Jackson Browne Lyrics

The Birds Of St. Marks Yeah Yeah The Long Way Around Leaving Winslow If I Could Be Anywhere You Know The Night Walls And Doors Which Side St...

Oh how sad they sound the songs the queen must sing of dying The prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing If she could see her mirror ...

You know I don't lead you and you know I don't feed you no lies And it's not up to me to tell you what you see through your eyes...

I don't know what to say about these days I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways Even in the richer neighborhoods People d...

I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this railroad I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this train All I...

Sliding on the shimmering surface between two worlds Standing at the center of time as it uncurls Cutting through the veil of illusion Movin...

You know the night I met you My eyes had been looking for you All over everywhere Over low roads, down highways, and bald deserts You know t...

Ever since the world's existed There's one thing that is certain There are those who build walls And those who open doors Ah but thi...

You might be a young man with the mountain in his step In search of El Dorado, but you haven't found it yet Or you might be an old man w...

And though the earth may tremble and our foundations crack We will all assemble and we will build them back And rush to save the lives remai...

You wait for the tears to fall but they won't You think you should know what to say but you don't Here at the break of day The world...

(originally by Mose Allison) Well if you live Your time will come I say if you live Your time will come So child don't mess with that co...

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to...

In the morning when I closed my eyes You were sleeping in paradise And while the room was growing light I was holding still with all my m...

Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs...

The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is the time for a child to be born He'll laugh at the moon And cry for t...

Well, if I had money tell you what I'd do I'd go downtown and buy a Mercury or two Crazy 'bout a Mercury, Lord I'm crazy ...

I am "El Rayo". Soy el cantar del gallo. Soy el caiman del bayou, Cuando lo parte el rayo. Ven, ven aca. Vuelve aca. No no ...

Sit down! (oh, please don't make me) Sit down! (Cause I just got to heaven. I'm gonna walk around) Sit down, servant, and rest ...

Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want ...

For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin' Now you've been working through the rubble of a shattered mind Yeah Baby, tell ...

Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they...

I'm sitting down by the highway Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as fast as they can ride I gue...

The words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our step...

Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days- These days I seem to think a lot About the things...

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen...

Gather your deeds and your possessions, Whatever certainty you've known, Forget your heroes, You don't really need those last few...

Time on my side, a stowaway in the slipstream A time I could glide the shifting currents of my dream In my dream the singing was coming fr...

It was easy for me Up so high in my tree Living off of Wonderland Living with an unknown band Waiting there for Everyman There was cha...

Roll out the drumbs of war Roll up the cover of the killing floor Roll out the drums of war And let's speak of things worth fighting ...

The things people do looking for understanding Defy understanding If only they knew where the love they seek Is truly to be found Into t...

Where were you when the sky cracked open? Heading for shelter and barely coping Thinking you could ride the storm out, Hoping it would be...

Sometimes I get to feeling low Wish I could just pick up and go somewhere new Change my point of view Maybe somewhere I don't know T...

Pretty Nova, one year over Legal age of consent In the flower of sweet youth our Days of heaven were spent Giving that heaven away Giv...

I went to the Live Nude Cabaret To see what I could see And I saw the ladies dancing And I guess that they saw me Neither did I vanquish...

I wanted to be somebody you see When you're feeling good I started looking for your little MG In my neighborhood I started feeling k...

Far from the arms of hunger Far from the world disorder Beyond the reach of warfare Blinded by faith no longer No longer free to plunder...

Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said Knowing she never could pass on a dare And knowing it sounded more desperate...

I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way With everything that I was feeling that I could not say With every doubt and every sorrow...

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And en...

For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin' Now you've been working through the rubble of a shattered mind Yeah Baby, tell ...

There are times when I see you, Baby Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices we made You never held me to blame B...

One foot after the other One place pretty much like another Some folks got a pretty good deal Some are just looking for their next meal ...

I kept my eyes open and tried to see The point of what went on in front of me I kept what moved me, forgot about the rest And took my you...

He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends He set out...

Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go? Where the light is breaking and the cold clear winds blow Don't you want to ...

What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunni...

Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs...

Running down around the towns along the shore When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were...

Every day I walk out in this torn up world And I fight to survive I'm laughing when I make it to the Saturday And I'm alive Carr...

Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world We bring good things to life The news you need from people you can count on Doing...

Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down And I am there with a smile, prepared to bring you around You're t...

I live in a small town . . . deep in LA About five miles north of where the Lakers play Everybody here's from someplace else Working ...

How long did you blind me baby how long? How long did you blind me baby how long? With your little girl laugh and your siren song Was I ...

Nino, walking around on Sunday Nino, just one more kid in L.A. With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band ...

I want to live in the world, not inside my head I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willi...

They shot a man into the sky The moon and stars became his bed He saw the sun rise seven times And when he came back down he said It is...

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to...

To love and get away before the walls have arisen You've got to be free But to go on attempting to break into the prison You'd ha...

I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go Peo...

You hold a life there in your hands You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Somewhere long ago Think about the t...