• Long distance runner, what you standing there for? (note 1)
    Get up, get off, get out of the door (note 2) (note 3)
    You're playing cold music on the bar room floor
    Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
    There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
    Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down

    Fire, fire on the mountain
    Fire, fire on the mountain
    Fire, fire on the mountain
    Fire, fire on the mountain

    Almost ablaze, still you don't feel the heat (note 4)
    It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
    You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
    But you're here alone, there's no one to compete
    If mercy's in business, I wish it for you
    More than just ashes when your dreams come true

    Long distance runner, what you holding out for (note 5)
    Caught in slow motion in a dash to the door
    The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
    You gave all you had, why you want to give more? (note 6)
    The more that you give, the more it will take
    To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake

  • Moses come riding up on a quasar (note 1)
    His spurs was a-jingling, the door was ajar
    His buckle was silver, his manner was bold (note 2)
    I asked him to come on in out of the cold
    His brain was boiling, his reason was spent
    Nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent
    I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun
    Now and again these things just got to be done

    Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence
    Get right to work if you have any sense
    You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench

    Gideon come in with his eyes on the floor
    Says, "you ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door"
    Moses stood up a full six foot ten
    Said "you can't close the door when the wall's caved in"
    I asked him for water he poured me some wine
    We finished the bottle then broke into mine
    You get what you come for, you're ready to go
    And it's one in ten thousand done come for the show

    Abraham and Isaac digging on a well
    Mama come quick with the water witch spell
    Cool clear water where you can't never tell

  • L'Alhambra
    Six guitars
    Each plays
    a different tune

    Five play slowly
    One plays quick
    an Allegrias
    in clear moon

    Eight hands clap
    to summon up
    the Tarantelle -
    Beware!

    Yo no he bailado
    con su hija ya
    I have not danced
    with your sister yet

    Yo no he bailado
    con su hija ya
    No he bailado desde
    Hay que no baile

    L'Alhambra
    Five guitars
    play as one -
    together now

    One has gone
    into the shadow
    Gone with him
    is his guitar

    Six hands clap
    Two are gone now
    Captured by
    the Tarantelle

    Someone else
    must play guitar
    when time comes
    for making love

    No he bailado desde
    Las Zapatas son perdidas
    I have not danced
    since my shoes were lost

    Yo no he bailado
    con su hija ya
    No he bailado desde
    Hay que no baile

    I have not danced
    with your sister yet
    Is that she who
    sleeps by my guitar?

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    Some folks trust to reason
    Others trust to might
    I don't trust to nothing
    But I know it come out right

    Say it once again now
    Oh I hope you understand
    When it's done and over
    Lord, a man is just a man

    Playing
    Playing in the band
    Daybreak
    Daybreak on the land

    Some folks look for answers
    Others look for fights
    Some folks up in treetops
    Just look to see the sights

    I can tell your future
    Look what's in your hand
    But I can't stop for nothing
    I'm just playing in the band

    Playing
    Playing in the band
    Daybreak
    Daybreak on the land