I thought I'd take a walk today It's a mistake I sometimes make My children lay asleep in bed My wife lay wide-awake I kissed her softly on the brow I tried not to make a sound But with stony eyes she looked at me And gently squeezed my hand Call it a premonition, call it a crazy vision Call it intuition, something learned from mother But when she looked up at me, I could clearly see The Sword of Damocles hanging directly above her Oh Lord Oh my Lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms around me Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh My Lord They called at me through the fence They were not making any sense They claimed that I had lost the plot Kept saying that I was not The man I used to be They held their babes aloft Threw marsh mellows at the Security And said that I'd grown soft Call it intuition, call it a creeping suspicion, But their words of derision meant they hardly knew me For even I could see in the way they stared at me The Spear of Destiny sticking right through me Oh Lord Oh my lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh lord Oh My Lord Now I'm at the hairdressers People watch me as they move past A guy wearing plastic antlers Presses his bum against the glass Now I'm down on my hands and knees And it's so fucking hot! Someone cries, "What are you looking for?" I scream, "The plot, the plot!" I grab my telephone, I call my wife at home She screams, "Leave us alone!" I say, "Hey, it's only me" The hairdresser with his scissors, he holds up the mirror I look back and shiver; I can't even believe what I can see Be mindful of the prayers you send Pray hard but pray with care For the tears that you are crying now Are just your answered prayers The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down Into the hollows of glamour, where with spikes and hammer With telescopic camera, they chose to turn the screw Oh I hate them, Ma! Oh I hate them, Pa! Oh I hate them all for what they went and done to you Oh Lord Oh my Lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh My Lord

Come over here, babe it ain't that bad I don't claim to understand the troubles that you've had But the dogs you say they fed you to lay their muzzles in your lap And the lions that they led you to lie down and take a nap Are the ones you fear are wind and air? And I love you without measure Seems we can be happy now be it better late than never Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come to me The burdens that you carry now well they're not of your creation So let's not weep for their evil deeds but for their lack of imagination Today's the time for courage, babe, tomorrow can be for forgiving If he touches you again with his stupid hands his life won't be worth living Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come Sweetheart come, sweetheart come to me Walk with me now under the stars it's a clear and easy pleasure And be happy in my company for I love you without measure Walk with me now under the stars, it's a safe and easy pleasure It seems we can be happy now, it's late but it ain't never It's late but it ain't never, it's late but it ain't never

Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt Doesn't care if he gets hurt Green eyes, Green eyes Green eyes, Green eyes If it were but a matter of faith If it were measured in petitions and prayer She would materialise, all fleshed out But it is not, nor do I care Green eyes, Green eyes Green eyes, Green eyes So hold me and hold me, don't tell me your name This morning will be wiser than this evening is Then leave me to my enemied dreams And be quiet as you are leaving, Miss Green eyes... Green eyes, Green eyes Green eyes, Green eyes Green eyes, Green eyes

Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not know And so I poisoned that dear little girl along the banks below Along the banks below I drew my saber through her; it was a bloody night I threw her in the river, which was a dreadful sight My father often told me that money would set me free And so I murdered that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly My father sits at his cabin door wiping his tear-dimmed eyes His only son soon should walk to yonder scaffold high My race is run beneath the sun; the scaffold now waits for me For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly Whose name was Rose Connelly

I was riding, I was riding home The sun, the sun, the sun was rising from the field I got a feeling I just can't shake I got a feeling that just won't go away You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing it Push the sky away And if your friends think that you should do it different And if they think that you should do it the same You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away And if you feel you got everything you came for If you got everything and you don't want no more You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away Some people say it's just rock and roll Oh but it gets you right down to your soul You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away You've got to just keep on pushing Keep on pushing Push the sky away