I don’t think he ever will forget
The smell of her shoulder
The tiny circles she drew on his back
Her ghost of mother
She stood there, just stood there
She did stay with him
Just a friend

For a moment pride picked up his head
Then he surrendered
Swallowed hard and meant just what he said
He said, “you’re my sister
And you will see…
We will rise again”

May that light inside you shine right back on you
Till the deepest wounds, like kids’ balloons
Up and float away

I don’t think he ever will forget
That night in the theatre
And all that she was ready to accept
He said, “you’re my sister
And you will see…
We will rise again”

Caddy run away
Don’t you take nothing from this place
It’s gone to waste

The boys are down the barn
Gone to taste the liquor and
Gaze upon the stars

From the red dirt of Lynchburg
To the Chesapeake Bay
We are one blood rushing
We gotta find a way … to separate

Daddy drinks the war
There’s jobs up at the shipyard
in sunny Baltimore

Jason don’t think twice
You’re never gonna get ‘em
To see your sacrifice

Jesus, guide my mind
Alter my perception
So I don’t cross the line

I’m a family man
I need a lot of loving
She gives me what she can

Woe is me, have you seen my family?
Folded up and packed away, along with their TV dinner trays
I got something left to say, but I could play this game all day
I got something strange to say
We dance in the dirt of loneliness

Dance, dance, dance with me
Spin me round crazy free
Dance, dance, dance with me
Dance in the dirt of loneliness
Dance, dance, dance with me
Spin you round crazy free
Dance, dance, dance with me
Dance in the dirt of loneliness

I can still remember when our mother counted down from ten
Ten to one and we were gone, blown like leaves across the lawn
My father was an angry man, the poorest man I ever known
Took our little precious stones and threw them back into the sea

Little sister dance with me, I got you now and you got me
Over there beyond repair, we’ll break that lost and lonely stare
Over there behind the glass, a pigeon followed me inside
She lifted up, shot on past and tore into the spotless sky

Got a crisis of significance, they come and go like London rain
Got somebody dying on me six thousand miles away
And tragically it’s forcing me to prematurely act my age

I got a marijuana cocktail in my hands and thinking life’s so long
Got a Yamaha guitar, a microwave and country western songs
And though it might be comfortable, it might not be where I belong

I got Claudia, with her jigsaw puzzles and her smiling strain
She’s thinking of the mountains ‘cause their blood is running through her veins
Thinking that a child might make some genius out of what might be insane

The junkies and the bankers, satellites and distant souls
Up on Notting Hill the DJs do the ground control
And I could’ve been one of ‘em, without a loving hand to hold

So I leave it to the debutants, working for a better world
It’s enough for me to see this little boy with his little girl
She’s his blue lagoon and he’ll keep diving for her pretty little pearls

Because despite the modern remedies, there aint no cure for getting old
And winter in the mountains is frightening and dark and cold
If she’ll be my oven, I will be her everlasting coal
Yeah if she’ll be my oven, I will be her everlasting coal

Old Brown Eyes, you taught me, you wrote the book
I presold my alibi, I’m off the hook
All I took is what I need

That sweet meow, she takes a bow
No regrets, just love lines that intersect

She’s spreading that love around
That love took me underground
But baby I’m back in town

I wandered out into an ancient dream
That virgin body belonged to me
Now I have seen the wilderness

I don’t know how I made it out
No regrets, just love lines that intersect

She’s spreading that love around
That love took me underground
I’m too vain but not too proud
Baby I’m back in town

One more smoke, one more beer
One more crazy idea
I could go another year on
One more crazy idea
Stick around, shoot me down
Just don’t disappear
I could get us out of here on
One more crazy idea

Some would say I’m half a man
I don’t think I am
Just your average aging hippie
House husband
It would bring your mom to tears
Another new career
I could get us out of here on
One more crazy idea

No use worrying your mind up
Pretty soon I’ll take the wheel
Got a feeling that my time’s up
If we can make a baby, we can make a deal

We got your mind for business
We got your PhD
Now we’ve got a basement full of
My shrink wrapped CDs
I don’t need your money dear
Just a steady ear
I could get us out of here on
One more crazy idea

Say, don’t you remember me?
I was someone’s diamond
Given to the deepest sea
Off Nantucket Island
Mama would’ve buried me
In Granddad’s hilltop garden
You could’ve come to visit me
For to seek my pardon

Oh…how could it be?
Nobody remembers me
On Nantucket Island

I loved you, and you loved me
Such a simple bargain
Till the valley took no seed
How a heart can harden
Maybe it was vanity
For this I’ll beg your pardon
But I was never gonna be
Some sand dollar darling

Say, don’t you remember me?
I was someone’s diamond
Given to the deepest sea
Off Nantucket Island
The current couldn’t carry me
To Granddaddy’s garden
But I think you’ll remember me
Before I hit the bottom

You can’t stand on a cloud
You can’t slide down a rainbow
Son, your way too young to be so cynical

I wrote my own rules
I fell in the barrel
But thanks to you I still believe in miracles

We specialize in little white lies
And clumsiest expressions of love
Sometimes the blind must lead the blind
It’s some success, it’s a little more mess
But who’s a safer pair of hands?
It might work out but there’s no doubt:
It won’t work out the way we planned

I’ll teach you a tune
Let you light the candle
Tuck away the truth that you can’t handle

You can’t stand on a cloud
You can’t slide down a rainbow
But maybe you can meet me in the middle…
My little miracle

I ain’t ever had a woman who could kill my pain
Go ahead mama you can eat my brain
You ate everything else in this Goddamn house
Broken mirror of a mind can’t figure out…

Why you let me
You, my trembling rose
I can’t hold you steady
I can’t let you go

I ain’t ever had a woman who could fill my hole
Little girl fell in and lost her soul
Got a sewer down here that keeps collecting
Got a bone dry socket that needs connecting

You think you can change me
You my trembling rose
I can’t hold you steady
I can’t let you go

I ain’t ever had a woman who could kill my pain
I go stand naked in the pouring rain
Baby’s inside all warm and nested
The boy won’t bend but the man is tempted

I’ll come when I’m ready
To you, my trembling rose
I can’t hold you steady
I can’t let you go

Preacher says that love is calm devotion
But that don’t mean much in this part of town
Hugs and kisses can’t hold back the ocean
I’m steppin’ out to have a look around

You should’ve loved me
You should’ve loved me
You should’ve loved me wilder, woman
You should’ve loved me wild…
And I would’ve stayed

Oh what a shame! How fine are your dimensions!
They made you tall and sweet like sugar cane
You can whip me mad with cold rejection
But I’m too old and wild a dog to tame

You and your emotional conditions
I can’t abide these old fashioned ways
Why can’t we ever try a new position?
Why don’t you call me when you come of age

Slept last night in Van Zandt’s bed
Thought I’d dream up a song if I dried out my head
Along came a woman with fresh towels and she said
Go to sleep baby, Townes’s not dead

The lost son of Texas rode into my dream
He was a tall walking wild young living machine
His engines burned a ghostly green
And he called himself Dylan, Dylan the Free
And he said to me…

You gotta take what’s given to you
You gotta buy what you sell
No more waging war on windmills

He’d fashioned a device, purpose unclear
But to reconcile the lessons of his many careers
The sun dried wood made a sound so sincere
As it brushed and it shuffled to the shape of the gears
I said “Dylan, there’s a rhythm, there’s a song in there”
He said, “Keep it to yourself, that won’t get you anywhere…
Time is for learning but time don’t care
I seen lifetimes of loving get stuck on the slow train to nowhere”