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Wond'ring aloud how we feel today Last night sipped the sunset my hands in her hair We are our own saviours as we start both our hearts beating life into each other Wond'ring aloud will the years treat us well As she floats in the kitchen, I'm tasting the smell of toast as the butter runs Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed and I shake my head And it's only the giving that makes you what you are.

"There must be some kind of way out of here," Said the joker to the thief, "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief. Businessman they drink my wine, Plowman dig my earth None will level on the line, nobody offered his word, hey" "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 cold distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching And the wind began to howl

Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own He had a yellow cat which wouldn't leave its home; He tried and he tried to give the cat away, He gave it to a man goin' far, far away. But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away. The man around the corner swore he'd kill the cat on sight, He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite; He waited and he waited for the cat to come around, Ninety seven pieces of the man is all they found. But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away. He gave it to a man going up in a balloon, He told him for to take it to the man in the moon; The balloon came down about ninety miles away, Where he is now, well I dare not say. But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away. He gave it to a man going way out West, Told him for to take it to the one he loved the best; First the train hit the curve, then it jumped the rail, Not a soul was left behind to tell the gruesome tale. But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away. The cat was a possessor of a family of its own, With seven little kittens till there came a cyclone; Blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around, The air was full of kittens, and not a one was ever found. But the cat came back the very next day, The cat came back, we thought he was a goner But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.

Such is the way of the world You can never know Just where to put all your faith And how will it grow Gonna rise up Burning back holes in dark memories Gonna rise up Turning mistakes into gold Such is the passage of time Too fast to fold And suddenly swallowed by signs Low and behold Gonna rise up Find my direction magnetically Gonna rise up Throw down my ace in the hole

I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go I'm going up the country, babe don't you wanna go I'm going to some place where I've never been before I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave the USA 'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play No use of you running, or screaming and crying 'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine

You can hold her hand And show her how you cry Explain to her your weakness So she understands And then roll over and die You can brave decisions Before you crumble up inside Spend your time asking everyone else's permission Then run away and hide Or you can sit on chimneys Put some fire up your ass No need to know what you're doing or waiting for But if anyone should ask Tell them I've been licking coconut skins And we've been hanging out Tell them God just dropped by to forgive our sins And relieve us our doubt La la la la la la la... Oh you can hold her eggs But your basket has a hole You can lie between her legs and go looking for Tell her you're searching for her soul You can wait for ages Watch your compost turn to coal Time is contagious Everybody's getting old So you can sit on chimneys Put some fire up your ass No need to know what you're doing or looking for But if anyone should ask Tell them I've been cooking coconut skins And we've been hanging out Tell them God just dropped by to forgive our sins And relieve us our doubt La la la la la la la...

Hello. I've waited here for you. Everlong Tonight I throw myself into, And out of the red, out of her head she sang. Come down and waste away with me, Down with me, Slow how, you wanted it to be, I'm over my head, out of her head she sang. And I wonder when I sing along with you, If everything could ever be this real forever. If anything could ever be this good again, The only thing I'll ever ask of you. You gotta promise not to stop when I say when She sang Breathe out, so I can breathe you in, Hold you in, and now, I know you've always been. Out of your head, out of my head I sing. And I wonder when I sing along with you, If everything could ever be this real forever. If anything could ever be this good again, The only thing I'll ever ask of you. You gotta promise not to stop when I say when She sang