The Heart of Love

I see you in the mirror, just behind the glass
I watch your blue eyes follow me from the future to the past
I search the waters of the sky, below and up above
And I will find you, find you, I'll find you in the heart of love

I hear you in the music, just behind the song
Echoing the singer, as I suspected all along
I will not run to catch you, like some that I've heard of
But I will find you, find you, I will find you in the heart of love

The future is a promise, broken every day
The past is just a memory, where we used to play
Underneath the streetlights in a hide and seek for love
I will find you, find you, I will find you in the heart of love

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Nights Of Stone

Sun goes down, night comes on
What is left when life is gone?
Oh, my Lord-oh, my friend
Do we return back to the end?

In this life I have known
Days of fire and nights of stone
On this road I have come
Far through night, straight to the sun

In our way in our time
We have turned tears to wine
By these hands, void of form
In this womb a Child is born

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Veterans

Imagine how it used to be, me for you and you for me
Innocence felt so free we were giving it away
Now you've got yours and I've got mine, look how money changes time
Youth a joke, age a crime, sanity a play

I remember way back when you wouldn't turn away a friend
This is now and that was then, or so I hear 'em say
Maybe it's still sixty-eight kids are talkin' about the Haight
Sayin' they were born too late, too hard to live today

I don't mean to spend my time digging some nostalgia mine
So tomorrow I can find a piece of yesterday
'cause "Yesterday" is almost gone-our saddest thought, our sweetest song
Will not be with us for long, phantoms fly away

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Bittersweet Tonight

Oh, yes, I remember the anger in your eyes
How you tried so hard to wound me in the pain of our good bye
I reached out to touch you, you just turned away
I wouldn't say I blame you, babe, I knew you couldn't stay

Yesterday I called you, we talked just like adults
All about the way it was-causes and results
You invited me and Kgirl to come up for a stay
Well, I don't mean to hurt you, babe, I just ain't that way

Oh, yes, I remember the ocean in your eyes
And how you used to smile at me like sunlight in the sky
All those times are gone now, the good ones and the bad
I feel bittersweet tonight, I feel bittersweet tonight…

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And I will surely dance fast enough to fly
I was here before I was born, I'll be here after I die

And she will surely dance fast enough to fly
She will surely dance fast enough to burn the sky

And I will surely dance fast enough to fly
I've been in these dreams before, I'll be here after they die

Don't Blame Me

Don't blame me if you can't walk upon the water
Don't blame me when your bread refuse to rise
Don't blame me if your fifteen year old daughter
Comes home with that lovelight in her eyes

Don't blame me for the changes in your weather
If that million-dollar date don't pan out right
Don't blame me if it didn't last forever
Don't blame me if he didn't spend the night

Don't blame me if the rain just keeps on fallin'
From the clouds that gather up above
Don't blame me when that mourning dove keeps callin'
Singin' about the politics of love

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Something I Can't See

Yesterday I felt so down
I couldn't stop from cryin'
But something in your eyes just now
Keeps me tryin'

I don't know what other people do
When their world stops turnin'
I just know I'm stickin' close to you
And that's for certain

We're a little like a song
You can't stop singin'
Learn by heart and follow right along
The best you're bringin'

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Anybody Can

Baby, I can't take it when you're with another man
This time's gonna break it I hope you understand
That I loved you as much as anybody can

You were always my best lover and sometimes my best friend
Ain't it funny when it's over how you think it didn't end?
And I'll miss you as much as anybody can

I'll find a new love tomorrow and start where we began
All that pain and sorrow will melt inside her hand
And I'll forget you as much as anybody can

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Crossfire

Wherever you are tonight I hope you're fine
I hope the one you're with can hold a mirror to your mind
Or if you are alone, I trust the night is kind
I have been alive in you as you have in me
It's not a question of gender, or a matter of degree
You could have left that wheelchair and danced on that sea

A penny for your thoughts like we used to say
A nickel for your dreams though the big one got away
Half as cheap at twice the price, if you have the coin to pay
[Walk me to the water by the river shore
We both got what we asked for, though we wanted so much more]
You in your perfection and me behind my door
Wherever you are tonight know that it's OK
I would have said this sooner but the dream got in the way
I was only strangling on what I couldn't say
Wherever you are tonight, you are not alone
I am there beside you as the big wheel spins us home
Were you some magician, conjuring blood from my stone?

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Done to You

Fire in the city, terror in the town
It looks like Armageddon is finally comin' down
Smell the smoke and powder, hear the drums of war
See the black flag flyin' at the undertaker's door

Television screamin' day after day
We need retribution, someone's got to pay
Fear in the city, terror in the skies
You can feel it, you can see it in everybody's eyes

Winter's comin' early, frost is settin' in
It's gonna be a while before the birds will sing again
Candle in the window, flame is burnin' low
You trust you're gonna make it, but you never really know

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Little Bird

I was out on the highway late in the night
Watchin' the jackrabbit eyes
Hopin' to make it to Utah by dawn
Waiting to see the sunrise

I was up on the mountain next to the sky
Closin' on ten thousand feet
Tryin' to remember somethin' I heard
A song that I sang in my sleep

I was out on the ocean, face in the wind
Sting of the salt in my eye
Listenin' hard for the sound of the sun
As it sang in the blue bye and bye

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Regular People

Just regular people, they're not in the news
They don't follow fashion they don't have a clue
They don't know the hot spots or how to be cool
They swallow it all, they shop at the mall
They're everyone's fool

Regular people washing their cars
They go to the movies they drink in the bars
They're niners to fivers, they sin and they pray
Just regular people involved in
Another regular day

Regular people get married for life
One is the husband and one is the wife
They follow the leader just like Simon said
Sleep regular hours, dream regular dreams
Die regular dead

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Further In (Allan's Song)

I have spent a long time running from the darkness
But now that darkness better run from me
'Cause I'm tradin' in my car keys on a sack of cat's eye marbles
And I'm goin' down to yesterday to see what I can see

When I was a baby, down by the southern ocean
Fed on fear and suckled by the sadness every day
Well, they tried to drag me under and they tried to take me over
They tried their best, but they just couldn't take this boy away

I have felt the undertow of terror like a river
Been buried by the avalanche of sadness in your eyes
I have prayed for mercy, been answered by forgiveness
And I have seen the flash of faith like lightening in the sky

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Anniversary

I take a shot of whiskey
Take a sip of beer
Drive away the dragon
When the memories are near
We used to be so close, babe
Just like skin on bone
I feel the scar inside me now
Dry and hard as stone

It's been a year tomorrow
Though it seems like yesterday
You met me in the meadow
Where the children used to play
I know it's not a crime, baby
No one is to blame
It's that little taste of sunshine
Keeps me waitin' in the rain

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The Husband Is the Last to Know

My momma and my poppa
Warned me long ago
Don't you sign no papers
'Cause the husband is the last to know

I got a woman down in Shreveport
And one in Tupelo
Both of them tell me that
The husband is the last to know

The men just don't believe it
They're trackin' kinda slow
But they'll be wearin' the horns
'Cause the husband is the last to know

I can hear my train a comin'
And I believe it's time to go
I'm gonna pack my pistol
'Cause the husband is the last to know

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Jennie Rose

Jennie called from Boston, the fourteenth of July
Said the pain was almost gone and I began to cry
She heard her train a' comin' just around the bend
With the brightest light you ever saw
Gonna shine on to the end

Jennie's in Saint Louis, the baby's doin' fine
And sometimes when I think too much, I wish that he were mine
Yes, Jennie Rose once told me and I pass it on to you:
If you do what you believe in
You'll believe in what you do

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Starlight Special

Tell me that old story, Dad, about boxcars in the night
How fast a man could lose his legs if he didn't time it right
All the kids out on the road learned how to make it do
One less mouth back home is what they're thinkin', same as you

Tell me that old story about the men out on the line
How the strikers faced the squad cars down, back in '39
How you fortified the building, kept the watch all night
And everyone just did it 'cause they knew that it was right

Tell me that old story, Dad, 'bout the Bonus March back East
When fifty thousand veterans came and could not get relief
How General MacArthur burned their houses down
Loaded up his howitzers and run 'em out of town

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