02. How Do You Tell Someone
03. God Makes The Rain
04. Take It Out On Me
05. Light It On Fire
06. Laughable
07. Love Of My Life
08. So Sad About Me
09. Man On The Run
10. Louisiana Lowdown
11. New Orleans
12. Peacemaker
I got no reason for the things I fear
The things that plague me when I see and hear
A dime's a nickel and a nickel's none
I'll throw myself into the Sunday sun
A summer Sunday when you went insane
You said you're going and I said I came
I'm throwing oranges in an apple cart
The ties that bind are tearing me apart
Jenny Says, Turn off the radio
Jenny Says, Turn out the light
Jenny Says, Turn off the video
You beat yourself up just bring yourself down
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
When the world is coming down on me I let it go!
I got no reason for the things I say
She turned toward me then she turned away
There's lots of forces in a modern world
That take a toll upon a modern girl
I got no reason for the things I fear
The things that plague me when I see and hear
I'll press my finger on an itchy trigger
What once was small right now is so much bigger
Jenny Says, Turn off the radio
Jenny Says, Turn out the light
Jenny Says, Turn off the video
You beat yourself up just bring yourself down
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
When the world is coming down on me I let it go!
Solo
I got no reason for the things I do
The dealer deals and then the dealer screwed you
You throw your cards upon a playing table
My name is Cane and I'm now unable
Jenny Says, Turn off the radio
Jenny Says, Turn out the light
Jenny Says, Turn off the video
You beat yourself up 'cause you LOVE it
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
When the world is coming down on me I let it go!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
Let it go! Let it go! Let it go!
When the world is coming down on me I let it go!
I let it go!
I let it go!
Ahhhhhhhhhh
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Tina says don't talk to me like I am deaf and dumb
We've broken down and broken up so much that I am numb
Talk about don't shout about the people we've become
There's a little girl who's crying over here
Michael Says don't shout at me like I was born a fool
You speak of love and scream of love now dare to treat me cruel
Nothings fair in love and war so please lets make some rules
There's a little boy who's crying over here.
Did you ever know me?
I swear that I had tried
Did you ever need me?
I feel like I just died
Did you ever want me?
I swear that I have tried
How do you tell someone you don't love them?
How do you tell someone you don't care anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them anymore?
Tina says the pictures that we took are put away
Inside a box of memories for cold and rainy days
Poems in pencil rhyming with the things you'd never say
There's a little girl who's crying over here
Michael's old engagement picture's in a wooden box
His wooden heart is tough as nails and solid as a rock
Keeps himself protected with a combination lock
There's a little boy who's crying over here
Did you ever know me?
I swear that I had tried
Did you ever need me?
I feel like I just died
Did you ever want me?
I swear that I have tried
How do you tell someone you don't love them?
How do you tell someone you don't care anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them anymore?
Fighting makes me tired
In my eyes
Crying makes me tired
There's a spy
Hurting makes me tired
Hold me tight
Lying makes me tired
Tina says I wish that I had never seen your smile
Your name is written on my soul in alphabetic file
All I've got's my dignity, so I will leave in style
There's a million of us crying over here
Did you ever know me?
I swear that I had tried
Did you ever need me?
I feel like I just died
Did you ever want me?
I swear, I swear
How do you tell someone you don't love them?
How do you tell someone you don't care anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them?
How do you tell someone you don't care anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them anymore?
Anymore, Anymore, Anymore, Anymore
Any time I talk to you there's no one listening
Everytime I reach for there's no one there and
Everywhere I look for you, you're no where to be found
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I should've know there'd be danger
When I saw your face in the crowd
Now I'm trying to work out past my anger
I should know better by now
I use to believe in the love songs
That took me so long to write down
Every word you say, takes my breath away
But I should know better by now
I've known your sorrow
But everybody's tasted pain
I've known your sorrow since God made the rain
I see tommorow
When everybody tries again
I see tommorow
When God makes the rain
I used to believe in the spirits
That turned all your words into sound
But I was your walk on the wild side
I should know better by now
And if you see me looking for something
or someone who'll never be found
When I look your way, turn you eyes astray
'cause I should know better by now
I've known your sorrow
But everybody's tasted pain
I've known your sorrow since God made the rain
I see tommorow
When everybody tries again
I see tommorow
When God makes the rain
I use to hold my fury
And keep it bottled tight
And wrestle with the consequences each and every night
But if I put my faith in someone who was only trying to bring me down
I wouldn't stand, where I am standing now
I've known your sorrow
But everybody's tasted pain
I've known your sorrow since God made the rain
I see tommorow
When everybody tries again
I see tommorow
When God makes the rain
I've known your sorrow
When everybody turned away
I'll be tommmorow
When God makes the rain
When God makes the rain
When God makes the rain
When God makes the rain
When God makes the rain
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Slow dancing, moving to the rhythm of
My anger written in stone
There's no reason nobody needs to know
Souls meeting somewhere in the distance
There's no rain or chill in the air
I fell something you always said was there
I'll be waiting when the storm is over
I'll be waiting when the fever is high
Share your anger but swear that you'll never
Take it out on me
Let me see you smile
Let me hear you scream, for a little while
Don't take it out on me, 'cause there's nobody else around
Heart's beating flowing like a river
Your safe opening's close to the door
If you feel trouble you don't have to stay
no more
Old passions rising to the surface
I look towards the day I was born
I'm so torn
I'll be waiting when the storm is over
I'll be waiting when the fever is high
Share your anger but swear that you'll never
Take it out on me
Let me see you smile
Let me hear you scream, for a little while
Don't take it out on me, 'cause there's nobody else around
Take it out on me
Take it out on me
Take it out on me
Slow dancing moving to the rhythm of
My anger written in stone
Take it out on me
Take it out on me
Take it out on me
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Its four a.m., I'm drunk and alone
Trying to call you on a public phone
I wanted passion. I wanted desire
My heart is a flame that pains me
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
I'm the perfect picture of a perfect fool
You're out doing what I wanted you to
I'm in the heartbreak hotel and there's a deskclerk for hire
My heart is a flame that pains me
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
How can I tell you
Just how it feels
How do you make love stay
And how do you know if what's staying is real
Solo
I was the one full of whiskey and talk
I was the one with the skip in my walk
You say the truth hurts, yeah well, so does a liar
My heart is a flame that pains
Light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
If I do not light it on fire
Light it on fire
Don't ask me how
Light it on fire
Don't ask me why
Light it on fire
Don't ask me when
Light it on fire
I'll tell you now
Light it on fire
I want it all
Light it on fire
I want it all
Light it on fire
I want it all
Light it on fire
Ahhhhh
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Well I stare at the hole in my hands
And I watch you slip away
And I feel if I'd only done better then maybe I could make you stay
Then I stare at the hole in my hands
And I can't remember things I say
Hour to hour, sentence to sentence, day to day
Well I could
But I don't
And I should
But I won't
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
There's an empty space in my bed
My bed's too big these days
Even as I hold you I'm letting you go somewhere far away
There's an empty space in my heart
When my friends say boy now you're free
'Cause freedom's not a ring around your finger I can tell 'em it's a memory
Well I could
But I don't
And I should
But I won't
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
Having to tell someone goodbye
Having to find a place to hide
When all you feel these days is empty inside
Well I remember the last time we met
You held a stranger's hand
You introduced me to him and you said could we try to be friends
Well I could
But I don't
And I should
But I won't
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
It's Laughable
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The love of my life is a shady lady
Tearing me up just to bring me down
She used to be calm, but now she's crazy
I don't mind
Tearing me down like a jungle money
Cutting me up like a jungle cat
She used to be fine, but now she's funky
I don't mind
She's not the love of my life anymore
The love of my life takes my lunch to breakfast
Nary a thought that a man might starve
She used to smoke dope but now shes x-ing
I don't mind
Tearing me down with a full length mirror
Praying for death as her bueaty fades
She'll go anywhere any man will lead her
I don't mind
She's not the love of my life anymore
I hurt
You walk
There ain't no looking for an answer when the question's come and go
I'll stay
You'll go
There ain't no hoping for tommorow
So I pack up all my sorrow
And find some hope that I can borrow
I'm just trying to save my sanity and soul
Solo
I hurt
You walk
There ain't no looking for an answer when the question's come and go
I'll stay
You'll go
There ain't no hoping for tommorow
So I pack up all my sorrow
And find some hope that I can borrow
I'm just trying to save my sanity and soul
Drum Solo
The love of my life is a shady lady
Tearing me up just to bring me down
She used to be calm, but now she's crazy
I don't mind
She's not the love of my life anymore
More, More, More!
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There's a window by the bedroom door that never will be opened
If you spend the whole day looking out and never looking within
And your lover and your mother and your father have been hopin'
That you find the truth's you're looking for by searching deep within
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
I'm Sad About You
There's a reason why the sunrise sets and friends and loved ones leave us
There's a method to the madness like a future to your past
And your lover and your brother and your sister should believe us
'Cause the mysteries beyond our reach are firmly in our grasp
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
I'm Sad About You
Solo
In the morning when you wake yourself you wonder what you're doing
As you rub your eyes so violently while falling out of bed
Is there nothing educational in words that you are chewing
As you seek the soothing solace of a friendly shadow past
BUT I
But I really must admit that I am glad that I am living
There were times when I would pray to God and ask that I was not
And I've learned that taking isn't really half of what is giving
But the secret to your wisdom is
THE ONENESS IN YOUR SOUL
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
So Sad About Me
I'm Sad About You
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2,3,4
I've got the desert in my eyes and the western skies on my mind
Everywhere I look I see wide open country for miles
Out in the distance there's a mountain the size of the sun
Looks like I ain't driving nowhere, I feel like a man on the run
Get Goin'
Get Gone Adobe and teardrops are all I'm leaving behind
I'm somewhere in Texas, I'm lost and I don't see the signs
In a bar in New Mexico and old man sells me a gun
But I ain't shooting no one, I feel like a man on the run
Thats right
I feel like a man on the run, oh-oh-oh
solo
Oh-oh-oh Try to catch me
Oh-oh-oh I've just gotta be free, free, free
Oh-oh-oh Try to catch me
Whoa
From San Bernadino I can see the lights of L.A.
The closer they get the further they're slipping away
I can almost feel the redemption forgivness becomes
I don't forgive anyone, I feel like a man on the run
Thats Right
I feel like a man on the run
I feel like a man on the run
And I won't forgive anyone
And I don't forgive anyone
And I can't forgive anyone
And I won't forgive you, thats true
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My eyelids said four-thirty
But the radio clock said six
And I was thinking up a reasonable excuse
I might've slept til yesterday
But in the shape I'm in
Whats twenty-four hours more or less to lose
I've burned up letters and I've burned up souvenirs
And left no traces there that I was ever here
And I won't be a Lousiana Lowdown and blue
The phone rings after breakfast
I swallow hard when I hear
Guess who and I say oh no and the caller hangs up
I think I need a shower,
But I really want a beer
And I remember a dream I had and I laugh to myself
I've burned up letters and I've burned up souvenirs
And left no traces there that I was ever here
And I won't be a Lousiana Lowdown and blue
I saw a stranger smiling at me yesterday
And it scared me almost half to death
I wanted to hide, I wanted to run away from them
Instead I closed my eyes and I wasn't there
I was somewhere in the French Quater
In the winter of last year
Yeah sitting in the square dripping chili on myself
Then I headed home I heard the sound
Of heaven in my ears
Turned and saw a woman on the corner singing about Jesus
I've burned up letters and I've burned up souvenirs
And left no traces there that I was ever here
And I won't be a Lousiana Lowdown
And I won't be a Lousiana Lowdown
And I won't be a Lousiana Lowdown and blue
and blue, and blue, and blue
and blue, and blue, and blue
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The Texas sun beats down upon me like the devil's smile
I'd rather be anywhere else than here
Was it a blinding lack of subtlety or just a lack of style
Responding to the ways and means of fear
Take me back to New Orleans
And drop me at my door
'Cause I might love you, yea
But I love me more
My fingernails are bitten 'til there's nothing left but skin
I'd rather be anyone else right now
The light that shone within my eyes is slowly growing dim
She told me where told me when but never said how
Take me back to New Orleans
And don't call me anymore
'Cause I might love you, yea
But I love me more
She said, How can I make this unhappen
I said, You cannot make this unhappen
Chose before your choices fade away
She said, I could be home by tommorow
She said, If I could beg, steal, or borrow
I said your there
You might as well stay
The morning mist arises to another crack in the glass
The lack of sleep has made me numb
But sometimes when she sleeps she'll turn and whisper his name
That cake must tastes great but I'll past when you offer me some
Take me back to New Orleans
And drop me at my door
'Cause I might love you, yea
But I love me more
Take me back to New Orleans
And don't call me anymore
'Cause I might love you, yea
I might love you, yea
I might love you, yea
But I love me more
I love me more
I love me more
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Thirty years of walking a beat
Down and dirty from all that he's seen
Protect and serve then turn in your gun
Now your serving days are done
There goes a peacemaker
There goes a live wire
There goes a peacemaker
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
His whole life was never bringing it home
Dealt with murder and fear on his own
Worked out of love and worked out of rage
Getting shot at for minimum wage
There goes a peacemaker
There goes a live wire
There goes a peacemaker
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
A friend of mine
Friend of mine
He clings to his wife and kids revolver to reviver
He's always teaching them
Love creates survivors
Now he and this girl are seeing the world
Just like it's always meant to be done
He sees her and she sees him
All the rest is decoration
There goes a peacemaker
There goes a live wire
There goes a peacemaker
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
There goes a peacemaker
There goes a live wire
There goes a peacemaker
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
An ex-policeman and a friend of mine
Whoa
A friend of mine
A friend of mine
A friend of mine
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