THE DOORS
BREAK ON THROUGH
You know the day destroys the night,
Night divides the day;
Tried to run. Tried to hide
Break on thru to the other side, break on thru
We chased our pleasures here,
Dug our treasures there
Can you still recall the time we cried?
Break on thru to the other side, break on thru
I found an island in your arms,
A country in your eyes,
Arms that chain, eyes that lie
Break on thru ...etc.
Made the scene from week to week,
Day to day, hour to hour,
The gate is straight, deep and wide
Break on thru ...etc.
Break. Break. Break. Break
SOUL KITCHEN
Well, the clock says it's time to close
I guess I'd better go
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes,
Street lights shed their hollow glow;
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go, still one place to go
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen,
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander, baby,
Stumbling in the neon groves
Your fingers weave quick minarets,
Speaking in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette,
Learn to forget, learn to forget
THE CRYSTAL SHIP
Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss,
Another flashing chance at bliss,
Another kiss, another kiss
The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain,
The time you ran was too insane,
We'll meet again, we'll meet again
The crystal ship is being filled,
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills,
A million ways to spend your time;
When we get back, I'll drop a line
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
Well, she's fashionably lean,
And she's fashionably late,
She'll never rank a scene,
She'll never break a date;
But she's no drag, just watch the way she walks,
She's a Twentieth Century Fox,
She's a Twentieth Century Fox;
No tears, no fears, no ruined years, no clocks
She's a Twentieth Century Fox
She's the queen of cool,
And she's the lady who waits,
Since her mind left school,
It never hesitates;
She won't waste time on elementary talk,
She's a Twentieth Century Fox,
She's a Twentieth Century Fox;
Got the world locked up inside a plastic box;
She's a Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox, yeh
Twentieth Century Fox
WHISKEY BAR (ALABAMA
SONG)
Well, show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
Show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find
The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say good-bye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why
Well, show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
Show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find
The next little girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why
LIGHT MY FIRE
You know that it would be untrue;
You know that I would be a liar;
If I was to say to you;
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on, baby, light my fire,
Come on, baby, light my fire,
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through,
No time to wallow in the mire,
Try now we can only lose,
And our love become a funeral pyre
The time to hesitate is through,
No time to wallow in the mire;
If I was to say to you;
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
BACK DOOR MAN
Whoa, yeah!
C'mon, yeah
Yeah, c'mon, yeah
Yeah, c'mon
Oh, yeah, ma
Yeah, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep
I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah
'Cause I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
All right, yeah
You men eat your dinner
Eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken
Than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah
I'm a back door man, what
The men don't know
But the little girsl understand
Well, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
Whoa, baby, I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
I LOOKED AT YOU
I looked at you You looked at me,
I smiled at you You smiled at me
And we're on our way
I walk with you You walk with me,
I talked to you You talked to me
And we're on our way
No, we can't turn back, babe; Yeah,
We're on our way; and we can't turn back
'cause it's too late, too late, too late,
Too late, too late And we're on our way no, we
Can't turn back, babe; yeah, we're on our way;
And we can't turn back
END OF THE NIGHT
Take the highway to the end of the night
End of the night
End of the night
Take a journey to the bright midnight
End of the night
End of the night
Realms of bliss, realms of light,
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to the endless night
End of the night End of the night
End of the night End of the night
TAKE IT AS IT COMES
Time to live, time to lie,
Time to laugh, time to die
Take it easy, baby, take it as it comes
Don't move too fast if you want your love to last
You've been movin' much too fast
Time to walk, time to run,
Time to aim your arrows at the Sun
Go real slow, you'll like it more and more,
Take it as it comes, specialize in having fun
THE END
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes
Again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need
Of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the king's highway, baby
Weird seems inside the goldmine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake
Ride the snake, to the lake,
The ancient lake, baby
The snake is long seven miles
Ride the snake
He is old and his skin is cold
The West is the best
The West is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went to the room where his sister lived
And then he paid a visit to his brother
And then he walked on down the hall
And he came to a door,and he looked inside
"Father?" - "Yes, son?" - "I want to kill you,
Mother, I want to..."
Come on, baby, take a chance with us
Come on, baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
(Blue bus still now...
Come on, girl)
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of night we tried to die
This is the end
STRANGE DAYS
STRANGE DAYS
Strange days have found us,
Strange days have tracked us down,
They're goin' to destroy our casual joys,
We shall go on playing or find a new town
Strange eyes fill strange rooms,
Voices will signal their tired end,
The hostess is grinning,
Her guests sleep from sinning,
Hear me talk of sin and you know this is it
Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone, bodies confused,
Memories misused,
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
YOU'RE LOST LITTLE GIRL
You're lost little girl,
You're lost little girl,
You're lost, tell me who are you
Think that you know what to do,
Impossible yes, but it's true
I think that you know what to do, yeah,
Sure that you know what to do
You're lost little girl,
You're lost little girl,
You're lost, tell me who are you
LOVE ME TWO TIMES
Love me two times, baby,
Love me twice today;
Love me two times, girl,
I'm goin' away
Love me two times, girl,
One for tomorrow, one just for today;
Love me two times, I'm goin' away
Love me one time, could not speak;
Love me one time, yeh, my knee got weak
Love me two times, girl,
Last me all thru the week;
Love me two times, I'm goin' away;
Love me two times, I'm goin' away
UNHAPPY GIRL
Girl, unhappy girl,
Left all alone,
Playin' solitaire,
Playin' warden to your soul;
You are locked in a prison of your own device
And you can't believe what it does to me
To see you cryin'
Girl, unhappy girl,
Tear your web away;
Saw thru all your bars
Melt yourself today;
You are charged in a prison of your own device
Girl, unhappy girl,
Fly fast away;
Don't miss your chance
To swim in mystery
You are tied in a prison of your own device
HORSE LATITUDES
When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters,
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned,
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop,
And head bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over
MOONLIGHT DRIVE
Let's swim to the moon uh huh
Let's climb thru the tide,
Penetrate the evenin'
That the city sleeps to hide
Let's swim out tonight,
Love it's our turn to try
Parked eside the ocean
On our moonlight drive
Let's swim to the moon uh huh
Let's climb thru the tide,
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side
Nothing left open and no time to deside
We've stepped into a river
On our moonlight drive
Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb thru the tide
You reach a hand to hold me
But I can't be your guide
Easy to love you as I watch you glide
Falling through wet forests
On our moonlight drive
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
People are strange when you're a stranger,
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down,
When you're strange
Faces come out of rain when you're stranger
No one remembers your name when you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU
My eyes have seen you,
My eyes have seen you,
My eyes have seen you
Stand in your door meet inside
Show me some more show me some more
Turn and stare fix your hair
Move up stairs, move up stairs
Move up stairs
Free from disguise,
Gazing on a city under television skies,
Television skies, television skies
Let them photograph your your soul,
Memorize your alleys on an endless roll,
endless roll, endless roll
I CAN'T SEE YOUR FACE
I can't see your face in my mind
I can't see your face in my mind
Carnival dogs consume the lines
Can't see your face in my mind
Don't you cry, baby, please don't cry,
And don't look at me with your eyes,
I can't seem to find the right lie,
I can't seem to find the right lie
Insanity's horse adorns the sky,
Can't seem to find the right lie,
I won't need your picture
until we say good-bye
WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER
When the music's over,
When the music's over here
When the music over turn out the lights,
turn out the lights,
turn out the lights
Yeah, yeah
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
music is your only friend until the end,
until the end, until the end
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection,
Send my credentials to the house of detention,
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends alive she cried,
Waiting for me outside
Before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear the scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby, back into my arms
We're getting tired of waiting around
Waiting around
with our heads
to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered
and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives
in the side of the dawn
and tied her with fences
and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground -
We want the world and we want it
Now!
Persian night!
See the light!
Save us!
Jesus!
Save us!
When the music's over,
When the music's over here
When the music over
turn out the lights,
turn out the lights,
turn out the lights
Yeah, yeah
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
music is your only friend until the end,
until the end, until the end
WAITING FOR THE SUN
HELLO, I LOVE YOU
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game
She's walkin' down the street
Blind to ev'ry eye she meets,
Do you think you'll be the guy
To make the queen of the angel's sigh?
She holds her head so high
Like a statue in the sky
Her arms are wicked and her legs are long
When she moves, my brain screams out this song
Sidewalk crouches at her feet
Like a dog that begs for something sweet
Do you hope to make her see,you fool?
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel?
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello
LOVE STREET
She lives on Love Street,
Lingers long on Love Street,
She has a house and garden,
I would like to see what happens
She has robes and she has monkeys,
Lazy diamond-studed flunkies,
She has wisdom and knows what to do,
She has me and she has you
I see you live on Love Street;
There's the store where the creatures meet
I wonder what they do in there,
Summer Sunday and a year
I guess I like it fine so far
She lives on Love Street,
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens...
NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH
Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun,
Nothing left to do but run run run, let's run
Let's run
House upon the hill, moon is lying still,
Shadows of the trees, witnessing the wild breeze
Come on, baby, run with me, let's run
Run with me, run with me, run with me, let's run
The mansion is warm at the top of the hill,
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs,
And you don't know a thing till you get inside
Dead President's corpse in the driver's car,
The engine runs on glue and tar,
Come on along, not goin' very far,
To the East to meet the Czar
Run with me, run with me, run with me. Let's run
Some outlaws live by the side of a like,
The minister' daughter's in love with the snake,
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl, we're almost home!
SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE
Summer's almost gone,
Summer's almost gone,
Almost gone, yeh, it's almost gone
Where will we be when the summer's gone?
Morning found us calmly unaware,
Noon burned gold into our hair,
At night we swam the laughing sea
When summer's gone, where will we be?
Summer's almost gone,
Summer's almost gone
We had some good times but they're gone
The winter's coming on, summer's almost gone
WINTERTIME LOVE
Wintertime winds blow cold this season,
Falling in love I'm hopin' to be
Wind is so cold, is that the reason
Keeping you warm, your hands touching me
Come with me, dance, my dear,
Winter's so cold this year
You are so warm, my Wintertime Love to be
Wintertime winds blue and freezin'
Comin' from northern storms in the sea
Love has been lost, is that the reason
Trying so desperately to be free
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier
Practice where the news is read
Television children dead
Unborn, living, dead,
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over for the unknown soldier,
It's all over for the unknown soldier
Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier
Practise where the news is read
Television children dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
It's all over, the war is over...
SPANISH CARAVAN
Carry me, caravan, take me away,
Take me to Portugal, take me to Spain,
Andalusia, with fields full of grain,
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan,
Yes, I know you can
Aid, winds, my galley's lost in the sea
and I know a treasure is waiting for me.
Silver and gold in the montains of Spain
I have to see you again and again.
Take me, Spanish Caravan,
Yes, I know you can
MY WILD LOVE
My wild love went riding,
She rode all the day;
She rode to the devil,
And asked him to pay
The devil was wiser
It's time to repent;
He asked her to give back
The money she spent
My wild love went riding,
She rode to sea;
She gathered together
Some shells for her hair
She rode on to Christmas,
She rode to the farm;
She rode to Japan
And re-entered a town
My wild love is crazy
She screams like a bird;
She moans like a cat
When she wants to be heard
She rode and she rode on
She rode for a while,
Then stopped for an evening
And laid her head down
By this time the weather
Had changed one degree,
She asked for the people
To let her go free
My wild love went riding,
She rode for an hour;
She rode and she rested,
And then she rode on
WE COULD BE SO GOOD TOGETHER
We could be so good together,
Yeh, so good together,
We could be so good together,
Yeh, we could, I know we could
Tell you lies, I'll tell you wicked lies,
Tell you lies, tell you wicked lies
I tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent,
Wanton world without lament,
Enterprise, expedition,
Invitation and invention
Yeh, so good together,
Ah, so good together,
We could be so good together,
Yeh, we could, know we could
We could be so good together,
Yeh, so good together,
We could be so good together,
Yeh, we could, know we could
Tell you lies, tell you wicked lies,
Tell you lies, tell you wicked lies
The time you wait substracts from joy,
Beheads the angels you destroy;
Angels fight, angels cry;
Angels dance and angels die
YES THE RIVER KNOWS
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me
Free fall flow river,
Flow on and on it goes,
Breathe under water till the end
Free fall flow river,
Flow on and on it goes,
Breathe under water till the end
Yes the river knows
Please believe me,
If you don't need me
I'm going but I need a little time,
I promised I would drown myself in mystic heated wine
Please believe me
The river told me
Very softly
Want you to hold me
I'm going but I need a little time,
I promised I would drown myself in mystic heated wine
FIVE TO ONE
Five to one, baby, one in five,
No one here gets out alive,
Now you get yours, baby, I'll get mine,
Gonna make it, baby, it we try
The old get old and the young get stronger,
May take a week and it may take longer,
They got the duns but we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeh, we're takin' over, come on
Your ballroom days are over, baby,
Night is drawing near,
Shadows of the evening grow across the year
You walk across the floor with a flower in your hand,
Trying to tell me no one understands,
Trading your house for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it, baby, in our prime
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
THE SOFT PARADE
TELL ALL THE PEOPLE
Tell All The People that you see
Follow me Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Set them free follow me down
You tell them they don't have to run
We're gonna pick up everyone
Come on take me by the hand
Gonna bury all our troubles in the sand
Oh yeah!
Can't you see the wonder at your feet
Your life's complete Follow we down
Can't you see me growing, get your guns
The time has come to follow me down
Follow me across the sea
Where milky babies seem to be
Molded flowing revelry
With the one that set them free
Tell All The People that you see
It's just me follow me down
Tell all the People that you see
Follow me Follow me down
Tell all the People that you see
Follow me Follow me down
Tell all the People that you see
We'll be free follow me down
Tell all the People that you see
Follow me Follow me down
Follow me down, you got to follow me down,
Follow me down
Tell All The People that you see
We'll be free follow me down
TOUCH ME
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon now, Touch me, babe,
Can't you see that I am not afraid
What was that promise that you made,
Why won't you tell me what she said
What was that promise that she made
Now I'm gonna love you till the heaven stops the rain
I'm gonna love you till the stars fall from the sky
For you and I
SHAMAN'S BLUES
There will never be another one like you
There will never be another one who can do the
things you do. Oh!
Will you give another chance?
Will you try a little try?
Please stop and you'll remember
we were together, any way
All right
Now, if you have a certain evening you could lend to me,
I'll give it all right back to you
Know how it has to be with you
I know your moods and your mind, and your mind
and your mind, and your mind, and you're mine
Will you stop to think and wonder
Just what you'll see
Out on the trainyard nursing penitentiary
It's gone. I cry out long
Did you stop to consider how it will feel,
Cold grindin' grizzly bear jaws hot on your heels
Do you often stop and whisper in
Saturday's shore that
The whole world's a savior
Who could ever ever ever ever ever ever
ask for more?
Do you remember?
Will you stop, will you stop the pain?
How you must think and wonder
How I must feel out on the meadows
While you're on the field
I'm alone for you, and I cry
He's sweatin', look at him...optical promise...you'll
be dead and in hell before I'm borne...sure
thing...bridesmaid...the only solution - isn't it amazing?
DO IT
Yeah, please me, yeah
Please, baby
Please please
Please, please, listen to me children
Please, please, listen to me children
Please, please, listen to me children
You are the ones who will rule the world
You gotta please me all night
Please, please, listen to me, children said
Please, please, listen to me children
Please Yeah, please me
Please, please, listen to me children,
Please, my children
Please, children
Please, children
EASY RIDE
And I know, it will be an Easy Ride oh yeah,
And I know it will be Easy Ride O.K.
The mask that you wore my fingers would explore
Costume of control excitement soon unfolds
And I know it will be an Easy Ride, yeah,
Joy fought vaguely with your pride
with your pride
Coda queen now be my bride
Rage in darkness by my side
Seize the summer in your pride
Take the winter in your stride, let's ride
WILD CHILD
Wild child full of grace
Savior of the human race
Your cool face
Natural child, terrible child
You're our child screaming wild
With hunger at her heels freedom in her eyes,
She dances on her knees, pirate prince at her side
Staring into the hollow idol's eye
Wild child full of grace
Savior of the human race
Your cool face Your cool face
Your cool Your cool face
"You remember when we were in Africa"
RUNNIN' BLUES
Poor Otis dead and gone, left me here to sing his song,
Pretty litlle girl with the red dress on,
Poor Otis dead and gone
Back down, turn around slowly, try it again,
Remembering when, it was easy, try it again,
Much too easy remembering when
All right, look at my shoes, not quite the walkin' blues
Don't fight, too much to lose
Can't fight the Runnin' Blues
Well, I've got the Runnin' Blues
Runnin' away, back to L.A.
Got to find the dock on the bay
Maybe find it back in L.A.
Runnin' scared, Runnin' Blues,
Goin' so fast, what'll I do?
All right, look at my shoes, not quite the walkin' blues,
Don't fight, too much to lose;
Can't find the Runnin' Blues
WISHFUL SINFUL
Wishful crystal water covers ev'rything in blue cooling water
Wishful sinful, our love is beautiful to see,
I know where I would like to be:
Right back where I came
Wishful sinful wicked blue water covers you
Wishful sinful wicked you, can't escape the blue
Magic rising sun is shining, deep beneath the sea
But, not enough for you and me and sunshine
Love to hear the wind cry
You and me and sunshine, love to hear the wind cry
THE SOFT PARADE
"When I was back there in seminary school, there was
a person there who put forth the proposition
that you can petition the Lord with prayer...
Petition the Lord with prayer... petition the Lord
with prayer... petition the Lord with prayer.
You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!"
Can you give me sanctuary?
I must find a place to hide, a place for me to hide
Can you find me soft asylum?
I can't make it anymore; the man is at the door
Peppermint miniskirts, chocolate candy,
Champion sax and a girl named Sandy;
There's only four ways to get unraveled;
One is to sleep and the the other is travel,
One is a band it up in the hills,
One is to love your neighbour till his wife gets home
Catacombs, nursery bones,
Winter women growing stones,
Carrying babies to the river;
Streets and shoes, avenues,
Leather riders selling news
The monk bought lunch
Successful hills are here to stay
Everything must be this way
Gentle streets where people play,
Welcome to the soft parade
All our lives we sweat and save,
Building for a shallow grave
"Must be something else" we say,
"Somehow to defend this place."
Everything must be this way,
Everything must be this way
The soft parade has now begun;
Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun,
Cobra on my left, leopard on my right
Deer woman in a silk dress,
Girls with beads around their necks,
Kiss the hunter of the green vest
Who has wrestled before with lions in the night
Out of sight!
The lights are getting brighter,
The radio is moaning,
Callin' to the dogs there are still a few animals
Left out in the yard, but it's getting harder
To describe sailors to the underfed
Tropic corridor, tropic treasure
What got us this far, to this mild Equator?
We need someone or something new,
Something else to get us through
1st voice:
2nd voise:
3rd voice:
Callin' on the dogs,
callin' on the dogs,
But it's getting callin' on the dogs,
harder,
callin' on the dogs,
callin' on the dogs
calling on the dogs
You gotta
Shoot at a few meet me
Too late, baby!
animals
left out in the yard at the crossroads
Too late!
but it's getting much
harder
Gotta meet me
at the edge of town, Tropic corridor,
You'd better come along
tropic treasure
outskirts of the city
Just you and I
We were so alone
Better bring your gun
Better bring your gun Tropic corridor,
You'd better bring your
tropic treasure
gun
"When all else fails, we can whip the horses' eyes
and make them sleep and cry."
MORRISON HOTEL / HARD ROCK CAFE
ROADHOUSE BLUES
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
Yeah, we're goin' to the roadhouse,
gonna have a real good time
Yeah, in back of the roadhouse they got some bungalows
Yeah, in back of the roadhouse they got some bungalows
And that's for the people who like to go down slow
Let it roll baby, roll;
Let it roll baby, roll;
Yeah, let it roll, all night long
Ashen lady, Ashen lady, give up your vows!
Give up your vows!
Save our city, save our city, right now!
When I woke up this morning I got myself a beer
When I woke up this morning I got myself a beer
The future is uncertain and the end is always near
WAITING FOR THE SUN
At first flash of Eden we raced down to the sea,
Standing there on freedom's shore
Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun,
Waiting for the sun
Can't you feel it, now that spring has come;
That it's time to live in the scattered sun
Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun,
Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,
Waiting for you to come along;
Waiting for you to hear my song;
Waiting for you to come along;
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest life I've ever known
YOU MAKE ME REAL
I really want you really do,
Really need you, baby, God knows I do
'Cause I'm not real enough without you;
Oh, what can I do?
You make me real, you make me feel like lovers feel
You make me throw away mistaken misery
Make me free, love. Make me free
I really want you really do,
Really need you, baby, really do
'Cause I'm not real enough without you;
Oh, what can I do?
You make me real, only you, baby, have that appeal
So let me slide in your tender sunken sea,
Make me free, love, make me free
PEACE FROG
There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles,
Blood in the streets it's up to my knee;
Blood in the streets of the town of Chicago,
Blood on the rise, it's following me,
Just about the break of day
She came, then she drove away, sunlight in her hair
Blood on the streets runs a river of sadness
Blood in the streets, it's up to my thigh
The river runs down the legs of the city;
The women are crying red rivers of weeping
She came in town and then she drove away,
sunlight in her hair
Indians scattered on dawn's highway
Bleeding ghosts crowd the young child's fragile
Egg-shell mind
Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven;
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer;
Bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.
Blood screams her brain as the chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation;
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
There's blood in the streets it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets it's up to my knee;
Blood in the streets of the town of Chicago,
Blood on the rise, it's following me
BLUE SUNDAY
I found my own true love was on a Blue Sunday
She looked at me and told me I was the only one in
the world;
Now I have found my girl
My girl awaits for me in tender time
My girl is mine, she is the world,
She is my girl
SHIP OF FOOLS
The human race was dying out,
No-one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon,
Smog will get you pretty soon
Ev'ryone was hangin' out,
Hangin' up and hangin' down
Hangin' in and holdin' fast,
Hope our little world will last
Yeah, Along came Mister Goodtrips
Looking for a new ship
Come on, people, better climb on board;
Come on, baby, now we're going home
Ship of fools, ship of fools,
Smog will get you pretty soon
The human race was dying out,
No-one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon,
Smog will get you pretty soon
LAND HO!
Grand-ma loved a sailor
Who sailed the frozen sea
Grand-pa was a whaler
And he took me on his knee
He said, "Son, I'm goin' crazy
From livin' on the land.
Got to find my shipmates
And walk on foreign sands"
This old man was graceful,
With silver in his smile
He smoked a briar pipe and
He walked four country miles
Singing song of shady sisters
And old time liberty,
Songs of love and songs of death,
And songs to set men free
I've got three ships and sixty men,
A course for ports unread
I'll stand at mast, let north winds blow
Till half of us are dead
Land Ho!
Well, it I get my hands on a dollar bill,
Gonna buy a bottle and drink my fill
If I get my hands on a number five,
Gonna skin that little girl aline
If I get my hands on a number two
Come back home and marry you,
Marry you, marry you. All right!
Land Ho!
THE SPY
I'm a spy in the house of Love
I know the dream that you're dreamin' of;
I know the word that you long to hear
I know your deepest secret fear
I know ev'rything:
Ev'rything you do;
Ev'rywhere you go;
Ev'ryone you know
I'm a spy, I know your deepest secret fear
I know your deepest secret, I'm a spy
I can see what you do;
And I know
QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY
She was a princess, Queen of the Highway
Sign on the road said: "Take us to Madre"
No one could save her, save the blind tiger
He was a monster, black dressed in leather
She was a princess, Queen of the Highway
Now they are wedded, she is a good girl;
Naked as children out in the Meadow,
Naked as children, wild as can be,
Soon to have offspring, start it all over
Start it all over
American boy, American girl,
Most beautiful people in the world!
Son of a frontier Indian Swirl,
Dancing thru the midnight whirl-pool
Formless hope it can continue a little longer
INDIAN SUMMER
I love you the best,
Better than all the rest,
I love you the best,
Better than all the rest,
That I meet in the summer
Indian summer
MAGGIE M'GILL
Miss Maggie M'Gill she lived on a hill,
Her daddy got drunk and left her no will,
So she went down,
Down to "Tangie Town"
People down there really like to get it on
Now, if you're sad and you're feelin' blue,
Go out and buy a brand new pair of shoes,
And you go down,
Down to "Tangie Town"
The people down there really like to get it on, get it on
Illegitimate son of a rock and roll star
Illegitimate son of a rock and roll star
Mom met Dad in the back of a rock'n roll car
Well, I'm an old blues man and I think
that you understand
I've been singing the blues ever since
the world began
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie M'Gill,
Roll on, roll on, Maggie M'Gill
L. A. WOMAN
CHANGELING
I live up town, I live down-town,
I live all around
I had money, I had none;
I had money, I had;
But I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town
I'm a changeling see me change
I'm a changeling
I'm in the air you breathe, food you eat,
Friend you greet in the swarming street
See me change, see me change
I'm leaving town on the midnight train
Gonna see me change, change, change...
LOVE HER MADLY
Don't you love her madly?
Don't you need her badly?
Don't you love her ways?
Tell me what you say?
Don't you love her madly?
Want to be her daddy?
Don't you love her face?
Don't you love her as she's walking out the door?
Like she did one thousand times before
Don't you love her ways?
Tell me what you say
Don't you love her as she's walking out the door?
All your love, all your love,
All your love, all your love,
All your love is gone,
So sing a lonely song of a deep blue dream
Seven horses seem to be on the mark
BEEN DOWN SO LONG
Well, I been down so Goddamn long
That it looks like up to me
Well, I been down so very damn long
That it looks like up to me
Now, why don't one of you people
c'mon and set me free?
I said, warden, warden, warden,
Won't you break your lock and key
I said, warden, warden, warden,
Won't you break your lock and key
Hey, come along here, mister,
c'mon, and the poor boy be
Baby, baby, baby, won't you get down on your knee;
Baby, baby, baby, won't you get down on your knee
C'mon, little darling,
C'mon and give you love to me
CARS HISS BY MY WINDOW
The cars hiss by my window
like the waves down on the beach
The cars hiss by my mindow
like the waves down on the beach
I got this girl beside me, but she's out of reach
Headlights thru my window shining on the wall
Headlights thru my window clining on the wall,
Can't hear my baby tho' I call and call
Window starts to tremble with a sonic boom
Window starts to tremble with a sonic boom
Cold girl will kill you in a darkened room
L. A. WOMAN
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow,
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows,
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light?
Or just another lost angels
City of night, city of night,
City of night, city of night
L.A. woman, L.A. woman, L.A. woman,
Sundau afternoon,
L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon
L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon
Drive thru your suburbs into your blues,
Into your blues, into your blue, blue, blue,
Into your blues
I see your hair is burning
Hills are filled with fire;
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Driving down the freeway
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars,
Never saw a woman so alone,
So alone, so alone, so alone
Motel money murder madness
Let's change the mood from glad to sadness
Mister Mojo risin' mister Mojo risin'
Mister Mojo risin' mister Mojo risin'
Got to keep on risin'
Mister Mojo risin'
Mojo risin'
Risin', risin'
City of night, city of night
L.A. woman, L.A. woman, L.A. woman, she's my woman
L'AMERICA
I took a trip down to l'America
To trade some beads for a pint of gold
I took a trip down to l'America
To trade some beads for a pint of gold
L'America, l'America, l'America
C'mon, people, don't you look so down;
You know the rainman's comin' to town
He'll change your weather, he'll change your luck,
He'll even teach you how to find yourself,
l'America
Friendly strangers came to town,
All the people put them down
But the women loved their ways
Come again some other day
Like the gentle rain,
Like the gentle rain that falls
L'America, l'America, l'America, l'America...
HYACINTH HOUSE
What are they doing in the Hyacinth House
What are they doing in the Hyacinth House
To please the lions this day?
I need a brand new friend who doesn't bother me,
I need a brand new friend who doesn't trouble me
I need someone who, who doesn't need me
I see the bathroom is clear,
I think that somebody's near,
I'm sure that someone is following me. Oh, yeah
Why did you throw the Jack-of-Hearts away?
Why did you throw the Jack-of-Hearts away?
It was the only card in the deck
That I had left to play
And I'll say it again, I need a brand new friend,
And I'll say it again, I need a brand new friend,
The end
THE WASP
I want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat
I comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow,
with a back beat, narrow and hard to master
Some call heavenly in its brilliance other,
mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this
thin raft we have constructed pyramids in honor of
our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died
The Negroes in the forest, brightly feathered, and
they are saying:
"Forget the night!
live with us in forest of azure,
out here on the perimeter, there are no stare.
Out here we is stoned - immaculate"
Listen to this I'll tell you about the heartaches;
I'll tell you about the heartache and the loss of God
I'll tell you about the hopeless night,
the meager food my soul forgot,
Tell you about the maiden with wrought iron soul
I want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat,
Soft - driven, slow and mad like some new language
Listen to this I'll tell you about Texas;
I'll tell you about Texas Radio
I'll tell you about the hopeless night,
the wanderin' the Western dream,
Tell you about the maiden with wrought iron soul
RIDERS ON THE STORM
Riders on the storm,
Riders on the storm,
Into this house we're born,
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone,
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride,
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road
Girl, you gotta love your man
Girl, you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends,
Our life will never end
You gotta love your man
FROM CONCERTS
WHO DO YOU LOVE (Elias McDaniel)
I walked 47 miles on barbed-wire,
Got a cobra-snake for a necktie.
I built a house by the roadside,
Made of rattlesnake hide.
Got a brand new chimney up on top,
Made out of human skulls.
Come on baby take a walk with me,
And tell me who do you love?
Who do you love? X3
Tombstone head and a graveyard mind,
I'm just 22 and I don't mind dying.
Rode around the town with a rattlesnake whip,
Come on baby don't give me no lip.
Who do you love? X3
The night is dark, the sky was blue,
Down the alley the ice wagon flew.
Hit a bump, somebody screamed,
You should'a heard just what I seen.
Who, baby, who do you love?
What do you love, now?
Love, love, love me girl.
Love, love, love me darling.
LOVE HIDES
Love hides in the strangest places.
Love hides in familiar faces.
Love comes when you least expect it.
Love hides in narrow corners.
Love comes to those who seek it.
Love hides inside the rainbow.
Love hides in molecular structures.
Love is the answer.
BUILD ME A WOMAN
Give me a witness darling
I need a witness, babe
I got the poontang blues
I got the poontang blues
From the top of my head to the bottom
Of my cowboy shoes
Build me a woman
Make her ten feet tall
You got to build me a woman
Make her ten feet tall
Don't make her worthless
Don't make her small
Build me a woman
Make her ten feet tall
You got to build me a woman
Make her ten feet tall
Don't make her worthless
Don't make her small
Build me someone I can ball
All night long
UNIVERSAL MIND
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus: Then you came along
With a suitcase and a song,
Turned my head around.
Now I'm so alone
Just looking for a home
In every place I see.
I'm the freedom man X3
That's how lucky I am.
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus
I'm the freedom man.
I was doing time in the universal mind.
I was feeling fine.
I was turning keys, I was setting people free.
I was doing all right.
Chorus
I'm the freedom man X3
DEAD CATS, DEAD RATS
Dead cats, dead rats
Can't you see what they were at
Dead cat in a top hat, wow
Sucking on the young man's blood
Wishing he could come, yeah
Sucking on the soldier's brain
Wishing it would be the sameDead cat, deat rat
Can't you see what they were at?
Fat cat in a top hat
Thinks he's an aristocrat
Thinks he can kill and slaughter
Thinks he can shoot my daughterYeah, right! Oh, yeah!
Oh right! Yeeah!
Dead cats, dead rats
Think you're an aristocrat
Crap, now that's crap!
THE PALACE OF EXILE
For seven years
I dwelt in the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island
Now I have come again
To the land of the fair and the strong, and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
Children of night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Now night arrives with her purpe legion
Reire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready
GLORIA
(Van Morrison)
Yeah, right.
Did you hear about my baby? She come around,
She come round here, her head to the ground?
Come round here just about midnight,
She makes me feel so good, make me feel all right.
She come round my street, now
She come to my house
Knock upon my door
Climbing up my stairs--one, two, three
Come on baby
Here she is in my room, oh boy
Hey what's your name?
How old are you?
Where'd you go to school?
Well, now that we know each other a little bit better,
Why don't you come over here and make me feel all right!
Chorus: Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
Gloria--g-l-o-r-i-a
You were my queen and I was your fool,
Riding home after school.
You took me home
To your house.
Your father's at work,
Your mama's out shopping around.
Check me into your room.
Show me your thing.
Why'd you do it baby?
Getting softer--slow it down, etc.
Now you show me your thing.
Wrap your legs around my neck,
Wrap your arms around my feet,
Wrap your hair around my skin.
I'm gonna huh--all right, ok, yeah.
It's getting harder--It's getting too darn fast, etc.
Come on, now, let's get it on.
Too late, too late, too late, too late, too late,
Make me feel all right!
Chorus
Keep the whole thing going, baby!
LITTLE RED ROOSTER (Willie Dixon)
I'm the little red rooster
Too lazy to crow the day.
I'm the little red rooster
Too lazy to crow the day.
Keep everything in the barnyard
Upset in every way.
Dogs begin to bark
The hounds begin to howl.
Dogs begin to bark
The hounds begin to howl.
Look out strange cat people
The rooster's on the prowl.
If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home.
If you see my little red rooster
Please drive him home.
Ain't been no peace in the barnyard
Since my little red rooster been gone.
CLOSE TO YOU (Willie Dixon)
(I want to get)
Close to you like black on white,
Close to you like the coldest of ice,
Close to you like a siamese twin,
Close to you like I'm feeling all right.
(I want to get)
Close to you baby, X3
I don't know what to say or do.
(I want to get)
Close to you like the sight of your eye?
Close to you like the heat is to fire,
Close to you baby as close as I can get,
Close to you like water is wet.
(I want to get)
Close to you till I'm feeling all right,
Close to you--gonna love you all night,
Close to you in New York City,
I love you so much you know it's a pity.
Closer and closer baby.
Closer and closer baby.
MENTAL FLOSS
All deserters will be shot
at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning
so get yourselves together
and quit messing around
No more nonsense!
The assassination occurred at 3.30
No one was there to witness it
Even the breviaries had left their tapestries on the window
And we were all silenced
by the sad mildew cloud
that followed around
I wish I was back in the land of the...
of the...
Aaahm uhm...
You can't pin that one on me
I didn't do a goddamn thing
I was just standing there
Then a bunch of guys came up
and started laying all this shit on me
Now what am I supposed to do?
I'm an American! You can't touch me!
Did you know all nuns are 42?
And their eyes are blue?
Did you know all table clothes
are white in France?
Did you know women wear underpants?
Well, they do!
How does a musician imitate
the sound of underpants sliding
over a woman's thighs,
down over her ankles,
and over her little toes?
And the rings on her toes?
And her unquipped toe nails?
Lightning struck the magic purse
I didn't do a damn thing, man!
I was just standing there
in front of the 'Delicatessen'
and all these rabbies ran up
and a bunch of Indians and freaks
and monsters and f.... just started ...
mhmh... talking in all these weird languages...
What aah ... what ... could I say?
Hey, I'm tired of being a freaky musician
I wanna be Napoleon!
Let's have some more wars around here!
What a stinking, shitty little war we have running over there
Let's get a big one!
A real big one!
With a lotta killings and bombs and blood!
Schooldays...
Schooldays...
Good old-fashioned rule days...
Schooldays...
Schooldays...
Good old-fashioned rule days...
ADOLF HITLER
Adolf Hitler is still alive
Ooooogh - sssssh
I slept with her last night
yeah
Come out from behind
that false mustache, Adolf
I know your’re in there
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
You favor life
He sides with Death
I straddle the fence
and my balls hurt
ORANGE COUNTY SUITE
Well I used to know someone fair
She had orange ribbons in her hair
She was such a trip
She was hardly there
But I loved her
Just the same.
There was rain in our window,
The FM set was ragged
But she could talk, yeah,
We learned to speak
And one year
has gone by
Such a long long road to seek it
All we did was break and freak it
We had all
That lovers ever had
We just blew it
And I'm not sad
Well I'm mad
And I'm bad
And two years
have gone by
Now her world was bright orange
And the fire glowed
And her friend had a baby
And she lived with us
Yeah, we broke through the window
Yeah, we knocked on the door
Her phone would not answer,
Yeah, but she's still home
Now her father has passed over
and her sister is a star
and her mother smokes diamonds
and she sleeps out in the car
Yeah, but she remembers Chicago
The musicians & guitars
and grass by the lake
and people who laugh'd
and made her poor heart ache
Now we live down in the valley
We work out on the farm
We climb up to the mountains
and everything's fine
and I'm still here
and you're still there
and we're still around | 
