Had a bird in every pot
Held the the land between your legs
Killed the cough then stored the fat 
that fed us in our salad days
Caught the hole there in the sun
Spread it out for all to see
Shot the dog then shook his hand 
without ever seeing it was me

I am the King
Inside of me the people sing
I am the king
sha la la la la la la

Watched the bleeding heart to turn
The flag melt to blue and grey
Took this town with an old love song 
from the rat room down on the avenue A
Willed the world and I was the one
Willed your love and it went away
Sat stone faced while them buildings burned
till I gave it all up and I was on my way
Till I let it flow through and was on my way

I am the king
Inside of me the people sing
I am the king
sha la la la la la la
I am the king
Love and life for you and me
I am the king
Sha la la la la la la

Walked alone on a desert floor
Lost my vote and knelt and prayed, 
Killed the cop and lost the world
while the credits rolled and 
a river hymn played
Died alone up upon that hill
Rose again through the rusty clay
Sat dead still in your open arms 
till I found myself in another man's face

I am the king
I am the king
I am the king
Inside of me the heavens ring
I am the king
Sha la la la la la

Hobo songs and railroad gin
Alcohol evaporates through skin
One gift
Sugar blue

I feel his kiss in your angry eyes
To find hello when you say goodbye
One gift
Sugar blue

Holding darkness up to the light
The other side shows through
The raven's song it breaks the night
And I rise from me through broken hues
Sugar blue

Going nowhere's somewhere's song
Finding right in what went wrong
One gift, sugar blue
One gift, sugar blue

Holding darkness up to the light
The other side shows through
The raven's song it breaks the night
And I rise from me through broken hues
Sugar blue

Summertime
Blowing kisses in the park
Summertime, staying out till after dark
Oh it feels so good
Feels so right
Feels so good, you and me and summertime
Summertime. 

Summertime 
I'm drunk on you again
Summertime
Your heat waves dancing in the wind
Oh it feels so good
How can it be so right
Getting it in and understood
Oh summertime

Summertime
Good loving everywhere
Summertime
Laying low in our underwear
Summertime

We got life to cut our hearts out 
Right from our chest
We don't think. we just sink a lil' drinky
Till we know what's best

Got the boys shooting out the headlights
Gals blowing big balloons
We got dogs, the white man's burden
And Gilgamesh spinning the tunes
And you, Mama in the kitchen
All ya do is rag, rag, rag

It ain't nothing but a good time, good time, yeah
It ain't nothing but a good time, good time, yeah

We got love 
Mama's brother's sister is marrying Uncle Ted
He got time for cutting her in pieces 
And leaving her half past dead
It's true, she just laid up in the kitchen 
All she did was rag, rag, rag

It ain't nothing but a good time, good time, yeah
It ain't nothing but a good time, good time, yeah

Rock me, reel me, roll me, never feel me

It ain't nothing but a good time, good time, yeah

We got souls 
Somewhere south of wonder
Trailers flying across the prairie
Cars with doors of many colours
Conviction, yeah - we're beating up the fairies

It ain't nothing but a good time

June bug crawling out my window
June bug he don't make a sound
June bug, he don't feel the emptiness round here
Of this Delta down

Cotton fields outside my window
Her memory anywhere I'm bound
Can't break the chain of her goodbye in the breeze
Leaving me 
So Delta down

Wind through her cotton dress, 
Prayers in her Sunday best
Magnolias blooming can't cool me down
Thorns for her Congo skin
Where to begin again
Paying the price for freedom found

Blues from the Ivory Coast
Sugar and years to tote
Fall like rain into the ground
Just when I think I'm there
Smiles turn into despair
Thorns where there used to be a crown

Rusty clay in blue sky morning
Broken chains litter the ground
Home's just a heartache 
And her kiss upon my cheek
Leaving me 
So Delta down

Stop sign love
Come to me
Rough and ready 
What ya wanna be
Left or right
White or black
I got nothing to choose 
But this cross on my back

Which way ya gonna run
Which way ya gonna run

She's got grits and gravy
Clay and greens
Sweet potatoes 
And Vaseline
She got the monkey touch
So squeaky clean
I say come here baby
She says what do you mean

Which way ya gonna run
Which way ya gonna run
Which way

I've seen the faces of the linemen
The little black boxes of the shinemen
Your train's delayed again, it seems
Broken down in Alchemy
I've seen in the order in confusion
The empty hand behind illusion
Our years of sad, sad company
As just the place I was meant to be
But you're still a model in a dream
Broken down in Alchemy

Say what you must my dear
A plain man beyond repair
His only goal just to be
If but for one embrace 
Could salt your wounds with grace
I'd give it all to see your face 
Just a-shining next to me

I've seen the best minds lost in movement
Fearful if only just to choose it
Dissecting love to a degree
Broken down in Alchemy

We're just a moment and not to prove it
To face the love, to move on through it.
A simple choice for you and me
Broken down in Alchemy

The Madonna rides a motorbike
Talks to me of sordid bliss
Loves the nothing in enough
And the emptiness inside a kiss
She picks me up and we do that thing
Do that thing she likes a lot
It has nothing really to do with me
Just everything that she ain't got

Every day, I can see you there
Faraway is right here if you dare
Understand I never asked for this
It just happened to me one day
In a miracle along the way

Sha la la sha la la la la

Moses picks me up at eight
Coffee at the local shop
He parts the sea before my eyes
In the bottom of his paper cup
Parts the sea before my eyes 
With everything that's all gone wrong
And says everything there is to get
You've had inside you all along

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I saw you disappear that day
Round the corner drunk at noon
You measured life and measured me
From our reflection in a tablespoon
Well something happens there alone
In between the white and black
Where loneliness becomes your name 
And ya know ya need to change it back

chorus

Sha la la sha la la la la

Our love got buried on the 4.05 
And Judy's drinking glasses of tears
Johnny's little head it come all undone 
When the stoplight's change him to fear
Your heart comes tumbling and my hand's in the fire 
I feel nothing but the future and past
Caught dead cold with your love in my hand
What's it going to take it to last

When the rain come down, cold and clear
And the rain come down
Where we gonna go, where we gonna go from here?

Got a notion for the strange last Saturday night
But all I got inside me is blue
Filling up that hole it don't work no more 
Unless it comes from something bigger than you
Remember them days when the sun burned bright
and nothing seemed to darken our day
Now I'm standing on this bridge in the Mississippi night
Asking you to show me the way

When the rain come down, cold and clear
When the rain come down
Where we gonna go, where we gonna go from here?

Come here baby, nothing ever seems to change
Something deeper 
Gotta help us rearrange
The sound ya hear in your own name

When the rain come down, cold and clear
When the rain come down
Where we gonna go, where we gonna go from here

Ulysses pulls his sword
For Cleopatra's muse
He thinks he won the war 
But that gal's going to break his ass in two
He plays the wonder boy
Muscles pilin' high
But she slays him with a kiss 
And a piece of mama's apple pie

Ain't nothing left to do but walk the streets so dark
And whisper I love you to a moment there inside your heart
And let the trumpet sound, but listen to the morning dew
And fill yourself with what you found
And be my little sugar blue

You play the ace again
You hid inside your boot, 
Wear the nose and cheap disguise 
And think no one will notice you
Try and try and never win
Buy a ticket for yourself
Shine your shoes and blow your kiss
But the train it comes for someone else

Ain't nothing left to do but walk the streets so dark
and whisper I love you to a moment there inside your heart
Let the trumpets sound, but listen to the morning dew
And fill yourself with what you found
And be my little sugar blue

My cowboy friend he sings his songs
On East 4th Street without his hat
His cattle's all some spicy dish 
On the menu, written from a map
Tennessee he wrote it down 
In a tragedy so blue, so black
The hole it's big, it's dark, it's round, 
And you can't fill it up with what you lack

I've lived outside so long
I've got no clue for looking in
I've got the key right to the door
But all I know how to do is kick it in
Ring them bells, St Christopher
With an axle and a broken wheel 
I have become the things I see
And I know that they're not really real

Ain't nothing left to do but walk the streets so dark, 
And whisper I love you to a moment there inside your heart
Let the trumpet sound, but listen to the morning dew
And fill yourself with what you found
And be my little sugar blue

Somewhere south of wonder
Lies a lake of gasoline
Somewhere south of wonder
Lies a lake of gasoline
A crimson tide a-rolling 
In the wake of someone's dreams

Broken bugle blowing
Sounds like wind beneath my wings
Broken bugle blowing
Sound like wind beneath my wings
Ain't no light without the darkness
In the end I can begin

Kiss me once again dear
Our golden rings have turned to steel
Kiss me once again dear
Oour golden rings have turned to steel
Good thing we chose the love hon
And found that smiles can grow from tears

Summertime is coming
The heat lays heavy on the land
Summertime is coming
The heat lays heavy on the land
But I'm still inside this bubble
This cold drink cradled in my hand

Somewhere south of wonder
I call the world my own
Somewhere south of wonder
I can call the world my own
And there's peace upon the valley 
And there's nowhere I am going