Show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why
For if we don't find
The next whiskey bar
Tell you we must die
Tell you we must die
Tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die
Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why
Oh, moon of Alabama
All right!
Well, all you people tryin' to sleep
The old get old
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Get together one more time
Get together
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Run with me, run with me, run with me
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
Now Night arrives with here purple legion
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why
Backdoor Man
Woaaaaaaoh!
Yaaoh! Sir! All right!
Oh right! Okey! Oh right!
Oh yeah! Oh right! Oh yeah!
Yeah, backdoor man
Backdoor man
Men don't know
Little girl understand
Out to make it, midnight dream, yeah
Backdoor man
Men don't know
Little girl understand
All right, yeah, ohLove Hides
Love hides in the strangest places
Love hides in familiar faces
Love comes when you least expect it
Love hides in narrow corners
Love comes for those who seek it
Love hides inside the rainbow, yeah
Love hides in molecular structures, yeah
Love is the answer
Five To One
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try, yeah
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!
Night is drawing near
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years
Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand
Trying to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes
Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Gotta, get together, gotta, get together
Gotta, get together, gotta, get together
Gotta, aoouuuh!
We've gotta get it all together
Get the whole thing together, babe
I tell you we gotta get it all together
One more time
Pretty neat, pretty neat.
Pretty good, pretty good.
All right.Build Me a Woman
Give me a witness, darling
I need a witness, babe
I got the poon-tang blues
I got the poon-tang blues
Top of my head down to the bottom of my cowboy shoes alright
Build me a woman, make her ten feet tall
You gotta build me a woman, make her ten feet tall
Don't make her ugly, don't make her...oh, small
You gotta build me a woman, make her ten feet tall
Build me a woman, make her ten feet tall
Don't maker her ugly, don't make her small
Build me someone I can ball all...night long
Note: Parts of this song were deleted from the recorded version for obvious reasons.
Universal Mind
I was doing time in the universal mind
I was feeling fince
I was turning keys, I was setting people free
I was doing alright
Then you came along with a suitcase and a song
Turned my head around
Now I'm so alone, just looking for a home in every face I see
I'm the freedom man, I'm the freedom man
I'm the freedom man, that's how lucky I am
I was doing time in the universal mind
I was feeling fince
I was turning keys, I was setting people free
I was doing alright
Then you came along with a suitcase and a song
Turned my head around
Now I'm so alone, just looking for a home in every face I see
I'm the freedom man
I was doing time in the universal mind
I was feeling fince
I was turning keys, I was setting people free
I was doing alright
Then you came along with a suitcase and a song
Turned my head around
Now I'm so alone, just looking for a home in every face I see
I'm the freedom man, yeah, that's how lucky I am
I'm the freedom man, I'm the freedom man
Petition The Lord With Prayer
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Dead Cats, Dead Rats
Dead cats, dead rats, did you see what they were at, alright
Dead cat in a top hat
Sucking on a young man's blood
Wishing he could come, yeah
Sucking on a soldier's brain
Wishing it would be the same
Dead cat, dead rat, did you see what they were at
Fat cat in a top hat
Thinks he's an aristocrat
Thinks he can kill and slaughter
Thinks he can shoot my daughter
Dead cats, dead rats, think you're an aristocrat
Crap...ha, that's crap
Break On Through #2
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run, tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
Can you still recall the time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get high
She get high
She get high
I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us, eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah...alright
Yeah, made the scene week to week
Day to day, hour to hour
The gate is straight, deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, break on through
Break on through, break on through
Lions in the Street
Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town
Went down South and crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his shoulder
One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin
Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin!
Wake Up
Wake up!
You can't remember where it was
Had this dream stopped?
The snake was pale gold, glazed and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it.
The sheets were hot dead prisons.
And she was beside me, old she's known, young
Her dark red hair, the white soft skin
Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look! She's coming in here
I can't live through each slow century of her moving
I let my cheek slide down the cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain
A Little Game
Once I had a little game
I like to crawl back in my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called "Go insane"
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world, forrget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple
This little game is fun to do
Just close your eyes, no way to lose
And I'm right there, I'm going too
Release control, we're breaking through
The Hill Dwellers
Way back past the realm of pain.
Back where there's never any pain
And the rain falls gently on the town
And over the heads of all of us
And in the labyrinth of streams beneath the
Quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around
Repitles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights
Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
A beast car locked in a against morning.
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant,
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets
And daughters, smug with semen
Eyes in their nipples
Wait! There's been a slaughter here
Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the run
And your the one I want to come!
Not To Touch the Earth
Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun
Nothing left to do but run, run, run
Let's run, let's run
House upon the hill, moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run
Let's run
Rich are the rooms and the comfors there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, we're not going very far
To the east to meet the Czar.
Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home, yeah
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Moon, moon, moon,
I will get you soon...soon....soon!
I am the Lizard King
I can do everything
Names of the Kingdom
We came down the rivers and highways
We came down from forests and falls
We came down from Carson and Springfield
We came down from phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you the names of the kingdom
I can tell you the things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade
The Palace of Exile
For seven years I dwelt in the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games with the girls of the island
Now I have come again to the land of the fair
And the strong and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
Children of night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready
Gloria
Original version by Van Morrison
Tell ya 'bout my baby
She come around
She come 'round here
The head to the ground
Come 'round here
A-just about midnight
She make me feel so good
Make me feel alright
She come 'round my street now
She come to my house, yeah
Knock upon my door
Climbing up my stairs
One two three
Come on up, baby
Mmmm, here she is in my room...oh boy!
Hey, what's your name?
How old are you?
Where d'you go to school?
Well, now that we know each other a little
bit better, why don't you come over here?
Make me feel alright!
Gloria
Gloria
Gloria
Gloria
Gloria
All night! All day!
All right! Okay, yeah!
You were my queen and I was your fool
Riding home after school
You took me home, yeah
To your house
Your father's at work
Your mama's out shopping around
Took me into your room
Showed me your thing
Why d'you do it, babe?
A-getting softer, slow it down
Softer, get it down
Now you show me your thing...yeah
Wrap your legs around my neck
Wrap your arms around my feet
Wrap your hair around my skin
I'm gonna...
It's getting harder
It's getting too darn fast
It's getting harder
Alright! Come on, darling, let's get it on...
Whoa, too late! Too late! Too late
Too late! Too late! Too late
It's...Stop!...Oh
Make me feel alright, babe
G-L-O-R-I-A
G-L-O-R-I-A
Gloria
All night
All day
All right
Okay
Keep the whole thing going, babe!
All right
All right
Fuck
Aaaaaaaaaahuh!
Note: Parts of this song were deleted from the recorded version for obvious reasons.
Light My Fire (Including Graveyard Poem)
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now, we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
It was the greatest night of my life
although I still had not found a wife
I had my friend right there beside me
We were close together
We tripped tbe wall
We scaled the graveyard
Ancient shapes were all around us
The wet dew felt fresh beside the fog
Two made love in an ancient spot
One chased a rabbit into the dark
A girl got drunk and balled the dead
And I gave empty sermons to my head
Cemetery, cool and quiet
Hate to leave your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day
Time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Alright! Alright! Alright!
Texas Radio and the Big Beat
I wanna tell you about Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow
With a back beat, narrow and hard to master
Some call it heavenly in its brilliance
Others mean and ruefull of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
Well, this is the land where the Pharaoh died
Children
The river contains specimens
The voices of singing women call us on the far shore
And they are saying:
Forget the night
Live with us in forests of azure
Meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you this...
No eternal reward will forgive us now
For wasting the dawn
And one morning you awoke
And the strange sun
And opening your door...
The End
Come on, turn the lights out, man
Turn it way down
Hey Mister Lightman
You gotta turn those lights way down, man!
Hey, I'm not kidding, you gotta turn the the lights out
Come on!
What do we care...?
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desparate land
Come on, baby!
And we were in this house and there was a sound like silverware being dropped on linoleum, and then
somebody ran into the room and they said
"Have you seen the accident outside?"
And everybody said:
"Hey man, have you see the accident outside?"
Have you seen the accident outside
Seven people took a ride
Six bachelors and their bride
Seven people took a ride
Seven people died
Don't let me die in an automobile
I wanna lie in an open field
Want the snakes to suck my skin
Want the worms to be my friends
Want the birds to eat my eyes
As here I lie
The clouds fly by
Ode to a grasshopper...
I think I'll open a little shop,
A little place where they sell things
And I think I'll call it "Grasshopper"...
I have a big green grasshopper out there
Have you seen my grasshopper, mama?
Looking real good...
Oh, I blew it, it's a moth
That's alright, he ain't got long to go, so we'll forgive him
Ensenada
The dog crucifix
The dead seal
Ghosts of the dead car sun
Stop the car
I'm getting out, I can't take it
Hey, look out, there's somebody coming
And there's nothing you can do about it...
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he...he walked on down the hallway, baby
Came to a door
He looked inside
Father?
Yes, son?
I wanna kill you
Mother...I want to...
Fuck you, mama, all night long
Beware, mama
Gonna love you, baby, all night
Come on, baby, take a chance with us
Come on, baby, take a chance with us
Come on, baby, take a chance with us
Meet me at the back of the blue bus
Meet me at the back of the blue bus,
Blue rock,
Blue bus,
Blue rock
Blue bus
Kill! Kill!
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
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