Funny how the circle turns around first your up and then your down again
Though the circle takes what it may give
Each time around it makes you live again
Funny how the circle is a wheel
And it can steal someone who is a friend
Funny how the circle takes your flight
And if it's it right it brings you back again
Funny how the circle turns around
You think your lost and then you're found again
Though you always look for what you know
Each time around it's something new again

Sweet Mary I've got to be leaving
Oh I can't let you into my life
Cause I know it would end in grieving and the last thing I need is a wife
When I met I met you for pleasure
And the good times of running around
Then you seemed to be so understanding
From the weight that's been draggin me down
The good times are coming between us
Though you helped me I'm carrying my load
And I've never felt more like a lover but I'm running right off the road
Sweet Mary I've got to be leaving
Oh I can't let you into my life
Cause I know it would end in grieving and the last thing I need is a wife
Oh it's nothing you said or invited
And it's nothing you did that was wrong
Our love together was heaven but I promised myself to be strong
Sweet Mary I've got to be leaving
Oh I can't let you into my life
Cause I know it would end in grieving and the last thing I need is a wife

You can tell a changing heart
Their face a smile and yet there is no joy
They look for wealth no matter what the cost
You're someone else that they might just destroy

So many people gather round
A thousand voices lift their praise
For you have reached the top
So they give you all they got
But when you're singing from the soul
They fail to see your final goal
They only tell you that
You have a long ways left to go
So you rhyme the changing rhyme
With one wheel spinning and one on the ground
Then falling victim to the game of time
You place your name out in the lost and the found

So many people gather round
A thousand voices lift their praise
For you have reached the top
So they give you all they got
But when you're singing from the soul
They fail to see your final goal
They only tell you that
You have a long ways left to go

I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shopping today for jewels
The wind rushed around the dirty town
and the children let out from their schools

I was standing on a noisy corner
Waitin' for the walking green
Across the street he stood, you know he played real good
He was playing real good for free

Now me, I play for fortunes
and for those velvet curtain calls
I got a black limousine and about forty criminals
escorting me to the halls

And I'll play if you have some money
or if you're a friend to me
But that one-man band by the quick-lunch stand
he was just playing real good for free

Nobody stopped to hear him
though he played so sweet and high
They knew had never beeen on their TV screen
So they passed his music by

Me, I meant to go over
and ask for a song
Maybe put on a harmony
I heard his refrain as the signals changed
an' he was still playin' real good for free

Some people born in old Kentucky
They think they're living in a tunnel mine of coal
Other people born not quite so lucky
Giving everything by selling out their soul

I know that everybody's born for something
Just to feed them and keep them from the cold
Sometimes you get to do the things your meant to
And I know that I was born to rock n roll

Born to rock n roll satify your soul gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul
Gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul gonna rock n roll satisy your soul
Gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul

Always wanted to be a fireman just to steer the hook and ladder from behind
Then I thought I'd be a great inventor
But I found it might be too hard on my mind
I know that everybody's born for something
Just to feed them and to keep them it's all in the cards you hold
Yes I said I believe in magic and I believe that I was born to rock n roll

Born to rock n roll satify your soul gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul
Gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul gonna rock n roll satisy your soul
Gonna rock n roll satisfy your soul (Repeat to end)

Things will be better now
Don't ask me why, don't ask me how
And both of us feel the same way
What we're feeling inside we just can't seem to say

Cause misunderstand is the cause of it all
It take you to the top just to watch you fall

You know what
Sometimes it's lonely and cold
when you're so far away from home
Confusion can lead you astray
It's such a terrible price to pay

I bought you some clothes, I dressed you up real fine
Go and live your life, just let me live mine

Sweetness compassion is the cause of it all
She can take you to the top just to watch you fall

Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for awhile
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you, is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band bgun to rust
After all the sin we?ve had
I was hoping that we?d turn bad
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you, is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

Hello woman of my dreams
Is it not the way it seems
Purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you, is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game

The first thing that they tell you about is that you will be king
A priest at least they tell you and then that everything will be alright at last
You will finally be cast into your rightful throne
They got it all down cold

Next thing that they tell you is not to be afraid
You think you're better than the others somewhat fine and brave
They lead astray you could be up there all alone
A star they say a million miles away from home
An empty space is that the place you wanted

The last thing that they tell you about they ask you will it hurt
They said sell what you can boy get out while the getting's good
And they whisper in the evening all around town
Oh humpty dumpty the king is falling down

Good-bye I won't be long
I am on my way back home
So much I've got to say
I hope you'll understand my way

Borrowing time
You know it just ain't right
It's so hard to believe
All that's passed behind

I've been gone so long
At times I can't tell right from wrong
Stay away from sleepless nights
Waiting for the morning light
Why do you worry
Why do you cry
Come tomorrow morning
All your fears will die

Good-bye I won't be long
I'm on my way back home
So much I've got to say
I hope you'll understand my way

I thought I met a man who said he knew a man who knew what was going on
I was mistaken, only another stranger that I knew

And I thought that I found a light to guide me through the night and all this darkness
I was mistaken, only reflections of a shadow that I saw

And I thought I'd seen someone who seemed "at last" to know the truth
I was mistaken, only a child laughing in the sun, in the sun

See the sky about to rain broken clouds and rain
Locomotive pull the train whistle blowing through my brain
Signals curling on an open plain rolling down the track again
See the sky about to rain

Some are bound for happiness some are bound to glory
Some are bound to live with less who can tell your story

See the sky about to rain broken clouds and rain
Locomotive pull the train whistle blowin through my brain
Signals curlin' on an open plain rollin down the track again
See the sky about to rain

I was down in Dixie Land played a silver fiddle
Played it loud and then the man broke it down the middle
See the sky about to rain