If this was the cold war we could keep each other warm I said on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door And I don't think that she really thought that much of me
I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the bomb She just came along and started to ignore me But as we waited for the big one and I started singing her my songs And I think she started feeling something for me
We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside ?What five letters spell apocalypse??, she asked me I won her over saying WWIII Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me
Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love with you It felt almost like a home of sorts or something And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new And I watched you with my thumb above the button
Then one night you found me in my army issue cot And you told me of your flash of inspiration You said, "Fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought" And all night long you drove me wild with your equations
Oh Marie, do you remember all the time we used to take Making love and then ransack the rations I think about you leaving now in the avalanche cascades And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions
Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could stick pins in the map Of all the places where you thought that love would be found And I would only need one pin to show where my love is at In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground
Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up every night Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree instead Carve our name in hearts into the warhead
Oh Marie, there's something tells me things just won't work out above That our love would live a half life on the surface So at night while you are sleeping, I hold you closer just because As our time grows short I get a little nervous
So I think about the big one, WWIII Would we ever really care, the world had ended? You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight I think about that big red button and I'm tempted
These chords are old but we shake hands Cause I believe that they're the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell in love with your sound Oh I love to sing along with you We got tunes we kicked around We got a bucket that the tunes go through Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man Last night there was a horse in the road I was twisting in the hairpin My hands held on my mind let go And back to you my heart went skipping I found the inside of the road Thought about the first time that I met you All those glances that we stole Sometimes if you want them then you've got to
Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I¹m a good man for ya I¹m a good man
They shot a Western south of here They had him cornered in a canyon And even his horse had disappeared They said it got run down by a bad bad man You're not a good shot but I'm worse And there¹s so much where we ain't been yet So swing up on this little horse The only thing we¹ll hit is sunset
Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man
Wait for love [Repeat: x2] I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do
Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love
I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do
Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love [x2]
So save all of your light For those who can't sleep at night And who can't even sing to their shadows Oh they ride into town And they throw the shots down And they save the last round for the windows
Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart
I'm inside with my friends We build fires and pretend That the night could just bend on forever While outside in the frost Are the wolves and the lost And we sing to the dogs or whoever
Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart
There's a friend that I have And for her I'll go back You see all of these empties that I'm holding They're too much for a man Empty arms, empty hands And she'll know me by the sound of my hoping
Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart
I know the dog days of the summer Have you ten-to-one out-numbered Seems like everybody up and left and they're not coming back The shadow that you're standing on's still here sometimes that's all that you can ask And your heart's still beating
You're not the fastest draw in town now How many times you been shot down now? Seems like everybody else could see the things you never did But if you could yourself you'd probably never have made it through the things you did With your heart still beating
I know the dog days of the summer Have you ten-to-one out-numbered It seems like everybody else saw trouble sneaking up behind Left you half dead in the street but that just means you're half alive And your heart's still beating
There are planets you don't know And there are moons that you don't see Invisibles between the rings of Mars and Mercury The harbors that they built for the ships to set us free And sometimes when it's all too much I know they'll come for me Come for me
He's riding the plains living up to his name As the next to the last true romantic He knows that his story is tragic But he can't rest Til he's next To you
All the girls know his fame the men curse his name And they talk about him like he's magic But he's the next to the last true romantic And he can't rest Til he's next To you
He's stolen hearts like they're horses And horses when hearts can't be found He keeps riding from one horse to one horse to one horse towns (It gets him down)
He know's he's a fool to get caught up with you But he's the next to the last true romantic He can't let go of love once he's had it And he can't rest Til he's next to you
There's always whiskey and women and women and whiskey around He can't tell which is worse to be dying of thirst or to drown (It gets him down)
So he smiles through the pain he pinch Estelle he dance with Jane Sometimes even he don't know how he stands it But he's the next to the last true romantic And he can't rest Til he's next To you
You're a real mean mama but you got a lot of time for me And I know it ain't common to find your kinda love for free It's a drag and a sigh and that's not all I'm calling real long distance It's a real long distance call
Telephone ringing mama please don't you leave it alone Don't leave no breaks in the line it's the only thing that's tied to home It's a drag and a sigh and that's not all This is real long distance it's a real long distance call
Wait for love [Repeat: x2] I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do
Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love
I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do
Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love [x2]
I thought I heard you pulling up outside It's just the wind whisperin' through the pines I haven't seen who I'm looking for Just empty shadows in my open door The empty closet where you hung your clothes The empty hooks where you hung your coat The cellar steps or the kitchen floor They don't catch shadows like an open door
Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again
I find myself hoping for a storm Each silver lining is a crown of thorns I find myself hoping for the rain You don't see shadows on a cloudy day Go to the corner where the ghosts hang out They'll all agree with what I'm talking about They'd haunt your halls and walk through walls before They'd ever set foot in an open door
Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again
I'm saving nickels and I'm saving dimes I'm gonna kiss you where the sun don't shine And all those shadows gonna kiss them too Just as long as they come in with you
Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again
Peter said to Paul "All those words that we wrote Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go" But now talkin' to God is Laurel beggin' Hardy for a gun I gotta girl in the war, man I wonder what it is we done
Paul said to Petey "You gotta rock yourself a little harder, Pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire" And I got a girl in the war, Paul the only thing I know to do Is turn up the music and pray that she makes it through
Because the keys to the kingdom got locked inside the kingdom And the angels fly around in there, but we can't see them And I gotta girl in the war, Paul I know that they can hear me yell If they can't find a way to help, they can go to Hell If they can't find a way to help her, they can go to Hell
Paul to Petey "you gotta rock yourself a little harder, Pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire" But I gotta girl in the war, Paul her eyes are like champagne They sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain Sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain They sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain
All of a sudden now you're back again I thought you were happy with whoever or did you dream about me now and then Did you look up at the stars and feel something for the constellations All those lovers circling round their loves Slings and arrows, dogs and lions, rivers separating touch from touch The comedy of distance, the tragedy of separation
Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing?
I said how is it that you come back to me? You don't need the stories of my scars or in the stars to tell you nothing's free I traded all the innocence I ever had for hesitation I said won't you tell me where you been? You put a finger to my lips and then you kissed me once and once again The crickets all leapt up and met the moon with a standing ovation
Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing?
I heard the night birds picking up the song You threw your hair back and sang along And I realized that I might lose you you might lose me Drift apart in the night and never know why and not know how I said what if we are like the Northern sky? What if there are things that come between us that we can't take back and we can't make right? You said I don't know darlin' but I'm here with you And we're coming to the chorus now!
Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing?
What's it take to make the dime drop? All of these kids who think they're quick on the draw Always shooting at outlaws I'm busy keeping my Colt cocked And I'm gonna know you when you finally come Cause I got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye
I'm gonna take up the Steinway Waiting for the bullet that I'll never see come I'm gonna start me a new wave I'm putting up with you lightweights Calling me out to the middle of the street Oh I've got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye
I got you in my mind's eye My day might be coming yours is coming first I'll knock you outta your daylights And when you come for me some night You better bring a shovel and be expecting the worst Cause I got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye [x3]
Deep in the belly of a whale I found her Down with the deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc
I love the way she looks in her underwear I lose my page then the plot then the book then I swear She makes the most of her time by loving me plenty She knows there'll come a day when we won't be getting any
The stain of the sepia the butcher Crimea Through the wreck of a brass band I thought I could see her In a cakewalk she came through the dead and the lame Just a little bird floating on a hurricane
I was flat on my back with my feet in the thorns I was in between the apples and the chloroform She came to me often I was sure I was dying It was always hard to tell if she was laughing or crying
I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call
Joan never cared about the in-betweens Combed her hair with a blade did the Maid of Orleans Said Christ walked on water we can wade through the war You don't need to tell me who the fire is for
Oh bring me the love that can sweeten a sword A boat that can love the rocks or the shore The love of the iceberg reaching out for a wreck Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of the neck?
Was it Casey Jones or Casey at the Bat Who died out of pride and got famous for that Killed by a swerve laid low by the curve Do you ever think they ever thought they got what they deserved
Pity the bullet and pity the man Who both find their place in the same sad plan Who both are like the barrel going over the falls Crying all the way down I never asked to be involved
I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call
General George began the day by taking pink little pills Sent his men to the top of some hell of a hill Through the whisper of trees came artillery breeze He said I love the way the wind comes a'tickling my knees
Jane shot the apple right between the eyes I was thinking of her when you came outside Lemonade on your breath sun in your hair Did I mention how I love you in your underwear?
Deep in the belly of a whale I found her Down with the deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc
I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call
Under wide blue skies There's a place to lie For me and Evelyn to hide tonight I'll try my best to make a go But I'm not sure what I don't know Oh chariots, if you're out there Please swing low
Tell me I got here at the right time If I did it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret signs Tell me I got here at the right time
You're so red in the eyes Either too low or too high When I met you, you were sick But you did not know why I was a pretty poor cure But my love for you was always sure The bucket was broken But the water was pure
Tell me I got here at the right time If I did it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret signs Tell me I got here at the right time
Just tell me I got at the right time And if I did, it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret sighs Tell me I got here at the right time Tell me I got, tell me I got here at the right time Tell me I got, tell me I got here at the right time
I became a thin blue flame Polished on a mountain range And over hills and fields I flew Wrapped up in a royal blue I flew over Royal City last night A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon's light Caesar's ghost I saw the war-time tides The prince of Denmark's father's still and quiet And the whole world was looking to get drowned Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew Only a full house gonna make it through
I became a thin blue wire That held the world above the fire And so it was I saw behind Heaven's just a thin blue line If God's up there he's in a cold dark room The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons He bent down and made the world in seven days And ever since he's been a'walking away Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes Where neither seraphim or raindrops go I see an old man wandering the halls alone Only a full house gonna make a home
I became a thin blue stream The smoke between asleep and dreams And in that clear blue undertow I saw Royal City far below Borders soft with refugees Streets a'swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage Lead pellets peppering aluminum Halcyon, laudanum and Opium Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup His winding sheet is busy winding up In darkness he looks for the light that has died But you need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck And like good tragedy that's what we expect At night I make plans for a city laid down Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script Streets named for heroes that could almost exist The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem To float like the smoke from a lithium dream Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares The young women walking in the portals of prayer And the future glass buildings and the past an address And the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night The future descending like a bright chandelier And the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer In Royal City I fell into a trance Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance
I woke beneath a clear blue sky The sun a shout the breeze a sigh My old hometown and the streets I knew Were wrapped up in a royal blue I heard my friends laughing out across the fields The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay Cicadas electric in the heat of the day A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land And the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts They were coming together they pulling apart And angels everywhere were in my midst In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air Only a full house gonna have a prayer
