Playlist David Crosby

david crosby - almost cut my hair

Almost cut my hair
Happened just the other day
It's gettin' kind of long
I could've said it was in my way

But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
And I feel like I owe it, yeah ... to someone, yeah

Well, must be because I had the flu this Christmas
Oh, yeah and I'm not feeling up to par
Oh, I tell you baby this increases my paranoia
Yeah, like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car

Well, well, I'm not, I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Well, you know I've promised myself this year
Well, I feel oh, like I owe it, I owe, I owe it to someone
Oh ... like I owe it to someone

Instrumental (Electric Guitar)
Oh, yes when I get myself together
Yeah, you can find me in that sunny southern weather, yeah

I'm goin' to find a space inside a laugh, yes
Separate the wheat from some chaff
Oh, and I feel ...
Like I owe it, yeah ... to someone

david crosby - angel dream

[Intro. (Piano and Electric Guitar)]

And an angel came unto me
And inhabited the body of my child
And for a moment she could speak to me
She was radiant and calm
Though her eyes were slightly wild
She could surely see things that we can't see
Angel of mercy
Angel of dreams
Nothing's ever quite what it seems

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

She said I bring to you this message
A little glimpse of passage
While you lay your head down, down to rest
And this love that you follow
It will never grow hollow
It is the one true flame to fuel your quest
Angel of mercy
Angel of dreams
Nothing's ever quite what it seems

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

There are no guarantees Aaah ...
That wisdom will come and find you Aaah ...
It is written on no stone that you will be so blessed Aaah ...
But I hear they are pleased somewhere Aaah ...
With your weavings of harp and drum and bell Aaah ...
And the truth we find between your pages pressed Aaah ...
To carry on for another voice to tell Aaah ... Yeah

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

Angel of mercy
Angel of dreams
Nothing's ever quite what it seems

[Instrumental (Piano and Electric Guitar)]

Not quite what it seems Nothing's ever quite
Not quite what it seems Nothing's ever quite
Not quite what it seems Nothing's ever quite

david crosby - at the edge

Our grasp is so fragile the thread is so thin
I wonder each day if I?m blowing away
I know that I?m lucky
I wouldn?t be here at all if somebody?s hand
hadn?t been where I stand
at the edge of a very great fall

And like a lighthouse before you at the edge of the sea
the woman whose grip holds when you slip
But the darkness won?t get you
Your family won?t go
they will make your heart light
to where you know what is right
and you go where you know you should go

And it?s life and it?s dying
it?s beginnings and end
it?s what did you do
with the life they gave you?
It?s were you the honest, and
did you make amends
To all the ones under your guns
How have you treated your friends

david crosby - blacknotes

Sit yourself down at the piano
Just about in the middle
Put all your fingers on the blacknotes
Anywhere you want to
Sing along-write a song
And understand that you can play

david crosby - breathless

This dance that we do leaves me breathless
Reeling on the edge of falling down
A lodestone pull that leaves me breathless
Through many lifetimes handed down
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you know
You try to walk in step and stumble laughing
You hold each other up to stop the fall
You hold each others eyes like a magnet
And for a moment time just seems to stall
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you watch each other
A bell once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
Love is a bell, once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
The closer it is held
You lead me like a spirit through the forest
Where I alone would surely fear to go
Safely with my hand on your shoulder
Somehow it's a thing I just know
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you watch each other
A bell once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
Love is a bell, once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
The closer it is held

david crosby - carry me

When I was a young man, I found an old dream
It was as battered and worn a one, as you have ever seen
I invented some new wings, and I painted a nose
I wished so hard, up in the air, I rose, singing

Carry me, carry me, carry me, above the world
Carry me, carry me, carry me

And I once loved a girl, she was younger than me
Her parents kept her locked, up in their lives
And she was crying, she was wishing she could be free
Of course I mostly remember her laughing
Standing there and watching us play
For a while then, the music, would take her away and she'd be singing

Carry me, carry me, carry me, above this world
Carry me, carry me, carry me, above the world

Then there was my mother, she was lying in white sheets there
And she was waiting to die
She said if you just reach underneath this bed, and untie these weights
I could surely fly
She's still smiling but she's tired
She'd like to hear that last bell ring
You know if she still could she would, stand up, she would sing

Carry me, carry me, carry me, above the world
Carry me, carry me, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, ooh

david crosby - climber

The heat of the stone against your face
The incredible presence of mass
The clink of the metal the hiss of the rope
The sky like a piece of blue glass
He clings to the rock with the feeling reversed
As if he holds the whole earth in his hands
He loosens a pebble and hangs there quite silent
Listening to his heart 'til it lands
Listening to his heart moved by his art
Up the wall, up the wall
His life in his hands who knows where it lands
Up the wall, up the wall

[Instrumental (Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Mandolin)]

They say climb if you want to climb because it's there
Climb 'cause you're a man
I say live on the wings of what's possible here
Climb it because you can
Spirit of mountain (Spirit of man) spirit of man
The Sioux said they both had their place
Here on the ledge (Here on the edge) looking over the edge
I can feel it on my face
Listening to his heart moved by his art
Up the wall, up the wall
His life in his hands who knows where it lands
Up the wall, up the wall

[Instrumental (Piano, Acoustic and Electric Guitar)]

So I listen now to this spirit of mine
Floating in clean air and then
I face to the west and I speak to the sun
And I say thank you quite softly again
Listening to his heart moved by his art
Up the wall, up the wall
His life in his hands who knows where it lands
Up the wall, up the wall

[Instrumental Ending (Piano, Acoustic and Electric Guitar)]

Up the wall
Up the wall

david crosby - columbus

Better keep your distance from this whale
Better keep your boat from going astray
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
Try to give them shelter night and day
'Cause here in the blue light
Far away from the fireside
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
You can't even feel right

So I dream of columbus
Every time the panic starts
I dream of columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
I dream of columbus
There's an ache in a traveling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and dives
Must be a thrill to go that deep
Down to the basement of this life
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps
Not like here in the blue light
Far away from the fireside
Where things get twisted and
Haunted and crowded
You can't even feel right

So I dream of columbus
Every time the panic starts
I dream of columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
I dream of columbus
There's an ache in a traveling heart

As the tide must ebb and flow
I am dragged down under
I wait the livelong day
For an end to my hunger

So I dream of columbus
Every time the panic starts
I dream of columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
I dream of columbus
There's an ache in a traveling heart

david crosby - compass

I have wasted ten years in a (flind **) blind-fold
Ten-fold more than I've invested now in sight
I have traveled beveled mirrors in a fly crawl
Losing the reflection of a fight

But like a compass seeking north
There lives in me a still sure spirit part
Clouds of doubt are cut asunder
By the lightning and the thunder
Shining from the compass of my heart

I have flown the frantic flight of the bat-wing
And only known the dark because of that
I have seized death's door-handle
Like a fish out of the water
Waiting, waiting for the mercy of the cat

But like a compass seeking north
There lives in me a still sure spirit part
Clouds of doubt are cut asunder
By the lightning and the thunder
Shining from the compass of my heart

david crosby - coverage

The TV is talkin' to me
It's positive identification
But maybe I'm mistaken
I talk to my radio
I keep it tuned to the all night show
I'd give my last dime for coverage
But you will not cover me

I got a penchant for the printed page
I got a mention in the Monday news
I was on my last leg
When it came through
I talk to my radio
I keep it tuned to the all night show
I'd give my last dime for coverage
But you will not cover me
No no no no

Tune it in to the pale blue light
Whispers to me through the night
Better love
Better lovers
Cover cover cover cover
Cover cover cover cover
Coverage

I would have made it sooner see
But I got caught up in the dream traffic
Blew the demographics
I talk to my radio
I keep it tuned to the all night show
I'd give my last dime for coverage
But you will not cover me
No. You will not cover me
No. You will not cover me

david crosby - cowboy movie

Me and my good partners
we were riding back to our camp
we were feeling very fine
and the air was clear and slightly damp
and we were riding back to have ourselves a party
to celebrate the robbing of the train.

We were talking kind of low and lazy
about not having to go out soon again
you know we hadn't been back home two hours
we heard a hawk cry out in the night
and you know that's a signal from young Billy, who's our sentry

He's saying something here ain't exactly right
so we quick grabbed some of our hardware
stumbled out of our home
in two minutes flat we had found her
an Indian girl all alone

and Eli said, "Let's take her back to the cabin"
I said, "You don't know she might be the law, yeah"
He said, smiling kind of nasty,
"It ain't too damn likely she'll beat me to the draw."

As we were walking back through the darkness,
I heard the Duke, he's our dynamiter, say,
he said, "What's your name, sweet little Indian girl?"
She said, "Raven." and she looked away.
Right then I didn't trust her, no and I said so, oh no.

Now, Eli, he's our fastest gunner
He's kind of mean and young from the South
he said, "Fat Albert, you're getting kind of old and weird now."
"You'd better get your twelve gauge shot gun right out."

Now Eli and the Duke they got down to it
they each wanted the Indian girl for their own
but when they finally got around to asking her
you know she said she'd come to take young Billy home
Eli said he'd kill young Billy
he'd kill the Duke, and probably me too, yeah

The Indian girl said, "Go ahead now do it"
I said "Stop it", and she bit my thumb nearly clean through
and when they finally started to break down the door
I smeared my face up with blood from my thumb
I laid down on the floor and played real good possum

You know I'm crazy but I ain't real dumb
now I'm dying here in Albuquerque
I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw
you know the reason I'm the only man here to tell it
you know that Indian girl, she wasn't an Indian she was the law

david crosby - coyote king

A crowded field of wildflowers
They turn to face the knowing day
Sentries of the secrets that lie beneath the colored clay
Secrets of the Coyote King
This river of blood has washed away
The dreams of a million sons and daughters
They spill into the hungry sea
They spill into the night
Lost their fame and fortune to the Coyote King
He'll lead us through the canyons
Deliver us to Eden
Grease the clasped hands standing
In the way of freedom
A lighthouse throwing blinding lies across an angry sea
We never saw the eyes of the Coyote King

[Instrumental (Acoustic Guitar)]

He'll lead us through the canyons
Deliver us to Eden
Grease the clasped hands standing
In the way of freedom
A lighthouse throwing blinding lies across an angry sea
We never saw the eyes of the Coyote King
Of the Coyote King
Of the Coyote King
Of the Coyote King

[Ending (Piano)]

david crosby - d amp eacute j amp agrave vu

david crosby - darkness

Some of us wind up in shadow
Some of us wind up in shade
There are distinctions
In the darkness to be made
I have made welcome to darkness
When the light's focused in too tight
And said hello as if to a friend
When I should have picked a fight
Darkness with blues is
Different than darkness shared
The blue tones will make you lonely
And lonely leaves you scared
Right at the edge of consciousness
Black meets flickering red
Of the fires in the ruins
And a truth is left unsaid
We are all sparks in the darkness
And there is the oncoming night
Fool that I am I want to touch your wings
And try to make some light
Many of us live in a fog
The wire wizards made
Sucking up a string of electrons
From the screen where they are sprayed
Darkness with blues is
Different than darkness shared
The blue tones will make you lonely
And lonely leaves you scared
The blue tones will make you lonely
And lonely leaves you scared
Some of us wind up in shadow
Some wind up in shade

david crosby - déjà vu

If I had ever been here before I would pro'bly know just what to do
Hey, don't you?
If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel I would pro'bly know just how to deal
With all of you

And I feel like I've been here before
Feel like I've been here before
And you know it does make me wonder
What's going on under the ground

Do you know?
Don't you wonder?
What's going on
Down under you

Na, na, na ...

Instrumental (Bass + Harmonica + Electric Piano + Electric Guitar)
We have all been here before
We have all been here before
We have all been here before
We have all been here before

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