Live at the Fillmore
Release Date: August 10th, 2004
Recorded live at the Fillmore in San Francisco on March 19 & 20, 2004. It was released on DVD August 10 and as a Double CD September 14, 2004. Both the DVD and CD contain 17 songs, the DVD includes bonus freatures: On the Road Documentary, Tour of the Historic Fillmore in San Francisco, Monster MX and 5.1 Dolby Suround Sound.You know I get a little peace of mind around that woman. She’s like driftin’ and then finding the easy way out. In case you didn’t know she is my caterpillar, she’s my butterfly rolled inside out. Change in the autumn and the springtime. All of her colors roll into one. She’s gonna shock me now, when she turn it loose. She’s got my ‘lectric house rockin’ now, on her dirty juice.
You know I get a little peace of mind around that
woman. That woman is sure good ‘nuff to me. Someone is always shaking her down, always scraping her pink limousine. Taste her kisses sweet as molasses, from a moonbeam or a Christmas tree. She’s gonna shock me now, when she turn it loose. She’s got my ‘lectric house rockin’ now, on her dirty juice. She can’t shut me down. I turn it loose.
Baby's gonna change her life
She's made up her mind
She leaving her girls behind
And her lovers unkind
Crazy Mary look back and you're done
Just hold on and run
You're on your way home
Ain't nothin' gonna break you down Mary
I'm on your side
Nobody can touch you now Mary
Though trouble won't pass you by
Finding it hard to begin
To let the sun rise
To forget what was doing her in
What was making her blind
Crazy Mary just keep to yourself
Your old friends won't help
To make your escape
May you be well on your road
I know you'll get by
Life is the flower that grows
>From the knots we untie
Crazy Mary look back and you're done
Just hold on and run
You're on your way home
New York lady slips underneath the dim trumpet light.
Come from a land she's never known.
She sees in her future castles burning bright,
But she's got no place to go.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
She wonders why everything ain't right
For all the people down here below.
Hey, sister where's your life?
Brother, where's your home?
And if you should ever speak with her,
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
There's a whisper inside every broken heart.
A frail, frail dream.
Which runs through the traffic and plays a part.
Sweet love through eternity.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
Come on. Pick up your knee and your steep side. The river is deep and running all night from your tender, moonlit lake. I sit on the ground in the city light. I live in the traffic and I sleep light. Might I touch your illustrious face? Come on.
She’s got the hydrogen bomb and the satellite to move her around and keep her treated right. She’s gonna want to know my name. The trouble is keen and the money is tight. I’ve got the need and the cheap ride to take you with me into space. Come on. The universe is on for you tonight. Come on.
Ain't no getting up again, she gonna bring you down.
Love gone up and jump again, turn it all around.
I'm goin' to the liquor store, to get some peace of mind.
Something I ain't done before, I can't seem to find.
Chorus:
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
And never never leave me.
Sister I am suffering, a single desire.
Hell is the shadow cast from a soul on fire.
Chorus
Fields are white in snowy spring and I can't
remember the last time I've seen her.
The highway is still cold and wet and I can't
forget the way I had to leave her.
And every passing day, she flickers and she fades.
Is someone to help her when she falls from the heavens?
Chorus:
And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong.
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone.
And I'll be her
broken hearted savior.
And every heavy night takes out the little life that's left within her.
Every man she gives her love, he takes it, and leaves her with a dinner.
Our love was once a flame, now I'm just a forgotten name,
Am I the only one to blame for having, loving her?
Chorus
I once knew a woman,
she put a curse on me
that eventually came true.
She was a head on wreck,
on a mystic ride (you know the kind).
Among the visions and the ruins.
Yeah, she was my unsuspecting secret mission.
Leftover passoion and desire
they only depen the wound.
But you must admit that the pain is sweet.
Makes you howl at the moon.
I guess you are my unsuspecting secret mission.
Every eleven days or so.
I get a message from you.
invisible ink on invisible paper.
But I can smell the perfume.
I guess you ain't my un suspecting secrt mission.
You know you aren't my unsuspecting secret mission.
Same wind that blew your house down was the breath of life to me. Cruel words brought your galaxy to the ground. Made a universe for me. You can’t get what you’re asking for lady. You only get what you pay for now baby. Your crazy love will never make it in the end. As your imaginary ships they come crashing in. And they’ll never fly again.
Long distance makes the heart grow cold. Burns me up inside. Slave emotions once were bought and sold. I set free to shine. So you don’t know what you need these days, only what can’t be yours for taking. Your crazy love will never make it in the end. As your imaginary ships they come crashing in. And they’ll never fly again.
All your cities on the land will dissolve into the sea. Maybe you and I will never understand why we were never meant to be. So you don’t know what the days are for. You’re lost in what you had before. Your crazy love will never make it in the end. As your imaginary ships they come crashing in. And they’ll never fly again.
It seems to me, you and me,
Are chasing something.
What it is does anybody here want to know?
It seems to you, you and me,
Are forgetting something,
When love is so easily forgotten.
And if I pick you up will you drag me down?
If I run to you will you turn around?
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just a circle.
It seems to me, you and me
Are being chased by something.
What it is has anybody here apprehended?
It seems to me, you and me
Are terrified of nothing,
When nothing is the reason we are here.
Oh, nothing at all.
And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just circle.
Just a little bit gun-shy, with a criminal mind
She came in like an animal and left like an innocent child
Now I'm stranded on empty, across nation lines
Clear night like a rosary against a dashboard light
Driving to you, Riviera
How long can you run?
Now the moon and the pavement are like noon daylight
Smokestacks and the gambling signs along the black horizon line
I once had a sister like you, lost on the other side
You run because you have to, from the firing lines
Shot into you Riviera, how long can you run?
Ain't it strange how the ones you steal, they keep you alive
How she could make you feel like you never been high?
I can't remember what was real - like a killer in denial
Careful to conceal every last line leading to you, Riviera
I deliver to you- the Riviera! How long can you run?
Every time you wake, dreams come tumbling down. The careless love you take – I’m just another face in the crowd. Your forgetful eyes keep driftin’. Am I ever going to catch them now? Angela Dangerlove, I’m yearning my life away. Angela Dangerlove, I guess I got time to waste.
Ever since you’ve shaken me I’m knocked down under your spell. Your disenchanted rhapsody plays me like a hollow shell. These days go laughing by. Am I ever gonna catch you now? Angela Dangerlove, I’m yearning my life away. Angela Dangerlove, I guess I got time to waste.
That I don’t know you well is something I can’t deny. Just enough to dream, a fool by the trick of the light. I came closer than you think. I saw a tear fall from your eye. Angela Dangerlove, I’m yearning my life away. Angela Dangerlove, I guess I got time to waste. I guess I got time to wait.
I wanna drive it on over to you. I wanna take you there but the time ain’t right. Can’t sail it on over to you. I wanna glide it home but the wind ain’t right. Try to find a love that’s strong and true, I wanna to fly ward now but the sun won’t shine. Love transmission – gonna grind them gears I’m gonna burn it out. Love transmission – down low engineer gonna shake it out. Love transmission – it’s a new frontier gonna work it out. Gonna make them changes.
I’m an outsider with the gold clipped wings. I wanna shine for you but my battery died. A lone blacksider but without the swing. I wanna read to you by acetylene light. Love transmission – gonna grind them gears I’m gonna burn it out. Love transmission – down low engineer gonna shake it out. Love transmission – it’s a new frontier gonna work it out. Gonna make them changes.
May I reawaken as your cup of tea. Gonna satisfy you like the deep blue sea. Reincarnated as love poetry. Gonna sink into you like a submarine. Love transmission – gonna grind them gears I’m gonna burn it out. Love transmission – down low engineer gonna shake it out. Love transmission – it’s a new frontier gonna work it out. Gonna make them changes.
A little light looks through her bedroom window. She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems, Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets, Her hair blowing in the breeze. And she can't see me watching. And I'm thinking love... Chorus: It's bittersweet more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet. It's a bittersweet surrender I'm older now. I work inn the city. We live together. But it's different than my dream. Morning light fills the room. I rise. She pretends she's sleeping. Are we everything we wanted? And I'm thinking love... Chorus I know we don't talk about it. We don't tell each other All the little things that we need. We work our way around each other As we tremble and we bleed. Chorus
He'll come flying out of this town
A resignation superman
And today the bad guys win
'Cause he turned his cape in
Now, he says
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Oh well ...
Yes, he's tired of fighting in this town
All the suffering and vice
He wants to fall in love
Maybe settle in and live a life
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes form this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
And he keeps an eye upon this town
The resignation superman
He'll keep himself amused
With the evening news
Oh my ...
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Now I broke my back on this world
Now I'll wash my hands of this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
You can turn back the tide of the cold tears from your eyes,
The pangs of wounded pride if you hold me.
Did someone do you wrong yeah,
Good lovin's good as gone.
Maybe you ain't as strong as you wanna be.
Chorus:
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone.
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
I understand.
Nothin' stays if it's gotta go now.
You can't get water from a stone now.
Sometimes you've got to think about
The things you're gonna love.
You can point the finger at him.
You can say you've suffered for your sins.
Somehow it never was, never was good enough.
Chorus.
Bridge:
When the morning comes and you put yourself together
To face another day.
And when the day is done and you ain't feelin' better
You come walkin' my way.
Now that you're doing alright,
You're pretty much outta sight.
I don't see you knockin' 'round my door anymore.
I'm glad to hear you're doing well,
But I know that time will tell.
Only when you're broken down, is that what friends are for?
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
It's alright if you just wanna be alone.
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
I understand.
Shakin’ ‘em down and drunk on a holiday. Dishin’ them ‘lectric blues in an old school way. Lucy and Glenda Jones and an old beef bone. Drinkin’ that whisky juice till they all alone. They was blues conquistadors, soul conquistadors.
Old Betty Mae was movin’ it and doin’ it right. Muddy and John Lee rockin’ in the house of blue light. Trouble and worry come back on another day. Nellie’s aunt Bee got down and began to pray. They was blues conquistadors, soul conquistadors.
You got to mess around to feel right. Then you slow it down sometimes, just enough to get me home. You got me digging in a coal mine – diggin’ in a blues mine. Jesus gonna help me get there with them blues conquistadors, soul conquistadors.
Been twenty odd years since they burned that Checkerboard lounge. Listen that Howlin’ Wolf make a nasty sound. Muddy and John Lee you know they passed away. But the Gin room boogie still make you shake a leg.
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