I don’t know why she’s ridin’ so high,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me
I think I’m gonna be sad,
I think it’s today yeah
The girl that’s driving me mad
Is going away, yeah
She’s got a ticket to ride,
She’s got a ticket to ride,
She’s got a ticket to ride,
But she don’t care
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain’t got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I’m a goin’ home
My baby just wrote me a letter
I don’t care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone, I’m a goin’ home
My baby just wrote me a letter
Well I’m leaving tomorrow at daybreak
Catch the fastest train around nine
Yes I’m leaving the sorrow and heartache
Before it takes me away from my mind
2:19 took my baby away.
2:19 done took my baby away.
2:17 bring her back some day.
Standin’ on the corner, her feets was soakin’ wet.
Standin’ on the corner, her feets was soakin’ wet.
Beggin’ each and every man that she met,
"If you can’t give a dollar, give me a lousy dime.
"If you can’t give a dollar, give me a lousy dime.
“Gotta feed that hungry man of mine.”
If you can’t afford a quarter
Then you ought to give a dime.
If everybody gave,
Then we could save
The Blue Water Line.
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it’s done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
A long long long long train
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it’s done
I hear the roar of the big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear your empire down
We got the empire, now as then,
We don’t doubt, we don’t take reflection,
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me
This first winter
I can’t pretend that I didn’t know what you were
When you walked into my door
These hours that I stare into a lantern red
I hear the train at night give promises of light
Was I loved enough
To believe in us
Silhouettes
Dancing ghosts
Come on baby, let’s go listen to the night train.
An Irishman named Murphy said “I’ll stop that iron horse!”
And he stood to thwart it’s passage,
And it crushed him dead of course.
And I hope he hears the irony when e’re this tale is told,
The train that took his life was burning good Kentucky coal.
Oh the Murphy’s gave a party just about a week ago
Everything was plentiful, the Murphy’s they’re not slow
They treated us like gentlemen, we tried to act the same
But only for what happened, well it was an awful shame
When Mrs. Murphy dished the chowder out
She fainted on the spot
She found a pair of overalls
In the bottom of the pot
Tim Nolan he got rippin’ mad
His eyes were bulgin’ out
He jumped up on the PI-A-NO
And loudly he did shout
Oh, who threw the overalls in Mrs Murphy’s chowder
Nobody spoke, so he shouted all the louder
It’s an Irish trick that’s true
I can lick the mick that threw
The overalls in Mrs Murphy’s chowder
One day when she had nothing to do,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
One day when she had nothing to do,
She cut her baby brother in two,
And served him up as an Irish stew,
And invited the neighbors in.
Cut in two, that’s the kind of ship I’m running
Cut in two, that’s the kind of spell I’m casting
Cut in two, that’s the type of time I’m killing
Cut in two, that’s the kind of song I’m singing
Falling in
Falling in
Falling in love again (my face in your bedroom window)
Falling in
Falling in
Falling in love again (nooo!)
Separation (no one looking in through my intrigue)
Separation (yeah I’ve been another me)
I will run for you, I think
Cuts like a knife
But it feels so right
I need someone to hold me in the candlelight
Take my life, I wanna live
I have so much more I want to give
I need a love that cuts like a knife
Take My Life
How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I’ve become so numb
Without a soul my spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become
now that I know what I’m without
you can’t just leave me
breathe into me and make me real
bring me to life
A nightingale in a golden cage
That’s me locked inside reality’s maze
Come someone make my heavy heart light
Come undone bring me back to life
A nightingale in a golden cage
That’s me locked inside reality’s maze
Come someone make my heavy heart light
It all starts with a lullaby
Journey homeward bound
A sound of a dolphin calling
Tearing off the mask of man
The Tower my sole guide
This is who I am
Escapist, paradise seeker
Farewell now time to fly
Out of sight, out of time, away from all lies
Gold stainless nail,
Torn through the distance of man as they regard the summit.
Cold reigning king,
Shelter the women that sing
As they produce the movement.
River running right on over,
Then over my head.
Outboard, river.
Bluetail, tailfly,
Luther, in time,
Suntower, asking,
Cover, lover,
June cast, moon fast,
As one changes,
Heart gold, leaver,
Soul mark, mover,
Christian, changer,
Called out, saviour,
Moon gate, climber,
Turn round, glider.
There is someone walking behind you,
turn around, look at me.
There is someone watching your footsteps,
turn around, look at me
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play, every night you stay
I’ll be watching you