Lyrics to "Still Standing"

"Golden Ball And Chain"

"Oh hello there" you coughed and smiled
Your hair messed up enough, a little wild
You said, "I'm sorry but it's all a waste
Not a whole meal just a little taste"

Now you've nothing left to fight and gain
Another line another carved link of your name
On the golden ball and chain

L.A. it calls and London grooms the star
Get on the phone to find out who you are
But happiness was a dying trend
You say you saw that train around the bend

That was carrying its weight in pain
The engine straining on the full weight of your name
And the golden ball and chain

You saw it then, you saw the sign
A drowning sailor in a jug of wine
First it was her, but now it's you
No psychoanalyst is there to tell you what to do

So now you whimper like a helpless child
You broke when they quit saying you were wild
But your tears they are like grass in sand
They speak to no one, they give no command

No there's nothing left to cleanse the stain
Another line another carved link of your name
On the golden ball and chain

"Crashin' Down"

They say that everything must fall
Every monument and hall
Every empire with its glories sung
Will fall down by the way
And once I thought that I would be
Among the ruins that we'll see

But since you came around
That old feeling's back in town
Our love will be standing
When it all comes crashing down

When it all comes crashing down
Don't waste a tear or frown
'Cause what we have will rise above
Their power and their pain
Just keep the faith and don't look back
Believers win and that's a fact

'Cause since you came around
That old feeling's back in town
Our love will be standing
When it all comes crashing down
In the final round
New hope will be found
When it all comes crashing down

When it all comes crashing down
And the kings forsake their crowns
And the bosses and the generals run in fear
Just stay right here and we will rise above
Their power and their pain

Just keep the faith and don't look back
Believers win and that's a fact

'Cause in the final round
New hope will be found
When it all comes crashing down

Since you came around
That old feeling's back in town
Our love will be standing
When it all comes crashing down
Comes crashing down

"Shotgun Blues"

I was handed down this gun
From Grandpa's hands to carry on
The skies were blue the day I left
With tasks to do with hungry death

Our cause was joined by other boys
Who talked of pranks and lover's joys
We never thought we'd see the day
When our shining hearts would turn to gray

Down the dark and dusty roads
Burning fields old fathers sowed
This fear inside daily grows
From my head down to my shoes
I got the shotgun blues

From up above the orders came
To insulate and hide the blame
They changed an army true and proud
To pillagers drunk and loud

Now forever etched in memory
Are things I never dreamed I'd see
From backwoods cabins ruined and charred
To children's faces cold and hard

"Good Things Come To Those Who Wait"

The prison guards are changing
While the inmates wait to slumber
Outside the walls the crickets sing
While another man goes under

Me, I watch the seconds turn
From minutes into hours
While our love cuts through it all
Like searchlights in the towers

But good things come to those who wait
Grandpa used to tell me "Son, narrow is the gate!"
Now I hear the soldiers coming
Their voices full of hate
But good things come
Good things come to those who wait

Our love was born one winter night
One Iowa December
A treasure I hold deep inside
No effort to remember

For though you are so far away
Ten thousand miles of sorrow
This prison camp cannot kill
Our blessed free tomorrow

Now I still see that Iowa home
You on the front porch waiting alone

But good things come to those who wait
The devil's eye is fading from the center of our fate
Now the end it may be coming
And the world's so full of hate
But good things come
Good things come to those who wait

"My Heart Still Stands With You"

I went down to that river, my love was there with child
I went down to that river, my love was there with child
But the river was a raging and the sun was going down
The summer road was flooded between the mountains and the town
It was all washed away but one thing still stood true
My heart still stands with you

The battle was fought and lost, we vowed to fight no more
The battle was fought and lost, we vowed to fight no more
But like whiskey in the summertime sprung smoothly from the earth
I have been reborn again by virtue of your birth
I can see it all inside you, I can see it all come true
My heart still stands with you

Now the prairie fire burns, consumes my last design
Now the prairie fire burns, consumes my last design
But it can be controlled if the well of love is deep
The wind it blows the curtains as I sit and watch you sleep
If nothing's lost then nothing's gained and nothing will stand true
My heart still stands with you

"19th Nervous Breakdown"

You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs
Standing out in a crowd, talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs
It seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years
And though you try you just can't hide, your eyes are etched with tears

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes

When you were a child you were treated kind, but never brought up right
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys, but still you cried all night
Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax
And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes
Here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown

Oh, who's to blame
This world's gone insane
Nothing I do don't seem to work
It only seems to make matters worse for me

You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind
But after a while I realized you were disarranging mine

"Ocean Of Doubt"

At the end of the road I saw you waiting
Holding on to what should've been
At the end of the road still hesitating
Holding out for what should have been

At the end of the highway you were still holding
The endless promise of what could've been
Where the road meets the skyway it was unfolding
The empty promise of what should've been

At the end of the river the ship sits quiet
The anchor lost and the fuel run out
A cargo of dreams but no one to buy it
Drifting aimless on the ocean of doubt

"Ghost Town"

Every time I look up at these pictures on the wall
I think I hear you callin' but there's no one there at all
All the rooms are empty, dusty echoes in the hall
It's all wrong, she's long gone

Like a ghost town
The cold wind blowin' down an empty street
Like a ghost town
Shadow of what used to be
All we were keeps on haunting me
Like a ghost town

This house was full of color now it looks all dark and grey
Where once was music a piano waits to play
Now I'll spend tomorrow in a town called yesterday
It's all wrong, she's long gone

"Take Me To Your Promised Land"

My poor dear child your hands feel so cold
Just like your daddy when his story was told
They've gathered around and spoke of the One
And the battle unending that's only begun

The sharpshooter waited one cause in his brain
The desert would swallow the cries of the pain
His finest hour the generals would boast
While his comrades offer a toast
 

The desert was burning the sun set afire
He dreams of his glorious funeral pyre
He thinks of the widows he's leaving in pain
He curses the hatred that makes him insane

So take me to your promised land
Heal my heart with your bleeding hand
Don't let time erase the stain
The Promised Land someday we'll gain