- Halfway To Heaven
There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest HillsIt's halfpast eleven...
- I Miss America
By the time I was thirteenI started taking shape.At eighteen I was so beautifulThat the strangers started to gape.They said "Enter the ultimate contestIf you're as gorgeous as you seem."They said "Please, please,...
- Copper
If you were looking for a way to make me mad it was a sure fire way you foundActing like a half wit fool, laying your money aroundWell I came back here to tell you Lou, 'bout what you almost didDon't you ever put the...
- God Babe, You've Been Good For Me
Oh God Babe, you've been good for meGood when I been barely holding onand you did what you could for meWhen all the ones I counted on were goneYou picked me up in your battered blueVolkswagen, babeYou laid me down on...
- Sequel
So here she's actin' happy inside her handsome homeAnd me, I'm flyin' in my taxi, takin' tips and gettin' stoned.I got into town a little early.Had eight hours to kill before the show.First I thought about heading up...
- Cats In The Cradle
My child arrived just the other dayHe came to the world in the usual wayBut there were planes to catch and bills to payHe learned to walk while I was awayAnd he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grewHe'd say "I'm...
- Fall In Love With Him
It's just no good--(Fall in love with him)You know that you should(Fall in love with him)I wish that you would(Fall in love with him)If only you could(Fall in love with him).More than my friend he's been my...
- Greyhound
It's midnight at the depotAnd I drag my bags in line.Travellin' light, I got to goBut the bus won't be on time.Everybody's looking half alive.Later on the bus arrives.They punch my ticketI find a seatAnd we move out...
- Bare Foot Boy
Oh, barefoot boy,once he came unto a land of forests,and of streamsthat tumbled through the meadows to the sea.He called it home for many were its wondersand he learned to live upon the landtaking only what he...
- Burning Herself
She was crazy (she was beautiful),I guess she had to be.I was angry (you were blind),because I could not see.I saw only what her cigarettes had done to her skin.I should have known the outside worldwould reveal what...
- Everybody's Lonely
All I got is time, Nothing else is mine.All I want is you and one more tomorrow.Nothing lasts to long, When I leave it's gone.So I send my mind ahead and hope to follow.Yes, I know I have a lifetime coming,But I've...
- Basic Protest Song
CHORUS:So your 13 and there's a silent scream out there,And you can hear it.Just your basic protest song.Now your 16 and there's a danger in the air,And you can see it.Just your basic protest song.Turnin' 20 and it's...
- Cat's In The Cradle
Cat's in the Cradle LyricsMy child arrived just the other day,He came to the world in the usual way.But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay.He learned to walk while I was away.And he was talking 'fore I knew...
- Country Dreams
This phone's growing into my earI made three hundred calls today,Though yours is the only voice that I wanna hearI got to make me a living someway.I know you hate me doing thisYou say I'm selling out,But how in the...
- Any Old Kind Of Day
Turning on my pillow, thinking kind of strange.The color is of midnight in this room.The cars outside are coughing and it's kind of hard to sleepand there's neon out the window, not the moon.And it was just an any old...
- If You Want To Feel
Oh God they got you gun shyYou know your skin's as cold as iceYour eyes are double filtered babeYou're so afraid to be niceThere's no way you're readyTo let your defenses downThough I won't come on heavyThere is a...
- Changes
I was cramped into a coffee house pewtwo dollar coke in my handlistening to the music runthrough and out of a drowning man.Ten years ago I first heard him singingto a screaming crazy crowdnow there's thirteen loyal...
- Empty
Empty closet, empty heart.Empty morning, day won't start.Well, I got no place to go now,I really do not know howto like my life, now that you're gone.Empty mailbox, empty head.Empty promise, empty bed.I really can't...
- A Better Place To Be
It was an early morning bar room,And the place just opened up.And the little man come in so fast andStarted at his cup.And the broad who served the whiskyShe was a big old friendly girl.And she tried to fight her...
- Dirt Gets Under The Fingernails
Now he was a man who worked with his handsOnly in a motor he found peaceHe could make an engine sing like a birdHe could find his only lind of releaseWhen he was up to the elbows in the grease.She dreamed of a time...
- Dogtown
Up in Massachusetts There's a little spit of land.The men who make the maps, yes, they call the place Cape Ann.The men who do the fishing call it Gloucester Harbor Sound,But the women left behind, they call the place...
- Please Take Me In
I would not be so stonedIf my Mary were hereI don't think I'd have phoned youIf my Mary were hereI'm a sad sack Sir GalahadWho's sword's around his kneesWith a Grail no longer holyAnd a prayer that's saying - pleaseI...
- Get On With It
Harry: "And the excitement continues to build! Eat your heart out, Peter Frampton.")It seems like two months'Though I met her tonightSomething just told meIt would work out alrightSo I asked her to act outWhat was...
- I Do It For You Jane
I first heard you sing in the Empire RoomYour husky hum engulfed the gloom.And whatever mission that brought me thereDisappeared in the mist of your amber hairYou laughed and surrendered your gifts by degreesBut I was...
- It Seems You Only Love Me When It's Rainning
Just after I screamed at you--What the hell is it all aboutYou spilled your coffeeOnto my sleeveAnd you saidDon't expect the tearsTo come from me babeFor I've already grievedBut that's when you let meBack into your...
- I Wonder What Would Happen To The World
Oh well I wonderYes I wonderWhat would happenWhat would happen to this worldWell I wonder what would happen to this worldNow if a man triedTo take his time on EarthAnd prove before he diedWhat one man's life could be...
- Anthem
She wasn't very pretty,She wasn't very smart,But everything she said to him came strait from her heart.Write a song about me,Sing a song that's of my day,Everybody special in there ordinary way.CHORUS:Looking for an...
- A Lot Of Lonely People Tonight
Holdin' on tight to my pillowWish it had a life of its own,Starin' at the ceilin,'Such a funny feelin,'But nobody's home.But I know you're out there somewhereAnd that you feel the same way too,Now my only problem is...
- Dancin' Boy
When your daddy plays guitar,You dance without a smile.Kid you may not have great rhythm,But you sure got style.Just four years old and still it seems,You've got it figured out.When daddy sings, and then you dance,The...
- Taxi
It was raining hard in 'Frisco,I needed one more fare to make my night. A lady up ahead waved to flag me down,She got in at the light.Oh, where you going to, my lady blue,It's a shame you ruined your gown in the...
- Finally Found It, Sandy
A new day is beginningI can feel it in my bonesIt's not what you are winningIt don't matter what you ownIt is more than just a feelingMore than just a songIt's something like a healingAnd I feel it coming strongOh...
- Circle
All my life's a circle;Sunrise and sundown;Moon rolls thru the nighttime;Till the daybreak comes around.All my life's a circle;But I can't tell you why;Season's spinning round again;The years keep rollin' by.It seems...
- I Wonder What Would Happen To Him
I'm the green young gentleman, and you're the lady with the pastI admit I'm insecure about how long we will lastI sort through in my mind the little that I knowBut the only things I find from where my musings goIs...
- Corey's Coming
Old John Joseph was a man with two first namesThey left him in the railroad yard when they took away the trainsOnly one run a week comes on roaring down that lineSo all he's got to worry 'bout is time.I come by in the...
- Wold
Hello Honey, it's meWhat did you think when you heard me back on the radio?What did the kids say when they knew it was their long lost daddy-o?Remember how we listened to the radioAnd I said `That's the place for...
- Babysitter
When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my pastI sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughsAnd I think about the moments that have left their markAnd the too few faces that shine a little light in the darkIf you...
- Caroline
CarolineComes from the rainGlistening and shiveringShe laughs as she shakes off the weatherCarolineWhispers her wordsSaying she'll always love meAt least when we are togetherCarolineStarts closing inSurrounding the...
- There Was Only One Choice
There's a kid out on my corner -- hear him strumming like a fool Shivering in his dungarees -- but still he's going to school His cheeks are made of peach fuzz -- his hopes may be the same But he's signed up as a...
- Bummer
His mama was a midnight womanHis daddy was a drifter drummerOne night they put it togetherNine months later came the little black bummerHe was a laid back lump in the cradleChewing the paint chips that fell from the...
- Dreams Go By
There you stand in your dungareesLooking all grown up and so very pleasedWhen you write your poems they have so much to sayWhen you speak your dreams it takes my breath awayYou know I want to be a ball playerA regular...
- Could You Put On Your Light Please?
She moved so well 'cause she was a dancer,She went sliding through my questions,gliding 'round the answer.Whatever it was, she knew it was holy,And each time I tried to hold herher smile came sad and slowly.She said,...
- A Quiet Little Love Affair
When I met America, I didn't know her nameBut it seems she was something special even thenI knew it just the sameYes, I loved the things she stood forHelp the helpless make people freeAnd I knew that an American is...
- Dance Band On The Titanic
Dance band on the TitanicSing "Nearer, my God, to Thee"The iceberg's on the starboard bowWon't you dance with meMama stood cryin' at the docksideSayin' "Please son, don't take this trip"I said "Mama, sweet Mama, don't...
- I Wanna Learn A Love Song
I come fresh from the street,fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy;not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone,and more than a little bit crazy.The old six string was all I hadto keep my belly still,and for each...
- And The Baby Never Cries
Well, I've sung out one more evening,and I'm wrung out, feeling beat.I walk on out the door once moreto an empty city street.A Good guitar will serve you wellwhen you're living in the lightsbut it's never going to...
- I Don't Want To Be President
Just after I was born, my father said to everyoneThat I would be the President one dayYoure a natural politician, boy, get it in your headAnd you know that it might just turn out that waySo through all the years of...