Freedom came my way that night
just like a jet plane IN and out of sight
I was hauling ass at a million miles an hour
wondering how hard I'd hit
When they came into the station
they said I was bad beyond repair
But I got no qualms with my situation
say here I am
So say cheri cheri won't you dare to
say cheri cheri won't you dare to
leave a message and your number please
Tie them up all my old fantasies
Put them in a big red bow and send them care of me
I'm taking a chance on the wind
I'm packing all my bags
Taking a mistake I gotta make
then I'm glory bound
So I packed it up and I went to the winds
and I lived out of a VW bus for a year or two
Ain't nothing but a pipe dream and my guitar
livin off of apple fields and old cigars
Diggin this microphone checking it out every night all alone
the car battery is dead again so I got my head dead set against
it
So say cheri cheri won't you dare to
say cheri cheri won't you dare to
leave a message and your number please
Take the time to want to satisfy me
Take all those fantasies and send them care of me
Chorus
I will always love you
Uncertainty I love you
Spacious skies I love you
I'll find new ways to love you
All these miles of ghostly west
The Hopis lost to Spain
Now belong to me
I'm the American
I could be a cowboy
Or just a hired hand
Twisters come in April
And rearrange the land
Pick me up and throw me west
A thousand miles from home
Dreaming up my fix
I'm the American
Abilene, old New Mexico
High and dry
Flagstaff Arizone
Cool water
Sipping silver stream
This is my
American dream
I know a squaw in Winslow
Who swears by candlelight
She said she'd leave the back door
Open tonight
Three weeks pay will keep me off
The wrong side of the law
Dreaming up my fix
Getting somewhere quick
I'm the American
And I'll always love you
Down around the reservation
Up around the bend
Lies a lazy little ghost town
In a god forsaken land
Set up on the platform
Wringing his hands
Humming a crazy old number
Its the station man
He sings about sweet Virginia
Sweetest in the land
Said she'd come on back for me
Just soon as she can
And the rusty track laughs a cold phrase in the sun
You see the last train left here 1971
I can still hear the children on the fourth of July
Down at the general store there was a gas pump
And the church bells that ring on Sunday
Then he turns his head on easterly
Raises his hand
Pointing his shaky finger
As he tries to take a stand
U.S. highway number one hundred twenty three
Laid concrete and steel where my house used to be
I can still hear those children
Singing in the schoolyard
Lemonade on the back porch
As the sun went down
Rocking chair and my memories
Sold them for chump change
Sold them off to folks like you coming around
Oh my Maria
Seems you got me in your spell once more
Must be there's a storm on the way
You taught me to know when you're near
In your glance
Recall my shady days of youth
Stealing altar wine and microphones
Not so blindly fueling my need
As rock and roll fueled my dreams
You know rock and roll fueled my dreams
Back then you saw me as this child
In great need of the wildest sin
How sweet your grace I stumbled in
And how completely you waved
As I laughed in your face
Oh my Maria
Oh my Maria
How you stood for strength and sanity
Now is there someone poking holes in thee
I see now why you called me near
Maria my song can you hear
I know you see the silence on the sidewalk
And the anger in the street
And the voices of all these children
Coming up to my feet
And we sing your song in vain
As some preacher sees his reign
Come down
Maria
Oh my sweet, Maria
In the silence on the hill
You know I'll be dreaming of you still
Maria, oh my Maria
I sing for my Maria
I sing for my Maria
Hey little jail bait
Tell me a story
Let me bum a smoke and we can chat a while
I only need a moment
One moment in your glory
Before you get off and make your change
Talking 'bout a woman that hasn't felt a day in a while
Talking 'bout a woman that just can't say no
She needs another lover like she needs another dose in her blood
Talking 'bout a woman whose name is
Candy
She's so fine
She's waiting on the backstreet line
Like a
Lost angel
Not long for this world
Don't usually get emotional
Don't usually show my vein she said
Only when I sing or when I'm making tracks
And sweatin's just my mean way
To show me where I am
And to tell me where I need to be
And through those eyes
If she wore her disguise
I'd see through it and say
Come in from the rain girl
Talking 'bout a woman she loves me like a dog loves a bone
Talking 'bout a woman I just can't let go
I need her as my lover like I need another hole in my head
I'm talking 'bout a woman I know
Candy
She's so fine
But she's shaking on that backstreet line
Like a loose cannon
Ashamed to explode
In the middle of my day
In the night
When will I learn
To let you go
You're my Candy
You're my
Lost angel
Not long for this world
Every single time I come to this town
It brings out the worst in me
Decadence dries deep in the root of mine eyes
To bring out a thirst in me
Bust in to Burbank and buy a big beef jerky on Barham
Stare into the stockyard
Life in this car out on the road
Can be so easy
Then in the evening time
There's a welcome sight
In my lazy dream
I'm still hoping to find
The best in me is the beast in me
The best in me is the beast in me
Hansel and Gretel turning tricks
For the big bad wolf on Sunset
In front of the health food store
See them lining up in their Range Rovers and their Mercedes
For some peek a boo
With the queen of hearts
And as the sun goes down
In that purple sky
What passes for stars comes out
And I'm still hoping to find
The beast in me is the best in me
The beast in me is the best in me
I dreamed I saw Jesus on the sidewalk
Of Sodom burning sage he told me
L.A. you're my desert rose
Forgive me as I age
All done with my twenties
Yet there's a reason to live
Swear I found it in the
Picks and pans of People magazine
Its the best in me
It's the beast in me
Is it the best in me
Is it the beast in me
I made good my escape in my Geo. Prism
The little red rental that could
I was praying no more hair would grow on my palms
As I drove away from the sign it said
Welcome to Hollywood
Oh its the beast in me coming on through
Its the best in me shining on through
My mama told me
Watch out
For the beast in me
But mama, mama it's okay
The beast in me
Its the best in me
Hallelujah
Late last night I had a crazy little dream
The craziest dream that I ever did dream
All around the world they were holding hands
All the little children the women and the men
Singing I don't know
Where does it end
I don't even know
Where it begins
So I followed my angel down to the crazy river
Where I know the water is dirty and dark and it runs so cold
She told me
Cast out your will and then cut the line
With the trust of a child well I knew it would be all right
Even though I don't know
Where does it end
I don't even know
Where it begins
Oh where it begins
And I'm never quite sure
But I'll know in the end
Oh and she told me so
My angel told me so
And my angel
My pretty little angel she says
My love is the land and my dream is the sea
My faith is the mountain so strong and high
In the palm of her little hand
She passed one whole world on to me
And she said please child
Please take care of this for me
You see I'll never know
Where does it end
I don't even know and I'll probably never know
I'll never know
Where it begins
Young and beautiful
Say what was your name
Taken by the clothes you wear
And the games that you play
Black leather jacket and high heel boots
I see you out on the scene
Know how to party and play the part
Of a rock and roll queen
Yes you do
Oh but young and beautiful
Where is the love that you had as a
Young and beautiful
Sent from heaven above you were so free and
Young and beautiful
Tell me now where is the pride that you hide so deep inside
Do you hide it away for a rainy day
Through my green eyes of envy
With a gut wrenching greed
I place you out on a pedestal
Then I planted my seed, my love
Out on Melrose Ave
Out on Newbury Street
Young and beautiful
Where is the love that you had as a
Young and beautiful
Sent from heaven above you were so free and wild
Young and beautiful
Tell me where is the child that you hide so deep inside
Does she hide away for some rainy day
In my dreams last night you were a scared little child
Perfection and grace held your big disguise
It was draped on the bedpost there
Beside your empty glass
And the silence held the lock tight on the door
Kept you safe from the world anymore
Is it all just a game that you play
To be so young and beautiful
So young and beautiful
You're so young and so beautiful
I hear the clock tick tock, tick tock, ticking and tocking away
So young and beautiful baby and so fine
Your so young and beautiful, and you're so fine
And everyone knows that only in my dreams
Are you ever gonna be mine
So young and beautiful baby and so fine
You cuddle the cats
Pet all the pups
I'm left here playing the fool
Love how they look
Love how they play
Apparently animals rule
So I howl at the moon
And I beg and do tricks for you
What's the matter, baby?
Ain't I an animal, too?
I hunt like a hawk
Purr like a kitten
Almost as loyal as your dog
Kiss me tonight
Pretend I'm your prince
I will gladly be your big bull frog
And I howl at the moon
And I'll beg and do tricks for you
Oh, what's that child?
Is there no satisfying you?
Maybe if I howl
Maybe if I howl
Will that do it for you?
Apparently you want someone who won't talk back to you
That ain't me child
That ain't me
Now I sing like a bird
Run like a stallion
Mean as your pit-bull in June
But you're causin' me pain
You're pullin' on my chain
And that ain't something I'd be doin'
I ain't gonna howl at the moon for you
And I ain't gonna beg, I ain't gonna roll over too
'Cause I found out yesterday
All my friends the information they've been saying to me
That I'm too much animal for you
Too much animal for you
Hold me tight don't say goodnight
And I'll let you know that I care
Stay a little longer
Don't let me be
And I'll comfort you from the storm
It's been a long night
Tomorrow's another day
Call me when you find out the answer
And I'll hope and I'll pray
To a power
That'll keep me from going insane
In the meantime
Teenage lovers caught up in this dance
Pain's the price of this young romance
How was I such a young fool to know
Lord knows we got no direction from home baby
So I say this prayer
Take hold of me
Blessed powers that be
Love keep us together
Down with the rain came the news
That our wild ways would bring us a baby boy
Wash away all those innocent dreams
As the whole world turns upside down on me
And here I pray
To some power they say
Is gonna keep me from going insane
I don't think so child
I can't be strong unless I'm by your side
My weakness tells me to run for the hills
Responsibility beckons me
To think I'd dreamed that your kiss would set me free
I've never been so wrong
Take hold of me
Blessed powers that be
Love keep us together
There cries a child
So deep in the night
He needs a father somebody to set things right
I'm the one to love to hold him tight
To discount my love a serious oversight
Higher power has brought us together I know
She will keep us together wherever we go
Even if I live a thousand miles away
My love is pure, strong, it's here to stay
Together forever and a day.
How's about a cup
Not coffee okay tea
That's fine with me
Meet at 8:15
All right 6:30's fine
Just be with me
Anytime of day
Anyplace you say
Just look like you do
Oh it's my lucky day
I am here to stay with you
I'm diggin me diggin you
Diggin me diggin you
Later at the thrift store
Shopping for a gift for you
I could ask you back there
Behind the rack of shoes
What 's that over there
Such a pretty pair
That's us in the blue mirror
Such a vintage view
Posing here with you
I'm diggin me diggin you Diggin me diggin you
All of my life
I've been holding on
All of these years
I've been waiting
So patiently
All of this time
I've been holding out
For only you
We meet at 3pm by the ATM on Saturday
You pick out the show
Then it's off we go to the matinee
You'll be who you want
I'll be who you want
I'll be your Ray Liotta
It's my lucky day
I am here to stay with you
I'm diggin me diggin you
The other night I had a crazy dream
'Bout a man in a fishing hat selling magazines
All the way from Kingston he'd worked his way down
I bought him a drink on the night they kicked him out of town
He said, "You know I don't like the way I am."
"No, I don't like the way I am."
And I saw an old fisherman out swayin' on a dock
Swigging a jug of something and a string of fish that he had caught
His wife had left him just a week before
She packed up her bags and waltzed on out the door
She said, "You know I don't like the way I am."
"No, I don't like the way I am."
And then she cried
And you and me walked down the shores of our youth
Chasing the sunrise, challenging the truth
It's all so distant now I've seen too many lies
Turning my vision into crumbling demise
Makes me wanna say
You know I don't like the way I am
No, I don't like the way I am
But I'm gonna change the way I am
I'm gonna change the way I am
