Don't know why I'm scared tonight, but baby, I am
I don't know if it's just the crowd out there
I don't know if it's the slaughtered lamb
But I'm singing chains of gold for you
You know I've become a prisoner of song
With lawyers and contracts and royalties
And very little else in my hand.
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Im Trying To Break Free
Improvisation during the Frankfurt concert of April 6th, 1972
I'm trying to break free myself you know
Trying to lose my old songs
Trying to start a new life before it's too late
Trying to get along.
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Never Any Good
I was never any good at loving you
I was never any good at coming
Through for you
Youre going to feel much better
When you cut me loose forever
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
I was dying when we met
I bet my life on you
But you called me and I folded
Like you knew Id do
You called my ace, my king, my bluff
Okay, you win, enoughs enough
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
I was pretty good at taking out
The garbage
Pretty good at holding up the wall
Dealing with the fire and the earthquake
But that dont count
That dont count
That dont count for nothing much at all
I was never any good at loving you
I was just a tourist in your bed looking
At the view
But I cant forget where my lips
Have been
Those holy hills, that deep ravine
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
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I was pretty good at taking out the garbage
Pretty good at holding up the wall
Im sorry for my crimes against
The moonlight
I didnt think
I didnt think
I didnt think the moon would mind at all
I was never any good at loving you
At doing what a woman really wants
A man to do
Youre going to feel much better
When you cut me loose forever
I was never any good
Never any good
I was never any good at loving you
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Theres No Reason Why You Should
Now I'm going to give you a second chance. This is the formula in which you can
articulate the very worse kind of anxieties, fears, short circuits between all possible
relationships, and by singing it with me you'll resolve all those things and everything
will be straight. You'll be straighter than you've ever been. You can really look at the
person next to you and things will be so good, really
No it wasn't any good
There's no reason that you should
Remember me
No it wasn't any good
There's no reason why you should
Remember me
There's no reason why you should
Remember me
There's no reason why you should
Remember me
There's no reason why you should
Remember me
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The Great Event
It's going to happen very soon. The great
event which will end the horror. Which will
end the sorrow. Next Tuesday, when the sun
goes down, I will play the Moonlight Sonata
backwards. This will reverse the effects of
the world's mad plunge into suffering, for
the last 200 million years. What a lovely
night that would be. What a sigh of relief, as
the senile robins become bright red again,
and the retired nightingales, pick up their
dusty tails, and assert the majesty of creation!
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Way Down Deep
way down, way way down
way way down deep
you're got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You're got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep I'm way down,
Way way down, way way down deep
It came to me this morning
I was walking down the street
was like my soul could taste you
and God You tasted sweet
finally I can breathe again
finally I can speak
I've got you in the glory place
I've got you way down deep
I've got you way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You're got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You're got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down,
way way down deep
It's a funny feeling
but I cannot say I mind
I know that I'm dealing with
a love that's far from blind
I see every single angle
I look before I leap
how else can I put it
when you're got me way down deep
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You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down
way way down deep
don't matter what we gave away
was nothing we could keep
don't matter what we didn't say
you know that talk is cheap
forgive me if I hate you
you're a liar and a thief
but I've got you in the glory place
I got you way Down deep
you've got me way down, way way down ...
You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down
way way down deep
don't matter if the road is long
don't matter if it's steep
don't matter if the moon goes out
and darkness is Complete
don't matter if we lose our way
I know we're gonna meet
I've got you in the glory place
I've got you Way down deep
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You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way way down,
way way down deep
You've got me way down, way down deep
I wander with you in my sleep
I'm way down, way way down
way way down deep
way down, way way down, way way down deep
way down, way way down, way way down deep.
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The Party Was Over Then Too
When I was about fifteen
I followed a beautiful girl
into the Communist Party of Canada.
There were secret meetings
and you got yelled at
if you were a minute late.
We studied the McCarran Act
passed by the stooges in Washington,
and the Padlock Law
passed by their lackeys in Quebec,
and they said nasty shit
about my family
and how we got our money.
They wanted to overthrow
the country that I loved
(and served, as
