Top 15 Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Talk about celestial bodies,
And your angels on the wing.
She wasn't much good at stickin' around--but
That girl could sing.
She could sing...<p>In the dead of night,
She could shine a light
On some places that you've never been.
In that kind of light,
You could lose your sight
And believe there was something to win.

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.

Now roll them cases out and lift them amps,
Haul them trusses down and get 'em up them ramps.
Cause when it comes to moving me,
You know you guys are the champs.
But when that last guitar's been packed away,
You know that I still want to play.
So just make sure you got it all set to go
Before you come for my piano.

Now the seats are all empty,
Let the roadies take the stage.
Pack it up and tear it down.
They're the first to come and the last to leave,
Working for that minimum wage.
They'll set it up in another town.

You love the thunder and you love the rain.
You know your hunger like you know your name.
I know you wonder how you ever came To be a woman in love with a man in search of the flame.

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.

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

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.

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