Memories are measured out in years Scattered blues and make believe And the majesty that's in between Thicknesses and distances are real But we always stay in motion And it makes us wait for signs of...
'Cause I'm just trouble shooting in New Orleans I got the same bad connections And the same sweet dreams And I can't sleep at night to save my life I can't close my eyes With the whisper I'm drawn to...
Roosevelt we've been betrayed Said someone over there I think it was me Here's a little place for you And here's a little house where you can die There's a lady in the corner Who'd really love to sing...
So now I've been forced to give advice On a matter in which now I've become involved Should I stop my thoughts and close my eyes Play the lover's role in the beggar's disguise And beg God to give me...
She wore a green windbreaker, I guess it was her brother's And even though I never knew she wasn't like the others The weather's right and the stars align She never knew the answer She only knew what...
So you say that you're leaving That's all right that's all right Who'd I'd ever be to care? Just like honey from the bees So nice I'd like to do it twice Who'd I'd ever be to care? Just like way back...
Look at me, I'm a bright machine Look at me, I'm old and green Look at me, I'm 23 Standing on the ground There's a different kind of darkness now That fills the room right now And there's a childhood...
In a lonely shadow, he finds the key Demanding light to set him free He knows that things aren't what they always seem to mean See it all in a different light You know everything you heard is true And...
I used to be a riverboat captain Before the mutiny, woah Lord I used to be a down-home funk prescriber On the banks of the river Jubilee Eating lotus with my brother We spun a tale That left him at...
Falling slowly through the palm of my mind And enter the new man and enter the new ways And an old man walking he's whistling a world He's whistling his lifetime whistling the old man ways And a new...