Fire

I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio
I'm pulling you close, you just say no
You say you don't like it, but girl I know you're a liar
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

Late at night I'm takin' you home
I say I wanna stay, you say you wanna
be alone. You say you don't love me,
girl you can't hide your desire
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

You had a hold on me, right from the start
A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart
My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool
Well your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool

Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet their love they didn't deny
Your words say split but your words they lie
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

Raised your Hands

If there's something you need
That you just don't have
Well just don't sit there
Feeling bad
Come on now get up
Try and understand
Just raise your hand

Baby here I am
You know I'm standing in line
I wanna give you my love
Please let me try
Come on now get up
Try and understand
Just raise your hand

Because the Night

Take me now baby here as I am
Pull me close try and understand
I work all day out in the hot sun
Stay with me now till the mornin' comes
Come on now try and understand
The way I feel when I'm in your hands
Take me now as the sun descends
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now

Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
What I got I have earned
What I'm not I have learned
Desire and hunger is the fire I breathe
Just stay in my bed till the morning comes
Come on now try and understand
The way I feel when I'm in your hands
Take me now as the sun descends
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now

Because the night...

Your love is here and now
The vicious circle turns and burns without
though I cannot live forgive me now
The time has come to take this moment and
They can't hurt you now

Because the night...

This Land is your Land

Well I rode that ribbon highway
I saw above me the endless sky
I saw below me the golden valley
This land was made for you and me

I've roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps
Through the sparkling sands
of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was calling
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To the New York island
From the Redwood Forest
To the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

Well the sun came shining
and I was strolling
Through wheat fields waving
and dust clouds rolling
And a voice was sounding
As the fog was lifting
Saying this land was made for you and me

This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To the New York island
From the Redwood Forest
To the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

Seeds

Well a great black river a man had found. So he
put all his money in a hole in the ground
And sent a big steel arm
drivin' down down down
Man now I live on the streets of Houston town
Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along
And we headed down south with just spit and a song
But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone"

Well there's men hunkered
down by the railroad tracks
The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back
Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight
And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight

Parked in the lumberyard
freezin' our asses off. My kids in the
back seat got a graveyard cough
Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife
Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle
of the night. Says "Move along man move along"

Well big limousine long shiny and black
You don't look ahead you don't look back
How many times can you get up
after you've been hit?
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
I'd lay one on your shiny chrome
And send you on your way back home
So if you're gonna leave your town,
where the north wind blow
to go on down where that sweet soda river flow
Well you better think twice on it Jack
You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead
off the rack. You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend. Except seeds blowin' up the
highway in the south wind
Movin' on movin' on it's gone gone it's all gone

War

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers’ eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War: it’s nothing but a heartbreaker
War: friend only to the undertaker
War is the enemy of all mankind

The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction, destruction
Who wants to die

War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men’s dreams
Made them disabled bitter and mean
Life is too precious to be fighting wars each day
War can’t give life, it can only take it away

War: it’s nothing but a heartbreaker
War: friend only to the undertaker
Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our
freedom. But Lord there’s gotta be
a better way. That’s better than War

War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War, what is it good for
Absolutely nothing

Jersey Girl

I got no time for the corner boys
Down in the street making all that noise
Or the girls out on the avenue
`Cause tonight I wanna be with you
Tonight I'm gonna take that ride
Across the river to the Jersey side
Take my baby to the carnival
And I'll take her on all the rides

Cause down the shore everything's all right
You and your baby on a Saturday night
You know all my dreams come true
When I'm walking down the street with you
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl

You know she thrills me with all her charms
When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms
My little girl gives me everything
I know that some day she'll wear my ring
So don't bother me man I ain't got no time
I'm on my way to see that girl of mine
`Cause nothing matters in this whole wide world
When you're in love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la...

I see you on the street and you look so tired
I know that job you got leaves you so uninspired
When I come by to take you out to eat
You're lyin' all dressed up on the bed baby fast asleep
Go in the bathroom and put your makeup on
We're gonna take that little brat of yours
and drop her off at your mom's
I know a place where the dancing's free
Now baby won't you come with me
`Cause down the shore everything's all right
You and your baby on a Saturday night
Nothing matters in this whole wide world
When you're in love with a Jersey girl

Chimes of Freedom

Well, far between sundown's finish
and midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'
As majestic bells of boats
struck shadows in the sun, sayin', it may be
the chimes of freedom flashin'
Flashin' for the warriors whose
strength is not to fight;
Flashin' for the refugees on their
unarmed road of flight. And for each
and every underdog soldier in the night
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'
Well, in the city's melted furnace
unexpectedly we watched
with faces hidden here
while the walls were tightenin'
as the echo of the wedding bells
before the blowing rain
dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'
Yeah, tollin' for the rebel
Yeah, tollin' for the raked
Tollin' for the luckless,
the abandoned and forsaked
Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts
burnin' constantly at stakes
and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

And then through a cloud-like curtain
in a far off corner flashed
There's a hypnotic, splattered mist
was slowly liftin'
Well, electric light still struck like arrows
Fired but for the ones condemned to drift
or else be kept from driftin'

Well, tollin' for the searching ones
on this speechless, secret trail
For the lonesome haunted lovers
with too personal a tale
And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail
Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Well, starry eyed and laughin'
I recall when we were caught,
trapped by an old track of vows
for the hands suspended
As we listened one last time,
and we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed
"Has the tollin' ended?"

Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones
whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless, confused, accused,
misused, strung out ones at worst.
And for every hung out person
in the whole wide universe
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Red Headed Woman

Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting the dirty job done
I'll take a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Well listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
Til you've got down on your knees and tasted
A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you've got baby, waiting under there
Big green eyes that look like, son
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done
Well I don't care how many girls you've dated, man
But you ain't lived till
you've had your tires rotated
By a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Light of Day

Well I've been out of the woods
for six days and nights now
Well I'm a little hot wired, but I'm feeling alright
I got some money in my pocket and a
long lean ride. I got to make it down
to Galveston by Saturday night, now

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
Got a little lost along the way
I'm just around the corner to the light of day
Well, I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Been driving five hundred miles,
got five hundred to go, yeah
I got rock and roll music on the radio
I got a brother on a rig just
off the gulf coast. He says the girls down there,
well they're really the most, man
Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Well I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo
Don't ask me what I'm doing, I don't know
I hope he wasn't joking
when he wrote me that letter
Things can't get any worse, they got to get better
Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way
I'm just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day

Streets of Philadelphia

I was bruised and battered
and I couldn't tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
Saw my reflection in a window
I didn't know my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me
wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia

I walked the avenue till my legs
felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Just as black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia

Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I my friend
And my clothes don't fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin

The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia

Secret Garden

She'll let you in her house
If you come knockin' late at night
She'll let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She'll let you deep inside
But there's a secret garden she hides

She'll let you in her car
To go drivin' round
She'll let you into the parts of herself
That'll bring you down
She'll let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don't think twice

You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get
To that place where you can't remember
And you can't forget

She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away

Murder Incorporated

Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow
Out on the street your chances are zero
Take a look around you (come on down)
It ain't too complicated
You're messin' with Murder Incorporated

Now you check over your shoulder
everywhere that you go
Walkin' down the street, there's eyes in every shadow
You better take a look around you (come on down)
That equipment you got's so outdated
You can't compete with Murder Incorporated
Everywhere you look now
there's Murder Incorporated

So you keep a little secret down
deep inside your dresser drawer
From dealing with the heat
you're feelin' down on the killin' floor
No matter where you step you feel
you're never out of danger
So the comfort that you keep's
a gold-plated snub-nose thirty-two

I heard that you
You got a job downtown,
man it leaves your head cold
And everywhere you look
life ain't got no soul
That apartment you live in
feels like it's just a place to hide
When your walkin' down the streets
you won't meet no one eye to eye
Now the cops reported you as just another homicide
I can tell that you was just frustrated
from livin' with Murder Incorporated

Incorporated
Everywhere you look now
Murder Incorporated
Down on your knees
Murder Incorporated
Everywhere that you turn it's murder Incorporated

Blood Brothers

We played king of the mountain out on the end
The world come chargin' up the hill,
and we were women and men
Now there's so much that time,
time and memory fade away
We got our own roads to ride
and chances we gotta take
We stood side by side each one fightin' for the other
We said until we died
we'd always be blood brothers

Now the hardness of this world
slowly grinds your dreams away
Makin' a fool's joke out of the promises
we make. And what once seemed black and white
turns to so many shades of gray
We lose ourselves in work to do and bills to pay
And it's a ride, ride, ride, and there ain't much cover
With no one runnin' by your side my blood brother

On through the houses of the dead
past those fallen in their tracks
Always movin' ahead and never lookin' back
Now I don't know how I feel,
I don't know how I feel tonight
If I've fallen 'neath the wheel,
if I've lost or I've gained sight
I don't even know why,
I don't know why I made this call
Or if any of this matters anymore after all

But the stars are burnin' bright
like some mystery uncovered
I'll keep movin' through the dark
with you in my heart
My blood brother

Trouble River

There's a river runs through this valley
Cold and deep and black
Comin' like a tombstone shadow across my back

CHORUS
Trouble river, six foot high and risin
Trouble river, I can't keep from cryin'
I woke up last night shakin'
Shakin' from a dream, that all I seen
was smiling faces staring back at me

CHORUS
Snakes crawling in the house
I'm stuck in muddy ground
Tonight I'm gonna shed this skin
And I'll be breathin' free air now
CHORUS

The Fever

When I get home from my job
I turn on my T.V.
But I can't keep my mind on the show
When I lay down at night,
oh I can't get no sleep
So I turn on my radio
But the only sound I hear
is you whisperin' in my ear
The words that you used to say
Now my days grow longer
'Cause my love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse
And I've got the fever for this girl

CHORUS
Got the fever, oh I've got the fever
Nothing that a po' boy can do
When he's got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh I've got the fever
Left this little boy blue
I can remember comin' home
See you standin' at the stove
With the dishes on the table
Dinner ready to go
We'll maybe go out to a movie show
Something that you like to see
Well now you are my sun in the morning
And my moon at night
I think about you baby
I feel alright
Now my days grow longer
'Cause my love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse
And I've got the fever for this girl
CHORUS

The Promise

Johnny works in a factory
and Billy works downtown
Terry works in a rock and roll band
Lookin' for that million-dollar sound
I got a little job down in Darlington
But some nights I don't go
Some nights I go to the drive-in,
or some nights I stay home
I followed that dream just like
those guys do up on the screen
And I drive a Challenger down Route 9 through
the dead ends and all the bad scenes
And when the promise was broken,
I cashed in a few of my dream

Well now I built that Challenger by myself
But I needed money and so I sold it
I lived a secret I should'a kept to myself
But I got drunk one night and I told it
All my life I fought this fight
The fight that no man can never win
Every day it just gets harder to live
This dream I'm believing in
Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right
Thunder Road there's something dyin'
on the highway tonight

I won big once and I hit the coast
But somehow I paid the big cost
Inside I felt like I was carryin'
the broken spirits of all the other ones who lost
When the promise is broken you go on living
But it steals something from down in your soul
Like when the truth is spoken
and it don't make no difference
Something in your heart goes cold
I followed that dream
through the southwestern flats
That dead ends in two-bit bars
And when the promise was broken
I was far away from home
Sleepin' in the back seat of a borrowed car
Thunder Road, for the lost lovers
and all the fixed games
Thunder Road, for the tires
rushing by in the rain
Thunder Road, Billy and me we'd always say
Thunder Road, we were gonna take it all
and throw it all away

Land of Hope & Dreams

Grab your ticket and your suitcase
thunder's rolling down the tracks
You don't know where you're goin'
but you know you won't be back
Darlin' if you're weary
lay your head upon my chest
We'll take what we can carry
and we'll leave the rest

Big Wheels rolling through fields
where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams
I will provide for you
and I'll stand by your side
You'll need a good companion
for this part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
and all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams
This train carries saints and sinners
This train carries losers and winners
This Train carries whores and gamblers
This Train carries lost souls
This Train dreams will not be thwarted
This Train faith will be rewarded
This Train hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train bells of freedom ringin'
This Train carries broken-hearted
This Train thieves and sweet souls departed
This Train carries fools and kings
This Train all aboard
This Train dreams will not be thwarted
This Train faith will be rewarded
This Train hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train bells of freedom ringin'

American Skin (41 Shots)

41 shots,41 shots,41 shots,41 shots,41 shots,41 shots,41 shots,41 shots....
and we'll take that ride
across this bloody river
to the other side
41 shots... cut through the night
You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
in your American skin

41 shots
Lena gets her son ready for school
She says "on these streets, Charles
you've got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you
promise you'll always be polite,
that you'll never ever run away,
promise Mama you'll keep
your hands in sight"

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
in your American skin

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it in your heart, is it in your eyes
It ain't no secret
41 shots... and we'll take that ride
across this bloody river
to the other side
41 shots... got my boots caked in this mud
We're baptized in these waters
and in each other's blood
Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
in your American skin

From Small Things

At sixteen she quit high school
to make her fortune in the promised land
She got a job behind the counter
in an all night hamburger stand
She wrote faithfully home to mama
"Now mama don't you worry none
From small things, mama
big things one day come"

It was late one Friday
he pulled in out of the dark
He was tall and handsome, first she took
his order, then she took his heart
They bought a house up on the hillside
Where little feet soon would run
From small things, mama
big things one day come

Oh but love is fleeting
it's sad but true
But when your heart is beating
You don't wanna hear the news
She packed her bags and with a
Wyoming County real estate man
She ran down to Tampa
In and "El Dorado Grande"
She wrote back home, "Dear Mama
life is just heaven in the sun
From small things, mama
big things one day come"

Well she shot him dead
on a sunny Florida road
When they caught her all she said was
she couldn't stand the way he drove
Back home lonesome Johnny
Prays for his baby's parole
He waits on the hillside
Where the Wyoming waters roll
At his feet and almost grown now
A blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son
Well from small things, mama
big things one day come
Well from small things, mama
big things one day come

The Big Payback

I bought a scooter and I rented a shack
Out in the sun, by the railroad track
I got a job and I'm a-breakin' my back
Workin' and workin' for the big payback

I keep a puttin' and a puttin' out
I keep a sweatin' like all get out
I work so long that I'm a losin' track
Waitin', waitin' on the big payback
Well, it's a wham, bam, thank you ma'am,
god damn, look out Sam
It's a gone dead train rumblin' down this track
They got your neck in the noose,
you're draggin' long in back
Chasin' and chasin' the big payback

Oh what my foreman does well I don't know
He just throws me a shovel and yells
"Go, Bobby, Go"
Oh well - a all day long he's just a diddy wack wack
While I'm sweatin' and sweatin' the big payback
Well, it's a wham, bam, thank you ma'am,
god damn, look out Sam
It's a gone dead train rumblin' down this track
They got your neck in the noose,
you're hands are tied up in back
Chasin' and chasin' the big payback

I quit that job, and Mister I ain't goin' back
Got me a knife and she's a long and black
I'll tell you how I make my piece at night Mac
Down in the alley of the big payback
I go a wham, bam, thank you ma'am,
god damn, c'mon man
You're a gone dead train rumblin' down this track
I got your neck in the noose
and I don't give a damn, Jack
I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback
I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback
I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback

Help Up Without a Gun

I was out driving just taking it slow
Looked at my tank it was reading low
Pulled in a Exxon station out
on Highway One
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun

Some damn fool with a guitar
walkin' down the street
ain't got nowhere to go
ain't got nothing to eat
Man with a cigar says, "Sign here son"
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun

Now it's a sin and it oughta be a crime
You know it happens buddy all the time
Try to make a living, try to have a little fun
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun
Held up without a gun

Trapped

Seems like I'm caught up in your trap again
Seems like I'll be wearing the same old chains
Good will conquer Evil
And the truth will set me free
And I know some day I will find the key
I know somewhere I will find the key
Seems like I've been playing
your game way too long
Seems the game I've played has made you strong
When the game is over
I won't walk out the loser
I know I'll walk out of here again
I know someday I'll walk out of here again

Well now I'm Trapped
OOh yeah
Trapped
OOh Yeah
Trapped

Seems like I've been sleeping
in your bed too long
Seems like you've been meaning to do me harm
But I'll teach my eyes to see
beyond these walls in front of me
Someday I'll walk out of here again
Someday I'll walk out of here again

Chorus
Chorus

Seems like I've been playing
your game way too long
Seems the game I've played has made you strong

Chorus
Chorus

None but thr Brave

Tonight down on Union Street
I'm thinking back baby to you and me
The way you used to be
Your words come back to me
from passing cars
Voices sing out
And in empty bars
where guitars ring out
We'd walk and talk about
who'd be the ones to get out
You said
None but the brave
No one baby but the brave
Those strong enough to save
something from what they gave

None but the brave
No one baby but the brave

In my dreams these nights I see you my friend
The way you looked back then
on a night like this
I know that girl no longer exists
Except for a moment in some stranger's eyes
Or in the nameless girls
in cars rushing by
That's where I find you tonight
And in my heart you still survive

None but the brave
No one baby but the brave
Those strong enough to save
something from the love they gave
None but the brave
No one baby but the brave

Now tonight once more
I search every face on that crowded floor
Looking for, I don't know what for
Just waitin' to see you come walkin'
through that door
There's a girl standing by the band
She reminds me of you and I ask her to dance
As the drummer counts away
I take her hand, we move away

Tonight, now I see old friends
Caught in a game they've got
no chance to win
Gettin' beat and then playin' again
'Til their strength gives out
or their heart gives in

Now who's the man
who thinks he can decide
Whose dreams will live
and who's shall be pushed aside
Has he ever walked down these streets
at night and looked into the eyes of
None but the brave
No one baby but the brave
Those strong enough to save
something from the love they gave
None but the brave
No one baby but the brave

Missing

Woke up this morning, was a chill in the air
Went into the kitchen,
your cigarettes were lying there
Your jacket hung on the chair
where you left it last night
Everything was in place, everything was all right
But you were missing
Missing...

Last night I dreamed the sky went black
You were drifting down and you couldn't get back
You were lost and in trouble so far from home
I reached for you, my arms went to stone
I woke and you were missing
Missing...

I searched for something to explain
In the whispering rain, the trembling leaves
Tell me baby where did you go
You were here just a moment ago
There's nights I still hear your footsteps fall
Your key in the door, your voice in the hall
Your smell drifts through our bedroom
I wake, but I don't move

Lift me Up

I don't need your answered prayers
or the chains your lover wears
I don't need your rings of gold
or the secrets that you hold
Lift me up,
Lift me up and I'll fall with you
Lift me up, let your love lift me up

I don't need your sacred vow
or the promise tomorrow brings
veiled behind the morning clouds
I'll take the fate the daylight brings
Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you
Lift me up, let your love lift me up

When the morning bright
lifts away this night
In the light above
we will find our love,
we will find our love
Your skin, your hand upon my neck
This skin, your fingers on my skin
This kiss, this heartbeat, this breath
This heart, this heart, this wilderness
Lift me up, darling
Lift me up and I'll fall with you
Lift me up, let your love lift me up

Viva Las Vegas

Bright light city gonna set my soul
gonna set my soul on fire
There's a whole lot a money just ready to burn
so get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women
just waitin' out there
They're all living just like Devil may care
and I'm just the Devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more
than 24 hours in a day
But even if there were 40 more
I wouldn't sleep a minute away
There's blackjack, poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on every deal
All you need is money and nerves of steel
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashing
And your one-armed bandits crashing
all your hopes down the drain
Viva Las Vegas turning day into
night time turning night into day time
If you've seen it once
you'll never be the same again

Gonna keep on the run
I'm gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke well
I'll always remember that I had a swinging time
I'm gonna give it everything I got
Lady Luck won't you let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas
Viva, Viva Las Vegas

Country Fair

Every year when summer comes around
They stretch a banner 'cross
the main street in town
You can feel somethin's happenin' in the air
Well, from Carol's house up on Telegraph Hill
You can see the lights
going up out in Soldiers Field
Getting ready, for the county fair

County fair, county fair,
Everybody in town'll be there
So come on, hey we're goin' down there
(Hey) Little girl with the long blond hair
Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears
Baby, down at the country fair
Now you'll be hangin' tight when we hit the top
And that rollercoaster's ready to drop
And your braggin', how you wasn't even scared
Well baby you know I just love the sound
Of that pipe organ on the merry-go-round
Baby, down at the county fair

County fair, county fair,
Everybody in town'll be there
So come on, hey we're goin' down there
(Hey) Little girl with the long blond hair
Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears
Baby, down at the country fair

At the north end of the field
they set up a stand
And they got a little rock and roll band
People dancin' out in the open air
It's James Young and the Immortal Ones
Two guitars, baby, bass and drums
Just rockin', down at the county fair

County fair, county fair
Everybody in town'll be there
So come on, we're goin' down there
Little girl with the long blond hair
Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears
Baby, down at the county fair

Now it's getting late
Before we head back to town
we let that fortune wheel spin around
Come on mister tell me what's waiting out there
On my way out I steal a kiss in the dark
Hope I can remember where our car's parked
Baby, out at the county fair

Now off down the highway
there's the last stream of cars
We sit a while in my front yard
With the radio playin' soft and low
I pull Carol close to my heart
And I lean back and stare up at the stars
Oh I wish, I'd never have to let this moment go

Code of Silence

There's a code of silence
that we don't dare speak
There's a wall between us and the river's deep
We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
But there's a code of silence
and it can't go on

Is the truth so elusive, so elusive
you see that it ain't enough baby to bridge
the distance between you and me
There's a list of grievance 100 miles long
There's a code of silence
and it can't go on
Well you walk with your eyes open
But your lips they remain sealed
While the promises we made are broken
beneath the truth we fear to reveal
Now I need to know now darlin'
I need to know what's goin' on so c'mon

Well you walk with your eyes open
But your lips they remain sealed
While the promises we made are broken
beneath the truth we fear to reveal
Now I need to know now darlin'
I need to know what's goin' on so c'mon

There's a code of silence
that we don't dare speak
There's a wall between and the river's deep
We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
But there's a code of silence
and it can't go on

Dead Man Walking

There's a pale horse comin'
I'm gonna ride it
I'll rise in the morning
My fate decided
I'm a dead man walkin'
I'm a dead man walkin'

In St. James Parish
I was born and christened
Now I've got my story
Mister no need for you to listen
It's just a dead man talkin'

Once I had a job I had a girl
But between our dreams and actions
lies this world

In the deep forest
Their blood and tears rushed over me
All I could feel was
the drugs and the shotgun
And my fear up inside of me
Like a dead man talkin'

'Neath a summer sky
my eyes went black
Sister I won't ask for forgiveness
My sins are all I have

Now the clouds above my prison
Move slowly across the sky
There's a new day comin'
And my dreams are full tonight