Lyrics:
Bringing me down
I'm running aground
Blind in the light of the interstate cars
Passing me by
The buses and semis
Plunging like stones from
down to Woodside
I left Berkley, out of city, out of mind
Killin' it, talkin' shit
Joan said she was gonna quit
Tearin' it up at the Afro-Caribbean
Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home and we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rollin' down to the sea
But
By the light of the moon above
So take me back, back to love
Ever since you took me to the big city
Looking for the start
Living in the fast
mother used to sing to her
And the road down to the city goes right by Maria's door
I often walk right by her house on my way to the store
Up there
pretty girls
Village and city girls by the quayside
Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls
Watching and waiting by the sea
Bless you,
Old man down
Way down, down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty
Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I
The old man who sold his apples
Isn't there any more
And the city square don't seem as big
As it did before
They tore down that old drug store
We
but the city that dreams, for sure
If by dreams you mean in nightmares
L.A, I'm a dreamer, but I'm from nowhere, who am I to dream?
L.A, I'm upset,
mess around and make country love
Meet me at night tonight and we'll go down by the river side
Take along some moonshine our love is much too strong
five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whacks fer al de da
In Dublin next arrived
And thought it such
Stand at the curbside and watch the world go by
In this town no one looks you in the eye
Where is the place not driven on by time?
Where's the city
A city freeze
Get on your knees
Pray for warmth and green paper
A city drought
You're down and out
See your trousers don't taper
Saddle up
Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, but we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rollin' down to the sea
But
is through
And we'll park in it the boons
And catch a little moon tan
By the time you go back (if you go back)
You'll be city girl buzzin' over
of London Town.
There's a little city flower every spring unfailing
Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
Though it has a Latin name, in town
We used to call it Sin City
Now it's gone way past that.
Painting the town
And then burning it down.
And even that's old hat.
Now there' a choir
Journeying down the river
With my dear friends
I will feel no fear
I'm so glad to be here
Days will go by
We shall take our oars
Passing trough dams
back down to Tennessee
Big city days
Seeing if it pays
Barely rescued by the hell you're going to raise
She's going to roll you
Through
It was 9:29, 9:29 big street, big city
The sun was going down, there was music all around
It felt so right
It was one of those nights
One
the pines
Weekends in the sun in that cheap motel down by the Dynamo
We loved each other till their was nothing left,
And drove that old car as hard
the great
Once blessed by the holy
Protected by fate
Announcing the twilight
The wrath of the Gods
The city of Acheron
Was drowned by the flood
Settle down (settle down)
Now we're over Kansas, where the clouds are floating by
The whole wide world looks back at me
Just like a mushroom pie I
no more
I lay all my weapons down
to the love that holds all of me
I row my little boat down by the river side
Your words I hear
as I ride out
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