Sam Roberts Album

This is love at the end of the world
You don't need diamonds and you don't need pearls
Water boils on the seven seas
Rivers of blood and she's setting me free
And you're still near me, baby

Smoke rising from an open field
Don't you know that the threat is real
From the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
You look around but you don't see snow
The heat is rising, baby

This is love at the end of the world
There's still love
At the end of the world

Two wars and a revolution
Got me praying for absolution
There's blood on these hands, baby
Preacher saying that the end is nigh
Standing on a soapbox a hundred feet high
You're still by my side, baby

Light fades, becomes shade
You're holding on but you're slipping away
Till I can't feel you anymore

This is love at the end of the world
There's still love
At the end of the world

Red lips, alabaster hands
Ooh girl, what you do to a man
The heat is rising, baby
You don't think, you just follow the herd
And you don't need bullets for a war of words now
They want what we've got, baby

Light fades, becomes shade
You're holding on but you're slipping away
Till I can't feel you anymore

This is love at the end of the world
There's still love
At the end of the world

This is love at the end of the world
There's still love
At the end of the world

I see nothing at all
But I hear that im caught
In the crossfire oh

I feel it keepin me low
Low to the ground
And it's clear that what I dont know is pulling me down

And your stripmall religion
Is making me a belligerent man
In spite of TV confessions
Would I still do the best I can

What goes on in the shadows will come into light
And what was wrong with your mind can be made to be right
So keep a watchful eye on your neighbour tonight
Oh keep a watchful eye on your neighbour tonight

Cause all this stripmall religion
Is making me a belligerent man
You're left with our decisions
Well I can't precision

With the orphans of the storm
It was one for the ages
In my dreams we're already born
On your written pages

You go your way and i'll go mine
I'll see you somewhere down the line
You go your way and i'll go mine

Now there's bloodshed in my hometown
And there was bloodshed
There were kids shot down
There were kids shot down oh

Oh your stripmall religion
Is making me a belligerent man
In spite of TV confessions
Oh I still do the best I can

Yeah your stripmall religion
Is making me a belligerent man
You're left with our decisions
Well I can't precision

Oh and it makes me uneasy now
You know it makes me uneasy
I said it makes me uneasy now
You know it makes me uneasy uneasy

You go your way and i'll go mine
I'll see you somewhere down the line
You go your way and i'll go mine
I'll see you somewhere down the line

You could never compromise
I could never satisfy you at all
Always thought you had gentle eyes
Then you've had me institutionalized (twice before)
Before I was a young man
Now look at me, I'm just younger than old
The years don't seem to touch you
It makes me wonder what you sold

Oh my Maria
I'll never change you, I know
I know
I need to see you
That never changes, oh no

You lived on the 7th floor
It was far from heaven but it meant more
You said things that were hard to ignore
My conversation makes you bored
You always hated wedding bells
You'd go out riding with the Hell's and say
Life is for the taking
Life is for the taking

Oh my Maria
I'll never change you, I know
I know
I need to see you
That never changes, oh no

So how's it going to be, Maria?
Will it be you and me?
Or will it be
Five more years of counting my tears
Five more years of living in fear
I beg for my supper at night
If this is love then it don't feel right
And my heart's burning out of control
They gave her five, but she's out on parole

Hey hey hey
This girl is leading me astray

Saw a photograph of you today
Your eyes look tired, but you haven't aged
And now I see that you made the front page
Married for the money and you blew him away
Oh Maria, when you were doing time
You only had five words on your mind
"Life is for the taking
Life is for the taking"

Oh my Maria
I'll never change you, I know
I know
I need to see you
That never changes, oh no

Oh my Maria
I'll never change you, I know
I know
I need to see you
That never changes, oh no

I beg for my supper at night
If this is love then it don't feel right
And my heart's burning out of control
They gave her five, but she's out on parole

Hey hey hey
This girl is leading me astray
Listen what I say
This girl is leading me astray

When I die won't you please feed me
To the lions of the Kalahari
I don't care if they eat my bones
Cause I know I won't be going home

Oh, it's never far away from me
Oh, it's never far away from me

Rubber on dust as the wheels go round
I had never heard a sweeter sound
Till the day that I heard my baby cry
These things I shall carry until I die

Oh, she's never far away from me
Oh, she's never far away from me

The rains came heavy and we closed our eyes
And listened to the song pouring from the skies
Two miles from the border as the eagle flies
But the desert is the same on the other side

The leaves on Mt. Royal turn from green to gold
And crimson as the autumn light takes hold
October's here, I'm another year old
There'll be more telling 'fore my story is told

Oh When I die won't you please feed me
To the lions of the Kalahari
I don't care if they eat my bones
Cause I know I won't be going home

Oh, it's never far away from me
Oh, it's never far away from me

Oh, she's never far away from me
Oh, she's never far away from me

Oh, it's never far away from me
Oh, I'm never far away from you

I'm fixed to ruin
You're fixed on me
We could change positions, honey
With no guarantee

Sun down in a southern town
Then it came the rain
I saw you in a different light
You saw me just the same

She can dance like she got no bones
I forget
I'm all alone

My wicked ways
They might be here to stay
You've been turning my head 'round, baby
With the things you say and the tricks you're playing
What I'd do for you
Sends me off the rails
End up in the jailhouse, baby, for a night with you under a moon so pale

Southeaster blowing
From dusk till dawn
Honey, where I'm going
Oh the streets are mean and the guns are drawn

She can dance like she got no bones
I forget
I'm all alone

(ooohhh) I'd give it up for you
(ooohhh) If you want me to
I been a lonely man but you're bringin' me back
Oh you're bringin' me back now
I been a lonely man but you're bringin' me back
Oh you're bringin' me back now
And what I learn from you
Is that history's just things we do
Oh what I learn from you
Is that history is just the things we do

Ooohhhhhhh

I'm fixed to ruin
You're fixed on me
We can change positions, baby
With no guarantee

It's gonna be alright now honey
Make no mistake, now
There ain't no amount of money
Could ever take my place

She can dance like she got no bones
I forget
I'm all alone

She can dance like she got no bones
I forget
I'm all alone

Oooooohhhhhhh

No fears more alone
Then their just another dyin’ freak
You never feel at home
When you’re just another mouth to feed
I want live into your logical time
Because I’m
Still in my biological prime

Nobody listens to what they can hear
Nobody listens when we disappear

Flip your man a chord
And play a sounds on his guitar
Yeah on the street corner
Feeling like a patron of the arts
And now the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll
I said the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll

Nobody listens to what they can hear
Nobody listens when we disappear

I just don’t understand
Why the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll
I said the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll

They’re always on the phone
And they always gotta have control
And now the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll

The golden years are under attack
Taking it back, taking it back
The golden years are under attack
Taking it back, taking it back
Before these original voice
Let the beat in the path leads inner choice
The melody that you thought you found
These achievements sleeping around

We were apostles
They were the high priests
We live the hustle
The keepers of the back beat

We’re under pressure to reconcile
Our point of view with contemporary style

It used to be that kids were the ones that knew how to get off
It was a year for the swave,
now it’s only coming out as a cough
I can’t sell my song
So I’m gonna have to give em’ away
I can’t sell myself
Since my hands starting turning to grey

Nobody listens to what they can hear
Nobody listens when we disappear

I just don’t understand
Why the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll
I said the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll
The high priests are calling
all deciples back in the fold
because the kids don’t know how to dance to rockin’ roll

These words don't come easy
They spit from my lips
But then we never had it easy
It slipped from our fingertips

When we met, you laughed at me
And stole my last cigarette
Said you wanted to share a past with me
That tomorrow's the day to forget
And you said

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on

Now I've come unhinged
I'm a door in a frame
Well I'm never quite closed
But I ain't open to change

So my knuckles are bruised
From knocking on wood
It's a trick that I've used
Perhaps more than I should
And I said

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on

Cause a heart is just a heart
It can break and fall apart
It can bleed and stop and start
Cause a heart is just a heart

Oooohhhhhh

Mix your words with fire
I'll let them burn me down
Let them ring in the air
Like the bells of an old mining town

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on

Just give me a reason to carry on
To carry on
I just want a reason to carry on
To carry on

I've been dragged from the deep, out of my restless slumber
And told to fight, to keep my world from going under
And time won't stop, when the land is torn apart
If you run, it's too late, and with the guns came the sound of thunder...

[CHORUS]
...And even the Sundance Kid, would find it hard to shoot his way out, of this hole I'm in
(x2)

And I know straight lines, in any human designs
We live the same lives, in different times
And I thank the supreme being, for giving me eyes
And the days that I had for living, and now I'm laughing cause I can't find tears to cry...

[CHORUS]

{Bridge}
You can rise above yourself, but never the times that you live in
You can escape from your chains, but never the days that you're given

No I never robbed a bank, in an ambient town
And I have no one to thank, for any happiness that I've found
And those flames, they burn as bright as the sun
Any eye can see that they are many, but in the end when it only takes one...

[CHORUS]

I've been sold down the river
And I've been told that Jesus delivers
But don't believe everything that you bleed
It may mean nothing to you but it means something to me

I got sidetracked and rearranged
And like a leper, I've been estranged
And drawn to fame like a moth to a flame
Living hand to mouth, but I'm hoping for change

I've been drowning in the Queen's tears
I've been staring at a squareface in the mirror for years
She feels like water and she tastes like wind
And her fire burns hotter when the night rolls in

You've been a saint
I've been a sinner
You're a fat cat
I'm getting thinner
I'm having trouble telling wrong from right
These slippery handshakes that keep me awake at night

Oh x2013 I think you've seen me before
You had your eyes on mine 'cause your grass don't grow
This ain't a song, it's a call to arms
There's a gathering storm
Better sound the alarm

I've been drowning in the Queen's tears
I've been staring at a squareface in the mirror for years
She feels like water and she tastes like wind
And her fire burns hotter when the night rolls in

None of your friends ever know what to say
'Cause what you wish for tomorrow
You could have today
None of your friends ever know what to say
'Cause what you wish for tomorrow
You could have today

Up sister
Keep your head on
Living in the past but the past is gone
Up sister
Can you hear?
That the future is here, the future is here now
Up sister
Keep your head on
Living in the past but the past is gone
Up sister
Come clean
It's a slippery slope and you're the avalanche queen

None of your friends ever know what to say
'Cause what you wish for tomorrow
You could have today
None of your friends ever know what to say
'Cause what you wish for tomorrow
You could have today

Witness the end of the empire, the Romans of our time
Start little fires, then they get too high
You fan the flames and they still remain
Long after you lose desire

Then a breakdown turns to a heart attack
And it's far too late, you'll never bring it back
You can take what you want from me
But you better believe that I can see you

Watch the sun set on the empire
One last round as it goes down
Start a little fire in your best attire
You can blame the gin for the mess you're in
Take a pension and retire

Then a breakdown turns into a heart attack
And it's far too late, you'll never bring it back
You can take what you want from me
But you better believe that I can see you

You can run but you can't hide
From that feeling buried deep inside
Let's forget if only for tonight
Hold you lover and your secrets tight
We're all wasted
You know, the end - I can taste it
I'm walking away this time
I'm leaving it all behind

Breakdown turns into a heart attack
And it's far too late, you'll never bring it back
You can take what you want from me
But you better believe that I can see you

Stick to the facts 'cause the facts don't lie
Stick to your guns when the bullets fly
Stick to the wall when the light sweeps by
Stick in the mud over one in the eye
One part breaks it was made defective
The wheel don't turn cause it's all connected
Six feet down being resurrected
Heart says 'Yes' but your body rejects it

You can take what you want from me
But you better believe that I can see you
You can take what you want from me
But you better believe that I can see you

You can run but you can't hide
From that feeling buried deep inside
Let's forget if only for tonight
Hold you lover and your secrets tight
We're all wasted
You know, the end - I can taste it
I'm walking away this time
I'm leaving it all behind

I'm walking away this time
I'm leaving it all behind
For you

I'm a pilgrim like you
I was only passing through
You'll never know my name
You'll never walk in my shoes
I've been no use to my friends
I've been no use to myself
Now I'm looking for proof that I ain't someone else

I was too afraid to read the newspaper
Working in the basement of a skyscraper
That's why I roll and you'll never know my name
Oh no

I'm not here to feel the bones of some forgotten saint
I know who I am, and I know who you ain't
Spent fifteen days in solitary confinement
Digging a hole in the wall
There's no escape, they said you need realignment
Now you're praying for help but they don't hear you call

I was too afraid to read the newspaper
Working in the basement of a skyscraper
That's why I roll and you'll never know my name
Oh no
Destination, I don't care
I know I'll get there when I'm there
There's only one thing on my mind
I've got more troubles than a diamond's got shine

My shoes have kicked up dust from here to somewhere else
Is this wanderlust
Or running from myself?
My neck was in the noose, but now I've been cut loose
And put out to graze in delicate pastures
Now I'm waiting for someone to put me to use

I hope it's clear as crystal
That the man with the pistol
Is calling all the shots these days
Now I'll be on my way, oh
The self-fulfilling prophets
They been lining their pockets
And telling me that it's alright
But I just don't buy it
Oh no

Destination, I don't care
I know I'll get there when I'm there
There's only one thing on my mind
I've got more troubles than a diamond's got shine

Destination, I don't care
I know I'll get there when I'm there
There's only one thing on my mind
I've got more troubles than a diamond's got shine

You only miss it when it's long gone
You only hear it when it's our song
These are the echoes of the dreamtime
This is a message from another life
This is a haunting of your own mind
These are the echoes of the dreamtime

You only miss it when it's long gone

I've been waking the dead
I've been leaning on tradition
Trying to make amends
With the dead
Prayer candles that I burn at both ends
Missed opportunities we won't share again
I recognized in the touch of a friend
That I am closer to the place I began
And so far from where I want it to end

You only miss it when it's long gone
You only hear it when it's our song
Keep looking up, 'cause it's a long way down
Keep looking up, 'cause it's a long way down

And now I'm walking with the dead
An apparition trying to get ahead
Bleed some pressure from this hole in my heavy head
And there was high water everywhere
Back teeth are swimming and I wished I cared
My teeth are swimming and I wish that I cared

You only miss it when it's long gone
You only hear it when it's our song
Keep looking up, 'cause it's a long way down
Keep looking up, 'cause it's a long way down

And I feel like making a confession or running for the door
If we could heal a little bit of this broken pride, we might survive

These are the echoes of the dreamtime
This is a message from another life
This is a haunting of your own mind
These are the echoes of the dreamtime

I went walking at street level
Feeling strange and disheveled
Past the abattoir and the glory holes
Like a film noire, in the starring role
To the side streets, kept my nose clean
Tasted beautiful, tasted obscene
Singing, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

This is Detroit, see the skyline
A commotion on the assembly line
Raise a glass to the Ambassador
As she's moving you to the dance floor

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like?

So many years, so many lives
These are the streets where they collide
From Jimmy Hoffa to Cadillac
Some look ahead, I'm going back
Cause I'm just looking for some sounds
To ease the vice that squeezes us every day

This was Motown, this was New France
Where the Chippewa did the firedance
That was long ago
This is here and now
But the memory still remains somehow
Singing, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I can't tell you how this old story ends
I can't touch you now, like they did back then
Past the child's play with the jump rope
Hear the gun play, it's a tightrope

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like?

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Somebody call the riot police, there's trouble down on 12th Street