Stephen Stills

[fox69]

"Stateline Blues"

"Stateline Blues"


Fancy Dan, gamblin' man
Top hat of the peanut man
Talk about your pot of gold
With a silver linin'

Tumblin' dice, hit it twice
Boats and the flushes, they sure look nice
On a pot of gold with a silver linin'

State line give you hard times, stay too long
Goodbye, pretty women
I ain't stayin' on, come on

Get a hunch, bet a bunch
Come to gamble, better pack a lunch
For a pot of gold with a silver linin'

Less you bet when you stayin' in
The more you lose even when you win
On a pot of gold with a silver linin'

You don't know when to stop
Lady Luck, she gonna see you're taught
That there ain't no pot of gold and no silver linin'

Easy money can make [?]
Come too quick turn a good man bad
For a pot of gold with a silver linin'

Gamblin' man, Fancy Dan
Top hat of the peanut man
Talk about your pot of gold
In the silver linin'

 

[fox69]

"Stranger"

"Stranger"


When I look
And my eyes finally meet a lady
Who has something unique
I must know her
Don't stumble on my feet
Get together
At least just enough to speak

To this stranger

If I dream, I'm bound to lose my place
Fascinated, with this beautiful face
Watching her eyes
There focusin' on me
Pay attention, she is talking to me

I'm the stranger

Tryin' to remember that getting it wrong
Is what everyone does
Mutual attraction can be so
Distracting, forget where you were

Strangers can fall in love

When you think about love at all
And you wind up cryin' the blues
And the lonelies person that you know
Is starin' out of the mirror at you you you

Are the stranger
And you know the danger

It'll be right
And you know that she's
With you
She ain't thinkin'
About what she's supposed to do
Worry'in
Might as well just be pretendin'
Hurryin'
When you know every new
Friend is a stranger

 

[fox69]

"Sugar Babe"

"Sugar Babe"


You can do what you want to do
You can be who you want to be
Just remember that me and you
Ain't all there is to bein' free

People need love
People need trust
People need one another
And that means us

My sugar baby
Oh, believe me sugar baby

Everyone knows that it ain't easy
But when you get it all together in your heart
It's the easiest thing to do to be pleasin'
Folks ain't made to live apart

People need love
People need trust
People need one another
And that means us

Oh, sugar babe
You may sing it now sugar baby
Sugar babe
You may sing it now sugar baby

Let yourself be open honey learn to bend
Remember everyone gets scared
But I'm still your best friend
When you forget about yourself
And think of things to do
To make me happy then you love me girl
Like I love you

How do turtles talk to one another
They just look, there's no reason to cower
Just like people they're drawn to each other
They don't live in no ivory tower

People need love
People need trust
People need one another
And that means us

My sugar baby
Come on now sugar baby
You know you hear me sugar baby

Come on sweet Rita
You're my sugar baby
Believe me sugar baby

So close, then again so far away
Where are the answers, I hear them everyday
Lovin' you from a distance
Never did make it anyway
So close, then again so far away
Here come little Miss Bright Eyes
Socking it to me everyday
I got to get next to the girl or I got to get away

 

[fox69]

"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"

"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"


It's getting to the point
Where I'm no fun anymore
I am sorry
Sometimes it hurts so badly

I must cry out loud
I am lonely
I am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
And you make it hard.

Remember what we've said and done and felt
About each other
Oh babe, have mercy
Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now

I am not dreaming.
I am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
You make it hard.

Tearing yourself away from me now
You are free and I am crying
This does not mean I don't love you
I do, that's forever,

Yes and for always
I am yours, you are mine
You are what you are
You make it hard.

Something inside is telling me that
I've got your secret.
Are you still listening?
Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart

And I love you.
I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are
You make it hard
And you make it hard [3x]

Friday evening, Sunday in the afternoon
What have you got to lose?
Tuesday morning, please be gone I'm tired of you.
What have you got to lose?

Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I'm suffering)
Listen to me baby.
It's my heart that's a suffering (Help me I'm dying)
It's a dying, that's what I have to lose

I've got an answer
I'm going to fly away
What have I got to lose?
Will you come see me Thursdays and Saturdays?
What have you got to lose?

Chestnut brown canary
Ruby throated sparrow
Sing the song don't be long
Thrill me to the marrow.

Voices of the angels, ring around the moonlight
Asking me, said she so free
How can you catch the sparrow?

Lacy, lilting, leery, losing love, lamenting
Change my life, make it right
Be my lady.

Que linda me la traiga Cuba,
La reina de la Mar Caribe.
Cielo sol no tiene sangre allí,
y que triste que no puedo vaya,
Oh va, oh va, va.

[Translation:]
(How prettiness brings me to Cuba,
The reign of the Caribbean Sea,
Sunny sky has no blood over there,
And how sad that I cannot go,
Oh go, oh go, go.)

 

[fox69]

"The Blind Fiddler / Do For The Others / Know You Got To Run"

"The Blind Fiddler / Do For The Others / Know You Got To Run"


I lost my eyes in a blacksmith shop
In the year of fifty six
Working on a t-flange
'Twas in need of fix
It bounded from the tongs
And there concealed my doom

I am a blind fiddler
Far frommy home

I have a wife and daughter
Depending on me
What good can I do them
My God I cannot see
I wander from one place to another
My daily bread to win

I am a blind fiddler
Looking for a friend

Round round up and down
All along the lonely town
See him sinkin' low
Doesn't see the love there is to know

And he cries
From the misery
And he lies
Singing harmony
She is gone
There is no tomorrow
It is done
So now he must borrow
The life of his brothers
And living in sorrow
He must do
For the others

A chill wind hits his face
Was that a tear
I thought I saw a trace
Loving people everywhere
Where is she
She is not there

And he cries
From the misery
And he lies
Singing harmony
She is gone
There is no tomorrow
It is done
So now he must borrow
The life of his brothers
And living in sorrow
He must do
For the others

Know you got to run
And you know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side
Don't know where you're going
Won't talk of where you been
And I may see you tomorrow
Never more again

And you got yourself a potion
For to keep you from your sleep
In the dark and lonely hours
I've heard you laugh and weep
Talk about you're sinkin'
What a hole you're in
But you'll never face your lonely soul
Never face your friends

And you know you got to run
And you know you got to hide
Still there is a great light
Lingerin' deep within your eyes
Open up open up
C'mon and let me in
When you can love yourself honey I
I can love you then

I lost my eyes in a blacksmith shop
In seventeen fifty six
Working on a t-flange
'Twas in need of fix
It bounded from the tongs
And there concealed my doom
I am a blind fiddler
Far from my home

Round round up and down
All along the lonely town

 

[fox69]

"The Doctor Will See You Now"

"The Doctor Will See You Now"


What do you say when you've said everything
What turn to play when you've played all of their

Do you know better than anyone else
Can you show better than anyone else, that nobody knows

How can you teach when you've taught everyone
How can you preach when you brought everyone with you

Do you know better than anyone else
Can you show better than anyone else, that nobody knows

Shut the door, turn off the power, stop your mind
You tell us your soul is leaking and it needs fixing

How can you think when you thought everything through
Standing on the brink of the lonely game of solitaire
Tell us about how the world is at you're feet, oh yes
And there is nothing to do but quietly make an exit

 

[fox69]

"The Loner"

"The Loner"


He's a perfect stranger like a cross of himself and a fox
He's a feeling arranger and a changer of the ways he talks
He's the unforeseen danger, the keeper of the key to the locks
Know when you see him, nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide, loner

If you see him in the subway, he'll be down at the end of the car
Watching you move until he knows he knows who you are
When you get off the train alone, he'll know that you are gone
Know when you see him, nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide, it's the loner

There was a woman he knew about a year or so ago
She had something that he needed and he pleaded with her not to go
On the day that she left, he died, but it did not show
Know when you see him, nothing can free him
Step aside, open wide, it's the loner

 

[fox69]

"The Love Gangster"

"The Love Gangster"


Have you got a feelin' botherin' you like a bumble bee
Give yourself room for breathin' love you 'til you're fit to be
Tied...do you need a place to hide

Can you be believin' what they told you yesterday
Looks can be deceivin', you look like you're runnin' away
Why...if you don't stop you'll die

Everyone lookin' at my girl
Everyone thinkin'bout my girl. So tough
Everyone birdoggin' at my girl
You can take her if you got enough
You better fly
The love gangster gonna make y'cry

Policeman on the corner another one down the street
Kinda makes you wonder what you gonna do with your feet
An' it ain't no lie...everybody gonna need a place to hide

Yes...the love gangster gonna make you cry
You need a place to hide

 

[fox69]

"The Right Girl"

"The Right Girl"


She's a honky tonk angel that
You meet in the night
And she knows how to love you
And make you feel right

She's gonna wave you goodbye
From the back of her bike
She's the wrong reason
For thinkin' you might
Never never love the right girl

She keeps all her deep feelings
Wrapped up real tight
But she is gonna tell you
What she does and don't like

She's a little bit hard
Certainly too tough to fight
She's the wrong reason
For thinkin' you might
Never never love the right girl

When she's around
Your head starts a-spinnin'
And she makes you forget
How you're mostly not winnin'

On a whim this girl
Would never think twice
Of leaving a good man
If another seemed nice
She's the wrong reason
For thinkin' you might
Never love the right girl

When a woman for you
Suddenly shows up my friend
If your head is all messed up
And full of big plans
You're going to miss her completely
And never give her the chance
And you're all the wrong reason
For thinking you can't ever
Ever love the right girl
The right girl

 

[fox69]

"The Treasure"

"The Treasure"


Alone with my guitar
Living on a mountain
Far away
I saw girl
Gypsy woman deepest in the world
When she moved it was a dance
We hid ourselves
And I had no chance

For the treasure of the oneness
That like sand becomes a diamond
Before the wind

And while I changed my strings
A rocky mountain woman
Came to town to sing
Took my heart and ran
When she bade me follow
I just took her hand
I began my journey to the east
A country boy searching for my peace

In the treasure of the oneness
That like sand becomes a diamond
Before the wind

I sit in deep reflection
There are no answers
To my questions
Where did they go
And which one took my heart
Which one took my soul
I may never see it clearly there comes another
Now she turns to beckon me with the Devil's key

The treasure of the oneness
Then becomes sand and lies there naked
Before the wind