Paula Cole

Idiot kitty to New York City
Living in a kennel and lookin' big and pretty
Meet the munch for business lunch
But your feet bleed under the table

But Suwannee Jo, you're dark and slow
You dance with a broom and you're filled with ghosts
You smell like liquor and you're high as a hawk
You laugh to yourself but you talk like a rock

Scaredy Kate, back in the Haight
Doesn't answer the phone and eats like a tapeworm
She met Mr.Mike in'89
But she's a hundred pounds heavier and won't go outside

But Suwannee Jo, You're dark and slow
You dance with a broom and you're filled with ghosts
Suwannee Jo, strange beautiful gold,
You can take a woman's husband
but you don't want to marry him
You just want to hold him

Nora Mable, behind your table
Expensive knowledge from ten years of college
But when it comes to livin', the book isn't written
Your brain's under "M" in the library missing

Suwannee Jo, you follow your soul
(Nothing more important than following your soul

Pulling on the apron strings looking up
Standing on the chair to be grown up
I feel so little, I need my pillow
I hate the time, I hate the clock
I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock

Sunday's pancakes Miss Mary Mack
Color Polariods show my heart attack
In my second-hand pants and dusty shoes
The day that the playground laughed at my shoes
It's my birthday next week and what I want please
Is to turn on the heat so the fish won't freeze
The fish in the tank froze and died last week
Oh I want to be a dog or I want to be a leaf

*Quarry miners, fishermen
In my town of Bethlehem
Picket fences, church at ten
No star above my Bethlehem

Now I'm only 16 and I think I have an ulcer
I'm hiding my sex behind a dirty sweatshirt
I've lost five pounds these past few days
Trying to be class president and get straight A's, well,
Who gives a shit about that anyway?
I want to be a dog or a lump of clay

*Repeat

Still I'm tired of standing still
Tired of living - still
Everyday I dream of leaving

Everybody's talking about Becky's bust
The boys on the basketball team just fuck
The same ten girls, who don't know who they are
They're looking for some comfort in the back of a car
The six-packs of beer, the locker room jeers
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here

*Repeat

Red brick schoolhouse, dead end dirt roads, daffodils
No star above my Bethlehem

I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here
Bethlehem

Why do you think she wears those black boots
Why do you think she dyes her hair black

She's awfully insecure
She's trying to be cool
She's hoping to be more in those,
black boots.

Why do I think I wear those black boots
Why do I wear three pairs of black boots

I feel a little stronger
I feel a little taller
I identify with the color
I like myself in these
black boots.

Goya and El Greco, Gaugin and Van Gogh
Painted light in the darkness, chiaroscuro
Imagine we were a painting
A woman and a man,
Two lovers on a canvas
On is white, one is black.

*Darkness and light will be married tonight in chiaroscuro
Your body on mine - two colors combined in chiaroscuro

Vermeer and Velazquez, Rembrandt and Rousseau
Painted perfect union, chiaroscuro
The man and the woman
The knife and the spoon
The xylem and the phloem
The sun and the moon

*Repeat

How we lived a secret life from racist eyes
You said I couldn't understand you anyway I tried

But in this moment together, in our secret unity
Our skins become the still life, our souls epiphany

Tell me how the story will unfold,
I know you see everything.
Tell me all about the torch and scroll,
I know you know everything.

So why do you come to me?
Why when I'm sleeping?
Why am I the only one who knows you're there?
Why, why?

*My dear, my dear Gertrude,
My dear, lonely soul,
My dear, my dear Gertrude,
My dear, my dear, my dear.

Tell me all about your history,
Tell me all about your pains.
Try to contact all your lost loved ones,
Try to speak to them through me.

So why do you come to me?
Why when I'm sleeping?
Why am I the only one
who knows you're there?
Why, why?

*Repeat

You're so lonely in my body,
I can sympathize your pain.
But the secret is too much
for me to hold,
No, no one will believe

Here I am, a black-eyed bird, remaining silent.
I simply watch, your little life from high above.
Wanting to call you, wanting to sing,
Inside your ears and lips and eyes and soul,
I dig my grave, behind the gates of Babylon.

There's a Garden of Eden
In your distant heart,
Garden of Eden
In your earthly arms.

Here I stand, a serpent queen of the garden.
I'm beckoning, but you ignore my siren song.
Oh I long, to touch you, to step inside your sacred gate.
I'll dig my grave in the middle of golden bible snake.

There's a Garden of Eden
In your distant heart,
Garden of Eden
In your earthly arms.

The black-eyed bird is dying,
The queen is dead,
She'll never step foot in Eden.

There's a Garden of Eden
In your distant heart,
Garden of Eden
In your earthly arms.

I remember the pain in my mother's eyes,
I remember the pain of her compromise years ago.
I always wanted to help to make it go away,
I didn't know it was her freedom that she needed so.

And she said to me, she said to me

*He hitch-hiked to Maine,
We went cross-country.
I had to leave my home,
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young,
We tried to hard to build a happy home.

I never knew what to say to anybody,
I didn't know what to do, I was far too young.
But everybody could feel the suffocation,
Underneath for facade of a happy home.

And she said to me, she said to me

*Repeat

Home sweet freedom, flowing in my eyes,
Home sweet freedom,
flowing in my mind.

Sacrificed her dreams to motherhood,
Waiting and waiting to be understood fully.
Sacrificed her years to the family,
Waiting and waiting to be heard finally.

And she said to me, she said to me...

Litte boy, tries to hide,
From the fire in his backyard.
Burning cross, white cloth,
It's the second time this year.

Hitler's brothers are still alive,
They're wearing everyday disguises.

A woman runs, for asylum,
She's the only one of her kind in this neighborhood.
She knows who they were,
They don't believe a word,
The cops just turn their heads to protect their friends.

Hitler's brothers are still alive,
Their army seems to grow in size,
Hitler's brothers are on the rise,
They're wearing everyday disguises.
In camouflage or business suits.

Another man, bound and gagged,
Tied upon the railroad tracks.
At nine p.m. the B&M (Boston & Maine)
Rolled across his yellow skin

Hitler's brothers are still alive,
Their army seems to grow in size,
Hitler's brothers are on the rise,
They're wearing everyday disguises.
In camouflage or business suits,
Checkered aprons, combat boots,
Time to let those feelings go,
Hatred only kills your souls.

I nearly died I suicided softly
I saw her shadow through the cafe window
I watched you lean across the table
I watched you whisper in her ear

*And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe

She looks like me but a bit prettier
She's a skater and a ballet dancer
I saw her on your motorcycle
In the seat I thought was meant for me

*Repeat

And when your mother came to Boston you disappeared
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity...

*Repeat

Oh but I am the one you will call when alone
And I am the one who will give when she's gone
And so I give
So I give

I tell myself that love is truly giving
Somehow I justify this
Hoping you will understand me
Hoping you will love me back

And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And she is your Queen Cleopatra
And I'm just your morning after
And she is your Star Spangled Banner
And I am just Frere Jaque
And you can lose me if you want to

And I am so ordinary

Oh John, oh John, oh John

Never lose the memory of April twenty-six
Your hands designed my body
You autographed my hip
I lost all my worry
I lost all sense of time
My fears evaporated
When you held me in your oh my god and

*Oh John, in a New York hotel room
In a truck off the back road
Southwest of Chicago
Oh John, in a New England fairground
on a lawn in the backyard
in a town in Colorado, oh
Oh John, oh John, oh John

Saturate my consciousness with sweet elixir wine
Your body is the chalice your spirit is the vine
I lose all my worry
I lose all sense of time
My fears evaporate
When you hold me in your oh my god and

*Repeat

And everytime I see the ocean you're there
And everytime I see the forest you're on my mind
In my life, flooding me with memories like

*Repeat

Walking the mountain is easy for the medicine
Man who follows makes sure the Indian
Never returns.

His revenge, his revenge
Rising
His revenge, his revenge
Rising

Fighting the front line is honor for the pharaoh in
Egypt erases the queen, the truth, the history
of her

Her revenge, her revenge
Rising
Her revenge, her revenge
Rising

Reading the pages of history it's not black and
White is the man with the pen who's writing the story
Of life.

Our revenge, our revenge rising
Our revenge, our revenge rising
Our revenge, our revenge rising
Our revenge, our revenge rising, rising, rising, rising

Lost in another world,
oh Saturn, Saturn Girl.

Far away, ot an infinite world I escape
I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid.
Sunless days, in my sheltered Milky Way
In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

*In my heart, in my head
Oh, Saturn Girl has always bled
No you're not, from this world
Saturn Girl.

I can't explain, why I don't belong to the same world
I don't fit in, and I will not stay.
I want to fly, oh I long for my violet skies
My astral nights, my peace of mind.

*Repeat

Lost in another world,
oh Saturn, Saturn Girl.
Saturn Girl, I'd rather be lost in my empyrean world
Than be down on earth.

*Repeat

Everybody tries to break my dreams to break through,
They don't believe in my words, they don't believe in my world.
"Oh you're lost in another world,
Oh you're lost you Saturn Girl, oh you crazy girl,
Oh you Saturn Girl..."

*Repeat

She was on the floor, her face was in her mother's arms.
She had said that she'd been out late with the boys.
Just another evening, like every other evening
Everything is all the same it seems.

Danny always called her on the phone for no special reason,
apparently,
He could never tell her what it was, he suffered silently,
quitely.

Just another evening, but his hands just couldn't be still,
He can't control it and he cannot tell her why,
Feel the beaded knuckles, feel the snap inside,
See the rush of terror in her eye,
She can't feel it
She can't feel it
She can't feel anything anymore

He tried painfully, he begged for her forgiveness on his knees,
She gave gracefully, but inside,
but inside,
She still bleeds.

Climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing

Look, at how futile this is,
I'm so weak, so fragile, so torn.
Going round and round, going inside
To the circle, to the ladder, to the sky

*I am climbing a ladder of urgency
Climbing a ladder of hope
Climbing a ladder of my emotions
Climbing a ladder of unraveling rope.

You see, what you want to see,
But I'm not, what you wanted, no I'm not.
I am only one thing, one thing I see,
One thing I feel.

*Repeat

Climbing
I am only one thing, one thing I see, one thing I feel
I am the ladder.

Watch the woman's hands as she cultivates the land,
As she plants the seed, as she's on her knees.
Watch her fingers smile as she holds the little child,
As she holds him, as she holds him.

Watch the woman's hands as she holds her children back,
From the danger, from the danger.
Watch how they fight to keep the family tight
Together, together.

Oh we need her, oh we need her.
Oh we need her, oh we need her.

Watch the woman's hands, as she talks to the man,
As he talks down to her, as he tells her.
He doesn't understand, he doesn't see the fisted hands
Clenched tightly, angrily.

Oh we need her, oh we need her.
Oh we need her, oh we need her.

Carmen, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know if I can go back
Carmen I'll never be never be never be the same again
Carmen

The way you set the table
The way you lean to tell me something soft
The way I can see into you
The way you tell me I talk too much about myself
It's true I talk too much about myself
But right now, right now
all I wanna talk about is you now

Carmen, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know if I can go back
Carmen I'll never be, never be, never be the same again
Carmen

I love the way you think
Is it biological or all the acid
You've eaten
Just take me into your body
I wanna be drunk I wanna be high
I wanna be drunk I wanna be high on you

Carmen, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know if I can go back
Carmen I'll never be, never be, never be the same again
Carmen

I don't know I don't know I don't know
I don't know I don't know I don't know
if I can go go go go go go go go back home

I don't know I don't know I don't know
I don't know I don't know I don't know
If I can be (happily sane) again

You make me feel like a sticky pistil
Leaning into her stamen.
You make me feel like Mr. Sunshine himself.
You make me feel like splendor in the grass where we're rolling
Damn skippy baby
you make me feel like the Amazon's running between my thighs.

You make me feel love

You make me feel like a candy apple all red and horny
You make me feel like I want to be dumb blonde
In a centerfold, the girl next door.
And I would open the door and I'd be all wet
With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt
That I'm wearing and you would open the door
And tie me up to the bed.

You make me feel love

Lover I don't know who I am.
Am I Barry White - am I Isis?
Lover I'm laced with your unconscious,
I will be your Desdemona

Love, love

You make me feel like a sticky pistil
leaning into a stamen
You make me feel like a mister sunshine
Himself
You make me feel like splendor in the grass
While we're rollin'
Damn skippy baby
You make me feel like the Amazon's runnin' between
my thighs

*You make me feel love, love, love, love, love
love, love, love, love, love
You make me feel love, love, love, love, love
love, love, love, love

You make me feel like a candy apple
All red and horny
You make me feel like I wanna be a dumb blonde
In a centerfold, the girl next door
And I would open the door and
I'd be all wet
With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt
That I'm wearing
And you would open the door and tie
Me up to the bed

*Repeat

Lover, but I don't know who I am
Am I Barry White? Am I Isis? Ohhh
Lover, I'm laced with your unconscious
Oh baby babe babe baby
I will be your Desdemona ahhhhh

Take your time

You make me feel Ahaa
You make me feel WooWoo baby
You make me feel Ahaa mmm
You make me feel loved

Long white arms
Losing their strength and form
Sixty year man on twenty year old skin
Skeleton, your eyes have lost their warmth
Look to your father for some support

*Hush hush hush

Says your daddy's touch
Sleep sleep sleep
Says the hundredth sheep
Peace peace peace
May you go in peace

Cruel joke you waited so long to show
The one that you wanted wasn't a girl
All your life you kept it hidden inside
Now when you step
You stumble
You die

*Repeat

Oh maybe next time
You'll be Henry the 8th
Wake up tomorrow, alexander the great
Open your eyes in a new life again
Oh maybe next time
You'll be given a chance

Hush hush hush
Hush

So open up your morning light.
And say a little prayer for I.
You know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.

She had two babies.
One was six months,one was three.
In the war of '44.
Every telephone ring.
Every hearbeat stinging.
When she thought it was God calling her.
Oh would her son grow to know his father?

***
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over.
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over.
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

He showed up all wet on the rainy front step.
Wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw lives inside him still,
It too hard to be gentle and warm
The years pass by and now he has grandaughters

***

You look at me from across the room.
You're wearing your anguish again.
believe me I know the feeling.
It sucks you into the jaws of anger.
So breathe a little more deeply my love.
All we have is this very moment
And I don't want to do what his father
And his father, and his father did.
I want to be here now.

So open up your morning light.
And say a little prayer for I.
You know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.

***(2x)

So open up your morning light.
And say a little prayer for I.
You know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the love in every eye.

I am not the person who is singing
I am the silent one inside
I am not the one who laughs at
people's jokes I just pacify their egos
I am not my house, my car, my songs
They are only just stops along my way
I am like the winter
I'm a dark cold female
With a golden ring of wisdom in my cave

*And it is me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence

I am carrying my voice
I am carrying my heart
I am carrying my rhythmn
I am carrying my prayers
But you can't kill my spirit
It's soaring and it's strong
Like a mountain
I'll go on and on
But when my wings are folded
The brightly colored moth
Blends into the dirt into the ground

*Repeat

And it's me who's too weak
And it's me who's too shy
To ask for the thing i love
And it's me who's too weak
And it's me who's too shy
To ask for the thing i love
That I love

I am walking on the bridge
I am over the water
And I'm scared as hell
But I know there's something better
Yes I know there's something
Yes I know, i know, yes i know

That I love
But it's me
And it's me
But it's me

I'm big and proud all over
Not just on the stage
My secret self has many sides
That laugh and crush and sting
I'm red and thick like fire
I like it from behind
Round and Round and
Red to white
I'm pure and sad and silent

*I know I've got a piece of my heart
On the sole of your shoe
I've got a little bit of thunder
Trapped inside of a cloud
The dog in you
Spit me out into the mississippi

Who can love my many selves
The wife, the bitch, the rapunzel
The one who cries
And calls for you
The one who is always alone

*Repeat

Oh mississippi
Come and wash my pain away
Oh mississippi
Come and take my pain away
I feel I'm drowning
I feel I'm drowning
I feel I'm
I feel I'm
Dying

*Repeat

How many times did
I have to hear you say to me
Self obsessed artist
Center of your universe
Well I believed your every word
And I believed you were my god

*Nietzsche's eyes
Nietzsche's kind
Failed in flight to us
And all my love

Grandmother Mother
And now I see it in myself
I take on the water
Until the dam threatens to break
I became a little dull
My voice became too small

*Repeat

I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this fantasy And I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this
Getting down this You were not my superman
I didn't know Just held the phone
All my love I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this fantasy
I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this, getting down this
You were not my superman

I wasn't honest
I tried to philosphize
Only too late did
I see I wore nietzsche's eyes
Now that I step back to see
I haven't been me

*Repeat

I'm shakin' I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this fantasy
and I'm shakin'
I'm shakin'
I'm getting down this
getting down this

Dead dead dead dead walking down to the road to dead

Welcome to the church of me
Where they stand in a line in need
Of water from my eyes
And a song for comfort
You say Jesus Christ
Well, I feel like him
I feel one, two, three
Nails through me and
Four through the heart

*You walk the road to resurrection
And I walk the road to dead
And I never knew my devotion
But I walk the road to dead

I held you
And wrapped you in the heat of my hand
And prayed for my soul
Now I want you back
As you walk away from my love
You need to need
Strength is threatenous
I filled you will faith
And that filled me with pain
What the hell am I doing
Falling in love with pain again and again and again and again

*Repeat

Dead dead dead dead walking on to the road to dead

So call me a bitch in heat and
I'll call you a liar
And we'll throw stones until we're dead

There you go again you cut me off from talking
You bask in the glory
The center of the circle
All the friends think you are a comedian
So kind and generous
but i am suffering
Away from here
I wanna be
Away from here
Away from here
Away from every little thing
Every little thing
I used to love your every little, every little thing

Now you call me a bitch in heat and
I call you a liar
And we'll throw stones until we're dead

You're the puppeteer and i'm the puppet
You manipulate me with your real catholic shit
Everytime i try to talk it through
You turn it around and make us out to be
like David and Goliath

Away from here
I wanna be
Away from here
Away from here
Away from every little thing
Every little thing
I used to love your every little every little thing

Now you call me a bitch in heat and
I'll call you a liar
And we'll throw stones until we're dead

Your arms beneath me
Your lying inside me
I used to love your every little every little thing
Your eyes blue stars
Your hand in my purse
And now I hate your every little everything all day

Oh momma
I didn't know life was this hard
Oh momma
My innocence has been tarred

My inner vision, dulled and darkened
I keep myself away to you
I fuck my sorrow humblely
And throw my crown upon the ground

It's you I hope for
And us I pray for
And me that I believed was wrong
But now my anger is my best friend
Be careful may bite your head off

Liar

So call me a bitch in heat and
I'll you a liar
And we'll throw stones until we're dead

So call me a bitch in heat and
I'll you a motherfucker
And we'll throw stones until we're dead

so call me a bitch in heat and
i'll call you a liar
and we'll throw stones until we're dead

there you go again you cut me off from talking
you bask in the glory
the center of the circle
all the friends think you're a comedian
so kind and generous
but i am suffering
away from here
i wanna be
away from here
away from here
away from every little thing
every little thing
i used to love your every little, every little thing
now you call me a bitch in heat and
i call you a liar
and we'll throw stones until we're dead

you're the puppeteer and i'm the puppet
you manipulate me with guilt-ridden catholic shit
everytime i try to talk it through
you turn it around and make us out to be
david and goliath
away from here
i wanna be
away from here
away from here
away from every little thing
every little thing
i used to love your every little every little thing
now you call me a bitch in heat and
i'll call you a liar
and we'll throw stones until we're dead

your arms beneath me
your lying inside me
i used to love your every little every little thing
your eyes blue stars
your hand in my purse
and now i hate your every little everything all day
oh mama
i didn't know life was this hard
oh mama
my innocence has been tarred
my inner vision dulled & darkened
I gave myself away to you
I felt my sorrow humble me
and throw my crown upon the ground
it's you i hope for
and us i pray for
and me that i believed was wrong
but now my anger is my best friend
be careful i may bite your head off

liar
so call me a bitch in heat and
i'll you a liar
and we'll throw stones until we're dead
so call me a bitch in heat and
i'll you a mother fucker
and we'll throw stones until we're dead

Where do I put this fire
This bright red feeling
This tigerlily down my mouth
He wants to grow to twenty feet tall

*I've left bethlehem
I feel free
I've left the girl I was supposed to be and
Someday I'll be born
I'm so tired of being shy
I'm not that girl anymore
I'm not that straight A anymore
Now I want to sit with my legs wide open and
Laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant
Will turn and look at me & say
Look at the tiger jumping out of her mouth
Chorus
No more sex-starved teachers
Trying to touch my ass
I can finally be a teenager at age twenty-six
Go to hell lions, tigers, and bears
I'm not afraid of you anymore
And my fear ripped apart like fifty balloons
And I'm thrown around the room like party confetti now

*Repeat

Someday I'll be born
Someday someday someday I'll be born
Someday someday someday I'll be born

Oh you get me ready in your 56 Chevy
Why don't we go sit down in the shade?
Take shelter on my front porch
The dandelion sun scorched,
Would you like a glass of cold lemonade?

I will do the laundry if you pay all the bills.

*Where is my John Wayne?
Where is my prairie son?
Where is my happy ending?
Where have all the Cowboys gone?

Why don't you stay the evening
Kick back and watch the TV
And I'll fix a little somethin' to eat?
Oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
How do you take your coffee my sweet?

I will raise the children if you pay all the bills

(Chorus)

I am wearing my new dress tonight
But you don't even notice me.
Say our goodbyes
Say our goodbyes
Say our goodbyes

We finally sold the Chevy
When we had another baby
And you took that job in Tennessee
You made friends at the farm
And you joined them at the bar
Almost every single day of the week

I will wash the dishes while you go have a beer.

* Repeat

Where is my Marlboro Man?
Where is his shiny gun?
Where is my lonely ranger?
Where have all the cowboys gone?

**Yippee Aw, Yippee Yea
** Repeat
** Repeat

You make me feel like a sticky pistil
Leaning into her stamen.
You make me feel like Mr. Sunshine himself.
You make me feel like splendor in the grass where we're rolling
Damn skippy baby
you make me feel like the Amazon's running between my thighs.

You make me feel love

You make me feel like a candy apple all red and horny
You make me feel like I want to be dumb blonde
In a centerfold, the girl next door.
And I would open the door and I'd be all wet
With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt
That I'm wearing and you would open the door
And tie me up to the bed.

You make me feel love

Lover I don't know who I am.
Am I Barry White - am I Isis?
Lover I'm laced with your unconscious,
I will be your Desdemona

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as i do now
Ptolemy,Copernicus,Carl Jung
Pondering his existence,pondering,
Is God with me now?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes,I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?

My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots again

Can somebody say Amen?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our mothers,for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA,The NSA
It's all a front anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson,Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis,for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J.,Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi,for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call,
Amen for the unity of us all
Amen,Amen,Amen

And I am not unique.
We are all leave on this great big tree.
this tree that is life,that is God,that is you,that is me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask the stars, "What for?"
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh,can somebody say Amen?

I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference

Little boy caught in a drive-by
Witnessed the killer who made his daddy die,
And 'cause he identified and signed the dotted line,
He could feel it in his stomach, he signed away his life
Little boy who once was the leader of his class
The little source of joy, always neatly dressed
Now would hang his head and be left crying at his desk,
Was found with his mother, lying in her lap
With two bullets in his chest

And,oh my god,what is this madness?
I will not let it kill by gladness
And,oh my god, what is this madness?
My joy inside will send this message

I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference,
For we all are children of the Mother
I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference,
For we all are children of the Father

Outspoken man, leading sisters and brothers,
Picked himself up from hustling,drugs and gutters
Doing time on the inside, he found a higher power
Now, back with a mission to help us help each other

Respected from bourgeoisie to homeless in the street
From universities, Africa, the Middle East
And through the threats of death he spoke truth and set men free
But the power of the truth made enemies of the weak
He was killed by his own people

And, oh my god, what is this madness?
I will not let it kill my gladness
And, oh my god, what is this madness?
My joy inside will send this message

I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference,
For we all are children of the Mother
I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference
for we all are children

Ignite This Fire inside, this light that is the Truth
Shake off the system's chains, no longer be their fool
In the face of brutality, show the other cheek
Trigger-happy policing will never kill our dignity

And,oh my god, what is this madness?
I will not let it kill my gladness
And, oh my god, what is this madness?
My joy inside will send this message

Lift up your heart and See
Open your heart and See
Lift up your voice and Sing...

I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference,
For we all are children of the Mother
I want to be somebody
I want to make a difference,
For we all are children of the Father

I keep walking down the same city streets
The same city lines, to the same lonely beat
People say hello but I don't know what to say
I don't know how I feel, I just can't act that way
I wanna hide from all these strangers
I wanna run home to you
All I need is your compassion
Then we can be free,yes
I wanna be free,yes
I wanna be free
I wanna be free

Oh, the way I'm shut out by your silence
It's the loudest thing I've ever known
You leave me, leave me hanging
'til I feel useless with my hope
Oh, it's lonely in the city
It can be lonely next to you
Just have the courage to open up yourself
Then we can be free,yes
I wanna be free
I wanna be free
I wanna be free

Whether it be across the sea,
Kosovo,Baghdad,Korea
Or here at home, right under our fingertips
In new slavery prison systems

Holding one in four black American brothers
The one percent wealthy profiteering
From the buisness that is war
Yeah,go to war

God is watching us play our ghetto wars
God is watching us play our games
God is waiting for us to overcome
God is waiting for us to just love one another

Whether we be cracker or black or
Brown,red,yellow
From the land or sky or sea
We are family
Wake up and see

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom
It's our only home
A new millennium
Can we all just get along?

God is watching us play our ghetto wars
God is watching us play our games
God is waiting for us to overcome
God is waiting for us to just love one another

It all started nine years ago
You sat to my left back in school
The future showed itself to me
The god in you, the god in me,
stood together like two trees

I was so shy to inquire
If you would like tea sometime
Then in my Mercury
Hand on hand, hand on knee, mercy mercy mercy me

+And I believe in love
To be the center of all things
And I believe in love to be the way
And I believe in love
To be the center of all things
And I believe in love to be the way
To find our inner light

I saw a vision where we
Were opening presents Christmas Day
But we were not all alone
The wedding was shotgun
We had a daughter and a son

So how cruel to realize
You had a woman all the time
But my love burns bright as the sun
The clouds may come, the clouds may go
And I'll still be here at your door

And I believe in love...

Thank you for waiting through my lovers
Knowing we could come home to each other
Yes, I have waited through these winters
My true one was right here

And I believe in love...

(Didn't your Mama tell you how to behave,girl?
Didn't your Daddy tell you not to wear that little thing?)
Been told you never get something for nothing
My stepfather Dickie say I just might get hit
If I don't give

The girls all shisper 'hind my back
They try to break me whith cruel attacks
The boys they want only one thing
And so I give it, don't complain

Daddy's gone, Mama lost her job
Our house ain't a home no more
Still my faith's unshaken in God

I feel so lonely for hope and company
I don't take much and I give everything for free
(So, don't you want me?)

The girls all whisper'hind by back
My baby brother's smoking crack
The boys they want only one thing
And so I give it, don't complain

Daddy's gone, Mama lost her job
Our house ain't a home no more
Still my faith's unshaken in god

I dream I get a record deal
I'll buy a way out of here
Or maybe a new Lexus jeep
Or just a friend (Am I dreamin'? Am I dreamin'?)
There's Mr. roberts,Juan and Paul
All waiting for me down the hall
But then tomorrow they don't call
Still a moment's better than none at all

Daddy's gone (My name is La Tonya)
Mama lost her job (I am a sophomore)
Our house ain't a home no more (I'll be sixteen in August)
Since Mama broke her soul (I like to sing in chorus)
Daddy's gone (My name is La Tonya)
Mama lost her job (I am a sophomore)
Our house ain't a home no more (I'll be sixteen in August)

Still my faith's unshaken
Lord won't you please save me?
Is this the new slavery?
Here on the ghetto pavement?
But I believe in you baby
Yes, my faith's unshaken
In God

Humility on Bleecker Street
Exposed my faults until I'm left defeated
It's been three years into this relationship
This is longer than I ever could commit

But I feel I'm near
But I feel my fear

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
Gotta face my steppenwolf
Gotta drag you through the mud
When I get there I will see myself
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
Hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand
Becoming the pearl

There are no roll models in rock 'n' roll
No women who could have it all
The long career,the man, the happy family
And here I stand and god I do demand it

And I feel I'm near
But I feel my fear

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
Gotta face my steppenwolf
Gotta drag you through the mud
When I get there I will see myself
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
Hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand
Becoming the pearl

It's dark in here-Don't know who I am
Memories come-I'm wading through the moon
Evil side-Wants to drag me down
Will power-God,please give me some
(I'm hanging onto hope now)

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
Baggage from my family
Going back to therapy
I will kneel, be humble,tow the weight
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
Hang in ther baby, I'm the grain of sand
Becoming the pearl

To the critics and the cynics who don't understand the lyrics
To the atheists and the pessimists
Wanting company in their darkness
You may see me as a fool,yes,a charlatan,an egotist,
But I'd rather be this in your eyes,
Than a coward in His

I began as Isis, the high Priestess
My arms stretched to Sirius,me,the serpent Venus,
Awaken the fetus,fertility to Jesus,
Come and meet us (you are the seed in us)

Looking within I can see beyond my sight
The cities, the sky, the planets roll by
I awake and die, I awake and I die, yeah
This is the rhythm of life

Next I was lightning, God energy fighting
To tell my widow surviving, I was still alive in
Another plane of life n' I struck hime seven times
He finally looked to the sky,
Shed a tear and joined me dying

Looking within,I can see beyond my sight
The cities, the sky, the planets roll by
I awake and I die, I awake and I die, yeah
This is the rhythm of life
Rhythm of life, rhythm of life, this is the the rhythm of life

Now I am me, in diffident lead,responsibility,
Trying to face my fear,from the trailer park to hear
Over mountains, through my death,
From Harbinger to Amen.
May my actions outweigh my words
May my lifetime be of worth

Looking within I can see beyond my sight
The cities, the sky, the planets roll by
I awake and I die, I awake and I die, yeah
This is the rhythm of life

All the worlds a stage,
and all the men and women,
merely players
they have their exits,
And their entrances
And one man in his time.
Plays many parts

Idiot kitty to New York City
Living in a kennel and lookin' big and pretty
Meet the munch for business lunch
But your feet bleed under the table

But Suwannee Jo, you're dark and slow
You dance with a broom and you're filled with ghosts
You smell like liquor and you're high as a hawk
You laugh to yourself but you talk like a rock

Scaredy Kate, back in the Haight
Doesn't answer the phone and eats like a tapeworm
She met Mr.Mike in'89
But she's a hundred pounds heavier and won't go outside

But Suwannee Jo, You're dark and slow
You dance with a broom and you're filled with ghosts
Suwannee Jo, strange beautiful gold,
You can take a woman's husband
but you don't want to marry him
You just want to hold him

Nora Mable, behind your table
Expensive knowledge from ten years of college
But when it comes to livin', the book isn't written
Your brain's under "M" in the library missing

Suwannee Jo, you follow your soul
(Nothing more important than following your soul)

So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I.
you know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.
She had two babies. One was six months,
one was three
In the war of '44.
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging
When she thought it was God calling her.
Oh would her son grow to know his father?
I don't want to to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

He showed up all wet on the rainy front step.
Wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw lives inside him still,
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be
So breathe a little more deeply my love
All we have is this very moment
And I don't want to do what his father,
and his father, and his father did,
I want to be here now.
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.

It all started nine years ago
You sat to my left back in school
The future showed itself to me
The god in you, the god in me, stood together like two trees
I was so shy to inquire If you would like tea sometime
Then in my Mercury Hand on hand, hand on knee,
mercy, mercy, mercy me
And I believe in love To be the center of all things
And I believe in love to be the way
And I believe in love To be the center of all things
And I believe in love to be the way
To find our inner light I saw a vision where we
Were opening presents Christmas Day
But we were not all alone The wedding was shotgun
We had a daughter and a son So how cruel to realize
You had a woman all the time
But my love burns bright as the sun
The clouds may come, the clouds may go
And I'll still be here at your door
And I believe in love...
Thank you for waiting through my lovers
Knowing we could come home to each other
Yes, I have waited through these winters
My true one was right here
And I believe in love

FOXEY, FOXEY
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A CUTE LITTLE HEART BREAKER, HA
FOXEY, YEAH
AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE A SWEET LITTLE LOVE MAKER, HA
FOXEY

I WANNA TAKE YOU HOME, HAHA YEAH
I WON'T DO YOU NO HARM NO, HA
YOU GOT TO BE ALL MINE, ALL MINE
OOH FOXEY LADY, YEAH
FOXEY, FOXEY

NOW-A I SEE YOU COME DOWN ON THE SCENE
OH FOXEY
YOU MAKE ME WANNA GET UP AND A SCREAM
FOXEY, OH BABY LISTEN NOW
I'VE MADE UP MY MIND
YEAH, I'M TIRED OF WASTING ALL MY PRECIOUS TIME
YOU GOT TO BE ALL MINE, ALL MINE
FOXEY
FOXEY

YEAH
I'M GONNA TAKE YOU HOME YEAH
I WON'T DO YOU NO HARM NO
YOU GOT TO BE ALL MINE, ALL MINE
FOXEY LADY
HERE I COME BABY, I'M COMMIN' TO GET YA
FOXEY, FOXEY

OOH FOXEY LADY
OHH FOXEY LADY YEAH YEAH
YOU LOOK SO GOD FOXEY
OH YEAH FOXEY
YEAH GIVE US SOME FOXEY
FOXEY FOXEY LADY
FOXEY FOXEY LADY
FOXEY FOXEY LADY

There is a diamond inside of
me that lights up the sky of my soul
Where fell the diamond when
I believed that all of the hurt was my fault

* I'm opening the heart door, letting in the light
Opening the heart door and giving life to me that died

** You ended up so with that person
who comes home too late from the bar
I ended up so when
my courage could finally walk on its own
When I finally opened the door

* repeat

** repeat

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as I do now
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Carl Jung Pondering his existence,
pondering, Is God with me now?
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots again
Can somebody say Amen?
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our mothers, for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA, The NSA It's all a front anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson, Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis, for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J., Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi, for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call
Amen for the unity of us all
Amen, Amen, Amen
And I am not unique.
We are all leave on this great big tree
This tree that is life, that is God, that is you, that is me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask the stars, "What for?"
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh, can somebody say Amen

I remember the pain in my mother's eyes,
I remember the pain of her compromise years ago.
I always wanted to help to make it go away,
I didn't know it was her freedom that she needed so.

And she said to me, she said to me:

He hitch-hiked to Maine,
We went cross-country.
I had to leave my home,
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young,
We tried to hard to build a happy home.

I never knew what to say to anybody,
I didn't know what to do, I was far too young.
But everybody could feel the suffocation,
Underneath for facade of a happy home.

And she said to me, she said to me:

Chorus

Home sweet freedom, flowing in my eyes, Home sweet freedom,
flowing in my mind.

Sacrificed her dreams to motherhood,
Waiting and waiting to be understood fully.
Sacrificed her years to the family,
Waiting and waiting to be heard finally.

And she said to me, she said to me

I nearly died I suicided softly
I saw her shadow through the cafe window
I watched you lean across the table
I watched you whisper in her ear

And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe

She looks like me but a bit prettier
She's a skater and a ballet dancer
I saw her on your motorcycle
In the seat I thought was meant for me

Chorus

And when your mother came to Boston you disappeared
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity...

Chorus

Oh but I am the one you will call when alone
And I am the one who will give when she's gone
And so I give
So I give

I tell myself that love is truly giving
Somehow I justify this
Hoping you will understand me
Hoping you will love me back

And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And she is your Queen Cleopatra
And I'm just your morning after
And she is your Star Spangled Banner
And I am just Frere Jaque
And you can lose me if you want to

And I am so ordinary

So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I.
you know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.
She had two babies. One was six months,
one was three
In the war of '44.
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging
When she thought it was God calling her.
Oh would her son grow to know his father?
I don't want to to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

He showed up all wet on the rainy front step.
Wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw lives inside him still,
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be
So breathe a little more deeply my love
All we have is this very moment
And I don't want to do what his father,
and his father, and his father did,
I want to be here now.
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as I do now
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Carl Jung Pondering his existence,
pondering, Is God with me now?
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots again
Can somebody say Amen?
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our mothers, for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA, The NSA It's all a front anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson, Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis, for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J., Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi, for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call
Amen for the unity of us all
Amen, Amen, Amen
And I am not unique.
We are all leave on this great big tree
This tree that is life, that is God, that is you, that is me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask the stars, "What for?"
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh, can somebody say Amen

You make me feel like a sticky pistil
Leaning into her stamen.
You make me feel like Mr. Sunshine himself.
You make me feel like splendor in the grass where we're rolling
Damn skippy baby
you make me feel like the Amazon's running between my thighs.

You make me feel love

You make me feel like a candy apple all red and horny
You make me feel like I want to be dumb blonde
In a centerfold, the girl next door.
And I would open the door and I'd be all wet
With my tits soaking through this tiny little t-shirt
That I'm wearing and you would open the door
And tie me up to the bed.

You make me feel love

Lover I don't know who I am.
Am I Barry White - am I Isis?
Lover I'm laced with your unconscious,
I will be your Desdemona

I nearly died I suicided softly
I saw her shadow through the cafe window
I watched you lean across the table
I watched you whisper in her ear

And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And you can use me if you want to
I know you need me just like an old soft shoe

She looks like me but a bit prettier
She's a skater and a ballet dancer
I saw her on your motorcycle
In the seat I thought was meant for me

Chorus

And when your mother came to Boston you disappeared
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity...

Chorus

Oh but I am the one you will call when alone
And I am the one who will give when she's gone
And so I give
So I give

I tell myself that love is truly giving
Somehow I justify this
Hoping you will understand me
Hoping you will love me back

And she is your holy Mary
And I am so ordinary
And she is your Queen Cleopatra
And I'm just your morning after
And she is your Star Spangled Banner
And I am just Frere Jaque
And you can lose me if you want to

And I am so ordinary

So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I.
you know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.
She had two babies. One was six months,
one was three
In the war of '44.
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging
When she thought it was God calling her.
Oh would her son grow to know his father?
I don't want to to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

He showed up all wet on the rainy front step.
Wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw lives inside him still,
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be
So breathe a little more deeply my love
All we have is this very moment
And I don't want to do what his father,
and his father, and his father did,
I want to be here now.
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
I want to know right now what will it be.
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over,
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
oh you get me ready in your 56 chevy
why don't we go sit down in the shade
take shelter on my front porch
he dandy lion sun scorching,
like a glass of cold lemonade
i will do laundry if you pay all the bills

CHORUS:

where is my john wayne
where is my prairie song
where is my happy ending
where have all the cowboys gone

why don't you stay the evening
kick back and watch the TV
and I'll fix a little something to eat
oh I know your back hurts from working on the tractor
how do you take your coffee my sweet
i will raise the children if you pay all the bills

chorus

i am wearing my new dress tonight
but you don't, but you don't even notice me
say our goodbyes (3 times)

we finally sell the chevy
when we had another baby
and you took the job in tennessee
you made friends at the farm
and you joined them at the bar
almost every single day of the week

chorus

i will wash the dishes while you go have a beer
where is my marlboro man
where is his shiny gun
where is my lonely ranger
where have all the cowboys gone
yippee aw, yippee yea (3 times)

Them thats got shall get
Them thats not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child thats got his own
Thats got his own

Yes, the strong gets more
While the weak ones fade
Empty pockets dont ever make the grade
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child thats got his own
Thats got his own

Money, youve got lots of friends
Crowding round the door
When youre gone, spending ends
They dont come no more
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But dont take too much
Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child thats got his own
Thats got his own

Mama may have, papa may have
But God bless the child thats got his own
Thats got his own
He just worry bout nothin
Cause hes got his own