Running down along the towns along the shore When I was sixteen and on my own No I couldn't tell you what the hell those breaks were for I was just trying to hear my song Jimmy found his own sweet sound when he won that free guitar And we'd all get in the van and play Life became the Paradox, the Bell, the Rouge et noir And the stretch of road running to LA Pages turning Pages we were years from learning Straight into the night our hearts were flung Better bring your own redemtion when you come To the barricades of heaven where I'm from All the world was shining from those hills With the stars above and the lights below Among those there to test their fortune and their will I lost track of the score long ago Pages turning ... Childhood comes for me at night The voices of my friends Your face bathing me in light I hope that never ends Pages turning Pages torn and pages burning Faded pages open in the sun Pages turning ...

| | | | | | | | | | Oh how sad they sound the songs the queen must sing of dying A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing If she could see her mirror now She would be free of those who bow and Scrape the ground beneath her feet Silently she walks among her dying midnight roses Watches as each moment goes that never really know us And so it seems she doesn't care If she has dreams of no one there Within the shadows of her room But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to Call back, all the birds i sent to Fly behind her castle walls, and I'm Weary of the nights I've seen Inside these empty halls | | | | | | | | | | Wooden lady turn and turn among my weary secrets And wave within the hours past and other empty pockets Maybe we've found what we have lost When we've unwound so many crossed entangling Misunderstandings; but But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to Call back, all the birds I sent to Fly behind her castle walls, and I'm Weary of the nights i've seen Inside these empty halls | | | | | | | | | |

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could, to see the evil and the good without hiding. You must help me if you can Doctor, my eyes, tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long 'Cause I have wandered through this world And as each moment has unfurled, I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams People go just where there will, I never noticed them until I got this feeling, that it's later than it seems Doctor, my eyes, tell me what you see C#m B D/E** A (E D/E A/E E repeat) I hear their cries, just say if it's too late for me Doctor, my eyes cannot see the sky Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry

Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must've thought you'd always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you're nowhere to be found I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try () It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing - I can't help listening And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round Crying as they ease you down 'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing Dancing our sorrow away Right on dancing No matter what fate chooses to play There's nothing you can do about it anyway Just do the steps that you've been shown By everyone you've ever known Until the dance becomes your very own No matter how close to yours Another's steps have grown In the end there is one dance you'll do alone Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don't let the uncertainty turn you around The world keeps turning around and around Go on and make a joyful sound Into a dancer you have grown From a seed somebody else has thrown Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own And somewhere between the time you arrive And the time you go May lie the reason you were alive But you'll never know

Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They’ve seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they’ve heard their last warning Standing alone Each has his own ticket in his hand And as the evening descends I sit thinking ’bout everyman Seems like I’ve always been looking for some other place To get it together Where with a few of my friends I could give up the race And maybe find something better But all my fine dreams Well though out schemes to gain the motherland Have all eventually come down to waiting for everyman Waiting here for everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand Waiting here for everyman Don’t ask me if he’ll show -- baby I don’t know Make it on your own if you think you can Somewhere later on you’ll have to take a stand Then you’re going to need a hand

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn?t show your spirit quite as true You were turning ?round to see who was behind you And I took your childish laughter by surprise And at the moment that my camera happened to find you There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes Now the things that I remember seem so distant and so small Though it hasn?t really been that long a time What I was seeing wasn?t what was happening at all Although for a while, our path did seem to climb But when you see through love?s illusions, there lies the danger And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You?ve known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You?ve had to hide sometimes, but now you?re all right And it?s good to see your smiling face tonight Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams But that magic feeling never seems to last And while the future?s there for anyone to change, still you know it?s seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past I?m just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you In my lessons at love?s pain and heartache school Where if you feel too free and you need something to remind you There?s this loneliness springing up from your life Like a fountain from a pool Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You?ve known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You?ve had to hide sometimes but now you?re all right And it?s good to see your smiling face tonight Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You?ve known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You?ve had to struggle, you?ve had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you?ve got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

The words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn t right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning Until they vanished into the air Trying to understand how our lives had led us there Looking hard into your eyes There was nobody I d ever known Such an empty surprise to feel so alone Now for me some words come easy But I know that they don t mean that much Compared with the things that are said when lovers touch You never knew what I loved in you I don t know what you loved in me Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be Awake again I can t pretend that I know I m alone And close to the end of the feeling we ve known How long have I been sleeping How long have I been drifting alone through the night How long have I been dreaming I could make it right If I closed my eyes and tried with all my might To be the one you need Awake again I can t pretend that I know I m alone And close to the end of the feeling we ve known How long have I been sleeping How long have I been drifting alone through the night How long have I been running for that morning flight Through the whispered promises and the changing light Of the bed where we both lie Late for the sky

I can't keep up with whats been going down I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jeans Am I the only ones who hear the screams? And the strangled cries of lawyers in love God sends his spaceships to America the beautiful They land at six oclock and there we are the dutiful Eating from TV trays tuned into happy days Waiting for world war three while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love Ooh sha laa ooh Ooh sha laa ooh Ahh Last night I watch the news from Washington the Capital The Russian escaped while we were watching them like Russians do Now we ve got all this room we ve even got the moon And I hear the U.S.S.R will be open soon As vacation lands for lawyers in love Ooh sha laa ooh Ooh sha laa ooh Aah

I don't know what to say about these days I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways Even in the richer neighborhoods People don't know when they've got it good They've got the envy, and they've got it bad Here's one way to play that little fill that comes after some verses: And another way: When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free Running up and down Tinsel Town with the fire inside of me My planet's all in retrograde, the best of all my plans got laid I made my breaks, and some mistakes Just not the ones people think I made Now I'm a long way gone Down this wild road I'm on It's going to take me where I'm bound But it's the long way a- round It's so hard keeping track of what's gone wrong The covenant unravels, and the news just rolls along I could feel my memory letting go some two or three disasters ago It's hard to say which did more ill Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill And I'm a long way gone Down this wild road I'm on It's going to take me where I'm bound But it's the long way a- round It's never been that hard to buy a gun Now they'll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone The seeds of trage- dy are there In what we feel we have the right to bear To watch our children come to harm There in the safety of our arms With all we disagree about The passions burn, the heart goes out And we're a long way gone Down this wild road we're on It's going to take us where we're bound But it's the long way a- round

I'm gonna rent myself a house in the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning, and go to work each day And when the evening rolls around, I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen Say it again Amen I want to know what became of the changes, We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen Say it again Amen Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junkman pounds his fender Where the veterans dream of the fight, Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening, strolls the pretender He knows that all his hopes an dreams Begin and end there Ah the lovers as they run through the night Leaving nothing but to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm gonna find myself a girl, Who can show me what laughter means Then we'll fill in the missing colors in each others Paint by number dreams And then we'll put our dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in we'll get up and do it again Amen get it up again Amen I'm gonna be a happy idiot, and struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim, and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy Though true love could have been a contender Are you there, say a prayer for the pretender Who started out so young and strong only to surrender Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender Are you prepared for the pretender Are you there for the pretender

well, she was standing at the load in, when the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around like a half-grown female pup She wasn't hard to talk to, looked like she had no where to go So I gave her a pass so she could get in and see the show Well, I sat her down right next to me and I got her a beer While I mixed that sound on the stage so the band could hear The more I watched her watch them play, the less I thought of to say and when they walked offstage, the drummer swept that girl away but Rosie your alright (you wear my ring) when you hold me tight (Rosie, that's my thing) when you turn out the lights (I got to hand it to me) A (let ring) A E E B A, E B A Looks like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie Well I guess I might've known from the start, she'd come for a star Could've told my imagination not to run too far with all the times that I've been burned, by now you'd think I'd learned that it's who you look like, not who you are but Rosie your alright (you wear my ring) when you hold me tight (Rosie, that's my thing) when you turn out the lights (I got to hand it to me) A (let ring) A E E B A, E B A Looks like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie Rosie

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by, like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen, and running up 101 I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun, but I m running behind. Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive In sixty-nine I was twenty-one, and called the road my own I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on. Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun, but I m running behind. Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe; I don't know about anyone but me If it takes all night, that'll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels I look around for the friends I used to turn to, to pull me through Looking into their eyes I see them running too Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the sun, but I m running behind. Honey you really tempt me; you know the way you look so kind I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find Running into the sun but I'm running behind.

Though the earth may tremble, and our foundations crack We will all assemble and we will build them back And rush to save the lives remaining Still within our reach Try to put our world together, standing in the breach. So many live in poverty, while others live as kings And some may find peace in the acceptance of all that living brings I will never understand however they’ve prepared How one life may be struck down and another life be spared Though the earth may tremble, and cast our works aside Though our efforts resemble, the fluctuating tide We rise and fall with the trust and belief That love redeems us each And bend our backs and hearts together, standing in the breach. You don't know why it's such a far cry From the world this world could be You don't know why but you still try For the world you wish to see You don't know how, it’ll happen now After all that's come undone But you know the change the world needs now Is there, in everyone The unpaid debts of history The open wounds of time The laws of human nature always tugging from behind I want to think that the earth can heal And that people might still learn How to meet this world's true challenges And that the course we're on could turn And though the earth may tremble and the oceans pitch and rise We will all assemble and we will lift our eyes To the tasks that we know lie before us And the power our prayers beseech And cast our souls into the heavens, standing in the breach You don't know why it's such a far cry From the world, this world could be You don't know why, but you still try For the world you wish to see You don't know how (it) it’ll happen now After all that's come undone And you know the world you're waiting for, may not come No it may not come But you know the change the world needs now Is there, in everyone

Well, I'm a runnin' down the road try'n' to loosen my load I got seven women on my mind; Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me, One says she's a friend of mine. Take it easy, take it easy, Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy. Now, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winston, Arizona With such a fine sight to see; It's a girl my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford Slowin' down to have a look at me. Come on, baby, don't say maybe. I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me. We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again. Oh, open up, I'm climbin' in to take it easy. Well, I'm runnin' down the road try'n' to loosen my load, Got a world of trouble on my mind. I'm lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover; She's just a little hard to find. Take it easy, take it easy, Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Come on baby, don't say maybe. I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me.

Well I've been out walkin' And I don't do that much talking, these days These days. These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do, for you And all the times I had a chance to Well I had a lover I don't think I'll risk another, these days. These days. These days I seem to be afraid To live th life that I have made in song But it's just that I have been loosing, so long These days I sit on corner stones Count the time in quarter tones till ten, my friend And I believe I've come to see myself again These days I sit on corner stones Count the time in quarter tones till ten, my friend Please don't confront me with my failures I'm aware of them.