Lawyers In Love 1983 Lawyers In Love | On The Day | Cut It Away | Downtown | Tender Is The Night | Knock On Any Door | Say It Isn't True | For A Rocker Lawyers In Love I can’t keep up with what’s been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled cries of lawyers in love God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o’clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from T.V. trays, tuned in to Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love Last night I watched the news from Washington (the Capitol) The Russians escaped while we weren’t watching them (like Russians will) Now we’ve got all this room, we’ve even got the Moon And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon As vacation land for lawyers in love Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved On The Day You really need someone on your side but you run away and hide Whenever somebody's going to get through you've got this wall in front of you You put your arm around me and smile but you're thinking all the while Yeah, your friends only go so far However close friends think they are On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You're gonna pray that your love is enough You've had the world in the palm of your hand since you turned from child to man No one can tell you a thing you don't know you see your life as a one man show But you're not whole and there are things you don't control You're going to know what I'm talking about on the day love finds you out On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You better pray It's your life, you try to know which way the answers lie, which way to go Cause you survive don't mean you grow open your eyes, look out below. On the day On the day you fall in love Gonna pray You better pray Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved Cut It Away Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away and help me find my way back to the start Yeah, before I knew what I was looking for Yeah, when we were lovers and nothing more I wanted you and I did everything that I could do to capture you I let you see the part of me you'd want to see A fantasy I'm finding now I don't know how to make it good I wish I could Cut it away The crazy longing for something more Cut it away The question I don't have an answer for Why I hunger for something I can't see Cut it away The dream I wanted life to be I know I've got to let you go I know You should have left a long time ago -- Protected by the night two cities lay Two hearts, two lives Connected by our sight -- worlds away Two hearts, two lives Inspected by the light, two hearts-- Two cities in decay, two lives -- Two heart just go on crumbling Now come on -- Cut it away I want to cut away this thing inside Cut it away This thing that hid from you and schemed and lied I know I've got to let you go I know You should have left a long time ago Cut it away Somebody cut away this desperate heart Cut it away Before it tears my whole life apart I love you -- I love you still I do -- I always will Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved Downtown Downtown people gotta work a little harder working downtown Downtown they got to think a little quicker 'cause they're Downtown Downtown the breaks are harder Downtown the thieves are smarter I've got this place I'm renting It cost me next to nothing downtown Nobody comes around telling me I gotta turn the sound down Broadway -- Down on the corner the Bible screamer, the plasma donor buses, car horns, ghetto blasters-- The shouts and cries of the human disasters It's all music it's all music downtown It's all music it's all music I feel alright when I'm downtown My feet are light when I'm downtown I cast my hopes on the human tide I place my bet and let it ride I'm open wide when I'm downtown Downtown there's every kind of people walkin' round downtown Downtown there's every language, every human sound, downtown Downtown the nights are longer Downtown the sights are stronger Downtown wandering all around downtown It's all music -- Eight blocks south of City Hall the rats run free and the winos crawl Darkness falls on the vast machine where the future stalks the American dream I feel alright when I'm downtown My head gets light when I'm downtown It's all in right when I'm downtown I feel alright when I'm downtown Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved Tender Is The Night Between the darkness on the street And the houses filling up with light Between the stillness in my heart And the roar of the approaching night Somebody’s calling after somebody Somebody turns the corner out of sight Looking for somebody Somewhere in the night Tender is the night When you hold your baby tight Tender are the motions, tender is the night Between a life that we expected And the way it’s always been I can’t walk back in again After the way we fight When just outside there are people laughing Living lives we used to lead Chasing down the love they need Somewhere in the night Tender is the night And the benediction of the neon light Tender are the hunters, tender is the night You’re gonna want me tonight When you’re ready to surrender Forget about who’s right When you’re ready to remember It’s another world at night When you’re ready to be tender Tender tender tender . . . And in the hard light of an angry sun No one remembers what was said or done Tender are the words they choose You win, I win, we lose Tender Tender is the night Tender The benediction of the neon light Tender Tender are the hunters Tender is the night When they hold each other tight Tender Tender are the undercover Tender The stranger and the secret lover Tender Tender are the motions Tender is the night When you hold your baby tight Tender tender tender . . . By Russell Kunkel, Danny Kortchmar and Jackson Browne © 1983 Olas Music/Kortchmar Music, Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved Knock On Any Door Knock on any door Look through any window Baby knock on any door Knock on any door Is there any place you won't go Baby who you lookin for? Yeah yeah baby now you know It's a cold world like they told you so Knock on any door Save your tears for some occasion Keep the heartache to yourself Knock on any door It's a simple operation Just trade your memory for your health Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on It's insane girl, you can't run away It's the same world it was yesterday Knock on any door Look through any window Walk on Now, how do you survive With a pain so real in a world so jive? Knock on any door Look through any door Walk on By Danny Kortchmar Craig Doerge and Jackson Browne © 1983 Kortchmar Music/Fair Star Music, Night Kitchen Music, All Rights Reserved Say It Isn't True In the still of the night Lying in the darkness I listen to my heart Say it isn't true in the dark and the quiet The movements of my love and the breathing of our children Say it isn't true In the streets and the buildings the people in their lives the jobs they do for livings Say it isn't true And when you think of all the people In the cities of the world Who could vanish in a moment Say it isn't true Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war and apart from all the fine things man has struggled for There always has been and there always will be war I'm alive in a city in a country of the world and I want to go on living I want to see my life unfold You know it's hard to go on looking at the stories of the day and the dangers we're all facing growing worse in every way And you would think with all of the genius and the brilliance of these times We might find a higher purpose and a better use of minds Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war and apart from all the fine things man has struggled for There always has been and there always will be war Say it isn't true Say it isn't true Say it Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved For A Rocker Open the door baby turn on the light We're gonna have a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker I know it's late and you're already down You ain't ready for people around I'm gonna tell you something I found out Whatever you think your life is about Whatever life may hold in store Things will happen that you won't be ready for I've got a shirt so unbelievably bright I'm gonna dig it out and wear it tonight For a rocker For a rocker Don't have to change -- You don't have to be sweet Gonna be too many people to possibly meet Don't have to feed 'em -- They don't eat They've got their power supplies in the soles of their feet They exist for one thing -- and one thing only to escape living the lives of the lonely For a friend of mine, from the neighborhood moving down the line, after tonight he'll be gone for good Here comes Danny. Ricky and Degree They got Petie's number and they're looking at me Russell and Bobby setting up the drums gonna pound on till the landlord comes Don't want to argue, I don't want to fight but there will definitely be a party tonight For a rocker For a rocker Till the morning comes, till the car arrives Till we've killed the drums, till we lose our lives Hey Jenny -- Tell Peggy Sue We're gonna do the only thing you can do For a rocker For a rocker There's a party tonight, there's a party tonight There's a party tonight, there's a party tonight Words and music by Jackson Browne © 1983 Night Kitchen Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved