Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
The captain wired in he had water comin’ in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
That’s the night when the lights went out in Georgia
That’s the night when they hung an innocent man
All he wanted was a toy
All he needed was a bleeding heart
To lead him through the dark
Boy and the ghost
When there’s nowhere left to fall
Nowhere to hide, his silence is hurting
Inside it’s cold, sleep or die
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide
His light went out
The years have gone by too quickly it seems,
I have my own little boy
And yesterday I gave to him
My marvelous little toy:
His eyes nearly popped right out of his head
And he gave a squeal of glee!
Neither one of us knows just what it is
But he loves it just like me!
Run through forests on a hot summer day
Trying to break down walls of numbing pain
Give me the freedom to destroy
Give me radioactive toy
We’ve lost our chance
We’re the first and the last, ooh
After the blast
Chips of Plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung
Breathing
(“Out, in, out, in, out”)
Breathing
Breathing my mother in
Breathing my beloved in
Breathing,
Breathing her nicotine
Breathe out
So I can breathe you in
Hold you in
Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
The clouds prepare for battle
In the dark and gloomy silence
Bruised and sullen stormclouds
Have the light of day obscured
Volcano pierce the air, ashes block out the sun
Down in the lair, well I met her there
With a price for everyone
I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring
I couldn’t take it off if I tried
And the cactus sure tastes strangely sweet
As it goes down inside
I’ll dream I’m safe
In my hotel womb
Soft and soul made
It’s a wonderful room
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can’t you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won’t you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?
It’s exactly the same
You said
It’s always the same
But I’ll make it change
Into something the same
I promise
“Hello son, I hope you’re having fun.”
“You’ve got it wrong Sir, I’m only the cleaner.”
With that he fired, the other saying as he died,
“You’ve done me wrong,” it’s the same old song forever.
Hey, won’t you play
Another “Somebody done somebody wrong song”
And make me feel at home
'Cause I miss my baby,
'Cause I miss my baby.
Ooh, each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the mirror and cry (and cry)
Lord what you’re doing to me (yeah yeah)
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can’t get no relief, Lord!
Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody)
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
And somewhere far away there’s another day
And someone’s getting out of bed
She puts on her face in the morning space
She doesn’t know if she’s dead
Her ruby lips can’t excite me anymore
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you
She changes every time you look
By summer it was all gone, now she’s moved on
She called you every other day
So savor it it’s all gone, now she’s moved on
So for a while
Everything seemed new
Did we connect?
Or was it all just biding time for you?