Who's next

Out here in the fields

I fight for my meals

I get my back into my living

I don't need to fight

To prove I'm right

I don't need to be forgiven



Don't cry

Don't raise your eye

It's only teenage wasteland



Sally ,take my hand

Travel south crossland

Put out the fire

Don't look past my shoulder

The exodus is here

The happy ones are near

Let's get together

Before we get much older



Teenage wasteland

It's only teenage wasteland

Teenage wasteland

Oh, oh

Teenage wasteland

They're all wasted!

I'd gladly lose me to find you

I'd gladly give up all I had

To find you I'd suffer anything and be glad



I'd pay any price just to get you

I'd work all my life and I will

To win you I'd stand naked, stoned and stabbed



I'd call that a bargain

The best I ever had

The best I ever had



I'd gladly lose me to find you

I'd gladly give up all I got

To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop



I'd pay any price just to win you

Surrender my good life for bad

To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man



I'd call that a bargain

The best I ever had

The best I ever had



I sit looking 'round

I look at my face inm the mirror

I know I'm worth nothing without you

And like one and one don't make two

One and one make one

And I'm looking for that free ride to me

I'm looking for you



I'd gladly lose me to find you

I'd gladly give up all I got

To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop



I'd pay any price just to win you

Surrender my good life for bad

To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man



I'd call that a bargain

The best I ever had

The best I ever had

Layin' on my back

In the newly mown grass

Rain is coming down

But I know the clouds will pass

You bring me tea

Say "the babe's a-sleepin'"

Lay down beside me

Love ain't for keeping



Black ash from the foundry

Hangs like a hood

But the air is perfumed

By the burning firewood

The seeds are bursting

The spring is seeping

Lay down beside me

Love ain't for keeping

Lay down beside me

Love ain't for keeping



Lay down beside me

Love ain't for keeping

Lay down my darling

Love ain't for keeping

My life's in jeopardy

Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be

I ain't been home since Friday night

And now my wife is coming after me



Give me police protection

Gonna buy a gun so

I can look after number one

Give me a bodyguard

A back belt Judo expert with a machine gun



Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane

When she catches up with me

Won't be no time to explain

She thinks I've been with another woman

And that's enough to send her half insane

Gonna buy a fast car

Put on my lead boots

And take a long, long drive

I may end up spending all my money

But I'll still be alive



All I did was have a bit too much to drink

And I picked the wrong precinct

Got picked up by the law

And now I ain't got time to think



Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane

When she catches up with me

Won't be no time to explain

She thinks I've been with another woman

And that's enough to send her half insane

Gonna buy a fast car

Put on my lead boots

And take a long, long drive

I may end up spending all my money

But I'll still be alive



And I'm oh so tired of running

Gonna lay down on the floor

I gotta rest some time so

I can get to run some more



She's comin'!

She's comin'!

The song is over

It's all behind me

I should have known it

She tried to find me



Our love is over

They're all ahead now

I've got to learn it

I've got to sing out



chorus:

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces

I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea

I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains

I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces

I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea

I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains

I'll sing my song to the free, to the free



When I walked in through the door

Thought it was me I was looking for

She was the first song I ever sang

But it stopped as soon as it began



Our love is over

It's all behind me

They're all ahead now

Can't hope to find me



(chorus)



This song is over

I'm left with only tears

I must remember

Even if it takes a million years



The song is over

The song is over



Searchin' for a note, pure and easy

Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well

With the chords I'm playing

I can't pretend there's any meaning here

Or in the things I'm saying



But I'm in tune

Right in tune

I'm in tune

And I'm gonna tune

Right in on you

Right in on you

Right in on you



I get a little tired of having to say

"Do you come here often?"

But when I look in your eyes and see the harmonies

And the heartaches soften



I'm getting in tune

Right in tune

I'm in tune

And I'm gonna tune

Right in on you (right in on you)

Right in on you (right in on you)

Right in on you



I've got it all here in my head

There's nothing more needs to be said

I'm just bangin' on my old piano

I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow

(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)

Getting in tune with the straight and narrow

(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)

Yeah, I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow

(Getting in tune with the straight and narrow)



I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well

With the way I'm feeling

There's a symphony that I hear in your heart

Sets my head a-reeling



But I'm in tune

Right in tune

I'm in tune

And I'm gonna tune

Right in on you (right in on you)

Right in on you (right in on you)

Right in on you



Baby, with you

Baby, with you

Baby, with you

Baby, with you

Baby, with you



I've got it all here in my head

There's nothing more needs to be said

I'm just bangin' on my old piano

I'm getting in tune with the straight and narrow



Getting in tune with the straight and narrow (repeat)

I'm goin' home

And when I wanna go home

I'm goin' mobile

Well, I'm gonna find a home

And we'll see how it feels

Goin' mobile

Keep me movin'



I can pull up by the curb

I can make it on the road

Goin' mobile

I can stop in any street

And talk with people that we meet

Goin' mobile

Keep me movin'



Out in the woods

Or in the city

It's all the same to me

When I'm drivin' free, the world's my home

When I'm mobile



Hee, hoo!

beep beep!



Play the tape machine

Make the toast and tea

When I'm mobile

Well I can lay in bed

With only highway ahead

When I'm mobile

Keep me movin'



Keep me movin'

Over 50

Keep me groovin'

Just a hippie gypsy



Come on move now

Movin'

Keep me movin', yeah



Keep me movin', groovin', groovin', yeah

Movin', Yeah

Mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, ...



I don't care about pollution

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy

That's my solution

Watch the police and the tax man miss me

I'm mobile

Oooooh, yeah, hee!



Mobile, mobile, mobile yeah

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes



No one knows what it's like

To be hated

To be fated

To telling only lies



But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be



I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free



No one knows what it's like

To feel these feelings

Like I do

And I blame you



No one bites back as hard

On their anger

None of my pain and woe

Can show through



But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be



I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free



When my fist clenches, crack it open

Before I use it and lose my cool

When I smile, tell me some bad news

Before I laugh and act like a fool



If I swallow anything evil

Put your finger down my throat

If I shiver, please give me a blanket

Keep me warm, let me wear your coat



No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

We'll be fighting in the streets

With our children at our feet

And the morals that they worship will be gone

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgement of all wrong

They decide and the shotgun sings the song



I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again



The change, it had to come

We knew it all along

We were liberated from the fold, that's all

And the world looks just the same

And history ain't changed

'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war



I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

No, no!



I'll move myself and my family aside

If we happen to be left half alive

I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky

Though I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?



There's nothing in the streets

Looks any different to me

And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye

And the parting on the left

Are now parting on the right

And the beards have all grown longer overnight



I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

Don't get fooled again

No, no!



Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!



Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

There once was a note, pure and easy,

Playing so free, like a breath rippling by.

The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me,

Forever we blend it, forever we die.



I listened and I heard music in a word,

And words when you played your guitar,

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,

And a child flew past me riding in a star.



As people assemble,

Civilization is trying to find a new way to die,

But killing is really merely scene changer,

All men are bored with other men's lies.



I listened and I heard music in a word,

And words when you played your guitar,

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,

And a child flew past me riding in a star.



Gas on the hillside, oil in the teacup,

Watch all the chords of life lose their joy,

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness,

The note that began all can also destroy.



We all know success when we all find our own dreams,

And our love is enough to knock down any walls,

And the future's been seen as men try to realize,

The simple secret of the note in us all.



I listened and I heard music in a word,

And words when you played your guitar,

The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering,

And a child flew past me riding in a star.



There once was a note, pure and easy,

Playing so free, like a breath rippling by.



There once was a note, listen (x 18)

Take a little dope

And walk out in the air

The stars are all connected to the brain.

Find me a woman and lay down on the ground,

Her pleasure comes falling down like rain,

Get myself a car, I feel power as I fly,

Oh now I'm really in control,

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all,

Don't happen that way at all.



You sign your own name and I sign mine,

They're both the same but we still get separate rooms,

You can cover up your guts but when you cover up your nuts,

You're admitting that there must be something wrong,

Press any button and milk and honey flows,

The world begins behind your neighbor's wall,

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all,

Nah nah no, don't happen that way at all.



You hold the gun and I hold the wound,

And we stand looking in each other's eyes,

Both think we know what's right,

Both know we know what's wrong,

We tell ourselves so many many many lies,

We're not pawns in any game, we're not tools of bigger men,

There's only one who can really move us all,

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all.

The foreman over there hates the gang,

The poor people on the farms get it so rough,

Truck drivers drive like the devil,

The policemen they're acting so tough.

They need water,

Good water,

They need water,

And I'm sure there isn't one of us here

Who'd say no to somebody's daughter.

No, no, no, no, no.



The foreman over there hates the gang,

The poor people on the farms get it so rough,

Truck drivers drive like the devil,

The policemen they're acting so tough.

They need water,

Good water,

They need water,

And maybe somebody's daughter.



Indian Lake is burning,

The New York skyline is hazy,

The River Thames is turning dry,

The whole world is blazing.

We need water,

Wow yeah good water,

Ooh we need water,

And maybe somebody's daughter.



Ah gimme gimme good water,

Ah gimme gimme gimme good water,

Ah gimme good water,

Please don't refuse me, mister,

I seen your daughter at the oasis

And I'm beginning to blister.



My Chevrolet just made steam,

Your crop is laying foul,

My grass skirt's lost its green,

I'm alive but I don't know how.

I need water, good good water,

They need water,

Gimme gimme gimme good water,

Wow, gimme gimme gimme good water,

Gimme gimme gimme good water,

Come on gimme gimme gimme...



[faintly:] Champagne!

I think these hands have felt a lot,

I don't know, what have I touched,

I think these eyes have seen a lot,

I don't know, maybe they've seen too much.



I think this brain has thought a lot,

Searching, trying to find the crutch,

I think this heart has bled once too often,

This time it's bled a bit too much.



Too much of anything, too much for me,

Too much of everything gets too much for me.



I can't remember before '49,

But I know that '48 was there,

My ears let in what I should speak out,

Hmmm, there's something in the air.



Ooh, I've overloaded on my way,

Bye, bye, bye, bye, you better keep in touch.

Think your ears hear a whole lot of music,

And like me they've caught a bit too much.



Too much of anything, is too much for me,

Too much of everything gets too much for me.



I think these hands have felt a lot,

I don't know, what have I touched,

I think these eyes have seen a lot,

I don't know, maybe they've seen too much.



I think this brain has thought a lot,

Oh, searching, trying to find the crutch,

I think these ears hear a whole lot of music,

And like me they've heard a bit too much.



Too much of anything, is too much for me,

Too much of everything gets too much for me.

There's nothing in the way I walk that could tell you where I'm going,

There's nothing in the words I speak that can betray anything I'm knowing,

Don't think about the way I dress, you can fit me on a labelled shelf,

Don't pretend that you know me 'cause I don't even know myself,

Ooh I don't know myself.



I don't mind if you try once in a while,

I don't mind if I cry once in a while,

The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem,

I'm just trying to fight my way out of this dream.



Don't listen to the words I say, weighing up if I'm enlightened,

Don't shiver as you pass me by, 'cause mister I'm the one who's frightened,

The police just came and left, they wanted me and no one else,

Don't pretend that you know me 'cause I don't even know myself,

I said I don't know myself.



I don't mind if you try once in a while,

I don't mind if I cry once in a while,

The doors aren't shut as tight as they might seem,

I'm just trying to fight my way out of this dream.



Do you remember me, I don't remember you,

Do you still love me, you know I think you do,

I have been gone, and some prison warder knows my scream,

I'm just trying to fight my way out of this dream.



There's only five who know my real name,

And my mother don't believe they know it,

What she called me is the way I'm staying,

And no one'll ever know it,

Come on all of you big boys, come on all of you elves,

Don't pretend that you know me 'cause I don't even know myself,

I said I don't know myself.



I don't mind if you try once in a while,

And I don't mind if I cry once in a while.