1. Changing Of The Guards
2. New Pony
3. No Time To Think
4. Baby Stop Crying
5. Is Your Love In Vain?
6. Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
7. True Love Tends To Forget
8. We Better Talk This Over
9. Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
CHANGING OF THE GUARDS
Sixteen years (sixteen years)
Sixteen banners united over the fields (over the fields)
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men (desperate men),
desperate women divided spreading their wings (spreading their wings)
’neath the falling leaves
Fortune calls (fortune calls)
I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace (marketplace)
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down (last deal gone down)
She’s smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born (where she was born)
On midsummer’s eve, near the tower
The cold-blooded moon (cold-blooded moon)
The captain waits above the celebration sending his thoughts (sending his thoughts)
To a beloved maid whose ebony face (ebony face)
is beyond communication the captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
They shaved her head (shaved her head)
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo a messenger arrived (messenger arrived)
with a black nightingale I seen her on the stairs (seen her on the stairs)
and I couldn’t help but follow, follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
I stumbled to my feet (stumbled to my feet)
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending ’neath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests (renegade priests)
and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I’d given to you
The palace of mirrors (palace of mirrors)
Where dog soldiers are reflected the endless road (endless road)
and the wailing of chimes the empty rooms (empty rooms)
where her memory is protected
Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times
She wakes him up (wakes him up)
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking near broken chains (broken chains),
mountain laurel and rolling rocks she’s begging to know (begging to know)
what measures he now will be taking
He’s pulling her down and she’s clutching on to his long golden locks
Gentlemen, he said (gentlemen, he said)
I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes (shined your shoes)
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning (Eden is burning),
either get ready for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
Peace will come (peace will come)
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire (wheels of fire)
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall (false idols fall)
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords
NEW PONY
I had a pony, her name was Lucifer (how much longer? how much longer?)
I had a pony, her name was Lucifer (how much longer?)
She broke her leg and needed shooting
I swear it hurt me more than it could have hurted her (how much longer? how much longer?)
Sometimes I wonder what’s going on with Miss X (how much longer?)
Sometimes I wonder what’s going on with Miss X (how much, how much?, how much longer?)
She got such a sweet disposition
I never know what the poor girl’s gonna do to me next (how much longer? how much longer?)
I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace (how much longer?)
Well, I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace (how much longer?)
She got great big hind legs
long black shaggy hair hanging in her face (how much, how much?, how much longer?)
(How much, how much? How much longer?)
Everybody says you’re usin’ voodoo, I see your feet walk by themselves (How much, how much? How much longer?)
Oh well, everybody says you’re usin’ voodoo, I seen your feet walk by themselves (How much, how much? How much longer?)
Oh, baby, that God you been prayin’ to
Is gonna give ya back what you’re wishin’ on someone else (how much longer?, how much longer?)
Come over here pony, I wanna climb up one time on you, (how much longer?) Oh well
Come over here pony, I wanna climb up one time on you (how much longer?)
You know so nasty and you’re so bad
But I said I love you, yes I do (how much, how much? How much longer?)
(How much, how much?, how much longer?)
NO TIME TO THINK
In death, you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls
You’re a soldier of mercy, you’re cold and you curse
“He who cannot be trusted must fall”
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety
You fight for the throne and you travel alone
Unknown as you slowly sink (slowly sink)
And there’s no time to think
In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity
In secret, for pieces of change
The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you
And it makes you feel violent and strange
Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy
Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss
In the valley of the missing link (missing link)
And there’s no time to think
Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you
Her worst is better than best
I’ve seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes and I feel so depressed
China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality
Mercury rules you and destiny fools you
Like the plague, with a dangerous wink (dangerous wink)
And there’s no time to think
Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you
Where the lion lies down with the lamb
I’d have paid off the traitor and killed him much later
But that’s just the way that I am
Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality
But the magician is quicker and his game
Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink (blacker than ink)
And there’s no time to think
Anger and jealousy’s all that he sells us
He’s content when you’re under his thumb
Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him
To survive it you play deaf and dumb
Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity
You glance through the mirror and there’s eyes staring clear
At the back of your head as you drink (as you drink)
And there’s no time to think
Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow
Will offer their heads for a prayer
You can’t find no salvation, you have no expectations
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere
Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility
You know you can’t keep her and the water gets deeper
That is leading you onto the brink (onto the brink)
But there’s no time to think
You’ve murdered your vanity, buried your sanity
For pleasure you must now resist
Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you
They’re not even sure you exist
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism
Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys as they clink (as they clink)
But there’s no time to think
The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl
With the rose in her hair
Starlight in the East and you’re finally released
You’re stranded but with nothing to share
Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity
You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille
’Neath the moon shinin’ bloody and pink (blody and pink)
And there’s no time to think
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you
But no, you will not be deceived
Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt
You can give but you cannot receive
No time to choose when the truth must die
No time to lose or say goodbye
No time to prepare for the victim that’s there
No time to suffer or blink (suffer of blink)
And no time to think
BABY STOP CRYING
You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe
But you’re back where you belong
Go get me my pistol, babe
Honey, I’d ain’t tell right from wrong
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind
Go down to the river, babe
Honey, I will meet you there
Go down to the river, babe
Honey, I will pay your fare
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind
If you’re looking for assistance, babe
Or if you just want some company
Or if you just want a friend you can talk to
Honey, come and see about me
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind
You been hurt so many times
And I know what you’re thinking of
Well, I don’t have to be no doctor, babe
To see that you’re madly in love
But baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying
Baby, please stop crying
You know, I know, the sun will always shine
So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind
IS YOUR LOVE IN VAIN?
Do you love me, or are you just extending goodwill?
Do you need me half as bad as you say, or are you just feeling guilt?
I’ve been burned before and I know the score
So you won’t hear me complain
Will I be able to count on you
Or is your love in vain?
Are you so fast that you cannot see that I must have solitude?
When I am in the darkness, why do you intrude?
Do you know my world, do you know my kind
Or must I explain?
Will you let me be myself
Or is your love in vain?
Well I’ve been to the mountain and I’ve been in the wind
I’ve been in and out of happiness
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings
And I’ve never been too impressed
All right, I’ll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
If I’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too
Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow
Do you understand my pain?
Are you willing to risk it all
Or is your love in vain?
Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow
Do you understand my pain?
Are you willing to risk it all
Or is your love in vain?
SEÑOR (TALES OF YANKEE POWER)
Señor, señor, can you tell me where we’re headin’?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
Seems like I been down this way before
Is there any truth in that, señor?
Señor, señor, do you know where she is hidin’?
How long are we gonna be ridin’?
How long must I keep my eyes glued to the door?
Will there be any comfort there, señor?
There’s a wicked wind still blowin’ on that upper deck
There’s an iron cross still hangin' down from around her neck
There’s a marchin’ band still playin’ in that vacant lot
Where she held me in her arms one time and said, “Forget me not”
Señor, señor, I can see that painted wagon
Smell the tail of the dragon
Can’t stand the suspense anymore
Can you tell me who to contact here, señor?
Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field
A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring
He said, “Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing”
Señor, señor, you know their hearts is as hard as leather
Well, give me a minute, let me get it together
Just gotta pick myself up off the floor
I’m ready when you are, señor
Señor, señor, let’s overtune this tables
Disconnected theese cables
This place don’t make sense to me no more
Can you tell me what we’re waiting for, señor?
TRUE LOVE TENDS TO FORGET
I’m getting weary looking in my baby’s eyes
When she’s near me she’s so hard to recognize
But I finally realize there’s no room for regret
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
Hold me, baby be near
You told me that you’d be sincere
But every day of the year’s like playin’ Russian roulette
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
I was lyin’ down in the reeds without any oxygen
I saw you in the wilderness among the men
I saw you drift into infinity and come back again
All you got to do is wait and I’ll tell you when
You’re a tearjerker, baby, but I’m under your spell
You’re a hard worker, baby, and I know you well
And this weekend in the hell is making me sweat
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
I was lyin’ down in the reeds without any oxygen
I saw you in the wilderness among the men
Saw you drift into infinity and come back again
All you got to do is wait and I’ll tell you when
You belong to me, baby, without any doubt
Don’t forsake me, baby, don’t sell me out
Don’t keep me knockin’ about from Mexico to Tibet
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
True love, true love, true love tends to forget
WE BETTER TALK THIS OVER
I think we better talk this over
Maybe when we both get sober
You’ll understand I’m only a man
Doin’ the best that I can
This situation can only get rougher
Why should we needlessly suffer?
Let’s call it a day, go our own different ways
Before we decay
You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face
We’ve done nothing to each other time will not erase
I feel displaced, I got a low-down feeling
You been two-faced, you been double-dealing
I took a chance, got caught in the trance
Of a downhill dance
Oh, child, why you wanna hurt me?
I’m exiled, you can’t convert me
I’m lost in the haze of your delicate ways
With both eyes glazed
You don’t have to yearn for love, you don’t have to be alone
Somewheres in this universe there’s a place that you can call home
I guess I’ll be leaving tomorrow
If I have to beg, steal or borrow
It’d be great to cross paths in a day and a half
Look at each other and laugh
But I don’t think it’s liable to happen
Like the sound of a one hand clappin’
The vows that we kept are now broken and swept
’Neath the bed where we slept
Don’t think of me and fantasize on what we’ve never had
Be grateful for what we’ve shared together and be glad
Why should we go on watching each other through a telescope?
Eventually we’ll hang ourselves on all this tangled rope
Oh, babe, time for a new transition
I wish I was a magician
I would wave a wand and tie back the bond
That we’ve both gone beyond
WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT? (JOURNEY THROUGH DARK HEAT)
There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain
Tears on the letter I write
There’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much
But she’s drifting like a satellite
There’s a neon light ablaze in a green smoky haze
Laughter down on Elizabeth Street
There’s a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone
Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat
Her father would emphasize you got to be more than streetwise
But he practiced what he preached from the heart
A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted it to me
The time and the place that we part
There’s a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper on stage
And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
Of a book that nobody can write
Oh, where are you tonight?
The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure
To live it you have to explode
In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed
Sacrifice was the code of the road
I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John
Strong men belittled by doubt
I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were
But she had some way of finding them out
He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same
She was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf
She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair
And discovered her invisible self
There’s a lion in the road, there’s a demon escaped
There’s a million dreams gone, there’s a landscape being raped
As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape
But I won’t but then maybe again I might
Oh, if I could just find you tonight
I fought with my twin, that enemy within
’Til both of us fell by the way
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees
While the law looks the other way
Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes
The man you were lovin’ couldn’t never get clean
It felt outa place, my foot in his face
But he should-a stayed where his money was green
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit
With the juice running down my leg
Then I dealt with your boss, who’d never known about loss
Who always was too proud to beg
There’s a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room
And a pathway that leads up to the stars
If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise
Just remind me to show you the scars
There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived
If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived
I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive
But without you it doesn’t seem right
Oh, where are you tonight?
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