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On this earth not alone we stand
Outstretched arm and upturned hand Never knowing when the shakes steady And 'till now we have seldom seen And I will go if you go with me Understand I will wait for thee I'll try to catch up if you move quickly If the wind does blow And oh sir If you ever lose your way You can call upon this family You can call upon this day And oh ma'am If you ever lose your way You can call up on this family You can call upon this day 'Cause you're my present my future My lesson my teacher Oh, My world is still You're my guard you're my guide In my life I confide To ever shelter your will And my words are forever my blanket my shiver Whatever you give I'll never lack You're my chorus my refrain The verse of my first pain Let the voices come barrelling back 'Cause I can stand to stay right where I am Let the water fill this hand Bring it to your mouth Let it pass beyond your lips No gale can down this ship And I'll stand on your shoulders To watch us grow older I can see us far along the road As the trail grows deeper your my giver my keeper Laughter for years untold 'Cause I can stand to stay right where I am Let the water fill this hand Bring it to your mouth And pass beyond your lips No gale can down this ship And wherever you go there you are And if I go I won't go far Wherever you go There you are And if I go I won't go far And oh sir If you ever lose your way You can call upon this family You can call upon this day |
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| 2. |
| 4:11 |
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> ""Let me share the reason of your lecture for a change
Let me tell you how you'll feel Let me strap you down and put morphine in your veins Let me share this bed of steel Cause here come the state inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just a function of the politics and business Oh the squalor, Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave woah. woah...woahh Cause here comes the state inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just a function of the politics and business Deinstitutionalization Had a wife but left her at the station And there's women in the stair wells When their love lives don't fair well Whoring themselves away in the kitchen But look see that woman gettin all dressed up Putting on her earrings and her makeup And in another world there's a lonely girl Who's wishing she'd never been a grown up Oh the squalor...Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave Maybe today I won't get the wrong meds, And maybe today I'll get my fourty six cents And maybe today I'll jump that barbed wired fence And leave this place altogether Cause we're calling all the President's men And we'll shove him in his room, locked in Won't you do me a favor and give me ten So I can peek into the hallway again. Oh the squalor...Oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever god may do It's no secret you'll never leave"" |
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| 3. |
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Dear Mr. Omar Bay,
Heard news that you left today. You still countin' all them taxicabs, takin' you back to the time you have left? Do you well remember Vietnam, When you had a mother who loved her son? Did you have to leave us all and go away? Omar Bay, I think I'm fallin' to pieces. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Five winters, five winters in New York is plenty. I'd even say it's four too many. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Dear Mr. Omar Bay, I saw your old friend form the war today. He said you went to seek God in a church or to get some warmth, whatever came first. And now your standpipe it stands alone. If where you place your cap is your home, Did you have to leave us all and go away? Omar Bay, I think I'm fallin' to pieces. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Five winters, five winters in New York is plenty. I'd even say it's four too many. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Omar Bay, I think I'm fallin' to pieces. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Omar Bay, I think I'm fallin' to pieces. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? Five winters, five winters in New York is plenty. I'd even say it's four too many. Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet? |
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woke him up with a barrel to his head his eyes shut tight bracing for the blow resigning his life to the metal held in another man's hands twenty days in a concrete fallout what life have I to take your own oh my country won't you call out doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones from another land's war torn corners to a prison cell in my own punish me for not taking your orders but don't lock me up for not leaving my home your words just another bloody fallacy a house of cards you painted white you tried to recreate Normandy but you made up a reason to fight and now red oil is spillin' down on the street and your eyes so big for the belly is weak will you not refuse this currency or is blood money just money to you or is blood money just money to you twenty days in a concrete fallout what life have I to take your own oh my country won't you call out doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones from another land's war torn corners to a prison cell in my own punish me for not taking your orders but don't kock me up for not leaving my home camilo camilo leavin' my home camilo |
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| 4:44 |
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Heard of a land held by a troubled hand
Where the whiskey runs the coal Don't you dare go ask the newsman Cause he'll tell you everything He don't know She was the daughter of the second american revolution A tall girl with a stones constitution And when she looked into their eyes to see She know she ain't never going back to what she believe To what you believe So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground In this here londontown So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire But it ain't the bridges that are falling down They said they would never fight no more After the day she went away What in the world are we all fighting for If we don't give they're going to take So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground In this here londontown So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire and my feet on the ground But it ain't the bridges that are falling down It's just another It's just a Go and riddle me over Go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire But it ain't the bridges that are falling down Say that again You say that again Oh what's left to hold in place Say that again Say that again Oh what's left to hold in place Say that again Say that again Oh what's left to hold in place Say that again Say that again Oh what's left to hold in place |
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| 3:16 |
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I work in the kitchen At an old-folks store I do my best But I too am getting old I do the dishes But lately I've been dropping plates Since i get older my hands are starting to shake So Mr. Larkin see I, I've got to hold this job Did you misspeak when you told me she was all but gone Mr. Larkin got me my one weeks pay But don't ask me to leave her, I cant afford that way Ten years ago my wife took sick so I brought her here, my job I quit i started working for the home so I could be by her every day we couldn't afford the cost in any other way Chorus So, so Mr. Larkin see I, I know she know who I am Every now and then she'll, eh, she'll squeeze my hand It's what I live for and it's why she don't die So Mr. Larkin won't you, won't give me this try I walk to work on route 27 I see the same cars pass every day And through all this new england weather You know never once have I been late Chorus I see the argument your making And I understand you've got to do your job And believe me I know she's turning angel But you see this women is all I got Chorus |
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