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Dead Moon Night
Dead Moon Night
Thunderbolts and nightsticks
Coming out of the sky
Flames overhead
Rain until you cry
My baby's on the highway
Come in from the cold
Never going home, never going home
D for disaster
E for my eyes
A for my anger
D before I die
M for Mona
O oh good
O oh good
N for the night
Dead Moon Night
Call me if you need me
Down in New Orleans
Can't release the victims
Have you seen what I've seen
In New York City
Don't you cross the line
Guard it from the light, guard it from the light
Hazard on the highway
Breakin' down slow
They thought she was lookin'
Now I'm all alone
I'm often abandoned
Won't you take me home
Now I'm all alone, won't you take me home
Dead In The Saddle
You used to carry the flag
You were the soldier
You used to head the point
You were the older
You used to fight for peace
War was no stranger
You used to walk the line
Right into danger
The wind cries
Dead in the saddle
You used to hold me up
When you were younger
You had the coldest eyes
They put me under
You weren't they only one
Who felt like crying
You weren't the only one
Who felt like dying
The wind dries
Dead in the saddle
You used to stare the night
For distant thunder
You used to have a look
That made me wonder
You held the hand of death
When you rode into battle
As you rode like the wind
You could hear deaths rattle
The wind cries
Dead In the saddle
Time Has Come Today (Joseph/Willie Chambers)
Time has come today young hearts can go
Their way can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say they say we
Don't listen anyway time has come today, hey
The room has changed today I have no place to stay
I'm thinking about the subway my love has blown away
My tears have come and gone oh, Lord I got to run
I got no home no, I have no home
Now the time has come nowhere (place) to run
Might get burned up by the sun but I'll have my fun
I've been loved, pushed (put) aside I've been crushed
By tumbling tide and my soul has been psychedelicized
Now the time has come there are things to realize
Time has come today
Time has come today
Echos To You
I don't want the hour to fade
I don't want to make the break
I don't want a conversation
With the echos of a dying nation
I just want to spread your wings beneath my sky
I don't want to pale the light
I don't want to lose you twice
I don't want an explanation
Like the echos in the waiting station
I just want to spread your wings beneath my sky
I don't want to forget you
I don't want a perfect blue
I don't want to know the answer
Like the echos of an aging dancer
Just want to spread your wings benesth my sky
54/40 Or Fight
I've got a train drivin' through my head
Got a fever burnin' in my bed
If my telephone's ringin', somebody's dead on the line
I'm gettin' mad I'm gettin' pissed
I can't handle much more of this
Everybody sets me off, man, I'm walkin' on ice
I need something strong to pull me through
I've got to find a way to kick these blues
It's that cold in the night and I've got blood in my eyes
I say 54/40 or fight
I've go a queesy feelin' in my guts
Can't you see that I've had enough
Everybody sets me off, man, I'm over the edge
I've got a time-bomb tickin' inside
Fire burnin' in my eyes
No where to hide and no where to turn
I've got a needle deep down in my soul
I've got nerves goin' out of control
My adrenalin's pumpin' and I-m ready to burst
I say 54/40 or fight
I've got a rocket trail in my mind
I've got a feelin' that I haven't much time
I've got a time-bomb tickin' with nowhere to turn
Now these restraints that you're puttin' on me
The dealin' with society
This - the final approach, is my cause for alarm
So don't tell me what I was before
Or expect me to be something more
I'm on the defense and I'm over the line
I say 54/40 or fight
I Hate The Blues
You know my life would be easy
If people would leave me alone
Stop steppin' on my fingers
That I've been workin' to the bone
Maybe then I could get back with you
God damn I hate the blues
I've tried to put 'em in a bottle
Some people pu 'em in their arm
Either way they're gonna kill you
Slowly eat away your heart
If only I could stop the thought of you
God damn I hate the blues
I never learned to listen
To the promises I'd made
I never thought you'd stay away
Leaving me to take the blame
I never thought you'de follow through
God damn I hate the blues
Graveyard
It's a new game, causing pain
You know I've got you on my brain
It's the kind of hell you'll never know
Girls like you just turn me cold
But I guess you found my weaker side
Resistance, God how I tried
But I've got it bad I must confess
To tell the truth I've done my best
But you treat me like poison
Even with the lights on
Guess I might as well be dead
Oh, I'm in the graveyard
Tried whiskey to ease your hex
It made it worse, my life's a wreck
The pills I took to numb my pain
Only brought visions of you again
I'd put the noose around my neck
But the way I feel, I'd probably break
Love must be an evil curse
I've tried to fight, It just gets worse
Your love is like an endless hell
What you do to me you know too well
You won't give me the time
I'm on the firing line
Convicted and disposed
You look but eyes are closed
My Escape
There's a point of no return
Where we never seem to learn
We can't have all we wanted
Oh, you can see it in our eyes
When nerve begins to die there's no use in pretending
And I go to my room, lock the door
And plan my escape
To run away from myself
I've got an anger deep inside
Something I can't hide
I don't know what I'm after
It seems I'm always out of turn
And I guess I'll never learn
Who's to blame or what's the matter
So I go to my room, lock the door
And plan my escape
To run away from myself
It's not the warning that I hear
That makes me disappear
Down that narrow stairway
I don't kmow what I'm looking for
But I know I need it more
Just to know someone is waiting
So I go to my room, lock the door
And plan my escape
And run away from myself
I'm Wise
You nag me and you haunt me
And you tell me dirty lies
You think you've pulled it off
But for some time I've realized
That everything you do is to drive me from my mind
I've been listening to the silence for your tiptoes in the night
I'm wise, wise to you
You've never faced the day when judgement comes to town
You've been dealing from the bottom, dealing dirty, deep, and down
You got yourself a boyfriend who'll be comin' 'round tonight
While I'm outside aworkin' and doing overtime
I'm wise, wise to you
You think it's sugar powder 'cause everything's so sweet
When you melt away the glaze of all the people that you see
The more I'm educated, the more I hang on the cord
You can cut the lies 'cause I know what's going on
I'm wise, wise to you
Black September
The angry moon of August hung
As I wrapped myself in you
The winds of war had cut into
As I tried to fight the truth
And in that time I lost my youth
And now I bear the scars
With black September comin' on
You know you won't get far
Destruction lay before my eyes
In a generation beat
We seemed to be too high to see
What was dying in the street
We thought we'd change the world back then
Without becoming hard
With black September comin' on
You know you won't get far
We thought back then we'd be there now
How could I know what waits for me
How could I be so cruel
To know the best of days gone by
And the something I would lose
I watch the tides of summer fade
In memories 'neath the dark
With black September comin' on
You know you won't get far
I Tried
I tried to stop the tide
I tried but I can't hide
I tried to resist you
I tried to follow through
I tried to let you go
I tried but I just want more
I tried and tried to steal away
But you played on me
I tried to pass the time
I tried to get you off my mind
I tried to become cold
I tried to tell you no
I tried and tried to steal away
But you placed on me
I tried to look away
I tried not to see your face
I tried to forget you
I tried but it's just no use
I tried and tried to steal away
But you played on me
Hey Joe (Public Domain)
Hey Joe
Where you going with that gun in your hand
Hey Joe
Where you going with that gun in your hand
Going down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messing around with another man
Going down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messing around on me
Hey Joe
I heard that you shot your old lady down
Hey Joe
I heard that you shot your old lady down
Yes I did, I shot her her
You know, I caught that girl messing around town
Yes I did, I shot her her
You know, I caught that girl messing around town
I took out my gun,
Then I shot her
I shot her
Hey Joe
Where you gonna run to now
Hey Joe
Where you gonna run to now
Where you gonna go
Ain't no hangman gonna
Get a rope around me
Ain't no hangman gonna
Get a rope around me
Goin' way down south
Way down to Mexico way
Goin' way down south
Way down where I can be free
'Hey Joe' has of course various versions, each with different lyrics (there's even a 'Hey Joan'!).
Fred throws a lot of them together, most of the time.
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