Don't you call my love That lonely living light that lit you up Because we both of us Stole a little fight from daddy's touch Oh but you've had enough Of keeping words like gone and last and must I just hope while you hold the gun That the bullet answer's lost before she comes Oh Bethesda we've come to let you go We won't forget your city scripture no So when you climb your day And you show your subtle sex up on that stage Will we hear you say See I'm your wave show me where to break Oh Bethesda we've come to let you go Get up dress for your pretty picture show

Don't you think that it's time dear That you showed us what you're holding Yes I think it's a fine fine thing That you know just what you said I keep saying I'll find love at your top You lovely mountain And the moment I climb up I just fall back in your bed It's my favorite game I have a dream that you're water And you wash my body clean Then I'm your baby And I show you how I sing I think your mother and father Made love in the summer rain Because my love and their daughter Is a little bit of everything We lost to time I'm not going anywhere without you Come wind come rain come fire come the end I'm not going anywhere Too long on the East Coast Too many promises been broken Whenever you leave you must know how you are missed We follow your lead girl It don't matter where you're going Yes, Rochelle was a peach But let's just leave her out of this And get your birthday wish I'm not going anywhere without you Come wind come rain come fire come the end I'm not going anywhere

I met a man Or a woman or a man Moon bathing in Brooklyn I watched them dance They shook the land they showed their hands And I took them And they asked me my plans I said Ma'am I mean man I just keep moving They said it's not that you can't Because you can Oh my friend you just wouldn't She he he she shakes my bones Tell me where you want me Then they found me I was underground Living off people's kindness They said that sound That ocean pound Oh boy you play like it's all behind us I changed my path I changed my name I changed my faith I changed my haircut I made some cash I caught a train And I played with the best of them When the time came to cheat I found I didn't need their forgiveness She he he she shakes my bones Tell me where you want me

I came alone and I caught my Lord In a game of souls in the hole of a debtor's home Cold as stone but I made damn sure That the pain was gone and the dogs left the dead alone I woke at dawn to the sounds of war With a gun to load and an open torn letter from The only son that my own mother bore It said you know the poem now it's time that you gave us song I saw a child in the ash and the stone She danced for God she danced for nothing more I stopped a while and I watched the show She took my hand and she healed my broken bones Before the fires had reached the road We quit the town and gone for higher ground She took my life she returned my soul To the fountain side where I died and I was found I'm not going to dead end I'll knock on the Devil's own door There's a soldier's song that we teach the young Saying hold your own and take back what they stole Now they've grown and the war's begun The Order comes but there's no one left to go I'm not going to dead end I'll knock on the Devil's own door

He hopped a line out of Salt Lake City Dodging bulls clear to Sacramento He'd left behind a six-string beauty And couple of songs he had never meant to share He hitched and he walked on to San Francisco Singing and talking for tips at truck stops He listened for God on the CB radios And when he slept he dreamed he was following a grey mare Where I'm going Mister hell if I know I got no home I can call my own Don't want no load Midas like your fool's gold But I'd sell my soul just to ride that Midnight Ghost When he reached the Pacific he walked into the waves His banjo and boots keeping watch as he tumbled As the salt of his skin the brine of the pulling deep He laughed until the twilight bruised the west He hung his clothes to dry and he lay down naked The sand giving way under his backlog of stories As his salt lashes fell to meet He could have sworn he saw a shadow horse galloping down the coast When he was sure he was dreaming he opened his eyes He saw that horse steaming like a California sunrise He rose up to meet what was just over the horizon A train whistle blowed and he knowed it was the Midnight Ghost Where I'm going Mister hell if I know I got no home I can call my own Don't want no load Midas like your fool's god But I'd sell my soul just to ride that Midnight Ghost He woke again to the noon sun shining With a summersault songs he jumped up and climbed That bluff that he'd learned by the light of the moon from a whole night of chasing a galloping train to the end of everything The first sight of the tracks made his Pilgrim heart beat Like the rolling drums of steel on steel rattling wheels Coming and going's no different he says Because I never go back I just keep coming again Where I'm going Mister hell if I know I got no home I can call my own Don't want no load Midas like your fool's god But I'd sell my soul just to ride that Midnight Ghost

I'm going away from here July is going time of year I'm going to Chicago I'll drink a cup of your tears But I'm going away from here Did you miss the dream of me While you kissed another ghost to sleep You can't whistle for me So just come back to me When you miss the dream of me You better hurry find your calling Heaven don't wait for no one You are young you are loved and you are free Don't you worry don't be sorry Everything's changing always But you are young you are loved and you are free I could sing for you I could buy a wedding ring for you Love is all I ask It's all you have to do And I will sing for you But you better hurry find your calling Heaven don't wait for no one You are young you are loved and you are free Don't you worry don't be sorry Everything's changing always You are young you are loved and you are free Lord how the year's gone by Like water in these hands of mine Could you ask your father How he learns to die My how the years go by We better hurry find the calling Heaven don't wait for no one We are young we are loved and we are free Don't you worry don't be sorry Everything's changing always But you are young you are loved and you are free Don't you worry don't be sorry Everything's changing always You are young you are loved and you are free.

You walked off the stage like you're walking the plank Drink my vinegar praise and you stutter your thanks You study my face you know it but you don't know my name But I don't blame you because love and war man it's all been the same Is there nothing you hate but that shadow you cast I say I want you naked but you turn your back You say give me a second kid 'cause I'm not sure you want what I have And I'd it at that but something tells me you're not coming back Did you know we'd call you God? There's blood on our fists Don't you tell us this wasn't our fault Now you're purple eyed tough with your spit and your scruff You say you'll fuck them all up if they ever touched you But I see through all that because you and I we've met before It was that freak summer storm it took us all so far from the shore There was salt on your feet and there was sand in my teeth You were laughing at me as you walked on the sea You said see everything's easy when you're the son of the Lord I said I believed you I never said I didn't want anything more Did you know they call you God? There are holes in your wrists Don't you tell them this wasn't their fault The wine was too sweet but we bought it for cheap From the girl down the street yeah the one on TV And we got drunk and dreamed we were dreaming that we were being born I woke up screaming but you said I think I've had that dream before You stop your preaching and just listen to me You ain't no Jesus you're just making a scene And there's nothing to see here except that trick you pull when you disappear in the morning You said you can call me anything but you can't call me boring Do you know I call you God? But I've stolen a kiss Don't tell me this wasn't my fault So we'll call you God But there's something we missed Don't you tell us this wasn't our fault

I went to Boston on a whim I fell for you and I bust my chin I was bleeding out and cold enough to die I thought I'd lost you to him I took my guitar to Providence I wrote a song and found I could not lie So I went down to New York City Where you grow up fast and you grow up pretty And I traded that song for whiskey and some weed I was face down in Central Park With a greasy dog who would not bark He said boy in this town a bite's all you really need Tell me how long How long I got to be without you Long I got to sing this lonely tune Tell me how come It ain't be been falling asleep without you I got nothing to keep but something to lose That Bethesda Fountain she know my name And that bottle of bourbon knows my pain And the bed I found knows how to get me off The less I got the more I gain The more I talk the less I'm game It's the oldest joke but the punchline I forgot I was trying to sleep on an uptown 6 With old Saint Paul and a bag of tricks I didn't know it then but it was his birthday night If I had blinked I would have missed That weeping angel's goodbye kiss But I caught the deed and I cried till morning light Just singing how long How long I got to be without you Long I got to sing this lonely tune Tell me how come It ain't be been falling asleep without you I got nothing to keep but something to lose I woke up on a bus to Philly I was chewing my cud because I was out of whiskey I found that I'd lost my voice but I had my nerve But then I fell is step with a girl named Billy She bust my chops and she slapped me silly I asked her why she said what else do you deserve I know Chicago is where you is But I picture you in Los Angeles Slipping on stars and landing on your feet February came old and thin but I was listening to dixie strings And a Louisiana mama singing sweet That winter was like a wet cat spitting I was sweeping the streets with a mind for sinning Busted flat but keeping my own time I came across a downtown nancy He took me home and he dressed me fancy Then he spun me around saying sing it one more time I was singing how long How long I got to be without you Long I got to sing this lonely tune Tell me how come It ain't be been falling asleep without you I got nothing to keep but something to lose Then I was soaking up them Austin colors And I sat down at a bar called Mothers Sure enough that tender looked like mine The more I sat the more lost I felt Hell I even missed my father's help I tried calling home but the phone just ate my dimes You called me up on Saint Valentine's Said you'd had a child that it was mine Then you laughed and said just kidding I got a tattoo I didn't know what else to do So I got drunk and I got one too In the sober dusk I knew I couldn't change my mind Tell me how long How long I got to be without you Long I got to sing this lonely tune Tell me how come It ain't be been falling asleep without you I got nothing to keep but something to lose Tell me how long How long I got to keep this up Long I got to be out on the move Tell me how come How come this song ain't wrapping up I got nothing to have but something to lose The night before judgment day I think I'll throw my bottles away And give what coins I have to the poor But I know it'll never be enough So I just want to tell you before I'm dust You were always just what I've been looking for

Oh my love where have you gone The summer's lost and I'm alone once again with the Fall Oh my love no I can't afford to call Oh my friend what have we done You can't pretend that you're in love with everyone of us Oh my love no I can't afford the cost It's why I break your heart I'll never be the man from the Kansas City Star You know by now that your daddy drove a stolen car It's why I break your heart So I think that I'll just go And if we ever had a home perhaps it's where I'll be Oh my love no I can't afford to leave It's why I break your heart I'll never be the man from the Kansas City Star You know by now that your daddy drove a stolen car It's why I break your hearts