1. WHEN I WAS YOUNG

The rooms were so much colder then
My father was a soldier then
And times were very hard
When I was young, when I was young
I smoked my first cigarette at ten
And for girls I had a bad yen
And I had quite a gall
When I was young

When I was young it was more important
They'd more pain but they laughed much louder yeah
When I was young, when I was young

I met my first love at thirteen
She was brown and I was pretty green
And I learned quite a lot
When I was young, when I was young

When I was young it was more important
They'd more pain but they laughed much louder yeah
When I was young, when I was young

My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow man
And I was so much older then
When I was young, when I was young
When I was young, when I was young
When I was young, when I was young


2. DARKNESS DARKNESS

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
For the things I cannot see
Keep my mind from constant turning
Towards the things I cannot be
Oh yes, the things I cannot see
The things I cannot see

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
Is the day that brings me here
I have felt the edge of sadness
I have known the depth of fear

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of fright
The emptiness of fright
Oh yes, the emptiness of fright

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of fright
Yes, the emptiness of fright
The emptiness of fright


3. GOTTA SEE JANE

Red light, green light
Speedin' trough the dark night
Drivin' trough the poundin' rain
I gotta see Jane
Windshield, wiper splashin', splashin'
Callin' out her name
Just gotta see Jane

I left her arms to find my way
To find a place for me in the world outside
I wasn't alive, I could not survive
The frantic pace
The constant chase
To win the race
Turned my heart cold inside
I gotta find what I left behind

Red light, green light
Speedin' through the dark night
Drivin' through the poundin' rain
I gotta see Jane
Freeway, byway
Tearin' up the highway
Runnin' up a world insane
Just gotta see Jane

A ton of steel that isn't real
It could not feel what's in the heart of me
I was so alone in a world of stone
I missed her arms, that once held me
That made me see, I was the lonely one
But now and then I was runnin' scared

And I could feel the touch of time
Turnin' the wheel of life to yesterday
When love and happiness were mine
I gotta find that world of Jane and me
Liked it used to be

Oh, I gotta see Jane, Oh, I gotta see Jane

Her love for me I pushed aside
Walked out alone
To face a world turned cold
Although I tried I could not survive
The frantic pace
The constant chase
To win the race
It's not a part of me
I've gotta find what I left behind

Oh, I gotta see Jane, I gotta see Jane


4. MY LITTLE RED BOOK

I just got out my little red book
The minute that you said goodbye
I thumbed right trough my little red book
I wasn't gonna sit and cry
And I went from A to Z
I took out every pretty girl in town
They danced with me and as I held them

All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and then I start to cry
There's just no gettin' over you, oh no

There ain't no girl in my little red book
Who can ever replace your charms
And each girl in my little red book
Knows you're the one I'm thinkin' of
Oh won't you please come back
Without your precious love I can't go on
Where can love be, I need you so much

All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and then I start to cry
There's just no gettin' over you, oh no

I just got out my little red book
The minute that you said goodbye
I thumbed right trough my little red book
I wasn't gonna sit and cry
All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and then I start to cry
There's just no gettin' over you, oh no


5. SAIL ON SAILOR

I sailed an ocean, unsettled ocean
Through restful waters and deep commotion
Often frightened, unenlightened
Sail on, sail on sailor
I wrest the waters, fight Neptune's waters
Sail through the sorrow of life's marauders
Unrepenting, often empty
Sail on, sail on sailor

Caught like a sewer rat
Alone but I sail
Bought like a crust of bread
Oh, did I wail
Seldom stumble, never crumble
Try to tumble, life's a tumble
Feel the stinging, I've been giving
Never ending, unrelenting
Heartbreak searing, always fearing
Never clearing, persevering
Sail on, sail on sailor

I work the seaways
The gale swept seaways
Past shipwrecked daughters
Of wicked waters
Uninspired, drenched and tired
Sail on, sail on sailor

Always needing, even bleeding
Never feeding, all my feelings
Damn the thunder, must I blunder
There's no wonder, all I'm under
Stop the crying and the lying
And the sighing and my dying
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor


6. MOTORBIKIN'

Motorbikin', motorbikin', motorbikin', motorcycling
Movin' on the queens' highway
Lookin' like a streak of lightnin'
If you gotta go, go, gotta go motorbike ridin'
Listen to me and I'll tell you no lie
Too fast to live, too young to die
I bought a new machine and then they say
It takes your breath away

Motorbikin', motorbikin', motorbikin', motorcycling
Movin' on the queens' highway
Lookin' like a streak of lightnin'
Baby won't you come with me
I'll take you where you wanna be

Here I am again, I'm dressed in black
I got my baby, she's ridin' up back
We're doin' about ninety-five
I said: Oh, it's good to be alive

Motorbikin', motorbikin', motorbikin', motorcycling
Movin' on the queens' highway
Lookin' like a streak of lightnin'
If you gotta go, go, gotta go motorbike ridin'


7. I'LL BE BACK AGAIN

You know, if you break my heart I'll go
But I'll be back again
'Cause I, told you once before goodbye
But I came back again

I love you so
I'm the one who wants you
Yes I'm the one who wants you
Oh, oh, oh

Oh you, could buy better things to do
Than to break my heart again
This time, I will try to show that I'm
Not trying to pretend

I thought that you would realize
That if I run away from you
That you would want me to
But I got a big surprise
Oh, oh, oh

Oh you, could find better things to do
Than to break my heart again
This time, I will try to show that I'm
Not trying to pretend

I wanna go, but I hate to leave you
You know I hate to leave you
Oh, oh, oh

You know, if you break my heart I'll go
But I'll be back again


8. THIS WHEEL'S ON FIRE

If your memory serves you well
We were gonna meet again and wait
So I'm goin' to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
But you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well

This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well
I was goin' to confiscate your lace
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
And you knew that we would meet again
If your memory serves you well

Wheel's on fire, rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favors done
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we would meet again
If your memory serves you well

This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode


9. BALLAD OF A THIN MAN

Well you walk into the room, with your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked and you say: who's that man
You try so hard, but you don't understand
Just what you will say when you get home

Because somethin' is happenin'
You don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You raise up your head and you ask: is this where it is?
And somebody points to you and says: it's his
And you say: what's mine and somebody else says: Well what is?
And you say Oh my God, am I here all alone

But somethin' is happenin'
And you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak
And says: how does it feel to be such a freak
And you say: "impossible" as he hands you a bone

And somethin' is happenin' here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You have many contacts among the lumber jacks
To get you facts when someone attacks your imagination
But nobody has any respect, anyway they already expect
You to give a check to the tax-deductible Charity organizations

Ah, you've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have discussed lappers and crooks
You've been trough all of their Scott Fitzgerald books
You're very well read, it's well-known

But somethin' is happenin'
And you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels
He crosses himself and he clicks his high-heels
And without further notice he asks you how it feels
And he says: here is your throat back, thanks for the loan

And you know something' is happenin'
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Now you see this one-eyed midget, shouting the word "Now"
And you say: for what reason, and he says "How"
You say: "what does this mean", and he screams back: "You're a cow"
Give me some milk or else go home

And you know somethin' is happenin'
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well you walk into the room like a camel and then you frown
You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose to the ground
There ought to be a law against you comin' around
You should be made to wear earphones

'Cause somethin' is happenin'
And you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?


10. COLLAGE

Blue for the blue, I feel when I'm feelin' down
On the ground, feelin' down that could be most any day
Green for the eyes, take a look around when the sun goes down
And the sun goes down in the strangest way
Red for the light, gotta stop this thing
Find a song to sing that is everything
That I meant to say, meant to say

Pray for the eyes that are blind like the world
Never see the good, that is done to the bad
It's too late to see
Two of us make it easier, to read the signs
Memorize the lines, you play with me
One for the road, I'll be on my way
Come another day, when the things we say
Find a way to be, way to be

Autumn calls for a change of year, bringin' winter near us
Greens are brown and disguise a sign
Wintertime is a razorblade that the devil made
It's a price we pay for the summertime
Spring days come, it's hard to know
Where the rain comes from, where the children go
It's a nursery rhyme, nursery rhyme


11. MOVE OVER

You say that it's over babe
You say that it's over now
But still you hang around me, come on
Won't you move over

You know that I need a woman
You know that I need a girl
But when I ask you to, you just tell me
Leave me be again

Please don't you do it to me babe, no
Please don't you do it to me
You can take this love I offer, or let me be

I ain't quite ready for walkin'
I ain't quite ready for walkin'
What's a poor boy gonna do without
Without this thing I'm in

Ah, make up your mind
Darlin' you're playin' a fool
Make up your mind
You're playin' a fool
No need to play my lovin', woman
Every one is lovin' me

You say that it's over babe
You say that it's over now
But still you hang around me, come on
Won't you move over

You know that I need a woman
You know that I need a girl
But when I ask you to, you just tell me
Leave me be again

Please don't you do it to me babe, no
Please don't you do it to me
You can take this love I offer
Or let me be your girl, oh let me be you're girl

I want you to let me be
Honey you're teasing me
Girl you're playin' with my heart, babe
You're toying


12. WHO DO YOU LOVE

I walk 47 miles of barbed-wire
Wear a cobra snake for a neck-tie
Got a brand new house built on a hill
Made out a rattle snake hide
I got a great big chimney way on the top
Made out of human skulls
So come on over here, you cute little thing
And tell me now, who do you love
Who do you love, who do you love

A voodoo man, he took me by the hand
He said: woo baby, I can understand
Crushed a bone on a ju-ju stone
Rolled his eyes and he cast a spell
Said: who do you love
Who do you love, who do you love, who do you love

The light was black and the night was blue
And down the alley I crept on through
A shot of a pistol, somebody screamed
You should a heard just what I seen
Who do you love, who do you love
Who do you love, who do you love

I got a tombstone head and a graveyard mind
I'm just twenty-two and I ain't stole a dime
Got the eyes of a wolf, and a gator smile
I lived long enough, and I don't mind dyin'
Who do you love, who do you love
Who do you love, who do you love


13. TURN THE PAGE

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
Moanin' out it's one note song
You can think about the woman
Or the girl you knew the night before

But your thoughts will soon be wondering
The way they always do
When your ridin' sixteen hours
And there's nothing there to do
And you don't feel much like ridin'
You just wish the trip was through

Here I am, on the road again
Here I am, on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
Here I go, turn the page

Well you walk into a restaurant
All strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you
As you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you
But you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk
Other times you can
It's the same old cliché's
Is it woman, is it man
And you always seem outnumbered
So you don't dare make a stand

Here I am, on the road again
Here I am, on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
Here I go, turn the page

Out there in the spotlight
You're a million miles away
Every ounce of energy
You try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body
Like the music that you play

Later in the evening
As you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers
Ringin' in your head
You smoke the day's last cigarette
Remembering what she said

Here I am, on the road again
Here I am, on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
Here I go, turn the page

Here I am, on the road again
Here I am, on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
Here I go, here I go, here I go

Here I am, on the road again
Here I am, on the stage
Here I go, playin' star again
Here I go, here I go, turn the page
Turn the page, turn the page, turn the page