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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.
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 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
Give me ten long limbs, I’ll hold
Lazy rolling things of gold
Dress me down in a New York crowd
Lay me down an bawl me out
Tell me everything’s been sold
Tell me everything. I’ll go
Pressed apart those skins still hold
This can’t be what you want, hej
This can’t be what you want
There’s a charm, there’s a blade
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a child, there’s a grave
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a colt, there’s a cane
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a heart, there’s a chain
There’s a lot in the way
Hej cut my heart but do it fast
We don’t want that hurt to last
Take that violence from your brow
Shake it down and hold it out
Tell me anything’s my home
Tell me anything. I’ll go
Pressed apart those skins still hold
This can’t be what you want
Hej, it can’t be what you want
There’s a charm, there’s a blade
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a heart, there’s a grave
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a colt, there’s a cane
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a child, there’s a chain
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a mark, there’s a stain
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a phone, there’s a flame
There’s a lot in the way
There’s a fawn, there’s a fang
There’s a child in the rain
There’s a charm, there’s a blade
There’s a lot in the way
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.
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
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
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
Sun a-rising. Ease. Easy oh.
As dark as I been, well. Ease. Easy oh.
Be easy oh.
Be easy oh.
As dark as I been, well. Ease. Easy oh.
The sun is rising. Easy. Easy oh.
Be easy oh.
Be easy.
Be.
Be.
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.
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
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
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 know I’m back with just a song
And I been gone so awful long
But babe you know there ain’t nothing wrong
And you know
I’ll be here soon
The road is long and the road does wind
I’m bound to leave some parts behind
But don’t you pay that any mind
Cause you know
I’ll be here soon
So lay your ass out on the floor
And raise your glass and raise it more
And praise and laugh and praise some more
And you know
We’ll be here soon
Now dry your eyes in the setting sun
I know the pressure’s on and ain’t nothin fun
And babe I know it’s all been done
But you know
It ain’t all done too
So get yourself and bring her here
And fix yourself up in the mirror
We’ll fix ourselves another beer
And you know
We’ll be here soon
So lay your ass out on the floor
We’ll raise our glass and then raise it more
We’ll praise and laugh and then praise some more
And we will know.
We will be here soon
I remember evenings when my dad would sing
Hiding in the hallway, I am listening
Keeping still my body until it’s borne aloft
Her hair is soft and her breath is soft and her name is soft
She gathers me completely in her sighing hands
My dove, my dove, my lamb
We’re born with ocean thunder underneath our veins
Lonelier than cows left standing in the rain
Holy when our weight into the waves is tossed
Tho ships get lost and fish get lost and names get lost
She will wait to greet me where it meets dry land
My dove, my dove, my lamb
So you be careful of that language, babe some words are stones
They’ll lead you out from town then leave you all alone
Past the mirrored diamond mares that run all night
Where camptown ladies sing that song, ‘Aw Come Aw Wry’
But, lo they sing it sweetly so I’ll understand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
Though my sight be near and though my way be long
Though the light I chase be disappeared by dawn
I have seen her standing on the roofs at night
I have seen her silver figure bathed and bright
And I have seen her sleeping in the cold white sand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
So even in these cities where she’s haunting me
Even when my weariness is wanting me
Even when my wickednesses want to breathe
Even in these dirty clubs counting 1-2-3
I will keep a singing ’til I no more can
My dove, my dove, my lamb
And later, if I’m better I’ll be born again
I’ll pull my newborn body from the thorns and limbs
Finding with my fingers where they’ve torn a page
From some ancient book all gold and worn from age
And writ upon it neatly tho in trembling hand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
Then finally in the evening I hear trumpets ring
I stretch out in the dark and I am listening
I’m studying the sadness in your perfect limbs
I move them under mine until they learn to blend
And I will keep repeating til they understand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
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
(Waylon Jennings Cover)
Storms never last do they, baby
Bad times all pass with the winds
Your hand in mine steals the thunder
You make the sun want to shine
Oh, I followed you down so many roads, baby
I picked wild flowers and sung you soft sad songs
And every road we took, God knows, our search was for the truth
And the storm brewin’ now won’t be the last
Storms never last do they, baby
Bad times all pass with the winds
Your hand in mine steals the thunder
You make the sun want to shine
Storms never last do they, baby
Bad times all pass with the winds
Your hand in mine steals the thunder
You make the sun want to shine
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
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
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