Jackson Browne Lyrics

Here's to lights and virtues Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to light the darkness The search for things of your own ...

As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Mothe...

God is great, God is good He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take t...

It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget ...

Daughter of a woman who comes and goes Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up about the things People know to do ...

Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Wer...

I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of...

Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes I've al...

Long before you ever saw your chances You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people stan...

I can't keep up with what's been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jean...

You really need someone on your side But you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get through You've got this wall in f...

Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away And help me find my way back to the start Yeah, before I knew what I was ...

Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown Downtown they got to think a little quicker 'cause they're downtown Do...

Between the darkness on the street And the houses filling up with light Between the stillness in my heart And the roar of the approaching...

Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you looki...

In the still of the night Lying in the darkness I listen to my heart Say it isn't true In the dark and the quiet The movements of m...

Open the door, baby turn on the light We're gonna have a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker I know it's late and you'r...

Down the side streets and the avenue There be sisters walkin' two by two Their dresses and their shoes are new But their hearts are w...

Baby I guess you know my story Baby I guess you know my side It seems I've traded love for glory But I'm still not satisfied Gi...

She was a friend to me when I needed one Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done She gave me back something that was missing...

Down on the boulevard they take it hard They look at life with such disregard They say it can't be won The way the game is run But i...

Your father was a rounder He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul The music was his angel And sorrow...

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...

Hold on hold out, keep a hold on strong The money's in and the bets are down You won't hold out long They say you'll fall in ...

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...

Highways and dancehalls A good song takes you far Your write about the moon And you dream about the stars Blues in old motel rooms Girl...

She was standing at the load-in When the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around Like a half grown female pup She wasn't hard t...

When you look over your shoulder And you see the life that you've left behind When you think it over do you ever wonder? What it is t...

You take Sally and I'll take Sue Their ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'round my brain Headin' ...

I've witnessed those one night stands Must have played in a thousand bands But I'm just here tonight, tomorrow I'll be gone S...

Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two ...

Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New Jersey, gonna set it ...

Now the seats are all empty Let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They're the first to come and last to leave W...

People stay just a little bit longer We want to play - just a little bit longer Now the promoter don't mind And the union don't m...

It's coming from so far away It's hard to say for sure Whether what I hear is music or the wind Through an open door There's...

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...

At the moment the music began And you heard the guitar player starting to sing You were filled with the beauty that ran Through what you ...

Here come those tears again Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it through Another night without missing you ...

Boy of mine As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you'v...

A dirty wind blows through the sky And the Autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wishing I could follow Though among the...

Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder Where my life will lead me Waiting to pass under Sleep's dark and silent gate I found my l...

I'm going to rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day A...

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...

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would ha...

In my early years I hid my tears And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams like nets were thrown To catch the ...

Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you...

When we come to place where the road and the sky collide Throw me over the edge and let my spirit glide They told me I was going to have t...

Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track o...

Walking slow down the avenue Through my old neighborhood Don't know why I'm happy I've got no reason to feel this good Maybe...

Some of them were dreamers And some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future With the energy of the innocent ...

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 ...

It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking ...

Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Picking for a coin Many other tiny worlds Singing past my hand Awake to...

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought...

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...

Pretty little one How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the run Little one- What you gon...

In the time we've known That we each are a part of one another We've lost as much as we have won And as our lives have grown We ...

Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's havin...

Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Let your voice ring back my memories ...

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...

Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would no...

I am a child in these hills I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Who will show...

Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well He was alone into his distance He was deep into his well I could guess what he ...

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could T...

Did you see our brother He was here the other day But he only came to say that he was leaving Did you see his lady She was looking where...

The papers lie there helplessly In a pile outside the door I've tried and tried, but I just can't remember what they're for T...

Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through Before this moment fades away I want to know you I've got lightening in my pocket, thund...