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Long distance runner, what you standing there for? (note 1)
Get up, get off, get out of the door (note 2) (note 3)
You're playing cold music on the bar room floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down

Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain

Almost ablaze, still you don't feel the heat (note 4)
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to compete
If mercy's in business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true

Long distance runner, what you holding out for (note 5)
Caught in slow motion in a dash to the door
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had, why you want to give more? (note 6)
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake

Moses come riding up on a quasar (note 1)
His spurs was a-jingling, the door was ajar
His buckle was silver, his manner was bold (note 2)
I asked him to come on in out of the cold
His brain was boiling, his reason was spent
Nothing is borrowed, nothing is lent
I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun
Now and again these things just got to be done

Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence
Get right to work if you have any sense
You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench

Gideon come in with his eyes on the floor
Says, "you ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door"
Moses stood up a full six foot ten
Said "you can't close the door when the wall's caved in"
I asked him for water he poured me some wine
We finished the bottle then broke into mine
You get what you come for, you're ready to go
And it's one in ten thousand done come for the show

Abraham and Isaac digging on a well
Mama come quick with the water witch spell
Cool clear water where you can't never tell

L'Alhambra
Six guitars
Each plays
a different tune

Five play slowly
One plays quick
an Allegrias
in clear moon

Eight hands clap
to summon up
the Tarantelle -
Beware!

Yo no he bailado
con su hija ya
I have not danced
with your sister yet

Yo no he bailado
con su hija ya
No he bailado desde
Hay que no baile

L'Alhambra
Five guitars
play as one -
together now

One has gone
into the shadow
Gone with him
is his guitar

Six hands clap
Two are gone now
Captured by
the Tarantelle

Someone else
must play guitar
when time comes
for making love

No he bailado desde
Las Zapatas son perdidas
I have not danced
since my shoes were lost

Yo no he bailado
con su hija ya
No he bailado desde
Hay que no baile

I have not danced
with your sister yet
Is that she who
sleeps by my guitar?

Some folks trust to reason
Others trust to might
I don't trust to nothing
But I know it come out right

Say it once again now
Oh I hope you understand
When it's done and over
Lord, a man is just a man

Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land

Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks up in treetops
Just look to see the sights

I can tell your future
Look what's in your hand
But I can't stop for nothing
I'm just playing in the band

Playing
Playing in the band
Daybreak
Daybreak on the land