BE THE SKY
 
Be the sky I long to fly through  
I'm the song for your breeze to sing  
I'm in this play without a part  
And I stand silent with a racing heart 
 
Beauty cries out to everyone  
So few ever hear her sing  
We live to play our souls out loud  
Yet we stand silent with our racing hearts 
 
It has it's own life, it has it's own sun  
It has it's own god, it has it's own gun  
It knocks at heaven's door and opens it as well  
It seeks its own truth - finds its own hell  
 
I'm condemned to wander worlds apart  
I stand silent with a racing heart  
Condemned to wander worlds apart  
I stand silent with a racing heart 
 
In these places of my longing  
Beyond isolation's door  
In realms of dream I light the spark  
My soul shall burn beside my racing heart 
 
There is no vindication for one who truly loves  
There is no peace of mind - no answer clear enough  
No one to ever tell why we choose life to live  
Or if there is a plan - like children, we believe 
 
I'm condemned to wander worlds apart  
I stand silent with a racing heart  
Condemned to wander worlds apart  
I stand silent with a racing heart 
 
Be the sky I long to fly through


IF MY HEART SHOULD LOSE ITS WAY

If my heart should lose it's way  
Keep a light on at your window  
If you and I should have to part  
Your light will be my star  
If my heart should lose its way 
 
If my heart should lose it's way  
Keep a dream under your pillow  
We'll meet again at break of day  
That dream is where I'll go  
If my heart should lose it's way 
 
Summon the gypsy thunder  
When hell itself freezes over  
I'll be back, wings and all that  
Beyond my wildest blunder  
If my heart should lose it's way 
 
- Repeat Chorus -  
 
If my heart should lose it's way  
Blow the winds of wonder  
If ever I forget to know  
That breeze will bring me home  
If my heart should lose it's way


ON THE LAM FROM THE LAW
 
I'm on the lam from the law, boy  
On the lam from the law  
I never pick up no certified mail  
You never know what it's for 
 
If anybody asks, you tell them I'm not home  
I'm gonna take my number of this bugged telephone  
You see I never did, never knew, never saw  
On the lam from the law 
 
I'm on the lam from the law, boy  
I'm on the lam from the law  
As if death wasn't enough, boy  
They never leave you alone 
 
If anybody asks, you don't know where I am  
I don't know how I got myself into this terrible jam  
You see, I never did, never knew, never saw  
On the lam from the law 
 
No dirty words in my song  
I drive with my seat belt on  
Got sued and lost - what a scam  
See you in court - get in line - what a jam  
I'm on the lam from the law, boy 
 
Never did, never knew, never saw  
On the lam from the law 
 
I'm on the lam from the law, boy  
On the lam, on the lam from the law  
I don't know how I got myself into this jam  
You never know what it's for 
 
If anybody asks, you put your head in the air  
You say I told you I was going, but I didn't say where  
Never did, never knew, never saw  
On the lam from the law 
 
Never did, never knew, never saw  
On the lam from the law


A SONG FOR ROBERT JOHNSON

Up on north to Detroit  
South down 51 to Memphis  
A pistol in his hand  
There's many a good man hidin' in the shadows  
Just waitin' to give that boy six feet of land 
 
'Little Robert Dusty'  
He's been stealin' hearts so easily  
You should hear him when he sings  
Double dealing at the crossroads  
Him and his guitar, they say  
Something's been playin' them 
 
Feeling - down in the fingertips  
Bold good feeling, woh, oh  
Like you could die for it  
And the bird that whistles  
And the bird that sings  
And the strong, strong heart beatin'  
And the stretched - out wings 
 
Passion be a memory, she said  
Lookin' at the sheets where he used to lie with her  
Holdin' a picture, she's livin' again  
Things she felt when he played for her 
 
'Little Robert Dusty'  
Stole her heart so easily  
She could hear him when he sings  
Double dealing at the crossroads  
Him and his guitar, they say  
That something's been playing them  
 
Feeling - down in the fingertips  
Bold good feeling, woh, oh  
Like you could die for it  
And the bird that whistles  
And the bird that sings  
And the strong, strong heart beatin'  
And the stretched - out wings that he made  
Won't so easily, won't so easily fade 
 
The talk is, he still comes around,  
Hey from Mississippi when your road is dark as night  
When nothing else gets to your sadness  
He's pickin' up his guitar and he's feeling it right 
 
'Little Robert Dusty'  
And they stole his heart so easily  
He was singin' 'all my love in vain'  
Killin' at the crossroads  
But him and his guitar, they say  
That something's still playin' them  
 
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ROCK AND ROLL HEART

You've given me love  
Give me a reason to be your friend  
I am a woman  
Could have done better as a man 
 
Look at me now  
Too many one love stands  
They come to play on my rock and roll heart  
They come to play on my rock and roll heart 
 
I'm shrouded in mystery  
Covered in light - standing like stone  
Even though we're together  
I'll always be alone 
 
Caught in these lines  
That catch the tears on my face  
Ageing with grace in my rock and roll heart  
Ageing with grace in my rock and roll heart 
 
You take your children to school  
And you go to the grocery store  
You pass as a grown-up  
In this right brain grown-up world 
 
But if they ask you for proof  
They're gonna find out right away  
You just came to play with your rock and roll heart  
You're just here to play with your rock and roll heart 
 
I'm taking the stage, reflecting the light, inventing the role  
My body's dancing out - a storm in my soul  
There is no rest but I can put it on hold  
'Cause time's just a beat to a rock and roll and heart  
Time's just a beat to my rock and roll heart 
 
You love to play on my rock and roll heart 
 
Time's just a beat to a rock and roll heart


PRETTY BOY, DEAR ONE
 
Oh my pretty boy - Oh my dear one  
The love of you has made me so hard to deal with  
 
Oh my pretty boy - Oh my dear one  
The love of you has made me so hard to deal with lately  
Too hard to leave you 
 
Every night I pray I won't need you  
And then I turn to go  
Knowing I'll stay 'til you leave me baby  
Too hard to leave you 
 
And I am tired in love  
And I am hurting of, and I am ageing of  
All the loves who don't live up to my love  
 
In the heat of night, I believe you  
But then I see the light  
And know I'll stay 'til you leave me baby  
Too hard to leave you 
 
Every night I pray I won't need you  
And then I turn to go  
Knowing I'll stay 'til you leave me baby  
Too hard to leave you 
 
And I am tired in love  
And I am hurting of, and I am ageing of  
All the loves who don't live up to my love 
 
Oh my pretty boy - Oh my dear one  
The love of you has made me so hard to deal with lately  
Too hard to leave you


CERULEAN BLUE

And it's blue as in cerulean  
It's the scent of new mown hay  
Laugh and turn the pages  
When there's nothing left to say 
 
And it's true that a thing of brilliance  
Can be paled by dimmer light  
Spin the tale of ages  
And get me through this night 
 
Tragedy takes a number  
Beauty takes to flight  
Reason's on vacation  
And it's killing me tonight 
 
There's a row of oleander  
That divides your house from mine  
Stifles words of anger  
And keeps the neighbors blind 
 
There's a star set in the distance  
Of a steely cold and gray  
With lights on the horizon  
As we look the other way 
 
- Repeat Chorus - 
 
Tragedy takes a number  
Beauty takes to flight  
Reason's on vacation  
And it's killing me tonight 
 
There's a music in the silence  
Of a spring that plays no more  
A desert in our future  
And a knocking at the door 
 
There's a peace for the unknowing  
There's a warning to the wise  
A smile upon the faces of our ruin in disguise 
 
- Repeat Chorus


YOU CALL YOURSELF A WRITER

You told me yourself you were a writer  
You followed every rhyme and theme right through  
I never suspected I was a one nighter  
But there was this line - I'm gonna keep it for you 
 
'Cause you let it go, you let that line go  
You let it go, and you call yourself a writer  
You let it go, you let that line go  
You let it go - I'm gonna keep it for you 
 
Some people think you're quite amazing  
They heard you do your songs on radio  
But somewhere in that sweet there's bitter tasting  
'Cause down; deep inside you know that somebody knows 
 
Repeat Chorus - 
 
I'm gonna play it out loud, I'm gonna do it one more time  
I'm gonna do it my show, I want the world to know 
 
It just takes one night to make a reputation  
It just takes one lie to break a heart  
And it just takes one line to make a song sing  
But you let it go and I want the world to know - you let it go 
 
So let me pose this question while you're posing  
Let me wonder why - that's what I do  
I saw you open your eyes while mine were closing  
Did you take it all down from your point of view 
 
- Repeat Chorus -


I'M NOT IN LOVE ANYMORE

People in love  
They go a long way  
They do the wrong things sometimes  
They let their hearts lead them astray 
 
They give the ones they love  
The benefit of the doubt  
They work it out  
I used to work it out 
 
But I'm not in love anymore  
Never mind it  
I'm not in love anymore 
 
People in love  
They reign in sunshine  
They give their hearts to burning  
And then they have a laugh 
 
I'm always amazed  
At what passion can do  
To any man, but not to me  
I'm past it 
 
'Cause I'm not in love anymore  
Never mind it  
I'm not in love anymore 
 
Don't talk to me about loneliness  
I never minded  
It's just a fleeting moment of my heart  
That don't beat that way no more 
 
I'm not in love anymore  
Never mind it  
I'm not in love anymore


I'M SAVING EVERYTHING YOU DO

You're amazing and I like your style  
But then it's not just your behavior  
You have this way of making me alive  
I hope I stay this way forever 
 
Then it occurs to me if you should fall  
Will I go tumbling after  
And what if I'm feeling no good at all  
Will you bring me out and could we laugh about it 
 
Don't really know you  
But I do, I do admire the art of making things go your way  
But if the day should come when you cannot  
I hope you'll see it as a short delay 
 
If you ever find yourself in doubt  
You can look in my direction  
'Cause I'll remember, though I'll never count  
And I will tell you things you've done  
And maybe we'll laugh the doubt away 
 
So if you're broken, come to me  
Come to me all blue  
I'm saving everything you do 
 
So anyway I've got it down for you  
I'm saving everything you do  
Everything you do


FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME

Freedom pulls my heartstrings  
As I board another plane  
It's not leaving I am wanting  
But freedom knows my name 
 
Friends turn into strangers  
Strangers can be cold  
But I've been blessed with angels  
At least I'm not alone 
 
And they come to me in a sunrise  
In the words of some old song  
In the name of all creation  
In a life long out of bounds 
 
Freedom knows my name  
Freedom knows my name 
 
Tender roots grow deep with longing  
To the core of solid ground  
Mine go left of center  
And slightly off the ground 
 
Through the war torn ages  
Scenes of freedom's fight  
Drawn on hidden pages  
Haunt our dreams at night 
 
Freedom knows my name  
Freedom knows my name 
 
To the child without a promise  
To the frightened and the tame  
Although it's just a whisper  
Freedom knows your name  
Freedom knows your name  
Freedom knows my name


AS LONG AS WE STAND

I'll be your companion  
Your lover and friend  
It's all I can promise  
It's all that anyone can 
 
But the world - it was flat once  
And now it is round  
And love is forever  
'Til one lover falls down 
 
But as long as we stand  
Just as long as we stand  
We'll be together  
As long as we stand 
 
I bring this love with me  
If I go, it will remain  
A gift that brings pleasure  
Can leave so much pain 
 
But if form follows function  
Then it's understood  
The body is stone  
And the heart is made of wood 
 
But as long as we stand  
For the heart and the soul of the living man  
We'll be together  
As long as we stand 
 
And the world gets hard  
The world gets hard and cold  
We got to answer back with our hearts  
With our hearts and our souls 
 
I have a dream  
As long as we stand 
 
The planet was whole - it was clean, it was good  
'Til evil met notion of boundaries and gold  
And mankind grew watchful, we still hear the sound  
From when someone got nervous and shot another man down 
 
But as long as we stand  
Just as long as we stand  
We'll be together