Big Country

All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly... Don't fear th...

Now we play our final hand Move in closer, understand This time like never before Only the black queen scores A card so high and so wild We should burn it The luck of a thousand stars Can't get me out of this The luck of a thousand stars Losing its c...

Shi-ya! I’m waiting on a summer That’s never gonna come Searching for the sunlight But I can’t find it Huh! They’re trying to do the right thing In a world all wrong Holding back the troubled Waters are rising The morning comes As the light brea...

I forget how it started But everyone knew of the cause Hard out of the sun with a vengeance And all was then lost They crawled into homes And yet all of the old ways were gone It left nothing to run to But no one can help how they're drawn...

A skyhole here, the sun's let in It melts the ice, it melts my skin The oceans rise, the lands recede Cities crumble, vermin feed We will all go together when we go, when we go (repeat 2) We will all go together when we go The chainsaw roars, the forests fal...

Bad weather gathers all along the coast When the storm clouds gather And my blood runs cold If we can't go further When we get to the shore Then we have to turn around And fight some more We'll go together I have room in my soul That's enough of watching peopl...

The mid-day sky was grey and purple At least it wasn't blue I want the sky to be the way I am And what I do For I have been a lost and lonely Sailor on your sea Run aground by trusting signals You were sending me The streets are filled with empty faces Nothin...

Heavy is the silence That hangs upon my soul The velvet glove of the honest truth As unmistakable as you Here we are all bound together No matter win or lose Angels and promises Prisoners and silences (Say a prayer) The factory of the innocents The...

The autumn howled around the heads That hung so slack with lips so red The blooms had withered leaves were shed Tongues stuck in jaws sad clowns parade The crushing whine began its call And pointed fingers at us In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues g...

In another country I lay me down Beside the waters I dream aloud Ha ho ho ho ho ho I lay me down Beside the waters I close my eyes To dream aloud The road ahead Is forever calling A chance to live To begin again In another country Across the...

Heave lads, an audience awaits Heave lads, the final scene is set Heave lads, curtains clear the debt Waiting in empty halls Smiling between the walls This is my finest hour Now is your last encore Sweat boys, the lines are flowing fast Sweat boys, the cue h...

If beauty is an ecstasy and anger keeps you poor A hungry man is never free, a rich man never cured Things were never what they used to be Now every crowd has its silver lining, we all got stuff to sell And you may live your life so bitter, but you remember it...

If beauty is an ecstasy and anger keeps you poor A hungry man is never free, a rich man never cured Things were never what they used to be Now every crowd has its silver lining, we all got stuff to sell And you may live your life so bitter, but you remembe...

Just as one life turns from birth Just as the ring finds its worth Just as the leaf turns to gold So you and I will be sold Chorus Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie When is our o...

If we could fly In the dreaming of dreams And you came to me I would welcome you in But now I'm awake In the dark on my own With nothing to read And it's too late to phone Bella don't cry, Bella don't cry Time passes by, and loneliness flies Someda...

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot With a pink motel, boutique and a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot They took all the trees, put 'em in a t...

Okay I'm loosened up now children White is white What's black ain't over Together we'll be When the war is over You see them black-skinned blue-eyed boys Ain't gonna fight no war-Oh no! You go to school Where the teachers beat ya When they see that...

We’ve got a problem but I don’t know what it is We used to sparkle now we buck without the fizz My ass is getting pains from sitting on the fence For everything I need to do is in the future tense And I’m blue on a green planet with you Yes I’m blue on a...

Thirteen Valleys He Has Wandered For Her Love For He Thinks He Is the One She Dreams Of But Her Bed Was Made Elsewhere From the First Day She Got There Now He Wanders Thirteen Valleys Crying Out It Could Have Been Me A Broken Heart Needs Someone New to Blame...

Out beyond the river where you and I would ride And we would skin the buffalo, the last ones left alive But once again it passed me by, I know it always will So now I spend my Sunday standing still Sure we could have We could have got it right Sure we c...

All the rain came down On a cold new town As he carried you away From your father's hand That always seemed like a fist Reaching out to make you pay He came like a hero from the factory floor With the sun and moon as gifts But the only son yo...

It wasn't in her diary It wasn't in her stars She didn't hear it at the mall It only makes things worse Charlotte's in her icebox Needs someone to blame Another slice of chocolate cake Helps to ease the pain He used to buy her underwear She loved to...

Black cars come and black cars go Full of secrets you will never know Tires hiss in the rain be feels through the night? Shadows move behind the glass, no one worries no one asks Politions come and go so fast... I don't mean to do no harm i don't wanna c...

A score of years this line has run Above the crests that drown the sun A mile high the turbines turned The stokers sweat the monkeys burned I will carry you home with the gods in my eyes I will carry you home while the westerlies sigh The contin...

Songwriters: Adamson, Stuart / Brzezicki, Mark / Butler, Tony / Watson, Bruce William The day they had a party Right out in the street Flags and flowers and singing For the homecome hero's treat I sat in the kitchen Without a fire on the range I knew this hou...

It's a holy place if you see things that way Then they rattle the bones and the analysts play From his backward collar on a worn out book Another working class poet with an abstract look So take me up to the edge of the world And push me over again Lead...

I've come on a few years From my Hollywood highs The best of the last The cleanest star they ever had I'm stiff on my legend The films that I made Forget that I'm fifty Cause you just got paid Crack, baby, crack, show me you're real Smack, baby, smack...

Take a little care When you put your lips To her long cool neck One kiss will be too much A hundred not enough Treat her with respect If I could tell this to you Would you believe it was true You might just laugh I expect And say you feel sophistic...

It was a long hot day At the end of the Summer I had a chill in my heart Like the start of the Winter And I didn't know what to wear I wasn't sure what to say I was standing alone At the tail of the river Dive in to me – into the raging sea Follow y...

I don't like to ask you But there are no choices left On that fateful day When you wore your wedding dress Did the sun shine brightly The clouds just drift on through The way that clouds on wedding days should do So don't you stay Another day Let you...

Early in the evening just about supper time, Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp Down on the corner, out in the street, Willy and the Poorboys...

I was driving to Damascus when a sandstorm rose The road disappeared and the axle froze I was low on gas and lower on hope I covered my eyes and I felt for the rope The wind was howling and the air it stung I breathed in dust and it burned my lungs And...

I'd better be leaving She said then she whispered They're waiting for me at the fairground tonight I'll never be back and I'll never be missed But I leave something here And that doesn't seem right All of the time I just travel and travel Am I running a...

I feel the way the wind blows It tells me where you've been through I watch the way the sun sets Until the night's inside you Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I need to bury The very depths of me So I wait out...

I have come from the Eastworld From the concrete and the dust At the end of the empire For the lifting of the curse I have come for your hardware To the strip shows and the bars I have come to see Madonna Swim in rivers filled with cars All bound for...

The eagle soars above the clouds The deer ran in the hills And I may walk in cities Where the wolf once had his fill And here is strength for us to find To turn the old to new And wipe our eyes of misty years And see the future through I c...

Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all the lonely people Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice In the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for All the lonely...

You've got everything I want You've got everything I need Maybe we'll go out walking tonight You've got everything I need I know you would be so warm I want you to keep from harm Maybe we'll go out driving tonight Maybe it wouldn't be so wrong All the seasons...

Somewhere there are orange trees Somewhere skies are blue Somewhere us a bridge across The world from me to you Sometimes in the darkest sky Sun comes shining through And tonight it seems so far from me to you Yes tonight it seems so far from me to you...

Beween the father and his son Between the city and the one Between the teacher and the test Between the journey and the rest The shining eye will never cry The beating heart will never die The house on fire holds no shame I will be co...

A stranger came by traveling He went to every door He said he'd lost his people He'd come to look for more And many did believe him As he talked upon the square The spell he wove upon us Fills my body with despair And in his eyes Was the...

It's a wild night and a new road Keeps me too long from your door For we always go slowly Who never goes sure You ask which way you should travel I ask where you want to go Because the road doesn't matter To a place you don't know You see it's not wher...

Thank you ma'am for asking Yes I'm on my own I guess it's kind of obvious I'm eating here alone I'm grateful for the company Tired of talking to myself Don't you look into my eyes You might see someone else I've been to see a movie About a man who s...

Subalashii asaga akelu Yoakega yobikakelu Kokorono izumiga wakidelu Yumeno yo I feel the power of a stranger inside me A force of magic surrounds me This fountain within me is overflowing Peaceful and inviting Beautiful and enticing Yoake kisetsu y...

How will I know if it’s not like the first time How will I know if this is the one I try and hold you not for the first time You step away and the past goes on If I hold out for you will you hold out for me Hold out from here to eternity If I wait for you wil...

You make me smile with all the feeling That you deal in like a gambler It makes me feel that I’m a winner Or a sinner and I’m branded I feel your skin so warm beside me And I can hide me in your dreaming You hold me near inside your fear And I can feel the blo...

Not enough answers to too many questions But guns are the last things we need So we better watch the news For we all have minds to feed For the latest in monsters, a word from our sponsors I write to the weather map guy Who doesn't have much hair But h...

Your head is a temple, I walk with the lamb At your fountain I wash the blood from my hands I pray deep inside you, where no one can see Except for the spirit that binds you and me If there’s a reason that I’m quiet when I’m with you It’s because I feel...

Time now Time to say goodbye All is forgiven here Waiting For the bells to ring For New Year’s to begin Hail and farewell Llife begins again Hail and farewell I’m coming home Let old Acquaintance be forgot And never Brought to mind Waiting...

Who saw the fences falling Who broke the ploughman's bread Who heard the winter calling Who wore the tailor's thread How many sheaves were counted How did the carriage shine How many thoughts were doubted How did the landlord dine Just as y...

Today, cast out all of the devils you hold Away, to the time where you youth had been sold Remove, all the robes worn by sacred ideas Forget, false accounts of the deeds of brave men To the dream the fires the furnace Give all your heart and soul Teach...

I believe in strangers, wherever they may be All the souls who shape the world look pretty strange to me Never met no president or shook a Gandhi?s hand But I believe we need a love that they may understand Heart of the world, heart of the world is black...

Hey hey, my my Rock and roll can never die There's more to the picture Than meets the eye. Hey hey, my my. Out of the blue and into the black You pay for this, they give you that And when you die, you don't come back When you're out of the blue and into the b...

Sun beats hard on an empty beach Where I tried so hard But couldn't reach the stars In your eyes You were just a child when I came to you And we were friends Till love stepped in And you stepped away I would lie and curse the day And visit places where we la...

Through the wasteland To the edge of the storm Through the eye of the needle Bruised, battered, and worn To kingdom come From oblivion To a place of the saints When all hope fails There’s no turning back I’m only going forwards No time to look arou...

I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis She tried to take me upstairs for a ride She had to heave me right across her shoulders I just can't seem to drink you off my mind She's a honky tonk woman Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues I laid a di...

No one should be left to walk through life alone No one should have to carry such a heavy load No one should be left behind to take the blame I know that I can’t see you but I can hear you No one can hurt you now No one can bring you down No one can tou...

If you will take my love If you will take my stand If you will be the one If you will take my hand If you will never run I could be happy here If you could take my pride If you could take my tears If you could take my side If you could t...

Fade to black And the movie ends Another night I didn't spend with you girl Oh you girl The diner's dead My coffee's done I stumbled streets I sailed upon with you girl Oh you girl And the night is dark Cold, hard You don't need a farmer to dig dir...

Stand up Hold my hand I hope you understand Here where time is still I walk the hill Stand here Close to me Here for all eternity I wait as others will I walk the hill I held you then I hold you still I held you as I always will...

Lines form on my face and hands Lines form from my ups and downs I'm in the middle without anything And I'm a boy and I'm a man I'm eighteen and I don't know what I want Eighteen, I just don't know what I want Eighteen, I've got to get away I gotta get...

We all make our plans, we all have our choices Try on different faces, talk in other voices I said a lot of things that never let me sleep Made promises I really meant to keep I'm not ashamed of the things I've done I took the blame when I could have run...

Hey, little baby, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? I got a bad desire Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Hey, little baby, is he good to you? Does he do the things you wouldn't let me do? I can take you higher Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire Oh-oh...

There's a click on Monday morning Hour starts the whole thing on The early bird is yawning Damn, those worms are pretty tough Even gillies phone in sick Wish I could make that call What the hell by two o'clock I'm climbing up the wall I'm on this trai...

It's a wild night and a new road Keeps me too long from your door For we always go slowly Who never goes sure You ask which way you should travel I ask where you want to go Because the road doesn't matter To a place you don't know You see it's not wher...

I've never seen you look like this without a reason, Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you. I never took the smile away from anybody's face, And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child. CHORUS: In a...

The past is a foreign country Two sides tore apart In the great scheme of tomorrow What no one really knows The blood line has diverted Like a river that overflows Oh, where there’s temptation Oh, there is revelation Oh-oh, across a thousand nations...

All the years I spent in this place The friends I knew here, I loved every face I loved the smoke, the heat and the noise But the profits too small For the black-suited boys Oh angel, it's coming down stone by stone It's breaking up home by h...

Floodwaters rising on the flatlands tonight Been here before I guess we'll get through again Get your photographs and hide them all away upstairs Then tie the shutters down against the rain Last night I took a walk into the fire Of a young man's dreams...

I wouldn't want to go home on a night like this When I find out that some of the past has been missed And the light in the window has burned it's fuse I pull everything inwards but everything's loose Everything inwards, but everything's loose Ever...

I could walk in To the sunset With my best girl by my side I would pull her up beside me And together we would ride Hey Ma Hey Pa Look at me standin' tall Brother Sister Look at them bad guys fall I'm walkin' and talkin' real slow Out where the t...

It went so well for you With a place right where you wanted and the ones to fill it to But some blows break the spell That it hits you every day until you need to hit as well It's just a shadow of the man you should be Like a garden in the forest that the wor...

Born too soon for a future Born too poor for love Born too far from the warmth of the sun Or a place in the heavens above It's a cold, cold night in the circus A colder night in the zoo Light up the fires down in Carton Town Where the feet and the finge...

Where hae ye been sae braw, my lad? Where hae ye been sae brankie, O? Where hae ye been sae braw, my lad? Cam ye by Killiecrankie, O? An ye hae been where I hae been Ye would no be so cantie, O! An ye hae seen what I hae seen On the braes o Killiecrank...

I know where all that time has gone Blown and drifted listening to an August night I see where I was wrong But how could I know that you were right When you said I would need something wild Something crazy to carry me I would see you naked and weary But with...

They hit the bank on a dog-day afternoon With the black top popping and the radio out of tune They looked so young and wild and people sighed For desperate men need desperate passers by You gotta kiss the girl good-bye Then begin Kiss the girl good-bye...

The tower blocks Looks so beautiful In their own way The cityscape Is a fallen scene Of protest on the streets As a shadow trails On the concrete Separating you from me And you from me And you from me The last ship sails The last ship sails The...

What you gonna do When the sun don't shine no more What you gonna do When the moon don't climb no more What you gonna do When the tears won't fall no more What you gonna do When the sun don't shine no more Head on down to the world again Find your pr...

Come on lay your hands on me Feel the will of God's TV I will save you every one And you can pay me when I'm done 100,000 Jesus Children All dressed up and no-one with them Lead them not into temptation With your tales of hell's damnation Searching fo...

I've had enough, give me the strength to carry on Bring me my dove, be my shelter from the storm Oh, let me be, let me keep my life my own Just let me see a way for me to be alone I need a friend, I need a place where I can hide I'm lost again, I need a s...

This time we run, this time we hide This time we draw on all the fire we have inside We need some time to find a place Where I can wipe away the madness from your face Our name is out, our name is known Our name is everywhere but who knows where we've flown I...

It's a monument valley of concrete On the plain where the styrofoam roams She hits the trail by the charity store For the cavern of the mobile phones She wades ankle deep across whino creek To the rail where the stagecoach waits And there should be one i...

We lay the night in anguish, snakes drawn out by the tide The compass of decision falls always on one side But many went before us, and still the cries are clear There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer We save no souls We break n...

Ex-spy in a square in Berlin Got holes in his knife-tipped shoes He'll tell you the missile codes, man He'll sell you the warhead to Guy driving my yellow taxi He had a T-72 I'm doubled up in the back seat I'm getting a closer view A working illustrat...

Last night I dreamed I saw you there I dreamed your eyes are blue And someone's hand upon your hair I dreamed I saw that too And not a word that I could say A thing that I could do Would ever make you look my way Or let me look on you Whip your dogs...

He sits and says he's sick and tired of the argument He's heard them all and it makes no change when the money's spent And all his life he's had to watch the way he's went No less in need no less deceived by the violence She stands and says let my man go...

Can't help about the shape I'm in I can't sing, I ain't pretty, and my legs are thin Don't ask me what I think of you I might not give the answer that you want me to Oh well When I talked to God I knew he'd understand He said sit by me I'll be your guid...

Well, I'm so tired of crying But I'm out on the road again I'm on the road again Well, I'm so tired of crying But I'm out on the road again I'm on the road again I ain't got no woman Just to call my special friend You know the first time I traveled O...

One Great Thing Big Country If there’s one great thing to happen in my life If there’s one great day, if there’s one great height Let it be the time of peace Let it be the time of right If there’s one great thing to happen in my life...

If there's one great thing To happen in my life If there's one great day If there's one great height Let it be the time for peace Let it be the time of right If there's one great thing To happen in my life I've seen to much of what fightin...

I believe what I believe And hope that I am not deceived By little details I receive For you know I never look twice Something far outside of me A part of which I could not be Things I would not care to see I don't have the time for advice I don't wan...

Finished with my woman 'Cause she couldn't help me with my mind People say I'm insane Because I am frowning all the time All day long I think of things But nothing seems to satisfy Think I'll lose my mind If I don't find something to pacify Can you h...

Johnny comes to town With his shoes turned out Saying things are looking up He's on the street With his eyes gone wild He speaks with the voice of a child When you see me You pass me by You don't hear me You pass me by No roof and the rains have co...

Who holds the money, who holds the need Who holds the strings of misery or the purse of greed And the gunmen reap while the gangsters sow And law is cheap when the smugglers go (Give us peace) Give us peace in our time (Give us peace) Give us peace in ou...

I searched the globe from A to Z Found a lot that made no sense to me I learned a man is just a man There's nothing more to understand What I'm looking for is a perfect world One that I can share with a perfect girl What I'd like to find is a perfect gir...

We could both be something still We could spend our lives fulfilled We could leave the battlefields No more arrows, no more shields When the dust of war subsides Will I find you by my side We could be at peace out there Before the summer fair We'll li...

Night hangs on the city like a blanket on a cage A sacrifice prepared Laughter lies on faces where the sun has never shone The fear of life is strong We are waiting in the forest deep and dark behind the wall What is hidden in our hearts Absolve...

I don't have the magnetism of a national hero I'm not desperate enough to Carry 'round a bomb in a bag And I hate to clean up behind my dog He's a pretty big guy and he eats like a hog I never quite get that haircut they have in the window I better give...

Texas oh that's where I Belong It seems to me Lonesome star Shine on The big country With open skies And you For company Oh prairie rose How happy I should be Hey hey you can take it from me Hey hey I'll be calling, you'll see Hey hey oh what...

They found an alien baby in a Russian wood A man in the delta named Johnny B. Goode A two-headed cow and a fish that walks A vampire lover and a monkey that talks A boy with wings and ice that's hot And a weeping sports star told us all about pot Four go...

If I hold my hand to you Though you never asked me to You will know it’s time for the rains to come And you must help me through If you feel the fear on me That I know the eye can’t see It comes with the sadness that the autumn brings So we know what has to b...

Coming out into the day and all that I can see Is the red and white of the King's army I'll meet with them among the pine I'll meet with them by noon The dirge will sound on the morrow's noon I was not born into this time To cleave the soil or work the mine I...

In your fine green ware I will walk with you tonight In your raven hair I will fine a summer night Upon far flung soil I will run you through my head In my daily toil All the promises are said For I know the weary can rise again I know...

My cousin PJ gets crazy just as much as he can A real party reptile for a northern man He's dressed like a republican He thinks conservative But he drives faster than I ever did He's into nuclear power and insider deals He has a scene with baby oil and...

Alone among the hills and stone Through summer sun and winter snow The eagle he was lord above And Rob was lord below 240 years We lived without hope and without pride So who will know where they come from Who raised a torch for those who di...

I can hear your voice in the silence Calling out I can feel your footsteps behind me They never die I can see your light still shining Through the winter that was lost All your hopes and dreams in the shadows You never left, you only went away I’ll b...

I know the very ground you walk The colors that you wear I know the love of which you talk I know for I am there Let it rise and fall forevermore For I have seen my enemy I look and he was me And I have fed his family And he has fought for me Let it...

High above the forest in an unseen place Where the clouds will gather on another race In the dungeon depths of an unknown cave There's a stream that springs with a world to save And it gathers up strength as it rolls along And it gathers up hope for everyone B...

She would never say where she came from Yesterday don't matter now it's gone When the sun is bright or in the darkest night No one knows, she comes and goes Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I'm...

We sail into nothing Sail on crystal wings We sail into nothing And never need these ships again No When I am tired Tired of the fight You come to me And it's all right When I am weary Weary of my sins You lie with me When I'm fallen And we - w...

What would you be if the waves set you free And the wind in your hair brought you sailing to me Tied up on the shore would you weary no more? When will it be, when will it be What would I be if a hurricane came Would I be clever, would I be shamed Would I lie...

No turning back No looking around I wasn't searching See, what I found Inside the spaces Inside of me If there's a reason What will it be Come on and save me Come on and save me I want to know if you're the one That's gonna change me Go on and c...

Lori says to Billy we've been working for a long time On this story trying to find a happy ending We looked so long and hard for it Maybe there just isn't one See you She says I make excuses all the time They filled up half my life But there aren't any...

There's a place where all roads end A place where we can meet again If things begin to end I hope that I can make amends Hey kid there's nothing wrong with you There's nothing wrong Hey kid the circus comes to town But must move on I will send you a lu...

I don't think too much I don't look inside For the things I hid away for all those years Have faded now or died So don't you look through me With those stranger's eyes For the world keeps turning underneath my feet If I go on with the lies So hey bab...

Look at him now Another used man Wearing the passing of his dignity With all the courage that he can He stood in the storm Carved out in stone He said I've worn my honesty with pride In everything I've done So where were you when my ship went down Whe...

Well the ship was sailing through a tempest of fear There was lightning and explosions galore And the waves came a whooshing and crashing and boy There was panic as we swam for the shore There was ladies and babies being trampled to hell And the flames f...

I walk through the debris of cardboard and clothes Trying to work out where everything goes I'm short of you and a book or ten And I'd love to hear those Leonard Cohen songs again You can keep the wok 'cause it matches the satellite dish You can keep tha...

When I was young you said to me How I would grow to find A world of hope and wonder That you would leave behind So now I look around me I see where you were wrong The tears that flow for equal rights Have fallen far too long Way down south in the tow...

Long hard years with the fishing fleet I hear the owner says he don't need another bad year Like the five that went before Oil men came and trawlers went Put up the rigs and put up the rent But we were working, paying our own way Work was hard and days...

Here I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never en...

I see a land Stood at the crossroads Burnt by the fire Scarred by the flames Blood on my hands Smoke in my lungs Blisters on my fingers Nil by mouth It takes all that you are All that you can be It takes all that you can give Still gives back what...

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' You're gonna spread your wings And you'll...

It's 3 A.M., I'm going home I watch the white lines pass alone There is no moon so I just drive I feel like the last man alive I find a voice on the radio It sounds like someone I used to know He sends out songs that are sad and slow For us with nowher...

I dreamed I heard that you were dead I dreamed I searched an empty bed For a sign of you And the sea called hard to me Like a cell without a key And I felt the distance I watched the tall ships go With the drift wood on the flow With pride that grows in hardsh...

What a drag it is These gold lame' jeans Is this the coolest way To get though your teens Well, I cut my hair weird I read that it was in I looked like a rooster That was drowned and raised again What are you gonna do Tell you what I'm a-gonna do Wh...

Maps on the back of your hands Point to the cross Scratches on walls in a room Draw out your loss Your islands are conquered and you are returned To the throne Martyrs take penance and fill up the mattress With stones Chorus Pull straws with holy men Stain all...

Here comes the great divide, I walk the slide That only killers will fear Here comes the skill of choice, and all the noise That I will ring along Here comes a sign of hope, a length of rope To measure all our living I was the mother’s son, I took the fun And...

The desert dust was rising From a military convoy As it ran into the city With a cargo of despair It waved away the roadblocks As it dodged among the car bombs For the cameras of the tourists In the foxhole inn In the shadows of the ghetto There's a...

Don’t be afraid to make this journey Here with me There’s no disgrace, no guilt or shame In having faith To feel the same To live again It’s all right to dream There is a land, there is a sea There is a place where we can be There is a hope, there i...

Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville train Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It was a time I remember oh so well The nigh...

There were you and me Seems like twenty five years ago This old city was different then How were we to know I've got to live my life In a simple way Got to live it all In a single day, a single day The one I love is still in you And the one I want is...

Long ago I heard a tale I never will forget The time was in the telling and the banquet scene was set The sky was rolling blindly on, the daylight had not gone She washed her hair among the stones and saw what was to come All this will pass There will be blood...

I came from the hills with a tear in my eye The winter closed in and the crows filled the sky The houses were burning the flames gold and red The people were running with eyes filled with dread Ah my James They didn't have to do this We chased t...

We talked and smoked all through the night You led me where I had no sight Till birdsong broke the morning light And I was weak with strange delight Teacher will you show to me The bond between the land and sea For I am new to mystery I want e...

Thirteen valleys he has wandered for her love For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of But her bed was made elsewhere From the first day she got there Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out Now he wanders thirteen valleys crying out "It could'...

Held his cards close to his chest And smiled across the mud Blew the smoke from a green flak vest And laid back like a god Saved my life a million times Before I knew his name Watched him die between the lines Praying for his pain For all the struggl...

I should have called you brother I should have been real close You know I loved you brother Enough to take over your post I guess it's always with me I guess it will always be there When I step on the runway I always will see The Boy with the...

Maybe it could be a problem Tall clouds gather over there We know where we should be going But I'm wondering if we really dare Just remember your big umbrella Leave your good dress on We'll be safe under your big umbrella If we walk away from the storm...

There's an ill wind on the lowlands A famine in the hills A rust storm on the northern seas A dust storm on the skills Where is the law that holds me In a grey unpleasant land I will not dance for the medicine man With the happy pills at hand I will pack up my...

People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks...

They took a southern working man and chained him to a car Claimed before the judge we didn't pull him very far Anyway, he looked at us with murder in his glance We want to make a bargain, and the plea is self defense Look mother trouble the waters We've...

Vicious You hit me with a flower You do it every hour Ohh, baby youre so vicious Vicious You want me to hit you with a stick But all Ive gots a guitar pick Huh... baby youre so vicious When I watch you come I just want to run far away Youre not the...

What did you learn in school today Did you learn to run when the teachers pray Did they teach you enough to know the state you're in Not enough to get out, not enough to win What did you learn at home today Did you learn to hate in the proper way Did you...

All the rain came down On a cold new town As it carried you away From your father's hand That always seemed like a fist Reaching out to make you pay He came like a hero from the factory floor With the sun and moon as gifts But the only son you ever sa...

Is this civilization Is this all we're gonna be A helpless United Nations A censored BBC War in the African nations Hate in the Middle East Just a mess of frustration Waiting for release Oh, no! When they beat a drum It's too much to swallow Oh, no...

we're at war all the papers say we will win i read today we are strong it wasn't us we are right who started this? leave your work i just left school leave your home i am no fool take up arms it left me strong sound alarms the school bell rin...

Cathy came home and no one cared Even her friends were unaware That's how it is when they lose track I always say, hey, don't look back Lassie got loose and made it home No one had even telephoned That's how it is out of the pack I always say you don't...

I lived a thousand years In someone else's shoes I lived a thousand lives With someone else's blues I talked so many nights With voices I don't know Wore someone else's face And hoped it didn't show Oh winding wind Oh winding wind I made a place f...

In the corridors of power No church watches over me I’m alone but in a crowd In a world no one can see Who keeps who Safe from harm Winter fires burn Winter fires burn (winter fires burn) In the houses of the holy Where the weak hold up the strong...

The stories of the world are sung In places that were never young I have counted every one Chorus All the clouds will come to you So the sun never comes through And we will hide From twenty years of winter sky The faces of the world are hun...

If you could feel How I must feel The winds of quiet change If you could see What I must see Still hidden in the rain But when the thunder rolls It comes and covers up my soul And you will take my hand And be with me in wonderland Chor...

I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road When I asked him, "where are you going?" This he told me I'm going down to Yasgur's farm Gonna join a rock and roll band I'm going to camp out on the land And try and get my soul free We are st...

Feel how the years have passed, rushing like a raging sea Riding on the crest of a breaker, holding on to what could be Never dreamed I could love a stranger, never doubted the mystery Now living is pure adventure 'Cause I know, I know you'll stand by me...

Down at the corner store Never busy any more He's in the back room talking pie In there all by himself Counting bugs up on the shelf Watching the window fill with flies Oh you dreamer Is this the way that you believed your life was gonna turn out Oh yo...

There may be trouble ahead There may be light in the distance It may be something you said Maybe my lack of resistance It took you so long to be young And just a second to be old Leave me a moment in the sun I've got forever to be cold Some people ca...

There's only seconds of your life That really count for anything All the rest is killing time Waiting for a train Come the revelation brother I was sitting by myself The last thing I was looking for Came and left The sea still rolled, no mountain fel...