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Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
Im gonna pack my pa and Im gonna pack my aunt
Im gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch
Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
James Dean in that Mercury `49
Junior Johnson runnin through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch
Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin alone through the Wisconsin night
Youre my last love youre my last chance
Dont let `em take me to the Cadillac Ranch |
They say the joint was rockin
A goin round and round
Yeah reelin and a rockin what a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rockin till the moon went down
Oh it sounds so sweet I gotta take me a chance
Rose out of my seat just had to dance
Started movin my feet well a clappin my hands
Well the joint started
Rockin Going Round and around
Yeah reelin and a rockin what a crazy sound
A well they never stopped rockin till the moon went down
Twelve oclock
Well the place as packed
Front doors was locked
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Both doors flew back
But they kept on a....
Oh they kept on a.... |
Here comes a fireman, here comes a cop
Here comes a wrench, here comes a car hop
Its been going on forever, it aint never gonna stop
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Now, aim your gun, son, and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief
One thing in common they all got
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Now, aim your gun, son, and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Singing alright, oh yeah
Singing alright, oh yeah
Man at the top says its lonely up there
Well, if it is, man, I dont care
From the big White House to the parking lot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Here comes a banker, here comes a businessman
Here comes a kid with a guitar in his hand
Dreaming of his record in the number one spot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Everybody wants to be the man at the top
Now, aim your gun, son, and shoot your shot
Everybody wants to be the man at the top |
I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra
I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova
I could walk like Brando right into the sun
Then dance just like a Casanova
With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet
Silver star studs on my duds like a Harley in heat
When I strut down the street I could feel its heartbeat
The sisters fell back and said Dont that man look pretty
The cripple on the corner cried out Nickels for your pity
Them downtown boys sure talk gritty
Its so hard to be a saint in the city
I was the king of the alley I could talk some trash
I was the prince of the paupers crowned downtown at the beggars bash
I was the pimps main prophet I kept everything cool
A backstreet gambler with the luck to lose
And when the heat came down it was left on the ground
The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street
Showin me a hand I knew even the cops couldnt beat
I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat
Its so hard to be a saint when youre just a boy
And the sages of the subway sit just like the living dead
As the tracks clack out the rhythm their eyes fixed straight ahead
They ride the line of balance and hold on by just a thread
But its too hot in these tunnels you can get hit up by the heat
You get up to get out at your next stop but they push you back down in your seat
Your heart starts beatin faster as you struggle to your feet
Then youre outa that hole and back up on the street
And them South Side sisters sure look pretty
The cripple on the corner cries out Nickels for your pity
And them downtown boys sure talk gritty
Its so hard to be a saint in the city |
Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out lookin for a job but he couldnt find none
He came home too drunk from mixin Tanqueray and wine
He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call him Johnny 99
Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you dont stop
Johnnys wavin his gun around and threatenin to blow his top
When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind
Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down
Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
Prison for 98 and a year and well call it even Johnny 99
A fist fight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnnys girl away
His mama stood up and shouted Judge dont take my boy this way
Well son you got a statement youd like to make
Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away
Now judge I had debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holdin my mortgage and they were gonna take my house away
Now I aint sayin that makes me an innocent man
But it was more `n all this that put that gun in my hand
Well your honor I do believe Id be better off dead
So if you can take a mans life for the thoughts thats in his head
Then sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time
And let `em shave off my hair and put me on that killin line |
Princess cards she sends me
With her regards
Oh, bar-room eyes shine vacancy
To see her you gotta look hard
Wounded deep in battle
I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
To her cheshire smile, Ill stand on file
Shes all I ever wanted
You let your blue walls get in the way of these facts, honey
Get your carpetbaggers off my back
Girl, give me time to cover my tracks
She said, Heres your mirror and your ball and jacks
But theyre not what I came for
Oh, I came for so much more
And I know you know that, too
And I know you know thats true
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you, for you, I came for you
Crawl into my ambulance
Your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself all to me now
While you got the strength to speak
Cause theyre waiting for you at Bellevue
With their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you now
If only you could ask
Dont call for your surgeon, even he says its late
Its not your lungs this time but your heart holds your fate
Dont give me my money back, dont want it anymore
Its not that nursery mouth I came back for
Its not the way you stretched out on the floor
Ive broken all your windows and I rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to fight my wars
And you should know thats true
You should know that, too
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you, for you, I came for you
Dont call for your surgeon, even he says its late
Its not your lungs this time but your heart holds your fate
Dont give me my money back, dont want it anymore
Its not that nursery mouth I came back for
Its not the way you stretched out on the floor
Ive broken all your windows and I rammed through all your doors
Who am I to ask you to fight my wars
And you should know thats true
You should know that, too
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you
I came for you, for you, I came for you
I came for you |
Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin hands
`Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night
Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
Its about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of rose so lets try it
Well pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and Ill take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
Theyre built like light
And they dance like spirits in the night in the night
Oh you dont know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, in the night
Stand up now and let it shoot through you
Well now Wild Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
He said Trust some of this itll show you where youre at or at least itll
Help you really feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janeys fingers in the cake
I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake
I said Im hurt she said Honey let me heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt just right just like as sweet as a spirit in the night
In the night baby dont know what she do to you
Spirits in the night, in the night
Stand up now and let her shoot right through you
Now the night grew bright and the stars threw light in Billy and Davy
Dancin in the moonlight
We were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joed passed out on the lawn
Well Hazy Davy got really hurt he crawled into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey were makin love in the dirt singin our birthday songs
Janey said Hey little brother dont you think its time now we go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row felt just right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
Baby dont know what it do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Stand up now and let it shoot right through you |
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is 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 under cover
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
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 a doubt, baby, when Im alone
Love is a ring; a telephone
Love is an angel, disguised as lust
Here in our beds til 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 touch 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
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 riding down Kingsley
Figuring Ill get a drink
Turn the radio up loud
So I dont have to think
I take her to the floor
For the moment when the world seems right
And I tear into the guts of
Something in the night
Mister, youre born with nothing
And better off that way
Soon as you got something
They send someone to try and take it away
You can ride this road til dawn
Without another human being in sight
Just wasted on
Something in the night
Nothing is forgotten or forgiven
When its your last time around
I got stuff running around my head
I just cant live down
Well, we found the things we loved
They were crushed and dying in the dirt
We tried to pick up the pieces
And get away without getting hurt
But they caught us at the state line
And burned our cars in one last fight
And we left running and blind
Chasing something in the night |
Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son
Abe says, Man, you must be putting me on
God say, No. Abe say, What?
God say, You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin you better run
Well Abe says, Where do you want this killing done?
God says, Out on Highway 61
Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldnt give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said theres only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run
Ol Howard just pointed with his gun
And said that way down on Highway 61
Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that dont ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61
Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things werent right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light he says hmm youre right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61
Now the rovin gambler he was very bored
He was tryin to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes I think it can be very easily done
Well just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway |
Theres a place out on the edge of town, sir
Rising above the factries and the fields
Ever since I was a child, I can remember
That mansion on the hill
In the day, you can see children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill
At night, my daddyd take me and wed ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer, all the lights would shine
Thered be music playing, people laughing all the time
Me and my sister wed hide out in the tall corn fields
Sit and listen to that mansion on the hill
Tonight, down here in Linden town
I watch the cars rushing home from the mill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising
Above that mansion on the hill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising
Above that mansion on the hill |
Well, Ive been out of the woods for six days and nights, now
Im a little hot wired, but Im feeling alright
Got some money in my pocket and a long, lean ride
Got to make it down to Galveston by Saturday night
Well, Im a little down under, but Im feeling O.K
I 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
Been driving five hundred miles, got five hundred to go
I got rock and 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
Well, Im a little down under, but Im feeling OK
I 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
Im just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Well, I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo
Dont ask me where Im going, I dont know
I hope he wasnt joking when he wrote me that letter
Things cant get any worse, they gotta get better
Well, Im a little down under, feeling O.K
Got a little lost along the way
Its just around the corner to the light of day
Its just around the corner to the light of day
Its just around the corner to the light of day
Its just around the corner to the light of day
... |
Cant see nothing in front of me
Cant see nothing coming up behind
Make my way through this darkness
Cant feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far Ive gone
How far Ive gone, how high Ive climbed
On my backs a sixty pound stone
On my shoulder, half a mile of line
Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hand in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight
Left the house this morning
Bells were ringing and they filled the air
Wearing the cross of my calling
On wheels of fire, I come rolling down here
Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Comе on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight
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, la la la la la
Spirits abovе and behind me
Faces gone black, eyes burning bright
May their precious blood forever bind me
Lord, as I stand before your fiery light
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, la la la la la
I see Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
Theres holy pictures of our children
Dancing in a sky filled with light
May I feel your arms around me
May I feel your blood mixed with mine
Dream of life coming to me
Like a catfish dancing on the end of my line
Sky of blackness, sky of sorrow
Sky of love and sky of tears
Sky of glory and sadness
Sky of mercy, sky of fear
Sky of memory and sorrow
Your burning wind fills my heart tonight
Sky of longing and emptiness
Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life
Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Lay your hand in mine, lay your hand in mine
Come on up for the rising tonight
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, la la la la la
Sky of blackness, dream of life
Dream of life
Dream of life
Dream of life |
Born down in a dead mans town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog thats been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said Son if it was up to me
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said Son, dont you understand
I had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
Theyre still there, hes all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
Im ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Im a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Im a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A |
Tear drops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty
And you cant find the room to move
Well everybody better move over, thats all
Cause Im running on the bad side
And I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out
I was stranded in the jungle
Tryin to take in all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalks bright
And lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
And Im all alone, Im all alone
And kid you better get the picture
And Im on my own, Im on my own
And I cant go home
When the change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out, tenth avenue freeze-out
Tenth avenue freeze-out |
Driving in to Darlington County
Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July
Driving in to Darlington County
Looking for some work on the county line
We drove down from New York City
Where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name
Driving in to Darlington City
Got a union connection with an uncle of Waynes
We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop
We got rock and roll music blasting off the T-top singing
Sha la la la la la la la la, Sha la la la la la la
Hey little girl standing on the corner
Todays your lucky day for sure all right
Me and my buddy were from New York City
We got two hundred dollars we want to rock all night
Girl youre looking at two big spenders
Why the world dont know what me and Wayne might do
Our pas each own one of the World Trade Centers
For a kiss and a smile Ill give mine all to you
Come on baby take a seat on my fender
Its a long night and tell me what else were you gonna do
Just me and you we could
Sha la la...
Little girl sitting in the window
Aint seen my buddy in seven days
County man tells me the same thing
He dont work and he dont get paid
Little girl youre so young and pretty
Walk with me and you can have your way
And well leave this Darlington City
For a ride down that Dixie Highway
Driving out of Darlington County
My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
Driving out of Darlington County
Seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state troopers Ford
Sha la la.. |
Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you weve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean
Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose
We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things wed ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean
Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there aint nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe youll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room therell be a radio playing
And youll hear me sing this song
Well if you do youll know Im thinking of you and all the miles in between
And Im just calling one last time not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean |
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out 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, 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 want to guard your dreams and visions
Wrap your legs round these velvet rims and strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
Well run till we drop, baby, well never go back
Oh, so walk with me out on the wire?
Cause, baby, Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl, I want to know if love is real
Beyond the Palace, hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors and the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark, kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everyones out on the run 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 we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run |
Times are tough there baby there
Its getting tougher now
This world is rough honey its
Just getting rougher now
Their on top there baby
Just tryin to score-well
Seen enough, honey i dont
Wanna see no more
Drop on down and cover me
On down and cover me
Sometimes girl i just wanna
Leave it all behind us, yeah
Hold me in your arms tonight lets
Let our love blind us, yeah
Inside i feel the pain that
The hatred and the sorrow
I wanna shut the light, baby
Cmon and shut the door
Drop on down and cover me
On down and cover
I just wanna close my eyes and
Let your love surround me
I wanna close my heart to
To this world around me
The anger and the heartlessness
All the good things guilty
Come closer baby
Now-closer still now
Drop on down and cover me
On down and cover me |
Instrumental |
I was born down by the river where the dirty water flows
And the cold wind cut through me, it cut right through my clothes
And the anger and the yearning, like fever in my veins
Set the fire burnin
Now she came down from Knightstown with her hands hard from the line
From the first time I laid eyes on her, I knew that shed be mine
Her father was a lawman, who swore hed shoot me dead
Cause he knew I wanted Jeannie, and Id have her like I said
Now, Jeannie needs a shooter
Shooter like me
Jeannie needs a shooter
Jeannie needs a shooter
Shooter on her side
Jeannie needs a shooter, yeah
Jeannie needs a shooter
Jeannie needs a shooter
Lets go
We met down by the river on the final day in May
And when I leaned down to kiss her, she did not turn away
I drew out all my money and together we did vow
To leave that very evening and get away somehow
Jeannie needs a shooter
Shooter like me
Yeah, Jeannie needs a shooter
Jeannie needs a shooter
A shooter on her side
Jeannie needs a shooter
Yeah
Jeannie needs a shooter, hey
Jeannie needs a shooter
The night was cold and rainy down by the borderline
I was riding hard to meet her when a shot rang out behind
Layin there in the darkness with a pistol by my side
Jeannie and her father rode off into the night
Now, Jeannie needs a shooter
Thank you |
Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot
All the little girls souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a double shot
The schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night
The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and everythings alright
Little kids down there either dancin or hooked up in a scuffle
Dressed in snake-skin suits packed with Detroit muscle
Theyre doin the E Street Shuffle
Now those E Street brats in twilight duel flashlight phantoms in full star stream
Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet sixteen
The newsboys say the heats been bad since Power Thirteen gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle
And Powers girl, Little Angel, been on the corner keepin those crazy boys out of trouble
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she aint got no brains
Shes deaf in combat down on Lovers Lane
She drives all them local boys insane
Little Angel says, Oh, everybody form a line
Oh, everybody form a line.
Sparks fly on E Street when the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hot
All them little girls souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a double shot
Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joes. its a club where all the riot squad
Goes when theyre cashin in for a cheap hustle
But them boys are still on the corner loose and doin that lazy E Street Shuffle
As them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans as they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are dancin |
I saw her standin on her front lawn just twirlin her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap
Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path
I cant say that Im sorry for the things that we done
At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun
The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest
Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin right there on my lap
They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my sould be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Well sir I guess theres just a meanness in this world |
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh no, I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Sometimes its 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 soakin wet
And a freight train runnin through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Ooh-ooh, ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh |
We sit in the car outside your house
I can feel the heater coming round
I go to put my arms around you
You give me a look like I’m way out of bounds
Well, you let out one of your bored sighs
Lately when I look into your eyes
Im goin down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
We get dressed up and we go out
Out baby, for the night
We come home early burning, burning
Burning in some fire fight
Im sick and tired of you setting me up
Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down
Down, down, down
Im goin’ down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down
I’m goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
I pull you close, closer now, baby
But when we kiss I can feel a doubt
I remember back when we started
My kisses used to turn you inside out
I used to drive you to work in the morning
Friday night I’d drive you all around
You used to love to drive me wild
Lately girl, you get your kicks from just driving me down
Down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down |
Catlong sighs holding Kittys black tooth
She left to marry some top cat, aint it the cold truth
And there hasnt been a tally since Sally left the alley
Since Kitty left with Big Pretty things have got pretty thin
Its tight on this fence since them young dudes are musclin in
Jack Knife cries cause babys in a bundle
She goes running nightly, lightly through the jungle
And them tin cans are explodin out in the ninety-degree heat
Cat somehow lost his baby down on Bleecker Street
Its sad but it sure is true
Cat shrugs his shoulders, sits back and sighs
OOh, what can I do, ooh, what can I do?
OOh, what can I do, ooh what can I do?
Catlong lies back bent on a trash can
Flashing lights cut the night, dude in the white says hes the man
Well you better learn to move fast when youre young or youre not long around
Cat somehow lost his Kitty down in the city pound
So get right, get tight, get down
Well whos that down at the end of the alley?
Shes been gone so long
Kittys back in town, here she comes now
Kittys back in town
Kittys back in town, here she comes now
Kittys back in town
Kittys back in town, here she comes now
Kittys back in town
Now Cat knows his Kittys been untrue
And that she left him for a city dude
But shes so soft, shes so blue
When he looks into her eyes
He just sits back and sighs
Ooh, what can I do, ooh, what can I do? |
The screen door slams
Marys dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again
I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside
Darling you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking
That maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty, but hey youre alright
Oh and thats alright with me
You can hide neath your covers
And study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now Im no hero
Thats understood
All the redemption I can offer girl
Is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window
And let the wind blow back your hair
Well the nights busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back
Heavens waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know its late, we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold
Thunder RoadWell I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back
If youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride it aint free
And I know youre lonely
For words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free
All the promisesll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch theyre gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers
And Im pulling out of here to win |
Well, she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy on the Greyhound bus
Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand
With a one-way ticket to the promised land
Hey, little girl with the red dress on
Theres party, tonight, down in Memphis town
Ill be going down there if you need a ride
The man on the radio says Elvis Presleys died
We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black
Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac
They drawed out all his money, and they laid him in the back
A woman cried from the roadside: Oh, hes gone, hes gone
They found him slumped up against the drain
With a whole lotta trouble running through his veins
Bye-bye, Johnny
Johnny, bye-bye
You didnt have to die
You didnt have to die |
Driving home she grabs something to eat
Turns a corner and drives down her street
Into a row of houses she melts away
Like the scenery in another mans play
To a house where the blinds are closed
To keep from seeing things she dont wanna know
She pulls the blinds, she looks out on the street
The cool of the night takes the edge off the heat
In the Jackson Cage
Down in the Jackson Cage
You can try with all your might
But youre reminded every night
That youve been judged and handed life
Down in the Jackson Cage
Every day ends in wasted motion
Crossed swords on the killing floor
To settle back is to settle without knowing
The hard edge that youre settling for
Cause theres always just one more day
And it always will be that way
Girl, youve been down here so long
I could tell by the way that you move you belong
To the Jackson Cage
Down in the Jackson Cage
And it dont matter just what you say
Are you tough enough to play the game they play?
Will you just do your time and fade away
Down in the Jackson Cage?
Down in the Jackson Cage
Its nights when I dream of a better world
But I wake up so downhearted, girl
I see you feeling so tired and confused
I wonder what its worth to me or you
Just waiting to see some sun
Never knowing if that day will come
Left alone standing out on the street
Til you become the hand that turns the key
To the Jackson Cage
Down in the Jackson Cage
Well, darling, can you understand
The way that they will turn a man
Into a stranger to waste away
Down in the Jackson Cage? |
Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mamas reins
You know playin blind mans bluff is a little babys game
You pick up Little Dynamite Im gonna pick up Little Gun
And together were gonna go out tonight and make that highway run
You dont have to call me lieutenant Rosie and I dont want to be your son
The only lover Im ever gonna needs your soft sweet little girls tongue and Rosie youre the one
Dynamites in the belfry playin with the bats
Little Guns downtown in front of Woolworths tryin out his attitude on all the cats
Papas on the corner waitin for the bus
Mama shes home in the window waitin up for us
Shell be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs `cause you know we aint gonna come
I aint here for business, Im only here for fun
Rosalita jump a little lighter, senorita come sit by my fire
I just want to be your lover aint no liar, Rosalita youre my stone desire
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie you know theyre gonna be there
Ah sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billie theyll be comin up for air
Were gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool
Stay out all night its gonna feel alright
Rosie come out tonight, Rosie come out tonight
Windows are for cheaters chimneys for the poor
Closets are for hangers winners use the door
Now I know your mama she dont like me `cause I play in a rock and roll band
And I know your daddy he dont dig me but he never did understand
Papa lowered the boom he locked you in your room
Im comin to lend a hand
Im comin to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday well look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now youre sad your mamas mad
And your papa says he knows that I dont have any money
Tell him this is last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me big bucks
My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy
My machine shes a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
Hold on tight stay up all night `cause Rosie Im comin on strong
By the time we meet the morning light I will hold you in my arms
I know a pretty little place in Southern California down San Diego way
Theres a little cafe where they play guitars all night and day
You can hear them in the back room strummin
So hold tight baby `cause dont you know daddys comin |
Theyre still racing out at the Trestles
But that blood it never burned in her veins
Now I hear shes got a house up in Fairview
And a style shes trying to maintain
Well if she wants to see me
You can tell her that Im easily found
Tell her theres a spot out `neath Abrams Bridge
And tell her theres a darkness on the edge of town
Everybodys got a secret Sonny
Something that they just cant face
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it
They carry it with them every step that they take
Till some day they just cut it loose
Cut it loose or let it drag `em down
Where no one asks any questions
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town
Some folks are born into a good life
Other folks get it anyway anyhow
I lost my money and I lost my wife
Them things dont seem to matter much to me now
Tonight Ill be on that hill `cause I cant stop
Ill be on that hill with everything I got
Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost
Ill be there on time and Ill pay the cost
For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town |
Well Ive been out of the woods for six 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
I got to make it down to Galveston by Saturday night, now
Well Im a little down under, but Im feeling O.K
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
Been driving five hundred miles, got five hundred to go, yeah
I got rock and 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 O.K
I 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
Im just around the corner to the light of day
Im just around the corner to the light of day
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 got to get better
Well Im a little down under, but Im feeling O.K
I got a little lost along the way
Im 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
Just around the corner to the light of day |
One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stocktons Wing
Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything
To go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
We swore we’d live forever on the backstreets we take it together
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears up off the street dressed down in rags
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad some really dying
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down
You can blame it all on me Terry
It dont matter to me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away
Laying here in the dark youre like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time to find were just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets |
Men walking along the railroad tracks
Going someplace, theres no going back
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretching around the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest
Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobodys kidding nobody about where it goes
Im sitting down here in the campfirе light
Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls a prayеr book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box beneath the underpass
You got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathing in the citys aqueduct
Well the highway is alive tonight
Where its headed, everybody knows
Im sitting down here in the campfire light
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
Now Tom said, Mom, wherever theres a cop beating a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where theres a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me, Mom, Ill be there
Wherever somebodys fighting for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebodys struggling to be free
Look in their eyes, Ma, and youll see me
Well the highway is alive tonight
Where its headed, everybody knows
Im sitting down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobodys kidding nobody about where it goes
Im sitting down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
With the ghost of old Tom Joad |
The moonlight dances on her face
I got my lips ????
Im living the life of a lie
It was for me, for me that she died
Thats What you get for loving me
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True Love, unhappiness
I fall down on my knees and I cry
Its my way of saying goodbye
Thats what you get for loving me
The moonlight is ?? on the ???
As I ??? head
And I, Im gonna cry
Its my way of saying goodbye
Thats what you get for loving me |
Well its Saturday night
Youre all dressed up in blue
Ive been watching you a while
Maybe youve been watching me too
So somebody ran out
Left somebodys heart in a mess
But if youre looking for love
Honey Im tougher than the rest
Some girls they want a Handsome Dan
Or Some Good-looking Joe on their arm
Some girls want a Sweet-talking Romeo
Around here baby
I learnt you get what you can get
So if youre rough and not 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 anytime
Maybe the other boyfriends coundlt pass the test
Well if youre rough and ready for love
Honey Im tough 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 tough and ready 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 anytime
And I want you to know
Ill walk it for you anytime
Around here baby
I learnt you get what you can get
So if youre rough and not 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 anytime |
I went out walking the other day
Seen a little girl crying along the way
Shed been hurt so bad said shed never love again
Someday your crying girl will end
And youll find once again
Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts girl get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes
But I was living in a world of childish dreams
Someday these childish dreams must end
To become a man and grow up to dream again
Now I believe in the end
Two hearts are better than one...
Sometimes it might seem like it was planned
For you to roam empty hearted through this land
Though the world turns you hard and cold
Theres one thing mister that I know
Thats if you think your heart is stone
And that youre rough enough to whip this world alone
Alone buddy there aint no peace of mind
Thats why Ill keep searching till I find my special one
Two hearts are better than one... |
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try, and understand
Desire is hunger is 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 under cover
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
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 a doubt, baby, when Im alone
Love is a ring; a telephone
Love is an angel, disguised as lust
Here in our beds til 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 touch 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
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us |
Je me lève le matin, content que mes bottes soient enfilées
Au lieu de se vider dans les herbes chuchotantes
Down the Five à Forest Lawn
Sur le plateau, la maquilleuse mapporte deux œufs et un coup de gin
Puis jabandonne tout pour cette petite pilule bleue
Cela promet de tout ramener à vous
Descends-moi doucement, descends-moi facilement, mon ami
Ce soir, les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Ici, dans les canyons au-dessus de Sunset, le désert nabandonne pas le combat
Un coyote avec le chihuahua de quelquun dans la gueule croise ma véranda dans la nuit
Une brebis perdue dOklahoma sirote son Mojito au Whiskey Bar
Sourit et dit quelle pense quelle se souvient de moi de cette publicité avec la carte de crédit
Bon sang, ces jours-ci, il ny en a plus, maintenant il y en a encore une fois
Ce soir, les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Certains jours, je prends mon El Camino, jette ma selle et je pars
À lest du désert où les charros, ils montent encore et corde
Nos frères américains traversent le fil et ramènent leurs vieilles habitudes
Ce soir, les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Une fois, John Wayne ma tiré dessus, oui, cétait vers la fin
Cette scène ma acheté mille boissons, prépare-moi et raconte-la pour toi, mon ami
Voici les cow-boys, les coureurs dans le tourbillon
Ce soir, les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Et les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Ce soir, les coureurs du coucher du soleil sont étouffés par les vents de Santa Ana
Et les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Viens et descends-moi doucement, descends-moi facilement, ami
Parce que ce soir, les étoiles occidentales brillent à nouveau
Je me suis réveillé ce matin juste content de mes bottes |
In Candys room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall
But to get to Candys room you gotta walk the darkness of Candys hall
Strangers from the city call my babys number and they bring her toys
When I come knocking she smiles pretty she knows I wanna be Candys boy
Theres a sadness hidden in that pretty face
A sadness all her own from which no man can keep Candy safe
We kiss my hearts pumpin to my brain
The blood rushes in my veins fire rushes towards the sky
We go driving driving deep into the night
I go driving deep into the light in Candys eyes
She says baby if you wanna be wild you got a lot to learn, close your eyes
Let them melt let them fire let them burn
`Cause in the darkness therell be hidden worlds that shine
When I hold Candy close she makes these hidden worlds mine
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings
She has men wholl give her anything she wants but they dont see
That what she wants is me, oh and I want her so
Ill never let her go no no no
She knows that Id give all that I got to live
All that I want all that I live to make Candy mine
Tonight |
Johnny works in a factory
Billy works downtown
Terry works in a rock and roll band
Looking for that million dollar sound
I got a job down in Darlington
Some nights I dont go
Some nights I go to the drive-in
Some nights I stay home
I followed that dream
Just like those guys do way up on the screen
Drove my Challenger down Route 9
Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
The promise was broken
Cashed in a few of my dreams
Well I built that Challenger by myself
But I needed money and so I sold it
Lived a secret I shouldve kept to myself
But I got drunk one night and I told it
All my life, I fought that fight
The fight that you cant win
Every day it just gets harder to live
The dream youre believing in
Thunder Road, baby, you were so right
Thunder Road, something dying down on the highway tonight
Well I won big once and I hit the coast
Yeah, but I paid the cost
Inside I felt like I was carrying the broken spirits
Of all the other ones who lost
The promise is broken, you go on living
It steals something from down in your soul
When the truth is spoken, it dont make no difference
Something in your heart goes cold
I followed that dream through the southwestern tracks
That dead ends in the two-bit bars
The promise was broken, I was far away from home
Sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car
Thunder Road is for the lost lovers and all the fixed games
Thunder Road is for the tires rushing by in the rain
Thunder Road me and Billy wed always sing
Thunder Road, take it all and throw it all away |
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
Id sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
Hed tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
This is your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main Streets whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there aint nobody wants to come down here no more
Theyre closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they aint coming back to
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
Im thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown |
I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going, mister, in this world
I got laid off down at the lumber yard
Our love went bad, times got hard
Now I work down at the carwash
Where all it ever does is rain
Dont it feel like youre a rider
On a downbound train?
She just said Joe, I gotta go
We had it once, we aint got it any more
She packed her bags, left me behind
She bought a ticket on the Central Line
Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
And I feel like Im a rider
On a downbound train
Last night I heard your voice
You were crying, crying, you were so alone
You said your love had never died
You were waiting for me at home
I put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran til I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing beyond the highway
In the moonlight our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard
I burst through the front door
My head pounding hard
Up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark
Our bed was empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees
Hung my head and cried
Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang
Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain
Dont it feel like youre a rider
On a downbound train? |
Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening
To the hours and minutes tickin away
Yeah just sittin around waitin for my life to begin
While it was all just slippin away
Im tired of waitin for tomorrow to come
Or that train to come roarin round the bend
I got a new suit of clothes a pretty red rose
And a woman I can call my friend
These are better days baby
Yeah theres better days shining through
These are better days baby
Better days with a girl like you
Well I took a piss at fortunes sweet kiss
Its like eatin caviar and dirt
Its sad funny ending to find yourself pretending
A rich man in a poor mans shirt
Now my ass was draggin when from a passin gypsy wagon
Your heart like a diamond shone
Tonight Im layin in your arms carvin lucky charms
Out of these hard luck bones
These are better days baby
These are better days its true
These are better days
Theres better days shining through
Now a life of leisure and a pirates treasure
Dont make much for tragedy
But its a sad man my friend whos livin in his own skin
And cant stand the company
Every fools got a reason for feelin sorry for himself
And turning his heart to stone
Tonight this fools halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
And I feel like Im comin home
These are better days baby
Theres better days shining through
These are better days
Better days with a girl like you
These are better days baby
These are better days its true
These are better days
Better days are shining through |
Driving in to Darlington County
Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July
Driving in to Darlington County
Looking for some work on the county line
We drove down from New York City
Where the girls are pretty but they just wanna know your name
Driving in to Darlington City
Got a union connection with an uncle of Waynes
We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop
We got rock and roll music blasting off the t-top
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Hey little girl, standing on the corner
Todays your lucky day for sure, all right
Me and my buddy, were from New York City
We got two hundred dollars, we wanna rock all night
Girl, youre looking at two big spenders
The world dont know what me and Wayne might do
Our Pas each own one of the World Trade Centers
For a kiss and a smile, Ill give mine all to you
Come on baby, take a seat on my fender
Its a long night, tell me, what else were you gonna do?
Just me and you
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Little girl, sitting in the window
Aint seen my buddy in seven days
County man tells me the same thing
He dont work and he dont get paid
Little girl, youre so young and pretty
Walk with me and you can have your way
And well leave this Darlington City
For a ride down that Dixie Highway
Driving out of Darlington County
My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
Driving out of Darlington County
Seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state troopers Ford
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la
Sha la la, sha la la la la
Sha la la la, la la la |
Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
Down at the end of Lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel
I get so lonely baby
I get so lonely
I get so lonely I could die
Although its always crowded
I still can find some room
Where those broken hearted lovers
Cry away their gloom, oh!
I get so lonely
I get so lonely
Get so lonely I could die
Bellhops tears keep flowing
Desk clerk dressed in black
They been so long on lonely street
They aint never comin back
I get so lonely
I get so lonely
Get so lonely I could die
If your baby leaves you
And you have a tale to tell
Just take a walk
Down Lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel
I get so lonely baby
I get so lonely
I get so lonely I could die |
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
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
These guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Messages keep getting clearer
Radios on and Im moving round my place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I aint getting nowhere
Im just living in a dump like this
Theres something happening somewhere
Baby I just know that there is
Cant start a fire
You cant start a fire without a spark
These 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
I shake this world off my shoulders
Come on baby this laughs on me
Stay on the streets of this town
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 now baby gimme just one look
You cant start a fire
Sitting round crying over a broken heart
These guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Even if were just dancing in the dark |
With her killer graces
And her secret places
That no boy can fill with her hands on her hips
Oh and that smile on her lips
Because she knows that it kills me
With her soft French cream
Standing in that doorway like a dream
I wish shed just leave me alone
Because French cream won’t soften them boots
And French kisses will not break that heart of stone
With her long hair falling
And her eyes that shine like a midnight sun
Oh-o shes the one, shes the one
That thunder in your heart
At night when you’re kneeling in the dark
It says youre never gonna leave her
But theres this angel in her eyes
That tells such desperate lies
And all you want to do is believe her
And tonight youll try just one more time
To leave it all behind and to break on through
Oh she can take you, but if she wants to break you
Shes gonna find out that aint so easy to do
And no matter where you sleep tonight or how far you run
Oh-o shes the one, shes the one
Oh-o and just one kiss
She’d fill them long summer nights
With her tenderness that secret pact you made
Back when her love could save you from the bitterness
Oh she’s the one, oh shes the one
Oh she’s the one, oh shes the one
Oh shes the one, oh shes the one |
Well, I came by your house the other day
Your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing I couldve done
There was nothing nobody could say
Now, me and you, weve known each other
Ever since we were sixteen
I wish I would have known, I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean
Now, you hung with me when all the others
Turned away, turned up their nose
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands
We liked the same clothes
Yeah, we told each other that we were the wildest
The wildest things wed ever seen
I wished you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean
Now, we went walking in the rain
Talking about the pain that from the world we hid
Now, there aint nobody, nowhere, nohow
Ever gonna understand me the way you did
Well, maybe youll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train, traveling alone
In some motel room, therell be a radio playing
And youll hear me sing this song
If you do, youll know Im thinking of you
And all the miles in between
Im just calling one last time not to change your mind
Just to say I miss you, baby, good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean |
Friday nights pay night, guys fresh out of work
Talking bout the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
I work for the county out on 95
All day long I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday, mister, gonna lead a better life than this
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
I met her at a dance down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall
Sometimes wed go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didnt have much to say
Son, cant you see shes just a little girl?
She dont know nothing about this cruel, cruel world
We lit out down to Florida, we got along alright
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I cant stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway |
New Jersey turnpike
Ridin on a wet night
Neath the refinerys glow
Out where the great black rivers flow
License, registration
I aint got none
But I got a clear conscience
About the things that I done
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Maybe you got a kid
Maybe you got a pretty wife
The only thing that I got
Has been botherin me my whole life
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
In the wee, wee hours
Your mind gets hazy
Radio relay towers
Gonna lead me to my baby
The radios jammed up
With talk-show stations
Its just talk, talk, talk
Til you lose your patience
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Hey, somebody out there
Listen to my last prayer
Hi ho silver
Deliver me from nowhere, ah! |
Because the night
Because the night
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is 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 under cover
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
Because the night
Because the night
Because the night
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 us
Have a doubt, baby, when Im alone
Love is a ring; a telephone
Love is an angel, disguised as lust
Here in our beds til 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 touch you now
Because the night
Because the night
Because the night
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 us |
I heard the news, theres good rockin tonight
Gonna hold my baby as tight as I can
Tonight shell know Im a mighty man
I heard the news, theres good rockin tonight
Oh, lead me in the alley behind the barn
Dont be afraid, Ill do you no harm
Baby, bring my rockin shoes
Cause tonight Im gonna rock away all my blues
Have you heard the news, theres good rockin tonight
Well, Elder Brown, Deacon Jones
Theyve left their happy home
Theyll be there, just you wait and see
A-jumpin and a-stompin at the jubilee
Hey man, theres good rockin tonight
Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue
Sweet Georgia Brown, Caledonia, too
Theyll be there jumpin like mad
Hey, sister, aint you glad
We got the news theres good rockin tonight |
Lying on your hands
Lying on your hands
Lying on your hands
Lying on your hands
My hands on your hands
My hands on your hands
My hands on your hands
Lying on your hands
My hands on your hands
My hands on your hands
My hands on your hands
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is 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 under cover
They can’t hurt you now, cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now
Because the night
Come on now, try
My hands on your hands....
Because the night
My hands on your hands....
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 us
Because the night belongs to us
Have a doubt, baby, when I’m alone
Love is a ring; a telephone
Love is an angel, disguised as lust
Here in our beds til 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 touch you now
Lying on your hands...
My hands on your hands... |
I went out walkin the other day
Seen a little girl cryin along the way
Shed been hurt so bad, said shed never love again
Someday your crying, girl, will end
And youll find once again
That two hearts are better than one
Two hearts, girl, get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Once I spent my time playin tough-guy scenes
But I was livin in a world of childish dreams
Someday these childish dreams must end
To believe in love and grow up to dream again
I believe in the end
Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts, girl, get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Sometimes it might seem like it was planned
For you to roam empty-hearted through this land
Though the world turns you hard and cold
Theres one thing, mister, that I know
Thats if you think your heart is stone
And that youre rough enough to whip this world alone
Alone, buddy, there aint no peace of mind
Thats why Ill keep searching til I find my special one
Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts, girl, get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
I believe in the end
Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts, girl, get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Better than one |
I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a drive and I didnt go back
Just like a river that dont know where its flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
I met her in a Pittsburgh dive
We took what we had and we ate it alive
I read the stars, knew it had to end
Now here I am back in Pittsburgh again
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
Well, what power of God does a nun use to hold up parish priests
And what makes a good cop let go a beautiful theif
Oh, and how does the queen know she got hold that manna honey
Oh and what makes an old woman give a young man all her money
Well late in the night neath that pale moonlight the power comes over me
And its all elouise yeah
Im turning into elvis
...kissed the babysitter. she screamed and I told her it was just the beast in me
And on my way out of the house I shot out my tv
I went down to the corner luncheonette and said sally fried peanut butter and banana will do
Im turning into elvis and theres nothing I can do
I threw out my wife and family I took off my wedding ring
I told my friends and neighbors to refer to me now as king
I put a chainlink fence around my ranch house and on the gate a sign that reads graceland ii
Im turning into elvis and theres nothing I can do
I visited my mamas grave and I headed out to hollywood and I signed a picture with mgm
I play a rebellious beachboy racecar driver who fks a nun in the end
In the last scene I whip out my big guitar and show her a little memphis-style kung-fu
Im turning into elvis and theres nothing I can do
But I drove on straight to vegas and I stopped in the first old stripper bar
Found me a little hooker that looked just like ann-margaret and we rumbad in my sports car
Well me and my drinking buddies turned my lovin home into a frikkin zoo
Im turning into elvis and theres nothing I can do
Well he came to me last night in a dream looking just like he did in 57
He said son that guitar is a wonderful thing but it can be the living devils friend
On the other hand theres sex-starved women, millions of dollars, and anything you want to do.
Im turning into elvis and theres nothing I can do |
{Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the Dark Instrumental}
{ Spank Rock Backyard Betty Vocals} {The Cure Close To Me}
Ass shakin competition champ
Oooh, that Oooh, that
Ass shakin competition champ
Oooh, that Oooh, that
{The beatles Mother Natures Son} |
Sandy the fireworks are hailin over Little Eden tonight
Forcin a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July
Down in town the circuits full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp
And the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark
And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers along the shore
Chasin all them silly New York girls
Sandy the aurora is risin behind us, the pier lights our carnival life
Forever
Love me tonight for I may never see you again, hey Sandy girl
Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on the beach all night
Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white
And me I just got tired of hangin in them dusty arcades bangin them
Pleasure machines
Chasin the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap their jeans
And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
I got on it last night and my shirt got caught
And that Joey kept me spinnin I didnt think Id ever get off
Oh Sandy the aurora is risin behind us
The pier lights our carnival life on the water
Runnin down the beach at night with my bosss daughter
Well he aint my boss no more Sandy
Sandy the angels have lost their desire for us
I spoke to `em just last night and they said they wont set themselves on fire for us anymore
Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven on their Harleys they come and they go
And you can see `em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars parked making love with their babies out on the Kokomo
Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin fortunes better than they do
This boardwalk life for me is through
You know you ought to quit this scene too
Sandy the auroras rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh love me tonight and I promise Ill love you forever |
The screen door slams, Marys dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch. As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside, darling you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking
That maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty, but hey youre alright
Oh and thats alright with me
You can hide `neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now Im no hero, thats understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the nights busting open
This two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, Heavens waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
Were riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know its late we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride it aint free
And I know youre lonely and theres words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free, all the promisesll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch theyre gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers and Im pulling out of here to win |
Last night I dreamed we was running through the outlands
Tears streaming, your pretty face all a wreck
And down the highway another stranger comes
You gotta take em, baby, when they come
Little girl put on your red dress
Cause were goin out on the town tonight
Cos, for sure, some fools gonna wanna fight
Youve got to take em, baby, as they come
You gotta take em, take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em, baby, as they come
God save the rider in the black night
Save the man who taught that it was right
To become what we have become
You gotta take em, baby, when they come
Little girl, gone are the days
Faded away into the clear blue night
Lie shattered and broken in the morning light
You gotta take em, baby, when they come
You gotta take em, take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em, baby, as they come
I know your heart is breakin
I can feel it too, girl
Though my finger on the triggers shakin
Here I swear to you, girl
If I could take all your sorrow so that youd never cry, girl, or be blue
Thats what Id do for you, pretty one
I swear Ill take em baby when they come
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em, baby, as they come
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em as they come, girl
Take em, baby, as they come
Take em, baby, as they come
Take em, baby, as they come
Take em, baby, as they come |
I love to see the cottonwood blossom
In the early spring
I love to see the message of love
That the bluebird brings
But when I see you walkin with him
Down along the strand
I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
I love to see your hair shining
In the long summers light
I love to watch the stars fill the sky
On a summer night
The music plays you take his hand
I watch how you touch him as you start to dance
And I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man
We struggle here but all our loves in vain
Oh these eyes that once filled me with your beauty
Now fill me with pain
And the light that once entered here
Is banished from me
And this darkness is all baby that my heart sees
And though this world is filled
With the grace and beauty of Gods hand
Oh I wish I were blind
When I see you with your man |
Yeah girl
Now wont you come on out tonight
Girl, where the stars will shine real bright
Well I gotta get that feeling
Yeah I wanna get that feeling
Woargh back again
Yeah, back again tonight
Theres something in the air
Tonight
Aint got money but I dont care
I gotta get that feeling
I wanna get that feeling
And before the night is through
Youre gonna get that feeling too
Hold me in your arms and baby take everything
Let the light shine, and if we ...
Yeah,yeah,yeah Tonight
Well theres something in the air
And tonight, yeah, we aint got money but I dont care
We gotta get that feeling
Yeah, we gotta get that feeling
Woargh back again
Wooooaaaaarrrrggghh |
Well, I got a little girl down by the river
Now she keeps ? ? ? tight
I got a little girl, she every night
She says im feeling like a wild, hands on ? ? ?
Then she keeps me all night
So come on, down by the river
Come on, come on now
Just come on, down by the river
Its alright
Well baby, let me protect you little darling
If you let me ? ? ?
I know, if youll just let me in
Well, every day just brings in the same
But every night...? ? ?
Yes, come on, down by the river
Oh, come on, girl, its alright
Well, come on, down by the river
Hold tight |
Driving a big lazy car, rushing up the highway in the dark
Got one hand steady on the wheel, one hands trembling over my heart
Its pounding, baby, like its gonna bust right on through
Aint gonna stop til Im alone again with you
Friend of mine became a father last night
When we spoke, in his voice, I could hear the light
Of the skies and the rivers the timberwolf in the pines
And that great jukebox out on Route 39
They say he travels fastest who travels alone
But tonight I miss my girl, tonight I miss my home
Is it the sound of the leaves left blown by the wayside
Thats got me out here on this old spooky highway tonight
Is it the cry of the river with the moonlight shining through
That aint what scares me, baby, what scares me is losing you
They say if you die in your dreams, you really die in your bed
But, honey, last night I dreamed my eyes rolled straight back in my head
And Gods light came shining on through
I woke up in the darkness, scared and breathing and born anew
It wasnt the cold river bottom I felt rushing over me
It wasnt the bitterness of a dream that didnt come true
It wasnt the wind in the grey fields I felt rushing through my arms
No, no, baby, baby, it was you
Hold me close, honey, say youre forever mine
And tell me youll be my old lonely valentine |
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh no, I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the center of my soul
At night, I wake up with the sheets soakin wet
And a freight train runnin through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire
Oh, oh, oh
Im on fire |
Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
Now, they blew up his house, too
Down on the boardwalk theyre gettin ready for a fight
Gonna see what them racket boys can do
Now, theres trouble bustin in from outta state
And the D.A. cant get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
And the gamblin commissions hangin on by the skin of his teeth
Well now, evrything dies, baby, thats a fact
But maybe evrything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold
But with you forever Ill stay
Were goin out where the sands turnin to gold
Put on your stockins baby, `cause the nights getting cold
And maybe evrything dies, baby, thats a fact
But maybe evrything that dies someday comes back
Now, I been lookin for a job, but its hard to find
Down here its just winners and losers and dont
Get caught on the wrong side of that line
Well, Im tired of comin out on the losin end
So, honey, last night I met this guy and Im gonna
Do a little favor for him |
Im drivin in my car, you turn on the radio
Im pullin you close, but you just say no
You say you dont like it, but girl I know youre a liar
Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire
Well, late at night, I chase you home
I say I wanna stay, you say you wanna be alone
You say you dont need me, but you cant hide your desire
Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire
Youve had a hold on me right from the start
It felt so good, I couldnt tear it apart
Got my nerves all jumpin, actin like a fool
Cause your kisses they burn, but your heart stays cool
Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby, you can bet the love they couldnt deny
Well, now your words say split, but your words they lie
Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire
Oh-oh, fire
Mm-mm, fire
Oh-oh, fire
Oh-oh, fire |
Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall
Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall
I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it
A salesman turned around said Boy you break that thing you bought it
You can look but you better not touch boy
You can look but you better not touch
Mess around and youll end up in dutch boy
You can look but you better not no you better not no you better not touch
Well I came home from work and I switched on channel 5
There was a pretty little girly lookin straight into my eyes
Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen
She didnt get me excited she just made me feel mean
Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone
I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone
I found a lovers rendezvous the music low set to park
I heard a tappin on the window and a voice in the dark |
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 |
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We said wed walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as were walking a hand should slip free
Ill wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
We swore wed travel darlin side by side
Wed help each other stay in stride
But each lovers steps fall so differently
But Ill wait for you
And if I should fall behind
Wait for me
Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So lets make our steps clear that the other may see
And Ill wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me
Now theres a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
Ill wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin Ill wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me |
Ive called you so many times today
And i guess its all true what your girlfriends say
That you dont ever want to see me again
And your brothers gonna kill me and hes six feet ten
I guess youd call it cowardice
But im not prepared to go on like this
I cant, i cant
I cant stand losing
I cant, i cant
I cant stand losing
I cant, i cant
I cant
I cant stand losing you
I cant stand losing you
I cant stand losing you
I cant stand losing you
I see youve sent my letters back
And my lp records and theyre all scratched
I cant see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word i say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesnt make no sense
I guess this is our last goodbye
And you dont care so i wont cry
But youll be sorry when im dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess youd call it suicide
But im too full to swallow my pride
I cant, i cant
I cant stand losing |
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
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 want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
Well run till we drop, baby well never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real
Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide
Together Wendy well live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run |
Viva! Viva!
Viva a Sociedade Alternativa!
Viva, viva
Viva o Novo Aeon!
Viva, viva, viva
Se eu quero e você quer
Tomar banho de chapéu
Ou esperar Papai Noel
Ou discutir Carlos Gardel
Então, vá
Faze o que tu queres
Pois é tudo da lei, da lei
Faze o que tu queres
Há de ser tudo da lei
Todo homem e toda mulher
É uma estrela
Viva, viva
Han
Mas se eu quero e você quer
Tomar banho de chapéu
Ou esperar Papai Noel
Ou discutir Carlos Gardel
Então, vá
Faze o que tu queres
Pois é tudo da lei, da lei
O numero 666
Chama-se Aleister Crowley
Faz o que tu queres
Há de ser tudo da lei
A lei de Thelema
A lei do forte
Essa é a nossa lei e a alegria do mundo
Viva, viva, viva!
Viva o Novo Aeon! |
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire
Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I do?
I can take you higher
Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire
Sometimes its 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 with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire
Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire
Oh-oh-oh, Im on fire |
The New Jersey Turnpike, ridin on a wet night neath the refinerys glow
Out where the bleak rivers flow
License, registration, I aint got none
I got a clear conscience about the things that Ive done
Mister state trooper, please dont stop me
Please dont stop me, please dont stop me
Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife
The only thing that I got been bothrin me my whole life
Mister state trooper, please dont stop me
Please dont stop me, please dont stop me
In the wee, wee hours, your mind gets hazy
Relay towers lead me to my baby
Radio jammed up with talk show stations
Its talk, talk, talk, until you lose your patience
Mister state trooper, please dont stop me
Please dont stop me, please dont stop me
Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer
Hiho silver, deliver me from nowhere |
Friday nights pay night, guys fresh outta work
Yeah well be talking bout the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt
Some going down to the Stovall wearing trouble on their shirts
Well I work for the county out on old I-5
All day long I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of my pretty little miss
Someday, mister, Im gonna lead a better life than this
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
Well I met her at a dance down the union hall
She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
Sometimes wed go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
So Im working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
The highway, yes
Well I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didnt have much to say
Son, cant you see that shes just a little girl?
She dont know nothing bout this cruel, cruel world
We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white, yes
Prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
So now I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me an the warden go swingin on the Charlotte County road gang
Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway, all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway, yes
The highway |
My name is Joe Roberts, I work for the state
Im a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
Ive always done an honest job, as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky, and Franky aint no good
Ever since we was young kids, its been the same come down
I get a call on the short-wave, Frankys in trouble downtown
Well, if it was any other man, Id put him straight away
But when its your own brother, you look the other way
Yeah, with Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels better than blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when hes strayin, like any brother would
Man turns his back on family, well, he just aint no good
Franky went in the army back in 65
I got a farm deferment, took Maria for my wife
Wheat prices kept on droppin til it was like we was gettin robbed
Franky came home in 68, and me, I took this job
Yeah, when were laughin and drinkin, nothin feels like blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when hes strayin, teach him to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family, he aint no friend of mine
The night was like any other, I got a call bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin on the floor, bleedin hard from his head
There was a girl cryin at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well, I went out and jumped into my car and I hit the lights
Mustve done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
Seen a car with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank
I chased him through them county roads til a sign said Canadian border five miles
Pulled to the side of the highway, watched his taillights disappear
Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels like blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played The Night of the Johnstown Flood
I catch him when hes strayin, like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
He just aint no good |
We said wed walk together, baby, come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as were walking a hand should slip free
Ill wait for you, and should I fall behind, wait for me
We swore wed travel, darling, side by side
Wed help each other stay in stride
But each lovers steps fall so differently
But Ill wait for you, and should I fall behind, wait for me
Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So lets make our steps clear that the other may see
And Ill wait for you, should I fall behind, wait for me
Theres a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
Ill wait for you, should I fall behind, wait for me
Darling, Ill wait for you, should I fall behind, wait for me
Oh, Ill wait for you, should I fall behind, wait for me |
Uh, the next ones by Bruce Springsteen
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone?
Oh no, I got a bad desire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Tell me baby, is he good to you?
Can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh no, I can take you higher
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my soul
Woah
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
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Woah, Im on fire
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Woah, Im on fire
Woah, Im on fire
Thank you! |
You and me we were the pretenders
We let it all slip away
In the end what dont surrender
Well the world just strips away
Girl aint no kindness in the face of strangers
Aint gonna find no miracles here
Well you can wait on your blessings my darlin
But I got a deal for you right here
I aint lookin for prayers or pity
I aint comin round searchin for a crutch
I just want someone to talk to
And a little of that human touch
Just a little of that human touch
Aint no mercy on the streets of this town
Aint no bread from heavenly skies
Aint nobody drawin wine from this blood
Its just you and me tonight
Tell me in a world without pity
Do you think what Im askins too much ?
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that human touch
Just a little of that human touch
Oh girl that feeling of safety you prize
Well it comes with a hard hard price
You cant shut off the risk and the pain
Without losin the love that remains
Were all riders on this train
So you been broken and you been hurt
Show me somebody who aint
Yeah I know I aint nobodys bargain
But hell a little touchup
And a litte paint...
You might need somethin to hold on to
When all the answers they dont amount to much
Somebody that you can just talk to
And a little of that human touch
Baby in a world without pity
Do you think what Im askins too much ?
I just want to feel you in my arms
And share a little of that human touch |
Friday nights pay night guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
I work for the county out on 95
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday mister Im gonna lead a better life than this
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway all day long I dont stop
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
I met her at a dance down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
Sometimes wed go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didnt have much to say
Son cant you see that shes just a little girl
She dont know nothing about this cruel cruel world
We lit out down to Florida we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang |
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 rеst
The road is dark
And its a thin thin line
But I want you to know Ill walk it for you any time
Maybе 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 |
I went out walking the other day
Seen a little girl crying along the way
Shed been hurt so bad said shed never love again
Someday your crying, girl, will end
And youll find once again
That two hearts are better than one
Two hearts can get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes
But I was living in a world of childish dreams
Someday these childish dreams must end
To become a man and grow up to dream again
Though I believe in the end
That two hearts are better than one
Two hearts can get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Sometimes it might seem like it was planned
For you to roam empty hearted through this land
For the world turns you hard and cold
Theres one thing, yeah, that I know
That if you think your heart is stone
That youre rough enough to take this world alone
Alone, baby, there aint no peace of mind
Thats why Ill keep searching til I find
My special one
Cause two hearts are better than one
Two hearts can get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
And I believe
Two hearts are better than one
Two hearts will get the job done
Two hearts are better than one
Than one
Than one
Than one |
Well the street lights shine
Down on Blessing Avenue
Lovers they walk by
Holding hands two by two
A breeze crosses the porch
Bicycle spokes spin around
Jackets on, Im out the door
Tonight Im going to burn this town down
Girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
Girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by
Kids rubber ball smacks
Off the gutter underneath the lamp light
Big bank clock chimes
Off go the sleepy front porch lights
Downtown the stores alive
As the evenings underway
Things been a little tight
But I know theyre going to turn my way
Girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
Girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by
Girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
Girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by
Girls in their clothes
They pass me by
I still wanna know
What keeps you from staying a little while
Sometimes theyre shy
Sometimes they smile
I still wanna try to make you feel home when youre by my side |
I get up in the morning
And I ain´t got nothing to say
I come home in the evening
I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain´t nothing but tired
Oh, I´m just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby
I could use just a little help
You can´t start a fire
You can´t start a fire without a spark
This gun´s for hire
Even if we´re just dancing in the dark
Message keeps getting clearer
And radio´s on and i´m moving ´round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my face, my hair
Im going like to nowhere
But I’m just living in a dump like this
There´s something happening somewhere
Baby I just know that there is
You can´t start a fire
You can´t start a fire without a spark
This gun´s for hire
Even if we´re just dancing in the dark
You sit around getting older
When the jokes running wild, but it´s on me
I´ll rattle the world off my shoulders
Come on baby the laugh´s on me
Coming on the streets of this town
And they know they keep me up all night
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey baby I´m just about starving today
I´m dying for action
Kinda sick of sitting around here trying to write
This book
Something happening somewhere
Baby I just know that there is
You can´t start a fire sitting ´round crying
Over a broken heart
This gun´s for hire
Even if we´re just dancing in the dark
Even if we´re just dancing in the dark
Even if we´re just dancing in the dark... |
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 way over the line
Oh, baby, this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap
Its a suicide rap
Ygotta get out while youre 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 your visions
Just wrap your legs round my velvet rims
And strap your hands cross my engines
Together we could break this trap
Well run til we drop, and, baby, well never go back
Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
Cause, baby, Im a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I wanna know if love is wild
I wanna know if love is real
Can you show me?
Beyond the palace, hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors, and the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark, kids are huddled on the beach in the mist
I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the street tonight in an everlasting kiss
One, two, three, four
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys on the run tonight, there aint no place left to hide
Together, Wendy, well live with the sadness, Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh, someday, girl, I dont know when
Well get to that place we really wanna go, and well walk in the sun
Cause, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
Born to run |
The screen door slams, Marys dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbisons singing for the lonely
Hey, thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside, darling, you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking that maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty, but hey, youre alright
Oh and thats alright with me
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lover, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well, Im no hero, thats understood
All the redemption I can offer is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Well, what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
The nights bustin open, these two lanes can take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real, trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heavens waiting down the tracks
Oh-oh, come take my hand
Were riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh-oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
I know its late, we can make it if we run
Oh-oh-oh, Thunder Road, sit tight
Take hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride aint free
And I know youre lonely for words I aint spoken
Tonight well be free, all the promises will be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch theyre gone
On the wind
So Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers, and Im pulling out of here to win |
The screen door slams, Marys dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbisons singing for the lonely
Hey, thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone
Dont run back inside, darling, you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking that maybe we 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
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lover, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Yeah, well, Im no hero, thats understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
What else can we do now?
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well, the nights bustin open, these two lanes can take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heavens waiting down on the track
Oh-oh, come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh-oh-oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Its late, we can make it if we run
Oh-oh-oh-oh, Thunder Road, sit tight
Take hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
Doors open, the ride, it aint free
And in the lonely cool before dawn, theyll hear our engine roaring on
But when theyll get to the porch well be gone on the wind
So Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers, and Im pulling out of here to win |
Live performance
Well, I dreamed I was a gypsy riding the land
With a tambourine and a gypsy queen
And a rainbow caravan
Happy old land sailor, yeah, thats what I want to be
Stealing diamonds from the rich men to throw in the sea
Singing look toward the land
cause the land holds the key
Keep an eye on the land
And an eye on man
Well, I dreamed I was a cabin boy
On an American Clipper line
Watering flowers for the captain
That they may not wilt
Bringing cargo to colonies of South Caroline
On the best ol Clipper Dave Mckay ever built
Singing look toward the land
cause the land is the key
Singing keep an eye on the land
And an eye on the sea
Well, I dreamed I was your lover
Cause thats what I want to be
And I dreamed that every night you dreamed only of me
And we walked along the beach, and ooh, we held hands
And I told you you were my only woman
And I was your only man
Singing look toward the lovers
For they are the key
Keep an eye on the lovers
And an eye on the war machine
Yes I dreamed I was a captain of a river queen
Caressing Mississippi waters down to New Orleans
Yeah, a happy ol riverboat captain, thats what Id like to be
And Id let you ride my honey, Id let you ride her for free
Singing look toward the river
Cause the rivers the key
Keep an eye on the river
And an eye on the sea
Well, I dreamed I was your friend
Cause thats what I want to be
And every night, you had dreams
And they were all of me
Wed walk all the streets together
Hand in hand
And be kind to the women
And the women be kind to the me |
I was eight years old, running with a dime in my hand
To the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
Id sit on his lap in that big old Buick, steer as we drove through town
Hed tousle my hair and say, Son, take a good look around
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
In 65, tension was running high in my high school
There was a lot of fights between black and whites, there was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the backseat there was a gun
Words were passed, a shotgun blast, troubled times had come
To my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main Streets whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like theres nobody wants to come down here no more
Theyre closing down the textile mills cross the railroad tracks
Foreman said, These jobs are going, boys, and they aint coming back
To your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
To your hometown
Last night, me and Kate, we laid in bed, talked about getting out
Packing up our bags, maybe heading south
Im thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now
Last night, I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around
This is your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown |
Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
Come a little piece of the Lords undying light
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
In his mothers arms it was all the beauty I could take
Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
Searching for a little bit of Gods mercy
I found living proof
I put my heart and soul I put em high upon a shelf
Right next to the faith the faith that Id lost in myself
I went down into the desert city
Just tryin so hard to shed my skin
I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
Lookin to burn out every trace of who Id been
You do some sad sad things baby
When its you youre tryin to lose
You do some sad and hurtful things
Ive seen living proof
You shot through my anger and rage
To show me my prison was just an open cage
There were no keys no guards
Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars
Well now all thats sure on the boulevard
Is that life is just a house of cards
As fragile as each and every breath
Of this boy sleepin in our bed
Tonight lets lie beneath the eaves
Just a close band of happy thieves
And when that train comes well get on board
And steal what we can from the treasures treasures of the Lord
Its been a long long drought baby
Tonight the rains pourin down on our roof
Looking for a little bit of Gods mercy
I found living proof |
I came by your house the other day
Your mama said that you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
You and me, weve known each other
Yeah, ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known, I wished I could have called you
Just to say Goodbye, Bobby Jean
Now you hung with me when all the others
Turned away, turned up their nose
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands
We liked the same clothes
Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest
The wildest things wed ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say Goodbye, Bobby Jean
We went walking in the rain
Talking bout the pain from the world we hid
Aint nobody, nowhere, nohow
Ever gonna understand me the way you did
Well maybe youll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room therell be a radio playing
And youll hear me sing this song
If you do, know Im thinking of you
And all the miles in between
I just calling one last time, not to change your mind
But to say I miss you baby
Yeah good luck, goodbye, Bobby Jean |
In Candys room
There are pictures of her heroes on the wall
But to get to Candys room
You gotta walk the darkness of Candys hall
Strangers from the city
Call my babys number, they bring her toys
When I come knocking, she smiles pretty
She knows I wanna be Candys boy
Theres a sadness hidden in that pretty face
A sadness all her own
From which no man can keep Candy safe
We kiss, my heart falling to my brain
The blood rushes in my veins
When I touch Candys thighs
And we go driving
Driving deep into the night
I go driving deep into the light
In Candys eyes
She says, Baby, if you wanna be wild
You got a lot to learn
Close your eyes, let them melt
Let them fire, lLet them burn
Cause in the darkness
Therell be hidden worlds that shine
When I hold Candy close
She makes those hidden worlds mine
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings
And she has men wholl bring her anything
She wants but they dont see
That what she wants is me
Oh, and I want her so
Ill never let her go, no, no, no
She knows that Id give
All that I got to give
All that I want as I live
To make Candy mine
Tonight |
Well, we busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say youre tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down
Well we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winters night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
I am ready to grow young again
And hear your sisters voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we could cut someplace of our own
With these drums and these guitars
Oh we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
Theres a war outside still raging
You say it aint ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies
In my lovers bed
With the wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head
Oh we made a promise we swore wed always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
No retreat, baby, no surrender |
Yeah
Uh
Wooh
Huh
I had a friend was a baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
Went back in sat, had a few drinks
But all we, we kept talking bout was
Glory days
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 turned all the boys heads
Sometimes on a Friday Ill stop by
After she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby split up
It must be two years gone by
We just sit around talking bout old times
She says when she starts feels like crying
She starts thinking bout
Glory days
Pass you by
Glory days
In the wink of a young girls eye
Glory days
Glory days
So I think Ill go to the well tonight
And drink til I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I dont sit around thinking about it
I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back and trying to recapture
Just little of the glory
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister
But boring stories of
Glory days
Pass you by
Glory days
In the wink of a young girls eye
Glory days
Glory days |
Camilla Horne, she was born a long, long time ago
She Came From Germany to the U.S.A
And was acclaimed as the next Garbo
They came to her on their knees, to bless them, caress them and
Tell them what they need
But oh, oh, she did not know
And so she took her place at the bar
Just another fallen star |
There’s place out on the edge of town sir
Risin’ above the factories and the fields
Now ever since I was a child I can remember that mansion on the hill
In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround sir the mansion on the hill
At night my daddy’d take me and we’d ride through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer all the lights would shine there’d be music playin’ people laughin’ all the time
Me and my sister we’d hide out in the tall corn fields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
Tonight down here in Linden Town I watch the cars rushin’ by home from the mill
There’s a beautiful full moon rising above the mansion on the hill |
Theres a place out on the edge of town, sir
Risin above the factories and the fields
Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember
That mansion on the hill
In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill
At night my daddyd take me and wed ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer all the lights would shine
Thered be music playin, people laughin all the time
Me and my sister, wed hide out in the tall cornfields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushin by, home from the mill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill |