We're under control Waiting for the fire to light Feeling like we could do right Be the one that makes tonight 'Cause freedom is a lonely road I might be anyone A lone fool out in the sun Your heartbeat of solid gold I love you, you'll never know

For the victims of a longing The grave of our youth is up ahead And life has become a burden We move in circles of suppressed despair Waiting for the sun And turning stones to find evidence But it hides in the recesses of our hearts A written decree of

We're under control Waiting for the fire to light Feeling like we could do right Be the one that makes tonight 'Cause freedom is a lonely road I might be anyone A lone fool out in the sun Your heartbeat of solid gold I love you, you'll never know

Waiting for a light that never comes The nights go on I chase the sun Lightning above and a fire below me You cannot catch me, cannot hold me You cannot stop, much less control me Say it's all you can take, better take some more

'Cause you and tequila make me crazy Run like poison in my blood One more night could kill me, baby One is one too many, one more is never enough Baby, here I am again Kicking dust in the Canyon wind Waiting for that sun to go down Made it up Mulholland

Just some scars from a life that used to trouble me I used to run at first sight of the sun Now I lay here waiting for you to wake up For once there is nothing up my sleeve I lay here waiting for you to wake up The city outside still sounds like it’s on

Summer night city Waiting for the sunrise, soul dancing in the dark Walking in the moonlight, love-making in a park When the night comes with the action I just know it's time to go Can't resist the strange attraction From that giant dynamo In the sun I

I'm just waiting on the wild sun And I saw my friends, and I saw my friends Maybe we can wake the dogs tonight Maybe we can see the morning light Maybe everyone can go to hell Maybe I don't need your calls for help Again, I'm your friend Crash and tumble

Of a windmill going round Guess I'll always be a soldier of fortune And the songs that I have sung Echo in the distance Like the sound I have often told you stories about the way I lived the life of a drifter Waiting for the day When I'd take your hand

You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night All your life Take these broken wings and learn to fly Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see You