Frasi di Jackson Browne

“Dottore, i miei occhi | non possono vedere il cielo | è questo il prezzo | per aver imparato a non piangere?”

“Ho smesso di sognare, | non farò troppi programmi | in questi giorni, in questi giorni… | in questi giorni sono seduto su pietre angolari | e batto il tempo in mezzi semitoni fino a 10. | Per favore non mettermi di fronte a tutti i miei fallimenti, | non li ho mai dimenticati…”

“Ora le cose che ricordo sembrano così distanti e piccole | anche se non è successo davvero così tanto tempo fa | quello che stavo vedendo non era affatto quello che stava succedendo | sebbene per un momento i nostri sentieri sembravano intrecciarsi | ma quando vedi oltre le illusioni dell'amore, lì giace il pericolo | e il tuo amore perfetto sembra solo un perfetto idiota | così corri via in cerca di un perfetto straniero | mentre la solitudine sembra sgorgare dalla tua vita come una fonte da un parco.”

“Ora per te e per me può non essere così dura | raggiungere i nostri sogni | ma quella sensazione magica non sembra mai durare | mentre il futuro c'è per ognuno per cambiare | ancora sai che sembra | che talvolta sarebbe stato più facile cambiare il passato | io sono solo uno o due anni e un paio di cambiamenti dietro di te | durante le mie lezioni di pene d'amore e alla scuola d'angoscia | dove se ti senti troppo libera e hai bisogno di qualcosa da ricordare | c'è questa solitudine che sgorga dalla tua vita | come una fonte da un parco.”

“Mi troverò una ragazza | che mi sappia mostrare cosa significa ridere…”

“Guardando la strada fuori correre sotto le ruote | guardando indietro agli anni passati come così tanti campi estivi | Nel '65 avevo diciassette anni e correvano via uno ad uno | Non so dove sto correndo ora, sto solo correndo senza sosta… | continuando a correre, correndo nel vuoto… | continuando a correre, correndo cieco… | continuando a correre, correndo nel sole | ma sto correndo all'indietro”

“Devi fare quello che puoi solo per mantenere vivo il tuo amore | cercando di non confonderlo con quello che fai per sopravvivere. | nel sessantanove avevo 21 anni e chiamavo mia la strada| non so quando quella strada si è trasformata in quella che sto percorrendo…”

“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.”

“Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown”

“Make it on your own if you think you can.
If you see somewhere to go, I understand.”

“Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long.”

“These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.”

“I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us”

“Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
Drive you crazy.”

“Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender
who started out so young and strong only to surrender”

“Well I'm running down the road
Tryin' to loosen my load,
I've got seven women on my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine.”

“I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on”

“Well, I'm a standing on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
And such a fine sight to see,
It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to have a look at me.”

“Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.”

“These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to.”

“I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender”

“In the morning when I closed my eyesYou were sleeping in paradiseAnd while the room was growing lightI was holding still with all my might”

“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.”

“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”

“Let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by”

“And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings”

“Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear”

“You never knew what I loved in you
I dont know what you loved in me
Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be”

“Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one
Who can give them the answers
And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun
Where sweet childhood still dances
Who'll come along
And hold out that strong
But gentle fathers hand?”

“I told her I had always lived alone and I probably always would
And all I wanted was my freedom
And she told me that she understood
But I let her do some of my laundry
And she slipped a few meals in between
And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in
And I was buying her a washing machine”

“Someone's gonna have to explain it to me
I'm not sure what it means
My baby's feelin' funny in the morning
She's having trouble getting into her jeans”

“I thought I knew where I was going, until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes”

“It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free
I thought I was a child, until you turned and smiled”

“Oh people, look around you, the signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses,theres no time to find you now”

“Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cos that's easier than letting on how little they could care.”

“What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all.”