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Im a soldier... soldier... We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Rise up, shepherd, rise up Your flock has roamed far from the hill The stars have faded, the sky is still The angels are shouting “Glory hallelujah” We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Forty days and nights of rain washed this land Jesus said the money changers in this temple will not stand Find your flock, get them to higher ground The floodwater’s rising, we’re Canaan bound We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Tend to your flock or they will stray We’ll be called for our service come judgment day Before we cross that river wide The blood on our hands will come back on us twice Rise up, shepherd, rise up Your flock has roamed far from the hill Stars have faded the sky is still Suns in the heavens and a new days rising Weve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground You use your muscle and your mind and you pray your best That your best is good enough, the Lord will do the rest You raise your children and you teach them to walk straight and sure You pray that hard times, hard times come no more You try to sleep, you toss and turn, the bottom’s dropping out Where you once had faith, now there’s only doubt You pray for guidance, only silence now meets your prayers The morning breaks, you awake, but no one’s there No ones there....   Theres a new day coming   Im a soldier   Oh, a new days coming   Im a soldier   Oh, a new days coming   Im a soldier   Theres a new day coming Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground Weve been traveling over Rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground

Theres nothing like being young and leaving someplace. That was a feeling that, oh, I loved. Maybe thats why I became a musician. Um, sleep late, stay up late, and you do an awful lot of leavin. The night I left Freehold for the last time, I laid back on the couch that was perched high atop a load of the bands junk furniture in the back of an open flatbed truck on a beautiful summer night. I was 19 years old. That felt pretty good. Soft ocean breeze of the shore was reaching all the way inland, and as we drew through town, for the very last time, we were stopped by the police, who informed us that there was a law against moving after dark. What the fuck? Who the fuck would know that? Dont move your shit after dark? What are we running off: one of Freeholds great antiquities? The sun goes down, theyll bust your ass in Freehold, son. Anyway, they uh, they sent us on our way, glad to be rid of the town hippies I guess, and so I laid back on my couch, and I was watchin the tree branches brush above me and the stars glowing in the night sky, and I remember it felt absolutely wonderful I had nothin. No parents, theyd moved away with my, little sister Pam, to California in 1969. My sister Virginia, great soul that she is, she got pregnant and had a baby at 18, she left high school, married a competitive bull rider, and they moved into the wilds of southern New Jersey because, thats where the cowboys live. The real joke is that fifty years later, theyre still together and they still go to the rodeo But I had no money and no family and no realistic future but yet I remember layin on that couch with the summer wind rushin over me, and ya know that salt water smell in the air of the shore comin on, thinkin, I was just happy, I was happy. I got it all, ya know, maybe I did, ya know. Maybe there was nothing like that moment in your life with being young and leaving some place, all that youthful freedom, you feel, finally being untethered from everything youve ever known, the life youve lived, the past, your parents, the world youve gotten used to and that youve loved and hated Your life laying before you like a blank page. Its the one thing I miss about getting older, I miss the beauty of that blank page, so much life in front of ya. Its promise, its possibilities, its mysteries, its adventures. That blank page, just layin there, daring you to write on it

You treated me hard and made my heart ache I know youre only human, and men they make mistakes Your life with her turned to black And now you want our love back Well come into my arms and fall, my lover man Was it a gypsys curse or a hex sign Or was it just that simple thing that led you from these arms of mine Oh yes, Ive had the days To grow used to your foolish ways And what is it really, after all, my lover man I can see the change in your eyes Theres no need to apologize We stood at the wishing well Our dreams like coins into the water fell The water so cold and black There was no going back I dont mean to cause you hurt or cause you pain Life is short and loves a dirty game Now theres no need for our game to end Come close and well begin To find our beautiful selves again, my lover man My lover man

Ol catfish in the lake we called him Big Jim When I was a kid my only wish was to get my line in him Skipped church one Sunday rowed out and throwd in my line Jim took that hook pole and me right over the side Went driftin down past old tires and rusty cans of beer The angel of the lake whispered in my ear Before you choose your wish son You better think first With every wish there comes a curse I fell in love with beautiful Doreen She was the prettiest thing this old townd ever seen I courted her and I made her mine But I grew jealous whenever another mand Come walkin down the line And my jealousy made me treat her hard and cruel She sighed Bobby oh Bobby youre such a fool Dont you know before you choose your wish Youd better think first Cause with every wish there comes a curse These days I sit around and laugh At the many rivers Ive crossed But on the far banks theres always another forest Where a man can get lost Well there in the high trees loves bluebird glides Guiding us cross to another river on the other side And there someone is waitin with a look in her eyes And though my hearts grown weary And more than a little bit shy Tonight Ill drink from her waters to quench my thirst And leave the angels to worry With every wish

My mom was a different story altogether. I wanna release you from suicide watch right now. Snap out of it, come on. Because my mother was bright, happy, shed merrily make conversation with a broom handle, she believed that there was good faith, good heart, good hope in all citizens. She gave the world a lot more credit perhaps than it deserves, but that was her way. Now on school mornings, I hated school, thats just rockstar 101. If you dont hate school in my business, please keep your fucking day job alright? Because its a sign, its a sign that, brother, youre going nowhere man, nowhere. You need to have hatred in your heart to get to the top where I am, alright? Youve got to hate on, uh - so of course I hated getting up and uh, my mom had perfected this technique in the morning where shed stand over my bed with a glass of ice water and give me 30 seconds, eh you know, Five, four, three, two, boom! Niagara Falls. I would get dressed, I would drift downstairs to breakfast where I would feast daily on a huge bowl of sugar pops, a fine product, with just one problem - they dont put enough sugar in those sugar pops. So I wasnt content until I snowed more sugar on my sugar pops until they looked like the Himalayas, and then mmm good, with a buzz on, and a kiss from my mom, I was off, with my sister, lumbering up the street with our book bags, as my moms high heels clicked lightly in the other direction toward Lawyers Title Insurance Company in town center, she was a legal secretary. That was a job she did since the day she got out of high school, fifty years to follow. Goes to work, doesnt miss a day, never sick, never down, never complains, work doesnt appear to be a burden for her but its a source of energy and of social pleasure. Now, some evenings I would meet my mother at closing time and we would be the last to leave the office and this was always a great privilege to me. I would have my mother all to myself, and with the building empty, her high heels would echo down the long linoleum hallway, and with the fluorescent lights out, lawyers cubicles empty, secretaries; desks empty, typewriters covered, silent, the building was so still, after all the noise of the day ya know it was so, it got so quiet, it was as if - it, it was as if the building itself was resting after a long day of service in the interest of our town. And then suddenly wed be through the front door and out on Main Street in five oclock rush hour and she would stride along, statuesque, and, Id be runnin alongside her just, trying to keep up and I would be, ya know, looking up at her, and uh, its a sight Ive never f-, never forgotten - my mother walking home from work, had some - just some eternal impact on me, ya know uh, she uh, she always had these very ethnic features, she had coal black hair, Italian olive skin, and when she was young she wore that red lipstick, that was very fashionable, in the 50s. And shed be looking down at me with a look that for me, was like the grace of Mary, Made me understand for the first time how good it feels, feel pride in somebody that you love, and who loves you back, ya know. She let the town know that we are handsome, responsible members of this shit dog bird, pullin our own individual weight doin what has to be done day after day, we have a place here that we have earned, and we have a reason to open our eyes at the break of each day and breathe in a life thats steady and good. My mom was truthfulness, consistency, good humor, professionalism, grace, kindness, optimism, civility, fairness, pride in yourself, responsibility, love, faith in your family, commitment, joy your work, and a never-say-die thirst for living - for living. For living and for life. And most importantly, for dancing. My mother and her two sisters were dancing machines, alright. They grew up in the 40s with the big bands and the swing bands, and they, and they learned the jitterbug, and, and uh, it was in their bones, ya know, uh, my mom is seven years into Alzheimers. And shes 93. But dancing, and the desire and need to dance is something that, it hasnt left her. Remains an essential primal part of who she is, its beyond language, its more powerful than memory, and when she comes in the door, we make sure theres music on. She wants to dance, ya know. These things were the embodiment of my mother, they were her heart, she carried on and she carries on as if they never, never deserted her

I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few drinks But all he kept talking about was Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days Well theres a girl that lives up the block Back in school she could turn all the boys heads Sometimes on a Friday Ill stop by And have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed Her and her husband Bobby well they split up I guess its two years gone by now We just sit around talking about the old times She says when she feels like crying She starts laughing thinking about Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days My old man worked 20 years on the line And they let him go Now everywhere he goes out looking for work They just tell him that hes too old I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the Metuchen Ford plant assembly line Now he just sits on a stool down at the legion hall But I can tell whats on his mind Glory days yeah goin back Glory days aw he aint never had Glory days, glory days Now I think Im going down to the well tonight And Im going to drink till I get my fill And I hope when I get old I dont sit around thinking about it But I probably will Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture A little of the glory of, well time slips away And leaves you with nothing mister but Boring stories of glory days Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days

Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake Whoah, shes an angel from the Innerlake Thundercrack, babys back This time shell tell me how she really feels Bring me down to her lightning shack You can watch my partner reelin She moves up, she moves back Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner She does this thing she calls the Jump back Jack Shes got the heart of a ballerina Shes straight from the Bronx Hung off the line She slips, she slides, she slops, she bops, she bumps, she grinds Even them dance hall hacks From the west side of the tracks Move in close to catch her timin She moves up, she moves back Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner She does this thing she calls the Jump back Jack Shes got the heart of a ballerina She aint no little girl, she aint got no curls Her hair aint brown, and her eyes aint either Round and round and round and round My hearts wood, shes a carpenter Shes an angel in the night, what she does is alright Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner Dance with me, partner, til the dawn Thundercrack, babys back This time shell tell me how she really feels Bring me down to her lightning shack You can watch my partner reelin She moves up, she moves back Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner She does this thing she calls the Jump back Jack Shes got the heart of a ballerina She aint no little girl, she aint got no curls Her hair aint brown, and her eyes aint either Round and round and round and round My hearts wood, shes a carpenter Shes an angel in the night, what she does is alright Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner Dance with me, partner, all night

Well its Saturday night Youre all dressed up in blue I been watching you awhile Maybe you been watching me too So somebody ran out Left somebodys heart in a mess Well, if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Some girls they want a handsome Dan Or some good-lookin Joe, on their arm Some girls like a sweet-talkin Romeo Well, round here, baby I learned you get what you can get So if youre rough enough for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest The road is dark And its a thin thin line But I want you to know Ill walk it for you any time Maybe your other boyfriends Couldnt pass the test Well, if youre rough and ready for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Well, it aint no secret Ive been around a time or two Well, I dont know, baby Maybe youve been around too Well, theres another dance All you gotta do is say yes And if youre rough and ready for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest If youre rough enough for love Baby, Im tougher than the rest

Remember the morning we dug up your gun The worms in the barrel, the hanging sun Those first nervous evenings of perfume and gin The lost smell on your breath as I helped you get it in The rush of your lips, the feel of your name The beat in your heart, the devils arcade You said, Heroes are needed, so heroes get made Somebody made a bet, somebody paid The cool desert morning and nothing to save Just metal and plastic where your body caved The slow games of poker with Lieutenant Ray In the ward with the blue walls, a sea with no name Where you lie adrift with the heroes of the devils arcade You sleep and you dream, your buddies Charlie and James And wake with a thick desert dust on your skin Voice says, Dont worry, Im here Just whisper the word tomorrow in my ear House on a quiet street, a home for the brave A glorious kingdom with the sun on your face Rising from a long night as dark as the grave On a thin chain of next moments and something like faith On a morning to order, a breakfast to make A bed draped in sunshine, a body that waits For the touch of your fingers, the end of the day The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The beat of your heart The slow burning away Of the bitter fires of the devils arcade

All over the world the rain was pourin I was scratchin where it itched Oh heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring So I grabbed you baby like a wild pitch It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust Now your legs were heaven your breasts were the altar Your body was the holy land You shouted jump but my heart faltered You laughted and said Baby dont you understand ? It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust Now you were the Red Sea I was Moses I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses The waters parted and love rushed inside I was Jesus son sanctified Tonight the moons looking young but Im feelin younger Neath a veil of dreams sweet blessings rain Honey I can feel the first breeze of summer And in your love Im born again It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust

Well you can go out with him Play with all of his toys But takin care of you darlin Aint for one of the boys Oh theres somethin in your soul That hes gonna rob And lovin you baby lovin you darlin Lovin you woman is a mans mans job Lovin yous a mans job baby Lovin yous a mans job Lovin yous a mans job baby Lovin yous a mans job Well now his kisses may thrill Those other girls that he likes But when it comes to treatin A real woman right Well all of his tricks No they wont be enough Cause lovin you baby lovin you woman Lovin you darlin is a mans mans job Lovin yous a mans job baby Lovin yous a mans job Lovin yous a mans job baby Lovin yous a mans job Youre dancin with him hes holding you tight Im standing here waitin to catch your eye Your hands on his neck as the music sways All my illusions slip away Now if youre lookin for a hero Someone to save the day Well darlin my feet Theyre made of clay But Ive got somethin in my soul And I wanna give it up But gettin up the nerve Gettin up the nerve Gettin up the nerve is a mans mans job Lovin yous a mans job baby Lovin yous a mans job Lovin yous a mans job woman Lovin yous a mans job

Well, its Saturday night Youre all dressed up in blue I been watching you awhile Maybe you been watching me too So somebody ran out Left somebodys heart in a mess Well, if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Some girls, they want a handsome Dan Or some good-lookin Joe On their arm some girls like a sweet-talkin Romeo Well, round here, baby I learned you get what you can get So if youre rough enough for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Well, the road is dark Its a thin thin line But I want you to know Ill walk it for you any time Maybe your other men Couldnt pass the test If youre rough and ready for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Yeah, the road is dark Its a thin thin line But I want you to know Ill walk it for you any time Maybe your other men Couldnt pass the test If youre rough and ready for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Well, it aint no secret Ive been around a time or two Well, I dont know baby, maybe youve been around too Well, theres another dance All you gotta do is say yes And if youre rough and ready for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest If youre rough enough for love Baby, Im tougher than the rest

Well its Saturday night Youre all dressed up in blue Ive been watching you awhile Maybe youve been watching me too And so somebody ran out Left somebodys heart in a mess Well, if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Some girls they want a handsome Dan Or some good-lookin Joe On their arm some girls want a sweet-talkin Romeo But, around here, baby Ive learned you get what you can get So if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Oh, your road is dark And its a thin, thin line But I want you to know Id walk it for you anytime And all your other boyfriends They couldnt pass the test So if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest Well, it aint no secret Ive been around a time or two Well, I dont know but maybe Youve been around too Well, theres another dance All you gotta do is say yes And if youre looking for love Honey, Im tougher than the rest And if youre ready for love Honey Im tougher than the rest

My sister and I, wed pick up the thrown rice from the weddings, pack it away in small brown paper bags and take it home and save it. Then run up the street and throw it at the next wedding, and the next wedding, and the next wedding. We also had front row seats to watch the townsmen in their Sunday suits carry out an endless array of dark wooden boxes to be slipped into the rear of the Freemans Funeral Home long black Cadillac for the short ride to Saint Rose Cemetery Hill on the edge of town. And there, all our Catholic neighbors, all the Zirillis, all the McNicholass, all the Springsteens who came before, they patiently waited for us. On Sundays, as my mom tended to our graves, my sister and I, we played hide and seek amongst the gravestones. I gotcha. Now when it rains in Freehold, when it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets the whole town with the smell of moist coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafe plant from towns eastern edge. Now I dont like coffee. But I love that smell. Was comforting, it united our town, just like our clanging rug mill, and a calm and sensory experience. There was a place here. You could see it. You could smell it. A place where people made lives, and where they worked, and where they danced, and where they enjoyed small pleasures and played baseball and, and suffered pain, where they had their hearts broke, where they made love, had kids, where they died, and drank themselves drunk on spring nights, and where they did their very best, the best that they could, to hold off the demons outside and inside that sought to destroy them, and their homes and their families, and their town. Here we lived in the shadow of the steeple crookedly blessed in Gods good mercy one and all. In the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, race-rioting, freak-hating, soul-shaking, redneck, love and fear-making, heartbreaking town, of Freehold, New Jersey

Been on a barbed wire highway 40 days and nights I aint complaining, its my job and it suits me right I got a sweet soft fever rushing around my head Im gonna sleep tonight in Marias bed Got on a dead mans suit and a smiling skull ring Lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing I keep my heart in my work, my troubles in my head And I keep my soul in Marias bed Hey, hey Hey, hey I been up on sugar mountain, cross the sweet blue sea I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery I got run outa luck and gave myself up for dead And I drank the cool clear waters from Marias bed Hey, hey Hey, hey She gave me candy stick kisses neath a wolf-dog moon One sweet breath and shell take you, mister, to the upper room I was burned by the angels, sold wings of lead Then I fell in the roses and sweet salvation of Marias bed I been out in the desert, yeah, doing my time Sifting through the dust for fools gold, looking for a sign Holy man said Hold on, brother, theres a light up ahead Aint nothing like a light that shines on me in Marias bed Well Ill take my blessings at the riverhead Im living in the light of Marias bed Hey, hey Hey, hey Hey, hey

Dont you know that I danced, I danced till a quarter to three With the help, last night, of Daddy G He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could And I was dancin all over the room Oh, dont you know the people were dancin like they were mad It was the swinginest band they had, ever had It was the swinginest song that could ever be It was a night with Daddy G Let me tell you now I never had it so good Yeah and I know you never could Until you get hip with that jive And take a band like the Church Street Five Oh dont you know that I danced I danced till a quarter to three With the help last night of Daddy G Everybody was as happy as they could be And they were swingin with Daddy G Blow Daddy! Let me tell you now I never had it so good Yeah and I know you never could Until you get hip with that jive And take a band like the Church Street Five Oh dont you know that I danced I danced till a quarter to three With the help last night of Daddy G He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could And I was dancin all over the room Oh dont you know the Dance, do bee wa dah Dance, do bee wah dah You can dance, do bee wah dah You can dance, dance, dance

Theres a wonderful world where all you desire And everything youve longed for is at your fingertips Where the bittersweet taste of life is at your lips Where aisles and aisles of dreams await you And the cool promise of ecstasy fills the air At the end of each working day shes waiting there Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket As the evening sky turns blue A dream awaits in aisle number two With my shopping cart I move through the heart Of a sea of fools so blissfully unaware That theyre in the presence of something wonderful and rare The way she moves behind the counter Beneath her white apron her secret remains hers As she bags the groceries her eyes so bored And sure shes unobserved Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Theres nothing I can say Each night I take my groceries and I drift away And I drift away Guidance from the gods above At night I pray for the strength to tell her When I love I love I love I love her so Take my place in the check-out line For one moment her eyes meet mine Im lifted up, lifted up, lifted up, lifted up Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Though her company cap covers her hair Nothing can hide the beauty waiting there The beauty waiting there Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket As I lift my groceries in to my car I turn back for a moment and catch a smile That blows this whole fucking place apart Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket Im in love with the Queen of the Supermarket

He lay his blanket underneath the freeway As the evening sky grew dark Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can And headed through Balboa Park Where the men in their Mercedes Come nightly to employ In the cool San Diego evening The services of the border boys He grew up near the Zona Norte With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with He swallowed their balloons of cocaine Brought them across to the Twelfth Street strip Sleeping in a shelter If the night got too cold Running from the migra Of the border patrol Past the salvage yard across the train tracks And in through the storm drain They stretched their blankets out beneath the freeway And each one took a name There was X-man and Cochise Little Spider, his sneakers covered in river mud They come north to California End up with the poison in their blood He did what he had to for the money Sometimes he sent home what he could spare The rest went to high-top sneakers and toncho And jeans like the gavachos wear One night the border patrol swept Twelfth Street A big car come fast down the boulevard Spider stood caught in its headlights Got hit and went down hard As the car sped away, Spider held his stomach Limped to his blanket beneath the underpass Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue Closed his eyes and listened to the cars rushing by so fast

Early North Jersey industrial skyline Im an all-set cobra jet creepin through the night time Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone This turnpike sure is spooky at night when youre all alone Im living on the edge of the world Tryin to get my girl on the line Livin on the edge of the world But I think its just a waste of my time Some jerk keeps breaking my connection, girl Cause Im living on the edge of the world Living on the edge of the world Radio, radio, hear my tale of heartbreak New Jersey in the morning like a lunar landscape Got a counter girl at the Exit 24 HoJo Down past the refinery towers where the great black river flows Im living on the edge of the world Tryin to get back to you, girl Im living on the edge of the world Tryin to get a message through I gotta make a connection, girl Because Im living on the edge of the world Living on the edge of the world Radios jammed with gospel stations Lost souls callin long distance salvation Hey mister deejay gotta hear my last prayer Its a hey ho rock and roll, deliver me from nowhere Im living on the edge of the world Tryin to get back to you, girl Living on the edge of the world Tryin to get a message through I gotta make some connection, girl Because Im living on the edge of the world Living on the edge... I gotta make some connection, girl Because Im living on the edge of the world Living on the edge of the world Now my boss dont dig me cause he put me on the night shift It takes me two hours to get back to where my baby lives In the wee wee hours my mind gets hazy Relay towers, wont you lead me to my baby Neath the overpass the trooper hits his party lights switch Good night, good luck, one, two, powershift! Living on the edge of the world...

Downtown hipsters drinking up the drug line Down in the kitchen, working in the coal mine Got a special sin, mister, you cant quite confess Messy little problem, maybe baby need a new dress Razor-back diamond you shine too hard Need a hammer help you handle little trouble in your backyard Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place When Harry speaks its Harrys streets, in Harrys house its Harrys rules You dont want to be around, brother, when Harry schools Harrys car, Harrys wife, Harrys dogs run Harrys town Your blood and money spit shines Harrys crown You dont fuck with Harrys money, you dont fuck Harrys girls These are the rules, this is the world When you bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place You need a little shot of something to improve your health A taste of that one little weakness you allow yourself Youre looking for the key of that box you locked yourself in Just step up to the line and be one of Harrys friends Shithole on the corner, no light, no sign Nobody on the street except the deaf, dumb, and blind Mayor Conners on the couch, Father McGowans at the bar Chief Hortons at the door checking who the fuck you are Seesaw Bobby dressed in drag and Mr. Nice Carry me into the back room, dim the lights My arms strapped to the table, a thousand angels spinning up the room A voice whispers in my ear, We do what we must do When we bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place Nobody knows his number, nobody knows his name If he didnt exist, itd all go on just the same Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place Bring it on down to Harrys Place

We left the toys out in the yard I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded We packed what we could into the car No one here knows how it started Suddenly everything was just so out of control Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know I hear all the talk but I dont know what youre sayin But I think I got a good idea of the game that youre playin Roulette, thats the name Roulette, thats the game now Roulette, I dont know what theyre sayin Roulette, everybodys playin I grew up here on this street Where nothin moves, just a strange breeze In a town full of worthless memories Theres a shadow in my backyard Ive got a house full of things that I cant touch Well all those things wont do me much good now I was a fireman out at Rikers, I did my job Mister, Ive been cheated, I feel like Ive been robbed Im the big expendable, my lifes just canceled null and void Well what you gonna do about your new boy Roulette, youre playin with my life Roulette, with my kids and my wife Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger Roulette, a different finger on the trigger Down by the river that talks The night speaks in searchlights And shortwave radios squawk The police patrol the streets But Ive left behind the man I used to be Everything he believed and all that belonged to me I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought itd be safe They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans Now I dont know who to trust and I dont know what I can believe They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin I think those guys just wanna keep on playin Roulette, with my life Roulette, with my kids and my wife Roulette, the bullets in the chamber Roulette, whos the unlucky stranger Roulette, surprise, youre dead Roulette, the guns to your head Roulette, the bullets spinning in the chamber Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click No further danger

Pony boy pony boy Wont you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa My pony boy Ride with me ride with me Wont you take a ride with me Underneath the starry sky My pony boy Oer the hills and through the trees Well go riding you and me Pony boy pony boy Wont you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa My pony boy Down into the valley deep Neath the eaves we will sleep Sky of dreams up above My pony boy Pony boy pony boy Wont you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa My pony boy Pony boy pony boy Wont you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa My pony boy

Oh Billy stares at Cherry in the hall And walks out into the rain so blessed and tall Standin on the corner with a gun underneath his coat Beneath the stars on the street Oh on Lexington Avenue they stand Velvet aces they case the promised land Reachin out across the hoods with both hands Oh, tryin to catch a ride Tonight were lovers in the cold Running past the graveyards in the snow Walking in the street with nowhere to go And its no, no, no Oh and the getaway driver waits outside the store He pulls away just as Billy runs out the door Oh and Billy wont run anymore, no, no, no Oh baby I cant lay the stars at your feet Oh but I think we could take it all, just you and me Oh come on, youll see, theres a lot of room For you baby, in this front seat Tonight were lovers on that road Running past the graveyards in the snow Walking in the street with nowhere to go And its oh, oh, oh

I get up in the evening And I aint got nothing to say I come home in the morning I go to bed feeling the same way I aint nothing but tired Man, Im just tired and bored with myself Hey there, baby, I could use just a little help You cant start a fire You cant start a fire without a spark This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark Message just keeps getting clearer Radios on and Im moving round the place I check my look in the mirror I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face And I aint getting nowhere Yeah, Im just living in a dump like this Theres something happening somewhere Baby, I just know that there is You cant start a fire You cant start a fire without a spark This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark You sit around getting older Theres a joke here somewhere and its on me Ill shake this world off my shoulders Come on, baby, this laughs on me Stay on the streets of this town And theyll be carving you up alright They say you gotta stay hungry Hey, baby, Im just about starving tonight Im dying for some action Im sick of sitting round here trying to write this book I need a love reaction Come on, baby, gimme just one look You cant start a fire Sitting round crying over a broken heart This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark You cant start a fire Worrying about your little world falling apart This guns for hire Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark Even if were just dancing in the dark

The screen door slams, christines dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy orbison singing for the lonely thats me and I want you only Dont turn me home again I just cant face myself alone again tonight Dont run back inside, you know just what Im here for So youre scared and youre thinking That maybe you aint that young anymore Show a little faith theres magic in the night You aint a beauty but hey youre alright And thats alright with me This 4/4 shes gonna overheat Make up your mind girl I gotta get her back out on the street I know youre lonely like me so baby dont try and fake it Im no prince and I cant lay the stars at your feet But I got this old car and shes pretty tough to beat Theres plenty of room in my front seat, baby if you wanna take it Oh roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair Its like the rushing touch, the dirty wings them highway angels wear Well tonight were gonna find out how it feels Im gonna trade in your wings - for wheels Climb in back, heavens waiting down on the tracks Ah, mama, come take my hand Were gonna ride all the way to the promised land Oh Im gonna dance all the way, dance all the way (babe if youre born with nothing in your hands Hey its your only chance) Well I dont know but baby Ive been told Theres something waiting for us, down that dirty road Oh take a chance, take a chance, take a chance (oh I wish you would come So leave what youve lost, leave whats grown old on thunder road) Well now I bought this guitar and I learned how to make it talk I got my car parked out back if youre ready to take that long walk From your front porch to my front seat Well I think we could take it all babe, just you and me Climb in back baby, the rides for free Oh come take my hand, were gonna ride all the way to the promised land Well dance all the way Oh baby I dont know but Ive been told Theres something waiting for us, down that dirty road If we take our chance, take our chance Now the seasons over and I feel it getting cold I wish I could take you to some sandy beach where wed never grow old Ah but baby you know thats just jive But tonights bustin open and Im alive Oh do whay you can to make me feel like a man But this 4/4/2s gonna overheat Make up your mind girl, I gotta get her back out on the street I know youre lonely like me, oh so dont fake it And maybe I cant lay the stars at your feet But I got this old car and shes pretty tough to beat Theres plenty of room in my front seat Oh if you think you can make it, climb in This is town full of losers and baby I was born to win

Well, John Henry was a little baby Sitting on his daddys knee He picked up a hammer and A little piece of steel And cried, Hammers going to Be death of me, Lord, Lord Hammers going to be the death of me Now the captain he Said to John Henry Im going to bring that Steam drill around Im going to bring that Steam drill out on these tracks Im going to knock that Steel on down, God, God Im going to knock that Steel on down John Henry told his captain Lord, a man is nothing but a man But before I let that steam drill Beat me down Im going to die with a hammer In my hand, Lord, Lord Ill die with a hammer in my hand John Henry driving On the right side That steam drill driving On the left Says, Before I let your Steam drill beat me down Im going to hammer Myself to death, Lord, Lord Ill hammer my fool self to death Well captain said to John Henry What is that storm I hear? John Henry said, That Is no storm captain Thats just my hammer In the air, Lord, Lord Thats just my hammer in the air John Henry said to his shaker Shaker, why dont you sing? Because Im swinging thirty pounds From my hips on down Yeah, listen to my cold steel Ring, Lord Lord Listen to my cold steel ring John Henry he hammered In the mountains His hammer was striking fire But he worked so hard It broke his heart John Henry laid down his hammer And died, Lord, Lord John Henry laid down his hammer and died Well, now John Henry He had him a woman By the name of Polly Ann She walked out to those tracks Picked up John Henrys hammer Polly drove steel like a man, Lord, Lord Polly drove that steel like a man Well every, every Monday morning When a blue bird he began to sing You could hear John Henry From a mile or more You could hear John Henrys hammer Ring, Lord, Lord You can hear John Henrys hammer ring You can hear John Henrys hammer Ring, Lord, Lord You can hear John Henrys hammer ring

I wanna build me a house on higher ground I wanna find me a world where loves the only sound High above this road filled with shadow and doubt I want to shoulder my load and figure it all out With Leah I walk this road with a hammer and a fiery lantern With this hand, Ive built and with this, Ive burned I want to live in the same house, beneath the same roof Sleep in the same bed, search for the same proof As Leah I got something in my heart I been waiting to give I got a life I wanna start, one I been waiting to live No more waiting, tonight I feel the light, I say the prayer I open the door, I climb the stairs

With you I dont hear the minutes ticking by I dont feel the hours as they fly I dont see the summer as it wanes Just a subtle change of light upon your face Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away This is our kingdom of days I watched the sun as it rises and sets I watched the moon trace its arc with no regret My jacket around your shoulders, the falling leaves The wet grass on our backs as the autumn breeze drifts through the trees Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away This is our kingdom of days I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I do You whispered then prove it, then prove it, then prove it, to me baby blue When I count my blessings and youre mine for always We laughed beneath the covers And count the wrinkles and the grays Sing away, sing away, sing away, sing away Sing away, sing away, my darling, well sing away This is our kingdom of days This is our kingdom of days This is our kingdom of days This is our kingdom of days This is our kingdom of days

Now theres something coming through the air that softly reminds me Tonight Ill park out on the hill and wait until they find me Here slipping through the ether, a voice is coming through So keep me in your heart tonight and Ill save my love for you So turn up your radio and darling dial me in close Were riding on the airwaves and were traveling coast to coast Over river and highway your voice comes clear and true Though were far apart tonight, Ill save my love for you Hold me in your arms and our doubts wont break us If we open up our hearts, love wont forsake us Lets let the music take us and carry us home Theres a prayer coming through the air like a shot straight through my heart Tearing open the evening sky, tearing me apart Now Ill ride that signal down the line till Im home again with you So turn up your radio and Ill save my love for you Turn up your radio and Ill save my love for you

I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house out on the edge of town We got married and swore wed never part Then little by little, we drifted from each others hearts First I thought it was just restlessness That would fade as time went by and our love grew deep In the end it was something more I guess That tore us apart and made us weep Im driving a stolen car Down on Eldridge Avenue Each night I wait to get caught But I never do She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote When our love was young and bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel one hundred years old And Im driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And Im telling myself Im gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear That in this darkness I will disappear

You may think Im foolish for the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you when you get on my nerves like you do Well, baby, you know you bug me, aint no secret bout that Well, come on over here and hug me, baby, Ill show you where its at Well, honey, it aint your money, baby, I got plenty of that I love you for your pink Cadillac, crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do there in the back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac Way back in the Bible, temptation always comes along Theres always somebody tempting somebody into doing something they know is wrong Well, they tempt you, man, with silver, and they tempt you, sir, with gold And they tempt you with the pleasures the flesh does surely hold They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple but, man, I aint going for that Im going for the pink Cadillac, crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what it feels like in the back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac Yeah, some folks say its a little too big and uses too much gas Some folks say its too old, it goes just a little too fast But my love is bigger than a Honda, its bigger than a Subaru Hey man, theres only one thing and theres one car that will do Anyway we dont have to drive it, we can park it out in back Have a party in your pink Cadillac, crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey I just wonder what it feels like in the back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac

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

Im standing in the backyard Listening to the party inside Tonight Im drinkin in the forgiveness This life provides The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems Oh wont you baby be in my book of dreams Im watching you through the window With your girlfriends from back home Youre showing off your dress Theres laughter and a toast From your daddy to the prettiest bride hes ever seen Oh wont you baby be in my book of dreams In the darkness my fingers slip across your skin I feel your sweet reply The room fades away and suddenly Im way up high Just holding you to me As through the window the moonlight streams Oh wont you baby be in my book of dreams Now the ritual begins Neath the wedding garland we meet as strangers The dance floor is alive with beauty Mystery and danger We dance out neath the stars ancient light into the darkening trees Oh wont you baby be in my book of dreams

In the fields of the Lord stood Abel and Cain Cain slew Abel neath the black rain At night he couldnt stand the guilt or the blame So he gave it a name So he gave it a name So he gave it a name Billy got drunk, angry at his wife He hit her once, he hit her twice At night hed lie in bed, he couldnt stand the shame So he gave it a name So he gave it a name So he gave it a name Pa told me Son, one thing I know is true Poison snake bites you, youre poison too At night I can feel that poison runnin round my veins...

My father worked as a 16 year old floor boy in that rug mill, and then he went off to war, and when he came home, got married, they shut the rug mill down, so he went to work on the Ford motor plant in New Brunswick, then he worked at the Nescafe plant in Freehold, worked in a plastics factory in town, he was a truck driver, bus driver, drove a taxi, he lived mostly at home, except for his second home which was a little local bar in the center of town. Now to a child, bars in Freehold were these citadels of great mystery. When you walked through bar room doors in my hometown, you entered the mystical realm of men. On the rare night, that my mother would call my father home, we would slowly drive through town until we drew to a stop outside of a single lit door, shed look at me and say, Go in and get your dad. This both thrilled and terrified me. It thrilled me because I had been given the license by my mother, the law, to go into the bar! Im a kid! But it terrified me because to enter the bar is to enter my fathers priveleged, private, and sacred space. He was not to be disturbed when hes down at the bar. Everybody knew that. So I would walk in, and I was waist-high, like a Jack who climbed some dark beanstalk into a land of giants, all I remember is the men towering over me on their way out the door. Now once you were in, to the left against the wall was a line of red leather booths that were filled with husband and wife tag team drinkers. Now there were your hardcore regulars there night after night after night, alright now to the right was the bar, a line of stools filled by a barricade of broad working class backs clinking glasses, too loud laughter, and very few women. I would stand there lost in the noise and the hustle of the crowd and I would drink in that dim smell of beer and booze and aftershave. Now to a kid, that was the scent of adulthood. It was the scent of manhood. I wanted some of that. And finally somebody would notice me, and draw me over to my pop, now my view from the Ford was the first thing Id see was the chrome legs of the barstool. Then Id see his black shoes, white socks, dark green work trousers, powerful legs and haunches, my dad til the day he died had the legs and the ass of a rhinoceros. And, and his trousers always looked like they were stretched. stretched over that legs and ass somehow, I dont know how. He was always bustin out ya know, uh, then I would see his black Garrison work belt, his green work shirt, and then his face. By the time I got there his face was flushed red, red as a tomato because he was Irish and whatever he drank went straight to his face, alright. He couldnt hide a thing when he came home, ya know, uh, and not only was it red, like it - it was like distorted too, into some sort of booze mask, by, by Mr. Schlitz and, and, it was so foreign to me as a child that, it - he - fuck I dont know, ha ha, but it was scary and hed be peering down over his shoulder, down at the cigarette smoke and hed be lookin at me like Ive never seen you before in my fuckin life. I then uttered the immortal words that I was sent to deliver - Mom wants you to come home. Id hear, Go outside, I will be right out, and I would follow my breadcrumb trail back out the bar room door, I would hop into the backseat, and I would inform my mother, Um, hell be right out, hell be right out

You may think Im fooling For the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you When you get on my nerves like you do Well baby you know you bug me There aint no secret about that Well, come on over here and hug me Baby Ill spill the facts Well, honey it aint your money Cause I got plenty of that I love you for your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, peeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do There in the back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac Well, now way back in the Bible Temptations always come along Theres always somebody tempting you Into doing something they know is wrong Well, they tempt you, maam, with silver And they tempt you, sir, with gold And they tempt you with the pleasures That flesh does surely hold They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple Man, I aint going for that I know it was her pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, peeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what youre doing In the back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac Now, now, now, some folks say its too big And uses too much gas Some folks say that its too old And that it just goes too fast Oh, but love is bigger than a Honda And its bigger than a Subaru Hey man theres only one thing And one car that will do Anyway we dont have to drive it Honey, we can park it out in back And have a party in your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, peeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do there In the back of your pink Cadillac You know the one I mean, Le Car Woah! Cadillac

HA! In the day we sweat it out On the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway 9 Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected And steppin out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back Its a death trap, its a suicide rap We gotta get out while were young Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet hips And strap your hands cross my engines Together we could break this trap Well run till we drop, baby well never go back Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire Cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta know how it feels I wanna know your love is wild Girl, I wanna know that love is real Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones Scream down the boulevard Girls comb their hair in review mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark And kids are huddled on the beach in the mist I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss Uh, uh, uh, UH! Highways jammed with broken heroes On a last-chance power drive Everybodys out on the road tonight But theres no place left to hide Together Wendy we can live with the sadness Ill love you with all the madness in my soul Oh, someday girl I dont know when Were gonna get to that place where really wanna go And well walk in the sun But till then, baby we were born to run Baby we were born to run Tramps like us, baby we were born to run Whoa, ooh Born to run

Its cloudy out in Pittsburgh Its raining in Saigon Snows fallin all across the Michigan line Well she sits by the light of her Christmas tree With the radio softly on Thinkin how a good man is so hard to find Well once she had a fella Once she was somebodys girl And she gave all she had that one last time Now theres a little girl asleep in the back room Shes gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world And how a good man is so hard to find Well theres pictures on the table by her bed Him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white She remembers how the world was the day he left And now how that world is dead And a good man is so hard to find She got time now for Casanovas Yeah those days are gone She dont want that anymore, shes made up her mind Just somebody told her As the nights get on When a good man is so hard to find Well she shuts off the TV And without a word Into bed she climbs Well she thinks how it was all so wasted And how expendable their dreams all were When a good man was so hard to find

They prosecuted some poor sucker in these United States For teaching that man descended from the apes They coulda settled that case without a fuss or fight If theyd seen me chasin you, sugar, through the jungle last night Theyda called in that jury and a one two three said Part man, part monkey, definitely Well the church bell rings from the corner steeple Man in a monkey suit swears hell do no evil Offers his lovers prayer but his soul lies Dark and driftin and unsatisfied Well hey bartender, tell me whaddaya see Part man, part monkey, looks like to me Well the night is dark, the moon is full The flowers of romance exert their pull We talk awhile, my fingers slip Im hard and crackling like a whip Well did God make man in a breath of holy fire Or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire Well the man on the street believes what the bible tells him so Well you can ask me, mister, because I know Tell them soul-suckin preachers to come on down and see Part man, part monkey, baby thats me

Dark weekends in the sun out on Chelsea Road Descending the stairs, Frankie, my one Check your makeup in the mirror cmon babe lets go Well dance round this dirty town til the night is all done Let all the finer things sleep alone tonight Let all the minor kings lose their thrones tonight Dont worry about us, baby, well be alright Well everybodys dying, this towns closing down Theyre all sittin down at the courthouse waiting for em to take the flag down I see strange flashes in the sky up above Gonna spend the night at the drive-in with the one that I love At dusk the stars all appear on the screen Yeah, just like they do each night in my dreams But tonights no dream, Frankie, I can feel myself too Well now and forever my love is for you Walk softly tonight little stranger Yeah into these shadows were passing through Talk softly tonight, little angel You make all my dream worlds come true Well lately Ive been standing out in the freezing rain Readin them want ads out on Chelsea Road Im winging down the street in search of new games Hustling through these nightlights diamond glow Well Frankie I dont know what Im gonna find Maybe nothing at all, maybe a world I can call mine Shining like these streetlights down here on the strand Bright as the rain in the palm of your hand Walk softly tonight, little stranger Into the shadows where lovers go Talk softly to me, little angel Whisper your secrets, so soft and low

At sixteen she quit high school to Make her fortune in the promised land She got a job behind the counter in an All night hamburger stand She wrote faithfully home to mama Now mama dont you worry none From small things, mama Big things one day come It was late one Friday he pulled in Out of the dark He was tall and handsome; first she Took his order, then she took his heart They bought a house up on the hillside Where little feet soon would run From small things, mama Big things one day come Oh but love is fleeting Its sad but true But when your heart is beating You dont wanna hear the news She packed her bags And with a Wyomie County real estate man She ran down to Tampa In and El Dorado Grande She wrote back home, Dear Mama Life is just heaven in the sun From small things, mama Big things one day come Well she shot him dead On a sunny Florida road When they caught her all she said Was she couldnt stand the way he drove Back home lonesome Johnny Prays for his babys parole He waits on the hillside Where the Wyomie waters roll At his feet and almost grown now A blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son Well from small things, mama Big things one day come Well from small things, mama

Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man He robbed the Glendale train He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor Hed a hand and a heart and a brain Well it was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward I wonder how he feel For he ate of Jesses bread and he slept in Jesses bed Then he laid poor Jesse in his grave Well, Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life Three children now they were brave Well, that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard He laid poor Jesse in his grave Jesse was a man, a friend to the poor Hed never rob a mother or a child There never was a man with the law in his hand That could take Jesse James alive It was on a Saturday night and the moon was shining bright They robbed the Glendale train And people they did say over many miles away It was those outlaws, theyre Frank and Jesse James Well, Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life Three children now they were brave Well, that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard He laid poor Jesse in his grave Now the people held their breath when they heard of Jesses death And wondered how he ever came to fall Robert Ford,It was a fact,He shot Jesse in the back While Jesse hung a picture on the wall Now Jesse went to rest with his hand on his breast The devil will be upon his knee He was born one day in the County Clay And he came from a solitary race Well, Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life Three children now they were brave Well, that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard He laid poor Jesse in his grave

One, two, three, four Hey we shall overcome, we shall overcome We shall overcome someday Darling here in my heart, yeah I do believe We shall overcome someday Well well walk hand in hand, well walk hand in hand Well walk hand in hand someday Darling here in my heart, yeah I do believe Well walk hand in hand someday Well we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace We shall live in peace someday Darling here in my heart, yeah I do believe We shall live in peace someday Well we are not afraid, we are not afraid We shall overcome someday Yeah here in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome someday Hey we shall overcome, we shall overcome We shall overcome someday Darling here in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome someday We shall overcome someday

He rode the rails since the Great Depression Fifty years out on the skids He said You dont cross nobody Youll be all right out here kid Left my family in Pennsylvania Searching for work I hit the road I met Frank in East Texas In a freight yard blown through with snow From New Mexico to Colorado California to the sea Frank, he showed me the ropes, sir Just until I could get back on my feet I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh I picked the peaches from the Marysville trees They bunked us in a barn just like animals Me and a hundred others just like me We split up come the springtime I never seen Frank again Except one rainy night, he blew by me on a grainer Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and wind They found him shot dead outside of Stockton His body lying on a muddy hill Nothing taken, nothing stolen Somebody killing just to kill Late that summer, I was rolling through the plains of Texas A vision passed before my eyes A small house sitting track-side With the glow of the saviors beautiful light A woman stood cooking in the kitchen Kid sat at a table with his old man Now I wonder, does my son miss me Does he wonder where I am? Tonight I pick my campsite carefully Outside the Sacramento yard Gather some wood and light a fire In the early winter dark Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me Heat some coffee and stare out into the black night I lie awake, I lie awake, sir With my machete by my side My Jesus, your gracious, love and mercy Tonight Im sorry could not fill My heart like one good rifle And the name of who I ought to kill

The speculators made their money on the blood you shed Your mommas pulled the sheets up off your bed Profiteers on Jane Street sold your shoes and clothes Aint nobody talking because everybody knows We pulled your cycle up back the garage and polished up the chrome Our gypsy biker coming home Sister Mary sits with your colors, but Johnnys drunk and gone This old towns been rousted, which side you on? They would march up over the hill, this old fools parade Shouting victory for the righteous, for you must hear the grace Arent nobody talking, but just waiting by the phone Our gypsy biker coming home Whoa! We rode into the foothills, Bobby brought the gasoline We stood around the circle as she lit up the ravine The spring hot desert wind rushed down us all the way back home To the dead, well it dont matter much about whos wrong or right You asked me that question, I didnt get it right You slipped into your darkness, now all that remains Is my love for you, brother, lifes still unchanged To them that threw you away, you aint nothing but gone My gypsy bikers coming home And now Im out counting white lines Counting white lines and getting stoned My gypsy bikers coming home Whoa! La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la

Come to the door, Ma, and unlock the chain I was just passing through and got caught in the rain Theres nothing that I want, nothing that you need say Just let me lie down for a while and Ill be on my way I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen With the police on my back, I fled to New Orleans I fought in the dockyards and with the money that I made The fight was my home and blood was my trade Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula and Lafayette town They payed me their money, Ma, I knocked the man down Well I did what I did, yeah it come easily Restraint and mercy, Ma, were always strangers to me I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud Rain poured through the tent to the canvas and mixed with our blood In the twelfth, slipped my tongue over my broken jaw And I stood over him and pounded his bloodied body into the floor Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on Until I felt my glove leather slip between his skin and bone And the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets I took my good share, Ma, I have no regrets I took the fix at the state armory with big John McDonald From high in the rafters, I watched myself fall As they raised his arm, my stomach twisted, and the sky it went black I stuffed my bag with their good money and never looked back Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the game Well if you know anyone different then speak out his name Ma, if my voice now, you dont recognize Well just open the door and look into your dark eyes I ask of you nothing, not a kiss, not a smile Just open the door and let me lie down for a while Now the gray rain is falling and my ring fightins done So in the work fields and alleys, I take all wholl come If youre a better man than me, then just step to the line And show me your money and speak out your crime Theres nothing I want, Ma, nothing that you need say Just let me lie for a while and Ill be on my way Well tonight in shipyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt I move to the center and I take off my shirt I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, man, no time can erase I move hard to the left and I strike to the face

If your heart is restless from waiting too long When youre tired and weary, and you cant go on Well if a distant dream is a callin you Then theres just one thing that you can do Yeah, you gotta follow that dream wherever that dream may lead you You gotta follow that dream to find the love you need Now baby, I walk in dreams And I talk in dreams I need someone with a love I can trust And together well search for the things that come to us In dreams, baby in dreams And Im gonna follow that dream wherever that dream may lead me Im gonna follow that dream to find the love I need Now every man has the right to live The right to a chance to give what he has to give The right to fight for the things he believes For the things that come to him in dreams Baby in dreams, I walk in dreams I talk in dreams I live in dreams

I aint got no home, Im just a-ramblin round I work when I can get it, I roam from town to town Police make it hard, boys, wherever I may go I aint got no home in this world anymore I was farmin shares and always I was done My debts, they was so many, my pay wouldnt go around Drought got my crops and Mr. Bankers at my door And I aint got no home in this world anymore Six children I have raised, theyre scattered and theyre gone And my darling wife, to heaven she has flown She died of the fever upon the cabin floor And I aint got no home in this world anymore I mined in your mines and I gathered your corn I been workin, mister, since the day that I was born I worry all the time like I never did before Cause I aint got no home in this world anymore Well, now I just ramble round to see what I can see This wide wicked world is sure a funny place to be The gamblin man is rich and the workin man is poor I aint got no home in this world anymore And Im stranded on this road that goes from sea to sea A hundred thousand others are stranded here with me A hundred thousand others, yes, a hundred thousand more I aint got no home in this world anymore

Well far between sundowns finish and midnights broken toll We ducked inside the doorway thunder crashin As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun Sayin it may be the chimes of freedom flashin Flashin for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashin for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight And for each and every underdog soldier in the night We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin Well in the citys melted furnace unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin Yeah tollin for the rebel yeah tollin for the raked Tollin for the luckless the abandoned and forsaked Yeah tollin for the outcasts burnin constantly at stakes And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed Theres a hypnotic splattered mist was slowly liftin Well electric light still struck like arrows Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin Well tollin for the searching ones on this speechless secret trail For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail Yeah we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin Well starry eyed and laughin I recall when we were caught Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended As we listened one last time and we watched with one last look Spellbound and swallowed Has the tollin ended? Yeah tollin for the achin ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused accused misused strung out ones at worst And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin

Hey little girl is your Daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone Oh no, got a bad desire Oh I’m on fire Tell me little darling is he good to you Can he do all the things that I could do oh no I could take you higher Oh I’m on fire I’m on fire I’m on fire It’s like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull Cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul At night I lie awake with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you cool my desire Oh I’m on fire I’m on fire It’s like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull Cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul Cool my desire Oh I’m on fire Hey little girl is your Daddy Home Did he go away and leave you all alone Oh no, got a bad desire Oh I’m on fire Tell me little darling is he good to you Can he do all the things that I could do oh no I could take you higher Oh I’m on fire I’m on fire I’m on fire It’s like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull Cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul At night I lie awake with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you cool my desire Oh I’m on fire Oh I’m on fire

Yeah. Cmon. Hoo! I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few drinks But all he kept talking about was Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days Well theres a girl that lives up the block Back in school she could turn all the boys heads Sometimes on a Friday Ill stop by And have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed Her and her husband Bobby well they split up I guess its two years gone by now We just sit around talking about the old times She says when she feels like crying She starts laughing thinking about Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days All right boy watch me working now! Working now Now I think Im going down to the well tonight And Im going to drink till I get my fill And I hope when I get old I dont sit around thinking about it But I probably will Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture A little of the glory of, well time slips away And leaves you with nothing mister but Boring stories of... Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days Glory days well theyll pass you by Glory days in the wink of a young girls eye Glory days, glory days What about this! All right! Ooh yeah All right! Woah, cmon now Oh yeah All right! Its alright Ooh yeah Oh yeah All right! All right! Cmon now Oh yeah All right boys! Keep rockin now! Glory days!

You cant sleep at night You cant dream your dream Your fingerprints on file Left clumsily at the scene Your own worst enemy has come to town Your own worst enemy has come to town Yesterday the people were at ease Baby, you slept in peace You closed your eyes and saw her You knew who you were And your own worst enemy has come to town Your own worst enemy has come Your world keeps turning round and round But everything is upside down Your own worst enemy has come to town Theres a face you know Staring back from the shop window The condition youre in Now you just cant get out of this skin Ah ah ah Ah ah ah Ah ah ah Hooo The times, they got too clear So you removed all the mirrors Once the family felt secure Now no ones very sure Your own worst enemy has come to town Your own worst enemy has come Everything is falling down Your own worst enemy has come to town Your own worst enemy has come Everything is falling down Your own worst enemy has come to town Your flag, it flew so high It drifted into the sky

In the room where fortune falls On a day when chance is all In the dark of fierce exile I felt the grace of your smile Honey, youre my lucky day Baby, youre my lucky day Well I lost all the other bets I made Honey, youre my lucky day When I see strong hearts give way To the burdens of the day To the weary hands of time Where fortune is not kind Honey, youre my lucky day Baby, youre my lucky day Well I lost all the other bets I made Honey, youre my lucky day Ive waited at your side Ive carried the tears youve cried But to win, darling we must play So dont hide your heart away Honey, youre my lucky day Baby, youre my lucky day Well I lost all the other bets I made Honey, youre my lucky day

Paul and Silas bound in jail Had no money to go their bail Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Paul and Silas thought They was lost Dungeon shook and The chains come off Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Freedoms name is mighty sweet And soon were going to meet Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on I got my hand on the gospel plow Wont take nothing for My journey now Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Hold on, Hold on Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Only chain that a man can stand Is that chain of hand and hand Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Im going to board That big Greyhound Carry the love from Town to town Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Hold on, Hold on Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on The only thing I did was wrong Was staying in the Wilderness too long Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on The only thing we did was right Was the day we started to fight Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Hold on, Hold on Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Hold on, Hold on Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Hold on, Hold on Keep your eyes on the prize Hold on Havent been to heaven But I been told Streets up there are Paved with gold

No one ever found it Aint no school ever taught it No one ever made it Aint no one ever bought it But baby, you’ve got it Baby, you’ve got it Cmon and give it to me Aint no one can break it Aint no one can steal it Aint no one can fake it You just know it when you feel it But baby, you’ve got it Baby, you’ve got it Cmon and give it to me You cant read it in a book You cant even dream it Honey, it ain’t got a name You just know it when you see it But baby, youve got it Yeah baby, youve got it Cmon and give it to me Well, now, listen up my reckless love Its precious so don’t waste it Cant tell you what God made it of But I know it when I taste it Baby, youve got it Yeah baby, youve got it You got it in your bones and blood Yeah, youre realer than real ever was Baby, youve got it Yeah baby, youve got it Cmon and give it to me

You put on your coat, I’ll put on my hat You put out the dog, I’ll put out the cat You put on your red dress for me tonight honey We’re going on the town now Looking for easy money There’s nothing to it mister You won’t hear a sound When your whole world comes tumbling down And all them fat cats, they’ll just think it’s funny I’m going on the town now, looking for easy money I got a Smith & Wesson 38 I got a hell fire burning and I got me a date Got me a date on the far shore Where it’s bright and sunny I’m going on the town tonight, looking for easy money You put on your coat, I’ll put on my hat You put out the dog, I’ll put out the cat You put on your red dress for me tonight honey We’re going on the town now Looking for easy money

They broke your toys this morning, Henry Rode your board right into dust Surrounded you with strangers who you could not trust And then they had the gall To write your name up on the girls room wall And send you out to Maria Who spoke of babies and all And wanted to shoot your joy Its a hard world when youre the new kid in town Aint it, Henry Boy Well the North side is for diamond-studded woman Subtly selling their wares And the West side is for debutantes And would be millionaires Oh the East side is for lost boys Who know their moves too well The South side is for gamblers, Henry Boy The train stops once for Hell Its a hard world when theyre forcing you To live your life out on Broadway But Henry Im sure youre gonna like it well The constellation she points to Gate Eleven Thats where you got your connections Let me take a look inside my magic book I dont think youre beyond my inventions Oh these doctors appendages Im giving you for wings Im sure itll meet the occasion Im gonna mix you some magic, youll spittin sparks And ready for the invasion Oh and the Milky Ways a trip for dippers They saw ya coming a mile away In the amusement park youll get clipped by rippers Hiding behind candy cades In the alleyway youll get ripped by strippers All who know your name In the stalls sit the soldier-boy kissers on leave for just a day And Henry couldnt take it Hes gonna be a submariner Riding underground for the Pope Gonna stand on the corner of Broadway And scream: Up scope

Cynthia, when you come walkin by youre an inspiring sight Cynthia, you dont smile or say hi but baby thats alright Cause I dont need to hold you or taste your kiss I just like knowin, Cynthia, you exist In a world like this Cynthia, when you pass it seems like this whole town drops Cynthia, or maybe its just me, baby, and these fools stuck here punchin this Clock Well you give us a reason to stop just for a while Stop, stand and salute your style Well now you aint the finest thing Ill never have And when you go the hurt you leave, baby, it aint so bad There aint a man in this whole town whod say you aint fine You hear them guys talkin, tell me baby do you mind Well you make us happy, honey, when we feel sad To see something so good in a world gone bad Theres still Cynthia Cynthia, no one knows your number, no one knows where you live Cynthia, I wonder do you understand this strange thing you give Well baby is it your style, the mystery in your smile Or just how cool you walk in a world gone wild Tell me if you will, Cynthia Well I gotta be pretty naive to believe in you I know you aint ever gonna be my dream come true Thats alright, I got other dreams as good as you, Cynthia Yeah now baby, now this aint no come-on Just walk on, Cynthia, walk on You make me holler, yeah, yeah, alright I said yeah, yeah, alright Well shes a yeah, yeah, alright

We said wed walk together Baby, come what may Back from the twilight Should we lose our way As we were walking A hand should slip free Ill wait for you Should I fall behind Wait for me Swore wed travel together Darling, side by side Wed help each other Stay in stride Each lover steps on So differently So Ill wait for you Should I fall behind Wait for me Everyone dreams of A love lasting and true You and I know what this world can do So lets make ourselves be That the other may see And Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me Theres a beautiful river In the valley ahead There beneath the oaks bough Soon we will wed Should we lose each other In the shadow of the evening trees Oh, Ill wait for you Should I fall behind Wait for me Darling, Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me Wait for me If I should fall behind Wait for me Wait for me

Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Fe, fe, fi, fi, fo, fo, fum Look at Molly now, here she come Wearin a wig, hat, shades to match High healed sneakers and an aligator hat Wearin her diamons, wearin a big ring She got rasors on her fingers and everything Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Wearin her perfume, Chanel number five Got to be the finest looking woman alive She looks so pretty every time she walks by The boys are too nervous, even to say hi Not too skinny, not too fat Shes a real humdinger and I like it like that Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Good golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball Good golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball When youre rockin and rollin Dont you hear your mama call From the early, early morning to the early, early night See Miss Molly rockin in the house of blue light Good golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball When youre rockin and rollin Dont you hear your mama call Well c., c.c. rider Come on see just what youve done Well I said c., c.c. rider Come on see just what youve done You made me loving you And now, now, now your man has come Well now Im goin c.c. rider Goin to see my baby c.c. rider And I wont be back c.c. rider

When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip I wanted some place to call my home And so I made the race and I staked me out a place And settled down along the Cimarron It blowed away , it blowed away My Oklahoma home, it blown away Well it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there My Oklahoma home, it blown away Well I planted wheats and oats, got some chickens and some shoats Aimed to have some ham and eggs to feed my face Got a mule to pull the plow, I got an old red muley cow And I also got a fancy mortgage on this place Well it blowed away , it blowed away All the crops that Ive planted blown away Well you cant grow any grain if you aint got any rain Everything except my mortgage blown away Come on! Well it looked so green and fair when I built my shanty there I figured I was all set for life I put on my Sunday best with my fancy scalloped vest Then I went to town to pick me out a wife She blowed away , she blowed away My Oklahoma woman blown away Mister, as I bent to kiss her, she was picked up by a twister My Oklahoma woman blown away Well then I was left alone just listening to the moan Of the wind around the corners of my shack So I took off down the road, yeah, when the south wind blowed I traveled with the wind upon my back I blowed away , I blowed away Chasing that dust cloud up ahead Well once it looked so green and fair and now its up in the air My Oklahoma farm is over head Come on! And now Im always close to home, it dont matter where I roam For Oklahoma dust is everywhere Makes no difference where Im walking, I can hear my chickens squawking I can hear my wife a-talking in the air It blowed away , it blowed away Yeah my Oklahoma home is blown away But my home Sir, is always near, its up here in the atmosphere My Oklahoma home is blown away Come on! Well Im a roamn Oklahoman but Im always close to home And Ill never get homesick until I die Cause no matter where Im found, my homes all around My Oklahoma home is in the sky It blowed away , it blowed away And my farm down on Cimarron But now all around the world wherever the dust is swirled There is some from my Oklahoma home It blowed away , it blowed away Yeah my Oklahoma home is blown away Yeah its up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n by My Oklahoma home is blown away Yeah! Let me see that horn now, thank you! Come on one more time! Well its blown away , blown away Oh my Oklahoma home is blown away Yeah its up there in the sky in that dust cloud over n by My Oklahoma home is the sky Yeah!

...2-3-4, 1-2-3-4! Let the frozen cities crumble, crumble and fall Thats alright, I dont mind at all Let em all tumble right into the sea Well thats just fine, thats alright with me Since you came down the line I cant sleep at night, I got one thing on my mind Thats every day, every night I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, thats what I wanna do Cause youre just so out of sight I wanna be with you, thats what I wanna do Now I lost my job at the Texaco station Cause instead of pumping gas Id dream of you I got thrown out of my house, I got such a bad reputation Cause all I wanna do is be seen with you They gave me my pay and said walk I dont care what they say, go ahead and let em all talk Til the world falls apart I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Thats what I wanna do Until they will rip out my heart I wanna be with you, I wanna be with you Well thats all I wanna do Hold tight, love me just a little bit Alright, a little bit more Tonight, tonight give me just a little kiss No I dont know, I dont know, I dont I just cant understand it, youre not pretty at all But I come when you whisper, I run when you call When I see you on the street I fall on my face I drop to my knees, I plead my case Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, thats what I wanna do Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, thats all I wanna do Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, darlin, dont you know Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you, because I love you so

Your voice comes calling through the mist I awake from a dream and my heart begins to drift Tonight were on our own Tonight were all alone Oh-oh, tonight Someday well be together And the night will fall around us This love will last forever Someday well be together Together I cant sleep so I lay awake listenin to the sounds of the city below I get dressed and walk the streets but I got nowhere to go Tonight its you I miss Tonight my only wish is Oh-oh, tonight Someday well be together And the night will fall around us This love will last forever Someday youll be mine Tonight were on our own Tonight were all alone Oh-oh, tonight Someday well be together And the night will fall around us This love will last forever Someday youll be mine Woah-whoaaa Someday youll be mine Woah-whoaaa Someday youll be mine

Now, real rock n’ roll band evolves out of a common place and time, fans come out of towns, out of city, out of neighborhood, and they come along in a particular moment. Bands are all about what happens, theyre musicians, who come from the same streets, the same passions and influences, who go in search of lightning and thunder. They come together in a whole that is greater than the sum of their parts. They may not be the best players, thats not necessary. They need to be the right players, and when they play together, there is a communion of souls, and a natural brotherhood, and sisterhood, manifests itself, and a quest, a quest is begun, you’re in search of something, an adventures undertaken, and you ride shotgun. In a real band, principles of math get stood on their head, and one plus one equals three

Sleepy town aint got the guts to budge Baby, this emptiness has already been judged I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got Youre a strange part of me, youre a preachers girl And I dont want no piece of this mechanical world Got my arms open wide and my blood is running hot Well take the midnight road right to the devils door And even the white angels of Eden with their flamin swords Wont be able to stop us from hitting town in this dirty old Ford Well it dont take no nerve when you got nothing to guard I got tombstones in my eyes and Im running real hard My baby was a lover and the world just blew her away Once they tried to steal my heart, beat it right outta my head But baby they didnt know that I was born dead I am the iceman, fighting for the right to live I say better than the glory roads of heaven better off riding Hellbound in the dirt, better than the bright lines of the freeway Better than the shadows of your daddys church Better than the waiting Baby better off is the search

If you love this land of the free Bring em home, bring em home Bring them back from overseas Bring em home, bring em home It will make the politicians sad, I know Bring em home, bring em home They wanna tangle with their foe Bring em home, bring em home They wanna test their grand theories Bring em home, bring em home With the blood of you and me Bring em home, bring em home Now well give no more brave young lives Bring em home, bring em home For the gleam in someones eyes Bring em home, bring em home The men will cheer and the boys will shout Bring em home, bring em home Yeah and we will all turn out Bring em home, bring em home The church bells will ring with joy Bring em home, bring em home To welcome our darlin girls and boys Bring em home, bring em home We will lift their voice and song Bring em home, bring em home Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring them back from overseas Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home If you love this land of the free Bring em home, bring em home Bring them back from overseas Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring em home, bring em home Bring them back from overseas Bring em home, bring em home

It was a beautiful fall November evening, it was going to writing in my book, and I drove back to my neighborhood where I grew up, looking for uh - I still dont have a fucking clue. But uh, all I know is the streets were dead empty and the whole place looked like itd been locked down since 1955. My corner church was silent and unchanged, no weddings, no funerals, I, rolled slowly another 50 yards up my block to visit my great tree and it was gone. Itd been cut to the street since the last time that I had drove through. So I got out of the car and I looked down, and there was a square of musty earth that held the remaining snakes of its roots on the edge of the parking lot. So I reached down, I picked up a handful of dirt and I just kinda ran it through my hands, and my heart sank like, like a kid who suffered from irretrievable loss, ya know, like, like some, some piece of me was gone. Um, I dont know I guess I, it was just it had been there long before I was, I assumed it would be there long after I was gone, and I liked that. It, it felt eternal. It was at the, it was at center of our street and it had rooted our neighborhood for so long. So I sat there for awhile just cursin the county and listenin to the sounds of the evening come on and I looked again and I realized it was gone but some, some essential piece of it was still there, the air and the space above its roots. I could still feel life, and soul, and the light, my childhood friend there. Its just that its leaves, its branches, and its massive trunk were now outlined, shot through by evening stars and sky. But my great trees life couldnt be ended or erased so easily, from this place because its history. And history matters. Its imprint was too great, it was too old, and it was too strong, it had been there too long, to be done away with so easily. It had stood witness to everything that had happened on these small streets beneath its arms. All the joy, and all the heartbreak, and all the life. And when we live amongst ghosts, always trying to reach us, from that shadow world, and theyre with us every step of the way. My dead fathers still with me every day and I miss him and if I had a wish, oh man I - I wish he couldve been here to see this. But I visit with him every night, little bit, thats a grace-filled thing. And Clarence, I get to, I get to see him be with Clarence a little bit every night. And Danny, Walter, and Bart, my own family, so many of them gone from these houses that are now filled by strangers but the...

Well i rode that ribbon highway I saw above me the endless sky I saw below me the golden valley This land was made for you and me Ive roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was calling This land was made for you and me This land is your land This land is my land From california To the new york island From the redwood forest To the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me Well the sun came shining and i was strolling Through wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling And a voice was sounding As the fog was lifting Saying this land was made for you and me

Well every night I see a light up in your window But every night you wont answer your door But although you wont ever let me in From the street I can see your silhouette sittin close to him What must I do? What does it take? To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Come on, baby Talk to me Well until the night is over I got a full weeks pay And, baby, Ive been working hard each day Im not asking for the world you see Im just asking, girl Talk to me Well late at night I hear the music that youre playing soft and low Yes and late at night I see the two of you swayin so close I dont understand, darling, what was my sin? Why am I down here below while youre up there with him? What did I do? What did I say? What must I pay? To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Little darling, wont you Talk to me Well until the night is over Yea yea yea I got a full weeks pay And baby Ive been working hard each day Im not asking for the world you see Im just asking girl Talk to me I dont understand, darling, what was my sin? Why am I down here below while youre up there with him? What did I do? What did I say? What must I pay? To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Come on, baby Talk to me Well until the night is over Yea yea yea I got a full weeks pay And baby Ive been working hard each day Im not asking for the world you see Im down on my bended knees Im just asking darling please wont you Talk to me Until the night is over Come on talk to me Until the night is over Talk to me Till the sun comes up Bruce Springsteen Music ASCAP

You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face And you try so hard to see, girl The way things were when we were at your place Everyday was just you and me, girl And you cry because things aint like before Well, dont you know it cant be that way anymore But dont worry baby I cant talk now, Im not alone So put your ear close to the phone This is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone If there was something, baby, that I could do Something that would last, honey, I would But you should know better than to think that you Can return to the past So close your eyes and Ill be there Hold you once more,not go anywhere I wish I could, babe But I cant talk now, Im not alone So put your ear close to the phone This is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone And you cry because things get so strange so fast And you cry because nothing good ever lasts Well, I know babe Yes, I know, babe But I cant talk now, Im not alone So put your ear close to the phone Cause this is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone This is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone Bruce Springsteen Music ASCAP

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

I was driving through my hometown I was just kinda killin time When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting From the window of the five and dime I couldnt quite recall the name But the pose looked familiar to me So I asked the salesgirl Who was that man Between the doberman and Bruce Lee ? She said Just a local hero Local hero she said with a smile Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while I met a stranger dressed in black At the train station He said Son your soul can be saved Theres beautiful women nights of low livin And some dangerous money to be made Theres a big town cross the whiskey line And if we turn the right cards up They make us boss the devil pays off And them folks that are real hard up They get their local hero Somebody with the right style They get their local hero Somebody with just the right smile Well I learned my job I learned it well Fit myself with religion and a story to tell First they made me the king then they made me pope Then they brought the rope I woke to a gypsy girl sayin Drink this Well my hands had lost all sensation These days Im feeling all right Cept I cant tell my courage from my desperation From the tainted chalice Well I drunk some heady wine Tonight Im layin here But theres something in my ear Sayin theres a little town just beneath the flood line Needs a local hero Somebody with the right style Lookin for a local hero Someone with the right smile Local hero local hero she said with a smile Local hero he used to live here for a while

It was more like a dream than reality I must have thought it was a dream While he was here with me When he was near, I didnt think he would leave When he was gone it was too much to believe So with tomorrow I will borrow Another moment of joy and sorrow And another dream And another with tomorrow So if there someday wont be time Just to look behind No more reasons or descriptions For my place and mind There was so much I was told that was not real So many things I could not taste but I could feel So with tomorrow I will borrow Another moment of joy and sorrow And another dream And another with tomorrow Hey little girl, is your daddy home Did he go and leave you all alone Ive got a bad desire Ooh Im on fire Tell me now baby Is he good to you Can he do to you things that I do I can take you higher Ooh Im on fire Sometimes it feels like you took a knife Edgy and dull And cut a six inch valley Through the middle of my soul At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running Through the middle of my head And you cool my desire Ooh Im on fire Ooh Im on fire Ooh Im on fire Ooh Im on fire

I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house out on the edge of town We got married, swore wed never part Then little by little we drifted from each others hearts At first I thought it was just restlessness That would fade as time went by and our love grew deep In the end it was something more I guess Tore us apart and made us weep Im driving a stolen car Down on Eldridge Avenue Each night I wait to get caught But I never do She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote When our love was young and bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel one hundred years old Im driving a stolen car On a pitch-black night And Im telling myself Its going to be all right I drive by night And I travel in fear That in this darkness I will disappear

Rainey Williams playground was the Mott Haven streets Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths Names and photos of the young black faces Whose death and blood consecrated these places Raineys mother said, Rainey, stay at my side For you are my blessing, you are my pride Its your love here that keeps my soul alive I want you to come home from school and stay inside Raineyd do his work and put his books away There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday And that brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains Summer come and the days grew long Rainey always had his mothers smile to depend on Along the street of stray bullets, he made his way To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day Come the fall, the rain flooded these homes Here in Ezekiels valley of dry bones It fell hard and dark to the ground It fell without a sound Lynette took up with a man whose business was the boulevard Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard In the pipes neath the kitchen sink, his secrets are kept In the day, behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he slept And she got lost in the days The smile Rainey depended on dusted away The arms that held him were no more his own He lay at night his head pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her bones In the kitchen, Rainey slipped his hand between the pipes From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side Stood in the dark at his mothers bed Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes In the twilight, Rainey walked to the station on streets of stone Through Pennsylvania and Ohio, his train drifted on Through the small towns of Indiana, the big train crept As he lay his head back on the seat and slept He woke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma, the red sun slipped and was gone The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone

I hauled myself up out of the ditch And built me an ark of gopher wood and pitch Sat down by the roadside and waited on the rain I am the hunter of invisible game Well, I awoke last night to the heavy clicking and clack And a scarecrow on fire along the railroad tracks There were empty cities and burning plains I am the hunter of invisible game We all come up a little short, and we go down hard These days I spend my time skipping through the dark Through the empires of dust, I chant your name I am the hunter of invisible game Through the bone yard rattle and black smoke, we rolled on Down into the valley where the beast has his throne There I sing my song, and I sharpen my blade I am the hunter of invisible game Strength is vanity, and time is illusion I feel you breathing, the rest is confusion Your skin touches mine, what else to explain I am the hunter of invisible game Now pray for yourself and that you may not fall When the hour of deliverance comes on us all When our hope and faith and courage and trust Can rise or vanish like dust into dust Theres a kingdom of love waiting to be reclaimed I am the hunter of invisible game I am the hunter of invisible game I am the hunter of invisible game

I know what its like to have failed, baby With the whole world looking on I know what its like to have soared And come crashin like a drunk on a barroom floor Now youve got no reason to trust me My confidence is a little rusty But if you dont feel like being alone Baby, I could walk you all the way home Well now our old fears and failures, oh baby, they do linger Like the shadow of that ring that was on your finger Those days, theyve come and gone Baby, I could walk you all the way home Love leaves nothin but shadows and vapor We go on, as is our sad nature, baby Now its some old Stones song the band is trashin But if you feel like dancin, baby, Im askin Its coming on closing time Bartender, hes ringin last call These days I dont stand on pride I aint afraid to take a fall So if youre seein what you like Maybe your first choice, hes gone Well, thats all right Baby, I could walk you all the way home Baby, I could walk you all the way home

Well, a great black river A man had found So he put all his money In a hole in the ground And sent a big steel arm Driving down, down, down Man, now I live on the streets Of Houston town Packed up my wife and kids When winter came along And we headed down south With just spit and a song But they said, sorry, son Its gone, gone, gone Well, theres men hunkered down By the railroad tracks The Elkhorn special Blowing my hair back Tents pitched on the highway In the dirty moonlight And I dont know where Im gonna sleep tonight Parked in the lumberyard Freezing our asses off My kids in the backseat Got a graveyard cough Well, Im sleeping up In front with my wife Billyclub tapping on the windshield In the middle of the night Says move along, man, move along Well, big limousine Long, shiny and black You dont look ahead You dont look back How many times can you get up After youve been hit? Well, I swear if I could Spare the spit Id lay one on Your shiny chrome And send you On your way back home So if youre gonna leave your town Where the north wind blow To go on down Where that sweet soda river flow Well, you better think twice on it, Jack Youre better off buying a shotgun Dead off the rack You aint gonna find nothing down here, friend Except seeds blowing up the highway In the south wind Moving on Moving on Its gone, gone, all gone

Well ya know when youre young Theres such a distance between you and your family Just cant see things from the same point of view Papa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an author And all you want is for them to want you Well, I saw lot of bad signs and we had some real bad timesback on the east coast And I guess you could say it took california to bring us close There was a lot of hard livin and some stone cold women on the east coast And I saw my papa turn away when I need him the most And california, shes an angel Lo, so heavenly dressed And the pacific shes a woman The lord must have loved her best I got a california rainbow to come give them thunder clouds a rest And the mountain is my friend now, she put me to her test Well you know every father has dreams and schemes for his own kid And dreaming it aint been declaired no capital crime But I just hope when I grow up to have my own kids Ill love them all I can and let em make their own minds Now you know how a mother can hold the son through understanding And my father he once held me close by crying Whoa, and my mamas love it dont ever leave me standing And papas love it just leaves me smiling Whoa, and my mama shes a rainbow Gotta see hen on sunday when shes dressed Whoa, and my papa hes a good man, he gives me and mama his best Whoa, my mama shes a rainbow, come to give them thunder clouds a rest And my family is my friend now california put us through her test

Mister trouble come walkin this way Year gone past feels like one long day But Im alive and Im feelin all right Well I run that hard road outta hearbreak city Built a roadside carnival out of hurt and self-pity It was all wrong well now Im movin on Aint no chuch bells ringing Aint no flags unfurled Just me and you and the love were bringing Into the real world Into the real world I built a shrine in my heart it wasnt pretty to see Made out of fools gold memory and tears cried Now Im heading over the rise Im searching for one clear moment of love and truth I still got a little faith But what I need is some proof tonight Im lookin for it in your eyes Aint no chuch bells ringing Aint no flags unfurled Just me and you and the love were bringing Into the real world Into the real world Well tonight I just wanna shout I feel my soul waist deep and sinking Into this black river of doubt I just wanna rise and walk along the riverside And when the morning comes baby I dont wanna hide Ill stand right at your side with my arms open wide Well tonight I just wanna shout I feel my soul waist deep and sinking Into this black river of doubt I just want to rise and walk along the riverside Til the morning comes Ill stand right by your side I wanna find some answers I wanna ask for some help Im tired or running scared Baby lets get our bags packed Well take it here to hell and heaven and back And if love is hopeless hopeless at best Come on put on your party dress its ours tonight And were going with the tumblin dice Aint no chuch bells ringing Aint no flags unfurled Just me and you and the love were bringing Into the real world Into the real world Oh into the real world

...soul, soul is a stubborn thing. Doesnt dissipate so quickly. Souls remain. They remain here in the air, in empty space, in dusty roots, in sidewalks that I knew every single inch of like I knew my own body, as a child, and in the songs that we sing, ya know. That is why we sing. We sing for our blood and for our people, because thats all we have at the end of the day - each other and, maybe thats what Im lookin for when I go down there, I just wanna commune with the old spirits, stand in their presence, feel their hands on me. One more time. Um, anyway, once again I stood in the shadow of my old church ya know, you know what they say about Catholics - yeah, theres no gettin out. Nah, no, they gotcha, they gotcha, the bastards got ya when the gettin was good. They did their work hard and they did it well, cause the words of a very strange but all too familiar benediction came back to me that evening, and I wanna tell you these were words that as a kid, I mumbled these things, I sing-songed them, I chanted them, bored out of my fucking mind, in an endless drone before class every fucking day, every day the green blazer, the green tie, the green trousers, the green socks of all of Saint Roses unwilling disciples, ya know. But for some damn reason, as I sat there on my street that night, ya know, mourning, mourning my old tree, and once again surrounded by God, those were the words that came back to me and they flowed differently. Was Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, just give us this day and forgive us our sins, our trespasses, as we may forgive those who trespass against us, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, all of us, forever and ever, Amen. And may God bless you, your family, and all those that you love. And thanks for comin out tonight

Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman Did a double-quick back flip and slid across the floor The Catholic traffic flowed freely cross the river And fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door Oh baby dumpling, mamas in the back tree If the bow breaks mama might fall Little sad and only, baby dont be lonely Mama knows rithmatic, knows how to take a fall Mama knows rithmatic, knows how to take a fall And the kids are crying Flapjacks, makeem fat, early in the mornin Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace Theres someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah on their horn Theres someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah like theyre born Well maverick daddy got one-eyed bridge She glides like a monkey-mule kicking on the back slide Over hill, over hill, daddy dont you spill now Papa got a switch stick, hes pumping little Bill Papa got a switch stick, hes pumping little Bill And Billy, hes crying Tomahawk, tomahawk, daddy better duck now The Mohawks, the Mohawks, theyre still out there in the woods Monatuk, Ocanuk, runnin through my dreams now With fire on their fingertips and indian screams With fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried I seen the sailors warning in the western sky Well mountain man, if you can, cut me down a fir tree Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me And my darling cried, she said Honey, the weathervane Lately its been pointing the way to heaven Scatterbrains, scatterbrains, watch out where you fall Champagne, champagne, a round for all the old choir boys Theyre busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall Theyre bustin off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall And the kids are crying Flapjacks, makeem fat, early in the mornin Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace Theres someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah on their horn Theres someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah like theyre born

Alright, alright, she is the queen of my heart. She is my flaming beauty. My Jersey girl. She is a great songwriter, shes one of the loveliest voices Ive ever heard. She is smart, tough, but fragile. Dont forget that part. If we love those in whose companies reflected the best of us, thats the light she shines on me. 1984 one night, hangin out at the Stone Pony and this beautiful redhead shows up and sits in with the Sunday night house band, and that is the night I fell in love with Pattis voice. She got on stage, this blaze of red, she performed a great version of The Exciters hit song Tell Him. So the first line of the first song I ever heard Patti sing was I know somethin about love. She does. Ladies and gentlemen Patti Scialfa

Well, Ive been out of the woods for 6 days and nights, now Well, Im a little hot wired but Im feeling alright I got some money in my pocket and a long, lean ride, yeah I got to make it down to Galveston by Saturday night, now Well, Im a little down under but Im feeling okay Got a little lost along the way Im just around the corner to the light of day Well, Im just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Been driving 500 miles, got 500 to go, yeah I got rock n roll music on the radio I got a brother on a rig just off the Gulf Coast He says the girls down there, well, theyre really the most, man Well, Im a little down under but Im feeling okay I got a little lost along the way Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Im just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Im driving 100 miles, 200 miles, 300 miles Train kept on a-rollin Going 400 miles, 500 miles, 600 miles Train kept on a-rollin Going 700 miles, 800 miles, 900 miles 1,000 miles, 2,000 miles, 3,000 miles I came a long, long way tonight All the way to Hollywood, California Via Sweden, via Paris, via Italian, via France Via via London, England Via the great state of New Jersey And halfway across the United States I wanna thank yall for invitin me into your living room tonight I know theres millions of ya out there I know youre downhearted I know youre disenchanted I know youre disillusioned I know theres 57 channels and nothing on Just one thing I wanna know tonight Theres just one thing I wanna know But first I want you to get up off your couch I want you to put the popcorn down I want you to come on over to the TV set I want you to turn it up real loud I want you to take off all your clothes now And what I want to know is anybody alive out there? Well, I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo Dont ask me what Im doing, I dont know I hope he wasnt joking when he wrote me that letter Things cant get any worse, they gotta get better Im a little down under, feeling okay Got a little lost along the way Just around the corner to the light of day Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Just around the corner to the light of day, yeah Im just around the corner Just around the corner Just around the corner Just around the corner Just around the corner to the light of day Just around the corner to the light of day Just around the corner to the light of day

The way your heart beats when I hold you tight The way you sigh when we kiss goodnight The way the wind blows through the trees Well hey, thats the way you belong to me The way you warm me baby when Im cold The way you make me want you body and soul The way the rivers run to the sea Well hey, thats the way you belong to me The way you soothe me when Im in pain The way you make the blood rush in my veins The way the winds rush through the trees Well hey, thats the way you belong to me When I lose faith you take my hand The way you make me feel like Im a man The way the sun belongs to the sea Well hey, thats the way you belong to me The way you make me feel like I belong And if I could girl though I know itd be wrong Id lock you deep inside till the last rains fall And hide you from the emptiness of it all Sometimes at night I lie awake I pull you close and feel each breath you take The way the rivers belong to the seas Well hey, thats the way you belong to me Well hey, thats the way you belong to me Hmmmmm Hmmmmm Hmmmmm Hmmmmm Hmmmmm Hmmmmm

Taxi Cab, Taxi Cab, at the light Wont you take me on a ride through this city of night I got some money and Im feeling fine I aint in no hurry so just take your time Some people wanna die young and gloriously But Taxi Cab driver, well that aint me I got a cute little baby down at 12th and Vine And she opens for business just about closing time Ah hey hey, ah hey hey City of night, city of night And I dont believe what I see in this street I dont know how people they can take the heat Well baby Im a liar, Im a cheat, and I dont care I got my money, I can take my fare Ah hey hey, ah hey hey City of night, city of night Im riding tonight to see my sugar girl You know she wears that dress without a care in the world Yeah she got come loving thats as bright as the sun And she brings it with her man when she comes Hey, hey, city of night Ah-hey, ah-hey, city of night Ride on

Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close try and understand I work all day out in the hot sun Stay with me now till the mornin comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel when Im in your hands Take my hand, come undercover They cant hurt us now They cant hurt us now They cant hurt us now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us What Ive got I have earned What Im not, baby, I have learned Desire and hunger is the fire I breathe Just stay in my bed till the morning comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel when Im in your hands Take me now as the sun descends They cant hurt us now They cant hurt us now They cant hurt us now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Your love is here and now The vicious circle turns and burns without Though I cannot live forgive me now The time has come to take this moment Take my hand Take me now Take me now Take me now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us

I aint afraid of no lions I aint afraid of no grizzly bear I got in a wrestlin match with old king kong He didnt even muss my hair Theres just one thing in the whole wide world That make me doubt my stuff Im a coward when it comes to love Now bring down old hulk hogan King kong bundy too Bring down old big mike tyson Ill show them what a real man can do They say the tougher get goin Now baby thats when the goin get tough But Im a coward when it comes to love Im a coward when it comes to love Im a coward when it comes to love You can bring on a different sexy girl At every night of the week Buddy thats okay But I start tremblin, my knees get weak Whenever I hear her say do you love me baby? do you love me baby? do you love me baby? I got a muscle of iron I got another muscle made of steel But when we start kissin n huggin You may be the bravest man in the whole wide world But buddy, that aint enough Im a coward when it comes to love Im a coward when it comes to love Im a coward when it comes to love

I hold you in my arms As the band plays What are those words whispered, baby As you turn away? I saw you last night Out on the edge of town I wanna read your mind To know just what I got in this new thing I found So tell me what I see When I look in your eyes Is that you baby Or just a brilliant disguise? I heard somebody call your name From underneath our willow I saw something tucked in shame Underneath your pillow Well, Ive tried so hard, baby But I just cant see What a woman like you Is doing with me So tell me who I see When I look in your eyes Is that you, baby Or just a brilliant disguise? Now look at me, baby Im struggling to do everything right And then it all falls apart Oh, when out go the lights Im just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth I want to know if its you I dont trust Cause I damn sure dont trust myself Now you play the lovin woman Ill play the faithful man But just dont look too close Into the palm of my hand Yeah, we stood at the altar The gypsy swore our future was right But come the wee wee hours Maybe, baby, the gypsy lied So when you look at me You better look hard and look twice Is that me, baby Or just a brilliant disguise? Tonight our bed is cold Im lost in the darkness of our love God, have mercy on the man Who doubts what hes sure of Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm Ooh

Jimmy: In the day we sweat it out on the streets stuck in traffic on the GWB They shut down the tollbooths of glory because we didnt endorse Christie Sprung from cages on Highway 9 We got three lanes closed, So Jersey get your ass in line Ooohhh, baby this Bridgegate was just pay back Its a bitch slap to the state Democrats We gotta get out but we cant, Were stuck in Governor Chris Christies Fort Lee New Jersey traffic jam. Bruce: Governor, let me in, I wanna be your friend Theyll be no partisan divisions Let me wrap my legs round your mighty rims And relieve your stressful conditions Weve got Wall Street masters stuck cheek to cheek With blue-collar truckers, and man I really gotta take a leak But I cant Im stuck in Governor Chris Christies Fort Lee New Jersey traffic jam 1, 2, 3, 4! Jimmy: Highways jammed with pissed off drivers with no place left to go And the press conference went on and on Bruce: It was longer than one of my own damn shows Jimmy: Some day Governor, I dont know when This will all end, but til then Together: Youre killin the workin man. Whos stuck in Governor Chris Christies Fort Lee New Jersey traffic jam. Whoa whoa whoa! Whoa whoa whoa! Bruce: I gotta take a leak! I really gotta take a leak! Together: Down in Jersey land!

One night in a motel room Eyes cast like steel I drank the wine that they left on my table I knew the morning was too far I smoked my last cigarette I stay only to defy The night was dark and the land was cold Now its frozen right to the bone Just like fire would, I burn up Just like fire would Just like fire would, I burn up 500 miles Ive gone today Tomorrows 500 more Outside my window the world passes by, its Stranger than a dream Just like fire would, I burn up Just like fire would Just like fire would, I burn up I go to work and I earn my pay, Lord My sweat it falls to the ground I see you now but we may never meet again child The ice is hanging on the door One night in a motel room Eyes cast like steel I drank the wine that they left on my table I knew the morning was too far Just like fire would, I burn up Just like fire would Just like fire would, I burn up Just like fire would, I burn up Just like fire would Just like fire would, I burn up

Well in Candys room there are pictures of her savior on the wall But to get to Candys room youve gotta walk the darkness of Candys hall Strangers from the city call my babys number and they bring Candy toys But when I come knockin she smiles pretty She knows tonight Im gonna be Candys boy Well in the olden days when the Mongolian gangs rode herd out on Route 9 Wed go riding in the rain runnin south way down through the pines Weekends in the sun in that cheap motel down by the dynamo We loved each other till there was nothin left And drove that old car as hard and fast as she would go Well like a cold winter wind blowing in babe I needed you But Candys got a man who takes care of her better than I do Well theres machines and theres fire Waiting for us on the edge of town And theres some roughboys for hire And theyre waiting to blow me and Candy down Its all right cause they cant touch us now theyll never destroy My sweet love for I will forever be Candys boy My sweet love for I will forever be Candys boy

Here she comes walkin down the stree-eet You know shes walkin just like shes walkin to come and see me-ee Oh shes so you-ou-ou-oung and shes so fi-ine I know whats on your mind, know what you wanna do But if you mess with her, Im gonna mess with you You better watch your step, You better stay in line This little girl is mi-i-ine, Oh-oh this little girl is mi-i-ine Oh-oh this little girl, this little girl, this little gir-irl is mi-ine Oh-oh this little girl is mi-i-ine, Oh-oh this little girl is mi-ine Oh-oh this little girl, this little girl, this little gir-irl is mi-ine Well if the world was mine to do with what I want to do sir Well Id wrap it up in a bow and give it all to her-er, yeah And all my lo-ove, all of the ti-i-ime You know Id hold her tight, Id never let her go And late at night, You know Id love her so Yeah, Id treat her right, So shed never mind But this little girl is mi-ine, Oh-oh this little girl is mi-i-ine Oh-oh this little girl, this little girl, This little girl is mi-mi-mi-mine Hey you better watch out, Im tellin you the score-ore Are you gonna be sweepin your broken heart up off the floor-oor Oh and that aint a-all, Im tellin you my frie-iend I know whats on your mind, know what you wanna do But if you mess with her, Im gonna mess with you You like the way she moves, you like to watch her walk You better listen up cause man this aint just talk You better watch yourself, you better stay in line Now mister I said This little girl is mi-ine, Oh-oh this little girl is mi-i-ine This little girl, this little girl, this little girl is mi-i-ine Oh-oh this little girl, this little girl

Hey little girl is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire ohhhh I’m on fire Tell me now baby is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do oh I can take you higher ohhhh I’m on fire Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife baby Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley Through the middle of my skull At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire ohhhh I’m on fire Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife baby Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley Through the middle of my skull At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire ohhhh I’m on fire Ohhhh I’m on fire Ohhhh I’m on fire Ohhhh I’m on fire

You broke my heart, tore it apart Thought it was cute, thought it was smart But now Im back and Ive got the strength of ten So I got a message for you my friend Im Daniel waiting in the lions den Daniel waiting for that lion to come Daniel waiting in the lions den Dum dum dee dum dum dee dee dum dum That old lions mean and long in the tooth And like you, baby, hes out on the loose Messing hearts up time and time again Now its the time for that messing to end Im Daniel waiting in the lions den Daniel waiting for that lion to come Daniel waiting in the lions den Dum dum dee dum dum dee dee dum dum At night I hear you out prowling around Tearing guys up, scaring em down Now all that growlings gonna come to no end Cause Im just bidding my time, my little friend Im Daniel waiting in the lions den Daniel waiting for that lion to come Daniel waiting in the lions den Dum dum dee dum dum dee dee dum dum

I had a dream our love would last forever I had a dream tonight my dream comes true And if youll hold me tight Well be riders, girl, on the night Ooh, I want a rendezvous Havent I told you, girl, how much I like you I got a feeling that you like me too Well if you hold me tight Well be riders, girl, on the night Ooh, I want a rendezvous You deserve so much more than this, girl Well Im riding on the power and livin on the promise in your last kiss Because I had a dream our love would last forever I had a dream tonight my dream comes true And if youll hold me tight Well be riders, girl, on the night Ooh, ooh, rendezvous I want a rendezvous I want a rendezvous

Well, Billy bought a Chevy 40 coupe deluxe Chrome wheels, stick shift, give her gas, pop the clutch Girls on the corner, like a diamond they shine Someday, Billy, Im gonna make em all mine Hey girl, you wanna ride in Daddys Cadillac? Cause I love the way your long hair falls down your back Bo Diddley, Bo Diddleys at the Seaside Bar Well run barefoot in the sand, listen to his guitar You say your mamas gonna meet you when the morning comes And your papas gonna beat you cause he knows youre out on the run Im gonna live a life of love and tonight youre the one The highway is alive tonight so baby do not be frightened Theres something about a pretty girl on a sweet summer night That gets this boy excited The radioman finally understands and plays you something you can move to You lay back, cut loose your drive power Your girl leans over and says, Daddy, can you turn that radio up any louder? The juke joints hummin, everybody came down Little Willie and his Soul Brooms laying all this stuff now Well dont let that daylight steal your soul Get in your wheels and roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll Oh thats all right now Oh go on, go on, go on Oh mamas gonna meet you when the morning comes And your daddys gonna beat you cause he knows youre out on the run But I dont care, I wanna live a life of love while the nights still young

Sun comes every morning but it aint no friend I get dressed and I go back again The rain it keeps on falling on twisted bones and dirt Im buried to my heart here in this hurt The fire keeps on burning Youre waiting in the cold Down in the hole Dark and bloody autumn pierces my heart The memory of your kiss tears me apart The sky above is turning, the world belows gone gray I thought that I could turn and walk away The fire keeps on burning Im working in the cold Down in the hole Radios crackling with the headlines Wind in the phone lines The sun upon your shoulder Empty city skyline The day rips apart A dark and bloody arrow pierced my heart I got nothing to hide this sky of sunshine The things you left behind I wake to find my citys gone to black Days just keep on falling Your voice it keeps on calling Im going to dig right here until I get you back The fires keep on burning Im here with you in the cold Down in the hole

Alright. I never believed that people came to my shows, or rock shows in general, to be told anything. But I do believe that they come to be reminded of things, to be reminded of who they are, that theyre most joyous at their deepest, when life feels full. Its a good place to get in touch with your heart and your spirit. Its good to be amongst the crowd, be reminded of who we are and who we can be collectively, and music does those things pretty well. Sometimes, they can come in pretty handy. And particularly these days, some reminding of who we are and who we can be isnt such a bad thing, ya know, uh. I uh, I re- I refer back to the weekend of the March for our Lives when we saw all those young people in Washington and citizens all around the country remind us of what faith in America and what real faith in American democracy, and how sacred that is. When uh, that weekend, you just saw what it actually looked like and felt like. It was just encouraging, to see all those people out on the street and all that righteous passion alive in the service of something good, to see it still there at the center of the beating heart of our country, and, in spite of what weve been goin through, it was a good day ya know, it was just, it was just one good day. But it was a necessary day. Because these are the times when weve also seen folks marching, and in the highest offices of our land who want to speak to our darkest angels, who want to call up the ugliest and the most divisive ghosts of Americas past, and they want to destroy the idea of an America for all. Thats their intention. Thats what weve been seeing in the outrage of the broken families on the border, and in hate-filled marches on American streets, this year. Things I never thought I would see again in my lifetime. Things that I thought that were dead and gone forever, on the ash heap of history. Ya know uh, ya know weve come too far and worked too hard, too many good people paid too high a price, and paid, paid with their lives to allow this to happen now. Ya know. Theres been too much hard work done, and sacrifice. Theres a beautiful quote by Dr. King that says, The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. It is important to believe in those words and to carry yourself, and to act accordingly, to live with compassion, and have faith in that what were seeing now, is just another hard chapter, in the long long ongoing battle for the soul of the nation

So - so Im 20 years old, and Im livin and playin on the Jersey shore and Im waitin to be discovered. Now, I have some confidence. Ive been around a bit, and without a doubt, I am definitely the best thing that Ive ever seen. Ive already played in front of every conceivable audience. I had played firemans fairs, midnight madness supermarket openings, drive-in movies, uh, in front of the concession stand in between films, Ive played beach parties, offices, clubs, pizza parlors, coffee shops, bowling alleys, trailer parks, roller rinks, VFW halls, CYO canteens, the elks lodge, YMCA gymnasiums, hockey rinks, county fairs, carnivals, high school dances, weddings, fraternity parties, bar mitzvahs, soul revues, battle of the bands, Sing Sing Prison, and Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital. Send me your murderers and your maniacs and let me entertain em, alright? Its what I do. Thats all true. Thats all before I was 23 years old. Im frustrated, I listen to the radio and I think Im as good as that guy, Im better than that guy, so why not me? Answer: because I live in the fucking Boondocks, alright. Let me explain this to you. I live in the boondocks. There is nobody here and no one comes down here. Its a grave. There was no Jersey, Jersey, Jersey Shore, Jersey Almighty shit. I invented that. Before me, Jersey was Jeserkistan. Jeserkistan! One of the little -stan things that nobody knows a fuckin thing about, ya know. And New York was a million miles away from the Jersey Shore. In my little town as a child we knew no one who had ever been to New York City. Jesus Christ, it was only an hour away! But no, you might as well have said youre goin to the fuckin moon! Hey, were goin to the moon, you wanna go? No, no, no, no New York, were provincial, everybody was afraid ya know, everybody was afraid of the big city. And there was no internet, there was no ET, or MTV, or cable TV or satellite or, this is before anyone and everyones asscrack from any place U.S.A. could be seen all over the world, should they choose, in the push of a key, in the next instant. So who was gonna come to the Jersey shore, to discover the next big thing in 1971? Youre correct. No fuckin body. All we heard down there was the sound of, one hand clapping. Wasnt gonna happen