it anymore take a woman like your kind to find the man in me but oh what a wonderful feeling just to know that you are near sets my heart a-reeling from my toes up to my ears the man in me will hide sometimes to keep from being seen but that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine took a woman like you to get through to the man in me. Three Angels three angels up above the street each one playing a horn dressed in green robes with wings that stick out they've been there since christmas morn the wildest cat from Montana passes by in aflash then a lady in a bright orange dress one u-haul trailer, a truck with no wheels, the tenth avenue bus going west the dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around a man with a badge skips by three fellows crawling on their way back to work nobody stops to ask why the bakery truck stops outside of that fence where the angels stand high on their poles the driver peeks out, trying to find one face in this concrete world full of souls the angels play on their horns all day the whole earth in progression seems to pass by but does anyone hear the music they play does anyone even try? Father Of Night father of night father of day father who taketh the darkness away father who teacheth the birds to fly builder of rainbows up in the sky father of loneliness and pain father of love and father of rain. father of day, father of night father of black, father of white father who build the mountain so high who shapeth the cloud up in the sky father of time, father of dreams father who turneth the rivers and streams father of grain, father of wheat father of cold and father of heat father of air and father of trees who dwells in our hearts and our memories father of minutes, father of days father of whom we most solemnly praise. Watching The River Flow what's the matter with me I don't have much to say daylight sneaking through the window and I'm still in this all-night cafe walking to and fro beneath the moon out to where the trucks are rolling slow to sit down on this bank of sand and watchthe river flow wish I was back in the city instead of this old bank of sand with the sun beating down on the chimney pots and the one I love so close at hand if I had wings and I could fly I know where I would go but right now I'll just sit here so contentedly people disagreeing on all just about everything yeah makes you stop and wonder why why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street who just couldn't help but cry this old river keeps on rolling though no matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow and as long as it does I'll just sit here people disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street that was really shook When I Paint My Masterpiece oh the streets of rome are filled with rubble ancient footprints are everywhere you can almost think that you're seeing double on a cold dark night on the Spanish stairs got to hurry on back to my hotel room where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece she promisedthat she'd be right there with me when I paint my masterpiece. oh the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum dodging lions and wasting time oh those mighty kings of the jungle I could hardly stand to see em yes it sure has been a long hard climb train wheels running through the back of my memory when I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese someday everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh to be back in the land of coca-cola I left rome and landed in Brussels on a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried clergymen in uniform and young girls pulling muscles everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside newspapermen eating candy had to be held down by big police someday everything is gonna be different... DylLyriPLAN Planet Waves 1973 On A Night Like This on a night like this so glad you came around hold on to me so tight and heat up some coffee grounds we got much to talk about and much to reminisce it sure is right on a night like this. so glad you've come to stay hold on to me pretty miss say you'll never go away to stray run your fingers down my spine bring me a touch of bliss I can't get any sleep the air is so cold outside and the snow's so deep build a fire, throw on logs and listen to it hiss and let it burn, burn burn burn put your body next to mine and keep me company there is plenty of room for all so please don't elbow me let the four winds blow around this old cabin door if I'm not too far off I think we did this once before there's frost on the window glass with each new tender kiss... Going Going Gone I've just reached a place where the willow don't bend there's not much more to be said it's the top of the end I'm going, I'm going, I'm gone. I'm closing the book on the pages and the text and I don't really care what happens next I been hanging on threads I been playing it straight now I've just got to cut loose before it gets late grandma said "boy go and follow your heart and you'll be fine at the end of theline all that's gold is meant to shine don't you and your one true love ever part I been walking on the road I been living on the edge now I've just got to go before I get to the ledge Tough Mama tough mama meat shaking on your bones I'm gonna go down to the river and get some stones sister's on the highway with that steel driving crew papa's in the big house his working days are through tough mama can I blow a little smoke on you dark beauty won't you move it on over and make some room it's my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom. ashes in the furnace dust on the rise you came through it all the way flying through the skies dark beauty with that long night's journey in your eyes sweet goddess born of a blinding light and a changing wind now don't be modest you know who you are and where you've been jack the cowboy went up north he's buried in your past the lone wolf went out drinking that was over pretty fast sweet goddess your perfect stranger's coming in at last silver angel with the badge of the lonesome road sewed into your sleeve I'd be grateful if this golden ring you would receive today on the countryside it was hotter than a crotch I stood alone upon the ridge and all I did was watch sweet goddess it must be time to carve another notch I'm crestfallen the world of illusion is at my door I ain't hauling any of my lambs to the market place anymore the prison walls are crumbling there is no end in sight I've gained some recognition but I lost my appetite dark beauty meet me at the border late tonight Hazel hazel, dirty blonde hair I wouldn't be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere you got something I want plenty of ooh a little touch of your love hazel, stardust in your eye you're going somewhere and so am I I'd give you the sky high above oh no I don't need any reminder to know how much I really care but it's just making me blinder and blinder because I'm up on a hill and still you're not there hazel, you called and I came now don't make me play this waiting game Something There Is About You something there is about you that strikes a match in me is it the way your body moves or is it the way your hair blows free or is it because you remind me of something that used to be something's that crossed over from another century? thought I'd shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth rainy days on the great lakes walking the hills of old Duluth there was me and Danny Lopez cold eyes black night and there was ruth something there is about you that brings back a long forgotten truth suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings don't have to look no further you're the soul of many things I could say that I'd be faithful I could say it in one sweet easy breath but to you that would be cruelty and to me it surely would be death that moves with style and grace I was in a whirlwind now I'm in some better place my hand's on the sabre and you've picked up the baton Forever Young may God bless and keep you always may your wishes all come true may you always do for others and let others do for you may you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung may you stay forever young may you grow up to be righteous may you grow up to be true may you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you may you always be courageous stand upright and be strong may your hands always be busy may your feet always be swift may you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift may your heart always be joyful may your song always be sung Dirge I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed you were just a painted face on a trip down suicide road the stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel I hate myself for loving you and I'm glad the curtain fell I hate that foolish game we played and the need that was expressed and the mercy that you showed to me whoever would have guessed I went out on lower broadway and I felt that place within that hollow place where martyrs weep and angels play with sin heard your songsof freedom and man forever stripped acting out his folly while his back is being whipped like a slave in orbit he's beaten till he's tame all for a moment's glory and it's a dirty rotten shame there are those who worship loneliness I'm not one of them in this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem the crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude but at least I'm out of debt can't recall a useful thing you ever did for me except pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees we stared into each other's eyes till one of us would break no use to apologize what difference would it make so sing your praise of progress and of the doom machine the naked truth is still tabu whenever it can be seen lady luck who shines on me will tell you where I'm at but I should get over that. You Angel You you angel you you got me under your wing the way you walk and the way you talk I feel I could almost sing you're as fine as anything's fine it sure plays on my mind you know I can't sleep at night for trying never did feel this way before I get up at night and walk the floor if this is love then give me more and more and more and more and more you're as fine as can be the way you smile like a heavenly child is the way it ought to be Never Say Goodbye twilight on the frozen lake north wind about to break on footprints in the snow silence down below you're beautiful beyond words you're beautiful to me you can make me cry never say goodbye time is all I have to give you can have it if you choose with me you can live never say goodbye my dreams are made of iron and steel with a big bouquet of roses hanging down from the heavens to the ground the crashing waves roll over me as I stand upon the sand wait for you to come and grab hold of my hand oh baby, baby baby blue you'll change your last name too you've turned your hair to brown love to see it hanging down Wedding Song I love you more than ever more than time and more than love I love you more than money and more than the stars above love you more than madness more than waves upon the sea love you more than life itself you mean that much to me ever since you walked right in the circle's been complete I've said goodbye to haunted rooms and faces in the street to the courtyard of the jester which is hidden from the sun I love you more than ever and I haven't yet begun you breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from the hole quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul you gave me babies one two three what is more you saved my life eye for eye and tooth for tooth your love cuts like a knife my thoughts of you don't ever rest they'd kill me if I lie I'd sacrifice the world for you and watch my senses die the tune that is yours and mine to play upon this earth we'll play it out the best we know whatever it is worth what's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood but happiness to me is you and I love you more than blood it's never been my duty to remake the world at large nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge cause I love you more than all of that with a love that doesn't bend and if there is eternity I'd love you there again oh can't you see that you were born to stand by my side and I was born to be with you you were born to be my bride you're the other half of what I am you're the missing piece and I love you more than ever with a love that doesn't cease you turn the tide on me each day and teach my eyes to see just being next to you is a natural thing for me and I could never let you go no matter what goes on cause I love you more than ever now that the past is gone. DylLyriTRAX Blood on the Tracks 1974 Tangled Up In Blue early one morning the sun was shining I was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red her folks they said our lives together sure was gonna be rough they never did like momma's home-made dress, poppa's bank book wasn't big enough and I was standing at the side of the road rain falling in my shoes heading out for the east coast lord knows I paid some dues, getting through tangled up in blue. she was married when we first met I helped her out of a jam I guess but I used a little too much force we drove that car as far as we could abandoned it out west split up on a dark sad night both agreeing it was best she turned around to look at me as I was walking away I heard her say over my shoulder we'll meetagain some day, on the avenue... I had a job in the great north woods working as a cook for a spell but I never did like it all that much and one day the axe just fell so I drifted down to New Orleans luck it was to be employed working for a while on a fishing boat right outside of Delacroix but all the while I was alone the past was close behind I seen a lot of women but she never escaped my mind love just grew... she was working in a topless place and I stopped in for a beer I just kept looking at the side of her face in a spotlight so clear later on when the crowd turned out I was just about to do the same she was standing there in back of my chair saying to me "don't I know your name?" I muttered something underneath my breath she studied the lines on my face I must admit I felt a little uneasy when she bent down to tie the lace of my shoes... she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe "I thought you'd never say hello" she said you look like the silent type and she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an italian poet from the fifteenth century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you... I lived within Lord Montagu street a basement down the stairs there was music in the cafes late at night and revolution in the air then he started in to dealing with slaves and something inside of him died she had to sell everything she owned and we froze up inside and when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn the only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew... so now I'm going back again I got to get to her somehow all the people we used to know they're an illusion to me now some are mathematicians some are carpenters' wives I don't know how it all got started I don't know what they do with their lives but me I'm still on the road heading for another joint we always did feel the same we just started from a different point of view... Simple Twist Of Fate they sat together in the park as the evening sky grew dark she looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight and watched out for a simple twist of fate. they walked along by the old canal a little confused, I remember well then stopped into a strange hotel where the neon burning bright he felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train moving with a a saxophone some place far off played as she was walking on by the arcade as the light burst through a beat-up shade where he was waking up she dropped her coin into the cup above a blind man at the gate and forgot about a ... he woke up, the room was bare he didn't see her anywhere he told himself he didn't care pushed the window open wide felt that emptiness inside to which he just could not relate brought on by... he hears the ticking of the clocks and walks along with a parrot that talks hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in maybe she'll pick him out again how long must he wait one more time for people tell me it's a sin to know and feel too much within I still believe she was my twin but I lost the ring she was born in spring but I was born too late blame it on..." You're A Big Girl Now our conversation was short and sweet it nearly swept me offa my feet and I'm back in the ring oh ??? you made it there somehow you're a big girl now bird on the horizon sitting on a fence he's singing a song for me, at his own expense and I'm just like thatbird oh singing just for you hope that you can hear hear me singing through these tears time is a jet plane, it moves too fast oh but what a shame that all we've shared can't last I can change I swear oh see what you can do I can make you true you can make it too love is so simple, to coin a phrase you've known it all the time, I'm learning it these days oh I know that I can find you oh in somebody's room it's the price I have to pay you're a big girl all the way a change in the weather is known to be extreme but what's the sense of changing horses in midstream? I'm going out of my mind oh with a pain that stops and starts like a cork screw in my heart ever since we've been apart. Idiot Wind someone's got it in for me they're planting stories in the press whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick when they will I can only guess they say I shot a man named gray and took his wife to Italy she inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me I can't help it if I'm lucky people see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act their minds are filled with big ideas images and distorted facts even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at I couldn't believe after all these years you didn't know me any better than that, sweet lady idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth blowing down the back roads heading south idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth you're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. I ran into the fortune teller who said "beware of lightning that might strike I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like there's a lone soldier on the cross smoke pouring out of a boxcar door you didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done in the final end he won the war after losing every battle I woke up on the road side daydreaming about the way things sometimes are visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making me see stars you hurt the ones that I've loved best and cover up the truth with lies one day you'll be in the ditch flies buzzing around your eyes blood on your saddle idiot wind,blowing through the ??? of your tomb blowing through the curtains in your room... it was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart you tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my he art now everything's a little upside down as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped what's good is bad, what's bad is good you'll find out when you reach the top you're on the bottom I noticed at the ceremony your corrupt ways had finally made you blind I can't remember your face anymore your mouth has changed, your eyes don't look inside the priest wore black on the seventh day a sandstone face on a pillar that burned I waited for you on the running board near the cypress tree while the spring tide turned slowly through autumn idiot wind, blowing like a circle round my skull from the grand Cooler down to the Capitol... I can't feel you any more I can't even touch the books you've read every time I crawl past your door I been wishing I been somebody else instead down the highway, down the tracks down the road to ecstasy I followed you beneath the stars hounded by your memory and all your rage and glory I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me you'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above and I'll never know the same about you your holiness or your kindof love and it makes me feel so sorry idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our clothes blowing through the never-stopping roles idiot wind, howling through the dust upon our shelves we are idiots babe, it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go I've seen love go by my door it's never been this close before never been so easy or so slow I been shooting in the dark too long when something's not right it's wrong you're gonna make me lonesome when you go dragon clouds so high above I've only known careless love it's always hit me from below but this time round it's more correct right on target, so direct purple clover, queen in lace crimson hair across your face you can make me cry if you don't know can't remember what I was thinking of you might be spoiling me too much love flowers on the hillside blooming crazy crickets talking back and forth in rhyme blue river running slow and la zy I could stay with you forever and never realize the time situations have ended sad relationships have all been bad kind of been like verlaine's and rimbaud but there's no way I can compare all them scenes to this affair... you're gonna make me wonder what I'm doing staying far behind without you you're gonna make me wonder what I'm saying you're gonna make me give myself a good talking-to I lived with you in old honolulu san francisco you're gonna have to leave me now I know but I see you in the sky above in tall grass, in the ones I love... Meet Me In The Morning meet me in the morning, six am Wabasho honey we could make Kansas by the time this loving is a thaw they say the darkest hour is right before the dawn honey you wouldn't know bout me, been some darkness since you been gone little rooster crowing, there must be something on his mind well I feel just like the rooster honey, you treat me so unkind well I struggle through barbed wire ??? hellfire from above I even out run the hound dog, honey I've earned your love look at the sun sinking like a ship ain't that just like my heart babe, when you kiss my lips. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts the festival was over and the bars were all planning for the fall the cabaret was quiet except for the drilling in the wall the curtain had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down anyone with any sense had already left town he was standing in the doorway, looking like the Jack of Hearts. he moved across the mirrored room "set it up for everyone" he said then everyone commenced to do what they were doing before he'd turned their head and he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin "could you kindly tell me friend what time the show begins?" and he moved into the corner, face down like a ... back stage the girls were playing five card stud by the stairs lily had two queens she was hoping for a third to match her pair outside the streets were filling up, the window was open wide a gentle breeze was blowing, you could hear it from inside, lily called another bet and drew out the... big Jim was no-one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine he made his usual entrance, looking so dandy and so fine with his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place he took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste but his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the... rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town she slipped in through the side door looking like a queen without a crown she fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear "sorry darling that I'm late" but he didn't seem to hear he was staring into space over at the... "I know I've seen that face somewhere" big Jim was thinking to himself "maybe down in Mexico or a picture upon somebody's shelf" but then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim and in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him staring at the butterfly who just drew the ... lily was a princess she was fair-skinned and precious as a child she did whatever she had to do, she had to have something flash every time she smiled she had come away from a broken home and lots of strange affairs with men in every walk of life which took her everywhere but she never met anyone quite like the... the hanging judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined the drilling in the wall kept up and no-one seemed to pay it any mind it was known all around that Lily had Jims ring and nothing would ever come between Lily and the king no nothing ever would, except maybe the ... rosemary started drinking hard and seeing her reflection inthe knife she was tired of the attention, tired of playing the role of big Jim's wife she had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide was lucky to do just one good deed before she died she was gazing into the future, riding on the... lily took her dress off, buried it away "has your luck run out?"she laughed at him "well I guess you must have known it would some day be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand new coat of paint I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're looking like a saint down the hall way footsteps were coming for the... the backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair "there's something funny going on" he said I can just feel it in the air he went to get the hanging judge but the hanging judge was drunk as the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk there was no actor anywhere better than the... now no-one knew the circumstance but they say it happened very quick the door to the dressing room burst open and a Colt revolver clicked and big Jim was standing there you couldn't say surprised rosemary right beside him studying his eyes she was with big Jim but she was leaning to the ... two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall and cleaned out the bank safe, it's said they got off with quite a haul in the darkness by the river bed they waited on the ground for one more member who had business back in town for they couldn't go no further without the ... the next day was hanging day, the sky was overcast and black big Jim lay covered up, killed with a pen knife in the back and Rosemary on the gallows she didn't even blink the hanging judge was sober, he hadn't had a drink the only person on the scene missing was the... the cabaret was empty now, a sign saying "closed for repairs" lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair she was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw thinking about Rosemary, and thinking about the law but most of all she was thinking about the... If You See Her Say Hello if you see her say hello she might be in Tangiers she left here last early spring even living there I hear say for me that I'm all right though things get kinda slow she might think that I've forgotten her so tell her it isn't so we had a falling out like lovers often will and to think of how she left that night it still brings me a chill and though our separation it pierced me to the heart she still lives inside of me we've never been apart if you get close to her kiss her once for me always I've respected her for doing what she did in getting free oh whatever makes her happy I won't stand in the way for the bitter taste still lingers on from that night I tried to make her stay I see a lot of people as I make the rounds and I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town and I've never gotten used to it I just learned to turn it off either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft sundown, yellow moon I replay the past I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast if she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find tell her she can look me up if she's got the time. Shelter From The Storm twas in another lifetime,one of toil and blood when blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness,a creature void of form "come in" she said "I'll give you shelter from the storm" . and if I pass this way again you can rest assured I'll always do my best for her,on that I give my word in a world of steel-eyed death and men who are fighting to be warm... not a word was spoke between us,there was little risk involved everything up to that point had been left unresolved try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm ... I was burned out from exhaustion,buried in the hail poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail hunted like a crocodile ravaged in the corn... suddenly I turned around and she was standing there with silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair she walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns ... now there's a wall between us, something has been lost I took too much for granted, I got my signals crossed, just to think it all began on an uneventful morn well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount but nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts and the one-eyed undertaker he blows a feudal horn ... I've heard newborn babies wailing like a moaning dove and old men with broken teeth stranded without love do I understand your question man, is it hopeless and forlorn? in a little hilltop village they gambled for my clothes I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose I offered up my innocence, I got repaid with scorn ... I'm living in a foreign country, but I'm bound to cross the line beauty walks a razor's edge, some day I'll make it mine if I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born Buckets Of Rain buckets of rain,buckets of tears got all them buckets coming out of my ears buckets of moonbeams in my hand you got all the love, honeybaby I can stand I been meek and hard like an oak I've seen pretty people disappear like smoke friends will arrive, friends will disappear if you want me, honey baby I'll be near I like your smile and your fing er tips I like the way that you move your hips I like the cool way that you look at me everything about you is bringing me misery little red wagon, little red bike I ain't no monkey but I know what I like I like the way you love me strong and slow I'm taking yo u with me honey baby when I go like I said, life is a bust all you can do is do what you must you do what you must do and you do it well I'll do it for you honeybaby, can you tell? DylLyriDES Desire 1975 Hurricane pistol shots ring out in the barroom night enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. she sees the bartender in a pool of blood, cries out, "My God, they killed them all!" here comes the story of the Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame for somethin' that he never done. put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been the champion of the world. three bodies lyin' there does patty see and another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously. "I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands "I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand. I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops "One of us had better call up the cops." and so Patty calls the cops and they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin' In the hot New Jersey night. meanwhile, far away in another part of town rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around. number one contender for the middleweight crown had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down when a cop pulled him over to the side of the road just like the time before and the time before that. In Paterson that's just the way things go. If you're black you might as well not show up on the street 'Less you wanna draw the heat. alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops. him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin around he said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweight they jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates." and Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head. cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead" so they took him to the infirmary and though this man could hardly see they told him that he could identify the guilty men. four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in, take hom too the hospital and they bring him upstairs. the wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!" yes, here's the story of the Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame for somethin' that he never done. put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been the champion of the world. four months later, the ghettos are in flame, rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name while Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game and the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame. "Remember that murder that happened in a bar?" "Remember you said you saw the getaway car?" "You think you'd like to play ball with the law?" "Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?" "Don't forget that you are white." arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure." cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break we got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow. you'll be doin' society a favor. the sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver. we want to put his ass in stir we want to pin this triple murder on him he ain't no Gentleman Jim." rubin could take a man out with just one punch but he never did like to talk about it all that much. It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay and when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way up to some paradise where the trout streams flow and the air is nice and ride a horse along a trail. but then they took him to the jailhouse where they try to turn a man into a mouse. all of Rubin's cards were marked in advance the trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance. the judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums to the white who watched he was a revolutionary bum and to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger. no one doubted that he pulled the trigger. and though they could not produce the gun, the D.A. said he was the one who did the deed and the all-white jury agreed. rubin Carter was falsely tried. the crime was murder "one," guess who testified? bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied and the newspapers, they all went along for the ride. how can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fool's hand? to see him obviously framed couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game. now all the criminals in their coats and their ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise white Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell an innocent man in a living hell. that's the story of the Hurricane, but it won't be over till they clear his name and give him back the time he's done put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been the champion of the world. Isis (with Jacques Levy) I married Isis on the fifth day of May, but I could not hold on to her very long. so I cut off my hair and I rode straight away for the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong. I came to a high place of darkness and light. the dividing line ran through the center of town. I hitched up my pony to a post on the right, went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down. a man in the corner approached me for a match. I knew right away he was not ordinary. he said, "Are you lookin' for somethin' easy to catch?" I said, "I got no money." He said, "That ain't necessary." we set out that night for the clod in the North. I gave him my blanket, he gave he his word. I said, "Where are we goin'?" He said we's be back by the fourth. I said, "That's the best news that I've ever heard." I was thinkin' about turquoise, I was thinkin' about gold, I was thinkin' about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace. as we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold, I was thinkin' about Isis, how she though I was so reckless. how she told me that one day we would meet up again, and things would be different the next time we wed, If I only could hang on and just be her friend. I still can't remember all the best things she said. we came to the pyramids all embedded in ice. he said, "There's a body I'm tryin' to find. If I carry it out it'll bring a good price." 'Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind. the wind it was howlin' and the snow was outrageous. we chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn. when he died I was hopin' that it wasn't contagious, but I made up my mind that I had to go on. I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty. there was no jewels, no nothin', I felt I'd been had. when I saw that my partner was just bein' friendly, when I took up his offer I must-a been mad. I picked up his body and I dragged him inside, threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover. I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied. then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her. she was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise. blinded by sleep and in need of a bed, I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes. I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead. she said, "Where ya been?" I said, "No place special." she said, "You look different." I said, "Well, not quite." she said, "You been gone." I said, "That's only natural." she said, "You gonna stay?" I said, "Yeah, I jes might." Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child. what drives me to you is what drives me insane. I still can remember the way that you smiled on the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain. Mozambique (with Jacques Levy) I like to spend some time in Mozambique the sunny sky is aqua blue and all the couples dancing chekk to cheek. It's very nice to stay a week or two. there's lots of pretty girls in Mozambique and plenty time for good romance and everybody likes to stop and speak to give the special one you seek a chance or maybe say hello with just a glance. lying next to her by the Ocean reaching out and touching her hand, whispering your secret emotion magic in a magical land. and when it's time for leaving Mozambique, to say goodbye to sand and sea, you turn around to take a final peek and you see why it's so unique to be among the lovely people living free upon the beach of sunny Mozambique. One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) your breath is sweet your eyes are like two jewels in the sky. your back is straight, your hair is smooth on the pillow where you lie. but I don't sense affection no gratitude or love your loyalty is not to me but to the stars above. one more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below. your daddy he's an outlaw and a wanderer by trade he'll teach you how to pick and choose and how to throw the blade. he oversees his kingdom so no stranger does intrude his voice it trembles as he calls out for another plate of food. one more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below. your sister sees the future like your mama and yourself. you've never learned to read or write there's no books upon your shelf. and your pleasure knows no limits your voice is like a meadowlark but your heart is like an ocean mysterious and dark. one more cup of coffee for the road, one more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the valley below. Oh, Sister (with Jacques Levy) oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms you should not treat me like a stranger. our father would not like the way that you act and you must realize the danger. oh, sister, am I not a brother to you and one deserving of affection? and is our purpose not the same on this earth, to love and follow His direction? we grew up together from the cradle to the grave we died and were reborn and then mysteriously saved. oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door, don't turn away, you'll create sorrow. time is an ocean but it ends at the shore you may not see me tomorrow. Joey (with Jacques Levy) born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion always on the outside of whatever side there was when that asked him why it had to be that way, "well," he answered, "just because." larry was the oldest, Joey was next to last. they called Joe "Crazy," the baby they called "Kid Blast." some say they lived off gambling and runnin' numbers too. It always seemed they got caught between the mob and the men in blue. joey, Joey, king of the streets, child of clay. joey, Joey, what made them want to come and blow you away? there was talk they killed their rivals, but the truth was far from that no one ever knew for sure where they were really at. when they tried to strangle Larry, Joey almost hit the roof. he wnet out that night to seek revenge, thinkin' he was bulletproof. the war broke out at the break of dawn, it emptied out the streets joey and his brothers suffered terrible defeats till they ventured out behind the lines and took five prisoners. they stashed them away in a basement, called them amateurs. the hostages were tremblin' when they heard a man exclaim, "Let's blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame." but Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, "We're not those kind of men. It's peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again." joey, Joey, king of the streets, child of clay. joey, Joey, what made them want to come and blow you away? the police department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith they got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with. "What time is it?" said the judge to Joey when they met "Five to ten," said Joey. The judge says, "That's exactly what you get." he did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Willhelm Reich they threw him in the hole one time for tryin' to stop a strike. his closest friends were black men 'cause they seemed to understand what it's like to be in society with a shackle on your hand. when they let him out in '71 he'd lost a little weight but he dressed like JimmyCagney and I swear he did look great. he tried to find the way back into the life he left behind to the boss he said, "I have returned and now I want what's mine." joey, Joey, king of the streets, child of clay. joey, Joey, why did they have to come and blow you away? It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun "I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one." yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe. emptied out the register, said, "Tell'em it was Crazy Joe." one day they blew him down in a clam bar in New York he could see it comin' through the door as he lifted up his fork. he pushed the table over to protect his family the he staggered out into the streets of Little Italy. joey, Joey, king of the streets, child of clay. joey, Joey, what made them want ot come and blow you away? sister Jacueline and Carmela and mother Mary all did weep. I heard his best friend Frankie say, "He ain't dead, he's just asleep." then I saw the old man's ;imousine head back towards the grave I guess he had to say one last goodbye to the son that he could not save. the sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned they said a mass in the old church near the house where he was born. and soneday if God's in heaven overlookin' His preserve I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve. joey, Joey, king of the streets, child of clay. joey, Joey, what made them want to come and blow you away? Romance In Durango (with Jacques Levy) hot chilli peppers in the blistering sun dust on my face and my cape, me and Magdalena on the run I think this time we shall escape. sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide, but I can get another one and I'll play for Magdalena as we ride. no llores, mi querida dios nos vigila soon the horse will take us to Durango. agarrame, mi vida soon the desert will be gone soon you will be dancing the fandango. past the Aztec ruins and the ghosts of our people hoofbeatslike castanets on stone. at night I dream of bells in the village steeple then I see the bloody face of Ramon. was it me that shot him down in the cantina was it my hand that held the gun? come, let us fly, my Magdalena the dogs are barking and what's done is done. no llores, mi querida dios nos vigila soon the horse will take us to Durango. agarrame, mi vida soon the desert will be gone soon you will be dancing the fandango. at the corrida we'll sit in the shade. and watch the young torero stand alone. we'll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed when they rode with Villa into Torreon. then the padre will recite the prayers of old In the little church this side of town. I will wear new boots and a earring of gold you'll shine with diamonds in your wedding gown. the way is long but the end is near already the fiesta has begun. the face of God will appear with his serpant eyes of obsidian. no llores, mi querida dios nos vigila soon the horse will take us to Durango. agarrame, mi vida soon the desert will be gone soon you will be dancing the fandango. was that the thunder that I heard? my head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain. come sit by me, don't say a word oh, can it be that I am slain? quick, Magdalena, take my gun look up in the hills, that flash of light. aim well my little one we may not make it through the night. no llores, mi querida dios nos vigila soon the horse will take us to Durango. agarrame, mi vida soon the desert will be gone soon you will be dancing the fandango. Black Diamond Bay (with Jacques Levy) up on the white veranda she wears a necktie and a Panama hat. her passport shows a face from another time and place she looks nothin' like that. and all the remnants of her recent past are scattered in the wild wind. she walks across the marble floor where a voice from the gambling room is callin' her to come on in. she smiles, walks the other way as the last ship sails and the moon fades away from Black Diamond Bay. as the mornin' light breaks open, the Greek comes down and he asks for a rope and a pen that will write. "Pardon, monsieur, "the desk clerk says, carefully removes his fez, "Am I hearin' you right?" and as the yellow fog is liftin' the Greek is quickly headin' for the second floor. she passes him on the spiral staircase thinkin' he's the Soviet Ambassador, she starts to speak, but he walks away as the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway on Black Diamond Bay. a soldier sits beneath the fan doin' business with a tiny man who sells him a ring. lightning strikes, the lights blow out. the desk clerk wakes and begins to shout, "Can you see anything?" then the Greek appears on the second floor In his bare feet with a rope around his neck, while a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle, says, "Open up another deck." but the dealer says, "Attendez-vous, s'il vous plait," as the rain beats down and the cranes fly away from Black Diamond Bay. the desk clerk heard the woman laugh as he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough. he tried to grab the woman's hand, said, "Here's a ring, it cost a grand." she said, "That ain't enough." then she ran upstairs to pack her bags while a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb. she passed the door that the Greek had locked, where a handwritten sign read, "Do Not Disturb." she knocked upon it anyway as the sun went down and the music did play on Black Diamond Bay. "I've got to talk to someone quick!" but the Greek said, "Go away," and he kicked the chair to the floor. he hung there from the chandelier. she cried, "Help, there's danger near please open up the door!" then the colcano erupted and the lava flowed down from the mountian high above. the soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner thinking of forbidden love. but the desk clerk said, "It happens every day," as the stars fell down and the fields burned away on Black Diamond Bay. as the island slowly sank the loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room. the dealer said, "It's too late now. you can take your money, but I don't know how you'll spend it in the tomb." the tiny man bit the soldier's ear as the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew, while she's out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her, "My darling, je vous aime beaucoup." she sheds a tear and then begins to pray as the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away from Black Diamond Bay. I was sittin' home alone one night in L.A., watchin' old Cronkie on the seven o'clock news. It seems there was an earthquake that left nothin' but a Panama hat and a pair of old Greek shoes. didn't seem like much was happenin', so I turned it off and went to grab another beer. seems like every time you turn around there's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear and there's really nothin' anyone can say and I never did plan to go anyway to Black Diamond Bay. Sara I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky, when the children were babies and played on the beach. you came up behind me, I saw you go by, you were always so close and still within reach. sara, Sara, whatever made you want to change your mind? sara, Sara, so easy to look at, so hard to define. I can still see them playin' with their palls in the sand, they run to the water their buckets to fill. I can still see the shalles fallin' out of their hands as they follow each other back up the hill. sara, Sara, sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life. sara, Sara, radient jewel, mystical wife. sleepin' in the woods by a fire in the night. drinkin' white rum in a Portugal bar, them playin' leapfrog and hearin' about Snow White, you in the marketplace in Savanna-la-Mar. sara, Sara, It's all so clear, I could never forget, sara, Sara, lovin' you is the one thing I'll never regret. I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells, I'd taken the cure and had just gotten through, stayin' up for days in the Chelsea Hotel, writin' "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for you. sara, Sara, wherever we travel we're never apart. sara, oh Sara, beautiful lady, so dear to my heart. how did I meet you? I don't know. a messenger sent me in a tropical storm. you were there in the winter, moonlight on the snow and on Lily Pond when the weather was warm. sara, oh Sara, scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress, sara, Sara, you must forgive me my unworthiness. now the beach is deserted except for some kelp and a piece of an old ship that lies on the shore. you always responded when I needed your help, you gimme a map and a key to your door. sara, oh Sara, glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow, sara, oh Sara, don't ever leave me, don't ever go. Desire (with Liner Notes) where do I begin .... on the heels of Rimbaud moving like a dancing bullet thru the secret streets of a hot New Jersey night filled with venom and wonder. Meeting the Queen Angel in the reeds of Babylon and then to the fountain of sorrow to drift away in the hot mass of the deluge ... to sing praise to the king of those dead streets, to grasp and let go in a heavenly way --- streaming into the lost belly of civilization at a standstill. Romance is taking over. Tolstoy was right. These notes are being written in a bathtub under conditions, in every curio lounge from brooklyn to Guam, from Lowell to Durango oh sister, when I fall into your spacy arms, can not ya feel the weight of oblivion and the songs of redemption on your backside we surface alongside Miles Standish and take the rock. We have relations in Mozambique. I have a brother or two and a whole lot of karma to burn ... Isis and the moon shine on me. when Rubin gets out of jail, we celebrate in the historical parking lot in sunburned California ... Abandoned Love I can hear the turning of the key I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain oh, something's a-telling me I wear the ball and chain. my patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost he's always off somewhere when I need him most. the Spanish moon is rising on the hill but my heart is a-tellin' me I love ya still. I come back to the town from the flaming moon I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon. I love to see you dress before the mirror won't you let me in your room one time 'fore I finally disappear? everybody's wearing a disguise to hide what they've got left behind their eyes. but me, I can't cover what I am wherever the children go I'll follow them. I march in the parade of liberty but as long as I live you I'm not free. how long must I suffer such abuse won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose? I've given up the game, I've got to leave, the pot of gold is only make-believe. the treasure can't be found by men who search whose gods are dead and whose queens are in the church. we sat in an empty theater and we kissed, I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list. my head tells me it's time to make a change but my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange. one more time at midnight, near the wall take off your heavy make-up and your shawl. won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit? let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it. Catfish (with Jacques Levy) lazy stadium night catfish on the mound. "Strike three," the umpire said, batter have to go back and sit down. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. used to work on Mr. Finley's farm but the old man would;nt't pay so he packed his glove and took his arm an' one day he just ran away. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. come up where the Yankees are, dress up in a pinstrip suit, smoke a custom-made cigar, wear an alligator boot. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. carolina born and bred, love to hunt the little quail. got a hundred-acre spread, got some huntin' dogs for sale. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. reggie Jackson at the plate seein' nothin' but the curve, swing too early or too late got to eat what Catfish serve. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. even Billy Martin grins when the Fish is in the game. every season twenty wins gonna make the Hall of Fame. catfish, million-dollar-man, nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can. Golden Loom smoky autumn night, stars up in the sky, I see the sailin' boats across the bay go by. eucalyptus trees hang above the street and then I turn my head, for you're approachin' me. moonlight on the water, fisherman's daughter, floatin' in to my room with a golden loom. first we wash our feet near the immortal shrine and then our shadows meet and then we drink the wine. I see the hungry clouds up above your face and then the tears roll down, what a bitter taste. and then you drift away on a summer's day where the wildflowers bloom with your golden loom. I walk across the bridge in the dismal light where all the cars are stripped between the gates of might. I see the trembling lion with the lotus flower tail and then I kiss your lips as I lift your veil. but you're gone and then all I seem to recall is the smell of perfume and your golden loom. Rita May (with Jacques Levy) rita May, Rita May, you got your body in the way. you're so damn nonchalant but it's your mind that I want. you got me huffin' and a-puffin', next to you I feel like nothin', rita May. rita May, Rita May, how'd you ever get that way? when do you ever see the light? don't you ever feel a fright? you got me burnin' and I'm turnin' but I know I must be learnin', rita May. all my friends have told me If I hang around with you that I'll go blind but I know that when you hold me that there really must be somethin' on your mind. rita May, Rita May, laying in a stack of hay, do you remember where you been? what's that crazy place you're in? I'm gonna have to go to college 'Cause you are the book of knowledge, rita May. Seven Days seven days, seven more days she'll be comin' I'll be waiting at the station for her to arrive seven more days, all I gotta do is survive. she been gone ever since I been a child ever since I seen her smile, I ain't forgotten her eyes. she had a face that could outshine the sun in the skies. I been good, I been good while I been waitin' maybe guilty of hesitatin', I just been holdin' on seven more days, all that'll be gone. there's kissing in the valley, thieving in the alley, fighting every inch of the way. trying to be tender with somebody I remember In a night that's always brighter'n the day. seven days, seven more days that are connected just like I expected, she'll be comin' on forth, my beautiful comrade from the north. there's kissing in the valley, thievingin the alley, fighting every inch of the way. trying to be tender with somebody I remember In a night that's always brighter'n the day. Sign Language you speak to me In sign language as I'm eating a sandwich In a small cafe at a quarter to three but I can't respond to your sign language. you're taking advantage, bringing me down. can't you make any sound? 'Twas there by the bakery surrounded by fakery tell her my story still I'm still there. does she know I still care? link Wray was playin' on a jukebox I was payin' for the words I was sayin' so misunderstood he didn't do me no good. you speak to me In sign language as I'm eating a sandwich In a small cafe at a quarter to three but I can't respond to your sign language. you're taking advantage, bringing me down. can't you make any sound? Money Blues (with Jacques Levy) sittin' here thinkin' where does the money go, sittin' here thinkin' where does the money go. well, I give it to my woman she ain't got it no more. went out last night brought two eggs and a slice of ham, went out last night brought two eggs and a slice of ham. bill came to three dollars and ten cents and I didn't even get no jam. man came around askin' for the rent, man came round askin' for the rent. well, I looked into the drawer but the money's all been spent. well, well ain't got no bank account, well, well ain't got no bank account.. went down to start one but I didn't have the right amount. everything's inflated like a tire on a car, everything's inflated like a tire on a car. well, the man came and took my Chevy back I'm glad I his my old guitar. come to me, mama ease my money crisis now, come to me, mama ease me money crisis now. I need something to support me and only you know how. DylLyriSTRE Street Legal 1977 Changing Of The Guards sixteen years, sixteen banners united over the field where the good shepherd grieves. desperate men, desperate women divided, spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves. fortune calls. I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace, merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down. she's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born, on midsummer's eve, near the tower. the cold-blooded meen. the captain waits above the celebration sending his thoughts to a beloved maid whose ebony face is beyond communication. the captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid. they shaved her head. she was torn between Jupiter and Apollo. a messenger arrived with a black nightingale. I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow, follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil. I stumbled to my feet. I rode past destruction in the ditches with the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo. renegade priests and treacherous young witches were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you. the palace of mirrors where dog soldiers are reflected, the endless road and the wailing of chimes, the empty rooms where her memory is protected, where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times. she wakes him up forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking near brocken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks. she's begging to know what measures he now will be taking. he's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks. gentelmen, he said, I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes, I've moved your mountains and marked your cards but Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards. peace will come with tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire but will bring us no reward when her false idols fall and cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating between the King and the Queen of Swords. New Pony once I had a pony, her name was Lucifer I had a pony, her name was Lucifer she broke her leg and she needed shooting I swear it hurt me more than it could ever have hurted her sometimes I wonder what's going on in the mind of Miss X sometimes I wonder what's going on in the mind of Miss X you know she got such a sweet disposition I never know what the poor girl's gonna do to me next I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace well, I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace she got great big hind legs and long black shaggy hair above her face well now, it was early in the mornin', I seen your shadow in the door It was early in the mornin', I seen your shadow in the door now, I don't have to ask nobody I know what you come here for the say you're usin' voodoo, your feet walk by themselves the say you're usin' voodoo, I seen your feet walk by themselves oh, baby, that god you been prayin' to Is gonna give ya back what you're wishin' on someone else come over here pony, I, I wanna climb up one time on you come over here pony, I, I wanna climb up one time on you well, you're so bad and nasty but I love you, yes I do No Time To Think In death, you face life with a child and a wife who sleep-walks through yourdreams into walls. you're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse, "He who cannot be trusted must fall." loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety. you fight for the throne and you travel alone unknown as you slowly sink and there's no time to think. In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity, In secret, for pieces of change. the empress attracts you but oppression distracts you and it makes you feel violent and strange. memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy betrayed by a kiss on a coolnight of bliss In the valley of the missing link and you have no time to think. judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you her worst is better than best. I've seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes and I feel so depressed. china doll, alcohol, duality, mortality. mercury rules you and destiny fools you like the plague, with a dangerous wink and there's no time to think. your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you where the lion lies down with the lamb. I'd have paid off the traitor and killed him much later but that's just the way that I am. paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality. but the magician is quicker and his game Is much thicker than than blodd and blacker than ink and there's no time to think. anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him to survive it you play deaf and dumb. equality, liberty, humility, simplicity. you glance through the mirror and there's eyes staring clear at the back of your head as you drink and there's no time to think. warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. you can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere. mercury, gravity, nobility, humility. you know you can't keep her and the water gets deeper that is leading you onto the brink but there's no time to think. you've murdered your vanity, buried your sanity for pleasure you must now resist. lovers obey you but they cannot sway you they're not even sure you exist. socialism, hypnostism, patriotism, materialism. fools making lawa for the breaking of jaws and the sound of the keys as they clink but there's no time to think. the bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl with the rose in her hair. starlight in the East and you're finally released you're stranded but with mothing to share. loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity. you turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille 'Neath the moon shinin' bloody and pink and there's no time to think. bullets can harm you and death can disarm you but no, you will not be deceived. stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive. no time to choose when the truth must die, no time to lose or say goodbye. no time to prepare for the victim that's there, no time to suffer or blink and no time to think. Baby, Stop Crying you been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe, but you're back where you belong. go get me my pistol babe, honey, I can't tell right from wrong. baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying. you know, I know, the sun will always shine so baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind. go down to the rive, babe, honey, I will meet you there. go down to the river babe, honey, I will pay your fare. baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying. you know, I know , the sun will always shine so baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind. If you're looking for assistance, babe, or if you just want some company or if you just want a friend you can talk to, honey, come and see about me. baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying. you know, I know, the sun will always shine so baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind. you been hurt somany times and I know what you're thinking of. well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe, to sse that you're madly in love. baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying baby, please stop crying. you know, I know, the sun will always shine so baby, please stop crying 'cause it's tearing up my mind. Is Your Love In Vain? do you love me, or are you just extending goodwill? do you need me half as bad as you say, or are you just feeling guilt? I'vebeen burned before and I know the score so you won't hear me complain. will I be able to count on you or is your love in vain? are you so fast that you cannot see that I must have solitude? when I am in the darkness, why do you intrude? do you know my world, do you know my kind or must I explain? will you let me be myself or is your love in vain? well I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind, I've been in and out of happiness. I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings anf I've never been too impressed. all right, I'll take a chance, I will fall in love with you If I'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain? Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) senor, senor, do you know where we're headin'? lincoln County Road or Armageddon? seems like I been down this way before. Is there any truth in that, senor? senor, senor, do you know where she is hidin'? how long are we gonna be ridin'? how long must I keep my eyes glued to the door'? will there be any comfort there, senor? there's a wicked wind still blowin' on that upper deck, there's an iron cross still hanging down from around her neck. there's a marchin' band still playin' in that vacant lot where she held me in her arms one time and said, "Forget me not." senor, senor, I can see that painted wagon, I can smell the tail of the dragon. can't stand the suspense anymore. can you tell me who to contact here, senor? well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field. a gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring said, "Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing." senor, senor, you know their hearts is as hard as leather. well, give me a minute, let me get it together. I just gotta pick myself up off the florr. I'm ready when you are, senor. senor, senor, let's disconnect these cabies, overturn these tables. this place don't make sense to me no more. can you tell me what we're waiting for, senor? True Love Tends To Forget I'm getting weary looking in my baby's eyes when she's near me she's so hard to recognize. I finally realize there's no room for regret. true love, true love, true love tends to forget. hold me, baby be near, you told me that you'd be sincere. every day of the year's like playin' Russian roulette, true love, true love, ture love tends to forget. I was lyin' down in the reeds without any oxygen I saw you in the wilderness among the men. saw you drift into infinity and come back again all you got to do is wait and I'll tell you when. you're a tearjerker, baby, but I'm under your spell, you're a hard worker, baby, and I know you well. but this weekend in hell is making me sweat, true love, true love, true love tends to forget, true love, true love, true love tends to forget. I was lyin' down in the reeds without any oxygen I saw you in the wilderness among the men. saw you drift into infinity and come back again all you got to do is wait and I'll tell you when. you belong to me, baby, without any doubt, don't forsake me, baby, don't sell me out. don't keep me knockin' about from Mexico to Tibet, true love, true love, true love tends to forget. We Better Talk This Over I think we better talk this over maybe when we both get sober you'll understand I'm only a man doin' the best that I can. this situation can only get rougher. why should we needlessly suffer? let's call it a day, go our own differentways before we decay. you don't have to be afraid of looking into my face, we've done nothing to each other time will not erase. I feel displaced, I got a low-down feeling you been two-faced, you been double-dealing. I took a chance, got caught in the trance of a downhill dance. oh, child, why you wanna hurt me? I'm exiled, you can't convert me. I'm lost in the haze of your delicate ways with both eyes glazed. you don't have to yearn for love, you don't have to be alone, somewheres in this universe there's a place that you can call home. I guess I'll be leaving tomorrow If I have to beg, steal or borrow. It'd be great to cross paths in a day and a half look at each other ahd laugh. but I don't think it's liable to happen like the sound of one hand clappin'. the vows that we kept are now broken and swept 'Neath the bed where we slept. don't think of me and fantasize on what we never had, be grateful for what we've shared together and be glad. why should we go on watching each other through a telescope? eventually we'll hang ourselves on all this tangled rope. oh, babe, time for a new transition I wish I was a magician. I would wave a wand and tie back the bond that we've both gone beyond. Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) there's a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write. there's a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much but she's drifting like a satelite. there's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze, laughter down on elizabeth Street and a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed in a stream of pure heat. her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practised what he preached from the heart. a full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me the time and the place that the trouble would start. there's bave in the arms of a woman in a rage and a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage and she winds back the clock and she turns back the page of a book that no one can write. oh, where are you tonight? the truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode. In the last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road. I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John, strong men belittled by doubt. I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding them out. he took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf. she could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair and discovered her invisible self. there's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped, there's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped, as her beauty fades and I watch her undrape, I won't, but then again, maybe I might. h, if I could just find you tonight. I fought with my twin, that enemy within, till both of us fell by the way. horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way. your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes, the guy you were lovin' couldn't stay clean. It felt outa place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money was green. I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg. then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss and who always was too proud to beg. there's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that leads up to the stars. If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the scars. there's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived. IfI'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived. I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive, but without you it just doesn't seem right. oh, where are you tonight? Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long) (with Helena Springs) we have go to come together how long can we stay apart? you may get it maybe never but it's coming from the heart. your life is full of indecision you can't make up your mind. we must get it in position and move it on down the line. 'Cause the road is long, it'sa long hard climb I been on htat road too long of a time yes the road is long, and it winds and winds when I think of the love that I left behind. make me up a bed of roses and hang them down from the vine of all my loves you've been the closest that's ever been on my mind. please don't talk about tomorrow I'm really not one to care this world is filled with too much sorrow that nobody's heart should bear. 'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb I been on that road too long of a time yes the road is long, and it winds and winds when I think of the love that I left behind. please, please give me indication stop and talk to me like a river that is flowing my love will never cease to be. you will always be my honey no one could take your part our love can't be bought with money 'Cause it's coming from the heart. 'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb I been on that road too long of a time yes the road is long, and it winds and winds when I think of the love that I left behind. If I Don't Be There By Morning (with Helena Springs) blue sky upon the horizon, private eye on my trail, and if I don't be there by morning she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail. I been runnin' from Memphis to L.A. had and appointment set sometime for today and if I don't be there by morning she'll know that I must have gone the other way. finding my way home to you, girl, lonely and blue, mistreated too, sometimes I think about you, girl, is it true that you think of me too? I got a woman living in L.A. I got a woman waiting for my pay, and if I don't be there by morning pack my clothes, get down on your knees and pray. I left my woman with a twenty-dollar bill, left her waiting, hope she's waiting for me still. but if I don't be there by morning I guess that I never will. finding my way home to you, girl, lonely and blue, mistreated too, sometimes I think about you, firl, is it true that you think of me too? I left my woman with a twenty-dollar bill, left her waiting, hope she's waiting for me still. but if I don't be there by morning I guess that I never will. Legionnaire's Disease some say it was radiation, some say there was acid on the microphone, some say a combination that turned their hearts to stone, but whatever it was, it drove them to their knees. oh, Legionnaire's disease. I wish I had a dollar foe everyone that died within that year, got'em hot by the collar, plenty an old maid shed a tear, now within my heart, it sure put on a squeeze. oh, that Legionnaire's disease. grandad fought a revolutionary war, father in the War of 1812, uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a was all by himself, but whatever it was, it came out of the trees./ oh, that Legionnaire's disease. Love You Too Much (with Helena Springs And Greg Lake) my momma told me you were bad news, honey, she said you're gonna ruin my life 'Cause I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. I wanna leave you, there's no denying, I must have tried a million times but I love you too much, I just love youtoo much. I stand convicted behind the bars of love, for me there is no escape, not even mercy from heaven above. you've got me fallin' this way and that way, anyway you just ain't here and I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. well you can take me honey, you can steal my money, you can step on my blue suede shoes 'Cause I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. I've been neglected, but I feel no pain 'Cause my line's been connected and I can ring it again and again. so think of what you're doing, leading me to ruin. don't be cruel baby, can't you see that I love you too much? you know I love you too much. well, even if you hurt me, abuse me and desert me, you know that I would go down in flames 'Cause I love you too much. yeah, I love you too much. I'm declaring a state of emergency baby, dial 999, you gotta help me, I'm falling, I just don't know if I can make it this time 'Cause I love you too much, you know I love you too much. so baby, why do you hate me and humiliate me? I wish you'd get out of my life 'Cause I love you too much, you know I love you too much. I feel frustrated like a tiger in a cage. you gotta release me before I fly into a screaming rage. you know I really ought to put you down before you make a fool out of me but I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. so think of what you're doing, leading me to ruin, don't be cruel baby, can't you see that I love you too much? yeah, I love you too much. you got me fallin' the way and that way anyway you just ain't here and I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. well you can take me honey, you can steal my money, you can step on my blue suede boots 'Cause I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. well, and even if you hurt me, abuse me and desert me, baby, I'd go down in flames 'Cause I love you too much, yeah, I love you too much. Walk Out In The Rain (with Helena Springs) walk out if it doesn't feel right, I can tell you're only lying. If you got something better tonight, bon't ness up my mind with your crying. walk out in the rain, walk out with your dreams, walk out of my life If it doesn't feel right and catch the next train. oh, darling, walk out in the rain. I have come from so far away just to put a ring on your finger. you've said all that you've got to say, so please don't feel the need to linger. walk out in the rain, walk out with your dreams, walk out of my life If it doesn't feel right and catch the next train. oh, darling, walk out in the rain. It's rainin' inside of the city, my poor feet have walked 'till they're sore. If you don't want my love, it's a pity. I guess I can't see you no more. walk out in the rain, walk out with your dreams, walk out of my life If it doesn't feel right and catch the next train. oh, darling, walk out in the rain. DylLyriSLOW Slow Train Coming 1978 Gotta Serve Somebody you may be an ambassador to England or France, you may like to gamble, you might to dance, you may be the heavyweight champion of the world, you may be a socialite witha long string of pearls but you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. you might be a rock'n'roll addict prancing on the stage, you might drugs at your command, women in a cage, you may be a buisness man or some high degree thief, they may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief but you're gonna have to serve somebody, you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. you may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk, you may be the head of some big TV network, you may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame, you may be living in another country under another name but you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. you may be a construction worker working on a home, you may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome, you might own guns and you might even own tanks, you might be somebody's landlord, you might even own banks but you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. you may be a preacher with your spiritual pride, you may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side, you may be workin'in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair, you may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir but you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk, might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk, you might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread, you may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed but you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody, well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. you may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy, you may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy, you may call me R.J., you may call me Ray. you may call me anything but no matter what you say you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you're gonna have to serve somebody. well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord but you're gonna have to serve somebody. I Believe In You they ask me how I feel and if my love is real and how I know I'll make it through. and they, they look at me and frown, they'd like to drive me from this town, they don't want me around 'Cause I believe in you. I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter, I believe in you even though we be apart. I believe in you even on the morning after. oh, when the dawn is nearing oh, when the night is disappearing oh, this feeling is still here in my heart. don't let me drift too far, keepme where you are where I will always be renewed. and that which you've given me today Is worth more than I could pay and no matter what they say I believe in you. I believe in you when winter to summer, I believe in you when white turn to black, I believe in you even though I be outnumbered. oh, though the earth may shake me oh, though my friends forsake me oh, even that couldn't make me go back. don't let me change my heart, keep me set apart from all the plans they do pursue. and I, I don't mind the pain don't mind the driving rain I know I will sustain 'Cause I believe in you. Precious Angel precious angel, under the sun, how was I to know you'd be the one to show me I was blinded, to show me I was gone how weak was the foundation I was standing upon? now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down. ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground. the enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived when the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe? shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me ya know I just couldn't make it by myself. I'm a little to blind to see. my so-called friends have fallen under a spell. they look me squarely in the eye and they say, "All is well." can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high when men will beg God to kill them and they won't be able to die? sister, lemme tell you about a vision I saw. you were drawing water for your husband, you were suffering under the law. you were tellilng him about Buddah, you were telling him about Mohammed in the same breath. you never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal's death shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me ya know I just couldn't make it by myself. I'm a little too blind to see. precious angel, you believe me when I say what God has given to us no man can take away. we are covered in blood, girl, you know our forefathers were slaves. let us hope they've found mercy in their bone-filled graves. you're the queen of my flesh, girl, you're my woman, you're my delight, you're the lamp of my soul, girl, and you touch up the night. but there's violence in the eyes, girl, so let us not be enticed on the way out of Egypt, through Ethiopia, to the judgement hall of Christ. shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me shine your light, shine your light on me ya know I just couldn't make it by myself. I'm a little too blind to see. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking gonna change my way of thinking, make myself a different set of rules. gonna change my way of thinking, make myself a different set of rules. gonna put my good foot forward, and stop being influenced by fools. so much oppression, can't keep a track of it no more. so much oppression, can't keep track of it no more. sons becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning young daughtersinto whores. stripes on your shoulders, stripes on your back and on your hands. stripes on your shoulders, stripes on your back and on your hands. swords piercing your side, blood and water flowing through the land. well don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool. well don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool. you remember only about the brass ring, you forget all about the golden rule. you can mislead a man, you can take ahold of his heart with your eyes. you can mislead a man, you can take ahold of his heart with your eyes. but there's only one authority, and that's the authority on high. I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford. I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford. she can do the Georgia crawl, she can walk in the spirit of the Lord jesus said, "Be ready, for you know not the hour in which I come." jesus said "Be ready, for you know not the hour in which I come." he said, "He who is not for Me is against Me, " just so you know where He's coming from. there's a kingdom called Heaven, a place where there is no pain of birth. there's a kingdom called Heaven, a place where there is no pain of birth. well the Lord created it, mister, about the same time He made the earth. When You Gonna Wake Up? god don't make no promises that He don't keep. you got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the thingsthat remain? counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts. karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? you got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled, you got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? you got men who can't hold their peace and women who can't control their tongues, the rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? spiritual advisors and gurus to guide your every move, Instant inner peace and every step you take has got to be approved. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? do you ever wonder just what God requires? you think He's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? you can't take it with you and you know that it's too worthless to be sold, they tell you, "Time is money" as if your life was worth its weight in gold. when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? there's a Man up on a cross and He's been crucified. do you have any idea why or for who He died? when you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up when you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? Man Gave Names To All The Animals man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave namesto all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. he saw an animal that liked to growl, big furry paws and he liked to howl, great big furry back and furry hair. "Ah, think I'll call it a bear". man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. he saw an animal up on a hill chewing up so much grass until she was filled. he saw milk comin' out but he didn't know how. "Ah, think I'll call it a cow". man gave names toall the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. he saw an animal that liked to snort, horns on his head and they weren't too short. It looked like there wasn't nothin' that he couldn't pull. "Ah, think I'll call it a bull". man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. he saw an animal leavin' a muddy trail, real dirty face and a curly tail. hewasn't too small and he wasn't too big. "Ah, think I'll call it a pig". man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. next animal that he did meet had wool on his back and hooves on his feet, eating grass on a mountainside so steep. "Ah, think I'll call it a sheep". man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, in the beginning. man gave names to all the animals In the beginning, long time ago. he saw an animal as smooth as glass slithering his way through the grass. saw him disappear by a tree near a lake... Slow Train sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions, are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down all their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon? there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend. I had a woman down in Alabama, she was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic, she said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out, you could die here, be just another accident statistic." there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend. all that foreign oil controlling American soil, look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrased. sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings, deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris and there's a slow, slow train a comin' up around the bend. man's ego is inflated, his laws areoutdated, they don't apply no more, you can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin' In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave, fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan and there'a a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend. big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters, masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency, all non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion and there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend. people starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it. they say you lose your inhibitions, follow your ambitions, they talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it. there's a slow, slow train a comin' pp around the bend. well my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy a real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it, I don't care about economy, I don,t care about astronomy but it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets, there's a slow, slow train a comin, up around the bend. When He Returns the iron hand it ain't no match for the iron rod, the strongest wall will crumble and fall to a mighty God. for all those who have eyes and all those who have ears It is only He who can reduce me to tears. don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn for like a thief in the night, He'll replace wrong with right when He returns. truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through, he unleashed His power at an unknown hour that no one knew. how long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? how long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease until He returns? surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground, take off your mask, he sees your deeds, He knows your needs even before you ask. how long can you falsify and deny what is real? how long can you hate yourself for the weakness you conceal? of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned, he's got plans of His own to set up His throne when He returns. Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One When a man he serves the Lord, it makes his life worthwhile. It don't matter 'bout his position, it don't matter 'bout his lifestyle. Talk about perfection, I ain't never seen none And there ain't no man righteous, no not one. Sometimes the devil likes to drive you from the neighborhood. He'll even work his ways through those whose intentions are good. Some like to worship on the moon, others are worshipping the sun And there ain't no man righteous, no not one. Look around, ya see so many social hypocrites Like to make rules for others while they do just the opposite. You can't get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag. Put your goodness next to God'sand it comes out like a filthy rag. In a city of darkness there's no need of the sun And there ain't no man righteous, no not one. Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. Pull your hat down, baby, pull the wool down over your eyes, Keep a-talking, baby, 'til you run right out of alibis. Someday you'll account for all the deeds that you done. Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one. God got the power, man has got hs vanity, Man gotta choose before God can set him free. Don't you know there's nothing new that's under the sun? Well, there ain't no man righteous, no not one. When I'm gone don't wonder where I be. Just say that I trusted in God and that Christ was in me. Say He defeated the devil, He was God's chosen Son And that there ain't no man righteous, no not one. Trouble In Mind I got to know, Lord when to pull back on the reins, Death can be the result of the most underrated pain. #Satanwhispers to ya, "Well, I don't want to bore ya, But when ya get tired of the Miss So-and-so I got another woman for ya" Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind, Lord take away this trouble in mind. When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero, It's what's inside that counts, ask any war hero. You think you can hide but you're never alone, Ask Lot what he thought when his wife turned to stone. Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind, Lord, take away this trouble in mind. Here comes Satan, prince of the power of the air, He's gonna make you a law unto yourself, gonna build a bird's nest in your hair. He's gonna deaden your conscience 'til you worship the work of your own hands, You'll be serving strangers in a strange, forsaken land. Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind, Lord take away this trouble in mind. Well, your true love has caught you where you don't belong, You say, "Baby, everybody's doing it so I guess it can't be wrong." The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie, Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify. Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind, Lord, take away this trouble in mind. So many of my brothers, they still want to be the boss, They can't relate to the Lord's kingdom, they can't relate to the cross. They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, Put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs or their wives. Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind, Lord, take away this trouble in mind. When my life is over, it'll be like a puff of smoke, How long must I suffer, Lord, how long must I be provoked? Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed, Lord, keep my blind side covered and see that I don't bleed. DylLyriSAVE Saved 1980 Saved I was blinded by the devil, born already ruined stone-cold dead as I stepped out of the womb. by His grace I have been touched, by His word I have been healed, by His hand I've been delivered, by His spirit I've been sealed. I've been saved by the blood of the lamb, saved by the blood of the lamb, saved, saved, and I'm so glad, yes, I'm so glad, I'm so glad, so glad, I want to thank You, Lord, I just want to thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord. by His truth I can be upright, by His strength I do endure, by His power I've been lifted, In His love I am secure. he bought me with a price, freed me from the pit, full of emptiness and wrath and the fire that burns in it. I've been saved by the blood of the lamb, saved by the blood of the lamb, saved, saved, and I'm so glad. yes, I'm so glad, I'm so glad, so glad, I want to thank You, Lord, I just want to thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord. nobody to rescue me, nobody would dare, I was going down for the last time, but by His mercy I've been spared. not by works, but by faith in Him who called, for so long I've been hindered, for so long I've been stalled. I've been saved by the blood of the lamb, saved by the blood of the lamb, saved, saved, and I'm so glad. yes, I'm so glad, I'm so glad, so glad, I want to thank You, Lord, I just want to thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord. Covenant Woman covenant woman got a contract with the Lord way up yonder, great will be her reward. covenant woman, shining like a morning star, I know I can trust you to stay where you are. and I just got to tell you I do intend to stay closer than any friend. I just got to thank you once again for making your prayers known unto heaven for me and to you, always, so grateful I will forever be. I`ve been broken, shattered like an empty cup. I`m just waiting on the Lord to rebuild and fill me up and I know He will do it `cause He`s faithful and He`s true, he must have loved me so much to send me someone as fine as you. and I just got to tell you I do intend to stay closer than any friend. I just got to thank you once again for making your prayers known unto heaven for me and to you, always, so grateful I will forever be. covenant woman, intimate little girl who knows those most secret things of me that are hidden from the world. you know we are strangers in a land we`re passing through. I`ll always be right by your side, I`ve got a covenant too. and I just got to tell you I do intend to stay closer than any friend. I just got to thank you once again for making your prayers known unto heaven for me and to you, always, so grateful I will forever be. What Can I Do For You? you have given everything to me. what can I do for You? you have given me eyes to see. what can I do for You? pulled me out of bondage and You made me renewed inside, filled up a hunger that had always been denied, opened up a door no man can shut and You opened it up so wide and You`ve chosen me to be among the few. what can I do for You? you have laid down Your life for me. what can I do for You? you have explained every mystery. what can I do for You? soon as a man is born, you know the sparks begin to fly, he gets wise in his own eyes and he`s made to believe a lie. who would deliver him from the death he`s bound to die? well, You`ve done it all and there`s no more anyone can pretend to do. what can I do for You? you have given all there is to give. what can I do for You? you have given me life to live. how can I live for You? I know all about poison, I know all about fiery darts, I don`t care how rough the road is, show me where it starts, whatever pleases You, tell it to my heart. well, I don`t deserve it but I sure did make it through. what can I do for You? Solid Rock well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock made before the foundation ofthe world and I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go and I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more. for me He was chastised, for me He was hated, for me he was rejected by a world that He created. nations are angry, cursed are some, people are expecting a false peace to come. well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock made before the foundation of the world and I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go and I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more. It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it using all the devices under the sun. and He never give up 'til the battle's lost or won. well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock made before the foundation of the world and I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go and I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more. Pressing On well I'm pressing on yes, I'm pressing on well I'm pressing on to the higher calling of my Lord. many try tostop me, shake me up in my mind, say, " Prove to me that He is Lord, show me a sign. " what kind of sign they need when it all come from within, when what's lost has been found, what's to come has already been? well I'm pressing on yes, I'm pressing on well I'm pressing on to the higher calling of my Lord. shake the dust off your feet, don't look back. nothing now can hold you down, nothing that you lack. temptation's not an easy thing, Adam given the devil reign because he sinned I got no choice, it runin my vein. well I'm pressing on yes, I'm pressing on well I'm pressing on to the higher calling of my Lord. In The Garden when they came for Him in the garden, did they know? when they came for Him in the garden, did they know? did they know He was the Son of God, did they know that He was Lord? did they hear when He told Peter, "Peter, put up your sword"? when they came for Him in the garden, did they know? when they came for Him in the garden, did they know? when He spoke to them in the city, did they hear? when He spoke to them in the city, did they hear? nicodemus came at night so he wouldn't be seen by men saying, "Master, tell me why a man must be born again." when He spoke to them in the city, did they hear? when He spoke to them in the city, did they hear? when He healed the blind and crippled, did they see? when He healed the blind and crippled, did they see? when He said, "Pick up your bed and walk, why must you criticise? same thing My Father do, I can do likewise." when He healed the blind and crippled, did they see? when He healed the blind and crippled, did they see? did they speak out against Him, did they dare? did they speak out against Him, did they dare? the multitude wanted to make Him king, put a crown upon His head why did He slip away to a quiet place instaed? did they speak out against Him, did they dare? did they speak out against Him, did they dare? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? he said, "All power is given toMe in heaven and on earth." did they know right then and there what that power was worth? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? he said, "All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth." did they know right then and there what that power was worth? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? when He rose from the dead, did they believe? Saving Grace If You find it in Your heart, can I be forgiven? guess I owe You some kind of apology. I've escaped death so many times, I know I'm only living by the saving grace that's over me. by this time I'd-a thought I would be sleeping In a pine box for all eternity. my faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping for the saving grace that's over me. well, the death of life, then come the resurrection, wherever I am welcome is where I'll be. I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection Is the saving grace that's over me. well, the devil's shining light, it can be most blinding, but to search for love, that ain't no more than vanity. as I look around this world all that I'm finding Is the saving grace that's over me. the wicked know no peace and you just can't fake it, there's only one road and it leads to Calvary. It gets discouraging at times, but I know I'll make it by the saving grace that's over me. Are You Ready? are you ready, are you ready? are you ready, are you ready? are you ready to meetJesus? are you where you ought to be? will He know you when He sees you or will He say, "Depart from Me"? are you ready, hope you're ready. am I ready, am I ready? am I ready, am I ready? am I ready to lay down my life for the brethren and to take up my cross? have I surrendered to the will of God or am I still acting like the boss? am I ready, hope I'm ready. when distruction cometh swiftly and there's no time to say a fare-thee well, have you decided whether you want to be In heaven or in hell? are you ready, are you ready? have you got some unfinished business? Is there something holding you back? are you thinking for yourself or are you following the pack? are you ready, hope you're ready. are you ready? are you ready for the judgement? are you ready for that terrible swift sword? are you ready for Armageddon? are you ready for the day of the Lord? are you ready, I hope you're ready. DylLyriSHOT Shot of love 1981 Shot Of Love I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. don't needa shot of heroin to kill my disease, don't need a shot of turpentine, only bring me to my knees, don't need a shot of codeine to help me repent, don't need a shot of whiskey, help me be president. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. doctor, can you hear me? I need soem Medicaid. I seen the kingdoms of the world and it's makin' me feel afraid. what I got ain't painful, it's just bound to kill me dead like the men that followed Jesus when they put a price upon His head. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. I don't need no alibi when I'm spending time with you. I've heard all of them rumors and you have heard'em too. don't show me no picture show or give me no book to read, It don't satisfy the hurt inside nor the habit that it feeds. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. why would I want to take your life? you've only murdered my father, raped his wife, tattooed my babies with a poison pen, mocked my God, humiliated my friends. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. don't wanna be with nobody tonight veronica not around nowhere, Mavis just ain't right. there's a man that hates me and he's swift, smooth and near, am I supposed to set back and wait until he's here? I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. what makes the wind wanna blow tonight? don't even feel like crossing the street and my car ain't actin' right. called home, everybody seemed to have moved away. my conscience is beginning to bother me today. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love. If you're a doctor, I need a shot of love. Heart Of Mine heart of mine be still. you can play with fire but you'll get the bill. don't let her know don't let her know that you love her. don't be a fool, don't be blind heart of mine. heart of mine go back home, you got no reason to wander, you got no reason to roam. don't let her see don't let her see that you need her. don't put yourself over the line heart of mine. heart of mine go back where you been, It'll only be trouble for you if you let her in. don't let her hear don't let her hear you want her. don't let her know she's so fine heart of mine. heart of mine you know that she'll never be true, she'll only give to others the love that she's gotten from you. don't let her know don't let her know where you're going. don't untie the ties that bind heart of mine. heart of mine so malicious and so full of guile, give you an inch and you'll take a mile. don't let yourself fall don't let yourself stumble. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime heart of mine. Lenny Bruce lenny Bruce is dead but his ghost lives on and on never did get any Golden Globe award, never made it to Synanon. he was an outlaw, that's for sure, more of an outlaw than you ever were. lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit's livin' on and on. maybe he had some problems, maybe some things that he couldn't work out but he sure was funny and he sure told the truth and he knew what he was talkin' about. never robbed any churches nor cut offany babies' heads, he just took the folks in high places and he shined a light in their beds. he's on some other shore, he didn't wanna live anymore. lenny Bruce is dead but he didn't commit any crime he just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time. I rode with him in a taxi once, only for a mile and a half, seemed like it took a couple of months. lenny Bruce moved on and like to ones that killed him, gone. they said that he was sick 'cause he didn't play by the rules he just showed the wise men of his day to be nothing more than fools. they stamped him and they labeled him like they do with pants and shirts, he fought a was on a battlefield where every victory hurts. lenny Bruce was bad, be was the brother that you never had. Property Of Jesus go ahead and talk about him because he makes you doubt, because he has denied himself the things that you can't live without. laugh at him behind his back like the others do, remind him of what he used to be when he comes walkin' through. he's theproperty of Jesus resent him to the bone you got something better you've got a heart of stone stop your conversation when he passes on the street, hope he falls upon himself, oh, won't that be sweet because he can't be exploited by superstition anymore because he can't be bribed or bought by the things that you adore. he's the property of Jesus resent him to the bone you got something better you've got a heart of stone when the whip that's keeping you in line doesn't make him jump, say he's hard-of-hearin', say that he's a chump. say he's out of step with relity as you try to test his nerve because he doesn't pay on tribute to the king that you serve. he's the property of Jesus resent him to the bone you got something better you've got a heart of stone say that he's a losed 'cause he got no common sense because he don't increase his worth at someone else's expense. because he's not afraid of trying, 'cause he don't look at you and smile, 'Cause he doesn't tell you jokes or fairy tales, say he's got no style. he's the property of Jesus recent him to the bone you've got something better you've got a heart of stone you can laugh at salvation, you can play Olympic games, you think that when you rest at last you'll go back from where you came. but you've picked up quite a story and you've changed since the womb. what happened to the real you, you've been captured but by whom? he's the property of Jesus recent him to the bone you've got something better you've got a heart of stone Watered-down Love love that's pure hopes all things, believes all things, won't pull no strings, won't sneak up into your room, tall, dark and handsome, capture your heart and hold it for ransom. you don't want a love that's pure you wanna drown love you want a watered-down love love that's pure, it don't make no claims, Intercedes for you 'stead of casting you blame, will not deceive you or lead you to transgression, won't write it up and make you sign a false confession. you don't want a love that's pure you wanna drown love you want a watered-down love love that's pure won't lead you astray, won't hold you back, won't mess up your day, won't pervert you, corrupt you with stupid wishes, It don't make you envious, it don't make you suspicious. you don't want a love that's pure you wanna drown love you want a watered-down love love that's pure ain't no accident, always on time, is always content, an eternal flame, quietly burning, never needs to be proud, restlessly yearning. you don't want a love that's pure you wanna drown love you want a watered-down love Dead Man, Dead Man uttering idle words from a reprobate mind, clinging to strange promises, dying on the vine, never bein' able to separate the good from the bad, ooh, I can't stand it, I can't stand it. It's makin me feel so sad. dead man, dead man, when will you arise? cobwebs in your mind, dust upon your eyes. satan got you by the heel, there's a bird's nest in your hair. do you have any faith at all? Do you have any love to share? the way that you hold your head, cursin' God with every move, ooh, I can't stand it, I can't stand it, what are you tryin' to prove? dead man, dead man, when will you arise? cobwebs in your mind, dust upon you eyes. the glamour and the bright lights and the politics of sin, the ghetto that you build for me is the one you end up in, the race of the engine that overrules your heart, ooh, I can't stand it, I can't stand it, pretending that you're so smart. dead man, dead man, when will you arise? cobwebs in your mind, dust upon you eyes. what are you tryin' to overpower me with, the doctrine or the gun? my back is already to the wall, where can I run? the tuxedo that you're wearin', the flower in your lapel, ooh, I can't stand it, I can't stand it, you wanna take me down to hell. dead man, dead man, when will you arise? cobwebs in your mind, dust upon your eyes. In The Summertime I was in your presence for an hour or so or was it a day? I truly don't know. where the sun never set, where the trees hung low by that soft and shining sea. did you respect me for what I did or for what I didn't do, or for keeping it hid? did I lose my mind when I tried to get rid of everything you see? In the summertime, ah in the summertime, In the summertime when you where with me. I got the heart and you got the blood, we cut through iron and we cut through mud. then came the warnin' that was before the flood that set everybody free. fools they made a mock of sin, our loyalty they tried to win but you were closer to me than my next of kin when they didn't want to know or see. In the summertime, ah in the summertime, In the summertime when you were with me. strangers, they meddled in our affairs, poverty and shame was theirs, but all that sufferin' was not to be compared with the glory that is to be. and I'm still carrying the gift you gave, It's a part of me now, it's been charished and saved, It'll be with me unto the grave and then unto eternity. In the summertime, ah in the summertime, In the summertime when you were with me. Trouble trouble in the city, trouble in the farm, you got your rabbits foot, you got your good-luck charm. but they can't help you none when there's trouble. trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, nothin' but trouble. trouble in the water, trouble in the air, go all the way to the other side of the world, you'll find trouble there. revolution even ain't no solution for trouble. trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, nothin' but trouble. drought and starvation, packaging of the soul, persecution, execution, governments out of control. you can see the writing on the wall invition trouble. trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, nothin' but trouble. put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground, you ever feel like you're never alone even when there's nobody else around? since the beginning of the universe man's been cursed by trouble. trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble. nothin' but trouble. nightclubs of the broken-hearted, stadiums of the damned, legislature, perverted nature, doors that are rudely slammed. look into infinity, all you see is trouble. trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, nothin' but trouble. Every Grain Of Sand In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need when the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed there's a dyin' voice within me reaching out somewhere, toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair. don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake, like Cain, I nowq behold this chain of events that I must break. In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand. oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear, like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. the sun best down upon the steps of time to light the way to ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay. I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame and every time I pass that way I always hear my name. then onward in my journey I come to understand that every hair is numbered like every grain of sand. I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry light, In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space, In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face. I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me. I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand. Let's Keep It Between Us let's keep it between us. these people meddlin' in our affairs, they're not our friends. let's keep it between us before doors close and our togetherness comes to an end. they'll turn you against me and me against you 'til we don't know who to trust. oh, darlin', can we keep it between us? let's keep it between us. we've been through too much tough times that they never shared. they've had nothing to say to us before, now all of a sudden it's as if they've always cared. all we need is honesty, a little humanity and trust. oh, darlin', can we keep it between us? I know we're not perfect then again, neither are they they act like we got to live for them as if there just ain't no other way and it's makin' me kind of tired. can we just lay back for a moment before we wake up and find ourselves in a daze that's got us out of our minds? there must be something we're overlooking here, we better drop down now and get back behind the lines. there's some things not fit for human ears, some things don't need to be discussed. oh, darlin', can we keep it between us? they'll tell you one thing and me another 'Til we don't know who to trust. oh, darlin', can we keep it between us? let's keep it between us before it all snaps and goes too far. If we can't deal with this by ourselves, tell me we ain't worse off than they think we are. backseat drivers don't know the feel of the wheel, but they sure know how to make a fuss. oh, darlin', can we keep it between us? can we keep it between us? The Groom's Still Waiting At The Alter prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement, heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent, felt around for the light switch, became nauseated. she was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated. east of the Jordan, hard as the Rock of Gibraltar, I see the burning of the page, curtain rasin' on a new age, see the groom still waitin' at the altar. try to pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery, mistake your shyness for aloofness, yourshyness for snobbery, got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me about the madness of becomin' what onw was never meant to be. west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar, I see the burning of the stage, curtain risin' on a new age, see the groom still waitin' at the altar. don't know what I can say about Claudette that wouldn't come back to haunt me, finally had to give up 'bout the time she began to want me. but I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated. I'd a-done anything for that woman if she didn't make me feel so obligated. west of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar, I see the burning of the cage, curtain risin' on a new stage, see the groom still waitin' at the altar. put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature? I see people who are supposed to know better standin' around like furniture. there's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it, tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won't have the power to keepit. west of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar, I see the burning of the stage, curtain risin' on a new age, see the groom still waitin' at the altar. cities on fire, phones out of order, they're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border. what can I say about Claudette? Ain't seen her since January, she could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires. west of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar I see the burning of the stage, curtain risin' on a new age, see the groom still waitin' at the altar. Caribbean Wind she was the rose of Sharon from paradise lost from the city of seven hills near the place of the cross. I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy. told about Jesus, told about the rain, she told me about the jungle where her brothers were slain by the man who invented iron and disappeared so mysteriously. was she a child or an angel? Did we go too far? did we snap at the bait, did we follow a star through the hole in thewall to where the long arm of the law cannot reach? could I been used and played as a pawn? It certainly was possible as the gay night wore on when men bathed in perfume and practiced the hoax of free speech. and them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico fanning the flames in the furnace of desire and them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free, bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire. sea breeze blowin', there's a hellhound loose, arabian men who have escaped from the noose, preaching faith and salvation, waiting for the night to arise. he was well connected but her heart was a snare and she had left him to die in there, he was goin' down slow, just barely staying alive. the cry of the peacock, flies buzz my head, ceiling fan broken, there's a heat in my bed, street band playing "Nearer My God to Thee." we met at the steeple where the mission bells ring, sje said, "I know what you're thinking, but there ain't a thing you can do about it, so let us just agree to agree." and them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico fanning the flames in the furnace of desire and them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free, bringing everything that's nearer to the fire. atlantic City by the cold grey sea I hear a voice crying "Daddy,"" I always think it's for me, but it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call. every new messenger brings evil report "Bout armies on the march and time that is short and families and earthquakes and train wrecks and the tearin' down of the walls. did you ever have a dream that you couldn't explain? did you ever meet your accusers face to face in the rain? she had lone brown eyes that I won't forget as long as she's gone. I see the screws breaking loose, see the devil pounding on tin, I see a house in the country being torn from within. I can hear my ancestors calling from the land far beyond. and them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico fanning the flames in the furnace of desire and them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bols and free, bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire. Need A Woman It's been raining in the trenches all day long, dripping down to me clothes, my patience is wearing thin, got a fire inside my nose. searching for the truth the way God designed it, the truth is I might drown before I find it. well I need a woman, yes I do need a woman, yes I do. someone who can see me as I am, somebody who just don't give a damn. and I want you to be that woman every night, be that woman. I've had my eyes on you baby for about five long years, you probably don't know me at all, but I have seen your laughter and tears. now you don't frighten me, my heart is jumping and you look like it wouldn't hurt you none to have a man who could give ya something. well I need a woman, oh don't I need a woman, bring it home safe at last. seen you turn the corner, seen your bootheels spark, seen you in the daylight, and watched you in the dark. and I want you to be that woman, all right be tha woman every night. well, if you believe in something long enough you just naturally come to think it's true. there ain't no wall you can't cross over, ain't no fire you can't walk through. well, believing is all right, just don't let the wrong people know what it's all about. they might put the evil eye on you, use their hidden powers to try to turn you out. well I need a woman, just to be my queen. need a woman, know what I mean? DylLyriINFI Infidels 1983 Jokerman standing on the waters casting your bread while the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing. distant ships sailing into the mist, you were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing. freedom just around the corner for you but with the truth so far off, what good will it do? jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. so swiftly the sun sets in the sky. you rise up and say goodbye to no one. fools rush in where angels fear to tread, both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one. shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within. jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. you're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds, manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister. you're going to Sodom and Gomorrah but what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister. friend tothe martyr, a friend to the woman of shame, you look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name. jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers. In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed, michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features. resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space, half asleep near the stars witha small dog licking your face jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain. nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks, molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain, false-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin, only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin'in. jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery gray, a woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. he'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot. oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants oh, Jokerman, you don't show any response. jokerman dance to the nightingale tune, bird fly high by the light of the moon, oh, oh, oh, Jokerman. License To Kill man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please and if things don't change soon, he will. oh, man has invented his doom, first step was touching the moon. now, there's a woman on my block, she just sit there as the night grows still. she say who gonna take away his license to kill? now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life and they set him on a path where he's bound to get ill, then they bury him with stars, sell his body like they do used cars. now, there's a woman on my block, she just sit there facin'the hill. she say who gonna take away his license to kill? now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill. all he believes are his eyes and his eyes, they just tell him lies. but there's a woman on my block, sitting there in a cold chill. she say who gonna take away his license to kill? ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker, heartbreaker, backbreaker, leave no stone unturned. may bean actor in a plot, that might be all that you got 'Til your error you clearly learn. now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool and when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled. oh, man is opposed to fair play he wants it all and he wants it his way. now, there's a woman on my block, she just sit there as the night grows still. she say who gonna take away his license to kill? Neighborhood Bully well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man, his enemies say he's on their land. they got him outnumbered about a million to one, he got no place to escape to, no place to run. he's the neighborhood bully. the neighborhood bully just lives to survive, he's criticized and condemned for being alive. he's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin, he's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in. he's the neighborhood bully. the neighborhood bully has been driven out of every land, he's wandered the earth an exiled man. seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn, he's always on trial for just being born. he's the neighborhood bully. well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized, old women condemned him, said he should apologize. then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad. the bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad. he's the neighborhood bully. well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim that he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him, 'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back and a license to kill him is given out to every maniac. he's the neighborhood bully. he got no allies to really speak of. what he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love. he buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied but no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side. he's the neighborhood bully. well' he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace, they pray for it nightly that the bloodshead must cease. now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep. they lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep. he's the neighborhood bully. every empire that's enslaved him is gone, egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon. he's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand, In bed with nobody, under no one's command. he's the neighborhood bully. now his holiest books have been trampled upon, no contract he signed was worth what it was written on. he took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth, took sickness and disease and he turned it into health. he's the neighborhood bully. what's anybodyindebted to him for? nothin', they say. He just likes to cause war. pride and prejudice and superstition indeed, they wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed. he's the neighborhood bully. what has he done to wear so many scars? does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars? neighborhood bully, standing on the hill, running out the clock, time standing still, neighborhood bully. I And I been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed. look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams. In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams. I and I In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives. I and I one says to the other, no man sees my face and lives. think I'll go out and go for a walk, not much happenin' here, nothin' ever does. besides, if she wakes up now, she'll just want me to talk I got nothin' to say, 'specially about whatever was. I and I In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives. I and I one says to the other, no man sees my face and lives. took an untrodden path once, where the swift don't win the race, It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth. took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face and to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I and I In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives. I and I one says to the other, no man sees my face and lives. outside of two men on a train platform there's nobody in sight, they're waiting for spring to come, smoking down the track. the world could come to an end tonight, but that's all right. she should still be there sleepin' when I get back. I and I In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives. I and I one says to the other, no man sees my face and lives. noontime, and I'm still pushin' myself along the road, the darkest part, Into the narrow lanes, I can't stumble or stay put. someone else is speakin' with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart. I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot. I and I In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives. I and I one says to the other, no man sees my face and lives. Man Of Peace look out your window, baby, there's a scene you'd like to catch, the band is playing "Dixie", a man got his hand outstretched. could be the Fuehrer could be the local priest. you know sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. he got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue, he knows every song of love that ever has been sung. good intentions can be evil, both hands can be full of grease. you know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. well, first he's in the background, then he's in the front, both eyes are looking like they're on a rabbit hunt. nobody can see through him, no, not even the Chief of Police. you know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. well, he catch you when you're hoping for a glimpse of the sun, catch you when you'retroubles feel like they weigh a ton. he could be standing next to you, the person that you'd notice least. I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull, he can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrel of your skull. I can smell something cooking, I can tell there's going to be a feast. you know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. he's a great humanitarian, he's a great philanthropist, he knows just where to touch you, honey, and how you like to be kissed. he'll put both his arms around you, you can feel the tender touch of the beast. you know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. well, the howling wolf will howl tonight, the king snake will crawl, trees that've stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall. wanna get married? Do it now, tomorrow all activity will cease. you know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. somewhere Mama's weeping for her blue-eyed boy, she's holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy andhe's following a star, the same one three men followed from the East. I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace. Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight just a minute before you leave, girl, just a minute before you touch the door. what is it that you're trying to achieve, girl? do you think we can talk about it some more? you know, the streets are filled with vipers who've lost all ray of hope, you know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope. don't fall apart on me tonight, I just don't think I could handle it. don't fall apart on me tonight, yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be and I need you, yeah. come over here from over there, girl, sit down here. You can have my chair. I can't see us going anywhere, girl. the only place is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there. I wish I'd been a doctor, maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost, maybe I'd have done some good in the world 'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed. don't fall apart on me tonight, I just don't think I could handle it. don't fall apart on me tonight, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be and I need you, oh, yeah. I ain't too good at conversation, girl, so you might not know exactly how I feel, but if I could, I'd bring you a mountaintop, girl, and build you a house made out of stainless steel. but it's like I'm stuck inside a painting that's hanging in the Louvre, my throat start to tickle and my nose itches but I know that I can't move. don't fall apart on me tonight, I just don't think I could handle it. don't fall apart on me tonight, yesterday's gone but the past lives on, tomorrow's just one step beyond and I need you, oh, yeah. who are these people who are walking towards you? do you know them or will there be a fight? with their humorless smiles so easy to see through, can they tell you what's wrong from what's right? do you remember St. James Street where you blew Jackie P.'s mind? you were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet and laid his life on the line. let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl, no more booby traps and bombs, no more decadence and charm, no more affection that's misplaced, girl, no more mudcake creatures lying in your arms. what about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants? he looked so baffled and bewildered when he played and we didn't dance. don't fall apart on me tonight, I just don't think I could handle it. don't fall apart on me tonight, yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be and I need you, yeah. DylLyriEMP Empire Burlesque 1985 Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love) well, I had to move fast and I couldn't with you around my neck I said I'd send for you and I did what did you expect? my hands are sweating and we haven't even started yet. I'll go along with the charade until I can think my way out. I know it was all a big joke whatever it was about. someday maybe I'll remember to forget. I'm gonna get my coat. I feel the breath of a storm. there's something I've got to do tonight, you go inside and stay warm. has anybody seen my love, has anybody seen my love, has anybody seen my love, I don't know. has anybody seen my love? you want to talk to me. go ahead and talk. whatever you want to say to me won't come as any shock. I must be guilty of something you just whisper it into my ear madame Butterfly she lulled me to sleep. in a town without pity where the water runs deep. she said, "Be easy baby. there ain't nothing worth stealin' in here" you're the one I've been looking for you're the one who's got the key but I can't figure out wether I'm too good for you or if you're too good for me has anybody seen my love, has anybody seen my love, has anybody seen my love, I don't know has anybody seen my love? well they're not showing any lights tonight and there's no moon. there's just a hot blooded singer singing "Memphis in June" while they're beatin' the devil out of a guy who's wearing a powder-blue wig. later he'll be shot for resisting arrest. I can still hear his voice crying in the wilderness. what looks large from a distance close up ain't never that big. never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine never could learn to hold you, love and call you mine. Seeing You The Real You At Last well I thought that the rain would cool things down but it looks like it don't. I'd like to get you to change your mind but it looks like you won't Clean Cut Kid everybody wants to know why he couldn't adjust adjust to what, a dream that bust? he was a clean-cut kid but they mafe a killer out of him that's what they did they said what's up is down.they said what isn't is they put ideas in his head he thought were his he was a clean-cut kid but they made a killler out him that's what they did he was on the baseball team.he was in the marching band when he was ten years old he had a watermelon stand he was a clean-cut kid but they made a killler out of him that's what they did he went to church on sunday.he was a Boy Scout forhis friends he would turn his pockets out he was a clean-cut kid but they made a killer out him that's what they did they said "listen boy.you're just a pup" they sent to a napalm health spa to shape up they gave him dope to smoke.drinks and pills ajeep to drive.blood to spill they said "Congratulations you got what it takes". they sent him back to the rat-race without any brakes he was aclean-cut kid but they made a killer out him that's what they did he bought the American dream but it put him in debt the only game he could play was Russian Roulette he drank Coca-Cola. he was eating Wonder Bread ate Burger Kings. he was well fed he went to Hollywood to see Peter O'Toole he stole a Rolls Royce.and drove it in a swimming pool they took a clean-cut kid and they made a killer out of him that's what they did he could've sold insurance.owned a restaurant or a bar could've been an accountant or a tennnis star he was wearing boxing gloves.took a dive one day off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay his mama walks the floor his dadddy weeps and moans they gotta sleep together in a home they don't own they took a clean-cut kid and made a killer out of him that's what they did well.everyone asks why he could't adjust all he ever wanted was someone he could trust thye took his head and turned it inside out he never did know what it was all about he had a steady job.he joined the choir he never did plan to walk the high wire they took a clean-cut kid and they made a killer out him that's what they did. Never Gonna Be The Same Again now you're here beside me,baby. you're a living dream. and every time you get this close it makes me want to scream. you touched me and you knew that I was warm for you and then. I ain't never gonne be the same again. sorry if I hurt you baby sorry if I did. sorry if I touched the place where your secrets are hid. but you meant more than everything. and I could not pretend. I ain't never gonna be the same again. you give me something to think about,baby. every time I seeya. don't worry baby.I don't mind leaving. I'd just like it to be my idea. you taught me how to love you ,baby. you taughtme,oh,so well. now,I can't go back to what was,baby. I can't unring the bell. you took my reality and cast it to the wind and I ain't never gonna be the same again. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky look out across the fields, see me returning. smoke is in your eye. you draw a smile. from the fireplace where my letters to you are burnig. you've had time to think about it for a while. well. I've walked two hundred miles. now look me over. its the end of the chase and the moon is high. it won't matter who knows who. you'll love me or I'll love you. when the night comes falling from the sky. I can see through your walls and I know your hurting. sorrows cover you up like a cape. only yesterday I know that you've been flirting. with disaster that you managed to escape. I can't provide for you no easy answers. who are you that I should have to lie ? you'll know all about it love. it'll fit you like a glove. when the night comes falling from the sky. I can hear your trembling heart beat like a river. you must have been protecting someone last time I called. I've nerver asked you for nothing you couldn't deliver. I've never asked to set yourself up for a fall. I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness. for the love of a lousy buck. I've watched them die. stick around baby we're not through. don't look for me. I'll see you. when the night comes falling from the sky. in your teardrops. I can see my own reflection. it was on the northen border of Texas where I crossed the line. I don't want to be a fool starving for affection. I don't want to drown in someone else's wine. for all eternity Ithink I will remember. that icy wind thats howling in your eye. you will seek me and you'll find. me in the wasteland of your mind. when the night comes falling from the sky. well. I sent you my feelings in a letter. but you were gambling for support. this time tommorow I'll know you better. where my memory is not so short. this time I'm asking for freedom. freedom from a world which you deny. and you'll give it to me now. I'll take it anyhow. when the night comes falling from the sky. Something's Burning, Baby something's burning, baby, are you aware? something is the matter, baby, there's smoke in your hair are you still my friend, baby, show me a sign is the love in your heart for me turning blind? you've been avoiding the main streets for a long, long while the truth that i'm seeking is in your missing file what's your posistion, baby, what's going on? why is the light in tour eyes nearly gone? I know everything about this place, or so it seems am i know longer part of your plans or your dreams? well, it's so obvious that something has changed what's happening baby to make you act so strange? something is burning, baby, here's what i say even the bloodhounds of London could'nt find you today I see the shadow of a man, baby, makin' you blue who is he, baby, and what's he to you? we've reached the edge of the road, baby where the pasture begins where charity is supposed to cover up a multitude of sins but where do you live, baby, and where is the light? why are your eyes just staring off in the night? I can feel it in the night when i think of you I can feel it in the light and it's got to be true you can't live by bread alone, you won't be satisfied you can't roll away the stone if your hands are tied got to start someplace baby, can you explain? please don't fade away on me baby, like a midnight train answer me baby, a casual look will do just what in the world has come over you? I can feel it in thew wind and it's upside down I can feel it in the dust as i get of the bus on the outskirts of town I've had the Mexico City blues since the last hairpin curve I don't wanna see you bleed, i know what you need but it ain't what you deserve. somethings burning, baby, something's in flames there's a man going round calling names ring down when your ready, baby, i'm waiting for you I believe in the impossible, you know that i do. Dark Eyes oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside. they're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide. I live in another world where life and death are memorized. where the earth is strung with lovers'pearls and all I see are dark eyes. a cock is drowning far away and another soldier's deep in prayer. some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere. but I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise. whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes. they tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes. they tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand. I'm sure it is. but I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognised. all I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes. oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel. hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel. oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies. a million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.