Recorded: April 27, 1978 Released: Street-Legal – June 15, 1978
Mercury rules you and destiny fools you like the plague with a dangerous wink
And there’s no time to think.
Foot of Pride
Recorded: April 27, 1983
Released: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 – March 26, 1991
Ain’t nothin’ left here partner, just the dust of a plague
that has left this whole town afraid
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
Ain’t Talkin’
Recorded:February-March 2006 Released:Modern Times – August 29, 2006
Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’
Through a world mysterious and vague
Heart burnin’, still yearnin’
Walking through the cities of the plague
Live – Rome 2013
DISEASE
Where Are You Tonight?
Recorded: April 27, 1978 Released: Street-Legal – June 15, 1978
I fought with my twin, that enemy within
’Til both of us fell by the way
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees
While the law looks the other way
Live,Charlotte, 1978
Shot of Love
Recorded: Early May 1981 Released: Shot of Love – August 10, 1981
I need a shot of love,
Don’t need a shot of heroin to kill my disease,
Alt. version
Neighborhood Bully
Recorded: April 19, 1983 Released: Infidels – October 27, 1983
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Disease of Conceit
Recorded: March 08, 1989 Released: Oh Mercy – September 18, 1989
There’s a whole lotta people suffering tonight from the disease of conceit,
Whole lotta people struggling tonight from the disease of conceit
Live @ Supper Club, NYC 1993
Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
Recorded: January – February 2020 Released: Rough and Rowdy Ways – June 19, 2020
The fishtail ponds and the orchid trees
They can give you the bleedin’ heart disease
People tell me – I oughta try a little tenderness
LONELINESS
Father of Night
Recorded: June 05, 1970 Released: New Morning – October 19, 1970
Father of loneliness and pain,
Father of love and father of rain.
Dirge
Recorded: November 14, 1973 Released: Planet Waves – January 17, 1974
There are those who worship loneliness, I’m not one of them:
In this age of fiberglass I’m searching for a gem.
Every Grain Of Sand
Recorded: May 04, 1981 Released: Shot of Love – August 10, 1981
I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer’s dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face
Marchin’ To The City
Recorded: January 1997 Released: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 – October 06, 2008
Loneliness
Got a mind of its own
The more people around
The more you feel alone