When the deep blue night is running close on your track
And you can feel the green monkey crawlin’ across your back
Don’t take me so real that you forget how to feel
Don’t let the threat of the dagger turn your heart into steel
Smell the perfume of the silent dream
Fly the ocean, read a story to me
Speak the wisdom of a redwood tree
Speak to me
Well she looks at you so cooly,
And her eyes shine, like the moon on the sea,
She comes in incense and patchouli,
So you take her, to find what’s waiting inside–
The year of the cat.
Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart
Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star
Stay free where no walls divide you
You’re free as the roaring tide
So there’s no need to hide
Born free and life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you’re born free
Stay free where no walls divide you
You’re free as the roaring tide
So there’s no need to hide
Born free and life is worth living
But only worth living
'Cause you’re born free
I’m beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby I was born this way
Don’t hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way (Born this way)
Everything is beautiful in its own way,
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter’s day.
Everybody’s beautiful in their own way,
Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find a way.
I am beautiful, no matter what they say
Words won’t bring me down
Don’t you bring me down today
You wanna stay out with your fancy friends
I’m tellin’ you it’s got to be the end
(Don’t bring me down, no no no no no)
I’ll tell you once more before I get off the floor
(Don’t bring me down)
I knew what I had to do and I made myself this solemn vow
That I’s gonna be a lady someday
Though I didn’t know when or how
But I couldn’t see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame
You know I might have been born just plain white trash
But Fancy was my name
Well, she’s all you’d ever want,
She’s the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner.
But she always knows her place,
She’s got style, she’s got grace, she’s a winner.
She’s a lady…
My baby makes me smile, Lord don’t she make me smile
She’s never too far away or too tired to say I want you
She’s always a lady, just like a lady should be
But when they turn out the lights,
She’s still a lady to me.
*If I were a carpenter I’d
Hammer on my piglet, I’d
Collect the seven dollars and I’d
Buy a big prosthetic forehead
And wear it on my real head
*
If I were a carpenter,
And you were a lady,
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?
My friends from college they’re all married now
They have their houses and their lawns
They have their silent noons
Tearful nights, angry dawns
Their children hate them for the things they’re not
They hate themselves for what they are
And yet they drink, they laugh
Close the wound, hide the scar
But you say it’s time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me
Well, that’s the way I’ve always heard it should be
You want to marry me, we’ll marry
She was only sweet sixteen
Twenty thousand days younger than me
“Marry me” she said I don’t reply
“Daddy said you’d better, or you’ll die”
Grampa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Seems like this worlds gone crazy
Grampa, take me back to yesterday,
When things were not so hazy…
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer
Though we gotta say goodbye, for the summer,
Baby, I promise you this:
I’ll send you all my love every day in a letter,
Sealed with a kiss.
Can you hear them?
They talk about us
Telling lies
Well, that’s no surprise
Can you see them?
See right through them
They have no shield
No secrets to reveal
It doesn’t matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Our lips are sealed
*No, it wasn’t true what I told you
When I first saw you
Remember that dress you had?*
But since their wings have got rusted,
Angles wanna wear my red shoes…