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Listen now listen very closely there's a life that's beating rhythmically close your eyes listen to the music days and nights are metered poetry oh I know the method of survival's digging in and tearing you apart. now you're hearing something in the distance listen up cause it's your heart Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Oh, I know you get a little lonely isolate yourself and it's no good ah you think the life you could be living you'd be living if you only could you don't know the power you're possessing there's an answer in your own two feet right out there a hundred feet are walking, making human music in the street Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Close your eyes, listen to the music, oh there’s magic possibilities have you felt the touch of the magician every breath is metered poetry take a hand don't live as a stranger we all understand a beating heart close your eyes give in to the rhythm this is life and we are on its parts Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat Dig that, dig that, dig that crazy beat
Tall skinny Sally keeps a conquest tally of the men who have lingered Sally's like an alley where you don't dilly dally she is darkness with fingers Sadie is a lady who don't believe in voodoo Warm cool Sam he drives a cool TransAm and he's a whiz with a gearshift Sam saw Sally and he parked in her alley but he left with his gears stripped Sadie is a lady who don't play nothing cool She says I'm the one who's there for him I'm the one who cares for him I'm the one he's thinking of I'm the one with real love I'm the one with real love I'm the one with real love Some pick Sally but the lily of the valley's full of thorns watch your fingers Sally loves to dally you're a king in her alley but the queen has a stinger Sadie is a lady who don't steal family jewels She says, I'm the one who's there for him I'm the one who cares for him I'm the one he's thinking of I'm the one with real love I'm the one with real love I'm the one with real love Tall skinny Sally keeps a conquest tally of the men who have lingered Sally's like an alley where you don't dilly dally she is darkness with fingers Sadie is a lady who don't believe in voodoo She says I'm the one who's there for him I'm the one who cares for him I'm the one he's thinking of I'm the one with real love I’m the one with real love
Where are you I can feel you nearing me crazy world I get lost in crowds though I speak it feels like no one's hearing me then there's your face In the dark, a nameless fear comes over me crazy world I'm crying in my sleep then all is still I wake and you are holding me love takes its place It seems like living in love is living in a state of grace living in love is living in a state of grace Through the day your heart is keeping time with me crazy world I can hardly speak love was like a ghost that always haunted me until your face It seems like living in love is living in a state of grace living in love is living in a state of grace Day and night may sun and moon watch over us crazy world it's hard to keep your head everything untrue that has been holding us let love erase It seems like living in love is living in a state of grace Living in love is living in a state of grace Living in love is living in a state of grace Living in love is living in a state of grace
There it was near nightfall I asked a passerby for the time and she said ‘late twentieth century’ sirens sang like catcalls the moon was paled by neon light oh I guess she was right Cars were whizzing past me with booming jungle beat radios headlights cut the dusk like switchblades lover's eyes like fireflies in feather fingered evening chill Oh I can feel it still Wandering the streets of modern America Wandering the streets of modern America A dark-haired woman dancing multi-colored skirt in the wind music came through an open window oh I saw your eyes then someone's camera caught her spin love was like a second skin Traffic lights were changing Stop and go a pulse and a flow of thousands of life stories Hungry eyes like fireflies Like spirits you could pass right through Oh but I remember you Wandering the streets of modern America Wandering the streets of modern America The modern world is changing Every day grows stranger to me In this world that we were born to Half of what it should be Like a bird with broken wing Oh, but you made it sing Wandering the streets of modern America Wandering the streets of modern America Like a bird with broken wing Oh but you made it sing
Roll down the blinds Another day has passed It's quiet time The years they lay behind Like broken glass A toast to make Toss the glass against the wall it breaks Slow the camera watch the shards of glass Slowly arc through the air There goes my sweet imagination There it goes and it goes wild There goes my sweet imagination I grow and it stays a child oh second hand Carve the hours while we're making plans I will listen to your ticking heart Hearts today You can't hear a single sound they make Electric clocks are better anyway Life makes silence way There goes my sweet imagination There it goes and it goes wild There goes my sweet imagination I grow and it stays a child [ bridge ] It's changing time All the guards exchanging valentines With cut-out hearts and strung like paper dolls This too will pass Move with care across the shards of glass Bless our travels to these separate ends Love will seed again There goes my sweet imagination There it goes and it goes wild There goes my sweet imagination I grow and it stays a child I grow and it stays a child I grow and it stays a child
Greetings to the stars sometimes this world is like a house I hide in you are like a window lined with lace lying with my back turned to the earth here and now we come face to face this is quite a planet can't take nothing here for granted I'm sending this song into space hello from the human race The earth is whispering a warning we have not been listening I lay against her I can hear her sigh we act very brave but if you want the truth you'll see it in our eyes we play tug-of-war with god and pieces of the land and we have guns that can lay to waste the human race We have sent you greeting cards our rocket ships are question marks they thunder and they whistle through the air like a child in the dark forever whispering Is anybody there? we have color tv's and there's music and there's dancing but I think we wear a lonely face the human race Greetings to the stars you've traveled light years for your light to fall on human eyes sometimes I feel the same do you still exist or have you vanished by the time that you've been seen greetings to the heavens may you shine on us forever and I pray you shed a saving grace on the human race
It’s planting time I dig in the earth planting all my dreams where is the sun every life's a seed every one the wind I'm tired of planting my dreams in the shadow of missiles and guns missiles and guns A history book is a story of guns years of blowing souls to kingdom come raise a hundred flags bury us til we grow tired of pledging our hearts to the shadow of missiles and guns missiles and guns It seems to me we are all of one world many different rivers but one sun every thought's a seed every word the wind and we have planted our dreams in the shadows of missiles and guns missiles and guns
So it begins, it seems so simple you look into his eyes like you're looking through a window you don't want to see but you're lighting the candle you don't want to go inside, but you're trying the handle So you do it do it do it do it you just do it No you don't want to do it do it, do it do it, but you do it No you don't want to do it do it do it do it but you do it You do it you do it you do it And so it seems when it seems so innocent room full of steam he just vaporized your hesitance slow like a dream watch a minute turn to hours love is pretty mean when it's got you in its power So you do it do it do it do it you just do it No you don't want to do it do it, do it do it, but you do it No you don't want to do it do it do it do it but you do it You do it you do it you do it How your head spins when you come to your senses you're boarding the windows he's picketing your fences you don't want to leave but you're turning the handle you don't want to go outside but you're fleeing from vandals So you do it do it do it do it you just do it No you don't want to do it do it, do it do it, but you do it No you don't want to do it do it do it do it but you do it You do it you do it you do it
Can you hear it can you feel it in the air It's like fingers running through your hair Coming through the trees and running through the earth, If you're still you’ll hear Sweet like you've never known strong as the roots of home oh how the roots have grown it's time you're hearing a woman's voice Hear a woman's voice like puzzle piece to man's and her hand like puzzle piece in hand it's a quiet night just listen and you'll hear we're a world in fear time is a beating drum, peace like a setting sun fear is a loaded gun it’'s time you're hearing a woman's voice Still this world of sound just for one minute stop and take a look around I think you need us now Can you hear it, can you feel it in the air it just may be answer to a prayer are you running here and looking everywhere for what was always there no you are not alone sweet the sound of your own. oh let it call you home It's time you're hearing a woman's voice It's time you're hearing a woman's voice It's time you're hearing a woman's voice
The sun went down again today I feel pretty good cause I took it in stride I know it's coming back again I'd like to catch my breath but my hands are tied You think it's easy being human when the world knows what it's doing it goes round and round and round and round and round well I just came in for a landing and I'm trying to get a hand in while I'm standing here on the proving ground I lived inside a wishing well it swallowed me did you hear me call the sun went down day after day she gave her light to the moon such a graceless fall it was oh so cloak and dagger I was looking pretty haggard turning round and round and round and round and round but I climbed out for a reason this has got to be my season cause I'm standing here on the proving ground The sun went down again today you feel pretty good you can close your eyes she went down in a fire blaze signed her name in the haze like she owned the sky and the world's not young and tender but see how it surrenders it goes round and round and round and round and round and the light becomes a crescent and the moon gives you his blessing cause you're standing here on the proving ground standing here on the proving ground standing here on the proving ground
My oh my you don't listen to a word I say do you goodbye goodbye I've been saying it every day open your eyes this is your life I try and try not to listen to what people say oh but their eyes their eyes there's a way to say it anyway lift your head cause I think it's high tide And you're building your castles on sand (it’'s gonna tumble down) building your castle on sand (it’'s gonna wash away) building your castle on sand it’'s gonna tumble down it's gonna wash away Dream your dreams let them carry you like tidal streams but we build our world on land but you can't be building yours on sand swallow your pride can't you see I'm on your side And you're building your castles on sand (it’'s gonna tumble down) building your castle on sand (it’'s gonna wash away) building your castle on sand it’'s gonna tumble down it's gonna wash away I don't want to build no sand castles I don't want to build no sand castles I don't want to build no sand castles they're gonna tumble down they're gonna wash away Mapped in sand that's the way we drew our battle plans but we overarmed the guards they don't listen now to our commands we'd better take matters into our own hands And you're building your castles on sand (it’'s gonna tumble down) building your castle on sand (it’'s gonna wash away) building your castle on sand it’'s gonna tumble down it's gonna wash away
Feeling pretty comfortable that's the human way wheel along the road is life lights illuminate watch out here it comes watch out better gather all your faculties it's your friend and enemy catch your breath you're about to meet your match Time and change time and change time and change and change time and change Feeling pretty shaken up making human sounds steel your nerves and gather breath for the second round watch out here it comes watch out better rally round the friends you'll need keep your faith and energy don't catch your death you can rise to meet your match Time and change time and change time and change and change time and change A human being is a mystery may all approach each other carefully allow some leeway sometimes life is strange become familiar with your time and change and change Feeling pretty comfortable that's the human way wheel along and soon enough change will come your way watch out here it comes watch out better pull the visor to the side turn your wheel into the slide don't run shy look'em right between the eyes Time and change time and change time and change and change time and change
You look so peaceful over there the evening light is kind if I should spend a lifetime here it would not be a day of time Nothing lasts forever nothing lasts forever If I should cover all the clocks and smooth your face of lines if I should stop the hands their turn it won't reclaim a breath of time Nothing lasts forever nothing lasts forever Please don't leave me alone this night it's night and nothing lasts forever Sometimes home is in a face in human angel eyes but with such beauty comes an ache that grows more bittersweet with time Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts forever
So you want to stay out all night and you want to burn a younger woman's light and you slam that door on an honest fight well that's all right A woman learns to wear her age with grace accept the sculpture time carves of her face then her man's the kind who's afraid of time but that's all right There's the river and the weed and the wind and the seed and we're all as free as we want to be So you want to leave me rocking on the porch and burn me with a younger woman's torch well I've made the best of an empty nest but that's all right There's the river and the weed and the wind and the seed and we're all as free as we want to be This thunderhead was brooding all along you left the kitchen window up too long now you lie alone and the rain comes home but that's all right Just a pile of bones that a cold wind owns but that's sll right To think I dreamed one time you had dreams like mine but that's alright