"Well, I've got to run to keep from hiding, And I'm bound to keep on riding. And I've got one more silver dollar, But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no, Not gonna let 'em catch the Midnight Rider.And I don't own the clothes I'm wearing, And the road goes on forever, And I've got one more silver dollar, But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no Not gonna let 'em catch the Midnight Rider."

"Crossroads, seem to come and go, yeah. The gypsy flies from coast to coast.Knowing many, loving none, Bearing sorrow havin' fun. But back home he'll always run To sweet Melissa... mmm..."

"Just one more mornin' I had to wake up with the blues. Pulled myself outta bed, yeah, Put on my walkin' shoes. Went up on the mountain, To see what I could see. The whole world was fallin', Right down in front of me."

"I recall once upon a time, Livin was so easy and I felt so fine. But, my, my, my right before my very eyes, Satan came with fire to burn me, Wouldn't listen when they warned me. A dagger in my back while she's calling me honey, Wouldn't stand back, for neither love nor money."

"You're my blue sky, you're my sunny day. Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way, Turn your love my way, yeah."

"So God how come every wrongs been done? With deals no Christ should allow"

"Don't fill your mouth with gluttony. For pride will surely swell, but nothings unforgiven in the four corners of hell!"

"Well it breaks my heart to see you this way, the beauty in life where's it gone?"

"Now I'm aiming for heaven, but probably wind up down in hell"

"Till the butcher and his crown raped the land we used to sleep in, now tomorrow chimes of ghostly crimes that haunt tobacco island"

"Dragged around your whipping tree, a scourge you can't comand"

"For there are many ways to kill a man they say with bayonet, axe, or sword"

"Her breath pure as whiskey, my heart fell in love"

"What savior rests, while on his cross we die? forgotten freedom burns"

"So when in doubt just call my name, just before you go insane"

"Your selfish face is now erased when someone mentions you. If only you had seen what I now see"

"For your land of the free now prisons me to rot in this jail of lost liberty"

"Many is the day I took for granted, breathing the air that silenced some"

"Cause every dog has its day, like every women she gets her own way, and if there's a ship that sails tonight I'll captain that too, just to be there with you"

"While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived their before us laugh with there guns by there sides"

"The colours all seem bland I've traveled all these years, he said, to only get this far, so he crossed the street found a seat his home is now a bar"

"And life leads me here, it shows me I have never really loved no one but me"

"The buildings they shake but my heart it beats still, o mother of Jesus i feel pretty ill"

"Anarchy, the scourge of every sea the antichrist aboard our rig"

"Oh! Oliver boy what did you do but crush the hand you never shook then robbed the rights of people to be free"

"From the town of Detroit where we fight till we drop, we don't want your pity we just want a job, there's no shame in us asking with some self-respect, but don't leave it much longer, we're human at best"

"Well is this the way it's meant to be? Cause I signed of on the American dream, now I write my name to the welfare scheme, the money in the bank, well it's history"

"Wise men crank the guillotine where heads will roll for all to see"

"It's the words I've never written that say more about myself Where empty is the promise lies a pocket full of doubt"

"Its something of a pity but you never understand, how a boy can grow and still never be a man"

"Singled out for who you are it takes all types to judge a man"

"Don't look back for what's dead now is saved, they exiled our homes where the soul is kept safe"

"But green is the heart of your greed that much i can tell"

"Drag not your strength from government, but from the voices they abuse."

"Shove the bullet in your pocket turn away and retreat"

"Take me back to the way life has never been"

"Her legs ran all the way up to Heaven and past Avalon"

"Oh in time in time you will see just what you mean to me"

"Slice, slice, slice you up. I'm a monster, hahah, eat you like a cannibal, spit you all like animal."

"Haters make me famous!"

"There is a blue one who can't accept the green one For living with the black one, trying to be a skinny one. Different strokes, for different folks! And so on, and so on, and scooby-dooby-doo. (oooh, sha sha!)"

"We've got to live together! I am no better, and neither are you. We are the same whatever we do. You love me, you hate me, you know me and then, You can't figure out the bag I'm in.I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)"

"Sometimes I'm right, I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song. A butcher, a banker, a drummer, and then Makes no difference what group I'm in.I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)"

"Beat is getting stronger, Feel it getting stronger. Sound is getting longer, too. Music is a thought to me.I want to, I want to I wanna take you higher (take you higher) I wanna take you higher (take you higher)."

"Stand! In the end you'll still be you, One that's done all the things you set out to do. Stand! There's a cross for you to bear; Things to go through if you're going anywhere. Stand! For the things you know are right. It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight. Stand! All the things you want are real; You have you to complete and there is no deal."

"I'm livin' livin' livin' life with all its ups and downs. I'm givin' givin' givin' love and smilin' at the frowns. You're in trouble when you find it's hard for you to smile. A simple song might make it better for a little while."

"All we need is a drummer For people who only need a beat, yeahh! I'm gonna add a little guitar, And make it easy to move your feet. I'm gonna add some bottom, So that the dancers just won't hide."

"End of the spring and here she comes back Hi hi hi hi there Them summer days, those summer days.That's when I had most of my fun, back High high high high there Them summer days, those summer days."

"Youth and truth are makin' love. Dig it for a starter. Dyin' young is hard to take, Sellin' out is harder.I want to thank you falettinme be mice elf agin. Thank you falettinme be mice elf agin."

"When I was young and moving fast Nothing slowed me down, Oh slowed me down. Now I let the others pass; I've come around, Oh come around 'Cause I've found.Living just to keep going Going just to be sane All the while live knowing Such a shame."