A Sunday proposal you got on one knee. down on Old Harold's farm, picnic under a tree. do you remember how a trick of the light turned the sky green?.
The Stranger within my gate,. He may be true or kind,. But he does not talk my talk. I cannot feel his mind.. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,.
He sat in a room in a square the color of blood. He'd rule the whole world if there was a way that he could. He'd sit and he'd stare at the minarets on top of the towers, for he was the Beast as he hatched his new plan to gain power..
(words by David Lane and music by Lamb). Endless years in a prison cell, endless years of a living hell. A soldier of the Folk, with a tale to tell. Of why he fought to save his own kind, an image of beauty, he sees in his mind Of a beautiful maiden, now forced to the fight. Because to many White men chose wrong over right..
Tiny heart flutter between my fingers and my thumb. Youre very in trouble before youve began. I see your tiny heart worrying, a turning of wheels. Just grab on to something and dig in your heels.
The summer sun plays on the ground. I feel it in my leaves. The sap is rising up my veins. Theres pollen on the breeze. . I saw it all crystal clear. I know who brought those children here.
We live in the limbos of our lives. Trapped in a gap designed by our minds. Gone for too long we consume ourselves in this lethargy. Subconsciously convinced that she will set us free.
Channel one. Or two. Lets try three. Maybe even four, five, six. Where everyone is no one. And vice-versa. . But baby, baby, baby, baby. I come from the other side of this wide sea.
In the state of Mississippi many years ago. A boy of 14 years got a taste of southern law. He saw his friend a hanging and his color was his crime. And the blood upon his jacket, left a brand upon his mind.
Time was when a man could live alone. A man could build a home, have a family of his own. The peaceful years would flow, he could watch his children grow.
Oh, a thousand marching armies and a million marching men. Have won the wide world over and lost it back again,. But now the word has gone to ev'ry fallen land,.
You've long been on the open road,. You've been sleeping in the rain,. From dirty words and muddy cells. Your clothes are smeared and stained,. But the dirty words and muddy cells.
Show me a prison, show me a jail. Show me a prisoner, man, whose face is growin' pale. And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why. And there but for fortune, may go you or I.
Pre>intro:d. . D g d cccggg. Don't you think it's time that we were leaving?. D g d cccggg. For another chance, another place to start. G f#m. Desperate ones that went across the ocean.
Silent soldiers on a silver screen. Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream. Unpaid actors of the mystery. The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free.
Outside the cats are scratching. Inside the doors are latching. On the room, the greedy gloom. The trial is revealed. . Police are six feet deep. With switchblades in their teeth.
In Portsmouth town. On the eastern shore. Where many a fine ship was born. . The Thresher was built. And the Thresher was launched. And the crew of the Thresher was sworn.
Pre>6/4 time. C. 1. o, it was a fine and a plea - sant day. G. Out of yar - mouth har-bour I was far - ing. C g (f) (g) c. As a cab - in boy on a sail - ing lug - ger.
Finger pick the verses, strum chorus. Sailors climb the tree, up the terrible tree. Where are my shipmates have they sunk beneath the sea?. I do not know much, but I know this cannot be.
And the flag draped coffins are a sailin' home. And the waves are watchin' as the engine drones. As the ship draws near, hear the bugle moan. The sad and silent song of a soldier.