I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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