[Verse 1]
Where have all my friends gone?
They’ve all disappeared
Turned around maybe one day
You’re all that was there
Stood by unbelieving
Stood by on my own
Always thought I was someone
Turned out I was wrong

[Pre-Chorus]
You brought me through
And you made me feel

[Chorus]
So blue
Why don’t you
Stay behind?
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s going down?

[Verse 2]
Lived by an old woman
She’d never sell me a lie
It’s hard to sing with someone
Who won’t sing with you
Give all of my mercy
Give all of my heart
Never thought that I’d miss you
That I’d miss you so much

[Pre-Chorus]
You brought me through
And you made me feel

[Chorus]
So blue
Why don’t you
Stay behind?
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s going down?

[Bridge]
All my life (Stand by)
I’ve waited for (Stand by)
Someone I (Waiting round)
Could show the door (Now that I’m blue)
But nothing seems to change (That I’m blue from now on)
You’ve come back into my arms

[Chorus]
So blue
Why don’t you
Stay behind?
So blue
Why don’t you?
Why don’t you stay behind?
So blue
Why don’t you?
Why don’t you stay behind?
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
So blue
Why don’t you stop
And look at what’s going down?

By The Jayhawks

Last night I dreamed that
I was a child
Out where the pines grow
Wild and tall
I was trying to
Make it home through the forest
Before the darkness falls

I heard the wind rustling
Through the trees
And ghostly voices
Rose from the fields
I ran with my heart pounding
Down that broken path
With the devil snappin’ at my heels

I broke through the trees and
There in the night
My father’s house stood
Shining hard and bright
The branches and brambles
Tore my clothes and scratched my arms
But I ran ’til I fell shaking in his arms

I awoke and I imagined
The hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again Sir
Tear us from each other’s hearts
I got dressed and to that house
I did ride
From out on the road
I could see its windows shining in light

I walked up the steps and
Stood on the porch
A woman I didn’t recognize
Came and spoke to me through a chained door
I told her my story
And who I’d come for
She said: “I’m sorry son but no one by that name
Lives here anymore”

My father’s house shines
Hard and bright
It stands like a beacon
Calling me in the night
Calling and calling
So cold and alone
Shining ‘cross this dark highway
Where our sins lie unatoned

Written by: Bruce Springsteen

Album: Nebraska

Released: 1982

Lyrics provided by Musixmatch

Man, what a hell of a year it’s been
Keep on bluffin’, but I just can’t win
Drowned my sorrows, but they learned to swim
Man, what a hell of a year it’s been

Head in a bottle for my heart in a case
Yeah, it’s gettin’ harder to act my age
Play a sad song on a tiny violin
For the man at the bar confessin’ his sins

I need some good news
Sittin’ here, sippin’ on cold truth
Nobody knows what I’m goin’ through
Bet the devil wouldn’t walk in my shoes
Wish someone told me
Livin’ this life would be lonely
Tryna get away from the old me
Still stuck singin’ these blues
All I really need is a little good news

Love keeps knockin’, but I just stay home
Cause I ain’t pickin’ no flowers from the seeds that I’ve sown
They say it gets darker when you’re coverin’ those doors
Still lookin’ for the right at the end of my wrongs
At the end of my wrongs

I need some good news
Sittin’ here, sippin’ on cold truth
Nobody knows what I’m goin’ through
Bet the devil wouldn’t walk in my shoes
Wish someone told me
Livin’ this life would be lonely
Tryna get away from the old me
Still stuck singin’ these blues
All I really need is a little good news
Is a little good news

I need some good news
Sittin’ here, sippin’ on cold truth
Nobody knows what I’m goin’ through
Bet the devil wouldn’t walk in my shoes
Wish someone told me
Livin’ this life would be lonely
Tryna get away from the old me
Still stuck singin’ these blues
All I really need is a little good news

Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

All I really need is a little
Something bring me back to the middle
All I really need is a little good news

By Shaboozy

Writers: Sam Romans, Jake Torrey, Nevin Sastry, Michael Ross Pollack, Sean Cook, Collins Obinna Chibueze

Broken Arrow

By Robbie Robertson

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes, moving across the water (that’s right)
There he goes, turning my whole world around

Do you feel what I feel
Can we make that so it’s part of the deal
I gotta hold you in these arms of steel
Lay your heart on the line…this time

I wanna breathe when you breathe
When you whisper like that hot summer breeze
Count the beads of sweat that cover me
Didn’t you show me a sign, this time

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes, moving across the water
There he goes, turning my whole world around

Can you see what I see
Can you cut behind the mystery
I will meet you by the witness tree
Leave the whole world behind

I want to come when you call
And I’ll get to you if I have to crawl
They can’t hold me with these iron walls
We’ve got mountains to climb

Who else is gonna bring you a broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you a bottle of rain
There he goes, moving across the water (that’s right)
There he goes, turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around
Turning my whole world around

Monument In Green

By Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Well I rode the green across this country
Horses lived and died to take me
Men I killed to help me get there, further West I died to take me
Blackened face and dirty laundry. Many days since I have eaten
Found myself a family. Broke my back so I could feed them

High in the wind. Standing in the sun
We’re going to raise up the heavens
With a shovel and a gun
I was so much younger then. I would never ever listen
I am so much older now. I thought that things would end up different
Farewell, lover in green

Well, Elizabeth she is my lady
Says the prayers and does the learning
Waking up all the children
Making love in early morning
We took to building up the cities
We built the churches in our cities
Happy in the green country
And in the green they buried me

High in the wind. Standing in the sun
We’re going to raise up the heavens
With a shovel and a gun
I was so much younger then. I would never ever listen
I am so much older now. I thought that things would end up different
Farewell, lover in green

Oh, she sang hills (?) and made me cry
Oh, she died so tender when I held you in the night

Well, I’m dead now
My wife Elizabeth is at my side
I have children all around me
I have grandchildren
I have great grandchildren
I have great great great grandchildren
Too many for me to remember
Maybe one of them is you…

High in the wind. Standing in the sun
You’re going to raise up the heavens
With a shovel and a gun

You’re high in the wind. Standing in the sun
You’re going to raise up the heavens
With a shovel and a gun

I was so much younger then. I would never ever listen
I am so much older now. I thought that things would end up different
Farewell, lover in
Farewell, lover in
Farewell, lover in green

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Stepping out to Angelucci’s
For my coffee beans
Checking out the movies and the magazines
Waitress she watches me
Crossing from the Barocco Bar
I get a pickup for my steel guitar
I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue
Excuse me for talking, I wanna marry you
This is the seventh heaven street to me
Don’t you seem so proud
You’re just another angel
In the crowd, and I’m-

Walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend

Now my conductress on the number 19
She was a honey (she was a honey)
Pink toenails and hands all dirty with the money
Greasy, greasy, greasy hair, easy smile
She made me feel 19 for a while
I went down to Chinatown
In the backroom it’s a man’s world, all the money go down
Duck inside the doorway, duck to eat
Just ain’t no way
You and me, we can’t beat

Walking in the wild west end
Walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend

Darling, a gogo dancing girl
Yes, I saw her
The DJ he say, “Here’s Mandy for ya”, ha
I feel alright, saying now, do that stuff
She’s dancing high, I move on by
The close-ups can get rough, when you’re

Walking in the wild west end
Walking, walking, walking in the wild west end
Walking with your wild best friend

Walking, walking in the-

The lyrics are about a spiritual quest, typical of Morrison’s work. “Bass thrums like a boat in motion, and the song comes back to water as a means of magical transformation. At the very end Van sings: too late to stop now, suggesting that the song also describes an act of love.” (Wikipedia)

We were born before the wind
Also, younger than the sun
‘Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic

Hark now, hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic

Yeah, when that fog horn blows
I will be coming home
Yeah, when that fog horn blows
I wanna hear it
I don’t have to fear it

And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float
Into the mystic

When that fog horn blows
You know I will be coming home
Yeah, when that fog horn whistle blows
I gotta hear it
I don’t have to fear it

And I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float
Into the mystic

Come on, girl

Too late to stop now

“Ooh La La” by the Faces (1973) contains a wish some of us make as we grow older.

Poor old Grandad
I laughed at all his words
I thought he was a bitter man
He spoke of women’s ways

“They trap you, then they use you
Before you even know
Well, love is blind and you’re far too kind
Don’t ever let it show”

I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was stronger

The can-can such a pretty show
Will steal your heart away
But backstage back on Earth again
The dressing rooms are grey

They come on strong and it ain’t too long
‘Fore they make you feel a man
But love is blind and you soon will find
You’re just a boy again

When you want her lips, you get her cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
If you want some more then she’s fast asleep
Leaves you twinkling with the stars

Poor young grandson, there’s nothing I can say
You’ll have to learn, just like me
And that’s the hardest way, ooh, la-la
Ooh, la-la-la-la, yeah

I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was stronger