Your work real hard
And the pay’s real low
And ev’ry hour
Goes oh, so slow
And at the end of the day
There’s no where to go
But home to Avenue Q!
Well, I been working in a coal mine
Going down, down
Working in a coal mine
Whew! about to slip down
Now if I tell you that you suffer from delusions
You pay your analyst to reach the same conclusions
You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line
Canary in a coalmine
As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I’ve known proves that it’s right
Because you’re mine, I walk the line
All the lies we were told
All the lies of the people running round
They’re castles have burned
Now I see change
But inside we’re the same as we ever were
Living on a thin line
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child,
Oh, but the fire went wild.
I fell into a burning ring of fire,
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Help me from the fire, from the liar
Take my hand, I know no way out
Help me from the fire,
On my way down nothing left
I can’t forget about you
Later on
We’ll conspire
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid
The plans that we’ve made
Walking in a winter wonderland
You can climb a mountain, you can swim the sea
You can jump into the fire but you’ll never be free
You can shake me up or I can break you down, oh, oh…
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Well I said shake, rattle and roll
I said shake rattle and roll
I said shake, rattle and roll
I said shake rattle and roll
Well you won’t do right
To save your doggone soul
Uh well, dance all night, play all day
Don’t let nothin’ get in the way
Dance all night keep the beat
Don’t you worry 'bout two left feet
Shake it up, shake it up, ooh yeah
Shake it up, shake it up
Hurry, don’t be late
I can’t hardly wait
I said to myself when we’re old
We’ll go dancing in the dark, walking through the park
And reminiscing
A nightingale plays a dark mellow phrase
Of notes that are rich and so true.
An aerial display by the firefly brigade
Dancing to tunes no-one knew.
White bird
Dreams of the aspen tree
With their dying leaves
Turning gold
But the white bird
Just sits in her cage
Growing old
A nightingale in a golden cage
That’s me locked inside reality’s maze
Come someone make my heavy heart light
Come undone bring me back to life
Now I am cold, but a ghost lives in my veins
Silent the terror that reigned
Marbled in stone
A shell of a man God preserved for thousand ages
But open the gates of my hell
I’ll strike from the grave!!!
Oh the avenging angel
Shiver in the way of her stare
I will admit that she never loved me
But I admit that I didn’t care
And it’s too damned late to bar the gate
And why close it if your heart isn’t there
And since you know it all
I could give you a call
I could give you something fine to compare yourself to
Before you hand me over
Before you read my sentence
I’d like to say a few words here in my own defense:
Some people struggle daily
They struggle with their conscience til the end
I have no guilt to haunt me
I feel no wrong intent
Sometimes I find myself long regretting
Some foolish thing some little simple thing I’ve done
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood
It’s hard to rely on my good intentions
When my head’s full of things that I can’t mention
Seems I usually get things right
But I can’t understand what I did last night