Jackson Browne Lyrics

Jackson Browne Chord and Tabs

A CHILD IN THESE HILLS I am a child in these hills I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water A...
A CHILD IN THESE HILLS Chords and Tabs

DOCTOR MY EYES Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to unders...
DOCTOR MY EYES Chords and Tabs

FROM SILVER LAKE Did you see our brother He was here the other day But he only came to say that he was leaving Did y...

JAMAICA SAY YOU WILL Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hid...
JAMAICA SAY YOU WILL Chords and Tabs

LOOKING INTO YOU Well I looked into a house I once lived in Around the time I first went on my own When the roads wer...
LOOKING INTO YOU Chords and Tabs

MY OPENING FAREWELL A lady stands before an open window Staring so far away She can almost feel the southern wind blow A...
MY OPENING FAREWELL Chords and Tabs

ROCK ME ON THE WATER Oh people, look around you The signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you To b...
ROCK ME ON THE WATER Chords and Tabs

SOMETHING FINE The papers lie there helplessly In a pile outside the door I've tried and tried, but I just can't re...
SOMETHING FINE Chords and Tabs

SONG FOR ADAM Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well He was alone into his distance He was deep...
SONG FOR ADAM Chords and Tabs

UNDER THE FALLING SKY Warm and lovely mystery, fire smiling through Before this moment fades away I want to know you I've ...

CALL IT A LOAN In the morning when I closed my eyes You were sleeping in paradise And while the room was growing li...
CALL IT A LOAN Chords and Tabs

FOUNTAIN OF SORROW Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There we...
FOUNTAIN OF SORROW Chords and Tabs

IN THE SHAPE OF A HEART It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a hea...

LATE FOR THE SKY *Now* the words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continue...
LATE FOR THE SKY Chords and Tabs

LIVES IN THE BALANCE I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink ...

RUNNING ON EMPTY Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summe...
RUNNING ON EMPTY Chords and Tabs

SKY BLUE AND BLACK In the calling out to one another Of the lovers up and down the strand In the sound of the waves and...
SKY BLUE AND BLACK Chords and Tabs

SOMEBODY'S BABY (Originally from the Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack) Well, just - a look at that girl with...
SOMEBODY'S BABY Chords and Tabs

TENDER IS THE NIGHT Between the darkness on the street And the houses filling up with light Between the stillness in my...
TENDER IS THE NIGHT Chords and Tabs

THE BARRICADES OF HEAVEN Running down around the towns along the shore When I was sixteen and on my own No, I couldn't tell y...
THE BARRICADES OF HEAVEN Chords and Tabs

THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR Gather your deeds and your possessions, Whatever certainty you've known, Forget your heroes, You don...

THE PRETENDER I'm going to rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway I'm going to pack my lunch in the morni...
THE PRETENDER Chords and Tabs

THE REBEL JESUS All the streets are filled with laughter and light And the music of the season And the merchants' wi...

THESE DAYS Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days-- These days I seem to...
THESE DAYS Chords and Tabs

BLACK AND WHITE Long before you ever saw your chances You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions an...

CANDY Daughter of a woman who comes and goes Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up a...

FOR AMERICA As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for t...

LAWLESS AVENUES Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And...

SOLDIER OF PLENTY God is great, God is good He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the...
SOLDIER OF PLENTY Chords and Tabs

TILL I GO DOWN Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down I'm not gonn...

ALL GOOD THINGS All good things got to come to an end The thrills have to fade Before they come 'round again The bil...
ALL GOOD THINGS Chords and Tabs

EVERYWHERE I GO I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can hear you there I hear your heart beating...
EVERYWHERE I GO Chords and Tabs

I'LL DO ANYTHING You hold a life there in your hands You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Some...
I'LL DO ANYTHING Chords and Tabs

I'M ALIVE It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are g...
I'M ALIVE Chords and Tabs

MILES AWAY I got my head down between my knees I got my back against this bedroom wall I hear my voice saying b...

MY PROBLEM IS YOU To love and get away before the walls have arisen You've got to be free But to go on attempting to b...
MY PROBLEM IS YOU Chords and Tabs

TAKE THIS RAIN It used to be there were two sets of footprints in the sand And there were two silhouettes in the su...
TAKE THIS RAIN Chords and Tabs

TOO MANY ANGELS There's an angel on a ribbon Hanging from the armoire door There's a Cupid with his feet crossed On ...
TOO MANY ANGELS Chords and Tabs

TWO OF ME, TWO OF YOU There are two of me And two of you Two who have betrayed love And two who have been true And togethe...

COLORS OF THE SUN Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Digging for a coin Many other tiny wor...

FOR EVERYMAN Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down...
FOR EVERYMAN Chords and Tabs

I THOUGHT I WAS A CHILD It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let...

OUR LADY OF THE WELL It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun...
OUR LADY OF THE WELL Chords and Tabs

READY OR NOT Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in th...
READY OR NOT Chords and Tabs

RED NECK FRIEND Pretty little one How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the r...

SING MY SONGS TO ME Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Le...

TAKE IT EASY Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that ...
TAKE IT EASY Chords and Tabs

THE TIMES YOU'VE COME In the time we've known That we each are a part of one another We've lost as much as we have won And...
THE TIMES YOU'VE COME Chords and Tabs

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN Time will come when we know what happened here Change will come in time and make it clear We learn o...

CHASING YOU INTO THE LIGHT Lying next to you in the dark Listening to your pounding heart The sheets are tangled around your wa...

ENOUGH OF THE NIGHT You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on I-19 In ...

HOW LONG When you look into a child's face And you're seeing the human race And the endless possibilities the...

I AM A PATRIOT And the river opens for the righteous (5 times) Someday I was walking with my brother And he wonder...

LIGHTS AND VIRTUES (by Jackson Browne) Here's to lights and virtues Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to ligh...

MY PERSONAL REVENGE (English Translation by Jorge Calderon) My personal revenge will be the right Of our children in th...

THE WORD JUSTICE A man stands up before God and country Raises his right hand and takes an oath Swears he has acted i...

WHEN THE STONE BEGINS TO TURN I come here for Dr. King Who gave the people a precious thing He found a light in the darkest hour A...

WORLD IN MOTION Sun going down in the USA Down on Main there's a family sleeping in a doorway Around the corner you ...

CUT IT AWAY Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away And help me find my way back to the s...

DOWNTOWN Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown Downtown they got to think a little quic...

FOR A ROCKER Open the door, baby turn on the light We're gonna have a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker I ...

KNOCK ON ANY DOOR Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any plac...

LAWYERS IN LOVE I can't keep up with what's been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human...

ON THE DAY You really need someone on your side But you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get thro...

SAY IT ISN'T TRUE In the still of the night Lying in the darkness I listen to my heart Say it isn't true In the dark a...

DADDY'S TUNE A dirty wind blows through the sky And the Autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wis...

HERE COME THOSE TEARS AGAIN Here come those tears again Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it throug...
HERE COME THOSE TEARS AGAIN Chords and Tabs

LINDA PALOMA At the moment the music began And you heard the guitar player starting to sing You were filled with ...
LINDA PALOMA Chords and Tabs

SLEEP'S DARK AND SILENT GATE Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder Where my life will lead me Waiting to pass under Sleep's d...

THE FUSE It's coming from so far away It's hard to say for sure Whether what I hear is music or the wind Thro...

THE ONLY CHILD Boy of mine As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch while the changes unfold ...

YOUR BRIGHT BABY BLUES I'm sitting down by the highway Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as...
YOUR BRIGHT BABY BLUES Chords and Tabs

BEFORE THE DELUGE Some of them were dreamers And some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the fut...
BEFORE THE DELUGE Chords and Tabs

FARTHER ON In my early years I hid my tears And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams...
FARTHER ON Chords and Tabs

FOR A DANCER Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming dow...
FOR A DANCER Chords and Tabs

THE LATE SHOW Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe peop...
THE LATE SHOW Chords and Tabs

THE ROAD AND THE SKY When we come to the place where the road and the sky collide Throw me over the edge and let my spiri...

WALKING SLOW Walking slow down the avenue Through my old neighborhood Don't know why I'm happy I've got no reason...

IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN (from the soundtrack album The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Do Come True; performed by Jackson Br...

REDEMPTION SONG (from the Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame CD; peformed by Jackson Browne) Old pirates,...

WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (from the movie The Wizard of Oz) We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz. We hear ...

AH, BUT SOMETIMES I'm a moody and swirling pool, lost in some dark wood Angry at a million things and more I can do no...

AND I SEE Just like a leaf that's just been rained on Something of a cloud above, a soon-awaking sun And I see...

BOUND FOR COLORADO The days of spring have just begun And melted snow begins to run Aspen is a fine place where many pe...

CAST OFF ALL MY FEARS Once I was on my own And falling Once I was all alone And calling For someone, anyone today To help ...

FOURTH AND MAIN I'm here at Fourth and Main Been standing in the rain I feel no joy, I feel no pain I got nothing to...

FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK Well it's funny you should ask me how I feel As the scenes before my eyes begin to reel I can't reme...

GOTTA SEE A MAN ABOUT A DAYDREAM I could write for you A song about the warming of September But I couldn't really give to you That ...

HOLDING I'm standing here and hoping for you Holding my door open for you now Ask just what you will of me I...

I'VE BEEN OUT WALKING This song appears on the album For Everyman as "THESE DAYS" with slightly different lyrics...

IN MY TIME In my mind The golden silver statues turn to tin And I find Confidence is just a place I've been In ...

IT'S BEEN RAINING HERE IN LONG BEACH It's been raining here in Long Beach The dampness in the air Tends to straighten out my hair Against...

LAVENDER BASSMAN Listen to my bassman, he is lavender His woman is his bass and he is loving her, loving her Listen t...

LAVENDER WINDOWS Lavender windows and burgundy doors Olive green pillows on ebony floors The lightest of wine Could h...

LOVE ME, LOVELY Lovely, lovely, did you see me Just as I was crying Love me lovely, make it easy What I say is hard ...

MARIANNE Marianne, Marianne With your voice like silver strings ringing And sounds of laughter and singing Ke...

MELISSA Melissa, I knew I just had to kiss ya Heaven knows what I had in mind When my eyes went blind And yo...

SHADOW DREAM SONG I meant to call her name I meant to take her hand I meant to be the same and understand Just what wa...

SHE'S A FLYING THING She's a flying thing that sings With her eyes like smoky rings The sun can feel her presence in the ...

SOMEDAY MORNING As the early morning filters through My shuttered window pane I look about and realize That things a...

SOMEWHERE THERE'S A FEATHER Love and learn Take your turn Somewhere there's a feather Falling slowly from the sky You need not k...

THE FAIREST OF THE SEASONS Now that it's time Now that the hour hand has landed at the end Now that it's real Now that the drea...

THE LIGHT FROM YOUR SMILE Oh the light from your smile Can be seen for a mile By travellers dark in their sorrow If you want m...

THE PAINTER We see him dancing in the morning Stars depart the yawning sky He'll take the hour that is passing A...

TIME TRAVEL FANTASY My head is in the forest And I'm thinking about you The mist is pulling lightly on the timber My tho...

TUMBLE DOWN Written by Steve Noonan Tumble down beside me here and now And then inside we can be sure That if ...

WE CAN BE Talk with me I believe that we can find a tomorrow Lend to me and I will try to borrow I can see you...

YOU DIDN'T NEED A CLOUD As I saw you, you were looking through your window Looking at the clouds to know which way the wind ...

YOU'LL GET IT IN THE MAIL TODAY I've been up all night I've been writing this letter And I think I might have found a better way To ...

YOU'VE FORGOTTEN You've been passed around from hand to hand Cast upon the darkest sands Now you're so confused that ...

ALIVE IN THE WORLD I want to live in the world, not inside my head I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be ...

BABY HOW LONG How long did you blind me baby how long? How long did you blind me baby how long? With your little g...

CULVER MOON I live in a small town . . . deep in LA About five miles north of where the Lakers play Everybody he...

I'M THE CAT Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down And I am there with a smile, prepared to...

INFORMATION WARS Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world We bring good things to life The news you need f...

IT IS ONE They shot a man into the sky The moon and stars became his bed He saw the sun rise seven times And w...

LOOKING EAST Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at ...

NINO Nino, walking around on Sunday Nino, just one more kid in L.A. With a hubcap and a stick in his hand...

SOME BRIDGES Every day I walk out in this torn up world And I fight to survive I'm laughing when I make it to the...

COCAINE You take Sally and I'll take Sue Their ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'rou...
COCAINE Chords and Tabs

LOVE NEEDS A HEART (by Lowell George, Valerie Carter & Jackson Browne) Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was ...
LOVE NEEDS A HEART Chords and Tabs

NOTHING BUT TIME (by Jackson Browne & Howard Burke) Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the ...

ROSIE She was standing at the load-in When the trucks rolled up She was sniffing all around Like a half gr...
ROSIE Chords and Tabs

SHAKY TOWN I've witnessed those one night stands Must have played in a thousand bands But I'm just here tonight...
SHAKY TOWN Chords and Tabs

STAY Now the seats are all empty Let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They're the f...
STAY Chords and Tabs

THE LOAD-OUT Now the seats are all empty Let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They're the f...
THE LOAD-OUT Chords and Tabs

THE ROAD Highways and dancehalls A good song takes you far Your write about the moon And you dream about the ...
THE ROAD Chords and Tabs

YOU LOVE THE THUNDER When you look over your shoulder And you see the life that you've left behind When you think it over...

THAT GIRL COULD SING She was a friend to me when I needed one Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done She gave me back ...

About My Imagination I kept my eyes open and tried to see The point of what went on in front of me I kept what moved me, ...

Casino Nation In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews sear...

Don't You Want to Be There Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go? Where the light is breaking and the cold clear win...

For Taking the Trouble For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin' Now you've been working through the rubble of a sh...

My Stunning Mystery Companion What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you...

Never Stop There are times when I see you, Baby Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices ...

Sergio Leone He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends Where the money is immortal and...

The Naked Ride Home Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home I said Knowing she never could pass on a dare And...
The Naked Ride Home Chords and Tabs

The Night Inside Me I used to lay out in a field under the Milky Way With everything that I was feeling that I could not...

Walking Town One foot after the other One place pretty much like another Some folks got a pretty good deal Some a...

BIRDS OF ST. MARKS (from the Jackson Browne: Going Home video) Oh how sadly sound the songs the queen must sing of dyi...

CROW ON THE CRADLE The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is the time for a child to be born He'll laugh ...

EL SALVADOR (performed by Joan Baez & Jackson Browne from her album Speaking of Dreams) Now that the city i...

FIRST GIRL I LOVED (from the album Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary; performed by Jackson Browne with David Lindley...

GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT (MEDLEY) (from the Disney album For Our Children; peformed by Jackson Browne & Jennifer Warnes) Once the...

I've Been The One (written by Lowell George) (Performed by Jackson Browne on the Lowell George tribute album Rock And ...

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Performed by Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt on the Pete Seeger tribute album Where Have All The Fl...

LET IT BE ME (performed by Jackson Browne and Timothy B. Schmit; from the Bye, Bye Love motion picture soundtrack...

UNLOVED There will be no consolation prize this time the bone is broken clean no baptism, no reprise and no ...

VOICE OF AMERICA (from the B-side of the single "In The Shape Of A Heart"; peformed by Jackson Browne) Litt...

YOU'RE A FRIEND OF MINE YOU'RE A FRIEND OF MINE (performed by Clarence Clemons & Jackson Browne on the Clarence Clemon...

BOULEVARD Down on the boulevard they take it hard They look at life with such disregard They say it can't be w...

DISCO APOCALYPSE Down the side streets and the avenue There be sisters walkin' two by two Their dresses and their sho...

HOLD ON HOLD OUT Hold on hold out, keep a hold on strong The money's in and the bets are down You won't hold out long...

HOLD OUT Baby I guess you know my story Baby I guess you know my side It seems I've traded love for glory But...

OF MISSING PERSONS Your father was a rounder He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul...

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my day. I bid farewell to old Kentucky, The ...