Paul Simon

10 Years (Oprah Winfrey show 10 year anniversary theme) You are moving on a crowded street Through various shades of people In the summers harshest heat A story in your eye Well, speak until your minds at ease Ten years come and gone so fast I might a...

"The problem is all inside your head", she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover She said it's really not my habit to intrude Furthermore, I hope my...

A church is burning The flames rise higher Like hands that are praying They grow in the sky Like hands that are praying The fire ascends You can burn down my churches But I shall be free Three hooded men through the back roads did creep Torches in th...

He was a most peculiar man That's what Mrs. Reardon says and she should know She lived upstairs from him She said he was a most peculiar man He was a most peculiar man He lived all alone within a house Within a room, within himself A most peculiar man...

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled 'til I'm blind I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded A Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed That's the hand I use, well, never mind I been Phil Spectore...

Some people say Jesus that's the ace in the hole But I never met the man so I don't really know Maybe some Christmas If I'm sick and alone He will look up my number Call me on the phone and say Hey, boy, where you been so long Don't you know me I'm y...

[SAL] It was the morning of October 6th, 1960 I was wearing my brown suit Preparing to leave the house of D. Shook some hands, then adios, Brooklyn amigos Maybe some of them had hopes of seeing me again Some even said that my judge - Judge Gerald Culkin...

Over the mountain Down in the valley Lives a former talk-show host Everybody knows his name He says there's no doubt about it It was the myth of fingerprints I've seen them all and man They're all the same Well, the sun gets weary And the sun goes down Ever si...

I went to my doctor I said Give me some relief He said Tell me what’s the matter with you, boy… I said It’s all because of you It’s all because of you It’s all because of you wouldn’t say, I do So I went to my drugstore I said, Do the drugs on me....

Maladies Melodies Allergies to dust and grain Maladies Remedies Still these allergies remain My hand can't touch a guitar string My fingers just burn and ache My head intercedes with my bodily needs And my body won't give it a break My heart can stand a disast...

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together" "I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And we walked off to look for America "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems...

Many's the time I've been mistaken And many times confused Yes, and often felt forsaken And certainly misused But I'm all right, I'm all right I'm just weary to my bones Still, you don’t expect to be Bright and bon vivant So far away from home, so far away fro...

On the morning of her wedding day When no one was awake She drove across the border Leaving all the yellow roses on her wedding cake Her mother's tears, her breakfast order She's gone, gone, gone There is a moment, a chip in time When leaving home is the les...

April, comes she will, When streams are ripe and swelled with rain. May, she will stay, Resting in my arms again. June, she'll change her tune. In restless walks she'll prowl the night. July, she will fly, And give no warning to her flight. August, die she m...

On Armistice Day The Philharmonic will play But the songs that we sing Will be sad Shufflin brown tunes Hanging around, ahoo M-m-m-m-m-m-m No long drawn blown out excuses Were made When I needed a friend she was there Just like an easy chair Oo, Oo-o M-m-m-m-...

Snowman sittin' in the sun doesn't have time to waste He had a little bit too much fun Now his head's erased Back in the house, family of three Two doin' the laundry and one in the nursery We brought a brand new baby back from Bangladesh Thought we'd name her...

[SAL] Whoa--I got time on my hands tonight You're the girl of my dreams When I'm near you my future seems bright OO--I want you to be my girl I want you to be my movie I am Sal Mineo and I need you so Sweet Bernadette Whoa---You got style from your ha...

September '77 Port Elizabeth weather is fine It was business as usual In Police room 369 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja The man is dead When I go to sleep at night All my dreams are red The...

Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago, it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you 

Down among the reeds and rushes A baby boy was found His eyes as clear as centuries His silky hair was brown Never been lonely Never been lied to Never had to scuffle in fear Nothing denied to Born at the instant The church bells chime And the whole world whi...

[SALVADOR] I was born in Puerto Rico We came here when I was a child Before I reached the age of sixteen I was running with the gang and we were wild He keeps looking but he don't recognize me. Some guy from Lexington or Park Red beans and rice from ki...

When you're weary, feeling small, When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all; I'm on your side. When times get rough And friends just can't be found, Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down. Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me do...

[ESMERALDA] I am Esmeralda Agron, Senora. I know I've no right to speak. My son is not the savage boy you see, The cape, the sneer, the slicked-back hair It hides the child I nursed and bathed, Senora. Please don't turn your eyes from me Your son, gone...

I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but I can't run but I can walk much faster than this Can't run but A cooling system Burns out in the Ukraine Trees and umbrellas Protect us from the new rain Armies of engineers To analyze the soil Th...

Carlos Dominguez An unhappy man Always running away What are you searching for Carlos Dominguez? Who do you cry every day? I'm searching for something That I cannot find I look for a way I might find peace of mind I run 'cause I'm lost I'm afraid...

Cars are cars all over the world Cars are cars all over the world Similarly made. Similarly sold In a motorcade. Abandoned when they're old Cars are cars all over the world Cars are cars all over the world Cars are cars all over the world Engine in the front....

I am a citizen of the planet I was born here I'm going to die here Come what may I am entitled by my birth To the treasures of the earth No one must be denied these No one must be denied Easy dreams At the end of a chain-smokin' day Easy dreams at th...

Congratulations Oh, seems like you've done it again And I ain't had such misery Since I don't know when Oh, and I don't know when, oh, and I don't know when I notice so many people Slipping away And many more waiting in the lines In the courtrooms today Oh, i...

It turns out to be A great thing for me I don't worry (And?) I don't think (Because?) It's not my job to worry or to think I'm more like: "Everyday I'm here I'm grateful" and that's the gist of it Now you may call that a bogus, bullshit, new-age point of vie...

Fat Charlie the Archangel Sliped into the room He said I have no opinion about this And I have no opinion about that Sad as a lonely little wrinkled balloon He said well I don't claim to be happy about this, boys And I don't seem to be happy about that...

The first time I saw her I couldn't be sure But the sin of impatience Said, "she's just what you're looking for" So I walked right up to her And with the part or me that talks I introduced myself as Frank From New York New York She's so hot She's so cool I'm...

Truth or lie, the silence is revealing An empty sky, a hidden mound of stone But the CAT scan's eye sees what the heart's concealing Now-a-days, when everything is known Maybe love's an accident, or destiny is true But you and I were born beneath a star...

(a-wa) O kodwa u zo-nge li-sa namhlange (a-wa a-wa) Si-bona kwenze ka kanjani (a-wa a-wa) Amanto mbazane ayeza She's a rich girl She don't try to hide it Diamonds on the soles of her shoes He's a poor boy Empty as a pocket Empty as a pocket with nothing to lo...

Couple in the next room Bound to win a prize They've been goin' at it all night long Well I'm tryin' to get some sleep but these motel walls are cheap Lincoln Duncan is my name and here's my song, here's my song My father was a fisherman my mama was a fisherm...

I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail. Yes I would. If I could, I surely would. I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. Yes I would. If I only could, I surely would. Away, I'd rather sail away Like a swan that's here and gone A man gets tide up to the ground He gi...

Locked in a struggle for the right combination of words in a melody line I took a walk along the riverbank of my imagination Golden clouds were shuffling the sunshine But if I ever get back to the twentieth century Guess I'll have to pay off some debts Open t...

M-m, paraphernalia Never hides your broken bones And I don't know why You want to try Mm, It's plain to see you're on your own Uh, huh, I ain't blind, no Some folks are crazy Others walk that borderline Watch what you're doing Taking downs to get off...

If you leap awake In the mirror of a bad dream And for a fraction of a second You can't remember where you are Just open your window And follow your memory upstream To the meadow in the mountain Where we counted every falling star I believe the light...

Through the corridors of sleep Past the shadows dark and deep My mind dances and leaps in confusion. I don't know what is real, I can't touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion. So I'll continue to continue to pretend That my life will ne...

There may come a time When you'll be tired As tired as a dream that wants to die And further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Further to fly Maybe you will find a love That you discover accidentally Who falls against you gently As a pickpocket...

From early in November to the last week of December I got money matters weighing me down Oh the music may be merry, but it's only temporary I know Santa Claus is coming to town In the days I work my day job, in the nights I work my night But it all comes...

Lord, I'm a working man And music is my trade I'm travelin' with this five-piece band And I play the ace of spades I have a wife and family Who don't see much of me God bless the absentee Lord, I am a sugeon And music is my knife It cuts away my sorr...

The night was black, the roads were icy Snow was fallin', drifts were high And I was weary, from my driving And I stopped to rest for awhile I sat down at a truck stop I was thinking about my past I've had a long streak of that bad luck But I'm praying...

The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a National guitar I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war I'm going to Graceland Graceland In Memphis Tennessee I'm going to Graceland Poorboys and Pilgrims with families A...

I was having this discussion in a taxi heading downtown Rearranging my position on this friend of mine who had a little bit of a breakdown I said, "Hey, no breakdown is called a breakdown if it goes, so What are you going to do about it that's what I'd like...

Yesterday it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm having a good time I've been loving and loving And loving I'm exhausted from loving so well I should go to bed But a voice in my head Says "...

He was my brother Five years older than I He was my brother Twenty-three Years old the day he died Freedom writer They cursed my brother to his face Go home outsider This town's gonna be your buryin' place He was singin' on his knees An angry mob trai...

One and one-half wandering jews Free to wander wherever they choose Are travelling together In the sangre de cristo The blood of christ mountains Of new mexico On the last leg of the journey They started a long time ago The arc of a love affair Rainbo...

Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo) Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say It's all rig...

Emaweni webaba Silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Webaba silale maweni Homeless, homeless Moonlight...

I'm sittin' in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination On a tour of one-night-stands, my suitcase and guitar at hand And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound Home, where my tho...

Hell no I can't complain about my problems I'm OK the way things are I pull my stool up to the bar At Horace And Pete's Sometimes I wonder Why do we tear ourselves to pieces? I just need some time to think Or maybe I just need a drink At Horace And Pe...

We heard the fireworks Rushed out to watch the sky Happy-go-lucky, Fourth of July How can you live in the Northeast? How can you live in the South? How can you build on the banks of a river when the floodwater pours from the mouth? How can you be a Chr...

In the blue light Of the belvedere Motel Wondering as the television burns How the heart approaches what it yearns In a fever I distinctly hear your voice Emerging from a dream, the dream returns How the heart approaches what it yearns After the rain...

Tell us all a story About how it used to be Make it up and write it down Just like history About goldilocks and the three bears Nature in the cross hairs And how we all ascended From the deep green sea When it's not too hot Not too cold Not too meek...

A winters day In a deep and dark December I am alone Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow I am a rock I am an island I've built walls A fortress deep and mighty That none may penetrate I have no need...

We were married on a rainy day The sky was yellow And the grass was gray We signed the papers And we drove away I do it for your love The rooms were musty And the pipes were old All that winter we shared a cold Drank all the orange juice That we cou...

Acts of kindness, like breadcrumbs in a fairytale forest Lead us past dangers as light melts the darkness But I don't believe, and I'm not consoled I lean closer to the fire, but I'm cold The earth was born in a storm The waters receded, the mountains we...

She looked me over and I guess she thought I was all right All right in a sort of a limited way for an off-night She said don't I know you from the cinematographer's party I said who am I to blow against the wind I know what I know I'll sing what I said...

I've got a problem The girl I love doesn't love me at all In fact she won't even answer my call I wish I weren't in love I can't do my homework I write her name on my notebook all night The way she treats me, it just isn't right I wish I weren't in lov...

Looking from my window On the freshly fallen snow That sparkles as it tumbles Upon the street below And the crackle of the fire Is laughin’ in my ear And the room is warm and sleepy I wish you could be here Sundays in this town there’s Not a lot for...

If it's magic... Why can't it be everlasting Like the sun that always shines Like the poets endless rhymes Like the galaxies in time If it's pleasing... Why can't it be never leaving Like the day that never fails Like on seashores there are shells Like the ti...

Some nights the ER is quiet as an EKG But tonight it feels like every broken bone Tonight it feels like every wounded soul Is filling out a form or on the phone I can't talk now, I'm in a parade I can't talk now, I'm in a parade Can't talk to you now, I...

Oh Lord, don’t keep me up all night Side by side with the moon With its desolate eyes Miles from the sunrise The darkness inviting a tune The Insomniac’s Lullaby A siren is playing its song in the distance The melody rattles the old window frame Gradu...

Half and hour you change your strings and tune up Sizing the room up Checking the bar Local girls unspoken conversations Misinformation Plays the guitar They say Jonah was swallowed by a whale But I say there's no truth to that tale I know Jonah Was...

I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm continuing Tapping on my roof and walls. And from the shelter of my mind Through the window of my eyes I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets To England where my heart lies. My mind'...

[INMATE] Killer wants to go to college He wants to get his parole So the Department of Corrections Will release him in the fall Killer wants to go on T.V. Wants to talk about his book Make my life into a movie I got the style, I got the look. [VIRGIL...

[SAL] I know you're trying to protect me Searching for another truth With your language and your poetry From my ignorance and youth Hey I did not come to argue My life never made much sense I just wish that I could hug you You're my only defense I d...

When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the green...

The first thing I remember I was lying In my bed I couldn't of been no more Than one or two I remember there's a radio Comin' from the room next door And my mother laughed The way some ladies do When it's late in the evening And the music s seeping th...

You got to learn how to fall Before you learn to fly And mama, mama it ain't no lie Before you learn to fly Learn how to fall You got to drift in the breeze Before you set your sails It's an occupation where the wind prevails Before you set your sails...

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song. Im twenty-two now but I wont be for long Time hurries on. And the leaves that are green turn to brown, And they wither with the wind, And they crumble in your hand. Once my heart was filled with the love of...

You’ve got the cool water When the fever runs high You got the look of lovelight in your eyes I was in crazy motion Til’ you calmed me down It took a little time But you calmed me down Let me live in your city The river’s so pretty, the air is so fine...

It's been a long, long day I got some run-down shoes Ain't got no place to stay But any old place will be okay It's been a long, long day I sure been on this road Done nearly fourteen years Can't say my name's well known You don't see my face in Rolli...

Look at that Look at this Drop a stone in the abyss Then walk away and know that anything can happen Just like that Just like this Look at that Look at this Gimme a hug, gimme a kiss Then hey, hey, off to school we go You might learn something Yeah...

Cool me Cool my fever high Hold me when I cry I need it so much Makes you want to get down crawl like a beggar For its touch And all the while it's free as air Like plants the medicine is everywhere Love Love Love We crave it so badly Makes you w...

Love and blessings Simple kindness Fell like rain on thirsty land Fields and gardens Long abandoned Came to life in dust and sand Lover's lips sweet as honey Touched as if old love was new Banker's pockets overflowing with gold and money Prophesies o...

God and his only son Paid a courtesy call on Earth one Sunday morning Orange blossoms opened their fragrant lips Songbirds sang from the tips of cotton roots Old folks wept For his love in these hard times 'Well, better be going,' Said the the restless...

Love is eternal sacred light Free from the shackles of time Evil is darkness, sight without sight A demon that feeds on the mind How'd it all begin? Started with a bang Couple of light years later, stars and planets sang Fire warmed the cold, waves...

when I was a little boy (when I was just a boy) and the devil would call my name (when I was just a boy) I'd say "now who do who do you think you're fooling?" (when I was just a boy) I'm a concentrated boy (when I was just a boy) singer in a Sunday choir...

The mama pajama rolled out of bed And she ran to the police station When the papa found out he began to shout And he started the investigation It’s against the law It was against the law What the mama saw It was against the law The mama looked down and spit...

No I would not give you false hope On this strange and mournful day But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine. I can't for the life of me Remember a sadder day I know they say let it be But it just don't work ou...

Brrrrmm, pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa Brrrrmm, pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa Brrrrmm, pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa Oh-oh, motorcycle Well, I got around on a red motorcycle (Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, pa-pa-pa-pa) And a...

"To hatch a crow, a black rainbow Bent in emptiness over emptiness But flying -Ted Hughes In my little town I grew up believing God keeps His eye on us all And He used to lean upon me As I pledged allegiance to the wall Lord I recall My little town...

The morning came today With rain and sheets of grey The subway rocked me out of bed To take me on my way Where I go, I go in style Each and every mile You know, I'm not alone New York is my home I got a girl up in the Proms She treats me like a king I'll giv...

There were two men down And the score tied In the bottom of the eighth When the pitcher died And they laid his spikes On the pitcher's mound And his uniform was torn And his number was left on the ground Then the night turned cold Colder than the mo...

Who knows my secret broken Who feels my flesh when I am gone Who was a witness to the dream Who kissed my eyes and saw the scream Lying there Nobody Who is my reason to begin Who plows the earth, who breaks the skin Who took my two hands and made them...

The boy's got brains He just don't use 'em that's all The boy's got brains He just refuse to use 'em and that's all He said "The more I got to thinkin The less I tend to laugh" The boy's got brains He just abstains The boy's got a heart But it beats...

The first time I heard “Peggy Sue” I was 12 years old Russians up in rocket ships And the war was cold Now many wars have come and gone Genocide still goes on Buddy Holly still goes on But his catalog was sold First time I smoked Guess what – Paranoid First t...

Once upon a time there was an ocean But now it's a mountain range Something unstoppable set into motion Nothing is different, but everything's changed It's a dead end job, and you gets tired of sittin' And it's like a nicotine habit you're always thinkin...

There's been some hard feelings here About some words that were said There's been some hard feelings here And what is more There's been a bloody purple nose And some bloody purple clothes That were messing up the lobby floor It's just apartment house ru...

He's a one trick pony One trick is all that horse can do he does one trick only It's the principal source of his revenue And when he steps into the spotlight You can feel the heat of his heart Come rising through See how he dances See how he loops fro...

It’s outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor Outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure It’s a blessing to wash your face in the summer solstice rain It’s outrageous a man like me stand here and complain But I’m tired Nine hu...

Mm------ It's carbon and monoxide The ole Detroit perfume It hangs on the highways In the morning And it lays you down by noon Oh Papa Hobo You can see that I'm dressed like a schoolboy But I feel like a clown It's a natural reaction I learned In thi...

I got some so-called friends They'll smile right to my face But, when my back Is turned They'd like to stick it to me Yes they would Oh no no, oh no no There's only one thing I need to know Whose side are you on I fly into J.F.K. My heart goes boom b...

The night sets softly With the hush of falling leaves, Casting shivering shadows On the houses through the trees, And the light from a street lamp Paints a pattern on my wall, Like the pieces of a puzzle Or a child's uneven scrawl. Up a narrow flight...

Ah, peace like a river ran through the city Long past the midnight curfew We sat starry-eyed Ooh, oh,we were satisfied O-o-oh, when I remember Misinformation followed us like a plague Nobody knew from time to time If the plans were changed Oh, oh, oh,...

Big and fat Pig's supposed to look like that Barnyard thug Sleep on straw and calls it a rug Yeah that's a rug, ok He's walking down the street And nobody's going to argue with him He's a half-a-ton of pig meat Up in the hills above the farm Lives a...

Saturday night and I'm all alone Don't have a date, I'm just sittin' home The radio's playin' the tap tunes tonight Play me a sad song (oh yes) Please mister deejay (yes) Play me a sad song tonight (ooh-ooh) Don't you think I wanna go where other kids g...

Forever my darling our love will be true Always and forever I'll love only you Just promise me darling Your love in return May this fire in my soul dear Forever burn My heart's at your command dear To keep, love and to hold Making you happy's my desi...

Soon our fortunes will be made, my darling And we will leave this loathsome little town Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby Silver foil to trim your wedding gown It's true the tools of love wear down Time passes A mid wanders It seems...

Begin again No easy trick Without a guide or walking stick Begin before the bells of twilight peal Downhill town The road ahead Spiral, as a serpent’s bed A teaspoon of desire for my meal I trade my tears To ask the Lord For proof of love If only...

[TEEN IDOL] The way you move It's got quality Come on baby, let's go downtown Little girl, you sure look good to me The way you move It's got quality Come on baby now don't be shy Step in the light so I can see The way you move It's got quality [GI...

A pilgrim on a pilgrimmage Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge His sneakers torn In the hour when the homeless move their cardboard blankets And the new day is born Folded in his backpack pocket The questions that he copied from his heart Who Am I in thi...

I am heading for a time of quiet When my restlessness is past And I can lie down on my blanket And release my fists at last I am heading for a time of solitude Of peace without illusions When the perfect circle Marries all beginnings and conclusions...

Rene and Georgette Magritte With their dog after the war Returned to their hotelsuite And they unlocked the door Easily losing their evening clothes They dance by the light of the moon To The Penguins The Moonglows The Orioles and The Five Satins The...

I've been working on my rewrite, that's right I'm gonna change the ending Gonna throw away my title And toss it in the trash Every minute after midnight All the time I'm spending It's just for working on my rewrite Gonna turn it into cash I've been wo...

Went to my doctor yesterday She said I seem to be O.K. She said "Paul, you better look around How long you think that you can Run that body down? How many nights you think that you can Do what you been doin' Who you foolin?" I came back home and I we...

[SAL] I been sleeping on the roof of my building It's cooler than the street. I been watching the setting sun As it bounces off the avenue Turning into gold dust at my feet. OH-WOH-OH Carlos and Yolanda Dancing in the hallway To an old melody Spanish...

I have a wisdom tooth Inside my crowded face I have a friend who is a born-again Found his savior's grace I was born before my father And my children before me We are born and born again Like the waves of the sea That's the way it's always been And th...

I feel good It's a fine day The way the sun hits off the runway A cloud shifts The plane lifts She moves on But feel the bite Whenever you believe that You'll be lost and love will find you When the road bends And the song ends She moves on I kno...

Wrap me, wrap me, wrap me, do In the shelter of your arms. I'm an extraordinary individual and I will do you no harm And I will tell you no lies If you don't want me to And if you want to I'll lie in the shelter of your arms In the palm of your embrace...

Vampires Din Din Din Din Shopliftin clothes Din Din Din Din Shopliftin clothes Din Din Din Din Din Din Well I believe it's that time of year when I shop for clothes. Well I believe it's that time of year when I shop for clothes. Tells you how far your...

Silent Eyes Watching Jerusalem Make her bed of stones Silent Eyes No one will comfort her Jerusalem Weeps alone She is sorrow Sorrow She burns like aflame And she calls my name Silent Eyes Burning In the desert sun Halfway to Jerusalem And w...

Slip slidin' away Slip slidin' away You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said Delores I live in fear My love for you's...

I'm gonna make a chicken gumbo Toss some sausage in the pot I'm gonna flavor it with okra Cayenne pepper to make it hot You know life is what we make of it So beautiful or so what I'm gonna tell my kids a bedtime story A play without a plot Will it hav...

Soft parachutes, Fourth of July And villages burning Returning the bodies, all laid in a line Like soft parachutes Last year, I was a senior In Emmerson High School I had me a girlfriend We used to get high And now I am flying Down some Vietnam highw...

Some folks' lives roll easy as a breeze Drifting through a summer night Heading for a sunny day But most folks' lives, they stumble Lord they fall Through no fault of their own Most folks never catch their stars And here I am, Lord I'm knocking at you...

You've got the cool water When the fever runs high You've got the look of lovelight in your eyes And I was in crazy motion Til you calmed me down It took a little time But you calmed me down When something goes wrong I'm the first to admit it I'm th...

If you want to write a song about the moon Walk along the craters of the afternoon When the shadows are deep And the light is alien And gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement And you want to write a song about the moon You want to write a spiritual...

Every bar and grill Every greasy spoon Anywhere a quarter buys a tune Ride the spiral highway one more round Every local call Every pink motel Any time the strain begins to tell Ride that spiral highway one more roll After the rain on the interstate...

We sailed up a river wide as a sea And slept on the banks On the leaves of a banyan tree And all of these spirit voices rule the night Some stories are magical, meant to be sung Song from the mouth of the river When the world was young And all of these...

Little sleepy boy Do you know what time it is? Well the hour ol your bedtime's Long been past And though I know you're fighting it I can tell when you rub your eyes You're fading fast Fading fast Won't you run come see St.Judy's Comet Roll across th...

I met my old lover on the street last night, She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled, And we talked about some old times, And we drank ourselves some beers, Still crazy after all these years, Oh, still crazy after all these years. I'm not the kind o...

He was a mean individual He had a heart like a bone He was a naturally crazy man And better off left alone He stopped one night At a traffic light And when that light turned green He was a mean individual Stranded in a limousine Hey,hey,hey,hey All...

Stranger to stranger If we met for the first time This time Could you imagine us Falling in love again Words and melody So the old story goes Fall from summer trees When the wind blows I can’t wait to see you walk across my doorway I cannot be held...

My heart goes out to the street angels Working their way back home My heart goes out to the street angels I save my change for a street angel Working his way back home I’d this exchange with the street angel Nobody talks to me much I said, Nobody talks...

[ESMERALDA] Salvador, the afternoon sunlight is folding around us, The dishes are done, The buildings here, tall as our mountains Slice through the windows and cut off the sun. On such days I find 1 am longing for Puerto Rico Though I never would return...

I registered to vote today Felt like a fool Had to do it anyway Down at the high school Thing about the second line You know, felt like a fool? People say it all the time Even when it's true So, who's that conscience sticking on the sole of my shoe? W...

Little surfer little one Made my heart come all undone Do you love me, do you surfer girl Surfer girl my little surfer girl I have watched you on the shore Standing by the ocean's roar Do you love me do you surfer girl Surfer girl surfer girl We coul...

C'mon take me to the Mardi Gras Where the people sing and play Where the dancing is elite And there's music in the street Both night and day Hurry take me to the Mardi Gras In the city of my dreams You can legalize your lows You can wear your summer c...

What can I do What can I do Much of what you say is true I know you see through me But there's no tenderness Beneath your honesty Oh, right and wrong Right and wrong Ooh, never helped us get along You say you care for me But there's no tenderness B...

A long time ago, yeah Before you was born, dude When I was still single And life was great I held this job as a traveling salesman That kept me moving from state to state Well, I’m standing on the corner of Lafayette State of Louisiana Wondering where...

Well I'll just skip the boring parts chapters one, two, three And get to the place where you can read my face and my biography Here I am, I'm eleven months old, dangling from my daddy's knee There I go, it's my graduation I'm picking up a bogus degree Th...

Somewhere in a burst of glory Sound becomes a song I'm bound to tell a story That's where I belong When I see you smiling When I hear you singing Lavender and roses Every ending a beginning The way you turn And catch me with your eye Ay ay ay That...

When I was born my mother died She said bye-bye baby, bye-bye I said "Where you goin'?" "I'm just born" She said I'll only be gone for a while My mother loved to leave in style And that's why God made the movies So I laid around in my swaddling clothes...

After I died and the makeup had dried I went back to my place No moon that night, but a heavenly light Shown on my face Still I thought it was odd there was no sign of God Just to usher me in Then a voice from above sugarcoated with love Said, “Let us b...

"The Boxer" I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles Such are promises All lies and jest Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest When I left my home And my family I...

It was a slow day And the sun was beating On the soldiers by the side of the road There was a bright light A shattering of shopwindows The bomb in the baby carriage Was wired to the radio These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long-dista...

A family of musicians took shelter for the night In the little harbor church of St. Cecilia Two guitars, bata, bass drum and tambourine Rose of Jericho and Bougainvillea This is a lonely life Sorrows everywhere you turn Afd that's worth something When...

Moves like a fist through the traffic Anger and no one can heal it Shoves a little bump into the momentum It's just a little lump But you feel it In the creases and the shadows With a rattling deep emotion The cool, cool river Sweeps the wild, white oc...

I was reading a magazine And thinking of a rock and roll song The year was 1954 And I hadh't been playing that long When a man came on the radio And this is what he said He said I hate to break it To his fans But Johnny Ace is dead Well, I really wasn...

Ba ba baa, ba-ba ba-ba ba-baa Hi, ho, Silver, away Ba ba baa¦ ba-ba ba-ba ba-baa Hey, but the Lone Teen Ranger Oh, he rides around on a big white horse He´s as cool as he can be And my baby fell in love with him When she saw him on TV And since that...

I'm accustomed to a smooth ride Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the night Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie But I say why Why deny the obvious child? Why deny the obvio...

If I have weaknesses Don't let them blind me Or camouflage all I am wary of I could be sailing in seizures of laughter Or crawling out from under the heel of love Do my prayers remain unanswered Like a beggar at your sleeve Olodumare is smiling in heave...

Frightened by the tone of a phone In the dead of night Then staring into darkness And praying till the morning light The price already paid A son gone to the grave Now the sorrowful parade To the riverbank Must be half the county come down To the riv...

On the side of a hill in a land called 'Somewhere' A little boy lies asleep in the earth While down in the valley a cruel war rages And people forget what a child's life is worth On the side of a hill, a little cloud weeps And waters the grave with its s...

Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence. In restless dreams I walked a...

There once was a teacher of great renown Whose words were like the tablets of stone Because it's easier to learn than unlearn Because we've passed the point of no return Gather your goods and follow me Or you will surely die I was only a child of the ci...

[HERNANDEZ] Well, did you bring me my money, My cab fare My new shoes? I got expenses, you know Where's my weekly dues? [SAL] I ain't giving you my fucking money. [HERNANDEZ] Oye, mother fucker, where's this jibaro from? You go when I say. I call...

Milwaukee man led a fairly decent life Made a fairly decent living, had a fairly decent wife She killed him. Ah, sushi knife Now they're shopping for a fairly decent afterlife The werewolf is coming The fact is most obits are mixed reviews Life is a lottery,...

If a feeling's born and no one complains Well that's good luck Running through young veins And if life is a blessing That brushes the tops of the trees Well it's a short walk In a sweet breeze I will need you, feed you, seed you, plead with you All fo...

They say that the left side of the brain Controls the right They say that the right side Has to work hard all night Maybe I think too much for my own good Some people say so Other people say no no The fact is You don't think as much as you could hmmm...

The smartest people in the world Had gathered in Los Angeles To analyze our love affair And possibly unscramble us And we sat among our photographs Examined every one And in the end we compromised And met the morning sun Maybe I think too much Maybe I...

[SAL] I speak to you in Jesus's name As Jesus speaks through me, The evil we do can't be blamed upon our destiny I have walked through the valley of death-row to the shore I have stumbled through silvery water to my savior my Salvador! [SALVADOR] It...

[LAZARUS] A passenger traveling quietly conceals himself With a magazine and a sleepless pillow Over the crest of the mountain the moon begins its climb And he wakes to find he's in rolling farmland The farmer sleeps against his wife He wonders what th...

She was beautiful as Southern skies The night he met her She was married to someone He was doggedly determined that he would get her He was old, he was young From time to time he'd tip his heart But each time she withdrew Everybody loves the sound of a...

Joseph's face was black as night The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes His path was marked By the stars in the Southern Hemisphere And he walked his days Under African skies This is the story of how we begin to remember This is the powerful pulsing of...

[VIRGIL] I've got a wife, four grown children I can't afford their education I been a prison guard for fourteen years That ain't exactly a vacation [WARDEN] Since he's been here he's followed every rule Well I told you my position The law says he's go...

Prayers offered in times of peace Are silent conversations Appeals for love, or love’s release In private invocations But all that is changed now Gone like a memory from the day before the fires People hungry for the voice of God Hear lunatics and liars...

Was a sunny day Not a cloud was in the sky Not a negative word was heared From the people passing by Was a sunny day All the birdies in the trees And the radio's singing song All the favorite melodies He was a navy man Stationed in Newport News She...

I have a number in my head Though I don't know why it's there When numbers get serious You see their shape everywhere Dividing and multiplying Exchanging with ease When times are mysterious Serious numbers are easy to please Take my address Take my ph...

I stepped outside the backstage door to breathe some nicotine And maybe check my mailbox, see if I can read the screen Then I heard a click, the stage door lock I knew just what that meant I'm gonna have to walk around the block if I wanna get in Wristba...

A man walks down the street He says why am I soft in the middle now Why am I soft in the middle The rest of my live is so hard I need a photo-opportunity I want a shot at redemption Don´t want to end up a cartoon In a Cartoon graveyard Bonedigger Bonedigger Do...

You're kind You're so kind You rescued me when I was blind And you put me on your pillow When I was on the wall You're so kind So kind So kind And you're good You're so good You introduced me to you neighborhood Seems like I ain't never had so ma...

May twelve angels guard you While you sleep Maybe that's a waste of Angels I don't know I'd do anything to keep you safe From the Danger that surrounds us Little by little Bit by bit Little bit by little bit Now you got it that's it What're you think...