Well, I ride on a mail train, babe, can't buy a thrill I've been up all night, leanin' on a window sill Well, if I don't make it to the top of the hill If I don't make it, you know my baby will And them wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost Hey, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you Now when your train gets lost

It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground It takes a little time sometimes To get the Titanic turned back around It takes a little sometimes But baby, you're not going down It takes more than you got right now Give it, give it time What's this walking through my door I know I've seen the look before Sometimes on faces in the street And sometimes in the mirror, looking back at me You can't fix this pain with money You can't rush a weary soul You can't sweep it under the rug, now, honey It don't take a lot to know It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground It takes a little time, sometimes To get the Titanic turned back around It takes a little sometimes But baby, you're not going down It takes more than you got right now Give it, give it time Yeah, give it time But it may not be over by morning Rome wasn't built in a day You can name that thing a thousand times And it won't make it go away Let me put my arms around you And hold you while weep We've been talking, and you know what, I'm sick of this talk It's nothing that won't keep It takes a little time, sometimes To get your feet back, on the ground It takes a little time, sometimes To turn the Titanic around It takes a little sometimes But baby, you're not going down It takes more than you got right now Give it, give it time It takes a little more time, more time (Turn the Titanic around) Turn it around, around, around (Baby, you're not going down) Takes a little time sometime You can't fix this pain with money You can't rush a weary soul You can't sweep it under the rug, now, honey It don't take a lot to know It takes a little time, sometimes To get your feet back, on the ground It takes a little time, sometimes To turn the Titanic around It takes a little sometimes But baby, you're not going down You got things to think of now So give it, give it time Give it, give it time

You're the type of, you're the type of girl that You're the type of, you're the type of girl that Moving on and getting over takes a Takes a little bit of time And being lonely for the summer ain't what Ain't what I really had in mind Almost sent a text that I'd regret In the morning light Thank god my friends called me again To drag me out tonight Or I wouldn't be here buying you a drink Slowdancing away into a memory Until it's last call gotta go home Both know we ain't going alone Looks like I'm forgetting all the second guess and regret When falling for someone new in a minute If it weren't for a heartbreak never would have met you You're the type of girl that takes a breakup to get to You're the type of, you're the type of girl that Takes a breakup to get to Tow shots of tequila with you Girl where you've been all along Was like a scene from a movie when you Walked in and I was gone She put a hole in my heart never fixed it And I'm so glad that she didn't 'Cause I wouldn't be here buying you a drink Slowdancing away into a memory Until it's last call gotta go home Both know we ain't going alone Looks like I'm forgetting all the second guess and regret When falling for someone new in a minute If it weren't for a heartbreak never would have met you You're the type of girl that takes a breakup to get to You're the type of, you're the type of girl that Takes some breakup to get to You're the type of, you're the type of girl that She put a hole in my heart never fixed it And I'm so glad that she didn't 'Cause I wouldn't be here buying you a drink Slowdancing away into a memory Until it's last call gotta go home Both know we ain't going alone Looks like I'm forgetting all the second guess and regret When falling for someone If it weren't for a heartbreak never would have met you You're the type of girl that takes a breakup to get to You're the type of, you're the type of girl that Takes a breakup to get to You're the type of, you're the type of girl that You're the type of girl that takes a breakup to get to

We're sailing on a strange boat Heading for a strange shore We're sailing on a strange boat Heading for a strange shore Carrying the strangest cargo That was ever hauled aboard We're sailing on a strange sea Blown by a strange wind We're sailing on a strange sea Blown by a strange wind Carrying the strangest crew That ever sinned We're riding in a strange car We're following a strange star We're climbing on the strangest ladder That was ever there to climb We're living in a strange time Working for a strange goal We're living in a strange time We're working for a strange goal We're turning flesh and body Into soul

I've burned my bridges And I'm free at last All my chains are In the past The new life starts here The day is wide open The sky is blue The world is a miracle And so are you The new life starts here My papers arrived Stamped and complete All previous dispatches Are obsolete The new life starts here I can see my way so clear Rejoice for... The new life starts here There's a war in the Gulf But it ain't in my head I just declared a state of Peace instead The new life starts here Tempters and tricksters Banging at my door I'm not fighting with them Anymore The new life starts here. Generals, Presidents How do you do? I can make it with or Without you The new life starts here I can see my way so clear Rejoice for me The new life starts here Are you under the Mercy? Are you under attack? Are you going forward? Are you going back? The new life starts here Are you coming to grips? Are you coming apart? Are you listening to fear? Or to your heart? The new life starts here Citizens, criminals, Child, woman, or man, The keys to the Kingdom Are in your own hands The new life starts here Mock the devil Make him sweat! He hasn't won The battle yet The new life starts here A whole new age in seven more years A brave new age in ten more years Rejoice for me New life starts here.

I have heard the big music And I'll never be the same Something so pure Just called my name I have drowned in the big sea Now I find I'm still alive And I'm coming up for ever Shadows all behind me, ecstacy to come I have Climbed the big tree Touched the big sky I just stuck my hand up in the air And everything came into colour Like Jazz mana from sweet, sweet chariots I have seen the big mountain And I swear I'm halfway there (You'll never get there, you'll never get there, you'll never get there) But I will, I will always climb the mountain Because... I have heard the big music And I'll never be the same Something so pure Has called my name

Come here Her communique arrived with its expression of her feeling I swear I had no idea she'd been holding in conceiling Such a storm of words unsaid Though absurd as it appears Had been blowing in her head For twenty-seven years I knew I had to face her so I grabbed my Davey Crocket Threw a scarf around my neck And twenty Dollars in my pocket Found her in the same old place Pamflet in her fist When she saw my windblown face Well look at who it is Meet me on the mad parade When the midnight bells are chiming We'll dress up as the harlequin and the clown Pile up all the wonders that we've made In a tower too tall for climbing And we'll burn the damn thing down In the great November lake she was older still alluring Her hair grey and longer than it ever had been during The days we loved an slept In her bed of faded wood In the little place she kept In a crumbling neighbourhood We walked along a while Like we were old companions But I could feel the gap between us Yawning like a canian She with her church and code Her extravagant believes Me a creature of the road A child of dust and grief Meet me on the mad parade When the midnight bells are chiming We'll dress up as the harlequin and the clown Pile up all the wonders that we've made In a tower too tall for climbing And we'll burn the damn thing down She smoked a cigarette and blew smoke rings at the ceiling Said if you're problem is long standing man Why don't you try kneeling Now your face I see you're still a sinner in the mist Setting up your little will Is king in place of His I said I've heard about sin Down the long wheels of ages I cracked books of lies With a thousand twisted pages Then I looked her in the eye And asked her clear and plane If your religion was a lie Then what would remain Se said if God looked beaten hard To loving hands to heal it There's nothing in my day that I ain't got strength to deal me I said darling I confess The same things applies to me As for all the rest We agreed to disagree Meet me on the mad parade When the midnight bells are chiming We'll dress up as the harlequin and the clown Pile up all the wonders that we've made In a tower too tall for climbing And we'll burn the damn thing down Yes we'll burn the damn thing down

I'm still a freak, I never went straight I kept my appointment with fate And like every human being that was ever born I'm unique Things disappear, but I'm still here I'm still a freak I'm still a head and I'm doing fine I can hear your voice in my mind You ain't singing my praises now honey Do it when I'm dead I'm not bitter but I'm no quitter I'm still a head I'm still awake, I knew all along If you ain't crazy there's something wrong And there's no such thing as a coincidence Or a mistake And all this confusion is all just illusion I'm still awake I'm still a freak, I ain't been gagged I'm still flying the flag The game's movin' so fast, who knows where it's gonna Be this time next week! Empires rise and fall, but through it all I'm still a freak!