Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes, I see them running too
Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I’m singin’
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my back door
Sittin’ on the front porch on a summer afternoon
In a straight-back chair on two legs, leaned against the wall
Watch the kids a-playin’ with June bugs on a string
And chase the glowin’ fireflies when evenin’ shadows fall
In my Tennessee mountain home
Life is as peaceful as a baby’s sigh
In my Tennessee mountain home
Crickets sing in the fields near by
All your private property is target for your enemy
And your enemy
Is we
Da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
I don’t need no arms around me
And I don’t need no drugs to calm me
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don’t think I need anything at all
No, don’t think I’ll need anything at all
All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall
All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen-clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You’d go to L.A. on a dare and you’d go it alone
(Did you feel like Jesus?)
Could you see the day?
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
I’m gonna tell you how it’s gonna be
You’re gonna give your love to me
I’m gonna love you night and day
Well, love is love and not fade away
Oh, well, love is love and not fade away
Not Fade Away. The Crickets
You don’t own me
I’m not just one of your many toys
You don’t own me
Don’t say I can’t go with other boys
And don’t tell me what to do
Don’t tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don’t put me on display 'cause
I wanna push you around
Well, I will, well, I will
I wanna push you down
Well, I will, well, I will
I wanna take you for granted
I’ve willed, I’ve walked, I’ve read
I’ve talked, I know, I know
I’ve been here before
Hey, now we won’t be raped
Hey, now we won’t be scarred like that
Hey, now we won’t be raped
Hey, now we won’t be scarred like that
We’re not gonna take it
No, we ain’t gonna take it
We’re not gonna take it anymore
We’ve got the right to choose, and
There ain’t no way we’ll lose it
This is our life, this is our song
We’ll fight the powers that be, just
Don’t pick on our destiny, 'cause
You don’t know us, you don’t belong
We belong to the light
We belong to the thunder
We belong to the sound of the words
We’ve both fallen under
Whatever we deny or embrace
For worse or for better
We belong, we belong
We belong together
Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry
On a mountain high
When the eagle flies you’d better watch your eyes
He’s gonna sweep everything in his path
And when the heavens cry it’s gonna drown the sky
And you’ll get caught in the aftermath
When the mountains move it’s no good trying
To prove that you’ve been doing everything you can
And don’t you start to cry when you’re about to die
You gotta stand up and take it like a man
Walk tall when she passes by
Walk tall like a man
Though you want to run to her
Stop!
If you can
Think of me
Be a man
Walk like a man, fast as I can
Walk like a man from you
I’ll tell the world, forget about it, girl
And walk like a man from you
Here I go again on my own
Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An’ I’ve made up my mind, I ain’t wasting no more time
You gotta walk that lonesome valley,
You gotta walk it by yourself,
Nobody here can walk it for you,
You gotta walk it by yourself.
I have a recording of my mother singing that song live on a radio broadcast from 1947.
-“BB”-
Have you heard about the lonesome loser
Beaten by the queen of hearts every time
Have you heard about the lonesome loser
He’s a loser, but he still keeps on tryin’
Sit down, take a look at yourself
Don’t you want to be somebody
Someday somebody’s gonna see inside
You have to face up, you can’t run and hide