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.
In a workin' man's dream. I found my simple truth
There in the dark on the top of my roof
As the city's blue sound swept up from down under
Heat lightening flashed. Got me to wonder
Are the troubles that life has seen fit to give me
There to regret or there to remind me
I'm real. I'm a real man.
For so many years I believed I was broken
So medicine sweet and the leaves I was smoking
Told me I was strong, righteous and firm
But only if I comply and stay in the terms
With the deal made between weakness and shame
To shelter me from the price of my pain
I'm real. I'm a real man , yes I am.
And I'll do everything a man possibly can
To make a difference
I'll save my soul if you give me the chance
I'll rectify my dreams if you let me see my way clear
As I thank my higher power for all that she'd done
I sing to the water towers and to the rising sun
For every woman or car crash that ever broke me in two
For showing me that there's always a way through
And that I'm a real man, yes I am.
Calling, calling
Father wanted to run away
With the circus as a kid
Or a teen escape to the priestly way
And in a way he almost did
Twelve children 'round the supper table
Every blessed one is his
Chanting ten turns 'round the rosary
The holy circus that it is.
And me, I'm looking on with elephant's memory
At that old elephant in the living room
You know the one we try not to see
The one who aint gonna be leaving too soon
He's calling, he's calling.
Mother asked me what I'm grateful for
We make up something one by one
Father says forgive us sinners lord
Staring right at me when he's done
Baby sees the elephant like she sees the steam rising off her plate
But soon enough she'll fall in line
And finally learn to look away
I think he's calling, he's calling
As the secrecy's keeping the lock on the gate
Guarding us in our safe place
Watching and waiting for someone to step out of line
Enforcing with anti-grace
All of you keepers and wanna be sleepers
Wake up there's a message so clear
I saw the elephant and I looked him in the eye
And he begged me not to tell you he's here
But he's here. He's here
And he's calling, he's calling.
When you're down and feeling left out
Wondering what this pain is about
Here's something mother taught me
When I was a child
It's passed down from an old generation
To let us all in on the new revelation
See the light and comfort will be on the way
I've got a little faith on the table
Find a little hope in the jar
There's got to be sanity 'round here somewhere
And then shake it up.
A simple message, simple virtues three
But it's not as easy as it looks on TV
Mix these with a little bit of sadness
And you will find the joy, practice boy.
I've got a little faith on the table
Find a little hope in the jar
There's got to be sanity 'round here somewhere
And then shake it up.
And with your honesty and your open mind
Find the willingness of a child
It helps a lot when I don't act like a loser
But I know mama these lyrics gonna confuse ya
It's like a sudsy train raging through my one track mind.
I've got a little faith on the table
Find a little hope in the jar
There's got to be sanity 'round here somewhere
And then shake it up.
Got to shake it up.
This aint no holiday
Oh no this aint no vacation
This is your chance to pay
The great casino foundation.
Jasmine had a little time on her hands
Time enough to vent some frustration
A single mother and with all the demands
Easy money was the temptation
That's how it started.
Midnight it's out the back door into her Jeep
Over the mountains to Reno
Meanwhile her eight year old is still fast asleep
It's video poker and Keno
There she'll tell me some lies
There she'll make some more promises
A gamblers glaze in her eyes
Time to break some more promises
Goodbye.
Jasmine and company at table 13
A great big man who hauls lumber
Fixed income granny and a chain smoking queen
All waiting for the same number
Where the sun never shines
And there are no more clocks on the wall
The only way to tell time
Is when the men come and say it's time
Goodbye
Jasmine's conscience is hot on her trail
Or was it a big sugar daddy
It's sink the Jeep and put the house up for sale
Or it's Las Vegas Nevad-y
No this aint no vacation.
The venetian blinds are open tonight
Just enough to let in the street light
And the shadows paint lines over everything
In the room
There's my chair by the phone
The coat on the floor
Look like dark horizons that lead to the door
On that old Christmas candle you carved the words
I love you
And since you've been gone
There's nothin' right
Where did I go wrong with you
Where did I go wrong
No more dim Sunday night's dance to that sexy radio show
Our hips locked tight
Your neck sweating glow
All sweet night, we'd cook
Supper slow
And oh by the way
You left your candle babe
Burning down
IÕm begging darlin' please
Where did I go wrong with you
Where did I go wrong
Was it something I said or did or didn't do
Was all I had not enough for you
Tell me where did I go wrong with you
All the life we were burning through
What with your memory shall I do
I opened up the deepest of my inside
It was all I had left to give
To you.
Where did I go wrong with you
Arise and start. We had our orders then
Carry this message through
And through the days. Of barren passages
The message reached the land
Another day another dollar
Another footprint in the sand
Another drop of rain to swallow
Another bird set from my hand
She cries and sings. Of all the good things
Of a promised land
She cries and sings
Without our faith. It's mere coincidence
It's just a hungry bird of prey
But in her eyes. And in her confidence
A thousand generations say
Another day another dollar
Another footprint in the sand
Another drop of rain to swallow
Another bird set from my hand
She cries and sings. Of all the good things
Like the good of man
She cries and sings
You drive me crazy
So late at night
You hide your face from me
In the morning there's a phone call
Got me going
It's your old man on the line.
Well I ain't talking 'bout the dress you're wearing
Ain't talking 'bout the thing in your hair
Ain't talking 'bout the kooch your daring
Ain't talking 'bout the love your sharing
I'm talking 'bout the things you do to me
It's a waste of time
I don't even have to fight
Here all by myself
Just waiting for you to pass by
And the things you're talking 'bout are crazy
You know
Ain't talking 'bout your breasts or thighs
Ain't talking 'bout that look in your eyes
Ain't talking 'bout your big shoe size
Ain't talking what you do to other guys
I'm talking 'bout the things you do to me.
And like any other guy
I've got sex on the brain.
But it's a bit more complicated.
There's a way that you show me a sign
Something else gets elevated.
yeah - yeah
Ain't talking 'bout the dress you're wearing
Ain't talking 'bout the thing in your hair
Ain't talking 'bout the way you're so daring
Ain't talking 'bout the love you're sharing
I'm talking 'bout the things you do to me.
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
I've been stemmin' for change and singing in these streets now
Long as I care to recall
The dank little loung room in the Roosevelt hotel
My idea of a holiday
Every once in a while
A little old light shines through my tunnel
So I follow it like a moth flies to the flame.
And just when I think I got my world by the balls
I find I'm dancin' in the light again
Dancing in the light
Of a speeding freight train
Singing it's hard
Living in the free world
Getting saved by the bell
People find my company
To be strange as hell
Looking back on aspirations and dreams
My father he had in mind for me
Moon lights the tracks and broken glass as I recall
Those plans I left so far behind
And I know it's better off he never saw me this way
He always told me donÕt let the devil have his due
And I know my father would turn over in his grave
To see me hog tied to the chain
Or dancing in the light
Of a speeding freight train
Singing it's hard
Living in the free world
Getting saved by the bell
People find my company
To be strange as hell
And its only getting harder in this free world
With all this strugglin g and strain
People find my sweet peace of mind
In the pouring rain
As the storm moves in ain't no friends to be found
So I sit Ôneath this dream and bridge for a while
And it seems that my mind is in pieces on the ground
Singing it's hard
Living in the free world
Getting saved by the bell
Mostly find my jesus
In the pouring rain
I'm living in the free world
Take it like a man they said
Take your medicine
Find a golden road and stand
Then I saw exactly what they meant.
Find my homeboys on the dusky road
Who couldn't give a should about their life
Heed their words of faded brown
Then live it and sing about their strife.
Then bring your song to the river at sunrise
Sing that song 'til the river runs clean
It will happen to you
As its happened to me
Won't you sing that lovely song for me
It's alright mama
Let your children be loud
Watch them run into trouble
So they can figure it out
We spread our seeds far 'cross this land
Hoping they'd fall on good ground.
A vaccination in the sun and rain shine
And take a good long hard look around.
Then bring your song to the river at sunrise
Sing that song 'til the river runs clean
It will happen to you
As its happened to me
Come clean with me
It's alright mama
Let your children be loud
Watch them run into trouble
'Cause trouble's their medicine
Mama take your medicine.
