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Mirrorball
[All songs by Neil Young, except 'Peace and Love' lyrics by
Young/Vedder]
Song X||Act of Love||I'm the Ocean||Big Green Country||
Truth Be Known||Downtown
What Happened Yesterday||Peace and Love
||Throw Your Hatred Down||Scenery
||Fallen Angel
Hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
Where life's a joy for girls and boys
And only will get better.
Hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
Romeo and Juliet,
The doctor and his case.
Without a plan they left the van,
And there were laid to waste.
Hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
The priest was there with sandy hair,
Religion by his side.
He saw his law was broken.
The punishment was applied.
Hey ho, away we go,
Along the road to never.
Hey ho away we go,
We're on the road to never.
He held her hand and wished her well,
Although his heart was aching.
The cameras rolled,
The print was bold,
The holy war was breaking.
It's hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
Where life's a joy for girls and boys,
And only will get better.
Hey ho, away we go,
Along the road to never.
Hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
Hey ho, away we go,
Along the road to never.
Hey ho, away we go,
We're on the road to never.
The priest was there with sandy hair,
Religion by his side.
He saw his law was broken.
The punishment was applied.
The fruit of love was in the future,
Around the corner and over the hill.
The act of love was slowly pounding,
Slowly pounding, slowly pounding.
The holy war was slowly building.
Heroes leaving for the great crusade.
Seek reward in the ever after,
Ever after, ever after.
Don't wanna have to lose you baby.
Don't want to have to take you back.
You know I'll never lose you baby,
Abuse you baby, use you baby.
You know I'll always help you baby,
But I just can't do that.
I know I said I'd help you baby,
Here's my wallet, call me sometime.
Act of love.
The fruit of love was in the future,
Around the corner and over the hill.
The act of love was slowly pounding,
Slowly pounding, slowly pounding.
Act of love.
I'm an accident. I was driving way too fast.
Couldn't stop though, so I let the moment last.
I'm for rollin'. I'm for tossin' in my sleep.
It's not guilt though. It's not the company I keep.
People my age, they don't do the things I do.
They go somehwere, while I run away with you.
I got my friends, and I got my children, too.
I got her love, she's got my love, too.
I can't hear you, but I feel the things you say.
I can't see you, but I see what's in my way.
Now I'm floatin', 'cause I'm not tied to the ground.
Words I've spoken seem to leave a hollow sound.
On the long plain...see the rider in the night...
See the chieftain...see the braves in cool moonlight...
Who will love them when they take another life?
Who will hold them when they tremble for the knife?
Voicemail numbers on an old computer screen.
Rows of lovers parked forever in a dream.
Screaming sirens echoing across the bay
To the old boats from the city far away.
Homeless heroes walk the streets of their hometown.
Rows of zeros on a field that's turning brown.
They play baseball, they play football under lights.
They play card games and we watch them every night.
Need distraction...need romance and candlelight.
Need random violence...need entertainment tonight.
Need the evidence...want the testimony of
Expert witnesses on the brutal crimes of love.
I was too tired to see the news when I got home.
Pulled the curtain, fell into bed alone.
Started dreaming, saw the rider once again
In the doorway where she stood and watched for him, watched for him.
I'm not present...I'm a drug that makes you dream.
I'm an aerostar...I'm a cutlass supreme.
In the wrong lane trying to turn against the flow.
I'm the ocean...I'm the giant undertow.
I'm the ocean...I'm the giant undertow.
Across the plain flew the lone grey rider.
Leather bang pounding on his back.
Above the clouds the moon was climbing higher.
A pack of wolves wanted their money back.
With folded arms the chief stood watching.
Painted braves slipped down the hill.
In his ears the spirit talking
As they closed in for an easy kill.
At the house the door was wide open,
Wind blew curtains off the rod.
She was waiting and hoping,
She was praying to her god.
He was luckier than most men.
He was barely in his prime.
As she stood their in the doorway,
Her long dress flowing...
Would he make it this time?
Over the hill in the big green country.
That's the place where the cancer cowboy rides.
Pure as the driven snow before it got him.
Sometimes I feel like he's all right.
Sometimes I feel like a piece of paper.
Sometimes I feel like my own name.
Sometimes I feel different later.
Sometimes I feel...I feel just the same.
Saw your friend working in this hotel.
Says he used to know you when.
And your dreams, lucky as they seemed,
They all turned their back on him.
Truth be known.
Truth be known, way I feel tonight.
Living in this back street town.
'Bout my dreams, they all seem to fade
As soon as I put my money down.
Truth be known.
When the fire that once was your friend
Burns your fingers to the bone,
And your song meets a sudden end
Echoing through right and wrong...
Truth be known.
There's a place called Downtown,
Where the hippies all go.
And they dance the Charleston,
And they do the limbo.
Yeah the hippies all go there,
'Cause they want to be seen.
It's like a room full of pictures,
It's like a psychedelic dream.
Downtown, let's go downtown.
Downtown at night...downtown.
Let's have a party,
Downtown at night.
Yeah it's right around the corner,
Up and down the hill.
When you hear the band playin',
It's gonna give you a chill.
Give your money to the gateman,
Young blood in his eye.
Hold on to your baby,
When you slip into the sky.
Downtown, let's go downtown.
Downtown tonight...downtown
Hear the band playin',
Downtown all right.
Jimi's playin' in the back room.
Led Zeppelin on stage.
There's a mirror ball twirlin',
And a note from Page.
Like a water-washed diamond
In a river of sin.
Goin' down like a whirlpool
When you get sucked in.
Downtown, let's go downtown.
Downtown tonight...downtown.
Hear the band playin',
Downtown all right.
Downtown, let's go downtown.
Downtown at night...downtown.
Let's have a party,
Downtown all right.
TOP
7)
What Happened Yesterday
Can't forget what happened yesterday,
Though my friends say don't look back.
I can feel it coming through me
Like an echo...like a photograph.
Peace and love, flying so high.
Peace and love, too young to die.
Peace and love, now you decide.
Stay for the children.
You don't really want to go.
Can't feel it pulling like you did.
Peace and love.
Peace and love, only a ride.
Strength is gone, dying inside.
Tell me now, what did you find?
Found love in the people,
Livin' in a sacred land.
Found love in the people.
Peace and love.
[Vedder]
Found love...found...saw my mistake.
Broke walls of pain to walk again.
I saw the dream, I saw the wake.
We shared it all, but not the take.
Peace and love, lennon's goodbye.
Over now, living in time.
A broken bell, a nursery rhyme.
Deserted by heroes,
Strangers in your own land.
No way to deny you, no way to deny you.
Peace and love.
[Vedder]
I took it all, I took the oath.
I took it all 'til I had most.
I took what's left, I gave it breath.
I had it all once, I gave it back.
Here in the conscious world
We place our theories down.
Why man must bring us to our knees
Before he sees the weakness of his sinful plan?
The power in his hand
Will never touch a friend.
Throw your hatred down.
Meanwhile in the underworld,
The weaknesses are seen
By peasants and presidents
Who plan the counter-scheme.
Children in the schoolyard
Finish choosing teams,
Divided by their dreams
While a TV screams.
Throw your weapons down.
The wheel of fortune
Keeps on rollin' down.
The street that's paved with sinful plans
There but for circumstance.
May go you or I
Dressed in gold lame.
Find a place to stay.
Throw your hatred down...
Throw your weapons down.
Looking at the grave, at the scenery around you.
Home of the brave.
Sometimes they leave you like they found you.
Sometimes they worship you.
Sometimes they tear your houses down.
Sometimes they comfort you.
Sometimes they spread your life around.
Nothing you can see that they won't try to give you.
Land of the free.
Where the legend will outlive you.
When you earn their trust.
When you are truly in danger.
Where greed and lust
Have never been a stranger.
Home of the brave, that's where heroes need protection.
Media images slaves live by random selection.
You sell your heart, but that's not the price of freedom.
Where things are useful only when you need them.
Where will you go when you need to make some changes?
Who will you love in a world of constant strangers?
I'll go with you if you want to take a hero home.
I'll stay behind if you want to take a hero home.
Looking at the grave, at the scenery around you
Home of the brave.
Sometimes they leave you like they found you
Home of the brave.
Fallen angel, who's your saviour tonight?
You're surrounded by these walls and neon lights.
Hungry people move like waves behind the beat.
Where's the big drum?
Where's the feel of body heat?
Where's the big drum?
Where's the feel of body heat?
