Gene Clark

With all the legends that the century sings And it's vision bring to life While foreign waters breathe against the shore And the wind plays ore it's rusted fife I see the ships of a friendly fleet And a song so sweetly sounding And gentle souls who think not t...

I've been counted now as this lonely lover And it's all because of you I ain't slept a wink since you left me baby I ain't had nothing but bad since you said we were through, 'cause All I want is your love All I want is your kiss All I want is to hold you Al...

Outside my window, I can hear the radio, And you know that motor wagon is getting ready to fly, Cause it's almost Saturday night. Bye bye, tomorrow, Jody's gone to the rodeo, And you know some good old boys are getting ready to ride Cause it's almost Satu...

Sweetheart I've gotta question to ask you but I don't know if you can ever answer it I only want to know where do I stand in my life You know that's up to me I'm the one who decided to see But would you believe it's just now that you are wanting to be For I h...

You toss your head and turn your eyes when storm clouds brew You look around to quick relate to a good time you knew Then the dark clouds break away and a rainbow comes on through The sun I see only shines for me because of you Before this time we both saw bli...

I thought you knew that all of those songs I wrote were about you Star crossed and sold somehow our harmonies went out of tune This time the raven is not silver this time the raven's blue We were the midnight dancers we spun around the silver moon We were th...

Spoke to my girl on the phone t'other day She said, she wish I'd come there right away In Boston Massachusetts where she lives Got to get there for the love she gives Catch a plane and soon I will be gone And I'll be in her arms before too long In Boston Mass...

Too many people in the world today Find it so easy, they can hide away There's too much inside you to throw it away Don't come running 'less you've got something to say Can you read Can you write Can you read it right We got to hustle, we got to fight We got...

Sit by my side, come as close as the air Share in a memory of gray And wander in my words and dream about the pictures That I play Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade And then they have to die, trapped within The circ...

Always alone Never with a herd Prettiest mare I've ever seen You'll have to take my word I'm going to catch that horse if I can And when I do I'll give her my brand Well I was up on Stony Ridge After this chestnut mare, been chasing her for weeks Oh...

You know, I'm wanting to see her I've looked all over town Because I really did need her That it was going 'round Kinda gives you the feeling you've been used When it's only a matter of things that's been confused Well, now, she wasn't no loser If you will i...

You can run and you can hide, Searching for that place inside. You can never hide under the sun. Crazy Ladies so hard to handle, Life's the window, Love is the candle. Crazy love so hard to find I don't know how many times I've been here, Been here, gone ther...

I'd rather be in some dark hollow Where the sun don't ever shine Then to be at home alone And knowin' that you're gone Would cause me to lose my mind. So blow your whistle freight train Take me far on down the track I'm going away, I'm leaving today I'm goin...

You're on the run, you're on the run again And I'm missing you You're on the run, you're having fun again At the cost of me and you Midnight hour and the eyes of passion Go flashing out of your ivory tower As you sip your wine of fashion and you You say that...

Somewhere in passage of morning to night Figures fade into the wind Delighted in trials and purposely exiled Trying to trade the day for the night Shades of evening purple empty space Where everybody screams like they're all true Shadows of morning curtains o...

My name is Del Gato born close to the border Of white blood and red blood I came I travel the saddle I follow the cattle Down on the range where they graze And I just ride in from a hard south western drive My lips parched and bloodied My face torn by sa...

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps, They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria,...

She's the daughter of the South Honey in her mouth She got magnolias in her hair If you take her for granted She'll take all you love She's a Southern girl She just don't care She is looking for someone Someone to love her Somebody, somebody, please care Sh...

On the streets you look again At the places you have been Or the moments that you thought Where am I going Though the walls are like the dead They reflect the things you've said And the echoes in your head continue showing Near the castles you can build Out of...

She was an elevator operator she had her ups and downs She got so high so very fast it took her all day to come down I'm gonna put you straight to her right now She's very busy but I'll explain somehow Elevator operator, elevator operator She was one of the g...

My daddy was a handsome gambler he had a chain five miles long On every link a heart gets dangled of another maid he loved and wronged He told to you some loving story He'd make you think he'd leave them true But love grows cold as love grows older and fades a...

The reason why I can't say Gotta let you go babe and right away After what you did I can't stay on And I'll probably feel a whole lot better when you're gone Baby for a long time you had me believe You said your love was all mine and that's the way it woul...

The dissonant bells of the sea Who are ringing the rhymes of the deep As they sing of the ages asleep Not so near or so far And the old masters wind of the waves Sped forth for the free men and slaves Whispers of secrets it saves And about whom they are An...

The moon can light the sky At night, for me again The sun can make the daytime Bright and fun again And my heart can be free The way it wants to be 'Cause you come back To me again The wind blows pain and clouds Of rain away again And let's me stay with Just...

Now and then the chill of fear Drums demonic discords near With hate the innocence of youth Is raped before the age of reason Even sees the truth Beautiful is beauty's way Who told the guru what to say It wasn't Christ who had a better way 'Cause He knew tha...

A refuse from a silver phial Put her faith into the moons and stars Said she had a mind that slept inside tomorrow And time could only heal it's scars She was fire on the borderline The lion in the fall of roles Said she saw the sword of sorrow sunken In the...

Funny how the circle turns around First your up and then your down again Though the circle takes what it may give Each time around it makes you live again Funny how the circle is a wheel And it can steal someone who is a friend Funny how the circle takes...

Listen to me sinner don't you want to go For someday He's coming back again you know If the wrong ain't rightened you'll be lost in sin Git it on brother he will take you in Now git it on brother if you want to go home Get on your knees and righten that wrong...

I'm a black lung miner from East Tennessee Raised my family on cold dust and beans That old black lung's got me no life left in me Hang the lantern in the window give my love to Marie For twenty-five years I've worked in the mines Where the earth is as black...

Crank her over once again Put your face into the wind Find another road where you're never been Sing that 2-wheeled melody The highway symphony You know she'll never understand Gypsy Rider sing Your 2-wheeled symphony You know there's nothing to explain She s...

Look around little darlin' do you know who I am I'm as much your reflection as I am my own man You need not to defend love life's the house where we live We cannot see tomorrow only feel what we give Put your head on my shoulders dry the tears from your eyes W...

It's ten PM and I should have made the road tonight The moon was out and the clouds came in and took it's light My suitcase is over there somehow I just don't care Cause I don't want to be anywhere but right here tonight The rains came down and I should ha...

Daytime just makes me feel lonely At night I can only dream about you Girl, you're on my mind nearly all of the time It's so hard being here without you Words in my head keep repeating things that you said Wen I was with you And I wonder is it true do y...

Well I saw it clear today that we were all more than only refugees And the heads of state called out all of their reserves So they could postpone World War III I can hear the morning crier yellin read all about it here's the truth You are either just the newsp...

Well, I knew at the moment when I saw you I could feel you close to me, across the room Last night, oh, all right, I found you What went down there, I knew could never leave me It was that feeling, girl, I got from you Last night, oh all right, I found you I...

I'd like to love you with all of my heart You've had me on your trip right from the start And when you looked at me with love in your eyes I knew I'd want you, oh, yeah I'd like to hold you if you want me to I've found something new girl, just by looking at y...

I pity the poor immigrant Who wishes he would've stayed home, Who uses all his power to do evil But in the end is always left so alone. That man whom with his fingers cheats And who lies with ev'ry breath, Who passionately hates his life And likewise, fears hi...

How many arms have held you And hated to let you go How many, how many I wonder But I really don't want to know How many lips have kissed you And set your heart a-glow How many, how many I wonder But I really don't want to know So always make me wonder Alway...

I see the travelers comin' I watch them rollin' down the line I see the transits movin' I remember the railroad line. I see some smilin' faces Common place like they've peace of mind. So many different places I remember there's more than one kind. From a pla...

If you could read my mind, love, What a tale my thoughts would tell. Just like an old time movie Bout a ghost from a wishin' well. In a castle dark...or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me. And I will never be set free As long...

If I need you to me your everything If I have you if I love you just the same If your here the night is likely going to fall If your gone I'll see the daylight in that song If I stand alone understanding what is now If I ever need someone to show me how I...

I came into town on a Monday morning The tall buildings breaking up the city sky The streets were wet it had just been pouring Like the clouds above the storm just had to cry I trained my eye on a police cruiser I watched and I gulped as he passed me by I look...

Black girl black girl tell me where Tell me where did you sleep last night In the pines in the pines Where the sun never shines And you shiver when the cold wind blows Now little girl little girl what have I done That made you treat me so You cause me to w...

Is yours is mine Inside misunderstanding lines you have drawn Maybe there's time for something more to blame it on Wishing not to hold you down with iron binds Is this day and this time is yours is mine I walked along the walls and there I saw your name I ch...

The sun came up on the Spanish sea Our homeland far behind us Being junted by the King's Navy It's sure he'd never find us Pull away, me lads o' the Cardiff Rose And hoist the Jolly Roger We brought her into the looward wind And made for the Caribbean...

When I was a young boy evening sun went down Stand off by the railroad tracks And I'd listen for the sound Of that Kansas City Southern man That'a a lonesome sound Well I'd sit and watch those trains go by And wish that I was outward bound Well I'd dream abo...

Ever flaming eyes of green But the loneliest you have seen Stands there barefoot by the shore Like a widows walk that hears their dour And a voice she's heard not seen For many years she's sailed alone Merry but one day when he Went a-whalin' on and then goes...

Keep your feet on the ground Don't let 'em bring you down All you got to do is keep on pushin' All the things they say Won't always work that way Satisfy your mind and keep on pushin' All I ever want to see Baby, please, that you're not down on me Every time...

Flying high above the clouds, we lay in the grassy meadow The earth was like a pillow for our dreams Trials never entered into any conversation That was the relation of our dreams But as a change in the wind must come Over the mountain And the seasons roll un...

Some walk out winners of those who've lost Can it be said at any price this is the cost Hard is perception, easier is blame Is this the only life for everyone, isn't it the same? Children laugh and run away While others look into the darkness of the day Some...

Thursday evening six o'clock I stepped into a world of living all alone Just a simple note that read I cannot explain why this must be but now I've gone Friday all day long I could tell myself that's what I wanted anyway But Friday night has left me Left me c...

Los Angeles, city of the doomed Los Angeles, city of the doomed Well I loved you once but I gotta go yeah San Francisco, city pretty by the bay San Francisco, city pretty by the bay Well I loved you once but I gotta go yeah Well I don't know where she'll be go...

What were we doing little darling Worked so hard at something to defend I think I know how you were feeling Your sweet broken heart was on the mend We didn't make no money honey Or any sense out of it in the end This time I've got to tell you We're backed up t...

You and I we tried out the night We had all those well made plans And every time something didn't go right We just threw that in to fate's hands You come walking up to me Little talons on your feet Like you just want to conquer the man Wear your mind out on yo...

Used to take a run out of Bonner Springs Go and take look at the girls up in Tonganoxie Me and JD '58 Pontiac, baby moons All waxed up, sittin' in the light of the moon She was somethin' to see Oo-oo Mary Sue I wonder by now who you are married to Oo...

I'm going to tell you a story 'bout Marylou You know the kind of a woman make a fool out of you She make a young man old and a rich man lame The way she took my money is a cry-in-shame Marylou.. She took my diamond ring Marylou.. She took my watch and c...

When I was seventeen I went out on the run What started out to be a fantasy ended up Getting me down in trouble and a-givin' me a pile of the blues How was I to know the fantasy can do Me and a couple of friends of mine we were havin' some fun 'Til we started...

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is 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. Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand Vanished...

You say that you need Someone you can depend on I say that I need somebody too So put your mind at ease You know that you can count on me For anything you want me to do I should have told you before But this time you got through to me So much more, so much mo...

We are saying goodbye dear forever I'm leaving your false love behind Every promise that you made has been broken You're no longer a sweetheart of mine I wanted someone true and faithful For that's the way it had to be You wanted your honky tonk love dear You'...

All alone you say that you don't want no other So the Lord is love and love is like no other If the falling tide can turn and then recover All alone we must be part of one another All alone you say, the power is perfection Is the power of peace or merely the...

Don't you come down Don't you feel bad Even though your dreams are of The things you've never had Close to the earth Near to the sun Reflecting your own life You can see that you Can be more than one Hear the bells ring, morning has come Over the town the...

The warm wind will not blow tonight For the the fog enshrouds the landing light As she said she might have heard a bell tolling Though a gold ship sails her clouds and dreams Through the crashing seas she finds it seems That the shore she's looking for is hard...

Struck by the sight of waking dreams At hand our time`s before our eyes Called out to look beyond what seemed To hear the woe an angel cry In the distance the sun rose Near we heard a clock chime But the breeze murmured not yet For there still is just a very...

Sometimes a man must feel ill at ease for a chance to make his stand He either lives inside set boundaries or takes his boundaries into hand To live inside the rational lines is all men draw But to be a man he must be his own man and live outside the law 

Lover come closer Breaks me down to see you in the pains of fear The depth of your stone true eyes Are reflecting every burden of this life we bear My words can't slight the truth to you Tomorrow every trial of life is going to fall I can only make guesses on...

I have a prayer, I have a dream and I believe That in my life there's only one true love I need And I can be free, I can be free With you here with me For if the world we know should end without warning I want one thing to be true I pledge my love to yo...

If the wild bird could speak She'd tell of places you had been She's been in my dreams And she knows all the ways of the wind Chorus: Polly, come home again Spread your wings to the wind I felt much of the pain As it begins Dreams cover much time Still they...

Today the rain came down again And washed away the light So night could then descend I saw your face again The rains came down today The things we had to say Were also washed away Again that was yesterday And though I feel the same I can't go back again Ooh t...

I went runnin' around tryin' to prove I was a lover How was I to know she could up and go with another Woke up this morning I was shiverin' under my covers Release me girl tonight Things gotta certain quick way of changin' I know you're taken your turn, i...

I'm a roadmaster baby and I spent my life on the road I'm a travelin' musician and I'm carryin' a pretty big load I've spend my days drivin' down the highway When the show is over I gotta do it my way So look out honey 'cause a roadmaster's on the road I met...

We stood there, unable, trying to keep warm To make the next town Oklahoma, I will roam any direction from someone Too old to remember why he's seen us that way Singing rock of ages when will you fall Turn the pages of history recalls In the mountain, you rev...

Small talk, cheap beer and wine Easy women, wasted time Another night with somebody he don't know It's been the first and been the last Got no future, had no past A nameless face in somebody else's show Riding the rodeo He's a rodeo rider, sole survivor Got to...

Darling I've come to tell you Though it really breaks my heart But before the morning dawn We'll be many miles apart Can't you hear the night birds crying Far across the raging sea Why of others you are thinking Won't you ever think of me Don't that road loo...

The first thing that I heard you say When you were standing there Set in your way was that you were not blind You were sure to make a fool of me Cause there was nothing there That you could see That could go beyond your mind Now who's standing at the do...

Hallways and staircases everyday to climb To go up to my white walled room out on the end of time Where I can be with my love for she is all that is mine And she'll always be there, my love don't care about time I laugh with her, cry with her, hold her clo...

She's the kind of girl Together like a lion The kind everybody wants to know She can fool you with her ways Leave you with nothing much to say And you try not to hang around But you really don't want to see her go away She's the kind of girl Mary golden time...

There's a truth from the past to borrow But we all seem to wanna have a little bit more The path of love is of joy and sorrow But a clear reservation on the ship of the Lord We are all only ones creation But the weight of the one is the weight of the whole Do...

You were born into the storm Cast adrift upon a wave To be living and make life begin Like the ancient mystic ship Bounding seaward toward the sun Becomes a cosmic dancer in the wind Stars that shine and rains that swirls Sparkling sands of endless worlds Dr...

I am told that my life is a clipper The sea of time has tossed about And I know that there's only one skipper Who can guide that ship about Do the wakening eyes of the wondering soul See within and then without Silently the truth speaks more loudly Than what f...

Have you seen the silver raven She has wings and she can fly Far above the darkened waters Far above the troubled sky Have you seen the changing rivers Now they wait their turn to die But they turn their tide upon you When the sea begins to cry Have you seen...

Hey sister moon you shine and shine You say you need my lovin but you want to be free And you've made up your mind Ah sister moon I am your sun You have your independence Except for the one that you depend on You say you're tired you'll be living without me...

Well you're smolderin' with fly words, Catch the moment on the run And you say there's nothin' easy About the plywood tract you're from And you stand inside your wind stilts Watch the sentence act begun So you say you lost your baby Do you know that your the...

There's been some misunderstanding And I'd like to make it right Both of us need inspiration And the timing must be right We all have souls yet nobody knows Just how much it takes to fly But I see my life before me And I'd like to make a try Maybe someone kn...

Everything remained the same, unchangeable No way for any broken dreams to mend I took a long shot, bet my heart on you And you showed me the way to fall in love again There's something about you baby That I just can't resist There's something about you baby M...

Hours of joy when I was just a boy And never wrong I knew Kites of red would fly above my head The birds would sing their song Now something's wrong Where the Sherwood used to be Neon brambles now I can see Fields of corn on early summer mornings Or late after...

When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we'll see No, I won't be afraid No, I won't be afraid If you long, stand by me Stand by me Darling, darling Stand by me Oh, stand by me Stand by me Stand by me Stand by me ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~...

In my life, the piano sings Brings me words that are not the strength of strings Fiery rain and rubies cooling in the sun Now I see that my world has only begun Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings Brings me words that are not the strength of strings...

We carried you in our arms On Independence Day, And now you'd throw us all aside And put us on our way. Oh what dear daughter 'neath the sun Would treat a father so, To wait upon him hand and foot And always tell him, "No"? Tears of rage, tears of grief, Why m...

So now this house has grown too small Don't think of how it used to be You say you live now in tomorrow And there I sense you don't see me The clock chimes four you'll turn again then To take pursuit of empty dreams My sensitivity is dying You're bound to some...

Think of all the things that money can buy Like a ranch in the mountains or a pleasure for your eye Then think of all the things that a dollar bill won't bring Like someone to hold you close and a song for you to sing Then think of all the years that it takes...

Three silver rings on slim hands waiting Flash bright in candlelight through Sunday's early morn We found a room that rainy morning She took my hand through winding roads and led me home Some red French wine when later waking In her warm hideaway, she smiled...

It's a lesson too late for the learning Made of sand, made of sand In the wink of any eye my soul is turning In your hand, in your hand Are you going away with no word of farewell Will there be not a trace left behind Could have loved you better I didn't mean...

Fifteen miles from Memphis I think that was the sign I'll be drivin' through tomorrow just to lose a worried mind If I reach Colorado I won't look back where I've been It seems so long since I have seen her where will I begin Night before last walkin', pacin'...

I walked by your window I thought that maybe you'd see me Knowing there'd be changes Is this the way it was to be The things we planned just yesterday Was it only something that we had to say Last night I remember You looked as though you really cared Today no...

She went off to the city To find what she was looking for To identify, to really try To find herself some hope With the summer sun for laughing And the winter rain did pour She was lovelier from learning And from living, loving more From her dancing love and...

I think I'm gonna feel better when tomorrow comes When I see the sun through my window I think that everything is going to be all right Though I know that you have found another I hope you understand that I Still love you so bad But when tomorrow morning comes...

Believe me when I tell you I will try to understand Belive me when I tell you I could never kill a man But to know that another man's holding you tight Hurts me, little darling Thru the morning thru the night The bond has been broken The promise you gave The w...

I lost ten points just for bein' In the right place at exactly the wrong time I looked right at the facts there But I may as well have been completely blind So if you see me walkin' all alone. Don't look back I'm just on my way back home There's a train leav...

Stopped awhile this morning on my way back home I had to realize this time that I'd be all alone Cause she is moving somewhere far away not slow And though I tried so hard to please her She said she really had to go Even though this time it really hurts me bad...

Changes come so quickly, easily it can seem bizarre They say there's a price you pay for going out too far You can buy a one way ticket out there all alone And you can sit and wonder why it's so hard to get back home Nothing is important lost, that's not easy...

Mama get your bags and run Papa's gonna get a gun Mama get your bags and fly Lord have mercy, me oh my Get out your cuffs baby, circle the floor I can't live with the devil no more Vanessa, get your gun I saw Vanessa in the window last night Looking out on t...

Stone must be the wall built around your heart I still love you darlin', but the time has come to part No more sorrow, no more pain, can enter this heart of mine. Life isn't long in this old world let the past stay behind. I once had a darling Sweetheart and I...

Where my love lies asleep There's no chains to her spirit As she enters the doorway Of dreams drifting free Lightning's flash, rivers roar Round the island she's sleeping And the echoes soul That speaks where she's sleeping Where my love lies asleep There's no...

Oh, the village of the hill Sitting silently at will Like some prophecy forgotten by an age With no guns before its gate The mysterious estate Lies waiting for its history's dawning page With the raging of the sea before its height And the strength of those wh...

For so long we worked so hard We didn't have a dime But we had one anothers love And that was all the time. Then one day our ship came in The answer to our dreams A mansion filled with social life And gold and limousines. Why did you leave me today...

She wore a blue dress when she walked in the room And in her eyes the look I saw was filled with gloom Is this the question I would answer all too soon Come tell your friend what's wrong with you Why don't you call me your baby anymore Am I so changed from som...

Blackbird was in the field and the sun was getting dim The breeze running through the trees like an organ in a hymn Thoughts were suspended like a leaf out on a limb Fire was burning low and the winter coming in Now some music was playing in the background o...

It was more like a dream than reality I must have thought it was a dream while she was here with me When she was near I didn't think she would leave When she was gone it was too much to believe So with tomorrow I will borrow Another moment of joy and sorrow An...

You showed me how to do exactly what to do How I fell in love with you Oh oh oh it's true Oh oh I love you You showed how to say exactly what to say In that very special way Oh oh oh it's true You fell for me too And when I tried it I could see you fall And...

Now your hearts on the ground I'm trying hard to be fair Someone out of control Someone who doesn't care As you pick up your pride Put your head in the air You find it hard to believe That, that someone would leave Till it was over And all I want is you to bel...