Across the lines Who would dare to go Under the bridge Over the tracks That separates whites from blacks Choose sides Run for your life Tonight the riots begin On the back streets of America

The richest man in Babylon There is no guidance in your kingdom Your wicked walk in Babylon There is no wisdom to your freedom Your beggars sleep outside your doorway Your prophets leave to wonder on You fall asleep at night with worry The saddest man in

If your man get personal, want to have your fun I got women's in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee Lord, I'm goin' to Rosedale, gon' take my rider by my side Best come on back to Friar's Point, mama, barrelhouse all night long But my Friar's Point

Who stole your heart Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone There are locks on the doors And chains stretched across all the entries to the inside There's a gate and a fence And bars to protect from only God

Mmmmm-mmmmm I's up this mornin' Ah, blues walkin' like a man Is a low-down shakin' chill Worried blues Give me your right hand And the blues fell, mama's child Tore me all upside-down Blues fell, mam's child

Redemption songs Won't you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have Emancipate yourself from mental slavery Have no fear for atomic energy 'Cause none of them can stop the time While we stand aside and look? Some say it's just a part

Be in my heart When we were younger We thought everyone was on our side Then we grew a little And romanticized the time I saw Flowers in your hair See it takes a boy to live Takes a man to pretend he was there So then we grew a little

Someone save us Heaven help us now Come crashing down We'll hear the sound As you're falling down Or make a saint of me? And will you lay for me? 'Cause I'll give you all the nails you need (You don't know a thing about my sins)

A stranger no more Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's the danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like you I saw your face as I ascended

Taken away to the dark side I wanna be your left hand man I love you when you're singing that song and I got a lump in my throat because You're gonna sing the words wrong Lady, running down to the riptide Oh, and they come unstuck Oh lady, running down