There's a kid out on my hear him strumming like a fool Shivering in his but still he's going to school His cheeks are of peach fuzz, his hopes may be the same But he's signed up as a soldier out to play the game
There are patches on his jacket He's bleach to fade his jeans a brand new stay pressed shirt And creased and wrinkled dreams His face a blemish garden but his are virgin clear His voice is Chicken Little's, but hearing Paul Revere
he catches himself giggling He forces up a Though he'd rather have a shake He forcing down the beer another folkie, late in coming down the pike Riding his guitar, he left Kid with his bike
And he's got Guthrie running in his He's the hobo kid who's his home And his Beatles records and the Rolling boy is staying acoustic
There's Seeger in his heart He hopes his will somehow start To heal the cracks that split gone plastic
And now Dylan dripping from his mouth He's hitching himself way south To learn a little and blues From old street men who paid their 'Cause they knew they had nothing to They it, so they just got to it
With cracked old Gibsons and red clay Playing 1 4 5 chords like good And with skin that calls for blood They put their face and in mud But oh, they the music from way down there The ones learn it somewhere
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, it's what you thirsty
Hey kid, you know you can hear footsteps As you're kicking up the And the rustling in the shadows tells you you can trust The capturing of whispers is the way to write a It's when you get to microphones, the can go wrong
You see the audience with spotlights in your eyes Your feet can't the highway from where the Lear jet flies you glide in silent splendor in your padded limousines Only you are crying there the silver screen
Now you battle dragons, but all turn into frogs When you grab the wheel of fortune, you get up in the cog
First your art turns into then the yahoos start to laugh Then you'll the jackals howl 'cause they love to watch the fall the lost ones out there feeding On the and the bleeding always are the first to see the cracks upon the walls
When I started this song I was still The age that Mozart died and sweet was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon 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 midnight When I ask the questions "Why does winter so soon?" And where are all the golden girls that I was for The daybreak chorus of my dreams serenades no
Yeah the man is going soft, the mirror's on the shelf Only the truth's up there can you fool yourself? I am the aged who won't gracefully retire A clumsy clown without a net caught staggering on the wire
Yesterday's a collar that has round my waist Today keeps slipping by me, it no aftertaste Tomorrow is a daydream, the never true Am I just a fire or a breeze passing through?
Hello my Country, I once came to tell everyone your Your passion was my And past, my most potent glory promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my And problems fill my present Are we both somewhere?
right up young lady Your two birthdays make you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in rigor mortise smile With your old folks eating dog food and your children paint the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on restraint
And blood's the only language That your old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your
Oh B U Y Sell 'em laughter America Sing happy ever
There's a dance band on the nearer my God to thee And the iceberg's on the bow Won't you dance me
Yes I it in the New York Times That was on the today It that dreams were out of fashion We'll hear no more promises There'll be no more wasted To up our play
It was a good sign The words on to say It that we are growing up In oh, so healthy ways 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 country's getting 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 come cheap got to pay for them If you just dream when 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 that It's not enough to be alive, when 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 honest doubt The answer is a question that I never will out
Is music propaganda, should I boogie, rock and Or just an early warning system up to my soul Am I observer or participant or huckster of Making too of a life so mercifully brief?
So I down sunny streets and the band plays back my song They're applauding at my shadow, long I am gone I hold this wistful notion that the journey is worthwhile Or tiptoe cross the chasm with a song and a
Well I got up this morning, I don't need to know no It evaporated nightmares that had boiled the night every 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 with my music the jungles of despair My kid will learn and find his street corner somewhere There he'll make the silence to the dream behind the voice And show his Hamlet daddy that there only was one choice
Strum your guitar, it kid Just write about feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had me But your is no handicap, it's what makes you thirsty, hey kid
your guitar, sing it kid Just write about your not the things you never did
Dance on the Titanic nearer my God to thee The iceberg's on the bow Won't you dance me
The dance on the Titanic nearer my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you dance me
Yeah the dance on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the iceberg's on the bow Won't you dance me
on Yeah the dance on the Titanic Singing nearer my God to And the on the starboard bow