I am a child in these hills I am away I am alone I am a child in these hills And looking for water And looking for life Oh, well show me the river and ask my na...

I'm a moody and swirling pool, lost in some dark wood Angry at a million things and more I can do no good Ah, but sometimes - Sometimes I'm a growing blade of ...

I want to live in the world, not inside my head I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willing With the open and t...

Just like a leaf that's just been rained on Something of a cloud above, a soon-awaking sun And I see the day has just begun Feeling windblown, reeling I have gr...

Some of them were dreamers, some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future With the energy of the innocent, they were gathering the to...

(from the Jackson Browne: Going Home video) Oh how sadly sound the songs the queen must sing of dying A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing If she c...

Long before you ever saw your chances You were gonna burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a...

Down on the boulevard they take it hard They look at life with such disregard They say it can't be won The way the game is run But if you choose to stay You end...

In the morning when I closed my eyes You were sleeping in paradise And while the room was growing light I was holding still with all my might Oh-- what if it's ...

Daughter of a woman who comes and goes Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up about the things People know to do How to take a love and tea...

In a weapons producing nation under Jesus In the fabled crucible of the free world Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus And entertainment shapes the ...

Once I was on my own And falling Once I was all alone And calling For someone, anyone today To help me just a little on my way And then I took a look around An...

Lying next to you in the dark Listening to your pounding heart The sheets are tangled around your waist I watch the dream moving on your face Feel you shake, he...

You take Sally and I'll take Sue Their ain't no difference between the two Cocaine, running all 'round my brain Headin' down Scott, turnin' up Main Looking for...

(Rev Gary Davis, additional lyrics by Jackson Browne & Glenn Frey) Sittin' here thinking 'bout back when Everybody I knew, was my best friend cocaine, running ...

Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Picking for a coin Many other tiny worlds Singing past my hand Awake to understand you are not dr...

(from the soundtrack to No Nukes; peformed live by Jackson Browne with Graham Nash & David Lindley) The sheep's in the meadow The cow's in the corn Now is the ...

I live in a small town deep in LA About five miles north of where the Lakers play Everybody here's from someplace else Working all together just like Santa's...

A dirty wind blows through the sky And the autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wishing I could follow Though among the regrets that I can't ge...

DADDY'S TUNE A dirty wind blows through the sky And the Autumn leaves cut loose and fly Leave me watching And wishing I could follow Though among the regrets t...

Down the side streets and the avenues There be sisters walkin' two by two Their dresses and their shoes are new But their hearts are weary thru and thru And it'...

DOCTOR MY EYES Jackson Browne Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I c...

Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go? Where the light is breaking and the cold clear winds blow Don't you want to be there in the golden glow Don't...

Don't you want to be there, don't you want to go? Where the light is breaking and the cold clear winds blow Don't you want to be there in the golden glow Don't...

(J Browne, JD Souther, G Frey and D Henley) [Recorded by The Eagles, 1973] They were duelin' Doolin-Dalton High or low it was the same Easy money an' faithless...

Well the stage was set, the sun was sinking lowdown As they came to town to face another showdown The lawmen cleared the people from the street All you blood th...

Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown Downtown they got to think a little quicker 'cause they're downtown Downtown the breaks are harder D...

You used to stand on the tables You used to shoot out the lights You used to stop trucks on I-19 In your blue leopard tights You got the vote of your high schoo...

I hear your heart beating everywhere When we're apart I can hear you there I hear your heart beating everywhere Everywhere I go People say that I must be in lo...

In my early years I hid my tears And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams like nets were thrown To catch the love that I'd heard of I...

(Robin Williamson) [From the album "Rubaiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary"] First girl I loved- Time has come I will sing the sad goodbye song When I was sevent...

As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of thir plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the comfort o...

Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warnin...

For taking the trouble, for hanging on and tryin' Now you've been working through the rubble of a shattered mind Yeah Baby, tell me why the tears are falling f...

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more...

I'm here at Fourth and Main Been standing in the rain I feel no joy, I feel no pain I got nothing to lose, nothing to gain I'm at Fourth and Main Been down at ...

Did you see our brother? He was here the other day But he only came to say that he was leaving Did you see his lady? She was looking where he'd gone But she was...

Well it's funny you should ask me how I feel As the scenes before my eyes begin to reel I can't remember how long I cried I can't remember how hard I tried Turn...

(from the disney album for our children; peformed by jackson browne & jennifer warnes) Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get ba...

(from the Disney album For Our Children; peformed by Jackson Browne & Jennifer Warnes) Once there was a way to get back homeward Once there was a way to get ba...

I could write for you A song about the warming of September But I couldn't really give to you That month in the spring And I could write for you Melodies dedic...

HERE COME THOSE TEARS AGAIN Jackson Browne Here come those tears again Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it through Another night ...

Here come those tears again Just when I was getting over you Just when I was going to make it through Another night without missing you Thinking I might just be...

Hold on, hold out, keep a hold on strong The money's in and the bets are down You won't hold out long They say you'll fall in no time at all But you know they'r...

Baby I guess you know my story Baby I guess you know my side It seems I've traded love for glory But I'm still not satisfied Given all the years All the cries a...

I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my day I bid farewell to old Kentucky, The place where I was born and raised (The place where he was born a...

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until you t...

You hold a life there in your hands You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Somewhere long ago Think about the things we've done and where w...

(Jackson Browne, Craig Doerge and Rosemary Butler) I've been sitting up all night without you Trying not to think that much about you How do you expect me not ...

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to keep you if I'd known How...

Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down And I am there with a smile, prepared to bring you around You're thinking that you've got me trained...

This song appears on the album for everyman as "these days" with slightly different lyrics" I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These ...

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times ...

(written by lowell george) (performed by jackson browne on the lowell george tribute album rock and roll doctor;1997) I've been the one who has been frightened...

(from the soundtrack album The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Do Come True; performed by Jackson Browne backed by Ry Cooder & David Sanborn) See, I can't scar...

You hold a life there in your hands You probably don't know Somehow your dreams became my plans Somewhere long ago Think about the things we've done and where w...

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone I look around my life tonight and you are gone I might have done something to keep you if I'd known How...

Baby, I'm around you enough to know when you're coming down And I am there with a smile, prepared to bring you around You're thinking that you've got me trained...

In my mind The golden silver statues turn to tin And I find Confidence is just a place I've been In my mind I was kind When poppa's begging friendship came to ...

It was a ruby that she wore On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and regret In...

Give us twenty minutes and we'll give you the world We bring good things to life The news you need from people you can count on Doing what we do best The heartb...

It's been raining here in long beach The dampness in the air Tends to straighten out my hair Against my wishes But the traces of a song reach My tattered ear on...

It's been raining here in Long Beach The dampness in the air Tends to straighten out my hair Against my wishes But the traces of a song reach My tattered ear on...

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do And all the times ...

I've been the one who has been frightened and almost borne away by the very thoughts that I feared yesterday And it must be the dust or smoke that's in my eyes ...

Jamaica was the lovely one, I played her well As we lay in the tall grass where the shadows fell Hiding from the children so they would not tell We would stay t...

(Jackson Browne) [Unreleased Jackson Browne song, sung in concert a few times] It wasn't me at your window, Baby It wasn't me at your door It must have been so...

(performed by jackson browne and bonnie raitt on the pete seeger tribute album where have all the flowers gone;1998) Jackson: When I was a young man I?d never ...

(Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Huddie Ledbetter) [From the Pete Seeger tribute album "Where Have All The Flowers Gone," 1998] [Jack...

Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you want to go Baby who you lookin' for Yeah, yeah, baby ...

The words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning Until ...

The words had all been spoken And somehow the feeling still wasn't right And still we continued on through the night Tracing our steps from the beginning Until ...

Listen to my bassman, he is lavender His woman is his bass and he is loving her, loving her Listen to the sounds he's giving As he is living True to lavender L...

Papa hit him, Mama kissed him Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him another k...

I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings In their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled crys of Lawy...

(performed by Jackson Browne and Timothy B Schmit; from the Bye, Bye Love motion picture soundtrack, 1995) I bless the day I found you I want to stay around yo...

(performed by Jackson Browne and Timothy B Schmit; from the Bye, Bye Love motion picture soundtrack, 1995) I bless the day I found you, I want to stay around y...

(by Jackson Browne) Here's to lights and virtues Here's to truths yet to be known Knowledge to light the darkness The search for things of your own Here's to ...

I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You mi...

Now the seats are all empty, let the roadies take the stage Pack it up and tear it down They're the first to come and last to leave Working for that minimum wag...

Standing in the ocean with the sun burning low in the west Like a fire in the cavernous darkness at the heart of the beast With my beliefs and possessions, stop...

Well I looked into a house I once lived in Around the time I first went on my own When the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of And my friends and ...

Maybe the hardest thing I've ever done Was to walk away from you Leaving behind the life that we'd begun I split myself in two Proud and alone, cold as a stone ...

Marianne, marianne With your voice like silver strings ringing And sounds of laughter and singing Keep repeating, marianne, marianne Marianne, marianne Oh I ca...

Melissa, I knew I just had to kiss ya Heaven knows what I had in mind When my eyes went blind And you had to take me home Because I could not find my way Mimi,...

I got my head down between my knees I got my back against this bedroom wall I hear my voice saying baby please But I know you don't hear me call You're staring...

A lady stands before an open window Staring so far away She can almost feel the southern wind blow Almost touching her restless day She turns from her window to...

(english translation by jorge calderon) My personal revenge will be the right Of our children in the schools and in the gardens My personal revenge will be to ...

To love and get away before the walls have arisen You've got to be free But to go on attempting to break into the prison You'd have to be me I wait for the sun ...

What with all my expectations long abandoned And a future I no longer saw my hand in How I found you is beyond my understanding My stunning mystery companion I...

There are times when I see you, Baby Looking back the way we came Through some hard places, choices we made You never held me to blame But you had some dreams w...

(Jackson Browne) [Recorded by the Eagles, 1972] I'm hanging on to my peace of mind I just don't know I'm hanging on to those good times, baby Just want to let ...

Nino, walking around on Sunday Nino, just one more kid in LA With a hubcap and a stick in his hand In his own parade, leading the band His head in the sky, his ...

Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New Jersey, gonna set it up and do it again I ...

(by Jackson Browne & Howard Burke) Rolling down 295 out of Portland, Maine Still high from the people up there and feeling no pain Gonna make it to New Jersey, ...

Your father was a rounder He played that rock and roll A leaper and a bounder Down to his gypsy soul The music was his angel And sorrow was his star And those o...

Oh, my love, for the first time in my life My eyes are wide open Oh, my lover, for the first time in my life My eyes can see I see the wind, oh, I see the tree...

You really need someone on your side But you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get through You've got this wall in front of you You put your arm a...

It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking Draw the water from the ...

Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans Her wa...