Well, some friends of mine I never met called me the other day
They was gonna have a party and they called me to say
"Hey, Joe, how ya doin'? How's your album? How's your tour?
How's Don Henley? How's Glenn Frey?
And who, what, where and when and why?"
They could not shut up (Can't shut up)
They couldn't shut up (Can't shut up)
So I hung up (Can't shut up)

Well, I followed their directions and arrived a little late
I had a couple Chardonnays and started feelin' great
I said, "I hate to interrupt, I'll be right back, I gotta pee"
Thirty people in the bathroom started talkin' to me
They could not shut up (Can't shut up, can't shut up)
I said, "Hey! Shut up!" (Can't shut up)
They could not shut up

Well, just to get out of the bathroom took the rest of the year
And then a polyester pantsuit named Mandingo grabbed my ear
Said, "I heard you're rich and famous but I don't know who you are
You gotta sign this for my nephew or he won't believe I met you"
She just could not shut up (Can't shut up)
No, she could not shut up (Can't shut up)
She couldn't shut up (Can't shut up!)
I said, "Shut up!" (Can't shut up)
She could not shut up (Can't shut up)
She, she, she, she could not shut up
No, no, no, she could not shut up (Can't shut up, can't shut up)
She said "Blah, blah, blah" - I said "Ha ha ha ha! SHUT UP!"
Shut the fuck up!
(Can't shut up!)

Have you ever seen yourself on TV?
Well, I have
Have you ever been more famous than me?
Well, I have
Have you been stung by a bee?
Well, I have
Have you ever met Mohammed Ali?
I have, I have!

Have you ever had a case of the flu?
Well, I have
Have you ever had to escape from a zoo?
I have
Have you ever met the guys in the Who?
Well, I have
I'm in Who's Who, are you?
I am!

Have you ever stood in line at the bank?
Had an uncle named Frank?
Have you ever rode around in a tank?
I have!

But I've never been to Fairbanks, Alaska
That's the only place I've never been
Have you ever been everywhere else?
I have, I have!

Have you ever locked your keys in your car?
Well, I have
Have you ever been thrown out of a bar?
I have
But I've never shot eighteen-under-par
And I still don't know where all those balls are
Except the one that went through somebody's car
One time in Lincoln, Nebraska

And some day I'm goin' to Fairbanks, Alaska
If it's the last thing I ever do
Have you ever done everything else?
I have, too
I have!

Was it like it happened while you're nappin'? Coyote love
Wake up in a messy, unfamiliar place
Look over at an unfamiliar face
Coyo-coyote Love
Coyote Love

Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay, Coyote Love
Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay, Coyote Love
Coyote Love

Howlin' at the moon, 'cause you, you've had your fill
Coyote Love
All you lose is one arm and a hunk out of your hair
Coyote Love
Coyote Love
Coyote Love

Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay, Coyote Love
Well, this can't really happen, this can't be real!
Somethin' lyin' next to me, looks like I feel! Oh no!
Aaah!!!
Coyote Love

Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay....
Coyote Love

I know things aren't the same as they were before
Oh baby, I know, and all I can say is I'm sorry
I'm so sorry

And I don't know if you think of me anymore
But I still love you
I still love you, too

Sometimes I can't make my mind up
Don't know which way to go
If I should do this or if I should do that
I don't know
In certain situations

Sometimes a man can get in trouble
Through no fault of his own
Like when your girlfriend answers with a simple, "Hello"
And you're in the shower, and it's your wife on the phone! Oh!
In certain situations

And sometimes luck don't seem to matter at all
When you're hot, you're hot
And sometimes you have to play the cards as they fall
That's the only chance you got
In certain situations, situations

Oh, oh, oh
In certain situations
Oh, in certain situations

And sometimes luck don't seem to matter at all
When you're caught, you're caught, oh, woah
And sometimes you have to play the cards as they fall
That's the only chance you've got
In certain situations, situations, situations

(Vote!)

I'd like to announce my candidacy
I'd appreciate it if you vote for me
I wanna be Vice President
(Vote for me!)
If I was Vice President, know what I'd do?
Pretty much anything I wanted to!
(Vote for me! Vote for me!)

(Vote!)

I'd have a first class seat on Air Force One
An awesome pad in Washington, D.C.
(If you vote for me)
I'd play golf all day with heads of state
If they brought beer, wouldn't that be great?
I can't wait!
(Vote for me! Vote for me!)

Well, there's a awful lot of issues important to me
Here's my campaign policy
Legislation! Education!
Occupation! Arbitration!
Modernization! Legalization!
Immigration! United Nations!
Integration! Restoration!
Imitation! Hospitalization!
Space Station! Accusation!
Every Nation Violation!
Compensation! Realization!
I'm freakin' out! Vote for me! Vote for me!

Well, it's the land of the brave, and home of the free
That's the funny thing about democracy
A vote for me is a vote for me!
(Vote!)
Vote for me!
(Vote!)

(Vote!)
Hey, vote for me!
(Vote!)
(Vote! Vote! Vote!)
(Vote!)

Instrumental

I have a friend
He's like my brother
And every now and then we sit down
And we talk to each other

One time we talked
All about the future
And we shared each others' dreams and plans
For later on, when we both had time at hand
And weren't so damn busy
Me and my friend

And the thing I don't understand
Dear God, where is he?
Where is he?

And so my friend, I must say
So long, for now
Your time is over
I must go on

You are my brother
This is your song
It will last forever, forever, forever
We'll be friends that long

I'm not a gambling man, that's one thing you can bet
But that's all right, (yes, it's all right), all right with me
I may get lucky, but it hasn't happened yet
But that's all right (yes, it's all right), all right with me

I'm on the ceilin' if I'm anywhere at all
But that's all right (yes, it's all right), all right with me
Fallin' up the stairs or bouncin' down the hall
It's all right

(Well, it's all right)
Well, it's all right
(Well, it's all right, yes, it's allright)
Well, it's all right! Well, it's all right!
(It's all right!)
(Well, it's all right)

I do my best and that's the best that I can do
But that's all right (yes, it's all right), all right with me
Sometimes it seems a workin' man is never through
But that's all right, all right with me
Well, it's all right

Tonight you're mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight, the light of love is in your eyes
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment of pleasure?
Can I believe the magic in your eyes, darlin'?
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun?

I'd like to know that your love
Is a love I can be sure of
So tell me now, and I won't ask again, darlin'
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I'm the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night meets the morning sun?

I'd like to know that your love
Is a love I can be sure of
So tell me now, and I won't ask again, darlin'
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me tomorrow?

Minutes turn to hours
Counting seconds tick away
Another day tomorrow
Tomorrow, just another day
And days turn into years
And the time rolls by, over and over, again and again, and then
Years turn into decades
Decades
Start another decade
Times ten
Ten decades
One-hundred years
Ten decades

And the first ten started going so much faster
Than the whole one hundred years before
And the second ten, we started fighting
We fought The War To End All Wars
So somebody named the twenties "Roaring"
And in the thirties, we fought some more
And the fighting went on and on, nobody could stop it
So somebody built a bomb
All you had to do was drop it, right or wrong
They dropped it, they dropped it
And toward the end of the forties, after the storm, I was born

I am calling across a field
From far away, far away
This is my calling song
I am worried, I am concerned
There are reasons can't be explained
And there are questions that have no answers
That's the reason I wanna know
(How long, how long)
Can this go on? I wanna know
How long, how long?
When so many things happen, nothin' gets done
So many wars, no one ever won one, and no one ever will
No one ever will
I am calling
This is my calling song

And the fifties were the best, I guess
Except for the fighting
And the sixties were unrest, protest
We went to the moon
We had hopes, we had dreams
And sometimes late at night it still seems
Like Camelot
And the seventies lasted 'til May
And on the hill that day
I gave up, and started writin' "Decades"

And the eighties were a waste of time
And here we are in the nineties
Nine in a row, one more to go, oh
Over and over, again and again
One hundred years, ten years time ten
So many things happen, nothin' got done
So many wars, no one ever won one

Decades
Decades
Decades
Decades...

Is anyone out there?
Does anybody listen or care anymore?
We are living on a dying planet
We're killin' everything that's alive
And anyone who tries to deny it
Wears a tie
And gets paid to lie

So I wrote these songs for a dying planet
I'm sorry, but I'm tellin' the truth
And for everybody tryin' to save it
These songs are for you, too

Is there anyone out there?