Dan Fogelberg

[fox69]

"Drawing Pictures"

"Drawing Pictures"


Paper people in a raging fire
Trying to keep the cold away
Talking tangled in a thorny brier
Lost, with nothing left to say

Always racing for the night to hide us
Never listening to the love inside us
No one ever told us we were wrong
No one said when love is weak

It may be getting strong
She searched for a shoulder
And mine was gone

Drawing pictures in the sand
Trying to tease the time to stay
Wishing water never met the land
To wash the dreams away

Taking turns at being friends and lovers
Hearing what we both believe from others
No one ever told us we were wrong
No one said when love is weak

It may be getting strong
She searched for a shoulder
And mine was gone

 

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"Earth Anthem"

"Earth Anthem"


And we are but an island in an ocean
This is our home, third from the sun
Let it be evergreen, let it be evergreen

And we are but an island in an ocean
This is our home, third from the sun
God, keep it evergreen
To keep it ever green I would lay my life down

And we are but an island in an ocean
This is our home, third from the sun
Let it be evergreen, let it be evergreen

 

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"Empty Cages"

"Empty Cages"


Waiting in the wings
Your courage sings before you falter...
It's just another way to say
what's there but never shows

It's just another day to lay
your sins before the altar
And where it's going to end
this time around nobody knows.

Every time it seems that you
have gained an understanding
Those devils at your heels
reach up and try to tip the scales

Waking from a dream
you see it's all been done without you
And every vain attempt to make it stay
Is destined to fail.

Fury rages through your restless days
Shades of time that's gone before
Empty cages where the prisoner plays
'Til the door swings closed behind for evermore...
Evermore...
Evermore...

Long before we come of
age we yearn to leave the garden
And wrestle with a myth
the hand of fate
has faintly drawn

But somewhere on the way
we feel our hearts begin to harden
And see just as we learn
to turn around
the garden is gone.

Fury rages through your restless days
Shades of time that's gone before
Empty cages where the prisoner plays
'Til the door swings closed
behind for evermore...

Evermore...
Evermore...

 

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"Ever On"

"Ever On"


May the trail rise up to meet you
May your heart rejoice in song
May the skies be fair above you
As you journey ever on

Ever on, ever on
Ever on, ever on

In this planetary circle
We are but a single stone
Spinning on our fragile axis
Through the endless night alone

Ever on, ever on
Ever on, ever on

May your love be there to guide us
May it always keep us strong
May we walk within your footsteps
As you lead us ever on

Ever on, ever on
Ever on, ever on
Ever on, ever on
Ever on, ever on

 

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"Exiles"

"Exiles"


Exiles...running from each other
We are exiles
Living undercover
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

Exiles
Standing in the shadows
We are exiles
Weary of the battles
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

You sit here
And I sit there
Looking at you used to be like looking in a mirror
But now it's dark
No light reflects
It never ends like one expects.

I don't know where we went wrong
If I knew that I'd never had to write this song
But here we stand
So far apart
Separate pieces of a
Broken heart
(We live like)

Exiles...running from each other
We are exiles
Living undercover
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

Exiles
Standing in the shadows
We are exiles
Weary of the battles
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

You said you need time to think
But I just couldn't go on living on the brink
So now we take this frozen stance
In hopes that we'll find one more chance.

Different wants and different needs
Moving through our changes at such different speeds
I don't know why
And I don't know when
But somewhere we'll find love again.

Exiles...running from each other
We are exiles
Living undercover
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

Exiles...running from each other
We are exiles
Living undercover
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

Exiles
Standing in the shadows
We are exiles
Weary of the battles
Looking for another day to make it all work out.

 

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"Face The Fire"

"Face The Fire"



I hear the thunder
Three miles away
The island's leaking
Into the bay
The poison is spreading
The demon is free
And people are running from
What they can't even see.

Face the fire
You can't turn away
The risk grows greater
With each passing day
The waiting's over
The moment has come
To kill the fire
And turn to the sun.

They'll take your money
And then take your health
To line their pockets with
Unequaled wealth
These men are under
The power of gold
We won't be safe until we
Shut them down cold.

Face the fire
You can't turn away
The risk grows greater
With each passing day
The waiting's over
The moment has come
To kill the fire
And turn to the sun.

The people came to the capitol town
One hundred thousand of them
Laid their hearts down
They screamed in anger
And broadcast their fears
Just to have them
Fall on deaf ears.

 

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"Faces Of America"

"Faces Of America"


There was a time, a simpler time
When a man could be sure of where he stood
I used to work at the yard, working honest and hard
The hours were long but the pay was oh so good

I had a family and friends, oh so many friends
We'd drive to the lake on holidays
Back then it wasn't so dear for a sandwich or beer
At night I still dream I can see their faces

Certain things that you depend upon
There are places that you know
And the faces of America
Oh, where do they go, where did they go

I was born on a farm, a mid-western farm
I rode on the tractor with my dad
And though we never had much it was always enough
And we made the best with what we had

But then came four years of drought and the bottom dropped out
My father was broken like the rest
And I can still see his hands signing over his lands
And the bankers grow fat on the flesh of the dispossessed

Certain things that you depend upon
There are places I can go I sift the ashes of America
For someplace I used to know
Someplace I used to know
Someplace I used to know

There was a time, a simpler time
When a man could be sure of where he stood
I used to work at the yard, working honest and hard
The hours were long but the pay was oh so good

Certain things that you depend upon I used to think were guaranteed
Like the right of every man to work And feed his family
And the faces of America seem so distant and estranged
Have their eyes become too blind to see
How much their hearts have changed
How much their hearts have changed
How much their hearts have changed

 

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"False Faces"

"False Faces"



Oil on canvas
Couplets and stanzas
To divine who you are
Pencil portrayals and
Jealous betrayals
Get you further afar.

False faces and
Meaningless chases
I travel alone
First places and
Calendar races
I need a home.

Hostile hotel walls
Footfalls and phone calls
And you're on the line
Gentle coercions and
Bitter desertions
When the truth is a lie.

False faces and
Meaningless chases
I travel alone
First places and
Calendar races
I need a home.

Lover twice yearly
That last battle nearly
Cost me the fight.
Broke through the ice
And got cut down to size
And escaped through the night.

False faces and
Meaningless chases
I travel alone
First places and
Calendar races
I need a home.

 

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"Forefathers"

"Forefathers"


They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun
And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young
They'd heard that in America every man was free
To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be

Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil
But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil
They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round
Made home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned

My mother was of Scottish blood; it's there that she was born
They brought her to America in 1924
They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills
And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills

My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois
His daughter was his jewel; his son was just his boy
For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires
And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
As the torch is passed from hand to hand
And we struggle through our lives
Though the generations wander, the lineage survives
And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by

The woman and the man were wed just after the war
And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore
One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew
And one became this lonely soul who sits here now
And sings this song to you

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
As the torch is passed from hand to hand
And we struggle through our lives
Though the generations wander, the lineage survives
And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by

By and By; By and By

 

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"Full Circle"

"Full Circle"



Funny how the circle turns around
First you’re up and then you’re down again
Though the circle takes what it may give
Each time around it makes it live again

Funny how the circle is a wheel
And it can steal someone who is a friend
Funny how the circle takes you flying
And if it’s right it brings it back again

Funny how the circle turns around
First you’re lost and then you’re found again
Though you always look for what you know
Each time around it makes it new again

Funny how the circle is a wheel
And it can steal someone who is a friend
Funny how the circle takes you flying
And if it’s right it brings it back again

Funny how the circle is a wheel
And it can steal someone who is a friend
Funny how the circle takes you flying
And if it’s right it brings it back again