The only thing they ask for Is your heart and soul If you can't pay the price They'll take the child that loves you the most Thought a lot about redemption Ages before you were born But where to find this hope my friend In the blue overtone storm Take on the freedom of the poor To seek the richness of its truth Cause a love for the material world Brings you closer to the blues The scream that you will hear Is the laughter of pain And the dreams we stop to dream Turn to memories of shame I love to sing along Oh hope I'll never hear you say Walk me out in the morning dew While you know it is the end Take on the freedom of the poor To seek the richness of its truth Cause a love for the material world Brings you closer to the blues Take the elevator to the 13th floor Plate says perception and I knock at the door Seems like a long time, such a long, long time And I wait, and I wait some more And I wait, and I wait some more Would you please try Try to shine on Would you please try Try to shine on Would you please try to shine on Oh would you please try to shine on

There’s a fire on the mountain But only one way out The smoke’s rolling on the river Sweat leafs burning to the sound Way too blue for the northern sky I’m comfortably numb Time has told me the place to be To stay forever young Dismounting purple haze Unpainting the here and now I’m the captain of a crystal ship Out front, oh furthur out Come together in the morning We meet on Shakedown Street Watch the downtown money wasters Shaking hands with Mr. Thief It’s a heavy load, but my brother Jake Knows the muddy waters well Yet he’s the fool on the hill but he never will Understand who tolls the bell Dismounting in a purple haze Unpainting the here and now I’m the captain of a crystal ship Out front, oh furthur out The forbidden beat is driving me Down desolation row Life in the fast lane It'it's only Rock'n'Roll Black Betty was my beauty Loved me two times every night You got that right, I ain’t the one Oh someday never comes I’m the captain of a crystal ship I’m getting closer to my home

Sunshine on the road You’re sitting right next to me Sunshine on the road The people leave to die Them gathering to be alone The people leave to die As the sun sets down with the horizon We're riding high Oh Terrapin Girl Always got the newest gear Oh Terrapin Girl To blow my mind yeah Terrapin Girl Wait and see And at the bus stop baby I pick you up to drop you off At the bus stop baby I pick you up to drop you off Is it fate that relates Our future together? Oh Terrapin Girl Always got the newest gear Oh Terrapin Girl To blow my mind Oh Terrapin Girl Will you be My Girl

Down Pace Lane To the wedding of the sun and the moon It’s a long strange trip To the piper and his gates Carry me wings to the carnival of love Keep a safe distance to my thoughts Until I lose the I in me And redefine the word to be Open your eyes Open your ears Open your mind And lose your fears Show me the way Show me where that place is Show me the way to Gypsy Town See the face of our fathers Drink the tears of the lying I'm lost in my mind Too far out for dying Where the blue kisses the ocean And the sun lies down to die Through eternal fields Beneath the judgment of the sky Open your eyes Open your ears Open your mind And lose your fears People of the past A future that won’t last It’s us who need to care To put some flowers in our hair You know the way up When you know the way down Welcome to Gypsy Town Joyride through the universe Put the radio on speed Listen to the kaleidoscope beat Flowers in the attic Of the mushroom floor A tangerine river flows by the trap door You know the way up When you know the way down Welcome to Gypsy Town Open your eyes Open your ears Open your mind And lose all fears You know the way up yeah You know the way down Welcome to Gypsy Town You know the way up yeah You know the way down Welcome to Gypsy Town You know the way up and down Welcome to Gypsy Town Welcome to Gypsy Town Welcome to Gypsy Town