SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Jackson Browne lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Jackson Browne Lyrics for Song: Black and white Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Jackson Browne Long before you ever saw your chances You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame it on the ones who slowed you down Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here Blame it on the sickness going 'round Going round and round in the night With your heart out of sight With your world burning bright Like a moth 'round a light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the search you half remember Setting out on at the start Is burning like an ember in your heart Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out Tell them that you've gone to find a person Someone you lost track of long ago Tell them that it's someone you need worse than Anybody else you'll ever know Ticking like a bomb in the night You were strong, you were light You were fast, you were bright Then you were gone in the light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames BlLong before you ever saw your chances You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame it on the ones who slowed you down Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here Blame it on the sickness going 'round Going round and round in the night With your heart out of sight With your world burning bright Like a moth 'round a light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the search you half remember Setting out on at the start Is burning like an ember in your heart Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out Tell them that you've gone to find a person Someone you lost track of long ago Tell them that it's someone you need worse than Anybody else you'll ever know Ticking like a bomb in the night You were strong, you were light You were fast, you were bright Then you were gone in the light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the high ideals and the promise You once dressed the future in Are dancing in the embers with the wind Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out ack and white The picture of a life remains And the high ideals and the promise You once dressed the future in Are dancing in the embers with the wind Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Jackson Browne Jackson Browne "Other Songs - Jackson Browne" 1. Bird of St. Marks 2. Black and white 3. Don't you want to be there? 4. Doolin-Dalton (Reprise) 5. El Rayo X 6. Fairweather Father 7. Hold on, hold out 8. I'll Fly Away (Without You) 9. Just Like Forever 10. Marjorie 11. Mercury Blues 12. Nightingale 13. Sit Down Servant 14. The Birds of St. Marks 15. The words justice 17. Waterloo Sunset 18. You Asshole You