Jackson Browne

I am a child in these hills I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Who will show me the river and ask my name? Is there nobody here who'll do that? Well I have come to these hills I will come to the rive...

I kept my eyes open and tried to see The point of what went on in front of me I kept what moved me, forgot about the rest And took my young imagination to the acid test And it was easy then to say what love could do It's so easy when your world is new It's b...

I'm a moody and swirling pool, lost in some dark wood Angry at a million things and more I can do no good Ah, but sometimes - Sometimes I'm a growing blade of grass Washed by the rain, bent by the wind I'm a deeply wounded lonely tree Lost in my own way Broo...

I want to live in the world, not inside my head I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willing With the open and the strong With the voices in the darkness Fashioning daylight out of song And the millions of...

All good things got to come to an end The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bills will be paid And the pleasure will mend All good things got to come to an end God I wish I was home Laying 'round with my friends The call of the wild Cauti...

Just like a leaf that's just been rained on Something of a cloud above, a soon-awaking sun And I see the day has just begun Feeling windblown, reeling I have grown out of my time And like a circle casting shadows Rolling over growing clover fields so far belo...

Time will come when we know what happened here Change will come in time and make it clear We learn one thing if we learn at all In the secret wars we call our lives Anything can happen We watch the days, we make our plans We change in ways a life demands But...

How long did you blind me baby how long? How long did you blind me baby how long? With your little girl laugh and your siren song Was I right about you girl or was I wrong? Was I right about you lyin' or was I wrong? You had another man lovin' you all alo...

Some of them were dreamers And some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future With the energy of the innocent They were gathering the tools They would need to make their journey back to nature While the sand slipped through the openin...

Oh how sadly sound the songs the queen must sing of dying A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing If she could see her mirror now She would be free of those who bow and Scrape the ground beneath her feet Silently she walks among her dying midnig...

Long before you ever saw your chances You were gonna burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took t...

Down on the boulevard they take it hard They look at life with such disregard. They say it can't be won The way the game is run But if you choose to stay You wind up playing anyway It's OK You know the kid's in shock up and down the block The folks ar...

The days of spring have just begun And melted snow begins to run Aspen is a fine place where many people go And so you're bound for colorado Don't send me cards from where you've been Or tell me 'bout the friends you win But send to me a new leaf just begun t...

In the morning when I closed my eyes You were sleeping in paradise And while the room was growing light I was holding still with all my might Oh-- what if it's true What my heart says Oh-- what'll I do What if this feeling becomes hard to part with You...

Daughter of a woman who comes and goes, Candy Daugher of a man she barely knows, Candy All grown up about the things, people know to do, How to take a love, and tear it in two No no no, that isn't how it's gonna be for Candy She wants to be in love but s...

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land The way the hammer shapes the hand Gleaming faces in the checkout counter at the Church of Fam...

Once I was on my own And falling Once I was all alone And calling For someone, anyone today To help me just a little on my way And then I took a look around And I saw the love that surrounded me I knew that it was up to me To cast off all the fears that bound...

Lying next to you in the dark Listening to your pounding heart The sheets are tangled around your waist I watch the dream moving on your face Feel you shake, hear your cries Running in the dark trying to open your eyes Come on baby, wake up I've followed you...

You take Sally and I'll take Sue Their ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'round my brain Headin' down Scott, turnin' up main Looking for that girl that sells cocaine Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain Mama come here quick That...

Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Picking for a coin Many other tiny worlds Singing past my hand Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seaming just to be this way Dying men draw numbers in the air Dream to conquer litt...

The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is the time for a child to be born He'll laugh at the moon And cry for the sun And if it's a boy he'll carry a gun Sang the crow on the cradle And if it should be that this baby's a girl Never you mi...

I live in a small town . . . deep in LA About five miles north of where the Lakers play Everybody here's from someplace else Working all together just like Santa's elves Baby, Culver me And I'll Culver you When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew...

Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away And help me find my way back to the start Yeah, before I knew what I was looking for Yeah, when we were lovers and nothing more I wanted you And I did everything that I could do To capture you I l...

A dirty wind blows through the sky And the autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wishing I could follow Though among the regrets that I can't get by There are just one or two Unkind things I said to you Daddy what was I supposed to do? I don't...

Down the side streets and the avenues There be sisters walkin' two by two Their dresses and their shoes are new But their hearts are weary thru and thru And it's a long way into the light of day While the juke box and the radio play Where the days turn i...

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can? Doctor, my eyes, tell me what is wrong Was I unwise...

Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go? Where the light is breaking and the cold clear winds blow Don't you want to be there in the golden glow Don't you want to be there, don't you want to fly? With your arms out, let a shout take you across the sk...

They were duelin' Doolin-Dalton High or low it was the same Easy money an' faithless women Redeye whiskey for the pain Go down Bill Dalton it must be God's will Two brothers lyin' dead in Coffeyville Two voices call to you from were they stood Lay down your l...

Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown Downtown they got to think a little quicker 'cause they're downtown Downtown the breaks are harder Downtown the thieves are smarter I've got this place I'm renting It cost me next to nothing downtown...

Roll out the drums of war Roll up the cover of the killing floor Roll out the drums of war And let's speak of things worth fighting for Roll out the drums of war Time Comes when everything you ever thought you knew Comes crashing down and flames rise up...

I am "El Rayo". Soy el cantar del gallo. Soy el caiman del bayou, Cuando lo parte el rayo. Ven, ven aca. Vuelve aca. No no tengas miedo. No no te voy a dar. Soy alacran pelu, Que pican en el desierto. Cuando se va la luz? El ha no mas el viento....

Now that the city is dreaming, viva the pale moonlight Take to your bibles, take to your beds, now that nothing seems right National guards who they pay by the week are gonna clash in the curfew tonight With los companeros born in the war, from warsaw to san s...

You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on i-19 In your blue leopard tights You got the vote of your high school Most likely to exceed But not likely to ever get enough Enough of what you need Enough of the nig...

I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go People say that I must be in love The way I forget what we're speaking of The way I stand there smiling straight ahead And walk awa...

Far from the arms of hunger Far from the world disorder Beyond the reach of warfare Blinded by faith no longer No longer free to plunder No longer safe to rule A world no longer ours alone Where people walk in wonder And speak to one another And reco...

In my early years I hid my tears And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams like nets were thrown To catch the love that I'd heard of In books and films and songs Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy In the place where th...

First girl I loved-- Time has come I will sing the sad goodbye song When I was seventeen, I used to know you And I haven't seen you now in so many years And the last time I saw you You said you joined the church of jesus But me I remember your long red hair Fa...

Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playi...

Open the door, baby turn on the light We're gonna have a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker I know it's late and you're already down You ain't ready for people around I'm gonna tell you something I found out Whatever you think your life is about Whatever...

As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed And the safety of my own head I went on speaking of the future While othe...

Everybody I talk to is ready to leave with the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warning Standing alone each has his own ticket in his hand And as the evening descends I sit thinking...

For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin' You've been working through the rubble of a shattered mind Yeah Baby, tell me why the tears are falling from your eye Tears of laughter, tears of grief, are they the tears of a captured thief? You thought...

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn't show your spirit quite as true You were turning 'round to see who was behind you A...

I'm here at Fourth and Main Been standing in the rain I feel no joy, I feel no pain I got nothing to lose, nothing to gain I'm at Fourth and Main Been down at City Hall Been writing on the wall The grass is wet and the trees are tall I listen to the pi...

Did you see our brother He was here the other day But he only came to say that he was leaving Did you see his lady She was looking where he'd gone But she wasn't letting on that she was grieving She's bound to go Perhaps she'll find him waiting for his boat i...

Well it's funny you should ask me how I feel As the scenes before my eyes begin to reel I can't remember how long I cried I can't remember how hard I tried Turned my thoughts away from you Like I had something else to do And now I find you here And it's funny...

Pretty Nova, one year over Legal age of consent In the flower of sweet youth our Days of heaven were spent Giving that heaven away Giving that heaven away Rock 'n' Roll, and freeing your soul, and Giving that heaven away I'm looking 'round for that s...

Sometimes I get to feeling low Wish I could just pick up and go Somewhere new change my point of view Maybe somewhere I don't know Toss the idea to and fro Not sure what makes it come and go There it is again sweet music on the wind Over the Gulf...

Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get back home Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry And I will sing a lullaby Golden slumbers fill your eyes Smiles awake you when you rise Sleep pretty darling do not cry And I will sing a lullaby...

I could write for you A song about the warming of september But I couldn't really give to you That month in the spring And I could write for you Melodies dedicated to the seasons But I'd be caught behind Remembering a reason not to sing And the music would a...

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 in the hall Baby here we stand again Lik...

Hold on hold out, keep a hold on strong The money's in and the bets are down You won't hold out long They say you'll fall in no time at all But you know they're wrong They've known it all along Yea- Hold on hold out, keep a hold on still If you don't s...

Baby I guess you know my story Baby I guess you know my side It seems I've traded love for glory But I'm still not satisfied Given all the years All the cries and cheers Don't amount to much more than pride Take my love for you Take tomorrow too There...

I'm standing here and hoping for you Holding my door open for you now Ask just what you will of me I'll bend just like a willow tree And now I'm holdin' Holdin' my door open to the wind Well seven times she came to me And each time seemed the same to me She k...

When you look into a child's face And you're seeing the human race And the endless possibilities there Where so much can come true And you think of the beautiful things A child can do How long -- would the child survive How long -- if it was up to you When y...

I am a man of constant sorrow I've seen trouble all my days I'll say goodbye to Colorado Place where I was born and partly raised. Your mother says I'm a stranger My face you'll never see no more But there's one promise, little darling: We'll meet on God's go...

And the river opens for the righteous (5 times) Someday I was walking with my brother And he wondered what's on my mind I said what I believe in my soul Ain't what I see with my eyes And we can't turn our backs this time I am a patriot And I love my county B...

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing And came...

You hold a life there in your hands You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Somewhere long ago Think about the things we've done and where we've been Your touch made me a king I don't want to live without your love again I'll do anyt...

I've been sitting up all night without you Trying not to think that much about you How do you expect me not to doubt you I don't want to but I'm here And I can't stop this whispering in my ear [Chorus:] I'll fly away without you, I'll fly away without you I'l...

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to keep you if I'd known How unhappy you had become While I was dreaming of you With my heart in your hands And I was fol...

Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down And I am there with a smile, prepared to bring you around You're thinking that you've got me trained I'm aware of that But when you need your outlook changed Baby, I'm the cat Baby, I'm allowed to be...

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to I stopped my ramblin' I don't do too much gamblin' these days These days These...

I've been the one who has been frightened And almost borne away by the very thoughts That I feared yesterday And it must be the dust or smoke that's in my eyes How can I cry about something from someone I won't see Oh my friends all say she had her chance Let...

Sliding on the shimmering surface between two worlds Standing at the center of time as it uncurls Cutting through the veil of illusion Moving beyond past conclusions Rendering all doubt and confusion clear If I could be anywhere If I could be anywhere...

See, I can't scare anybody. They come from miles around To laugh in my face and eat in my field. Said a scarecrow swinging on a pole, To some blackbirds sittin' on a fence, "oh, the lord gave me a soul, But, forgot to give me common sense." Said the blackbir...

In my mind The golden silver statues turn to tin And I find Confidence is just a place I've been In my mind I was kind When poppa's begging friendship came to me I was blind To think it would be easy to be free In my time I've not lied I tried to save the pr...

It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and regret And the shape of a heart And the shape of a heart I guess I never knew What she was talking...

Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world We bring good things to life The news you need from people you can count on Doing what we do best The heartbeat of America Your true voice You're in good hands Now more than ever before And in the fli...

On the island, we do it island style, From the mountain to the ocean from the windward to the leeward side. On the island, we do it island style, From the mountain to the ocean from the windward to the leeward side. Mama's in the kitchen cooking dinner r...

They shot a man into the sky The moon and stars became his bed He saw the sun rise seven times And when he came back down he said It is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is o...

It's been raining here in long beach The dampness in the air Tends to straighten out my hair Against my wishes But the traces of a song reach My tattered ear once more Lend me courage to ignore The smell of fishes I was a drunken lout, I ran about With ladies...

Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would not tell We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bell Jamaica, say you will Help me find a way to fill these...

It wasn't me at your window, Baby. It wasn't me at your door. It must have been some other fool With his heart in his hand, Coming back for more. I was there when you closed your eyes. But it wasn't me when you came. I just thought I heard you call my name....

I wanted to be somebody you see When you're feeling good I started looking for your little MG In my neighborhood I started feeling kind of funny and free When you were around And I began to cook up a plan to Take you out of town Not really dat...

Jackson: When I was a young man I'd never been kissed; I got to thinking about what I had missed. I found a girl. I kissed her and then... Oh lord, I kissed her again. Together: Oooooh, kisses sweeter than wine. Oooooh, kisses sweeter than wine. Bonnie: He a...

Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you lookin' for Yeah, yeah, baby now you know It's a cold world like they told you so Knock on any door Save your tears for some occ...

All the words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning Until they vanished into the air Trying to understand how our lives had led us there Looking ha...

Listen to my bassman, he is lavender His woman is his bass and he is loving her, loving her Listen to the sounds he's giving As he is living True to lavender Listen to the things my friend is saying now A poetry of notes as he is playing now, playing now List...

Lavender windows and burgundy doors Olive green pillows on ebony floors The lightest of wine Could have been mine It should have been mine Promises kept and promises broken They're all the same whether silent or spoken They're not worth a penny I didn't make...

Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him another kind of wisdom When to run and when to fight Up at the playground after school Listening to ta...

I can't keep up with what's been going down I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings, in their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled crys Of lawyers in love God sends his spaceships to America...

I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this railroad I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this train All I gotta see is a place for me to grab a hold of And I'll be on this train and I won't be back again I'm over qualified for any other ride I...

I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you And so I beg you Let it be me . . . Don't take this heaven from one If you must cling to someone Now and forever Let it be me . . . Each time we meet, love I find complete love Without your sweet love Wha...

Here's to lights and virtues Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to light the darkness The search for things of your own Here's to lights and virtues Here's to reaching higher ground A life of hope and purpose Here's to strength yet to be found Honor -...

At the moment the music began And you heard the guitar player starting to sing You were filled with the beauty that ran Through what you were imagining Dreaming of scenes from those songs of love I was the endless sky And you were my mexican dove Now the musi...

I went to the live nude cabaret To see what I could see And I saw the ladies dancing An I guess that they saw me Neither did I vanquish, or surrender to desire Was just more fuel on the fire I’ve heard form follows function And I think that must be tru...

I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you've seen it before Where a government...

Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs and possessions, stopped at the frontier in my chest At the edge of my country, my back to the sea, looking east Wher...

Well I looked into a house I once lived in Around the time I first went on my own When the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of And my friends and I were one Now the distance is done and the search has begun I've come to see where my beginnin...

Love, love is strange Lots of people take it for a game Once you've get it you never wanna quit Once you've had it you're in a awful fix Some people, they don't understand They think lovin' is money in their hand But your lovin' will never be arranged L...

Lovely, lovely, did you see me Just as I was crying Love me lovely, make it easy What I say is hard but I am trying Lovely, lovely, can you hear me Listen to my singing Love me lovely, while you're near me Try and understand the thought I'm bringing Last nig...

Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone, cold as a stone Rolling down that hill into the night I could see the surprise and the hurt in your eyes From...

Lover, when you make me come alive Lover, when you take me I could die Hold me, hold me tonight Show time next to no time next to you Showed me how to love you and I do Lover, lover that's you Always losing time And all too soon you´re leaving That ain...

Marianne, marianne With your voice like silver strings ringing And sounds of laughter and singing Keep repeating, marianne, marianne Marianne, marianne Oh I can tell better than anyone else could That there's more to you than just bad or good There's a teardr...

Melissa, I knew I just had to kiss ya Heaven knows what I had in mind When my eyes went blind And you had to take me home Because I could not find my way Mimi, you make my glasses steamy Heaven knows that I'll take a chance On a girl from france Just so long...

I got my head down between my knees I got my back against this bedroom wall I hear my voice saying baby please But I know you don't hear me call You're staring at that far horizon I don't even know why you stay It's like you're already miles and miles away W...

Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracke...

A lady stands before an open window Staring so far away She can almost feel the southern wind blow Almost touching her restless day She turns from her window to me Sad smile her apology Sad eyes reaching to the door Daylight loses to another evening And stil...

Of our children in the schools and in the gardens My personal revenge will be to give you This song which has flourished without panic My personal revenge will be to show you The kindness in the eyes of my people Who have always fought relentlessly in battle A...

To love and get away before the walls have arisen You've got to be free But to go on attempting to break into the prison You'd have to be me I wait for the sun to rise over the mountain I wait for your touch I wait for your angels to carry me home But I wait t...

What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunning mystery companion I know that you don't want to be Out here forever on this road Or live among the boxes Where all my...

There are times when I see you, Baby Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices we made You never held me to blame But you had some dreams when you were a girl Some ideas about the world And you see how some things will never be the same (A...

I'm hanging on to my peace of mind I just don't know I'm hanging on to those good times, baby Just want to let them roll I'm gonna make it to the light and joy I'll tell you why I got a woman who can take me there the apple of my eye oh, I just don't know, no...

Nino, walking around on Sunday Nino, just one more kid in L.A. With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band His head in the sky, his feet nearly touching the sand Nino, three thousand miles away Nino, la familia stares at the bay T...

Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New Jersey, gonna set it up and do it again I got a bottle of wine (pass it over) I got a broken white line (I'm still sober) There ain't noth...

Your father was a rounder He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul The music was his angel And sorrow was his star And those of us who follow Might hope to reach as far They're walking slow in Houston Speechless in D....

IT WAS EASY FOR ME UP SO HIGH IN MY TREE LIVING OFF OF WONDERLAND LIVING WITH AN UNKNOWN BAND WAITING THERE FOR EVERYMAN THERE WAS CHANGE IN THE AIR IT WAS LOVE EVERYWHERE LIVING OFF OF WONDERLAND ANKLE DEEP IN CONTRABAND WORKING ON A LIFE UNPLANNED...

Oh, my love, for the first time in my life My eyes are wide open Oh, my lover, for the first time in my life My eyes can see I see the wind, oh, I see the trees Everything is clear in my heart I see the clouds, oh, I see the sky Everything is clear in our wor...

You really need someone on your side But you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get through You've got this wall in front of you You put your arm around me and smile But you're thinking all the while Yeah, your friends only go so far However close...

It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking Draw the water from the well And stare beyond the plains To where the mountains lie so still But it's a long way tha...

Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans Her waist-line seems to be expanding Although she never feels like eating a thing I guess we'll reach some...

Pretty little one How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the run Little one-- What you gonna do? Little one-- Honey, it's all up to you Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news Mama's with a friend...

Old pirates, yes, they rob i Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took i From the bottomless pit But my hand was made strong By the hand of the almighty We forward in this generation triumphantly Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'cau...

Oh people, look around you The signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you To be the one to care You're lost inside your houses There's no time to find you now Your walls are burning and your towers are turning I'm going to le...

She was standing at the load-in When the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around Like a half grown female pup She wasn’t hard to talk to Looked like she had nowhere to go So I gave her my pass So she could get in and see the show Well I sat her down righ...

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on Running on, running on empty Running on...

In the still of the night Lying in the darkness I listen to my heart Say it isn't true In the dark and the quiet The movements of my love And the breathing of our children Say it isn't true In the streets and the buildings The people in their lives And the job...

He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends He set out from Cinecitta through the ruined streets of Rome To shoot in Almeria and bring the bodies home He said I'll be rich or I'l...

I meant to call her name I meant to take her hand I meant to be the same and understand Just what was happening in the evening Between the princess and the prince I can't be bothered now And I can't eat or drink I can't remember how I used to think What was t...

I've witnessed those one night stands Must have played in a thousand bands But I'm just here tonight, tomorrow I'll be gone Seen folks show their blacker sides Seen them die just for foolish pride And those drivers always ask to hear that same old song...

She's a flying thing that sings With her eyes like smoky rings The sun can feel her presence in the sky And I think I'm gonna stay 'cause there's nothing in our way And she says that she can teach me how to fly If I could love her more Than I have ever loved...

Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Let your voice ring back my memories Sing my songs to me Bring my dreams to me Bring them from the darkness Let the minutes and hours Show my mind strang...

Sit down! (oh, please don't make me) Sit down! ('Cause I just got to heaven. I'm gonna walk around) Sit down, servant, and rest a while, sit down. Oh, I can't sit down, Oh, I can't sit down, I can't sit down, I just got to heaven and I can't sit down...

In the calling out to one another Of the lovers up and down the strand In the sound of the waves and the cries Of the seagulls circling the sand In the fragments of the songs Carried down the wind from some radio In the murmuring of the city in the distance Om...

Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder Where my life will lead me Waiting to pass under Sleep's dark and silent gate I found my love too late Running around day after day Looking for the time to play While my old friends slipped away Never should have had t...

God is great, God is good He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take the slack Stay awake and watch his back But something happens every now and then And someone breaks into the promised land...

Every day I walk out in this torn up world And I fight to survive I'm laughing when I make it to the Saturday And I'm alive Carrying your smile with me Carrying your smile with me Everywhere I look I see this world slippin' down That low road, day by da...

Well, just look at that girl With the lights comin' up in her eyes She's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby All the guys on the corner stand back And let her walk on by She's got to be somebody's baby She must be somebody's baby She...

As the early morning filters through My shuttered window pane I look about and realize That things are still the same These flowers in a glass Mark the hours that have passed As I lay sleeping And I can hear my footsteps ringing Down the empty morning street...

The papers lie there helplessly In a pile outside the door I've tried and tried, but I just can't remember what they're for The world outside is tugging like a beggar at my sleeve Oh, that's much too old a story to believe And you know that it's taken it's sh...

Love and learn Take your turn Somewhere there's a feather Falling slowly from the sky You need not know the reason why Stand apart Hear your heart Someday there will be another lover to the end You need not hold your breath 'til then Don't ask me to explain...

Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well He was alone into his distance, he was deep into his well I could guess what he was laughing at, but I couldn't really tell Now the stories told that Adam jumped, but I'm thinking that he fell Toget...

And though the earth may tremble and our foundations crack We will all assemble and we will build them back And rush to save the lives remaining still within our reach And try to put our world together standing in the breach So many live in poverty while...

People stay just a little bit longer We want to play -- just a little bit longer Now the promoter don't mind And the union don't mind If we take a little time And we leave it all behind and sing One more song-- Oh won't you stay just a little bit longe...

Well, I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One said she's a friend of mine Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you cra...

It used to be there were two sets of footprints in the sand And there were two silhouettes in the sunset hand in hand But now here beside the sea are the footprints of three And I can't find my own Among the directions they're all going Baby it's alright Brea...

Between the darkness on the street And the houses filling up with light Between the stillness in my heart And the roar of the approaching night Somebody's calling after somebody Somebody turns the corner out of sight Looking for somebody Somewhere in the night...

She was a friend to me when I needed one Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done She gave me back something that was missing in me She could of turned out to be almost anyone Almost anyone with the possible exception Of who I wanted her to be Running...

The things people do looking for understanding Defy understanding If only they knew where the love they seek Is truly to be found Into the arms of night with their dreams held tight In their endless flight through the failing light The places you go thi...

Running down around the towns along the shore When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were for I was just trying to hear my song Jimmy found his own sweet sound and won that free guitar We'd all get in the van a...

Now that it's time Now that the hour hand has landed at the end Now that it's real Now that the dreams have given all they had to lend I want to know Do I stay or do I go And maybe try another time And do I really have a hand in my forgetting Now that I've tr...

It's coming from so far away It's hard to say for sure Whether what I hear is music or the wind Through an open door There's a fire high in the empty sky Where the sound meets the shore There's a long distance loneliness Rolling out over the desert floor And...

Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you're doin' 'Cause that's easier than letting on how little they can care But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere Su...

Oh the light from your smile Can be seen for a mile By travellers dark in their sorrow If you want me to stay Throw a smile my way And I'll stay by your side 'till tomorrow Woooah... 'cause all my battered dreams are shattered now And I need all your beauty...

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 line...

I don't know what to say about these days I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways Even in the richer neighborhoods People don't know when they've got it good They've got the envy, and they've got it bad When I was a kid everything I did was tryi...

Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said Knowing she never could pass on a dare And knowing it sounded more desperate than reckless or bold I just put it out there cold, too far gone to care My eyes on the road, she slid herself down in the s...

Gather your deeds and your possessions Whatever certainty you've known Forget your heroes You don't really need those last few lessons Stand in the open The next voice you hear will be your own Well alright, they knew how they could hurt you And you l...

I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way With everything that I was feeling that I could not say With every doubt and every sorrow that was in my way Tearing around inside my head like it was there to stay Night in my eyes, the night inside me There w...

Boy of mine As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you've been told If some pieces of the picture are hard to find And the answers to your questions are hard to hold Take good care o...

We see him dancing in the morning Stars depart the yawning sky He'll take the hour that is passing And leave it in his lover's eye And if you want he'll make it seem As though you're walking in his dream A mystic sea We hear him laughing in the shadows As he...

I'm going to rent myself a house in the shade of the freeway I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning and go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get...

All the streets are filled with laughter and light And the music of the season And the merchants' windows are all bright With the faces of the children And the families hurrying to their homes As the sky darkens and freezes They'll be gathering around the hear...

Highways and dancehalls A good song takes you far Your write about the moon And you dream about the stars Blues in old motel rooms Girls in daddy's car You sing about the nights And you laugh about the scars Coffee in the morning cocaine afternoons You talk ab...

In the time we've known That we each are a part of one another We've lost as much as we have won And as our lives have grown We have found that it only brings us pain That hangs on to the things that we have done Still I love the times you've come When you we...

A man stands up before God and country Raises his right hand and takes an oath Swears he has acted in the line of duty And he more than anyone wants to tell the truth But there is a need to keep some things a secret Some weapons shipments--some private wars I...

Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days, these days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times I had the chance to And I had a lover It's so hard to risk another of these days, thes...

Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes I've already seen the lies On the faces of the men of war Leading people to the killing floor Till I go down Till I go down Till I go d...

Time on my side, a stowaway in the slipstream A time I could glide the shifting currents of my dream In my dream the sunlight was falling from one side And every blade of grass was casting its own shadow And every little bird was singing its own song Time...

My head is in the forest And I'm thinking about you The mist is pulling lightly on the timber My thoughts are of the forest And I'm sure I'm not in view Of anyone but the dragon And the prince of song I cannot see the daytime For my head is in the night The f...

There's an angel on a ribbon Hanging from the armoire door There's a cupid with his feet crossed On the bird cage by the door There's a baby angel drummer His eyes are open wide And two more tiny cherubs On the mantle side by side Too many angels Have seen me...

Just you know why Why you and I Will by and by Know true love ways Sometimes we'll sigh Sometimes we'll cry But you'll know why Just you and I Know true love ways Throughout the days Those true love ways Will bring us joys to share With those who...

Voy bajando por la carretera A ver si echo algo pa fuera Pq a veces no hay manera Voy a reventar Tengo siete mujeres en la cabeza Claro, claro, asa me pesa como a Joselito El levante empieza a soplar Ouohh Cuatro me quieren amarrar Oouhh Otras dos m...

Tumble down beside me here and now And then inside we can be sure That if the rain is only silver And the sun is only gold, we won't be poor Sing a song around me here and now And then surround me with your eyes If it turns out that tomorrow we can fly I prom...

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time to 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 everythi...

There are two of me And two of you Two who have betrayed love And two who have been true And together we went crashing through Every bond and vow and faith we knew Me and the fool I've been And the two of you Of the two of me One always knew That I would alwa...

Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through Before this moment fades away I want to know you I've got lightening in my pocket, thunder in my shoe Have no fear I've got something here I want to show you Low, under the falling sky Easily we will lie While I b...

There will be no consolation prize This time the bone is broken clean No baptism, no reprise and no sweet taste of victory All the stars have fallen from the sky And everything else in between Satellites have closed their eyes The moon has gone to sleep Unlove...

Can you hear me? wake up! Where's the voice of america? Somebody help me, we gotta stop a crime I been betrayed by my own kind I been quiet, too quiet While across the borderline We die Can you hear me? wake up! Where's the voice of america? I know that we...

Walking slow down the avenue through my old neighborhood Don't know why I'm happy, I got no reason to feel this good Maybe it's because I'm all alone and I got no place to go And everywhere I look I see another person I'll never know I got a thing or two t...

One foot after the other One place pretty much like another Some folks got a pretty good deal Some are just looking for their next meal Out here where the days go by And the glances never meet the eye It's a walking town And I'm just out here walking 'r...

Talk with me I believe that we can find a tomorrow Lend to me and I will try to borrow I can see you and me Love is free We can be free Sing with me Melodies that soar as high as a swallow I can lead the way if you will follow I can see you and me Love is fre...

We're off to see the wizard, The wonderful wizard of oz. We hear he is a wiz of a wiz If ever a wiz there was. If ever, oh ever, a wiz there was, The wizard of oz is one because, Because, because, because, because, because-- Because of the wonderful things he...

[Chorus] Well may the world go, The world go, the world go, Well may the world go, When I'm far away. Well may the skiers turn, The swimmers churn, the lovers burn Peace, may the generals learn When I'm far away. [Chorus] Sweet may the fiddle soun...

I come here for dr. king Who gave the people a precious thing He found a light in the darkest hour And the strength for speaking truth to power And in the years since they shot him down You see changes that once were a dream Begin to come around When the wal...

Where were you when the sky cracked open Waiting for shelter and barely coping Thinking you could ride the storm out Hoping you would be all right Where were you when they gave a warning Hundred-fifty mile winds by morning Category four making landfall i...

Sun going down in the usa Down on main there's a family sleeping in a doorway Around the corner you can hear the sound People dancing around the golden calf Those who have not, those who have On the billboards and the t.v. screens They got food and cars and t...

Well you know I don't need you And I don't feed you no lies Yeah, yeah And it's not up to me to tell you What you see through your eyes Yeah, yeah You know girl sometimes I just don't know Where it is you still think you can go Without taking my world...

Well it came to me as you came, You don't even know my name. You'd just as soon be fucking a doornob, You asshole you. You'll fuck anything that moves, And I'll tell you what that proves: You just want meat, you don't want me, You asshole you. Well you wish...

As I saw you, you were looking through your window Looking at the clouds to know which way the wind blows You saw me - I was walking down your highway You didn't need a cloud to know the wind was blowing my way You didn't need a cloud to know the wind was blow...

You know the night I met you My eyes had been looking for you All over everywhere Over low roads, down highways, and bald deserts You know the night You know the night I met you Your eyes had this same shine about 'em, I noticed And when I first looke...

You Love the Thunder Jackson Browne When you look over your shoulder And you see the light that you have left behind When you think it over, do you ever wonder What it is that holds your life so close to mine You love the thunder and you love the rain W...

I've been up all night I've been writing this letter And I think I might have found a better way To tell you all the things I've got to say I put it in writing and you'll get it in the mail today Well I don't know but I can't help feeling That you got to stop...

Striking out? Well count me in I'm gonna stand right by your side through thick or thin Ain't no doubt Gonna win A walk through hell ain't bad compared to where we've been Oh you can depend on me Over and over... over and over Know that I intend to be The on...

You've been passed around from hand to hand Cast upon the darkest sands Now you're so confused that you can hardly stand Forgotten, you've forgotten now you're on the run Forgotten, you've forgotten How to live beneath the sun How to live beneath the sun Befo...

I'm sittin' down by the highway Down by that highway side Everybody's goin' somewhere Ridin' just as fast as they could ride I guess they got a lot to do Before they can rest assured Their lives are justified Pray to God for me, babe, he can let me sli...