There's a kid out on my corner hear him like a fool Shivering in his dungarees but still he's to school His cheeks are of peach fuzz, his hopes may be the same But signed up as a soldier out to play the music game
There are fake on his jacket He's used bleach to fade his With a brand new pressed shirt And creased and wrinkled dreams His face a garden but his eyes are virgin clear His voice is Little's, but he's hearing Paul Revere
When he catches himself He forces up a Though he'd have a milk shake He forcing down the beer Just another folkie, late in down the pike Riding his guitar, he Kid brother with his bike
And he's got running in his bones He's the hobo kid who's his home And his records and the Rolling Stones boy is staying acoustic
There's Seeger singing in his He hopes his songs somehow start To heal the cracks that apart America plastic
And now there's Dylan dripping from his He's hitching way down south To a little black and blues From old men who paid their dues 'Cause they knew they had to lose They knew it, so they got to it
cracked old Gibsons and red clay shoes Playing 1 4 5 chords like good And with skin that calls for blood They put their and feet in mud But oh, they learned the music from way there The real ones learn it
your guitar, sing it kid Just about your feelings, not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had me But your youth is no handicap, it's what you thirsty
Hey kid, you know you can your footsteps As kicking up the dust And the rustling in the shadows tells you you can trust The capturing of whispers is the way to a song It's when you get to microphones, the can go wrong
You can't see the with spotlights in your eyes Your feet can't the highway from where the Lear jet flies When you glide in splendor in your padded limousines Only you are crying there behind the screen
Now you dragons, but they'll all turn into frogs you grab the wheel of fortune, you get caught up in the cog
First your art turns craft then the yahoos start to laugh Then you'll hear the jackals howl 'cause love to watch the fall They're the lost ones out there On the and the bleeding They always are the first to see the cracks the walls
When I started this song I was still The age that died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley would be And I fantasized tragedy'd be soon curtailing me
Well just I had my birthday, I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed I've got this with my aging, I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless can't produce a lion's roar
And I help being frightened on these midnight afternoons When I ask the questions "Why winter come so soon?" And where are all the golden girls I was singing for The daybreak chorus of my serenades no more
Yeah the minute man is going soft, the on the shelf Only when the truth's up there can you yourself? I am the aged jester who won't gracefully A clumsy clown without a net staggering on the high wire
Yesterday's a collar has settled round my waist keeps slipping by me, it leaves no aftertaste Tomorrow is a daydream, the future's never Am I just a fire or a breeze passing through?
Hello my Country, I once came to everyone your story Your passion was my And past, my most potent glory Your was my prayer Your my nightmare And your fill my present Are we both going
right up young lady Your two hundred birthdays you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortise your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on
And while the only language That your old ears can hear And still you will not answer with message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the of your dream?
Oh B U Y Sell 'em laughter Perennial Sing happy after
There's a dance on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the iceberg's on the bow Won't you dance me
Yes I read it in the New Times was on the stands today It said that were out of fashion We'll no more empty promises There'll be no more wasted To up our play
It really was a sign The went on to say It shows that we are up In oh, so many healthy And I myself this is exactly where I'm at But I much like thinking about that
Harry, are you so naive? You can believe That the country's getting When all you do is let her Harry, can you really be When it's there before eyes When you hold the knife carves her You live the life that her to the bone
Good don't come cheap You've got to pay for If you just when you're asleep There is no way for them, to alive, to survive
It's not enough to listen, not enough to see When the hurricane is on, it's not enough to flee It's not enough to be in love we hide behind word It's not enough to be alive, when future's been deferred
What I've run through my body, what I've run my mind My breath's the only rhythm and the tempo is my My enemy is hopelessness, my ally honest The is a question that I never will find out
Is music propaganda, should I boogie, rock and Or just an warning system hitched up to my soul Am I observer or or huckster of belief too much of a life so mercifully brief?
So I stride down streets and the band plays back my song applauding at my shadow, long after I am gone Should I hold wistful notion that the journey is worthwhile Or tiptoe the chasm with a song and a smile?
Well I got up this morning, I don't need to no more It evaporated nightmares that had the night before With every new dawning, my kid climbs in my bed And tells the cynics of the board room your is dead
And as I wander with my music the jungles of despair My kid will learn guitar and find his corner somewhere There he'll make the silence listen to the dream the voice And show his Hamlet daddy that there only was one choice
your guitar, sing it kid Just write about feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it had cursed me But your youth is no handicap, what makes you thirsty, hey kid
Strum your guitar, it kid Just write about feelings not the things you never did
Dance on the Titanic nearer my God to thee The iceberg's on the bow Won't you with me
The dance band on the Singing my God to thee And the on the starboard bow you dance with me
Yeah the dance band on the nearer my God to thee And the on the starboard bow you dance with me
on Yeah the band on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the iceberg's on the bow