A young boy named Billy Joe, restless on the farm
A boy filled with wanderlust, who never really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and he shined his boots
And he combed his dark hair down
But his mama cried as he walked out:
‘Don’t take your guns to town
Don’t take your guns to town
Don’t take your guns… to town’
He laughed and kissed his mom and said ‘Your Billy Joe he’s the man
I can shoot as quick, I can shoot as straight, as anybody,can
But I wouldn’t shoot, without a cause, or gun nobody down’
But she cried again as he rode away:
‘Don’t take your guns to town
Son, leave your guns at home
Don’t take your guns to town’
Well he drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hands
And he tried, he tried to tell himself at last he had become a man
But a dusty cowpoke stood at his side, began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mother’s words:
‘Don’t take your guns to town
Son, leave your guns at home
Don’t take your guns…’
Don’t take your guns….
Don’t take your guns to town
Don’t take your guns….
Don’t take your guns to tow
Filled with rage then Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw
As Billy Joe fell to the floor the crowd all gathered around
And wondered at his final words:
‘Don’t take your guns to town
Son, leave your guns at home
Don’t take your guns to town’
How can't you see this is the end?
Let's face the truth, it's obvious
A different morning, the same charade
Tell me, what's left?
It's an illusion
It's all an illusion
Prep the surface, bound my limbs
Place the chair beneath the rail
On the outside just skin and bones
Show me, what's left?
It's an illusion
It's all an illusion
So I'm leaving you tonight
It's not fun here anymore
I'll be joining the parade
Of the ghosts who came before
Before leaving you complete, no surprise
With one kiss, one caress, ooh
Ooh, the world we shared
Ooh, it was never there, ooh
I'm leaving you tonight
It's not fun here anymore
I'm joining the parade
Of the ghosts before
Leaving you complete for all time
With one kiss, one caress, ooh
Look harder, say it's done
Black days and a dying sun
Dream a dream of god lit air
Just for a minute you'll find me there
So look harder and you'll find
The forty ways it leaves us blind
I need a better place
To burn beside the lights
Come on and let me try
Are you lost in the world like me?
If the systems have failed?
Are you free?
All the things, all the loss
Can you see?
Are you lost in the world like me?
Like me?
Burn a courtyard, say it's done
Throwing knives at a dying sun
A source of love in the god lit air
Just for a minute, I'll find you there
Look harder and you'll find
The 40 ways it leaves us blind
I need a better way
To burn beside the lights
Come on and let me try
Are you lost in the world like me?
If the systems have failed?
Are you free?
All the things, all the loss
Can you see?
Are you lost in the world like me?
Like me?
Are you lost in the world like me?
If the systems have failed?
Are you free?
All the things, all the loss
Can you see?
Are you lost in the world like me?
Like me?
Like me?
(If the systems have failed)
(If the systems have failed)
(If the systems have failed)
(If the systems have failed)
(If the systems have failed)
When Johnny comes marching home again
He's coming by bus or underground
A woman's eye will shed a tear to see his face so beaten in fear
It's just around the corner in the English civil war
It was still at the stage of clubs and fists
When that well-known face got beaten to bits
Your face was blue in the light of the screen as we watched the speech of an animal scream
The new party army was marching right over our heads
Alright
There you are, ha, ha, I told you so
Says everybody that we know
But who hid a radio under the stairs and who got caught out on their unawares?
When that new party army came marching right up the stairs
When Johnny comes marching home again
Nobody understands it can happen again
The sun is shining and the kids are shouting loud but you gotta know it's shining through a crack in the cloud
The shadows keep falling when Johnny comes marching home
Alright Johnny, okay Johnny, okay John go home, home, home, home
Guess who's catching a plain when Johnny comes running home
Last night's heels
On the mornin' train
It's a long way back downtown
Ten missed calls, they don't
Know where you are
It's a long way back downtown
Hey, I was flying (Flying, flying, flying)
Over the Empire State (Over, away)
Then you kissed me (Kissed me, kissed me)
And I crashed again
When did it start?
This feeling so wrong
When you're down and out downtown
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Bowery John
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Forgotten but not gone
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Praying at St. Ann's
Bodega roses in my hands
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Down and out downtown
And the
Joker with that funny laugh
Is digging through the basement of my past
It's a long way back down
Down and out downtown
Hey, I was flying (Flying, flying, flying)
Over the Empire State (Over, away)
When you kissed me (Kissed me, kissed me, kissed me)
And I crashed again
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
In the days
When we were swinging from the trees
I was a monkey
Stealing honey from a swarm of bees
I could taste
I could taste you even then
And I would chase you down the wind
You could go there if you please
Wild honey
And if you go there, go with me
Wild honey
Did I know you?
Did I know you even then?
Before the clocks kept time
Before the world was made
From the cruel sun
You were shelter
You were my shelter and my shade
If you go there with me
Wild honey
You can do just what you please
Wild honey
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild
I'm still standing, I'm still standing
Where you left me
Are you still growing wild
With everything tame around you?
I send you flowers
Cut flowers for your hall
I know your garden's full
But is there sweetness at all?
oh oh oh
If you go there with me
Wild honey
Won't you take me, take me please
Wild honey
Yeah, swinging through the trees
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild
