Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring.
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening?
I've been aware of the time going by;
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye.

The daughter of a captain on the rolling seas,
She would stare across the water from the trees.
Last time he was home he held her on his knees
And said the next time they would sail away just where they pleased.

I thought I knew where I was going, until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes

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.

Keep a fire for the human race;
Let your prayers go drifting into space.
You never know what will be coming down,
Perhaps a better world is drawing near.
Just as easily it could all disappear

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.

Out into the cool of the evening,
Strolls the Pretender.
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

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.

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown.
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own.
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go,
May lie a reason you were alive
That you'll never know.

I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means.
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams.

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.<p>Tender is the night.
When you hold your baby tight,
Tender are the motions, tender is the night.

These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to.

You could hold her tight
With all your might,
But she'd slip through your arms like the wind.
And be back in flight,
Back into the night,
Where you might never see her again.

Well, just look at that girl
With the lights comin' up in her eyes.
She's got to be somebody's baby;
She must be somebody's baby.