moses let him fly every little bit time will do the talking mad mission poor man's house forgiveness you never get what you want sweet lorraine not alone   moses "About bein' lonely" Diamonds, roses, I need Moses to cross this sea of Loneliness, Part this red river of Pain I don't necessarily buy any key to the future or happiness, But I need a little place in the sun sometimes Or I think I will die Everywhere is Somewhere And Nowhere is near Everybody got Somebody with their wine and their beer So I'm just this tragic figure in the corner over here With an empty apartment and a best friend who is queer Everytime I see him he smiles and he tells me how well he's walking these miles But he never ever asks a single thing about me If I die, he'd hear about it eventually Diamonds, roses, I need Moses to cross this sea of Loneliness Part this red river of Pain Everywhere is Somewhere And Nowhere is near Everybody got Somebody with their wine and their beer So I'm just this tragic figure in the corner over here Go home to an empty apartment and call a best friend who is a queer Diamonds, roses, I need Moses to cross this sea of Loneliness, Part this red river of Pain   let him fly ain't no talkin to this man, ain't no pretty other side ain't no way to understand the stupid words of pride it would take an acrobat, and i already tried all that so i'm gonna let him fly things can move at such a pace, the second hand just waved goodbye you know the light has left his face but you can't recall just where or why so there was really nothing to it, i just went and cut right through it i said i'm gonna let him fly there's no mercy in a live wire, no rest at all in freedom of the choices we are given it's no choice at all the proof is in the fire you touch before it moves away but you must always know how 1ong to stay and when to go and there ain't no talkin to this man he's been tryin to tell me so it took awhile to understand the beauty of just letting go cause it would take an acrobat, i already tried all that i'm gonna let him fly i'm gonna let him fly i'm gonna let him fly    every little bit it's funny how a morning turns a love to shame disguised and disfigured and you thought i tasted like rain there`s nothing here but a shadow nothin here now you know, now you know, now you know, now you know there's nothin here but the shadow, and now you know i spit, i spit in the eye, i tear, i tear out my heart, and i scatter the bits i stay unseen by the light i stay untold by the truth i'm sold by a lie by this i am able in all of my travels to make these memories quit but tonight i clearly recall every little bit i can chew like a cannibal i can yell like a cat | i even had you believing i really really like it like that but there was never a moment not a moment now you know, now you know, now you know you ever got within a hundred million miles of my soul i spit, i spit in the eye, i tear, i tear out my heart, and i scatter the bits i stay unseen by the light i stay untold by the truth i'm sold by a lie by this i am able in all of my travels to make these memories quit but tonight i clearly recall every little bit you left open the window till the morning and the winter walked in reality fired her wooden bullet, splintered under our skin they say i'm walking on freedom this is freedom now i know, now i know, now i know i still don't blame you for leaving, it's cold living with ghosts i spit, i spit in the eye, i tear, i tear out my heart, and i scatter the bits i stay unseen by the light i stay untold by the truth i'm sold by a lie by this i am able in all of my travels to make these memories quit but tonight i clearly recall every little bit   time will do the talking You were so cruel I hated being your fool, so I got a little bit more mud on my face but the years will bring a bigger scheme of things and make a pretty memory out of my disgrace I don't believe there is such a thing as saying too much there are those who like to look and those who ain't afraid to touch oh baby don't you know that the time will do the talking years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out time will do the talking years will do the walking time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Well we dig our heels in and wonder who's gonna win, who is gonna win it or wear it out I change the lock on the door or learn how to take a little more, I can outrun all of the devils there but never the doubt try not to throw all your money into 20/20 vision the world won't wait on politics of indecision oh baby don't you know that the time will do the talking years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out time will do the talking years will do the walking time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Can you hear the voice inside you it calls you back to where you belong can you see the one beside you who's been standin' there all along You were so cruel I hated being your fool, so I got a little bit more mud on my face but the years will bring the bigger scheme of things and make a pretty memory out of my disgrace time will do the talking years will do the walking, I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out time will do the talking years will do the walking time will tell you baby what you can't hear now   mad mission "About a certain young man I knew at one time"   we were drinking like the Irish but we were drinking scotch bartender turns on a movie, everybody turned to watch and every single eye was gleaming when they reached the final scene well at least mine did, here's looking at you kid you know its a mad mission under difficult conditions not everybody makes it to the loving cup it's a mad mission but i got the ambition mad, mad mission sign me up i think i've seen the look before, yes, it's kind of non-commital it says come hither baby but then he's hard wood to whittle he says it don't mean a thing but stil1 somehow it does he'd like you to join the club that likes to say there's no such thing as love its a mad mission under difficult conditions not everybody makes it to the loving cup it's a mad mission but i got the ambition mad, mad mission sign me up sometimes you find yourself flying low at night flying blind and looking for any sign of light you're cold and scared and all alone you'd do anything just to make it home it's a mad mission under difficult condition not everybody makes it to the loving cup it's a mad mission but i got the ambition mad, mad mission sign me up sign me up   poor man's house "For my grandfather, James." you know you've done enough when every bone is sore you know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more you know you're coming to some kind of understanding when every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing mama says god tends to every little skinny sheep so count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep nothing is louder to god's ears than a poor mans sorrow daddy is poor Today and he will be poor tomorrow hey that's the poor man's house everybody get a look at the poor mans house everywhere they went before must have turned them out and now they're living in a poor mans house there's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven they got a lot of wine and fish up there and the bread's unleavened they got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs daddy's been working too much for days and days he doesn't eat he never says much but i think this time it's got him beat it isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever your daddy's poor today and he will be poor forever hey that's the poor man's house those kids are living in a poor mans house they walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out and come home in the evening to the poor mans house what are you chopping that wood for why are you growing that corn mama's sewing a brand new shirt and you're wearing the one that's torn i guess it's for some one elses kid who wasn't born in a poor man's house hey take a look at that house everybody we're living in a poor mans house seems like everywhere we go they find us out find out that we've been living in a poor mans house   forgiveness we are swimming with the snakes at the bottom of the well so silent and peaceful in the darkness where we fell but we are not snakes and what's more we never will be and if we stay swimming here forever we will never be free i heard em ringing the bells in heaven and hell they got a secret they're getting ready to tell it's falling from the skys it's calling from the graves open your eyes boy, i think we are saved open your eyes boy, i think we are saved lets take a walk on the bridge right over this mess don't need to tell me a thing, we've already confessed and i raise my voice to the air and we were blessed it's hard to give it's hard to get but everybody needs a little forgiveness we are calling for help tonight only thin phone line as usual we're having ourselves one hell of a time and the planes keep flying right over our heads no matter how loud we shout And we keep waving and waving our arms in the air but we're all tired out i heard somebody say today is the day big old hurricane she's blowing our way knocking down all the buildings killing all the lights open your eyes boy, we made it through the night open your eyes boy, we made it through the night lets take a walk on the bridge right, over this mess don't need to tell me a thing baby, we already confessed and i raise my voice to the air and we were blessed it's hard to give it's hard to get it's hard to live still i think it's the best bet it's hard to give and i'm never gonna forget but everybody needs a little forgiveness everybody needs a little forgiveness   you never get what you want You first found me in my holding pen, stopped to take a look and stuck your finger in i bit one off and you came back again & again, then the nice people let me out one day and you told me how to act and what to say but you never get what you wanted that way did you baby? you never get what you want you never get what you want and i don't think it's my fault you never get what you want, do you baby? everything's always such a mystery, including your sad little history do you still think someone should take responsibility and pay ever since I've know you you've walked, that walk you've broken all the records now you've broken all the clocks and everytime it breaks my heart to hear you talk this way you never get what you want you never get what you want and i don't think it's my fault you never get what you want, do you baby? everybody's been sad, everybody's been tragic whole lot of hard times, whole little bit of magic these bitter bitter fruits and these endless hallways they're killing us baby we gotta walk away, walk away you never get what you want you never get what you want you spend your whole time thinkin 'bout why i'm so deranged Well honey, why don't you think about that for a change? you never get what you want, you never get what you want your whole damn life, you never get what you want not your whole damn life you never get what you want and i don't think it's my fault, you never get what you want do you baby?   sweet lorraine "A true story, about no one in particular." sweet lorraine the fiery haired brown eyed schemer who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers who knew that sunshine don't hold up to dark whose businesses fail who sleep in the park lorraine who spoke of paintings in Paris and outlandish things to her family just to scare us whose heart went pokin' where it shouldn't ought whose mother could only spit at the thought lorraine, sweet lorraine her father would tear out like a poge of the bible then he'd burn down the house to announce his arriva1 her mother was working and never was home lorraine carved out a little life of her own lorraine started working, lorraine went to school her mother threw stones at her on the day that she moved now isn't that a very strange thing to do for someone who never really wanted you lorraine, sweet lorraine her daddy callled her a slut and a whore on the night before her wedding day the very next morning at the church her daddy gave lorraine sway lorraine, sweet lorraine in the battle of time in the battle of will it's only your hope and your heart that gets killed and it gets harder and harder lorraine, to believe in magic when what came before you is so very tragic lorraine, sweet lorraine lorraine, sweet lorraine   not alone she sees him laying in the bed alone tonight the only thing a touching him is a crack of light pieces of her hair are wrapped around and 'round his fingers he reaches for her side for any sign of her that lingers and she says you are not alone laying in the light put out the fire in your head and lay with me tonight one of them bullets went straight for the jugular vein there were people running , A flash of light then everything changed nothing really matters in the end you know all the worrys sever don't be afraid for me my friend one day we all fall down forever she says you are not alone laying in the light put out the fire in your head and lay with me tonight the wedding date was June just like any other bride she loved him like no one before and it was good to be alive sometimes that can slip away as fast as any fingers through your hands so you let time forgive the past and go and make some other plans you are not alone laying in the light put out the fire in your head and lay with me tonight you are not alone laying in the light put out the fire in your head and lay with me tonight