to wait Cause black keys never looked so beautiful And a perfect rainbow never seemed so dull And the lights out never had this bright a glow And the black keys
an innocent child in new orleans a simple girl from simple means walked the rails rode her thumb she hitched a ride with everyone the regular, she'd
I wanted love, I needed love Most of all, most of all Someone said true love was dead And I'm bound to fall, bound to fall for you Oh, what can I do?
He found all hands against his own Found all eyes were looking down And the sun had left and gone All his friends could not be found Don?t talk about
Where?d you get those fancy clothes? Where?d you get those, goodness knows? Just show some civility Act nice, act nice and gentle to me I don?t need
What's behind, Your black door? I wanna know, I wanna know, yeah, May take a week, honey, It may take more, I wanna know, I wanna know, Ooh~ooh~ooh~ooh
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I'm on an airplane Close to sea Going nowhere I wanna be Distant lands Don't know who I am Eyes are heavy Mind is shook Can't feel Drugs I took Distant
Well I hate to leave you, hate to put you down But that way you love darling, no I'm Brooklyn bound I ain't got no money, no house on that hill But that
What about the night makes you change Oh from sweet to deranged What about my voice tells you Who's been wrong to you, yeah You've got pains like an
An innocent child in New Orleans A simple girl from simple means Walked the rails, rode her thumb She hitched a ride with everyone The regular She'd
But there is one voice that has never been heard before, The voice of old Mr. World himself, The way he might sound if he could speak to us in our own
Take a step before runnin', yeah Take a breath now before you die When you work the streets, darlin' Make sure your sneaker laces, they get tied I be your black
In the elevator, I pick my floor In the elevator, I pick my floor Every time, every time I was blind for a time, now fine The choice is mine When I
Hey now baby - Let's do the rump Yeah darling - Lets do the rump Do the rump 'til the broad daylight, broad daylight Hey now baby - All over again Yeah
Well everywhere I go, ain't got a thing to do (I got a thing for you?) Well everywhere I go, ain't got a thing to do (I got a thing for you?) Now little
Out of all the things you've ever done This time I can't go back When a heart gets broke this many times It's easy to lose track Takin' all this pain
Well I came to see And what I found was not alright with me Their desperation, some vocation And it'd been the same thing all along Goodbye Babylon Goodbye
