COME NEXT SPRING

Come Next Spring
When all the world is new
And fresh
And green
And fair
Then I'll come home
And I'll carry in my heart
Just one prayer
That I'll find room
Still waiting for my arms
We'll meet
We'll kiss
We'll cling
And then once more
Love will blossom as before
Come
Cme on next spring
And then once more
Love will blossom as before
Come next
Next spring

COPENHAGEN 

Hope for me, I hope for you,
We're snowdrops falling through the night.

We'll melt away before we land,
Two teardrops for somebody's hand.

Follow me into just one more Spring.
Copenhagen, you're the end,
Gone and made me a child again.
Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets,
Dyed my hair with your sunny streets.

Children aren't afraid to love
And laugh when life amuses them.

And our love is an antique song
For children's carousels

Esperanza para mí, espero por ti,
We're snowdrops falling through the night. Estamos Campanillas a través de la caída de la noche.

We'll melt away before we land, Vamos a fundir antes de que fuera la tierra,
Two teardrops for somebody's hand. Dos teardrop de la mano de alguien.

Follow me into just one more Spring. Sígueme en sólo una más de primavera.

Copenhagen, you're the end, Copenhague, que está al final,
Gone and made me a child again. Desapareció y me hizo un niño de nuevo.
Warmed my feet beneath cold sheets, Calentada por debajo de mis pies fríos hojas,
Dyed my hair with your sunny streets. Mi cabello teñido con su soleada calle.

Children aren't afraid to love Los niños no tienen miedo a amar
And laugh when life amuses them. Y se ríen cuando la vida les divierte.

And our love is an antique song Y nuestro amor es una antigua canción
For children's carousels Para los niños de carruseles

COWBELL SHAKIN 

Andrea turn to me and hear what I'm sayin'
And why must you always be kneelin' and prayin'
Though hard as I run
I can't overcome
The things that this city has taken
Cowbells shakin'
Go back to our village awailin' and weepin'
And tell your fat momma the life we've been keepin'
Your head waiter brother won't give me a job
And I've walked these streets till I'm breakin'
Cowbells shakin'
Andrea speak up can't you hear what I'm sayin'
And why must you always be kneelin' and prayin'

DO I LOVE YOU 

Beyond the shadow of a dove
As the mighty river flows
As the meadow gaily plays
With the wind of summer days
'Bout as deep as we can go
From the canyon to the skies
Like a mother as she cares
For the baby that she bears


Do I love you
Don't you know by now
Do I love you
Must I show you how
Do I love
Must I always say
Do I love
Yes in every way


About as sacred as a hymn
And a bible full of prayers
>From a whisper to a roar
Very much and even more
And I shall show it with my eyes
And share it with the night
If in death the good Lord is kind
You'll be the last thing on my mind


Do I love you
Don't you know by now
Do I love you
Must I show you how
Do I love
Do I have to say
Do I love
Yes in every way


Do I love you
You should know by now
Do I love you
Must I show you how
Do I love
Do I have to say
Do I love
Yes in every way

DUCHESS 

It's your bicycle bells and you Rembrandt swells
Your children alive and still breathing
And your look of loss when you're coming across
Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding

Duchess Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess
Put all your love back in me
I come listening I touch touching

With the Persian sea running through your veins
You shed your names with the seasons
Still they all return with the last remains
And they lay them before you like reasons

With your shimmering dress it says no it says yes
It says I've nothing left for conceiving
Its your shiftless flesh and your old girls grace
Its your young girls face that I'm breathing

Duchess Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess Duchess
Put all the love back in me

I am lying she is crying

FARMER IN THE CITY 

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

This night you
are mistaken

i'm a farmer
in the city

Dark farm
houses
against the
sky

Every night
i must wonder why

Harness on the
left nail keeps
wrinkling wrinkling

Then higher above
me - e e so o
e e e so o o

Can't go by
a man from
Rio

Can't go by
a man from
Vigo

Can't go by
a man from
Ostia

Hey Ninetto

Remember that
dream

we talked about
it
so many times

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

And if i'm not
mistaken
We can search
from farm to
farm

Dark farm houses
against our eyes

Every night i
must realize

Harness on the
left nail

keeps withering withering

Then higher above
me e e so o
e e e so o o

Can't go by
a man in
this shirt

Can't go by
a man in
that shirt

Can't go by
a man with brain
grass

go by his long
long eye
gas

And i used
to be a
citizen

i never felt
the pressure

i knew nothing
of the horses

Nothing of the
thresher

Paulo
take me with
you

it was the
journey of
a life

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

Do i hear
21
21
21

i'll give you
21
21
21

FAT MAMA KICK 

Sunfighters
Locked in right angle rooms
Watch their lovers sleep face down
In the yellow lite
Keep the balance on a black curve
Till the war with the nite is over

The gods are gone the air is thick
You cannot risk the fat fat mama kick

Armed angels in the city lites
Wait inside their master corpses
Peeled raw, betrayed
And fade
And fade
As the noise goes over
And over

The gods are gone the searchlites lick
You cannot risk the fat fat mama kick

Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind

Sunfighters
Locked in right angle rooms
Burn the heat off with their lovers
In the yellow lite
Keep a balance in a mirror flash
Till the war with the nite is over

FACE ON BREAST 

Swan
you glide above the thrashing
Release the catches
strain your wings behind your back
Paint his eyes
it'll never lick those eyes
Smear the mouth
all across the thready sky

i tried to show ya
but ya didn't want to go
Ya know how to whistle
put ya lips together and blow

that's what it said
that's what it said
that's what it said

Pledging my love
pledging my love
what if I'm only
if I am only pledging my love

Pledging my love
pledging my love
what if I'm only
if I am only pledging my love

FUNERAL TANGO 

Oh I can see them now
Clutching a hankerchief
And blowing me a kiss
Discreetly asking how
How came he died so young
Or was he very old
Is the body still warm
Or is it already cold
All doors are open wide
They grope around inside
At my desk my drawers my trunk
There's nothing left to hide
Some love letters are there
And an old photograph
They've laid my poor soul bare
And now all they do is laugh

Oh I can see them all
So formal and so stiff
Like a seargant at arms
At a policeman's ball
And everybody's pushing
To be the first in line
Their hearts upon their sleeves
Like a ten cent valentine
The old women are there
Too old to give a damn
They've brought along the kids
Who don't know who I am
They're thinking about the price of my funeral bouquet
What they're thinking isn't nice
For now they'll have to pay

Oh I see all of you
All of my phoney friends
Who can't wait for it ends
Who can't wait till it's through
Oh I see all of you
You've been laughing all these years
Now all that you have left
Are a few crocodile tears
Ah you don't even know
That you're entering your hell
As you leave my cemetary
You think you're doing well
With that one who's at your side
You're as proud as you can be
Ah she's going to make you cry
But not the way you cried for me

Oh I can see me now
So cold and so alone
As the flowers slowly die
In my field of little bones
Oh I can see me now
I can see me at the end
Of this voyage that I/m on
Without a love without a friend
Now all this that I see
Is not what I deserve
They really have a nerve
To say these things to me
No girls just bread and water
And your money you must save
For there'll be nothing left for us
When you're dead and in your grave

HERO OF THE WAR 

He's a hero of the war
All the neighborhood is talkin' 'bout your son
Mrs. Reiley get his medals
Hand them 'round to everyone
Show his gun to all the children in the street
It's too bad he can't shake hands or move his feet

He's a hero of the war
You can see his picture in the local news
Mrs. Reiley seems the girl next door is nowhere to be found
Once you couldn't keep that boy from hangin' 'round
Never mind dear, you're with your mum once more

He's a hero of the war
Like his dad he gave his life the war before
It was tragic how you almost died of pain when he was born
With no husband there beside you through it all
Ring the bell if you get hungry or you fall

You're a hero of the war
Why those teardrops on your cheek? it's so absurd
Feelin' empty it's the emptiness of heroes like your son
And what made him leave his mother for a gun
Driven forward driven back and nothing more

He's a hero of the war