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Lyrics: Harvest Moon

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     UNKNOWN LEGEND 
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     She used to work in a diner 
     Never saw a woman look finer 
     I used to order just to watch her float across the floor 
     She grew up in a small town 
     Never put her roots down 
     Daddy always kept movin', so she did too. 
      
     Somewhere on a desert highway 
     She rides a Harley-Davidson 
     Her long blonde hair flyin' in the wind 
     She's been runnin' half her life 
     The chrome and steel she rides 
     Collidin' with the very air she breathes 
     The air she breathes. 
      
     You know it ain't easy 
     You got to hold on 
     She was an unknown legend in her time 
     Now she's dressin' two kids 
     Lookin' for a magic kiss 
     She gets the far-away look in her eyes. 
      
     Somewhere on a desert highway 
     She rides a Harley-Davidson 
     Her long blonde hair flyin' in the wind 
     She's been runnin' half her life 
     The chrome and steel she rides 
     Collidin' with the very air she breathes 
     The air she breathes. 
      
      
     FROM HANK TO HENDRIX 
     -------------------- 
     From Hank to Hendrix 
     I walked these streets with you 
     Here I am with this old guitar 
     Doin' what I do. 
      
     I always expected 
     That you should see me through 
     I never believed in much 
     But I believed in you. 
      
     Can we get it together 
     Can we still stand side by side 
     Can we make it last 
     Like a musical ride? 
      
     From Marilyn to Madonna 
     I always loved your smile 
     Now we're headed for the big divorce 
     California-style. 
      
     I found myself singin' 
     Like a long-lost friend 
     The same thing that makes you live 
     Can kill you in the end. 
      
     Can we get it together 
     Can we still stand side by side 
     Can we make it last 
     Like a musical ride? 
      
     Sometime it's distorted 
     Not clear to you 
     Sometimes the beauty of love 
     Just comes ringin' through. 
      
     New glass in the window 
     New leaf on the tree 
     New distance between us 
     You and me. 
      
     Can we get it together 
     Can we still walk side by side 
     Can we make it last 
     Like a musical ride? 
      
      
     YOU AND ME 
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     Open up your eyes 
     See how life time flies 
     Open up and let the light back in. 
      
     Open up your heart 
     Let the lovin' start 
     Open up and let the light back in. 
      
     I was thinking of you and me 
     Makin' love beneath the tree 
     And now I wonder could it be. 
      
     Thinkin' 'bout the times we had 
     Some were good and some were bad 
     Guitar fightin' the T.V. 
      
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me 
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me 
     I was thinkin' of you and me 
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me. 
      
     Lookin' at you just the other night 
     Dancin' in the evening light 
     True love conquers all. 
      
     Old man sittin' there 
     Touch of grey, but he don't care 
     When he hears his children call. 
      
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me 
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me 
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me 
     I was thinkin' 'bout you and me. 
      
     Open up your eyes 
     See how life time flies 
     Open up and let the light back in. 
      
      
     HARVEST MOON 
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     Come a little bit closer 
     Hear what I have to say 
     Just like children sleepin' 
     We could dream this night away. 
      
     But there's a full moon risin' 
     Let's go dancin' in the light 
     We know where the music's playin' 
     Let's go out and feel the night. 
      
     Because I'm still in love with you 
     I want to see you dance again 
     Because I'm still in love with you 
     On this harvest moon. 
      
     When we were strangers 
     I watched you from afar 
     When we were lovers 
     I loved you with all my heart. 
      
     But now it's gettin' late 
     And the moon is climbin' high 
     I want to celebrate 
     See it shinin' in your eye. 
      
     Because I'm still in love with you 
     I want to see you dance again 
     Because I'm still in love with you 
     On this harvest moon. 
      
      
     WAR OF MAN 
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     The little creatures run in from the cold 
     Back to the nest just like the days of old 
     There in the safety of a mother's arms 
     The warmth of ages, far away from harm again. 
      
     Ears ringin' from the battle fire 
     The tired warrior aims a little higher 
     The black falcon or the little sparrow 
     The healing light or the flash of the barrel. 
      
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man, 
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man. 
      
     Silver mane flyin' in the wind 
     Down through the planets on the run again 
     No one knows where they're runnin' to 
     But every kind is comin' two by two. 
      
     Out on the delta where the hoofbeats pound 
     The daddy's runnin' on the frozen ground 
     Can't smell the poison as it follows him 
     Can't see the gas and machines, it's a war of man. 
      
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man, 
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man. 
      
     The windows open and the little girl dreams 
     The sky's her playground as she mounts her steed 
     Across the heavens to the other side 
     On wings of magic does the little girl ride. 
      
     The baby creatures run in from the cold 
     Back to the nest just like the days of old 
     There in the safety of a mother's arms 
     The warmth of ages, far away from harm again. 
      
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man, 
     No one wins 
     It's a war of man, 
     No one wins. 
      
      
     ONE OF THESE DAYS 
     ----------------- 
     One of these days, 
     I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter 
     To all the good friends I've known 
     And I'm gonna try 
     And thank them all for the good times together. 
     Though so apart we've grown. 
      
     One of these days, 
     I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter 
     To all the good friends I've known 
     One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,  
     And it won't be long, it won't be long. 
      
     And I'm gonna thank, 
     That old country fiddler 
     And all those rough boys 
     Who play that rock 'n' roll 
     I never tried to burn any bridges 
     Though I know I let some good things go. 
      
     One of these days, 
     I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter 
     To all the good friends I've known 
     One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,  
     And it won't be long, it won't be long. 
      
     From down in L.A. 
     All the way to Nashville, 
     From New York City 
     To my Canadian prairie home 
     My friends are scattered 
     Like leaves from an old maple. 
     Some are weak, some are strong. 
      
     One of these days, 
     I'm gonna sit down and write a long letter 
     To all the good friends I've known 
     One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,  
     And it won't be long, it won't be long. 
      
     One of these days, one of these days, one of these days,  
     And it won't be long, it won't be long. 
      
      
     SUCH A WOMAN 
     ------------ 
     You are such a woman to me 
     And I love you 
     Our love with live 
     Until the end of all time. 
      
     No one else can kill me like you do 
     No one else can fill me like you do 
     And no one else can feel our pain. 
      
     Love is a healer 
     And I love you. 
      
     No one else can fill me like you do 
     No one else can kill me like you do 
     And I love you. 
      
     You are such a woman to me. 
      
      
     OLD KING 
     -------- 
     King went a-runnin' after deer 
     Wasn't scared of jumpin' off the truck in high gear 
     King went a-sniffin' and he would go 
     Was the best old hound dog I ever did know. 
      
     I had a dog and his name was King 
     I told the dog about everything 
     There in my truck the dog and I 
     Then one day the King up and died. 
      
     Then I thought about the times we had 
     Once when I kicked him when he was bad 
     Old King sure meant a lot to me 
     But that hound dog is history. 
      
     King went a-runnin' after deer 
     Wasn't scared of jumpin' off the truck in high gear 
     King went a-sniffin' and he would go 
     Was the best old hound dog I ever did know. 
      
     That old King was a friend of mine 
     Never knew a dog  that was half as fine 
     I may find one, you never do know 
     'Cause I still got a long way to go. 
      
     I had a dog and his name was King 
     I told the dog about everything 
     Old King sure meant a lot to me 
     But that hound dog is history. 
      
     King went a-howlin' after deer 
     Wasn't scared of jumpin' off the truck in high gear 
     King went a-sniffin' and he would go 
     Was the best old hound dog I ever did know. 
      
      
     DREAMIN' MAN 
     ------------ 
     I'm a dreamin' man, yes, that's my problem 
     I can't tell when I'm not being real. 
     In the meadow dusk I park my Aerostar 
     With a loaded gun and sweet dreams of you. 
      
     I'll always be a dreamin' man 
     I don't have to understand 
     I know it's alright. 
      
     I see your curves and I feel your vibrations 
     You dressed in black and white, you lost in the mall 
     I watch you disappear past Club Med Vacations 
     Another sleepless night, a sun that won't fall. 
      
     I'll always be a dreamin' man 
     I don't have to understand 
     I know it's alright. 
      
     Now the night is gone, a new day is dawning 
     And our homeless dreams go back to the street 
     Another time or place, another civilization 
     Would really make this life feel so complete. 
      
     I'll always be a dreamin' man 
     I don't have to understand 
     I know it's alright. 
      
     Dreamin' man 
     He's got a problem 
     Dreamin' man 
     Dreamin' man 
     He's got a problem 
     Dreamin' man. 
      
      
     NATURAL BEAUTY 
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     On the roller coaster ride 
     That my emotions have to take me on 
     I heard a newborn baby cry 
     Through the night. 
      
     I heard a perfect echo die 
     Into an anonymous wall of digital sound 
     Somewhere deep inside 
     Of my soul. 
      
     A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature 
     Don't judge yourself too harsh, my love 
     Or someday you might find your soul endangered 
     A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature. 
      
     Amazon 
     You had so much and now so much is gone 
     What are you gonna do  
     With your life? 
      
     What a lucky man. 
     To see the earth before it touched his hand 
     What an angry fool 
     To condemn. 
      
     One more night to go 
     One more sleep upon your burning banks 
     A greedy man never knows 
     What he's done. 
      
     A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature 
     Don't start yourself too short, my love 
     Or someday you might find your soul endangered 
     A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature. 
      
     Went to the rodeo today 
     I saw the cowgirls lined up on the fence 
     A brand new Chevrolet 
     A brand new pair of seamless pants. 
      
     We watched the moment of defeat 
     Played back over on the video screen 
     Somewhere deep inside 
     Of my soul. 
      
     A natural beauty should be preserved like a monument to nature. 
      
      
     LIVE TO RIDE 
     ------------ 
     Live to ride, ride my dream machine 
     Good conditions sometime are a screen 
     Running from the daily grime 
     He was, he was a friend of mine 
     Gonna take a long, long time 
     But this thing will fade away 
     Running from the daily grime 
     He was, he was a friend of mine. 
      
     Live to ride, ride in the lonesome wind 
     Cross the line, you can't come back again 
     Never let a dream machine 
     Gather dust in your garage 
     Gonna take a long, long time 
     But this thing will fade away 
     Running from the daily grime 
     He was, he was a friend of mine. 
      
     Gonna take a long, long time 
     But this thing will fade away 
     Running from the daily grime 
     He was, he was a friend of mine. 
      
     Live to ride, ride my dream machine. 
      
      
     HITCHHIKER 
     ---------- 
     When I was a hitchhiker on the road 
     I had to count on you 
     But you needed me to ease the load 
     And for conversation too 
     Or did you just drive on through. 
      
     You didn't see me in Toronto 
     When I first tried out some hash 
     Smoked some then and I'll do it again 
     If I only had some cash 
     Only had some cash. 
      
     Then I tried amphetamines 
     And my head was in a glass 
     Taped underneath the speedometer wires 
     Of my '48 Buick's dash. 
     But I knew that wouldn't last. 
      
     Then came California 
     Where I first saw open water 
     In the land of opportunity 
     I knew I was getting hotter 
     I knew I was getting hotter. 
      
     But the neon lights 
     And the endless nights 
     The neon lights 
     And the endless nights 
     The neon lights 
     And the endless nights 
     The neon lights 
     And the endless nights 
     They took me by surprise 
     The doctor gave me valium 
     But I still couldn't close my eyes 
     I still couldn't close my eyes. 
      
     Then came paranoia 
     And it ran away with me 
     I couldn't sign my autograph 
     Or appear on TV 
     Or see or be seen 
     See or be seen 
     Or see or be seen. 
      
     Living in the country 
     Sounded good to me 
     Smoking grass while the summer lasts 
     In the real organic sea 
     Where everything was green 
     Everything was green. 
      
     Then we had a kid and we split apart 
     I was living on the road 
     A little cocaine went a long long way 
     To ease that different load 
     But my head did explode 
     My head did explode. 
      
     I wish I was an Aztec 
     Or a runner in Peru 
     I would build such beautiful buildings 
     To house the chosen few 
     Like an Inca from Peru. 
      
     When I was a hitchhiker on the road 
     I had to count on you 
     But you needed me to ease the load 
     And for conversation too 
     Or did you just drive on 
     Did you just drive on  
     Did you just drive on through. 
      
     Or did you just drive on 
     Did you just drive on  
     Did you just drive on through. 
      
      
     PHILADELPHIA 
     ------------ 
     Sometimes I think that I know 
     What love's all about 
     And when I see the light 
     I know I'll be all right. 
      
     I've got my friends in the world, 
     I had my friends 
     When we were boys and girls 
     And the secrets came unfurled. 
      
     City of brotherly love 
     Place I call home 
     Don't turn your back on me 
     I don't want to be alone 
     Love lasts forever. 
      
     Someone is talking to me, 
     Calling my name 
     Tell me I'm not to blame 
     I won't be ashamed of love. 
      
     Philadelphia, 
     City of brotherly love. 
     Brotherly love. 
      
     Sometimes I think that I know 
     What love's all about 
     And when I see the light 
     I know I'll be all right. 
     Philadelphia. 
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