It was one of those great stories that you can't put down at night The hero knew what he had to do and he wasn't afraid to fight The villain goes to jail while the hero goes free I wish it were that simple for me
And the reason that she loved him Was the reason I loved him too And he never wondered what was right or wrong He just knew, he just knew
Shadow and shade mix together at dawn But by the time you catch them simplicity's gone So we sort through the pieces my friends and I Searching through the darkness to find the breaks in the sky
And the reason that she loved him Was the reason I loved him too And he never wondered what was right or wrong He just knew, he just knew
And we wonder yes, we wonder How do you make sense of this When the hero kills the maiden With his kiss, with his kiss
Aaaah ... It was one of those great stories that you can't put down at night The hero knew what he had to do and he wasn't afraid to fight The villain goes to jail while the hero goes free I wish it were that simple for me
I recall my so called misspent youth It seems more worthwhile Every single day Cruisin' Van Nuys and acting so uncooth All the joys of runnin' away
There was no speed limit On the Nevada state line The air was red wine On those top down nights Just you and me My old rollarskate And the common sense To know our rights
Sweet old racin' car of mine Roarin' down that broken line I never been so much alive Too fast for comfort Too low to fly Too young to die
You say a man can't love a material thing With aluminum skin And a cast iron soul But they never heard your engine sing Ah there's peace in losing control "Sticky fingers" turned up real loud Ah, we were flirtin' with catastrophe We were doing everything that's not allowed Life didn't come With a warranty For you and me
Sweet old racin' car of mine Roarin' down that broken line I never been so much alive Too fast for comfort Too low to fly Too young to die
There is peace in losing control
When I die I don't wanna go to heaven I just wanna drive my beautiful machine Up north on some sonoma country road With Jimmy Dean and Steve McQueen All the boys be singin', singin'
Sweet old racin' car of mine Roarin' down that broken line I never been so much alive Too fast for comfort Too low to fly Too young to die
Listen old soldier wherever you are The hills or the valleys Come near or come far They say youth's a treasure We waste when we're young So come down from the place Where your medals are hung You're forever returning and learning to fight And you feel just like an old soldier tonight
Listen old soldier 'cause time doesn't wait The moon's on your shoulder The hour is late There's something there inside you Still calls out to you And you won't fade away Whatever you do
You're forever beginning Barely winning the fight And you feel just like an old soldier tonight
You're not getting any younger That much is true now But you've still got that hunger Burning in you now So what do you do now
What do you do now
Listen old soldier To the sound in your ears Of too many battles For too many years There's only one thing You've learned in defeat Losing is bitter And victory is sweet
You're always unravelling Traveling light And you feel just like an old soldier tonight
You were dreaming on a park bench About a broad highway somewhere When the music from the carillon Seemed to hurl your heart out there Past the scientific darkness Past the fireflies that float To an angel bending down To wrap you in her warmest cloak And you ask "What am I not doing?" She says, "Your voice cannot command" She says, "In time you will move Mountains And it will come Through your hands."
Still you angle for an option Still you argue for your cause Like you wouldn't know a burning Bush Till it blew up in your face We dream about the future We memorize the past When just a simple reaching out Could build a bridge that lasts And you ask "What am I not doing?" She says, "Your voice cannot command" She says, "In time you will move Mountains And it will come Through your hands."
So whatever your hands find to do You must do with all your heart There are thoughts enough to Blow men's minds And tear great worlds apart There's a healing touch to find you Out on that broad highway Somewhere Gonna lift you as high as music Running through an angel's hair And don't worry What you are not doing 'Cause your voice cannot command And in time you will move mountains And it will come through your hands
He met her in a french cafe She slipped in sideways like a cat Sidelong glances, what a wary little stray&127; She sticks in his mind like that Saying 'avez vous un alumette' With her lips wrapped around a cigarette Yvette in English saying please have this Little bit of instant bliss. He's struggling with a foreign tongue Reaching for words and drawing blanks A loud mouth is stricken deaf and dumb In a bistro on the left bank If I was a painter Picasso said I'd paint this girl from toe to head Yvette in English, saying please have this Little bit of instant bliss Burgundy nocturne tips and spills They move along nicely in the spreading stain New chills, new thrills For the old uphill battle How did he wind up here again Walking and talking touched and scared Uninsulated wires bare Yvette in English saying 'please have this Little bit of instant bliss What blew her like a leaf his way Up in the air and down to earth First she flusters, then she frays So quick to question her own worth Her cigarette burns her finger tips It falls like fireworks, she curses it Sweetly in English she says 'please have this Little bit of instant bliss He sees her turn and walk away Skittering like a cat on a stone Her high heels clicking, what a wary little stray She leaves him by the Seine alone. With black water and amber lights And the bony bridge between left and right Yvette in English, saying 'please have this Little bit of instant bliss
I used to walk around with my eyes on fire My nerves real close to my skin Had a fist full of questions and a brand on my cheek And we would skate where the ice got thin
And the smoke blowin' down from a cabin on a hilltop Smoke blowin' down in the street Some kind of sweet smellin' mystical backdrop To the story unfolding at my feet
There's an edge to the twist of an acrobat in the air There's an edge to the twist of a knife There's a hard heart of darkness hovering there Just around the corner from life
And I, I have no answers I got no patented path to set you free Besides I wouldn't know where you wanted to go And it's probably not the same place as me
There's a thousand roads up this mountain You can get lost in a minute if you try And it's probably enough that I was just laughing today, yeah Lookin' this close in your eye
I said there was a thousand roads up this mountain You can get lost in a minute if you try It's probably enough that I was just laughing today, yeah Looking this close in your eye, in your eye In your eye
Better keep your distance from this whale Better keep your boat from going astray Find yourself a partner and treat them well Try to give them shelter night and day 'Cause here in the blue light Far away from the fireside Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded You can't even feel right
So I dream of columbus Every time the panic starts I dream of columbus With your maps and your beautiful charts I dream of columbus There's an ache in a traveling heart
See how the cormorant swoops and dives Must be a thrill to go that deep Down to the basement of this life Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps Not like here in the blue light Far away from the fireside Where things get twisted and Haunted and crowded You can't even feel right
So I dream of columbus Every time the panic starts I dream of columbus With your maps and your beautiful charts I dream of columbus There's an ache in a traveling heart
As the tide must ebb and flow I am dragged down under I wait the livelong day For an end to my hunger
So I dream of columbus Every time the panic starts I dream of columbus With your maps and your beautiful charts I dream of columbus There's an ache in a traveling heart
I'm sitting in here inside the Strangest place And nme is racing by L've been way out here for a month or more Tonight I'm wondering why
You try to understand the things That I feel Maybe this time I'll find a way to Explain it And there was a dream Deep inside my head It only seemed like it's breaking the thread That holds me to you Still you have never wanted to Change me
But darlin' I know Though we're far apart The signal is strong This helpless heart will always Belong to you
Only to you No one but you
This power takes me from the place I belong To where only the strong get through You've got to Keep on believing or you'll lose your way It slips right out on you
Though there are days the light can Flicker or fade Here in tihis place tonight a fire is burning 'Cause there was a dream Deep inside my head It only seemed like it's breaking the thread That holds me to you Still you have never wanted to Change me
But believe me I know
Though we're far apart The signal is strong This helpless heart will always Belong to you
The TV is talkin' to me It's positive identification But maybe I'm mistaken I talk to my radio I keep it tuned to the all night show I'd give my last dime for coverage But you will not cover me
I got a penchant for the printed page I got a mention in the Monday news I was on my last leg When it came through I talk to my radio I keep it tuned to the all night show I'd give my last dime for coverage But you will not cover me No no no no
Tune it in to the pale blue light Whispers to me through the night Better love Better lovers Cover cover cover cover Cover cover cover cover Coverage
I would have made it sooner see But I got caught up in the dream traffic Blew the demographics I talk to my radio I keep it tuned to the all night show I'd give my last dime for coverage But you will not cover me No. You will not cover me No. You will not cover me
I'll light the fire You put the flowers in the vase That you bought today
Staring at the fire For hours and hours While I listen to you Play your love songs All night long for me Only for me
Come to me now And rest your head for just five minutes Everything is good Such a cosy room The windows are illuminated By the sunshine through them Fiery gems for you Only for you
Our house is a very, very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy 'Cause of you And our la,la,la, la,la etc
And our
I'll light the fire And you place the flowers in the jar That you bought today
One morning I woke up and I knew You were really gone A new day, a new way, I knew I should see it along Go your way, I'll go mine and Carry on
The sky is clearing and the night Has gone out The sun, he come, the world is all full of light Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but To carry on
The fortunes of fables are able To sing the song Now witness the quickness with which We get along To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and Carry on
Carry on Love is coming Love is coming to us all
Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow? Will you bring me happiness? Will you bring me sorrow? Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams What you do and what you see Lover can you talk to me?
Girl when I was on my own Chasing you down What was it made you run? Trying your best just to get around. The questions of a thousand dreams What you do and what you see Lover can you talk to me
You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, Their father's hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry, So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
And you, of tender years, Can't know the fears that your elders grew by, And so please help them with your youth, They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, Their children's hell will slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry, So just look at them and sigh and know they love you
Almost cut my hair It happened just the other day It's gettin kinda long I coulda said it wasn't in my way But I didn't and I wonder why I feel like letting my freak flag fly Cause I feel like I owe it to someone
Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas And I'm not feeling up to par It increases my paranoia Like looking at my mirror and seeing a scar But I'm not giving in an inch to fear Cause I missed myself this year I feel like I owe it to someone
When I finally get myself together I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather And I find a place inside to laugh Separate the wheat from the chaff I feel like I owe it to someone
Well I came across a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him tell where are you going This he told me
Well I am going down to Yasgur's farm Going to join in a rock and roll band Goin' to get back to the land to set my soul free
We are stardust, we are golden And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
Well then can I walk beside you I have come to lose the smog And I feel like I'm a cog in something turning And maybe it's the time of year Yes and maybe it's the time of man And I don't know who I am But life is for learning
We are stardust, we are golden And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers jet planes Riding shotgun in the sky Turning into butterflies Above our nation.
We are stardust, we are golden And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
If I had ever been here before I would probably know just what to do Don't you? If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel I would probably know just how to deal With all of you. And I feel Like I've been here before Feel Like I've been here before And you know It makes me wonder What's going on under the ground
Do you know? Don't you wonder? What's going on down under you.
We have all been here before We have all been here before We have all been here before We have all been here before
I'll light the fire You put the flowers in the vase That you bought today
Staring at the fire For hours and hours While I listen to you Play your love songs All night long for me Only for me
Come to me now And rest your head for just five minutes Everything is good Such a cosy room The windows are illuminated By the sunshine through them Fiery gems for you Only for you
Our house is a very, very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy 'Cause of you And our la,la,la, la,la etc
And our
I'll light the fire And you place the flowers in the jar That you bought today
years ago I come into this life The song of a woman And a man who lived in strife He was tired of being poor And he wasn't into selling door to door And he worked like the devil to be more
A different kind of poverty now upsets my soul Night after sleepless night I walk the floor and I want to know Why am I so alone? Where is my woman can I bring her home? Have I driven her away? Is she gone?
Morning comes to sunrise And I'm driven to my bed I see that it is empty And there's devils in my head I embrace the many colored beast I grow weary of the torment Can there be no peace? And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease
