She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything was as fresh
As the bright blue sky

Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry

Ohh! Ohh! Sweet child o' mine
Ohh! Ohh! Sweet love of mine

She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain

Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder and the rain
To quietly pass me by

Ohh! Ohh! Sweet child o' mine
Ohh! Ohh! Sweet love of mine

Ohh! Ohh! Sweet child o' mine
Ohh! Ohh! Sweet love of mine

Ohh! Ohh! Sweet child o' mine
Ohh! Ohh! Sweet love o' mine

Where do we go?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Where do we go?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go? (Sweet child)
Where do we go now?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Where do we go now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now?
Sweet child
Sweet child o' mine

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (oh, won't you, please, take me home?)
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (oh, won't you, please, take me home?)

Just an urchin living under the street
I'm a hard case that's tough to beat
I'm your charity case so buy me something to eat
I'll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches or so, they say
You gotta keep pushing for the fortune and fame
You know it's, it's all a gamble when it's just a game
You treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doing their time

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home, yeah, yeah?
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home

Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber
Why I'm here, I can't quite remember
The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another cigarette, but I can't see
Tell me who ya gonna believe

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home, yeah, yeah
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home, yeah?
So far away, so far away
So far away, so far away

Captain America's been torn apart
Now he's a court jester with a broken heart
He said, turn me around and take me back to the start
I must be losing my mind, are you blind?
I've seen it all a million times

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home, yeah, yeah!
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home, yeah, yeah!
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home, home

Oh, I want to go, I want to know
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?
I want to see how good it can be
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?

Take me down, take me down
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?
I want to see how good it can be
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?
I want to see how good it can be
Oh, oh, take me home

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?
I want to know, I want to know
Oh, won't you, please, take me home?
Yeah, baby!

When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But, darlin', when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same?

'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

We've been through this such a long long time
Just tryin' to kill the pain

But lovers always come and lovers always go
And no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away

If we could take the time
To lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine

So if you want to love me
Then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time, on your own?
Do you need some time, all alone?
Everybody needs some time, on their own
Don't you know you need some time
All alone?

I know it's hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you?

Sometimes I need some time, on my own
Sometimes I need some time, all alone
Everybody needs some time, on their own
Don't you know you need some time, all alone?

And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don't ya think that you need somebody?
Don't ya think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody?
Don't ya think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody?
Don't ya think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody?
Don't ya think that you need someone?
Everybody needs somebody

Talk to me softly
There's something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
And, please, don't cry

I know how you feel inside
I've been there before
Something is changing inside you
And don't you know

Don't you cry tonight
I still love you, baby
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you, baby
And don't you cry tonight

Give me a whisper
And give me a sign
Give me a kiss before
You tell me goodbye

Don't you take it so hard now
And, please, don't take it so bad
I'll still be thinking of you
And the times we had, baby

Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you, baby
And don't you cry tonight

And, please, remember
That I never lied
And, please, remember
How I felt inside now, honey

You gotta make it your own way
But you'll be alright now, sugar
You'll feel better tomorrow
Come the morning light now, baby

Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you, baby

Don't you cry, don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight
Baby, maybe someday
Don't you cry, don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight

One, two, one, two, three, four

Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you
I'm still alright to smile
Girl, I think about you every day now
Was a time when I wasn't sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you're in my heart now

Said, woman, take it slow
And it'll work itself out fine
All we need is just a little patience
Said, sugar, make it slow
And we'll come together fine
All we need is just a little patience (Patience)

I sit here on the stairs
'Cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now I'll wait, dear
Sometimes I get so tense
But I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider

Said, woman, take it slow
And things will be just fine
You and I'll just use a little patience
Said, sugar, take the time
'Cause the lights are shining bright
You and I've got what it takes to make it

We won't fake it
Oh, I'll never break it
'Cause I can't take it

Little patience, yeah
Need a little patience, yeah
Just a little patience, yeah
Some more patience, yeah

I've been walking the streets at night
Just trying to get it right
(Need some patience, yeah)
It's hard to see with so many around
You know, I don't like being stuck in the crowd
(Could use some patience, yeah)

And the streets don't change but, baby, the names
I ain't got time for the game
(Gotta have some patience, yeah)
'Cause I need you, yeah
Yeah, but I need you
(All it takes is patience, yeah)

Oh, I need you (Just a little patience)
Oh, I need you (Is all you need)
Oh, this time

When you're talkin to yourself
And nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
[Alone]

So nobody ever told you baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to you baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see
One, two

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young
To let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart

I don't know how you're supposed
To find me lately
And what more could you ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me

Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I musn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out

Still talkin' to myself
And nobody's home
[Alone]

So nobody ever told us baby
How it was gonna be
So what'll happen to us baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
And now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds,
back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for

Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything we've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it through, this time
Oh this time
Without you

I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die

"What we've got here is failure to communicate
Some men you just can't reach
So you get what we had here last week
Which is the way he wants it, well, he gets it
I don't like it any more than you men"

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights

And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

Did you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said, peace could last forever
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fighting
For their promised land

And I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power hungry selling soldiers
In a human grocery store, ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes you're filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before

Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights

Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"We practice selective annihilation
Of mayors and government officials
For example to create a vacuum then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances, peace is closer"

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power hungry selling soldiers
In a human grocery store, ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
You're power hungry selling soldiers
In a human grocery store, ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil bout war anyway

Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feels like I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door

Mama put my guns to the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
That cold black cloud is comin' down
Feels like I'm knocking on heaven's door

Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door
Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door

"you just better start sniffin' your own
Rank subjugation jack 'cause it's just you
Against your tattered libido, the bank and
The mortician, forever man and it wouldn't
Be luck if you could get out of life alive"*

Knock,knock,knocking on heaven's door (12x)

This Romeo is bleeding
But you can't see his blood
It's nothing but some feelings
That this old dog kicked up

It's been raining since you left me
Now I'm drowning in the flood
You see I've always been a fighter
But without you I give up

Now I can't sing a love song
Like the way it's meant to be
Well I guess I'm not that good anymore
But baby that's just me

And I will love you baby always
And I'll be there forever and a day always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and the words don't rhyme
And I know when I die you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you always

Now your pictures that you left behind
Are just memories of a different life
Some that made us laugh
Some that made us cry
One that made you have to say good bye

What I'd give to run my fingers through your hair
To touch your lips to hold you near
When you say your prayers try to understand
I've made mistakes I'm just a man

When he holds you close
When he pulls you near
When he says the words
You've been needing to hear
I'll wish I was him cause these words are mine
To say to you till the end of time

And I will love you baby always
And I'll be there forever and a day always
If you told me to cry for you I could
If you told me to die for you I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you

Well there ain't no luck in this loaded dice
But baby if you give me just one more try
We can pack up our old dreams and our old lives
We'll find a place where the sun still shines

And I will love you baby always
And I'll be there forever and a day always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and the words don't rhyme
And I know when I die you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you always

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
Nor silent prayer for faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

I'm moved when I see it
You gotta feel it
oh troubled with the TV on
feels so devastated
enough debated
oh come on
come on lets see some action
I say it's no secret
so don't you keep it

come on and get on the floor
and just break it out
Get it all out
and start freakin out
just so we can make it out
get off your feet and
make this count
oh

oh friends please excuse me
I'll put it loosely
oh I'm sick and tired of sitting down
I can't help but see the reasons
to what I'm reading
the coffee morning did this town

I'm done with ignorance
Is bliss and for this
and I'm gonna hu-hu-hurry and get up get out
make this be for something
or else it's all just nothing

break it out
get it all out
and start freakin out
just so we can
make it out
get off your feet and make this this count
ohh yeah

when I started this
I knew it was not just for this
selfish pleasure of my own
not for me but for my home
my home, my home

break it out
get it all out
and start freakin
just so we can we can
make it out
get off your feet and make this this count
ohh yeah

break it out
get it all out
and start freakin out
just so we can we can
make it out
get off your feet and make this this count
ohh yeah

Hey, do ya love me. I'm untouchable darkness
A dirty black river to get you through this
Hey, do ya love me I'm a devil machine
(hey do ya love me I'm a devil machine)
Get into my world all american dream

In the mouth of madness
down in the darkness
no more tomorrow
down in the hollow

Hey do ya love it when the kids are screaming
Wrecking on the road violate their dreaming
Hey, do ya love to see the filth in the clean
(hey do ya love to see the filth in the clean)
get into the gone all american dream

In the mouth of madness
down in the darkness
no more tomorrow
down in the hollow

i'm demon speeding
i'm demon speeding
i'm demon speeding
i'm demon speeding

get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on come alive

Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness
(Hey, do ya love me elevating the madness)
a super death rising to get you through this
(a super death rising to get you through this)
hey, do ya love me like a beautiful fiend
get into my world all american dream

Mud-bath acrobat a midnight drive
everybody slipping everybody survive
radio talk show try to project
everything you need when you got to connect

come on come on come on
you feel it
come on come on come on
you see it
come on come on come on
you want to make it alright
come on come on come on
you feel it
come on come on come on
you see it
come on come on come on
you want to make it alright

Blacken the sun ~ what have I done
I feel so bad ~ I feel so numb
Blacken the sun ~ what have I done
I feel so good ~ I feel so numb

Sugar sweet braniac on your neck
get into tomorrow, man I gotta reflect
blue world green girl up a steam
gotta wake it up cause I don't wanna dream

DJAngo drag a coughing nail across your back
everybody want it gotta take it back
brain trash, porn flash what is why?
look into forever revolution eye

come on come on come on
you feel it
come on come on come on
you see it
come on come on come on
you want to make it alright
come on come on come on
you feel it
come on come on come on
you see it
come on come on come on
you want to make it alright

Blacken the sun ~ what have I done
I feel so bad ~ I feel so numb
Blacken the sun ~ what have I done
I feel so good ~ I feel so numb

Were do I run ~ What have i done
I feel so bad ~ I feel so numb
Were do I run ~ What have i done
I feel so good ~ I feel so numb

Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
Its Californication

It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the east
At least it settles in a final location
It's understood that Hollywood
Sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is it war your waging

The first born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Marry me girl be the fairy to my world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
And Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singin' songs of station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population
Everybody's been there
And I don't mean on vacation

The first born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
Their just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker then the rest
There is no test
For this is what you're craving

The first born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

I let it fall, my heart,
And as it fell, you rose to claim it,
It was dark and I was over,
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me,
My hands, they're strong, but my knees were far too weak,
To stand in your arms without falling to your feet,

But there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew,
All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true,
And the games you'd play, you would always win, always win,

But I set fire to the rain,
Watched it pour as I touched your face,
Well, it burned while I cried,
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name,

When I lay with you I could stay there,
Close my eyes, feel you here forever,
You and me together, nothing is better,

'Cause there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew,
All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true,
And the games you'd play, you would always win, always win,

But I set fire to the rain,
Watched it pour as I touched your face,
Well, it burned while I cried,
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name
I set fire to the rain,
And I threw us into the flames,
Well, I felt something died,
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time,

Sometimes I wake up by the door,
The heart you caught, must be waiting for you,
Even now when we're already over,
I can't help myself from looking for you,

I set fire to the rain,
Watched it pour as I touch your face,
Well, it burned while I cried,
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name
I set fire to the rain,
And I threw us into the flames,
Well, I felt something died,
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time, oh,
Oh, no,
Let it burn, oh,
Let it burn,
Let it burn.

CHORUS
Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreamin', I can hear them say

CHORUS
Carry on my wayward son,
there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune, but I hear the voices say

CHORUS
Carry on my wayward son,
there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
don't you cry no more

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you

CHORUS
Carry on my wayward son,
there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
don't you cry no more

No more!