Helter Skelter
This is a song Charles Manson stole from
the Beatles. We're stealing it back...
When you get to the bottom
You go back to the top of the slide
And you stop and you turn
And you go for a ride
Then you get to the bottom
Then you see me again
Do you, don't you want me to love you
Coming down fast I'm right here above you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
Ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Do you, don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast now don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
When you get to the bottom
You go back to the top of the slide
And you turn and you stop
And you go for a ride
Then you get to the bottom
Then you see me again
Do you, don't you want me to love you
Coming down fast I'm right here above you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
Ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter...(and again)
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Helter skelter
Van Diemen's Land
Hold me now, oh hold me now
'til this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
It's a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice and not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away
Now kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in this dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage
Hold me now, oh hold me now
'til this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land
Desire
Yeah
Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar...on fire
Desire
She's a candle burning in my room
Yeah I'm like the needle, needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire, desire...
And the fever...getting higher
Desire, desire...burning, burning
She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a traveling show
For love or money money money
money money money money money
money money money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire
Desire, desire
Hawkmoon 269
Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love
Like a drifter needs a room
Hawkmoon
I need your love
I need your love
Like a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love
Like coming home
And you don't know where you've been
Like black coffee
Like nicotine
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love
Like a Phoenix rising needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge of a bitter enemy
I need your love
Like the hot needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
When the night has no end
And the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love...
[Repeat 9 times]
Like thunder needs rain
Like a preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a sheet stained
I need your love
I need your love
Like a needle in a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
I need your love
I need your love...
[Repeat 7 times]
Like faith needs a doubt
Like a freeway out
I need your love
Like powder needs a spark
Like lies need the dark
I need your love
In the heart of the heat of the love
In the heart of the heat of the love...
[Repeat until end]
All Along The Watchtower
There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion here
I can't get no relief
Businessmen they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them know along the line
What any of this is worth
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who think that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And that is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
Because the hour is getting late
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While horsemen came and went
Barefoot servants too
All I got is a red guitar
Three chords
And the truth
All I got is a red guitar
The rest is up to you
There's no reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are some among us here
Say that life is just a joke
You and I, we've been through that
And that is not our fate (at least today)
So let us not talk falsely now
Because the hour is getting late
Late...
(yeeeaaaaaahhhhhh...)
[until end]
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Can be found in The Joshua Tree lyrics.
Freedom For My People
I need some freedom...
For my people...
(Until the end)

Silver And Gold
In the shit house a shotgun
Praying hands hold me down
Only the hunter was hunted
In this tin can town
Tin can town
No stars in the black night
Looks like the sky fell down
No sun in the daylight
Looks like it's chained to the ground
Chained to the ground
The warden said
The exit is sold
If you want a way out
Silver and gold
Broken back to the ceiling
Broken nose to the floor
I scream at the silence, it's crawling
It crawls under the door
There's a rope around my neck
And there's a trigger in your gun
Jesus say something
I am someone, I am someone
I am someone
Captain and kings
Seen the coming and going
The temperature is rising
Chains no longer bind me
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Spoken part:
Yep, silver and gold... This song was written in a hotel room in New York
City 'round about the time a friend of ours, Little Steven, was putting
together a record of artists against apartheid. This is a song written
about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg. A man who's sick of
looking down the barrel of white South Africa. A man who is at the point
where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor. A man who has
lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they
fail to support a man like Bishop Tutu and his request for economic
sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin' you? I don't mean to bug ya...
Okay Edge, play the blues!
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Can be found in
The Unforgettable Fire.
Angel Of Harlem
It was a cold and wet December day
New York, like a Christmas tree
Soul love...this love won't let me go
Birdland on fifty-three
Lady Day got diamond eyes
Soul love...this love won't let me go
She says it's heart...heart and soul...
Blue light on the avenue
Angel...angel of Harlem...
Love Rescue Me
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
And the sun in the sky
In the cold mirror of a glass
Yea, though I walk
I have cursed thy rod and staff
Sha la la...sha la la la
I said love
Yeah I'm here without a name
I've conquered my past
When Love Comes To Town
I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
Love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
I used to make love under a red sunset
I ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream
When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train
[Repeat Chorus]
I was there when they crucified my Lord
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that train
Heartland
See the sun rise over her skin
Mississippi and the cotton wool heat
In this heartland
See the sun rise over her skin
In this heartland
God Part II
Don't believe the devil
Don't believe in excess
Don't believe in forced entry
Don't believe in cocaine
Don't believe in Goldman
Don't believe in the 60's
I feel like I'm falling
The Star Spangled Banner
the song with no lyrics...
Bullet The Blue Sky
In the ships hold
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Seen them captains and the kings
See them navy blue uniforms
See them bright and shiny things
Bright shiny things
The fever white hot
Mister, I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you got
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free
Set them free
Set them free
Hit where it hurts
Silver and gold
Silver and gold
When we touched the ground at JFK
Snow was melting on the ground
On BLS I heard the sound
Of an angel
Tonight this city belongs to me
Angel
So long...angel of Harlem
The street sounds like a symphony
We got John Coltrane and a love supreme
Miles, and she's got to be an angel
She sees the truth behind the lies
Angel
So long...angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem
Yeah yeah...(yeah)
Yeah yeah...(right now)
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
An angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah...angel of Harlem
[Repeat and fade]
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
Said, love rescue me
I see my reflection pass
See the dark shades of what I used to be
See the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
In the valley of shadow
Yea, I will fear no evil
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
Sha la la la...ha la la...
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la...
I said love, love resuce me
Climb up the moutains, said love
I said love, oh my love
On the hill of the son
I'm on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in
Oh, I said love, rescue me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...
In the palace of my shame
I said love rescue me
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
I was under the waves
Before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
Now I stand accused of the things I've said
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
I was making promises I was soon to forget
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown
But I left her standing before love came to town
The notes were turning blue, I was dazing in a dream
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide
When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town
Don't change it
See the sun rise over her skin
Dawn changes everything
Everything
And the delta sun
Burns bright and violet
Sixty-six the highway speaks
Of deserts dry
Of cool green valleys
Gold and silver veins
Of the shining cities
In this heartland, sir
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland...heartland
She feels like water in my hand
Freeway like a river cuts through this land
Into the side of love
Like a burning spear
And the poison rain
Brings a flood of fear
Through the ghost-ranch hills
Death valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on
In this heartland, sir
In this heartland
Heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland...heaven knows this is a heartland
Heartland...heartland
Heartland...heaven's day here in the heartland
Heart...
I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up
Success is to give
Don't believe in riches
But you should see where I live
I...I believe in love
Don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by
Wild thoughts escape
I don't believe in death row
Skid row or the gangs
Don't believe in the Uzi
It just went off in my hand
I...I believe in love
Got a speed-ball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Do you hear what I said
Don't believe them when they tell me
There ain't no cure
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor
I...I believe in love
His type like a curse
Instant karma's going to get him
If I don't get him first
Don't believe in rock 'n' roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
It spirals and turns
I...I believe in love
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up
Heard a singer on the radio late last night
He says he's gonna kick the darkness
'til it bleeds daylight
I...I believe in love
Like I'm spinning on a wheel
It always stops beside of me
With a presence I can feel
I...I believe in love