Most of my life I have spent alone Most of this past year I been searchin' for my home I met a girl she won't leave my mind alone If she's listening
There's a place I can get to Where I'm safe From the city blues And its green And its quiet Only trouble was I had to buy it And I'll do anything I
Can I get through to you now Can I Marianne What are you trying to do now Come on Marianne Ain't no use in conversation Poor little girl you're outta
If you're trav'lin' out west And you see a dark haired girl Tell her her love is a'waitin In the rockies so near And the mountains is high As his love
Why can't you hear me Why can't you see me How can you be so blind to this feelin' in my heart Time is a'waistin' What have I tasted Can you turn a deaf
Know you got to run Know you got to hide Don't know who to follow Who is on your side Don't know where you're going You won't talk of where you've been
Been on the road too long Most of these changes should be past And gone Clarify my position Must be some kind of fool I'm a musician I got nothin' to
If your guy can't come to you and you don't remember who your talking to your concentration slips away because your baby, is so far away Well there'
When I was young and needed my time alone Jump in the pirogue, pole down the Bayou Bogafalaya River was dark and cold Seven years old, I couldn't find
The last time I spoke to her She couldn't talk to me The script she read was very strange But who did she see A few lines from a bad dream A frozen memory
Lookout mama Its comin to you I can't tell you What you gonna do Rock and roll crazies Get you right down Make you feel so tough Your feet leave the
When I get restless, what can I do? When I need someone I think about you I got to move on, not fade away I'm only just growing a little each day (Hold
And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of For so long I wait for the sun To remind my body It needs restin' And I must learn to without you
In my short time I've loved, I've shined And now I find All my lovin' just been blind Southern girl, come on You and me babe, gotta move on My fortunes
Listen to the sound of the night bird singin' I wonder who he calls My fingers hurt so bad, it's got me grinnin' And I wonder can I do it all Hit a stretch
And it's all in the way you wonder If you think you're learnin' how Pick up your feet you don't have to pick up a gun You can prod the sacred cow You
What do we do Given life We move around Solitude Reach for light Rich... Or slight... We move around We move around One searches For the sake of searching
Everybody wants to hear The music in my head The price I pay is too much And I'm winding up in debt So if you don't mind I think I'm gonna stay home