Never Enough Lyrics

Whatever I have, it is never enough

Glide on smooth water and make it rough

Own my own home and think it strange

Sit in my kitchen, wait for life to change

Out in my garden grow peaches and berries

Up in the chimney live goblins and fairies

Out by the rock by the water running

Out by the rock by the lizard sunning

I want to be free—not another dull tragedy

Come with me, I have seen the fields

Come with me, I have seen the fields

We walked two by two by eight

But the sun driving down and the candy we ate 


Made us ugly and mad,
left us walking alone

In the dead zone

In the dead zone

Life came to visit, he was big in size

He sat and he broke my chair and told me lies


About the income tax and his other facts

His coat was manifold, his manner stern in play

He stuttered easily and he rose and died away

Death came to visit, it was small in size


And it spoke no truth and it told no lies

And it spoke no words but two blackbirds 


Flew out of its cape in trying to escape

They bang the windowpane, bang the windowpane


Bang the windowpane, blackbirds, blackbirds

Bang the windowpane, bang the windowpane

Bang the windowpane.

I am in the race, you are in the race

We are God's own, we are no disgrace

Cast your vote upon the water

Cast your vote upon the rage

Send your note up to the stage

This is your place, this is my place

Get that gong out of my face

Get that gong out of my face

Gong gong, gong gong, going gong gong gong gong

Give me shooboopadoo, give me shoobopadee

Get my home run city out of slavery


We were drunk in love, we were tip to bow

We were high and full, but we are sober now

We are sober now

We know many things

They have made us weak

We have many friends with whom we do not speak

Many sorrows which we cannot cry


If we're still in darkness, well, we can't see why.

God is after you Henry, and I hear he's mad

I heard him on the back porch talking to your dad

He said he's tired of ya running around his yard


Playing hide and seek, you'd better stay on guard

God's wearing an old blue hat and some baggy pants

He's staking out the neighborhood, you haven't got a chance

Here he comes, Henry, the Great Forgiver


To unwind your bowels and pluck out your liver

I will make a shield, Henry, with my little sister

We'll go up to God and say

"Hey, Mister, hey Mister, hey Mister

Where's the barbershop? where's the barbershop

We need a little off the top

Can you direct us to the barbershop


And if you get safe, Henry

Go by Hell's door

We still don't like you


Don't come around no more

There's not much I want, just to make amends


With a former lover and a couple of friends


By a happy fire, on a little hill


I would like to read my will


Tell a little story, and pass through glory


With a hand in a hand, a hand in a hand

With a hand in a hand in a hand

But I fear for my children, and seeing them damned


I wait for the gang to come to the door

Or the police to come with guns on their hips

Lies to sign


Slavery


There will be no one, only many

On a rack that goes around

And breaks our backs across the ground


And again the sound

Unknown to the guard who stands outside


So pale and grim and strong and stupid

Send me back to Ethiopia

Send me back to Madrid

I want to see my sister

Hey Mister, want to see my sister again

Give me shooboopadoo, give me shoobopadee

Get my home run city out of slavery

We were drunk in love, we were tip to bow


We were high and full, but we are sober now


We are sober now

Whatever I have, it is never enough

Glide on smooth water and make it rough

Own my own home and think it strange


Sit in my kitchen, wait for life to change