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sidewalk anthem
02:55
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let a little love shine
03:58
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In a city full of strangers
I see the clear and present danger
There’s no room to find a manger
Or some silence
There’s bums in shopping cart cages
Everyone has a thousand different faces
There’s the same damn smell in these places
Like violence
And I heard you say again
That it’s hard to find a friend
I said, “I’m fine with mine.”
You said, “Let a little love,”
“Let a little love shine.”
To the neighborhood watchmen I bid afternoon
To the village bicycle I gawk and swoon
All things they end so soon
When you are drinking
Bus driver take me to the station
midnight blow my imagination
Once I was on a vacation
Now I’ve been thinking
And I heard you say again
That you slept with the best of men
I said, “What a waste of time.”
You said, “Let a little love,”
“Let a little love shine.”
In this place I hear them whisper
Like a villain in a cistern
They’re Saying, “Can you help us Mister,”
“For we are hopeless.”
I said, “I didn’t die to save you”
“I just came to sing the blues”
“And this world’s fresh out of truth,”
“But surely you should know this.”
And you made me try to pretend
That it was the end
I said, “I’m drinking wine.”
You said, “Let a little love,”
“Let a little love shine.”
The pedestrians are growin faint
They lie in a pool of blood red paint
I’m sending away to be a saint
But I’m a bird on a wire
There’s too much dirt to even think
turn your heart to black from pink
So I grab another drink
And retire
And you said how could I pray
Then just turn my head away
I said, “Have you seen my mind?”
You said, “Let a little love,”
“Let a little love shine.”
As I look out upon the night parade
It looks like one big giant charade
The crowds beginning to fade
And I’m coming down
As I talk to an age-old bum
we share a bottle of rum
He said, “Life just ain’t that fun,”
“So what’s the point in coming around?”
I look in to his eyes
I tell him to be wise
He said, “You’re no friend of mine.”
I said, “Let a little love,”
“Let a little love shine.”
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ashtray
04:08
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Me and Jane, we are one in the same
We are, one in the same tonight
She has her hair in a bow
I know her intentions are right
Her horoscope is one i am told
Pertains to her theory of flight
Oh, but I, am undone
That’s why I told her not to come
She’s been sad, but she’s
Not the only one
We sit in the shadows, teasing the fire
We are teasing the fire and the light
The King and the Queen are parading around
As if they own the night
I exclaimed, “I could never be the same!”
“Never could be fake if I tried”
Oh, the Queen, starts to hum
Put more poison in my rum
She’s been had, but she’s
Not the only one
The rich and the poor, they are one in the same
They are one in the same with time
The business men are humping the neon signs
They are humping the neon signs with delight
And I said to my friend, “Have you ever seen a thing?”
He said, “If I was Hemingway I’d write.”
Oh, but he, is naive
I think he has something up his sleeve
He once was free but now he’s
Just like me
The street smells like semen, the air is a demon
Making a thunderous blow
I smell tobacco, curlin and screamin
I’m dreamin and dreamin
I didn’t know,
That fewer and fewer they stop believin
And subsidize with the flow
Oh, but I, I am carnal
This will all come and pass tomorrow
I’ve been sad but its only
Self-pity slash sorrow
Me and Jane, we turn in the same
We turn in the same way we came
On her head is a crown
She moved me with pain
I’m stuck on her like a stain
She said, “Life is a highway,”
“A wide open highway. You’ll be traffic if you don’t change lanes”
So I asked her to stay
She said, “That’s something I thought you would never say.”
Oh she’s pharmaceutical but hey,
That’s okay
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thief in the night
05:37
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Last night, when I woke up
I was shooting pool with Lady Luck
She bought my soul for a measly buck
She said all she ever wanted was to dance
I asked her what was in her cup
She said, “Life.” and then she drank it up
She had an American flag on her pick-up truck
And ‘freedom’ was sewn on to her pants
She said, “California’s the place to be.”
“They’ll match the quota of your every need.”
“They’ll sing you cocaine harmonies.”
“When all you ever wanted was a chance.”
And she said, "The night looks like it's never been as young,”
“As when it had a vision."
She said "You used to call its name, you used to hold its hands,”
“Now you're making love, now you're making plans."
She didn't know the moment, she didn't know the date
She didn't know my fortune, she didn't know my fate
She said "There's no time to wait, when...”
“You're a thief in the night."
I realized all my heroes were dead,
They died in their beds
With loaded shotguns to their heads
And victim, tattooed on their hands
I sought counsel in a group of some,
I asked them if it was what they'd done
They said "No, the good, they always die young,”
“And they never, ever meet demands."
In the group I saw my friend,
I said "What a way for a life to end"
He said, "Have you been born again?"
I said, "No, it's just a change of plans"
And I said "The night looks like it's never been as young,”
“As when it had a vision."
I said, "You used to cry, you used to get high,”
“But now you're scraping just to get by.”
“Once you were Jesus, you were the Son,”
“You were the Father, you were everyone.”
“But now that day is done, and...”
“You're a thief in the night."
I went to the edge to see
The bottom of the drifter's sea
Where lonely dreamers cash in their dreams
For a case of beer and a year's supply of food stamps
Sinatra was there without a clue
His eyes were red, no longer blue
He said "What's a swinging boy to do?”
“But sleep with, sleep with liars and tramps."
I said "What's this world coming to?"
He said "There's something burning new"
I said "You felt that once, didn't you?"
He said "But now the light has flickered from my lamp."
And he said, "The night looks like it's never been as young,”
“As when it had a vision."
he said, "You used to think this world would never end.”
“You thought you had the chance to do it all again.”
“But now you're in Heaven, or you're in Hell.”
“As far as I can tell, it's just as well.”
“There's no freedom bells, when…”
“You're a thief in the night"
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6. |
new york
04:28
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8. |
born under a heartbreak
08:48
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9. |
the comfort inn
05:17
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10. |
methlab
04:54
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