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We don't need no burning crosses Put out the fire of bigotry We don't need to count our losses When they bury you, they'll bury me I have a dream that we can be united It will only work when fears are subsided By the sweat of my brow, I won't let it die Freedom for our hearts is my battle cry We're living in troubled times We're living in troubled times How could we be so blind We're living in troubled times Poor man begging at rich man's feet He ears the crumbs off of the floor We are starving for something to eat We are whales upon the shore There was a time we tore our country down For all the same reasons that we fight for now And if pride comes before a fall Then why tell me why we tore down the wall | ||
Hired Gun |
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They pay me lots of money for what I do I'm a dancer midnight romancer under the moon I'm on the clock, I like to rock, I don't work the streets You'll be amazed, your eyes a glazed When I do my high wire feats Exterminator, rawhide gangster, I can equal the odds I pay for your sins with my boyish grin, I create the facade Steady hand, I'm a gentleman, I've got deadly aim Womanizer, lone survivor, I like to play the game Hope you and Jesus have it all worked out I'm a hired gun There is no heaven here on earth, love must rule us all Black days are coming, every prideful man will fall Have no fear or shed a tear, but there will come a day When I'm looked in the eye, asked to die, and I hear somebody say Hope you and Jesus have it all worked out I'm a hired gun | ||
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Ever fallen in love |
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She drives me crazy, makes me belong I can't take it no more She gives her best, she gives her all She picks me up when I fall She's got a good thing, she's got a special way She's there when I need her the most She's really doing fine, she's got a heart to give She puts me together again Ever fallen in love, I have Ever fallen in love, I am She tells me she's all min, knows how much I need her I'm blessed to have these feelings again She makes me the man I am, she's the one I believe in She holds a key to my heart Ever fallen in love, I have Ever fallen in love, I am Love bears all things, believes all things Hopes all things, endures all things Love is patient, love is kind Love is forgiving, love is blind | ||
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Mountain |
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I see the scars from a mad man's knife Marks on your wrist where he had you tied You try and tell me it doesn't mean a thing I hear the sad songs you're left to sing You thought you could take it, day after day You're blessed to be able to still walk away Your mother told you they were dirty old men They say if you don't play you can't win You want love, you need love There's love on the mountain His hands were folded as if to pray But he never had any words to say He walked beside you then and he left you alone To face the fear that he places in your soul Prodigal girl, come in out of the cold Rest your feet before you explode Prodigal girl, I know you're hurt I know what they stole | ||
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Ski mask |
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Let's go out and have some fun With our ski mask and hand guns Driving fast cars to the sun We'll be blind but we'll die young We were wild when we were young With our ski mask and hand guns The law means nothing when you're numb I bet those handcuffs weighed a ton Ski mask and hand guns Lived on the edge lived on the run With those ski mask and handguns I never knew love until I met you Makes me do the things I do Walking, talking, no use crying Living, loving, no use dying There was a time I thought I knew it all I could walk before I crawled Jesus crushed my heart of stone Gave me love I had never known Don't need no, don't want no | ||
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Everybody knows my name |
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Everybody knows my name, everybody wants the fame Everybody wants to see, everybody wants a piece of me Everybody wants the fun, everybody sees the gun Everybody be so kind, still got my piece of mind Everybody knows my name Everybody can you feel my pain I was born a poor boy, left home when I was four Momma never named me so I never was for sure I learned to read enough to know life was not so kind All I own is my guitar and my peace of mind I went out into the world to find my place in life I'm learning more every day surviving really bites They ask me for a line of coke, needles, knives and guns I said to myself I've fund home cause this place sounds like fun Everybody knows my name, everybody play the game Everybody wants the fame, everybody knows my name I've seen holy rollers, midnight strollers, cops shake with fear I've seen high heels clicking, red lipstick, blood, sweat and tears I've read about a man who died on a cross for everybody's sins if you want to make a change you've got to put your faith in him I've seen the limelight in new your city I've seen the rainbow in Hollywood walked the streets of London England the streets of gold look so good I voted for their politicians I've seen all the dirty religions I wore their three piece suits But I did not wear their army boots I didn't fire the guns of war Never knew what we were fighting for Everybody wants the fame Everybody knows my name | ||
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Young love |
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Roxanne doesn't think she's pretty enough She sits staring up at the sky Dreams about a life that could be She throws her diary into the sea It becomes a very long summer The careless nights of fantasy are over When you see her she's white as a ghost She misses the sun on her face the most Young love, kiss him goodbye Young love, don't you cry Young love, it's no lie There is love before the day you die She feels her life has fallen apart I tried to tell her the world has a bulletproof heart Sometimes the past is hard to escape When the future is bent out of shape At the church, she knelt to pray Sweet lord Jesus, give me the strength She cried his name She cried his name Roxanne doesn't think she's pretty enough She sits staring up at the sky She wears a cross around her neck Got the words at her fingertips | ||
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Kiss the train |
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You always told me, you can be beat Thought you had me bound hand and feet I can see your lies, pain and ecstasy It's time I take control, love comes quickly Lay your cards down, you ain't so tough Is that all you got, I will call your bluff Kiss the train, I won't do it Kiss the train, I'd be a fool Kiss the train, I won't do it Kiss the train, love will take me through In my sleep, I could feel the snake Burning body until it ached Signed my name in blood, dream of salvation The morning will come, my love without reservation This isn't the way out, there's always hope and time If you wait on the train, you'll go out of your mind | ||
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Crimes against humanity |
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Prisoner of war, prisoner of love, there's a torch to my head crimes of passion, crimes of youth, stop the ringing in my head born again, not born at all, the future is full of smoke born to lead, the need to think, I grab my lungs and I choke What we take for granted can be taken away and then you ask for more you're still dropping bombs from a plane that went down in the civil war drive the nails, drive them hard, peace turns to war again crown of thorns, crown of peace, political battleship Crimes against humanity, the dogs are closing in And when the kingdom comes, it will bring it to an end Tell me you believe Let's crown another beauty queen, do you find it so obscene what about the homeless, the starving, the poor, no room for the sick cause the rich want more they lied to us, they lied to them, breaks my heart inside took their hope, stole their love, no life left in their eyes I stand on this hill and I scream your name It's something they've tried to erase Some say nothing lasts forever We all run the risk of being lost Some hold on and some never thought to believe We've got to have bigger guns, we've got to find higher suns one day you'll see the truth that you've been running from tell me you believe, I still believe, I believe in love it's all that we have left | ||
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Sweet Louise |
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I can still sweet Louise standing there Like a child she whispers softly to me She comes to me, I swear, I close my eyes I still see sweet Louise I hear the songs she used to sing Her voice sounds so real to me Tell me it's not a dream, my heart is strange Like it used to feel with sweet Louise Sweet Louise, she's still with me Even though she's gone Sweet Louise, she's part of me She lives in my songs The door opened and closed And no one knows Our secret place Where memories are safe No one can move me like she did No one can touch me like she did On a rainy night how we cried I held her and and I kissed her goodbye I can see you up in heaven looking down at me Make the dark clouds disappear There can never be a love so sweet She left this world without a tear The door opened and closed I know We'll be together again | ||