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1. |
| 3:32 | ||||
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble baby
In this world there's a whole lot of pain In this world there's a whole lot of trouble but A whole lot of ground to gain Why take when you could be giving Why watch as the world goes by It's a hard enough life to be living Why walk when you can fly In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow In this world there's a whole lot of shame In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow And a whole lot of ground to gain When you spend you whole life wishing Wanting and wondering why It's a long enough life to be living Why walk when you can fly And in this world there's a whole lot of golden In this world there's a whole lot of pain In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly |
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2. |
| 3:45 | ||||
I grew up in a house like this
You knew the groan of every stair All the walls seemed to listen in All the years seemed to take up air And when you dreamed it was of the wind blowing cold and hard And in those dreams you thought you lived in a house of cards And I grew up in a town like this You knew the names of every street On the surface it looked so safe But it was perilous underneath That's the place where you shoved your doubts and hid your ugly scars / God forbid if word got out about your house of cards And now I feel the wind about to blow Baby I'm so scared We're repeating the past instead of letting it go And I don't want to go back there Now we're standing here face to face Afraid to move or else I want to prop up this fragile place But I can't do it all by myself Cause when we dream it's of the wind blowing cold and hard And when we wake up we still live in a house of cards When we dream it's of the wind blowing cold and hard And when we wake up we still live in a house of cards |
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3. |
| 4:31 | ||||
When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our livesThe classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eyeWe learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertimeReminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty mindsAnd the stones in the road shone like diamonds in the dustAnd then a voice called to us to make our way back home When I was ten, my father held me on his shoulders above the crowdTo see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our townHis widow kneeled with all their children at the sacred burial groundAnd the TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down And the stones in the road flew out beneath our bicycle tiresWorlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home And now we drink our coffee on the run, we climb that ladder rung by rungWe are the daughters and the sons, and here's the line that's missing The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the streetWe give a dollar when we pass, and hope our eyes don't meetWe pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suiteWe kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt And the stones in the road fly out from beneath our wheelsAnother day, another deal, before we get back home And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they cameA thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know
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4. |
| 3:47 | ||||
She says it's been so long, she can't remember when
The mention of his name didn't make her feel again That everything is possible and every day a brand new start Yeah, love's something powerful when it finds a willing heart Sometimes it's a fire burning out of control Sometimes it's a candle burning long and low All these years she never let it go There's a keeper for every flame There is someone in his past that he hasn't gotten over yet Each day's like the last, he just misses what he can't forget It's just an empty space where something used to be Now he guards the gate, but he's lost the key So no one enters, but no one leaves There's a keeper for every flame Thought my heart had broken, but it was just a little bruised I thought love had spoken, I guess I was just confused Sometimes we were a fire burning out of control Sometimes we were nothing but a candle glow But it never died, baby, how I know There's a keeper for every flame |
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5. |
| 2:54 | ||||
I have a heart
that's proud you bet I have a mind that won't forget And I have arms that are strong and yet Tender when they wanna to be Well you can be the will that finds the way And you can be the one who saves the day But show me tender when it's time to say Exactly how it ought to be And I never would've known it darlin' If I hadn't known about you You said everyone can be a rock and roll like a river too Well something happens when you find someone Who makes you feel like you can do no wrong No you don't have to take the whole world on Just be tender when you want be And I never would have known it baby If I hadn't known about you You said everyone can be a rock and roll like a river too So let the waters carry us away Wave goodbye to the old parade Baby when we're unafraid To be tender when we want to be All the waters wash our cares away All that we can see are better days Don't ever let me hesitate To be tender when I want to be |
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6. |
| 3:41 | ||||
Don't mean to get a little forward with you Don't mean to get ahead of where we are Don't mean to act a little nervous around you I'm just a little nervous about my heart 'Cause it's been a while since I felt this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me Didn't expect to be in this position Didn't expect to have to rise above My reputation for cynicism I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love But oh baby just to feel this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me There's something about the silent type Attracting me to you All business baby, none of the hype That no talker can live up too, woo woo Come closer baby I can't hear you Just another whisper if you please Don't worry 'bout the details darlin' You've got the kind of mind I love to read Talk is cheap and baby time's expensive So why waste another minute more ? Life's too short to be so apprehensive Love's as much the symptom as the cure Oh baby when I feel this feeling It's like genuine voodoo hits me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oh baby I can feel this feeling That everything that you do gives me It's been too long since somebody whispered Oooh shut up and kiss me Shut up and kiss me |
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7. |
| 3:37 | ||||
You can have it, I don't want it,
and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Can't seem to keep the faith, as if that's all I need to do I'd rather walk away than take what belongs to you You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Some words will cut you down like you were only in the way Why should I stand ths ground, it won't hurt as much to say You can have it, I don't want it , and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done Sometimes we're blinded by the very thing we need to see I finally realized that you need it more than you need me You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done The damage has all been done |
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8. |
| 5:02 | ||||
The night is soft and silent, new moon at my door
There's nothing near as quiet as the light I'm looking for And last time that it appeared he was lying next to me Last time I felt this near to whispered ecstacy And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams We rose and fell just like the tides, he filled my heart and soul and I Buried all my dreams for someone else to find in my pirate days This world is kinder to the kind that won't look back They are the chosen few, among us now, unbowed somehow And one day he turned to me, and before I took one breath I knew I would only see his shadow in what light was left And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams And if I've seen his face since then, it's only been in dreams my friend Since I came to the end of my pirate days And if I've called his name since then, it's only been in dreams my friend So I came to the end of my pirate days |
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9. |
| 5:45 | ||||
I was standing on this
sidewalk in 1945 in Jacksonville, Illinois When asked what my name was there came no reply They said I was a deaf and sightless half-wit boy But Lewis was my name though I could not say it I was born and raised in New Orleans My spirit was wild so I let the river take it On a barge and a prayer upstream They searched for a mother and they searched for a father And they searched 'til they searched no more The doctors put to rest their scientific test And they named me John Doe No. 24 And they all shook their heads in pity For a world so silent and dark Well there's no doubt that life's a mystery But so too is the human heart And it was my heart's own perfume when the crape jasmine bloomed on St. Charles Avenue Though I couldn't hear the bells of the streetcars coming By toeing the track I knew And if I were an old man returning With my satchel and pork pie hat I'd hit every jazz joint on Bourbon And I'd hit every one on Basin after that The years kept passing as they passed me around From one state ward to another Like I was an orphaned shoe from the lost and found Always missing the other They gave me a harp last Christmas And all the nurses took a dance Lately I've been growing listless Been dreaming again of the past I'm wandering down to the banks of the Great Big Muddy Where the shotgun houses stand I am seven years old and I feel my daddy Reach out for my hand While I drew breath no one missed me So they won't on the day that I cease Put a sprig of crape jasmine with me To remind me of New Orleans I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in Jacksonville, Illinois |
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10. |
| 4:37 | ||||
I can tell by the way you're walking,
That you don't want company I'll let you alone and I'll let you walk on and in your own good time you'll be Back where the sun can find you, under the wise wishing tree And with all of them made we'll lie under the shade and call it a jubilee And I can tell by the way you're talking, that the past isn't letting you go There's only so long you can take it all on, then the wrongs gotta be on its own And when you're ready to leave it behind you, you'll look back and all that you'll see Is the wreckage and rust that you left in the dust on your way to the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're listening, that you're still expecting to hear Your name being called like a summons to all who have failed to account For their doubts and their fears, they can't add up to to much without you And so if it were up to me I'd take hold of your hand Saying come hear the band play your song at the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're searching, for something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come to the table, simply glad that you came When you feel like this try to imagine that we're all like frail boats on the sea Just scanning the night for that great guiding light announcing the jubilee And I can tell by the way you're standing with your eyes filling with tears That it's habit alone that keeps you turning for home, even though your home is right here Where the people who love you are gathered, under the wise wishing tree May we all be considered then straight on delivered down to the jubilee Because to people who love you are waiting, and they'll wait just as long as need be When we look back and say those were halcyon days We're talking about jubilee |
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11. |
| 4:42 | ||||
Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction
No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection Now I only hear the noise of what I am without I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers By the time I turn away, I feel it once again I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places But nothing even like it ever came my way And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything Standing on the borderline, outside looking in |
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12. |
| 3:41 | ||||
Baby where's that place where time stands still
I remember like a lover can But I forget it like a leaver will It's no place you can get to by yourself You've got to love someone and they love you Time will stop for nothing else And memory plays tricks on us, the more we cling, The less we trust And the less we trust the more we hurt And as time goes on it just gets worse So baby where's that place where time stood still It is under glass inside a frame Was it over when you had your fill And here we are with nothing but But this emptiness inside of us Your smile a fitting, final gesture Wish I could have loved you better Baby where's that place where time stands still I remember like a lover can But I forget it like a leaver will It's the first time that you held my had It's the smell and the taste and the fear and the thrill It's everything I understand And all the things I never will |
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13. |
| 6:12 | ||||
If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
When it seems so black outside that you can't remember Light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind, with a soft Familiar rhythm in these swirling, unsure times, when the waves are lapping in And you're not sure you can swim, well here's the lifeline If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling This is love, all that ever was and will be This is love If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds, just step Inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be, You can feel as well as see how peace can hover Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that Smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name, And I thought, this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, standing up for you baby, standing up for me And I see you still and there's this catch in my throat; And I just swallow hard till it leaves me There's nothing in this world that can change what we know Still I know I am here if you ever need me And this is love If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight, when the world has Settled down, and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you Sit and watch the night descending A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel, a dog will bark out Back, and children's voices peal over and under the air, you've been there, Lost in the remembering If you ever wish for things that are only in the past Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, when you let it baby, if you let it now This is love, all that ever was and can be This is love |