When did you start to fade into a phantom?
Take to the shadows?
Did you notice the symptoms
Coming on?
You once believed nothing could stop you
They beat you down
All your dreams you made untrue
Look what you’ve become
Do you feel young?
Do you feel dumb,
Only because you don’t know the answers?
Do you feel young?
Do you feel young?
You’ve got to claw your way through the madness
Fight for a reason
Lessons learned from the sadness
Take to heart
What made you think you wouldn’t stumble,
Superhero?
That’s what you need to keep you humble
You come undone
Do you feel young?
Do you feel dumb,
Only because you don’t know the answers?
Do you feel young?
Do you feel young?
Tell me you
Remember how it feels to
Remain true
To all your hopes and all your fears and dreams and
Never lose
The strength to keep on running
To a better tomorrow
When will it be tomorrow?
There is a road that each of us travels
Don’t know the reason
At times the miles unravel
Call it youth
We never know what days will send us
For ill or better
We only have what time lends us
Now here it comes
I feel young
I feel young
Today the wind is pushing behind me
And I feel love
And I feel love
New eyes to see the world with
New ears to hear the message
New mind to understand you
New heart
New heart
I wanna get closer to you
I wanna get closer to you
I wanna get closer
I wonder if my message made it through?
You’ve got my kind of soul
You’ve got my kind of soul
Just my kind
It’s spilling out like water from a bowl
Why don’t you answer me?
Come on, dance with me
We may find ourselves out on the ledge
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
There’s a hunger in your eyes
There’s a hunger in your eyes
There’s a hunger
Like angels falling from the skies
Why don’t you answer me?
Come on, dance with me
We may find ourselves out on the ledge
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Secret sister, please don’t go
I’ll crawl inside your suitcase
After the show
I’m getting so tired
Of seeing all the winners
Sip their wine
I’m always so tired
Of trying to swim
When I should be
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
I’m trying so hard
To believe that I am
Worth waiting for
It’s getting so hard
My body is here
While I’m up there
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
She waits for me in shades of gray
Not for myself do I still wait
She waits for me in shades of gray
It’s up to me
Got one more
Day to live
Can’t look back
I’m rising…
Remnants
Black disk spinning, spinning dreams
Of long dead voices who laugh and scream
Of wondrous thoughts and exotic tastes
Of wise old men with children’s faces
So much magic in the grooves
Power to stop and strength to move
Spinning and spinning until it ends
Then turn it over and do it again
Remnants
Of a distant place
Remnants
A time we can’t escape
Remnants
All that’s gone
Remnants
Got to move on
Keep looking back to see what I missed
Cause up ahead is smoke and black mist
Keep walking over familiar ground
Can’t look around
Faded pictures, faded years
And all the blood and dried-up tears
Bottled and sold for a low, low price
Won’t fill you up, but sure tastes nice
What can we do when it’s all been done
But close our eyes and carry on
Tomorrow, tomorrow still won’t know
Turn off your mind and let it flow
Remnants
Of a distant place
Remnants
A time we can’t escape
Remnants
All that’s gone
Remnants
Got to move on
Keep looking back to see what I missed
Cause up ahead is smoke and black mist
Keep walking over familiar ground
Can’t look around
Mama says come in, y’know
The rain is falling in my eyes
I squeeze my shirt, but keep on standing
Hoping for a lightning strike
Mama says go out, y’know
The words are crowding in my brain
The book is down, but dreams are fading
And I’m afraid it’s going to rain
I think I’m a winner and I
Could’ve been a contender, but I’m
Sitting here playing guitar with dishpan hands
Dishpan hands
I used to live in the sky, y’know
I used to come down every night
The shadows crawled on the wall behind me
Fed by my own spotlight
Gotta say goodbye, y’know
To all the habits long outgrown
Always wanted to be a star
Always wanted to be alone
I think I’m a winner and I
Could’ve been a contender, but I’m
Sitting here playing guitar with dishpan hands
Dishpan hands
A scream, icy dream, it takes me
High over walls, a mirror
Shoulders sprout wings, if only
My brain could scream
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free
You’re making
You’re taking
Everything I want to be
A day, cold and gray, a pale flame
Burns through my hands, consuming
Feelings away, they held me
I’ll float away
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free
You’re making
You’re taking
Everything I want to be
A hole, soap bubble soul, the thin air
My gills can’t breathe, gasping
I break the bowl, returning
Assume the role
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free...
Every day I tell myself that I’m
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live tomorrow
Today some things don’t seem right and I
Can’t start till everything I just so
The days are gray and that’s okay
‘Cause I’m sure that something soon will come along
And show me the way
And I dream of how happy I will be
Tomorrow
Every night I sit alone
I sit alone, staring at the TV
Sometimes I believe it’s my best friend
At least it’s always there for me
I feel relief when it’s time to sleep
‘Cause then I won’t have to think about anything
And live inside my dreams
Sometimes I almost wish I wouldn’t wake up
Tomorrow
Yesterday still chains me
Memory restrains me
The old war wounds pain me
Chasing my tail day after day
Tomorrow burns so brightly
It has to make things right
But I never reach tomorrow
Somehow I’m always stuck inside today
And nothingness is lying in wait for me
No fears, no tears, just emptiness
Love is all I crave, but I find myself a slave to infinity
So goodbye to all the wheres and whys and alibis
And all the what-ifs that bar my way
‘Cause I’m gonna live
I’m gonna live
I’m living...
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live today
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live today
Today, today, today, today
I’m gonna live today
Black hawk flying in the sky over you today
Should’ve cried out but I didn’t know what to say
Black hawk flying in the sky over you today
Shadow gaining ground, I believe you’ve lost the way
Tried and convicted by a jury of your mind
No laws were broken, but still you’re doing time
Rise up and, uh
Leave your prison
The guard in wait outside is you
Get up and, uh
Give me your lovin’
Reach out—that’s all you have to do
Your picture fell down from the wall in the house of love
Tried to pick it up, but you gave me a shove
Your picture fell down from the wall in the house of love
Tried to take your hand, but you couldn’t find a glove
Tried and convicted by a jury of your mind
No laws were broken, but still you’re doing time
Rise up and, uh
Leave your prison
The guard in wait outside is you
Get up and, uh
Give me your lovin’
Reach out—that’s all you have to do
If I wore dark sunglasses would I be cool?
If I had lots of money would I be better than you? Nah.
If I had golden hair would I have a handsome face
Or be a member of a master race
Or would I still be me?
If I was trapped in amber would I never change?
If I had a rainbow dream would you think that I was strange?
If I showed my thousand faces would you turn and run away
Or try to make me change my ways
Or would you want me?
I’m to old to start all over
Too young for giving up
All this time spent being myself
But being myself’s not really enough
I need to walk around in world-sized shoes
To understand love
If I had a tongue of silver and words like honeydew
Could I make you hear me? Could I speak the truth?
If I tried to touch you would you turn and run away
Or freeze like a winter’s day
Or would you touch me?
I’m to old to start all over
Too young for giving up
All this time spent being myself
But being myself’s not really enough
I need to walk around in world-sized shoes
To understand love
I don’t understand me, how can I understand you?
Let’s slip outside into the gentle night
A quiet walk down a country road
The moonlight illuminates the soul
I’ll tell you secrets never told
In the light
The night can be my truest friend
A cocoon to enfold my wounded brain
The wind whispers my secret name
And I wish the silent blacks and grays
Would never end
Sit here beside me, tell me now
Dreams and hopes still unfulfilled
Desires to which you dare not yield
Fears to make your heartbeat still
Tell me how
In the field where the oak tree stands
Meet me there, meet me there
We will make our pact to join hands
Without hope, without care
We are clad in flowers and grass
On the hill, the barren hill
Watching time so quickly pass
Sitting still, so quiet and still
In the night I saw the door
Open wide, open wide
Through the door the darkness shone
You cannot hide, resist the tide
In the valley the mockingbird calls
Don’t believe the quiet song
The dark valley of the ancient fall
Don’t tarry long, something’s wrong
I want to lie down in the silken river
To drift along with the current’s flow
Until my water spirit grows
I’ve no direction and I never know
I don’t know where to go, I don’t know where to go
He’s a California dreamer
From a Midwestern town
Rebelling against anything you’ve got around
He’s got all the right albums
He sees all the right shows
He has the right opinions and an earring in his nose
People always put him down
Cause he wears a frown
But he wants something to believe in
Someplace to live and think and breathe in
He just wants a world of his own
Sometimes it makes him angry
Living in a world he never made
And thinking of the future only makes him feel afraid
He plans to start a revolution
An age of peace and sun
He’s sure he can do a better job than his parents have done
People always put him down
Cause he wears a frown
It’s just the badge of the new generation
With time spent under sedation
They just want a world of their own
He only wants to be different
Just like everybody else
Cause nobody—nobody!--can feel exactly like he’s felt
Someday he’ll finally realize
You’ll never change the world alone
And he’ll have to deal with an angry young son of his own
People always put him down
Cause he wears a frown
But he wants something to believe in
Someplace to live and think and breathe in
He just wants a world of his own
A world of his own
A world of his own
The fade from blue to black
Has been an easy road
My mind is bent under an imaginary load
It’s much more difficult
To rise up out of bed
Than to lie and let it all pass overhead
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
At night I lie awake
And plan to save my soul
But all hope seems to drown in my cereal bowl
Everything I want to do
Everything I mean to say
The sunlight vanishes as my will melt away
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
I know it must seem like I’m crazy
To have experienced so many things
And still complain my cup is empty
But there’s a place I’ve never been
The fade from blue to black
Has been an easy road
And the longer I carry it, the heavier the load
But now I can see the dead end
Time for the turning back
To go and find and firmly grasp the things I like
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
Come on in, relax, and take a chair
Take the leash of the seeing-eye box
Chomp on a lotus, try not to stare
As your brain turns into rocks
Experience is what we lack
You’re not gonna find it in a cold six-pack
Experience is what we need
If you can’t feel the cut, you’ll let it bleed
Accept no substitutes
Diana, take my hand
Accept no substitutes
Come on and take a stand
Hear these words (in and out the same ear)
Taste the freedom (I chew it with my gum)
See the light (I see it disappear)
Feel the love (my hands are just too numb)
Sensation is everywhere
It’s in my brain, it’s in my hair
Sensation I must require
In every face, on every pyre
Accept no substitutes
Come feel the wind blow ‘round
Accept no substitutes
Before the life runs down
Come on out, stand up, and breathe the air
Shake the chains (electric rays)
Show no fear, feel free to stare
There is a number to the days
Experience is what we crave
More precious than the time we save
Experience we must needs taste
Existence we cannot waste
Accept no substitutes
Diana, take my hand
Accept no substitutes
Come on and take a stand
Accept no substitutes
Come feel the wind blow ‘round
Accept no substitutes
Before the life runs down
Accept no substitutes
If I can close my eyes
Maybe the night will disappear
If I can close my eyes
Maybe the sun will bring you here
I’ve been alone for so long
My mind is nearly gone
‘Scuse me while I drown in my tears
I’ve been searching for so many years
Searching for you girl to lift me out of this deep dark hole
I’ve been searching, seeking, looking for you baby
You’re the only one who can bring me in from the cold
Can you warm my heart in your hands
It’s cold as ice, but if you can
Set it fire like a lump of coal
I can’t see you in the sky
Even though I know your eyes are there
I can’t see you in the earth now baby
Even though I see the mountains you wear
Every night I lie awake
Thinking of the chance I never take
Hoping one day you’ll appear in the air
Heed my words
You don’t know what you’re doing
When you think you got nothing to learn
When you stick your hands in the fire
You’re going to get burned
Pharaoh thought he had it all worked out
When he slammed the door in Moses’ face
Twelve plagues later on the Red Sea shore
He was gone without a trace
Throughout time, always the same
You turn around and find that fate’s calling your name
Throughout time, in every place
Something comes along and wipes the smile from your face
Can’t you see it
Your life’s no more than a toss of the dice
You gotta see it
You’re taking chances but you don’t know the price
Look around
Too many people try to lay some kind of hoodoo down
They scoff but you know they’re buying a ticket
On a fast train underground
Why don’t you think, take a little care
See that you don’t go too far
Don’t be waiting on a crossroads at night
For somebody to tune your guitar
Throughout time, always the same
You turn around and find that fate’s calling your name
Throughout time, in every place
Something comes along and wipes the smile from your face
Can’t you see it
Your life’s no more than a toss of the dice
You gotta see it
You’re taking chances but you don’t know the price