GARDEN IN THE CITY

When I was young I lived in the country
Clouds were my friends, I cannot answer why
Now that I've grown I live in the city
And heaven is so far I cannot reach the sky
I once met a man who lived in the city
The stone was his home, he said his heart was mine
He led me far away when he told me I was pretty
How strange to go so far and never touch the sky

Gardens grow most times in the country, grow a-wondrous high
Gardens grow sometimes in the city, grow, but soon they die.

Now I look up at the buildings of the city
Their fingers are so much longer than mine
I wish I had the hands of the city
For heaven is so far I cannot reach the sky

Gardens grow most times in the country, grow a-wondrous high
Gardens grow sometimes in the city, grow, but soon they die.

When I was young I lived in the country
Clouds were my friends, I cannot answer why
Now that I've grown I live in the city
And heaven is so far I cannot reach the sky
And heaven is so far I'll never touch the sky


LOVE IN MY MIND

When I get so lonely that tears start to fall
I just sing it all in this little rhyme
That changes the the time from the pain of the world
To the love in my mind.

In the middle of the night I thought I was sleeping, I
Heard someone weeping so bitterly
I know that was me, so I hugged on my pillow
And I think it hugged me.

World world go away, come again another day
When I can see I'm a pretty me,
A pretty she, and I was made for the world
And the world was made for me.

Think I'll get a moonbeam that's silver and shines
And that vows to be mine for the rest of my time
In the loveliest rhyme, change the pain of the world
For the love in my mind
In the loveliest rhyme to change the pain of the world
For the love in my mind
In the loveliest rhyme.


WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOIN'

For every smile in the world there's someone out there cryin'
And each time something is born, there's something dyin'
Still the river keeps on flowin'
But we don't know what it is and we don't know where we're goin'

For every sunny sky that's grey with warnin'
And in the darkest night somewhere it's morning
Still the wind keeps on blowin'
And we don't know what it is and we don't know where we're goin'

Bound together by something
But we don't know what it is and we don't know where we're goin'


LAY LADY LAY

Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed
'Till the break of day stay while you're still ahead

Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed
Why wait any longer for my world to begin
When I can have my cake and eat it too?
Why wait any longer for the one that I love
When the one I love is you?

Stay, lady, stay, stay with a man a while
Until the break of day let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And I'm the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay across the big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while you're still ahead

His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And I'm the best thing that he's ever seen

Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across that big brass bed


JIGSAW PUZZLE

There's a tramp sitting on the doorstep
Trying to waste his time
He's eating a mentholated sandwich
He's a walking clothes line
Here comes, here comes the bishop's daughter
On the other side, oh well she looks a trifle jealous
She's been an outcast all of her life
Ah but me, I've been waiting so patiently
Lying here on the floor
I'm just trying to do my little jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore.

Now the outlaw he looks so vicious
With the lucre in his hand
But when he comes to the wife and kiddy
He's a family man
Oh when it comes to the nitty gritty, he can really sharpen his knife
Well, he looks quite religious
He's been an outlaw all of his life
Ah but me, I've been waiting so patiently
Lying here on the floor
Just trying to do my little jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains away


DON'T YOU WAIT BY THE WATER

Don't you wait no, by the water oh no, don't
You wait so hard, you wait so long
You look so far, you look so wide
You see a boat, oh honey, but it won't be mine, no.

Oh once you told me, you, you told me you'd be mine
And in no other pleasure find
You went away, oh, you lied then
It's my lonely time here
I never loved, I never, I never gonna love again
Oh fare thee well, my pretty man
Goodbye ....??? goodbye my friends
Never mind the tears, never mind the love
'Cause you're gonna look here, then I'll be gone
Don't you, don't you wait, no, by the water, hon
You wait so hard, so wait so long
You look so far, you look so wide.

You see a boat, hon
But it won't, but it won't, but it won't be mine
Oh no, don't you, don't wait, no
Don't wait by the water...


STOP! I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT ANYMORE

Reason is the only way to change what we're creating
But reason sometimes turns into another word for waiting
Oh stop, I don't wanna hear it now, I don't wanna hear it anymore
You keep right on talking but I don't wanna hear it
No, I don't wanna hear it anymore

Now all the things that you defend are what you hide behind
Well, you sing yourself to sleep each night
By saying everything takes time
Oh stop, I don't wanna hear it now, I don't wanna hear it anymore
You keep right on talking but I don't wanna hear it
No, I don't wanna hear it anymore


SOMEBODY LOVES ME

Somebody loves me, I wonder who
I wonder who he can be
Somebody wants me, I wish I knew
Who the one could be worries me
For every guy who passes by I cry 'hey maybe,
Maybe you were meant to be my lovin' baby'.

Somebody wants me, I wonder who
Maybe it's you
Somebody needs me, I wonder who
Who the one could be worries me
For every guy who passes by I cry 'hey maybe,
Maybe you were meant to be my lovin' baby'.

Somebody loves me, I wonder who
Maybe it's you.


PEOPLE IN THE FRONT ROW

I was outta love, and out of heart (?)
I couldn't quite stop something that I didn't start
Yeah yeah, the critics said no,
I didn't know how it came, so I couldn't go, oh oh.

I was read on the bill of a second rate show
The audience asked me why but I didn't know, oh oh
My predicament grew, but now I got friends
And I think that my friends are you, yeah.

You know I looked around at the faces I'd know
I fell in love with the people in the front row
My predicament grew, now I got friends
And I think that my friends are you, yeah.

You can put me here and I'm all yours,
Not for the money and it's not for the applause, no oh no no no
'cause after is nothing it's doing the song
I don't have to hear a thing to know I've been grooved on

These chords that I'm using are usually sad
I had to use them, they're the best chords that I have, ha ha
Oh yeah, this progression is usually sad
But it felt my sorrow and I wanted it to feel me glad, ha ha