Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged high
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun’s gone to hell
And the moon riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it’s written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We’re fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime’s argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
One day-doubtless, cloudless, bright
We’ll shake away the shadows of eternal night
It’s just the storm before the calm
Like the life held in your palm - it’s clay, one day
We’ll walk and be like giants, we’ll all be honest men
I go back to my blindness so that I may see again
A woman standing on a hill is gazing out to sea
Dreaming of a new age waiting there for me
I call her from a distance and she smiles into the sun
And men and gods begin their dance, for their time has begun
And holy wars extended and battlefields of pain
Washed away, forgotten, in the perfect rain
Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean, is it raining with you?
So baby talk to me, like lovers do
Walk with me, like lovers do
Talk to me, like lovers do
Scarecrow on a wooden cross Blackbird in the barn
Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm
I grew up like my daddy did My grandpa cleared this land
When I was five I walked the fence while grandpa held my hand
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I’m just sorry there’s no legacy for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can’t hold me forever
I didn’t sign up with you
I’m not a present for your friends to open
This boy’s too young to be singing the blues
So goodbye yellow brick road, where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your penthouse, I’m going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods hunting the horny back toad
Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road
They don’t look on my face
They tell me every time that I’m too young for life
But I need a taste
And I cannot wait until they say it’s right
I’m gonna leave tonight
And then I won’t let go, the streets will show
I will run the lights
Let them try to tell me no no no
They gonna knock on you
They gonna knock on you
You know it’s true
You and me know
I say we can break down the wall
You and me
I say we can break down the wall
Good morning Worm your honour
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do
The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there’s no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before of
Some one more deserving
The full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with an urge to defecate
Since my friend you have revealed your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers
I’ve built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Hey there, it’s good to see you again
It never felt right calling this just friends
I’m happy if you’re happy with yourself
Take off your shirt, your shoes
Those skinny jeans I bought for you
We’re diving in, there’s nothing left to lose
I’m gonna break down these walls I built around myself
I wanna fall so in love with you and no one else
Could ever mean half as much to me as you do now
Together we’ll move on, just don’t turn around
Let the walls break down
Everybody’s got their problems ain’t no new news here
I’m the same old trouble you’ve been havin’ for years
Don’t confuse the problem with the issue girl
It’s perfectly clear, just a human desire to have you come near
Wanna put my arms around you
Feel your breath in my ear
You can bend me you can break me
But you’d better stand clear
When the walls come tumblin’ down
When the walls come crumblin’ crumblin’
When the walls come tumblin’ tumblin’
Tumblin’ tumblin’ down
Tumbleweed, you’re living a cowboy’s dream
Tumbleweed, freedom is the air you breathe
But if you don’t stop long enough
To let yourself fall in love
Tumbleweed, you’re gonna end up lonely
Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone
Your demons come to light and your mind is not your own
Lonely is the night when there’s no one left to call
You feel the time is right–(say) the writin’s on the wall
It’s a high time to fight when the walls are closin’ in
Call it what you like–It’s time you got to win
Lonely, lonely, lonely–your spirit’s sinkin’ down
You find you’re not the only stranger in this town
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world alone
And there’s no sickness, toil or danger
In that bright land to which I go
And I’m going there to see my mother
And I’m going there no more to roam
And I’m only going over Jordan
And I’m only going over home now