She gets high, she gets low And she lives her life straight just like Serpico She starts to sneeze and pronounces bless me Wipes her nose on a shirt that
We are the children of God Whoever he may be, whoever she may be We go through life feelin' odd Like a bird inside a cage, no where to pour the rage
still lookin' So tell me where did we go wrong And give me one more chance to prove you wrong I saw a monarch butterfly Spread its holy wings and fly Beneath the velvet
She was sitting in the corner of a cafe In the burning heart of downtown Santa Fe Picking on a Gibson and singing, "Baby Can't You See" She was buzzing
I've never been the one Who had my head on straight So I gave myself this job Now I'm waitin' at the gate For my bag to be inspected For some crazy reason
I said something wrong it never fails It kept us up all night But time has her own way of showing today In a different light Friends come and they go
It's 3 a.m. and the snakes have moved in I'm playing to 4 drunks and me But the beer is cold and the memory is old And the lights are so bright I can'
From all that is in me I say these words with freedom on my tongue I give to you all of me In this crazy world, life has just begun No one can take that
In the town that I was born in There rides a boy and a girl in love And the answer came without warning Just like an angel from Heaven above And they
Well, Johnny Mae and William J, hitched a ride from sunny L.A. With a soldier who'd gone AWOL, stockade bound and they got off In the Texas rain and they
You're in my mind half the time Trying to find someone to hide behind But still they poured right in on you And everyday you try to walk away From the
There is a young man Driving an old man's car Down the Pennsylvania Turnpike Where the treetops meet the stars There is a warm wind Blowin' down the
A good bit of me sleeps underneath In the bed of my soul, lying next to belief If toss where I lay, I might turn her away So I try to fall, still dreamin