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If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.
Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.
After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.
Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.
Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.
If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.
Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.
If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.
I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.
May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.
What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.
You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.