A quarter for a payphone-call to Houston
I see that writing on the wall
She's down and out again

Momma, will you still be her friend?
Momma, would you take her back again?

She's got no one to talk to
When she comes home at night
She's got no one to talk to
She

It's always cold on top of this mountain
There's always some new hill to climb
There's always someone else to leave behind

I never knew what it meant to struggle
I never knew how it felt to be you
But now I know because I've been through those things too

And I've been

You see the choice in front of you
And though it's hard to make
You feel you will come through
You feel how everyone has changed
But they know who you are
And they're watching what you do

And they say that they wish you all the luck in the world
And they say that th

You see the choice in front of you And though it's hard to make You feel you will come through You feel how everyone has changed But they know who you are And they're watching what you do When they

When they come for you
Don't let them take your heart
If you forget what's true
Just remember that everything has its start
Everything has its start

Now take a look at these hands
Fields of blue unfold
To greet the three wise men
Somehow forgot to put their ange

It's 3 o'clock in the morning
And we're still here
And everybody's been talking
About what went down this year

Annabelle, Annabelle,
I wish you well

I hitched a ride to the desert
To see uncle Jack
I spent the night in his cabin
Without a care of coming ba

Everybody's leaving
They're going far away
They're taking nothing
That might remind them of today
They're sweeping out the ashes
They're singing to the breeze
They only know that they're best to believe
They only know that they're best to believe

From a highway

I haven't seen your face
In such a long, long time
We were wondering when you might come around
Was it all about money?
Was it just about time?
But we realized just what you're all about

You're all about starving the fever
And feeding the cold
With your bird in

Hanging around the diner just trying to break even
Standing on a corner just waiting to collect all of the money
That you owe me
Hello honey
How have you been?

Well I didn't know that you'd been lost
I couldn't see the difference
Between what you had and what you ow

Every time I see you walking my way, I just hide
'Cause I don't really feel like talking about old times
Although I still remember it well,
The night that we burned our last bridge
In that Cincinnati motel

Now I don't claim to know much more about this than you
But I kn

Everybody knows a little bit of something
Everybody's got the time to make it last
Even if tomorrow's looking like a day dream
It ain't enough to slowly watch it pass
Oh yeah

'Cause you will have your day in the sun
You will have your day in the sun
Your day will co

I thought I'd learned my lesson
I thought i had it all
I never thought I had find myself with my back against the wall

I'm waiting in a corner
For a chance to make my move
To come as far as me
With still so much left to prove

Death of a dream
Death of a dream<

I left you on the debris
At the Sunday morning market
You were sorting thorough the odds and ends
You was looking for a bargain

I heard your footsteps at the front door
And that old familiar love song
'Cause you knew you'd find me waiting there
At the top of the sta

People expect you to fall
Hit that same old wall
Really they don't want to help at all
They talk behind your back today
They shake their heads and say
Well I always knew that the boy would come to no good anyway

You better pack up and go
To Detroit or Buffalo
An

I don't even know what gets you off anymore
I used to think I knew you well but now I'm not so sure
Any second now you'll be up and out that door
What's your hurry, you've got nothing to leave for

Come on and be the one
Come on and be the one
I want you to be the one

Come and see me later on
You know where I'll be
In the shade out by the barn
Where no one can see me
Come and lay down in the sun
Another blue sky
And tell me that you'll be the one
To make my dreams up and

Fly away
With no help from above
I'll feel no p

It must have something to do
With letting go
You must have something to say
To me

You are free to go
You are free to go
You are free to go

There was danger in your blood
Even then
And now you're dying at my door
Once again

You were lost in your c

All along you knew that you would be coming back again
All along you told me that you would always be my friend
All along, all along you knew where you could find me
If you took the freeway to the canyon

Oh this last year left its mark on me
You build me up just to watch me

There's nothing stopping you from writing this all down
You can't ask why, you just have to believe
There's nothing I can do, you're so far from me now
If I look back at all that history I see

Such a grand island
You were my safety
Such a grand island
You would have

There is nothing I can say to you now
Of all the years that passed away
With your hands on the plow
Can't you see that they're gone
Can't you see that they're gone

20 long years down the line is all that you had to show
A trail of coal dust left behind in the rain and t