Are you ready for love? Are you ready for love? Is it me you’re thinking of? I am ready for your love Are you ready for pain? Are you ready for pain? Flowing like a waterfall Bringing loving to us all Oooh… Are you ready for joy? Are you ready for joy? Sailing seas of life ahoy Home to your Illinois Are you ready for love? Are you ready for love? Is it me you’re thinking of? I am ready for your love Oooh… Home Illinois Home Illinois Tears of pain and tears of love and joy Tears of pain and tears of love and joy

Just like a river I have changed direction, I’m flowing north Where the leaves of the trees fly away as the summers fall short And they’re flying away from here Off into the atmosphere The colours of the fall In my heart and soul Just like a river I have changed direction because of you Because I flooded my banks when I wrote you a song or two And I’m flowing away, away from here Flowing off to God knows where Through warm and sunny nights And cold and rainful days Just like a river I have changed direction and one fine day I’ll find an ocean and pour ‘till we’re one and the same again Find my sorrow and joy along the way Water always finds a way To carry all of these Emotional debris

Much talk of violence and the people all look away in silence One dog has another on its feet Chase each other down the middle of a street And tomorrow is another day The dogs run on to the rhythm of the beat Hear the people say It’s a long night by cats’ eyes make you see it all a hundred times more clear Baby straighten up, don’t wipe your tears You’ve got a long way to go, my dear Straighten up, don’t wipe away your tears We’re all together and the people who do wrong should do better That counts for all of us To be strong like a rhinoceros And tomorrow is another play Stage of life, head up high Together we can say It’s a long night by cats’ eyes make you see it all a hundred times more clear Baby straighten up, don’t wipe your tears You’ve got a long way to go, my dear Straighten up, don’t wipe away your tears I’m not some kind of drone Remote controlled by my own phone A human being and I’m more than that I wake up happy one day and the next day feeling sad Some days I lose my mind and then I gotta make do with whatever else I can find Find ways to use my time to spread light in the darkness I will leave behind We’re all riding on camels in the sand Though this world is dry we’re hopeful that The next rise bring oasis to our eyes You gotta trust your fellow camel and your fellow man Stand up for those who can’t Be fierce and naked and dressed in compassion and Up ahead in the distance of all things See the birds and then you hear them sing It’s okay to be sad Just remember to be glad On the days that you can Stick that smile to your fellow man It’s okay to be sad Just remember to be glad On the days that you can Stick that smile to your fellow man It’s a long night by cats’ eyes make you see it all a hundred times more clear Baby straighten up, don’t wipe your tears You’ve got a long way to go, my dear Straighten up, don’t wipe away your tears You’ve got a long way to go my dear Straighten up, don’t wipe away your tears

Once there was a boy with diamonds on his feet Dressed in rags and you’d find him on every street On every street Then came a girls with starlight in her eyes He watched her floating through the moonlit September skies September skies And from her dress a string was trailing on the ground He pulled her from the heavens, oh he pulled her down He pulled her down He said oh what have I done? I have pulled you from the skies Pulled you down to your demise She said oh you ragged boy Come on now and wipe your eyes They found a river at the break of day They found a crossing where the stones had washed away Had washed away A sparrow in a tree sang a silent song Of what had come to pass and what… Was yet to come Was yet to come And people said a star had fallen from the sky They said they’d seen it on a moonlit September night September night He said love what have I done I have pulled you from the skies Pulled you down to your demise She said oh my darling boy Come on now and wipe your eyes I will leave a light in you that never dies

Underneath the waves Something brought a change And one day we all fell In a blue cascade We once flowed in with the tide We found ourselves on this shore Wind on our good side in spite of bad times I’ll be shining on you forever more See the morning rise Sunrise in your eye Light me up inside With your loving embrace We once flowed in with the tide We found ourselves on this shore Wind on our good side in spite of bad times I’ll be shining on you forever more Our fire is always burning Our compass is always turning But I find my peace of mind in you We once flowed in with the tide We found ourselves on this shore Wind on our good side in spite of bad times I’ll be shining on you forever more

Hey take my hand Take me to your promised land Where it would seem all is green But life outside a dream Is a long way for a woman A hard road for a man In all of our trials Lead me by the hand Hey we’re moving on And the garden has long since Overgrown, weeds unknown Sprout between the stones Is a long way for a woman A hard road for a man In all of our trials Lead me by the hand Hey the wolves are out I see them coming without a doubt Lead me through the night Is a long way for a woman A hard road for a man In all of our trials We do what we can A long way for a woman A hard road for a man In all of our trials Lead me by the hand In all of our trials Lead me by the hand

I ordered up some booze but the booze was turning blue I left the saloon I didn’t know what to do Then I saddled up my horse but it too is turning blue I’m riding way out west I don’t know what to do That silver crescent moon is slowly turning blue It's cold in the desert I don’t know what to do Could I lose my weary blues along the Dixie line? I can try If I make it there in time I played the queen of hearts but she was the queen of jacks She played me for a fool But still I’d take her back And I love my babe so hard, my heart is turning blue I hear my train a coming I’ll see my baby in Maryland before my heart will burst Or see my lord in Jordan Whichever comes first

I am alone in my own company A sunny day in last July you came and said to me Come on man don’t you see you’ve got to let me go? For the reason I met you I’ll ramble down the road Though we go our separate ways Some day you might see my face and it’s Bye bye baby, baby bye bye To the loving times we shared in last July I will jump aboard that old steam train Some days I might see the sun and some days it might rain Where it takes me, I don’t know Somewhere between hell and heaven’s where I’m gonna go Darkness falls on that old rail road Still the moon shines from the sky and it’s Bye bye baby, baby bye bye To the loving times we shared in last July We may travel far and wide Still I’m keeping part of you somewhere deep inside like a Flower in eternal bloom Potted in a window sill inside my mental room I still miss you on rainy days But the forecast can be changed and it’s Bye bye baby, baby bye bye To the loving times we shared in last July Nothing much is left to say Memories of you are strong but I will fade away So will you, that’s how it goes Days we spent were beautiful, that’s all I’ll ever know and You’ve been gone for a thousand days Still I’m warm from your embrace and it’s Bye bye baby, baby bye bye To the loving times we shared in last July

Once united now divided Ain’t that the way it goes? Yet here I shine on the shores of your ocean Watch your waves dance upon the rocks Some way somehow this came to be You were always full of wonder So blue and oh so deep And I loved you down to the bottom Even loved what could not be seen Some way somehow this came to be I am the moon, you are the sea And you are far away May the highest tide Bring you back to me Now the sky has turned to amber The leaves are falling down And it seemed like our time wasn’t ending How I miss you, my dear old friend Some way somehow this came to be I am the moon, you are the sea And you are far away May the highest tide Bring you back to me Though you are gone I’m shining on I am the moon, you are the sea And you are far away May the highest tide Bring you back to me I am the moon, you are the sea And you are far away May the highest tide Bring you back to me

I’ll be an asteroid belt around your hips You’ll be a supernova singing on my lips I’ll be an icy moon orbiting your thigh You’ll be a meteor shining in my eye We came from dying stars Travelled in space to the place where we are We came from dying stars Fragments in space but together at heart You’ll be a nebula rising from my chest I’ll be a quasar shining your breast You’ll be a sun as it warms my toes I’ll be a comet tickling your nose We came from dying stars Travelled in space to the place where we are We came from dying stars Fragments in space but together at heart I’ll be the ozone that covers your teeth You’ll be the parsec I walk with my feet I’ll be the stardust you scrape off your tongue You’ll be the atoms of O in my lungs We came from dying stars Travelled in space to the place where we are We came from dying stars Fragments in space but together at heart

Well it’s a long goodbye my darling I lose you every day Steady as the tide that ebbs away When it’s night time in the garden With fireflies alight I’m on my own again and still I see your eyes You sailed across a silver sea On a ship built of stone What is gone shall never be And though you’re living inside me I live alone Well it’s a long goodbye my darling Thanks for every kiss You are the mark I can’t forget I missed And so long to your lips and your cheekbones The brown within your eyes Told me a story of a thousand warm and endless summer nights You sailed across a silver sea On a ship built of stone What is gone shall never be And though you’re living inside me I live alone Well it’s a long goodbye my darling I’ll sing a final song Don’t look for me ‘cause baby I’ll be gone When the moon hangs o’er the mountain And everything is still You feel the winds are blowing memories across your window sill You sailed across a silver sea On a ship built of stone What is gone shall never be Yes though you’re living inside me I live alone

When it was springtime in Harlem They planted a seed in the garden Hoping it would bloom A sunny afternoon The frozen soil unharden Spring went and summer came rolling Out in the fields they were tolling The seed was underground Blossom all around Trees grass and bushes a’growin’ Autumn came sweeping with thunder The leaves on the trees were a wonder But soon they turned to brown Fell upon the ground The seed of spring was under Winter and people in sorrow Icicle tears from a swallow But from the seed they’d sown A winter rose had grown A promise of warmer tomorrows From the seed they’d sown A winter rose had grown A promise of warmer tomorrows