I found her on a night of fire and noise

Wild bells rang in a wild sky

I knew from that moment on

I'll love her till the day that I died

And I kissed away a thousand tears

My lady of the Various Sorrows

Some begged, some borowed, some stolen

Some kept safe for tomorrow

On and endless night, silver star spangled

The bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Like I love you?

She was given to me to put things right

And I stacked all my accomplishments beside her

Still I seemed so obselete and small

I found God and all His devils inside her

In my bed she cast the blizzard out

A mock sun blazed upon her head

So completely filled with light she was

Her shadow fanged and hairy and mad

Our love-lines grew hopelessly tangled

And the bells from the chapel went jingle-jangle

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Like I love you?

She had a heartful of love and devotion

She had a mindful of tyranny and terror

Well, I try, I do, I really try

But I just err, baby, I do, I error

So come find me, my darling one

I'm down to the grounds, the very dregs

Ah, here she comes, blocking the sun

Blood running down the inside of her legs

The moon in the sky is battered and mangled

bAnd the bells from the chapel go jingle-jangle

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Like I love you?

All things move toward their end

I knew before I met her that I would lose her

I swear I made every effort to be good to her

I made every effort not to abuse her

Crazy bracelets on her wrists and her ankles

And the bells from the chapel go jingle-jangle

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Do you love me?

Do you love me? Like I love you?

I've searched the holy books

I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour

I've read the poets and the analysts

Searched through the books on human behaviour

I travelled this world around

For an answer that refused to be found

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

I loved her then and I guess I love her still

Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in

She lives in my blood and skin

Her wild feral stare, her dark hair

Her winter lips as cold as stone

Yeah, I was her man

But there are some things love won't allow

I held her hand but I don't hold it now

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

This is her dress that I loved best

With the blue quilted violets across the breast

And these are my many letters

Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand

I was her cruel-hearted man

And though I've tried to lay her ghost down

She's moving through me, even now

I don't know why and I don't know how

But she's nobody's baby now

She's nobody's baby now

Nobody's baby now

She's nobody's baby now

There's a devil waiting outside your door

(How much longer?)

There's a devil waiting outside your door

It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor

And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls

There's a devil waiting outside your door

He's weak with evil and broken by the world

He's shouting your name and he's asking for more

There's a devil waiting outside your door

Loverman! Since the world began

Forever, Amen Till end of time Take off that

dress I'm coming down I'm your loverman

Cause I am what I am what I am what I am

L is for LOVE, baby

O is for ONLY you that I do

V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are

E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do

R is for RAPE me

M is for MURDER me

A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers

N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to

be the answer to all of yours

Loverman! Till the bitter end

While empires burn down Forever and ever

and ever and ever Amen I'm your loverman

So help me, baby So help me

Cause I am what I am what I am what I am

I'll be your loverman!

There's a devil crawling along your floor

There's a devil crawling along your floor

With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door

With his straining sex in his jumping paw

There's a devil crawling along your floor

And he's old and he's stupid and

he's hungry and he's sore

And he's lame and he's blind

and he's dirty and he's poor

Give him more

There's a devil crawling along your floor

Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen

Cause I am what I am what I am what I am

Forgive me, baby My hands are tied

And I got no choice No, I got no choice at all

I'll say it again

L is for LOVE, baby

O is for O yes I do

V is for VIRTUE, so I ain't gonna hurt you

E is for EVEN if you want me to

R is for RENDER unto me, baby

M is for that which is MINE

A is for ANY old how, darling

N is for ANY old time

I'll be your loverman! I got a masterplan

To take off your dress And be your man

Seize the throne Seize the mantle

Seize the crown Cause I am what I am

What I am what I am I'm your loverman!

There's a devil lying by your side

You might think he's asleep

but look at his eyes

He wants you, baby, to be his bride

There's a devil lying by your side

Loverman! Loverman!

Jangling Jack

Goes Yackety Yack

Visits the home of the brave

Hails a fat yellow cab

Jack wanna celebrate

Jack wanna big drink

Driver drops him at a bar

Called the Rinky Dink

Jack pushes through the door

And crosses the floor

Tips his hat to a man

Grinning in the corner

Going Do da do Do da do

Says, I'm Jangling Jack

I go Do da do

I wanna Rinky Dink Special

I wanna little umbrella too

Jack flops on his stool

Sees the grinning man laugh

So Jack laughs back

Jack raises his glass

Says, God bless this country

And everything in it

The losers and the winners

The good guys and the sinners

The grinning man says, Buddy

It's all Yackety Yack

Whips out a little black pistol

Shoots a bullet in Jack

Jangling Jack Do Da Do Do Da Do

Jangling Jack

How do you Do Da Do

Jangling Jack Flies off his seat

Crashes through the door

Lands in a heap on the street

Hears his mother's voice

Going, Do do do

Jack is shouting

Mummy is that you?

He sees the berserk city

Sees the dead stacked in piles

Sees the screaming crowd

Screams, Where am I?

Going Do da do Going Do da do

Well Jangling Jack

As a matter of fact

Crawls through the crowd

Back into the bar

Jack crawls to his stool

Jack drags himself up

Falls back down on his arse

In a puddle of blood

Going Goodbye Mummy

Goodbye Goodbye

Jack doubles over

And he vomits and dies

Going Do do do Going Do do do

Take a litle walk to the edge of town

Go across the tracks

Where the viaduct looms,

like a bird of doom

As it shifts and cracks

Where secrets lie in the border fires,

in the humming wires

Hey man, you know

you're never coming back

Past the square, past the bridge,

past the mills, past the stacks

On a gathering storm comes

a tall handsome man

In a dusty black coat with

a red right hand

He'll wrap you in his arms,

tell you that you've been a good boy

He'll rekindle all the dreams

it took you a lifetime to destroy

He'll reach deep into the hole,

heal your shrinking soul

Hey buddy, you know you're

never ever coming back

He's a god, he's a man,

he's a ghost, he's a guru

They're whispering his name

through this disappearing land

But hidden in his coat

is a red right hand

You ain't got no money?

He'll get you some

You ain't got no car? He'll get you one

You ain't got no self-respect,

you feel like an insect

Well don't you worry buddy,

cause here he comes

Through the ghettos and the barrio

and the bowery and the slum

A shadow is cast wherever he stands

Stacks of green paper in his

red right hand

(Organ solo)

You'll see him in your nightmares,

you'll see him in your dreams

He'll appear out of nowhere but

he ain't what he seems

You'll see him in your head,

on the TV screen

And hey buddy, I'm warning

you to turn it off

He's a ghost, he's a god,

he's a man, he's a guru

You're one microscopic cog

in his catastrophic plan

Designed and directed by

his red right hand

(Organ solo)

Despair and Deception, Love's ugly little twins

Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in

Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins

I let love in

I let love in

The door it opened just a crack, but Love was shrewed and bold

My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold

A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

Well I've been bound and gagged and I've been terrorized

And I've been castrated and I've been lobotomized

But never has my tormenter come in such a cunning disguise

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

O Lord, tell me what I done

Please don't leave me here alone

Where are my friends?

My friends are gone

O Lord, tell me what I done

Please don't leave me here alone

Where are my friends?

My friends are gone

I let love in

I let love in

So if you're sitting all alone and hear a-knocking at you door

and the air is full of promises, well buddy, you've been warned

Far worse to be Love's lover than the lover that Love has scorned

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I let love in

I know you've heard it all before

But I'm sorry for this three year war

For the setting up of camps

and wire and trenches

I'm sorry for the other night

I know sorry it don't make it right

I'm sorry for things I can't even mention

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

You keep nailing me back into my box

I'm sorry I keep popping back up

With my crazy mouth

and jangling jester's cap

I'm sorry I ever wrote that book

I'm sorry for the way I look

But there ain't a lot that

I can do about that

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry about the hospital

Some things are unforgivable

That things simply cannot be forgiven

I was not equipped to know how to care

Amnd on the occassions I came up for air

I saw my life and wondered

what the hell I had been living

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry about all your friends

I hope they'll speak to me again

I said before I'd pay for all the damages

I'm sorry it's just rotten luck

I'm sorry I've forgotten how to fuck

It's just that I think my heart

and soul are kind of famished

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

Forgive me, baby but don't worry

Love is always having to

say you're sorry

And I am, from my head

down to my shoes

I'm sorry that I'm always pissed

I'm sorry that I exist

And when I look into your eyes

I can see you're sorry too

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm sitting feeling sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very thirsty in the Sorry Dog

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry

I'm feeling very sorry in the Thirsty Dog

Once there came a storm in the form of a girl

It blew to pieces my snug little world

Sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl

Down through the wreckage and the ruins

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

Now the storm has passed over me

I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea

And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams

Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

Now I got no one to hold

Now I am all alone again

It ain't too hot but it ain't too cold

And there is no sign of rain

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone

And I'm

Here I'm on my own

She ain't coming back no more

She ain't coming back no more

She ain't coming back no more

Say what you will, I don't care

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby's gone, yeah

And it ain't gonna rain anymore

Now my baby has gone

They're gonna lay me low (Lay me low)

They're gonna sink me in the snow

They're gonna throw back their heads and crow

When I go

They're gonna jump and shout (Lay me low)

They're gonna wave their arms about

All the stories will come out

When I go

All the stars will glow bright (Lay me low)

And my friends will give up the fight

They'll see my work in a different light

When I go

They'll try telephoning my mother (Lay me low)

But they'll end up getting my brother

Who'll spill the story on some long-gone lover

That I hardly know

Hats off to the man

On top of the world

Come crawl up here, baby

And I'll show you how it works

If you wanna be my friend

And you wanna repent

And you want it all to end

And you wanna know when

Well do it now don't care how

Take your final bow

Make a stand Take my hand

And blow it all to hell

They gonna inform the police chief (Lay me low)

Who'll breathe a sigh of relief

He'll say I was a malanderer, a badlander, and a thief

When I go

They will interview my teachers (Lay me low)

Who'll say I was one of God's sorrier creatures

There'll print informative six-page features

When I go

They'll bang a big old gong (Lay me low)

The motorcade will be ten miles long

The world will join together for a farewell song

When they put me down below

They'll sound a fluegelhorn (Lay me low)

And the sea will rage, and the sky will storm

All man and beast will mourn

When I go

Hats off to the man

On top of the world

Come crawl up here, baby

And we can watch this damn thing turn

If you wanna be my friend

And you wanna repent

And you want it all to end

And you wanna know when

Well do it now Do it now

Take a long last bow

Take my hand Make a stand

And blow it all to hell

Lay me low...

When I go...

Onward! And Onward! And Onward I go

Where no man before could be bothered to go

Till the soles of my shoes are shot full of holes

And it's all downhill with a bullet

This ramblin' and rovin' has taken it's course

I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses

And the city streets crack and a great hole forces

Me down with my soapbox, my pulpit

The theatre ceiling is silver star spangled

And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

There's a man in the theatre with girlish eyes

Who's holding my childhood to ransom

On the screen there's a death,

there's a rustle of cloth

And a sickly voice calling me handsome

There's a man in the theatre with sly girlish eyes

On the screen there's an ape, a gorilla

There's a groan, there's a cough, there's a rustle of cloth

And a voice that stinks of death and vanilla

This is a secret, mauled and mangled

And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

The walls in the ceiling are painted in blood

The lights go down, the red curtains come apart

The room is full of smoke and dialogue I know by heart

And the coins in my pocket jingle-jangle

As the great screen crackled and popped

And the clock of my boyhood was wound down and stopped

And my handsome little body oddly propped

And my trousers ride down to my ankles

Yes, onward! And upward!

And I'm off to find love

Do you love me? If you do, I'm thankful

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

This city is an ogre squatting by the river

It gives life but it takes it away, my youth

There comes a time when you just cannot deliver

This is a fact. This is a stone cold truth.

Do you love me? I love you, handsome.

But do you love me? Yes, I love you, you are handsome

Amongst the cogs and the wires, my youth

Vanilla breath and handsome apes with girlish eyes

Dreams that roam between truth and untruth

Memories that become monstrous lies

So onward! And Onward! And Onward I go!

Onward! And Upward! And I'm off to find love

With blue-black bracelets on my wrists and my ankles

And the coins in my pocket go jingle-jangle

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

Do you love me?

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