to fell the family tree Letra

And the days they flew by

And the leaves fell from the trees

And many times you came around

And many times you slept with me

And every time that we made love

You wrote it down in your diary

Lady of ladies But I would always say to you

Don't ask about tomorrow

Give what you have, take what you need

Your time is only now

Don't try to tie me down to promises

I live for today, today is all there is

And freedom seems to be everything to me I took you down to a party

On the night of the 4th of May

And a strange and growing restlessness

Had hung in the air all day

The need to try and tear down

And destroy all that we'd made

Lady of ladies You whispered in my ear and asked me

If I fancied her

You told me that he'd phoned you

When I was in America

Daring each other just to say okay

Swop for tonight, didn't I always say

That freedom seems to be everything to me And she came and she sat down beside me

And you found an excuse to go downstairs

And she smiled and made

The kind of conversation that you do

And later on she said

'My last train has gone

Oh I wonder if you could run me home' And I found vou in the hallway and told you

That was all that I would do

Just run her home and it's through

Oh I thought you knewBut I must confess

I laid my head on her breast

And it seemed so hard

To pull it away Her hand touched my hand

And her eyes were offering the rest

If it wasn't for you, oh I would have stayed

But I came back home through the morning

To find you lying awake

And I knew all at once what you'd done

And I heard myself say

"Why did you have to sleep with him

Anyone else

Wouldn't have mattered

Half

As much as him" I don't want to touch you

Somehow you feel unclean

I just wish that you

Were five hundred miles away from me

Don't talk at all, don't start to cry

Just pack up your things

Lady of ladies And though I'd always told myself

That when our time ended

I'd walk away with no regrets

And no attempts to stay

Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way

I find I'm needing every word you say

This freedom seems to be everything to me And you went up to Cambridge

And you stayed in your brother's room

And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon

You said "I just want to hurt myself

Oh I need you so badly now" And you told me

"Without you there seems to be no horizon at all

Just no crack in the wall

No place lower to fall "Hey don't leave me, don't leave me

The shapelessness of the dawn

Floods above and beneath me,

I can't go on And I had to walk right into the trap

And I had to say please come back

Though I felt all the while

My resistance slipping away Why did I have to fall for you

Anyone else

Wouldn't have hurt me

Half

As much as you

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,

Lay down the song you strum,

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum.Struck by the sounds before the sun,

I knew the night had gone.

The morning breeze like a bugle blew

Against the drums of dawn.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,

Lay down the song you strum,

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum.The ocean wild like an organ played,

The seaweed's wove its strands.

The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed

Against the rocks and sands.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,

Lay down the song you strum,

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum.I stood unwound beneath the skies

And clouds unbound by laws.

The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang

And asked for no applause.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,

Lay down the song you strum,

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum.The last of leaves fell from the trees

And clung to a new love's breast.

The branches bare like a banjo played

To the winds that listened best.I gazed down in the river's mirror

And watched its winding strum.

The water smooth ran like a hymn

And like a harp did hum.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down,

Lay down the song you strum,

And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum.

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to humSruck by the sounds before the sun

I knew the night had gone

The morning breeze like a bugle blew

Against the drums of dawn

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to humThe ocean wild like an organ played

The seaweed wove it's strands

The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed

Against the rocks and sands

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to humThe last of leaves fell from the trees

And clung to a new love's breast

The branches bare like a banjo played

To the winds that listened best

Lay down your weary tune, lay down

Lay down the song you strum

And rest yourself beneath the strength of strings

No voice can hope to hum

My friend why do you whip yourself

With the leather of your life

Why do your memories build like

Poison in your mindYou're re-running the mistakes (of your mind)

In the theater of your mind

Hoping that there'll be

A happily ever after this timeLet go

Let go

Let go

And forget what you knowYou fear you've walked too far

In the hemlock forest and you are lost

But what error could you invent

With more power than the crossLet go

Your sin is not an axe

Let go

That can fell the sacred tree

Let go

Your regret is not a net

Let go

That can dredge the forgetting seaA wise man once told me

When I was dying just the same

The past can be like sidewalk chalk

If you will dance and pray for rain

Waiting by the shoreline

In somalia for your reply

I need you to come see me

That's no lie

The guns are getting closer

The sweat pours like dew

That fell from the trees in tripoli

In the spring

I'm white hot

I can't take it anymore

I'm white hot

By the somalian shore

Yes i'm burning to the core

I need rainCast out from the jungle

With no rations or canteen

For selling faulty riffles

To the thieves in tanzaniaAdventures and misfortune

Nothing wagered, nothing gained

I have wandered through the desert

Found the ocean not the rainI can remember the nights by the strand in tripoli

We were so much cooler then

I had you and my poetry to protect me

We were so much younger then

I need rainI'm white hot

I can't take it anymore

I'm white hot

By the somalian shoreI'm white hot

Yes i'm burning to the core

I need rain, I need rain, I need rainI can remember the nights by the sea in tripoli

Were were so much colder then

I had you and my poetry to protect me

We were both soldiers then

Bolder then, colder then

I need rain, I need rain, I need rain

White hot

White hot...

Water

*left channel*

Make sure!

Taking cover in the bunker tonight

Waiting for bo diddley's headlights

I feel alright

Gotta fender stratosphere

I can do anything tonight

It's in neon lights an' global rights

Frank? he's on the phone

There ain't no german girl outside

But who cares when its warm inside?

With music

Special mystery of music tragically

Exchanging slaves for majesties

Modern waves of tragedy

Packing a to pience colt pair of shoots

A shiny grey mexican suit

The blue eyed traffic can sashay by

'cos tonight the sailor boys have hit shanghai

The kick-out traffic goes creaking by

I smash my glass and shout shanghi

My drummer friend comes shooting by

He said errol flynn will never die

Oh no! who am i to question why?

And are you lonesome tonight

And do ya need a country cowboy

Who's just thin and tight in those

Brrrr bus depot jeans

With a squirt resistant stud stud

Hey stonerGet over there in the spliffbunker one

Becos london bridge was sold somehow

But it was too old anyhow

When uncle sam has broken down

We'll make him down in old japan

Say yeeeWell there ain't no better blend

Than joe ely and his texas men

Where the wind blows

I ain't seen none like that scenery

You can see from a bus if you pay the priceWave my arms around

Flag one of those taxi's maybe

I saw a girl somewhere somehow

Forever sticks in my mind somehow

I've just got three lines

And a pair of two's

Like a lucky roll of dice that you

You cast*right channel*

If music could talk!

Which means

Whatever your mind can bring

Likethe apple fell off the tree

Pah! fell right on his head

Yeah many years agoThere was a man who said

I am a shaman

A voodoo shaman

Got in trouble so he's going out

Mixing up and haiti! oh!

And the crickets

Buddy holly said it was

Brrr brrr yiii!If music could talk you knowI feel kinda lonely

Standing out on the floor

Of electric ladyland...

Cos this is a good question samson

Are you partly arabic?Chi man! whatcho all aboutI don't want to i can't hope to

Say it all in one go

Occasionally once or twice

A day i feel alive enough to say

Let's hear what the drummerman's

Got to say about

He said is it errol flynn's birthday or not?

Sept 12 until october

If they pack 2 piece

Colt pair of shoots

We got the shiny grey mexican suits

I'm just wasting a great big

Corporation and the entire fund

The girders of wall street

And thetemples of money

And the high priests

Of the expense account

And im wasting the whole thing

I come down in yamaha-ha

They make the best pianos-time to step-up

I know

I've been foolin' myself too long

I'm never right but always wrong

Goodbye, Baby, so long You know

You never let this thing catch on

You never let me be that strong

Goodbye, Baby, so long There was a cold wind blowing on the night we met

The leaves fell from the trees

You made a lot of promises I ain't seen yet

And I ain't gonna ask you please We know

None of us are gonna cry

It wasn't even worth the try

So long, Baby, Goodbye There was a cold wind blowing on the night we met

The windows were rolled up tight

We both asked for something we could never get

Now I'll do the thing that's right We know

None of us are gonna cry

It wasn't even worth the try

So long, Baby, Goodbye

Simple things are sometimes so hard to see

But they're alive and kicking, inside you, inside me

I will put my heart in this song

Baby, it's when I'm with you that I feel like I'm home

Baby, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm homeBeen around the world, from New York to Paris

Climbed up every mountain, fell off every tree

Woke up in Tokyo, fell asleep in Rome

It's only when I'm with you, that's when I feel home

Baby, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm home

My homeCome dance with me tonight

Let's leave the world outside

The silent streets below

They won't knowAnd I hate to see you leave

But baby when you're gone, I got some tricks up my sleeve

With my eyes closed, I just let myself roam

Every time I think of you, that's when I feel home

Baby, when I'm with you, that's when I feel homeCome dance with me tonight

We'll leave the world outside

The silent streets below

When I'm with you, it feels like homeBaby, baby, you feel like home

Baby, baby, you feel like home

Baby, baby, you feel like homeBaby, baby, you feel like

Baby, baby, you feel like

Baby, baby, you feel like (home)

Baby, baby, you feel like

Baby, baby, you feel like (home)

Baby, baby, you feel like

Baby, baby, you feel like home

Baby, baby, you feel like home

Baby, baby, you feel like home

Baby, baby, you feel like

Baby, baby, you feel like

Baby

I can do whatever if I try

Can't let life pass me by

It's okay to say no

Wanna make it, then you gotta set goals[Chorus]

Can't let life pass me by

You can make it if you try

Hold your head up high

You might touch the sky

Can't let life pass me by

You can make it if you try

Hold your head up high

You might touch the sky

Look in the sky, you know where it came from

Plenty stars, but the moon, we only got one

Me and you, we all weak with shorty

We all human, so we people shorty

God made Adam, then he made Eve

Plenty apples fell from the tree

Can't forget about the birds and the bees

God's tears filled up the seas

And from my parents, came you and me

now you can be what you wanna be

It's time to make the right move (Uh huh)

You can be smart in school (Uh Huh)

All you gotta do is study shorty

Troublemakers ain't your buddy shorty

Stay focused, say no to drugs

Respect your elders by showing them love[Chorus]I could be a doctor, I could be the lawyer

I could be the next Michael Jordan or Vince Carter

I could be a teacher cause I love to read

I could be a fireman or the police

I wanna be a scientist and save the world

I could be a vetenarian and study squirrels

I could be the president, just need your vote

Too many kids dying, we just need your support

I could be like Master P and own my own business

A operator or a technician

I like airplanes, I could be a pilot

I wanna be it cause I will go to college

I could be on TV and be a superstar

or I could be a mechanic and fix cars

I could be an astronaut and fly to the moon

I'm always gonna be me, you be you[Chorus]Can't let life pass me by (Uh Huh)

I can make it if I try (Uh Huh)

But I gotta keep my head up high (Uh Huh)

and I might touch the sky (Uh Huh)

Can't let life pass me by (Uh Huh)

I can make it if I try (Uh Huh)

But I gotta keep my head up high (Uh Huh)

and I might touch the sky (Aight)

Remember let's plant a flowering tree

Here in the rubble and debris

I'll tend it with a tear

If you only hold my hand

How's forever been baby? how's forever been baby?

You know I build fires to beat a post

You look out upon the sea do you still see the sea?

I get the fire of the bones

You say I come in peace

How's forever been baby? how's forever been baby?

Outside the gates I arrive home

Can you taste the spirit on the tongue the tongue the tongue

See me refuse you

Send you out into the night

To fly a blank flag home

How's forever been baby how's forever been baby?

Remember take me back to our teens

we can waste the time between between between

Carry me a candle and a lunar calendar

Will you stay the night with me?

How's forever been baby? how's forever been baby?

And it was let's fell out withering tree

It bloomed in the rubble and debris

I would bury it in ice for all of eternity

To see how's forever been baby? how's forever been baby?

Lady in albania works for 50 cents a day

Like her momma's momma did

And if she tried to leave they'd surely shoot her dead

Right here in my own backyard

There's a little boy who's face is scarred

His daddy says he fell from a tree

'Cause that's what his own daddy said when that little boy was heBreak, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circleMr. Smith he's never there

But nobody seems to care

Mrs. Smith wears diamond rings

And the kids are busy playing with their precious thingsBreak, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle that binds us to our destinyI ask a child on the bus

What will you be when you grow up?

He said "I'll do what my daddy does

Stay at home in bed and get my money every month."Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle

Break, break the circle that binds us to our destiny

You don't get your dreamjob

'cause you're too tall

You miss your wakeup-call

A drunken guy crashed in your car

Can't pay for your drinks at the bar

Your boss said it was nice to work

With you, you think he's just a jerk

The new shoes you bought

Are ruined after a mileThe sheets are warm

The fridge is filled

What's up buddy

Everthing's so funny

Living in the land, the land of milk and honey

The land of milk and honeyAnd now your girlfriend sold

Your favourite cd

They've towed your car away

While watching girls you fell from a tree

And that was hard

But now the best

You haven't seen one girl undressed

Mummy said they'll take you

Out of college

you don't get your dreamjob

'cause you're too tall

you miss your wakeup-call

a drunken guy crashed in your car

can't pay for your drinks at the bar

your boss said it was nice to work

with you, you think he's just a jerk

the new shoes you bought

are ruined after a milethe sheets are warm

the fridge is filled

what's up buddy

everthing's so funny

living in the land, the land of milk and honey

the land of milk and honeyand now your girlfriend sold

your favourite cd

they've towed your car away

while watching girls you fell from a tree

and that was hard

but now the best

you haven't seen one girl undressed

mummy said they'll take you

out of college

Honeysuckle, high in the tree

You let the world live under you

Like you're some good royalty

No one can touch you, when you're

Reckless in the summer, that heat

You let him wonder, but you never let him sink in his teeth

No one can touch you when you move

Move your body round in nothing but white cotton shirts

Come on, come on, come on but it leaves so soon

When you hang it up for something heavy now so insecure

(What's the melody?)

Come on, come on, come on, come on sing

Honeysuckle, fell from the tree

Now let the world walk over you

Like a junkie on the street

You push them further, when you're

Wasted in December indoors

You wish he'd wonder, but he never comes around anymore

You push them further

Go high

Honeysuckle, that's you

Honeysuckle, that's you

No one can touch you when you move

Move your body towards the Sun and think white cotton shirts

Come on, come on, come on it'll be here so soon

You can let it go as the colors change, and you feel that turn

Come on, come on, come on, come on sing

Honeysuckle, high in the tree

You let the world live under you

Like you're some good royalty

No one can touch you, when you're

Reckless in the summer, that heat

You let him wonder, but you never let him sink in his teeth

No one can touch you when you move

Hark! The hounds are hot

Upon the trail of our quarry

Spur your horses faster

And let not your arrows miss

Fell the tallest tree

To feed the fires at the castle

Meat we'll need aplenty

For tomorrow we shall feastWait! Who is this standing in our path

Stand aside or you shall feel my wrath

Don't you know that this is my domain

Now! Stand aside or you'll soon be slain

When I'm Low, and I'm Weak, and I'm Lost

I Don't Know Who I Can Trust

Paranoia, the Destroyer, Comes Knocking On My Door

You Know the Pain Drifts to Days, Turns to Nights

But It Slowly Will Subside

And When It Does, I Take a Step, I Take a Breath

And Wonder What I'll FindCan You Hear What I'm Saying?

Got My Mind Meditating On Love, Love

Feel What I'm Saying

Got My Mind Meditating On Love, Love(The Human Condition, the Human Condition)Too Much Blood, Too Much Hate, Turn Off the Set

There's Got to Be Something More

When Mohammed, Allah, Buddah, Jesus Christ

Are Knocking Down My Door

I'm Agnostic Getting God, But Man

She Takes a Female Form

There's no Time, no Space, no Law

We're Out Here On Our OwnCan You Hear What I'm Saying?

Got My Mind Meditating On Love, Love

Feel What I'm Saying

Got My Mind Meditating On Love, LoveCheck the Meaning

(The Human Condition)

Check the Feeling

(The Human Condition)Guess It's Life, Doing It's Thing

Making You Cry, Making You Think

Yeah Life, Dealing It's Hand

Making You Cry and You Don't Understand

Life, Doing It's Thing

Making You Cry Now, Making You Think Of

Pain, Doing It's Thing

Making You Cry Yeah, Making You SingDon't Say It, Don't Say It's Too Late

Don't, Don't Say It's Too Late (It's Never Too Late, It's Never Too Late)

Don't, Don't Say It's Too Late (It's Never Too Late)

Don't, Don't Say It's Too LateThe Human Condition, the Big Decisions

The Human Condition, the Big DecisionsI'm Like a Fish With Legs, I Fell From the Tree

I Made a Rocket (Check the Meaning), I Made a Wheel

I Made a Rocket (Check the Feeling), I Swam the Ocean (Check the Meaning)

I Saw the Moon (Say a Prayer), I Seen the Universe (And Beyond)

I See You (Check the Feeling), I See Me (Check the Meaning)

That's My Reality

And While the City Sleeps We Go WalkingIt's a Beautiful World

And When the City Sleeps We Go Walking

We Find a Hole in the Sky and Then We Start Talking

And Then We Say "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ

Buy Us Some Time, Buy Us Some Time"

Hear What I'm Saying

Can You Hear What I'm Saying?

Can You Hear What I'm Saying?

Can You Hear What I'm Saying?It's Gonna Be Alright

At the top of the world,

It's so lonely, it's so lonely.

Ever since that day, we fell, we fell at the tree,

And our eyes were opened, forever forced to see.With hearts turned, turned away.

With hearts turned, turned away.We're naked and so ashamed of it,

How dearly we have all paid for this.And the woman's beauty wasn't enough,

And to keep her from falling, falling down from love.

The man in all his shame stood in washed his blood,

So cowardly, oh so cowardly.With hearts turned, turned away.

With hearts turned, turned away.We're naked and so ashamed of it,

How dearly we have all paid for this.

We're naked and so ashamed of it,

We've been running from ourselves ever since.One day I'll stand before you,

One day I'll stand before you.And joy will flood my soul,

All of thee will know,

I am made whole in you.We're naked and so ashamed of it,

How dearly we have all paid for this.

We're naked and so ashamed of it,

We've been running from ourselves ever since

My baby's done me wrong

She took my love and's gone

She left me only teardrops

To cry while singin' this song One thousand concrete blocks

A cold, damp concrete floor

Six iron bars on the window

And a big black lock on the door Wherever you may be

I hope you're list'nin' to me

Come back for I still love you

Though you've been mean to me (this verse is in the Billy Grammer cover replaced by:

Her lover fell like a tree

He just wouldn't listen to me

If he had just found another

Then I still would be free) If you never return

I have already learned

To count the blocks made of concrete

And wait for the lock to turn One thousand concrete blocks ...

He took a bus to meet me in a bar in a Tuscan hill

Oh a sight I'd never seen, I believe in God still

But you wouldn't be able to stop me if I feel like running away

Wouldn't be able to stop me if I didn't want to stayAnd the rain fell on the houses

And the rain fell on the trees

It fell its fiercest on the skulls of the willingly deceived

They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is

They put money in their hearts and GodSaid he'd been sleeping lonely, spending nights under the stars

Little darling, we're all lonely, we don't all show our scarsIt's my heart, and my burden, and I would never bring you down like that

My heart, my burden, I would never bring you down with meAnd the rain fell on the towers and on the late swaying trees

And it hammered and it raged on us unwillingly

And the believers were forewarned, and they ran into the storm

And watched the earth's light flicker and fail

They watched the earth's light flicker and fail

Flicker and, flicker and failThey put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is

They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is

They put money in their hearts and God where their mouth is

They put money in their hearts and God

I could do whatever I try

Can't life pass me by

It's okay to say no

You wanna make it then you gotta say go[Chorus:]

Can't let life pass me by

You could make it if you try

Hold your head up high

You might touch the sky

Can't let life pass me by

You could make it if you try

Hold your head up high

You might touch the skyLook in the sky you know where it came from?

Plenty stars but the moon we only got one

Me and you we all people shawty

We all human so we people shawty

God made adam then He made eve

Plenty apples fell from the tree

Can't forget about the birds and the bees

God's tears built the seas

And from our parents came you and me

Now you can be what you wanna beIt's time to make the right move (uhhuh)

You can be smart in school (uhhuh)

All you gotta do is study shawty

Troublemakers ain't your buddies shawty

Stay focused say no to drugs

Respect your elders by showing em love yeah,[Chorus]I could be a doctor I could be a lawyer

I could be the next Michael Jordan or Vince Carter

I could be a teacher cause I love to read

I could be a fireman or a police

I wanna be a scientist and save the world

Or I can be a veterinarian and study squirrels

I could be the president just need your vote

Too many kids dying we just need your support

I could be like Master P and own my own business

Or operator or a technition

I like airplanes I could be a pilot

I wanna be a dentist I would go to college

Or I could be on TV and be a superstar

Or I could be a mechanic and fix cars

I could be an astronaut and fly to the moon

I always gonna be me, you gonna be you[Chorus]Can't let life pass me by (uh ha)

I can make it if I try (uh ha)

But I gotta keep my head up high (uh ha)

And I might touch the sky (uh ha)

Can't let life pass me by (uh ha)

I can make it if I try (uh ha)

But I gotta keep my head up high (uh ha)

And I might touch the sky (uh aite)