The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.
I never could guess your weight, baby.
Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.
Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?
Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.
Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.
There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die
The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.
Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.
You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes
keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.
You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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