Oh, it sat in this corner for many a year
Through fireside parties, of tears and cheers
The hands of James Hooker flew over its keys
And God know who who else 'fore it came to me
When I was alone I could be Julie Gold
It rang her "From A Distance" just like it was my own

I've heard enough from pundits
I've heard our leaders speak
I tell you know I'd rather talk
To the people in the street
'Cause you don't know someone
Until you've looked them in the eye
And that gave me a purpose
And every reason why

I drove myself across Americ

I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one

Southern man, you sure are pretty,
Got a smile to still the city
And Lord, you know, you got those sleepy eyes
Alabama sweet-talking baby
Calmed the heart of a lonely lady
You kept me flying high
And the leaving easy
And it's Dallas in the rain
And I was dreaming.

I saw you on the avenue
You looked so tired and a little blue
You were in your Sunday best
With your father's tie upon your chest

Hey, you always stood me still
Hey, you always will

In the corridor of one hotel
We once crossed paths I recall it well
Voices in

The touch of your hand will let me know
You'll take me in then let me go
If not for love why would we meet?
How is it turned two into one so easily?

We're lifted up by angels

You understand, and you never say
How every plan could fade away
If not for love where wo

You can cuss the daylights outta this pale winter moon
We could ponder every reason why your true love was untrue
You can cry your eyes out cuz I've got a shoulder here for you
But, everyday your broken heart is gonna turn a lighter shade of blue

Chorus
Oh, anyone can be so

Let me say this one more time
Just in case you didn't hear it right
I'd put it in my own words
So I'll know it's understood
You sent me out on a limb
Brought me home sent me back again
Out on that limb one too many times
You should've known I'd learn to fly

You

Are you tired of me my darling?
Did you mean those words you said?
That have made me yours forever
Since the day when we were wed

Tell me, would you live life over
Could you make another wife?
Are you tired of me my darling?
Answer only with your eyes

Do you e

Black boy in Chicago
Playing in the street
Not near enough to wear
Not near enough to eat
Don't you know he saw it
He saw a man named Armstrong
Walk upon the moon

Young girl in Calcutta
Barely eight years old
The flies that swarm the market place
Will se

They both wrote poetry
In fact, that was how they met
He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge
She was from Massachusetts

They spoke and they fell in love
They kissed and picked daffodils
She came across the ocean
Just to bid her heart goodbye

The hawk next to his

You know I've always been a bad seed
Drifted every way the wind blows
Now I ain't got much to show
You know you reap just what you sow

Now I was born to be a loner
Tried to settle for a spell
Had an angel in my corner
Made her life a living hell

Bad seed
T

Mamma's in the kitchen rattlin' pans and the baby cries
On the TV news, somebody died
He was a crazy biker in a motorcycle ridin' daredevil show
In Merry England, oh, twenty seven years old
He was tryin' to break the record
For jumpin' over cars, he was the champ
He fell

I'm goin' back where my garden blooms all year
Where the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin' rain
I'm goin' back to my green eyed lover there
and we will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain

Oh, I've grown pale beneath the streets of Montreal
Where the voices

I live on a battlefield
Surrounded by the ruins of a love we built
And then destroyed between us, the smoke has cleared
As I stumble through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double
And I'm truly mystified

My new home is a shell-hole
Filled with tears and muddy water

Here's a photograph of you in Woody Hermann's band
It was 1952, you were such a handsome man
One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagy's clan
And then you and my mother
Walking hand in hand

(chorus)
And she was beautiful
And you played the piano
You were beauti

I dreamed of louisiana
And a night in lafayette
We had breakfast with susanna
We were young and wild and left

(chorus)
What's different here than in that dream
And in reality
Is we weren't afraid to fail in love
And we all believed in the dream
Before…before

A child was born in Bethlehem
The son of a steel worker union man
He grew up tall and he grew up strong
And when he came of age
All the steel was gone

Go to China
To Vietnam
There's no more steel left in Bethlehem
There's no more steel left in Bethlehem

He

In 1914 this ball was at war
It went from Belgium on through Ireland
The Congo, then back home

This big blue ball of war spun on its own
Spinning history in lines of blood
When many souls fell off

(chorus)
We all ride on (we all ride)
This big blue ball of war

Pour me a drink
Light me a cigarette
Help me forget
The things that I've done
Pour me a drink
Then pour me another one
To keep out this cold wind
That blows through my soul

Look at my life
Here in these photographs
Look at these faces
What a story th