Baby Train (Long) To be quite objectable, body was just a miracle Steppin in them heels, boobies, booty and no residual Smile is individual, swagger indivisible Baby do be takin her vitamins and her minerals She brushed against my body, ooh it felt so good She started making trouble in my neighborhood I said “I got the kinda lovin that could peel off your paint. I been waitin at your station, won’t you open your gates” Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride I said, “Why your name is Train? It ain’t lustful, is it, cher?” She said, “I like vehicles. They can take you anywhere.” So I took her out to London, I took her out to France I went trans-continental medieval on that ass Well, drop my suspenders, put my hat on the floor I been waitin at your station, won’t you open the do’ Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride When you do The Locomotion I like the way you Twist When it’s time for The Percolator, I think you get my jist Ms. Tony say “How you wanna carry it?” What’s up, what’s up with you, Miss? But I ride a mail train baby, you don’t want no part of this. When you’ze an artist like me, honey, you don’t look back You keep your hand on your blade and your blood on the tracks But I’ma keep my stride til the day I die I been waitin at your station, won’t you let me ride Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride Baby, baby train Baby, let me ride

I'm the songster and I'm back in town again I'm the songster, from the town I never left. Knocked on the doors, but no one was home. the juke joints were closed, the jukebox was sold. Left town again, traveled the tracks went to the rocks and the rocks answered, "Jack, you the songster and you're doomed to carry on. You the songster. We been watching since you'ze born." It's the same old song but with a different meaning since you've been gone. You remember the tune? I remember it too. I'm the songster, playing a game that's ages old. I'm the songster. Never understood the rules but I won't fold. Out in the sea, taking some laps breathing some air and giving some back. I never cared much for the land. At least in the sea you know where you stand. I'm the songster so please don’t be too mean I'm the songster. I’m an extraordinary machine. Hanging with the snake, among the trees. Bent down a branch. Picked from the leaves. Started thinking too much. It melted my brain. It was either blame it on her or admit I had gone insane. I'm the songster. I've said the dumbest things on earth. I'm the songster. Shut me off before the next verse. Cain slew Able. Seth knew not why. So he built himself a house and hid himself inside. I'm the songster. I be glancing at the moon. I'm the songster, How it comes and goes too soon. I seen two wolves scrap 'neath the sky. One moved on, the other had died. All day and all night I stand on my guard. I've had a couple of wolves in my yard. (Interlude) Just cause I'm here don't mean I'm tough. Don't mean I ain't scared just because I don't run. If I should fade and nobody knows, if I've done well, as you walk from my bones tell them I was the songster and I sang some melodies. I was a songster and I heard them in my dreams. Somewhere not too far, way deep inside the deep, there’s an undying glow we can feel but can't see.....

Freddy’s Walkin’ Home I’m patrolin the town, lookin ‘round for a crime The cuttin’ the budget, but they won’t cut mine Cause my eye is sharp, mess around if ya wanna Lawbreakers beware, I got to fill my quota Freddy don’t you do know back talkin’ You know you ain’t supposed to be drunk walkin Freddy’s walkin home I see a man all a-bumblin’ down the street Either a light-skinned colored or a tall Chinese Can’t tell for sure, but it sure don’t matter I can smell a troublemaker like shit on a cracker Freddy don’t you do know back talkin’ You know you ain’t supposed to be drunk walkin Freddy’s walkin home He say, “Why’d you pull me over? Ain’t even in my car. Figured I was too drunk after I closed my bar I’m a businessman with a reputation Are you done yet with this investigation?” I said, “Shut up, Freddy. Shut up, Freddy. I’m locked and loaded and my hands are steady. You just think about runnin, you’ll be dead already Shut up, Freddy. Shut up, Freddy. Got backup on the way and they ready too What you know ‘bout a murder June of ’92? Freddy don’t you do know back talkin’ You know you ain’t supposed to be drunk walkin Freddy’s walkin home

There's an occurrence occurring somewhere in this town. I'm gonna sniff it out. I'm gonna track it down. These drivers are crazy Out 'chere on this road. What's so important? Where they tryin to go? I made a lonely prayer to some angels there. I poured out my soul but they don't care. I broke danced at the bar. I spun on my head. I did the "Run from the Feds." I did the "Getaway Car." Now, who here among you know what they wanna know? They gonna make you talk. They gonna make you walk home. I made a lonely prayer to some angels there I poured out my soul but they don't care I told the truth too much. More lethal than a touch. I tried to leave this town But the bridge fell down. Like the moonshine across pavement sweat, there's a darkness too bright to ever forget. I made a lonely prayer to some angels there I poured out my soul but they don't care

Been too long, I need your taste Though it’s been a single day We did it all, but I want more Lets warm up the kitchen floor We burn with passion so lets feed the fire When the flames mingle the heat rushes higher I have question before it consumes I know I might be rushing, but Is tonight too soon To call again? Is tonight too soon To get some lovin’ in? I never do what you make me do I need it bad and you need it too I’m a match you lit just the other day I’ll blow your mind. Don’t blow me away. Take your temperature cause your burning up That’s no fever, we’re falling in love. We’re dancing with the coals on our feet. Where there’s smoke, there’s you and there’s me We burn with passion so lets feed the fire When the flames mingle the heat rushes higher I have question before it consumes I know I might be rushing, but Is tonight too soon To call again? Is tonight too soon To get some lovin’ in? I never do what you make me do I need it bad and you need it too I’m a match you lit just the other day I’ll blow your mind. Don’t blow me away. We reach the peak, your nerves they excite I’m climbing up your fahrenheights I can’t believe the things that you said. What sweaty things go on in your head? The bang, the pow, the explosion A trillion things set in motion We breathe a while, not to be rude I know we just finished, but Is tonight too soon?

I give in, you win the war Just please, oh please don’t beat me no more I love you, babe, but my love is sore So I’m waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love Don’t know what I came here for Don’t get up, I’ll lock the door I’ll give you all the space you want and more Cause I’m waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love Crazy talk about peace Crazy talk about love Crazy talk about voices heard I ain’t gonna talk that talk no more I ain’t gonna talk that talk no more If my tears like rain could spread The mud would bloom in no man’s land But with this cloth I’ll wipe them off As I’m waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love Waving, waving Waving the white flag of love

Just come from the bar where I almost fought man over some long-leg I half-hearted tried to bed. Now, here I am outside the front door Let me in, it’s cold or ain’t I welcome anymore? I see you fixed the window. You rearranged the place. You painted the bathroom that color I hate. Maybe I am drunk, but I do want you back. Isn’t that enough or is it too much to ask? Dog was sick Tuesday. Last night she passed. I got fired from the firehouse for sniffing some gas. If I don’t love you, why I am I back? Why you keep asking dumb questions like that? Tell all your sisters I’ve changed very well. If they don’t believe it they can all burn in hell. Maybe I am drunk, but I still can’t see why when I try to kiss you you start to cry. You cleaned out the fridge. You drank all my beer. It’s almost like I never lived here. You got a light? Cause I need a smoke. I’ve been thinking some things Some things you should know I’m sorry for everything that I’ve done to you. What you let me do it for? What’s the matter with you? Maybe I am drunk, but there’s laws in this land. No matter who he is gotta stand by your man. Been to the doctors. It’s cancer I’m told. Don’t seem like a terrible important thing to know. Appointment on Friday. They won’t see me there. I’d rather spend time with someone who once cared. Don’t look at me like that. I’m down on my knees. I need you so bad, baby. My soul ain’t at ease. Maybe I am drunk, but something ain’t right when a man’s got to live, then the man’s got to die

All I have to do is apologize and I can have whatever I want All I have to do is apologize and I can do whatever I want You know that I still love you Despite what I say and do All I have to do is apologize All I have to do is apologize All I have to do is apologize And I can pull the wool to your eyes All I have to do is apologize And I can burn your city alive We know that mistakes were made We’ll find those weapons some bright day All I have to do is apologize All I have to do is apologize All I have to do is apologize All I have to do is apologize

Back when I first met you The day you was born You kicked your little feet and I know complete a funky baby boy was born. Nurse, you see this baby? This baby right here? Nurse, you see this baby? This baby right here? Baby gon' be funky Wait til you learn how to walk, baby. I'm gonna teach you how to stride. They gonna teach you ABCs and your 123s. I'm gonna teach you how to talk a jive. Teacher, you see this baby? This baby right here? Teacher, you see this baby? This baby right here? Baby gon' be funky Don't you tell your momma. She never would understand. But I burned you two or three Funkadelic CDs. They gonna turn you to a funky man. Son, look in the mirror. This mirror right here. Son, look in this mirror. This mirror right here. You were born to be funky Here's my baby Baby gon' be funky

Great people of Kalapana There’s been rumors going ‘round Everybody say we aim to tax you For the lava in the ground Now do that make any sense? Would we do a thing like that? But the truth is, if we don’t do something Gonna have to be some cutbacks Y’all know bout that mountain up there Y’all know it’s bout to blow it’s lid Now we ain’t got to rebuild if you don’t want But we kinda figured that you did Might flow down to your power plant All your businesses and schools In fact, no might about it Only question is how soon Gonna head down to your houses Gonna melt your front screen door Gonna burn up all your pictures but you can always take some more And y’all people gonna go crazy Gonna be chaos throughout the land And if we can pay no police Somebody’ll kill you where you stand Might be the police And that’s if you survive A good many of y’all won’t Some people try not to think about it But I don’t No more running for office No one around but me Finally, the whole island In perfect harmony But since you got to be here And I got to share the world with you Seem like that old Volcano Tax Is the best thing we can do

When your river can’t find the ocean When you’re two times out of ten When you’re very last dollar Is your very last friend Late in the midnight hour After you finally reached the end Then the pain you thought was sleeping When it rises up again Delivered When the light at the end Is the sunrise come again When you’re peeling back the layers Maybe you peeled them back too much When it chews you up at breakfast And spits you back out at lunch When you thought that you could fly Because you dreamed it up in bed Then the blues in your sky Starts to rain upon your head Delivered When you alight in the night And you remember an ancient dance Remember, remember, remember When you’re running through the forest Shackles on your feet But your eyes are fixed on a star and you won’t accept defeat Maybe they think that you are sleeping And you won’t wake up again Then the magic in your soul Starts to twitching up again Delivered When the light at the end Is the sunrise come again

The fire just won’t die I try to try but I I feel her in my bones ever deeper If we never meet again Or if she needs me as a friend I won’t forget the peace it was to hold her. And if her voice went cold The love’s already shown There’s nothing left to know except the future She knows She’s always on my mind My heart beats out of time Until I put my mind and heart together There’s magic in the street And magic in the beat I will not shut my eyes to the wonder All magic is pure All that’s pure is real My love for her is pure and simple magic And now it’s time to turn Turn and face the world Her gentle smile I’m keeping in my pocket She knows She knows she knows I love her, but that’s not all she knows She takes her truths out and wears them for party clothes I was alright before I met her and then I knew for sure But now she gone and alright ain’t good enough any more Only thing she don’t know, girl got magic in her Rabbits fallin out of hats all over the Goddamn place and cookin up four course dinners If this is a dream, you can’t wake me, I aim to be around a while I haven’t felt this whole since I was an uncorrupted child I’d call her name in my soul if there was no number for to dial I’d touch every blade of grass, I’d walk the moonlight mile She’s worth a million priceless things and she’s just as beautiful as she looks And she just looks so good. I’d drink the naked rain, I’d jump a thousand moons I’d burn a thousand candles, I’d climb up Mount Ventoux “The life that we call blessed is to be sought on a high level and straight is the way that leads to it.” That’s the only way to beat the Devil. I was stranded in the alley when she pulled her ladder down I told her on the fire escape I was gonna pay her back somehow Now, this is her song, but I know she likes to share So take it with you. I hope she takes it everywhere And while she’s taking things, well she could take me too If I were in her boots, that’s just what I would do I know she knows she knows. She knows I know it too She knows I know I know. I know she knows I know it too

Now when I was 'bout three years old and Charlee he was twelve He was tellin me all about how the wall in Berlin fell Said it got drunk one night til it could not stand up straight Said it slept the whole night through and it woke up far too late Now it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't, of course Only one thing that I know, got a friend named Charlee Horse Now when I was 'bout eight years old and Charlee he was ten They was chasin' me 'round the block, I was runnin' 'way from them Well, Charlee he got pipin' mad and he yell right in my ear "If you don't turn round and sock 'em one, you'll be runnin' all your years" Now it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't, of course Only one thing that I know, got a friend named Charlee Horse Now when I was 'bout nine years old and Charlee was the same We'd lay outside just watching ants til Mamma call my name We dug up old relics inside a mummy's old tomb He let me have them all because my dad had left that June Now it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't, of course Only one thing that I know, got a friend named Charlee Horse Now when I was thirteen years old and Charlee he was one He was with me in detention, making me laugh, having fun Well right there sitting next to me was a beautiful young lass Charlee said to talk to her and ask her to the dance She looked at me and smiled, her braces twinkling in florescence She opened up her mouth and said the first of many "Yes"s Standing by the punch bowl wiping off my clammy hands I took hers and as we went off, well, we began the dance I smiled at her. She smiled at me. Romance had filled the air I turned to smile at Charlee, but Charlee had disappeared Now it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't, of course Only one thing that I know, got a friend named Charlee Horse Now I'm almost forty-three. My kids say I've gone gray Their mamma has the custody, but it all works out okay Now there's all different kinds of things that a mind can conceive Only one thing that I know and it's that I still believe Now it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't, of course Only one thing that I know, got a friend named Charlee Horse