Great White Album

Twenty minutes left till midnight I'm staring at the door
I swore last time I wouldn't wait no more
Every time she leaves me hanging I suffer and I bleed
But when she gives me loving she gives me all I need
And she knows I want her more than I can bear

Hey, little mama, won't you come along with me?
I got that mood for loving and I need some company
Hey, little sister, why don't you come along?
It feels so good I know it can't be wrong
Hey, hey, little mama

Well I got no paid vacation and I got no limousine
Ain't got no star on Hollywood or my picture in a magazine
But I've more than I can handle and she's more than I can spend
So here I am waiting around again
And she knows I need her more than I can stand

Hey, little mama, won't you come along with me?
I got that mood for loving and I need some company
Hey, little sister, why don't you come along?
It feels so good I know it can't be wrong
Hey, hey, little mama

Right here in your loving arms I wish that I could stay
Endless nights of ecstasy ride my blues away
Darling can't believe that I'm staring at this door
I swore last time I wouldn't wait no more

Hey, little mama, won't you come along with me?
I got that mood for loving and I need some company
Hey, little sister, why don't you come along?
It feels so good I know it can't be wrong
Hey, hey, little mama
Hey, hey, little mama

She was just sixteen
She was so sweet and clean
She walked just like she knew where she'd been
She set my blood on fire
I said are you for hire?
That's when she turned on me and screamed

That ain't no way to treat a lady
That ain't no way to treat a lady

She had a southern smile
Had a New York style
I couldn't let her get away
She was the girl of my dreams
And because I was mean
I had to listen to her say

That ain't no way to treat a lady
That ain't no way to treat a lady

I had to have her bad
But she left me mad
That ain't the way it should be
I'm going to find that girl
Take her around the world
I'm going to love her till she screams

That ain't no way to treat a lady
That ain't no way to treat a lady
That ain't no way
That ain't no way to treat a lady
A lady
That ain't no way to treat a lady
To treat a lady
To treat a lady
To treat a lady

On the horizon there's a storm on the rise
Black seas are forming there's terror in the skies
My life has been a river headed for a fall
These days I can never child make sense of it all

My world is hanging on a line
Here in my world, my world
Searching for some peace in time
My world is darker every day
Here in my world, my world

I can't find a meaning in the season of the time
I'm standing on the edge waiting for a sign
But I just can't go on this way
I don't believe I'll stay, just won't stay

My world is hanging on a line
Here in my world, my world
Looking for some love this time
My world is smaller every day
Here in my world, my world
My world my world

My world is hanging on a line
Here in my world, my world
Searching for some peace in time
My world is colder every day
Here in my world, my world
My world my world
My world my world
This is my world
This is my world
This is my world

Well I'm oh so tired of living but there's no easy way to go
Guess I'll keep on fighting for my soul
Feeling so low don't let is show
When the heartache comes

And so I stand alone
In the cold of the night
Until I can't go on any more
And when the fever takes me

I get a pain overload
And when it's raining down I know
I'm in a pain overload
Always the same
I get a pain overload
And this pain is all I know
I'm in a pain overload
Ccan't stop the rain, can't stop the rain

I've heard it said it's easy if you try
But I've been told life's hard and then you die
Isn't it so? Can't let it show
When the heartbreak comes

And so I stand alone
In the chill of the night
Until I can't hold on any more
And then my demons take me down

Into a pain overload
And when it's raining down I know
I'm in a pain overload
Always the same
I get a pain overload
There's not a pain I wouldn't know
I'm in a pain overload
Can't stop the rain, can't stop the rain

Got a handful of nothing and a rusty old bed
Got our pockets full of wishes dreams inside our heads
But this old world ain't got anything that you love
Your sweet love ain't going to give

Now wait a minute darling I think there's something you ought to hear
Still crazy about your loving girl even after all these years
Got a gleam in your eye and a smile that never fails
To recognise when I'm feeling feeling blue

You're so easy to love, like a warm summer night
You're so easy to love, and it sure feels right
You're so easy to love, and I'll be a fool just for you

Yes it's been a while
Since I've been loving you child
Don't you leave me alone
Don't you leave me alone oh no
Yes it's been a while
Since I've been loving you child
Don't you leave me alone
Never leave me alone oh no

Now they say hearts often wander
But let me make one thing perfectly clear
This old heart of mine darling
Is going be staying right here
'Cause the love that you give
Is like a sweet song playing through my soul

You're so easy to love, like a walk in the rain
You're so easy to love, I'd do it all again
You're so easy to love, and I'll be a fool just for you
You're so easy to love
You're so easy to love
You're so easy to love, and I'll be a fool just for you, yes I will

Freak shows, talk shows
Living off our misery
Dozens of psychics celebrity sidekicks
Telling us all just what we need to know
Guess it's a sign of the times
Guess it's the way of the day
Nothing but vertical lines empty minds

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains

Hey there Miss Oprah what's doing today?
Just smiling at me on TV
Why go anywhere? We can shop from a chair
In this remote society
I seen it coming around
Will I be here for the day?
Can we survive underground? Going down

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
While you're eating at our brains
We live our lives in chains

Coming on the air
Going to knock you in your chair
Boy wait till you hear the news
Got a woman coming on
Who can really get it on
Going to show you what she can do

Got a family in a fight
Going to help them get it right
Going to straighten out their miserable lives
We got it all here on the show
And we want you all to know
If you miss this one you're going to die
Turn me on

Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't know what it means
You just keep on talking
As we live our lives in chains
Yeah we hear you talking
But we don't care what it means
Just love to hear you talking
As we live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
While you're eating at our brains

We live our lives in chains
We're living in chains
I just don't understand
Why we live our lives in chains
Shackled to the air
We live our lives in chains

Man in the sky throw me a lifeline
I'm just getting by burning the midnight oil
Man in the sky i'm trying to tell you
I come to find it's not worth fighting for

The sun in my eyes
Is all that I'm living for
Full moon on the rise
Is all that's worth dying for

Man in the sky I'm dying to see you
I realise I'm getting old
Man in the sky I'm trying to tell you
It's time to fly freedom is my choice

The sun in my eyes
Is all that I'm living for
Full moon on the rise
Is all that's worth dying for

Man in the sky I'm caught in the pipeline
I'm just getting by burning the midnight oil
Man in the sky I'm trying to tell you
I've come to find it ain't worth fighting for

The sun in my eyes
Is all that I'm living for
Full moon on the rise
Is all that's worth dying for
All that's worth dying for
All that's worth dying for
All that's worth dying for
All that's worth dying for

Man in the sky
Mman in the sky
Dying to see you
Dying to see you
It's all that's worth dying for
All that's worth dying for
Man in the sky
It's all that's worth dying for
It's all that's worth dying for

As the light calls back the shadows she rises from her chair
Puts away the past and looks into the mirror
The faces she sees so empty hardly recognised
But the tears of a heart left broken linger in her eyes

Got to find a way, some way to ease the pain
With her hand on the trigger, hand on her heart
Just one shot for love, one last shot for love, one more shot for love

She dreams of times remembered but those were better days
When the love they shared ran true and clear like the lines on an empty page
It's funny how it changes she sees how love is blind
With the nights she spends now waiting forever on her mind

Got to find a way, some way to ease the pain
She's had herself enough, she's going to have her day
Got her hand on the trigger, hand on her heart
Just one shot for love, one last shot for love, one more shot for love

Yes she feels so helpless like she's outside of herself
Visions of a life denied raging on and on inside

Got to find a way, some way to ease the pain
She's had herself enough, she's going to have her day
With her hand on the trigger, hand on her heart
Just one shot for love, one more shot for love

Got her hand on the trigger, hand on her heart
Just one shot for love, one more shot for love, one last shot for love

With a hand on her heart
With a hand on her heart
With a hand on her heart
A hand on her heart

Where is the love that waits for me?
Where is the love?
Where is the love to care for me?
To shelter me?

Alone I try to see the world through innocent eyes
But through these eyes it's all the same
Days go by sands of time love denied
And as I wait alone remain

Where is the love that waits for me?
Where is the love?
Where is the love to care for me?
To comfort me?

Passions played lovers' games abate
The seasons change and then the fire is gone

Where is the love that's going to save me?
Where is the light to guide my way?
Where is the love that sighs the clear blue skies an angel's eyes
Where is the one to call my own?

Where is the love?
Where is the love that waits for me?
Where is the love?
Where is the love to care for me?
To shelter me?

Where is the love?
Where is the love that waits for me?
Where is the love?
Where is the love to care for me?
To shelter me?

Where is the love?
Where is the love that waits for me?
Where is the love to cry for me?
To die for me?

I took a look around
It's time to shake this town
It's bringing me so down
Hey, yeah, I'm on my way

So tired of people's greed
And how they make you bleed
When they got all they need
But tell me, "Boy, you going to pay"

Cutting loose
Slipping from the noose
Loud and proud
Dancing on a cloud
If there ever was a time that time is now

Going to do it anyway I can
Going to make it or break it anyway I can
Going to take it anyway I can
It's my life in my hands I hope you understand

A friend told me today
If it keeps on this way
He's going to make a play
And do the big goodbye

Seems everywhere I look
The taking has all been took
And then someone writes a book
Telling me it's going to be all right

So naïve
I really can't conceive
How people lie
Just waiting around to die
Looking up for answers from the sky

Going to do it anyway I can
Going to make it or break it anyway I can
Going to take it anyway I can
It's my life in my hands I hope you understand

No, no, no, no
Going to do it

Drive by my house late at night
You can see it from the freeway above
No silhouette but a light left on
Burning there for love
Burning there for love

Smoke is rising from the black
Coming out my back door
I'm inside sound asleep
A cigarette on the floor
Burning there for love
Burning there for love

I can still remember a couple of years ago
When the smoke and flame from our names
Was a burning house of love
A burning house of love
A burning house of love

Burning house of love
Burning house of love

I can still remember a couple of years ago
When the smoke and flame from our names
Was a burning house of love
A burning house of love
A burning house of love

The rusty nail over our front door
Is where I hung our tears in the rain
I threw that horseshoe into the weeds
I seen what love can bring
I seen what love can bring

Now you're in your bed and I'm in mine
On either side of town
I think I might take a little ride
And burn your love house down

Like a burning house of love
A burning house of love

I can still remember a couple of years ago
When the smoke and flame from our names
Was a burning house of love
A burning house of love
A burning house of love

Burning house of love
Burning house of love
Burning house of love
Burning house of love

Wheels keep on rolling mindless of our flight
As towns lie in slumber we fade into the night
The cities so familiar are like a long lost friend
With open arms they shelter me and bring me home to them

And we're miles away
Always miles away
Rolling on down the highway
Living for the day
Seems I'm always miles away

Just outside of Memphis where rock and roll began
We say a prayer for Elvis then on the road again
The mind begins to wander as memories unfold
The music on the radio reminds us of our homes

And we're miles away
Always miles away
Rolling on down the highway
Living for the day
Seems I'm always miles away

Sometimes it seems the road will never end
Sometimes it seems my only friend

What will tomorrow tell I just can't say today
Because I'm always miles away miles away
The boy I left at home took his first steps today
I'll watch him on the video before I leave to play

'Cause we're miles away
Always miles away
Rolling on down the highway
Living for the day
Seems I'm always miles and miles away
Always miles away
All of my life is rolling
I'm living just to play
Seems I'm always miles away
Seems I'm always miles away
Seems I'm always miles away miles away