I don''t know why, I just know I do I just can''t explain in this language that I use Something leaves me speechless each time that you approach, Each time you glide right through me as if I was a ghost If I only could tell you, if you only would listen I''ve got a line or two to use on you, I''ve got a romance we could christen There''s a word in Spanish I don''t understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish If you can''t comprehend, read it in my eyes If you don''t understand it''s love in a thin disguise And what it takes to move you each time that you resist, Is more than just a pretty face to prove that I exist If I only could tell you, if you only would listen I''ve got a line or two to use on you, I''ve got a romance we could christen And there''s a word in Spanish I

You''re a cool little one My dark southern breeze Sweeps through my fingers And it amazes me Dixie shadowland Your envy shelters me Lay down your burden Mystery of ebony And it amazes me Oh it amazes me Maybe the heat babe could be this tune It amazes me It amazes me What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon Look up that pale light Well she''s waking the trees I''m drifting in your hoo doo And it amazes me That magnolia state Got a hold on me I got no blues to preach Just a Mississippi company And it amazes me Oh it amazes me Maybe the heat babe could be this tune It amazes me It amazes me What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon Ain''t no magic potion No grigri on her side She''s bound to my salvation Sweet little mama Take me down by the river tonight And it amazes me And it amazes me Maybe the heat babe could be this tune It amazes me Oh it amazes me What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon What drives me crazy is that big fat yellow moon

Seen him playing in his backyard Young boy just startin'' out So much history in this landscape So much confusion so much doubt Been there drinking on that front porch Angry kids mean and dumb Looks like a painting that blue skyline God hates fags where we come from ''Western skies'' don''t make it right ''Home of the brave'' don''t make no sense I''ve seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire Left to die on a high ridge fence It''s a cold cold wind It''s a cold cold wind It''s a cold wind blowing Wyoming See two coyotes runnin'' down a deer Hate what we don''t understand You pioneers give us your children But it''s your blood that stains their hands ''Western skies'' don''t make it right ''Home of the brave'' don''t make no sense I''ve seen a scarecrow wrapped in wire Left to die on a high ridge fence It''s a cold cold wind It''s a cold cold wind It''s a cold wind blowing Wyoming Somewhere that road forks up ahead To ignorance and innocence Three lives drift on different

I can''t light no more of your darkness All my pictures seem to fade to black and white I''m growing tired and time stands still before me, frozen here on the ladder of my life Too late to save myself from falling I took a chance and changed your way of life But you misread my meaning when I met you Closed the door and left me blinded by the light Don''t let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it''s always someone else I see I''d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing ev''ry thing is like the sun going down on me I can''t find, oh, the right romantic line But see me once and see the way I feel Don''t discard me just because you think I mean you harm But these cuts I have, oh, they need love to help them heal Don''t let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it''s always someone else I see I''d just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing ev''ry thing is like the sun going down on me

I''ve always said that one''s enough to love Now I hear you''re braggin'' one is not enough Oh someone tells me you''re not satisfied You got plans to make me one of four or five I guess this kind of thing''s just in your blood But you won''t catch me carving up my love I ain''t no puzzle piece that needs to fit If it takes more than me let''s call it quits ''Cause I don''t wanna go on with you like that Don''t wanna be a feather in your cap I just wanna tell you honey I ain''t mad but I don''t wanna go on with you like that Woh oh oh woh oh woh oh oh yeah Itgets so hard sometimes to understand This vicious circle''s getting out of hand Don''tneed an extra eye to see that the fire spreads faster in a breeze And I don''t wanna go on with you like that Don''t wanna be a feather in your cap I just wanna tell you honey I ain''t mad but I don''t wanna go on with you like that I don''t wanna go on with you like that one more set of boots on your welcome mat You''ll

Don''t wish it away, don''t look at it like it''s forever Between you and me, I could honestly say that things can only get better And while I''m away, bust out the demons inside, and it won''t be long before you and me run to the place in our hearts where we hide And I guess that''s why they call it the blues Time on my hands could be time spent with you, Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers, and I guess that''s why they call it the blues Just stare into space; picture my face in your hands Live for each second without hesitation, and never forget I''m your man Wait on me girl, cry in the night if it helps, but more than ever I simply love you more than I love life itself And I guess that''s why they call it the blues Time on my hands could be time spent with you, Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers, and I guess that''s why they call it the blues Wait on me girl,

Baby you''re missing something in the air I got a name but it don''t matter What''s going on, it''s cold in here You have a life but it''s torn and tattered Maybe you''re losing pieces of your heart You have a world but it stopped turning You lose the day and gain the dark Love was a fire but it stopped burning Spare your heart, save your soul Don''t drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release release relax relax, let go And hey now let''s recover your soul Lazy old sunset sinking like a tear Alone at night in a losing battle That perfect world is never clear You have to fight for the things that matter Spare your heart, save your soul Don''t drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release release, relax relax, let go And hey now let''s recover your soul Spare your heart, save your soul Don''t drag your love across the coals Find your feet and your fortune can be told Release release, relax

Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain And ironing out the rough spots Is the hardest part when memories remain And it''s times like these when we all need to hear the radio ''Cause from the lips of some old singer We can share the troubles we already know Turn ''em on, turn ''em on Turn on those sad songs When all hope is gone Why don''t you tune in and turn them on They reach into your room Woh oo oo oo Just feel their gentle touch When all hope is gone Sad songs say so much If someone else is suffering enough oh, to write it down When every single word makes sense Then it''s easier to have those songs around The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you and it feels so good to hurt so bad And suffer just enough to sing the blues So, turn ''em on turn ''em on Turn on those sad songs When all hope is gone Why don''t you tune in and turn them on They reach into your room Woh oo oo oo Just feel their gentle touch All hope is gone You

There''s a breakdown on the runway And the timeless flights are gone I''m a year a head of myself these days And I''m locomotive strong My city spread like cannon fire In a yellow nervous state I can''t cut the ties that bind me To horoscopes and fate And I won''t break and I won''t bend But someday soon we''ll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won''t break and I won''t bend And with the last breath we ever take We''re gonna get back to the simple life again When we break out of this blind fold I''m gonna take you from this place Until we''re free from this ball and chain I''m still hard behind the eight My city beats like hammered steel On a shallow cruel rock If we could walk proud after midnight We''d never have to stop And I won''t break and I won''t bend But someday soon we''ll sail away To innocence and the bitter end And I won''t break and I won''t bend And with the last breath we ever take We''re gonna get back to the simple life again And I

Turn me loose from your hands Let me fly high to distant lands Over green fields trees and mountains Flowers and forest fountains Home along the lanes of the skyway For this dark and lonely room Projects a shadow cast in gloom And my eyes are mirrors Of the world outside Thinkin'' of the ways That the wind can turn the tide And these shadows turn From purple into gray For just this skyline pigeon Dreamin'' of the open Waiting for the day That he can spread his wings And fly away again Fly away skyline pigeon fly Towards the dreams you left So very far behind Fly away skyline pigeon fly Towards the dreams you left So very far behind Let me wake up in the mornin'' To the smell of new mown hay To laugh and cry to live and die In the brightness of my day I wanna hear the pealing bells Of distant churches sing But most of all please free me from This aching metal ring And open out this cage Towards the sun For just this skyline pigeon Dreamin'' of the open Waiting for

There was a time I was everything and nothing all in one When you found me I was feeling like a cloud across the sun I need to tell you How you light up every second of the day But in the moonlight You just shine like a beacon on the bay And I can''t explain But it''s something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away It''s that feeling I get about you, deep inside And I can''t describe But it''s something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away The way you look tonight And you pull the deepest secrets from my heart In all honesty I''m speechless and I don''t know where to start And I can''t explain But it''s something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away It''s that feeling I get about you, deep inside And I can''t describe But it''s something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away The way you look tonight And I can''t explain But it''s something about the way you look tonight Takes my breath away It''s that

We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses In that upstairs apartment On Orlando and 4th And the rent was due and the rent''n man was knockin'' Like a Chinese proverb We were always searching Nightlife''s a no win but nobody noticed How we killed off the bottles looking good on the surface The dog days barked and the house cat got old We were Bonnie and Clyde In the emperor''s new clothes And the tears never came They just stayed in our eyes We refused to admit that we wore this disguise Every inch of us growing Like Pinocchio''s nose As we walked around in the emperor''s new clothes We flew by our wits and by the seat of our pants In the state of illusion In the nation of chance And the repo was hauling the wreck we''d been driving As the dashboard Madonna Smiled back at us kindly We cheated the system never batting an eyelid Seeing only the good Through the holes in our shoes And our halos were rusty but we wore them proudly We were two little gods In the

extremely quiet child they called you in your school reports He''s always taken interest in the subjects that he''s taught So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive To notify your parents of the manner in which you died At St Patricks every Sunday Father Fletcher heard your sins Oh he''s unconcerned with competition he never cares to win But blood stained a young hand that never held a gun And his parents never thought of him as their troubled son Now you''ll never get to Heaven Mama said Remember Mama said Ticking, ticking Grow up straight and true blue Run along to bed Hear it hear it ticking ticking They had you holed up in a downtown bar screaming for a priest Some gook said His brain''s just snapped then someone called the police You''d knifed a Negro waiter who had tried to calm you down Oh you''d pulled a gun and told them all to lay still on the ground Promising to hurt no one providing they were still A young man tried to make a

Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For heavy eyes could hardly hold us Aching legs that often told us It''s all worth it We all fall in love sometimes The full moon''s bright And starlight filled the evening We wrote it and I played it Something happened it''s so strange this feeling Naive notions that were childish Simple tunes that tried to hide it But when it comes We all fall in love sometimes Did we, didn''t we should we, couldn''t we I''m not sure cause sometimes we''re so blind Struggling through the day When even your best friend says Don''t you find We all fall in love sometimes And only passing time Could kill the boredom we acquired Running with the losers for a while But our Empty Sky was filled with laughter Just before the flood Painting worried faces with a smile Wise men say It looks like rain today It crackled on the speakers And trickled down the sleepy subway trains For