Run Away

You say that it's over as you're runnin' away.
Your heart was on fire. Got colder in a day.
You promised forever. Now you say the words were mine.
Nothin' together is fun. You ain't got the time.

So there goes a dream.
Just one more thing dyin'.
Bury it with the rest of your skeletons
that's one thing you're good at tryin'.
There goes a little hope, a little happiness.
There goes a nightmare too, I'll confess.

Chorus:

But you're runnin' away from more than yesterday.
Your hindsight's blindsight, you don't mind what I say.
Maybe it won't really matter some day.
Maybe I can be more like you and find a way to run away.

Go pick up the pieces of your shatterred soul.
Blame the crushin' on me and the innocence you say I stole.
Throw me out the door. Stare at teh floor.
Believe it's me not your gaze that's a phase
you'd rather ignore.
I hope it makes you happy. Baby I really do.
Blame me instead of yourself for it all,
I'll never blame you.

Chorus

Yes indeed baby, wish I was more like you.
With some rug to sweep everything under that's true.
How do you still walk across your bumpy floor?
Or is it that you can't is that why you're so busy with doors?

You've got all the answers. It's your way or none.
But you never ask questions, you just decide and run.
Hope you don't get tired. Hope your legs don't give out.
'Cause there's nothin' more useless than chasin' windmills of doubt.

Chorus

Falling Through the Ceiling

I've got a feeling it's gonna fall through the ceiling.
All your dreams will come true, and all in spite of you.
And your love of might have beens.
Yea, it'll all begin.

Everyone's gonna shout and get what you're about.
Because of each misguided step you've taken.
Gonna set the world on it's ear adn your kaliedescope of fear
will fold up and dissappear.

It's gonna fall down from the sky and you'll never have to cry
again for anything or anyone.
Everything you do's already all about you.
Livin' life that way must be fun.

And you'll get to a ships' landin' right from where you're standin'.
You don't need to listen to a soul.
Cause it's really true, no one knows more than you
and everything you lost someone stole.

Yea, hell is other people, you're not just the pulpit but the steeple
of the church of done me wrong.
You say I'm the believer what you don't see is
you've been screamin' it all along.

So keep that clouded eye out for the ship that don't need no lighthouse.
I sure hope you're right.
'Cause it'll suck to see that just maybe
I was tryin' to show you the light.

I'm sure it'll all be better, I'm sure you'll forget her
and sure you'll forget me too.
None of this will make a differance, you'll see you're right to keep your distance
every lie you believe will be a dream come true.
And all in spite of you.

Byegone Blues

I'd forgotten that you're never wrong,
forgotten how well you yell all night long.
What's sad but true, I hadn't forgotten you.
Yea, my dumb a-- put the past behind me
and now all you wanna do is remind me.
Thanks a lot. I'd 've rather been shot.
Than muck through all the mud you drug me back through
hope it makes you feel better, does something for you.
It's true.

Thought byegones were byegones, oh well, bye bye.
I'll admit it's makin' me cry
the blues over you.
I've got a feelin' if you ever think it through
you're gonna wish I was still with you.
But you got that general beat
who burned his bridges so he couldn't retreat.
That's how you do.

I ain't gonna be treated this a way.
I ain't the one startin' it like you say.
I been really tryin'. All I get for it is cryin'.
You're meaner than a hillbilly on a jug of shine
and you're tellin' me teh problems' mine
then you leave me behind.
Hope you're satisfied with yourself.
Have a real good roll on teh floor of your hell.
Oh well.

Tellin' me I better step back.
Makin me feel like I'm under attack.
What you're doin' is wrong, gonna miss me when I'm gone.
Or maybe not, like you say.
Forgot you know it all anyway.
You might be fine. Just like last time.

Yea, that worked out real well for you.
Worked out just great for me too.
Never mind that while you're facin' your facts
the fact is what you're overlookin'
is that somethin' bigger waw always cookin'
behind teh scenes of all that mean.

Sayin' it's waht I did and am doin' to you.
Guess lookin' in a mirror ain't somethin' you do.
It's not just me you don't want to see.
I ain't the one with a problem with accountability.
Believe me one day baby you'll be sorry
and I'm gonna be gone.
Long time a travellin' on.
Byegones will be byegones.
Bye bye.

Wade in the Water
based on traditional

Chorus:

Wade in the water.
Wade in the water children.
Wade in the water.
God's a gonna trouble the water.

Red Sea, Dead Sea, see the signs.
God's a gonna trouble the water.
Comin' up on the end of time.
God's a gonna trouble that water.

This time ain't gonna be no warnin'.
God's a gonna trouble the water.
Sun's gonna blacken won't be no mornin'.
God's a gonna trouble the water.

Chorus

See those men all dressed in blood.
God's a gonna trouble the water.
So much pourin' deserts turnin' to blood.
And God's a gonna trouble the water.

Ain't gonna be no ark to send.
God's a gonna trouble the water.
'Cause he done made that covenent.
God's a gonna trouble the water.

Chorus

By flaming sword, by his right hand,
God's a gonna trouble the water.
Band of angels gonna take their stand.
When God troubles up that water.

Stand and be counted, all of you,
when God troubles up that water,
who think you in the chosen few.
Watch God trouble up the water.

Chorus

Those of you gettin' rich off the dyin'
Gods's a gonna trouble the water.
Got a hundred rounds in Hell and the Devil's buyin.
And God's a gonna trouble the water.

Be glad when you dissapear.
When God troubles up the water.
Death gonna follow with you but those still here
Gonna see God still that water.

Chorus

Hear those hoof beats thunderin'?
God's a gonna trouble the water.
Four horsemen ridin' on a second wind.
God's a gonna trouble the water.

Ain't no way to save your soul.
God's a gonna trouble the water.
Watch that Rock of Gibralter roll.
When God troubles up that water.

Chorus

Quit Talikin'

Baby you know I love the things you say,
tellin me you're going to love me every day.
But tellin' me them things you do
makes me wanna do them things to you.
So for now quit talkin' and just get walkin' my way.

Baby you know I could gaze into your eyes
until the day I fall down and die.
But every time I look at you,
there's so much more I want to do.
Never mind the gazin' lets fall down, you know why.

Chorus:

I love you and you love me.
Thats' the way its meant to be.
Thats' somethin' thats' nice to know
but its even nicer to let it show.

And honey child I love the way you sing.
The way them fingers pluck your guitar strings.
But watchin' that quick pickin' go
makes me want them fingers quickinin' me you know.
So for now put down that guitar and do your thing.

Repeat Chorus

I'm not sayin I don't feel sentimental.
Or appreciate lovin' soft and gentle.
But baby the things you say to me
are bringn' out a lot more than that side of me.
So for now quit talkin' and just get walkin' my way.
For now quit talkin' and just get walkin' my way.

Your Lost Cause

Takin your stand by the Appomatox,
baptizin' me in the fire of had it,
sayin' it's a lost cause; gettin' your war on.
I reckon this time I drew first
but you're quicker and meaner, I'm gonna get hurt.
That's how it goes down here in the South,
we'll fight to the death just to shut someones' mouth
over a lost cause.

Bet you'd like to haul me down to them tracks.
Let 'em find me like Old Riley never get my head back
but that rivers' right by there. Lord you made me cry there.
Just remember rollin' round in that mud.
Lets' go do it again before someone draws blood.
Down South there ain't no lost cause.

Chorus:

Southern boy let me see you rise again.
Then let me ride your second wind.
You proved you're as hard as old Stonewall.
Come on baby we could be havin' a ball.

I know you ain't just whistlin' Dixie.
You got a lotta bones to pick with me.
And you've got a right to; right to fight too.
But all that pickin' and kickin' you got in your blood
would do a lot more good in the Appomatox mud.
Because, down South there ain't no lost cause.

Come on rebel let me make you yell.
Quit tellin' me to go to hell.
I wanna go somewhere else though.
Somewhere no one will hear us scream.
We can get real dirty, can even play mean.
Fight for our lost cause, just like outlaws.

Chorus

I know love can be demandin' but
you comin' at me like a cannon.
It just might kill me. Baby don't you see?
I know you got more under your skin
than Hanover fields got un-known men under them.

But before you pull that trigger again,
think for a minute 'bout what you're sayin.
Ain't no lost cause; baby just us.
And I love you more than Lee loved his horse,
more than Davis loved magnolias, call it a draw.

Chorus

That's how it goes down here in the South,
we'll fight to the death just to shut someones' mouth
over a lost cause.

Telephone Blues

I didin't wonder, I didnt' doubt,
things would be better if you walked out.
And its' the truth, since you went away
I haven't had a single solitary day
that ain't been a roll in the hay.

Its like wakin' from a real bad dream.
Like second sight seein' all I hadn't seen.
You were cloudin' up my sight.
Now like the blind man I saw the light
once you were gone.

But heres' the one thing kinda brings me down.
It ain't the fact that you're not around.
Its not that you took me for a milion dimes.
I'm overlookin' that like I did so many times.
Its' that you took the phone.

And thats' a hassle, passive aggressive as s---.
I mean, I understand we'd both had it.
But in this day and age you know what that does.
Can't call my friends, doctor or lawyer, you got all their numbers
in that phone.

And furthermore you started callin' my friends.
Takin' advantadge of them numbers I'd keyed in.
Showin you're a-- no, thats' not a surprise,
you showed me long ago you're one of those guys
who'd take a phone.

And look at you, then you got the nerve
to ask why I don't call you, thats' absurd.
You took the phone.
And I don't miss you, don't feel all alone
but I sure miss that phone.

I'll get another one, another man too.
And I'll feel sorry for whoever gets you.
'Cause its' clear as a crystal ball
that you don't get anything at all.
Hold on to that phone.

'Cause thats the last thing you'll ever take from me.
The last thing of yours that touches my reality.
Leavin' you's like walkin out the gates of hell.
You know, now I think of it its' just as well
you took the phone.

'Cause it sort of sums up why I'm leavin you alone.
Bye bye...

Thems' Fightin' Words

You walk in, couldn't have drunk more.
Soon as you step in the door
you fall out; start talkin' about
all of the things I been doin' wrong.
Must of been playin' them outlaw songs
'cause thems' fightin' words.
Thems' fightin' words.

You smell like PBR and cigarettes.
Somehow that ain't what you regret.
You let it all out. Keep talkin' 'bout
every damn thing I did before,
how you ain't havin' it no more.
You're bein' mean to me
and I'm sleepy.

Chorus:

'Cause you kept me up all night long
the night before with love and songs.
Only slept an hour or two
'cause I was so busy lovin' you.
Now you're tellin' me a thing or two...

I ain't sayin' some of what you say
ain't true but baby can't it wait a day?
Guess there ain't no way. You wanna play
dirty and mean, sayin' I am too.
Got a real long list of what I did to you
and you're really pissed.
Tellin' me what I can kiss.

I'd like to kiss it, to tell the truth.
Wanna go back to kissin' all over you
and just shut your mouth; hush your doubt.
But you're set on havin' your own way.
You've made up your mind, gonna have your say.
Sayin' fightin' words
all them fightin' words

Chorus:

And I just woke up from a real bad dream.
Don't feel like hearin' some drunk man scream.
You say I'm the one thats' a yellin' at you.
Well, after what you said I bet thats' true.
'Cause thems' fightin' words ain't alrightin' words.

So we go to bed angry and that ain't right.
'Cause all I wanna do is hold you all night.
In spite of your fightin words; know its' absurd.
Wakin' up with such a bad taste in our mouths
ain't what love like ours is about.
Can see why we got our doubts
but we can work it out.

'Cause you know by tomorrow night it'll all be better.
'Cause we can't stay fightin' when we're together.
Too much else to do, you know thats' the truth.
You be the Tennessee Stud while I play Doc.
Lets roll in the hay and then lets rock.
Lock up them fightin' words.
Had enough fightin' words.

Chorus:

I know you want to shut my mouth
and I know theres' a lot you want to talk about.
They're better ways to shut it than bein' mean to me.
Walk over here and you'll see.
You won't hear a word.
No not one single kind of word.

Hot Damn

Been a long time since you left for good.
Now you've come back like I hoped you would
and I'm in love wiht you. I never stopped loving you.
Once upon a time I wanted you gone.
Once upon a time I sure was wrong.
I was in love with you. Thats' the sort of thing love can do.

Chorus:

Now you're back by my side I'll never let you go.
Now you're back by my side I'm gonna let you know
how much I love you and how many ways.
Gonna think up a different one every day.

'Cause you got me wakin' up thinkin' I'm dreamin',
and you got me wakin' up thinkin' 'bout screamin'.
I'm in love with you, I never stopped loving you.
And what I wanna do about it makes even me blush.
And that ain't easy 'cause I'm pretty tough
but just in love with you. Thats' the sort of thing love can do.

Chorus:

When you're next to me I got fiery hands.
When you're away from me theres' not another man
that can do a damn thing but catch my eye.
'Cause you've caught everything thats' inside.

I'm not expectin' you to believe me.
Know I hurt you so, but just don't leave me,
I'm in love with you, gonna prove all this love to you.
I'm sure you have got your doubts.
I don't blame you but don't shut me out.
I'm in love with you. I'm gonna make it all up to you.

Chorus:

I'm gonna kiss and make up all over the place.
I'm gonna show you this time its' not a waste.
I'm gonna do things to you even you can't concoct.
Then do so much more even you'll be shocked.

I never ever thought I'd have a chance again.
Now that I do its' not gonna end.
'Cause I'm in love with you. Baby so in love with you.
You can do what you want, go be free.
Just please do what you want to me.
'Cause I'm in love with you, oh so in love with you.

Chorus:

Now you're back by my side I'll never let you go.
Now you're back by my side I'm gonna let you know,
how much I love you and how many ways.
Gonna think up a different one every day.

'Cause I'm in love with you. Baby so in love with you.

In Vino Veritas

We can say its the weather.
We can blame it on the wine.
When we talk about forever,
how you'll always be mine.

We can say we've just gone crazy
but you know there ain't no gone.
I don't have to pluck a daisy
to know you love me or for how long.

Chorus:

'Cause when I look in your eyes I see infinity
and when you're not around I feel you next to me.
It ain't the wine thats' makin' me feel this way.
Ain't the drinkin' I been thinkin' everything I say
to you. In vino veritas, its' all true.

You say, "Don't take me too seriously.
Don't want to scare you away."
But see I love you deleriously.
So, wherever you go, I'll stay.

We can try to keep our distance.
We're both used to playin' it cool.
My tough sides' meetin' with resistance
from my inner crazy lovesick fool.

Chorus

Now that the bottles' empty,
gonna say it all again.
Its' mornin' and you've sent me
places I ain't never been.

I don't mean just my body.
I don't mean just my mind;
not just heart and soul, you've got me
somewhere outside of space and time.

Chorus

Hotter Than Your Girlfriend

Why don't you go away, quit talkin' to me.
Quit tellin' me what kind of friends you want to be.
'Cause I know. Yea, it shows.
I'm hotter than your girlfriend.

And you know and I know she's right over there,
the one shootin' razors through her stare.
Yea, I think she means it. 'Cause it's no secret.
I'm hotter than your girlfriend.

Don't feel bad, you're not the only one.
I have to say the same thing to everyone
I've said to you. 'Cause it's true.
It's nothin' new. I'm hotter than your girlfriend.
I'm hotter than everybody's girlfriend.

Don't tell me this is about me being stuck on myself.
Apparantly so are you, just look at yourself.
You're talkin' to me and where is she? Where's your girlfriend?

The one sittin' right over there.
The one shootin' razors through her stare.
Yea, I think she knows. 'Cause it shows.
It shows on you. 'Cause it's true.
I'm hotter than everybody's girlfriend.
I'm hotter than all of your girlfriends.
And I bet I just p---- off your girlfriend.

Steady Theme

It's a steady theme,
lately I can't seem
to find you off my mind,
but I dont mind.

I'm jealous of the dream
of you and I it seems
we're in a bind. Where's my mind?

I'm dazed, dizzy, distressed, delighted.
Don't know what's come over me.
I'm foolish, at a loss, excited.
No telling to what degree
you've changed me.

I'm all turned around,
can't tell up from down,
I'm gone on you, yes it's true.
I'm frightened by the sound
of the things I've found
you made me do and I wanted to.

It must be just like flying,
the way you've come over me.
Sill,there's just no denying
I should know better. Do you see
what you do to me?

Strange to see my face
in it's usual place
in the morning time, strange you're not mine.
Nothing can replace
you I try to trace you in each line.
I've lost my mind.

It's a steady theme.
I'm lost I'm off my beam.
What do you propose?
Heaven knows.
I'm jealous of the dream.
Can you tell me what it means,
how the next part goes
in this steady theme?

You Drove Me to Drinkin', now who's gonna drive me home?

I'm tired of thinkin and I'm tired of blinkin
the tears away from my eyes.
I don't want to know where you go
every night you tell me goodbye.

Somethin' ain't right, even though we don't fight,
there's words, hangin' in the air
that we breathe between us;
I don't make a scene 'cause when I want to
you're just not there.

You drive me away and you leave me alone.
You'll never say where you're goin'.
I'm so tired of thinkin'.
You drove me to drinkin'.
Now who's gonna drive me home?

I just can't stay
while you're away.
The room echoes you so.
I go out to borrow
a better tomorrow
every today I have to let you go.

You drive me etc.

Here's to You

We're both far away from who and where we were then.
Time one of us said we knew the other when.
Now here I am, doin' what I always wanted to.
Guess it should be here's to me but golly gee,
here's to you.

Here's to the fun.
To all we've said and done.
Here's to the fightin too.
Here's to it all, had a ball
after all, here's to you.

Nothin' in lifes' ever like what it was before.
'Cept that funny feelin' someone might walk through a door;
but you and your face are far away from this place
good for you.
Finally see it's good for me but golly gee,
here's to you.

Here's to your eyes,
even the tears they cry.
Here's to your smile too.
Here's to everything,
every song I sing, here's to you.

Lets' have another round for all I've found to be true.
Then lets have one more for all I knows a lie now too.
For all I know, don't or won't you're what I'm most glad I knew.
I've been a long time gone
still, right and wrong, here's to you.

It's been a long time.
I'm doin' just fine.
Hope that's how you're doin too.
Lets raise a glass to the past.
Re-fill its' still a blast, here's to you.

Guitar Tuner

I've travelled, yes I've travelled, trust me I've been around.
Seen a lot of faces and in every town I've found
a fine man each somewhere, be it near or far,
who's more than happy to tune my guitar.

It's not that I don't know how to do it.
Long ago I figured out there's nothing to it.

It just plays more sweetly when I have a helping hand.
Just works more completely when worked on by a man.
As I have just told you, I already understand.
So do they and that's just how this little song began.

It's not that I don't know how to do it.
Long ago I figured out there's nothing to it.

So when my strings get rusty or jangle out of tune,
I find a handsome someone and say, "How de do.
I've got a little problem and I think the answers you.
Will you take this guitar and get it back in tune?"

It's not that I don't know how to do it.
Long ago I figured out there's nothing to it.

I've travelled, yes I've travelled. Trust me, I've been around.
Seen a lot of faces and in every town I've found
a fine man in each somewhere, be it near or far,
who's been more than happy to tune my guitar.

It's not that I don't know how to do it.
Long ago I figured out there's nothing to it.

We Agree

Two of us in a place just big enough for one
and it's been a long time since I've had fun.
Go away it's over, go away it's done.
It's been a long time since I've had fun.

We don't agree but we agree
I can't stand you and you can't stand me. (2x)

You say you feel bad about it well I kind of doubt it.
Keep talkin' to yourself you don't listen to me.
You're drivin me crazy, quit callin' me baby.
Call yourself, don't call me.

We don't agree etc.

You won't let me talk why don't you take a walk
and keep on walkin' don't run back to me.
I'm gettin' distracted and you're over reactin'.
It ain't my fault you don't want to see.

That we don't agree etc.

Alone in a place just big enough for one
I'd have a good time I'd have fun.
Go away it's over, go away it's done.
'Cause it's been a long time since I've had fun.
Yes it's been a long time since I've had fun.

And we don't agree etc.

Wandering William

Uncle William wandered all over the place
till he fell in love, and so he stayed;
a baby on the way, he tried to settle down.
I don't know if he said goodbye
when he wandered away from his wife and child
but I don't think he meant them any harm.
Maybe a wandrin' man just keeps movin on.

Maybe he didn't know what he wanted
didn't know by what, but knew he was haunted.
Maybe it had to do, with reasons he'd first gone.
Or maybe a wandrin' man just keeps movin' on.

It might have been another life.
It might have been the farm, the baby the wife.
It might have killed him,
but he needed to be free oh wandering William.

He stayed on till the baby was born
guess he didn't want to leave his wife alone
only left on Saturdays to go to the general store.
One day Uncle William walked right out the door
and never again walked back in anymore.

Great-Granddaddy came by later on,
saw the buggy and the mule, saw Uncle William was gone.
Saw the mule needed feedin' so he went to the tobacco barn.
He found Uncle William'd left his baby and wife.
What was left of him slumped over a furnace pipe.
A gun in his hand, William wandered on.
Maybe a wandrin' man just keeps movin' on.

It might have been etc.

A Hundred Years

It's all gone wrong, I've been up so long
I can't count the dawns.
You're fast asleep, I can hardly keep from
taking you in my arms.
I have to go, we both know that it's all gone too far.
I'm runnin' away and I wish I could stay,
wish I could stay for a hundred years.

There's so much to say, it would take a day,
I don't have that any more.
No matter how I tried, I know your eyes
wouldn't look at me like before
when we first kissed, I felt like I'd missed you
like I'd never missed anyone more.
Felt like it had been a hundred years.

If I knew I had a hundred years to do what I wanted to
I would spend a hundred years wakin' up with you
but things don't always work out the way that I would like them to
I'm runnin' away and I wish I could stay.

This is goodbye, can't say I won't cry but I guess I'll be ok
I won't forget it and I won't regret it
I'm not that way.
But it's gonna take more than a lifetime to stop wishin' I had stayed.
It would take more than a hundred years.

If I knew etc.

Insult to Injury

You're right again, I can't win.
I screwed up and blamed luck.
You're nearly flawless.
I'm a total mess.
Yea, what's wrong wiht you is me.
All you make easy is to see.
Quit adding insult to injury.

I've been wrong, all along.
You're not uptight, just always right.
It's all me. It's plain to see.
I'm the solitary cause of your very few flaws.
Yea, what's wrong with you is me.
All you make easy is to see.
Quit adding insult to injury.

You've found me out.
There's no doubt.
It ain't you, it's true.
I'm the only reason
your life ain't pleasin'.
What's wrong with you is me.
All you make easy is to see.
Quit adding insult to injury.

You can't stand me
or understand me.
You were doin fine
when you weren't mine.
Leave me behind.
I won't mind.
'Cause what's wrong with you is me.
All you make easy is to see.
Quit adding insult to injury.

Only Me Worth Keepin'You Kept

You and your carnival eyes,
you bitterly slippery prize,
you attract every passer by.
I hang my head and sigh.
'Cause I'm willin' to bet
someday I'm gonna get left.
I know it's gonna feel like the only me worth keepin' you kept.

You don't imagine
the way you're draggin'
my heart down like an undertow
everyone else does though.
But baby even so they'd all love to have a go
that's why I know it's gonna feel like the only me worth keepin' you kept.

And nobody's blamin' me;
although they can plainly see
that there's no guarantee
of you permenantly.
They'd all do the same I bet.
That's why I'm gonna get left.
I know it's gonna feel like the only me worth keepin' you kept.

Repeat 1st verse

Get Out of My Face

We used to get along,
now every second is a second too long
for you and me, you better get gone.

And no, I don't want you to call me.
You actually appal me.
So, no, don't you ever call me.

'Cause I don't want to see you.
You are not my friend.
I wouldn't want to be you.
You are not my friend.
What's up with you and me is
you are not my friend.

So just stay out of my face.
You are so easily replaced.
I ain't got no time to waste
and you are takin' up mine and my space.

I'd really like to hurt you.
You are not my friend.
Don't know where I'd start first with you.
You are not my friend.

So no I don't want you to call me etc.

Yea, you better go.
You are easily hurt, I know
and I've got punches and other stuff to throw.

I'd like to erase you.
You are not my friend.
Get out of my face you
are not my friend.

You (insert unprintable words here) this is the end.

Goodbye to Everything

I'm gonna just go away.
You obviously don't want me to stay.
My flyins' what it's gonna take for you to get
that I'm a habit and I can't let,
I can't let you be everything.

You see I understand everything you've ever said.
I've understood it till my eyes were red.
I've understood it until I cried while you,
you, you, you cried for everything.
You cry 'bout everything.

So I'm gonna pack up all of my stuff and
if you don't like it, well that's just tough 'cause
frankly I have had enough of you, you, you,
you and your everything.

Bye, goodbye to you, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you
and to everything.
Goodbye to everything.

Goodbye Blackbird

You flew away while I said good bye to your wind.
Time went by till I thought I'd reached the end
of what if now and what if then and what if I saw you again.
End of breakin' my own heart with what might have been.

I moved on I thought, told myself it seemed.
You faded into that kind of dream
I'd wake up from wonderin' if there was somethin' more real than life I'd seen
behind my closed eyes, or were they yours, or in between?

Now you blow back in again,
crazy old gypsy wind.
Driftin' down on raven wings,
guess that's what sayin' bye to wind brings.

Somehow it's like nothing ever changed,
except neither of us have ever been the same.
Since we were blackbirds on a hill,
flew off with birds of other names;
but that can and cannot be explained.

Guess I knew all along
wouldn't be an end to the song.
Beens don't end, hearts don't mend no matter how strong
and blackbirds always fly back where they belong.

Now you blow back in again,
crazy old devil wind.
Driftin' down on raven wings,
guess that's what sayin' 'bye to wind brings.

You fly by I say hi to our eyes.
It's the wind making them sting and cry.
For what if now and what if then? Again, I'm not surprised.
That's just the way blackbirds fly.
The only birds that never say goodbye.

Morning After You Left Me Forever

Every day I wake up I'm drunk from the night before.
Every day I swear I'll never drink no more.
And then I smoke three packs of cigarettes
and I swear I'll kick my habits.
You know, I usually do what I say I'll do
and one of these days boy I'm gonna kick you.
but it feels like the mornin' after you left me forever
every time I open my eyes.

I wake up mad at everything. Mad at nothin' too.
Mad at the sun for risin' and most of all I'm mad at you.
Cause it feels like the mornin' after you left me forever
every time I open my eyes.

I know it don't do me a bit of good.
I don't think I'd take you back if I could
I know you're not my whole problem
but I've got a lot and it's hard to solve them
when it feels like the mornin' after you left me forever
every time I open my eyes.

I wake up mad 'cause I wake up alone.
I wake up mad 'cause I got a millstone
like an albatross around my neck it serves to remind
me of our former daily grind.
And it feels like the mornin' after you left me forever
every time I open my eyes.
Yes it feels like the mornin' after you left me forever
why am I still surprised.

Bucket of Woes

I just dropped back in to tell you
you have been lately on my mind
been wonderin' what you might be goin' through
and no, I didn't think you'd mind
but I didn't know what I'd find
sorry I left you behind.

Now you're fallin' should I catch you?
Now you're smilin' should I cry?
You know I always see right through you
and there's no way left for you to lie
so I laugh and cry
sorry I said goodbye.

But will you won't you, will you won't you
will you won't you, won't you dance with me?
No, somethin' in you died, and I think,
I think it's cause you see
that even I couldn't save you
and I never forgave you.

Guess I finally got all the answers
weren't the ones I wanted to know
dancin' hurts the feet of dancers
it's hard stayin' on your toes
sorry that's how it goes
stuck it in my bucket of woes.

Oh but once you won't you once you don't you
once you chanced it all you danced with me
now somethin' in you died and I think, I think it's cause you see
that even I couldn't save you
and no I never forgave you.

I just dropped back in to see you
thought you might like seein' me
thought by now somethin' would have freed you
remember when we all thought it was me
why are you still not free?
Sorry I had to see.

Once you won't you will you won't you
will you won't you won't you dance with me?
No, something in you died
and I think, I think it's cause you see
that even I couldn't save you
and no I never forgave you.
No I never forgave you.

Stealin' for the Lord

I was drivin' in my Pinto down near Memphis Tennessee,
feelin' mighty strange if I recall.
I always had a notion God had lots of plans for me
but I never knew an egg would start it all.

I pulled into a truck stop, had a little time to kill.
It seemed to be an ordinary place.
I walked into the gift shop after I had ate my fill.
It was there I saw the Lord in a display case.

His face was like an angels and his hands were raised in prayer
on a dainty ceramic egg painted blue;
a Jesus so life like I could almost touch his hair.
Then God told me, "This is what you need to do."

He said, "Steal it for the Lord.
You know he'll forgive you.
Steal it for the Lord.
Steal it for the Lord.

He said I should remember what he asked of Abraham.
Said sometimes doin' wrong is doin' right.
He told me that for everyone the good Lord has a plan
and I ought to take that egg and then take flight.

So I stole it for the Lord etc

I wound up in a jail cell and the judge he didn't see,
in spite of all my pleading and my prayers,
that I'd done it just because it was the good Lords plan for me
that ceramic Jesus with the lifelike flowing hair.

I stole it for the Lord etc

Everything and Nothin'

She sat right across from me,
sippin' on a daquiri.
I could look into her eyes and see she wasn't there.

She was lost inside herself.
Wishin' she were somewhere else.
I wondered where she'd like to be or if she didn't care.

And she said, "Everything and nothins' wrong",
and she poured another drink.
"I know I'm not where I belong but I needed time to think.
So bring my margurita and a cold long island tea because
everything and nothin' just might be the end of me."

She sat back and watched them all,
dancin' shadows on the wall.
Closed her eyes and dreamed about someone she couldn't see.
She asked me how she'd ever win
as she slowly guzzled gin.
I shook my head, began to dance and said, "It seems to me

everything and nothins' wrong" etc

"It's late I said, I think I'll try
to finish one last Mai Tai."
She turned away and floated back to dreams she'd never find.
Everything can't buy her time
and nothin, well, that's just the crime.
She looks at him but sees the one she had to leave behind.

And she says, "Everything and nothins' wrong." etc...

Sunset and High

On the corner of Sunset and High
I caught you smiling, but just with your eyes.
Something in you made me weak,
made me tremble when I tried to speak
to you.

You haunt me so. Feels like I left you just minutes ago.
I still feel your arms in the morning.
You just keep creeping up without warning.

Wasn't it the right time for you to be mine?
Wasn't it the right place to discover your face;
there on Sunset and High, you and your eyes,
goodbye.

I still feel your hands fall like night.
Somehow you chilled me but filled me with light.
I still feel your arms in the morning.
You just keep creeping up without warning.

Wasn't it the right time for you to be mine?
Wasn't it the right place to discover your face;
there on Sunset and High, you and your eyes,
goodbye.

I still feel your arms in the morning.
You just keep creeping up without warning.