Don Henley

I used to work for Harvester I used to use my hands I used to make the tractors and the combines that plowed and harvested this great land Now I see my handiwork on the block everywhere I turn And I see the clouds cross the weathered faces and...

I know you're disappointed I can see it in your eyes This isn't what you wanted And now you realize I ain't no knight in shining armor Who comes a-ridin' 'cross the lea You're lookin' for a younger man - not me Now, the merchants in the marketplace Th...

They're pickin' up the prisoners and puttin' 'em in the pen And all she wants to do is dance, dance Rebels been rebels since I don't know when And all she wants to do is dance Molotov cocktail-the local drink And all she wants to do is dance, dance...

I watch you sleeping My weary heart rises up on wings I hear your laughter Something deep down inside me sings Way down here in the land of cotton You were born on a rainy day Since then, sweet things long forgotten They just keep flooding back my way...

Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach Empty lake, empty streets, the sun goes down alone I'm drivin' by your house, though I know you're not home But I can see you, your brown skin shinin' in the sun You...

Don Henley The ungrateful few who tangle inside Don't care where they're born, they're growing up wild The rain makes her thirsty and fighting to go Her mind turns determined, dark as a storm So her love has grown as sharp as a bramble rose Like a real good w...

The power of reason, the top of the heap We're the ones who can kill the things we don't eat Sharper than a serpent's tongue Tighter than a bongo drum Quicker than a one-night stand Slicker than a mambo band And now the day is come Soon he will...

There's a back road leadin' off the hard-top Half-a-mile past the slingshot tree Wanders round through a million memories It's callin' me, callin' me There's a white house with fading shutters The old front door that never needed a key And I hear my Mam...

Did I lose your love a long time ago Did I just wear it out, baby I don’t know Cos it seems like any more we’re not on the same page In the same book or on the same stage We say the words but they feel on wrong Like a happy blues, like a sad love song...

I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you Come rain or come shine High as a mountain, deep as a river Come rain or come shine I guess when you met me It was just one of those things But don't you ever bet me 'Cause I'm gonna be true if you let me Y...

Maybe just a good night's sleep Would have changed your troubled mind From that rather permanent decision So tragic, so unkind Now, pain is what you've given And sleep is what you'll get So far away from that sweet baby child Who hardly knew you yet N...

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out ridin' fences for so long now Oh, you're a hard one I know that you got your reasons These things that are pleasin' you Can hurt you somehow Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy She...

I make my living off the Evening News Just give me something-something I can use People love it when you lose, They love dirty laundry Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear Come and wh...

I met a Frenchman in a field last night He was out there with an easel, painting carnival light He said, "I used to paint the princess; I used to paint the frogs Now I paint mustaches on dangerous dogs" He said, "Sometimes it's a country; sometim...

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded everybody rolls with their fingers crossed everybody knows the war is over everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight is fixed the poor stay poor and the rich gets rich that's how it goes every...

I hate to tell you this, but I'm very, very happy And I know that's not what you'd expect from me at all I'm not the kind to smile and bow out gracefully I always wanted to take it to the wall But I found somebody with a heart as big as Texas I found an...

For my wedding, I will dress in black And never again will I look back Ah, my dark angels we must part For I've made a sanctuary of my heart To want what I have To take what I'm given with grace For this I pray On my wedding day For my wedding, I don...

Baby picks off your plate-yours looks better And she throws hers on the floor Here, in the home of the brave And the land of the free The first word that baby learns is "more" So you're out there floating like a big, puffy cloud With the pool and the cha...

The rains have come early, they say We're all gonna wash away Well, that's all right with me If heaven's torrent can wash clean The arrogance that lies unseen In the damage done since we have gone Where we ought not to be Goodbye to a river Goodbye to...

She tells him she thinks she wants to be free He tells her he doesn't understand She takes his hand And tells him nothing's working out the way she planned She's so many women He can't find the one who was his friend He's hanging on to half a heart But...

Here come those tears again Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it through Another night without missing you Thinking I might just be strong enough after all When I hear your footsteps echoing down the hall Baby here we stand a...

You're leavin' tongue marks on the carpet And I know what you're lookin' at You would walk on your lips through busted glass If you could get next to that You think this is love Your education starts today So you think this is love? So tell me How bad...

I know you love me You know I love you too You know I always will No matter what you do You say you haven't got another lover You say you only want to make the scene Then you try to keep it under cover What does that mean? And baby, I can't stand sti...

Woke up with a heavy head And I thought about leavin' town I could have died if I wanted to- Slipped over the edge and drowned But, oh no baby, I won't give up so easy Too many tire tracks in the sands of time Too many love affairs that stop on a dime I...

Walkin' like a millionaire Smilin' like a king He leaned his shopping cart against the wall He said, "I been a lot of places And I seen a lot of things But, sonny, I seen one thing that beats 'em all I was flyin' back from Lubbock I saw Jesus on the pla...

While you were sleeping They came and took it all away The lanes and the meadows The places where you used to play It was an inside job By the well-connected Your little protest Summarily rejected It was an inside job Like it always is Chalk it up...

The biggest lie you ever told Your deepest fear about growin' old The loneliest night you ever spent The angriest letter you never sent The girl you swore you'd never leave The one you kissed on New Year's Eve The sweetest dream you had last night Your darkest...

It don't matter to the sun If you go or if you stay I know the sun is gonna rise, gonna rise Shine down on another day There will be a tomorrow Even if you choose to leave 'Cause it don't matter to the sun, oh baby It matters to me It ain't gonna cha...

Football, baseball, basket ball games Drinkin' bear, kickin' ass and takin' down names (Well-a) top down, get-a-round, shootin' the line Summer is here and Johnny's feelin' fine But Johnny can't read Summer is over and he's gone to seed Johnny can't rea...

Well, it's up in the mornin' Everybody off and runnin' Everybody got some place to be Some people never go walkin' Some people just stop talkin' And I was slippin' away You came and pulled me through I wanna stay in the land of the living with yo...

I know you broke up with him And your heart's still on the shelf It's been over two years for me And I'm still not quite myself You can't be with someone new And you can't go back to him You're beginning to realize That it's sink or swim I see you aro...

Is love so fragile... and the heart so hollow Shatter with words... impossible to follow You're saying I'm fragile...I try not to be I search only...for something I can't see I have my own life...and I am stronger Than you know But I carry thi...

Like every young man, I had some things that I wanted to say Ere I could begin, you know the world got in my way Oh Lilah, to sleep like a baby To open the window and reel the fair wind Oh Lilah, to sleep like a baby again We spend so much time weeping...

A new age is dawning On fewer than expected Business is usual" That's how the headline read Some shaky modern saviors Have now been resurrected In all this excitement You may have been misled People want a miracle They say "Oh Lord, can't you see us?...

Oh, it's cold and lonely here- here in this telephone booth There's three sides to every story: Yours and mine and the cold, hard truth I think there's something missing 'round here I don't know where it's gone But it's a long way back home The heat do...

Ev'ry day you pass her in the hall You just pretend that you don't see her at all You wanna tell her how much you care You wanna call her but you just don't dare Love rules, ooo love rules Out in the parking lot with all the guys Don't ever let 'em see t...

I see these women at the car wash; women at the mall Little-bitty women, and women who are tall One of them is perfect and I want her for myself Never gonna settle for anybody else All my good buddies try to fix me up- Buddy, I've had enough I'...

On a misbegotten, moonless night I stumbled in my door Disgusted with my circumstance Soaked to every pore When floating from my bedroom Came a moaning and a sigh “Oh, I've had one too many It's just the wind,” says I I lit up a cigarette And I poure...

Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come followin' you Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship All my sen...

A lot of things have happened Since the last time we spoke Some of them are funny Some of 'em ain't no joke And I trust you will forgive me If I lay it on the line I always thought you were a friend of mine Sometimes I think about you I wonder how you...

Harry got up Dressed all in black Went down to the station And he never came back They found his clothing Scattered somewhere down the track And he won't be down on Wall Street in the morning He had a home The love of a girl But men get lost sometime...

These are hard times we're living in Nobody cuts you any slack We got Space Age machinery, Stone Age emotions Today a man had better watch his back Everybody's selling somethin', the baron and the bumpkin A man has got to fight for what is his If what th...

You live in a house of mirrors Reflecting your splendid isolation You have so much of everything Except for true consideration The way you dance The way you walk The way you drive The way you talk The way you eat The way you drink The way you act Th...

I went out in the darkness Just searching for someplace to be Wasn't looking for trouble I guess it was looking for me And I knew I was wasting my time But it was nobody's business Nobody's business but mine I was taking some comfort I needed a break...

Sometimes I wonder where it is love goes I don't know if even Heaven knows But I know you had some dreams that didn't quite come true And now I'm not the one, little girl, who's keeping you I was either standing in your shadow or blocking your light Though I...

Lizzy got married on Christmas Day On the Coney Island Coast, I remember the way She stood in the cold With the sun in her hair Me and my brother were standing by I remember my mother started to cry Liz just looked at the sea A million miles away I s...

It's a mighty world we live in But the truth is we're only passin' thru I have stood up on the mountain I have seen the other side I have wrestled with the devil I have wrestled with my pride I have been down in the valley Stood out in the rain I hav...

Something's different, something's changed And I don't know what Even the old folks can't recall When it's ever been this hot and dry Dust devils whirlin' on the first day of July It's a hundred degrees at 10:00 AM Not a cloud up in the sky We hardly h...

Darkness in the morning Shadows on the land Certain individuals Aren't sticking with the plan And I'm searching for a heart Searching everyone They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun Leaving in...

Lady luck and the four leaf clover won't ease this hurt,i feel all over my life was one special occasion till u leave me damp in the situation Well well well standing on shakey ground Ever since you put me down Standing on shakey ground Ever since you...

Every day's a new day That's what I've been told Try to hold your head high The world runs hot and cold It's hard to follow footprints In the shifting sand Another thirsty rider Behind the caravan You had no idea just what was waiting out there You n...

She sang hymns out of tune And carried a yellow balloon She traded her love for a Spanish doubloon And talked to the people - the people who are I have a clock on the wall It keeps time and that isn't all It tells me how long she's been gone Gone to th...

Well she got up every morning and she waited in the cold Got on the stinking yellow school bus and did what she was told And she stared out the window, all the way down to high school. She went to home economics just like all the other girls Making chicken...

When I die and they lay me to rest Gonna go to the place that's the best When I lay me down to die Going up to the spirit in the sky Going up to the spirit in the sky That's where I’m gonna go when I die When I die and they lay me to rest I’m gonna go...

Let's go down to the Sunset Grill We can watch the working girls go by Watch the "basket people" walk around and mumble And stare out at the auburn sky There's an old man there from the Old World To him, it's all the same Calls all his customers by...

A long long time ago when we were young and pretty, we ruled the world, we stopped the time, we knew it all, we owned this city Running with the crowd, carefree and proud I heard somebody say Take a picture of this Take a picture of this The years went...

In the hot September sun down in Texas Sucked the streams bone dry Turned to roads to dust In the sleepy little towns down in Texas, the shades are all pulled down; the streets are all rolled up. And the only thing that breaks the silence Are the trucks...

I had a good life Before you came I had my friends and my freedom I had my name Still there was sorrow and emptiness 'Til you made me glad Oh, in this love I found strength I never knew I had And this love Is like nothing I have ever known Take my hand, love...

Got a message in my mailbox from an old friend I hardly see All it said was you were trying to get in touch with me And I stared down at your number And I felt passion and I felt fear And I wondered what the hell you wanted After all these years Ca...

Oh my, but you have a pretty face You favor a girl that I knew I imagine that she's still in Tennessee And by God, I should be there too I've a sadness too sad to be true But I left Tennessee in a hurry, dear The same way that I'm leavin' you Because l...

Some folks don't like workin' hard Some folks don't like rain Some folks love to tell you All about their aches and pains Me, I take the hand I'm dealt And I play it as it lays It's the cost of living And everyone pays You can't live in memories Of a...

Remember when the days were long And rolled beneath a deep blue sky Didn't have a care in the world With mommy and daddy standing by When "happily ever after" fails And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had...

It was a pretty big year for fashion A lousy year for rock and roll The people gave their blessing to crimes of passion It was a dark, dark night for the collective soul I was somewhere out on Riverside By the El Royale Hotel When a stranger appeared in a clou...

Is this what you wanted? Did you even think twice? Didn't they tell you that anything that feels this good Comes with a price It gave you such a rush Now you think you've had enough It's not that easy to walk away This is the hard stuff You can't get...

I got the call today, I didn't wanna here But I knew that it would come An old, true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone She said you found someone And I thought of all the bad luck, and the struggles we went through And how I lost me and you l...

I know you broke up with him And your heart's still on the shelf It's been over two years for me And I'm still not quite myself You can't be with someone new And you can't go back to him You're beginning to realize That it's sink or swim I see you arou...

O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies O they tell me of a home far away O they tell me of a place where no storm clouds rise O they tell me of an uncloudy day O they tell me of a place where my friends have gone O they tell me of that land far aw...

One finger on the button one finger up his nose Johnny's in some cornfield The Early Warning Blows Bigger is better More is more Look up, America! Gonna even up the score Get ready boys Third times a charm Don't need no sweater It's gonna keep you...

From the Arizona desert To the Salisbury Plain Lights on the horizon Patterns on the grain Anxious eyes turned upward Clutching souvenirs Carrying our highest hopes and our darkest fears They swear there was an accident back in '47 Little man with a great big...

From the Arizona desert To the Salisbury Plain Lights on the horizon Patterns on the grain Anxious eyes turned upward Clutching souvenirs Carrying our highest hopes and our darkest fears They swear there was an accident back in '47 Little man with a g...

I had a good life before you came I had my friends and my freedom I had my name Still there was sorrow and emptiness Till you made me glad Oh, and this love, I found strength, never knew I had And this love, is like nothing I have ever known Take my hand love...

You were dreamin' On a park bench 'bout a broad highway somewhere When the music from the carillon Seemed to hurl your heart out there Past the scientific darkness Past the fireflies that float To an angel bending down To wrap you in his warmest coat...

I know that somewhere there's someone you love more than me Someone you love more than me And I hate to say it but you have a right to be free I know that's the way it should be But I'm too far gone, too far gone I've loved you so much for so long And I...

Common as dirt; as old as sin The road to ruin, again and again Oh, how many dreams have bloomed and died Too much pride How many heavens are hopelessly lost? How many tender loves has vanity cost? Lord, help the soul that can't be satisfied Too much p...

When I was a young boy Roamin' on the railroad tracks Put copper pennies on the rails Locomotive come and squash 'em flat We'd run to fetch 'em back We'd run to fetch 'em back Summer nights at Gran-ma's house Cozy in my bed Dreams of far-off places an...

She grew up tall in a timber town Where trees were not the only things that were fallin' down The breezes through the pines were blowin' bittersweet They blew the papers down the dead-end street She married a boy as soon as she got out of school But he...

Mama told her baby, "Girl, take it real slow." Girl told her mama, "Hey, I really gotta go. "He's waitin' in the car." Mama said, "Girl, you won't get far." This is the story of an average Jane, Ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane On a tank of d...

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 i...

We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv We were watchin' tv...watchin'tv In Tiananmen Square lost my baby there My yellow rose And her bloodstained clothes She was a short order pastry chef In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway She had shiny hair She was...

An old song on the radio, a faded dream from long ago A phone is ringin' but the message can't get through A whisper on the wind as the sun goes down A teardrop crashes to the ground and That's the sound that a heart makes when a heart breaks That's...

Don and Dolly When I stop dreaming That's when I'll stop loving you Don Well, the worst that I've ever been hurt in my life The first time I ever have wanted to die Was the night when you told me you loved someone new And you asked me if I could forge...

I've done some foolish things I've been downright stupid I've been a sucker for a pretty face Lord, I was polluted When people say, "Would you go back?" I say, "No way, nohow" Because I like where I am now I took it hard when I found out That life jus...

You know there ain't no end to man's desire To steal your water, steal your fire Snakes in the garden, apples on the tree All of this looks easy, none of this is free You might get lucky, got the world to win Need a little failure to thicken your skin E...

A little time, a little distance A little space to think Might be all we need, right now I don't know if we've had too much Or not enough to drink But, we've got to get over this, somehow It only takes a breath or two To tear your world apart Sticks a...

Ah, it’s open season here my friend It always is; it always has been Welcome, welcome to the U.S.A. We’re partying fools in the autumn of our heyday And though we’re running out of everything We can’t afford to quit Before this binge is over We’ve got t...

If you wear red tonight Remember what I said tonight For red is the color that my baby wore And what's more, it's true Yes it is Scarlet were the clothes she wore Everybody knows I'm sure I would remember all the things we planned Understand, it's tru...

Out here in the country where the weather gets so mean She thinks about the places that she ain't never seen She knows that she's married but she can't remember why and she wonders what it might feel like with some other guy And though she's hotter than an ov...

You can make money, you can make good friends You can make mistakes and you can make amends You can make it easy when push comes to shove, but- You can't make love You can make advances, you can make big plans Plant sloppy kisses all over her...

I woke up this morning with an attitude looked at the headline, put me in a real bad mood sitting here in limbo trying to stay sane between the end of the summer and the coming of the blessed rains and I feel dirty, all the way down I feel dirty, baby,...

I can see that you haven't recovered from the girl who let you down And you'd sell what is left of your soul for another go-round You keep telling yourself she means nothing and maybe you should call her bluff But you don't really believe it You...