Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.