I’ve been reading up
And I’ve been working out
I’ve been doing my yoga
Almost every morning just about

I’ve been getting down
But I’ve been walking tall
I don’t even want to meet
Your mama or your papa at all

Unfortunately I’m too good for you
You started out better now I’m better than you’ll ever be
Unfortunately I’m too good for you
But now I’m in trouble ‘cause you’re the only one that would ever do
For me that’s you

I’ve been looking high
But I’ve been keeping straight
I’m not coming early
But I sure as hell ain’t coming late

It’s not very hard
If you give it a try
Keeping up with me baby
Is the only way that we can survive

I don’t want to vote on Tuesday
Vote on Tuesday, vote on Tuesday
I don’t want to vote on Tuesday
For the county judge
Cause I never read the pamphlet
Read the pamphlet, read the pamphlet
I don’t know what
What’s he going to do to me
If I’m busted if I’m free
What’s he going to do to me
When the day is done
I ain’t done no gun slinging
Gun slinging, gun sling
I ain’t hurt anyone

I’m trying to make an honest living
From my hand to mouth I’m eating
Month to month I’m always giving in
I’m giving out
Looking ‘cross the farmers valley
See the future tract home housing
Or those prisons grimly standing
If you done wrong
They’ve got a place for everyone
Where they’ll put you before they’re done
They got a place for everyone
Where they’ll lay you down
So make sure that you’re documented
Licensed and been registrated
All your papers are collated
And your dues are paid

I’m down in a hole
I don’t know where to go
I’m down in a hole
I don’t know where to go

I don’ want to throw a brick
Through their window pain
I don’t want to light the torch
That sets the town aflame
But I know how to hide in canyons
Hide in canyons, hide in canyons
I know how to hide in canyon underneath the scrub
And I know how to shoot a rifle
Shot a rifle, shoot a rifle
I know how to draw blood

Am                                             
1.First your sheep are going to die
Am                                              
Then your well will run bone dry
F                                             
Then your children all at once
Am
Your land stands parched below the sun
F                    G
Am
Am
2.Then your town is left alone
Am
For the cattle on their own
F
While the pigs do the same
Am
Things they did yesterday

Chorus:
F
War! Is coming
Am 
And you’ll have to fight
G
War! Is coming
Am
And you’ll have to fight
  F                       G             Am           
I hope that god’s on your side

3.War! Baby let me go
I got bombs I want to blow
I got guns I need to shoot
I want to wear my combat boots

War! Is coming . . . 

The flowers in her garden
Have begun to grow in mine
And I’m watching Anna fall
Time after time
I take one when I need one
I take one when I don’t
And I know she don’t want me
No she don’t

My back yard is barren
It won’t even grow a weed
While her backyard is bursting
With everything that I need

There’s a seed that goes a-sailing
Or a fruit temptation proved
I’m all alone and waiting
For my backyard to be improved

There’s a guy here from the city
He knows just what to say
While I’m a poor boy from the country
What I got I can’t give away

He just wants to pick her cherries
But won’t scare away her crows
He’ll go sniffing all her flowers
But don’t care how they grow
 

D
1.I left behind old grandma’s suitcase
D                                       D7
Kissed the girl I love the least
G
Told my sis’ get on without me
A                           C                    G
Shot down a blue bird just for fun

Chorus:
G          Em           G
We all died once before
G                         Em
Brought back to life 
Em                             G
Through deaths back door
G          Em           C          A       D
We all died once before

2.Crossed the endless wasteland smiling
Laid down beneath the empires shadow
Fought and screamed
Was bound for glory

We all died once before
Brought back to life 
Through deaths back door
We all died once before

3.I loved the land’s most luscious ladies
Leaned on crooked politicians
Put my money to good uses
Fought before we drew up truces

We all died . . .

Lets get ready, keep it steady
Come on baby bright
Lets keep going ’till you’re showing
Me your inner light

I’ve been waiting, breath’s been baiting
All this time anticipating
Come on baby lets keep crashing
Smashing through the night

We aren’t done
We’re restless and we’re wild
There’s nothing wrong
With acting like a child
Cause they are pure
And we’re polluted
Stoned, transmuted
So high we cannot fall

I’ve got access, backstage passes
Come on gypsy gals
Lets go thieving through the evening’s
Pocketbook of stars
They are fleeting and retreating
Fading into day we hold them close
And lock them deep inside 
Our neon painted hearts

No, we aren’t done
The night is still young
We’ve just begun
To see what dreams may come
That we can share
Before we forget 
That we don’t want to quit
That we don’t want to give up the night

Because we can’t know
The working of a heart
Or why we need 
To finish what we start
You’ve got to push
You’ve got to pull
You’ve got to lift
Just to get born

Let’s go faster for disaster
Faster for the fall
All a fragile fears we master
Slaves to alcohol
Rage against the dying light
I’m trying to ignite and explode
In the laughing joyous lust
That fills your eyes

Cause we aren’t done
We’re restless and we’re wild
There’s nothing wrong 
With acting like a child
Cause they are pure
And we’re polluted 
Stones, transmuted
So high we can’t fall.

So it seems
That you and me
Have said too much
We made a scene
But I thought that you
Belonged to me
What a fool I was

When I saw you
At the fields edge
At the farm you worked
On the northern ridge
I asked you where
Your parents lived
What a fool I was

I made for her
A daisy chain
A symbol of
My trust to gain
I might as well
Have danced for rain
What a fool I was

Soft of speech
Fair and mild
My life was hers
For a while
But daisy chains
Are foolish things
That fall apart

What a fool
I must've been
What a fool
To think that I
Could keep you warm
If you where cold
If you where hot
To satisfy

Oh I know
You're too young for me
But you looked so good
Beneath the apple tree
Where we watched the blossoms
Falling free
Free as fools in love

Oh I hope
That you recall
With kindness how
I fooled them all
To fall for you
Before you knew
Just what a fool I was

What a fool
I must have been
Who was I
Trying to kid
You where right
I was wrong
I'm just a fool
All alone
I'm just a fool
On his own
 

// Em / D / C
    A        / D /
 / Em9      A       / G      D    / Bm      Asus A / D              ://

Let it be known
I see her in the rock face
Let it be known 
I've seen her in the sky
I want to show you by
The liberated light of the moon
How love does

Let it be known
I'm crooked as a creek bed
I'm slower than a midwest summer cloud
The summer's dry here
I'm dryer than the desert at noon
And I'll be dead before the end of June

Chorus:

//: G D / Bm    A    D    / G D / Bm    A      D     ://

My last thought is rushing like a river
My last breath is working like a mill
But my legs have been chopped down like lumber
Where the forest was the desert sand blows in
Where the forest was the desert sand blows in

Instrumental break over the verse

Blessed are
The birds that taught us singing
Blessed are
The fishes of the deep
And all the love that we
Will never get the chance to share
Oh my love beware

My last thought ... 
 

//: E / B / C#m / Ab / A /
/ E / F# /  ://

Lady is white
Tonight this is your first time
I am a boy 
And you are my girlfriend

We're finally alone
After twenty five years there's nobody else home
So turn out the light
Come be my girlfriend tonight

chorus:

// E / Abm / Eb / Abm  /
 / E / B / Eb  / //

  Oh yes, you are my girlfriend
And I am your man.

So pull that white dress
Up over your head
I am so impressed
Oh yes.

When you turn me on
why by the cow when you can own the farm
I'm cast in iron
I'm in your arms

chorus:

Oh yes, you are my girlfriend
And I am your man
So pull that white dress
up over your head
Turn out the light
And be my girlfriend tonight

instrumental break

Baby be mine
A chance like this comes once in a life time
Turn out the light
and be my girlfriend tonight

chorus:

Oh yes ...
 

I had a dream
The other night about you and me
We where wild
King and Queen of a desert isle

We had blue skies and no doubt
There was sunshine rolling out
Bees dripped honey on ours tongue
And birds laid fruits upon our palms

I was dumb
The cat caught and killed my tongue
You where right
My bark is better than my bite

Waiting for the sun to steal
Away the stars and seal the deal
I'm teaching little birds the words
To tell you how I feel

And the sun is a symphony
Setting silently
And we are stars
The night is ours

We can howl
If the birds don't show us how
To sing like them
We'll have the foxes as our friends

Run in packs beneath the spot light moon
Beneath the pollinating bats and their midnight blooms
And I will split my heart in two
Just to learn those birdies tunes
 

She’s a pretty girl
But she’s oh so cruel
Got the hands of a priest
And the eyes of a fool
Like a book of matches
With the matches all used
That’s a match to win
And a match to lose.

I’ve been a wandering
For a long, long time
My path is drawing circles
Round a straight, straight line
Piercing through a heart
That doesn’t seem to mind
Finally understanding
What it is to be mine

Oh darlin’!
You keep my engine clean
I’m trying to tell you what I mean
Stop your crying
You’re losing all control
I’m dying
To tell you what I know

Standing on the corner
With my mind in my hand
Thinking I could throw it
Just to watch it land
And maybe I’d forget it
And never move again
Never knowing where I’m going
‘Cause I don’t know where I’ve been

Oh darlin’!
You keep my engine clean . . .

She’s a pretty girl
But she’s oh so cruel
Got the hands of a priest
And the eyes of a fool
Like a book of matches
With the matches all used
That’s a match to win
And a match to lose.

I've never done too much drink
I don't eat spicy food
I don't use course language
Around little girls

I go to church every sunday
I shake the pastors hand
He smiles down upon me
'Cause I'm god fearing man

For my whole life
I've never done wrong
Then you came along
And turned me on

Heaven help me
I'm going wrong
You turn me on...

And these thoughts is my head
I could never explain
They make my cheeks turn red
They make me feel so ashamed

But oh the way she moves
Makes my heart dance
With every step she proves
That I never had a chance

Heaven help me
I'm going wrong
You turn me on...

I can feel her power
Increasing with the hour
I am devoured by her
Yet I feel no fear

'Cause come that judgement day
I know just what I'm going to say
God made woman, god made man
Told them be fruitful, fill up the land

Heaven help me...

Don’t know why
But I took too much
Took wat too much
I couldn’t get enough
And it was strange
To roll around
On the forest ground
All night long

There came a beat
And it came kicking in
And it kept us warm
Though the wind was strong
And we where strong
We where hanging out
We where hanging in
We where inside out

I grabbed my flute
And I played a tune
I don’t know what it was
But it sure fit my mood
I caught my breath
‘fore it could get away
I was faster than
A blue jay

Looking up
Them tall redwood trees
Like looking up the skirt
Of my destiny
I don’t know why
I took too much
I took way to much
I’ll never get enough

The forest is filled with mystery
From underneath the ground to the top of the canopy
The forest is filled with mystery
From underneath the ground to the top of the canopy
At the top of the tree you can see the sea
Down by the sea you can’t see the tree
At the top of the tree
You can be who you want to be
But a valley lies in between
Yes a valley lies in between
But the valley’s good for traveling
Valley’s good for traveling
Especially when you’re whispering and wondering

Whisper and wondering