Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

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.

Hold a place for the human race.
Keep it open wide.
Give it time to fall or climb.
But let the time decide.
Sometimes you wonder what's in this for you.
But you wait and you see.
'Cause its all you can do.
Just to hold on.
Hold on hold out, hold on.

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free
I thought I was a child, until you turned and smiled

Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender. Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender.

These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.

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.

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.

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?

I try to shut my eyes
But I can't get her outta my sight.
I know I'm gonna know her,
But I gotta get over my fright.
Well, I'm just gonna walk up to her,
I'm gonna talk to her tonight.<p>Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's only light,
Gonna shine tonight.
Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight.

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.

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

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

Let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets by and by.

Someone's gonna have to explain it to me,
I'm not sure what it means.
My baby's feelin' funny in the morning;
She's having trouble getting into her jeans