Sittin in this lonely town wonderin when things are gonna change
Dreamin my life away and it seems them dreams they turned into a
bunch of dust clouds
Gettin my nerve up but my past is pullin me down
wonderin how long this black sheep can stick around
Somebody told me once before
you can never go home again once you leave
say anything just to steer me away from the truth of what I who
I am and what I believe
So I thanked him for his two cents
with a shake and some sympathy
and I packed up my blue jeans and I headed for the big prize
of my freedom
Bye bye black sheep
black sheep of the family
Bye bye black sheep hOW that means so much to me
Bye bye to my friends and to my family
bye bye black sheep goin off and set my soul set it free
Times they were changin I did just a little re-arrangin
take a couple chances my progress it advances
to that prize of my freedom
It's written in the stars that steel bars never will a prison cell
make
once I find that sweet home or a place I like to call home anyway
some people will say I'm crazy singin out loud like I do here on
the street
when I got A song I sing it out loud and if you don't like that
my friend
well I'm gonna say to you
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
You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum and bakalite and glass
Like a locomotive they were streamlines
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine
You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the piggly wiggly
In the country out of Waynsboro
Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off the six niner
Diner my shiny shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny shiny love
The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top
The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so
Side of fries a dollar
Or the haddock plate two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode
Chorus
Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
In a westerly direction this car is my train
I'm driving and I'm wonderin what it is I'm runnin from again
I feel like an eighty year old man but I'm holdin on to twenty nine
And up ahead on that horizon is the California line.
Now I've had enough of this freedom of the road
Never was good with decisions
Least that's what I've been told
Up ahead a truck's carryin a wide load
A pre-fab house cut in half
Cute little front door and two windows
I'm not sure whether to cry or should I laugh
You see I broke a home up myself once when I stumbled to that door
I read that note by the dawns light
Said don't you come round here anymore
Now I've had enough of this freedom
Of the road
Never was good with decisions that's what I've been told
I've been holdin on to this ticket cause one day I'll pass this
toll
Magic road grant your freedom to some one else for I'll be comin
home
There'll be no more pay per view movies in these economy motels
No more trash in my back seat from micky d's or taco bell
No more layin my trump card for the ladies in the lounge
I think I'll leave a little somethin for the next travelin man to
scrounge
I know there's got to be someone out there
Who thinks I still have my home
I got his picture right here in my back pocket
Along with some rocks I found in Arizona I want to show him
I know I'll return to that awkward silence
And so much work I've never known
But I know this man must make amends
Cause I known my traveling days are done.
In a rusted red chevy with a heart full of glory she left that
night
A suitcase at the door open wide let the cold air come in then she
asked me for a light
Said she had some old business see an old friend or maybe make a
new start
But the words of her reason they changed with the season the truth
burned in my heart
It blew me away and I thought I'd go crazy
Cause I knew even then I was caught
Caught in the rain again
I pray to the heavens to defend me
I'm caught in the rain
Why's it seem like more rain that they send me
So I listen to the wind for the answer
Time hangs heavy on y face
Run from the storm that's on it's way
Till I find there is no place no person no thing I can run to
No shelter I can gain from the rain
Yes I know this time it's too late
Chorus
And the rain comes down so silently
And time stand's still like it's in front of me
And the years turn to the rain
And the silence kills me
Now in this one horse town bar
I sing in the back room in the December night
Here she comes through the doorway
With a blustering wind that's too cold to forget
She looked like she knew me the heat shot through me melted me down
So we sat and talked about the old days or the new things that we
found
We talked about the days when we were so much younger and innocent
We saw it plain we were just caught in the rain
Hold me tight don't say goodnight
And I'll let you know that I care
Wait 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 will keep me from goin' 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 I got no direction from home
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 gonna bring us a baby boy
Wash away all those innocent dreams
Now my whole world is turned upside-down on me
And here I pray
To some power they say's gonna keep me from goin' insane
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 dreamed your kiss would set me free
Well I've never been so wrong
Chorus
There cries a child so deep in the night
He needs a father somebody to set things right
I am the one to love to hold him tight
To discount by 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 and strong and here to stay
I'm looking out into the ocean
This boy in a boat that I am
Through the haze I can catch a glimpse
Of the damage that's been done
Miles like minutes they pass as I row
And I count them in my head
Further and further I seem to go
From the home that I once made
Raise the anchor raise these tired hands
No direction and my pockets full of sand
I'm over my head
I the first few days of my journey
Friends and strangers came aboard my ship
Until the firsts of their passing
Crowded my quarters with gold
I've got no room for them anymore
For I fear I might go under
My anchor is tangled in weeds down below
As I heed the distant thunder calling
Raise the question that's in front of me
Clear as the sun I feel through the haze I'll never see
I'm over my head on the crazy ocean
I'm over my head on the stormy sea
I'm over my head with a clear commotion
I'm over my head and it's killing me
I'll raise my bow to the winds that blow
Face the storm face to face as I know
She's banging hard on my cabin door
I face my fear face to face and what's more
She's in front of me
And then she's gone for just awhile
And I'm crying
I'm over my head
I was a fool I was so much younger then
The night she took me by surprise
I should have known all the trouble that I'd be in
But then she hooked me with those eyes
Her drink was gin as she said tonight would never end
But her love weighed so heavy on my mind
For she was the live-in lover of a drummer I called my friend
She weren't nothing but a gypsy in disguise
Gypsy woman how'd you do that to me
Gypsy woman stole my heart and then you set me free
Gypsy woman how'd you learn to like that
Gypsy woman come on back
Spending my wages on rose and wine
We'd ride the days and we'd dance the nights
The things we could do in my old VW
The city lights never seemed so bright from the reservoir
And my friends they would warn me saying she's one fickle queen
Better get out while the getting is good my friend
And besides her old drummer man is looking
And he's so big and bad and mean
But what I didn't know then is what I know too well
She played me like a violin
Chorus
So you tell me that you're leaving me now
After all the times that we have been through
As your clown how am I gonna ever go home
Somebody tell me what am I gonna do
And so it goes I lost my pride
And I lost my job
This gypsy woman took nearly every thing I called my own
It was a big surprise
So next time she comes dancing prancing through the town
Gonna recognize the gypsy
I'm gonna recognize the gypsy
Gonna recognize the gypsy in disguise
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
Keepin my eyes on the road this time around
Keepin my hands pressed to the wheel
Something so strange as a woman has got me down
Ain't gonna be your damn fool again
Drivin tonight just to ease my mind
A man in this mood is a most dangerous kind
Then there was the time my head went blind
Couldn't see the sign at the time
Years would go by before I wondered who
Or where or what or why
Lovin you was like lovin a house on fire
Burning and learning when the damage was done
Now I'm tired and I'm scared and wide open
To the rest of my life
And I almost had it all
I'm sick and tired but I'm hoping
That a cure will be found
Cause I can't stop thinking bout you
I can't stop thinking bout you
Here face to face with what I've been running from all these years
Hangs a dark cloud over the moon
Pull off to this roadside dive and maybe test my sobriety
Order a tall cool ginger ale
Lovin you was sort of like lovin a fifth of the finest bourbon
Was it your quality or high quantity that's put me in the shape
I'm in
Now I'm tired and I'm scared and wide open to the rest of my life
And I almost had it all
I'm fooling myself by thinking
That a cure will be found
Cause I can't stop thinking bout you
I can't stop thinking bout you
