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Sun a-rising. Ease. Easy oh.
Dark as I been. Ease. Easy oh.
Be easy oh.
Dark as I been. Ease. Easy oh.
Sun’s a-rising. Easy. Easy oh.
Be easy oh.
Be easy oh.
Be.
The call of the night came and we called it a day
The howling at midnight had called me away
Out in the moonlight on a half-bended knee
I said, “O now, cousin, Hej, what’s happened to me.”
All of the colors I couldn’t believe
I called out, “Now, cousin, “Hej, are you foolin with me?”
All of the pleasures now avoiding me
All the music now boring to me
Oh it’s unbearable then
To find you feeling so terrible, friend
I know you were chasing it, ah well you had to have been
So holy and wasted, like a prayer in the wind
Out of my shoes I stepped clear of the trees
Out on the dunes among the towering reeds
Out in the blue we both bowed in the breeze
All the music now all now foreign to me
Oh it’s unbearable then
To find you feeling so terrible, friend
To know you were chasing it, ah well you had to have been
So holy and wasted, like a prayer in the wind
All holy and wasted
Just a prayer in the wind
I could be the tiger, I could be the snake
I could be the fire, I could be the lake
I could be the sky-bird waiting on the wind
I could be the devil waiting to begin
See, I was the wounded master, oh then I was the slave
My hands and my mouth, aw honey, they would not behave
See, I was the holy writer then I was the page
I was the bleeding actor then I was the stage
But now you’re telling me my heart’s sick
And I’m telling you I know
And you’re telling me you’re leaving
And I’m telling you to go
And I’m not so sorry for the heart-wreck
But for each season left unblessed
The new terror in the canyons
The new terror in our chests
I could be the tether, I could be the place
I could be forever or just a couple days
I could be the morning that breaks upon your skin
I could be the devil and do it all again
See, I was the wounded master then I was the slave
My hands and my mouth, aw honey, they was caught in a rage
See, I was the holy lion then I was the cage
I was the bleeding actor then I was the stage
O but now you’re telling me my heart’s sick
And I’m telling you I know
And you’re telling me you’re leaving
And I’m telling you to go
And I’m not so sorry for the heart-wreck
But for each season left unblessed
The new terror in the canyons
The new terror in our chests
Well it woke me up early I went and I drew me a bath
Yeah I knew she’d been coming and she had got here at last
Well I started to scold her aw she just started to laugh
Yeah the beast came upon me, I guess it wasn’t so bad
I said “It’s you took your claws you slipped em under my skin
There’s parts that got outside, honey I want to put em back in
We’ve been playing like children, honey, now we’ll play it like men
Those parts that got outside, I’m gonna put them back in.
She took the beak of a raven ah she laid it out just for show
She spun it round on the table, honey. Hej, I thought you should know
I saw the streets were of lightning all out the window below
Yeah the beast was upon me, honey. I thought you should know
Her ancient eyes were upon me. They were familiar and black
She laid her claws all up on me. She had found me at last
Ah it woke me up early. I went and I drew me a bath
Ah, the beast was upon me, honey. I guess it wasn’t so bad
Tell me baby have you had enough
I know sometimes I play too rough
I know sometimes it can be too much
But tell me baby have you had enough
And tell me honey have I gone too far
I know I spend most of my life in these bars
Just bangin around on this old guitar
But tell me honey have I gone too far
And tell me baby did I go too far
I know I’ve spent most of my life in these bars
And I know honey it can be so hard
But tell me baby did I go too far
And tell me baby have you had enough
I know that sometimes I can play too rough
And I know that sometimes I can be too much
But tell me baby have you had enough
Tell me baby have you had enough
Tell me baby have you had enough
Tell me baby have you had enough
Well, apart from the things I touched
Nothing got broke all that much
And apart from the things I took
Nothing got stolen babe, and look
You can love me foolishly,
Love me foolish-like
Well I wake in the morning and dress
Hang a charm of gold around my neck
And I sip from my silver cup
And I sing these words for good luck
I sing, “Love me foolishly,
Love me foolish-like”
Well I wake in the morning and I dress
I hang that charm of gold around my neck
And I haul to her window and I look
And I crawl on inside and wake her up
Singing, “Love me foolishly,
Love me foolish-like”
So, apart from the things I touched
Nothing got broke all that much
And apart from the things I took
Nothing got stolen babe, and look:
You can love me foolishly
Love me foolish-like
Around your head, drowned and wet
Is a ring of lights, buzzing lights
Cousin, light is not foreign
No, such is light in me tonight
I at all white and I not white
I at all white and I at not white
But wait I wasn’t born
I wasn’t born to hide
Or to shy from light
I was not born to hide
Hey I got limbs all strong and slim
But there’s nothing here to hold
Yeah I got limbs all made to bend
And, cousin, made to fold
But wait, I wasn’t born
I wasn’t born to hide
Or to shy from light
I wasn’t born just to die
No I was born and I got love
And you were born and I got love
Cousin, don’t you know?
Dead heart, dead heart, dead heart
Leave another, how can you go?
How can’t you know, I mean by now?
We’re kids forever, ain’t we tho?
Ain’t we so high and wild?
You say, “Oh, you’ll spin your heartache into gold”
And I suppose but it rips my heart out don’t you know
But if I’m waking each morning babe
All aching and ornery babe
All vacant and thorny, hej I’m down to go
The kids of summer, don’t we glow?
Oh ain’t we bold, just wilding out
Hej can this kill me? Hej, I don’t know
But I been sho finding out
You say, “Oh, you’ll spin this heartache into gold”
And I suppose but it rips my heart out don’t you know
But if I’m waking each morning babe
All aching and ornery babe
All vacant and thorny, no, it’s time to go
Leave the city. Can’t we go?
Can’t we tho? I mean, right now.
I know it’s a pity. Hej, but it’s getting cold
And it’s getting old, this whoring around
You say, “Oh, you’ll spin this heartache into gold”
And I suppose, I ain’t got much choice now do I tho?
See I can’t wake every morning babe
All aching and ornery babe
All jaded and thorny, no, I’m down to go
Some say love is a burning thing
That it makes a fiery ring
Oh but I know love as a fading thing
Just as fickle as a feather in a stream
See, honey, I saw love. You see, it came to me
It put its face up to my face so I could see
Yeah then I saw love disfigure me
Into something I am not recognizing
See, the cage, it called. I said, “Come on in”
I will not open myself up this way again
Nor lay my face to the soil, nor my teeth to the sand
I will not lay like this for days now upon end
You will not see me fall, nor see me struggle to stand
To be acknowledge by some touch from his gnarled hands
You see, the cage, it called. I said, “Come on in”
I will not open myself up this way again
You see, the moon is bright in that treetop night
I see the shadows that we cast in the cold, clean light
My feet are gold. My heart is white
And we race out on the desert plains all night
See, honey, I am not some broken thing
I do not lay here in the dark waiting for thee
No my heart is gold. My feet are light
And I am racing out on the desert plains all night
So some say love is a burning thing
That it makes a fiery ring
Oh but I know love as a caging thing
Just a killer come to call from some awful dream
O and all you folks, you come to see
You just stand there in the glass looking at me
But my heart is wild. And my bones are steam
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free
Let’s go for a ride, hej you turn me right on
Let’s get on the bike, hej you turn me right on
Ain’t nothing to hide and hej you turn me right on
The city at night, hej she turn me right on
The kids in the park, hej they turn me right on
The city at dark, hej it turn me right on
Rose on the back, hej she turn me right on
Ain’t nothing will last but hej she tell me, “Ride on”
Take your greedy hands, lay em on me
Take your greedy hands, honey, lay em on me
It’s not in the heart, but hej you turn me right on
We sit at the bar and hej you turn me right on
We lay in the dark, honey, hej you turn me right on
We wait for the part and hej you turn me right on
Take your greedy hands, lay em on me
Take your greedy hands, honey, lay em on me
Moving too fast, hej it turn me right on
Shifting to pass, hej it turn me right on
I know nothing can last, but hej you turn me right on
And Rose on the back, hej she tell me, “Ride on”
I don’t want to take and baby I don’t want to break and baby
I don’t want to try and make you anyway
I just want to lie down
Tell these tired brains to lie down
And then fall away
I won’t be alone I won’t be waiting by the phone
I won’t be dreaming of you dreaming of me anyway
Tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
I don’t have a home it’s not a chain it’s not a throne
It’s just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away
Of that anger on your face
Still not as strange and not as brave
As when you turned away
I won’t be the one when all is said and all is done
I won’t be breathing like you breathe into the light of day
No I’ll be in the yard
Still taking pictures in the dark
Of all our torn up praise
Leave me not alone I won’t be chased I won’t be thrown
I won’t be bleeding for you bleeding for me everyday
You can tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
I sang, “Roll away the stone”
Set up a trembling in my bones
I sat there all alone
Just cried and cried
I saw the moonlight’s mirrored glow
On that old dirty city’s snow
I sat there feeling low
O my, O my
I found some fortune, found some fame
I found they cauterized my veins
Hej, I’ve been fucked up. And I’ve been a fool
But like the shepherd to the lamb
Like the wave unto the sand
I’ll fix myself up. To come and be with you
See I was slow to understand
This river’s bigger than I am
It’s running faster than I can
Tho, Lord, I tried
Between the shadow and the storm
A little pup was being born
A little whelp without his horns
O my, O my
Hey mama, meet me ‘neath the moon
I will be humming out that tune:
“I’ve been fucked up. And I’ve been a fool.”
But like the shepherd to the lamb
Like the wave onto the sand
I’ll fix myself up. To come and be with you.
Like the shepherd to the lamb
Like the wave onto the land
I’ll fix myself up. To come and be with you
Aw now, mama, here I stand
Mama, reaching for your hand
I fix myself up. Come and be with you.
Fix myself up. Come and be with you.
Fix myself up. Come be with you.
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama they won’t let me out
Mama they’re mating at night
Mama they won’t make nice
They’re pacing and glowing bright
Their faces all snowy and white
They bury their paws in the stone
They make for my heart as their home
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
They’re tearing up holes in the house
They’re tearing their claws through the grout
They’re staring with blood in their mouths
And Mama they won’t let me out
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama I tried to put them out
And mama I know you’re too wise
To wait til those wolves make nice
Is it ever gonna not
Be so hard to see you around
Am I really really really really gonna have to
Really gonna have to really have to leave town?
I mean I called upon a bunch of angels
Calling, “Angels, ain’t you supposed to come
And take away these blues?
I mean we’ve came upon a bunch of rabies
And there isn’t nothing all us little animals can do
With all five kinds of reins and all nine kinds of thunderings
Or eighteen white horses if won’t none of them come to me!”
Don’t plant no more feet, love, in that garden of blame
Don’t break me no more, love, I’m already tame
Is it ever gonna stop
All this trouble of just being around all my awful friends
Am I really really really really gonna have to
Really gonna have to really have to leave this awful town again
I mean, I laid myself upon the water
Calling, “Water, ain’t you supposed to come
And save us all from all these awful flames?
I mean we’re caught among the awful branches
And you know they’re burning us and yes, they’re learning all of us’s names
I mean I stood your shore all wilted and wondering
Ain’t you got no home for me and ain’t you still sweet for me?”
Don’t plant no more feet, love, in that forest of blame
Don’t break me no more, love, I’m already tame
The road is alive and everybody’s all here
And I’m closing my eyes until the colors appear
And oh me, oh my, ain’t it funny up here
To stand in the light
Saying “I ain’t came to Los Angeles,
Just to die”
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention now
Ah you’re bleeding in every direction now
Ah they’re covering you up with affection now
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention now
They told me my eyes would never be clear
To hold on to mine and make that money out here
They told me those lies, just a-grinning from ear to ear
They showed me that line
They said, “Here is our offer,
Aint it fine”
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention now
Ah you’re bleeding in every direction now
Ah they’re covering you up with affection now
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention now
The road is alive with all the trouble and fear
And frozen and blind is how they couple out here
And oh me, oh my, they called me colored and queer
But I looked in their eyes
Said “I ain’t came to Los Angeles, babe
Just to die”
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention ain’t you now
Ah you’re bleeding in every direction ain’t you now
Ah they covering your heart with affection ain’t they now
Ah you’re getting a lot of attention ain’t you now
I don’t want to take and baby I don’t want to break and baby
I don’t want to try and make you anyway
I just want to lie down
Tell these tired brains to lie down
And then fall away
I won’t be alone I won’t be waiting by the phone
I won’t be dreaming of you dreaming of me anyway
Tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
I don’t have a home it’s not a chain it’s not a throne
It’s just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away
Of that anger on your face
Still not as strange and not as brave
As when you turned away
I won’t be the one when all is said and all is done
I won’t be breathing like you breathe into the light of day
No I’ll be in the yard
Still taking pictures in the dark
Of all our torn up praise
Leave me not alone I won’t be chased I won’t be thrown
I won’t be bleeding for you bleeding for me everyday
You can tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
There’s dogs calling awfully out here
There’s cows with their mouths filled with tears
And there’s black water curling all around where we layed
Yes and I have been sad now for too many days
And she would harness my heart if it harnessed that way
So babe, I am going, I’m going away
The women are all gorgeous down here
They’re long and brown and bashful like deer
And she is always arriving in her dark river skirt
Winding holes through the valleys, bending bones into dirt
Hiding poems I had tossed under blankets of sand
And babe, I am sorry, I’m sorry, I am
It never gets cold way down here
And I can live off of watermelons and beer
And I will never go hungry and I will never go home
And never call to my lover, ‘Lover, leave me alone’
And never harden my heart like some fruit in the snow
But I will walk, babe (I know this) unnoticed, unknown
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama they won’t let me out
Mama they’re mating at night
Mama they won’t make nice
They’re pacing and glowing bright
Their faces all snowy and white
They bury their paws in the stone
They make for my heart as their home
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
They’re tearing up holes in the house
They’re tearing their claws through the grout
They’re staring with blood in their mouths
And Mama they won’t let me out
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama I tried to put them out
And mama I know you’re too wise
To wait til those wolves make nice
O in life
Through many dark rooms
We must go
And all right
Tho many’s the hour
Will come to you sour and slow
And all night
Tho flames in the forest ring halos
To glory us both
All I
Can bring to that chorus of smoke
Is the hope that you knowed:
O love
Tho one day I tarried too far
And I never came home
O love
Always I carried your heart
Married deep in my own