There's a kid out on my corner hear him strumming like a Shivering in his dungarees but still he's to school His are made of peach fuzz, his hopes may be the same But he's up as a soldier out to play the music game
are fake patches on his jacket He's used to fade his jeans With a brand new pressed shirt And creased and wrinkled dreams His face a garden but his eyes are virgin clear His voice is Chicken Little's, but he's hearing Revere
When he catches giggling He forces up a Though he'd have a milk shake He forcing down the beer Just folkie, late in coming down the pike Riding his guitar, he Kid brother with his bike
And got Guthrie running in his bones the hobo kid who's left his home And his Beatles records and the Stones boy is staying acoustic
There's Seeger in his heart He hopes his songs somehow start To heal the cracks that apart America gone
And now Dylan dripping from his mouth He's hitching himself way down To learn a little black and old street men who paid their dues 'Cause they knew they had to lose They knew it, so they got to it
With old Gibsons and red clay shoes Playing 1 4 5 like good news And cursed skin that calls for blood They put face and feet in mud But oh, they learned the music from way there The ones learn it somewhere
Strum your guitar, it kid Just about your feelings, not the things you never did Inexperience, it had cursed me But your youth is no handicap, what makes you thirsty
Hey kid, you know you can hear your As you're up the dust And the rustling in the shadows tells you secrets you can The capturing of is the way to write a song It's when you get to microphones, the can go wrong
You can't see the audience with spotlights in eyes Your feet feel the highway from where the Lear jet flies When you in silent splendor in your padded limousines Only you are crying there the silver screen
Now you battle dragons, but they'll all into frogs When you the wheel of fortune, you get caught up in the cog
First art turns into craft then the yahoos start to laugh Then you'll hear the jackals howl 'cause love to watch the fall They're the ones out there feeding On the and the bleeding They always are the first to see the cracks upon the
When I started this I was still thirty-three The age that died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon me
Well just today I had my birthday, I made it mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging, I no can ignore A tame and tabby can't produce a lion's roar
And I can't help being frightened on midnight afternoons When I ask the questions "Why does winter so soon?" And are all the golden girls that I was singing for The chorus of my dreams serenades no more
Yeah the minute man is going soft, the mirror's on the when 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 high
Yesterday's a collar that has settled round my Today keeps slipping by me, it leaves no Tomorrow is a daydream, the future's never Am I a fading fire or a breeze passing through?
Hello my Country, I once came to tell your story Your passion was my And your past, my potent glory Your was my prayer Your hypocrisy my And problems fill my present Are we both somewhere?
Step up young lady Your two hundred make you old if not senile And we see the symptoms there in your mortise smile With your old folks dog food and your children eating paint While the pirates own the and sell us sermons on restraint
And while the only language That your deaf old can hear And still you not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your
Oh B U Y Sell 'em pre-canned Perennial Sing happy after
a dance band on the Titanic Singing nearer my God to And the iceberg's on the bow Won't you with me
Yes I it in the New York Times That was on the today It said that dreams out of fashion We'll no more empty promises be no more wasted passions To clutter up our
It was a good sign The went on to say It shows that we are up In oh, so many ways And I told myself this is where I'm at But I don't much like thinking about
Harry, are you really so You can believe the country's getting better When all you do is let her Harry, can you really be When it's there before your When you the knife that carves her You the life that starves her to the bone
dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for 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 the hurricane is coming on, it's not enough to flee It's not enough to be in love we hide behind word It's not to be alive, when your future's been deferred
What I've run my body, what I've run through my mind My breath's the only and the tempo is my time My is hopelessness, my ally honest doubt The answer is a question I never will find out
Is music propaganda, should I boogie, and roll Or just an warning system hitched up to my soul Am I observer or or huckster of belief Making too much of a life so brief?
So I stride down sunny and the band plays back my song applauding at my shadow, long after I am gone Should I hold this wistful that the journey is worthwhile Or cross the chasm with a song and a smile?
I got up this morning, I don't need to know no more It nightmares that had boiled the night before With every new day's dawning, my kid in my bed And the cynics of the board room your language is dead
And as I wander my music through the jungles of despair My kid will learn and find his street corner somewhere There he'll make the silence listen to the dream the voice And his minstrel Hamlet daddy that there only was one choice
your guitar, sing it kid Just about your 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 guitar, sing it kid Just about your feelings not the things you never did
band on the Titanic Singing nearer my God to The on the starboard bow Won't you dance me
The band on the Titanic nearer my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you dance me
Yeah the dance band on the nearer my God to thee And the on the starboard bow Won't you with me
on Yeah the dance on the Titanic Singing my God to thee And the iceberg's on the bow