Ben Harper's Lyrics

Welcome to The Cruel World
Fight For Your Mind
The Will To Live
Burn To Shine

Well you can need me well I want you to and you can feed me how I like that too but don't you lead me I won't follow you listen here I don't fear I don't want to be your whipping boy

You can tease me how I want you to and you can squeeze me baby I like that too but don't you lead me I won't follow you listen here I don't fear I don't want to be your whipping boy

You can hold me baby I want you to and you can scold me yes I like that too but don't you lead me I won't follow you listen here I don't fear I don't want to be your whipping boy

Well you can need me well I want you to and you can feed me baby I like that too but don't you lead me I won't follow you listen here I don't fear I don't want to be your whipping boy

You don't believe that I love you and even if that was true why just to keep our unhappy home I'm gonna try to pretend that I do but I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down My baby she left me said she ain't comin' back around I'm breakin' down

And if I thought that it was okay for a grown man to cry I would have filled up the whole mighty ocean when she said goodbye and I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down you know my baby she left me said she ain't comin' back around I'm breakin' down

One day you said everything was just right I don't see how it changed overnight one day you said everything was so strong the next day you turn to me and say it's been wrong all along

Oh and now you won't eve look at me you pass me by in the street and you won't even speak I never meant to cause you any harm how could two people start so close and end up so far I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down

You say what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine too now you've got more than you can spend but all of the money in the whole wide world is not gonna help you in the end now while there's still time to be saved don't take that attitude to your grave might be too late for you I'm afraid don't take that attitude to your grave don't you take it there

I hear helicopters over my house every day shining their lights and flying low treat a child like a criminal from the day that he is born and you're gonna reap just what you sow now while there's still time to be saved don't take that attitude to your grave might be too late for you I'm afraid don't take that attitude to your grave don't you take it there

So you can move your court case way across town you can move it across the whole wide globe but it ain't gonna help your court case up in the sky when you go to put on your white robe now while there's still time to be saved don't take that attitude to your grave might be too late for you I'm afraid don't take that attitude to your grave don't you take it there

And you dare the children to stay off of drugs now I dare you to stop letting them in and how dare you point your finger at a gang out on the street while it's you who is committing the sin now while there's still time to be saved don't take that attitude to your grave might be too late for you I'm afraid don't take that attitude to your grave don't you take it there they don't want it there you know your mother taught you better don't take that attitude to your grave

Waiting on an angel one to carry me home hope you come to see me soon cause I don't want to go alone I don't want to go alone

Now angel won't you come by me angel hear my plea take my hand lift me up so that I can fly with thee so that I can fly with thee

And I'm waiting on an angel and I know it won't be long to find myself a resting place in my angel's arms in my angel's arms

So speak kind to a stranger cause you'll never know it just might be an angel come knockin' at your door knockin' at your door

And I'm waiting on an angel and I know it won't be long to find myself a resting place in my angel's arms in my angel's arms

Waiting on an angel one to carry me home hope you come to see me soon cause I don't want to go alone I don't want to go alone don't want to go I don't want to go alone

Papa he left home today said he ain't comin' back again said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best just couse mama's got a special kind of friend

Papa he left home today said he ain't comin' back no more said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat and how could mama do him so low

But mama's got a girlfriend now boy mama's got a girlfriend now mama's got a girlfriend mama's got a true friend mama's got a girlfriend now

You see mama don't watch your damn football and your beer drinkin' just won't do you're just stayin' out late and you're preachin' the hate and you never have been true

You see mama she want her somebody who will let her be herself so she's leavin' you and your stinky damn ways cause she's found somebody else

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy mama's got a girlfriend now mama's got a girlfriend mama's found a true friend mama's got a girlfriend now

Papa he left home today he was wavin' his hands and cryin' you could tell by the sound and the tone in his voice that his heart was slowly dyin'

But mama said "Boy if I ever catch you 'round here again you ain't never gonna have nobody else not a woman or a man"

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy mama's got a girlfriend now mama's got a girlfriend mama found a true friend mama's got a girlfriend now mama's got a girlfriend now boy mama's got a girlfriend now mama's got a girlfriend mama's found a true friend mama's got a girlfriend now

Not talkin' 'bout a year no not three or four I don't want that kind of forever in my life anymore forever always seems to be around when it begins but forever never seems to be around when it ends so give me your forever please your forever not a day less will do from you

People spend so much time every single day runnin' 'round all over town givin' their forever away but no not me I won't let my forever roam and now I hope I can find my forever a home so give me your forever please your forever not a day less will do from you

Like a handless clock with numbers an infinite of time no not the forever found only in the mind forever always seems to be around when things begin but forever never seems to be around when things end so give me your forever please your forever not a day less will do from you

Well Martin's dream has become Rodney's worst nightmare can't walk the streets to them we are fair game our lives don't mean a thing like a king, like a king, like a king Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King like a king, like a king, like a king how I wish you could help us Dr. King Make sure it's filmed shown on national T.V. they'll have no mercy a legal lynch mob like the days strung up from the tree the L.A.P.D. like a king, like a king, like a king Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King like a king, like a king, like a king how I wish you could help us Dr. King So if you catch yourself thinking it has changed for the best you better second guess cause Martin's dream has become Rodney's worst nightmare like a king, like a king, like a king Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King like a king, like a king, like a king how I wish you could help us Dr. King

I'm leaving here on the morning train and I will never see this world again I've felt pleasure and I have felt pain and I know now that I can never be the same

How I wonder why the world can be so cold and if only good die young then left with me cruel here to grow old and I felt pleasure an I felt pain and I know now I can never be the same

And if someday I find my peace of mind I will share my wealth with all of human kind I've felt pleasure and I have felt pain and I know now that I can never be the same

So if the sun does shine or rain does fall I give thanks I've had my sight to see through it all and I've felt pleasure and I have felt pain and I know now that I can never be the same

Oh no here comes that sun again that means another day without you my friend

And it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself and it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else and it's so hard to do and so easy to stay but sometimes sometimes you just have to walk away walk away

With so many people to love in my life why do I worry about one

But you put the happy in my ness you put the good times into my fun and it's so hard to do and so easy to stay but sometimes sometimes you just have to walk away walk away and head for the door

We've tried the goodbye so many days we walk in the same direction so that we could never stray they say if you love somebody than you have got to set them free but I would rather be locked to you than live in this pain and misery

They say time will make all this go away but it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays and once again you my friend are nowhere to be found and it's so hard to do and so easy to stay but sometimes sometimes you just have to walk away walk away and head for the door you just walk away walk away

Exactly how much will have to burn before we will look to the past to learn we walk along this endless path which has led us in a circle so here we are right back we can't let the future become our past if we are to change the world won't you tell me tell me please how many miles must we march how many miles must we march

When I was a baby I was not prejudiced hey how about you this was something that I learned in school something they taught us to do we can't let the future become our past if we are to change the world won't you tell me tell me please how many miles must we march how many miles must we march

There must come a day when a box is not somebody's home the unfinished work of our heroes must truly be our own we can't let the future become our past if we are to change the world won't you tell me tell me please how many miles must we march how many miles must we march how many miles must we march how many miles must we march how many miles must we march how many miles must we march

Welcome to the cruel world hope you find your way welcome to the cruel world hope you find your way it's a cruel world try to enjoy your stay

Yes it is a cruel world when you're tryin' to get by it's a cruel world when you've seen the look in their eye makes life hard living but I'm so scared to die

Welcome to the cruel world welcome welcome

Don't know how we've lasted here so long there must be more good than bad or we'd already be gone and if you get up to Heaven before I do I'm gonna tell ya It's gonna be cruel there too

You can't hide from this cruel world cause there is no place to run you can't hide from the cruel world there just is no place to run it's been cruel from the beginning it will be cruel when we're done

So when I'm gone I will gladly say goodbye when I am gone I will gladly say goodbye and if you want to feel me put your hands up to the sky

Welcome to the cruel world welcome welcome hope you find your way try to enjoy your stay

You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me down in the very dirt and still like the dust I'll rise does my happiness upset you why are you best with gloom Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well pumpin' in my living room

So you may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes and I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise out of the shacks of history's shame up from a past rooted in pain I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise

Now did you want to see me broken bowed head and lowered eyes shoulders fallen down like tear drops weakened by my soulful cries

Does my confidence upset you don't you take it awful hard cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine breakin' up in my front yard

So you may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes and I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise out of the shacks of history's shame up from a past rooted in pain I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise

So you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me down in the very dirt and still like the dust I'll rise does my happiness upset you why are you best with gloom cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine Diggin' up in my living room

So you may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes and I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise out of the shacks of history's shame up from a past rooted in pain I'll rise I'll rise I'll rise

Oppression you prey on us when we sleep oppression you chase after the tired the poor the weak oppression you know you mean only harm oppression you reach out with your long arm

But oppression I won't let you near me oppression you shall learn to fear me

Oppression you seek population control oppression to divide and to conquer is your goal oppression I swear that hatred is your home oppression you just won't leave bad enough alone

But oppression I won't let you near me oppression you shall learn to fear me

Oppression I don't see how you sleep oppression for your bleeding conscience I weep oppression you may have the dollar on your side but oppression from the gospel truth you cannot hide and oppression I won't let you near me oppression you shall learn to fear me oppression I won't let you near me oppression you shall learn to fear me

I believe in a few things God the devil and love cause I've looked up from the bottom and I've stared down from above

I have faith in a few things divinity and grace but even whin I'm on my knees I know the devil prays and you're working you way from the ground on down

I hate to say I love you because it means that I will be with you forever or will sadly say goodbye.  I love to say I hate you because it means that I will live happily without you or will sadly live a lie and you're working your way from the ground on down

Life is short and if your lookin' for extension with your time you had best do well, cause there's good deeds and there is good intention they're as far apart as heaven and hell and your working your way from the ground on down

Yes indeed I'm alone again and here come emptiness crashing in it's either love or hate I can't find in between cause I've been with witches and I have been with a queen

It wouldn't have worked out any way so now it's just another lonely day

Wish there was something I could say or do I can resist anything but the temptation from you but I'd rather walk alone than chase you around I'd rather fall myself than let you drag me down

It wouldn't have worked out any way so now it's just another lonely day further along we just may but it's just another lonely day yesterday seems like a life ago cause the one I love today I hardly know you I held so close in my hear oh dear grow further from me with every fallen tear

It wouldn't have worked out any way so now it's just another lonely day further along we just may but for now it's just another lonely day

Don't do me any favors matter of fact why don't you do yourself a few. Your presence ain't nobody's blessing I've got plenty of other things I could do. Oh no, not another excuse your tired silly games for me are just no use and now it's plain for me to see you're with somebody that you don't want to be

So won't you please please me like you want to not like you have to or won't you just go on and leave me leaving me is the least that you could do

You could have spared me so much misery and told me you just wanted a friend. Believe me there is a difference when you mean it and when you pretend. Or was I just you habit cause I know a habit is a hard thing to break, but won't you spare me a little mercy there's only so much that I can take

But won't you please please me like you want to not like you have to or won't you just go on and leave me leaving me is the least that you could do

You look like gold to me and I'm not too blind to see you look like gold. You make me wanna sing with all the joy you bring you look like gold

Like the rays down from the sun when a new day has just begun you look like gold I've been fooled before but I know now I've made the mistake in the past but I know now the difference from gold and brass

But the kind of gold you wear but the kind that can fell my care you look like gold. Some shine when the day is new but fade when the day is through but you look like gold

I've been wrong before but now I know I've made mistakes in the past but now I know the difference from gold and brass

You look like gold to me and I'm down on bending knees you look like gold and I just want you to know to me you mean so much more than all the gold you look like gold

Let us burn one from end to end and pass it over to me my friend burn it long, we'll burn it slow to light me up before I go

If you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down my choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you your choice is who you choose to bo and if you're causin' no harm then you're alright with me

If you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down

Herb the gift from the earth and what's from the earth is of the greatest worth so before you knock it try it first You'll see it's a blessing and not a curse

If you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down

Excuse me Mr. do you have the time or are you so important that it stands still for you

Excuse me Mr. lend me your ear or are you not only blind but do you not hear

Excuse me Mr. isn't that you oil in the sea and the pollution in the air Mr. whose could that be

Excuse me Mr. but I'm a mister too and you're givin' Mr. a bad name Mr. like you

So I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame

And I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much

Excuse me Mr. take a look around Mr. just look up and you will see it comin' down

Excuse me Mr. but I'm a mister too and you're givin' Mr. a bad name Mr. like you

So I'm taking the Mr. from out in from of your name cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame

And I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much

So Mr. when you're rattling on heaven's gate let me tell you Mr. by the it is too late

Cause Mr. when you get there they don't ask how much you saved all she'll want to know, Mr. Is what you gave

Excuse me Mr. but I'm a mister too and you're givin' Mr. a bad name Mr. like you

So I'm taking the Mr. from out in fron of your name cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame

When the people lead the leaders will have to follow and all their alibis they will have to swallow and it's you that has the authority for the one who is right is the majority

When the people lead people take the lead children you've got to take your lead or you shall be led astray

So as long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery for you can lead a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink you can put a man through school but you cannot make him think

When the people lead people take the lead children you've got to take your lead or you shall be led astray

Watch them try to hide this world's imposition but like disease that has come around from remission when it seems as if it has left your person all the while it has only worsened

When the people lead people shall take the lead children you've got to take your lead or you shall be led astray

If you're gonna live then live it up and if you're gonna give then give it up if you're gonna walk the earth the walk it proud and if you're gonna say the word you got to way it loud

You got to fight for your mind you got to fight for your mind while you got the time you got to fight for your mind

If you're gonna build a house make it a home if you're gonna pull some weight pull your own if you're gonna help reach out your hand if you're getting up then take a stand

You got to fight for your mind you got to fight for your mind while you got the time you got to fight for your mind

If you're gonna step step on in if you're gonna finish you got to begin don't you fear what you don't know just let that be your room to grow

You got to fight for your mind you got to fight for your mind while you got the time you got to fight for your mind

Have you ever lost your way have you ever feared another day have ever misplaced your mind watching this world leave you behind

Won't you won't you give won't you give a man give a man a home

Have you ever worn thin have you ever never known where to begin have you ever lost your belief watching your faith turn to grief

Won't you won't you give won't you give a man give a man a home

In a world that is unwhole you got to fight to keep your soul some would rather give than receive some would rather give up before they belive

Won't you won't you give won't you give a man give a man a home

Don't you get ahead of me and I won't leave you behind if you get unhappy show me a sign. There's no love like lost love no pain like a broken heart there's no love like you and me and no loss like us apart

Promises promises is only a word and when softly spoken is never heard and a heart is not stone and is fragile when alone

By my side by my side won't you be by my side by my side by my side won't you be by my side

My care for you is from the ground up to the sky it's over under up above down below and to the side. No use in pretending no use in saving face my love is never ending you are my saving grace

By my side by my side won't you be by my side by my side by my side won't you be by my side

It will make a weak man mighty it will make a mighty man fall it will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all it's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame it is love for hate and pride for shame

That's the power of the gospel that's the power of the gospel that's the power of the mighty power that's the power of the gospel

Gospel on the water gospel on the land the gospel in every woman the gospel in every man gospel in the garden gospel in the trees the gospel that's inside of you ge gospel inside of me

That's the power of the gospel that's the power of the gospel that's the power of the mighty power that's the power of the gospel

In the hour of the richness in the hour of need for all of creation comes from the gospel seed now you may leave tomorrow and you may leave today but you've got to have the gospel when you start out on your way

That's the power of the gospel that's the power of the gospel that's the power of the mighty power that's the power of the gospel

Listen mister brother sister family and friend I fear with each day pass our time grows closer to the end. Listen stranger passer by and those I never knew there's not one day that you are living has been promised to you

I am a God fearing man I'm a God fearing man I reach out for my God's hand I'm a god fearing man

Listen mother sister brother relatives and kin you want to know just where you're going you got to know where you've been. Tell me what gives one the right to say their God is better than anybody else don't we all have a right to find God for our self

I am a God fearing man I'm a God fearing man I reach out for my God's hand I'm a god fearing man

When I rise with the morning sun I give thanks to my God for the gift of another one and when my day is over and complete I reach to my God to put me back on my feet I am a God fearing man I'm a God fearing man I reach out for my God's hand I'm a god fearing man

Tell me which road are you travelling which road are you travelling on tell me who you will turn to when the light has gone I hear somebody calling I hear somebody calling to me with so many roads to travel there's just one can set you free

There's just one road one road to freedom there's just one road one road to freedom just one

In my life I have been blessed in my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst do you know which road you're travelling do you know where you want to be with so many roads to travel there's just one can set you free

There's just one road one road to freedom there's just one road one road to freedom there's just one road one road to freedom just one

You so easily amuse like a pantomime such a silent crime.  You so easily abuse lack of confidence it's your best offense.  You so easily confuse you can't deny it still you try to hide it

Faded so faded like a memory gone there's no recollection Faded so faded like a forgotten dream further than it seems

You so hastily defy when you think you need it you find a way to bleed it.  You so hastily deny pleading innocence it's your best defense.  You so hastily reply the moment that you said it already regret it

Faded so faded like a memory gone there's no recollection Faded so faded like a forgotten dream further than it seems

Nowhere here to call my home no one near to call my own all that's left is for me to roam somebody please help me hang on

Homeless child homeless child what is left for the homeless child

There is no night and there is no day it is all one shade of gray some will pass and some will stay is this the end or just one more day

Homeless child homeless child what is left for the homeless child

Sure not much but it's my best I just need some place to rest if you could just let me be your guest I won't burden you for very long

Homeless child homeless child what is left for the homeless child

I could have treated you better but you couldn't have treated me worse but it's he who laughs last is he who cries first.  Sometimes I feel I know strangers better than I know my friends why must a beginning be the means to an end

The stones from my enemies these wounds will mend but I cannot survive the roses from my friends

When the last word has been spoken and we've beared witness to the final setting sun all that shall remain is a token of what we've said and done.  When all we've had has been forsaken distant church bells no longer ring that's the sound of a heart taken and the story of tears from a king

The stones from my enemies these wounds will mend but I cannot survive the roses from my friends

This may be the last time I see you forgive me for holding you close this may be the last time that I see you so of this moment I will make the most.  This may be the last time I see you but if you keep me in your heart together we shall be eternal if you believe we shall never part

The stones from my enemies these wounds will mend but I cannot survive the roses from my friends

Tell me do you really know your brother man cause a heart speaks louder than a color can and why would you even shake a man's hand if you're not going to help him stand

Jah work Jah work Jah work is never done

Every man's actions belong to he if prepared for thereafter to each his destiny some people believe and some people know some people deceive and some people show

Jah work Jah work Jah work is never done

You must do the heaviest so many shall do none you have got to stand firm so many shall run some they rest their head at night some get no sleep at all if you listen close to what you see you will hear the call

How I am strong is to know what makes me weak how I am found is to know just whom I seek the gift of a blessing the burden of a sin turn to him

I want to be ready ready to put on my long white robe

Nailed across from hand to hand for the sin of woman and man all upon his earth is all within his plan and I know this shall be my journey home

I want to be ready ready to put on my long white robe

Covet no silver covet no gold reach your empty hands for him to hold up in his kingdom glory shall be proclaimed sing the song and praise his name.

I met a girl whose heart was on the right hand side and upon the left an angel did reside they told her mother that she never would survive but she kept the rhythm and is still alive

We must all have the will to live you got to have the will to live

Then I met a man who had to walk with his hands born into a world he couldn't stand blessed with life but cursed as a man still he walks taller than most of us can

We must all have the will to live you got to have the will to live

Some are born with more and some born with less so don't take for granted the life we've been blessed it's hard to understand that we're only a guest and each one of us shall be put to life's test

We must all have the will to live you got to have the will to live

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust that's what has become of our love and trust.  Love has no direction cause love has no aim love can leave you as fast as she came

Meeting is such sweet sorrow cause someday we may have to part hush don't you make a sound you're gonna let me down

Good things come to those who wait but good things are gone from those who are late.  All that I am is all I can give but with or without you my life I must live

Meeting is such sweet sorrow cause someday we may have to part hush don't you make a sound you're gonna let me down

Mama why does he treat me so cold why do I feel so old how long has he treated me unkind or have I always been so blind

I'm the widow of a living man

Why can't the times stay the same now I am begging him to change what about all the plans we made now I am so afraid

I'm the widow of a living man

Why does he hurt me so I'm gonna need someplace to go he's no longer some kind woman's son mama I think that I had better run

I'm the widow of a living man

Living ain't easy since you've been gone no one else can please me or make me feel home. Forgetting ain't easy you stay on my mind thoughts of us haunt me can't leave them behind

I'm more afraid of living than I am scared to die I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high

Every moral has a story every story has an end every battle has its glory and its consequence

I'm more afraid of loving than I am of being scorned but I will keep on trying though I have been forewarned

Every moral has a story every story has an end every battle has its glory and its consequence

I would rather me be lonely and you have someone to hold I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old.

Every moral has a story every story has an end every battle has its glory and its consequence

Can you tell me why you're so uptight out of your head and ain't talkin' right.  Can you tell me why your mind ain't straight out of touch and can't relate

Mama's trippin' daddy's slippin'

Everybody's talkin' 'bout keepin' it together but I see people splittin' when there's inclement weather. What you want is what I want so why can't we agree if I could be inside of you maybe I could see why

Mama's trippin' daddy's slippin'

You and I ain't spoken ain't spoken for a week soon there won't be nothin' nothin' left to speak.  Things ain't the same since you've gone insane let's take some time and ease the strain

Mama's trippin' daddy's slippin'

Battered and torn still I can see the light tattered and worn but I must kneel to fight

Friend of mine what can't you spare I know some times it gets cold in there

When my legs no longer carry and the warm wind chills my bones I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone

Hope is alive while we're apart only tears speak from my heart break the chains that hold us down and we shall be forever bound

When I'm tired and weary and a long way from home I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone

Beauty that we left behind how shall we tomorrow find

Set aside our weight in sin so that we can live again

When my legs no longer carry and the warm wind chills my bones I reach for Mother Mary and I shall not walk alone

This empty room it fills my mind  Freedom is lease make it fine Every single rope has break But in this life you can't turn back

 I don't want to live, I don't want to live alone

As these words are with my tongue I question why they even sounds I promised but I lied I don't even know myself inside

 I don't want to be, I don't wanna be here alone

Today and tomorrow have become one Every single thing that has become none Human nature is a beast
What I've done most to show at the least

Please don't leave me here, please don't leave me here  Don't you leave me alone, alone, alone

Could've sworn I heard you say amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe
Did it fall from your tongue without warning or just another trick to fall from your sleeve
Did I hear you say that you believe in angels? I guess I bring the devil out in you
But we can both remove our halos 'cause even an angel needs love too

  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me

Some things never change; Some things never stay the same
But your  so innocent, I'll take all the blame
How I hate to remember for that means the day is past
Sometimes I wonder if I know her or if I really need to ask

  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  Woman...

Half-man walks with no shadow of life he utters his distaste
No apology is expected
Love carved sorry in his face
Love carved sorry in his face

  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
  The woman in you, in you, is the worry in me
  Woman...

I could give you more, but you still wouldn't be happy
I could give all you need, but you still wouldn't be satisfied
I could give to our poor
Now what good would that be?
You'd shake hands with Jesus
And you still would not believe

  If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
  The less you expect the more you'll be pleased
  The more you'll be pleased

I could change your mind, but what would you really be thinking
I'll show you a sign, but you just pass it on by
I could hold your hand but then we'll both be sinking
The problem with the world is everone's not just like you

  If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
  The less you expect the more you'll be pleased
  The more you'll be pleased

  If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
  If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
  If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me...
  So happy with nothing, so happy with me

First time that I saw her she had white doves in her eyes
She spoke to me but I could not reply, not reply
She was a stranger I had known for years
She brought to me so many smiles and tears, smiles and tears

  The two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer

Tired maid slowly drifts into the past, into the past
And finds a home where echoes rest, where echoes rest (?)
She softly kissed my mind, and whispered what will we do with time, do with time

  The two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer

Another man I choosed to be, choosed to be,
Or just the man I used to be, used to be
Another man I want to be, I want to be
And this question, it keeps haunting me, haunting me

  The two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer
  Together like the two hands of a prayer

Make me feel like a beggar
Make me feel like a thief
Make me feel like a battle, that cannot end in peace
Make me feel like running, as if I've lost my nerve
Make me feel like crying, tears I don't deserve

Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Who have I become
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

Is this really living? Sometimes it's hard to tell
Or is this a kind of gentler hell?
Turn out the lights
And let me stare into your soul
I was born and bled for you old

Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Who have I become
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

Never said thank you
Never said please
Never gave reason to believe
So as it stands
I remain on my knees
Good lovers make great enemies

Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Who have I become
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb

Won't you sing me the blues
Won't you sing me the blues
Sing me something my heart can use; misery loves a symphony

Does your face, your pretty face get lost in a crowd?
And you say no one's there
To hear you cry out loud
What will you do, Suzie Blue?

Where did you learn to do that so well?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
I guess that would be like kiss and tell
If it's a secret, why did you show me?

But your far away from the love you used to hold, don't sit and watch your self grow old
The day is new, Suzie Blue
The day is new, Suzie Blue

Real life has let you down
Real life has let you down
Someone stripped the shoes from your ground
Everybody is always somebody's something
Kissing from heaven in your arms
And we'll make love to the memories
They will always see us new, Suzie Blue
The day is new, Suzie Blue
The day is new, Suzie Blue

I put into Nashville, Tennessee, but you wouldn't even come around to see me
And since your headin up to Carolina, You know I gonna be right there behind you

  'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
  Always have to steal my kisses from you

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding things
And to see it fall on your simple country dress it's like heaven to me I must confess

  'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
  Always have to steal my kisses from you

Now I've been hangin around you for days, but when I'm leanin you just turn your head away
I know you didn't mean that
She said I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act

  'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
  Always have to steal my kisses from you

We made love until we cried and cried ourselves to laughter
Laughed until we realise our hearts were struck were fear
How in just a moments time could one see for ever after
I gently lie beside of you and dream away with my tears

 Won't you let me treat you kind
 We're gonna burn to shine
 Won't you let me treat you kind
 We're gonna burn to shine

Funny things you learn from your mama, like the way you throw your head back when swallowing pills
Funny things you learn from your papa, like when you're talking you just can't keep your hands still

But that was now and this is then
It never lasts for long
How I miss the good old days; but I'm so glad they're gone

  Won't you let me treat you kind
  We're gonna burn to shine
  Won't you let me treat you kind
  We're gonna burn to shine

I'd like to spend the time that you would like to spend with me
So you could help me out with my dependancy
'Cause I'm hoplessly addicted addicted to your sorrow
Makes me never wanna work, beg or borrow

  Won't you let me treat you kind
  We're gonna burn to shine
  Won't you let me treat you kind
  We're gonna burn to shine

You, you've been looking at me just a little too long, now I can never look the same
Blindness and kindness, there's no difference in the two when I can no longer see the good in you

  So won't you show me a little shame
  Won't you show me a little shame

Now  'cause I'm, I'm a gentleman, before gentlewomen, so-called ladies keep breakin my heart
Show me your house, show me your home, show me how it could all fall apart

  So won't you show me a little shame
  Won't you show me a little shame
  Won't you show me a little shame

'Cause now  I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through crying and I sat up and before I wept
I get through thinking and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speaking and I can't remember not a word that I said

You change your mind so many times, I wonder if you have a mind at all
And I rather be by myself than to have your lonesome company come to call

  So won't you show me a little shame
  Won't you show me a little shame
  Won't you show me a little shame

I will wait like nothing; I have ever waited for
I will catch your tears from falling; Until from my hands they fall

You can leave me abandoned, I'll be here if you want back in
Like the rest I have been branded far beneath the skin
So far beneath the skin

  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be Forgiven
  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be Forgiven

Here I have been standing while the time has come and gone
I tried singing to you, but you turned my words to stone

Here I have been waiting, it seems for quite a while
Changed all my reflections
But inside I'm still just a child
But inside still just a child

  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be  Forgiven
  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be  Forgiven

These eyes weren't made for crying; This love wasn't made to waste
These arms weren't made for battle, but to share your warm embrace

  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be  Forgiven
  You shall be, you shall be, you shall be  Forgiven

We have both been here before
Knockin' upon love's door
Begging for someone to let us in
Knowing this we can agree to keep each other company
Never to go down that road again

  My beloved one, my beloved one

Your eyes shine through me
You are so divine to me
Your heart has a home in mine
We won't have to say a word
With a touch all shall be heard
When I search my heart it's you I find

  My beloved one, my beloved one, my beloved one

You were meant for me, I believe you were sent to me from the dreams trailing to my heart
Hold your body close to me
You mean most to me
We will keep each other safe from harm

  My beloved one, my beloved one, my beloved one

Like the wings stolen from an angel
Like pebbles gone from the roads
Like a dove caught in a storm

  Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms

The wind it blew straight through us
And whispered to me in tongues
I was told I was wrong

  Tonight he would be in the Lord's Arms
  Tonight he is in the Lord's Arms

So I drinked this wine to him
With each glass of memory
He left with his crown of thornes

  Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms
  Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms
  Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms