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?
This
was all a melody, this was all a play
Everything we came here with you will take away
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
This
was all a memory, this was all today
Everything we came here with we will give away
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
This
was all for fun, you see, a story starring you and me
A homeless sailor on the sea, and he shall sail away...
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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
Some of us held a gun, some of us had to run
We're all veterans of the war
Some of us fought and died, some of it stayed inside
We're all victims of the war
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
Some of us didn't go, some of it didn't show
We're all veterans of the war
Something we understood, something 'bout bad and good
We're all victims of the war
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
Now I know you loved me
'Cause I believed your dream was real
And I know you had to leave me
'Cause I couldn't be the way you feel
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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Fast
Enough to Fly
I wake in the morning into a dream
Flutter my wings and I skim downstream
With the air so warm and the sun so bright
Gonna live for a day and die tonight
And I will surely dance fast enough to fly
I was here before I was born, I'll be here after I die
The little we have is all that we can give
A baby is born with a whole life to live
She grows to a woman with a child of her own
The circle will harvest the seed she has sown
And she will surely dance fast enough to fly
She will surely dance fast enough to burn the sky
I wake in the evening out of a dream
Cannot remember all I have seen
But the sun in my eyes and the wind in my hair
Make me remember how it felt to be there
And I will surely dance fast enough to fly
I've been in these dreams before, I'll be here after they die
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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 nightmares that you see
When all those TV dreams leave you behind
Don't chain me to your reality
With all those expectations you carry in your mind
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, but I believe-in something I can't see
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
Well, it hurt so much to come home late
And find that he'd been there
First I hated you, then I wanted you
But now I just don't care
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
We
touch hands and we touch heart
Crossfire in the dark
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
Now's the time to say it
If you believe it's true-
As you do unto others
It shall be done to you
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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The
Closer We Are
The
closer you are to me
The better your eyes can see
All of the heart that's here
The closer you are to me
The closer I am to you
The clearer your love shines through
The more that I give away
The closer I am to you
The closer we are tonight
The stronger we stand in light
The more that we show we care
The closer we are tonight
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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'd just as soon go down pickin' a tune
Die with my hands on the strings
'cause nothin' has ever meant more to me
Than the song that the little bird sings
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
When regular people look in the mirror
What do they see?
Nobody special's reflection of
Somebody else they could be
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
Along this heart's horizon
Further into me
I will sail on songs of silver
A child upon the sea
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
Baby,
can you touch me now?
Can you catch my cry?
Baby, did I hear you leave?
But you never said goodbye
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
Baby,
can I touch you now?
Can I catch your eye?
Maybe we could see somehow
Before the heart runs dryBaby,
you can touch me now
From so far away
Maybe it was just too hard
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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
Yes, it's the same old heartache story
The one you've heard before
When that midnight man comes creepin'
Knockin' on your back door
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
Rose once told me, just before she flew
Back to New York City where the brightest lights are blue
She said I been close to dyin' and I been close to you
And I don't know how I'll do it
But I'll bring this baby through
Gonna shine on me-shine on me
Shine, shine, shine, shine on me
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
Are you smilin'
now, riding
On that Starlight Special train?
The one that all the hobos catch
Headin' home again
I can see you now, smilin' [down from]
On that Starlight Special train
You don't feed no hunger and you don't feel no pain
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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