Come out, Virginia, don’t let me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aww, but sooner or later, it comes down to fate
I might as well be the one
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aww, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Well, only the good die young
But come on, come on down Sweet Virginia
Come on, honey child, beg you
Come on, come on down, you got it in ya
Got to scrape the shit right off your shoes
There’s a lot of honey in this world
Baby this honey’s from me
You’ve got to do what you do
Do it with me
It seems a shame to waste your time for me
Daphne, look
What it’s doing to me
Now my life’s an empty stage
Where honey lived, and honey played
And love grew up
And a small cloud passes over head
And cries down on the flower bed that
Honey loved
And see the tree, how big it’s grown
But friend, it hasn’t been too long
It wasn’t big
And I laughed at her, and she got mad
The first day that she planted it
Was just a twig
All the world’s a theater stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayals
Each another’s audience
Outside a gilded cage
The curtain rises on the scene
With someone shouting to be free
The play unfolds before my eyes
There stands the actor who is me
The sleeping hours take us far
Through traffic, telephones and fear
Put out your problems with the cat
Escape until above your fear
The lights go down, the stage is set
The man in the wings breaks out in sweat
A backstage joker spiked his coke
While the dressing room was full of smoke
A crowd of fools got him high
He’s afraid he’s gonna die
He’s the apple of their eye
Well, we’re big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we’re loved everywhere we go
(That sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show (right)
We take all kind of pills that give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we’ve never known
Is the thrill that’ll get ya when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
Never sigh for better world
It’s already composed, played and told
Every thought the music I write
Everything a wish for the night
If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember only the verse, songmaker’s cry the one without tears
For I’ve given this its strength and it has become my only strength.
Comforting home, mother’s lap, chance for immortality
Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The sweet piano writing down my life
We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations
A faintly glimmering radio station
While Frank Sinatra sings “Stormy Weather”
The flies and spiders get along together
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record
That’s the way it began
We were hand-in-hand
Glenn Miller’s band
Was better than before
We yelled and screamed for more
And the Porter tune (Night and day)
Made us dance across the room
It ended all too soon
On the way back home
I promised you’d never be alone
You said nothing will change
We were almost near
Almost far
Down came the rain
But nothing will change
You promised
A promise
A promise
A promise
It’s exactly the same
You said
It’s always the same
But I’ll make it change
Into something the same
I promise
If you need a friend
Don’t look to a stranger
You know in the end
I’ll always be there
And when you’re in doubt
And when you’re in danger
Take a look all around
And I’ll be there
I’m sorry but I’m just thinking of the right words to say
(I promise you)
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be
(I promise you)
But if you wait around a while I’ll make you fall for me
(I promise you)
I promise, I promise you, I will
Inside you’re burning
I can see clear through
Your eyes tell more than you mean them to
Lit up and flashing
Like the reds and blues
Out there on the neon avenue
But I feel like a stranger
Feel like a stranger
I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I went down down down and the flames went higher…
It burns burns burns,
That ring of fire, the ring of fire…
You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
The man is dead, the man is dead
Women got legs, men got pants
I got the picnic, you got the ants
Put it in the fire heaven knows
Take my torch and touch your toes in hell
It’s a burning hell
You can burn in hell
It’s a burning hell
You can burn in hell
It’s a burning hell
Welcome to the abandoned land
Come on in child, take my hand
Here there’s no work or play
Only one bill to pay
There’s just five words to say
As you go down, down, down:
YOU’RE GONNA BURN IN HELL.
Ambition? Yeah
If all I’ve heard is true
There’s nothin’ much I can do
To change the world, it’s irreversible
But in what it lacks
It’s got a taste that smacks of somethin’ irresistable
Gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell
Gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell
And I can change the world
I will be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby, if I could change the world