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If you hear a politician Or a singer making song Do you just refuse to listen Knowing that he must be wrong Thats the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how to think Or tell you who to be I will show you what I know Sometimes we will disagree If we learn at all to grow Then I have done my small duty Thats the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how to think Or tell you who to be I could bring my favorite flower Maybe yours would be the same Maybe we would argue hours Over the fair flowers name Thats the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how to think Or tell you who to be If I brought my good friends home And set a welcome table place Could you see them past their clothing Or past the color of their face Thats the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how to think Or tell you who to be Thats the way it is, you know You just see what you want to see Who am I to tell you how to think

It came to pass Like lightning striking from above Electric flash Just like lightening striking from above Struck by precious love Precious precious love So hopeless and so inspired Why do you dream flat tires When you dream flat tires? You dream flat tires With a jack and a spare youre there Trying to get to where love is Coming in on a wing and a prayer Trying to get to where love is Cause love is precious love You said it was precious When first you felt my fire Before you dreamed flat tires You dreamed flat tires You dream flat tires Woman she bounce back easy But a man could break both his legs Are you telling me this to tease me? Or just to hear me beg Please dont go! Cause I know that you love me But when are you going to let love be Just a vague flirtation Or extra special company? Cause love is precious love Everybody knows its precious When first they feel that fire Before they dream flat tires They dream flat tires They dream flat tires Woman she bounce back easy But a man could break both his legs Do you tell me that to tease me Or just to hear me beg Please dont be cold I know that you love me But what are you going to let love do? (Flat tires love love is precious flat tires Love love is precious flat tires love Love is precious)

No regrets Coyote We just come from such different sets of circumstance Im up all night in the studios And youre up early on your ranch Youll be brushing out a brood mares tail While the sun is ascending And Ill just be getting home with my reel to reel Theres no comprehending Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes And the lips you can get And still feel so alone And still feel related Like stations in some relay Youre not a hit and run driver no no Racing away You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway We saw a farmhouse burning down In the middle of nowhere In the middle of the night And we rolled right past that tragedy Till we turned into some road house lights Where a local band was playing Locals were up kicking and shaking on the floor And the next thing I know That coyotes at my door He pins me in a corner and he wont take no He drags me out on the dance floor And were dancing close and slow Now hes got a woman at home Hes got another woman down the hall He seems to want me anyway Whyd you have to get so drunk And lead me on that way You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway I looked a coyote right in the face On the road to Baljennie near my old home town He went running thru the whisker wheat Chasing some prize down And a hawk was playing with him Coyote was jumping straight up and making passes He had those same eyes just like yours Under your dark glasses Privately probing the public rooms And peeking thru keyholes in numbered doors Where the players lick their wounds And take their temporary lovers And their pills and powders to get them thru this passion play No regrets Coyote Ill just get off up aways You just picked up a hitcher A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway Coyotes in the coffee shop Hes staring a hole in his scrambled eggs He picks up my scent on his fingers While hes watching the waitresses legs Hes too far from the Bay of Fundy From appaloosas and eagles and tides And the air conditioned cubicles And the carbon ribbon rides Are spelling it out so clear Either hes going to have to stand and fight Or take off out of here I tried to run away myself To run away and wrestle with my ego And with this flame You put here in this Eskimo In this hitcher In this prisoner Of the fine white lines Of the white lines on the free free way

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning And the first thing that I heard Was a song outside my window And the traffic wrote the words It came ringing up like Christmas bells And rapping up like pipes and drums Oh, wont you stay well put on the day And well wear it till the night comes Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning And the first thing that I saw Was the sun through yellow curtains And a rainbow on the wall Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you Crimson crystal beads to beckon Oh, wont you stay well put on the day Theres a sun show every second Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today And the streets are paved with passersby And pigeons fly, and papers lie Waiting to blow away Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning And the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey And a bowl of orange juice too And the sun poured in like butterscotch And stuck to all my senses Oh, wont you stay well put on the day And well talk in present tenses When the curtain closes And the rainbow runs away I will bring you incense owls by night By candlelight, by two jewel light If only you will stay Pretty baby wont you Wake up, it is a Chelsea morning

Blue Songs are like tattoos You know Ive been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey, blue There is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Well, theres so many sinking now You gotta keep thinking You can make it through these waves Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs Lots of laughs Everybodys saying that Hells the hippest way to go Well, I dont think so But Im gonna take a look around it, though Blue, I love you Blue, there is a shell for you Inside youll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby Thеre is your song from me

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im going to make a lot of money Then Im going to quit this crazy scene Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Putting up reindeer Singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here Stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Gonna quit this crazy scene Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry She tried hard to help me She put me at ease She loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That Ive ever had Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Yo, do you feel that? Uh, uh, what... Yeah, yeah, yeah... Got til its gone Got til its gone Got til its gone Got til its gone Make you fall in love In love with me again Im nasty Got til its gone Got til its gone Im nasty Got til its gone Got til its gone Yo, do you feel that? Im nasty

So I remember, um, Marianne, and Sue, and DeeDee, and, um, Connie, and I would be in chorus together. And we were always looking forward to those silly things you used to do at the end of the year. You know, those spring concerts. And, um, this was one of the songs we did one year. And I remember this was Mariannes favourite. Yesterday a child came out to wander Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like when youre older must appease him And promises of someday make up his dreams And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town And they tell him, Take your time, it wont be long now til you drag your feet to slow the circles down And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true Therell be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on this carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on this carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game

(The, uh, last song now And, uh, its another one youll know very well Because, uh, so many people have recorded it They all beat me to it and, uh, so Never got around to doing it But I still enjoy singing it And I hope youll like to hear it Its Both Sides Now) Bows and flows of angel hair Ice cream castles in the air And feathered canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its clouds illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel When every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now, its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way Now, old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say that Ive changed Though somethings lost but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all

Marlena under Foster Grants Shes undercover from the dawns advance That girl is travel-drained And the neon mercury vapor stained Miami sky Its red as meat Its a cheap pink rose Otis in the drivers seat Watches the street lights fade away On louvered blocks in green sea air In fluorescent fossil yards Slippers are shuffling into folding chairs Freckled hands are shuffling cards Theyve come for fun and sun While Muslims stick up Washington ... Otis empties out the trunk On the steps of that celebrated dump Sleazing by the sea Bow down to her royal travesty-- In her ballrooms heads of state-- In her bedrooms rented girls-- Always the grand parades of cellulite Jiggling to her golden pools Through flock and cupid colonnades They jiggle into surgery Hopefully beneath the blade They dream of golden beauty ... Theyve come for fun and sun While Muslims stick up Washington ... Marlena, white as stretcher sheet Watches it all from her 10th floor balcony Like its her opera box All those Pagliacci summer frocks Otis is fiddling with the TV dial All he gets are cartoons and reruns She taps her glass with an emery file Watching three rings in the sun The golden dive, the fatted flake And sizzle in the mink oil Its all a dream She has awake Checked into Miami Royal Where theyve come for fun and sun While Muslims hold up Washington ... Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on Dream on

Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, Constantly in the darkness Wheres that at? If you want me Ill be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh, Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh, you are in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet Oh, I would still be on my feet Oh, I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints Im frightened by the devil And Im drawn to those ones that aint afraid I remember that time you told me, you said Love is touching souls Surely you touched mine Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time Oh, you are in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling Still Id be on my feet I would still be on my feet I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed Oh, but you are in my blood, you are my holy wine Youre so bitter, bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling Still Id be on my feet I would still be on my feet

Let me speak let me spit out my bitterness Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me? Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company But now the janitors of Shadowland flick their brooms at me Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? Ive lost all taste for life Im all complaints Tell me why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints? And you let the wicked prosper You let their children frisk like deer And my loves are dead or dying, or they dont come near (Antagonists: We dont despise your chastening God is correcting you) Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress Oh, these pompous physicians What carelessness! (Antagonists: Oh all this ranting all this wind Filling our ears with trash) Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury! They come blaming and shaming And shattering me (Antagonists: This vain man wishes to seem wise A man born of asses) Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? Already on a bed of sighs and screams And still you torture me with visions You give me terrifying dreams! Better I was carried from the womb straight to the grave I see the diggers waiting, theyre leaning on their spades (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow Sure as the sparks ascend) Where is hope while youre wondering what went wrong? Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn? (Antagonists: Evil is sweet in your mouth Hiding under your tongue) Show your face! Help me understand! What is the reason for your heavy hand? (Antagonists: Youre stumbling in shadows You have no name now) Was it the sins of my youth? What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? Everything I dread and everything I fear come true Oh you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true

I awoke today and found The frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky Then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold And all the trees are shivering in a naked row I get the urge for going But I never seem to go I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I had a man in summertime He had summer-colored skin And not another girl in town My darlings heart could win But when the leaves fell on the ground And bully winds came around And pushed them face down in the snow He got the urge for going And I had to let him go He got the urge for going When the meadow grass was turning brown And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in Now the warriors of winter give a cold triumphant shout And all that stays is dying all that lives is gettin out See the geese in chevron flight Flapping and racing on before the snow They got the urge for going And theyve got the wings so they can go They get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And summertime is falling down and winter is closing in Ill ply the fire with kindling now Ill pull the blankets up to my chin Ill lock the vagrant winter out And Ill bolt my wandering in Id like to call back summertime And have her stay for just another month or so But shes got the urge for going So I guess shell have to go She gets the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And all her empires falling down And winters closing in And I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And summertime is Falling Down

Joanie was an unmarried girl just turned twenty-seven When they sent her to the sisters because of the way men looked at her Branded as a jezebel she knew she was not bound for heaven She had been cast in shame into the Magdalene laundries Most girls went there pregnant some by their own fathers Bridget got her belly from the Parish Priest Theyre trying to wash things as white as snow, all of those woe-begotten daughters In the steaming stains of the Magdalene laundries Prostitutes and destitutes and temptresses like Joanie Fallen women sentenced into dreamless drudgery Why do the call this place Our Lady of Charity? Of Charity? These bloodless brides of Jesus if they could just once glimpse their groom Theyd drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries They wilt the grass they walk upon they leech the light out of a room Theyd like to wash those girls down the drains of The Magdalene Laundries Peg OConnell died today, she was a cheeky girl, they stuffed her in a hole Surely to God youd think at least some bells should ring Joanie thinks shell die there too and that theyll tramp her in the dirt Like some lame bulb that never will bloom when the springtime comes When the springtime comes

If youre driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Whos bound to love you Oh honey you turn me on Im a radio Im a country station Im a little bit corny Im a wildwood flower Waving for you Broadcasting tower Waving for you And Im sending you out This signal here I hope you can pick it up Loud and clear I know you dont like weak women You get bored so quick And you dont like strong women Cause theyre hip to your tricks Its been dirty for dirty Down the line But you know I come when you whistle When youre loving and kind But if youve got too many doubts If theres no good reception for me Then tune me out, cause honey Who needs the static It hurts the head And you wind up cracking And the day goes dismal From Breakfast Barney To the sign-off prayer What a sorry face you get to wear Im going to tell you again now If youre still listening there If youre driving into town With a dark cloud above you Dial in the number Whos bound to love you If youre lying on the beach With the transistor going Kick off the sandflies honey The loves still flowing If your head says forget it But your hearts still smoking Call me at the station The lines are open

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot a money Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me And put me at ease He loved so naughty Maybe we can learn these I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish Im sad Now we gonna lost the best baby that Ive ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

The big man arrives Disco dancers greet him Plainclothes cops greet him Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening Sophomore jive From victims of typewriters The band sounds like typewriters The big man hes not listening His eyes hold Edith His left hand holds his right What does that hand desire That he grips it so tight Edith in the ring The passed over girls are conferring The man with the diamond ring is purring All claws for now withdrawn One by one they bring His renegade stories to her His crimes and his glories to her In challenge they look on Women he has taken grow old too soon He tilts their tired faces Gently to the spoon Edith in his bed A plane in the rain is humming The wires in the walls are humming Some song some mysterious song Bars in her head Beating frantic and snowblind Romantic and snowblind She says his crime belongs Edith and the Kingpin Each with charm to sway Are staring eye to eye They dare not look away You know they dare not look away

I was driving across the burning desert When I spotted six jet planes Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain It was the hexagram of the heavens It was the strings of my guitar Amelia, it was just a false alarm The drone of flying engines Is a song so wild and blue It scrambles time and seasons if it gets through to you And then your life becomes a travelogue Of picture postcard charms Amelia, it was just a false alarm Now people will tell you where theyve gone Theyll tell you where to go But till you get there yourself you will never really know Where some have found their paradise Others just come to harm Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm I wish that she was here tonight Its so hard to obey Her sad request of me to kindly stay away So this is how I hide the hurt As the road leads cursed and charmed I tell Amelia, it was just a false alarm A ghost of aviation She was swallowed by the sky Or by the sea, like me she had a dream to fly Like Icarus ascending On beautiful foolish arms Amelia, it was just a false alarm Now maybe Ive never really loved I guess that is the truth Ive spent my whole life in clouds at icy altitude And looking down on everything I crashed into her arms Amelia, it was just a false alarm I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel To shower off the dust And I slept on the strange pillows of my wanderlust I dreamed of 747s Over geometric farms Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms

Out on some borderline Some mark of inbetween I lay down golden-in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere with your wings on time You must be laughing Behind our eyes Calendars of our lives Circled with compromise Sweet bird of time and change You must be laughing Up on your feathers laughing Golden in time Cities under the sand Power, ideals and beauty Fading in everyones hand Give me some time I feel like Im losing mine Out here on this horizon line With the earth spinning And the sky forever rushing No one knows They can never get that close Guesses at most Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching Guesses based on what each set of time and change is touching

Ill try to keep myself open up to you Thats a promise that I made to love When it was new Just like Jericho I said Let these walls come tumbling down I said it like I finally found the way To keep the good feelings alive I said it like it was something to strive for Ill try to keep myself open up to you And approve your self expression I need that too I need your confidence baby And the gift of your extra time In turn Ill give you mine Sweet darling its a rich exchange It seems to me Its a warm arrangement Anyone will tell you Just how hard it is to make and keep a friend Maybe theyll short sell you Or maybe its you Judas in the end When you just can no longer pretend That youre getting what you need Or youre giving out anything for them to grow and feed on Ill try to keep myself open up to you It gets easier and easier to do Just like Jericho Let these walls come tumbling down now Let them fall right on the ground Let all these dogs go running free The wild and the gentle dogs Kenneled in me

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldnt sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here, Carey But its really not my home My fingernails are filthy I got beach tar on my feet And I miss my clean white linen And my fancy French cologne Oh, Carey, get out your cane And Ill put on some silver Oh, youre a mean old Daddy But I like you fine Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will Buy you a bottle of wine And well laugh and toast to nothing And smash our empty glasses down Lets have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Lets have another round for the bright red devil Who keeps me in this tourist town Come on, Carey, get out your cane Ill put on some silver Oh, youre a mean old Daddy But I like you I like you, I like you, I like you Maybe Ill go to Amsterdam Or maybe Ill go to Rome And rent me a grand piano And put some flowers round my room But lets not talk about fare-thee-wells now The night is a starry dome And theyre playin that scratchy rock and roll Beneath the Matala Moon Come on, Carey, get out your cane And Ill put on some silver Youre a mean old Daddy But I like you The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldnt sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here But its really not my home Maybe its been too long a time Since I was scramblin down in the street Now they got me used to that clean white linen And that fancy French cologne Oh, Carey, get out your cane Ill put on my finest silver Well go to the Mermaid Café Have fun tonight I said, oh, youre a mean old Daddy But youre out of sight

Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its cloud illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all

Caught in the middle Carol were middle class Were middle aged We were wild in the old days Birth of rock n roll days Now your kids are coming up straight And my childs a stranger I bore her But I could not raise her Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe Wed be dreaming on our dimes Wed be playing Oh my love, my darling One more time Uranium money Is booming in the old home town now Its putting up sleek concrete Tearing the old landmarks down now Paving over brave little parks Ripping off Indian land again How long how long Short sighted business men Ah nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe Wed be dreaming on our dimes Wed be playing You give your love, so sweetly One more time Christmas is sparkling Out on Carols lawn This girl of my childhood games With kids nearly grown and gone Grown so fast Like the turn of a page We look like our mothers did now When we were those kids age Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Nothing lasts for long Down at the Chinese Cafe Wed be dreaming on our dimes Wed be playing Oh my love, my darling Ive hungered for your touch A long lonely time And time goes by so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? I need your love I need your love God speed your love to me (Time goes - where does the time go I wonder where the time goes)

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Putting up reindeer Singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Gonna leave this crazy scene Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry You tried hard to help me You know, you put me at ease And you loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That I ever had Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away, away, away, away

He is three Ones in the middle unmoved Waiting To show what he sees To the other two To the one attacking so afraid And the one that keeps trying to love and trust And getting himself betrayed In the plan oh The divine plan God must be a boogie man! Ones so sweet So overly loving and gentle He lets people in To his innermost sacred temple Blind faith to care Blind rage to kill Whyd he let them talk him down To cheap work and cheap thrills In the plan oh The insulting plan God must be a boogie man! Which would it be Mingus one or two or three Which one do you think hed want the world to see Well world opinions not a lot of help When a mans only trying to find out How to feel about himself In the plan oh The cock-eyed plan God must be a boogie man!

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak at the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im sеlfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the bеst baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road So I asked him: Where are you going? And this he told me: Im going on down to Yasgurs Farm Im gonna join in a rock and roll band Im gonna camp out on the land Im gonna try and set my soul free We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves back to the garden Then can I walk beside you? I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe its the time of man I dont know who I am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves back to the garden By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky Turning into butterflies Across our nation We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves back to the garden

Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and its all bad They wont give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldnt wanna stay here Its too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh, but California California, Im comin home Im going to see the folks I dig Ill even kiss a Sunset pig California, Im comin home I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who spent my money very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh, the rogue, the red, red rogue He cooked good omelets and stews And I might have stayed on with him there But my heart cried out for you, oh, California California, Im comin, comin, comin, home Oh, make me feel good rock n roll band Im your biggest fan California, Im comin home Oh, it gets so lonely When youre walking in a street of strangers All the news of home you read Just give you the blues So I bought a ticket I caught a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue They said, How long can you hang around? I said a week, maybe two Just until my skin turns brown And then Im going home to California California, Im comin home Oh, will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man California, Im comin home Oh, it gets so lonely When youre walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Ohh, will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Ohh, will you take me as I am? Will you? Will you? Will you take me as I am? Hmmm mmmmm Will you take me as I am?

Theres a man whos been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free Theres a man whos climbed a mountain And hes calling out her name And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles He calls again He can think her there beside him He can miss her just the same He has missed her in the forest While he showed her all the flowers And the branches sang the chorus As he climbed the scaly towers Of a forest tree While she was somewhere being free Theres a man whos sent a letter And hes waiting for reply He has asked her of her travels Since the day they said goodbye He writes Wish you were beside me We can make it if we try He has seen her at the office With her name on all his papers Through the sharing of the profits He will find it hard to shake her From his memory And shes so busy being free Theres a lady in the city And she thinks she loves them all Theres the one whos thinking of her Theres the one who sometimes calls Theres the one who writes her letters With his facts and figures scrawl She has brought them to her senses They have laughed inside her laughter Now she rallies her defenses For she fears that one will ask her For eternity And shes so busy being free Theres a man who sends her medals He is bleeding from the war Theres a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store Theres a drummer and a dreamer And you know there may be more She will love them when she sees them They will lose her if they follow And she only means to please them And her heart is full and hollow Like a cactus tree While shes so busy being free Like a cactus tree Being free

Sitting in a park in Paris, France Reading the news and it sure looks bad They wont give peace a chance That was just a dream some of us had Still a lot of lands to see But I wouldnt wanna stay here Its too old and cold and settled in its ways here Oh, but California California, Im coming home Im going to see the folks I dig Ill even kiss a Sunset pig California, Im coming home I met a redneck on a Grecian isle Who did the goat dance very well He gave me back my smile But he kept my camera to sell Oh, the rogue, the red red rogue He cooked good omelets and stews And I might have stayed on with him there But my heart cried out for you, California Oh, California, Im coming home Oh, make me feel good rock n roll band Im your biggest fan California, Im coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When youre walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read Just gives you the blues Just gives you the blues So I bought me a ticket I got on a plane to Spain Went to a party down a red dirt road There were lots of pretty people there Reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue They said, How long can you hang around? I said a week, maybe two Just until my skin turns brown Then Im going home to California California, Im coming home Oh, will you take me as I am Strung out on another man California, Im coming home Oh, it gets so lonely When youre walking And the streets are full of strangers All the news of home you read More about the war And the bloody changes Oh, will you take me as I am? Will you take me as I am? Will you? Will you take me as I am? Hmmm mmmmm Take me as I am

See the stretching sun at dawning Wipe the stardust from his eyes Feel the morning breezes yawning Telling me its time to rise Telling me its time to rise I was born to take the highway I was born to chase a dream Any road at all is my way Any place is where Ive been Anything is what Ive seen Gamblers gold is meant for squandering Misers silver is to hoard My gold cross the sky goes wandering My silver is a drinking gourd My silver is the drinking gourd I was born to take the highway I was born to chase a dream Any road at all is my way Any place is where Ive been Anything is what Ive seen Ive skipped on concrete, danced on cobbles Stepped on pavement in the heat Ive seen where children crouched at marbles Drew chalk circles in the street Found a penny at my feet I was born to take the highway I was born to chase a dream Any road at all is my way Any place is where Ive been Anything is what Ive seen Now, I know a road that winds forever Through the land the rainbows run You cross the bridge from now til never Take the first turn past the sun Take the first turn beyond the sun I was born to take the highway I was born to chase a dream Any road at all is my way Any place is where Ive been Anything is what Ive seen

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im sеlfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the bеst baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Theres a crow flying Black and ragged, tree to tree Its black as that highway thats leading me Now hes diving down to pick up On something shiny Im like that black crow flying In a blue sky Took the ferry to a highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane Took the plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train Ive been traveling so long Howm I ever going to know my home When I see it again Im like that black crow flying In a blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been illumination, corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving Diving down to pick up On every shiny little thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue, blue sky I saw the back crow flying, flying, flying In a blue, blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face In the bathroom light I looked out the window And I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw the back crow flying, flying, flying In a blue sky

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its clouds illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and ferries wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends theyre acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all

Help me I think Im falling In love again When I get That crazy feeling I know Im in trouble again Im in trouble Cause youre a rambler And a gambler And a sweet-talking Ladies man And you love your loving But not like you Love your freedom Help me I think Im falling In love too fast Its got me Hoping for the future And worrying About the past Cause Ive seen Some hot hot blazes Come down to smoke And ash We love our loving But not like We love our freedom Didnt it feel good We were sitting There talking Or there not talking Didnt it feel good You dance with the lady With the hole In her stocking Didnt it feel good Didnt it feel good Didnt it feel good Didnt it feel good Help me I think Im falling In love with you Are you going to Let me go There by myself Thats such A lonely thing to do Both of us Flirting around Flirting and flirting Hurting too We love our loving But not like We love our freedom

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in 68 And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark café You laugh he said you think youre immune Go look at your eyes theyre full of moon You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you All those pretty lies pretty lies When you gonna realize theyre only pretty lies Only pretty lies just pretty lies He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer and he pushed Three buttons and the thing began to whirr And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie And she said Drink up now its getting on time to close Richard, you havent really changed I said Its just that now youre romanticizing some pain thats in your head You got tombs in your eyes but the songs you punched are dreaming Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet When you gonna get yourself back on your feet? Oh and love can be so sweet Love so sweet Richard got married to a figure skater And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on And all the house lights left up bright Im gonna blow this damn candle out I dont want nobody comin over to my table I got nothing to talk to anybody about All good dreamers pass this way some day Hidin behind bottles in dark cafes dark cafes Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away Only a phase these dark café days

No tongue in the bell And the fishwives yell But they might as well be mute So you get to keep the pictures That dont seem like much Cold white keys under your fingers Now youre thinking Thats no substitute It just dont do it Like the song of a warm warm body Loving your touch In the court they carve your legend With an apple in its jaw And the women that you wanted They get their laughs Long silk stockings On the bedposts of refinement Youre too raw They think youre too raw Its the judgement of the moon and stars Your solitary path Draw yourself a bath Think what youd like to have For supper Or take a walk A park A bridge A tree A river Revoked but not yet cancelled The gift goes on In silence In a bell jar Still a song Youve got to shake your fists at lightning now Youve got to roar like forest fire Youve got to spread your light like blazes All across the sky Theyre going to aim the hoses on you Show em you wont expire Not till you burn up every passion Not even when you die Come on now Youve got to try If youre feeling contempt Well then you tell it If youre tired of the silent night Jesus well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers Strike every chord that you feel That broken trees And elephant ivories conceal

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its clouds illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and ferries wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way Oh but now old friends Theyre acting strange They shake their heads and they tell me that Ive changed Well somethings lost But somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now © Crazy Crow Music / Siquomb Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management

Turning and turning Within the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart The center cannot hold And a blood dimmed tide Is loosed upon the world Nothing is sacred The ceremony sinks Innocence is drowned In anarchy The best lack conviction Given some time to think And the worst are full of passion Without mercy Surely some revelation is at hand Surely its the second coming And the wrath has finally taken form For what is this rough beast Its hour come at last Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born Hoping and hoping As if by my weak faith The spirit of this world Would heal and rise Vast are the shadows That straddle and strafe And struggle in the darkness Troubling my eyes Shaped like a lion It has the head of a man With a gaze as blank And pitiless as the sun And its moving its slow thighs Across the desert sands Through dark indignant Reeling falcons Surely some revelation is at hand Surely its the second coming And wrath has finally taken form For what is this rough beast Its hour come at last Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born Raging and raging It rises from the deep Opening its eyes After twenty centuries Vexed to a nightmare Out of a stony sleep By a rocking cradle By the Sea of Galilee Surely some revelation is at hand Surely its the second coming And wrath has finally taken form For what is this rough beast Its hour come at last Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

Die Weihnachtszeit ist bald da Sie fällen alle Tannen Stellen alles auf und Überall Gesang Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann Dieses Jahr gibt es keinen Schnee Es bleibt ziemlich grün Ich wünscht ich hätte so viel Könnte einfach fliegen Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann Der Fluss wär dann so lang Fließe ich davon Oh, ich wünschtе ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dеm ich fortfließen kann Sie weint wieder wegen mir Sie wollte mir nur helfen Dinge leicht zu nehmen Doch Liebe ist auch Angst und Ich hab weiche Knie Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann Mit mir ist es nicht leicht Und ich denk oft an mich Jetzt bist du weg und alles Schöne nimmst du mit Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann Der Fluss wär dann so lang Fließe ich davon Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann Die Weihnachtszeit ist bald da Sie fällen alle Tannen Stellen alles auf und Überall Gesang Oh, ich wünschte ich hätte einen Fluss Auf dem ich fortfließen kann

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him where are you going And this he told me Im going on down to Yasgurs farm Im going to join in a rock n roll band Im going to camp out on the land Im going to try an get my soul free We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden Then can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe its the time of man I dont know who I am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devils bargain And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its cloud illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As evry fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all

I pulled up behind a Cadillac We were waiting for the light And I took a look at his license plate It said Just Ice Is justice just ice? Governed by greed and lust? Just the strong doing what they can And the weak suffering what they must? And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills Sex kills Doctors pills give you brand new ills And the bills bury you like an avalanche And lawyers havent been this popular Since Robespierre slaughtered half of France! And Indian chiefs with their old beliefs know The balance is undone crazy ions You can feel it out in traffic Everyone hates everyone! And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills Sex kills All these jackoffs at the office The rapist in the pool Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries Little kids packin guns to school The ulcerated ozone These tumors of the skin This hostile sun beating down on This massive mess were in! And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills Sex kills Sex kills Sex kills Sex kills

It was a rainy night We took a taxi to your mothers home She went to Florida and left you With you fathers gun, alone Upon her small white bed I fell into a dream You sat up all the night and watched me To see, who in the world I might be I am from the Sunday school I sing soprano in the upstairs choir You are a holy man On the FM radio I sat up all the night and watched thee To see, who in the world you might be You called me beautiful You called your mother - she was very tanned So you packed your tent and went To live out in the Arizona sand You are a refugee From a wealthy family You gave up all the golden factories To see, who in the world you might be

Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, Constantly in the darkness Wheres that at? If you want me Ill be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh, Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh, you are in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling And I would still be on my feet Oh, I would still be on my feet Oh, I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints Im frightened by the devil And Im drawn to those ones that aint afraid I remember that time you told me, you said Love is touching souls Surely you touched mine Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time Oh, you are in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling Still Id be on my feet I would still be on my feet I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed Oh, but you are in my blood, you are my holy wine Youre so bitter, bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling Still Id be on my feet I would still be on my feet

Cold Blue Steel out of money One eye for the beat police Sweet Fire calling You cant deny me Now you know what you need Underneath the jungle gym Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief Looking for Sweet Fire Shadow of Lady Release Come with me I know the way she says Its down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first? Leave someone a letter? You can come now Or you can come later A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer Edgy - black cracks of the sky Pin-cushion-prick- Fix this poor bad dreamer! Money cold shadows reply Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked Corridors spit on prayers and pleas Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire Black soot of Lady Release Come with me I know the way she says Its down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first? Does it really matter You can come now Or you can come later? Red water in the bathroom sink Fever and the scum brown bowl Blue Steel still begging But its indistinct Someones HI-Fi drumming Jelly Roll Concrete concentration camp Bashing in veins for peace Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Fall into Lady Release Come with me I know the way she says Its down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first? I mean what does it really matter? Youre going to come now Or youre going to come later

I met a friend of spirit A drunk with sages eyes And I sat before his sanity I was holding back from crying He saw my complications And he mirrored me back simplified And we laughed how our perfection Would always be denied Heart and humor and humility He said Will lighten up your heavy load I left him for the refuge of the roads I fell in with some drifters Cast upon a beachtown Winn Dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downs And I wound up fixing dinner For them and Boston Jim I well up with affection Thinking back down the roads to then The nets were overflowing In the Gulf of Mexico They were overflowing in the refuge of the roads There was spring along the ditches There were good times in the cities Oh radiant happiness It was all so light and easy Till I started analyzing And I brought on my old ways A thunderhead of judgment was Gathering in my gaze And it made most people nervous They just didnt want to know What I was seeing in the refuge of the roads I pulled off into a forest Crickets clicking in the ferns Like a wheel of fortune I heard my fate turn turn turn And I went running down a white sand road I was running like a white-assed deer Running to lose the blues To the innocence in here These are the clouds of Michelangelo Muscular with gods and sungold Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads In a highway service station Over the month of June Was a photograph of the earth Taken coming back from the moon And you couldnt see a city On that marbled bowling ball Or a forest or a highway Or me here least of all You couldnt see these cold water restrooms Or this baggage overload Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like when youre older must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town And they tell him take your time it wont be long now Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true Therell be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him where are you going And this he told me Im going on down to Yasgurs farm Im going to join in a rock n roll band Im going to camp out on the land Im going to try an get my soul free We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden Then can I walk beside you I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe its the time of man I dont know who I am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers Riding shotgun in the sky And they were turning into butterflies Above our nation We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devils bargain And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden

Everybody looks so ill at ease So distrustful so displeased Running down the table I see a borderline Like a barbed wire fence Strung tight strung tense Prickling with pretense A borderline Why are you smirking at your friend? Is this to be the night when All well-wishing ends? All credibility revoked? Thin skin thick jokes! Can we blame it on the smoke This borderline? Every bristling shaft of pride Church or nation Team or tribe Every notion we subscribe to Is just a borderline Good or bad we think we know As if thinking makes things so! All convictions grow along a borderline Smug in your jaded expertise You scathe the wonder world And you praise barbarity In this illusionary place This scared hard-edged rat race All liberty is laced with Borderlines Every income every age Every fashion-plated rage Every measure every gauge Creates a borderline Every stone thrown through glass Every mean-streets-kick ass Every swan caught on the grass Will draw a borderline You snipe so steady You snub so snide So ripe and ready To diminish and deride! Youre so quick to condescend My opinionated friend All you deface all you defend Is just a borderline Just a borderline Another borderline Just a borderline

Old Beale Street is coming down Sweeties Snack Bar boarded up now And Egles the Tailor and the Shine Boys gone Faded out with ragtime blues Handys cast in bronze And hes standing in a little park With a trumpet in his hand Like hes listening back to the good old bands And the click of high heeled shoes Old Furry sings the blues Propped up in his bed With his dentures and his leg removed And Ginnys there For her kindness and Furrys beer Shes the old mans angel overseer Pawn shops glitter like gold tooth caps In the grey decay They chew the last few dollars off Old Beale Streets carcass Carrion and mercy Blue and silver sparkling drums Cheap guitars eye shades and guns Aimed at the hot blood of being no one Down and out in Memphis Tennessee Old Furry sings the blues You bring him smoke and drink and hell play for you Lts mostly muttering now and sideshow spiel But there was one song he played I could really feel Theres a double bill murder at the New Daisy The old girls silent across the street Shes silent waiting for the wreckers beat Silent staring at her stolen name Diamond boys and satin dolls Bourbon laughter ghosts history falls To parking lots and shopping malls As they tear down old Beale Street Old Furry sings the blues He points a bony finger at you and says I dont like you Everybody laughs as if its the old mans standard joke But its true Were only welcome for our drink and smoke W. C. Handy Im rich and Im fey And Im not familiar with what you played But I get such strong impressions of your hey day Looking up and down old Beale Street Ghosts of the darktown society Come right out of the bricks at me Like its a Saturday night Theyre in their finery Dancing it up and making deals Furry sings the blues Why should I expect that old guy to give it to me true Fallen to hard luck And time and other thieves While our limo is shining on his shanty street Old Furry sings the blues

Im traveling in some vehicle Im sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away Theres comfort in melancholy When theres no need to explain Its just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now Im returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world As snow gathers like bolts of lace Waltzing on a ballroom girl You know it never has been easy Whether you do or you do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of extremities Or stick to some straighter line Now heres a man and a woman sitting on a rock Theyre either going to thaw out or freeze Listen Strains of Benny Goodman Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees Im porous with travel fever But you know Im so glad to be on my own Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger Can set up trembling in my bones I know no ones going to show me everything We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial Between the forceps and the stone Well I looked at the granite markers Those tribute to finality to eternity And then I looked at myself here Chicken scratching for my immortality In the church they light the candles And the wax rolls down like tears Theres the hope and the hopelessness Ive witnessed thirty years Were only particles of change I know I know Orbiting around the sun But how can I have that point of view When Im always bound and tied to someone White flags of winter chimneys Waving truce against the moon In the mirrors of a modern bank From the window of a hotel room Im traveling in some vehicle Im sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars Until love sucks me back that way

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some Oh I love you when I forget about me I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby Do you want to take a chance On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby Well, come on All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you too All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause - Life is our cause When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws Do you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby So I hurt you too Then we both get so blue I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling Its the unraveling And it undoes all the joy that could be I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun I want to be the one that you want to see I want to knit you a sweater Want to write you a love letter I want to make you feel better I want to make you feel free I want to make you feel free

Im down to a roll of dimes Im stalking the slot thats hot I keep hearing bells all around me Jingling in the lucky jackpots They keep you tantalized They keep you reaching for your wallet Here in fools paradise I talked to a cat from Des Moines He said he ran a cleaning plant That cat was clanking with coin Well he must have had a genie in a lamp cause every time I dropped a dime I blew it He kept ringing bells Nothing to it! He got three oranges Three lemons Three cherries Three plums Im losing my taste for fruit Watching the dry cleaner do it Like Midas in a polyester suit Its all luck! Its just luck! You get a little lucky and you make a little money! I followed him down the strip He picked out a booth at Circus Circus Where the cowgirls fill the room With their big balloons The cleaner was pitching with purpose! He had Dinos and Pooh Bears And lions pink and blue there He couldnt lose there! Des Moines was stacking the chips Raking off the tables Ringing the bandits bells This is a story thats a drag to tell Since I lost every dime I laid on the line But the cleaner from Des Moines Could put a coin In the door of a John And get twenty for one Its just luck!

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Then Im going to quit this crazy scene Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Blue songs are like tattoos You know Ive been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Well therere so many sinking now Youve got to keep thinking You can make it thru these waves Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs lots of laughs Everybodys saying that hells the hippest way to go Well I dont think so But Im gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you Blue here is a shell for you Inside youll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me

Rows and flows of angel here And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I’ve looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done The clouds got in my way I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions that I recall I really don’t know clouds at all Moons and tunes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way that you feel As every fairy tale comes real I looked at love that way But now it’s just another joke You leave them laughing when you go And if you care, don’t let them know Don’t give yourself away I looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It’s love’s illusions that I recall I really don’t know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I’ve looked at life that way Oh but now, old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living every day I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow It’s life’s illusions that I recall I really don’t know life at all

Look out the left, the captain said The lights down there, thats where well land Saw a falling star burning High above the Las Vegas sand It wasnt the one that you gave to me That night down south between the trailers Not the early one that you wish upon Not the northern one that guides in the sailors Youve got that touch so gentle and sweet But youve got that look so cryptical Cant talk to you babe, you know I get so weak Sometimes I think that love is just mythical Up theres a heaven, down theres a town Blackness everywhere any little lights shine Blackness, blackness draggin me down Come on light a candle in this heart of mine Starbright, starbright, youve got the lovin that I like Turn this crazy bird around Should not have got on this flight tonight Im drinkin sweet champagne, got the headphones up high Cant numb you, cant drum you out of my mind Theyre singin, Goodbye baby Baby bye-bye Ooh! Love is blind Up go the flaps, down go the wheels Hope you got your heat turned on, baby Hope theyve finally fixed your automobile Hope its better when we meet again, babe Starbright, starbright, youve got the lovin that I like Turn this crazy bird around Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight

Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said Constantly in the darkness Wheres that at? If you want me Ill be in the bar On the back of a cartoon coaster In the blue TV screen light I drew a map of Canada Oh Canada With your face sketched on it twice Oh youre in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling Still Id be on my feet Oh I would still be on my feet Oh I am a lonely painter I live in a box of paints Im frightened by the devil And Im drawn to those ones that aint afraid I remember that time you told me you said Love is touching souls Surely you touched mine Cause part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time Oh, youre in my blood like holy wine You taste so bitter and so sweet Oh I could drink a case of you darling And I would still be on my feet I would still be on my feet I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed Oh but you are in my blood Youre my holy wine Youre so bitter, bitter and so sweet Oh, I could drink a case of you darling Still Id be on my feet I would still be on my feet

I am a woman of heart and mind With time on her hands No child to raise You come to me like a little boy And I give you my scorn and my praise You think Im like your mother Or another lover or your sister Or the queen of your dreams Or just another silly girl When love makes a fool of me After the rush when you come back down Youre always disappointed Nothing seems to keep you high Drive your bargains Push your papers Win your medals Fuck your strangers Dont it leave you on the empty side Im looking for affection and respect A little passion And you want stimulation-nothing more Thats what I think But you know Ill try to be there for you When your spirits start to sink All this talk about holiness now It must be the start of the latest style Is it all books and words Or do you really feel it? Do you really laugh? Do you really care? Do you really smile When you smile? You criticize and you flatter You imitate the best And the rest you memorize You know the times you impress me most Are the times when you dont try When you dont even try

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money Then Im gonna quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That I ever had I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Tomorrow is Sunday Now theres only one day left to go Till you walk by Below my window The weekends drive me mad Holidays are oh too sad Cause you dont go Below my window No one knows Im here One day I just disappeared And I took these two grey rooms up here With a view When you walk by Below my window You look so youthful Time has been untruthful Heaven knows I loved you 30 years ago Hot days your shirts undone Rainy days you run Oh and then you fade so fast Below my window No one knows Im here One day I just disappeared And I took these two grey rooms up here With a view Only when you walk by Below my window When you walk by Below my window Below my window Hey hey Below my window Below my window Below my window

Im traveling in some vehicle I’m sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away Theres comfort in melancholy When theres no need to explain It’s just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now Im returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world As snow gathers like bolts of lace Waltzing on a ballroom girl You know it never has been easy Whether you do or you do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of extremities Or stick to some straighter line Now heres a man and a woman sitting on a rock Theyre either going to thaw out or freeze Listen Strains of Benny Goodman Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees Im porous with travel fever But you know Im so glad to be on my own Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger Can set up trembling in my bones I know no ones going to show me everything We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial Between the forceps and the stone Well I looked at the granite markers Those tribute to finality to eternity And then I looked at myself here Chicken scratching for my immortality In the church they light the candles And the wax rolls down like tears Theres the hope and the hopelessness I’ve witnessed thirty years We’re only particles of change I know I know Orbiting around the sun But how can I have that point of view When Im always bound and tied to someone White flags of winter chimneys Waving truce against the moon In the mirrors of a modern bank From the window of a hotel room I’m traveling in some vehicle Im sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars Until love sucks me back that way

Theres a man whos been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing of the water weeds While she was busy being free Theres a man whos climbed a mountain And hes calling out her name And he hopes her heart can hear 3,000 miles he calls again He can think of her there beside him He can miss her just the same He has missed her in the forest While he showed her all of the flowers And the branches sang the chorus As he climbed the scaly towers of a forest tree While she was somewhere being free Theres a man who sent a letter And hes waiting for a reply He has asked her of her travels Since the day they said goodbye He writes, Wish you were beside me We could make it if we try He has seen her at the office With her name on all his papers Through the sharing of the profits He will find it hard to shake her from these memories And shes so busy being free Theres a lady in the city, and she thinks she loves them all Theres the one whos thinking of her Theres the one who sometimes calls Theres the one who writes her letters These facts and figures scrawl She has brought them to her senses They have laughed inside her laughter Now she rallies her defenses For she fears that one will ask her for eternity While she is so busy being free Theres a man who sends her medals And he is bleeding from the war Theres a jouster and a jester And a man who owns a store Theres a drummer and a dreamer And you know there may be more She will love them when she sees them They will lose her, if they follow And she only means to please them And her heart is full and hollow like a cactus tree While shes so busy being free Like a cactus tree Being free

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) They took all the trees, put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees, please Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) Late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot I said, dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Theres a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree Hes black as the highway thats leading me Now hes diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue sky I took a ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I took a plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train Ive been traveling so long Howm I ever going to know my home When I see it again Im like a black crow flying In a blue blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving diving diving diving Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked out the window And I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw a back crow flying In a blue sky Oh Im like a black crow flying In a blue sky

The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldnt sleep Oh, you know it sure is hard to leave here Carey But its really not my home My fingernails are filthy, I got beach tar on my feet And I miss my clean white linen and my fancy French cologne Oh Carey get out your cane And Ill put on some silver Oh youre a mean old Daddy But I like you fine Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will Buy you a bottle of wine And well laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down Lets have a round for these freaks and these soldiers A round for these friends of mine Lets have another round for the bright red devil Who keeps me in this tourist town Come on Carey get out your cane Ill put on some silver Oh youre a mean old Daddy But I like you Maybe Ill go to Amsterdam Maybe Ill go to Rome And rent me a grand piano And put some flowers round my room But lets not talk about fare-thee-wells now The night is a starry dome And theyre playin that scratchy rock and roll Beneath the Matala Moon Come on Carey get out your cane Ill put on some silver Well go to the Mermaid Café Have fun tonight The wind is in from Africa Last night I couldnt sleep Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here But its really not my home Maybe its been too long a time Since I was scramblin down in the street Now they got me used to that clean white linen And that fancy French cologne Oh Carey get out your cane Ill put on my finest silver Well go to the Mermaid Café Have fun tonight I said, Oh, youre a mean old Daddy but I like you But youre out of sight

Its a long long way from Canada A long way from snow chains Donkey vendors slicing coconut No parkas to their name Black babies covered in baking flour The cooks got a carnival song Were going to lay down some place shady With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland Walter Raleigh and Chris Columbus Come marching out of the waves And claim the beach and all concessions In the name of the suntan slave I wrapped that flag around me Like a Dorothy Lamour sarong And I lay down thinking national With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland Goodtime Mary and a fortune hunter All dressed up to follow the drums Mary in a feather hula-hoop Miss Fortune with a rose on her big game gun All saints all sinners shining Heed those trumpets all night long Propped up on a samba beat With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland Tar baby and the Great White Wonder Talking over a glass of rum Burning on the inside With the knowledge of things to come Theres gambling out on the terrace And midnight ramblin on the lawn As they lead toward temptation With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland In a plane flying back to winter In shoes full of tropic sand A lady in a foreign flag On the arm of her Marlboro Man The hawk howls in New York City Six foot drifts on Myrtles lawn As they push the recline buttons down With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland African sand on the trade winds And the sun on the Amazon As they push the recline buttons down With dreamland coming on Dreamland dreamland Dreamland dreamland

I met you on the Midway at a fair last year And you stood out like a ruby in a black mans ear You were playin on the horses, you were playin on the strings; You were playin like a devil wearin wings Wearin wings, you looked so grand, wearin wings Do you tape them to your shoulders just to sing? Can you fly? I heard you can. Can you fly? Like an eagle doin your huntin from the sky I followed with the sideshows to another town And I saw you on a trailer on the camping grounds You were betting on some lovers, you were shaking up the dice And I thought I saw you cheatin once or twice Once or twice, I heard your did, once or twice Were you wondrin was the gamble worth the price? Pack it in, I heard you did, pack it in Was it hard to fold a hand you knew could win? So lately youve been hidin, it was somewhere in the news And Im still at these races with my ticket stubs and blues And a voice calls out the numbers, and it sometimes mentions mine; And I feel like Ive been workin overtime Over time, Im gettin tired, over time Always playin one more hand for one more dime Slowin down, Im gettin tired, slowin down; And I envy you the valley that youve found Cause Im midway down the Midway Slowin down

Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in the way I looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its cloud illusions I recall Oh no, I really dont know clouds now at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheel The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real You know, Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave them laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away And I looked at love from both sides now From give and take, but still somehow Its loves illusions I recall Oh no, I really dont know love at all Now, tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud And dreams and schemes and circus crowds You know, Ive looked at life that way Oh but now, old friends, are acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well, somethings lost but somethings gained In living every day I looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, but still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall Oh no, I really dont know clouds now And I really dont know love And I really dont now life at all

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where Never mind their questions theres no answer for The roll of the harbor wake The songs that the rigging makes The taste of the spray he takes And he learns to give He aches and he learns to live He stakes all his silver On a promise to be free Mermaids live in colonies All his seadreams come to me City satins left at home I will not need them I believe him when he tells of loving me Something truthful in the sea your lies will find you Leave behind your streets he said and come to me Come down from the neon nights Come down from the tourist sights Run down till the rain delights you You do not hide Sunlight will renew your pride Skin white by skin golden Like a promise to be free Dolphins playing in the sea All his seadreams come to me Seabird I have seen you fly above the pilings I am smiling at your circles in the air I will come and sit by you while he lies sleeping Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share A dream that you love someone A dream that the wars are done A dream that you tell no one but the grey sea Theyll say that youre crazy And a dream of a baby Like a promise to be free Children laughing out to sea All his seadreams come to me

All the people at this party Theyve got a lot of style Theyve got stamps of many countries Theyve got passport smiles Some are friendly Some are cutting Some are watching it from the wings Some are standing in the centre Giving to get something Photo beauty gets attention Then her eye paints running down Shes got a rose in her teeth And a lampshade crown One minute shes so happy Then shes crying on someones knee Saying laughing and crying You know its the same release I told you when I met you I was crazy Cry for us all beauty Cry for Eddie in the corner Thinking hes nobody And Jack behind his joker And stone-cold Grace behind her fan And me in my frightened silence Thinking I dont understand I feel like Im sleeping Can you wake me You seem to have a broader sensibility Im just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and a lazy mind And coming to peoples parties Fumbling deaf dumb and blind I wish I had more sense of humor Keeping the sadness at bay Throwing the lightness on these things Laughing it all away Laughing it alI away Laughing it all away

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to seem them Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Farmer farmer, put away the DDT, now Give me spots on my apples Now leave me the birds and the bees Please! Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi Took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its clouds illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real; Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show. You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know, dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say Ive changed Somethings lost but somethings gained in living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all

The way I see it he said You just cant win it Everybodys in it for their own gain You cant please em all Theres always somebody calling you down I do my best And I do good business Theres a lot of people asking for my time Theyre trying to get ahead Theyre trying to be a good friend of mine I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive There was nobody calling me up for favors And no ones future to decide You know Id go back there tomorrow But for the work Ive taken on Stoking the star maker machinery Behind the popular song I deal in dreamers And telephone screamers Lately I wonder what I do it for If l had my way Id just walk through those doors And wander Down the Champs Elysées Going cafe to cabaret Thinking how Ill feel when I find That very good friend of mine I was a free man in Paris I felt unfettered and alive Nobody was calling me up for favors No ones future to decide You know Id go back there tomorrow But for the work Ive taken on Stoking the star maker machinery Behind the popular song

Up in a sterilized room Where they let you be lazy Knowing your attitudes all wrong And you got to change And thats not easy Dragon shining with all values known Dazzling you-keeping you from your own Where is the lion in you to defy him When youre this weak And this spacey So what are you going to do about it You cant live life and you cant leave it Advice and religion you cant take it You cant seem to believe it The peacock is afraid to parade Youre under the thumb of the maid You really cant give love in this condition Still you know how you need it They open and close you Then they talk like they know you They dont know you Theyre friends and theyre foes too Trouble child Breaking like the waves at Malibu So why does it come as such a shock To know you really have no one Only a river of changing faces Looking for an ocean They trickle through your leaky plans Another dream over the dam And youre lying in some room Feeling like your right to be human Is going over too Well some are going to knock you And somell try to clock you You know its really hard To talk sense to you Trouble child Breaking like the waves at Malibu

I met a child a year ago Whose eyes would never see She asked me with a timid smile What colour is a tree? In summertime a tree is green; In autumn gold and red; In winter they are frosted white When all their leaves are shed. I know the sky is blue, she said And silver is the sand; And apples are the brightest red What colour is a man? Man is many colours child: Some are yellow, some are brown And some are black as sightlеssness Some white as еiderdown. She took her crayons from a box And placed them in my glove And said, By mixing all of these Comes my favourite colour--love.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hot spot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) They took all the trees, put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees, please Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop) Late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot I said, dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

If theres one rule to this game Everybodys gonna name Its be cool If youre worried or uncertain If your feelings are hurtin Youre a fool if you cant keep cool Charm em Dont alarm em Keep things light Keep your worries out of sight And play it cool Play it cool Fifty-fifty Fire and ice If your heart is on the floor Cause youve just seen your lover Comin through the door with a new fool Be cool Dont get riled Smile-keep it light Be your own best friend tonight And play it cool Play it cool Fifty-fifty Fire and ice Dont get jealous Dont get over-zealous Keep your cool Dont whine Kiss off that flaky valentine Youre nobodys fool Be cool fool Be cool Play it cool Play it cool Fifty-fifty Fire and ice So if theres one rule to this game Everybodys gonna name Its--be cool If youre worried or uncertain If your feelings are hurtin Youre a fool if you cant keep cool They want you to Charm em Dont alarm em Keep things light Keep your worries out of sight And play it cool Play it cool Fifty-fifty Fire and ice

Born with the moon in Cancer Choose her a name she will answer to Call her green and the winters cannot fade her Call her green for the children whove made her Little green, be a gypsy dancer He went to California Hearing that everythings warmer there So you write him a letter and say Her eyes are blue He sends you a poem and shes lost to you Little green, hеs a non-conformer Just a little green Like thе color when the spring is born Therell be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform Therell be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes therell be sorrow Child with a child pretending Weary of lies you are sending home So you sign all the papers in the family name Youre sad and youre sorry but youre not ashamed Little green, have a happy ending Just a little green Like the color when the spring is born Therell be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform Therell be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes therell be sorrow

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky Then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold And shivering trees are standing in a naked row I get the urge for going But I never seem to go I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown and Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I had me a man in summertime He had summer-colored skin Not another girl in town My darlings heart could win But when the leaves fell trembling down Bully winds did rub their faces in the snow He got the urge for going And I had to let him go He got the urge for going When the meadow grass was turning brown and Summertime was falling down and winter was closing in The warriors of winter They gave a cold triumphant shout And all that stays is dying All that lives is getting out See the geese in chevron flight Flapping and racing on before the snow Theyve got the urge for going And theyve got the wings to go They get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown and Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I ply the fire with kindling now I pull the blankets up to my chin I lock the vagrant winter out And fool my wandering in Id like to call back summertime and Have her stay for just another month or so Shes got the urge for going So I guess shell have to go She gets the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown and All her empires are falling down and Winters closing in And I get the urge for going When the meadow grass was turning brown and Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in And winters closing in And winters closing in

Its coming on Christmas, theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here, it stays pretty green Im gonna make a lot of money, quit this crazy scene And I wish I had a river that I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long Id teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry But she tried hard to help me, she put me at ease She loved me so naughty, made me weak in the knees I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle, Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby that I ever had I wish I had a river that I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river that I could skate away on I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas, theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel With every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at life that way But now it’s just another show You leave them laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself a way I’ve looked at love from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strangе They shake their hеads They say Ive changed Well somethings lost But somethings gained In living every day I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s lifes illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all

Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach out of cry I came to the city And lived like old Crusoe On an island of noise In a cobblestone sea And the beaches were concrete And the stars paid a light bill And the blossoms hung false On their store window trees My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach out of cry Out of thе city And down to the seaside To sun on my shouldеrs And wind in my hair But sandcastles crumble And hunger is human And humans are hungry For worlds they cant share My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach Out of cry I call to a seagull Who dives to the waters And catches his silver-fine Dinner alone Crying where are the footprints That danced on these beaches And the hands that cast wishes That sunk like a stone My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach Out of cry

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like When youre older must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams And the seasons they go around and around And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels lost to car wheels through the town And they tell him Take your time it wont be long now Til you drag your feet to slow the circle down So the boy who dreamt tomorrow now is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur comin true Therell be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons they go around and around And the painted ponies go up and down Were captive on the carousel of time We cant return, we can only look Behind from where we came And go round and round and round Round and round and round Round and round and round In the circle game

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its clouds’ illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now Both sides now From give and take and still somehow Give and take, still somehow... Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all     dont know love at all ... Ooh ooh, ooh ooh Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends, theyre acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now Both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Win and lose, still somehow... Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Dont know life ... Ive looked at life from both sides now Both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Win and lose, still somehow... Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Dont know life at all

Im always running behind the time Just like this train Shaking into town With the brakes complaining I used to count lovers like railroad cars I counted them on my side Lately I dont count on nothing I just let things slide The station masters shuffling cards Boxcars are banging in the yards Jealous lovinll make you crazy If you cant find your goodness Cause you lost your heart I went looking for a cause Or a strong cat without claws Or any reason to resume And I found this empty seat In this crowded waiting room Everybody waiting Old man sleeping on his bags Women with that teased up kind of hair Kids with the jitters in their legs And those wide, wide open stares And the kids got cokes and chocolate bars Theres a thin man smoking a fat cigar Jealous lovinll make you crazy If you cant find your goodness Cause youve lost your heart What are you going to do now Youve got no one To give your love too Well Ive got this berth and this pull down blind Ive got this fold up sink And these rocks and these cactus going by And a bottle of German wine to drink Settle down into the clickety clack With the clouds and the stars to read Dreaming of the pleasure Im going to have Watching your hairline recede My vain darling Watching your hair and clouds and stars Im rocking away in a sleeping car This jealous lovins bound to make me crazy I cant find my goodness I lost my heart Oh sour grapes Because I lost my heart

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hotspot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees, please Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot I said, dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Ah ha ha ha

He is three Ones in the middle unmoved Waiting To show what he sees To the other two To the one attacking so afraid And the one that keeps trying to love and trust And getting himself betrayed In the plan oh The divine plan God must be a boogie man! Ones so sweet So overly loving and gentle He lets people in To his innermost sacred temple Blind faith to care Blind rage to kill Whyd he let them talk him down To cheap work and cheap thrills In the plan oh The insulting plan God must be a boogie man! Which would it be Mingus one or two or three Which one do you think hed want the world to see Well world opinions not a lot of help When a mans only trying to find out How to feel about himself In the plan oh The cock-eyed plan God must be a boogie man!

Look out the left, the captain said The lights down there, thats where well land Saw a falling star burning High above the Las Vegas sand It wasnt the one that you gave to me That night down south between the trailers Not the early one that you wish upon Not the northern one that guides in the sailors Starbright, starbright Youve got the lovin that I like Turn this crazy bird around Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight Youve got that touch so gentle and sweet But youve got that look so critical Cant talk to you, babe, you know I get so weak Sometimes I think that love is just mythical Up theres a heaven, down theres a town Blackness everywhere any little lights shine Blackness, blackness draggin me down Come on light a candle in this heart of mine Starbright, starbright Youve got the lovin that I like Turn this crazy bird around Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight Im drinkin sweet champagne, got the headphones up high Cant numb you, cant drum you out of my mind Hope you got your heat turned on, baby Hope its better when we meet again Starbright, starbright Youve got the lovin that I like Turn this crazy bird around Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight Should not have got on this flight tonight

Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its cloud illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life At all Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life At all

Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on But it dont snow here It stays pretty green Im going to make a lot of money Then Im going to quit this crazy scene I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I made my baby cry He tried hard to help me You know, he put me at ease And he loved me so naughty Made me weak in the knees Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on Im so hard to handle Im selfish and Im sad Now Ive gone and lost the best baby That I ever had Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh I wish I had a river I made my baby say goodbye Its coming on Christmas Theyre cutting down trees Theyre putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace I wish I had a river I could skate away on

These days Seem like everybody trippin People wild’n out Problem solving with prescription Legal all around Nothing new, nothing different Feeble as a crown Fuck a view, an cop a vision Uh Be considerate Y’all must have forgot Ain’t your family Ever teach yo ass how to talk I remember when my gramma told me Honey you my heart I swear baby, you is special You a blessing straight from God But Ya best be being grateful Because i know that ya smart An don’t stress it Just be patient Cause You really Don’t know What you got Said You really don’t know What you’ve got Till what you got Really gone Shit up an got Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- You dont know what youve got til its gone So The fact of the matter is We have to react To the moments as they happening Snap into focus So’s to grasp what the Hatter said have i gone mad? Matter of fact Ya ass a psychopath But i’ll share with you a secret The best of em, are Look at johnny Depp or Yeezy Look at Ghandi , Nikki Tes Joanie Jett, or Lil Wheezy Bunch of real wild minds But even more achievement Believe in what you speaking An don’t let anybody tell you Not to keep dreaming Penning epics like the Greeks made An i did it all for Pete’s sake Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got til its-- You dont know what youve got til its gone Let’s reevaluate Time to reconsider Is life really such a drag Or you just being bitter Ain’t tryna knock you down a peg Just tryna stop the litter My world too polluted An lord knows Imma fix her So i’d like to take a minute To say that i appreciate my life An everything that’s in it Know i can get caught up They say the grass is always greener Must of meant my blunt SHIIIIT

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with lines Sewing lace on widows weeds And filigree on leaf and vine Vine and leave are filigree And her coats a second hand one Trimmed with antique luxury She is a lady of the canyon Annie sits you down to eat She always makes you welcome in Cats and babies round her feet And all are fat and none are thin None are thin and all are fat She may bake some brownies today Saying you are welcome back She is another canyon lady Estrella, circus girl Comes wrapped in songs and gypsy shawls Songs like tiny hammers hurled At bevelled mirrors in empty halls Empty halls and bevelled mirrors Sailing seas and climbing banyans Come out for a visit here To be a lady of the canyon Trina takes her pins and her threads And she weaves a pattern all her own Annie bakes her cakes and her breads And she gathers flowers for her home For her home she gathers flowers And Estrella, dear companion Colors up the sunshine hours Pouring music down the canyon Coloring the sunshine hours They are the ladies of the canyon

Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel In the Broadway bridge Were crawling on our knees Weve got flashlights and batteries Weve got cold cuts from the fridge Last year about this time We used to climb up in the branches Just to sway there in some breeze Now the cops on the street They want Cherokee Louise People like to talk Tongues are waggin over fences Waggin over phones All their doors are locked God she cant even come to our house But I know where shell go To the place where you can stand And press your hands like it was bubblebath In dust piled high as me Down under the street My friend Poor Cherokee Louise Ever since we turned thirteen Its like a minefield Walking to the door Going out you get the third degree And comin in you get the third world war Tuesday after school We put our pennies on the rails And when the train went by We were jumpin round like fools Goin Look no heads or tails Goin Look my lucky prize She runs home to her foster dad He opens up a zipper And he yanks her to her knees Oh please be here please My friend Poor Cherokee Louise Cherokee Louise is hiding in this tunnel In the Broadway bridge Were crawling on our knees Weve got Archie and Silver Screen I know where she is The place where you can stand And press your hand like it was bubblebath In dust piled high as me Down under the street My friend Poor Cherokee Louise Oh Cherokee Louise

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin hotspot Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see em Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees, please Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Late last night, I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot I said, dont it always seem to go That you dont know what youve got till its gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They paved paradise, put up a parking lot Ah ha ha ha

Theres a man whos been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free Theres a man whos climbed a mountain And hes calling out her name And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles He calls again He can think her there beside him He can miss her just the same He has missed her in the forest While he showed her all the flowers And the branches sang the chorus As he climbed the scaly towers Of a forest tree While she was somewhere being free Theres a man whos sent a letter And hes waiting for reply He has asked her of her travels Since the day they said goodbye He writes Wish you were beside me We can make it if we try He has seen her at the office With her name on all his papers Through the sharing of the profits He will find it hard to shake her From his memory And shes so busy being free Theres a lady in the city And she thinks she loves them all Theres the one whos thinking of her Theres the one who sometimes calls Theres the one who writes her letters With his facts and figures scrawl She has brought them to her senses They have laughed inside her laughter Now she rallies her defenses For she fears that one will ask her For eternity And shes so busy being free Theres a man who sends her medals He is bleeding from the war Theres a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store Theres a drummer and a dreamer And you know there may be more She will love them when she sees them They will lose her if they follow And she only means to please them And her heart is full and hollow Like a cactus tree While shes so busy being free Like a cactus tree Being free

Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere Ive looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way Ive looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow Its cloud illusions I recall I really dont know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at love that way But now its just another show You leave em laughing when you go And if you care, dont let them know Dont give yourself away Ive looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall I really dont know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say I love you right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds Ive looked at life that way But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say Ive changed Well somethings lost, but somethings gained In living every day Ive looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall I really dont know life at all