Rattle
and hum
Helter
skelter
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn
And I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom
And I see you again
Do
you, don't you want me to love you?
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you
Tell me, tell me, tell me, come on tell me the answer
Well, you may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer.
Helter
skelter, helter skelter
Helter skelter
Van diemen's land
Hold me now, hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
It's
a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice and not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away
Now
kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in the dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage
Hold
me now, hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
Still
the gunman rules and widows pay
A scarlet coat now a black beret
They thought that blood and sacrifice
Could out of death bring forth a life.
Desire
Lover
I'm off the streets
Gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire
She's
the candle burning in my room
I'm like the needle needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever, when I'm beside her
Desire, Desire
(Burning,
Burning)
She's
the dollars
She's my protection
She's the promise
In the year of election
Sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher
Stealing hearts at a travelling show
For love or money, money...?
Desire...
Hawkmoon 269
Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love
Like a drifter needs a room
Hawkmoon
I need your love
Like
a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love
Like
coming home
And you don't know where you've been
Like black coffee
Like nicotine
I need your love
When
the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
Like
a Phoenix rising
Needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge
Of a bitter enemy
I need your love
Like
the heat needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love
When
the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
Like
thunder needs rain
Like the preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a blindman's cane
Like a needle in a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
I need your love
Like
a fighter's rage
His dreams in a cage
Like faith needs a doubt
Like a freeway out
I need your love
Like
powder needs a spark
Like lies need the dark
I need your love.
All along the watchtower
"There must be someway out of here," said the joker to
the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No
reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All
along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders where approaching, the wind began to howl.
Freedom for my people
I need some freedom
Freedom for my people
I want some freedom
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people
I'd like some freedom
I need some freedom for my people
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people.
Silver and gold
In the shit house, a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town,
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fall down,
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground.
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence
That crawls under the door (under the floor).
The
warden says,
"The exit is sold,"
If you want a way out - Silver and Gold.
Silver and Gold.
There's a rope around my neck
There's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something!
I am someone!
I seen
the coming and the going
The captains and the kings
Their navy blue uniforms
Them bright and shiny things
Yes, captains and kings in the slave ships hold
They came to collect
Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold
The
temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more that you've got.
These
chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free).
A prize
fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold.
You can stop the world from turning around.
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound.
Yep.
Silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City.
Right about the time a friend of ours, little Steven,
Was pulling together a record of artists against Apartheid. It's
a song written about a man, in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg.
A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of White South Africa.
A man at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his
oppressor. A man who's lost faith in the peace makers of the West.
While they argue and while they fail to support a man like Bishop
Tutu. And his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I bugging you? I don't mean to bug ya'.
Okay Edge, play the blues.
Angel of Harlem
It
was a cold and wet December day
When we touched down at JFK
Snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound (of an Angel)
New
York like a Christmas tree
I said tonight this city belongs to me (Angel)
Soul
Love this love won't let me go
So long... Angel of Harlem
Birdland
on 53
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and a love supreme
Miles and she has to be an Angel
Lady
Day got diamond eyes
She sees the truth behind the lies (Angel)
Soul
Love this love won't let me go
So long... Angel of Harlem
Blue
light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
On the side streets and the alleyways
Like a star exploding in the night
Filling up the city with broad daylight
An Angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an Angel
So long... Angel of Harlem
Love rescue me
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
Many
strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
And
the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name in the palace of my shame
Love rescue me
In
the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
I see the dark shades of what I used to be
I see the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
And
the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm hanging by my thumbs
I'm ready for whatever comes
Love rescue me
Yea
though I walk through the valley of the shadow
Yet I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
Sha
la la sha la la
Sha la la sha la la
I've
conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me.
When love comes to town
I
was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
But I stand accused of the things I've said
When
love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did, before love came to town
I used
to make love under a red sunset
I was making promises I was soon to forget
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town
I ran
into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes where turning blue
When I fell into a dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town
When
love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did, before love came to town
When
I woke up I was sleeping on the street
I felt the world was dancing
And I was dirt beneath their feet
When I looked up I saw the devil looking down
My Lord He played guitar the day love came to town
I was
there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide
When
love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did, before love came to town.
Heartland
See the sunrise over her skin
Don't change it
See the sunrise on her skin
Dawn changes everything
And
the delta sun burns bright and violent
Mississippi
and the cotton wool heat
Sixty-six the highway speaks
Of deserts dry, of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins - shining cities
In
this heartland
In this heartland
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
She
feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love like a burning spear
And the poison rain brings a flood of fear
Through the ghostranch hills, Death Valley waters
In the towers of steel belief goes on and on
In
this heartland
In this heartland
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland.
God Part II
Don't believe the devil I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same without the lies he made up
I don't believe in excess success is to give
I don't believe in riches but you should see where I live
I... I believe in love
Don't
believe in forced entry I don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by wild thoughts escape
I don't believe in deathrow, skidrow or the gangs
Don't believe in the Uzi it just went off in my hand
I... I believe in love
Don't
believe in cocaine I got a speedball in my hand
I could cut and crack you open... did you hear what I said?
Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure
The rich stay healthy the sick stay poor
I... I believe in love
I don't
believe in Goldman his type like a curse
Instant karma's gonna get him if I don't get him first
I don't believe that Rock 'N Roll can really change the world
As it spins in revolution spirals and turns
I... I believe in love
I don't
believe in the 60's in the golden age of pop
You glorify the past when the future dries up
I heard a singer on the radio last night
Says he's gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight
I... I believe in love
I feel
like I'm falling, like I'm spinning on a wheel
It always stops beside a name a presence I can feel
I... I believe in love.
All I want is you
You
say you want a diamond on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
All the promises we made from the
Cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You
say you'll give me a highway with no one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes on a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
All
the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You
say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want a diamond on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold
All
the promises we break from the
Cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
All
I want is you.