Big Brother & The Holding Company lyrics

All is loneliness before me
Loneliness before me.
Loneliness.

All is loneliness
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me.

All is loneliness
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness before me
Loneliness.

Loneliness come botherin round my house

Well, the blind man, he stood on the way and cried
Blind man, he stood on the way and cried
Blind man stood on the way and cried,

Crying, "Oh, show me the way, show me the way,
Show me the way, the way to go home."

My daddy stood on that-a way and cried
My daddy stood on that-a way and cried
Daddy stood on the way and cried

Crying, "Oh, show me the way, show me the way,

Bye, bye, bye
Baby bye, bye
I may be seein' you around
When I change my livin' standards and I move uptown
Bye-bye baby, bye-bye

So long my honey, so long
Too bad you had to drift away
Cause I could use some company right here on this road
On this road I'm on today

I get the feelin' I could chase you clean on in the farm
And wind up stayin', put off, put down, strung out and stoned

Well, baby, when times are bad,
Now call on me, darling, and I'll come to you.
When you're in trouble and feel so sad,
Well, call on me, darling, come on call on me, and I'll help you.
Yeah!

A man and a woman have each other, baby,
To find their way in this world.
I need you, darling, like the fish needs the sea,
Don't take your sweet, your sweet love from me.

I'm a caterpillar
I'm a caterpillar
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love,
For your love.

I'm a butterfly
I'm a butterfly
Flying for your love
Flying for your love
Flying for your love,
For your love.

Well, I'll be anything that you want me to be.
Baby, I'd even would be a-climbing up your tree.

I'm a pterodactyl
I'm a pterodactyl
Dying for your love

Down on me, down on me,
Looks like everybody in this whole round world
They're down on me.

Love in this world is so hard to find
When you've got yours and I got mine.
That's why it looks like everybody in this whole round world
They're down on me.

Saying they're down on me, down on me.
Looks like everybody in this whole round world
Down on me.

Hey mama, mama, come a look at sister,
She's a-standing on the levee trying to do that twist,
But easy rider don't you deny my name,
Oh no, oh no.

Well, I got a girl with a diamond ring,
I'll tell you, boys, she knows how to shake that thing.
Oh! Easy rider don't you deny my name,
Oh no, oh no.

Play it!

Well, I got a horse and he lives in a tree,
He watches Huckleberry Hound on his TV.

You come around here
Trying to make your demand.
You've got a need, darling,
I've seen it grow and expand.

Yeah, you want to reveal my life
With your own two hands.
Well, tell me now
What are you trying to do ?

Those holes in your life
Show what you require.
You're needin' new eyes,
Oh Lord, honey take any wire ?

Yeah you've gotta save us all
Before the next big fire.
Tell me now

Light is faster than sound
My head to the ground
Mind going round
Faster than sound.

What goes up must go down
World goes around
Sun shines around
Faster than sound.

Suddenly I see your face
Faster than sound
Through the emptiness of space.
Faster than sound
You're turning my mind all around
Faster than sound
'Cause life is faster than sound.
Faster than sound
Faster than sound

Women is losers
Women is losers
Women is losers, oh,
Say honey women is losers.
Well, I know you must have heard it all,
And everywhere
Men always seem to end up on top.

Oh, if they told you they want you
They'll come around by your door.
Whoa I say they'll hurt you, they'll desert you,
They'll leave you and never be here for more.
Oh yeah!

Women is losers
Women is losers

Oh, the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird, and she warbles when she flies
But she never hollers cuckoo till the fourth day of July.
Said Jack o'Diamonds, well Jack o'Diamonds, oh I know you of old,
Honey you robbed me of my silver and out of all my gold,
All of my gold, all of my gold.
Well, Jack o'Diamonds, oh Jack o'Diamonds, oh I know you of old,

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go

My hands are tied behing my back my face is red with hate
I know i've tried to be the better man but I can't accept this fate

It's seems every time I cross the line and wonder that
Am supposed to figure which way you want to go
And I can see that misery is plaguing you
And i'm supposed to be there when you have no one

Take my hand i'll take from where you stand

He rose from Texas the wrestling scene
writing the scriptures of 3:16,
took it upon himself to erase pieces of trash who got in his face,
I see his shirts wherever I wander,
I know in my heart that
they've never laundered and they
never need it to be and that kind of attitude appeals to me.
And Mcmahon can't control him so don't even try,

Billy Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered round and started talkin'
That's when Billy would take me walkin'
Out through the backyard we'd go walkin'
Then he'd look into my eyes
Lord knows to my suprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me

Some say love, it is a river,
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor,
that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger,
an endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower,
and you it's only seed.

It's the heart, afraid of breaking,
that never, learns to dance.
It's the dream, afraid of waking,
that never, takes the chance.

That's the role of the government
keeping track of what you spend now,
it's our land of freedom and democracy,
with the budget gone and spent,
seperation imminent and we're expected
happily to fall in line and so we fallow the leader
and what he does know why i'm doing it
just because i'm of thinking for myself.
Oh ya and I hope to God i don't stir the pot keep my brain from

ooh

All my bags are packed down
i'm ready to go,
i'm standing here outside your door
i hate to wake you up to say goodbye
but the dawn is breaking,
it's early morn
the taxi's waiting,
he's blow his horn
already i'm so lonesome i could die

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So kiss me and smile for me,
tell me that you'll wait for me
hold me like you'll never let me go
cause i'm leaving on a jet plane

You said when you met you'd never forget me
And I thought my problems were gone
But you changed all the while and you did it in style
How could I think that this was wrong

Some times it stops we can't compromise that
But I think back to all the relations we had
That we had

They say things could change neither one of us claims
That the other was wrong at all

Did you think i'd stand there
while you kicked me in the face
doesn't make much sense to push me down
I need explanation to adjust my way of thought
did you think you'd find me hanging round
and it's ten years later and I haven't left your side
even though you gave me reason to
and I'm standing over your body's losing life
I guess things are hard to name a few

I'm a caterpillar
I'm a caterpillar
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love
Crawling for your love,
For your love.
I'm a butterfly
I'm a butterfly
Flying for your love
Flying for your love
Flying for your love,
For your love.
Well, I'll be anything that you want me to be.
Baby, I'd even would be climbing up your tree.
I'm a pterodactyl
I'm a pterodactyl
Dying for your love

Bye, bye-bye, baby, bye-bye.
I gotta be seeing you around
When I change my living standard and I move uptown,
Bye-bye, baby, bye-bye.
So long, my honey, so long.
Too bad you had to drift away
'Cause I could use some company
Right here on this road, on this road I'm on today.
I get the feeling I could chase you clean on in the ball

Well I just washed my car
and I think it's gonna rain
i'm not gonna quiver or complain,
and I just smashed my hand on it's
stupid metal frame that's enough to drive us all insane.
Nothing to sort out and nothing to do right,
always a thorn in my side and it's not right,
so complicated we're tired and unpaid,
tough to admit it accept it not my day.
And now i'm just a target,

Overhead to my surprise a plane was flying by
While I contemplated diving in the pool
But you'd think I'd see that my thoughts have gone awry
And I can't explain why I feel like a fool

I'm singing I know I'll feel better when I look into your eyes
And I'm feeling optimistic 'cause you're cool
But I won't now I don't know what it takes to be a man

Make it the last time, make it the last time
Make it the last time, oh darling please.

But I dont understand why you always pick the time
When Ive just talked to you with your love on my mind.
To see a distant light, to hear a far-off horn
To leave me one more time, I cant stand no more

Say no more, well no more,
Well no more, darling, please.

Oh, the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird, and she warbles when she flies
But she never hollers cuckoo till the fourth day of July.

Said Jack o'Diamonds, well Jack o'Diamonds, well I know you of old,
Honey you robbed me of my silver and out of all my gold,
All of my gold, all of my gold.

Well, Jack o'Diamonds, oh Jack o'Diamonds, oh I know you of old,