Jackson Browne Quotes

I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through.
Looking into their eyes I see them running too.

Though Adam was a friend of mine, I did not know him well.
He was alone into his distance, he was deep into his well.
I could guess what he was laughing at, but I couldn't really tell.
Now the stories told that Adam jumped, but I'm thinking that he fell.

Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line
And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine.
But let me clue you in, it ain't like him
To argue or pretend--
Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all.

Down on the boulevard they take it hard.
They look at life with such disregard.
They say it can't be won
The way the game is run.
But if you choose to stay,
You end up playing anyway.
It's okay.

I can't keep up with what's been going down,
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?

Make it on your own if you think you can.
If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger.
And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool.
So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger,
While the loneliness seems to spring from your life
Like a fountain from a pool.

Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind.
Running on, running into the sun
But I'm running behind.

In the morning when I closed my eyes,
You were sleeping in paradise.
And while the room was growing light,
I was holding still with all my might.

Well I'm running down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load,
I've got seven women on my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine.

Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long.

Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer,
I was taken by a photograph of you.
There were one or two I know
That you would have liked a little more,
But they didn't show your spirit quite as true.
You were turning round to see who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise,
And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels.
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
'65, I was 17 and running up 101.
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on.

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy.