Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

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 got a thing or two to say
Before I walk on by.
I'm feeling good today.
But if die a little farther along,
I'm trusting everyone to carry on.

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

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

I'm glad that the Bush years are behind us.

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.

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

You never knew what I loved in you,
I don't know what you loved in me.
Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be.

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

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?

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.

She was a friend to me when I needed one.
Wasn't for her I don't know what I'd done.
She gave me back something that was missing in me.
She could of turned out to be almost anyone,
Almost anyone--
With the possible exception
Of who I wanted her to be.

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.

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.