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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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