Jackson Browne
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.Collection: Real
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.Collection: Summer
I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.Collection: Lying
Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.Collection: Crazy
The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.Collection: Letting Go
These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.Collection: Sadness
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.Collection: Change
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.Collection: Friendship
You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?Collection: Peace
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running onCollection: Running
Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.Collection: Music
Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.Collection: Live Life
People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.Collection: Baseball
Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.Collection: Redneck
Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.Collection: Friendship
Talk about celestial bodies.Collection: Body
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.Collection: Work
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.Collection: Future
Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.Collection: Dancer
People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.Collection: Reality
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.Collection: Music
I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.Collection: Struggle
I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?Collection: Dream
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.Collection: Song
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.Collection: Honesty
Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.Collection: Morning
More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.Collection: Song
It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.Collection: Way
Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.Collection: Art
When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.Collection: Light
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.Collection: Dream
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.Collection: Writing
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.Collection: Art
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.Collection: Dream
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.Collection: Reality
People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is oneCollection: Country
They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.Collection: Clothes
I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.Collection: Meals
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?Collection: Peace
I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.Collection: Hate
I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.Collection: Jeans
I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.Collection: Independent
How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?Collection: Skills