Oh these people I’m talking to don’t understand
They don’t seem to realize
They’re listening but they’re not hearing me
They’re being too cruel to be kind
Any kind of feeling that I had is gone
'Cos I gave it all, it’s gone
And I gave it all to you
Now I’m living on borrowed time, but it’s mine
Oh, d’you hear me?
I cannot believe it’s true
Are you really doing the things you do?
No I cannot believe it’s you, really you
Over and over I keep on telling myself
Over and over I hope I’m gonna make up
Over and over I know it’s really happening
And there’s nothing that I can say
'Cos nothing can change all the things that you’ve done to me
Nothing can make me stay
Changing moods and stranger feelings
In my dealings with the world
Faces that I’ve seen before am I sure
Or has my brain turned
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Dreams and omens of my future
Like a sculpture finely molded
Stars that guide my destiny
Tell me what I will be
A chart unfolded
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Da da … la la … oh oh oh …
Seems there’s plans for everyone
The day will come and we will know
We all are tied in with each other
Everyone brothers
One great flow
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Thinking about things I don’t understand
Hamburger cup of coffee lettuce and tomato
Two times a dime to see a man kiss the alligator
One more time around free on the ferries wheel ride
My uncle used to love me but she died
I’d love to touch the sky tonight
I’d love to touch the sky
So take me in your arms
And lift me like a child
And hold me up so high
And never let me go
Take me
Take me in your arms tonight
Hold me
Hold me up so high
And never let me down
Hold me
Hold me up so high
To touch the sky
Just one more time
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don’t seem the same
Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
'Cause it’s changing in the Big Sky,
It’s changing in the Big Sky now.
We’re looking at the Big Sky.
You never understood me.
You never really tried.
We’re leaving with the Big Sky.
We’re leaving with the Big Sky.
And we pause for the jets–
hup! hup!–in the Big Sky!
You want my reply?
What was the question?
I was looking at the Big Sky.
Tell 'em, sisters!
“Rolling over like a great big cloud,
Rolling over with the Big Sky!
Rolling over like a great big cloud,
Rolling over with the Big Sky!”
The sky is burnin’ - I believe my soul’s on fire
You are, I’m learning - the key to my desire
Waiting for the van to arrive
The prisoners were lined up outside
Jumped a wall, hitched a ride, and now I’m here to say
Love you baby anyway, oh, yeah
The sky is burnin’ - I believe my soul’s on fire
You are, I’m learning - the key to my desire
Ran across the country fields in all terrain
They had guns and dogs and everything
Swam a river try’n to lose my trail
But they caught me, under the bridge.
Oh yeah!
The sky is burnin’ - I believe my soul’s on fire
You are, I’m learning - the key to my desire
Wheels keep turning
Something’s burning
Don’t like it but I guess I’m learning
Shock! Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock! Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Hey hey hey, monkey, monkey, monkey
Don’t you know when you’re going to shock the monkey, hey hey
Shock the monkey, hey hey hey hey hey
Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking
Shock! Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock! Watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
Let me tell you a story
About two kids in the city
See they both have a problem with life
And it isn’t very pretty
There’s a kid called Timmy
He used to be pretty witty
But then too many rides on the horse
Got him hooked and it’s a pity
Cause now he’s got a monkey
He’s got a monkey can’t fight it
(Monkey) on his back he can’t deny it
(Monkey) he found a dragon that bites
A hole in his arm at night
Where all the money goes
Monkey, monkey on his back
Monkey, monkey on his back
A dirty monkey
Well there’s a girl called Sally
She walks the streets in the city
She works down on the corner every night
Gives her money up to Willy
You see her man’s Big Willy
And when he met her she was pretty
But he gave her a habit that she didn’t want
Now that’s a pity
Cause now she’s got a monkey
She’s got a monkey can’t fight it
(Monkey) she’s gotta walk the streets to buy it
(Monkey) she found a dragon that bites
A hole in her arm at night
Where all the money goes
Monkey, monkey on his back
Monkey, monkey on his back
A dirty monkey
Well now listen everybody
Cause there’s a moral to the story
Clean up your act, get the monkey off your back
Or you’ll be sorry
Keep yourself clean
Cause the monkey plays mean
He’ll put a knife in your back
Then the man in the black
Will show you a dragon that bites
And you’ll wind up with a
Monkey, monkey on your back
Monkey, monkey on your back
[Ehh, dragons and lizards, monkeys and burning skies…close enough…]
The first thing that I saw as,
The fisherman smiled at me
Were empty people dressed in grey,
Floating out to sea
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
The small fish gave a cry
The next thing that I saw as,
Things were fading fast
Were dreams of children’s laughter,
Smoldering to dust
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
The small fish gave a cry
The last thing that I saw as, my life passed by
Were fields of empty people, laying down to die
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
To watch the burning sky.
Sheltering her ego on the edge of a floodlit arc
She’ll contemplate seduction, she’ll calculate the catch
When she moved, her presence speared me
When she spoke, her words ensnared me
Watch the lizard…
Watch the lizard…
Watch the lizard with the crimson veil
She crucified my heart in the depth of a satin grave
As I lay in sweating monologue I sensed the lovelight fade
Within the spiral of the cigarette
You betrayed your bedside etiquette
I saw the lizard…
I saw the lizard…
I touched the lizard with the crimson veil
A lady with a violin playing to the seals
Hearken to the sound of calling
Who tied my hands to the wheel?
The zodiac turns over me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
I tied myself to the wheel
The winds talk to my sails, not me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate revealed
I hear but how will I see
I can hear the music playing
I can hear the word that you’re saying
I can see the love-life in your eyes
What’s the use in looking for an answer
I might find out, it could be a disaster
Hold on to your own time, don’t let go
Don’t let go
I’m sitting at the wheel
Watching the river roll, roll on by
Sitting at the wheel
Don’t let the river run dry
Like a voyeur standing at the edge of time
Looking for a reason that’s got no rhyme
Love took a corner, shot off for a mile
I’m sitting at the wheel
Rock on — rocker
Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing
Thanks for all the joy they’re bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
I remember the day that you first came my way
Yes it stays in my mind like a song
I remember the night when you first caught my sight
And in spite of all that’s gone wrong
The moon and the stars and the gentle guitars
You stepped to the microphone
You sang like a lark in the warm fragrant dark
I could listen till the cows come home
When it’s raining and cold and love’s losing its hold
And you feel like you just want to sleep
And the friends that you trusted, left you all busted
And the hills that you climb are all steep
Yeah your lovers and cronies have all turned out phonies
Sold you a bag full of bones
I’ll keep waiting there still on that last final hill
And I will till the cows come home
It’s cold outside, it gets so hot in here
And the boys and girls collide
To the music in my ear
I hear the children crying
And I know it’s time to go
I hear the children crying
Take me home
A painted face, and I know we haven’t long
We thought that we had the answers
It was the questions we had wrong
I hear the children crying
And I know it’s time to go
I hear the children crying
Take me home
Sad song, sad song
Sad song, sad song
La lah la lah…La lah la lah…La lah lah…
[Repeat 4x]
Hiding in a hotel room
Somewhere in the west
I heard they brought a priest in to sanctify the place
But it remained unblessed
Things move around
My guitar sometimes plays itself
They say it’s static electricity but
Yesterday it took twenty dollars off the shelf
There’s a young man here, says he married you, another time
The children cry and ask where their mother is
Gonna have to let them down
I’ve been hurt… I’ve been around
I’ve been waiting seems like eternity
I’ve been waiting, waiting for you
I’m still waiting, if you remember me
I’ll be waiting, waiting for you
In pictures of living, in bloodshot a vision
Sweet miracles and strange circumstances
I see the sun up, the showdown, the cool winds that blow down
On the big beat that life-long romance is
You’ve got a gun in your hand, you’re making self plans
Stay with me all through the night
Control yourself, love is all you need
Control yourself, open up your heart
Sanctify yourself, sanctify
Be apart of me, sanctify
Sanctify yourself, sanctify
Sanctify yourself, set yourself free
Could you imagine the final sound is a gun
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you’d hear as you’re fading out
Was a song?
Arriving somewhere but not here
All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, compromised
And all of my dreams, sacrificed
Ever had the feeling you’ve been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Ever thought from here on in your life begins
And all you knew was wrong?
Arriving somewhere but not here
Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
For a start
Reminding us we could be torn apart
Tonight
Death is everywhere
There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense the hours slipping by
Tonight
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Come here
Kiss me
Now