Used to want Taiwan and Mozambique 
And Katmandu to lay right at my feet
I thought living on the Amazon would be real fine
You know I couldn't get to sleep till I made the world mine
But now I'm alright, yeah I've quenched my cares, 
Can see what I need from my front porch stairs

Won't you join me tonight in my corner of the world
It's so nice in my corner of the world
I can watch the sand in the hourglass swirl
With you in my arms in my corner of the world

I used to want a mansion up on a hill
A guitar-shaped swimming pool to cure all my ills
Yeah I really thought the whole pie would be real nice
Who'd a thought I'd get full on just one slice
Yeah I stake my claim right here in my heart
All I need is you girl to set me apart

Won't you join me tonight in my corner of the world
It's so nice in my corner of the world
I can watch the sand in the hourglass swirl
With you in my arms in my corner of the world

You said you used to take the time you know to listen to my mind
And all the different signs I used to send
But now you barely say hello, it seems you're sinking low
Lower than I think you've ever been

She said 'all I want to say is 'babe I'll mend my ways 
As soon as you can whisper my name'
She said 'I'm sorry I've been cruel in breaking all our rules
The rules that seemed to keep our life so safe'

But you know you slip sometimes
You slip sometimes
Just when you think you got it all down, you slip sometimes

I've been keeping clear of darkness
And the angels and the carcasses who used to eat me up with late-night sleaze
Then I caught myself a-sliding, running and a-hiding
From the loving that I thought had set me free

When I finally came around I looked up from the ground 
And I saw your silky smile there from the floor
As we walked out arm in arm I caught a little of that old charm
And I whispered very softly back toward the door

You know you slip sometimes
You slip sometimes
Just when you think you got it all down, you slip sometimes

The churches are all full of sinnin’ souls dreamin’
Of fried chicken steamin’
And big potatoes creamin’
In their minds
The ghost of Saturday night we’ll be leavin’
With one fell blow of believin’
A few ‘I’m sorry’ smiles, hot coffee and a sigh.

‘Cause
Sunday’s forgivin’
Saturday night for livin’
Friday night for leaving the world behind
The only way I seem to handle
Monday morning’s scramble
Is to burn another candle 
And pray Sunday’s forgivin’ 
In my mind

Now the Spanish moss is swingin’
To that charcoal choir that’s singing’
The whole neighborhood is clinging
To them ancient voices ringing out
We still got time
They just might have a solution
For all my soul pollution
I got four more hours for absolution
The gaslight don’t serve drinks till after five

Chorus

Now the preacher’s eyes they’re beaming
Heart bent on redeemin’
What he calls my scheming
He says he’ll send us down if we don’t pray
But I tell him I do my kneelin’
When I see a sunset reelin’
Like  a giant orange peelin’
And a little bit of hell’s good for a change

Chorus

Yeah I could sit and tune on that ancient rock
And count the wind and wind my clock
Yeah I could reap the best and slip the scenes
And live the days that greet my dreams

But when that old Big Dipper looks like my tombstone in the sky
And the stars reach down and turn me from Jekyll into Hyde
I go moonlight mad 
Moonlight mad

Please tell me sir, how long I've been gone
This time last week yeah I could do no wrong
I was listening to the chimes and countin' my score
When my brain turned to train and I busted down the door

Yeah that old Big Dipper looks like my tombstone in the sky
And the stars beam down and turn me from Jekyll into Hyde
I go moonlight mad
Moonlight mad

I go moonlight mad
Moonlight mad
Moonlight, moonlight mad

I'm talking 'bout moonlight
I'm talking 'bout moonlight 
 

I'm gonna wind my watch...
 

The days are numbered and the nights pull strong
All my shoes can do is pace the floor
My heart's encumbered with the right and wrong
And the light that shines from underneath the door

It's been so long since I called you home
What do I believe, what do I believe
Come to think, you're just about all I've ever known
Guess that's why I need you there to love

It's time I filled my sails and rode them rusty rails 
To look for me again in the lonely light
Where the night trains blow cold steel 
And my daydreams wreck what's real
I'll remember how you feel in the lonely light

There was a time when our love was lord
And all we cared for were the seeds we'd sown
So it seems a crime to cut the cord
And expect you to believe that I ain't grown

But the closer we get the farther I drift away
What do I believe, what do I believe
In its happiness smiles and the dogs all have their day
I just need to catch a rail 

It's time I filled my sails and rode them rusty rails 
To look for me again in the lonely light
Where the night trains blow cold steel 
And my daydreams wreck what's real
I'll remember how you feel in the lonely light

It's all I can do to look me in the eye
My love for you just won't crawl away
To see so far and be so blind
I guess it's just the price I have to pay

It's time I filled my sails and rode them rusty rails 
To look for me again in the lonely light
Where the night trains blow cold steel 
And my daydreams wreck what's real
I'll remember how you feel in the lonely light

In the lonely light

Getting tired of talking about it 
You turn your dreams to rage
Pack your day dreams, run home to papa
And live in a sugar-coated cage

Don't you think I get tired dear
When these ragged days never seem to fade
And that above my head says turn, turn, turn
Go ahead and turn the other way

No making fun of me what they can
Make me feel like a mouse in the body of a man
I'll adhere to my best laid plans
I'm a marathon man

The saints on the street they can fight me
Show me the prophet of the blade
And the signs in the sky can reach out and fight me
Tell me tomorrow is today

Even you, girl, you can stand there with your
With your time clock shooting sparks in the shade
I can still see you there with the breeze in your hair
Telling me our love would never fade

The cadillacs can all make way
To burn my regrets down the roads they've laid
Deep down I thought you'd always understand
I'm a marathon man

No, they could shove at me what they can
Make me feel like a mouse in the body of a man
But I'll adhere to my best laid plans
I'm a marathon man
I'm a marathon man

Life's real good, yeah, life's real fine
I've got a blanket and a bed while I'm doing my time
I can sell what I know for ciggies and wine 
And the food's not bad if you don't mind waiting in line

I can still see the old man, his face tired and cracked
Showing me again why poor boys finish last
That's why I don't mind watching these days unwind
It's better than being like him, out there busting my behind

It don't matter what I've done
I can't escape from where I begun
It don't matter where I hid the forty-seven grand
Yeah, I'm living by the law of the land

Sisters relax, recycle the facts
That the only pageant she knows comes in a phial of perfume
Takes what she wants and waters a claim
In the hot desert sun with lots of upstate rain

He sees the blood boil when the gate says oil
She'll while the bloody hours on the late-night news
She don't understand but still she gets with the plan
And puts her hand to her heart for the red, white and blue

It don't matter how long they eat grass
Do they pay or do they cut in half
It don't matter how long they kiss the sand
They're living by the law of the land

Whatever happened to what I wanted to be 
And the things that I thought in my youth and my dreams
Last thing I know I was drawing up plans 
But I'm still selling my heart out of the back of this van

I still wish I was with her in her tears and her blues 
In the Alaskan rain somewhere west of Saskatoon
Our love was as deep as those mountains were high
Too bad love is one thing you don't need to survive

It don't matter where I've been
What I read or what I defend
It don't matter where I burn my brand
I'm living by the law of the land
The law of the land
The law of the land

She looks at me and asks me why 
I don't know
We've always known the answers guy
A thousand times before

Some things they never change
Some things I can't explain
Some things keep coming round again and again and again

Trains derail, markets fail 
Shooting stars shower the world with their tails
Angels fall and the sky it creases
And I go to pieces

She takes her time to say goodbye
I don't know
Some things are better left unsaid
Things come and things go

Wish there were some other way
Some things I can't explain
Some things keep coming round again and again and again

Trains derail, markets fail
Shooting stars shower the world with their tails
Angels fall and the sky it creases
And I go to pieces 

Trains derail, markets fail
Shooting stars shower the world with their tails
Angels fall and the sky it creases
And I go to pieces

She met me in a hollow log 
Out on Highway 43
Yeah my head was full of smog
My heart long washed out to sea
She wore a smile without fear
Her tattered scarf like a shroud
She said I'm here to set you free 
From your silver lining in the clouds'

So I backstroked through my beer
One long last lonely lap
And as the diesel ground down the gear
I thought man, this is a trap
She said 'ask the lonely faces 
That stare upon us from the crowd
You'll take an outbound shuttle
Your silver lining in the clouds'

So I put a quarter in the slot
'Cause they wouldn't talk for free
But they didn't have to speak at all
Their eyes said it all to me
Their hearts all looked like donuts
in the day old bakery
And I felt very well endowed
In my silver lining in the clouds

So I packed my briefcase full of rain
My brass knuckles and snow chains
Took 'em down and got 'em framed
Made a portrait of my pain
Now every time I doubt her
I feel so very much ashamed
My bloodshot picture talks out loud
About my silver lining in the clouds

My silver lining in the clouds
My silver lining in the clouds

Pulled in a whistle stop and looked for your name in the directory U's
I knew you were there, thought I had nothing to lose
Threw rocks at the stop sign, staring at the payphone till the morning begun
You were the only road I hadn’t done

I looked east
I looked west
Saw the sheen of my dreams put to the test
I looked north, still I wanted to run
'Cause love weighs eighteen tons

A few drinks at the bar behind the wheel of my car 
I’m ready to turn right but it’s left at the light and into the night
Out toward the four lane you can hear them silky snow caps call
But the weight in my heart slows the car to a crawl

I looked east
I looked west
Seen the sheen of my dreams put to the test
I looked north but still I couldn’t give her the gun
'Cause love weighs eighteen tons

From San Juan to Silverton there’s a chill in the air that cracks the mind
Spooks the horses at night, makes you float in time
That same chill hits me and I cease to believe and I look toward the track
Want to roll away in vain and never look back

And then I look east
I look west
See the sheen of my dreams being put to the test
I look north and catch a little hope where I begun
'Cause love weighs eighteen tons