PRINCE OF THE DEEP WATER

Highway 5

Well love is a power and I play to rule
 Well love is a power And as an absolute corrupts entirely
 All our minds and sets a course that we can’t sail

Well love is a power and I play to rule Well love is a power And as an absolute corrupts entirely
 All our minds and it’s a language we can’t use

Well what if I should call your name at night
 What if she can’t cope with me If we should come to fight
 And what if I can’t never be nobody else’s

Baby got lost on Highway 5 And called my name out loud Said she broke down And cried about how we can’t 
live apart
 And all the people they were driving by They watched her
like she was mad
 But she knew she would never suffer from the 
 Madness that 
 They had

Baby got lost on Highway 5 And called my name out loud
 Said she broke down And cried about how we can’t 
live apart
 And all the people they were driving by they watched her
like she was mad
 But she knew she would never suffer from the 
 Madness that 
 They had

Baby takes off in a DC-10 stares down Highway 5
 She said she looked down And wondered why we can’t
live apart
 And all the foolish people They were sitting there like a smile On a 
foolish face
 Flying 500 miles an hour with no sense of time or space

Baby knelt down In a church of God 10 miles down
Highway 5
 She said she looked up And asked to know why we can’t 
live apart
 And all the people were standing up And singing like they 
were mad
 But she don’t get no answers To the questions that she had

Heaven saw a knife in a young girl’s heartburn Right through on Highway 5
 Said it takes time and big mistakes for us to realise
 We need each other like the air we breathe Ain’t nothing 
that we can do
 And no one else will ever make me quite as mad as you do

Flames

I can’t help feeling very close to you Though we’re a thousand miles apart tonight Let’s crack the whip to drive the sugar-train again We’ll be just passengers so undecided

Well I can’t take it, this like alone I travel on through worlds alone You’ve got to put me down child I’ve got to make this show No disrespect to you, but I know

Your love burns blind in your fevered eyes I warm my hands by their poisoned fire In mind itself it’s just pure desire So stay with me watch the flames go higher

I love with a desperate need So sublime it is senselessness Hold on for the roller-coaster ride Deep breathing concentration pressing on inside

I can’t take it, this life alone I travel on through worlds unknown You’ve got to put me down child I’ve got to make this show No disrespect here, but I know

There’ll be moments so bad that you’ll wish You never met to fall Just love your brother and sister That’s the only way to get along Without each other we have nothing

Your love burns blind in your fevered eyes I warm my hands by their poisoned fire In mind itself it’s just pure desire So stay with me watch the flames go higher

Hurricane Room

Oh angel baby I tell you what is on your mind
 A dealer running down the coast
 And it’s coming on to leaving time
 Unload in Alabama and we’re sailing on to St. Giles
 I’m hitching on a wave on the weather
 On a seabird’s smile
 Bad August on the moon kicking up the wind and rain
 The wells hit 30 feet
 Steal the balance from my brain
 The Captain and his crew
 Are cut-throats down in the Port of Spain
 White-knuckled at the rains
 His timbers wail in shame

See me wistful in some harbour bar
 I tend the warm glass and the duelling scar
 I sing my misappropriation song for lover’s land-locked
 Far too long

Oh angel baby I, lapping on a blue romance for cargo
 And by compass with a serpent’s tail in chance
 Through the forties and the Trades And a cutlass raised in rage
 Just for cotton and tobacco
 For whiskey and for gage
 Take the whip to drive the sugar train A scent plantation and banana rain
 I sing my misappropriation song for lover’s land-locked
 Far too long
 Hit it

Oh come inside the hurricane room
 Oh come inside the hurricane room
 Oh come inside the hurricane room
 Angel baby you’re my hurricane room
 Angel baby you’re my hurricane room Love it

Baby

Baby you said you have got to move on Baby you said you have got to move on Maybe we just can’t get along It takes a long spoon supping with the devil Now save me baby from my suffer song Baby baby baby we’ve got to kick it along My life as a cue ball banging between these two sins Baby, yeah, cemetery, sane with slavery said you’ve got to move on

You caught me weeping down where I don’t want to go You caught me creeping around like I don’t want to know Baby I’ve got to move on I know I’m lazy but the winter is long Woman I love you but I’ve got to move on

My strings are pulled by a mad moon blowing us around here Baby yeah and the winter is long You caught me weeping down like I don’t want to know You caught me weeping down where I don’t want to go

You’ve been running uptown baby for too long You’ve been kicking around singing our crazy song You’ve been trouble my baby too long, long You’ll be coming back downtown baby for long Never went no deeper than a crazy song You’ll be running back soon baby you’ve been running for too long

Spoken:

It would seem that Satan’s thirst for blood has not been Satisfied even by the devastating memory of the Hiroshima Explosion but we all know the Prince of the air, the King Rat the Father of lies is working every day I’m going to take you higher, higher All along that gold coast peep show I see people they get it on

You caught me weeping down where I don’t want to go You caught me weeping down like I don’t want to know

Let’s Make Love

So low You’ve got it all worked out when, where and how And I know enough talent there for a girls show So pick her up at 10 o’ clock by the road block I’m burning up, for love is pain and music’s sorrow

I’m going to beat myself with the bottle tonight No other lover comes wearing lipstick, guns and knives There will be no place up there for you and I We’ve got our own religion paradise

Things we do, that we can’t dignify by calling love Feels so good inside so don’t set to rights or try denying me I see visions from above Of two-tailed devils making love You know it tastes so sweet it’s going To cloud my eyes and rot my teeth

So low Baby’s all dressed up with no place to go And I know she chose horns and hooves over haloes So pick her up at 10 o’ clock by the road block I’m burning up, for love is pain and music’s sorrow.

Things we do, that we can’t dignify by calling love Feels so good inside so don’t set to rights or try denying me I see visions from above of two-tailed devils making love You know it tastes so sweet it’s going To cloud my eyes and rot my teeth

Let’s make love come on, let’s make love

Things we do, that we can’t dignify by calling love Feels so good inside so don’t set to rights or try denying me I see visions from above Of two-tailed devils making love You know it tastes so sweet it’s going To cloud my eyes and rot my teeth

Things we do, that we can’t dignify by calling love Feels so good inside so don’t set to rights or try denying me I see visions from above Of two-tailed devils making love You know it tastes so sweet it’s going To cloud my eyes and rot my teeth

Back From Managua

Back from Managua from the Boulevard St. Germain I’m making deals and hang what I feel
 I was in Grenada when the G.I. hit the surf
 Boy what a steal it’s looking bad and it’s real
 Down in Jamaica sticky trouble is just my line
 I celebrate in Paris drinking silver dollar wine
 How down in Fiji and it’s burning on the front line
 States / she’s on the wagon making moves to satiate


I’m in the Siskei And the chopper’s going to take the strain
 Shift, dead and wounded and clock
 The counters on a playing game

World’s got to understand to fix this fighting man
 Brother do you understand Bad blue Bahama Up to New York City so blind I’m winning
 On the flat race, on the hurdle, on the breeding line


I’m in the Siskei And the chopper’s going to take the strain
 Shift, dead and wounded and clock
 The counter and play again

I Want You

I want you like thunder in the trees on the switch blade Of my blue grass memory I’m a big sky, I’m a helicopter flying by over jungles And Amazons who bend to tie

Take positions I’ve known them hard enough to clarify for Munitions and their sliding scopes and seeing eyes

On a white hill the scented soldiers come and go To the wing-whipped language on the radio I’m a dark cloud I’m circling on your soul tonight And I need you baby I’m going crazy in my cell tonight

Take your positions baby I’ve loved you hard enough to Satisfy for munitions and slaves and baby our sliding Scopes and seeing eyes It’s a theatre of war and every player drops his line I’m the break horse and I’m stomping to the bar in time

You can’t leave me behind I’ve loved you hard enough to satisfy Out of sights is out of mind For sliding scopes and seeing eyes It’s a theatre of war It’s a cold word a hundred blue beneath the sea You’re the sunlight down here baby You’re the breeze to answer sailor’s dreams Lying at anchor the world in all her feelings sway Bent in penance A supplicant on judgement day You can’t leave me behind I’ve loved you hard enough to satisfy Out of sights is out of mind For sliding scopes and seeing eyes It’s a cold war my baby and every player drops his line I’m the break horse and I’m stomping down the funky line

And I want you like thunder in the trees And I want you down on my bended knees

Delta Rain

Thunder’s up and the real live wires are talking
 Set me straight as the rain falls on New Orleans
 Silver bells ring for treaties made by starlight
 For Southern girls and their faces lit by fire-flies

And through the gutters there will be water
 Running wilder than the sea and as the rain comes down
 A thousand circles fade like you and me
 They call us lovers because our bony legs are tied
 Once more to seed, but there ain’t nothing I won’t risk
 To set this bird of love fly free

Shake your hair out and come and dance with me
 We are lonely with no good need to be
 Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea
 Floods the delta and lovers’ eyes can see

Tonight is hot and there’s no wind from the ocean
 I hear the drums as they bang across the water
 Voodoo bells ring for treaties made by starlight
 Forgotten gold and greed and fear at midnight

And through the gutters there will be water
 Running wilder than the sea and as the rain comes down
 A thousand circles fade like you and me
 They call us lovers because our bony legs are tied
 Once more to seed, but there ain’t nothing I won’t risk
 To set this bird of love fly free

Shake your hair out and come and dance with me
 We are lonely with no good need to be
 Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea
 Floods the delta and lovers’ eyes can see

Do you remember how we held each other tight in sorrow
 Does it haunt you still? 
 And in a single raindrop I can see all our tomorrows
 Baby, can’t you too?

Shake your hair out and come and dance with me
 We are lonely with no good need to be
 Where the river grows wide to kiss the sea
 Floods the delta and lovers’ eyes can see



Birdhouse

I’m in the birdhouse I beat my wings against the window I’ve got no time for competition or the pistilating limbo I don’t caught no sympathy no witness to the Bible I just paid my green fees for the pleasures of survival

This is the west side and the war game’s played for real Down here I ain’t no actor I’m a poor man dressed for real Oh yeah

Come on sweetness ride low get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher

I’m in the crack house got my rock upon the table Got no mind for conversation with the big man from the label I don’t caught no 9 to 5 no witness to the Bible I just hit the headlines and blew away my closest rival

This is the Watts, child and war game’s played for Real down here I ain’t no actor just a poor man dressed for real Oh yeah

Come on sweetness ride low get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher All along that gold coast peep show I see people they get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher

This is the jungle and the war game’s played for real Down here I ain’t no actor I’m a poor man dressed for real Oh yeah

Come on sweetness ride low get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher This is the jungle and the war game’s played for real Down here I ain’t no actor I’m a poor man dressed for real Oh yeah Come on sweetness ride low get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher All along that gold coast peep show I see people they get it on I’m going to take you higher, higher I’m a red sun setting down low over sugar bay baby I’m going to take you higher, higher

Been took for granted I command my needs demanded Hand in hand been took for granted Come way over, higher, higher

Denial

I was born on this here guitar road And though my tuning is far from fine It’s going to reach your soul I was born the child of greed and fear and though my Hands they shake like hell They are going to serve you swell

Well you tell me I don’t have the answers to the Questions posed by times gone by Baby you said you would love me But you left me alone to cry

And there will be just you and I And the sun will burn us dead of night And there’s won’t be any more denial Come on no

I will die on this here whiskey road And though my throat is parched and dry It’s going to sing you home

Watch the world as it runs through your fingers See the water and the fires they rage They told us love would free us But through our passions we are enslaved

There will be just you and I And the sun will burn us in the dead of night And there won’t be no denial

Prince Of The Deep Water

The hole in the sky baby and the sun’s burning down
 And the wind on the water fills my sails with sound
 There’s a reef around the island but the coral is dead
 From the filth in the water and the things that you said

But the storms of memory still come to plague from time 
to time But don’t let the Fisher King trouble your mind

You count on the grace of the Prince of the deep water
 If you cheated in love that can sometimes shape your destiny

In a planet of love there’s an ocean faith and a crown
 And sceptre and your beautiful face

But the storms of memory still come to plague from time 
to time but don’t let the Fisher King trouble your mind

You count on the grace of the Prince of the deep water
 If you cheated in love 
Well that can also shape your 
destiny
 Some fly with the birds (sail on wings) and some with 
more courtesy
 You count on the (grace) and favour of the Prince of the deep water