Through the looking glass

Could you be loved and be loved, could you be loved and be loved 



Don't let them fool you, or even try to school you, oh! no

We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right

Love would never leave us alone

I say the darkness there must come out to light 



Could you be loved and be loved, could you be loved and be loved 



Could you be, could you be, could you be loved

Could you be, could you be loved 



Don't let them change you, or even rearrange you, oh! no

We've got a life to live, they say only, only

Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive

Stay alive 



Could you be loved and be loved, could you be loved and be loved 



You ain't gonna miss your water, until your well runs dry

No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied 



Could you be, could you be, could you be loved

Could you be, could you be loved 



Say something, say something, say something

Say something, say something, say something



Could you be, could you be, could you be loved

Could you be, could you be loved

Bodhisattva

Would you take me by the hand



Bodhisattva

Would you take me by the hand

Can you show me 

The shine of your Japan 

The sparkle of your china

Can you show me

Bodhisattva 



Bodhisattva 

I'm gonna sell my house in town



Bodhisattva 

I'm gonna sell my house in town 



And I'll be there 

To shine in your Japan

To sparkle in your China 

Yes I'll be there 



Bodhisattva

I look at you all

See the love there that's sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps



I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping

Still my guitar gently weeps



I don't know why nobody told you

How to unfold your love

I don't know how someone controlled you

They bought and sold you



I look at the world and I notice it's turning

While my guitar gently weeps



With every mistake we must surely be learning

Still my guitar gently weeps



I don't know how you were diverted

You were perverted too

I don't know how you were inverted

No one alerted you



I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps



Look at you all...

Still my guitar gently weeps.

I can turn your gray sky blue

I could make it rain whenever I wanted to

I can build a castle from a single grain of sand

I can make a ship sail on dry land

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue

'Cause I can't get next to you

Next to you, I just can't get next to you



I can fly like a bird in the sky

Hey, and I can buy anything that money can buy

I can turn a river into a raging fire

I could live forever if I so desired

Unimportant are all these things I can do

'Cause I can't get next to you

No matter what I do



I can turn back the hands of time

You'd better believe I can

I can make the seasons change

Just by a wave of my hand

I can change anything from old to new

The thing I want to do the most I'm unable to do

Unhappy am I with all the powers I possess

'Cause girl, you're the key to my happiness

And I, wo, I can't get next to you



(fade): 

Girl, you're blowin' my mind 'cause I can't get (next to you)

Can't you see these tears I'm cryin'? I can't get (next to you)

Girl, it's you that I need; I gotta get (next to you)

A boy is born in hard time Mississippi

Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty

His parents give him love and affection

To keep him strong moving in the right direction

Living just enough, just enough for the city...ee ha!



His father works some days for fourteen hours

And you can bet he barely makes a dollar

His mother goes to scrub the floors for many

And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny

Living just enough, just enough for the city... yeah!



His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty

He spends his life walking the streets of New York City

He's almost dead from breathing in air pollution

He tried to vote but to him there's no solution

Living just enough, just enough for the city...



I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow

And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow

This place is cruel no where could be much colder

If we don't change the world will soon be over



Living just enough...

For the city... ooh, ooh

(Repeat several times)

You tell me there's an angel in your tree

Did he say he'd come to call on me

For things are getting desperate in our home

Living in the parish of the restless folks I know



Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside

Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

It's time we put the flame torch to their keep



Burn down the mission

If we're gonna stay alive

Watch the black smoke fly to heaven

See the red flame light the sky



Burn down the mission

Burn it down to stay alive

It's our only chance of living

Take all you need to live inside



Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today

My wife cried when they came to take me away

But what more could I do just to keep her warm

Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls



Bring your family down to the riverside

Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide

Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps

It's time we put the flame torch to their keep



Chorus

It's getting near dawn.

The lights close their tired eyes.

I'll soon be with you, my love,

to give you my dawn surprise.

I'll be with you, darling, soon,

I'll be with you when the stars start falling.



I've been waiting so long

to be where I'm going

in the sunshine of your love.



I'm with you, my love.

The light shining through on you.

Yes, I'm with you, my love,

it's the morning and just we two.

I'll stay with you, darling, now,

I'll stay with you till my seeds are dried up.



I've been waiting so long

to be where I'm going

in the sunshine of your love.



It's getting near dawn.

The lights close their tired eyes.

I'll soon be with you, my love,

to give you my dawn surprise.

I'll be with you, darling, soon,

I'll be with you when the stars start falling.



I've been waiting so long...

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God I know I'm one



My mother was a tailor

She sewed my new bluejeans

My father was a gamblin' man

Down in New Orleans



Now the only thing a gambler needs

Is a suitcase and trunk

And the only time he's satisfied

Is when he's on a drunk



Oh mother tell your children

Not to do what I have done

Spend your lives in sin and misery 

In the House of the Rising Sun



There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God I know I'm one

Nice girls not one with a defect, cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.

Red dogs under illegal legs, she looks so good that he gets down and begs.



She is watching the detectives, "ooh, he's so cute!" 

She is watching the detectives, when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

They beat him up until the teardrops start,

But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart.



Long shot of that jumping sign, visible shivers running down my spine. 

Cut the baby taking off her clothes. 

Close-up of the sign that says,"We never close"

You snatch a tune, you a match a cigarette, 

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

I don't know how much more of this I can take.

She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake.



She is watching the detectives...



You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.

Now fear is here to stay. Love is here for a visit.

They call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit. 

Someone's scratching at the window. I wonder who is it? 

The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents

who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance.

Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay, 

it only took my little fingers to blow you away. 



Just like watching the detectives, don't get cute!" 

It's just like watching the detectives.

I get so angry when the teardrops start,

but he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart.

Just like watching the detectives...

Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,

Can't buy a thrill.

Well, I've been up all night, baby,

Leanin' on the window sill.

Well, if I die

On top of the hill

And if I don't make it,

You know my baby will.



And if I don't make it,

You know my baby will.



Now the wintertime is coming,

The windows are filled with frost.

I went to tell everybody,

But I could not get across.

Well, I wanna be your lover, baby, 

I don't wanna be your boss.

Don't say I never warned you

When your train gets lost.



Don't say I never warned you

When your train gets lost.