In the days of my youth,
I was told what it means to be a man.
Now I've reached the age,
I've tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try,
I find my way to do the same old jam.

Good times, bad times,
You know I've had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.

Seventeen I fell in love,
With a girl as sweet as could be.
It only took a couple of days,
Till she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine,
And love me till the end.
When I whispered in her ear,
I lost another friend.

Good times, bad times,
You know I've had my share.
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well I still don't seem to care.

I know what it means to be alone,
I sure do wish I was at home.
I don't care what the neighbors say,
I'm gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize sweet babe we ain't ever gonna part.

Hear my baby coming down the track,
Bet you my baby's coming back.
Someday she'll get back to me,
And we gonna raise a family.

We're gonna groove.
My baby we're gonna love,
Until the brink of day.

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be,
You don't know what you do to me.
Let me say you're my one desire,
You just set my soul on fire.

We're gonna groove.
My baby we're gonna love,
Until the brink of day.

Sweet as sweet as sweet can be,
Let me tell you you don't know what you do to me.
You just set my soul on fire,
Woman you know you're my one desire.

We're gonna groove.
My baby we're gonna love,
Until the brink of day.

I received a message from my brother across the water,
He sat laughing as he wrote "the end's in sight."
So I said goodbye to all my friends,
And packed my hopes inside a matchbox,
Because I know it's time to fly.

Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Oh yeah the morning light is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.

I just jumped a train that never stops,
So now so how'll they know I never,
Finished paying for my ride.
Just now someone pushed a gun into my hand,
Tell me I'm the type of man,
To fight the fight that I'll require.

Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Oh yeah the morning light is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.

Oh mama well I think it's time I'm leaving,
Nothing here to make me stay.
Oh mama well it must be time I'm going,
They're knocking down them doors,
And trying to take me away.

Please Mr. Brakeman won't you ring your bell,
And ring it loud and clear.
Please Mr. Fireman won't you ring your bell,
Tell the people they got to fly away from here.

I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby,
Southern lady had a very very special smile.
We are in the middle of a change in destination,
When the train starts all together we will smile.

Oh yeah come on meet me in the morning,
Meet me in the middle of the night.
Everybody know the morning time is coming,
Don't it make you wanna feel all right.

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you,
I can't play with you know more.
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me,
My friend the boy next door.

I can't believe what people saying,
You're gonna let your hair hang down.
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long,
You're on the darker side of town.

And when I'm out I see you walking,
Why don't your eyes see me.
Could it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me.

That's the way,
That's the way it ought to be.
Mama say,
That's the way it ought to stay.

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes?
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?

Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.

I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away.
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?

That's the way,
That's the way it ought to be.
Mama say,
That's the way it ought to stay.

There was a time
I used to call you on my very own
We were so happy woman
Talkin' for hours and hours on the telephone

Then one day
I set you up to walk right outta my life
Leavin' me all by myself
All alone, to cry every night

(Babe...) oooh, I want you to come back home yeah (come on home)
(oooh yeah)
Sweet little girl
(ooh yeah, been gone so long)
been away so long

Now listen to me

I said I made up my mind
Woman when you left me there, oh
I was gonna find another sweet lover
Who's gonna feel all of my... cares

So I met a sweet little girl
Just about as nice as she could be, oh
I fell in love with that woman
But she turned around, and did the same thing again to me, woohoo...

(Babe...) Baby, please come home (come on home) hoome yeah...
I know, (ya been gone too long) been away so long
(Babe...) I want you to please come home, oh (come on hooome...)
(Oooh yeah)
(Ya been gone too long)

So I made up my mind
I gonna crawl right back to you woman
I'm gonna plead and plead and plead, yeah
'Till you're here by my side
I can't even walk down the same old streets we used to walk down
'Cause I keep thinkin about all the good times
Keep thinkin' about it
I wanna make you mine
ooh babe

babe, babe, babe, please (come on home, yeah) (come on home)
(ya been gone too long)

I want you to...oh!  babe... come on home
I want you to come back runnin home to me woman (oooh yeah)
I want you to think about when we walk through the trees together
(Ya been gone too long)
You know we had such a real good time
wooah, here they come
I believe it's always callin'
Do you feel the brown leaf against your face you oughta sing and shout

If I say to you tomorrow,
Take my hand child come with me,
It's to a castle I will take you,
Where what's to be they say will be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

And if you say to me tomorrow,
Oh what fun it all would be,
Then what's to stop us pretty baby,
But what is and what should never be.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.

But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

So if you wake up with the sunrise,
And all your dreams are still as new,
And happiness is what you need so bad,
Girl the answer lies with you.

Catch the wind see us spin,
Sail away leave the day,
Way up high in the sky.
But the wind won't blow,
You really shouldn't go,
It only goes to show.
That you will be mine,
By taking our time.

Everybody I know seems to know me well,
But does anybody know I'm gonna move like hell?

You know you shook me,
You shook me all night long.
You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
Baby baby please come home.

I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird that whistles,
And I have birds that sing.
I have a bird won't do nothing,
Oh buy a diamond ring.

You know you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
I said you shook me baby,
You shook me all night long.
You shook me so hard baby,
You shook me all night long.

Been in town my baby,
We just got to run home.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah darling,
We just got to go home.
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on baby just rock, rock, rock.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah honey,
We been shaking all night.
Oh, darling we just got to run right,
Aah, my head, rock on.
Rock On.

Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
Hey babe, hey babe.
I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on, baby, just rock, rock, rock.

I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop,
Come on, baby, just rock, rock, yeah.

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Down by the seaside,
See the boats go sailing.
Can the people hear,
What the little fish are saying.

People turned away.
People turned away.

Down in the city streets,
See all the folk go racing.
No time left,
To pass the time of day.

People turned away.
People turned away.
So far away, so far away.

Do you still do the twist,
Do you find you remember things that well.
Some folks twistin' every day,
Though sometimes it's awful hard to tell.

Out in the country,
Hear the people singing.
Singing about their progress,
Knowing where they're going.

People turned away.
People turned away.

Sing loud for the sunshine,
Pray hard for the rain.
And show your love for lady nature,
And she will come back again.

People turned away.
People turned away.
Now they know where they're going.

As I walk down the highway all I do is sing this song,
And a train that's passing my way helps the rhythm move along.
There is no doubt about the words are clear,
The voice is strong is oh so strong.

I'm just a simple guy and I live from day to day,
A ray of sunshine melts the clouds and blows my blues away,
There's nothing more that I can say but on a day like today,
I pass the time away and walk a quiet mile with you.

All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.

I'm so glad I'm living and gonna tell the world I am,
I got me a fine woman and she says that I'm her man.
One thing that I know for sure gonna give her all the loving,
Like nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody can.

Standing in the noonday sun trying to flag a ride,
People go and people come see my rider right by my side.
It's a total disgrace they set the pace it must be a race,
And the best thing I can do is run.

All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.
All I need from you is all your love.
All you got to give to me is all your love.

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On the window of your ready little scene,
I'm looking in your eyes.
One day soon you're gonna reach sixteen,
Ain't a lady in the city of lights.

Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want,
I must be the one you need.

Reflections baby from your teenage dream,
In the lobby of a hotel cafe dive.
Through the circus of the L. A. queens,
I passed you round went right on by.

How you play the game,
Still don't know your name.
You know I'm the one you want,
Yes I'd love to be the one you need.

Lips like cherries on the frown of a queen,
Come on flash it right in my eyes.
Said you dug me since you were thirteen,
Then you giggle as you hurt inside.

Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
I got to tell you I'm the one you want,
And everybody knows I'm the one you need.

Hours hours and the moments in between,
Oh baby I could count the times.
I've thought of coming on a plane and leaving,
Baby dry those silver eyes.

Do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want,
I'm the one you need.

Well I just got into town today,
To find my girl who's gone away.
She took the Greyhound at the General Store.
I searched myself I searched the town.
When I finaly did set down,
I find myself no wiser than before.

She said we couldn't do no wrong,
No other love could be so strong.
She locked up my heart in her bottom drawer.
Now she took my heart she took my keys,
From in my old blue dungarees,
And I'll never go to Texas anymore.

Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do.
She took my love and walked right out the door.
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure,
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before.

I took her love at seventen,
A little late these days it seems.
But they said heaven's well worth waiting for.
I took her word I took it all,
Beneath the sign that said "U-haul",
She left angels hanging round for more.

Now my baby's gone I don't know what to do.
She took my love and walked right out the door.
And if I ever find that girl I know one thing for sure,
I'm gonna give her something like she never had before.

I thought I had it all sewn up.
Our love a plot a pickup truck.
But folks said she was after something more.
I never did quite understand,
All that talk about rocking bands,
But they just rolled my doll right out the door.

Sisters of the wayside bide their time in quiet peace,
Await their place within the ring of calm.
Still stand to turn in seconds of release,
Await the call they know may never come.
In times of lightness no intruder dared upon,
To jeodardize the course upset the [?run?].
All was joy and hands were raised toward the sun,
As love in the halls of plenty overrun.

Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast,
Unending dances shadowed on the day.
Within their walls their daunting formless keep,
Preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay.
Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep,
Just turn a coin bring order to the fray.
And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed,
But no one seemed to question anyway.

How keen the soaring hunter's eye prevails upon the land,
To seek the unsuspecting and the weak.
And powerless the fabled sat too smug to lift a hand,
Toward the foe that threatened from the deep.
Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand,
Adrift upon a sea of futile speech.
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But no one there had heaven within their reach.

Where was your word,
Where did you go.
Where was your helping,
Where was your bow.
Bow.

Dull is the armour,
Cold is the day.
Hard was the journey,
Dark was the way.
Way.

I heard the word I couldn't stay.
I couldn't stand it another day.
Another day.
Another day.
Another day.

Touched by the timely coming,
Roused from the keeper's sleep,
Release the grip throw down the key.
Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the peace,
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

Held now within the knowing,
Rest now within the beat,
Take of the fruit but guard the seed.
Take of the fruit but guard the seed.