Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Long Time Gone
It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a Long Time
Gone.
And it appears to be a long,
appears to be a long,
appears to be
a long
time, yes, a long, long, long ,long time before the dawn.
Turn, turn any corner.
Hear, you must hear what the people
say.
You know there's something that's goin' on around here,
the surely,
surely, surely won't stand the light of day.
And it appears to be a long,
appears to be a long,
appears to be a long
time, yes, a long, long, long
,long time before the dawn.
Speak out, you got to speak out against the madness,
you
got to speak your mind,
if you dare.
But don't no don't now try to get
yourself elected
If you do you had better cut your hair.
`Cause it appears
to be a long,
appears to be a long,
appears to be a long,
Time, such a
long long long long time before the dawn.
It's been a long time comin'
It's goin' to be a long time
gone.
But you know,
The darkest hour is always
Always just before the
dawn.
And it appears to be a long, appears to be a long,
appears to be a
long
Time before the dawn.
American Dream
I used to see you on every T.V.
Your smiling face looked
back at me.
I used to see you on every T.V.
Your smiling face looked back
at me.
Then they caught you with the girl next door,
People's
money piled on the floor,
Accusations that you try to deny,
Revelations
and rumors begin to fly.
Now you think about reaching out
Try to get some help from
above.
Now you think about reaching out
Try to get some help from above.
Reporters crowd around your house.
Going through your garbage like a pack of
hounds,
Speculating what they may find out,
It don't matter now, you're
all washed up.
You wake up in the middle of the night.
Your sheets are wet
and your face is white,
You tried to make a good thing last,
How could
something so good, go bad, so fast?
American dream, American dream
American dream, American
dream.
Don't know when things went wrong,
Might have been when you
were young and strong.
Don't know when things went wrong,
Might have been
when you were young and strong.
Reporters crowd around your house.
Going through your
garbage like a pack of hounds,
Speculating what they may find out,
It
don't matter now, you're all washed up.
Don't know when things went wrong,
Might have been when you
were young and strong.
American dream, American dream.
Don't know when
things went wrong,
Might have been when you were young and strong.
American dream, American dream.
After The Storm
After the clouds disappear
After the rainbow has gone
I'm left with a song in my ear
The melody is lingering on
How come I have
to explain
Music is worth all the pain
After the rain washes down
After all the fog burns away
Will I see the sun coming 'round?
Closer and closer each day
How come I
have to explain
People are worth all the pain
I just want to see the love
in your eyes
After the storm has passed you and gone
When you're dreaming of how it can be
It doesn't work to
pretend
Let me tell you what happened to me
Just to get to the end
I
needed a friend
After the rainbow had gone
It's so sad, losing a friend
But the memories are lingering on
How come I have to explain
Children are worth all the pain
I just want to see the love in your eyes
After the storm
has passed you and gone
I just want to see the love in your eyes
After the storm
has passed you and gone
Wooden Ships
If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is
something everybody everywhere does
in the same language.
I can see by
your coat, my friend,
you're from the other side,
There's just one thing I
got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Say, can I have some of your
purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven't got sick once.
Probably keep us both alive.
Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you
know the way it's supposed to be,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin' 'bout very free and easy...
Horror grips us as we watch you die,
All we can do is echo your anguished cries,
Stare as all human feelings die,
We are leaving - you don't need us.
Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from
this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving -
you don't need us.
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,
Out of the south over
my shoulder,
Guess I'll set a course and go...
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
It's getting to the point
Where I'm no fun anymore
I am
sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly
I must cry out loud
I am lonely
I
am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
And you make it hard.
Remember what we've said and done and felt
About each other
Oh babe, have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now
I
am not dreaming.
I am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
You make
it hard.
Tearing yourself away from me now
You are free and I am
crying
This does not mean I don't love you
I do, that's forever,
Yes
and for always
I am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
You make
it hard.
Something inside is telling me that
I've got your secret.
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart
And I love you.
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it
hard
And you make it hard.
Friday evening, Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got
to lose?
Tuesday morning, please be gone I'm tired of you.
What have you
got to lose?
Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I'm suffering)
Listen to
me baby.
It's my heart that's a suffering (Help me I'm dying)
It's a
dying,and that's what I have to lose
I've got an answer
I'm going to fly
away
What have I got to lose?
Will you come see me Thursdays and
Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?
Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing the
song don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow.
Voices of the angels, ring around the moonlight
Asking me,
said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?
Lacy, lilting, leery, losing love, lamenting
Change my
life, make it right
Be my lady.
Que linda me la traiga Cuba,
La reina de la Mar Caribe.
Cielo sol no tiene sangre alla
y que triste que no puedo vaya,
Oh va, oh
va, va.
Someday Soon
Someday soon you will see by the light of day
That someday
soon all your worries will fade away
Keep holding on to the love that has
made you strong
And someday soon heartache will all be gone
Someday soon I hope good things come to you
And someday
soon hope your wishes all come true
Keep holding on to the love that has
brought you here
And someday soon darkness will disappear
When life's too hard to bear for you to take it
Have faith
in what you do
You've got to tell yourself
That you can make it through
Someday soon you will get to be your best
And someday soon
you will finaly get some rest
Keep holding on to the love that came your way
And someday soon shadows will fall away
Find A Dream
Life is uncertain
Life is unknown
Life is a shot in the
dark
Life is a curtain
Always unfolding
Life is an ember and a spark
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find
a dream
Time avoids no one
Time is unkind
Time is a cut to the
bone
Time to take care of
Time to unwind
Time is a gift not a loan
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find
a dream
People are endless
People are strangers
People are taken
to be friends
People are nervous
Always in danger
People are bound to
make amends
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a long time
Try and find
a dream
No Tears Left
So things have gotten weird for you
The foolish do the
things they do
Mostly talk right at you without speaking
They're deaf and blind and they cannot think
But now they
want to be your shrink
Probing for the missing link and freaking
And it's all about how you got strange
Indifferent to
their fear of change
And feeling strong enough to get you peaking
(It's my life)
And I ... I have no tears left
(It's my
life)
And I ... well, I ain't done yet
What do I have left
And you rage at their transparency
And total insincerity
That love is why they have to try and help you
But mostly it's about control
They're terrified that you
might go
And find out for yourself what they can't teach you
Generations that go through this
The young are punished
for their disregard
For every fool who might want to lead them
But living in the here and now
Will cleans the waste of
the sacred cows
That clutters up the past you might be seeking
So go ahead and rage and fight
Insist on finding your own
light
As wisdom cannot be confused by freedom
(It's my life)
I ... I have no tears left
(It's my
life)
I ... well, I ain't done yet
(It's my life)
I got no tears
left
(It's my life)
Well, I ain't done yet
What the hell do I have
left
On The Way 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 to know me (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 change to see through me
Though the other
side is just the same
You can tell my dream is real
Because I love you (I love you I do)
Can you feel it now
Though we rush ahead to save our time
We are only what we
feel
And I love you (I love you I do)
Can you feel it now (can you feel
it now)
Can you feel it now (can you feel it now)
Can you feel it now
(can you feel it now)
Marrakesh Express
Whoopa, hey mesa, hooba huffa, hey meshy goosh goosh.
Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes,
Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies
Ducks, and pigs, and
chickens call,
animal carpet wall to wall
American ladies five-foot tall
in blue.
Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind,
Had to get away to
see what we could find.
Hope the days that lie ahead
bring us back to
where they've led
listen not to what's been said to you.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to
Marrakesh.
All aboard the train.
All aboard the train.
I've been saving all my money just to take you there.
I
smell the garden in your hair.
Take the train from Casablanca going south,
blowing smoke rings from the corners of my mouth.
Colored cottons hang in the
air,
charming cobras in the square.
Striped djellebas we can wear at home.
Well, let me hear ya now.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to
Marrakesh.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express.
Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express,
they're taking me to
Marrakesh.
All on board the train,
All on board the train,
All on
board!
Ohio
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on
the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on
the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in
Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Cathedral
Six o' clock
In the morning, I feel pretty good
So I
dropped into the luxury of the Lords
Fighting dragons and crossing swords
With the people against the hordes
Who came to conquer.
Seven o'clock
In the morning, here it comes
I taste the
warning and I am so amazed
I'm here today, seeing things so clear this way
In the car and on my way
To Stonehenge.
I'm flying in Winchester cathedral
Sunlight pouring through
the break of day.
Stumbled through the door and into the chamber;
There's
a lady setting flowers on a table covered lace
And a cleaner in the distance
finds a cobweb on a face
And a feeling deep inside of me tells me
This
can't be the place
I'm flying in Winchester cathedral.
All religion has to
have its day
Expressions on the face of the Saviour
Made me say
I can't
stay.
Open up the gates of the church and let me out of here!
Too
many people have lied in the name of Christ
For anyone to heed the call.
So many people have died in the name of Christ
That I can't believe it all.
And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in
1799
And the day he died it was a birthday
And I noticed it was mine.
And my head didn't know just who I was
And I went spinning back in time.
And I am high upon the altar
High upon the altar, high.
I'm flying in Winchester cathedral,
It's hard enough to
drink the wine.
The air inside just hangs in delusion,
But given time,
I'll be fine.
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László Zoltán 2012
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