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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:20:00 MEZ
From:         Hosken <RMCB@DLRVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Manassas lyrics
X-To:         allmusic@auvm.american.edu

This for whoeveritwas who was in desperate need of the lyrics to the first
Manassas disc. They were taken from the back of the poster that used to be
included with the double LP. I recently bought the CD because here in
Germany its available on a single CD at 2/3 the price of a normal CD, and
I can't say no to a bargin.

Paul Hosken

P.S: The original contained a number of spelling mistakes which I have
     corrected. But, even so, I expect some have still sliped by. (Spelling
     wasn't Stevie's strong point!)



STEPHEN STILLS - MANASSAS
=========================

The Raven (a suite)                    The Wilderness
---------                              --------------
1. Song Of Love (3:28)                6. Fallen Eagle (2:05)
2.(a) Rock & Roll Crazies             7. Jesus Gave Love Away For Free (3:00)
  (b) Cuban Bluegrass (3:34)          8. Colorado (2:53)
3. Jet Set (Sigh) (4:25)              9. So Begins The Task (4:00)
4. Anyway (3:21)                      10.Hide It So Deep (2:46)
5. Both Of Us (Bound To Lose) (3:00)  11.Don't Look At My Shadow (2:31)

Consider                              Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay
--------                              ---------------------------
12.It Doesn't Matter (2:30)           18.What To Do (4:44)
13.Johnny's Garden (2:46)             19.Right Now (3:00)
14.Bound To Fall (1:54)               20.The Treasure (Take One) (8:09)
15.How Far (2:52)                     21.Blues Man (4:05)
16.Move Around (4:17)
17.The Love Gangster (2:52)


1. Song Of Love
   ------------

And it's all in the way you wonder
If you think you're learnin' how
Pick up your feet you don't have to pick up a gun
You can prod the sacred cow

You know the song of love >
It's empty now            >
As it always seems        > chorus
To have been              >
You can go on home        >

Used to be down to tear gas and clubs
What do you think about grenades
(You know like a frag)
Nonsense is as
Nonsense does
The judge's eagle promenades

-- chorus --

The good book tells us
"Thou shalt not kill"
What is the meaning of this phrase
Is it sometimes right and sometimes wrong
Depends if you're foolish or brave

-- chorus --


2. Rock & Roll Crazies Y Cuban Bluegrass
   -------------------------------------

Lookout mama
Its comin to you
I can't tell you
What you gonna do
Rock and roll crazies
Get you right down
Make you feel so tough
Your feet leave the ground

Lookout mama don't you go too far                      >
Don't you get hung up bein' no rock and roll star      > chorus
You find out it's easy to lose your way                >
Catch yourself practicin' bein' shallow every day yeah >

Don't wanna tell you
How to run your scene
I only can tell you
What happened to me
Keep you eyes open
Keep a clear head
The woman inside you
Might wind up dead

-- chorus --

Girl I love you-oo-ooh
Yes I was taken
After it'd been a while
Wondered was I mistaken

Only my foolish pride
Sensibilities shakin'
Picking up piece by piece
You say I was shaken

Musica latina es cuban bluegrass

If I could thank you now
Feeling musch smoother
If I could just be here
Make it much cooler

Dale su alma bien
Por la descarga
Nada importa pues
En lo que hagas


3. Jetset (Sigh)
   -------------

If you dogrow
Then you must know
When you get so jive
You only half alive
Show me right now
That you know how
You can stand up
Look in a mirror and sigh

Get your feet wet
Run with the jetset
Be a good girl
Go around the world
But the longer it goes on
The harder you hang on
Til you stand up
Look in a mirror and sigh

Tryin' to be cool
You just be the fool
Let it be known
You ain't full growed              (Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!! How could he?)
And its all right
Don't put up such a fight
You can stand up
Look in a mirror and sigh


4. Anyway
   ------

Hey girl how's by you
Sing your rock and roll
Sing your blues
I'm all right I pay my dues
I got 'em comin' to me
You got 'em comin' to you

I'm gonna try again           >
Don't matter if I win or lose > chorus
Gonna try again anyway        >

But I know you
You gonna be so cool
Ain't gonna try no sweetp???in'
I ain't no fool
Cause I know you love me girl
Just like I love you
Got my feet on the ground
And I know what I got to do

-- chorus --

Do you know where you're goin'
Honey where have you been
Do you see the games they're playin'
Do you really believe do can win

-- chorus --


5. Both Of Us (Bound To Lose)
   --------------------------

Why can't you hear me
Why can't you see me
How can you be so blind to this feelin' in my heart

Time is a'waistin'
What have I tasted
Can you turn a deaf ear to my call

Both of us bound to lose
Why do we have to choose
Both of us bound to lose

Now can you hear me
Now can you see me
How do you like the fool when he's down
Is that really how you see me
Just a statue making sounds


6. The Fallen Eagle

Sing to the fallen eagle
Helicopters fly
Chase him 'round the mountains
Chase him 'til he dies

They say that it's good sportin'
Shootin' him on the wing
Above the roar and clatter
You can hear your rifle sing
  his death song
  it won't be long

Sing to the western rancher
The eagle takes his lamb
He's got a thousand others
He don't give a damn

Get up with the sunrise
Everybody gather 'round
Kill him with the first shot
He'll turn and bring you down
  down down
  crash on the ground

Sing to the noble eagle
Help is on the way
A government team of experts
Is a'rushin' to your aid

I know your not excited
An eagle is no waif
Fly on up to Canada
This country isn't safe
  anymore
  that's for sure


7. Jesus Gave Love Away For Free
   -----------------------------

If you're trav'lin' out west
And you see a dark haired girl
Tell her her love is a'waitin
In the rockies so near
And the mountains is high          (Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!! Not again!)
As his love it is strong
It's a fine place to be
By his side
She belongs

And they both travelled far
And they both travelled wide
But they travelled alone
With no one to confide
Their love can't grow stronger
Tho' now it is deep
They must trust in each other
Their souls
For to keep

And we all know that people
Ain't made to live lonely
They need to be trusted
And loved by one only
That one special one
Who can just let it be
And remember that Jesus
Gave love
Away for free


8. Colorado
   --------

I am a man I live alone
Don't much bother me. It won't be long
Come a woman who wants to be near
Me and my mountains, we'll be right here
Colorado

Way back east in the dirt and smog
Courted a woman she had a job
Didn't want to leave her adopted home
Guess she was afraid of bein' alone in
Colorado

Way out yonder in tinsel land
Look around hard you might find a real man
Dark-eyed country girl, tears in her eyes
Needs the music of the wind in the pines
Colorado

Many's the time that I've gone astray
The things I'm thinkin' I seldom say
Guess I'm waitin' for that special girl
The one who loves me and loves my world
Colorado
Colorado


9. So Begins The Task
   ------------------

And so begins the task
I have dreaded the coming of
For so long
I wait for the sun
To remind my body
It needs restin'

And I must learn to without you now
I must learn to give only part some how

Camping on the edge
Of your city I wait
Hoping someday
You might
See
Beyond yourself
The shadows on the ceiling
Hard
But not real
Like the bars that cage
You within yourself

And I must learn to without you now
I must learn to give only part some how
And I must learn to without you now
As I cannot learn to give only part some how

All of these cages
Must
And shall be set aside
They will only
Keep
Us from the knowing
Actors
And stages
Now fall before the truth
As th love
Shared
Between us
Remains
...Growing

And I must learn to without you now
As I cannot learn to give only part some how


10. Hide It So Deep
    ---------------

If I fell in love with you again
Would you simply want it said you once knew me
Could you care enough to follow and see
Just what is it lies between us, why we hide it so deep

I was told by a fried that you miss me
And you try very hard to forget me
And you live your busy life, there's no room for me
Cause the thing you're sure I'd take is your will to be free

Still you wrestle with the chains of your burden
And you're sure when they're gone you can be certain
You can live as you please, give what you sell
And you carry that weight so nobody can tell


11. Don't Look At My Shadow (It's Behind Me)
    ----------------------------------------

New York City years ago
Tourists in the rain
Singin' on the swing shift
For pennies

Thinkin'bout the bayou
Cajun river song
Almost got my head broke
In Texas

Purple Peacock Honky-Tonk
Eunice, Louisiana
Bourbon whiskey free, son,
Just tune up the piano

Workin' clubs in New Orleans
Bringin' down a dollar
College boys drink beer
And throw the bottles

It's been a long long long way >
I got some more to go          >
Don't look at my shadow        >
Its behind me                  > chorus
It's been a long long long way >
In twenty years or so          >
Thinkin'bout those times       >
Might amuse me                 >

L.A. Forum Sports Arena
Twenty thousand fans
Glas ya come to listen I'm gomma
Give you everything I can

I always had to play my music
Play it best I could
Hope you in the stands
Can hear me good

California dreamin' nearly put me down for good
Colorado Rocky Mountains saved my senses

-- chorus --


12. It Doesn't Matter
    -----------------
    (does it? No. Thank you, I was beginning to worry)

Fallin' and spinnin'
Losin' and winnin'
Keepin' my head

Watchin' for signals
Wear some uigil                    (??? That's what Stevie wrote!)
Was I misled
I remember you said that you
Don't want to forget me
It doesn't matter
Which of our fantasies fled

Every tomorrow
Lookin' to borrow
A piece of today

Run a bit faster
Here comes the catcher
Makin' his play
You had better not stay
You will soon be surrounded
It doesn't matter
Which of our fantasies fled

Lonely and winsome
Calling for someone
Living right now

Something is shallow
Ugly and hollow
Doesn't even allow
You to want to know how you might
Live for the living and
Give for the giving. Living
Moment by moment
One day at a time
It doesn't matter
It's nothin' but dreamin' any how


13. Johnny's Garden
    ---------------

There's a place
I can get to
Where I'm safe
From the city blues
And its green
And its quiet
Only trouble was
I had to buy it

And I'll do anything I got to do      >
Cut my hair and shine my shoes        > chorus
And keep on singin' the blues         >
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden >

As the swift bird
Flies over the grasses
Dipping now and then
To take his breakfast
Thus I come and go
And I travel
And I can watch that bird
And unravel

-- chorus --

With his love
And his carin'
He puts his life
Into beauty sharin'
And his children
Are his flowers
There to give us peace
In quiet hours

-- chorus --


14. Bound To Fall
    -------------

*** Any takers? ***


15. How Far
    -------

Most of my life I have spent alone
Most of this past year I been searchin' for my home
I met a girl she won't leave my mind alone
If she's listening I hope she understands my song
It goes:

If you get lonely    >
All you gotta        >
Do is call me        > chorus
I'll come on the run >
Wherever you are     >
No matter how far    >

Bless my soul I think I'm fallin' again
I hear my woman she is callin' me again
If she needs me I gotta go she's my best friend
Y'see I promised her and I remember what I said
I said:

-- chorus --

Most of this life is such a hard road to go down, go down
Count your blessings on the good friends you got hangin' around
It takes two to be friends it takes two to be lovers
Know you got it made when you got one thats the same as the other
Then you say:

If you get lonely
All you gotta
Do is call me
I come on the run
Wherever you are
No matter how far


16. Move Around
    -----------

What do we do
Given life
We move around

Solitude
Reach for light
Rich...
Or slight...
We move around

We move around

One searches
For the sake of searching
Clearly then
Stunbling...
Falling...
Lurching...
We move...

We move around

  A supurb point of reference detected
  becomes absured with a moments reflection
  leaves one a simple thought
  not sagging with the excess weight of excess baggage
  and we move around

We move around

One thinks then
...Jinks
...Then stands at a brink
Finds a key...
And stinking of revelation
...drinking in exaltation
We move...

We move...around

No need
To prove
No one around
No one
...but
You to stand your
...ground

We move around

Don't you know its all right...
...To be wrong thus you grow be amused and be strong

  The acceptance of error with grace
  Is to refuse to be vain and so afraid of losing face
  This fear drives one further into what one thinks
  To be a race of life...or death
  Or simply take another breath
  Of nature's...air now...
  Which is fair now...
  Which is to be alive
  To move

We move around


17. The Love Gangster
    -----------------

Have you got a feelin' botherin' you like a bumble bee
  Give yourself room for breathin' love you 'til you're fit to be
    Tied...do you need a place to hide

Can you be believin' what they told you yesterday
  Looks can be deceivin', you look like you're runnin' away
    Why...if you don't stop you'll die

Everyone lookin' at my girl
Everyone thinkin'bout my girl. So tough
Everyone birdoggin' at my girl
You can take her if you got enough
You better fly
The love gangster gonna make y'cry

Policeman on the corner another one down the street
  Kinda makes you wonder what you gonna do with your feet
    An' it ain't no lie...everybody gonna need a place to hide

Yes...the love gangster gonna make you cry
You need a place to hide


18. What To Do
    ----------

Makin' it hard on each other
Makin' it hard on yourself
Makin' it hard on me
Makin' it hard on you
...Its all the same                (Profound Stevie, profound)

I'm not the one to tell you what to do >
I have no desire to run your life      > chorus
Do you thing you know what to do       >
Just don't let nobody tell ya no lies  >

Could we retire
To a neutral corner
'Cause I'd like a chance
...To make myself...clear...
I said I'm still your friend
I've got a few things I'd love to say
And I'd like to think that you might want to hear...
For instance the...

-- chorus --

   [Then we have strange noises running  back  and  forth;
   sometimes dissapearing altogether. I think its dumb but
   Ronnie and Dallas got hung up.  You should have such  a
   good time.  You see, there's this little box and Dallas
   twisted that knob and Ronnie twisted the other one on a
   different box and I left the room because I didn't like
   what I played anyway,  and waited for  the  next  verse
   with the tack piano on it, which I do like,  so much in
   fact I ran  back  into  the  room  and  dove  into  the
   speakers only to return again disguised as a bus driver
   who directed the next...                              ]

-- chorus --

Blind stubborn pride drove us apart
Can't you see the place we went wrong
You hide in your world
And I'll get lost in mine
   [...it's those  little  boxes  with
   lights and knobs. Green and red and
   yellow and...                     ]
All we got left is a song

   [which has another...             ]

-- chorus --

   [complete with handlebar mustache.]

When you decide that you'd like to know
What it is that makes a person go
When you decide you believe and you're trustin'
Let somebody open your soul

-- chorus --

   [Then you might notice an outtasite  fiddle  solo  that
   also runs around a little but Byron Berline is too good
   a fiddler to be hampered  by  little  knobs  and  crazy
   people in the studio...and of course we have our  final
   (I promise)...                                        ]

-- chorus --


19. Right Now
    ---------

The last time I spoke to her
She couldn't talk to me
The script she read was very strange
But who did she see
A few lines from a bad dream
A frozen memory

  Darkness remains the fate
  Of such...illusion
  Can you not wait
  On what...can...be

Who was it cast the mold
The girl that I once knew
Such a carefully chosen pose
But what will the emptiness do
One of my best friends took her down
With his games for sure

  Hearts made of stone
  Cannot break again
  I hope he understands
  I hope he is secure

Old fashioned feelings
The new way of dealing
With love I see
These time were meant for me

No no no no no...

  The past isn't anymore
  The future only has in store
  And round and round and round it goes
  And where it stops nobody knows

  As far as I can tell
  The only game in town is going down
  And only happens
  In the right now


20. The Treasure
    ------------

Alone with my guitar
Living on a mountain
Far away
I saw girl
Gypsy woman deepest in the world
When she moved it was a dance
We hid ourselves
And I had no chance

For the treasure of the oneness
That like sand becomes a diamond
Before the wind

And while I changed my strings
A rocky mountain woman
Came to town to sing
Took my heart and ran
When she bade me follow
I just took her hand
I began my journey to the east
A country boy searching for my peace

In the treasure of the oneness
That like sand becomes a diamond
Before the wind

I sit in deep reflection
There are no answers
To my questions
Where did they go
And which one took my heart
Which one took my soul
I may never see it clearly there comes another
Now she turns to beckon me with the Devil's key

The treasure of the oneness
Then becomes sand and lies there naked
Before the wind


21. Blues Man
    ---------
    (Jimi the Fox, The Owl and Skydog)

Blues man
Play your hand
Do it right
Come on strong
Don't stay too long

Runnin' wild
Singin' child
Powered sound
Push you hard
Lookin' to get down

Such a waste
Y'left such a space
I shared your dreams
I felt your heart
Did I hear you scream

Runnin' scared
Y'run everywhere
Could not choose
Where to hide
Play the blues

Played it mad
Played it sad
Blues is pain
The way men cry
Like tired rain

Blues is mean
The real thing
Three good men
I knew well
Never see again


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