The Wind lyrics

(Bob Dylan)
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
And I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Knock, knock, knockin on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore.

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
An icy wind burns and scars
Rushes in like a fallen star
Through the narrow space
Between these bars
Looking down on Prison Grove
Dug in, hunkered down
Hours race without a sound
Gonna carry me to where I'm bound
Looking down on Prison Grove
Iron will hard as rock
Hold me up for the fateful knock
When they walk me down in a mortal lock
Out on Prison Grove

(Warren Zevon)
I could hold my head up high and say that I left first
Or I can hang my head and cry
Tell me which is worse
If you go and ask her why
She might say she's not sure
Trust me when I tell you I'm not good enough for her
I want her to be happy
I want her to be free
I want her to be everything she couldn't be with me
I'd wait here for a thousand years if she'd come back to me

(Warren Zevon)
Well the wrong kind of people don't want you to change
They just want you to stay the same
They want to keep you in between
So hold that pose like a figurine
Figurine
Don't it make you want to scream?
Don't you get it, yet?
They think of you as a statuette
And the wrong kind of people don't want you to change
They just want you to stay the same

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
Disorder in the house
The tub runneth over
Plaster's falling down in pieces by the couch of pain
Disorder in the house
Time to duck and cover
Helicopters hover over rough terrain
Disorder in the house
Reptile wisdom
Zombies on the lawn staggering around
Disorder in the house
There's a flaw in the system
And the fly in the ointment's gonna bring the whole thing down

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile
When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile
There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

(Warren Zevon)
Please stay
Please stay
Two words I've thought I'd never learn to say
Don't go away
Please stay
Don't leave me here
When so many things so hard to see are clear
I need you near to me
Will you stay with me to the end?
When there's nothing left
But you and me and the wind
We'll never know till we try
To find the other side of goodbye
Please stay
Please slay

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
I close my eyes, you reappear
I always carry you inside, in here
I fall asleep, you come to me
And once again our love is real
How could I have let you get away
Why couldn't I have found a way to say
"Tu eres el amor de mi vida [You are the love of my life]
Si solo te pudiera encontrar [If only I could find you]

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
I'm numb as a statue
I may have to beg, borrow or steal
Some feelings from you
So I can have some feelings too
I'm pale as a ghost
You know what I love about you
That's what I need the most
I'm gonna beg, borrow or steal
Some feelings from you
I'm gonna beg, borrow or steal
So I can have some feelings too
I don't care if it's superficial

(Warren Zevon)
Some days I feel like my shadow's casting me
Some days the sun don't shine
Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
When I think about my dirty life and times
One day I came to a fork in the road
Folks, I just couldn't go where I was told
Now they'll hunt me down and hang me for my crimes
If I tell about my dirty life and times
I had someone 'til she went out for a stroll

Who's the Tutsi?
Who's the Hutu?
Why'd you shoot Kabushemeye?
Wish you'd never left the rugo
Whatcha doing in Bujumbura?
Life is fragile, we are frail
Here today and gone tomorrow
We don't want to live in jail
Been to hell in Bujumbura
Sans Echecs and Sans Defaite
Killing in the streets
Why don't no one stop it?
Why don't no one speak?
Mr. Bhoutrous-Bhoutrous Ghali,
give us all some reassurance

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
I know these blues are gonna rub me raw
Every single cure seems to be against the law
Went and told my psychic
I said "Keep it to yourself.
I don't wanna hear it and don't be telling no one else."
Word's out on the street
Whispers in the night
They come out of the woodwork, wanna see what it's like
Pickle-ickle-ickle
Gonna run that voodoo down

(Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon)
Why stop now? Let's party the rest of the night!
Seven o'clock, Eight o'clock, Nine o'clock. Ten
You wanna go home? Why? Honey, When?
We may never get this chance again!
Let's party for the rest of the night!
Yeah, Yeah! Oh, Yeah! Let's party for the rest of the night!
Yeah, Yeah! Oh, Yeah! Let's party for the rest of the night!

(Warren Zevon)
[Theme song for the T.V show "Tek Wars"]
They say the devil's in the details
I know what they mean
I'm walking in the wasteland
With the Ghost in the Machine
There's a simulated sunset
Starlight in my eyes
The skies are filled with miracles
And half of them are lies
Are you real or not?
It's a fine line
Are you ready or not
For the light of day
Are you real or not?

(Warren Zevon)
You can try to please me
But it won't be easy
Stone walls surround me
I'm surprised you even found me
And you don't stand an outside chance
And you don't stand an outside chance
And you don't stand an outside chance
But you can try
Whatever you do, girl
You know you can't get through, girl
You bring me down
Hang me up
Or even hang around
And you don't stand an outside chance

(Warren Zevon)
I have learned that love can turn
Like the seasons
And I know you had to go
You've got your reasons
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
And I believe that love's light leaves in September
But Fall; and all I do is remember
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
How I have wronged you

Stars are hidden me
my lids I just can't keep on
going now you're mine
Skies are falling, you
are calling me and I will
fall behind you tell me
Where we're going to
see the rain softly falling
on my window pane
Don't know where
But I don't care
I will follow him
Until the stars grow dim
Until the wind has blown
away hey you tell me where
we're going to follow me (follow me, follow me)