I lived along a rutted road
Where the night time fell like a heavy load
And the firmament was fixed and still
Above the dark of Bunker Hill
Oh, I love the twinkling of the lights
I’m watching for a satellite

And the shooting stars fall way too fast
And they burn so bright, and they never last
And the planets pass as slow as death
Across the sky from East to West
Oh, I love the twinkling of the lights
I’m watching for a satellite
And I love the twinkling of the lights
I’m watching for a satellite

INTERLUDE: F C (4x)

BRIDGE:
No movement in that field of stars
Set in time and distance far
And from horizon’s edge, a light
A spark of man in lonely flight

INSTRUMENTAL: F C (7x)

Alone among the heavenly host
With a metal heart, directed ghost
And all the glory all around
Eyes firmly fixed upon the ground
Oh, and I recognize that lonely light
Reflected from a satellite
I recognize that lonely light
Oh, reflected from a satellite

OUTRO: F C (7x)

INTRO: F C F C

Clouds gather and the rain falls
And it fills the well that feeds us all
And I’m loath to complain
But it’s been years of hard rain

And the heart knows its own mind
And the heart sees and the heart’s blind
And the heart breaks like a window pane
Until it can’t stop all the hard rain

CHORUS:
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__

INSTRUMENTAL: C – Mandolin Break, Plink, Plink, Plink –

The heart sings its own song
And love’s here, then love’s gone
And is it love, if you love in vain?
Is the sound of love just a hard rain?

Love rights its own wrongs
And lights the way and leads us on
And the sun’ll shine in the sky again
On the other side of this hard rain

CHORUS:
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__
Rain___, Rain__

OUTRO: C – More Mandolin Plink, Plink, Plink –

It’s been a lonely day

Another lonely day
A solitary wave
Out on a sea of grey

Time that’s laid to waste

Can never be replaced
It’s washed away
By solitary waves

CHORUS:
Hard to turn away
Harder to deny
Misfortune once embraced
Decisions made

Should come as no surprise

To end up in this place
Out on a sea of grey
A solitary wave

INSTRUMENTAL: A E A

CHORUS:
Hard to turn away
Harder to deny
Misfortune once embraced
Decisions made

It’s been a lonely day

Another lonely day
Out on a sea of grey
A solitary wave

INTRO: Em D C G

A battered bag hung in a tree
Rustles like the fallen leaves
It’s hung up there, an empty sack
Can’t go forward, can’t go back
The constellation streetlights’ glow
The firmament displayed below
And in the dark the passing cars
Describe the arc of shooting stars
And someday it may finally fall
It might get lucky, so say we all

INSTRUMENTAL: Em D C G Em D C G D G C G

It’s still up there, just rearranged
Waiting for the wind to change
A final breath, a shift of air
It’s blown away to god knows where
And someday it may finally fall
It might get lucky, so say we all
And someday it may finally fall
It might get lucky, so say we all

OUTRO: Em D C G

INTRO: G C G C G

At twelve he met his true love
On the banks of the Zuider Zee

There was smoke upon the water
Diesel on the breeze
Down the iron gangway

Down into the noise
Down beside his destiny
Beside his pride and joy

CHORUS:
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And the engines singing
Their siren song
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
Listens to those engines sing
Their siren song

Years upon the ocean
Upon the lakes and seas

Down below the water line
Was where he chose to be
He listened hard to what they said

Their thunder up and down
And he heard their finest whisper
And he understood their sound

CHORUS:
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
The engines singing
Their siren song
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And he listens to those engines sing
Their siren song

INSTRUMENTAL: G D G D G D G D G

CHORUS:
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And the engines singing
Their siren song
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
Listens to those engines sing
Their siren song

He said he’s always loved them
The oil and the steel

Speaks to his perfection of
His mechanized idyll
Sets his eyes to shining

Like the dials down below
Like they did beside the Zuider Zee
So many years ago

CHORUS:
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And the engines singing
Their siren song
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And the engines singing
Their siren song

CHORUS:
And he keeps us rolling
Keeps us rolling on
And listens to those engines sing
Their siren song
He listens to those engines sing
Their siren song

OUTRO: C G D G C G D Em C G D G

It’s you and me in the raw things
That never quite got said
It’s you and me in the raw things
That rattle around in my head
Ah, never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again
Ah, never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again

I remember the first time I saw you
You were living just down the hall
I stood there waiting to catch you
Catch you if you started to fall in love
But never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again
But never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again

BRIDGE:
Well, never mind about what happened
You can take that [D/F#]in a stride[D/A]
Never mind about what happened
You will always [D/F#]be my bride

INSTRUMENTAL: D A D G D A D

I remember the last time I saw you
You were walking on Sumach Street
We stood and we talked like strangers
Strangers who happened to meet
Ah, never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again
Never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again
Ah, never mind, baby, let’s go downtown again

INTRO: C F C ~ Am/F C F G C

Forget all your worries, forget all your cares
C ~ Am/F
Forget all your troubles at the foot of the stairs
Just pass on the perfume and turn out the lights
‘Cause we’re going out on Saturday night

Just say you’ll come with me and I’ll show you a time
C ~ Am/F
Then we’ll go to dinner ‘til a quarter past nine
And then we’ll go dancing ‘til the dawn’s early light
‘Cause we’re going out on Saturday night

CHORUS:
When the working week’s over, when the working week’s through
I’m gonna come calling, come calling on you
You know me darling, my heart’s on my sleeve
You can love anybody, but I hope you love me

I’ll come and get you, I’ll be driving my car
C ~ Am/F
Don’t bother getting dressed up, come the way that you are
I’ll pull in your driveway, I’ll be flashing my lights
‘Cause we’re going out on Saturday night

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C ~ Am/F C F G C

CHORUS:
When the working week’s over, when the working week’s through
I’m gonna come calling, come calling on you
You know me darling, my heart’s on my sleeve
You can love anybody, but I hope you love me

Forget all your worries, forget all your cares
C ~ Am/F
Forget all your troubles at the foot of the stairs
Just pass on the perfume and turn out the lights
‘Cause we’re going out on Saturday night
Just pass on the perfume and turn out the lights
‘Cause we’re going out on Saturday night

INTRO: C

On a bright September day in fall
We sailed away from Montreal
And I hung upon the railing high
And I waved the world I knew goodbye
Sailed from home across the sea
The other side, the heart of me
And I just stood and waved my hand
In my world in the promised land

And we ran like hares, ran through the close
Doon tae the burn, in spate it rose
We stood on the bridge by the bowling green
laughed our words in steady streams
The arc of stone across the river
And a moment hung in time forever
And the sun shone on us, every man
In my world in the promised land

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C G F C F C G F C

Night came black, with death adorning
Grampa’s dead and Granny’s mourning
Brithers and sisters all came doon
Sat there greeting in the living room
The emptiness of what was left
We sat there in that house of death
And we hung our heads and wrung our hands
In my world in the promised land

So I never saw him lying there
I never climbed the scaffold stair
My father left it up to me
To choose to see or not to see
But death’s a road we walk alone
But I read the words upon the stone
He’s sitting still, his pipe in hand
In my world in the promised land
Oh, he’s sitting still, his pipe in hand
Oh, in my world in the promised land

OUTRO: C F C G F C F C G F C

INTRO: C

I wake to the radio morning news
Just as the day is dawning
And I watch from the window while a passing cloud
Dulls the hopeful morning
And I wonder will the girl I love
Come back with the morning
But the omen crow at the waking hour
Has given me fair warning

CHORUS:
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound

She was once my heart’s delight
My need and my desire
She was my day, she was my night
My water and my fire
And I was once the same to her
When we still walked together
But the heavy heart at the waking hour’s
Expecting heavy weather

CHORUS:
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound

INSTRUMENTAL: C F C G F C F C G F C

I know love, I’ve seen love’s face
And I understand its sorrow
For every love I’ve ever had
Has always met tomorrow
Though I am Wednesday’s child of woe
I try not to be ungrateful
But I was born at midnight black
With a heart that can be hateful

CHORUS:
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound
And the heart that’s breaking
Never makes a sound

OUTRO: G F C G C

He walked on the water
I walk on the ground
He went up to heaven
And I’m still coming down
And it’s a long way, a long way
A long way from Saturday night
It’s coming Sunday morning
I’m a long way from feeling alright

In the cold light of morning
In the cold light of day
In the cold light of reason
Got nothing much to say
And I’m a long way, a long way
A long way from Saturday night
It’s coming Sunday morning
I’m a long way from feeling alright

CHORUS:
I’m so far away from wherever I am
I’m so far away from wherever I am

INSTRUMENTAL: D G D A G D

CHORUS:
I’m so far away from wherever I am
I’m so far away from wherever I am

I woke up Sunday morning
Saw the shining silver spire
Rise above the highest tree
That cross rose even higher
And I’m a long way, a long way
A long way from Saturday night
It’s coming Sunday morning
I’m a long way from feeling alright
It’s coming Sunday morning
I’m a long way from feeling alright