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Boulevard | $0.99 | ||
In Every Dream | $0.99 | ||
Broadway I Know | $0.99 | ||
The King | $0.99 | ||
Marcie Jane | $0.99 | ||
Everybody’s Leaving Town | $0.99 | ||
Train I’m On | $0.99 | ||
Second Spring | $0.99 | ||
Starlight | $0.99 | ||
I’ll Be Your Brother | $0.99 | ||
Miles The Frog | $0.99 | ||
Song For Bob | $0.99 | ||
Fragile | $0.99 | ||
Maggie | $0.99 | ||
Since You’ve Gone | $0.99 | ||
Eye Of The Storm | $0.99 | ||
Red Sky Morning | $0.99 |
1- Boulevard
Boulevard
If I should meet you on the avenue
would you take the time for a word or two
or walk on by pretending we are strangers
on a summer Sunday on the boulevard
would you tell me life's been treating you hard
lost its mystery lost its danger
You're a gracious lady in the latest style
with your summer dress and your summer smile
and the time to forget the memories in your eye
But hold me baby you said back then
make me love you so, make us one again
don't you let me go, or you know I'm gonna die
There's a rainy sidewalk with some cafe chairs
we could take a moment, pass a memory there
if we're not in a hurry to spend no moments together
I know I'm dressed in no finery
when you come down to it I look like me
but I won't be on this boulevard forever
You had my dreams and I had yours too
can you tell me yours are coming true
have you learned to laugh, do you know when to cry
But hold me baby you said back then
make me love you so, make us one again
don't you let me go, or you know I'm gonna die
If I should meet you on the avenue
on a sunny day when the sky’s so blue
can I take your hand, see what it might show me
on a summer Sunday on the boulevard
would you tell me life's been treating you hard
or just walk on by, pretending you don't know me
2- In Every Dream
In Every Dream
Everytime I look into another pair of eyes
it all comes back that I’m living lies, comparing her to you
I’ve been to LA and just got bored with empty heads
and liquor stores and the walking dead and lonely sunshine too
In every dream I see
what could never be and still I’d
have you lying next to me
If I could be tonight all right with you
Ten thousand miles I’ve roamed and still I’m left with memories
that tear the heart right out of me and leave my feelings blues
I move alone and can’t stand to be with anyone who gets close to me and that makes me sad and that makes me missing you
3- The Broadway I Know
The Broadway I Know
Suzette crepe ain’t got no place, no place to call it home
and I’m a sucker for a mango shake and a belly full of provolone
Don’t buy my dinners with a credit card
Just pickin’ up the quarters in my own backyard
Woking on the sidewalk for an extra bar of chocolate
(chorus)
You’ve got to win if you even show
Don’t buy your ticket til it’s time to go
and they say it’s so on the Broadway I know
On the Sunday streets the old men meet, lining piles of dominoes
Oh the lucky man with the top hand, calling hey now, away it goes
There’s some music in a doorway and I gotta dance
Senorita won’t you come on give me just one chance
Gliding down the sidewalk for an extra chunk of romance
And hey in the window they’re crawling down the firehose
runnin’ cross the rooftops
bet they didn’t teach you ‘bout that in Great Neck
I don’t understand a single word of Spanish,
I can’t call a spade a spade
And sometimes I stand out llike a white man’s handout
Sittin’ out the world he made
I can cruise through the stickball game around my feet
Slalom through the traffic when I cross the street
Smile at being left the way I want to be in this town
4- The King
The King
I took a walk down Green Street,, I wasn’t breakin’ no rules
I went to see some friends of mine, coming back from school
comin’ back from school
They were just singing on Green Street, joining a big parade
and the soldiers shot them down in the street, and left them where they lay
left them where they lay….singing
(chorus)
Long Live the King, long live the king (3x)
the King has lived too long
The priest comes out and he’s on his knees, cryin’ in his face-filled hands
and he says was this the work of the KIng, was this done by his plans
Was this a part of his plans?
‘Cause I do remember the King came here, back just before the war
and the soldiers smile and say the King don’t have to say any more
don’t have to say any more
Now the King he comes on the tv show, says “I love the human race.”
And the King he’s stopping everybody from sliding away from the faith
sliding away from the faith
And he’s just keeping these soldiers around to keep the country free
and he sends them around just about midnight to make sure you agree
to make sure you agree
Nobody says it on the tv show, ‘cause the King keeps up on the news
and nobody says it on the telephone ‘cause the King hears all that too
the King hears all that too
and nobody says it in uniform, ‘cause they’re just marching his tune
but the King’s gonna fall before too long, it’s gonna be very soon
it’s goin’ to be very soon.
5- Marcie Jane
Marcie Jane
Marcie Jane says come on down
to the river and walk me round in circles,
and please don't ask me why
Marcie Jane she knows the score
been around and seen much more
than I believe I could ever hope to try
chorus
And she says one of these days you're gonna go too far
climb too high and cross that star
step in one of those open cracks in your mind
But I want to follow every ocean wave
play the symphonies I'll never play
and someday tell that Marcie Jane
goodbye
I'm dancing down on a full moon road
going nowhere and lost in circles
and falling on a tiptoed ledge and singing
Marcie Jane she takes my hand
makes me love her right where I stand
til I'm sinking through and that morning sun comes aching
Take me baby I'm six feet down
cross my heart I'm six feet down
and lying on my back just ain't my style
Burn me baby I can't feel a thing
shake my bones loose and make me sing
I've got to be somewhere flying miles and miles
6- Everybody’s Leavin’ Town
Everybody’s Leavin’ Town
These old streets just don’t seem the same
without my friends by the door
The all-night restaurant don’t know my name
it’s a cup of coffee and no one’s to blame
if everybody’s gone off searching for fame
and I find that more and more
The empty basement where I once learned my songs
is just a shop for selling hides
And all the faces seem from another time
You’re sellin’ or you’re bummin’ for a dime
and I hung around and waited til I realized the line
was heading out, not going inside
I heard a train whistle blow in my heart
I tuned my car radio
Everybody’s leavin’ town
and I’m the last one to go
Duke’s Dilemma’s really no choice at all
and any way you turn seems wrong
I met a girl with her guitar inside her case
Told me “don’t it always seem to be your fate
Just when you finally get there, you find it’s too late
and it’s all gone”
Last night I stood in a café of tears
listiening to a guitar man
Singing his songs like he’s leavin’ them behind
Beatin’ in his anger at the strings on his mind
And all the people tapping on an empty glass of beer
Nodding at the sawdust like no one could hear
that scream from the canyon floor
7- Train I’m On
Train I’m On
If you could ride this train I'm on
you wouldn't miss your happy home
it wouldn't take too much to make you wander
out here where the wind is free
and there's nothing much but you and me
and a whole wide world to discover
(chorus)
you might hear the sound of people crying
laying down a lifetime, they've quit trying
feeling everything they love won't be long
if you could ride this train I'm on before it's gone
If you could walk this road awhile
You might know a naked mile
With nothing but the feeling of these mountains
Before they strip them down for ore
And pave them over for department stores,
With room for parking cars and marble fountains
If you could meet a man I know
stormed the beach at Anzio
and his right arm's torn into patriotic pieces
he's got a son who can't come home
til he's ready to say he was wrong
to quit on Vietnam and follow his Jesus
like an engine on a rusted track
we're hiding all our folks way out back
we're a one way railroad going nowhere
People say we've lost our time
this old country's past its prime
there's no room left for a man to move in
and can we ever wash it clean
of all the sadness that we're seeing
there's nothing left but you and me to believe in
8- Second Spring
Second Spring
It’s a second spring with you and all I really need to do
Is drive down the drive on a bicycle built for two
And maybe we’ll see maybe you and me will be
Together every spring just rollin’ down the avenue
It’s another Sunday afternoon and I’ve got a tune for you
‘bout rollin’ through the forest with the sun warmin’ you right through
And maybe we’ll see maybe you and me will be
Together every Sunday feeling too good to be true
Who would’ve thought we’d make it through the year
Never had time for feeling blue down here
Winter came and went and before you know
I couldn’t let you go
Everything is turning greeen and from everything I’ve seen
I can’t get over this feeling, this feeling like I’m sweet sixteen
And maybe we’ll see maybe you and me will be
Together in the spring when I’m an old man of twenty-three
9- Starlight
Starlight
Walk along a street with bright lights flickering
and voices float from empty halls
groups of two are passing, arm in arm they’re passing
and I’m just one, that’s all
Sometimes the blues’ll take you where you should not go
where a woman holds a promise in her charms
you reach for someone just to have any someone
and spend a lonely night in her arms
Just because there’s that starlight
Just because it’s another sleepless night
Just because she’s gone from sight
That’s no reason not to be alone tonight
It’s toast and coffee in a silent room
and a mirror staring at my eyes
If I had someone just to have any someone
would it be enough to hear her sighs
So I walk on out into another night
watch the people fill up the square
it’s just like numbers, you can count the numbers
there’s no reason I should care
10- I’ll Be Your Brother
I’ll Be Your Brother
I was your soldier when you needed one
I was your sailor under the sun
I was your mirror where you shone like gold
and I’ll be your brother I’ll let you go
I was your saviour when you were wine
I was your servant when you were blind
I was your lover your only love I know
and I’ll be your brother I’ll let you go
I was your driftwood up on your beach
I was the illusion you couldn’t reach
I was your island when all your seas ran cold
and I’ll be your brother I’ll let you go
If this were a movie I played every role
If this were a graveyard, I’d rest your soul
If this were an alley, I’d knock you cold
and I’ll be your brother I’ll let you go
11- Miles The Frog
Miles The Frog
Well, now once upon a time when the moon was filled
and the old haunted house stood up on the hill
and down along the road by the old mill bog
came a little green critter named Miles The Frog
Now Miles didn’t like to play in the mud
‘cause he had good breeding back in his green blood
and he didn’t want to be like any other frog
lapping up flies back home in the bog
See, Miles had learned to play the guitar
So he went to the house where the big stars are
went to the door and he looked inside
and there they all were before his eyes
There was Peter the Beaver on a silver piccolo
and ten black crickets in a violin row
and Maurice the Owl sitting on the piano sayin’
“Whos set to do the next solo?”
There was a foxy lady reading for a part
and Monk the Skunk sat painting in the dark
and Vito the Mosquito with his latest review
was buzzin’ all around with a word or two
Now a fly came over and took up a chair
Miles woulda ate him up, but he was too scared
the fly looked up and said “Time to go
You’re just in time for the afternoon show.”
But Miles said quickly “I came to play”
and the fly looked up and said “Not today
You gotta make a name before you can stay
and before you make a name you gotta pay your way.”
So Miles paid a dollar and he walked inside
there were all these animals clapping in time
a man at the front was waving his hand
and every little motion brought a note from the band
Then a weasel on his right said “Oh dear
You’re only so young and already you’re here
we’re all the people who only got to cheer
and I’m just the ghost of an old trumpeteer.”
Well Miles thought it over and it didn’t take long
picked up his guitar and he went back home
married his girlfriend back in the bog
and he’s lappin’ up flies like all the other frogs
So if you see morale here you ain’t wrong
you don’t need a haunted house to sing your song
and the next time you hear a-croakin’ coming from the bog
that’s just MIles way of telling you
you can be just as happy sittin’ on a log
12- Song For Bob
Song For Bob
I’m sitting here again in a roomful of friends
and I wonder if words can be found
to place laughing eyes in the faces that cry
coming up from so far underground
And I’ve lost all my dreams and there’s no way it seems
to go back to dreaming again
but if silence is best, lay me down to rest
the hour that ship comes in
Oh I once found a friend in the words that you’d send
they were stronger than one man could be
Instead of hollow refrains we sang only in games
we took comfort in what you could see
But the children must try for the old folks must die
It’s always the wheel that’s in spin
and if silence is best, lay me down to rest
the hour that ship comes in
Though cities turn to sand and the mountains that stand
may crumble, and words turn to stone
still the morning begins and the questions in the wind
are still calling out for a song
so if I sing on a street and our shadows should meet
I’ll take pride just to stand where you’ve been
and if silence is best, lay me down to rest
the hour that ship comes in
13- Fragile
Fragile
The finest piece of crystal glass
will tear my hand if it breaks
and a clumsy hand on your fragile love
will shatter whatever it takes
(chorus)
I’ve got nothing
I’ve got nothing
I’ve got nothing without you
I’ll keep singing, keep on singing
this song that can’t go on without you
Brittle words unanswered now
leave ashes as their only traces
and little burns show through somehow
in the frozen smiles of your embraces
A quiet night isn’t still somehow
with your restless sleeping breathing
and another night would kill me now
to drink the dream that you’re leaving
14- Maggie
Maggie
Didn’t we walk so many miles, Maggie
Didn’t we climb so many hills
and didn’t we spend so many nights, Maggie
close together lyin’ still
and didn’t we take some time to wonder
what was growing deep within
Now walk me tonight out in the fields, Maggie
and tell me you love me again
Didn’t we fight for what we knew, Maggie
Didn’t we do the things we should
and didn’t we fight for what was true, Maggie
and didn’t we say we always would?
and didn’t we put our backs together
to have the strength of every hand
Now walk me tonight out in the fields, Maggie
and tell me you love me again
Oh didn’t they try to feed us lies, Maggie
Didn’t they wrap their words in grins
and didn’t they try to hide their eyes, Maggie
and didn’t we know that we would win?
And didn’t we always say that nothing
could keep us from the things we planned
Now walk me tonight out in the fields, Maggie
and tell me you love me again
Morning comes easy in the rain, Maggie
coming up softly in a dream
It’s another day and everything does change, Maggie
you just can’’t sit there where you’ve been
I will die before my freedom
and I will live to show you when
I’ll walk you tonght out in the fields, Maggie,
and tell you I love you again.
15- Since You’ve Gone
Since You’ve Gone
Since you’ve gone I’ve taken up drinkin’
beer and whiskey, and very fine wine
Since you’ve gone I’ve taken up women
no one special they’re around all the time
(chorus)
So you might be in Chicago, maybe in LA
deep down in Texas, somewhere far away
Wherever you are babe, won’t you hear me say
Wherever you are, babe, I hope that’s where you stay
Without you, I’ve taken up sleeping
Every night, and every day
Without you, I’ve taken up smoking big cigars
that drive my friends away
(bridge)
Now I’m alone and there’s nothing but a different woman every night
a different kind of feeling right and wrong
Now I’m alone and there’s nothing but peace and quiet
And I wake up in the morning singing a song
Since you’re gone, I’ve taken up eating
regular meals I can finally afford
Since you’re gone I’ve given up working
I’m just hanging around and I never get bored
16- Eye Of The Storm
Eye Of The Storm
Crazy Ted cut a hole in his head
pulled out his brain, put in a tv set
now Ted just smiles as he flips those dials
stayin’ in tune is his latest style
He’s got no load on his mind ‘cause his line
is finely tuned by Central
Crazy Tom he’s got the bomb
rolled up inside his sweaty palm
You know Tom, he’s never missed
givin’ it to you with his exploding fist
and like a bad dream, like a Hitchock twist,
you never know it’s comin’
Now wouldn’t you feel so good and warm
wouldn’t you feel like you belong
standing in the arms of someone strong
in the eye of the storm
Anna Lee lost her memory
somewhere back in 1973
she’s got a face filled with divine light
when she says: babe, the future’s bright
and walks off softly into the night
with no one in particular
Hank and Frank each have someone to thank
each took $10,000 from the citizens’ bank
Frank was a director and Hank had a gun
Frank gave his to Nixon and said let justice be done
They put Frank in the cabinet and Hank in the tank
and said be grateful we don’t shoot you
They came to my house and stripped it clean
of every single book and magazine
They said you don’t need to read or sing
‘cause love, love, love is everything
Five minutes later my doorbell rings,
and you walk in and say “I love you.”
17- Red Sky Morning
Red Sky Morning
With nobody waking and the streets on fire
I’ll raise up my head behind the miles and miles of wire
as the hound dogs are howling their morning song
red sky morning’s gonna find me gone
I’ll be abandoned like the warehouse I am
where people come and deliver whatever they can
and tear at your insides like it was their own
red sky morning’s gonna find itself alone
The beggars point to businessmen, the businessmen point to thieves
and they all call for the cops who come and point to the priests
and the priests point to the flames and say “he’s coming your way
red sky morning gonna make you pay.”
With traces of cosmic discussions still warm
they’ll tear out your memory and put in a storm
and when lightning comes flashing every corner of your mind
red sky morning’s gonna drive you blind
With the wild wolves a-sleeping and the jokers in dreams
on the trail of tarantulas I’ll follow the streams
and I’ll trade down my life like a werewolf at dawn
red sky morning’s gonna find me gone