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When the only tool you have is a hammer Everything looks like a nail And youre living at the bittersweet motel When the only tool you have is a hammer Everything looks like a nail And youre living at the bittersweet motel Half-way between Erie and Pittsburgh Youre puttin me through hell On the highway to the bitterswee...
Time to get out, I paid my dues I need to shout, theres no time to lose No more to give, the well is dry The pavements worn, my brain is fried Its time to get out, I paid my dues My shoes have holes, my socks are bare The mirrors secret is Im losing my hair Im in prison without a crime The sentence stretches on undefin...
Jenny said when she was just five years old There was nothin happenin at all Every time she puts on a radio There was nothin goin down at all Not at all Then one fine mornin she puts on a New York station You know, she dont believe what she heard at all She started shakin to that fine rock music You know her life was s...
Take a look at these hands Take a look at these hands The hand speaks The hand of a government man Well Im a tumbler Born under punches Im so thin All I want is to breathe Im too thin Wont you breathe with me? Find a little space, so we can move in-between In-Between it And keep on step ahead, of yourself Dont you miss...
Undecided, undefined Undisturbed yet undermined Relocated not retired Reprimanded and rewired Mystified and misshapen Misinformed but not mistaken Reinvented, redefined Rearranged but not refined Unrelenting, understroked Undeterred yet unprovoked Reinvented, redefined Rearranged but not refined Mystified and misshapen...
In and out of focus Time turns elastic And when I’d stayed too long I went outside and stared Arms outstretched and long Moved straight across the sky If I could wrap my arms around this globe Hands, touch the green and brown I’d sink into the cool, cool ground Seen all, seen all, seen all summer Seen all, seen all, se...
There is a place on the mountain nearby Deep in a cave but it’s up rather high There in the darkness are safely concealed All of the dreams that you never revealed And if you go there, and after you do All of these dreams would be yours to pursue The rest of your lifetime devoid of a care If you keep your eyes open you...
You may as well keep your belly full For the time may come when you’ll rely On the layer of fat that separates you From the rabid dog and the common fly To a less demanding place on your spine I feel you shift my weight around I squirm and roll beneath your flesh Just like the guy you met in town He’s yelling at the pa...
Guide us Jah man, guide us Jah man, oh yeah Have mercy on a good man and help him we pray, Jah man Have mercy on a good girl and help her we pray, Jah man Man was made to suffer, yeah And women were made to feel the pain Stay by our side and guide us we pray, Jah man Give us all your blessing and help us we pray, Jah m...
As he saw his life run away from him Thousands ran along Chanting words from a song Please me have no regrets Please me have no regrets Came from the babys mouth We follow the lines going south Please me have no regrets Came from the,came from the,came from the... babys mouth! We follow the line going south!
Ive alternated my meager flock To the shores of the Baltic Sea The teeth of time have stowed the rhyme Of how things should be My cave, my house, my turning wheel My little docking pup The march of Colonel Forbin And his fleet hound called McGrupp The grime of countless workdogs Has collected in my sink I tie my nose w...
I didnt know I didnt know Well I didnt like cheeseburger alleycats near me A petrified Phish disease I wish somebodyd hear me I didnt like maple dew, honey melon watercress I didnt like Phish shoes down by muddy watermelon I didnt seem to miss you when you kissd my honey water And even showed a picture, showed her down...
Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon And one day his woman ran off with another guy Hit young Rocky in the eye Rocky didnt like that He said Im gonna get that boy So one day he walked into town Booked himself a room in the local saloon Rocky Raccoon checked into ...
How is it I never see The waves that bring her words to me For though unseen they drift around They catch my breath and knock me down I feel them quickly swirling by As they withdraw with my reply And slip into the dark of night As I attempt to stay upright Instead I’m stranded on my knees As words depart upon the bree...
Think of London - small city Dark - dark in the daytime People sleep - sleep in the daytime If they want to - if they want to Im checkin em out Im checkin em out Ive got it figured out Ive got it figured out Theres some good points - some bad points But it all works out - Im just a little freaked out Find your city - F...
People always surprising The things that theyll do You think you got em figured out And theyll show you what you knew At first they may seem rational But wait a month or two Cause theres just no explaining The things people do I had to get away I was losing my interest Instead of expanding my world I was just scanning ...
Im like a stray dog Loping into town, yeah Pay me no attention as I trundle around Punching you down Im gonna chase you down Im like a stray dog Loping into town Howling wind and the driving rain Once you look closely Youll like what you found Its like a stray dog Loping into town Pay me no attention as I wander around...
I never meant to cause you any problem I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted to one time see you laughing Only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple rain, purple rain I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain I never wanted to be you...
I’ll tell you about the driver who lives inside my head Starts me up and stops me and puts me into bed He opens up my mouth when it’s time for me to talk And fires up my legs when he wants me to walk Keeps my eyes open for most of the day Adds to my memories the things that people say When he makes decisions i don’t ha...
Im so tired I havent slept a wink Im so tired My mind is on the blink I wonder, should I get up and fix myself a drink No, no, no Im so tired I dont know what to do Im so tired My mind is set on you I wonder should I call you But I know what you would do Youd say, Youre putting me on But its no joke Its doing me harm Y...
Several times unconsciously Ive stumbled on the path And seen a mountain in the mist Rain falls on my shoulders, sun rises in the east Im worn and bruised but I am here at least I guess Im just an obstacle a thing to overcome If I can sneak around myself again Ill know Ive won The moment seems to hand and float before ...
Well, I saw it again A form in my window It wants to come in Well, I seen it before When I wake in the night Well, when somethings not right I try not to look For there is the shape That I fear And Im fully woken I saw it again I saw it again I saw it again I saw it again I saw it again
Gonna take my bike out, take my bike Gonna ride it slowly Gonna ride just how I like Gonna take my bike out, take my bike Gonna ride it slowly Gonna ride just how I like Leave me way up here, upon the mountain Let me lie, uncovered on the floor Make me wonder when, you go away again If youre ever coming back here anymo...
Blind me with ambition like a razor to the throat Cast aside your foolish pride Ill cast the final vote The feelings youve been waiting for are clawing thru your skin And if you look above youll see the vultures moving in Timing is everything, that much I know Sometimes Im fast and sometimes Im slow Some days vacation ...
Well be singing When were winning Well be singing I get knocked down But I get up again Youre never going to keep me down Pissing the night away Pissing the night away He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him Of the good times H...
Alright Now listen, baby You dont care for me I don-a care about that Gotta new fool, ha! I like it like that I have only one burning desire Let me stand next to your fire Let me stand next to your fire Listen here, baby And stop acting so crazy You say your mum aint home It aint my concern Just play with me and you w...
I can bend in sixty-eight ways I have lived for twelve thousand days Twenty-eight teeth inside of my head Grind three types of things and I’m sad that they’re dead
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Who knows how long Ive loved you? You know I love you still Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to I will For if I ever saw you I didnt catch your name But it never really mattered I will always feel the same Love you forever and forever Love you with all my heart Love you whenever were together Love you when...
Summer sitting out by the pool A ray of sunshine getting in my way Close your eyes and wish that it were cool Everyday And I wish it could be back the other way But what’s dissolved ain’t coming back today Close your eyes and wish that it were Axilla axilla axilla axilla I never understood what my body was for That’s w...
You lift me up, you hired me And light my day, you fired me But then you stole the sun, delighted me Now the day is gone, you knighted me Its dawning on me how it starts Your wisdom must be why it smarts Some wholes sum as many parts Sing Sing Monica Sing your song It really didnt last too long Sing Sing Monica sing yo...
The days that are met with only-ness Aid and abet this loneliness The days that are met with only-ness Aid and abet this loneliness The days that are met with only-ness Aid and abet this loneliness The days that are met with only-ness Aid and abet this loneliness Tonights the night, the wheels are turning The signal fl...
Dogs stole things I needed bad Cats took what I never had Pillows for my aching head A glass of milk next to my bed The creatures that seem, oh so kind And sleep all day and ease your mind At night they softly paddle on And look to steal things that you own So now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord that I might kee...
Everybodys building the big ships and boats Some are building monuments and others theyre jotting down notes Everybodys in despair, every little girl and boy But when Quinn the Eskimo gets there, everybodys gonna jump for joy Come all without, come all within Youll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn Come all without...
Sometimes the world has a load of questions Seems like the world knows nothing at all The world is near but its out of reach Some people touch it, but they cant hold on She is moving to describe the world Night must fall now-darker, darker She has messages for everyone Night must fall now-darker, darker She is moving b...
[Verse 1: Trey Take it down now You take it down You take it down Youve got to lay down Take it down Take it down Take it down You’ve got to lay down {Chorus: whole band] Lay it down Lay it down Lay it down Youve got to lay it down Lay it down Lay it down Lay it down Youve got to lay it down Bright white light shining ...
Someones always telling me to breathe The wind is always whispering through the leaves It sings to the world They cling to the world I listen and believe The music stops and echoes linger on I’m waiting til you sing me one more song You promised the moon But I need a tune For notes are rarely wrong We built a kingdom o...
Standing on the edge of a cliff I start to slip Don’t mind if I slide off Now I feel my mood start to lift I find my grip And the screaming fades away below I grab myself and spin me around I start to sprint I climb down to steadier ground If I could bushwhack it on back to the shack Behind those hills I’ll find the wo...
Kung... Kung... Kung... Rich in minerals Rich in firth Carry well ye martin lad Fervent fourth Now Fervent fifth Forever arealm we cry Be it ever so Voraciously alternate We call upon your pulse Can we stand? Can we stare? We can stage a runaway golfcart marathon! Stand up Stand up Stand up on your heels and call From ...
Looking for owls? the young man asked Hoping to lighten the tension And the scowl he received as his only reply Made him smile as he relived the mention And the coward fool walked on alone Quite proud of the fear he instilled And later they found him, tied to a log Bent over and buffalo billed
I feed from the bottom you feed from the top I live upon morsels you happen to drop And coffee that somehow leaks out of your cup If nothing comes down then i’m forced to swim up On the way upwards the colors come back But all on the bottom is blue, gray and black The darkness is cold and perception goes wrong And the ...
Wish that I was on old Rockytop Down in the Tennessee hills Aint no smoggy smoke on Rockytop Aint no telephone bills Once I had a girl on Rockytop Half bear, the other half cat Wild as a mink, but sweet as soda-pop I still dream about that Rockytop, youll always be Home sweet home to me Good old Rockytop Rockytop, Tenn...
Fikus dreamed a dream for me It cost me nothing it was free He dreamed of walking in the sand Of blossoms forming in his hand Of kitchen cake and cedar shakes Of waterfalls and yellow snakes Of earthen dams and hydrofoils Of watching water ’til it boils Of holding forth from singing words Of flying south with flocks of...
I am just a satellite, high above the atmosphere Bouncing every thing you say to someone who is meant to hear Sometimes on a rainy day, I lie in bed and dream of you So blame it on the satellite, when your message can’t get through I am just a tiny wave, a minor ripple out at sea Moving slowly towards the shore, burden...
Say a word for Jimmy Brown He aint got nothing at all Not a shirt right off his back He aint got nothing at all And say a word for Ginger Brown Walks with his head down to the ground They took the shoes right off his feet And threw the poor boy right out in the street And this is what he said Oh sweet nuthin She aint g...
Highway Bills on the rotary still and he cant even feel the painOf a sun dried shoulder and a scar from a boulderthat cut him right across his veinNow hes suckin cigar and hes shovelin tarin the crater of a turnpike terrainHes got only one hope, and he wants to elope,cuz Highway Jill is driving him insane We gotta get ...
A song I heard the ocean sing A shining light in darkness deep I prayed a prayer into the tide And both they soothed me in my sleep For every season that has passed I prayed a prayer into the tide A shining light in darkness deep In my ten years before the mast For every season that has passed I laid my body o’er the s...
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You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here? Letting the days go by, let the water ...
The first time I came over I was bitten by your dog You weren’t even there ’cause you were walking in the fog I call you up and plead and beg and talk to your machine My friends say not to bother when you’re acting pretty mean But I don’t need to bother you, no I won’t play that part I just want access to the inside of...
Jesus left Chicago And he headed down to New Orleans Jesus left Chicago And he headed down to New Orleans Hey hey Workin from one end to the other And all points in between Took a drive through Mississippi Muddy water turned to wine Took a drive through Mississippi Muddy water turned to wine Hey hey Went out to Califor...
Aaaahhh, oooohhh Ten mountains stand tall Nine seasons since fall Eight eons of sand Seven oceans began Now there is none No more light from the sun Now waters run free No more fish in the sea One more name on the slate One less minute to wait Too busy to see Two versions of me One more bottle is dry One less reason to...
Hey Izabella Girl, Im holding you in my dreams every night Yeah, but you know good well baby You know we got this war to fight Well, Im calling you under fire Well, I hope youre receiving me all right Hey, Izabella Girl, Im fightin this war for the children and you Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby! All this blood is for the worl...
My room is round when I lay down, when I wake up it’s square When I go outside it’s on a spiral set of stairs The people that surround me are waiting out there In a round room they can’t find me anywhere Right angle rooms drive me crazier each day Put me in a box I know I’m never going to play Put me in a square room a...
A silent bird / a raging tide a mountainside An open door / looming from the surf A whispered word / a steady wind as we begin And then no more / to close in on the earth
Listen now I’m talking I’ve been here for weeks Waiting in this growing crowd Staring at my feet The world around me’s turning I’m just standing still The time has come for changes Do something or I will I’m a feather in a storm I’m a raindrop in the sea If I don’t get enough of you I’m a lighter shade of me Sisters, b...
I dig a deep hole, bees buzzing all around But I know you’ll be happy That I’m pouring concrete in the ground Hoist up posts and beams erratically Garden plot’s beautiful, Painter gets at it But I guess I should have checked with you somehow Thought I could get you to come to Yarmouth Road Hang with the bees and buzz i...
I like to see you boogie Right across the floor I like to do it to you Till you holla for more I like to reggae But you dance too fast for me Id like to make love to you So you can make me scream Boogie on reggae woman What is wrong with me Boogie on reggae woman Baby cant you see Id like to see both of us Fall deeply ...
If I told you that I’d never leave If the feelings I could retrieve If emotions reveal themselves If I don’t put them back on the shelves All along I have Sung a song That has gone through motions Without emotions I’ve traveled roads that I’d never seen As I’ve watched events splash across the screen If the crypts coul...
Hey, Bungalow Bill What did you kill Bungalow Bill? He went out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun In case of accidents he always took his mom Hes the all American bullet-headed saxon mothers son All the children sing Hey Bungalow Bill What did you kill Bungalow Bill? Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies...
Desmond has his barrow in the market place... Molly is the singer in a band... Desmond says to Molly Girl, I like your face And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand... Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!... Lala how the life goes on... Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!... Lala how the life goes on Des...
Da doooo dada Da doooo dada Birdwatcher Thesba called me on the phone He had a case of colic I told him it was cause he was A Rubbing alcoholic Drempkin was so proud he was Such a great romancer Till I said the world could use One less beer-bellied dancer Mel Katain was pregnant and She heard all the expressions Its ju...
I crashed, I burned But then I learned To keep my eye on you You always say You’ll lead the way But then you never do I slowed, I swerved But lost my nerve And quickly looked away When I looked back The day was black Then I heard you say Why is the sun hot? Why does it rain? Why is there danger and Why is there pain? W...
One day I met the beauty of my dreams Pretty eyes she had you ought-a seen Brown hair that flowed down behind I saw it all and yet I was so blind We wound up in her part of town Bright lights with our music all around I gazed into her eyes and she in mine She had me in a trance it was so fine Now I cry cry cry I cant g...
I look at you all see the love there thats sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps I dont know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I dont know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you I look at the world and I notice its turni...
The woman was a dream I had Though rather hard to keep For when my eyes were watching hers They closed and I was still asleep For when my hand was holding hers She whispered words and I awoke And faintly bouncing around the room The echo of whomever spoke and I awoke And faintly bouncing around the room The echo of who...
The name of this song is The Wildwood Flower Now The Wildwood Flower is an old country classic It gained a whole new popularity The song isnt any more popular But the flower is doin real good The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm And we never knowed what it was called Some said it was a flower and some said it was ...
When I get home from work, what do I do? I try to kill you! When I get home from work, what do I do? I try to kill you! And why would I try to kill you? Because youre a... Big black furry creature from Mars When we go out to eat, what do I do? I try to kill you! When we go out to eat, what do I do? Oh, I am killing yo...
When I see the connection Though I see I don’t stare Though I see I don’t stare When I’m lost in my reflection Though I see I don’t stare Though I see I don’t stare Then I change my direction One foot follows the other One foot follows something new ’Cause I need some protection And I’m scared I could lose it If I star...
Today I sing tomorrow’s song In this place we learn to wait
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play a guitar just like a ringin a bell Go Go Go Johnny Go Go Go Johnny Go...
California knows how to party, California knows how to party In the city of L.A, in the city of good ol Watts In the city, the city of Compton We keep it rockin, we keep it rockin Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west A state thats untouchable like Elliot Ness The track hits ya eardrum like a slug to ya c...
Northern dilemma Call of the cold The arms of the arctic begin to unfold Sit in a circle facing the sun Get what you can now Winter is on Truth on condition Never dig deep Solemn reminders as groundwaters seep Into foundations, centers of joy To weaken and crumble Search and destroy Light up the city Hiding so strange ...
Come on come on come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on lets take it easy Come on lets take it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybodys got something to hide except for me and My monkey The deeper you go the higher you fly The higher you fly the deeper you go So come on come on Come on is s...
Could of had a chance to get out of this mess The time that you came and the day that you left Could of had a chance Could of had a chance Never thought I could make it this far With a pain in my soul and a hole in my heart Never thought I could Never thought I could Chorus: But when the lights are turnin round The whe...
Nothing’s ensconced Nothing’s entrenched Nothing’s entangled or twisted or wrenched Everything smoothly flows right through my head What I hoped might linger is swept off instead Tunnels and channels and chasms and rifts Shiny smooth streams and unclimbable cliffs I see you there ever so slowly being drawn to the sea A...
I been around a while I lived in town a while I threw it down a while And the town threw down on me
When we were talking I didnt need to hide Black stallions through the night On a perfect ride I watched you open wide You looked into me I had to turn away I didnt wanna leave Now Im letting it all roll by I can see I can see A life beyond the dream Im watching it all roll by I can see I can see A life beyond the dream...
I found a ring deep inside a box on a dead-end street And you were there watching me but I didnt know I couldnt see, I was lost, asleep inside a fantasy I love your hair in the mornings, you know You love to run wild and let the mane flow And you run away, but we meet again soon South of the border and over the moon An...
I told you about strawberry fields You know the place where nothing is real Well heres another place you can go Where everything flows Looking through the bent backed tulips To see how the other half lives Looking through a glass onion I told you about the walrus and me-man You know that were as close as can be-man Wel...
Im gonna pull this timber fore the sun go down Get it cross the river fore the bars come down Drag it on down that dusty road Come on Jerry, lets dump this load I said Timber, ho!, timber, whoa this timbers gotta roll I said Timber, ho!, timber, whoa this timbers gotta roll My old Jerry was an Arkansas mule Been everyw...
One, two, three, four There is a tower Like a solitary flower Standing in the snow And the wolves all wait below And youre walking on the ledge Throwing bread crusts off the edge As you sing in a voice so clear And my name I think I hear Concealed within the theme Then it disappears as steam And Im standing far below W...
Wilson Wilson Wilson Wilson Wilson Once upon a time there was a mountain that rose out of a vast green forest. And in the forest there were birds and lakes and rocks and trees and rivers. The forest was also inhabited by a small group of people called the lizards. The lizards were a simple people and they had lived in ...
I read the news today About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didnt notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared Theyd seen his face before Nobody was really sure if he was from the h...
Cut this picture into you and me Burn it backwards, kill this history Make it over, make it stay away Or hatell say the ending that love started to say Theres a kid a floor below me saying Brother, can you spare Sunshine for a brother, old man winters in the air Walked me up a story, asking how you are Told me not to w...
Paul and Silas bound in jail ALL NIGHT LONG Who shall deliver Poor Me? Paul and Silas prayed in jail ALL NIGHT LONG Who shall deliver Poor Me? Lightning crashed and thunder rolled ALL NIGHT LONG Who shall deliver Poor Me? Jailer cried what must I do ALL NIGHT LONG Who shall deliver Poor Me? Paul and Silas bound in ...
Throughout the night When theres no direct light And a thin veil of clouds Keeps the stars out of sight I can smell the colors outside on my lawn The moist green organic that my feet tread upon And the black oleander surrounded by blues Im soon overwhelmed by olfactory hues
[Verse 1:} Last night laying in bed I woke up from something you said You spoke to me in a foreign tongue It wasn’t your voice so I started to run A spiral staircase swallowed me And spit me out in the woods by a tree I felt the bark for a passage out I froze in panic ’til I figured it out It’s only a dream It’s not wh...
Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill Mojique thinks of days before Americans came He sees the foreigners in growing numbers He sees the foreigners in fancy houses He thinks of days that he can still remember now Mojique holds a package in his quivering hands Mojique sends the package to the American man Softly h...
Its been ten long years since I left my home in the hollow where I was born Where the cool fall nights make the woods smell right and the fox hunter blows him horn I fell in love with a girl from the town, I thought that she would be true I ran away to Charlottsville and worked in a sawmill or two What have they done t...
He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books.... He thought that some of these faces might be right for him....And Through the years, by keeing an ideal facial structure fixed in his Mind....Or somewhere in the back of his mind....That he might, by Force of will, cause his face to approach those of...
Honey, love ya honey little honey bunny Sunday mornin Love ya more funny love in the skyline baby Ice cream scuse me I seen ya looking good the other evenin Oh, you dig it had to smile just an hour So if were in love like I think well be It aint a long rhyme it took ages to think I think Ill hurl it in the water baby T...
Its on the way - you never know Its on the way - you never know Tried to get away but they just kept coming Landed the jet with the limo running With the bird on his shoulder he sure looked pretty Left the cage at home and went to Mexico City Its on the way - you never know The stars and players, I knew them all The Cr...