Don’t talk back, just drive the car
Shut your mouth, I know what you are
Don’t say nothing, keep your hands on the wheel
Don’t turn around, this is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I’m digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt
I look in the mirror, and all I see
Is a young, lonely man with lonelier dreams
Am I just fooling myself, that she’d stop the pain?
Living without her, I’d go insane
Woke up this morning, started to sneeze
Had a cigarette and a cup of tea
I looked in the mirror, what did I see?
A nine stone weakling with knobbly knees
I did my knees bend, press ups, touched my toes
Had another sneeze and I blew my nose
I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest
I had to put on my clothes because it made me depressed
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.
You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down
Thing’s ain’t been the same
Since the Blues walked into town
But you’re one in a million
You’ve got that shotgun shine
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes
I woke up this morning, baby
I had you on my mind
I woke up this morning, baby
You know that I felt so fine
Woke up this morning
Wishing you were here
Got a cup of coffee
Then you were here
When I woke up this mornin’
You were on my mind
And you were on my mind
I got troubles, oh-whoa
I got worries, oh-whoa
I got wounds to bind
Rise, let us see you,
Dawning is the day,
Miss, misty meadow,
You will find your way,
Wake up in the morning to yourself
And leave this crazy life behind you.
Listen, we’re trying to find you.
Wake me up before you go-go
Don’t leave hanging on like a yo-yo
Set me free, why don’tcha, baby?
Get out my life, why don’tcha, baby?
‘Cause you don’t really love me
You just keep me hangin’ on
You don’t really need me
But you keep me hangin’ on
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all this, I wish you love
And I will always love you
I wish
I wish
I wish I were a fish
'Cause fishes have a better life than people
(They don’t have all the care and strife of people)
A fish
Can swim
That’s all they ask of him
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I lucky was to be employed
Working for a while on a fishing boat
Right outside of Delacroix
As the son of a son of a sailor
I went out on the sea for adventure
Expanding the view of the captain and crew
Like a man just released from indenture
I can feel the hand
Of a stranger,
And it’s tightening
Around my throat.
Heaven help me, heaven help me,
Take this stranger from my boat.
I’m your captain, I’m your captain,
Though I’m feeling mighty sick.
Everybody, listen to me,
and return me, my ship,
I’m your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah
The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the captain’s trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don’t you leave me alone? Yeah, yeah
Well, I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
Sam Stone came home
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served
Had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
But it was only a fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you, out there on the road
Always doing what you’re told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don’t tell me there’s no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
There’s nowhere in the world that I would rather be
Then with you my love
And there’s nothing in the world that I would rather see
Than your smiles, my love
For united we stand, divided we fall
And if our backs should ever be against the wall
We’ll be together, together, you and I