@ALBUM: manassas STEPHEN STILLS - MANASSAS ========================= The Raven (a suite) The Wilderness 1. Song Of Love (3:28) 6. Fallen Eagle (2:05) 2.(a) Rock & Roll Crazies 7. Jesus Gave Love Away For Free (3:00) (b) Cuban Bluegrass (3:34) 8. Colorado (2:53) 3. Jet Set (Sigh) (4:25) 9. So Begins The Task (4:00) 4. Anyway (3:21) 10.Hide It So Deep (2:46) 5. Both Of Us (Bound To Lose) (3:00) 11.Don't Look At My Shadow (2:31) Consider Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay 12.It Doesn't Matter (2:30) 18.What To Do (4:44) 13.Johnny's Garden (2:46) 19.Right Now (3:00) 14.Bound To Fall (1:54) 20.The Treasure (Take One) (8:09) 15.How Far (2:52) 21.Blues Man (4:05) 16.Move Around (4:17) 17.The Love Gangster (2:52) @SONG: Song Of Love And it's all in the way you wonder If you think you're learnin' how Pick up your feet you don't have to pick up a gun You can prod the sacred cow You know the song of love > It's empty now > As it always seems > chorus To have been > You can go on home > Used to be down to tear gas and clubs What do you think about grenades (You know like a frag) Nonsense is as Nonsense does The judge's eagle promenades chorus -- The good book tells us "Thou shalt not kill" What is the meaning of this phrase Is it sometimes right and sometimes wrong Depends if you're foolish or brave chorus -- @SONG: Rock & Roll Crazies Y Cuban Bluegrass Lookout mama Its comin to you I can't tell you What you gonna do Rock and roll crazies Get you right down Make you feel so tough Your feet leave the ground Lookout mama don't you go too far > Don't you get hung up bein' no rock and roll star > chorus You find out it's easy to lose your way > Catch yourself practicin' bein' shallow every day yeah > Don't wanna tell you How to run your scene I only can tell you What happened to me Keep you eyes open Keep a clear head The woman inside you Might wind up dead chorus -- Girl I love you-oo-ooh Yes I was taken After it'd been a while Wondered was I mistaken Only my foolish pride Sensibilities shakin' Picking up piece by piece You say I was shaken Musica latina es cuban bluegrass If I could thank you now Feeling musch smoother If I could just be here Make it much cooler Dale su alma bien Por la descarga Nada importa pues En lo que hagas @SONG: Jetset (Sigh) If you dogrow Then you must know When you get so jive You only half alive Show me right now That you know how You can stand up Look in a mirror and sigh Get your feet wet Run with the jetset Be a good girl Go around the world But the longer it goes on The harder you hang on Til you stand up Look in a mirror and sigh Tryin' to be cool You just be the fool Let it be known You ain't full growed (Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!! How could he?) And its all right Don't put up such a fight You can stand up Look in a mirror and sigh @SONG: Anyway Hey girl how's by you Sing your rock and roll Sing your blues I'm all right I pay my dues I got 'em comin' to me You got 'em comin' to you I'm gonna try again > Don't matter if I win or lose > chorus Gonna try again anyway > But I know you You gonna be so cool Ain't gonna try no sweetp???in' I ain't no fool Cause I know you love me girl Just like I love you Got my feet on the ground And I know what I got to do chorus -- Do you know where you're goin' Honey where have you been Do you see the games they're playin' Do you really believe do can win chorus -- @SONG: Both Of Us (Bound To Lose) Why can't you hear me Why can't you see me How can you be so blind to this feelin' in my heart Time is a'waistin' What have I tasted Can you turn a deaf ear to my call Both of us bound to lose Why do we have to choose Both of us bound to lose Now can you hear me Now can you see me How do you like the fool when he's down Is that really how you see me Just a statue making sounds The Fallen Eagle Sing to the fallen eagle Helicopters fly Chase him 'round the mountains Chase him 'til he dies They say that it's good sportin' Shootin' him on the wing Above the roar and clatter You can hear your rifle sing his death song it won't be long Sing to the western rancher The eagle takes his lamb He's got a thousand others He don't give a damn Get up with the sunrise Everybody gather 'round Kill him with the first shot He'll turn and bring you down down down crash on the ground Sing to the noble eagle Help is on the way A government team of experts Is a'rushin' to your aid I know your not excited An eagle is no waif Fly on up to Canada This country isn't safe anymore that's for sure @SONG: Jesus Gave Love Away For Free If you're trav'lin' out west And you see a dark haired girl Tell her her love is a'waitin In the rockies so near And the mountains is high (Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!! Not again!) As his love it is strong It's a fine place to be By his side She belongs And they both travelled far And they both travelled wide But they travelled alone With no one to confide Their love can't grow stronger Tho' now it is deep They must trust in each other Their souls For to keep And we all know that people Ain't made to live lonely They need to be trusted And loved by one only That one special one Who can just let it be And remember that Jesus Gave love Away for free @SONG: Colorado I am a man I live alone Don't much bother me. It won't be long Come a woman who wants to be near Me and my mountains, we'll be right here Colorado Way back east in the dirt and smog Courted a woman she had a job Didn't want to leave her adopted home Guess she was afraid of bein' alone in Colorado Way out yonder in tinsel land Look around hard you might find a real man Dark-eyed country girl, tears in her eyes Needs the music of the wind in the pines Colorado Many's the time that I've gone astray The things I'm thinkin' I seldom say Guess I'm waitin' for that special girl The one who loves me and loves my world Colorado Colorado @SONG: So Begins The Task And so begins the task I have dreaded the coming of For so long I wait for the sun To remind my body It needs restin' And I must learn to without you now I must learn to give only part some how Camping on the edge Of your city I wait Hoping someday You might See Beyond yourself The shadows on the ceiling Hard But not real Like the bars that cage You within yourself And I must learn to without you now I must learn to give only part some how And I must learn to without you now As I cannot learn to give only part some how All of these cages Must And shall be set aside They will only Keep Us from the knowing Actors And stages Now fall before the truth As th love Shared Between us Remains ...Growing And I must learn to without you now As I cannot learn to give only part some how @SONG: 10. Hide It So Deep If I fell in love with you again Would you simply want it said you once knew me Could you care enough to follow and see Just what is it lies between us, why we hide it so deep I was told by a fried that you miss me And you try very hard to forget me And you live your busy life, there's no room for me Cause the thing you're sure I'd take is your will to be free Still you wrestle with the chains of your burden And you're sure when they're gone you can be certain You can live as you please, give what you sell And you carry that weight so nobody can tell @SONG: Don't Look At My Shadow (It's Behind Me) New York City years ago Tourists in the rain Singin' on the swing shift For pennies Thinkin'bout the bayou Cajun river song Almost got my head broke In Texas Purple Peacock Honky-Tonk Eunice, Louisiana Bourbon whiskey free, son, Just tune up the piano Workin' clubs in New Orleans Bringin' down a dollar College boys drink beer And throw the bottles It's been a long long long way > I got some more to go > Don't look at my shadow > Its behind me > chorus It's been a long long long way > In twenty years or so > Thinkin'bout those times > Might amuse me > L.A. Forum Sports Arena Twenty thousand fans Glas ya come to listen I'm gomma Give you everything I can I always had to play my music Play it best I could Hope you in the stands Can hear me good California dreamin' nearly put me down for good Colorado Rocky Mountains saved my senses chorus -- @SONG: It Doesn't Matter (does it? No. Thank you, I was beginning to worry) Fallin' and spinnin' Losin' and winnin' Keepin' my head Watchin' for signals Wear some uigil (??? That's what Stevie wrote!) Was I misled I remember you said that you Don't want to forget me It doesn't matter Which of our fantasies fled Every tomorrow Lookin' to borrow A piece of today Run a bit faster Here comes the catcher Makin' his play You had better not stay You will soon be surrounded It doesn't matter Which of our fantasies fled Lonely and winsome Calling for someone Living right now Something is shallow Ugly and hollow Doesn't even allow You to want to know how you might Live for the living and Give for the giving. Living Moment by moment One day at a time It doesn't matter It's nothin' but dreamin' any how @SONG: Johnny's Garden There's a place I can get to Where I'm safe >From the city blues And its green And its quiet Only trouble was I had to buy it And I'll do anything I got to do > Cut my hair and shine my shoes > chorus And keep on singin' the blues > If I can stay here in Johnny's garden > As the swift bird Flies over the grasses Dipping now and then To take his breakfast Thus I come and go And I travel And I can watch that bird And unravel chorus -- With his love And his carin' He puts his life Into beauty sharin' And his children Are his flowers There to give us peace In quiet hours chorus -- @SONG: Bound To Fall *** Any takers? *** @SONG: How Far Most of my life I have spent alone Most of this past year I been searchin' for my home I met a girl she won't leave my mind alone If she's listening I hope she understands my song It goes: If you get lonely > All you gotta > Do is call me > chorus I'll come on the run > Wherever you are > No matter how far > Bless my soul I think I'm fallin' again I hear my woman she is callin' me again If she needs me I gotta go she's my best friend Y'see I promised her and I remember what I said I said: chorus -- Most of this life is such a hard road to go down, go down Count your blessings on the good friends you got hangin' around It takes two to be friends it takes two to be lovers Know you got it made when you got one thats the same as the other Then you say: If you get lonely All you gotta Do is call me I come on the run Wherever you are No matter how far @SONG: Move Around What do we do Given life We move around Solitude Reach for light Rich... Or slight... We move around We move around One searches For the sake of searching Clearly then Stunbling... Falling... Lurching... We move... We move around A supurb point of reference detected becomes absured with a moments reflection leaves one a simple thought not sagging with the excess weight of excess baggage and we move around We move around One thinks then ...Jinks ...Then stands at a brink Finds a key... And stinking of revelation ...drinking in exaltation We move... We move...around No need To prove No one around No one ...but You to stand your ...ground We move around Don't you know its all right... ...To be wrong thus you grow be amused and be strong The acceptance of error with grace Is to refuse to be vain and so afraid of losing face This fear drives one further into what one thinks To be a race of life...or death Or simply take another breath Of nature's...air now... Which is fair now... Which is to be alive To move We move around @SONG: The Love Gangster Have you got a feelin' botherin' you like a bumble bee Give yourself room for breathin' love you 'til you're fit to be Tied...do you need a place to hide Can you be believin' what they told you yesterday Looks can be deceivin', you look like you're runnin' away Why...if you don't stop you'll die Everyone lookin' at my girl Everyone thinkin'bout my girl. So tough Everyone birdoggin' at my girl You can take her if you got enough You better fly The love gangster gonna make y'cry Policeman on the corner another one down the street Kinda makes you wonder what you gonna do with your feet An' it ain't no lie...everybody gonna need a place to hide Yes...the love gangster gonna make you cry You need a place to hide @SONG: What To Do Makin' it hard on each other Makin' it hard on yourself Makin' it hard on me Makin' it hard on you ...Its all the same (Profound Stevie, profound) I'm not the one to tell you what to do > I have no desire to run your life > chorus Do you thing you know what to do > Just don't let nobody tell ya no lies > Could we retire To a neutral corner 'Cause I'd like a chance ...To make myself...clear... I said I'm still your friend I've got a few things I'd love to say And I'd like to think that you might want to hear... For instance the... chorus -- [Then we have strange noises running back and forth; sometimes dissapearing altogether. I think its dumb but Ronnie and Dallas got hung up. You should have such a good time. You see, there's this little box and Dallas twisted that knob and Ronnie twisted the other one on a different box and I left the room because I didn't like what I played anyway, and waited for the next verse with the tack piano on it, which I do like, so much in fact I ran back into the room and dove into the speakers only to return again disguised as a bus driver who directed the next... ] chorus -- Blind stubborn pride drove us apart Can't you see the place we went wrong You hide in your world And I'll get lost in mine [...it's those little boxes with lights and knobs. Green and red and yellow and... ] All we got left is a song [which has another... ] chorus -- [complete with handlebar mustache.] When you decide that you'd like to know What it is that makes a person go When you decide you believe and you're trustin' Let somebody open your soul chorus -- [Then you might notice an outtasite fiddle solo that also runs around a little but Byron Berline is too good a fiddler to be hampered by little knobs and crazy people in the studio...and of course we have our final (I promise)... ] chorus -- @SONG: Right Now The last time I spoke to her She couldn't talk to me The script she read was very strange But who did she see A few lines from a bad dream A frozen memory Darkness remains the fate Of such...illusion Can you not wait On what...can...be Who was it cast the mold The girl that I once knew Such a carefully chosen pose But what will the emptiness do One of my best friends took her down With his games for sure Hearts made of stone Cannot break again I hope he understands I hope he is secure Old fashioned feelings The new way of dealing With love I see These time were meant for me No no no no no... The past isn't anymore The future only has in store And round and round and round it goes And where it stops nobody knows As far as I can tell The only game in town is going down And only happens In the right now @SONG: The Treasure Alone with my guitar Living on a mountain Far away I saw girl Gypsy woman deepest in the world When she moved it was a dance We hid ourselves And I had no chance For the treasure of the oneness That like sand becomes a diamond Before the wind And while I changed my strings A rocky mountain woman Came to town to sing Took my heart and ran When she bade me follow I just took her hand I began my journey to the east A country boy searching for my peace In the treasure of the oneness That like sand becomes a diamond Before the wind I sit in deep reflection There are no answers To my questions Where did they go And which one took my heart Which one took my soul I may never see it clearly there comes another Now she turns to beckon me with the Devil's key The treasure of the oneness Then becomes sand and lies there naked Before the wind @SONG: Blues Man (Jimi the Fox, The Owl and Skydog) Blues man Play your hand Do it right Come on strong Don't stay too long Runnin' wild Singin' child Powered sound Push you hard Lookin' to get down Such a waste Y'left such a space I shared your dreams I felt your heart Did I hear you scream Runnin' scared Y'run everywhere Could not choose Where to hide Play the blues Played it mad Played it sad Blues is pain The way men cry Like tired rain Blues is mean The real thing Three good men I knew well Never see again