A WASTE OF TIME

Another waste of time
Another sort of step along the way
A waste of time
A waste but an interest in delay
Was it all of a waste
Or was it fun
People fly far away

A waste of time
Almost not too clear a lesson not to play
Exercice perhaps in sensual decay
Hard to love and to see how the land lay
How to love, what to say

Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing, nothing left to say

A waste of time
At least some company along the way
Great visions
Perhaps too fast too bright but anyway
And I'll be what you be
You wanna say
You think you wanna say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing, nothing left to say

How to love and to see how the land lay
How to laugh, what to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing left to say
Gliding across thin ice
With nothing, nothing left to say

COME MY WAY

The wild mountain thyme that grows around my door
Has grown there for two score years or more
And I've grown weary waiting for love to say
"Come my way, come my way."

The brook that sings and twinkles in the sun
Has danced this mercy dance since time begun
But o how weary and how long the day will he say
"Come my way."

Lovers all around, I wish you joy
Happiness to every girl and boy.
But sometimes spare a thought of me and say
"Love come her way," come my way.

DESPERANTO

Desperanto spoken here,
Today I hear it everywhere,
It is the language of Despair
It's in your nails and It's in your hair
It's in your mouth instead of air
It's in your house
It's in your heart
It's in your mind
It's everywhere

It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's in your blood
It's in your prayer
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth

In your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
It's in your mouth instead of air
It's in your breath
It's in your blood
It's in your heart
It's in your blood
It's in your heart
It's everywhere

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
I know baby you don't care
To speak in Desperanto here
And I know you'd never dare
To speak the language of despair
C'mon baby get over here
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth

It's in your hair
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
C'mon baby get over here
C'mon baby get over here
It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's in your heart
It's everywhere

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
The Desperanto they are broken here
Broken darlin' by Despair
The rain it speaks
The wind the air

Today I hear it everywhere
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your tiny little prayer
It's in your breath
It's in your tears

This has been going on for years
It's in your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth
In your mouth

C'mon baby get over here
It's in your mouth
It's in your mouth
It's in your blood
It's everywhere

It's in your mouth
It's in your mouth
In your blood
It's everywhere
It's in your mouth

In your mouth, and
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby now

DOWN FROM DOVER

I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I
have tried concealing
When he left he promised me that he'd be back by the
time it was revealing
The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow
o'er the fields of clover
And time is running out for me I wish that he would
hurry down from Dover

He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep
upon the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now the
leaves are turning brown
And any time a tiny face will show itself 'cause
waiting's almost over
But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry
down from Dover

My folks weren't understanding when they found out they
sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to
ever show his face
My mamma said I was a fool and she did not believe it
when I told her
That everything would be all right 'cause soon he would
be coming down from Dover

I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse
him when he needed me
He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe
that he was using me
He couldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be
so it can't be over
He wouldn't make me go through this so long, oh he'll
be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this
place where I'm lyin'
Our baby has been born but something's wrong it's much
too still I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a
father's arms to hold her
And dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming
down from Dover

EASY COME EASY GO

Some folks the're always crying
Crying their mean old blues
Not Me, you never even see me frown.
Some folks just walk around tryin'
Tryin' hard love to loose,
But I felt let it come the better let it burn
I'm the happiest gal in the town

Easy come easy go
Nothing ever worries me,
Care for none, eyes of stone
Don't know misery.

If my man be trouble, Or if he don't
I'll get someone to love me anytime you want
Easy come easy go
Right from my head to my shoes
Don't wanna be no skinny vamp or nothing like that
Daddy always knows just where his sweet Mama's at
I'm overflowin' with those easy come, easy go blues.

He'll swallows me up, when he's lovin; hear what I've
said
Believe me I go out to lick him 'most everyday
I'm overflowin' with those easy come, easy go blues.

EASY IN THE CITY

Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.
Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.

Light is slanting sideways
Sun is getting through.
Gonna take a taxi
Gotta get to you!

Easy in the city,
Easy in the rooms.
Isn't it a pity
Time goes by so soon...
Time goes by so soon.

If I can find the secret in the green
I'll let you know.
And if you seek a treasure made of silver

You can go... go

Easy in the city,
Easy in the rooms.
Isn't it a pity
Time goes by so soon...
Time goes by so soon.

If I can find the secret in the green
I'll let you know.
And if you seek a treasure made of silver
You can go... go.

Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.

Easy in the city,
Easy in the mind.

FALLING FROM GRACE

[Chorus]
Falling from grace, falling from grace.
Lord, you have a pretty face.
Take it away and pack it in a suitcase.
Then forget about falling from grace.

Don't look at me like that, I never said a word.
Don't ask me where I've been, I'll pretend I never heard.
Don't put it in the paper, please, don't!
I never said I will, I never said I won't.

[Chorus]

It's looking bad, I know, I'm an outlaw.
Don't pity me, I never felt like this before.
Please tell me you believe me, please say
I'll get along without you, anyway.

[Chorus]

Feeling hunted, I'm lying low.
Don't tell me who it is, I never said so.
Put yourself in my place, please try.
I never told the truth, I never told a lie.

[Chorus x 2]

[Repeats]
Falling from grace.
Falling from grace, falling from grace.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Great expectations I have to find
I want to tell you what it was like
My recollection is not too clear
So much hope and so much fear

Long conversations into the night
Not like that, oh no, not so black and white
The great temptation's to try and please you
Play with you thought and mind, and tease you
If I could tell my story in a song
I'd have to make it fast, yes, it's very long
Many shades of gray between the right and wrong

Day for night, night for day
All the stories on this way
Feel the fire burn away

So turn the lights down low, come over here
Stay with me, don't go, you'll see my characters appear
The storyteller's magic doesn't lie
He'll make you laugh to make you cry
Real for me is real for you
What I say is almost true

Day for night, night for day
All the stories on its way
Feel the fire burn and play

The story's ended, now you're on your own
Let's say a little prayer, go home

HONKY TONK ANGELS

As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playing
That old song about the wild, wild side of life.
As I listen to the words you are saying,
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife.


It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you say in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.


It's a shame that all the blame is on us women,
It's not true that only you, men, feel the same.
From the start most every heart that's been broken
Was because there always was a man to blame.


It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single


And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.


It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.


It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong.


It wasn't god who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song.
Too many times married men think they're still single
And that's caused many a good girl to go wrong

INCARCERATION OF A FLOWER CHILD

Do you remember me? how we used to be helpless and
happy and blind?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap
wine?
Laying on the living-room floor on those indian
tapestry cushions you made
Thinking of calling our first born jasmine or jade.

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think
about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here
on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.

You wouldn't listen, you thought you knew better, you
just to had to speak to that man.
Please believe me, I'll visit whenever I can.
Laying in your little white room with no windows and
three square sedations a day,

You plead with the doctor who's running the show,
"please don't take jasmine away and leave me alone."

Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it to
me,
Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think
about it, don't think about what it might be,
Don't get up to open the door, just stay with me here
on the floor,
It's gonna get cold in the 1970's.

Do you remember me? how we used to be helpless and
happy and blind?
Sunk without hope in a haze of good dope and cheap
wine?
Now in your little white room with no windows and three
square sedations a day
You plead with the doctor who's running the show,
"please don't take jasmine away and leave me alone."