I'll stay a while, but I won't stay long. No I won't, it's been too long since I've been next to my lover, I'll stay a while, but I won't stay long. It
Been waiting here a long, long time Pain and trouble on my mind You came along and made me see Oh you lifted me Shot up everything that my money could
In the valley where the moons and lovers play live two children who were born on Saturday. One was dark, one was fair, followed by the hawk, mothered
Sometimes I dream of a world without war People laughing in the sun And a world without love ain't no place to live Yet, we're still living but the gun
hive. Messenger of gods Where's the lightning, where's the thunder? Messenger of gods Where's the word and where's the fire? Ooh! Where is the messenger
you We will kill the messenger, kill the messenger Kill the messenger, we will kill the messenger Kill the messenger, kill the messenger, we'll kill the messenger
Well, you look so true in undressed eyes Is your coma real? Did you change your mind? I see so clearly in these bargain eyes Words coffee drip out my
holding out one righteous hand While the other leads the marching band In the shadow hymn of the scratch man Heed the message, kill the messenger Oh
let me shoot the messenger Yea, so help me God, it talks so much This yard, this song, my weakness I'm gonna shoot the messenger Oh, let me shoot the messenger
We're leaving tomorrow We'll travel on through the morning light Leaving in sorrow Carrying something that must get through So many waiting To hear the
Up much too late writing letters in my head To far away people wouldn't know if they were dead People far away that I once knew Some people so close you
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Another beautiful morning under stars and bars And F series pickups and rusted out cars And they're eating breakfast at the strip bar Just to have a peek
Rolled in last night to the dawn, the porch and all the floodlights No excuse but we were having such a good time Why, oh why, can't I just walk the straight
The perfumed and smoky she swears that she knows me She's falling down drunk again I say she's mistaken she's visibly shaken Emotions all drowned in gin
Lying here with you Listening to the rain Smiling just to see the smile upon your face These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive These are the
Let them in, Peter For they are very tired Give them couches where the angels sleep And light those fires Let them wake whole again To brand new dawns
The promise of you it sleeps in the air The air that I breathe And I know that it's true Don't have to convince myself to believe, yeah What secrets