But I’m sitting now at the bar,
I’m getting drunk, I’m feelin’ mellow
I’m drinkin’ bourbon, I’m drinkin’ scotch, I’m drinkin’ beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
I said “Look man, come down here”
So what you want?
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No, I ain’t seen my baby since the night before last
Gotta get a drink man, I’m gonna get gassed
Gonna get high man, I ain’t had enough
Need me a triple shot of that stuff
Gonna get drunk, won’t you listen right here
I want one bourbon, one shot and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Hey bartender pour me another one
'cause I don’t think that I’ve had enough
make it a bourbon make it a double one
you can see that I’m still standing up
whiskey and women well they fool me every time
into thinking I’m the hero I have pictured
in my mind
so tell me a secret to get me through the night
or let’s turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
where am I this evening? no I don’t mean what bar
I mean what city? and in what state am I?
honey, are you leaving? and do you have a car?
and could you take me along for the ride?
a woman like you well, you could enter in my life
and let me be the lover I have pictured in my mind
You stand here in my place
Feel the warmth upon your face
Stand back and start to smile
You now have time
You now have will
I would never want to leave this country
Where rules are fast and knowledge easy
I would never want to take you with me
Unless you’re open
And trust my hand
I would never wish this much on you
When what you have might be enough
I would never want to drive that fast
Unless you’re ready, willing, happy
Take me
Away from these simple feelings
I know
There’s places on the other sides of here
Take me
Away from these simple feelings
I know
I’ll take that car and drive there faster
I like to dream, yes, yes
Right between the sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near
To the stars away from here
Well, you don’t know what
We can find
Why don’t you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don’t know what
We can see
Why don’t you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Gagged, ball and chained, feel just the same
Heads on the wall, maybe you’re just playing games
Set me free
Mauled by a hound, hangin’ around
Is this for real, I don’t know when I’ll be found
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free - from you
Taken by force, by you of course
Far from my bed, I know I’d rather be dead
Set me free
Unchain my heart, baby let me be
Unchain my heart 'cause you don’t care about me
You’ve got me sewed up like a pillow case
But you let my love go to waste so
Unchain my heart, oh please, please set me free
No, I don’t ask for permission
This is my chance to fly
Maybe enough ain’t enough for you
But it’s my turn to try
Thought you’d never miss me 'til I got a Fat City address
Non-stop talker, what a rocker!
Blue-eyed murder in a side-swiped dress
Change, nothing stays the same
Unchained, and ya hit the ground running
Change, and nothing stays the same
Unchained, yeah ya hit the ground running
Whoo-hoo! Take a look at this…hey man, that suit is you! Whoo-wee! You’ll get some leg tonight for sure, tell us how you do!
[Producer: “Come on, Dave, give me a break.”]
Hey, hey, hey, hey, one break coming up!
Change, nothing stays the same
Unchained, and ya hit the ground running
Change, and nothing stays the same
Unchained, yeah ya hit the ground running
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
I talked to God and god said “Hey!
I’ve got a lot of things to say
write it down this very day
and spread the word in every way.”
I talked to God and here¹s the deal:
He said to floss between each meal
Drive with both hands on the wheel
and on the first date don¹t cop a feel
I talked to God and God said…nothing special
I talked to God and God said…nothing special
I talked to God and God said nothing
that we shouldn’t already know
shouldn¹t already know
And talked to God and here’s what he said:
“wear a helmet on your head
when you ride a bike instead
or you’ll crash and end up dead.”
I asked God for the Holy Word
ageless wisdom never heard
He just said to feed the birds
love your pets, clean up their turds
I talked to God and God said "John,
I let them kill my only son
and my creation’s so undone
that I can’t help out everyone
But if you¹re looking for advice
you don’t need to ask me twice
start with the basics: just be nice
and see if that makes things all right
God phones, God phones
Weird voices on the line that can’t be identified
Tell me I’m the chosen one, my mission has begun
God phones, God phones, God phones, God phones
Meet contact number two, the jump gate is set for you
Keep all this for yourself, I swear the god that’s what he said
And if I only could,
I’d make a deal with God,
And I’d get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
Say, if I only could, oh…
You,
It’s you and me,
It’s you and me won’t be unhappy.
“C’mon, baby, c’mon darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
C’mon, angel, c’mon, c’mon, darling,
Let’s exchange the experience, oh”
Well, come on, let’s go, let’s go, little darlin’
Tell me that you’ll never leave me
Come on, come on, let’s go again
Again, again, and again
Again, again, and again
Again, again, and again
Well I’ll be damned, here comes your ghost again
But that’s not unusual, it’s just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit, hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I’d known a couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall
As I remember your eyes were bluer than robin’s eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
There’s a light in your eyes that I used to see
There’s a place in your heart where I used to be
Was I wrong to assume that you were waiting for me
There’s a light in your eyes
Did you leave that light burning for me?