Bruce Springsteen

We fell in love and I made you the world I spent all my time tryin' to satisfy you, girl Just one thing that I can't figure out Closer I get, farther baby I am out Thirty days, thirty days out Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm thirty days out Thirty days, thi...

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July Down in town the circuit's full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp And the wizards play down on Pinball...

They say it takes a lot to keep a love alive: In every heart there pumps a different beat But if we shift the rhythm into overdrive, We could generate a lot of heat ... Chorus: On 52nd Street On 52nd Street We're gonna throw a little soul parade, Before the...

I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a trunkload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels a...

It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh It's rainin' in Saigon Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line Well she sits by the light of her Christmas tree With the radio softly on Thinkin' how a good man is so hard to find Well once she had a fella Once she was...

Well there's sparklin' angels on your fire-escape tonight They line them up for you trying to keep you safe But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp You lost your heart on Main Street to a beautiful tramp That's all right, I don't mind `Cause I got...

Hear me now! I was born 13th child, 'neath the 13th moon Spit out hungry and born anew Daddy drag me to the river tie me in rocks Throw me in where it's deep and wide I go down, I don't die Hole in the river bottom, I crawl through Come back kill six brothers...

You can tell the world you never was my girl You can burn my clothes up when I'm gone You can tell your friends just what a fool I've been And laugh and joke about me on the phone You can tell my arms go back to the farm You can tell my feet to hit the fl...

Tonight my bag is packed Tomorrow I'll walk these tracks That will lead me across the border Tomorrow my love and I Will sleep 'neath auburn skies Somewhere across the border We'll leave behind my dear The pain and sadness we found here And we'll drink from th...

Well don't move Why don't you listen to what I'm saying And ehy you You better get up if you plan to be staying Get loose You got to listen to what the band is playing Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're bopping to the big beat, go Get up o...

In the summer that I was baptized, My father held me to his side, As they put me to the water, He said how on that day I cried. We were prisoners of love, a love in chains, He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain, with the same hot...

An echo fades of sounds once heard By thousands brought together for His ringing voice, a soul that stirred The faithful to a mighty roar. For twenty years upon the stage For twenty years upon the stage The passion deep within his soul Brought forth the anger...

Well you don’t like, don’t like the way I walk And you don’t like, don’t like the way I talk You criticize about me endlessly Logic defies how you got stuck with me And you complain about the clothes I wear And you explain there's other boys out there A...

I got the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold I got all the bonds, baby, that the bank can hold I got houses 'cross the country, honey, end to end And everybody, buddy, wants to be my friend Well I got all the riches, baby, any man ever knew But the only t...

Some men need riches and lots of money to spend Some men need power to hold over other men But not me baby, girl you can believe I'm telling you my darling You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need In this world, girl Some...

One, two, three, four Blind man wavin' by the side of the road In a flatbed Ford carryin' a heavy load Sweet thing sipping on a blueberry wine On a flat black highway down in Carolina Black bird slipping in a sky of blue All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby A...

I was born saved in heaven It was nothing like the promised land Raised in a good Christian house Underneath a good Christian hand I was schooled down and dirty Signed a note back to town It was there that the workers slaved all week Waiting for payday to come...

Said you'd give me just a little kiss And you'd rock me for a little while Well you'd slip me just a piece of it Listen up little child I Want it all or nothin' at all I Want it all or nothin' at all Said you'd take me for a little dance If you had a little t...

I got a dollar in my pocket There ain't a cloud up above I got a picture in a locket That says baby I love you Well if you didn't look then, boys Then fellas don't go lookin' now Well here she comes a-walkin' All that heaven will allow Say hey there Mister Bo...

I know what it's like to have failed baby With the whole world lookin' on I know what it's like to have been so sure Wake up and find it all gone Now you've got no reason to trust me And tonight my confidence is a little rusty It's getting late And if you don...

Go Wasn't I always A friend to you? Wasn't I always A friend to you? Do you wanna Be my friend? Ooh, ooh Do you wanna Be my friend? Ooh, ooh Every once in a while Honey Let your love show Every once in a while Honey Let yourself show Nobody gets hurt No, no...

What is this land America so many travel there I'm going now while I'm still young my darling meet me there Wish me luck my lovely I'll send for you when I can And we'll make our home in the American land Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to t...

41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots.... and we'll take that ride 'cross this bloody river to the other side 41 shots... cut through the night You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule Praying for his life...

The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over Shangai Them soldier boys were returning home screaming "Banzai" And the kids are still playing their games Gettin hustled and rustled out in the rain As I sat inside listening to the broadcast Oh save my soul sweet r...

I try to think that love's not around But still it's uncomfortably near Tonight my heart is losing ground 'Cause my angel eyes ain't here Angel eyes that devil sent They glow unbearably bright And need I say that my love is mis-spent Mis-spent with angel eyes...

He was a bouncer in a joint called Tony's Body Shop She was a night cashier down at the Stop 'n' Shop He was kinda good-lookin' And she was kinda fun They met 'neath that big oak tree Out where the river runs Little Angelyne, little Angelyne As the sun goes d...

Gray morning sky Splits through the shade Another day come More time to make Kids growing up Cat's getting fatter Lying here with you Nothing else matters Work hard Keep your eyes on the prize Wake up From the minute you open your eyes Every muscle In your bo...

Shrieks of Sheiks as they run across the movie screen A thousand sand-dune soldiers led by an Arabian Queen And the harem girls move like fancy (Clancy's) dancers In my dirty dreams And I wake up on the floor clutching the bed-lamp And Mama comes in, she screa...

They say the joint was rockin' a goin' 'round and round Yeah reelin' and a rockin' what a crazy sound Well they never stopped rockin' till the moon went down Oh it sounds so sweet I gotta take me a chance Rose out of my seat just had to dance Started movin'...

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night now they blew up his house too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for afight gonna see what them racket boys can do Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state and the D.A. can't get no relief...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne? R: For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For days auld lang syne We twa hae run about the braes An...

A beautiful and blinding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me And I know that Only time will tell us how To carry on without each other So keep me awake to memorize you Give me...

Oh Baby Doll They tried to tell me you were deaf and dumb But I knew they were wrong You're just a silent one Oh Baby Doll They tried ot tell me you could not feel But I found out they tried to conceal From you, that you were a woman Well they brought you in...

Baby I - Don't need you loving no more Baby I - Don't need your kisses no more Baby I - Don't need your tender touch Baby I Baby I - Don't need your tender kiss Baby I - You'll never miss Baby I - Don'y Want you round me no more Baby I 'Cause I got someone n...

You said once I was your treasure, and I saw your face in every STAR BUT The promises we make at night, oh that's all they are Unless we fill them with faith and love they're emty as a howlin' wind. Now darlin' I just wanna be Back in your arms, back in...

One soft, infested summer Me and Terry became friends Trying in vain to breathe The fire we was born in Catching rides to the outskirts Tying faith between our teeth Sleeping in that old, abandoned beach house Getting wasted in the heat And hiding on t...

I see a bad moon rising I see troubles on the way I see earthquakes and lightning I see bad times today Don't go 'round tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a-blowin' I know the end it's coming soon I fe...

Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts, man I'm caught in a cross fire that I don't understand But there's one thing I know for sure girl I don't give a damn For the same old played out scenes I don't give a dam...

He lay his blanket underneath the freeway As the evening sky grew dark Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can And headed through Balboa Park Where the men in their Mercedes Come nightly to employ In the cool San Diego evening The services of the border boys...

Well dont you want to climb a mountain yeah, dont you want to ride the river drink from a magic fountain give your woman all the love that you can give her well dont you want to be an outlaw dont you want to ride the range dont you want to be an outlaw childre...

Father, I have come. To tell you about somethin' I done. Well as the night reared its light head Into a baby's sun, We rolled down into the town From where the Black Throats come. And you know there was a robb'ry. There was a holdup. Ooh, there was a shootout...

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't put my picture in there with them Don't make us some little girls dream that can't ever come true That only serves to hurt us and make you cry like you do Well baby don't do it to me...

Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close try an understand I work all day out in the hot sun Stay with me now till the mornin' comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I'm in your hands Take me now as the sun descends They can't hurt you now...

Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening To the hours and minutes tickin' away Yeah, just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin While it was all just slippin' away. I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come Or that train to come roarin' 'round...

Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman Did a double-quick back-flip and slid across the floor The Catholic traffic flowed freely across the river And Fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door Baby dumpling, mama's in the back tree If the bough breaks mama mi...

Rainey William's playground was THE MOTT HAVEN streets Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths, names and photos of the young black faces, whose death and blood consecrated these places Rainey's mother said "Rainey stay at my side For you are my bl...

Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasing sneezing...

We played king of the mountain out on the end The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men Now there's so much that time, time and memory fade away We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take We stood side by side each one figh...

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in th...

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue just thinking about you Decorations of red On a green Christmas tree Won't mean a thing if You're not here with me I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain And when that blue heartache starts hurting Yo...

Well, I came by your house the other day. Your mother said you went away. She said there was nothing that I could have done. There was nothing nobody could say. Me and you, we've known each other ever since we were sixteen. I wished I would have known, I wishe...

I'm standing in the backyard Listening to the party Inside Tonight I'm drinkin' in the forgiveness This life provides The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams I'm watchin' you through the window With...

Boom boom boom boom I wanna shoot you right down Take you in my arms I'm in love with you a love that is true Boom boom boom boom I need you right now I mean right now I don't mean tomorrow I mean right now come on come on I wanna give it up babe...

Bless on the border guard so cold and alone Bless on the child so far from his home Pity the border guard who feels like a woman to cry Pity the border guard whose life guards the line A light is a funny thing A border sometime A light is a hurting thing Use o...

Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U....

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line Baby this town rips the b...

Sonny abandoned his car last night Had a meeting on the docks with a light blue Monterrey To breakaway Sonny was playing all his cards last night In a hotel room he dealt his life away To breakaway Now the promises and the lies they demand it Let the hearts...

I hold you in my arms as the band plays What are those words whispered baby just as you turn away I saw you last night out on the edge of town I wanna read your mind To know just what I've got in this new thing I've found So tell me what I see when I look in y...

If you love this land of the free Bring 'em home, bring 'em home Bring them back from overseas Bring 'em home, bring 'em home It will make the politicians sad, I know Bring 'em home, bring 'em home They wanna tangle with their foe Bring 'em home, bring...

I lie in bed but baby I can't sleep no matter how hard I try There's something bad, baby, wrong with me whenever I close my eyes The dreams of Mary keep me awake with every little curve in place When I walk home in the daybreak I pray come back home, baby, won...

Saigon, it was all gone The same Coke machines As the streets I grew on Down a mesquite canyon We come walking along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town Up here there's too much brush and cany...

As I was walking down the street Down the street, down the street A pretty girl I chanced to meet And we danced by the light of the moon Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight Come out tonight come out tonight Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight And we'l...

She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound Bus Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West Down came the tears from her happiness Her own little son name 'o Johnny B. Goode Was gonna make some motion pictures out i...

Well, there she sits buddy just a gleaming in the sun There to greet a working man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts Rides just like a littl...

Well ya know when you're young, There's such a distance between you and your family. Just can't see things from the same point of view. Papa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an author, And all you want is for them to want you. Well, I saw lot of bad si...

Camilla Horn, she was born a long, long time ago. She Came From Germany to the U.S.A. and was acclaimed as the next Garbo. They came to her on their knees, to bless them, caress them and tell them what they need. But oh, oh, she did not know. and so she...

In Candy's room their are pictures of her saviour on the wall But to get to Candy's room, you got to walk the darkness of Candy's hall Strangers from the city call my baby's number, and they bring Candy toys But when I come knockin', she smiles pretty, she kno...

In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall Strangers from the city call my baby's number and they bring her toys When I come knocking she smiles pretty she knows I wann...

Well my name is Catherine LeFevre I work at the Astrowash on Sunset and Vine I drop my kids at school in the morning And I pick them up at Mary's just 'fore suppertime CHORUS Well I work down at the car wash For a dollar and a dime And mister, I hate my boss...

Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code When something caught his eye he'd measure his need And then very carefully he'd proceed Billy met a young girl in the early days of May It was th...

Guess it was somethin' I shouldn't have done Guess I regret it now Ever since I was a kid Tryin' to keep my temper down is like Chasin' wild horses, chasin' wild horses Chasin' wild horses Left my home, left my friends I didn't say goodbye I contract...

even days the Gods created the Heaven and the Earth But the second chapter of Genesis is contradictory to the first They created the watery Heaven and Earth, the night and day They separated Heaven and Earth, created land, then vegetation After that they creat...

Oh, when I was a little kid I never liked to eat, Mama'd put things on my plate, I'd dump them on her feet, But then one day she made this soup, I ate it all in bed, I asked her what she put in it, and this is want she said. Chorus: Chicken lips and lizard hi...

A lovely, poignant song about a man fated to be kept apart from his true love "Well, sometimes I dream of gettin' outta here, Headin' down towards them old tracks I swore I'd come and get her But I know I ain't never goin' back "There's nights I can't sleep...

Well, far between sundown’s finish and midnight’s broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin’ As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun Sayin’, it may be the chimes of freedom crashin’ Flashin’ for the warriors whose strength is not...

I pick you up with flowers When you get off from work It's like you don't even care It's like I'm some kind of jerk I take you out on a date And then you won't even kiss me Boy when I ain't around I'll bet you don't even miss me I don't know why I love you li...

Taxi Cab, Taxi Cab, at the light Won't you take me on a ride through this city of night ? I got some money and I'm feeling fine I ain't in no hurry so just take your time. Some people wanna die young and gloriously But, Taxi Cab driver, well, that ain't...

Pack up your bags Don't look back There's a little place Out 'cross the the railroad tracks If you're broken-hearted And you don't know what to do But they got a place down there that's just for you Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah Club Soul, Club So...

There's a code of silence that we don't dare speak There's a wall between and the river's deep We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong But there's a code of silence and it can't go on Is the truth so elusive, so elusive you see that it ain't enough...

Put on your black dress baby, and put your hair up right There's a party way down in Factory Town tonight I'll be going down there if you need a ride Come on, come on, let's go tonight How many men fail, their dreams denied They walk through these streets wit...

It’s a fairytale so tragic There’s no prince to break the spell I don't believe in magic But for you I will, for you I will If I’m a fool, I’ll be a fool Darlin’ for you I’m countin’ on a miracle Baby I’m countin’ on a miracle Darlin’ I’m countin’ on a miracl...

Every year when summer comes around They stretch a banner 'cross the main street in town You can feel somethin's happenin' in the air Well, from Carol's house up on Telegraph Hill You can see the lights going up out in Soldiers Field Getting ready, for the cou...

The times are tough now Just getting tougher This old world is rough It's just getting rougher Cover me Come on baby,cover me Well I'm looking for a lover Who will come on in and cover me Promise me baby You won't let them find us Hold me in your arms Let'...

They ride beneath the waves at 20,000 leagues On stallions stitched to seaweed strands So smiling, so smiling They herd the fishes of the deep They ride for you and me They ranch the rich and the sunken soil At the bottom of the sea In the dead of night, aliv...

First time I crossed my heart I was beggin' baby, please At your bedside, down on my knees When I crossed my heart When I crossed my heart I crossed my heart, pretty baby over you Second time I crossed my heart rain came in from the south I was lyin' there wi...

My feet were fylin' down the street just the other night When a Hong Kong special pulled up at the light What was inside, man, was just c'est magnifique I wanted to hold the bumper and let her drag me down the street Ooh, ooh I gotta crush on you Ooh, ooh I g...

Cynthia, when you come walkin' by you're an inspiring sight Cynthia, you won't smile or say hi but baby that's alright 'Cause I don't need to hold you or taste your kiss I just like knowin', Cynthia, you exist In a world like this Cynthia, when you pass it se...

I get up in the evening And I ain't got nothing to say I come home in the morning I go to bed feeling the same way I ain't nothing but tired Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself Hey there baby I could use just a little help You can't start a fire You can...

They're still racing out at the Trestles But that blood it never burned in her veins Now I hear she's got a house up on Fairview And a style she's trying to maintain Well if she wants to see me You can tell her that I'm easily found Tell her there's a spot out...

Driving in to Darlington County Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July Driving in to Darlington County Looking for some work on the county line We drove down from New York City Where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name Driving in to Darlingt...

There's a pale horse comin And I'm gonna ride it I'll rise in the mornin With my fate beside it I'm a dead man walkin I'm a dead man walkin In Saint James Parish I was born and Christened How I got my story Mister, there ain't no need for you to listen It's...

No cannonballs did fly No rifles cut us down No bombs fell from the sky No blood soaked the ground No powder flash blinded the eye No deafening thunder sounded But just as sure as the hand of god They brought death to my hometown They brought death to...

Well way back in the Bible time A cat named Noah built an ocean liner Everybody laughed when they told him why But when the rain came, Noah was high and dry 'Cause he had Dedication baby through and through Dedication like I give to you Dedication girl every...

The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps They're flying you back to the Mexico border To pay all your money to wade back again My father's own father, he waded that river They took all the money he made in hi...

Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress Devil with the blue dress on Fe, fe, fi, fi, fo, fo, fum Look at Molly now, here she come Wearin' a wig, hat, shades to match High...

Remember a morning We dug up your gun Four rooms in a barrel A hanging sun Those first nervous evenings Of Perfume and gin They'll all smell on your breath As I helped you get in The rush of your lips The feel of your nails The beat of your heart...

I got my finger on the trigger But I don't know who to trust When I look into your eyes There's just devils and dust We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie Home's a long, long way from us I feel a dirty wind blowing Devils and dust I got God on my side And...

Hey bus driver keep the change, bless your children, give them names don't trust men who walk with canes drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train Christmas crier bustin' cane, he's in love again...

Well ever since you were a little girl You set the rules in your little world But girls grow up and throw their toys away You're a big girl now but you still wanna play (Girl we're living) You dress them up the way you want to (Girl we're living) You make them...

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures Of all your leading men Oh baby don't put my picture In there with them Oh don't make us some little girl's dream That can not ever really ever come true Baby don't do it to me I won't do it to you You see all th...

Cold rain runnin' down the front of my shirt I'm flat on my back, wheels in the dirt Angel makes her face up out on Baker Street She's straddling the shifter in my front seat There's nothing to lose, it's a heartbreak The deck's stacked So put your foot to the...

Sun comes every morning but it ain't no friend I get dressed and I go back again The rain keeps on falling on twisted bones and dirt I'm buried to my heart here in this hurt Fire keeps on burning, you're waiting in the cold Down in the hole Dark and blo...

I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash, where all that ever does is rain Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downboun...

Dream baby dream Dream baby dream Dream baby dream Come on and dream baby dream Come on and dream baby dream We gotta keep the light burning Come on, we gotta keep the light burning Come on, we gotta keep the light burning Come on, we gotta keep the l...

Day after day, I'm more confused Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain You know that's a game that I hate to loose And I'm feelin' the strain Ain't it a shame. Give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift a...

When I lost you honey sometimes I think I lost my guts too And I wish God would send me a word Send me something I'm afraid to lose Lying in the heat of the night like prisoners all our lives And I get shivers down my spine, girl, And all I wanna do is hold y...

I got two pins in my ankle and a busted collarbone A steel rod in my leg, but it walks me home At nine, I climbed high into the boughs of our neighborhood's tallest tree I don't remember the fear, just the breeze Drive fast, fall hard, I'll keep you in my...

I threw my robe on in the morning Watched the ring on the stove turn red Stared hypnotized into a cup of coffee Pulled on my boots and made the bed Screen door hangin' off its hinges Kept bangin' me awake all night As I look out the window The only thing in si...

You put on your coat, I’ll put on my hat You put out the dog, I’ll put out the cat You put on your red dress for me tonight honey We’re going on the town now Looking for easy money There’s nothing to it mister You won’t hear a sound When your whole wor...

Well, what power of God does a nun use to hold up parish priests And what makes a good cop let go a beautiful theif Oh, and how does the queen know she got hold that manna honey Oh and what makes an old woman give a young man all her money Well late in the nig...

I woke up this morning I could barely breathe Just an empty impression In the bed where you used to be I want a kiss from your lips I want an eye for an eye I woke up this morning to an empty sky Empty sky, empty sky I woke up this morning to an empty sky Emp...

One, Two, Three, Four Girl, on the edge flippin' off the lamp There'll be an end darling to your endless night On the other side of the street. Yea, the light on your portrait and the light in your face And you'll be looking for another pretty place Baby, thi...

Verse 1: I gotta mule and her name is Sal. Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. She's a good old worker and a good old pal. Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. Verse 2: We hauled some barges in our day, Filled with lumber, coal, and hay. We know every inch of the wa...

Was on the day the cowboys were band from the range Metal touched the world as a master They rode their ponies down into cities of gold To leave them forever after Now the sun was swollen red and old The earth it was windy, dark and cold Where the highway ends...

They caught Bobby by Lakefoot Road Saying how the story gets told (2nd verse unintelligible) e Everybody's looking for somebody Everybody's looking Everybody's looking Everybody's looking for somebody 

Paul and Silas, bound in jail Had no money for to go their bail Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on Paul and Silas thought they was lost Dungeon shook and the chains come off Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on Freedom's lean is mighty sweet And soon we're g...

Early in the morning factory whistle blows, Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes, Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light, It's the working, the working, just the working life. Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain, I se...

Well now you say you've found another man Who does things to you that I can't And that no matter what I do it's all over now Between me and you, girl But Ican't believe what you say No I can't believe what you say 'Cause baby I don't wanna fade away Oh I don'...

Sunday matinee In a one dog town You're two seats away I move two seats down Wipe the tears from your eyes The first kiss i stole I walk you home The credits roll Fade to black Fade to black Fade to black Fade to black I hear my voice On the telephone But I'...

Well ya know when you're young, There's such a distance between you and your family. Just Can't see things from the same point of view. Papa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an author, and all you want is for them to want you. Well, I saw lot of bad signs a...

When I get home from my job I turn on my T.V. But I can't keep my mind on the show When I lay down at night I don't get no sleep So I turn on the radio But, Lord, the only thing I hear Is you whisperin' in my ear The words that you used to say Well, now the da...

I'm driving in my car I turn on the radio I'm pulling you close You just say no You say you don't like it But girl I know you're a liar 'cause when we kiss - Fire! Late at night I'm taking you home When I say I wanna stay You say you wanna be alone...

If your heart is restless from waiting so long If you're tired and weary and you can't go on If a distant dream is callin' you Then there's just one thing you can do Follow that dream wherever it may lead Come on follow that dream to find the love you need C...

Princess cards she sends me with her regards Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted But you let your blue...

May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever youn...

Some folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" They point the cannon right at you It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate son Some...

Dark weekends in the sun out on Chelsea Road Descending the stairs, Frankie, my one Check your makeup in the mirror, c'mon babe let's go We'll dance 'round this dirty town till the night is all done Let all the finer things sleep alone tonight Let all the mino...

Good morning, good morning The church mouse is snoring News is out all over town Frankie fell in Love Wake up, boys, wake up You drunken choir boys shake it up Our Juliet says her Romeo's been found Frankie fell in Love World peace's gonna break out...

I was born right here on Randolph Street in Freehold Here right behind that big red maple in Freehold Well, I went to school right here Got laid and had my first beer In Freehold Well, my folks always lived and worked right here in Freehold I remember running...

Froggy went a-courtin' and he did ride, uh-huh (uh-huh) Froggy went a -courtin' and he did ride Sword and pistol by his side, uh- huh, uh-huh, uh-huh Well, he went down to Miss Mousie's door, uh-huh (uh-huh) He went down to Miss Mousie's door Where he had oft...

A one, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! At sixteen she quit high school to make a fortune in the Promised Land She got a job behind the counter in an all-night hamburger stand She wrote faithfully home to mama, "Now mama don't you worry none...

Well she got her daddy's car And she cruised through the hamburger stand now Seems she forgot all about the library Like she told her old man now And with the radio blasting Goes cruising just as fast as she can now And she'll have fun fun fun 'Til her daddy...

Where the road is dark, and the seed is sowed Where the gun is cocked, and the bullet’s cold Where the miles are marked in blood and gold I’ll meet you further on up the road Got on my dead man’s suit, and my smilin’ skull ring My lucky graveyard boots, and a...

For fifteen years Le Bin Son Fought side by side with the Americans In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam In ’75 Saigon fell and he left his command And brought his family to the promised land Seabrook, Texas and the small towns in the Gulf of Mexico It was...

In the fields of the lord Stood Abel and Cain Cain slew Abel 'neath the black rain At night he couldn't stand the guilt or the blame So he gave it a name So he gave it a name So he gave it a name Billy got drunk, angry at his wife He hit her once, he hit her...

Yeah girl Now won't you come on out tonight Girl, where the stars will shine real bright Well I gotta get that feeling Yeah I wanna get that feeling Woargh back again Yeah, back again tonight there's something in the air Tonight ain't got money but I don't car...

Get up stand up, stand up for your right Get up stand up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me Heaven is under the earth I know you don't know What life is really worth It's not all that glitters is gold Half the story has never been told So now...

I hear the sound of your guitar Comin' from the mystic far Stone and the gravel in your voice Come in my dreams and I rejoice It's your ghost moving through the night Your spirit filled with light I need, need you by my side Your love and I'm alive I c...

Well the street lights shine Down on Blessing Avenue Lovers they walk by Holdin' hands two by two A breeze crosses the porch Bicycle spokes spin 'round Jacket's on, I'm out the door Tonight I'm gonna burn this town down And the girls in their summer clothes...

0h I ain't lookin' for just excitement Baby that's just a fact If you want to get to her heart You better let her know just where you're at It ain't written in the sky above No fortune-teller told me this You gotta tell her that you olve her Tell her that you...

I was your big man I was your prince charming King on a white horse hey now look how far I've fallen I tried to trick you yeah but baby you got wise You cut me cut me right down to size Now I'm just a fool in Gloria's eyes Swore I'd get you back I was so sure...

I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in and he was walking out We went back inside sat down, had a few...

Well he'd been hearing too many voices and feelin'a little off-rack Like there was something big pressing down on his back So he called up his friends and they said come on out west It's a place where a man can really feel his succes So he pulled his heart an...

I was standing by the river Where the cold black water runs I was standing by the river Where the cold black water runs I had my good eye to the dark And my blind eye to the sun I had all of the riches I had each and every one I had all of the riches I had ea...

Album version Daddy always told me Money don't mean everything Consider yourself a lucky man You got a guitar and you still can sing As usual my Daddy was right I got two kids, two cats A good dog and a lucky hat An old house, a fast car But I don't...

Here in north east Ohio Back in eighteen-o-three James and Danny Heaton Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek They built a blast furnace Here along the shore And they made the cannon balls That helped the union win the war Here in Youngstown Her...

heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Gonna hold my baby as tight as I can Tonight she'll know I'm a mighty man I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Oh, lead me in the alley behind the barn Don't be afraid, I'll do you no harm Baby, bring my...

Ah! I love the colorful clothes she wears And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair Ah! I hear the sound of a gentle word On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air I'm pickin' up good vibrations She's givin' me the excitations I'm pickin' up good...

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love drives a man insane You broke my will, oh what a thrill Goodness gracious great balls of fire I learned to love all of Hollywood money You came along and you moved me honey I changed my mind, loo...

I stood stonelike at midneight suspended in my masquerade I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came o...

The speculators made their money on the blood you shed Your momma's pulled the sheets up off your bed Profiteers on Jhames Street sold your shoes and clothes Ain't nobody talkin' because everybody knows We pulled your cycle up back the garage and polished...

From nowhere through the caravan Round the campfire light Lovely woman in motion With hair as dark as night Her eyes were like that of a cat in the dark She hypnotized me with love She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She was a gy...

I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven I said "There’s no smokin’ in the store ma’am." She crossed her legs and then We made some small talk that’s where it should have stopped She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket My hand slipped up he...

Some need gold and some need diamond rings Or a drug to take away the pain that living brings A promise of a better world to come When whatever here is done I don't need that sky of blue All I know's since I found you, I am happy when I'm in your arms Happy, d...

Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama's reins You know playin' blind man's bluff is a little baby's game You pick up Little Dynamite, I'll pick up Little Gun And together we're gonna go out tonight and make that highway run You don't have to...

Downtown hipsters drinking up the drug line Down in the kitchen working in the coal mine Got a special sin, mister, you can't quite confess Messy little problem, maybe baby need a new dress Razor-back diamond you shine too hard Need a hammer help you hand...

Sick at heart and lonely Deep in dark despair Thinking one thought only Where is she, tell me where And if she says to you She don't love me Just give here my message Tell her of my plea And I know, if she had me back again I would never make her sad I got a...

Since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell Down at the end of Lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I get so lonely I could die Although it's always crowded I still can find some room Where those broken hearted lovers...

You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face And you try to see, girl The way things were when we were at your place n the days it was just you and me, girl And you cry because things ain't like before Well don't you know they can't be that way anymore Bu...

(Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand) (Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand) (Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand) (Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand) One, two, three, four (Raise your hand, raise yo...

Had enough of heartbreak and pain I had a little sweet spot for the rain For the rain and skies of grey Hello sunshine, won't you stay? You know I always liked my walking shoes But you can get a little too fond of the blues You walk too far, you walk aw...

I was out driving, just taking it slow Looked at my tank it was reading low Pulled in an Exxon station out on Highway One Look out! Help up without a gun Help up without a gun Help up without a gun (Some man) drew eight hundred dollars (doing off a squeeze) A...

They broke your toys this morning, Henry Rode your board right into dust Surrounded you with strangers who you could not trust And then they had the gall To write your name up on the girls' room wall And send you out to Maria Who spoke of babies and all And wa...

Monday morning runs to Sunday night Screaming slow me down before the new year dies It won't take much to kill a lovin' smile And every mother with a baby cryin in her arms singin Give me Help, give me Strength Give a soul a Night of fearless sleep Give...

I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven I said "There's no smokin' in the store ma'am." She crossed her legs and then We made some small talk that's where it should have stopped She slipped me her number, I put it in my pocket My hand slipped...

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be putting me on" God say, "No". Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killing done?"...

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8 I always done an honest job as honest as I could I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come do...

Livin' easy Lovin' free Season ticket on a one way ride Askin' nothin' Leave me be Takin' everythin' in my stride Don't need reason Don't need rhyme Ain't nothin' I'd rather do Goin' down Party time My friends are gonna be there, too, ehh I'm on the highway t...

Thumb stuck out as I go I'm just travelin' up the road Maps don't do much for me, friend I follow the weather and the wind I'm hitch hikin' all day long Got what I can carry and my song I'm a rolling stone just rolling on Catch me now 'cause tomorrow I...

I worked hard, baby, night and day The things I had somebody took away They took away everything I earned But there's one lesson that'a I have learned Chorus: You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (4X) Verse 2: I been pushed and I been knocked...

They're the Hollywood kids each and every one With a high class smile and a little baby's tongue Lonely hard head losers dressed in the tinsel of the times And learn all the latest lines and the order in which they come So perfumed sweet and so obscene Like th...

Well, the doctor comes 'round here with his face all bright And he says "in a little while you'll be alright" All he gives is a humbug pill, a dose of dope and a great big bill Tell me how can a poor man stand such times and live? "Me and my old school pa...

My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation. I hear the real, thought far off hymn That hails the new creation Above the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing; It sounds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing? What through the...

You and me we were the pretenders We let it all slip away In the end what you don't surrender Well the world just strips away Girl ain't no kindness in the face of strangers Ain't gonna find no miracles here Well you can wait on your blessings my darlin'...

I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don't know where it's flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going CHORUS Everybody's got a hungry heart Everybody's got a hungry heart Lay down your m...

I hauled myself up out of a ditch I built me an ark out of gopher wood and pitch Sat down by the roadside and waited on the rain I am the hunter of invisible game Well I woke last night to the heavy clicking and clack And a scarecrow on fire along the ra...

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town The police make it hard wherever I may go And I ain't got no home in this world anymore I was farmin' on the shares and always I was poor My crops I laid into...

I got a .007 watch and it's a one and only It's got a I Spy beeper that tells me when you're lonely I got a Batmobile so I can reach you in a fast shake When your world's in crisis of an impendin' heartbreak Now don't you call James Bond or Secret Agent Man '...

Wise men say only fools rush in but I can't help falling in love with you Shall I say would it be a sin 'cause I can't help falling in love with you Like the river flows flowing to the sea darling so it goes some things were meant to be Take my hand, take my...

Breakin' rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fougth the law and the law won I needed money 'cause I had none I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I miss my baby and I feel so bad I guess my race is run She w...

"...song, this is a very sad song, this next song we're gonna do. The song is so sad that sometimes I have to leave the stage and cry in the backstage a little bit while I'm singing this song. The reason this song is so sad because this story happened to me ju...

I hear the guitars ringing out there Ringing out down Union Street I hear the lead singer shouting out yeah And I wanna be a slave to the beat And tonight I wanna break my chains Somebody break my heart Somebody shake my brains Downtown they're singing what I...

Let the frozen cities crumble, crumble and fall That's alright, I don't mind at all Let 'em all tumble right into the sea Well that's just fine, that's alright with me Since you came down the line I can't sleep at night, I got one thing on my mind That's every...

I see you walking, baby, down the street Pushing that baby carriage at your feet I see that lonely ribbon in your hair Tell me I am the man for whom you put it there You never smile girl, you never speak You just walk on by, darlin' week after week Raising tw...

The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophone says I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed out horns Blow into my face with scorn But it's not that way I wasn't born to lose you I want you I want you I want you so b...

I love to see the cottonwood blossom In the early spring I love to see the message of love That the bluebird brings But when I see you walkin' with him Down along the strand I wish I were blind When I see you with your man I love to see your hair shining In t...

The road is long and seeming without end The days go on, I remember you my friend And though you're gone And my heart's been emptied it seems I'll see you in my dreams I got you guitar here by the bed All your favorite records And all the books that you...

[Verse 1] You wake me in the night With tears falling down Come let me dry them for you I wish I could tell a story Chase away all those ghosts You got inside of you A story of heroes who fight on at any cost Of a kingdom of love To be won or lost We...

Pour me a drink Theresa in one of those glasses you dust off And I'll watch the bones in your back like the stations of the cross 'Round your hair the sun lifts a halo, at your lips a crown of thorns Whatever the deal's going down, to this one I'm sworn I...

I ain't afraid of no lions I ain't afraid of no grizzly bear I got in a wrestlin' match with old King Kong He didn't even muss my hair There's just one thing in the whole wide world That make me doubt my stuff I'm a coward when it comes to love Now bring dow...

We sit in the car outside your house, you're quiet, I can feel the heat coming 'round I go to put my arm around you and you, give me a look like I'm way out of bounds well, you let out one of your bored sighs, Well lately when I look into your eyes I'm...

Hey little girl is your daddy home. Did he go away and leave you all alone. I got a bad desire. I'm on fire. Tell me now baby is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do I can take you higher I'm on fire Sometimes it's like someone took a...

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Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge Baby, this emptiness has already been judged I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got You're a strange part of me, you're a preacher's girl And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world Got my arms open...

We said we´d walk together baby come what may That come the twilight should we lose our way If as we´re walking a hand should slip free I´ll wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me We swore we´d travel darlin´ side by side We´d help each other stay...

Well there's a light on yonder mountain And it's calling me to shine There's a girl over by the water fountain And she's asking to be mine And ain't that Jesus, he's standing in the doorway With a buckskin jacket, boots and spurs, so really fine He says "We ne...

I was born right here on Randolph Street in Freehold Here, right behind that big red maple in Freehold Well, I went to school right here, got laid, and had my first beer in Freehold Well, my folks both lived and worked right here in Freehold I remember run...

Well my mother rolled over and died in Michigan My dog got hit by a truck and I cried in Michigan I got drunk and puked up my guts in Michigan But I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright And man I'm riding here tonight in Michigan I ran a race and...

Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night With bruised arms and broken rhythm in a beat-up old Buick But dressed just like dynamite He tried sellin' his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street But they sighed "Johnny it falls apart so easy and...

Well Papa go to bed now, it's getting late Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now I'll be leaving in the morning from Saint Mary's Gate We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow 'Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us The...

The sky was falling and streaked with blood I heard you calling me then you disappeared into the dust Up the stairs, into the fire Up the stairs, into the fire I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher Somewhere up the stairs into the fir...

Well I walk the way you want me to And I'll talk the way you want me to And I've tried to do all I can just to please you Well I work hard every day for you And I brought home all my pay for you And I've cried my tears through the rain night and again And oh...

I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a super-nova I could walk like Brando right into the sun, an' dance just like a Casanova With my black-jack and jacket and my hair slicked sweet...

She said we could just sleep together, There'd be nothing wrong. We could just hold each other with our clothes on. I went to answer, I don't think we should. Then I heard a voice say, yeah, I guess we could. She kissed me lightly and said you know s...

I’ll mow your lawn, clean the leaves out your drain I’ll mend your roof to keep out the rain I’ll take the work that God provides I’m a Jack of all trades, honey, we’ll be alright I’ll hammer the nails, and I’ll set the stone I’ll harvest your crops when the...

Driving home she grabs something to eat Turns a corner and drives down the street Into a row of houses she just melts away Like the scenery in another man's play Into a house where the blinds are closed To keep from seeing things she don't wanna know She pulls...

We are climbing, Jacob's ladder We are climbing, Jacob's ladder We are climbing, Jacob's ladder Yeah, we're brothers, sisters, all Every rung goes higher and higher Every rung goes higher and higher Every rung goes higher and higher We are brothers, sisters,...

You got your book baby with all your fears Let me, honey, and I'll catch your tears I'll take your sorrow if you want me to Come tomorrow that's what I'll do Listen to me Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey d...

Well it's Saturday night in New Jersey And you're feeling kinda wet Now the summer heat is getting you worried So you try to look as innocent as you can as you sweat And you've got a woman on the other side of the law But it ain't cool to go see her yet Becaus...

I was born down by the river Where the dirty river flows And the cool wind cut through me It cut right through my clothes And the anger and the yearning Like fever in my veins Set the fire burning She came down from Knightstown With her hands hard from the li...

I got no time for the corner boys Down in the street making all that noise Or the girls out on the avenue `Cause tonight I wanna be with you Tonight I'm gonna take that ride Across the river to the Jersey side Take my baby to the carnival And I'll take her on...

Oh Jesse, you better start thinkin' about saving your neck Oh Jesse, you put on that leather jacket like you put on respect you got cleats on your boots and a woman who shoots everytime you shuffle out the stage door And darling Jesse, do you know what its all...

Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, He robbed the Glendale train, He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, He'd a hand and a heart and a brain. Well it was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward, I wonder how he feel, For he ate of Jesse's bre...

Jesus was an only son As he walked up Calvary Hill His mother Mary walking beside him In the path where his blood spilled Jesus was an only son In the hills of Nazareth As he lay reading the Psalms of David At his mother's feet A mother prays, "Sleep tight, m...

One, two, three Well, John Henry was a little baby Sittin' on his dady's knee He pick up a hammer and a little piece of steel, And cried, "Hammer's gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord Hammer's gonna be the death of me" Now the captain he said to John Henry,...

Well they close down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine He got a gun, shot a night clerk, now they call 'im Johnny 99 Down in the part of to...

She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust And put her little boy on a Greyhound bus Leaving Memphsi with a guitar in his hand On a one-way ticket to the promised land Hey little girl with the red dress on There's a party tonight down in Memphis town I...

You got your book with all your fears Let me, honey, and I'll catch your tears I'll take your sorrow if you want me to Come tomorrow that's what I'll do Listen to me Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Jane...

The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants Toget...

One night in a motel room Eyes cast like steel I drank the wine they left on my table I knew the morning was too far I smoked my last cigarette I stay only to defy The night was dark and the land was cold It's frozen right to the bone And just like fi...

With you I don't hear the minutes ticking by I don't feel the hours as they fly I don't see the summer as it wanes Just a subtle change of light upon your face Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away This is our kingdom of days I watched the sun as it ris...

Catalog sighs holding Kitty's black tooth She left to marry some top cat, ain't it the cold truth And there hasn't been a tally since Sally left the alley Since Kitty left with Big Pretty things have got pretty thin It's tight on this fence since them young du...

The lady keeps the doctor in a place inside her pocket The circle made her circle like a wheel The doctor gives a strange love, but the lady she don't knock it She's glad to get a piece of anything Because the lady needs the medicine Doctor needs the lady to...

Grab your ticket and your suitcase thunder's rolling down the tracks don't know where you're goin' sky is turnin' black well darlin' if you're weary lay your head upon my chest we'll take what we can carry and we'll leave behind the rest Big Wheels ro...

We took the highway till the road went black We marked Truth Or Consequences on our map* A voice drifted up from the radio We saw the voice from long ago Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart...

I wanna build me a house, on higher ground I wanna find me a world, where love's the only sound High above this road, filled with shadow and doubt I want to shoulder my load, and figure it all out With Leah I walk this road, with a hammer and a fiery lantern...

All over the world the rain was pourin' I was scratchin' where it itched Oh heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring So I grabbed you baby like a wild pitch It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It...

When I ask you if everything is alright You whisper "Don't worry" and you shut out the light Now black is black in this bed we're laying And I wanna believe the words that you're saying But your eyes look like a leavin' train They keep on dragging me down You...

I been watchin’ you a long time Trying to figure out where and when We been moving down that same line The time is now maybe we could get skin to skin Don’t know when this chance might come again Good times got a way of comin’ to an end Don’t know when this c...

Hey little girl with the red dress on There's a party tonight down in ... Yeah and I'm goin' if you need a ride Come on, come on, let's go tonight Well baby the dreamers .... They ride down the streets with death in their eyes And the new world's defeat...

Neath a crowd of mongrel trees i pulled that bothersome thread got down on my knees grabbed my pen and bowed my head tried to summon all that my heart inds true and send it in my letter to you Things I found out through hard Times and good i wrote ‘em...

Sun comes up on another day but things are not the same as yesterday life is not what it used to be lives were lost because of jealousy a sad page written in our history what good can come from this misery? life is not what it used to be lives were lost becaus...

We met down in the valley, where the wine of love and destruction flows There in that curve of darkness where flowers of temptation grow I left the rest for the others it was you and nothing else You felt so good to me baby, as good as life itself You were li...

I don't need your answered prayers Or the chains your lover wears I don't need your rings of gold Or the secrets that you hold Lift me up, Lift me up and I'll fall with you lift me up Let your love lift me up I don't need your sacred vow Or the promise tomorr...

Well I've been out of the woods for six days and nights now I'm a little hot wired and I'm feeling alright now I got some money in my pocket and I won't need a ride now I got a big cherry car and my baby by my side now (chorus) Well I'm a little hot-wired but...

Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime Didn't you People called say beware doll You're bound to fall You thought they were all Kidding you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hanging it out Now you don't talk so lou...

The midnight boys are outside Scraping tears up off the street Standin` guard beneath th window Where only Linda sleeps The leader is a kid named Eddie Walkin` like an angel in defeat He trashes her old man`s car, slashes Linda`s name in the seat And calls out...

You broke my heart, tore it apart Thought it was cute, thought it was smart But now I'm back and I've got the strength of ten So I got a message for you my friend I'm Daniel waitin' in the lion's den Daniel waitin' for that lion to come Daniel waitin' in the...

After the music had stopped I still heard it playing I moved a little closer to hear The words she was saying She said I'll never break your heart I'll never try to fake it My love is here for you All you have to do is take it Kisses sweeter than wine My littl...

I got lumps in my throat When I saw her comin down the aisle I got the wiggles in my knees When she looked at me and sweetly smiled Well there she is again Standin over by the record machine Well she looks like a model On the cover of a magazine But she's too...

She said we could just sleep together, There'd be nothing wrong. We could just hold each other with our clothes on. I went to answer, I don't think we should. Then I heard a voice say, yeah, I guess we could. She kissed me lightly and said you know sometimes w...

A letter come blowin' in On an ill wind Somethin' 'bout me and you Never seein' one another again And what I knew had come Stars struck deaf and dumb Like when we kissed That taste of blood on your tongue Don't worry, darlin' No baby, don't you fret We're liv...

Early North Jersey industrial skyline I'm an all-set cobra jet creepin' through the night time Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone This turnpike sure is spooky at night when you're all alone I'm living on the edge of the world Tryin' to get my gir...

Well now on a summer night in a dusky room Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make In a world...

I was driving through my hometown I was just kinda killin' time When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting From the window of the five and dime I couldn't quite recall the name But the pose looked familiar to me So I asked the salesgirl "W...

Once I thought I knew Everything I needed to know Your sweet whisper, your tender touch But I didn't really know that much The joke's on me, but it's gonna be okay If I can just get through this lonesome day Hell's brewin', dark sun's on the rise This storm'l...

Out where the creek turn shallow and sandy And the moon comes skimmin' away the stars When the mesquite comes rushin' over the hilltops Straight into my arms Straight into my arms I'm ridin' hard carryin' a cache of roses A fresh map that I made Now I'm gonna...

Last night I stood at your doorstep Trying to figure out what went wrong You just slipped something into my palm and you were gone I could smell the same deep green of summer 'Bove me the same night sky was glowin' In the distance I could see the town wh...

Well, I dreamed I was a gypsy riding the land with a tambourine and a gypsy queen and a rainbow caravan yeah, but I won't be stealing diamonds from the rich men to throw in the sea singing look to the land 'cause the land is the key keep an eye on the lake, y...

They call him Mr. Outside Cause he don't care Mr. Outside He's just havin' his fun Mr. Outside He's just looking out for No. 1 Well Mr. Outside All your money and your power Won't help you come the dark hour Well kingdoms crumble Unto your feet You're lest an...

Met her at a friendly little bar down along the coast She said it was her birthday so we had us a nice little toast Drove around for a while, smoked a few cigarettes Took her back to my place, she slipped off her party dress She sat for a while on the edge of...

We met out on open streets when we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat when you said I love you so Then little by little we choked out all the life that our love could hold Oh no It's like we had a noose and baby without check We pulled until it g...

My name is frank davis, drive up Dixie 109 I was out on Highway 17, just south of the camden line It was down there in heart of Wilsonville, where I met my fate She was standing outside a barroom, said she was waitin' for a date but I knew that was just a line...

The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway He walks through town all alone He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say His countryside's burnin' with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide The hit and run, plead sanctua...

One! Two! Livin' on free food, tickets Water in the milk from the hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can you do? hmm hmm Tears from your little sister Cryin' 'cause she don't have a dress without a patch For the party to go But she'll know she...

I was there When you needed someone Look now baby And see what we have undone Oh I did most of the talking But you were the one who lied Bye bye baby Out love is tumbling down I can't be hanging around Love on the wrong side of town Oh baby You were gone Whe...

Tell me baby Have we lost everything that we had before What do you do in the day When I walk out the door I can see you made up your mind And I know our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line...

Runnin' down the highway half-past eleven Waitin' for my odometer to roll straight sevens I'm a lucky man I went to see the gypys the other night She looked in my palm, looked me in the eye And said "You're a lucky man" "Some folks got fortune, some got eyes...

House got too crowded clothes got too tight And I don't know just where I'm going tonight Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain There's somebody callin' my secret name I'm going down to Lucky Town Going down to Lucky Town I wanna lose these blu...

I got a coin in my palm I can make it disappear I got a card up my sleeve Name it and I'll pull it out your ear I got a rabbit in my hat If you want to come and see This is what will be, this is what will be I got shackles on my wrist Soon I'll slip 'em and b...

Here comes a lawyer,here comes a cop. Here comes a rich, here comes a car-hop. Goin' on forever, ain't ever gonna stop. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Well, name you...

Well you can go out with him Play with all of his toys But takin' care of you darlin' Ain't for one of the boys Oh there's somethin' in your soul That he's gonna rob And lovin' you baby lovin' you darlin' Lovin' you woman is a man's man's job Lovin' y...

There's a place out on the edge of town, sir, Risin' above the factories and the fields Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember That mansion on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel...

There's so many rivers to cross But I can't seem to find my way over Wandering, I'm lost As I travel along the white cliffs of Dover Many rivers to cross And it's only my will that keeps me alive. I've been hurt, washed up for years But I mearly survive becau...

Been on a barbed wire highway 40 days and nights I ain't complainin', it's my job and it suits me right I got a sweet soft fever rushin' around my head I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed Got on a dead man suit and smilin' skull ring Lucky graveyard boots...

Marie, she comes to me in the twilight When the wind blows down across the river So cold, the fishermen cry She rapes me in a rage of rainbow violence Till my bare nerves, they sing Like the strings of a violin And the room seeps into a savage silence Soaked i...

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't put my picture in there with them Don't make us some little girl's dream that can never come true Oh baby don't do it to me I won't do it to you Mary Lou, I'm not like all those othe...

Mary Queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreamin' The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving No, you're not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising Well I'm just a lo...

I got seven pictures of Buddha The prophet’s on my tongue Seven angels of mercy Sighin’ over that black hole in the sun My heart’s dark but it’s risin’ I’m pullin’ all the faith I can see From that black hole on the horizon I hear your voice calling me Let it...

(Each year many die crossing the deserts, mountains and rivers of our southern border in search of a better life. Here I follow the journey backwards, from the body at the river bottom, to the man walking across the desert towards the banks of the Rio Grande.)...

Hey girl I'm calling all stations Blowing down the widened night I'm singing through these power lines And I'm running on time and feeling alright Skipping over the curves in the air Reaching to see if you're out there Coming across your radio station C...

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks And tonight can you get us a ride Gotta make it through the tunnel Got a meeting with a man on the other side Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing So if you want to come along You gotta promise you won't say a...

Bring it Down, band! Now , I just came here tonight to say I just wanna say ... I just wanna say ... Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice I feel just like I'm living in paradise Now listen Now you see,...

Woke up this morning, there was a chill in the air Went to the kitchen, my cigarettes were lying there Jacket hung on the chair, the way I left it last night Everything was in place, everything seemed alright But you were missing, missing Last night I dreame...

There's a place on a blank stretch of road where Nobody travels and nobody goes and the Deskman says these days 'round here Two young folks could probably up and disappear into Rustlin' sheets, a sleepy corner room Into the musty smell Of wilted flowers...

'Mrs. McGraw,' the sergeant said, 'Would you like a soldier out of your son, Ted? With a scarlet cloak and a big cocked hat, Mrs. McGraw, wouldn't you like that?' Wi your too-ri-aa, folly diddle-aa Too-ri, oo-ri, oo-ri-aa Wi your too-ri-aa, folly did...

Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow Out on the street your chances are zero Take a look around you (come on now) It ain't too complicated You're messin' with Murder Incorporated Now you check over your shoulder everywhere that you go Walkin' do...

Well I sought gold and diamond rings My own drug to ease the pain that living brings Walked from the mountain to the valley floor Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward From a house on a hill a sacred light shines I walk through t...

Every cloud has a silver lining, every dog has his day She said, "Now don't say nothin' if you don't have something nice to say." The tough, now they get going, when the going gets tough But for you my best was never good enough "Now don't try for a home run,...

There's a blood red circle on the cold dark ground and the rain is falling down The church doors blown open I can hear the organ's song But the congregation's gone My city of ruins My city of ruins Now the sweet veils of mercy drift through the even...

Last night I dreamed that I was a child out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest before the darkness falls I heard the wind rustling through the trees and ghostly voices rose from the fields I ran with my heart...

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometo...

At night I go to bed but I just can't sleep I got something running around my head That just won't keep In the silence I hear my heart beating, time slippin' away I got a time bomb ticking deep inside of me Girl all I want to say I keep searching for you...

You treated me hard and made my heart ache I know you're only human, and men they make mistakes Your life with her turned to black And now you want our love back Well come into my arms and fall, my lover man Was it a gypsy's curse or a hex sign Or was it just...

In the room where fortune falls On a day when chance is all In the dark of fierce exile I felt the grace of your smile Honey, you're my lucky day Baby, you're my lucky day Well I lost all the other bets I made Honey, you're my lucky day When I see strong hea...

When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip I wanted a place to call my own And so I made the race, and staked me out a place And settled down along the Cimarron It blowed away, it blowed away My Oklahoma home, it blowed away It looked so green...

I am Native American Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah (Steven and Bruce) Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah Woh Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah Woh Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah Ho Ka Hey Wah Nah Woh (Editors note: the above is war cry of the Lakota(Sioux) meaning "Let's Go - Now") Life was forev...

I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path I can...

I'm proud New Jersey is my home Yeah said I'm proud now New Jersey is my home Well they're breaking out the tractors to build more interstates They're moving out my neighbors all across the Garden State I'm proud New Jersey is my home Yeah said I'm proud now...

Billy he's down by the railroad tracks Sittin' low in the back seat of his Cadillac Diamond Jackie, she's so intact As she falls so softly beneath him Jackie's heels are stacked Billy's got cleats on his boots Together they're gonna boogaloo down Broadwa...

You get up every morning at the sound of the bell You get to work late and the boss man's giving you hell Till you're out on a midnight run Losing your heart to a beautiful one And it feels right as you lock up the house Turn out the lights and step out i...

She's a broken winged angel Refugee from things her mama knew And she's done everything the Bible say not to do Well I don't know if she believes in Jesus The good book, or even Satan you see I'm just trying to get her to believe in me Oh, 'cause when I see he...

We busted out of class Had to get away from those fools We learned more from a three minute record Than we ever learned in school Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound I can feel my heart begin to pound You say you're tired and you just want to...

Tonight down on Union Street I'm thinking back baby to you and me The way you used to be Your words come back to me From passing cars Voices sing out And empty bars Where guitars ring out We'd walk and talk about Who'd be the ones to get out You said None bab...

I don't remember how I felt I never thought I'd live To read about myself In my hometown paper How my brave young life Was forever changed In a misty cloud of pink vapor Darlin' give me your kiss Only understand I am the nothing man Around here everybody act...

Well if I could I surely would Stand on the rock where Moses stood Pharaoh's army got drownded O Mary don't you weep O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn Pharaoh's army get drownded O Mary, don't you weep Well Mary...

Now Old Dan Tuker was a fine old man Washed his face in a fryin' pan Combed his hair with a wagon wheel And died with a toothache in his heal Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker Your're to late to get your supper Get out the way, Old Dan Tucker You're to late to...

Well night after lonely night My head don't touch the bed I'm on a two-lane black-top Cruisin' in my rocket sled I'm on the prowl Yeah I'm on the prowl Well I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl There's only one thing that I'm certai...

Big black train comin' down the track Blow your whistle long and long One minute you're here Next minute you're gone I lay my penny down on the rails As the summer wind sings its last song One minute you're here Next minute you're gone Baby, baby, baby...

Woke up this morning my house was cold Checked out the furnace she wasn't burnin' Went out and hopped in my old Ford Hit the engine but she ain't turnin' We've given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain't learnin' We're the same sad story that's a fa...

If the sun should fall from the skytomorrow If the rain brings the tears to your eye, I would share your sorrow But you must go if you can't take the heat, our love was fine, our love was sweet But we was walkin' on the wildside, runnin' down a one way street...

Well, I had the carburetor, baby, cleaned and checked with her line blown out she's hummin' like a turbojet Propped her up in the backyard on concrete blocks for a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks Took her down to the carwash, check the plugs and point...

Put on your best dress baby And darlin', fix your hair up right Cause there's a party, honey Way down beneath the neon lights All day you've been working that hard line Now tonight you're gonna have a good time I work five days a week girl Loading crates down...

8 a.m. I'm up and my feet beating on the sidewalk Down at the unemployment agency, all I get is talk I check the want ads but there just ain't nobody hiring What's a man supposed to do when he's down and he's Out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I'm unem...

Outlaw Pete... He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail At six months old he'd done three months in jail He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet All he said was "Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete." I'm Outlaw Pete! I'm O...

It's over now, the thing we had I ain't sorry, babe, I just feel mad You walk real pretty and you talk real fine Night after night you wrote the lines My life's the same story Again and again I' m on the outside looking in On the outside looking in Hey, make...

I walk along the levee to see the gypsy man The dirt 'neath my feet baby's turnin' to quicksand He looked into my palm, then looked me in the eye And told me you were gone, gone over the rise Once we stood together at the wishing well Our wishes like dreams,...

Where the river runs to black I take the schoolbooks from your pack Plastics, wire and your kiss The breath of eternity on your lips In the crowded marketplace I drift from face to face I hold my breath and close my eyes I hold my breath and close my eyes And...

They prosecuted some poor sucker in these United States for teachin' that man descended from the apes They coulda settles that case without a fuss or fight If they'd seen me chasin' you sugar Thru the jungle last night They'd a called in that jury and a one tw...

I thought I heard the captain say Pay me my money down Tomorrow is our sailing day Pay me my money down Pay me, pay me Pay me my money down Pay me or go to jail Pay me my money down Soon as the boat was clear of the bar Pay me money down He knocked...

Jamie rides in high boots Braves the bank and wades in the river Holds his gun above the water And crosses to the shore Now, the Christian Army awaits you And Jessie's still waiting to date you Those phantoms fly in strict formation Over the hills of St Georg...

It was Christmas Eve, I was standin' in the parking lot of "Fabulous Girls, Nude - Nude - Nude" In the car next to me there was a young lady givin' a blow-job to a man in a Santa Claus suit His beard was crooked, his hat askew Embarrassed, I turned to go When...

You may think I'm foolish For the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you When you get on my nerves like you do Well baby you know you bug me There ain't no secret 'bout that Well come on over here and hug me Baby I'll spill the facts...

Do you still say your prayers little darlin' Do you go to bed at night Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright But tommorow's fall in number In number one by one You wake up and you're dying You don't even know what from Well they shot you po...

Pony boy pony boy Won't you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa My pony boy Don't say no, here we go, ride across the plain. Marry me, carry me, ride away with you. My pony boy. Ride with me ride with me Won't you take a ride with me Underneath th...

I got a date with the preacher's daughter She give me life she bring me water. Every Sunday I watch her work Pretty little (siff?) in a pretty little church Daddy gives her nod she takes collection Daddy gives her nod she kneels by her side. Well I'd sell my s...

On our block all of the guys call her flamingo Cause her hair glows like the sun And her eyes can light the skies When she walks she moves so fine like a flamingo Crimson dress that clings so tight She's out of reach and out of sight When she walks by she...

In a place where outlaws abound from the range on a day mountains has fallen to falls In a land where boys are forbiden to grow And Mell is the only master Were the higway ends and the desert breakes and buildings are bendt from great earthquackes And statesme...

Night after night I keep holding on You say you love me Then you leave me so lonely Baby I don't believe a word you're sayin' I think it's all some evil game you're playin' Still all day long all I do is think about you You got me believin' that I can't live...

've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean, Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline, To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue, Baby just one kiss will get these things for you, A kiss to seal our fate tonight, A ki...

Don't you know that I danced, I danced till a quarter to three With the help, last night, of Daddy G. He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could And I was dancin' all over the room. Oh, don't you know the people were dancin' like they were mad, it was the s...

There's a wonderful world where all you desire And everything you've longed for is at your fingertips Where the bittersweet taste of life is at your lips Where aisles and aisles of dreams await you And the cool promise of ecstasy fills the air At the end of ea...

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch And he rides with me from town to town We onl...

I was tryin' to find my way home But all I heard was a drone Bouncing off a satellite Crushin' the last lone American night This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there? This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there? I was spinnin' 'rou...

If there's something you need That you just don't have Well just don't sit there Feeling bad Come on now get up Try and understand Just raise you hand Baby here I am You know I'm standing in line I wanna give you my love Please let me try Come on now get up Tr...

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half-past dawn Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street I've been working all week, I'm up to my neck in hock Come Saturday n...

I remember yesterday and I'd sit and watch the hound dogs play Howlin' at the China moon Now yesterday is the busted blues Life was young, things were easy, Days were short, nights were warm Time were good. Hate was shallow The horse crazy behind the I swear...

Took my baby to a picture show Found a seat in the back row Sound came up lights went down Rambo he was blowin' 'em down I don't need no gun in my fist baby All I need is your sweet kiss To get me feelin' like a real man Feelin' like a real man Well you can be...

Mister trouble come walkin' this way Year gone past feels like one long day But I'm alive and I'm feelin' all right Well I run that hard road outta hearbreak city Built a roadside carnival out of hurt and self-pity It was all wrong well now I'm movin' on Ain'...

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31 Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run Struck me...

Well, brunettes are fine, man. Blondes are fun. But, when it comes to getting the dirty job done, I'll take a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman. Yeah, a red-headed woman sure can get that job done. Well, listen up, sir, Your life's been wasted Until you've...

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes Strung with silver wires And as we sang The words would set our hearts on fire To believe in things So we'd sing Remember when the music Brought us all together To stand inside the rain And as we'd join hands We'...

I had a dream our love would last forever I had a dream tonight my dream comes true And if you'll hold me tight We'll be riders, girl, on the night Ooh, I want a rendezvous Haven't I told you, girl, how much I like you I got a feeling that you like me too wel...

She took off her stockings I held 'em to my face She had your ankles I felt filled with grace "Two hundred dollars straight in Two-fifty up the ass" she smiled and said She unbuckled my belt, pulled back her hair And sat in front of me on the bed She said, "...

Once we ran and lived as one In another world, my little one Where whispering trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets are gray And the childhood games we played Have faded away CHORUS My baby, she has restless nights (She has...

Well look out Mama your little girl she has changed She cut her baby curls and she's got her act rearranged Look out Daddy what she needs now she can't find at home Oh Rickie wants a man of her She wants a man of her Rickie wants a man of her own Mama says he...

Billy got out of prison but he wasn't right Some like to drink or gamble, Billy liked to fight He tracked back to his home state of Maryland Went to his mom's mobile home where she took hin in, alright CHORUS Rockaway the days, rockaway the nights Gimme somet...

Well, hurry up hurry up, here we go Come on let's hit the road Here we go Rockin' all over the world Well, giddy up giddy up and get away we're goin' crazy and we're goin' today Here we go Rockin' all over the world And I like it, I like it, I like i...

(I'm a soldier!) (I'm a soldier!) We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground Rise up...

Well I've been a losin' gambler Just throwin' snake eyes Love ain't got me downhearted I know up around the corner lies My fool's paradise In just another roll of the dice All my elevens and sevens been comin' up Sixes and nines But since I fell for you baby...

RENO She took off her stockings I held 'em to my face She had your ankles I felt filled with grace "Two hundred dollars straight in Two-fifty up the ass" she smiled and said She unbuckled my belt, pulled back her hair And sat in front of me on the bed She s...

Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama's reins You know playin' blindman's bluff is a little baby's game You pick up Little Dynamite, I'm gonna pick up Little Gun And together we're gonna go out tonight and make that highway run You don't hav...

We left the toys out in the yard I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded We packed what we could into the car No one here knows how it started Suddenly everything was just so out of control Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know I hear all...

Every day here you come walking I hold my tongue, I don't do much talking You say you're happy and you're doin' fine Well go ahead, baby, I got plenty of time Because sad eyes, never lie Because sad eyes, never lie Well for a while I've been watch...

From the tin rooftop the little boy did watch The procession down through town Through the museum where Daniel whupped the Devil With them boys from the underground Where the Giants of Science fight for tight control Over the wildlands of New Mexico Sam Housto...

You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town He's making a list, he's checkin' it twice He's gonna find out whose daughter you...

Now if I were a queen and a ruler of nations, With diamonds and jewels profound Well, I'd rather know that I had salvation Than to know my reward Would be Satan's jewel crown I've worm it so long but God for my Soul has reached down His love set me free...

Now there's something coming through the air That softly reminds me Tonight I'll park out on the hill And wait until they find me You're slipping through the ether A voice is coming through So keep me in your heart tonight And I'll save my love for you...

You may have diamonds You may have pearls You may think you got it baby Over all the other girls But honey you ain't got nothing And I'll tell you why If you're empty as a soul can be, baby Deep down inside You better start savin' up For the things that money...

Well, I got a little girl down by the river Now she keeps tight I got a little girl, she every night She says "I'm feeling like a wild, hands on then she keeps me all night. So come on, down by the river come on, come on now. Just come on, down by the river...

[Rosanne] The lights in the harbor don't shine for me I'm like a lost ship adrift on the sea [Together] Sea of heartbreak, lost love and loneliness. Memories of your caress so divine I wish you were mine again, my dear On this sea of tears, sea of heartbreak...

Well Billy bought a Chevy '40 coupe deluxe Chrome wheels, stick shift, give her gas, pop the clutch Girls on the corner like a diamond they shine Someday Billy I'm gonna make 'em all mine Hey girl, you wanna ride in Daddy's Cadillac? 'Cause I love the way your...

She'll let you in her house If you come knockin' late at night She'll let you in her mouth If the words you say are right If you pay the price She'll let you deep inside But there's a secret garden she hides She'll let you in her car To go drivin' round She'l...

Well a great black river a man had found So he put all his money in a hole in the ground And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down Man now I live on the streets of Houston town Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along And we headed down south w...

I fell asleep on the couch last night, woke up with the TV on. There was a woman in tight cotton exercise shorts And a big plastic machine she was climbing on. She said "The Abacycle guarantees ten inches off your waist, And 50 pounds in just 3 minutes a day."...

Seven angels got my number Since I fell in love with you Seven angels got my number They're all telling me what to do First angel says "Go on and love her" Second angels says "Ain't you tired of being alone?" Third angel says "Do the right thing, meat" Fourth...

I got seven nights to rock I got seven nights to roll Seven nights, I'm gonna have a whirl Seven nights with a different girl Seven nights to rock I got seven nights to roll Monday, at sister Suzy's ball Tuesday, at the old dance hall Wednesday, at th...

Gray morning light spits through the shade Another day older, closer to the grave Closer to the grave and come the dawn I woke up this morning shackled and drawn Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn Pick up the rock son, carry it on I’m trudging throu...

She's leaving, she's leaving Everybody knows She's leaving, she's leaving And I feel like such a fool She left me standing here just two feet tall I just don't know how she could do it In front of our friends and all She had better things to do and bigger plan...

Hey baby Well she's vicious as a razor Resting on your mainline she's brutal as an ace Laid on the table at just the right time she's like a devil woman But she's locked in overdrive Her eyes are cold stone But she's backed by a powerglide she's sweet, she's e...

With her killer graces and her secret places That no boy can fill with her hands on her hips Oh and that smile on her lips Because she knows that it kills me With her soft french cream Standing in that doorway like a dream I wish she'd just leave me alon...

The Missouri, she's a might river Away you rolling river The red man's camp lies on her borders Away, we're bound away across the wide Missouri A white man loved an Indian maiden Away you rolling river With notions sweet his canoe was laden Away, we're bound...

Your Mamma's yappin' in the back seat Tell her to push over and move them big feet Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency Well this morning I ain't fighting tell her I give up Tell her she wins if she'll just shut up But it's th...

The runway rushed up at him as he felt the wheels touch down He stood out on the blacktop and took a taxi into town He got out down on Main Street and went into a local bar He bought a drink and found a seat in a corner off the dark Well she called up her mama...

(A mother dies leaving her young son to come to terms with the loss. In remembrance of Fiona Chappel, for her sons Tyler and Oliver.) I was barely 13 years old She came out of the Guadalupe's on a night so cold Her coat was frosted diamonds in the sall...

Sinaloa cowboys Miguel came from a small town in northern Mexico He came north with his brother Luis to California three years ago They crossed at the river levee when Luis was just sixteen And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin They left...

There's a place out on the highway 'cross the San Bernardino line Where the truckers and the bikers gather every night at the same time At seven the band comes in and locals dance the night away At Sleepy Joe's Café I drive on down from the big town Frida...

There's flying angels on your fire escape They lie to your mama for you, try to keep you safe You're with them fire alley virgins on a midnight vamp Lost your heart on Main Street to a beautiful tramp You lost your mind She's sent from above You're so young an...

Your voice comes calling through the mist I awake from a dream and my heart begins to drift Tonight we're on our own Tonight we're all alone Oh-oh, tonight Someday we'll be together And the night will fall around us This love will last forever Someday we'll b...

I'm riding down Kingsley, figuring I'll get a drink Turn the radio up loud, so I don't have to think, I take her to the floor, looking for a moment when the world seems right, And I tear into the guts, of something in the night. You're born with nothing, and...

Came into town with a pocketful of songs I made the rounds but I didn't last long Now I'm out on this highway with a bone-cold chill Somewhere north of Nashville I lie awake in the middle of the night Makin' a list of things that I didn't do right With...

The moltitude assembled and tried to make the noise The black blind poet generals and restless loud white boys But time grew thin and the axis Was left somehow incomplete Where instead of child lions We found aging junkie sheep How many wasted have I seen sign...

Rode through forty nights of the gospels' rain Black sky pourin' snakes, frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby, let me be your soul driver Well if something in the air feels a little unkind Don't worry darlin' It'll slip your m...

On the road to Basra stood young Lieutenant Jimmy Bly Detailed to go through the clothes of the soldiers who died At night in dreams he sees their souls rise Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed Those who...

Born on the Hudson, twenty-two years gone Bred and raised in the City From my daddy's knee I learned the Union songs But Grandma sang lullabies of Dixie And though the Northern winter fills my heart with joy Oh it's a Southern sun that shines down On this Yank...

Little Christine We're takin' one more run Secret heart, when the time has begun Come to part And hey, you're the one And now we know My heart is sold And though we tried You took me with your spanish eyes Hey badlands Realize That someone else is yearning Sp...

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem A rose that grows in Spanish Harlem It's never seen the sun It only comes up when the moon is on the run And all the stars are leaving Well, it grows right in the street Up between the concrete But soft and sweet, and breathin...

Bobby said he'd pull out Bobby stayed in Janey had a baby it wasn't any sin They were set to marry on a summer day Bobby got scared and he ran away Jane moved in with her ma out on Shawnee Lake She sighed Ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mist...

Crazy Janey and her mission man Were back in the alley tradin' hands 'Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man All duded up for Saturday night Well, Billy slammed on his coaster brakes And said, "Anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake? It's about a mile down...

Well Jimmy Lee was hookin' 'round the far turn of a funky southern Florida dirt track He had mud caked on his goggles and a screamin' 350 stacked up on his back Well as he passed the stands he was feelin' all tuckered out, When through the roar of his engine h...

New Jersey Turnpike ridin' on a wet night 'neath the refinery's glow, out wherethe great black rivers flow License, registration, I ain't got none but I got a clear conscience 'Bout the things that I done Mister state trooper, please don't stop me Please d...

Now the seats are all empty Let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They're the first to come and last to leave Working for that minimum wage They'll set it up in another town Tonight the people were so fine They waited there in lin...

I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house out on the edge of town We got married, and swore we'd never part Then little by little we drifted from each other's heart At first I thought it was just restlessness That would fade as time went by and...

I woke up this morning with stones in my mouth You said those were only the lies you've told me Those are only the lies you've told me I pulled my collar to the wind and spit them on the ground You said those are only the lies you've told me Those are on...

Straight time Got out of prison back in '86 and I found a wife Walked the clean and narrow Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain't gonna make me rich In the darkness before dinner comes Sometimes I can feel the itch I...

She got high class, She rides around in a cut down Chevy machine. Her eyes are plate glass, Oh and legs like a limousine. She comes stocked with sass, And pride ain't there to be mean. She's the baddest thing this town's ever seen. Oh, Street Queen. Well, she...

When the night's quiet and you don't care anymore, And your eyes are tired and there's someone at your door And you realize you wanna let go And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with Streets of fire I...

I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt, I was unrecognizable to myself, I saw my reflection in a window, I didn't know my own face Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wastin' away On the streets of Philadelphia? I walked the avenue 'till my le...

The grains in the field covered with tarp can't get a price to see my way clear I'm sitting down at the sugarland bar you might as well bury my body right here Tractors and combines out in the cold sheds piled high with the wheat we ain't sold silos filled wi...

I'm twenty five hundred miles from where I wanna be It feels like a hundred years since you've been near to me I guess what goes around, baby, comes around Just wishing you were here with me, in Sundown Sundown ain't the kind of place you want to be on yo...

Well surprise, surprise, surprise Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes And let your love shine down Well surprise, surprise, surprise Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eye...

I fell asleep On a dark and starless sea With nothing but the cloak Of God’s mercy over me I come upon strange earth And to a great black cave I dreamt I awoke As if buried in my grave We’ve been swallowed up We’ve been swallowed up Disappeared from this wor...

Do you like good music? Sweet soul music? how must I strike her sometime Oh yeah Spotlight out on this ring sing and laugh-laugh-lau gh sing and laugh-laugh-lau gh tonight Oh yeah Spotlight on the Big Man don't he look great? He lost a lot of weight Oh yeah,...

Last night I dreamed he was runnin' through the avalanche Tears streamed your pretty face all burned red Once your dead its done and not much remains Down the highway another stranger comes You gotta take em baby when they come Little girl put on your red dre...

Well every night I see a light up in your window But every night you won't answer your door But although you won't ever let me in From the street I can see your silhouette sittin' close to him What must I do What does it take To get you to Talk to me Until th...

Taxicab, taxicab at the light Won't you take me on a ride Through this city at night I got some money and I'm feelin' fine I ain't no hurry so just take your time Some people wanna die young and gloriously Well taxicab driver, hey that ain't me I got a cute l...

Tear drops on the city Bad Scooter searching for his groove Seem like the whole world walking pretty And you can't find the room to move Well everybody better move over, that's all I'm running on the bad side And I got my back to the wall Tenth Avenue f...

Well they built the Titanic to be one of a kind, but many ships have ruled the seas They built the Eiffel Tower to stand alone, but they could build another if they please Taj Mahal, the pyramids of Egypt, are unique I suppose But when they built you, b...

The moonlight dances on her face I got my lips I'm living the life of a lie It was for me, for me that she died That's What you get for loving me (repeated 4 times) whole line unintelligible True Love, unhappiness I fall down on my knees and I cry It's my wa...

The angel rides with hunch-backed children, poison oozing from his engine Wieldin' love as a lethal weapon, on his way to hubcap heaven Baseball cards poked in his spokes, his boots in oil he's patiently soaked The roadside attendant nervously jokes as the ang...

The architect angel held Juda ranch. Just a dirty mile down on the borderline. Where he mastered blastin' and hustled young cattle for slaughter And dated Juda's daughter. From the cellar aways to the attics and all across the plains Broke electric static of r...

Billy had a mistress down on 'A' and 12th She was that little somethin' that he did for himself His own little secret didn't hurt nobody Come the afternoon he'd take her wadin' Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start out standing but...

I bought a scooter and I rented a shack Out in the sun, by the railroad track I got a job and I'm a-breakin' my back Workin' and workin' for the big payback I keep a puttin' and a puttin' out I keep a sweatin' like all get out I work so long that i"m a losin'...

Well darling, oh won't you come a little closer I promise pretty darling, I didn't know what I was saying And now I'm praying that you won't say it's over Come here pretty baby and rest your head upon my shoulder Just one kiss and we started Now don't leave me...

Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot All the little girls' souls grow weak when the man-child gives them a double shot Them schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night The teenage tramps in skintight pants do th...

Down at the court house they're ringin' the flag down Long black line of cars snakin' slow through town Red sheets snappin' on the line With this ring will you be mine The fuse is burning Shut out the lights The fuse is burning Come on let me do you right Tre...

The ghost of tom Joad Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks Goin' someplace there's no goin' back Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner Welcome to the new world or...

Come to the door, Ma, and unlock the chain I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain There's nothin' I want, nothin' that you need say Just let me lie down for a while and then I'll be on my way I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Sout...

Two kids get married, same old thing Folks congratulate you, church bells ring Who's got the ring, who's gonna pay the priest Get your mama in the paper, picture or two at least And at the reception all the old records play "Where you gonna live, are you gonn...

Sundown, sundown They're taking all the tents down Where have you gone my handsome Billy? Sundown, sundown The carnival trains' leavin' town Where are you now my darlin' Billy? We won't be dancing together on the high wire Facing the lions with you at...

I got my discharge from Fort Irwin Took a place on the San Diego county line Felt funny bein’ a civilian again It’d been some time My wife had died a year ago I was still tryin’ to find my way back whole Went to work for the INS on the line With the California...

The way she kisses so tenderly The way she gives her love to me I been felt by the graces and angels up above The little things my baby does The little things my baby does The little things my baby does That make me love her The way she sighs when I hold her...

My soul went walkin' but I stayed here Feel like I been workin' for a thousand years Chippin' away at this chain of my own lies Climbin' a wall a hundred thousand miles high Well I woke up this morning on the other side Yeah yeah this is the long goodbye Hey y...

The New Timer He rode the rails since the Great Depression Fifty years out on the skids He said "You don't cross nobody You'll be all right out here, kid" Left my family in Pennsylvania Searchin' for work I hit the road I met Frank in East Texas In a freight...

You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks Out on to an open road you ride until the day You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay Now with their hands held high, they reached out fo...

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Terry works in a rock and roll band Lookin' for that million-dollar sound I got a little job down in Darlington But some nights I don't go Some nights I go to the drive-in, or some nights I stay home I f...

On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and I'm just killing time Working all day in my Daddy's garage Driving all night, chasing some mirage Pr...

Can't see nothin' in front of me Can't see nothin' coming up behind I make my way through this darkness I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me Lost track of how far I've gone How far I've gone, how high I've climbed On my back's a sixty pound stone...

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields were green We'd go down to the...

You been hurt and you're all cried out you say You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride, You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind...

Cigarettes and a bottle of beer This poem that I wrote for you This black stone and these hard tears Are all I've got left now of you I remember you in your Marine uniform laughing Laughing that you're shipping out probably I read Robert McNamara s...

The way your heart beats when I hold you tight The way you sigh when we kiss goodnight The way the wind blows through the trees Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you warm me baby when I'm cold The way you make me want you body and soul The way...

You've got a smile so bright You know you could have been a candle I'm holding you so tight You know you could have been a handle The way you swept me off my feet You know you could have been a broom The way you smelled so sweet You know you could have been s...

Same sad story, love and glory goin' 'round and 'round Same old cliché, a wanderer on his way, slippin' from town to town Some find peace here on the sweet streets, the sweet streets of home Where kindness falls and your heart calls for a permanent place of...

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head “Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?” He just grinned and shook my hand, and “No!”, was all he said. Take a load off Fanny, take...

Dirty old street all slushed up in the rain and snow Little boy and his ma shivering outside a rundown music store window That night on top of a Christmas tree shines one beautiful star And lying underneath a brand-new Japanese guitar I remember in the mornin...

Well you flash your tongue like diamonds You tied me to your wildcat schemes And you forced me into a power dive And left your mark on my jeans And I hear the word on your soldiers And I hear the word on Jesus too I heard the word on the country But I never he...

Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making its way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me Then you'...

She walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance She looked kind of fine, so I thought that I might just take that chance and when we danced she held me tight when I walked her home that night we stood beneath the moon so bright and she kissed me The...

Sunrise, sundown The street's gone golden brown Auburn skies above I'm searching for my love Searching for my love There goes my miracle Walking away, walking away There goes my miracle Walking away, walking away Moonlight, moon bright Where's my l...

Princess Di did find another man Prince Charles may want to live as a tampon in another woman's underpants I know what he feels like I've been there too But there'll never be any other for me but you Will Elizibeth Taylor get married again? buddy, that's the...

Baby, I’ve been down But never this down I’ve been lost But never this lost This is my confession I need your heart In this depression I need your heart Baby, I’ve been low But never this low I’ve had my faith shaken But never hopeless This is m...

Hey there mister can you tell me what happened to the seeds Ive sown Can you give me a reason sir as to why they've never grown They've just blown around from town to town Till they're back out on these fields Where they fall from my hand Back into the d...

Now brothers and sisters listen to me These are the few things that I leave to thee The sword of our fathers with lessons hard taught The shield strong and sturdy from battles well fought Well this is your sword, this is your shield This is the power of...

Once I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless sky: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me. I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts; And all...

A bang then stardust in your eyes A billion years for just this night In a way it will be alright A blackness then the light of a million stars As you slip into in my car The evening sky strikes sparks This life, this life and then the next With you I have b...

Here she comes, walking down the street You know she's walking just like she's walking to come and see Oh she's so young And she's so fine I know what's on your mind, know what you want to do But if you mess with her, I'm gonna mess with you You better watch y...

The screen door slams Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again Don't run back i...

Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake Whoah, she's an angel from the Innerlake Thundercrack, baby's back This time she'll tell me how she really feels Bring me down to her lightning shack You can watch my partner reelin' CHORUS She moves up, she mo...

The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over shanghai And the soldier boys were returning home screaming "bonzai!" And the kids are still playing their games, Getting hustled and rustled out in the rain As I sat inside listening to the broadcast. Oh save my soul...

Where the cold wind blows Tomorrow never knows Where your sweet smile goes Tomorrow never knows You and me, we been standing here my dear Waiting for our time to come Where the green grass grows Tomorrow never knows In the field your long hair flowed Down by...

Every day I can't believe I wanna be around you Gotta gotta gotta gotta be, I wanna be with you What I want ... baby, ... But god, I just can't stop and let you go And I can't leave you Tonight! All I wanna do is kiss your lips Tonight! All I ...fingertips To...

Tougher than the rest Well it's saturday night You're all dressed up and blue I've been watchin' you for wihile Maybe you been watchin' me too So somebody ran out Left somebody's heart in a mess Well if you're lookin' for love Honey I'm tougher than the rest...

Here I am baby, right where you found me Trying to break these chains that surround me If I look a little different, it's because I've changed Half-painted pictures are all that remains I can't let my past mistakes Let 'em bring me down I ain't waitin' on no...

You do the drying, I'll do the dishes Who'll do the crying when all the wishes don't come true You do the washing, I'll do the folding Whose heart is breaking When whose arms are holding someone new Sittin' ona peaceful lake sunnin' Didn't hear the roar of the...

There's a river runs through this valley Cold and deep and black Comin' like a tombstone shadow across my back Trouble river, six foot high and risin Trouble river, I can't keep from cryin' I woke up last night shakin' Shakin' from a dream That all I...

I got so down and out in 'Frisco Tired of the pills and the rain I picked up, headed for the sunshine I left a good thing behind Seemed all of our love was in vain My baby's coming in on the Tucson train I come here lookin' for a new life One I wouldn'...

Tunnel Of Love Fat man sitting on a little stool. Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you. Hands me two tickets, smiles and whispers good luck. Cuddle up, angel, cuddle up, my little dove. We'll ride down, baby, into this tunnel o...

To everything Turn, turn, turn There is a season Turn, turn, turn And a time For every purpose Under heaven A time to be born A time to die A time to plant A time to reap A time to kill A time to heal A time to laugh A time to weep To everything Turn, turn,...

I woke up last night shaking from a dream Fot in that dream I died My wife rolled over and told me That my life would be immortalized Not in some major motion picture Or great American novel, you see No, they're gonna make a TV movie out of me CHORUS Well now...

I met a girl and we ran away I swore I'd make her happy every day And how I made her cry Two faces have I Sometimes mister I feel sunny and wild Lord I love to see my baby smile Then dark clouds come rolling by Two faces have I One that laughs one that cries...

It's one for the money and one for the show I got one kiss for you honey so come on let's go I didn't see it coming but girl now I know It takes one for the running but two for the road One thousand dreams whispered in the dark But a dream's just a dream in o...

I went out walking the other day Seen a little girl crying along the way She'd been hurt so bad she said she'd never love again Someday your crying girl will end And you'll find once again Refren: Two hearts are better than one Two hearts girl get th...

Well the first frame finds her running But the night pushes her deep within the tunnel She camouflages herself in dayglo paint And she sings her love songs through a funnel And she clings to the walls like a cat who calls The shots for life and for death Weari...

Sir I am a pilgrim A stranger in this land Once I had a home here My salvation was at hand I lived in a house of gold Yeah, on a far hillside I had two beautiful children And a kind and loving wife Can you live with an unsatisfied heart? with unsatisfied hear...

My little sister's in the front seat with an ice cream cone My ma's in the black seat sittin' all alone As my pa steers her slow out of the lot for a test drive down Michigan Avenue Now, my ma, she fingers her wedding band And watches the salesman stare at my...

I'm driving a big lay car rushin' up the highway in the dark I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand's tremblin' over my heart It's pounding, baby, like it's gonna bust right on through And it ain't gonna stop till I'm alone again with you A friend of...

Vibes man in the alley, play me your spitball serenade, And a deeper blue and you'll be playing in your grave. Save your notes, spend them on your blues, boy. Help your darlin' yearlin' blues, boy. Hit the church note, ring it! Vibes man sing the trashcan hear...

The runway rushed up at me, I felt the wheels touch down Stood out on the blacktop, and took a taxi into town Got off down on Main Street, to see what I recognized All I seen was strange faces, watching a stranger passin' by Vietnam, Vietnam, I don't man...

Rainy night down in the engine house Sleepin' just as still as a mouse A man came along and chase us out in the rain Well was that a vigilante man? Stormy days, we pass the time away Sleeping in some good warm place A cop come along we give him a little race...

Behind the walls where heat lightning falls On five starred gnat-faced princess The buffalo man shoots at the tin cats Turns and shouts "Children, blow your bridges" On death row halls where dustmen stall Where time's an enemy and a friend At night jackals cra...

Bright light city gonna set my soul gonna set my soul on fire There's a whole lot a money just ready to burn so get those stakes up higher There's a thousand pretty women just waitin' out there They're all livin Devil may care and I'm just the Devil with love...

When we fight and I wanna talk it out You won't say nothing, nothing at all You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth I think you like keeping my back up against the wall Wages of sin, you keep me paying Wages of sin for wrongs that I've done Wages...

It's rainin' but there ain't a cloud in the sky Musta been a tear from your eye Everything'll be okay Funny thought I felt a sweet summer breeze Musta been you sighin' so deep Don't worry we're gonna find a way I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day Gonna chase...

I remember how rough your hand felt on mine On my wedding day And the tears cried on my shoulder I couldn't turn away Well so much has happened to me That I don't understand All I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the beach Tracing y...

Put on my blue suede shoes And I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain W.C. Handy - won't you look down over me Yeah I got a first class ticket But I'm as blue as a boy can be Then I'm walking in Memph...

Oh Billy stares at Cherry in the hall And walks out into the rain so blessed and tall Standin' on the corner with a gun underneath his coat Beneath the stars on the street Oh on Lexington Avenue they stand Velvet aces they case the promised land Reachin' out a...

Well I've been walking through midnight And there's no trace of dawn I'm stuck in this moonlight It's leading me on My body's on fire And I can't stand the pain This burning desire I feel once again Now I'm fighting with madness As I move down the street Surr...

WarWar What is it good for Absolutely nothing War What is it good for Absolutely nothing War is something that I despise For it means destruction of innocent lives For it means tears in thousands of mothers’ eyes When their sons go out to fight to give their l...

She was just another war nurse She could strike a noble pose Caring for our young boys when a bullet laid them low She would hover over them and cry And pull the cover over them when they'd die She was just another lonesome lady, lover, sister of the gun And t...

There is a cross up yonder up on calvary hill There is a slip of blood on a silver knife There is a graveyard kid down below Where at night did come to life And above the stars, they crackle in fire A dead man’s moon throws seven rings Well, we put our e...

We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome...

I've been knockin' on the door that holds the throne I've been lookin' for the map that leads me home I've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever t...

I wake up in the morning Just glad my boots are on Instead of empty in the whispering grasses Down the Five at Forest Lawn On the set, the makeup girl brings me Two raw eggs and a shot of gin Then I give it all up for that little blue pill That promises...

There's a pillar in the temple where I carved your name There's a soul sitting sad and blue Now the remedies you've taken are all in vain Let me show you what love can do Let me show you what love can do Darlin', I can't stop the rain Or turn your black sky b...

Now you say you have a friend, you trust him with your life You trust him with your money, you trust him with your kids You'd even trust him with your wife You better watch what's goin' on when the lights are out When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody...

We are all trav'ling in the footsteps Of those that've gone before We'll all be reunited On that new and sunlit shore When the saints marching in When the saints go marching in Lord, how I want be in that number When the saints go marching in And whe...

When you dance I hear the music rocking everywhere When you dance I see the lights shining through your hair When you dance The band is blowing like a hurricane When you dance You look so fine but you don't know my name Come near baby, don't be afraid Just on...

When you need me call my name 'Cause without you my life just wouldn't be the same If you want me come sunny skies or rain When you need me just call my name If you miss me, I'll be there To brush the sunlight from your hair I'll be there to guide you w...

Times were tough, love was not enough So you said "Sorry Johnny I'm gone gone gone" You said my act was funny But we both knew what was missing, honey So you lit out on your own Now that pretty form that you've got, baby Will make sure you get along But you're...

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures Of all your leading men Oh baby don't put my picture In there with them Oh don't make us some little girl's dream That can not ever really ever come true Baby don't do it to me I won't do it to you You see all the romant...

It's midnight down in sector two Little girl walkin' dressed in innocence and cool Only fourteen and dressed up for the score Hold that breath now boy, he(?) She dances, baby, to the beat Of breaking glass and running feet Down in White Town Down in White Tow...

Long as I remember The rain been falling down Clouds of mystery pourin' Confusion on the ground Good men through the ages They try to find the sun But I wonder, still I wonder Who'll stop the rain I went down Virginia Seekin' shelter from the storm Just caug...

The machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave And the fire eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat, victim of the heatwave Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallower's blade And circus town's on the shortwave The runway lies ahead...

Well, mister, you see that girl walking down the street That little girl, she used to turn 'em on Wild kisses and a heart that's oh-so-sweet In the middle of the night. And now, wild kisses wouldn't seem to settle down Afraid to get my feet back on the ground...

The screen door slams, christine's (angelina's) dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy orbison singing for the lonely (hey) that's me (babe) and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone...

From their northeast source the sour wind roars Bear gifts fresh from the valley waters. Hallow echoes strip Pennsylvania mountain walls With their corsets and their old Betsy ruffle And their slips with pearly white. They stand bulging up against the screen d...

Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim When I was a kid, my only wish was to get my line in him Skipped church one Sunday rowed out and throw'd in my line Jim took that hook pole and me right over the side Went driftin' down past old tires and rusty ca...

Monday, I go to work Tuesday, can't find my shoes Wednesday, I'm feeling blue I'm helpless, darling Without you, without you Without you, without you Thursdays, everything's fine Friday, I'm out of my mind Saturday, Sunday too It's hopeless, darling Without y...

Out here the nights are long, the days are lonely I think of you and I'm working on a dream I'm working on a dream Now the cards I've drawn's a rough hand, darling I straighten the back and I'm working on a dream I'm working on a dream Come on! I'm working...

Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts I work for the county out on 95 All d...

I hold you in my arms, yeah that's when it starts I seek faith in your kiss and comfort in your heart I taste the seed upon your lips, lay my tongue upon your scars But when I look into your eyes we stand worlds apart Where the distant oceans sing and ris...

Last night I was out driving Coming home at the end of the working day I was riding alone through the drizzling rain On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane When I came upon a wreck on the highway There was blood and glass all over And there was nobody the...

I was raised out of steel here in the swamps of Jersey, some misty years ago Through the mud and the beer, and the blood and the cheers, I've seen champions come and go So if you got the guts mister, yeah if you've got the balls If you think it's your time,...

Ah-One, two, three, four Girl on the edge flippin' off the lamp There'll be an end, darling, to your endless night On the other side of the street Yeah, light on portrait and the light in your face And you'll be looking for another pretty place Baby, this sid...

Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it A salesman turned around said, "boy, you break that thing you bought it" Chorus You can look but yo...

Little girl in these changing times You got to move on or left behind Every day is a battle again And the state of future looks so damned ... ... allright And if you get it right ... ... ... Well you just got to fight for what you want You got to fight for wha...

Well, she comes to me like a childhood soul Or an old time friend I ain't seen so long When she sings to me, it's like a loving song She can be so sweet, she don't do me no wrong You mean so much to me, baby You know you drive me crazy You mean so much to me,...

White roses and misty blue eyes Red mornings and nothing but grey skies A cup of coffee, your heart shot clean through Jacket you bought me gone daisy grey-blue You're smilin' now but you'll find out They'll use you up and spit you out now Your head's s...

Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall Mama’s in the kitchen, baby and all Everything is everything Everything is everything But you’re missing Coffee cups on the counter, jacket’s on the chair Papers on the doorstep, but you’re not there Everything is every...

No one ever found it ain’t no school ever taught it no one ever made it ain’t no one ever bought it baby you’ve got it baby you’ve got it come on and give it to me ain’t no one can break it there ain’t no one can steal it ain’t no one can fake it you just kno...

Youngstown Here in northeast Ohio Back in 1803 James and Dan Heaton Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek They built a blast furnace Here along the shore And they made the cannonballs That helped the Union win the war Here in Youngstown Here in Youngsto...

She promises to be yours forever and always And you're too young to know it don't work out that way When she kisses you and your heart skips And you're ten feet off the ground Soon you'll be crying and that when you'll have found That Your love is gonn...

You can't sleep at night You can't dream your dream Your fingerprints on file Left clumsily at the scene Your own worst enemy has come to town Your own worst enemy has come to town Yesterday the people were at ease Baby you slept in peace You closed...

The Skulls met the Pythons Down at the First Street station Alliances have been made in alleyways All across the nation These boys live off the milk of a silver jet And the love of sweet young women Now the Pythons are down from old Englishtown And they're loo...