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Helter Skelter
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn
And I go down for a ride
Till I get to the bottom
And I see you again
Do you, don't you want me to love you?
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you
Tell me, tell me, tell me, come on tell me the answer
Well, you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Helter skelter, helter skelter
Helter skelter
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Van Diemen's Land
Hold me now, hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice, but not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away
Now kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in the dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage
Hold me now, hold me now
Till this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
Still the gunman rules and widows pay
A scarlet coat now a black beret
They thought that blood and sacrifice
Could out of death bring forth a life
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Desire
lover I'm off the streets
Gonna go where the bright lights
and the big city meet
With a red guitar, on fire
Desire
She's the candle
burning in my room
I'm like the needle
needle and spoon
Over the counter
with a shotgun
Pretty soon, everybody got one
And the fever, when I'm beside her
Desire, Desire
(Burning, Burning)
She's the dollars
She's my protection
She's the promise
In the year of election
Sister, I can't let you go
I'm like a preacher
Stealing hearts at a travelling show
For love or money, money...?
Desire...
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Hawkmoon 269
Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love
Like a drifter needs a room
Hawkmoon
I need your love
Like a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love
Like coming home
And you don't know where you've been
Like black...as before
Like nicotine
I need your love
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
Like a Phoenix rising
Needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge
Of a bitter enemy
I need your love
Like the heat needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
Like thunder needs rain
Like the preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a blindman's cane
Like a needle in a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
I need your love
Like a fighter's rage
His dreams in a cage
Like faith needs a doubt
Like a freeway out
I need your love
Like powder needs a spark
Like lies need the dark
I need your love
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All Along The Watchtower
"There must be someway out of here,"
said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.
Businessmen they drink my wine,
plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line
know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited,"
the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us
who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, whe've been through that,
and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now,
the hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower,
princes kept the view
While all the women came and went,
barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance
a wildcat did growl,
Two riders where approaching,
the wind began to howl.
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I Still aven't Found What I'm Looking For
I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for.
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of the devil
It was warm as the night
It was cold as a stone
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
"He will lift you higher and higher
He will pick you up when you fall
He will be your shelter from the storm"
I believe in the Kingdom Come
That all the colours will bleed into one
But yes I'm still running
You broke the bonds
You loosed the chains
You carried the cross
And my shame
And my shame
You know I believe it
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for.
I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for...
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Freedom For My People
I need some freedom
Freedom for my people
I want some freedom
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people
I'd like some freedom
I need some freedom for my people
Freedom
Freedom, freedom for my people
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Silver And Gold
In the shit house, a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
If only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town,
No stars in the black sky
Looks like the sky fall down,
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained
to the ground.
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence
That crawls under the door
(under the floor).
The warden says,
"The exit is sold,"
If you want a way out -
Silver and Gold.
Silver and Gold.
There's a rope around my neck
There's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something!
I am someone!
I see the coming and the going
The captains and the kings
Their navy blue uniforms
Them bright and shiny things
Yes, captains and kings
in the slave ships hold
They came to collect
Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold
The temperature is rising
The fever white hot
Mister I ain't got nothing
But it's more that you've got.
These chains no longer bind me
Nor the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free (set them free).
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts -
For Silver and Gold
Silver and Gold.
(said)
Yup; Silver and Gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City round
about the time a friend of ours, Little Steven, was putting
together a record of artists against apartheid.
It's a song written about a man in a shantytown outside of
Johannesburg; a man who's sick of looking down the barrel of
white South Africa; a man who is at the point where he is ready
to take up arms against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the West, while
they argue, and fail to support a man like Bishop Tutu and his
request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I bugging you?
I don't mean to bug you.
Okay, Edge, play the blues...
[You can stop the world from turning round.
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound.]
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Pride (In The Name Of Love)
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed by a kiss
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
Early morning April four
A shot rings out in the memphis sky
Free at last
They took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
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Angel of Harlem
It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched down at JFK
Snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound (of a Angel)
New York like a Christmas tree
I said tonight this city belongs to me (Angel)
Soul Love this love won't let me go
So long...Angel of Harlem
Birdland on 53
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and a love supreme
Miles and she has to be an Angel
Lady Day has got diamond eyes
She sees the truth behind the lies (Angel)
Soul Love this love won't let me go
So long...Angel of Harlem
Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
On the side streets and the alleyways
Like a star exploding in the night
Filling up the city with broad daylight
An Angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an Angel
So long...Angel of Harlem
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Love Rescue Me
Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
And the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name in the palace of my shame
Love rescue me
In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
I see the dark shades of what I used to be
I see the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
And the sun in the sky makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm hanging by my thumbs
I'm ready for whatever comes
Love rescue me
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow
Yet I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
Sha la la sha la la
Sha la la sha la la
I've conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
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When Love Comes To Town
I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
But I stand accused of the things I've said
When love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I could, before love came to town
I used to make love under a red sunset
I was making promises I was soon to forget
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town
I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
The notes where turning blue
When I fell into a dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town
When love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I could, before love came to town
When I woke up I was sleeping in the street
I felt the world was dancing
And I was dirt beneath their feet
When I looked up I saw the devil looking down
My Lord He played the guitar the day love came to town
I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide
When love comes to town
I want to jump that train
When love comes to town
I want to catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
but I did what I could, before love came to town
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Heartland
See the sunrise over her skin
Don't change it
See the sunrise on her skin
Dawn changes everything
And the delta sun burns bright and violent
Mississippi and the cotton wool heat
Sixty-six the highway speaks
Of deserts dry, of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins - shining cities
In this heartland
In this heartland
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love like a burning spear
And the poison rain brings a flood of fear
Through the ghostranch hills, Death Valley waters
In the towers of steel belief goes on and on
In this heartland
In this heartland
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
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God Part II
Don't believe the devil I don't believe the book
But the truth is not the same without the lies he made up
I don't believe in excess success is to give
I don't believe in riches but you should see where I live
I...I believe in love
Don't believe in forced entry I don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by wild thoughts escape
I don't believe in deathrow, skidrow or the gangs
Don't believe in the Uzi just went off in my hand
I...I believe in love
Don't believe in cocaine I got a speedball in my hand
I could cut and crack you open...did you hear what I said?
Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure
The rich stay healthy the sick stay poor
I...I believe in love
I don't believe in Goldman his type like a curse
Instant karma's gonna get him if I don't get him first
I don't believe that Rock 'N Roll can really change the world
As it spins in revolution spirals and turns
I...I believe in love
I don't believe in the 60's in the golden age of pop
You glorify the past when the future dries up
I heard a singer on the radio last night
Says he's gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight
I...I believe in love
I feel like I'm falling, like I'm spinning on a wheel
It always stops beside a name a presence I can feel
I...I believe in love
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Bullet The Blue Sky
In the howling wind comes a stinging rain
See it driving nails into the souls on the tree of pain
From the firefly, a red orange glow
See the face of fear running scared in the valley below
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue
In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum
Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome
Plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire
See them burning crosses, see the flames, higher and higher
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue sky
Bullet the blue
Bullet the blue
Suit and tie comes up to me
His face red
Like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
(Slapping them down), one hundred, two hundred,
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts as the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes deep into his saxophone
Through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside is America
Outside is America
So back in my hotel room
With John Coltrane and a love supreme
In the next room I hear some woman screaming
And her lover is turning off, turning off the television
And I can't tell the difference between ABC News,
Hill Street Blues and a preacher on the All-Time Gospel Hour
Stealing money from the sick
And the old
For the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister
And I feel a long way from the hills of San Salvador
Where the sky is ripped open
And the rain pours through a gaping wound
Pelting the women and children
Pelting the women and children
Run...run...into the arms
Of America.
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All I Want Is You
You say you want a diamond on a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
All the promises we made from the
Cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you'll give me a highway with no-one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night
You say you'll give me eyes on a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
All the promises we made from the
Cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
You say you want your love to work out right
To last with me through the night
You say you want a diamond on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow old
All the promises we made from the
Cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
All I want is you
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