|
Post by Grandmaster on Apr 7, 2023 19:59:58 GMT 1
Adam Raised a Cain Album: Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978
In the summer that I was baptized My father held me to his side As they put me into the water He said how on that day I cried We were prisoners of love, a love in chains He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain With the same hot blood burning in our veins Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) All of the old faces Asked you why you're back They fit you with position And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac In the darkness of your room Your mother calls you by your true name You remember the faces, the places, the names You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) In the Bible Cain slew Abel And East of Eden mama he was cast You're born into this life paying For the sins of somebody else's past Well Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Adam raised a Cain (yeah) Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh (hey) Oh oh, oh oh oh oh (hey) Oh oh, oh oh oh oh (hey)
|
|
|
Post by Grandmaster on Apr 7, 2023 20:03:11 GMT 1
Something in the Night Album: Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978
Oh Oh Oh Oh Woah Well I'm riding down Kingsley Figuring I'll get a drink Well I turn the radio up loud So I don't have to think Then I take her to the floor Looking for a moment when the world Seems right And I tear into the guts Mmh, of something in the night Well you're born with nothing And better off that way Soon as you've got something they send Someone to try and take it away Well you can ride this road 'til dawn Without another human being in sight Yeah, just kids wasted on Oh, something in the night Oh, nothing is forgotten or forgiven When it's your last time around, huh Well I got stuff running 'round my head That I just can't live down When we found the things we loved They were crushed and dying in the dirt We tried to pick up the pieces And get away without getting hurt But they caught us at the state line And burned our cars in one last fight And left us running burned and blind Hmm, chasing something in the night Oh Oh Oh Oh, yeah Oh So
|
|
|
Post by Lord Death Man on Apr 7, 2023 22:01:10 GMT 1
The Streets of Philadelphia Album: Philadelphia Official Soundtrack 1994
I was bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window And didn't know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away On the streets of Philadelphia? I walked the avenue, 'til my legs felt like stone I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Just as black and whispering as the rain On the streets of Philadelphia Ain't no angel gonna greet me It's just you and I my friend And my clothes don't fit me no more A thousand miles just to slip this skin The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake I can feel myself fading away So receive me brother with your faithless kiss Or will we leave each other alone like this On the streets of Philadelphia?
|
|
|
Post by Grandmaster on Apr 28, 2023 16:12:03 GMT 1
Brilliant Disguise Album: Tunnel of Love 1987
I hold you in my arms As the band plays What are those words whispered, baby Just as you turn away I saw you last night Out on the edge of town I want to read your mind To know just what I've got in this new thing I've found So tell me what I see When I look in your eyes Is that you, baby Or just a brilliant disguise? I heard somebody call your name From underneath our willow I saw something tucked in shame Underneath your pillow Well I've tried so hard, baby But I just can't see What a woman like you Is doing with me So tell me who I see When I look in your eyes Is that you, baby Or just a brilliant disguise? Now look at me, baby Struggling to do everything right And then it all falls apart When out go the lights I'm just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth I want to know if it's you I don't trust 'Cause I damn sure don't trust myself Now you play the loving woman I'll play the faithful man But just don't look too close Into the palm of my hand We stood at the alter The gypsy swore our future was right But come the wee wee hours Well maybe baby the gypsy lied So when you look at me You better look hard and look twice Is that me, baby Or just a brilliant disguise? Tonight our bed is cold Lost in the darkness of our love God have mercy on the man Who doubts what he's sure of
|
|
|
Post by Grandmaster on Jun 22, 2023 21:47:47 GMT 1
Jungleland Album : Born to Run (1975)
The Rangers had a homecoming In Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine Over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance And disappear down Flamingo Lane Well, the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl And the kids 'round there live just like shadows Always quiet, holding hands From the churches to the jails Tonight all is silence in the world As we take our stand Down in Jungleland The midnight gang's assembled And picked a rendezvous for the night They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign That brings this fair city light Man, there's an opera out on the Turnpike There's a ballet being fought out in the alley Until the local cops, Cherry-Tops, rips this holy night The street's alive as secret debts are paid Contacts made, they flash unseen Kids flash guitars just like switchblades Hustling for the record machine The hungry and the hunted Explode into rock 'n' roll bands That face off against each other out in the street Down in Jungleland In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage Inside the backstreet girls are dancing To the records that the DJ plays Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners Desperate as the night moves on Just one look and a whisper, and they're gone Beneath the city, two hearts beat Soul engines running through a night so tender In a bedroom locked in whispers Of soft refusal and then surrender In the tunnels uptown, the Rat's own dream guns him down As shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches when the ambulance pulls away Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between what's flesh and what's fantasy And the poets down here don't write nothing at all They just stand back and let it all be And in the quick of a knife, they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand But they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland
|
|