Oh mama nelly, oh mama nelly
oh mama nelly dile tú
que yo merezco tu playa
y la flor que da luz al jardín de tu casa.

El canto de la ballena
yo te invito a visitar
donde bailan con luna llena
donde el cielo nace del mar.

Si vas por aquel lugar
deja abiertas las puertas
y con las horas muertas
que huya la pena
en el canto de la ballena.

Oh mamamanma ma, oh mamamanma ma

Oh mama nelly, oh mama nelly
oh mama nelly dile tú
que yo merezco tu playa
y la flor que da luz al jardín de tu casa.

El canto de la ballena
un santuario de mar
un regalo de fina arena
y de sagrado coral.

Si vas por aquel lugar
deja abiertas las puertas
y con las horas muertas
que huya la pena
en el canto de la ballena.

Oh mama nelly, oh mama nelly
oh mama nelly dile tú
que yo merezco tu playa
y la flor que da luz al jardin de tu casa
oh mama nelly, oh mama nelly
oh mama nelly dile tu
que yo merezco tu playa
y la flor que da luz al jardín de tu casa.

Last night I stood at your doorstep
Trying to figure out what went wrong
You just slipped something into my palm and you were gone

I could smell the same deep green of summer
´Bove me the same night sky was glowin´
In the distance I could see the town where I was born

It´s gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
A long walk home

In town I pass Sal´s grocery
Barber shop on South Street
I looked in their faces*
They´re all rank strangers to me*
Well Veteran´s Hall high upon the hill
Stood silent and alone
The diner was shuttered and boarded
With a sign that just said “gone”

It´s gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It´s gonna be a long walk home

[Guitar break]
[Sax break]

Here everybody has a neighbor
Everybody has a friend
Everybody has a reason to begin again

My father said “Son, we´re lucky in this town,
It´s a beautiful place to be born.
It just wraps its arms around you,
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone”

“Your flag flyin´ over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we´ll do and what we won´t”

It´s gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It´s gonna be a long walk home
It´s gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
Hey pretty darling, don´t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home
It´s gonna be a long walk home
It´s gonna be a long walk home

[guitar break]
[sax break]

White roses and misty blue eyes
Red mornings and nothing but grey skies
A cup of coffee, your heart shot clean through
Jacket you bought me gone daisy grey-blue
You´re smilin´ now but you´ll find out
They´ll use you up and spit you out now
Your head´s spinnin´ in diamonds and clouds
But pretty soon it turns out

You´ll be comin´ down now baby
You´ll be comin´ down
What goes around it comes around and
You´ll be comin´ down

Easy street and quick buck and true lies
Smile´s as sad as those dusky blue skies
A silver plate of pearls my golden child
It´s all yours at least for a little while
You´ll be fine long as your pretty face holds out
Then it´s gonna get pretty cold out
Endless streams of stars shootin´ by
You got your hopes on high

You´ll be comin´ down now baby
You´ll be comin´ down
What goes around it comes around and
You´ll be comin´ down
For a while you´ll go sparkling by
Just another pretty thing on high

[Sax solo]

Like a thief on a Sunday morning
It all falls apart with no warning
Satin sky´s gone candy-apple green
The crushed metal of your little fine machine

You´ll be comin´ down now baby
You´ll be comin´ down
What goes around it comes around and
You´ll be comin´ down

You´ll be comin´ down now baby
You´ll be comin´ down
What goes around it comes around and
You´ll be comin´ down

We took the highway till the road went black
We marked Truth Or Consequences on our map*
A voice drifted up from the radio
We saw the voice from long ago

Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake

The kids asleep in the backseat
We´re just countin´ the miles you and me
We don´t measure the blood we´ve drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door

Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake

The wise men were all fools
What to do

The sun sets in flames as the city burns
Another day gone down as the night turns
And I hold you here in my heart
As things fall apart

A downtown window flushed with light
Faces of the dead at five (faces of the dead at five)
A martyr´s silent eyes
Petition the drivers as we pass by

Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who´ll be the last to die

Who´ll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Darlin´ your tyrants and kings form the same fate
Strung up at your city gates
And you´re the last to die for a mistake

I got a coin in your palm
I can make it disappear
I got a card up my sleeve
Name it and I´ll pull it out your ear
I got a rabbit in the hat
If you wanna come and see
This is what will be
This is what will be

I got shackles on my wrists
Soon I´ll slip and I´ll be gone
Chain me in a box in the river
And rising in the sun
Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be

[Instrumental]

(I´ll cut you in half)

I got a shiny saw blade (a shiny saw blade)
All I need´s a volunteer
I´ll cut you in half
While you´re smilin´ ear to ear
And the freedom that you sought
Driftin´ like a ghost amongst the trees
This is what will be
This is what will be (This is what will be)

Now there´s a fire down below
But it´s coming up here
So leave everything you know
Carry only what you fear
On the road the sun is sinkin´ low
Bodies hanging in the trees
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be

Well the street lights shine
Down on Blessing Avenue
Lovers they walk by
Holdin´ hands two by two

A breeze crosses the porch
Bicycle spokes spin ´round
Jacket´s on, I´m out the door
Tonight I´m gonna burn this town down

And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by

Kid´s rubber ball smacks
Off the gutter ´neath the lamp light
Big bank clock chimes
Off go the sleepy front porch lights

Downtown the store´s alive
As the evening´s underway
Things been a little tight
But I know they´re gonna turn my way

And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by

Frankie´s Diner´s
Over on the edge of town
Neon sign spinnin´ round
Like a cross over the lost and found

Fluorescent lights
Flicker above Bob´s Grill
Shaniqua brings a coffee and asks “fill?”
And says “penny for your thoughts now my poor Bill”

She went away
She cut me like a knife
Had a beautiful thing
Maybe you just saved my life

In just a glance
Down here on Magic Street
Love´s a fool´s dance
I ain´t got much sense but I still got my feet

And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by

And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by

La la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la, la la la la la la la
[fades]

Pour me a drink Theresa in one of those glasses you dust off
And I´ll watch the bones in your back like the stations of the cross
´Round your hair the sun lifts a halo, at your lips a crown of thorns
Whatever the deal´s going down, to this one I´m sworn

I´ll work for your love dear
I´ll work for your love
What others may want for free
I´ll work for your love

The dust of civilizations and love´s sweet remains
Slip off of your fingers and come drifting down like rain
The pages of Revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue
I watch you slip that comb through your hair and this I promise you

I´ll work for your love dear
I´ll work for your love
What others may want for free
I´ll work for your love

[Instrumental]

Well tears they fill the rosary, at your feet my temple of bones
Here in this perdition we go on and on
Now I see your pieces crumbled and our book of faith´s been tossed
And I´m just down here searching for my own piece of the cross
In the late afternoon sun fills the room with a mist in the garden before the fall
I watch your hands smooth the front of your blouse and seven drops of blood fall

I´ll work for your love dear
I´ll work for your love
What others may want for free
I´ll work for your love
What others may want for free
I´ll work for your love
What others may want for free
I´ll work for your love

Well they built the Titanic to be one of a kind, but many ships have ruled the seas
They built the Eiffel Tower to stand alone, but they could build another if they please
Taj Mahal, the pyramids of Egypt, are unique I suppose
But when they built you, brother, they broke the mold

Now the world is filled with many wonders under the passing sun
And sometimes something comes along and you know it´s for sure the only one
The Mona Lisa, the David, the Sistine Chapel, Jesus, Mary, and Joe
And when they built you, brother, they broke the mold

When they built you, brother, they turned dust into gold
When they built you, brother, they broke the mold

They say you can´t take it with you, but I think that they´re wrong
´Cause all I know is I woke up this morning, and something big was gone
Gone into that dark ether where you´re still young and hard and cold
Just like when they built you, brother, they broke the mold

[harmonica bridge]

Now your death is upon us and we´ll return your ashes to the earth
And I know you´ll take comfort in knowing you´ve been roundly blessed and cursed
But love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told
And when she built you, brother, she broke the mold

That attitude´s a power stronger than death, alive and burning her stone cold
When they built you, brother

[harmonica bridge]

A letter come blowin´ in
On an ill wind
Somethin´ ´bout me and you
Never seein´ one another again
And what I knew had come
Stars struck deaf and dumb
Like when we kissed
That taste of blood on your tongue

Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet
Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet

Woke up election day
Sky´s gunpowder and shades of grey
Beneath the dirty sun
I whistle my time away
Then just about sun down
You come walkin´ through town
Your boot heels clickin´ like
The barrel of a pistol spinnin´ round

Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet
Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet

The earth it gave away
The sea rose towards the sun
I opened up my heart to you
It got all damaged and undone
My ship Liberty sailed away
On a bloody red horizon
The groundskeeper opened the gates
And let the wild dogs run

[Instrumental]

Alone I limp through town
A lost cowboy at sundown
Got my monkey on a leash
Got my ear tuned to the ground
My faith´s been torn asunder
Tell me is that rollin´ thunder
Or just the sinkin´ sound
Of somethin´ righteous goin´ under

Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet
Don´t worry, darlin´
No baby, don´t you fret
We´re livin´ in the future
And none of this has happened yet
None of this has happened yet
None of this has happened yet
None of this has happened yet
None of this has happened yet

[Instrumental]

Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
Na na na na, na na na na-na
[fades]

The speculators made their money on the blood you shed
Your momma´s pulled the sheets up off your bed
Profiteers on Jhames Street sold your shoes and clothes
Ain´t nobody talkin´ because everybody knows
We pulled your cycle up back the garage and polished up the chrome*
Our gypsy biker coming home

Sister Mary sits with your colors, but Johnny´s drunk and gone
This old town´s been rousted, which side you on?
They would march up over the hill, this old fools parade
Shouting victory for the righteous for you must hear the grace
Ain´t nobody talkin´, but just waiting on the phone
Gypsy biker coming home

Whoa!

[Guitar solo]

We rode into the foothills, Bobby brought the gasoline
We stood around the circle as she lit up the ravine
The spring hot desert wind rushed down on us all the way back home

[Harmonica bridge]

To the dead, well it don´t matter much ´bout who´s wrong or right
You asked me that question, I didn´t get it right
You slipped into your darkness, now all that remains
Is my love for you brother, life´s still unchanged
To him that threw you away, you ain´t nothing but gone
My gypsy biker´s coming home

And now I´m out countin´ white lines
Countin´ white lines and getting stoned
My gypsy biker´s coming home

Whoa!

[Guitar solo]

La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
[fades]