Release Date: 1985
Duration: 40:05
Label: Rhino
Catalog Number: R2 75761
If you want to cry You can always find something to cry about It's so easy to be wise Over someone else's tears But you have a gift That the rest of us just can't live without And it's something in your voice When you tell us how you feel 'Cause we've all loved something and lost it And it's burning my heart I can't open my mouth and just let it out But when I hear my Blue Orpheus sing I know that life is a wonderful thing Somewhere there's love and perpetual spring I know life is a wonderful thing Seems so long ago The sound of your joy filled the atmosphere We can make it on our own But the road is so rocky and steep And when you feel lost No one tells you what you need to hear And the only dream you have Is the one that's in your sleep 'Cause we soon forget what we're here for I need someone to say he's got dreams of his own I'll know I'm not alone I want to hear my Blue Orpheus sing I'll know that life is a wonderful thing Somewhere there's love and perpetual spring I'll know life is a wonderful thing Sing You will one day be together again Though you can not see her Sing She is somewhere in the world
He was just fifteen, he was a new trainee He lied about it for the opportunity To defend the border his life was sworn Though not a generation was native born Johnee Jingo Johnee Jingo He had lost the battle but won the war When the generals said he couldn't fight no more He was proud and bitter at what he'd done So he passed it off to his favorite son Johnee Jingo Johnee Jingo Jingo don't you fight for me Jingo don't you speak for me To the man who owns the land We're all the same But when his grip begins to slip Then he'll be calling out your name Johnee Jingo And the throne, the pulpit, and the politician Create a thirst for power in the common man It's a taste for blood passed off as bravery Or just patriotism hiding bigotry
Today I am your chariot horse Tomorrow I'm your albatross Suspended by the finest thread No one could ever see And when there's breathing in your ear You put your faith in all you hear But just how deep those feelings go I have no way to know I'll never know If I was blind Would you still be my eyes Or hide everything you see Pretending to care about me When all the time You're just wishing I'd fade away You just can't bring yourself to Say out loud the reasons why You won't admit you realize The promise you've been living by Is just an empty shell You'll come to bear it like a cross Then start to tear it like frayed gauze Though I'm ashamed to be afraid I just can't help myself Can't help myself
Hodja please show me how to spin now Hodja please show me how you do it All the other boys are laughing at me again now Hodja please show me how you do it Whenever I talk they don't hear a thing And everyone laughs when I sing Hodja, please show me how to spin I want to do that dance 'til I forget where I am So get up out of your bed one more time Hodja, make me spin Yeah, teach me to spin like I seen you do Why don't you make me the envy of the kids in school I know what to wear, I know how to sound I know about kissing the ground From every alley in Konya Mevlana sings "Turn around, turn around You've got to spin 'til your feet leave the ground" Hodja, someday soon you will be moving on So won't you let me be the one you lay the secret on And it's a 2 4 6 8, take it from the top You've got to start me up and don't let me stop
Now I guess it's too late to speculate On things as they might have been That given the time, you'd read my mind And know there was love within I could loudly exclaim we felt the same But not in all honesty Now you'll never know How could you know the friend that you had in me I've got so much to learn now Lessons I never had When you lose a friend forever Hurts so bad Ooh it hurt me so bad I had always believed that you and me Were connected by destiny But the time never came It sounds so lame Is it all just my vanity? Am I the only one to feel the sun Exactly the way I do? When you sang how you felt I'd tell myself Maybe someday I'll sing with you I've got so much to hope for Dreams that I've never had When you've got no one to share them Hurts so bad Ooh it hurt me so bad I have an ideal I think is real But I just can't find it I believe that one day I'll melt away into that lost horizon Ooh it hurt me so bad That you had an ideal you knew was real And you went out to find it And you found it one day You've gone to stay into that lost horizon
If I gave you just a bit more time Do you think that you would make up your mind? You can't expect that a flower will grow Until you get around to giving it more Like it's only Something to fall back on Something to fall back on Something to fall back on Like a crumpled dollar hidden in your hat For the subway home when there's no welcome mat You'd be left with nothing if it weren't for that When you need to find it it's right behind you Remember when you were the talk of the town And you didn't care if I was around But still you kept me in the back of your head Just like the teddy bear that you took to bed I was only something to fall back on And to wake up lonely is your deepest dread So you stay connected by a tiny thread Though you'd rather try for something else instead When you need to find me I'm right behind you I know I'm only Something to fall back on I don't know what makes me think I've the right To tell you what is most important in life But after all I guess I just don't care And if you need me I will always be there 'Cause when I just imagine how it will be Then I guess it's something to fall back on Something to fall back on for me I need to know you'll need me sometime Everybody needs somebody to fall back on Fall back on me Nobody's going nowhere You can call me anytime You can fall back on me You can call on me I'm waiting on you babe When your world is falling down And there's no one else around And you're sitting, waiting by the phone You can call me and I won't leave you alone
As Jalaludin Rumi has prophesied This day This day Allah Allah will make his presence known to you There is a miracle in the bazaar There is a miracle in the bazaar There a spirit appeared in flaming green Mamun the madman is cured Praise be to Allah Praise be to Allah There is no God but God There is no God but God
Look out children Mothers hide all the children who lie Lockjaw's coming with a rusty nail He's gonna nail your mouth open wide Look out children Boys and girls who do falsify From the Black Forest with a hammerhead He's looking for you with a rusty eye In the Black Forest, lives an ogre named Lockjaw. Lockjaw doesn't like children who tell lies. Late at night he stalks the houses of the fibbers and the falsifiers, and before they can cry out from their beds, he nails their jaws open with a rusty nail, using his head for a hammer. You may escape him for a while and think you fooled him, but he'll get you in the end. He'll get ya! HE'LL GET YA!! Lockjaw's coming Hide your heads, all you lying children Mothers hide all your lying children Fathers hide all your lying children Look out mothers Telling lies to a gullible child Lockjaw's coming with a rusty nail He'gonna nail your mouth open wide Look out Fathers Teachers and leaders who do falsify From the Black Forest with a hammerhead He's looking for you with a rusty eye Many people wonder "Could such a terrible tail be true? Who would make up such a terrible tale?" It seems such a cruel punishment for such a tiny little lie. Well, I've got to confess. It's a fib. I made it up myself. It's pretty funny, don't you think? Ha, ha ha! Gag, gag, gag!!!
I'm not afraid to bend my back I'm not afraid of dirt But how I fear the things I do For lack of honest work My family is lost to me They could not bear the hurt To see the state their boy is in For lack of honest work I hold no blame for anyone 'Twas I who did arrange To pay my union dues so I'd Not have to learn or change And when I was replaced, 'twas I Who started down the hill And drank away my savings 'til I couldn't stop myself The prophets of a brave new world Captains of industry Have visions grand and great designs But none have room for me They see a world where everyone Is rich and smart and young But if I live to see such things Too late for me they come I know I'm not the only one To fall beneath the wheel Such company can not assuage The loneliness I feel So many are resigned to be Society's debris But I will be remembered for The life life took from me For I'm not afraid to bend my back I'm not afraid of dirt But how I fear the things I do For lack of honest work
Once there was a boy and girl Boy said "I love you so" Girl said "I'll never leave you" They grew older and left each other 'Cause that's the way love goes Then there's a time Seems like you'll never find Someone willing to love you Keep on looking you'll soon discover A mighty love Can sometimes make a weak man moan Said a mighty love You sit all day by the telephone 'Cause you're all alone You need a mighty love Some say that you're sure to find True love and piece of mind At the end of the rainbow There's no sign in the sky to follow 'Cause that's the way love goes And so there's a rhyme That says life will soon be fine Love is just what you make it Keep on loving, you'll soon discover A mighty love Can sometimes make a weak man strong A mighty love Can sometimes make a rich man weep And knock him off his feet To have a mighty love
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