I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my
Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him
The words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning
Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone, cold as
Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs and possessions
I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings In their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled crys
It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until
(by Jackson Browne & Howard Burke) Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New
Nino, walking around on Sunday Nino, just one more kid in L.A. With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band His head in the
****Rosie**** (Jackson Browne) She was standing at the load-in when the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around like a half-grown female pup She
Here are some lyrics: Running on Empty from Jackson Browne's Running on Empty album Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the
Your father was a rounder He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul The music was his angel And sorrow was his star And
As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of thir plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the
God is great, God is good He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take the slack Stay awake
(by Daniel Kortchmar) I've witnessed those one night stands Must have played in a thousand bands But I'm just here tonight, tomorrow I'll be gone Seen
It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking Draw the water
Running down around the towns along the shore When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were for I was just
Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Let your voice ring back my memories Sing my songs to