SONGS:
| 1.
I Had A Dream
2. When You Were Seventeen
3. Saul
4. Who Do You Think
You Are?
5. A Man About Town
6. Billy Joe
7. The Pleasure of New Acquaintance
8.
Daydreamer I HAD A DREAM
I had a reason
For choosing the
path
That had no conclusion
Was covered in grass
Some things are
better left
Unexplained
It's just past the gate
And I can feel the rain
The
things you worked for
They allude you
But all you know about are
The
things you've got to do
I had a dream
And it was real
And time
and time again in life
I tried to touch it but couldn't
You seemed
like you were so innocent
But this is, I think, your last predicament
A
crowd of people
Want it to be true
But no one's sure, except when
They
think they've lost you
I had a dream
And it was real
And time
and time again in life
I tried to touch it but couldn't
WHEN YOU
WERE SEVENTEEN
If I were free to do anything I choose
I'm not sure
I'd ever feel I had nothin' to lose
People get so much, waste so much
time
Man they have so much to learn
When you throw your line out to gamble
What you come up with has not been earned
So here I sit by a cold hearth,
babe
The light has faded away
I'm not sure that I've earned your love
And I feel it should be taken away
He committed his life
To chasin'
some crazy dream
He said, "You could go at any moment
Might as well
have faith in the things you loved
When you were seventeen
Is the
world more complete through the eyes of a child
Can you tell, at the end of
your life?
Or do you see things more clearly
When you become so used to
the strife?
He committed his life
To chasin' some crazy dream
He
said, "You could go at any moment
Might as well have faith in the things
you loved
When you were seventeen"
SAUL
Saul
was a lonely man, but sometimes being lonely
Gets you to the places you would
not otherwise go
And if no one were to tell you things about yourself
Would
you ever really know?
Two lives came together
When they were just
22
She said to Saul, "I love you for all the things you are
And all
of the things you might do"
Saul sat by her
As her mother gently
passed away
He said, "I'm sorry for not being right,
For not being
there every day"
A mother says to her child,
"Boy, you were
always the one
I needed you like you needed me
I always needed a son"
Mother, she went crazy the day she passed
And now Saul looks out the window
At what has become a different day
And the trees move in such a different
way
Why is it that you don't appreciate the things you have
Until they
are taken away?
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
I left home
Headed
for Rome
With all the freedom
That I've ever had
Had no money
Had no house
Had only the words
Of my Dad
Saying, "Who
do you think you are?
You want to be a rock n' roll star
You're obsessed
with things that never were"
There are people in this world
Who achieve
the goals they want to achieve
And they start to believe
That they are
who they've been told they are
A MAN ABOUT TOWN
When I
was a man about town
Every one was so wonderful to me
When I was a man
about town
I would be ready for the faces I did meet
The day smelled like
the smell of money
But now I am a solitary man
And the I hear only hear
the pitter patter of my own feet
I'm a solitary boy
And the world
has opened up for me
I saw back alleys
I thought I would never see
There's a cheap harlot queenie
Round the corner waitin' to terrorize me
She shows up in my dreams
When I was a man about town
I had a
woman with a heart of gold
When I was a man about town
She bought every
line I sold
But now her golden heart is like steel,
She doesn't even seem
to feel
How cold it is outside the windows
And I'm openin' up this crazy
meal
When I was a man about town
You always said it wasn't polite
or fair
When I was a man about town
Every acquaintance was a new obstacle
to bear
But now I'm a solitary man
With eyes of gold
And I feel the
need to brush your hair
I was rich yesterday
But today I'm poor, lonely
and cold
How can a lady leave me like this
Even when she's got a heart
of gold?
It's as empty being rich
As it is being unsure where to go
Now
I know I'm thankful
To fantasize about the things I don't know
They always
creep away so slow
When I was a man about town
I thought the night
life was one big, long exciting affair
But now that I'm a solitary man
I
think I understand
The beauty of the sunlight when it hits
While you cry
in your favorite velvet chair
BILLY JOE
Billy Joe came
in
From out of town
His girlfriend didn't want him
To always be comin'
around
But you know it's hard to keep a desperate man down
He came
from the poorest part of the city
He's always got to keep himself off of the
ground
He saw luxurious things for the first time, but he knew they were pretty
Still, Billy Joe, he don't know
But he's got a few questions
About
why people say, "That's the way it is"
Always used to practice
shooting
Out in the redwoods of the country
Chasing after things that
life
Never gives you unless you're hungry
Well he took the path
That
left so many down and out on the roadside
And he has no money
And nothing
except the smallest piece of his pride
Still, Billy Joe, he don't know
But
he's got a few questions
About why people accept the fact that that's the
way it is
THE PLEASURE OF NEW ACQUAINTANCE
He's moved by
the thought
Of certain intoxication
And he says, "Hey, we can't live
on the thrill of familiar company
Because you know how quickly that gets old"
For the sorry few
Who have so little patience
The only answer is the
pleasure of new acquaintance
And he moves through the crowd
That has
no expectation, he moves through the folds
And he careens through seams and
he
Talks of all the tales he's told
For the sorry few
Who have
so little patience
The only answer is the pleasure of new acquaintance
DAYDREAMER
Days die but the daydreamer remains
You
get down on your knees and pray
That you'll someday reach the day
But
you'll find it dips and frays
It's something, when coming from the outside,
That the entering takes away
But the dream is to be remembered
I
have a dream
That won't die or surrender
You wonder if the dreamer
Has
died with the dream
As the moment falls apart at the seams
Days die
but the daydreamer remains
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