There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everyone's wrong
People speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

Yeah, stop children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
Ten thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

You better stop!
Stop
You better stop!
Stop
You better stop!

Oh, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason
For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season
Why in crowds just a trace of my face could seem so pleasin'
I'll cop out to the change but a stranger is putting the tease on

I was down on a frown when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, you're strange, but don't change and I let her

In a while will the smile on my face turn to plaster?
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
Is it strange I should change? I don't know, why don't you ask her?

Is it strange I should change? I don't know, why don't you ask her?
Is it strange I should change? I don't know, why don't you ask her?
Is it strange I should change? I don't know, why don't you ask her?
Is it strange I should change? I don't know, why don't you ask her?

Sit down, I think I love you
Anyway I'd like to try
I can't stop thinking of you
If you go I'll know I cry

Can't you see that I'm a desperate man?
I can hide, just being around
You want to know what they say about 'the bird in the hand'
And that's why, I ain't leaving without you

So if you want someone to love you
Pretty baby, I'm your guy
It's not much I'm asking of you
Just a 'please give me a try'

Can't you see that I'm a desperate man?
I can hide, just being around
You know what they say about 'the bird in the hand'
And that's why, I ain't leaving without you

So if you want someone to love you
Pretty baby, I'm your guy
It's not much I'm asking of you
Just a 'please give me a try'

Sit down, I think I love you
Sit down, I think I love you
Sit down, I think I love you
Sit down, I think I love

Nobody knows, nobody sees
That what you can do
We know it please
But in most of the time
Not me

Yeah hear, quiet please, please

Go away, to stay
Get out of my life
You've been my wife
I've been a Jew
To be

Yeah hear, quiet please, please

You will be sorry
When you'll wake up to morrow
And you leave a lover
Won't leave a love
You won't accept the fact
That I'm not ready for the days above
Forever long

By the look, on your face
Is that you're make it
To another place
I see you around
My sweet

Won't you please hear, quiet please, please

Listen to my bluebird laugh
She can't tell you why
Deep within her heart, you see
She knows only crying, just crying

There she sits, aloft a perch
Strangest color blue
Flying is forgotten now
Thinks only of you, just you, oh yeah

So get all those blues
Must be a thousand hues
And be just differently used
You just know

You sit there mesmerized
By the depth of her eyes
That you can't categorize
She got soul, she got soul
She got soul, she got soul

Do you think she loves you?
Do you think at all?

Soon she's going to fly away
Sadness is her own
Give herself a bath of tears
And go home and go home

When the dream came
I held my breath with my eyes closed
I went insane
Like a smoke ring day when the wind blows
Now I won't be back till later on
If I do come back at all
But you know me, and I miss you now
In a strange game
I saw myself as you knew me
When the change came
And you had a chance to see through me
Though the other side is just the same
You can tell my dream is real
Because I love you, can you see me now
Though we rush ahead to save our time
We are only what we feel
And I love you, can you feel it now

Hey, who's that stompin' all over my face?
Where's that silhouette I'm tryin' to trace?
Who's puttin' sponge in the bells I once rung?
And takin' my gypsy before she's begun

Just singin' and dreamin' of what's in my mind
Before I can take home what's rightfully mine
Joinin' and a listenin' and talkin' in rhymes
Stoppin' the feelin' to wait for the times

Who's sayin', baby, that don't mean a thing?
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

And who's all hung up on that happiness thing?
Who's tryin' to tune all the bells that he rings?
And who's in the corner and down on the floor?
With pencil and paper just countin' the score

Who's tryin' to act like he's just in between?
The night isn't black, if you know that it's green
Don't bother lookin', you're too blind to see
Who's comin' on like he wanted to be?

Who's sayin', baby, that don't mean a thing?
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

And who's coming home on the old nine-to-five?
Who's got the feelin' here to keep him alive?
Though havin' it, sharin' it ain't quite the same
You painted it golden nugget, you can't lay a claim

Who's seein' eyes through the crack in the floor?
There it is, baby, don't you worry no more
Who should be sleepin' but is writin' this song?
Wishin' and a hopin' he weren't so damned wrong

Who's saying, baby, that don't mean a thing?
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

Who's saying, baby, that don't mean a thing?
'Cause nowadays Clancy can't even sing

The lights turned on and the curtain fell down
And when it was over it felt like a dream
They stood at the stage door and begged for a scream
The agents had paid for the black limousine
That waited outside in the rain
Did you see them, did you see them?

Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you
Could you tell that the empty quivered
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow?

Eighteen years of American dream
He saw that his brother had sworn on the wall
He hung up his eyelids and ran down the hall
His mother had told him a trip was a fall
And don't mention babies at all
Did you see him, did you see him?

Did you see him in the river?
He was there to wave to you
Could you tell that the empty quivered
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow?

The streets were lined for the wedding parade
The Queen wore the white gloves, the county of song
The black covered caisson her horses had drawn
Protected her King from the sun rays of dawn
They married for peace and were gone
Did you see them, did you see them?

Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you
Could you tell that the empty quivered
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow?

There's a woman that you ought to know
And she's coming, singing soft and low
Singing rock and roll, she's a joy to know

'Neath the shadow of a soothing hand
I am free there, just to make my plans
Dream of far away lands, anything close at hand

And she will follow me wide, do you know
Familiar places she's been by, that I know
Could it be, she don't have to try

And tomorrow, she's a friend of mine
And the sorrow, I see her face is lined
She's no longer blind, she's just hard to find

I am a child, I'll last a while
You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile
You hold my hand, rough up my hair
It's lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you, now you give to me
I'd like to know what you've learned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color when black is burned?
What is the color?

You are a man, you understand
You pick me up and you lay me down again
You make the rules, you say what's fair
It's lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you, now you give to me
I'd like to know what you've learned
The sky is blue and so is the sea
What is the color when black is burned?
What is the color?

I am a child, I'll last a while
You can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile

You ask me to read this letter
That you wrote the night before
And you really should know better
'Cause she's worth a whole lot more

Brother, you know
You can't run away and hide
Is it you don't want to see her cries?
Is that why you won't go and say goodbye?

Then you said the fault was yours
And you really were to blame
It was as if to close the doors
And to hide away in shame

Brother, you know
You can't run away and hide
Is it you don't want to see her cries?
Is that why you won't go and say goodbye?

Yes, and why, tell me why?
Can't you see that it's not right?
It's a lie, it's a lie
Don't hide your sorrow in the night

Brother, you know
You can't run away and hide
Is it you don't want to see her cries?
Is that why you won't go and say goodbye?

And I know the pain is double
But for her it's even worse
You must face her with the trouble
Though it's hurting like a curse

Brother, you know
You can't run away and hide
Is it you don't want to see her cries?
Is that why you won't go and say goodbye?

Brother, you know
You can't run away and hide
Is it you don't want to see her cries?
Is that why you won't go and say
Gonna go and say, gonna go and say goodbye?

There you stood on the edge of your feather
Expecting to fly
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I could wave goodbye
Knowin' that you'd gone

By the summer it was healing
We had said goodbye
All the years we'd spent with feeling, ended with a cry
Babe, ended with a cry
Babe, ended with a cry

I tried so hard to stand
As I stumbled and fell to the ground
So hard to laugh as I fumbled
And reached for the love I found
Knowin' it was gone

If I never lived without you
Now you know I'd die
If I never said I loved you
Now you know I'd try
Babe, now you know I'd try
Babe, now you know I'd try
Babe