Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

I knew Fred since I was 14 and was first going to the Old Town School, Fred used to work part-time in the store. Every time I wrote a song Fred would turn on his really good high-class tape recorder, reel-to-reel, and record it. So he's got recordings of me on guitar singing all my songs in his apartment long before I ever recorded for a recording company. I never found out what happened to the tapes.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

I'm gonna be your friend in high tide or in low tide.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.