Joan Baez Turn Turn Turn Again Lyrics

Play Me Backwards Album

Artist(s): Joan Baez

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Play Me Backwards

length: 4:09

You don't accept to play me backwards
To get the significant of my poesy
You don't have to die and go to Hell
To feel the Devil's curse

Well, I idea my life was a photograph
On the family unit Christmas card
Kids all dressed in buttons and bows
And lined up in the thousand

Were the gold days of childhood
And then lyrical and warm
Or did the picture start to fade
On the day that I was born

I've seen them light the candles
I've heard them blindside the drum
And I've cried Mama, I'one thousand common cold equally ice
And I got no place to run

Permit the nighttime begin, there'south a pop of skin
And the sudden rush of red
At that place's a little boy riding on a goat'south head
And a piffling daughter playing the harlot

There's a sacrifice in an empty church building
Of sugariness lil' baby Rose
And a man in a mask from Mexico
Is peeling off my clothes

I've seen them lite the candles
I've heard them bang the drum
And I've cried Mama, I'm cold as ice
And I got no place to run

And then, I'1000 paying for protection
Smoking out the truth
Chasing recollections
Nailing down the proof

You don't have to play me backwards
To get the pregnant of my verse
You lot don't take to dice and go to Hell
To feel the Devil's curse

I'll stand before your chantry
And tell everything I know
I've come to claim my childhood
At the chapel of baby Rose

I've seen them light the candles
I've heard them bang the drum
I've seen them calorie-free the candles
I've heard them bang the pulsate

Amsterdam

Just the design of sunlight on a building
Just a flash in a window I was passing
Only a frame in a motion-picture show I remembered
Amsterdam
Just the sound of a cycle in the gravel
But the click of a heel on the pavement
Just a moment like any other moment
Amsterdam

[Chorus]
I remember your lips
I retrieve your eyes
And the gustation of the buss, and your graceful goodbye
You lied
Bye

Just the scent of perfume on the linen
Just the print of a palm on the pillow
Just the hint of the moon through the window
Amsterdam
But a ghost in the steam on the mirror
Just a shadow of motion in the water
Just a need to look over my shoulder
Amsterdam

[Chorus]

Simply 2 lovers asleep in the silence as I watched from the door
Just the weight of a heart equally it's falling, null more than

[Chorus]

Isaac & Abraham

Hard times, hard times in Canaan land
Trouble in the listen of a man
A voice came whispering softly to him
Go offer, offer up the lamb

Abraham took his only son
High up on a hill
His test of faith had finally come
As the air current, the wind begin to chill

Cold steel, cold steel in the father's paw
Tears falling from the sky
The angels, the angels did non empathise
Why the righteous, the righteous boy should dice

Abraham most mysteriously
Laid down that deadly knife
Said, "My darlin' son, I wish I was the one
Who spared you lot, spared your precious life"

Oh Isaac, the light of all your days
Volition shine upon this mount high
And never, never fade away
And never fade away

Stones in the Road

When nosotros were immature we pledged allegiance
Every morning of our lives
The classroom rang with children's voices
Under instructor'southward watchful eye
Nosotros learned about the world around u.s.
At our desks and at dinner time
Reminded of the starving children
We cleaned our plates with guilty minds

And the stones in the road
We played similar marbles in the dust
Until a voice called for united states
To make our way back home

When I was 10 my father held me
On his shoulders higher up the crowd
To see a railroad train draped in mourning
Pass slowly through our town
His widow kneeled with all her children
At the sacred burial ground
The Television receiver glowed that long hot summertime
With all the cities called-for downwardly

And the stones in the road
Flew out from our bicycle tires
Worlds removed from all those fires
As we raced each other domicile

And now nosotros drink our coffee on the run
And climb that ladder rung by rung
Nosotros are the daughters and the sons
And here's the line that's missing
The starving children have been replaced
By souls out on the street
Nosotros give a dollar when nosotros pass
And hope our eyes don't meet
We pencil in we cancel out
We crave the corner suite
Nosotros osculation your ***, we make you agree
Nosotros doctor the receipt

And the stones in the road
Get out a marker from whence they came
A thousand points of light or shame
Baby, I don't know

Stones in the route

Steal Across the Border

Kneeling in the moonlight, gazing on the shore, the girl with the blue boutonniere
What if y'all got it, what you're praying for? Careful what you lot pray

Yous turn around, the onetime mode is gone, you wonder how you will conduct on
All my pride I will lay bated, I will steal across the border for you

Lying in the dusty shadows of your bed, dreaming on a clear blueish sky
Paying for something that y'all never even did, victim of a time gone past

Y'all plough around, everything has changed, familiar scenes take been rearranged
All my life I will work and strive, I will steal beyond the edge for y'all
All my pride I will lay aside, I will steal beyond the border for you lot.

I'k With You

So information technology's time to set you free
Picket you canvass away from me
Though I'll miss yous when you do,
I'm with you

Turn your face into the current of air
Permit your greatest dreams begin
Have the high route, win or lose
I'm with y'all

I was there in the morning low-cal
With a love that would concluding
And I'll be there on your darkest night
When the sun'southward long gone and your heart is sinking fast

When you stumble, when yous autumn
When they dorsum you to the wall
Subsequently all the remainder are through
I'grand with you

So information technology's time to ready yous complimentary
Watch you canvas away from me
Though I'll miss you when y'all do,
I'chiliad with you

Accept the high road, win or lose
I'one thousand with you lot

I'thousand With You (reprise)

Then it's time to set you free
Sentinel you sail away from me
Though I'll miss yous when you do,
I'm with y'all

Plow your face into the wind
Allow your greatest dreams begin
Take the high road, win or lose
I'chiliad with you lot

I was at that place in the morning light
With a love that would last
And I'll be in that location on your darkest night
When the lord's day'south long gone and your heart is sinking fast

When y'all stumble, when you fall
When they dorsum yous to the wall
Later all the rest are through
I'grand with you lot

So it's time to set you complimentary
Scout you sail away from me
Though I'll miss you lot when you lot do,
I'm with you

Have the loftier road, win or lose
I'm with you

Foreign Rivers

There are voices in the mirror, faces at the door
That open up on the rivers we've never seen earlier
Are in that location choices for the sparrow, or does he only fly
High above the rivers that are pulling you lot and I

Oh, there are strange rivers, rivers that nosotros cannot see
There are strange rivers who know our destiny
There are foreign rivers who brought your dearest to me

He could accept been a builder, he could have been the one
Who turned his dreams to steel cathedrals in the sun
He could have been a builder, until he bought the gun
There are forces in that river that continue him on the run

Oh, in that location are foreign rivers, rivers that nosotros cannot encounter
There are strange rivers who know our destiny
There are strange rivers who brought your love to me

Have you always turned the corner and wondered why you did?
You haven't been that manner since you were just a kid
Nothing really happens and then you have to say
You lot wonder what would happen had you lot gone the other manner

Oh, there are foreign rivers, rivers that nosotros cannot see
There are foreign rivers who know our destiny
There are strange rivers who brought your love to me

Through Your Hands

length: four:28
composer: John Hiatt
lyricist: John Hiatt

You lot were dreaming on a park bench nearly a broad highway somewhere
When the music from the carillon seemed to hurl your center out in that location
Past the scientific darkness, past the fireflies that float
To an affections bending down to wrap you in her warmest cloak

And you ask "What am I not doing?"
She says, "Your vocalism cannot command,
In time you lot will move mountains
And it volition come through your hands."

Even so yous angle for an option, still y'all argue for your case
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush if it blew upwards in your face
Yeah, we scheme about the future and nosotros dream about the past
When simply a simple reaching out could build a bridge that lasts

And y'all inquire "What am I not doing?"
She says, "Your phonation cannot control,
In fourth dimension you lot volition motility mountains
And it will come through your hands."

So whatever your hands observe to do yous must practice with all your heart
There are thoughts enough to blow men's minds and tear great worlds autonomously
There'south a healing affect to find you on that broad highway somewhere
To lift you as loftier as music running through an angel's hair

Don't ask what you are non doing
'Crusade your voice cannot control
And in time we will move mountains
And it volition come up through your hands

The Dream Vocal

I had a dream I was following a barefoot girl
Beside a dream that flowed around the world
And we spoke of many things, though her oral cavity never moved
As the most peculiar scenes were disappearing into view

Oh what a dream, beyond the realm of why
Pretty little beings beneath the yawning sky
Speaking of god as though they could ascertain
Music to the deaf and color to the blind
Or god to human

And and then the leaves became a thousand tears
And I was on my knees in a crazy business firm of mirrors
I couldn't find my face just a voice was drawing nearer
Hush baby - sugariness baby - hush, don't yous cry

And I thought I woke and my female parent was standing there
And my heart broke as the ribbons in her pilus
Turned into highways, surrounded and swirled
Similar a crown come downwards around a non-so-perfect earth

In the corner of the dream was the man with the blue guitar
It had no strings merely the music touched the stars
And his long dark curls turned to gold before my eyes
And the barefoot girl smiled off to the side
And it was real

And then a 1000 birds took flight with a joyful noise
And I heard the angels up on high rejoice
I could see my face and I recognized the vocalism
Hush baby - sweetness baby - hush, baby, hush

It'south but a dream, 1 of those that goes on and on
Scene later on scene, with the rhythm of a gypsy song
When I really woke, I was frozen in betwixt
I didn't know who I was, it was a dream inside a dream

It's all a dream
Oh what a dream
I had a dream

Edge of Celebrity

My house stands at the edge of glory
Steady as the seasons modify
Dreams of grace arise earlier me
And they call me home again

I went forth with no protection
Through a fierce and a blinding rain
Seeking truth but non perfection
Saw my father's face again

Father father can y'all hear me
Through this swirl of thoughts implied
Dreams of grace arise earlier me
And they phone call me dwelling again

My business firm stands at the edge of glory
Steady as the seasons change
Dreams of grace ascend earlier me
And they call me home over again

Take this hand that I hold out
Meant to bridge the years apart
Come in come in from the howling wind
To the clearing of my heart

Still and lovely came the morning
Gone was my father's face
In my business firm a brilliant reflection
New among my dreams of grace

My firm stands at the edge of glory
Steady as the seasons change
Dreams of grace arise before me
And they call me home again

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