Heaven forbid

I’d like to see you in black

It’d make me feel like your husband’s dead

I’d like to see you in black

We could make him suffer instead



I’d like to see you in black I'd like to see you in black

I’d like to see you in black I'd like to see you in black



You can’t lie to me Ann

You can’t pretend he isn’t beating you up

I saw the marks on your hands

I saw the blood on your coffee cup



I'd like to see you in black I'd like to see you in black

I'd like to see you in black I'd like to see you in black

I'd like to see you in black I'd like to see you in black

I'd like to see you in black 

I'd like to see you in black 



The wind plucks your black lace gown

You’re standin’ proudly beside his grave

I see you wearing black

Gently smiling and oh so brave



We’ll run away to Greece

We’ll walk the ruins of the Parthenon

We’ll drink ouzo in our tub

Watch the dust billow ’til the night’s gone



I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black

I’d like to see you in black I’d like to see you in black

I’d love to see you in black I’d love to see you in black

I’d like to see you in black

I’d like to see you in black

In black

In black

This place has a history

The Spaniards settled here

They burned the town and fields

They moved away from here

My grandma often told me

She knew it peaceful here

The war took all the vigor

War took the best from here



Ahh ahh ahh ahh When the wind turns 

Ahh ahh ahh ahh And blows the leaves from the trees

Ahh ahh ahh ahh Harvest moon



I see the days grow shorter 

I feel the nights grow cold Harvest moon

Young people feelin’ restless 

Old people feelin’ old Harvest moon

I sense the darkness clearer

I feel a presence here Harvest moon

A change in the weather

I love this time of year Harvest moon



The Cobys worked that valley

They gave that land a go

They built a thriving business

Then came that early snow

They lost their livestock that year

They lost their sheep and goats

They sold the farm in springtime

Went south to work the boats



Ahh ahh ahh ahh When the wind turns 

Ahh ahh ahh ahh And blows the leaves from the trees

Ahh ahh ahh ahh Harvest moon



I see the days grow shorter 

I feel the nights grow cold Harvest moon

Young people feelin’ restless 

Old people feelin’ old Harvest moon

I sense the darkness clearer

I feel a presence here Harvest moon

A change in the weather

I love this time of year Harvest moon



Ten years in this farmhouse

Ten years come this May 

My simple needs are covered

Since grandma passed away 

Long time since there’s been trouble

That’s what the people say 

I told the new man when I

Sold the farm today



Ahh ahh ahh ahh When the wind turns 

Ahh ahh ahh ahh And blows the leaves from the trees

Ahh ahh ahh ahh Harvest moon



I sense the darkness clearer

I feel a presence here Harvest moon

A change in the weather

I feel some evil here Harvest moon

I hear some frightful noises

I don’t go out at night Harvest moon

Since Bobrow’s youngest daughter

Disappeared from sight Harvest moon



I know they’ll find her some day

They find them all that way Harvest moon

After the thaw in springtime

The snow melts away Harvest moon

I see the days grow shorter

I feel the nights grow cold Harvest moon

Young people feelin’ restless

Old people feelin’ old Harvest moon

You boys are surprised to see me

Never thought I’d get out of jail

Took eight long years to spring me

And two hours to ride the rail



Took only thirty minutes to find you

Asking every snake slithering the street

“Where’s the man with the golden tattoo?

The man who let me take the heat?”



You’re surprised in your neon lair

By the power underneath despair



Power underneath

Power underneath

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a power

Power underneath 

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a power

Power underneath Yeah the

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a power

Power underneath 

Power underneath despair



In solitary for two steel years

Thought of you sixty times an hour

Fighting madness and fighting despair

Digging the hidden power



Thought about you in the yard

When your punk slipped me the blade

Thought about you in the hospital ward

When I gave it back to him in trade



And my smile is the last sight you’ll see

As you feel the power from inside of me



Power underneath

Power underneath There’s a

Power underneath despair



Power underneath 

Power underneath

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a power

Power underneath

Power underneath despair



Power underneath

Power underneath There’s a

Power underneath despair



Power underneath

Power underneath There’s a

Power underneath despair



Power underneath 

Power underneath

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a power

Power underneath

Power underneath despair



Power underneath There’s a

Power underneath

Power underneath despair

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

In the ’50s Ray Milland pierced the skies



Do not envy who sees and plucks out his eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes



You think you want

You want to see 

Through all the lies

You think you’d like 

To see past death

With x-ray eyes x-ray eyes

X-ray eyes x-ray eyes

X-ray eyes x-ray eyes



Do not envy who sees beyond the pale

Don’t look there, pluck not at nature’s veil

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes



You think you want 

To see the truth

But if you knew 

You can’t undo

You’d look away

With x-ray eyes x-ray eyes

X-ray eyes x-ray eyes

X-ray eyes x-ray eyes



Do not lift the veil of the skies

Do not lift the veil of the skies

Do not lift the veil of the skies

Do not lift the veil of the skies



Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes



With x-ray eyes x-ray eyes

With x-ray eyes x-ray eyes

X-ray eyes 



Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Do not envy the man with the x-ray eyes

Step into a world of strangers

Into a sea of unknowns

Even friends potential danger

Secrets wound around their bones



Everybody else has got one

Packin’ high caliber heat

If you don’t wanna be dancin’

You don’t dare miss the beat



Keep the hammer back, hammer back

Don’t keep the safety on

Keep the hammer back, hammer back

’Til the living shadow’s gone



Maybe at a Seven-Eleven

Maybe at a quick carjack

You’ll verify there ain’t a heaven

If you don’t keep the hammer back



Keep the hammer back, hammer back

Don’t keep the safety on

Keep the hammer back, hammer back

’Til the living shadow’s gone



Keep the hammer back, hammer back

Don’t keep the safety on

Keep the hammer back, hammer back

’Til the living shadow’s gone



Hammer back, hammer back

Don’t keep the safety on

Keep the hammer back, hammer back

’Til the living shadow’s gone



Keep the hammer back, hammer back

Don’t keep the safety on

Keep the hammer back, hammer back

’Til the living shadow’s gone



Keep the hammer back, hammer back

Hammer back, hammer back

Ha ha ha

Wish I was a better person

With more control

Turn the other cheek

When the punch comes, roll

Wish I was a kinder person

Could see the other’s pain

Not overreact, never judge

Shrug off the spreadin’ stain



But I’m a howler monkey

Moreau’s half & half-man

A panther with its tail in a trap

A pumped up pyramid of pulsing glands



I’m damaged, and I like it

It made me what I am

I’m damaged, and I like it

The rest is just a sham



I’m damaged, and I like it

I live for rock ’n’ roll

I’m damaged, and I like it

It thrills me to the soul



Yeah, I told girlfriend I was gonna change

Gonna kick the habit and the taste

Trust me baby, this time it’s real

There’s a big part of me I’ve yet to waste



Don’t give up baby, don’t turn your back

I ain’t no wailin’ lost cause

I’ll toss the pipe and heal the tracks

As long as you don’t mind the blood

On my hands, drippin’ down the back that’s right



I’m damaged, and I like it

It made me what I am

I’m damaged, and I like it

The rest is just a sham



I’m damaged, and I like it

I live for rock ’n’ roll

I’m damaged, and I like it

It thrills me to the soul



D-a-m-a-g-e-d damaged is what I am

D-a-m-a-g-e-d damaged is what I am

D-a-m-a-g-e-d damaged is what I am

D-a-m-a-g-e-d 

What I am



And I like it

I live for rock ’n’ roll

I’m damaged, and I like it

It thrills me to the soul



I’m damaged, and I like it

It made me what I am

I’m damaged, and I like it

The rest is just a sham



Yeah!

Go!

That endless light 

Casts only one shadow

The cold grey light 

By the penthouse on the ghetto

Kill the other witness 

Knife plunged to the hilt

The unforgiven dawn 

Will only spotlight your guilt



In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t lie to yourself anymore

In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t hide the truth

Hide the truth anymore



You call up Emmy 

You’ve rehearsed the lines

But she knows about Judy 

She knows you’re lying

Put your foot in it, yeah 

It’s getting caught

Leave it in long enough, yeah 

It starts to rot



In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t lie to yourself anymore

In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t hide the truth

Hide the truth anymore



No matter what you did 

No matter who you are

In the fading light 

From a middle aged star

You’ve seen every blemish 

Every sign of age

And it’s useless to whine 

And it’s useless to rage



In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t lie to yourself anymore

In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t hide the truth

Hide the truth anymore



Cold grey light of dawn

You can’t lie to yourself anymore

In the cold grey light of dawn

You can’t hide the truth

Hide the truth anymore

Hide the truth 

Anymore

Hide the truth anymore

Rains of fish and rains of frogs

Arias sung by mongrel dogs

Whispers from the desert stones

Divinations in lizard bones



Something beyond is reaching out to you

Something beyond 

Is reaching out

Yeah



Discs that stretch into cigars

Angels buy drinks in skid row bars

Virgin mary winks from the sky

Trees twist into secret signs



Something beyond is reaching out to you

Something beyond 

Is reaching out



Strange We think our lives are real

Strange Amusement parks, our business deals

Strange Stranger still our empty lives

TV replacing kids and wife

Strange Lives consumed with soapy talk

Lives lived in fear of taking a walk



Oh the real world is bizarre enough for me

Oh the real world — bizarre enough for me



We’re drifting in the waiting room

Call it real, but call me real soon

The world is living Gaia’s at hand

Hear her laughing in earthquake land



Something beyond is reaching out to you

Something beyond 

Is reaching out

Something beyond is reaching out to you

Something beyond 

Is reaching out



Reaching out

It was a wet night 

And the other guy

Was lubricated with a pint of Jack

His truck hit 

Jimmy’s chevy

With a sound like a thunder crack



I was working late but I felt it happen

I knew that my brother was laid low

I waited for the call 

And then the damn call came

And I knew what I knew and didn’t want to know



Live for me

Live for me

Live twice as big

Love twice as long

Work twice as hard

Play all of your cards

Live for me

Live for me

Burn twice as bright

Three times as long

But brother, don’t do no one wrong



Beth thought he would make it through the winter

I never really thought so myself

The dark spirit was always hoverin’ nearer

And I knew in my heart there was just no help



When he called me to the bed

Took my hand to say goodbye

He said he wouldn’t blame nobody

Said he wouldn’t ask the Lord why



And when he passed on

A March wind blew

Sun drew away a veil of cloud

We buried him smiling

We buried him deep

And I could hear him sayin’ right out loud



Live for me

Live for me

Live twice as big

Love twice as long

Work twice as hard

Play all of your cards

Live for me

Live for me

Burn twice as bright

Three times as long

But brother, don’t do no one wrong

Brother, don’t do no one wrong

Maraschino

Cherry lipstick

Drop dead gorgeous

To her fingertips



Ohh ohh ohh ohh



Hold me tighter

In your arms

Let’s set off the

Smoke alarm

And I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love



And I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love



I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’ ohh ohh ohh ohh

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’



Take me to the

Edge of madness

Let me feel your

Secret passion



Ohh ohh ohh ohh



Freud have mercy

On my soul

I can’t fight this

Anymore

And I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love



And I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love



I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’ ohh ohh ohh ohh

I’m burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

I’m burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’ ohh ohh ohh ohh

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’



I’m still burnin’

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’ ohh ohh ohh ohh

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

I’m burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’ ohh ohh ohh ohh

Burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

I’m burnin’ for your love

I’m still burnin’

Maybe I'll see you again baby

And maybe I won't

Maybe you've bought your ticket

Gone back to Detroit

Airplanes make strangers of us all

Give us distance

Much too easily.

 

Jim says some destinies

Should not be delivered

But you and I seen now baby

That still they are

Winning it makes losers of us all

'Cause the dice roll

So indifferently.

 

CHORUS:

Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel

I'll wrap myself in dreams

I'll wrap myself in solitude

  ("stranger's arms" FOR 3RD CHORUS)

But I wish I could wrap myself

In thee.

 

Tonight it's hot, without you

Tomorrow'll be cold

Winter will come along

Driven by snow

Love it makes strangers of us all

When we part

Oh so thoughtlessly

 

CHORUS

 

Once we breathed the breath

Of sweet surrender

Pure, pure Arab air filled our

Atmosphere

But pride it makes stars of us all

Until we fall

For everyone to see.

 

CHORUS

CHORUS