1.
Mad Marina
2. Never Been Broken
3. The First Days of May
4. Climb On
Cleopatra
5. Baby, Things Are Changin'
6. Gold Digger
7. Never Been To
Rome
8. Never Been To New Orleans
9. Love & Wonder
10. Past Your
Prime
11. When You Were Young
MAD MARINA A thousand
promises that she couldn't keep
A thousand scenes like daydreams that would
haunt her in her sleep
Why can't a beauty lay her fears to rest
And get
lost in her lover's soft caress? Oh, Mad Marina
You should have seen
her
The way she lay there on your old man's bed
And a thousand fears residing
in your pretty head
Cold taproot and your tomboy boots
What tomorrow brings
is anybody's guess
But pray the sun shines down
On the path that suits you
best The country life you've known will do you fine
Your father drank
and your father raised hell and he was tough when he drank
his wine
You're
a farmer's child; he was a gambler like the rest
But you've got no reason to
go feelin' depressed Oh, Mad Marina
You're daddy's queen
The way you
light the hall like an angel in your dress
All those fears residing in your
pretty head
Cold taproot and your tomboy boots
What tomorrow brings is anybody's
guess
But pray the sun shines down
On the path that suits you best Gone
are the days of the straight-edged lines
Gone are the rocks where you planted
your flag Oh, Mad Marina
You're playin' out the classic scene
Of a
woman who's caught between the beautiful and the rest
And a thousand fears
residing in your pretty head
Cold taproot and your tomboy boots
What tomorrow
brings is anybody's guess
But pray shuns shine down
On the path that suits
you best The sun will shine down on the path that suits you best
You're
caught between the beautiful and the rest
The beautiful are damned, so don't
feel depressed
Because the sun will shine down on the path that suits Mad Marina
best Do-Do-Do NEVER BEEN BROKEN I guess all good things
fall apart
But I met you when promises seemed permanent
You were brash and
your words were like granite
They embodied all I ever wanted to know So
tell me once more before you head for the station
And you travel to where the
buildings are gray Because I've never been broken
I've never felt cheated
I've
never been held in that way
I've never been broken So in the Bible it
tells you
That to covet another man's wife
Is to ignore your personal burden
Your
sins, your cross, your life When I push at the world for the things that
I want
Oh, the world pushes me the other way Because I've never been
broken
I've never felt cheated
I've never been held in that way
And if
in this whole life
I don't find another
And you're the one that got away
I'll
say
Woo-hoo-hoo
I've never been broken We set out in the green light
In
a smoky, all-night café
No matter how in love you're feelin'
Another
love is not far away So I turn to the girl at the booth just beside you
Outside
the window are Magnolias bloomin' on an April day
She looks at me in the humblest
way When you were just a little one
And looked through hollow eyes
Now
look at the bird on your sill
Now, doesn't he seem wise? The crowd of
people all around your table
Alone at each table
They've never felt this
way Because they've never felt hungry
They've never caught the silence
They've
never had to struggle this way
And if in this whole life
You don't find
another
And I'm the one that got away
Then I'll say
Woo-hoo-hoo
I've
never been broken THE FIRST DAYS OF MAY As I sit here on this
bank of sand
And I wonder how it's going to end
I watch the boats bob, they
remind me of you
Watchin', wonderin' as the wind blows the water white and
blue
Blue and white, white and blue Just as the boats blow out of my
sight
So, like a blackbird I do go
I'll glide into the Northern lights so
slow So, I'll do whatever you say
Don't you know, we will be lovers
In
the first few days of May As the evening casts its curtain on you
And
the waterline sways in time
Remember all those things you wanted to do?
Show
me a sign and I'll sing on the line So, I'll do whatever you say
Don't
you know, we will be lovers
In the first few days of May Now, put those
flowers in your hair
And explain that far away stare
If we hadn't had so
much fun
I could have been someone So, I'll do whatever you say
Don't
you know, we will be lovers
In the first few days of May So, before the
red-hot nights turn gray
Don't you know, we will be lovers
In the first
few days of May CLIMB ON CLEOPATRA She sizzles like a gas-fire
grill
She shakes like a tambourine
She knows the organ grinder's trill
She
walks the beat like a magazine queen She's got heart
Stretches out over
a city block, yes she will
>From the very start
She's creates that spinal
chill And it's OK Climb on Cleopatra for a ride She walks like
a crossfire at midnight
In the spring and meadows she lay
Cross the water
she's a pile of spent emotion
She's a shadow of all I've come to think or say Gives
way to a railway queen
See the street men swept with rain
Like surefire
gasoline
I can still hear their refrain Puts my mind on the railway queen
The
street men and the boatmen exclaim:
"She's The Slipstream Byzantine
All
Hail, Queen of the Flame" Climb on Cleopatra for a ride As the
evening dies away
A wave crashes on the Nile
Just outside the porter's bay
Sweet
Grace bats her eye And it's OK Climb On Cleopatra for a ride WHEN
YOU BET HIGH AND LOSE IT ALL Baby, every day things are changin'
Sometimes
you try to stop the world and do some arrangin'
If it's someone's life you've
been stealin'
Well, do what you want to do, don't think of failin'
I guess
losing you is a good change
It wasn't meant to bring the brass I bet
so high and lost it all
I bet so high and had so far to fall
I bet so high
and lost it all
You never know what you have until you lose it all Baby,
it seems your friends can be deceiving
And I know I'm not the one whose ideas
you should be believing
You think it's over, you've hit the wall
But you
hear voices from the belles at the ball
But you can't listen to them, they'll
tell you you're wrong
You need some hope, some reason to belong When
you bet so high and lose it all
You be so high and have so far to fall
You
bet so high and lost it all
You never know what you have until you lose it
all You forgot about being lonely
But loneliness falls upon you once
again
You long for a day when it's over
And the changes come to an end
But
the day won't come Baby, there's no end to changin'
It's what you've
built, through it all, that is worth saving
So you can knock upon my door
And
you can sleep on the floor
And remember the times we had when you Bet
so high and lost it all
When you bet so high and had so far to fall
You
bet so high and lost it all
You never know what you have until you lose it
all GOLD DIGGER She's got hair that shines and shimmers
Its
color shows the shades of money
She knows how the coin can glimmer
And she's
gone up after it steadily She's got a new Jaguar
She drives a Mercedes
Benz
Endorsed by here hubby's billfold
She can sniff out the cash
But
under it all, she's trash
She'd be a beggar if she wasn't bank rolled She's
a gold digger
Anyone would figure
After her lecherous company
She is
a gold digger
She'll pull the sorry trigger
She's in the business of takin'
hearts for the money She's got her eye on the wealthiest pocket
Moguls,
magnates - they play her tune
She knows nothing about any kind of friendship
She
don't feign and make pleas to the moon Seems like she's missin' a screw
How
else could she coo
Such a life of self-centeredness?
She seems so cordial
and kind
Well-spoken and fine
But she ain't nothin' but a cold, calculating
temptress She's a gold digger
Anyone would figure
After her licentious
company
She's a cold rambler
A love gambler
She's in the business of
takin' hearts for the money NEVER BEEN TO ROME I was pullin'
out of Albuquerque when my hopes fell
Stopped in Tucson, but the coming deserts
looked to ring my death knell
When I ran into a princess, she was comin' from
Mexico
What I was doin' in San Diego, I still do not know But she said,
you remind me of someone that I used to hate
But for some reason, I appreciate
the way you roam
Into my town, into my land in your funky Seattle clothes
Don't
you have a place you can call home? I think I might
Have a place to call
home
But I really want to go to Rome The heat of the desert outside of
Arizona
Fogged my mind and made me see mirages in the form of Corona
I saw
that princess and she was singin'
Tellin' me that she has been to Rome among
other things She was cryin' and a laughin'
And she was high as one princess
could be
She told me of the golden buildings
And how she's seen as much
as a pair of eyes could see I know there's one place
I could call home
But
I ain't never been to Rome When the heat of the desert dropped with the
night
And I regained some sanity and my eyesight
I remember what I'd left
back in Albuquerque
Some rag doll who'd gone and put a spell on me Yeah,
I'm lookin' for someone who likes to roam
And we can call ourselves a partnership
and wherever we go will be home
But she ain't gonna be no rag doll or no princess
And
she ain't gonna know anything about Rome I know there's one place
I could
call home
But I don't want anyone to tell me about Rome
All kinds of people
Say
that they know
But they don't know the Rome I want to know
And my darlin'
And
I will roam
To meet eternity in the city of Rome NEVER BEEN TO NEW
ORLEANS Saturday night I was walkin' down the street
Playin' my harmonica
and feelin' blue about defeat
Was a loud, urban evening when an old man said
to me
>From a seat down on the pavement, "Son you'll never learn to
see" I said, "What do you mean, Jim?" He said, "You
don't know the blues
You'll never know 'em until you've walked in my shoes
You're
walking carelessly with that harp in your hand
Tryin' to play the gutted out
tune of a Louisiana man" He said, "You ain't ever been to New
Orleans
You can't play the music of a place that you've never seen" I
said, "I know I'm from the West and know little about the South
And my
parents truly loved me and I grew up inside a nice house
Yeah, I'm young in
my years but I've made it this far
And anyone who's live to 20 knows what it's
like when times get hard" He said, "Yeah, I'm a proud man, just
listen to me curse
I've got a noble soul and a beggar's purse
Didn't your
daddy tell you you've been parceled quite a bit of luck at
birth?
You don't
know the music, son, you don't know its true worth" He said, "You
ain't ever been to New Orleans
You can't play the music of a place that you've
never seen" He said, "You ain't ever been to New Orleans
You
can't paint a picture of a place that you've never seen" LOVE AND
WONDER When you wash your shoes
And head out through the mud
When
the rain soaks your blues
And leaves you whiling away
But the emotion, like
the birches, grew
They crept from your very blood
And you sink back on those
Warmer,
simpler days But the lights are on downtown
And the rush of evening gowns
Gives
you one last hopeful sound
Of love and wonder
Oh, oh yeah
Oh, my goodbye Oh,
my old muse
And his lyric tongue talkin'
Rolling, trippingly taut
Rhymes
of love and anger Love and wonder
Love and wonder
Oh, my
Love and
wonder PAST YOUR PRIME Well I saw you standing proud
Full
of ego and talking so loud
And you recalled the days
When you were ingénue Then
you were drunk and feelin' low
With your two stooges in tow
Saying this
bar
Holds nothin' for you Well take a look at yourself
You're past
your prime
Those limelight days are all just cheap words now
You peaked
early babe
It was such a swift climb
And all things from here on out
Will
be post-climatic, somehow You object to my review
Of your current state,
do you?
And you think I'm bitter
About my lack of game? Well, I know
I'm not happy
But don't put this back on me
You're responsible
For what
happened to your name Well take a look at yourself
You're past your prime
Those
limelight days are all just cheap words now
You peaked early babe
It was
such a swift climb
And all things from here on out
Will be post-climatic,
somehow Do you remember when I'd stall
To hear your voice in the hall
And
you'd always look on
Another way? Well, my ship has now set sail
And
you're stuck dodging the hail
You've got to look people in the eyes, now
For
the rest of your days So you're tired of all the pain that's come along
You're
tired of all the stress You looked worried about a minute ago
When you
thought you were in a mess Well take a look at yourself
You're past your
prime
Those limelight days are all just cheap words now
You peaked early
babe
It was such a swift climb
And all things from here on out
Will be
post-climatic, somehow WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG When you were just
a little one
And the world seemed so wide open
And you had such belief in
how
Your battle would be won You are the one, don't you know?
Look
in your garden, watch it grow
I can't say when the sun will show
Or how
far your influence will go No longer hung up on these tragedies
You're
lookin' good these days
But tragedy and fortune are so close together
Through
all kinds of weather
I'm glad I knew you when you were young You are
the one, you've grown up strong
Look how you've blossomed, how you're comin'
along
Don't ever wonder if you've done wrong
Because you're the only one
who you can depend on No longer hung up on these tragedies
You're lookin'
good these days
But tragedy and fortune are so close together
Through every
kind of weather
I'm glad I knew you when you were young
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