Met an old friend last night, had a cup of coffee
We talked about all the things that had been going on
We talked about the old days, we talked about the new days
We talked just about anything but what was really going on
After ten long minutes that slowly passed us by
The tension in the air I could cut it with a knife
Staring out the window and gazing at the menu
Suddenly he called my name and he looked me in the eye
He said, "I don't know where I'm going and I don't know where
I've been.
And there's one long road that I traveled just to see you again.
I said I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been.
And it seems I got a little trouble and I need you my friend."
And then he talked to me, he really talked to me
He said, "I've been thinking about all of my drinking.
About all those good things I've just let slip away.
First it was a good job and then it was the woman that I loved.
Then it was my car and all the material things."
And suddenly tears welled up as he did surrender
He cried, "I finally lost the only thing I ever really had."
He said, "I lost myself in the madness."
And now I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been
And it's one long road that I traveled to see you again
No, I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I've been
And it seems I got a little trouble and I need to talk to you again
Oh, it's in the journey that we see there's no destination
It's in the journey that we find our true love
It's in the journey that we learn we can do it alone, can do it
alone
Still gotta dig deep down inside and lose my pride
Well we don't know where we're going
We don't know just where we've been
We gotta dig deep down inside
Can't do it alone
We gotta dig deep down inside
Girl you been freakin'
Like you never freaked before
Not that freakin' is uncool
But to you I know there's so much more
Like where is that sassy child
And where is that girl's next trip
Why you been keepin' your green eyes shut
And your pretty mouth zipped
Angeline Come to me
Come clean Talk to me
Don't you hide Come and show
Show me Your beautiful side
You can call me a snoopin' dog
Tell me where you've been at
I'm gonna sniff gonna dig
Around you 'til I find what's up with that
It's making you crazy
Living by the answering machine
Open up Open up sweet child
Unfold your arms for me Angeline
I've been your brother
I've been your sister
I've been your loser
I've been your mister
I've been the angel and the devil on your shoulder
You know we never kept nothing but a pitchfork
And wings in between us 'til now
Knock knock Who's there
Well it's me Angeline
I say knock knock Who's there
I ain't no stranger
You're in no danger of losing me
Angeline Come on clean
Talk to me Talk to me baby
Don't you hide Come and show
Show me
It's me Angeline oh yes it is child
I'm here for the duration
And my caring takes no vacaion
Angeline Angeline
Come on clean
Open up those pretty green eyes for me
I'll do you no harm, it'll do you no harm Angeline.
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
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.
Does Satan wear a suit and tie
Or does he work at the Dairy Queen
Does he listen to rock and roll
Does he feed the mean
Singing Hallelujah
What about Jesus
Didn't he do it too?
Hang out with prostitutes
And have a drink or two.
Power of example
My mama said it and I heard
She says one ounce of action
Beats a ton of words.
Singing Hallelujah.
Mama said there would be angels
Mama said there would be sun
Is the devil in Elvis to go where no white man went
Or hiding in Hugh Hefner's body or maybe even Larry Flynt.
Say, hows about the President shielding all them stones
Man if I could find a shield like that I'd run 'round naked
in my glass home.
Sippin' Hallelujah
I think my angel's gone to Vegas
Sippin' Hallelujah
Holding aces in her hand. Hallelujah
As she's singing rock of ages. Hallelujah
On the table at the Sands. Hallelujah
Does Satan wear a suit and tie or
Does he work at the Dairy Queen.
Does he listen to rock and roll
Does he feed the mean
Streak in all of us.
All us saints here on earth
Hypnotized and over-advertised
'Til we're numb at birth
Singing Hallelujah
And my angel's turning pages
Singing Hallelujah
And she just don't understand. Hallelujah
That the devil's hot on her trail. Hallelujah
On the road to broken promised land. Hallelujah
On the TV and the radio. Hallelujah
Good and evil look the same to you
There's been something, baby, I've been trying to say
For an age and it seems I don't know how
With the past and the future now surrounding me
I surrender to whatever cheap thrill can be found
There's been a little trouble
Since you came to my rescue
And if you were like all of the rest
I would have quit you long ago
But I couldn't do that
Women and wine
Never went too well
Make me say things I don't want to tell
I know baby that you wish me well
But in spite of your trying
I'm still gonna have to find my own way through
Like the mist of morning, my dream remains
Hanging in the burnt fields of my memory
The flames hiss a chorus of your disdain
Picking up the past I left behind
I'm searching solution on the double
On this two ton telephone
My friend says you ain't got no real trouble
Just too many choices you left undone
My friend like all of the rest says
Put an action to these words
And it'll all come
Women and wine
Never went so well
Make a man crazy
Make him cold as hell
I know woman that you wish me well
But in spite of all your trying
Still gonna have to find my own way through
Time has a way of turning my head around
Like a groove of sunshine on the cloudiest of days
Now the wind is blowing in the right direction
With a candle under my seat
And good ground under my feet
To walk on
My baby she loves me so
My little baby she never tells me no
My sweet baby never gonna let her go
Not today, anyway
You know my honey she comforts me
My little honey crumpets with my tea
In the morning it just happens to be
That I've fallen in love
Least I think it's love
Since you're new and your eyes are blue
I think I'll show you around the block
There's a little place called The Step Thirteen
And, man does that old joint rock
You know it rocks about this time every night
Let's go have us a ball
We'll do the thirteen step boogie
Come boogie with me
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie a while
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie the night away
My baby almost every night
My little honey she likes to hold me so tight
She's a teenage girl
It's way too easy to be right
But I'm there by her side
Thanks for the ride
Since you're new and your eyes are blue
Think I'll show you around the block
There's a little place called Step Thirteen
And, man, does that old joint rock
You know it rocks around this time every night
Let's go have us a ball
Come on y'all
We'll do the thirteen step boogie
Come boogie with me
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie a while
The thirteen step boogie
Come boogie the night away
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
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
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
