See, I can?t scare anybody They come from miles around to laugh in my face and eat in my field Said a scarecrow, swinging on a pole to some blackbirds
In my mind The golden silver statues turn to tin And I find Confidence is just a place I've been In my mind I was kind When poppa's begging friendship
It's such a clever innocence With which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow And let that young girl go free I thought I was a child
It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and
I've been the one who has been frightened And almost borne away by the very thoughts That I feared yesterday And it must be the dust or smoke that's in
They shot a man into the sky The moon and stars became his bed He saw the sun rise seven times And when he came back down he said "It is one, it is one
It's been raining here in Long Beach The dampness in the air Tends to straighten out my hair Against my wishes But the traces of a song reach My tattered
It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to keep you if I'd
(performed by jackson browne and bonnie raitt on the pete seeger tribute album where have all the flowers gone;1998) Jackson: When I was a young man
Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would not tell We would
All the words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning
Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you lookin' for Yeah, yeah
Lavender windows and burgundy doors Olive green pillows on ebony floors The lightest of wine could have been mine It should have been mine Promises kept
Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him
I can't keep up with what's been going down I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings, in their designer jeans Am I the only one
Listen to my bassman, he is lavender His woman is his bass and he is loving her, loving her Listen to the sounds he's giving As he is living, true to
Here's to lights and virtues Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to light the darkness The search for things of your own Here's to lights and
I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you And so I beg you, let it be me Don't take this heaven from one If you must cling to someone Now