Today I walked down the street I use to wander Yeah, shook my head, and I made myself a bet There was all these things that I don't think I remember Hey, how lucky can one man get? I bronzed my shoes, and I hung from a rearview mirror Bronzed admiration in the blind spot of regret Well, there was all these things that I don't think I remember Hey, how lucky can one man get? Today I walked down the street I use to wander Yeah, scratched my head and lit my cigarette Well, there was all these things that I don't think I remember Hey, how lucky can one man get? Today I walked down the street I use to wander Yeah, shook my head, and I made myself a bet Well, there was all these things that I don't think I remember Hey, how lucky can one man get? Hey, how lucky can one man get? Hey, how lucky can one man get?

Pretty paper Pretty ribbons of blue. (Spoken) man oh man, I just love christmas It's just so darn neat. I kinda wish every day was christmas, Except christmas eve and the fourth of july. We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, would we? When I was a kid, we used to get the christmas catalog from montgomery wards in chicago. Sometimes we'd get it as early as late august. It was the big book of wishes, hopes and desires. My three brothers and I were allotted twenty-five bucks a piece, including tax. So I'd make up a different christmas list every night From the first of september 'til the twenty-forth of december. Matter of fact, let me present you with my christmas credentials. When I was three years old, at least that's what my mother told me, I ate an entire ornament. I ate a big red one, I thought it was an apple. They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital But they couldn't stop me from laughing so they just left me alone. So I guess I still got that christmas in me all the time, you know? One year, I got a wooden roly-poly for christmas, You know the things you knock down and they bounce right back up. They made 'em out of wood back then, that's how old I am. Nowadays, they make 'em out of plastic. My mom says "they just don't make 'em like that anymore". and I says, "no ma they don't". Then there was the year I came home only eave from the army, From germany to marry my highschool sweetheart on the day after christmas. My little brother billy, who was twelve at the time, Had just gotten his first job so he was able to afford to buy some christmas presents For his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own pocket. Billy had a job selling subscriptions for the chicago tribune. He told me this guy named rocky would pick him up in a station wagon, Him and some other boys, and he'd take 'em out to some strange neighborhood And drop 'em off and he gave them this whole spiel to give their potential customers. Supposedly their little brother had won a free trip to our nation's capital washington, d.c., But he couldn't go on the trip if his older brother wouldn't accompany him So if you would please buy a subscription to the chicago tribune then my little brother will be happy. Wow, what a shyster! some people'll do anything to get to the whitehouse. Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first guitar. Ah man it was gorgeous, I still got the thing. It was a like aqua blue. kinda dark aqua blue with a cream colored heart. was a silvertone from montgomery wards. the model was called kentucky blue and man when I saw that sitting under the tre Ust couldn't wait. First year so I didn't know how to play it, I'd just stand in from of the mirror with a string around my neck with that guitar and I'd try to look like elvis. Then my brother dave taught me a couple of chords, Now I'm here in your living room singing and talking to you. It's funny how things work out. So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em. If you see somebody looks like they ain't doin' quite as well as you, slip 'em a buck, 'Specially if they don't ask for spare change. Go buy your honey a cuckoo clock or a musical snow shaking water ball, That when you wind it up it plays, "I want you, I need you, I love ya with all my heart." 'Cause after all, hell man, it's christmas. Away in a manger no crib for a bed. The little lord jesus lay down his sweet head. The stars in the sky look down where he lay. The little lord jesus asleep on the (1-2) hay. (Spoken) merry christmas everybody. (Words finally transcribed by fancy nancy)

Full blown silence in an empty room A former bride and a former groom A folding table and a folding chair A folded hand of poker there All new directions must go everywhere Big round people in a cool little square You can't cut it with a boat or a plane Man, it's gonna take a new train You'll be leaving on a new train Far away from this world of pain And when you look out your window, you'll see Your home, your baby, and your family No melted ice cubes in a paper cup Hell, you'll be happy, you'll be all shook up The friends that greet you will be simple and plain When you step down from that new train Collected volumes of history say Man makes mistakes most everyday The half a pound of chopped ground round Is still a burger when it goes downtown No faded photographs of yesterdays Are in the books that I read these days To fly away from that memory town You must keep both your feet on the ground 'Cause you'll be leaving on a new train Far away from this world of pain And when you look out your window you'll see Your home, your baby, and your family No melted ice cubes in a paper cup Hell, you'll be happy, you'll be all shook up The friends that greet you will be simple and plain When you step down from that new train I'll be leaving on a new train Far away from this world of pain The friends that greet me will be simple and plain When I step down from that new train New train, new train

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station She sits there waiting, in a family way "Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her Tell all the others, I'll write someday" From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother Kept undercover, like some bad dream While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered They run like water, from a mountain stream In a cold and gray town, a nurse say's "Lay down" 'This ain't no playground, and this ain't home' But someone's children, out having children In a gray stone building, they're all alone From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother Kept undercover, like some bad dream While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered They run like water, from a mountain stream On somewhere else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound She bows her head down, hummin' lullabies 'Your daddy never, meant to hurt you ever' 'He just don't live here, but you've got his eyes' From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother Kept undercover, like some bad dream While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered They run like water, from a mountain stream Well, they run like water, from a mountain stream

I saw you All dolled up Singing a song in your pickup truck You put me on a morning train You put me on a morning train Ain't no need to explain You put me on a morning train Hey, Hey, Brother Ray What'd you mean by "what'd I say" You put me on a morning train You put me on a morning train Ain't no need to explain You put me on a morning train If it's gonna rain And I wish that it would Just go ahead and rain Get it over for good If there's really a hole in that big blue sky Then move it on over and let me by Constantinople is a mighty long word Got three more letters than mockingbird You put me on a morning train You put me on a morning train Ain't no need to explain You put me on a morning train I like you with your make-up on All dolled up Singing a song You put me on a morning train You put me on a morning train Ain't no need to explain You put me on a morning train

When I'm all alone on my own by my lonesome And there ain't a single another soul around I wanna dig into my guitar bend a blues riff that hangs Over everything When I'm by myself and it's daytime 'cause down-under Or wherever it is I live when it's evening You know I speed read the morning news and come up with my own little song also Too (Wooh) When I step outside to a beautiful morning Where the trees are all wagging, my hair flag waving The scenery raging, my life love cascading and the smog hangs Over everything When I'm outside in a real good mood You could almost forget about all the other things Like a big old ominous cloud in my periphery Eh eh, ah ah ah, oh, eh eh eh Don't wanna talk about it Simultaneous I shout it When I was young I liked to hear music blaring And I wasn't caring to neuter my jams with earplugs But these days I inhabitate a high-pitched ring over things So these days I plug 'em up When I'm strugglin with my songs I do the same thing too And then I crunch 'em up in headphones, 'cause why wouldn't you? You could say: I hear you on several levels at high decibels Over everything When I'm all alone on my own by myself And there ain't a single another one around I wanna dig into my guitar, bend a blues riff that hangs Over everything Don't wanna talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Talk about it, talk about it Over everything Talk about it Don't wanna talk Don't wanna talk Ain't nobody wanna talk about it Don't wanna Don't wanna talk about it, about it They don't wanna, oh they They don't wanna talk about it No, they don't wanna Talk about it, about it Oooh ooh ooh

Don't you know I never knew you But I, but I think I love you girl and What's your name? Boy you know the devil's in the details Girl, you gave me rabies And I don't mean maybe Don't you know I never knew you But I, but I think I love you girl and What's your name? Boy you know the devil's in the details Girl, you gave me rabies And I don't mean maybe Took a drink of head dream smoothie All of a sudden I'm feeling very loopy Don't you know I really love you now Stop this plane cause I wanna get off Pull over somewhere on the side of a cloud Watch me get out yeah Watch me go, down And the rest is hysteria And I stole that But hey mom look at me now Stop this plane cause I wanna get off Pull over somewhere on the side of a cloud Watch me get out yeah Watch me go, down And the rest is hysteria And I stole that But hey mom look at me now That's what it's all about Don't you know I never knew you But I, but I think I love you girl and What's your name? Boy you know the devil's in the details, just like But hey mom look at me now

Wanna live, wanna live, live a life like mine Well, I been doin' it, baby all the time To do so, you gotta roll with the punches Jump from the sweetest to the toughest of tough love Maybe you think I'm a talking tube Baby try playing, that's all I really ever wanna do You didn't hear me right, oh yeah That's right, I wanna live, live A life like this, yeah You wish Wanna live, wanna live a life like mine Hey, baby, well, get in line Ready to take a life test What it is, is it, it's the best Maybe you don't hear me talking strange Well, hang on, you better wait Maybe you didn't hear me right Well, it's up and down and out of sight Do you got what it takes? Well, I think you might Wanna live, wanna live a life like mine Well, I been doin' it, baby all the time To do so, you gotta roll with the punches Jump from the sweetest to the toughest of tough love Maybe you don't hear me talking strange Well hold on, you better wait Maybe you must think that I'm talking crooked Well, that's all good Wanna live, wanna live a life like some Young and dumb and full of Come on over to my house, there's a party goin' on here all the time Wanna live, wanna live a life like mine Eh, you wish Eh, you wish Eh, you wish, eh Eh Wanna live, wanna live, live a life like mine Well, I been doin' it, baby all the time To do so you gotta roll with the punches Jump from the sweetest to the toughest of tough love Well, it's up and down and out of sight Have you got what it takes? Well, I think you might

I woke up this morning, didn't recognize the man in the mirror Then I laughed, and I said, "Oh, silly me, that's just me" Then I proceeded to brush some stranger's teeth But they were my teeth, and I was weightless Just quiverin' like some leaf come in the window of a restroom I couldn't tell you what the hell it was supposed to mean But it was a Monday, no Tuesday, no Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Then Saturday came around, and I said "Who's this stupid clown, blocking the bathroom sink?" All he ever wanted was to be someone in life That was just like All I want is to just have fun Live my life like a son of a gun I could be one thousand miles away But still mean what I say Then I woke up one morning, didn't recognize the man in the mirror Then I laughed, and I said, "Oh, silly me, that's just me" Then I proceeded to not comb some stranger's hair Never was my style But I couldn't tell you what the hell it was supposed to mean 'Cause it was a Monday, no Tuesday, no Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Then Saturday came around and I said "Who's this stupid clown, blockin' the bathroom sink?" But he was sportin' all my clothes I gotta say pretty pimpin' All he ever wanted was to be a man But he was always A little too cute to be admitted under marbles lost He was always a thousand miles away While still standing in front of your face Then he woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror Then laughed and said, "Oh, silly me, that's just me" Then I proceeded to brush some stranger's teeth But they were my teeth, and I was weightless Just quiverin' like some leaf come in the window of a restroom And I couldn't tell you what the hell it was supposed to mean 'Cause it was a Monday, not a Tuesday, no Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Then Saturday came around, and I said "Who's this stupid clown blockin' the bathroom sink?" But he was sportin' all my clothes I gotta say pretty pimpin' I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror I woke up this mornin', didn't recognize the boy in the mirror