On this earth not alone we stand Outstretched arm and upturned hand Never knowing when the shakes steady And 'till now we have seldom seen And I will go if you go with me Understand I will wait for thee I'll try to catch up if you move quickly If the rain does blow And oh sir If you ever lose your way You can call upon this family You can call upon this day And oh mam If you ever lose your way You can call up on this family You can call upon this day 'Cause you're my present my future My lesson my teacher Oh... My world is still You're my guard you're my guide In my life I confide to ever shelter your will And my words are forerver you're my blanket my shiver Whatever you give I'll never lack You're my chorus my refrain The verse of my first pain Let the voices come barrelling back 'Cause I can stand to stay right where I am Let the water fill this hand Bring it to your mouth And pass beyond your lips No gale can down this ship And I'll stand on your shoulders To watch us grow older I can see us far along the road As the trail grows deeper your my giver my keeper Laughter for years untold 'Cause I can stand to stay right where I am Let the water fill this hand Bring it to your mouth And pass beyond your lips No gale can down this ship And wherever you go there you are And if I go I won't go far Wherever you go There you are And if I go I won't go far And oh sir If you ever lose your way You can call upon this family You can call upon this day

Let me trip the reason of your lecture for a change Let me tell you how it feels Let me strap you down a put morphine in your veins Let me fuck this bed of steel 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and the business 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all the resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and the business Deinstitutionalization Had a wife but left her at the station And there's women in the stairwells Where their love lives don't fair well They be whoring themselves away in the kitchen But look see that woman gettin' all dressed up She's putting on her earrings and her makeup And in another world there's a long necked girl Who's wishing she'd never been a grown up Oh the squalor Woah oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave Maybe today I wont get the wrong meds Maybe today I'll get my 46-cent And maybe today I'll jump that barbed wire fence And leave this place all together 'Cause were calling all the presidents men 'Cause I’m stuck in this room locked in Wont you do me a favor and give me ten so I can peek into the hallway again Oh the squalor Woah oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave

Dear Mr. Omar Bay I head about your retirement today You still countin' them taxi cabs Takin' you back to the time you have left And now you're saying we got another Vietnam on our hands You used to say we all do what we can but did you have to leave us all And go away Omar Bay I think I'm falling to pieces Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet 'Cause five winters five winter in New York is plenty I'd even say it's four too many Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet Dear Mr. Omar Bay saw your old friend Pops today He said you went to see God in a church Or to get some warmth, whatever came first And now your stand pipe it stands alone If where you place your hat is your home Do you have to leave us all and go away Omar Bay I think I'm falling to pieces Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet 'Cause five winters, five winters in New York is plenty I'd even say it's four too many Won't you help a good man get up and back on his feet

Woke him up with a barrel to his head His eyes shut tight bracing for the blow Resigning his life To the metal held in another man's hand Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones And from another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Your words just a bloody fallacy A house of cards you painted white You tried to recreate Normandy But you made up the reason to fight And now red oil is spillin' down on the street And your eyes so big for the belly is weak Will you not refuse this currency Or is blood money just money to you Or is blood money just money to you Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Camilo

Heard of a land held by a troubled hand Where the whiskey runs the coal Don't you dare go ask the newsman Cause he'll tell you everything He don't know She was the daughter of the second American Revolution A tall girl with a stones constitution And when she looked into their eyes to see She know she ain't never going back to what she believe To what you believe So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground In this here Londontown So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire But it ain't the bridges that are falling down They said they would never fight no more After the day she went away What in the world are we all fighting for If we don't give they're going to take So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground In this here Londontown So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire and my feet on the ground But it ain't the bridges that are falling down Ophelia used to swim in the rain Nothing she'd rather do I was beside myself when the news it came And it had nothing to do do with you And they They said they would never fight no more After the day she went away What in the world are we all fighting for? If we don't give they're gonna take So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground In this here Londontown So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Got my back to the fire and my feet on the ground But it ain't the bridges that are falling down She did again She did again It ain't over but she know the end She did again Rollin' away today, oh please Oh what's not to hold in place? Rollin' again Roll me again She know it ain't over but she know the end Riddle me over Riddle me over Riddle me over Riddle me over Riddle me So go and riddle me over I'm a man got nothing to show for My work in the ground Go ahead and go And riddle me over But it ain't the bridges that are falling down *Said you can fall Not just a lover Had you wish you They were runnin' Had your son you know watches you around Hold him, know him Hey you say You will leave if they fuck you around Hold it now Hey the song Say you will love but you were already on Riddle him over today I'm a man Baby*

Bought the old farmland for a song Sold it for many reasons Too many of them wrong Horseshoe bets and the women that came along Blind-drunk on their demon rum Is knowledge a product of his loneliness A mad cousin to his holiness Maniacs in cages And patriots and sages A cruel old/on telling of the books But I'll not give Myself, to the ground I kill more than I Live so slowly Live so slowly Say one thing and then do another Bunker down in your alsatian den We 'aint got room for your politics here Politicians make a bad name for the con-man And water felt like burning metal Set off by a dying sun Them women they circle Like covered wagons crying Their loved ones back from where they, gone And I'll not give Myself to the ground I kill more than I Live so slowly Live so slowly

I work in the kitchen At an old folk's home I do my best, but I too am getting on I do the dishes but lately I been dropping plates See as I get older, my hands are starting to shake So, so Mr. Larkin See I, I got to hold this job Did you misspeak when you told me She's all but gone So Mr. Larkin Dock me my one weeks pay But don't ask me to leave I can't afford that today Ten years ago, my wife took sick So I brought her here, my job I quit I started working for the home So I could be by her everyday We couldn't afford the cost in any other way So, so Mr. Larkin See I know she know who I am Every now and then, she'll squeeze my hand It's what I live for and it's why she don't die So Mr. Larkin won't you Won't you give me this try I walk to work on Route 27 I see the same cars pass everyday And through all this New England weather You know never once have I been late So Mr. Larkin See I, I know she know who I am Every now and then, she'll squeeze my hand It's what I live for and it's why she don't die So Mr. Larkin won't you Won't you give me this try I see the argument you're making And I understand you got to do your job And believe me I know she's turning angel But you see this woman is all I got So Mr. Larkin See I know she know who I am Every now and then, she'll squeeze my hand It's what I live for and it's why she don't die So Mr. Larkin won't you Won't you give me this try