Beautiful lie You can pray You can pay Till you're buried alive Blackmailer blues Everyone in the room Owns a part of the noose Slipknot gig Slipknot gig Slipknot gig Did someone say Help on the way Well, I know Yeah, I do That there's help on the way

Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames. She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame. Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun. Don't stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone. Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost. Sell everything; without love day to day insanity's king. I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key. Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see. Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today. Don't fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way. I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you. Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true.

There's mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds It's been hot for seven weeks now Too hot to even speak now Did you hear what I just heard? Say, it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind But there seems to be a beat, now I can feel it my feet now Listen, here it comes again There's a band out on the highway They're high steppin' into town It's a rainbow full of sound It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns Everybody dancin' C'mon children, c'mon children Come on, clap your hands Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine You know stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord The band kept us too busy, we forgot about the time They're a band beyond description Like Jehovah's favorite choir People joining hand in hand While the music played the band, Lord They're setting us on fire Crazy rooster crowin' midnight Balls of lightin' roll along Old men sing about their dreams Women laugh and children scream And the band keeps playin' on Keep on dancin' through the daylight Greet the mornin' air with song No one's noticed, but the band's all pack and gone Was it ever there at all? But they keep on dancin' C'mon children, c'mon children, come on, clap your hands Well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday And the corn's a bumper crop And the fields are full of dancin' Full of singin' and romancin' The music never stopped

In another times forgotten space Your eyes looked from your mother's face Wallflower seed on the sand and stone May the four winds blow you safely home Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew I'll tell you where the four winds dwell In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell It can ring, turn night to day It can ring like fire when you loose your way Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew God save the child that rings that bell It may have one good ring, baby, you can't tell One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused listen to the music play Some come to laugh their past away Some come to make it just one more day Whichever way your pleasure tends If you plant ice you're gonna harvest the wind Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep Wildflower seed on the sand and wind May the four winds blow you home again Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew You'd better roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew Roll away the dew You'd better roll away the dew - roll away

Let my inspiration flow In token rhyme, suggesting rhythm That will not forsake you Till my tale is told and done While the firelight's aglow Strange shadows from the flames will grow Till things we've never seen Will seem familiar Shadows of a sailor, forming winds Both foul and fair all swarm Down in Carlisle, he loved A lady many years ago Here beside him stands a man A soldier from the looks of him Who came through many fights But lost at love While the story teller speaks A door within the fire creaks Suddenly flies open And a girl is standing there Eyes alight with glowing hair All that fancy paints as fair She takes her fan and throws it In the lion's den Which of you to gain me tell Will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you If you will not take the chance The sailor gave at least a try The soldier being much too wise Strategy was his strength Not disaster The sailor, coming out again The lady fairly leapt at him That's how it stands today You decide if he was wise The story teller makes no choice Soon you will not hear his voice His job is to shed light Not to master Since the end is never told We pay the teller off in gold In hopes he will come back But he cannot be bought or sold Inspiration, move me brightly Light the song with sense and color Hold away despair More than this I will not ask Faced with mysteries dark and vast Statements just seem vain at last Some rise, some fall Some climb to get to Terrapin Counting stars by candlelight All are dim but one is bright The spiral light of Venus Rising first and shining best On, from the northwest corner Of a brand new crescent moon Crickets and cicadas sing A rare and different tune Terrapin station In the shadow of the moon Terrapin station And I know we'll be there soon Terrapin I can't figure out Terrapin If it's the end or beginning Terrapin But the train's put it's brakes on Terrapin And the whistle is screaming Terrapin

Old man down, way down, down Down by the docks of the city Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime A dime for a cup of coffee I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best More than my wine, more than my wine More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine Everyone said I'd come to no good, I knew I would pearly, believe them Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine But I'll get back on my feet someday The good old Lord willin', if He says I may I know that the life I'm livin's no good I'll get a new start, live the life I should I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dyin' day he said I said to him, I said to him, "I'm sure she's been" I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you" I got up and wandered, wandered downtown Nowhere to go but just hang around I've got a girl, named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me

She came without a farthing A babe without a name So much ado about nothing Is what she'd try to say So much ado, my lover So many games we played Through every fleeted Summer Through every precious day All dead, all dead All the dreams we had And I wonder why I still live on All dead, all dead And alone, I'm spared My sweeter half instead All dead and gone All dead All dead, all dead At the rainbow's end And still, I hear her own sweet song All dead, all dead Take me back again You know my little friend's All dead and gone Her ways are always with me I wander all the while But, please, you must forgive me I am old but still a child All dead, all dead But I should not grieve In time it comes to everyone All dead, all dead But in hope, I breathe Of course, I don't believe You're dead and gone All dead and gone