[Intro] One of the most exciting things about the twentieth century, and one of the most lyrical forms you'd find now, is movies, in varying stages. I was, I was always a John Wayne fan when I was very young. I think uh— That's one of the dilemmas we have. One of the dilemmas that America presents is that many of America's greatest, truly greatest...Learn More

[Part I] [Intro] Da da da da da da da, da da da da da da Well, I've got a very simple and a very quiet song here which, uh, I wrote about Lincoln Park. Just, when I got back from Chicago I thought I would write thunderous protest songs. And I didn't, I just wrote this only little song. I wrote two songs. I'll sing you two songs about Chicago, the...Learn More

[Intro] A song about the mystical process which took the lives of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.  [Verse 1] And the night comes again to the circle-studded sky The stars settle slowly, in loneliness they lie 'Til the universe explodes as a falling star is raised Planets are paralyzed, the mountains are amazed But they all glow...Learn More

[Intro] Back to the other side of the coin, if I remember the words.  [Verse 1] Sit by my side, come as close as the air And share in a memory of gray And wander in my words Dream about the pictures that I play Of changes [Verse 2] Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall Brown and to yellow they fade And then they have to die Trapped within...Learn More

[Intro] This next song is my apology for moving to Los Angeles. Which intrigues me like a beautiful sensual morgue.  I think, I think the final, the final irony is the history of Western man. When you consider the history of Western man and the Renaissance and, and everything else, it led up— The final story, the final chapter of Western man lies...Learn More

[Intro] Da da da da da da da da da Da da da da da da da da da, da da I've never played this song on the guitar. I wrote it on the piano. This is a song called "The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns." [Verse 1] Sailors climb the tree, up the terrible tree Where are my shipmates, have they sunk beneath the sea? I do not know much, but I know this...Learn More

[Intro] This, uh, poem was written by Alfred Noyes, and it's called "The Highwayman." I mean, here's the romantic narrative poem in all its beauty.  [Verse 1] The wind was a torrent of darkness Among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleon Tossed upon cloudy seas And the road was a ribbon of moonlight Over the purple moor And the highwayman...Learn More

[Intro] Good evening This is my first evening in Vancouver I've been to Canada Toronto a lot Montreal, where all the extremists live [Verse 1] Show me a prison, show me a jail Show me a prison man whose face is growing pale And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why And there but for fortune may go you or I [Verse 2] Show me an alley,...Learn More

[Intro] I've been living in Los Angeles and I haven't, uh, been singing much, for, ever since Chicago So if I don't remember the words you've gotta forgive me I wrote these songs a while ago, when I was but a kid walking through the American wilderness [Verse 1] Oh, look outside the window, there's a woman bein' grabbed They've dragged her to the...Learn More

[Verse 1] Lost in the valley of vaults I fell from the path, it was nobody's fault That I was alone Time dripped from the trees I leapt through a land Fell to my knees before the throne And the crown was covered with jewels Sparkling schools, the beautiful fauns The magnificent battle was fought And Cinderella's soldier fish was...Learn More

[Spoken] I'll do you, for you now, you nice people here, a protest song. A protest song is uh, is defined as something, a song you don't hear on the radio.  And they'll say you don't hear it on the radio 'cause the guy can't sing or 'cause the words are no good, or—as they play the shit that they play these days.  But uh, but it's all got to do...Learn More

[Intro] Now I don't remember the words to these songs, I don't think, at least one verse, but um. On Poetry and Song, one of the, one of the first songs I wrote was, was off of, setting a poem to music was Edgar Allan Poe.  Certain poems are really songs in disguise. Poe wrote a poem called "The Bells" based a lot on the sound of words. And I'll...Learn More