1. A Letter Home Intro
2. Changes
3. Girl From The North Country
4. Needle Of Death
5. Early Morning Rain
6. Crazy
7. Reason To Believe
8. On The Road Again
9. If You Could Read My Mind
10. Since I Met You Baby
11. My Hometown
12. I Wonder If I Care As Much
A LETTER HOME INTRO
(Spoken intro)
CHANGES
Sit by my side, come as close as the air
Share in a memory of gray
And wander in my words
Dream about the pictures that I play of changes
Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow, they fade
And then they have to die
Trapped within the circle time parade of changes
Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind
Visions of shadows that shine
One day I returned and found that they were
Victims of the vines of changes
The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
It swings through a hollow of haze
A race around the stars
A journey through the universe ablaze with changes
Moments of magic will glow in the night
Fears of the forest are all gone
But when the morning breaks
They're swept away by golden drops of dawn of changes
Passions will part to a strange melody
As fires will sometimes burn cold
Like petals in the wind
We're puppets to the silver strings of souls of changes
Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time
And leave you on the rolling river shores of changes
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY
If you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
Cause she once was a true love of mine
If you're goin' when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and the summer ends
Please see for me she has a coat so warm
To keep her from the howling wind
Please see for me if her hair hangs long
If it rolls and flows all down her breasts
Please see for me if her hair's hanging long
That's the way I remember her best
I'm a-wondering if she remembers me at all
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day
If you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
Cause she once was a true love of mine
NEEDLE OF DEATH
When sadness fills your heart
And sorrow hides the longing to be free
When things go wrong with each day
You fix your mind to escape your misery
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To the needle of death
How strange your happy words
Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
How tears have filled the eyes
Of friends that you once walked among
Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To the needle of death
One grain of pure white snow
Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain
In peace your mind withdraws
Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain
And your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To the needle of death
Your mother stands a-cryin'
While to the earth your body's slowly cast
Your father stands in silence
Caressing every young dream of the past
And your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To the needle of death
Through ages, man's desires
To free his mind, to release his very soul
Has proved to all who live that death itself
Is freedom for evermore
And your troubled young life
Might make you turn
To the needle of death
And your troubled young life
Might make you turn
To the needle of death
EARLY MORNING RAIN
Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue
I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted
And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new
Worry, why do I let myself worry
Wondering what in the world did I do
crazy for thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying
I'm crazy for loving you
I'm crazy for crying
I'm crazy for trying
I'm crazy for loving you
REASON TO BELIEVE
If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Someone like you makes it hard to live
Without somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give
Never thinking of myself
If I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing how you lied straight faced while I cried
Still I look to find a reason to believe
Someone like you makes it hard to live
Without somebody else
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is making music with my friends
I just can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again
And I just can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way and our way
Is on the road again
I just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is making music with my friends
I just can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I ever see again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
I just can't wait to get on the road again
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstore sells
When you reach the part where the heartaches
Come the hero would be me
but heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just to hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two, a movie queen
To play the scene of bringing
All the good things out in me
oh for now love let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet the stories always ends
If you read between the lines
You'll find that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back
SINCE I MET YOU BABY
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the busstop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through
town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
this is your hometown
Your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
In '65 tension was running high, at my high-school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a
gun
Words were passed, in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come
to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main Street's white washed windows
And vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody
Wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back
to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm 35, we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up, behind the wheel and said son take a good look
around,
this is your hometown
I WONDER IF I CARE AS MUCH
I wonder if I care as much
As I did before
Last night I cried myself to sleep
For the one that makes me weep
I dried my eyes to greet the day,
And wondered why I had to pay
The tears that I have shed by day
Give relief and wash away
The memory of the night before
I wonder if I'll suffer more
I wonder if I care as much
As I did before
My pride is made to say forgive
And take the blame for what you did
It's your mistakes I'm thinkin' of
I wonder if I'm still in love
My heart can't thrive on misery
My life it has no destiny
When things get more than I can bear
I ask myself, do I still care?
I wonder if I care as much
As I did before
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