Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say, one love, one life
When it’s one need in the night
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don’t care for it
Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it’s too late tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We’re one but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One!
Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much? More than a lot
You gave me nothin’ now it’s all I got
We’re one but we’re not the same
Well we hurt each other then we do it again
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holdin’ on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life, with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One
One
Do what you want, be what you are
Do what you want girl, but be what you are
There ain’t no right or wrong way
Just a play from the heart
It ain’t a sign of weakness to give yourself away
Because the strong give up and move on
While the weak, the weak give up and stay
So do what you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
But be what you are
Be what you are
Do what you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
But be what you are
Be what you are
Do you believe in hot cars
Leather bars, or movie stars
Is that what’s real?
Payin’ dues, in earth shoes, Chicago blues
Is that how you feel?
You can change
You can change
You can change
You can change
But you can’t conceal
What’s deep inside you
It’s your game, it’s your deal
It’s your game, it’s your deal
Do what you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
What you wanna do
But be what you are
Be what you are
Hall and Oates, Bigger than both of us
Maybe
Maybe I can love you
Maybe be your friend
Maybe I can help you, your troubles to mend
Maybe sing a song for you
That’s what I know best to do
Anything you want me to I’ll be
Anything you want me to I’ll be
Maybe we’ll be strangers
Till our dying day
Maybe then we’ll understand what we had to say
Maybe when we’ve closed the door
On all that’s negative in thought
Anyway you want it, it can be
Anyway you want it, it can be
Lift your head now
Tears you’ve shed
Are all ignored
Take a hand and make a stand
Against all wars
Are you dreaming
Or just scheming, for reward
Life’s illusions are misleading
It’s so good to be here breathing
Anyway you want it, it can be
Anyway you want it, it can be
Lift your head now
Tears you’ve shed
Are all ignored
Take a hand and make a stand
Against all wars
Are you dreaming
Or just scheming, for reward
Life’s illusions are misleading
It’s so good to be here breathing
Maybe I can love you
Maybe be your friend
Maybe I can help you, your troubles to mend
Maybe sing a song for you
That’s what I know best to do
Anything you want me to I’ll be
Anything you want me to I’ll be
Dave Mason
Your Bright Baby Blues
I’m sitting down by the highway
Down by that highway side
Everybody’s going somewhere
Riding just as fast as they can ride
I guess they’ve got a lot to do
Before they can rest assured
Their lives are justified
Pray to God for me baby
He can let me slide
‘Cause I’ve been up and down this highway
Far as my eyes can see
No matter how fast I run
I can never seem to get away from me
No matter where I am
I can’t help thinking I’m just a day away
From where I want to be
Now I’m running home, baby
Like a river to the sea
Baby, if you can see me
Out across this wilderness
There’s just one thing
I was hoping you might guess
Baby you can free me
All in the power of your sweet tenderness
Yeah (yeah)
Well, I can see it in your eyes
You’ve got those bright baby blues
You don’t see what you’ve got to gain
But you don’t like to lose
You watch yourself from the sidelines
Like your life is a game you don’t mind playing
To keep yourself amused
I don’t mean to be cruel, baby
But you’re looking confused
Baby if you can hear me
Turn down your radio
There’s just one thing
I want you to know
When you’ve been near me
I’ve felt the love stirring in my soul
Yeah (yeah)
Yes I have
It’s so hard to come by
That feeling of peace
This friend of mine said:
“Close your eyes, and try a few of these”
I thought I was flying like a bird
So far above my sorrow
But when I looked down
I was standing on my knees
Now I need someone to help me
Someone to help me please
Baby, if you need me
Like I know I need you
There’s just one thing
I’ll ask you to do
Take my hand and lead me
To the hole in your garden wall
And pull me through
Jackson Brown, The Pretender
Shades of Scarlett Conquering
Out of the fire like Catholic saints
Comes Scarlett and her deep complaint
Mimicking tenderness she sees
In sentimental movies
A celluloid rider comes to town
Cinematic lovers sway
Plantations and sweeping ballroom gowns
Take her breath away
Out in the wind in crinolines
Chasing the ghosts of Gable and Flynn
Through stand-in boys and extra players
Magnolias hopeful in her auburn hair
She comes from a school of southern charm
She likes to have things her way
Any man in the world holding out his arm
Would soon be made to pay
Friends have told her not so proud
Neighbors trying to sleep and yelling, “not so loud”
Lovers in anger, block of ice
Harder and harder just to be nice
Given in the night to dark dreams
From the dark things she feels
She covers her eyes in the x-rated scenes
Running from the reels
Beauty and madness to be praised
‘Cause it is not easy to be brave
To walk around in so much need
To carry the weight of all that greed
Dressed in stolen clothes she stands
Cast iron and frail
With her impossibly gentle hands
And her blood-red fingernails
Out of the fire and still smoldering
She says, “a woman must have everything”
Shades of Scarlett conquering
She says, “a woman must have everything”
Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Take me to the Future
Hey I was walking down the street the other day
You know when my head was aching
And I heard some mother say she said
I don’t know what’s wrong with all you kids today?
And as the car hit her I said
You’re too busy looking the other way
I ain’t got no memory, I don’t feel no pain
Take me to the future, there and back again
There and back again
I went to my sweet old baby gypsy lady
She told me so she said
I know the place where you is gonna go she said
Some place across the ways and maybe do a show
I said Thank you, merci, but I already know
I ain’t got no memory, I don’t feel no pain
Take me to the future, there and back again
There and back again
Too many busy people rushing down the street I said
Their money shuffling to the hustling of their feet I said
Well I just don’t dig it why these people never meet
They got the movement, they just don’t got the beat
I ain’t got no memory, I don’t feel no pain
Take me to the future, there and back again
There and back again
I ain’t got feeling, I ain’t got no past
Take me to the future, tie me to the mast (repeat)
Sad Cafe, Facades
Dreamer
Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said “far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!”
You know, well you know, you had it comin’ to you
Now, there’s not a lot I can do
Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer
So now you put your head in your hands, oh no
I said, “far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!”
You know, well you know, you had it comin’ to you
Now, there’s not a lot I can do
Work it out someday
Oh ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma
(If I could see something) you can see anything you want, boy
(If I could be someone) you can be anyone, celebrate, boy
(If I can do something) you can do something
(If I could do anything) but can you do something out of this world?
Take a dream on a sunday
Take a life, take a holiday
Take a lie, take a dreamer
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along
Dreamer, dream and dream along
C’mon and dream, dream along (come along)
(C’mon and dream, dream along)
(C’mon and dream, dream along) na na na na na na na na
Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer (c’mon and dream and dream along)
Can you put your hands in your head, oh no! (c’mon and dream and dream along)
I said dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer (c’mon and dream and dream along)
Can you put your hands in your head, oh no! (oh, come on, oh, come on)
Oh no
Supertramp, Crime of the century
Bargain
I’d gladly lose me to find you
I’d gladly give up all I had
To find you I’d suffer anything and be glad
I’d pay any price just to get you
I’d work all my life and I will
To win you I’d stand naked, stoned, and stabbed
I’d call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I’d gladly lose me to find you
I’d gladly give up all I got
To catch you I’m gonna run and never stop
I’d pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I’m gonna drown an unsung man
I’d call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I sit looking ’round
I look at my face in the mirror
I know I’m worth nothing without you
In life one and one don’t make two
One and one make one
And I’m looking for that free ride to me
I’m looking for you
I’d gladly lose me to find you
I’d gladly give up all I got
To catch you I’m gonna run and never stop
I’d pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I’m gonna drown an unsung man
I’d call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
Who, Who’s Next
White Rabbit
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
Logic,n: A frequentative flutter of fitful flight forestalling the fateful fall.
Hero’s Dictionary.
