There's a kid out on my corner hear him strumming like a Shivering in his dungarees but he's going to school His are made of peach fuzz, his hopes may be the same But he's signed up as a soldier out to the music game
There are patches on his jacket He's used to fade his jeans With a brand new stay shirt And some creased and wrinkled His face a blemish garden but his eyes are clear His voice is Chicken Little's, but he's hearing Paul
When he catches giggling He forces up a Though he'd rather have a milk He forcing down the beer Just another folkie, late in coming the pike his guitar, he left Kid brother with his bike
And he's got Guthrie running in his He's the hobo kid who's left his And his Beatles records and the Stones This boy is staying
There's singing in his heart He his songs will somehow start To heal the cracks that split gone plastic
And now Dylan dripping from his mouth He's hitching himself way down To a little black and blues From old street men who paid dues 'Cause they knew they had to lose knew it, so they just got to it
With cracked old Gibsons and red shoes Playing 1 4 5 chords like news And cursed with skin calls for blood They put face and feet in mud But oh, they learned the from way down there The real ones it somewhere
Strum guitar, sing it kid write about your feelings, not the things you never did Inexperience, it had cursed me But youth is no handicap, it's what makes you thirsty
Hey kid, you you can hear your footsteps As kicking up the dust And the rustling in the shadows you secrets you can trust The capturing of whispers is the way to write a It's when you get to microphones, the music can go
You can't see the audience spotlights in your eyes Your feet feel the highway from where the Lear jet flies When you glide in silent in your padded limousines Only you are crying there the silver screen
Now you battle dragons, but they'll all turn into When you grab the of fortune, you get caught up in the cog
First your art turns into craft then the start to laugh Then you'll hear the jackals 'cause they love to watch the fall They're the lost ones out there On the and the bleeding They always are the to see the cracks upon the walls
When I this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some be soon curtailing me
Well just I had my birthday, I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not anymore I've got problem with my aging, I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby produce a lion's roar
And I can't help being frightened on these afternoons When I ask the loaded "Why winter come so soon?" And where are all the girls that I was singing for The daybreak chorus of my dreams no more
Yeah the man is going soft, the mirror's on the shelf Only when the up there can you fool yourself? I am the jester who won't gracefully retire A clumsy clown a net caught staggering on the high wire
Yesterday's a collar that has round my waist Today keeps slipping by me, it 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 your past, my most potent Your was my prayer Your hypocrisy my And your fill my present Are we both going
Step right up lady Your two birthdays make you old if not senile And we see the symptoms in your rigor mortise smile your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint While the pirates own the and sell us sermons on restraint
And blood's the only language That deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message clear Does it there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the of your dream?
Oh B U Y 'em pre-canned laughter America happy ever after
There's a band on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you with me
Yes I read it in the New Times was on the stands today It said that dreams out of fashion We'll hear no more empty There'll be no wasted passions To clutter up our
It really was a sign The went on to say It shows that we are up In oh, so many healthy And I told this is exactly where I'm at But I much like thinking about that
Harry, are you so naive? You can believe That the getting better all you do is let her alone Harry, can you really be When there before your eyes When you hold the knife that her You the life that starves her to the bone
Good dreams don't come got to pay for them If you just dream when you're There is no way for them, to alive, to survive
It's not enough to listen, not enough to see When the hurricane is coming on, it's not enough to It's not enough to be in love we hide behind that It's not enough to be alive, your future's been deferred
What I've run through my body, what run through my mind My breath's the only rhythm and the tempo is my My enemy is hopelessness, my ally doubt The is a question that I never will find out
Is music propaganda, I boogie, rock and roll Or just an early warning system hitched up to my 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 They're at my shadow, long after I am gone Should I this wistful notion that the journey is worthwhile Or tiptoe cross the with a song and a smile?
Well I got up this morning, I don't need to know no It evaporated nightmares that had the night before With new day's dawning, my kid climbs in my bed And tells the cynics of the board room your language is
And as I wander my music through the jungles of despair My kid will learn guitar and his street corner somewhere There he'll make the silence listen to the dream behind the And show his minstrel Hamlet daddy that there only was one
your guitar, sing it kid Just write about your not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had me But youth is no handicap, it's what makes you thirsty, hey kid
Strum guitar, sing it kid Just write your feelings not the things you never did
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