Line 'em Up Lyrics - One Man Band - James Taylor

Notes: 

Jt on sony.com: the song starts in the final moments of the nixon white house with the president's farewell address. so he says goodbye . . . goodbye. next he's got to walk across the room, out 

Ack door, across the lawn, past the vacant but alert (zen) marine, into the helicopter and away. he does this by lining up the white house staff and moving down the line shaking hands and saying 

Le things - voila. 

After some typical personal stuff the songs ends in madison square garden in 1987 with a mass wedding of the unification church; the reverend sun moon presiding via satellite video down link. 

None of this may have actually happened. 

I remember richard nixon back in '74 

And the final scene at the white house door 

And the staff lined up to say good-bye 

Tiny tear in his shifty little eye 

He said nobody knows me 

Nobody understands 

These little people were good to me 

Oh I'm gonna shake some hands 

Chorus: 

Somebody line 'em up 

Line 'em all up 

Line 'em up 

Line 'em all up 

Line 'em up 

Line 'em all up 

Line 'em up 

Line 'em all up 

At that time my heart was all broke 

I looked like ashes and smelled like smoke 

And I turned away from my loving kind 

Try to leave my body and live in my mind 

But it's much too much emotion 

To hold it in your hand 

They've got waves out on the ocean 

They're gonna wear away the land 

- chorus - 

Oh I've seen corn in kansas 

And I've seen picket fences 

And certain cowboy dances 

I've gone lining up for shows 

I've been safely placed in rows 

Sure I know how it goes 

Another day goes by 

Little time machine 

I'm breaking my brain 

Over what it might mean 

Just to claim the time 

And to turn away 

To make today today 

Who waits for you 

Lonely tired old toad 

It's your life laid out before you 

Like the broken white line down the center of the road 

- chorus - 

Yeah, big moon landing 

People all standing up 

Smiles for the loved ones 

They go walking on down the aisles 

Each re-engages stepping into the sun 

I watch them turn like pages 

One by one by one 

- chorus -