How Long Is Too Long Wasn't Long Enough

[Robbie]

Won't you open a window sometime?
What's so wrong with the light?
What's so wrong with the light?
Wind in your hair, sun in your eyes
Light
Light

We throw our shadows down
We must throw our shadows down
We live and throw our shadows down
It's how we get around
In the sun
In the sun

[Nearly Sane]

As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

[Robbie]

You make me cry
Make me smile
Make me feel the joy of love
Oh kissing you
Thank you for all the love you always give to me
Oh I love you
Greatness as you
Smallest as me
You show me what is deep as sea

A little love, little kiss
A little hug, little gift
All of little something, these are our memories

[Nearly Sane]

 When I'm sad, she comes to me
 With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
 It's alright she says it's alright
 Take anything you want from me,
 Anything.

 Fly on little wing,
 Yeah yeah, yeah, little wing

[ekim]

Mammy,
Mammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
I know where the sun shines best--

Mammy,
My little mammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I'm comin',
Sorry that I made you wait.
I'm comin',
Hope and trust that I'm not late, oh oh oh

Mammy,
My little Mammy,
I'd walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Mammy! Oh oh oh...

[Robbie]

Will you have whiskey with your water
Or sugar with your tea?
What are these crazy questions
That they're asking of me?
This is the wildest party there ever could be
Oh, don't turn on the light 'cause I don't want to see

Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
Mama said, "That ain't no way to have fun"

[Aruntraveller]

Do it
Take your mama out all night
So she'll have no doubt that we're doing oh the best we can
We're gonna do it
Take your mama out all night
You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full grown man

It's a struggle, livin' like a good boy oughta
In the summer, watchin' all the girls pass by
When your mama, heard the way that you'd been talking
I tried to tell you, that all she'd want to do is cry

Now we end up takin' the long way home
Lookin' overdressed wearin' buckets of stale cologne
It's so hard to see streets on a country road
When your glasses in the garbage
And your Continental's just got towed

[ekim]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oh oh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

[Robbie]

I've got emotion
Dripping out my pores and I
Thought I would let you know
You are the night light,
Ripping through my wicked world
How you make it sparkle and glow,
Before I lose control
There's just one thing you should know

This is for real, this time I mean it
I'm coming clean, please don't let go
I said from the start, that you could take it or leave it
I'd prefer that you keep it
Don't let go
Don't let go
Don't let go

[Nearly Sane]

in this proud land we grew up strong
 we were wanted all along
 I was taught to fight, taught to win
 I never thought I could fail

 no fight left or so it seems
 I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
 I've changed my face, I've changed my name
 but no one wants you when you lose

 don't give up
 'cos you have friends
 don't give up
 you're not beaten yet
 don't give up
 I know you can make it good

[Robbie]

You and me
We used to be together
Every day together
Always
I really feel
Like I'm losing my best friend-kt and laura
I can't believe this could be the end
It looks as though-im seeing u
You're letting go
And if its real well I don't want to know

Don't speak
I know just what your saying
So please stop explaining
Don't tell me cause it hurts
Don't speak
I know just what your thinking
And I don't need your reasons
Don't tell me cause it hurts

[Nearly Sane]

"Fools," said I, "You do not know
 Silence like a cancer grows
 Hear my words that I might teach you
 Take my arms that I might reach you."
 But my words like silent raindrops fell
 And echoed in the wells of silence

 And the people bowed and prayed
 To the neon god they made
 And the sign flashed out its warning
 In the words that it was forming
 And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
 Are written on the subway walls
 And tenement halls
 And whispered in the sounds of silence."

[Robbie]

There is a quiet place,
far from the rapid pace
Where God can soothe
my troubled mind
Sheltered by tree and flower
There in my quiet hour with Him,
my cares are left behind

Whether a garden small,
or on a mountain tall
New strength and courage
there I find

[Nearly Sane]

When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
 That always followed you around
 Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
 No I'll never let you down

 Cause it grows stronger, like a river flows
 And it gets bigger baby, and heaven knows
 And it gets sweeter baby, as it grows

 And do I love you my oh my
 Yeh river deep, mountain high
 If I lost you would I cry
 Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

[Robbie]

I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All he asks from me is the food to give him strength
All he ever needs is love and that he knows he'll get
So, I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
All the pay I need comes a-shinin' through his eyes
I don't need no cold water to make me realize that
I love my dog as much as I love you
But you may fade, my dog will always come through
Na, na, na, na, na, na, nana

[Nearly Sane]

Freedom is a dusty road heading to a highway
 Californian skyways will lead us where we wanna stay
 Suddenly a summer breeze breaks a misty morning
'There's a new day dawning we'd better be on our way.
So love me love my dog
 We've lived the road too long to break up
 Love me live my life and travel through this land
 I can't leave a friend I promised that before we started
 So love me love my dog

[Udayana]

I'm on the road to freedom
On the road to love
Yonder can you see them
Who they're thinking of

I met a rich man on the road
He told me where to go
To get my hands upon some gold
But I still answered no
'Cause freedom waits for me ahead
Your gold will slow me down
I smiled as I walked on my way
And left him with a frown

I met an old man on the road
His eyes were clear and wise
Can you direct me on my way
To where the answer lies
I'm looking for the road to freedom
So I can be free
He said keep thinking as you walk
And one day you will see
...

[Nearly Sane]

BOTH: We're off on the road to Morocco And somewhere I feel kind of numb
 BC: For any villains we may meet we haven't any fears
BH: Paramount will protect us 'cause we're signed for five more years
 BOTH: We certainly do get around Like a complete set of Shakespeare that you buy in the corner drugstore for a dollar ninety-eight We're Morocco bound Or like a volume of Omar Khayyam that you buy in the department store at Christmas time for your cousin Julia We're Morocco bound

[Robbie]

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

Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
They're taking me to Marrakesh
All aboard the train, all aboard the train

[Nearly Sane]

Take the last train to Clarksville
I'll be waiting at the station
We'll have time for coffee flavored kisses
And a bit of conversation
Oh... Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!

Take the last train to Clarksville
Now I must hang up the phone
I can't hear you in this noisy
Railroad station all alone
I'm feelin' low. Oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home

[ekim]

Down the rock island line is a might good road
Oh the rock island line is the road to ride
The rock island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the rock island line
Well I may be right, I may be wrong
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

[Nearly Sane]

They say the skies of lebanon are burning
those mighty cedars bleeding in the heat
they're showing pictures on the television
women and children dying in the streets
and we're still at it in our own place
still trying to reach the future through the past
still trying to carve tomorrow from a tombstone

but hey don't listen to me
this wasn't meant to be no sad song
i've sang to much of that before
right now i only want to be here with you
till the morning due comes falling
i want to take you to the island
and trace your footprints in the sand
and in the evening when there's no one around
we'll make love to the sound of the ocean

[Robbie]

I have to get my girl!

Sorry, Sergeant, it's straight from
Washington
No one leaves the grounds now, not
Anyone
A fast as we load the planes
We're gone
Okay! Keep quiet! Don't shout!
The Ambassador won't leave till
Everyone's out
The choppers're on there way there's
Room for you all
They're climbing over the wall!
(GET BACK!)
Get Back! Tell you, don't shout!

The Ambassador won't leave till
Everyone's out
Th' Ambassador just sent an order to
Freeze
That's it! No more Vietnamese!
Get in!

But my girl's out there!

[Nearly Sane]

I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign, and strange to me
get the expert, at kissing and stuff
he stays easy, when things get rough

Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
some girls, can make themselves so cold
a no-mans land.


Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
make the girl mine, wave the victory sign

[Robbie]

War means tears to thousands of mothers eyes
When their sons go to fight
And lose their lives

I said, war, huh good god, why'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing say it again
War, whoa, lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

it ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) friend only to the undertaker
Oh, war it's an enemy to all mankind
The point of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction