At the breaking of the dawn,
day is born again
Just another missing link,
in an endless chain
Filling up the empty space
left by the one whos gone
Freedoms child was born today,
singing freedom songs
With his colors flying high
And his gun in hand
Volunteer to fight and die
In a foreign land
Just another minor chord
In a worn out song
Freedoms child goes marching there
Singing freedom songs
Drifting through a crowded park
Theres an empty swing
Hidden in the sparrows eye
when its on the wind
Planted on a lonely hill
with his name unknown
Freedoms child was layed to rest
Singing freedom songs
At the breaking of the dawn,
day is born again
Just another missing link
in an endless chain
Filling up the empty space
left by the one whos gone
Freedoms child was born today,
singing freedom songs
Freedoms child was layed to rest
Singing freedom songs
Sea Of Love
Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you
Just how much I love you
Do you remember when we met
Thats the day I never will forget
I want to tell you
Just how much I love you
Come with me
To the sea, of love
Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you
Just how much I love you
Do you remember when we met
Thats the day I never will forget
I want to tell you
Just how much I love you
Come with me
To the sea, of love
Tusk
Why dont you ask him if hes going to stay?
Why dont you ask him if hes going away?
Dont say that you love me!
Why dont you tell me whats going on?
Why dont you tell me whos on the phone?
Just tell me that you want me!
Why dont you ask him whats going on?
Why dont you ask him whos on his throne?
Tusk, Tusk
Dont say that you love me!
Just tell me that you want me!
Why dont you ask him whats going on?
Why dont you ask him whos on his throne?
Tusk, Tusk
I Worry Too Much
It's a demolition derby
It's the sport of the hunt
Proud tribe in full war-dance
It's the slow smile that the bully gives a grunt
It's the force of inertia
It's the lack of constraint
It's the children out playing in the rock garden
All dulled-up in black hats and war paint
Sometimes it feels like bars of steel
I can't bend with my hands
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
It's these sandpaper eyes
It's the way they rub the luster from what is seen
It's the way we tell ourselves that all these things are normal
Till we can't remember what we mean
It's the flicker of our flames
It's the friction born of living
It's the way we beat a hot retreat
and heave our smoking gun into the river
Sometimes it feels like bars of steel
I can't bend with my hands
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
It's the quick-step march of history
The vanity of nations
It's the way there'll be no muffled drums
To mark the passage of my generation
It's the children of my children
It's the lambs born in innocence
It's wondering if the good I know
Will last to be seen by the eyes of the little ones
Sometimes it feels like bars of steel
I can't bend with my hands
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
Ohhh - I worry too much
Somebody told me that I worry too much
Salty, Salty
Hey sailor, what do ya think, hey buy a girl a drink
That was the first thing she said to me
I was on dry land but I was back at sea
She was so pretty but, she was so mean
C'mon boys, I'm sure you've been
Na, na, na, na, na salty salty....
Hey mama what's your name, hey what's it matter
You just tied up from your long voyage
I'm sure gonna make you feel better
She was a beauty, she was so good
Just doin' her duty, it's understood
Hey lady, what's your game, hey can I play it
Everybody knows when the price is right
So just come out and say it
She was a beauty, she was so good
Just doin' her duty, it's understood.
Hey sailor, what do ya think, hey buy a girl a drink
That was the first thing she said to me
I was on dry land but I was back at sea
She was so pretty but, she was so mean
C'mon boys, I'm sure you've been
I Don't Have To Crawl
When you look at me
Like you don't know me
And you talk to me
Like you've never met me
I can leave you alone if I try
If I tried I could tell you goodbye
I don't have to crawl
I don't have to crawl
Then you call on me
As if I should run to you
You make your move
as if I should follow you
I don't have to be nobody's fool
I won't make no exception of you
I don't have to crawl
I don't have to crawl
Then you call on me
As if I should run to you
You make your move
as if I should follow you
I don't have to be nobody's fool
I won't make no exception of you
I don't have to crawl
It's Been Emotional
Your token smoke
And you pop your pills
Your just a joke
And I've had my fill
Your killing me
Is your illussion
All that I can see
Is more confussion
Its been emotional
To emotional
Its been emotional
To emotional
I build you up
You take me down
You shaved your head
Look just like a clown
Your loosing me
you comprehend it
Looks like I wrecked your week
You'll never mend it
Its been emotional
To emotional
Its been emotional
To emotional
Your mind was held
Back in the lost and found
You had it all
But you ripped it down
Its been emotional
To emotional
Its been emotional
To emotional
Some Love Somebody
Look out your window
See all the children and how they play
Chassing the rainbows
Hear all the music that they play
If there was love in your heart, You show them some
You show them some love, Somebody show some love
Look out your window
See all the children and how they cry
Chassing the sunshine
What will you say when they ask you why
If there was love in your heart, You show them some
You show them some love, Somebody show some love
Let go your sorrows
Pray for a blue sky every day
Forget tomorrow
Keep all the love thats come your way
If there was love in your heart, You show them some
You show them some love, Somebody show some love
Show them some love
You show them some love
Somebody
Show them some love
Show them some love
Somebody
Desolation Road
Locked up on monday
Lord I lost my way
I could not breathe her name
You know she's after my name
Lately I'm stickin' to drinkin'
And I'm headed down desolation road
Habit -a- growin'
Set it up just right
I do away my life
On a turn of the dice
Lately I'm runnin' and hidin'
Slidin' down desolation road
No one to turn to
Losing my best friend
My name is just bad news
And my account's in the red
I'm in need of understandin'
I'm landin' down desolation road
Danko/ Manuel
Let the night air cool you off.
Tilt your head back and try to cough.
Don't say nothing 'bout the things you never saw.
Let the night air cool you off.
I ain't living like I should.
A little rest might do me good.
Got to sinking in the place where I once stood.
Now I ain't living like I should.
Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can only hear it in my head.
Fifteen years ago we owned that road
now it's rolling over us instead.
Richard Manuel is dead.
God forbid you call their bluff.
Like the nightmares ain't enough.
Remember when we used to think that we were tough?
God forbid you call their bluff.
First they make you out to be
the only pirate on the seas.
They say Danko would have played it just like me.
"Is this the man I want to be?"
Can you hear that singing? It sounds like gold.
Maybe I could make it bigger overseas.
Sixteen years ago we owned this road
now it gives us somewhere else to leave.
Something else you can't believe.
Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold.
Maybe I can hear poor Richard from the grave
singin' where to reap and where to sow
when you've found another home you have to leave.
Something else you can't believe.
Crutch
Don't look at me if you need a crutch
And if your looking for answers
I don't have much
And if your looking for reason
You get no such luck
You can have the funnies
and I'll take the rest...
You can tell your lover
You stayed lilly white
And you can tell your children
You fought a good fight
And you can tell your preacher
that you saw the light
You better keep you alibis
Locked up tight
Don't you look at me
Like I'm insane
And if my hands got dirty
Yours look the same
And if you halor for heaven
You better find your faith
You can change the mirror
You can't change the face
You can call yourself righteous
Why your still to blame
I never saw you comin
You got me from behind
You can sell your stories
To the New York Times
And you can take the high road
And I'll take mine...