1. Laydown 

Lay down your spears and
Bang them into blades for pruning
Lay down your swords and 
Bang them into ploughs
Lay down those shadows 
That are constantly looming
Lay down your idols and your sacred cow
Lay down your drones and your nuclear warheads
Uranium won’t feed the hungry and the poor
Lay down your shark loans and
Bang them into cornbread
Poverty is one thing we can cure
And I won’t fight not more (chorus)…

Lay down your drones and your
Big brother spy glasses 
We don’t need none of that juke and jive
Lay down your icy hearts
Blood flows like cold molasses
Lay down that smokescreen that
You’re hiding behind
Lay down your anger 
your corporate confusion
Lay down your heart to
Diamond mines
Lay down your secret sins 
And your daft collusions 
Lay it all down and your spirit will shine
And I won’t fight no more (chorus)

Lay down your doubts and fears|
Lift up you hope
Stop your complaining get your hands on the rope
We won’t make it if we
Try to make it alone 

Lay down your spears and
Bang them into blades for pruning
Lay down your swords and 
Bang them into ploughs
Lay down those shadows 
That are constantly looming
Lay down your idols and your sacred cow

And I won’t fight not more (chorus)…

 

2. Until We’re All Free 

Until we’re all free, ain’t nobody free
Until we’re all free, not just you and me
The colors of the rainbow shine in harmony
When we’re all all free

Standing on the backs of angels staring out to sea
There upon the blue horizon shimmering for you and me
Sand and stone, salt and light, hearts and hands take up the fight for victory

Until we’re all free, ain’t nobody free
Until we’re all free, not just you and me
The colors of the rainbow shine in harmony
When we’re all all free

The dreams that we will reap tomorrow are seeds that we will sow today
Before you buy in to the sorrow listen to your children pray
Their voices carry in the wind treasures friend

Until we’re all free, ain’t nobody free
Until we’re all free, not just you and me
The colors of the rainbow shine in harmony
When we’re all Until every one of us are free, Lord in your eyes none of us are free

Until we’re all free, ain’t nobody free
Until we’re all free, not just you and me
The colors of the rainbow shine in harmony
When we’re all free (chorus)

Until everyone of us, no,not just some of us

Until we’er all free.

 

3. Hide Away

Heart you are a butterfly in the rain
Is there a part of you that feels all alone
You know Change O my heart it’s so hard to change
But to stay the same…its just to stay the same
Are you still on my side is it too much to hide hide away hide away

Soul O my soul where have you been
I know you get pressed and it’s tough it tough to find time
But soul the sand in the glass is rapidly falling 
But to stay the sameits just to stay the same its just to stay the same
Are you still on my side is there too much to hide away

Hands hands whats that you are holding
Is it nails gloves fire doves or some weapon you are loading
Hands O my hands it’s so hard to let go
But to stay the same is… its just to stay the same its just to stay the same
Are you still on my side is there too much to hide away

Hide away

Hide away

Hide away

 

4. Love Wants To

Thirsting in the desert sand, cold rainwater cupped in your hands
Starving at the banquet feast, ham bones piled up at your feet
And love wants to give its heart to you

it wants to give its heart to you

Love wants to give its heart to you.

Blinded in the burning night, stumbling on the edge of light
Stranded on the cliffs of hate, it’s time to take a leap of faith
‘Cause love wants to give its heart to you

it wants to give its heart to you

Love wants to give its heart to you.

You may roll snake eyes you may roll sevens

You may swing on burning ropes straight through the gates of heaven
It don’t matter how gracefully you land
All you got to do is open up your hands
‘Cause love wants to give it heart to you

It wants to give its heart to you

Love wants to give its heart to you.

 

5. Sleeping in the Rain

I pawned my Casio saxophone
And stole a 38
Bought a ticket on a Greyhound to Baltimore  
Took a seat down at the gate
A man in a wheelchair rolled up to me
Said son the end is near
And while you can stand up for me
Tell somebody I need a beer
And I don’t drink because I want to
I just drink for the pain
And it keeps me warm at night
While I’m sleeping in the rain

I gotta part time job in Omaha
At a late night convenient store
Spent most of my time reading magazines
I kept a damn close watch on the door
A girl came in with tracks on her arms 
Shaking like a tambourine 
I said honey why you do yourself like this
And she stared dead straight at me
She said I don’t run junk cause I want to
I just run junk for the pain
And this white horse keeps me warm at night 
While I’m sleeping in the rain

So before you go to casting stones
Take a good look in your heart
And be thankful that you have a home
And pray for those lost souls in the dark
God loves them more than you’ll ever know
Cause all the have is him
His heart is with the losers
And he don’t care who wins
And he loves them cause he wants to
And he loves them through the pain 
And he keeps them warm at night

While he’s sleeping in the rain

While he’s sleeping in the rain

 

6. The Crescent Moon

It was burning like a museum on its silvery-blue rails
Everyone got excited with the conductor rang the bell
Smoke was rising like lovers from a dream
The fireman fill the stoker the whistle screamed

The children were confused a bit they flew bedouin balloons
A Punchinello was singing a Harry Nilsson tuneThe mood was mauve and turquoise the women danced and swooned
Behind the locomotive inside the Crescent Moon 

Every thousand years or so it rolls across the sky
Some see it with their telescopes and some their natural eyes
It’s a good night to hitch hike take a chance that there’s some room
Behind the locomotive inside the Crescent Moon

 

7. Babylon

There’s gilded stone in Babylon
Streets are paved with skulls and bones
And ziggurats stick up in the sky
There’s dirty bombs in bowling balls
Souls are sold in shopping malls
And nobody ever stops to wonder why

In this milk and honey land
I consume therefore I am
I got mine now you can go get yours
It’s all a shell game and smoking mirrors
The future’s anything but clear

It’s hard to tell the virgins from the whores
And it’s fear or faith  Heal or hate 
Give or take  No time to wait
Pray or cuss  Love or lust 
Build or bust  It’s up to us

Are  you so blind that you can’t see
The lost and lonely least of these
Pull those dusty curtains from your eyes
Do you think God can hear your prayers
When you ignore their hungry stares 
They just might be angels in disguise

And it’s fear or faith  Heal or hate 
Give or take  No time to wait
Pray or cuss  Love or lust 
Build or bust  It’s up to us

It’s time so strange as time are tough
Got too much and not enough
Pride and passion will eat your heart away
All this carry on

You can’t get inside if you don’t pay.

 

8. The White Rose and the Dove 

There’s a face outside the window
There’s a white rose on the bed
There’s a storm beneath the rainbow
There’s a fire in my head

On the lost side of the highway
Out beyond the moonshine still
There’s a raven on a tombstone
There’s a cross up on the hill

If I lose my mind and memory
If I leave without a trace
I always will remember 
The white rose and the face

There’s a train that runs through Eden
There’s a train that runs through hell

I can feel the wheels turning
As I ring the mission bell

There’s a face outside the window
There’s a white rose on the bed
There’s a storm beneath the rainbow
There’s a fire in my head
 

9. Love is War

Black is white, day is night
Only losers win this fight
Only the bind can see the light see the light
Love is war, love is war
Ain’t nothing else worth fighting for
So fill your little bullets up with love

Rivers run to the sea
If God is one then why aren’t we? Why aren’t we, why aren’t we?
Love is war, love is war
Aint nothing else worth fighting for
So aim your shiny missiles straight at love

Love is war...Love is war…Love is war… Love is war.

Are you in or out?
Is your faith in doubt?
It’s in between a scream and a shout
Only the dumb can figure it figure it figure it figure it figure it out
Love is war, love is war
Ain’t nothing else worth fighting for
So tune your rusty orchestras to love

Love is war… Love is war…Love is war… Love is war.

 

10. California

I’m living ‘neath the L’s of the Hollywood sign
Don’t worry baby I’m just fine
‘cause I got friends up here in California 
Got me a gig at the foot of the hill
Last night someone tipped me a ten-dollar bill
That’s a couple of beers in California

Living a dream it gets real 
And it gets cold up on the hill
Underneath the stars of California
Don’t worry baby I’ll be ok 
I’m gonna make it I swear some day
If there’s still gold in California

Snuck backstage at the Hollywood Bowl
They threw me out before the show
Now there’s places I can’t go in California
I stood out in the rain trying to get a part 
In a movie they were filming in Griffith Park
They sent me home when it got dark in California

Tell my friends I’m just fine 
And I ain’t crawling home this time
I made up my mind in California
Don’t worry baby I’ll be ok
I’m gonna make it I swear some day
If there’s still gold in California

Sorry baby got to get off the phone
And back in line for my methadone
If there’s still gold in California  

 

11. Eyes of Love

If you will cry for me
I will cry for you
We can laugh at the rainbows
That bloom in the moonlight
That shine for me
Like it shines for you
Hold my hand
Pull me through

In the eyes of love in the heart of pain
In the skies above in the pouring rain 

And if you will believe in me
I will believe in you
We can live under the mustard tree baby
We can make mountains move
And if you will fall on me
I will fall on you 
We can follow the train tracks follow the train tracks
That are silvery blue

In the eyes of love in the heart of pain
In the skies above in the pouring rain
If the darkness falls and you’re all alone
Reach for me, reach for me and I’ll take you home

And if there’s a heaven for you
Then theremust be a heaven for me
I’ll crawl through hell
On my hand and knees 
Just to be with you
If you’ll be with me 
‘Cause heaven ain’t heaven, heaven ain'
Unless we can see 

Through the eyes of love … in the heart of pain
In the skies above in the pouring rain
If the darkness falls and you’re all alone
Reach for me, reach for me and I’ll take you take you home

 

12. Graveyard Jones

In Mississippi there’s a clapboard shack
‘Bout a mile from the river and the railroad tracks
Well them guitars whine and them diesels moan
Make you leave Memphis, make you leave home
Don’t jump them freight cars if you can’t ride
The Blues’ll bust your head and leave you lying by the side

Blues ain’t nothing but a song and dance
It’s a cosmic boogie in a funky trance
Well it mess with you heart and it mess with your mind
Wrap all around you like a kudzu vine
Don’t drink that moonshine if you can’t hang
The Blues’ll creep around you like a gypsy boomerang

I got an uncle he named Graveyard Jones
Got a mojo harp made out of black bear bone
Well he call in them rattlers and he call in them haints
When he play that harmonica he peel the paint
Don’t mess with Graveyard if you can’t play
The Blues’ll cut you up and send you bleeding on the way

Don’t mess with Graveyard if you can’t play
The Blues’ll cut you up and send you bleeding on the way

 

 

 

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