They say there's a light
Through darkness shines
If two hands
Protect that light
Against the change of time
You can have
Your gold and silver
Build your kingdoms high
But it's just once
Of those things baby
That money can't buy
So I don't care

Baby don't put the sugar on me
Don't talk me up so sweet
Baby
Don't dress me in your kisses
When they're not mine to keep
Some boys think
I'm carved out of stone
Guess they're not so smart
'Cause just a few
Kind words from you
And I fall apart
Oh, y

You promised me
There'd be no denials
When I was weak
Under your spell
When I feel thirsty
You would not let me
Take water from your well
Well big black road
Big black river
Big black heaven
In the sky above
I need someone I can talk to
I need

Little sugar
Take me with you
Tell me I'm the only one
Lift me up to
Your blue heaven
Tell me all my work is donne
I've been down
Your black ladder
I've been down
Your dark stairs
Tell me that our love matters
Tell me that
You care
Little sugar

You know I got a string of kisses
Tattooed down my arm
From the love of lonely men
That always came to harm
Tattooed down my arm
To my fingertips
You ain't the only lonely
Man that I've ever kissed
But when the night
Is sinking low
Hold me baby oh
An

Daniel's by the Jonny Pump
He's drunk on cheap wine
He's got a monkey wrench
In his hand
Saying
He'll be prepared next time
Everything seemed so right
Who would have thought
To make amends
With a love so pure
Who would have thought
We'd burn in the

My Auntie Mabel
1953
Left her Minnesota dirt farm
To see what she could see
In a letter to her mother
Telling her what she enjoyed
Said there's nothing
In the whole wide world
Like a city boy

1987
Took Daddy's Cadillac
I drove it to Chicago

From the first time
That I saw you
I wanted nothing
But to make you mine
Now there's this girl
With milk white hands
And on her finger
Your wedding band shines
Still you tempt me
With your kisses
Still you tempt me
With your charm
Ain't gonna

So all that loneliness
For a moment is through
And now it's going to take time
To find some faith for you
You've got a history
Of crash landings
Coming down on nothing
But a prayer
And finding no one there
To break the fall
So you got all
Twisted up in

When I was young
I believe in everything
I turned my rag man into king
And I carved him
A soft world from hard stone
With a laurel crown
And a velvet throne
'Cause in my imagination
Was a world no one could touch, no
I had a fascination
For little thin

Love
You're the one
The well known pleasure
Under my tongue
My holy water
My gypsy rain
Come and find me
Once again
Because you are
Everything I wanted

I need your faith
I need your love
To take my place
To rise above
To stand up

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Oh baby tell me stories
About those pretty worlds
Who will deliver us from blame
Who will walk free
Who will walk in chains
And when the sky is falling
What do we believe in
When everything
We learned to trust
Turns around
And makes a fool of us

We

I never wanted nothing
Baby you know it's true
I never wanted nothing
The way I wanted you
I kept me hands clean
I walked a good line
I knew someday baby
Someday you'd be mine
And when fortune
Came to town
I was standing
In with the unsatisfied
S

Standing at your doorstep darlin'
What can I do
You're a part of me forever
Like a troublesome tattoo
I lay awake at night
Curse your name into the dark
While the memory of you rings
Like a church bell through my heart
Then a cold rain starts to fall

Chorus:

Baby take a walk in toy land
Be my hero play the part
I'm falling down
Hard from salvation
Come protect this China heart
Though my party dress is torn
I still walk and talk
And cry and crawl
And I've got no one on my arm
Well I am just a rumble doll

No

Oh Mama
There's this Spanish dancer
Whose steps I follow
When he comes near
The red dress of temptation
Over a long black slip of fear
Will I fall beneath the shadow
Of some broken cross
My arms emptied
And all my treasures lost
Still like that Spanish

Check your time plan station master
And bless the 3:45
She's rolling fast and free
And don't she look just like me
Spitting off smoke
And all empty inside
I left my baby down
On a city street
Our love
Followed the course of the sun
It rose above the city

I was doing time
In Salvation Park
Up on the high rope me
Your ace of hearts
Just when I thought
I was so special
I thought I had it all
You take a wrong step
Before you fall and you're

Chorus:
Stumbling to Bethlehem
In this absence of light
S

The night is falling
Under the vesper bells
Lonely chime
And I ain't nobody's valentine
But I ain't sorry
For wanting the things
That you cannot give
And if you want me
To walk away
Give me something
I can walk away with
Talk to me like the rain ba

To the east the factories stand
Like fire-breathing dragons
Against the sky
And from their throats
A scarlet river
Burns itself
Into smoky lullabies
Over neon
And fluorescent skies

Chorus:
Valerie
Can you hear those engines drone
I wanted to