The Neverending Connect the Lyrics Game

For I stole California from the Mexican land
Fought in the bloody Civil War
Yes I even killed my brothers
And so many others
But I ain't a-marchin' anymore

(with a nod both to Phil Ochs and to EB whose back in "real life" ...)

The crops are all in and the peaches are rottening
They're dumped in their creosote bins
You're flying them back to the Mexican border
It takes all their money to wade back again
Good-bye to my Juan, Good-bye Rosalita
Adios mes amigos Jesus e Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportees

Salute, sweetcomplication

We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day.....

Someday soon going with her/him
Someday soon
There is a young man/girl
The age is twenty-one

Some-someday,some-someway,
I'll understand.

I cant stand to see you sad,
I can't bear to hear you cry,
You can't tell me what you mean.
All I can do is wonder why

Someday, someway (with some need to cry)
Someday, someway, ('coz I wonder why)
Someday, someway, maybe I'll understand you!

After all you've done for me,
All I really want to do,
Is take the love you brought my way,
And give it all right back to you.

The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long.
The winter looked the same,
As if it had never gone,
And through an open window,
Where no curtain hung,
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

One begins to read between
The pages of a look.
The sound of sleepy music,
And suddenly, you're hooked.
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.

Well don't you ever be sad
Lean on me when times are bad
When the day comes and you're in doubt,
In a river of trouble, about to drown.

Hold on, I'm coming.
Hold on, I'm coming.

I'm on my way, your lover
When you get cold, yeah, I'll be your cover
Don't have to worry because I'm here.
Don't need to suffer because I'm here.

Reach out to me for satisfaction.
Call my name, quick reaction.

Well don't you ever feel sad
Lean on me when times are bad
When the day comes and you're in doubt,
In a river of trouble and about to drown

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Lean on me…

The color, the color, the color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as, as long as, long as we can live in harmony
I kinda, I kinda, I kinda, like to be the president
And I could, and I could, and I could show you how your money's spent

Why can't we be friends
Sometimes I don't speak right
But did I know what I was talking about
I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the mafia

Why can't we be friends

When you're down and troubled
and you need a helpin hand
and nothin - nothin is goin right

Close your eyes and think of me
and soon I will be there
to brighten up
even your darkest night

You just call out my name
and you know wherever I am
I'll come runnin
to see you again

Winter Spring Summer or Fall
all you got to do is call
and I'll be there
You've got a friend

I call your name
But you're not there
Was I to blame
For being unfair
Oh, I can't sleep at night
Since you've been gone
I never weep at night
I can't go on

Since you've been gone
Since you've been gone
The night seems like a million years
All night long weeping like a willow
Tossing and turning on my tear stained pillow
Guess I'm gonna drown in my own tears
I'm gonna go walking by a railroad track
Let that choo choo choo cross over my back
Life ain't worth living
How can I go on
Since you been gone
Since you been gone

Tender words you say
Take my breath away
Love me now, leave me never
Found a sacred place
Lost in your embrace
I want to stay in this forever
I think of the days when the sun used to set
On my empty heart, all alone in my bed
Tossing and turning
Emotions were strong
I knew I had to hold on

Love me tender
Love me long
Take me in your arms
For it's there that I belong
And will never part
Love me tender
Love me true
All my dreams fulfilled
For my darling
I love you
And I always will

When your body's had enough of me and I'm laying flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can, I'm gonna love you a little bit more

Come on over here and lay by my side, I've got to be touchin' you
Let me rub your tired shoulders the way I used to do
Look into my eyes and give me that smile, the one that always turns me on
And let me take your hair down, 'cause we're stayin' up to greet the sun

And when your body's had enough of me and I'm laying flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can, I'm gonna love you a little bit more

Got to say a few things that have been on my mind and you know where my mind has been
I guess I've learned my lessons and now is the time to begin
So if you're feeling alright and you're ready for me, I know that I'm ready for you
We better get it on now 'cause we've got our whole lives to live through

And when your body's had enough of me and I'm laying flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can, I'm gonna love you a little bit more

And when your body's had enough of me and I'm laying flat out on the floor
When you think I've loved you all I can.................

no regrets, no tears goodbye
don't want you back
we'd only cry again
say goodbye again

Beware of lovers, who close their eyes
They could be hiding a thousand lies
You never know who they fantasise
Beware of lovers who close their eyes

It might be a stranger, or your best friend
Her very first lover that she's holding again
Ask no questions and you'll get no lies
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes

Does she have to drink that glass of wine?
Does she play the part with a cloudy mind?
Is it really you that has her hypnotised?
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes

Play with fire, watch the flame
Two burnin' lovers, in a dangerous game
In the heat of passion, satisfaction sublime
They open to love you, and they close their eyes

Beware of lovers, who close their eyes
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes
Beware of lovers, who close their eyes

Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc
as she came riding through the dark;
no moon to keep her armour bright,
no man to get her through this very smoky night.
She said, "I'm tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
a wedding dress or something white
to wear upon my swollen appetite."

"Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,
you know I've watched you riding every day
and something in me yearns to win
such a cold and lonesome heroine."
"And who are you?" she sternly spoke
to the one beneath the smoke.
"Why, I'm fire," he replied,
"And I love your solitude, I love your pride."

"Then fire, make your body cold,
I'm going to give you mine to hold,"
saying this she climbed inside
to be his one, to be his only bride.
And deep into his fiery heart
he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
and high above the wedding guests
he hung the ashes of her wedding dress.

It was deep into his fiery heart
he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
and then she clearly understood
if he was fire, oh then she must be wood.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, so very bright.

You know I can be found,
sitting home all alone,
If you can't come around,
at least please telephone.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.

Baby, if I made you mad
for something I might have said,
Please, let's forget the past,
the future looks bright ahead,
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
I don't want no other love,
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of.

I'm on my own, nowhere to roam
I tell you baby, don't want no home
I wander round, feet off the ground
I even go from town to town
I said I think this rock is grand
Say I'll be your man
Don't bring me down, don't bring me down

I met this chick, the other day
And then to me, she said she'll stay
I get this pad, just like a cave
And then we'll have, our living made
And then I'll lead her on the ground
My head is spinning round
Don't bring me down, don't bring me down