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Jackson Browne - A CHILD IN THESE HILLS

I am a child in these hills I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Who will show me the river and ask my name? Is there nobody here who'll do tha

Jackson Browne - About My Imagination

I kept my eyes open and tried to see The point of what went on in front of me I kept what moved me, forgot about the rest And took my young imagination to the acid test And it was easy then to say what

Jackson Browne - AH, BUT SOMETIMES

I'm a moody and swirling pool, lost in some dark wood Angry at a million things and more I can do no good Ah, but sometimes - Sometimes I'm a growing blade of grass Washed by the rain, bent by the win

Jackson Browne - AND I SEE

Just like a leaf that's just been rained on Something of a cloud above, a soon-awaking sun And I see the day has just begun Feeling windblown, reeling I have grown out of my time And like a circle cas

Jackson Browne - ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

Time will come when we know what happened here Change will come in time and make it clear We learn one thing if we learn at all In the secret wars we call our lives Anything can happen We watch the da

Jackson Browne - BIRDS OF ST MARKS

(from the Jackson Browne: Going Home video) Oh how sadly sound the songs the queen must sing of dying A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing If she could see her mirror now She would be free

Jackson Browne - BOUND FOR COLORADO

The days of spring have just begun And melted snow begins to run Aspen is a fine place where many people go And so you're bound for Colorado Don't send me cards from where you've been Or tell me 'bout

Jackson Browne - Casino Nation

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the land The way the hammer shapes the hand

Jackson Browne - CHASING YOU INTO THE LIGHT

Lying next to you in the dark Listening to your pounding heart The sheets are tangled around your waist I watch the dream moving on your face Feel you shake, hear your cries Running in the dark trying

Jackson Browne - DOCTOR MY EYES

Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if y

Jackson Browne - ENOUGH OF THE NIGHT

You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on I-19 In your blue leopard tights You got the vote of your high school Most likely to exceed But not likely

Jackson Browne - FOR EVERYMAN

Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warning Standing alone Each has his own ticket

Jackson Browne - FOURTH AND MAIN

I'm here at Fourth and Main Been standing in the rain I feel no joy, I feel no pain I got nothing to lose, nothing to gain I'm at Fourth and Main Been down at City Hall Been writing on the wall The

Jackson Browne - HOLDING

I'm standing here and hoping for you Holding my door open for you now Ask just what you will of me I'll bend just like a willow tree And now I'm holdin' Holdin' my door open to the wind Well seven ti

Jackson Browne - I THOUGHT I WAS A CHILD

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought I knew where I

Jackson Browne - IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN

(from the soundtrack album The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Do Come True; performed by Jackson Browne backed by Ry Cooder & David Sanborn) See, I can't scare anybody. They come from miles around To l

Jackson Browne - INFORMATION WARS

Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world We bring good things to life The news you need from people you can count on Doing what we do best The heartbeat of America Your true voice You're i

Jackson Browne - JAMAICA SAY YOU WILL

Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would not tell We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bel

Jackson Browne - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

(Performed by Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt on the Pete Seeger tribute album Where Have All The Flowers Gone;1998) Jackson: When I was a young man I'd never been kissed; I got to thinking about what I

Jackson Browne - KNOCK ON ANY DOOR

Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you lookin' for Yeah, yeah, baby now you know It's a cold world like the

Jackson Browne - LOVE NEEDS A HEART

(by Lowell George, Valerie Carter & Jackson Browne) Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone, cold

Jackson Browne - MY OPENING FAREWELL

A lady stands before an open window Staring so far away She can almost feel the southern wind blow Almost touching her restless day She turns from her window to me Sad smile her apology Sad eyes reac

Jackson Browne - My Stunning Mystery Companion

What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunning mystery companion I know that you don't want to be Out here

Jackson Browne - READY OR NOT

Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans Her waist-line seems to be expanding Although

Jackson Browne - RUNNING ON EMPTY

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one I don't know where I'm running now, I'

Jackson Browne - SHADOW DREAM SONG

I meant to call her name I meant to take her hand I meant to be the same and understand Just what was happening in the evening Between the princess and the prince I can't be bothered now And I can't

Jackson Browne - TAKE IT EASY

Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One says she's a friend of mine Take it easy, take it easy

Jackson Browne - THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR

Gather your deeds and your possessions, Whatever certainty you've known, Forget your heroes, You don't really need those lasting lessons. Stand in the open; The next voice you hear will be your own.

Jackson Browne - The Night Inside Me

I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way With everything that I was feeling that I could not say With every doubt and every sorrow that was in my way Tearing around inside my head like it was th

Jackson Browne - THE PAINTER

We see him dancing in the morning Stars depart the yawning sky He'll take the hour that is passing And leave it in his lover's eye And if you want he'll make it seem As though you're walking in his dr

Jackson Browne - THE ROAD

Highways and dancehalls A good song takes you far Your write about the moon And you dream about the stars Blues in old motel rooms Girls in daddy's car You sing about the nights And you laugh about

Jackson Browne - THE WORD JUSTICE

A man stands up before God and country Raises his right hand and takes an oath Swears he has acted in the line of duty And he more than anyone wants to tell the truth But there is a need to keep some t

Jackson Browne - VOICE OF AMERICA

(from the B-side of the single In The Shape Of A Heart; peformed by Jackson Browne) Little Steven's version appears on his album of the same name. Can you hear me? Wake up! Where's the voice of America?

Jackson Browne - WALKING SLOW

Walking slow down the avenue Through my old neighborhood Don't know why I'm happy I've got no reason to feel this good Maybe it's because I'm all alone And I've got no place to go And everywhere I lo