Gold Coast slaveship bound for cotton fields 
Sold in a market down in New Orleans 
Scarred old slaver know he's doin' alright 
Hear him whip the women just around midnight 

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good 
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should 

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot 
Lady of the house wond'rin where it's gonna stop 
House boy knows that he's doin' alright 
You should a heard him just around midnight 

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good 
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should 

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good 
Brown sugar, just like a black girl should 

I bet your mama was a Tent Show queen 
and all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen 
I'm no school boy but I know what I like 
You should have heard me just around midnight 

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good 
Brown sugar, just like a young girl should 

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said oh 
just like a black girl should

Did you ever wake up to find 
A day that broke up your mind 
Destroying your notion of circular time 

It's just that demon life has got you in its sway 
It's just that demon life has got you in its sway 

Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground 
For all my friends out on the burial ground 
Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down 

It's just that demon life has got me in its sway 
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway 

There must be ways to find out 
Love is the way they say is really strutting out 

Hey, hey, hey now 
One day I woke up to find 
Right in the bed next to mine 
Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile 

It's just that demon life has got me in its sway 
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway

Childhood living is easy to do 
The things you wanted I bought them for you 
Graceless lady you know who I am 
You know I can't let you slide through my hands 
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away 
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away 

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain 
Now you decided to show me the same 
No sweeping exits or off stage lines 
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind 
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away 
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away 

I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie 
I have my freedom but I don't have much time 
Faith has been broken tears must be cried 
Let's do some living after we die 
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away 
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday 
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away 
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday

Yeah, you got satin shoes 
Yeah, you got fancy boots 
Y'all got cocaine eyes 
Yeah, you got speed freak jive 

Can't you hear me knockin' on your window 
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door 
Can't you hear me knockin' down the dirty street 

Hey, help me baby, I ain't no stranger 
Help me baby, I ain't no stranger 
Help me baby, I ain't no stranger 

Can't you hear me knockin' when you're safe asleep 
Can't you hear me knockin' down the gas light street 
Can't you hear me knockin' throw me down the keys 

Allright now 

Hear me ringing big bells toll 
Hear me singing soft and low 
I've been begging on my knees 
I've been kickin' 
Help me please 
Hear me prowlin 
I'm gonna take you down 
Hear me growlin', yeah 
I've got fight in me 
Now, now, now hear me howlin' 
I'm all around your street now 
Hear me knockin' I'm around your town

You gotta move 
You gotta move 
You gotta move, child 
You gotta move 
Oh, when the Lord gets ready 
You gotta move 

You may be high 
You may be low 
You may be rich, child 
You may be poor 
But when the Lord gets ready 
You gotta move 

You see that woman, 
who walks the street 
You see that police, 
upon his beat 
But then the Lord gets ready 
You gotta move 
You gotta move

I'm feeling so tired, can't understand it 
Just had a fortnights sleep 
I'm feeling so tired, Ow!, so distracted 
Ain't touched a thing all week 

I'm feelin' drunk, juiced up and sloppy 
Ain't touched a drink all night 
Feeling hungry, can't see the reason 
Just had a horsemeat pie 

Yeah when you call my name 
I salivate like a Pavlov dog 
Yeah when you lay me out 
My heart starts beating like a big bass drum, alright 

Yeah you got to mix it child 
Ya got to fix it must be love 
It's a bitch 
You got to mix it child 
Ya got to fix it must be love 
It's a bitch allright 

Sometimes I'm sexy, move like a stud 
Kicking the stall all night 
Sometimes I'm so shy, got to be worked on 
Don't have no bark or bite 

Yeah when you call my name 
I salivate like a Pavlov dog 
Yeah when you lay me out 
My heart starts beating like a big bass drum

As I stand by your flame 
I get burned once again 
Feelin' low down and blue, Yeah 

As I sit by the fire 
of your warm desire 
I've got the blues for you, Yeah 

Every night you've been away 
I've sat down and I have prayed 
That you're safe in the arms of a guy 
Who will bring you alive 
Won't drag you down with abuse 

In the silk sheet of time 
I will find peace of mind 
Love is a bed full of blues 

And I've got the blues for you 
And I've got the blues for you 
And I've got burned up for you 
And I'll tear my hair out 
I'm gonna tear my hair out just for you 
If you don't believe what I'm saying 
At three o'clock in the morning, babe, well, 
I'm singing my song for you

Here I lie in my hospital bed 
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again? 
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long 
Oh you see that I'm not that strong 

The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears 
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here? 
What am I doing in this place? 
and why does the doctor have no face? 

Oh, I can't crawl across the floor 
Ah, Can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score. 

Well it just goes to show, 
things are not what they seem. 
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams. 
Oh can't you see I'm fading fast? 
And that this shot will be my last. 

Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hands on my head 
Ah come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed 
'Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead 
You can sit around and you can watch all the 
clean white sheets stained red

Well, when you're sitting there 
In your silk upholstered chair 
Talking to some rich folks that you know 
Well I hope you won't see me 
In my ragged company 
You know I could never be alone 

Take me down little Susie, take me down 
I know you think you're the Queen of the Underground 
And you can send me dead flowers every morning 
Send me dead flower by the mail 
Send me dead flowers to my wedding 
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave 

Well, you're sitting back 
In your pink Cadillac 
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day 
I'll be in my basement room 
With a needle and a spoon 
And another girl can take my pain away 

Take me down little Susie, take me down 
I know you think you're the Queen of the Underground 
And you can send me dead flowers every morning 
Send me dead flower by the mail 
Send me dead flowers to my wedding 
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave 

Take me down little Susie, take me down 
I know you think you're the Queen of the Underground 
And you can send me dead flowers every morning 
Send me dead flower by the U.S. mail 
Say it with dead flowers at my wedding 
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave 
No I won't forget to put roses on your grave

When the wind blows and the rain feels cold 
with a head full of snow 
with a head full of snow 
In the window there's a face you know 
Don't the night pass slow? 
Don't the night pass slow? 

Sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind 
Just another mad, mad day on the ro-oad 
I am just living to be lying by your side 
But I'm just about a moonlight mile, on down the road 

Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes 
Gonna warm my bones, 
gonna warm my bones 
I got silence on my radio 
Let the air waves flow, 
let the air waves flow 
For I am sleeping under strange strange skies 
Just another mad, mad day on the road 
My dreams is fading down the railway line 
I'm just about a moonlight mile down the ro-oad-woad 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 


I'm riding sister and I'm dreamin' 
I'm riding down your moonlight mile 
I'm riding sister and I'm dreamin' 
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
Let it go now, come on up baby
Yeah, let it go now, yeah come on now baby 
Say 
Yeah, I'm coming home 'cause 

I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road 
on down the road, down the road 
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah baby ahhh