Jackson Browne's nouns

Jackson Browne's general nouns and noun phrases

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405: the 405

absence: the absence

abundance: life's abundances

ad: the ads

address: your new address

Africa

aid: the aid

air: the air

airplane: this airplane

aisle: the aisle, the aisles

allegiance: his allegiance

America

American dream: the American dream

amp: them amps

anger: my anger

answer: the answer, the answers, an answer

anthem: my anthem

apparition: these apparitions

apocolypse: disco apocolyspe

Arabian Nights

arm: your arms, your arm, these arms

attempt: attempts

avalanche: an avalanche

avenue: the avenue, those lawless avenues, the shaded uptown avenue

awakening: some greater awakening

back: his back, my back

Ballona Creek

band: the band

bank: its banks

bar-b-que: a thousand bar-b-ques

barroom: a crowded barroom

battle: the battle

battlefield: the battlefield

battleground: the battleground, a battleground

bay: the bay

beach: the beach

bean: a little beans

bear: the Bear

beast: the beast

beautiful: the beautiful

beauty: the beauty, her beauty, the far too simple beauty, its beauty

bed: the bed, a dreamer's bed, his bed

bee: the bee

beer: a beer

beginning: my beginnings, the beginning

belief: my beliefs

bell: a bell

belly: my belly

belonging

benediction: the benediction

bet: a bet

Bible: the Bible

bill: the bills

billboard: the billboards

bird: a bird

birdcage: the birdcage

birth

blame: the blame

block: the block, eight blocks

blood: my blood

blossom: the blossom

blow

blues: your bright baby blues

body: my body, celestial bodies, Maneulito's body

bomb: a bomb

bond: every bond

bone: my bones

book: books

bottle: a bottle

bottom: the bottom

boulevard: the boulevard

boundary: the boundaries

bowel: the bowels

brain: my brain

brakes: those brakes

breach: what breaches

bread: my bread

breaks: the breaks

breathing: the breathing

brick: a brick

bridge: some bridges

brilliance: the brilliance

Broadway

brow: my fevered brow

building: the buildings, the buildings falling down

burning: the burning

bus: the bus, buses

business: a business, your business

butter: the butter

C.B.

calf: the golden calf

California five

call: an angry call

candle

cannon: the cannons

capitol: the capitol

car: a car, daddy's cars, some car

car horn: car horns

card: the cards

care: such good care

case: them cases

cassette: cassettes

cat: the cat

Catechism

caution

chain: a chain

chair: folding chairs

chance: the chance, a better chance

change: the changes, change, all your changes

cheer: the cheers

chest: the chest, my chest

Chevrolet: an early model Chevrolet, a stolen Chevrolet

Chicago

childhood: sweet childhood, childhood

choice: my choice

choir: the choir

church bell: the church bells

circle: circles

circling: all this circling

citadel: my citadel

city: the city, the cities, two cities, this city, this whole city

city hall

clock: the clock

clothes: her clothes

cloud: those dark clouds, clouds

cocaine

coffee

color: the missing colors

comfort: the comfort

compassion

complexion

Congress

conscience: her conscience

cool: the cool

corn: a little corn

corner: a corner

cornerstone: cornerstones

corona: the sun's bright corona

cost: the hidden cost

counting

country: my country, a country, some countries, whatever country

country and western

couple: a couple

courage: the courage

cover: my cover

creation: all of creation

crime: a crime

crowd: the crowd

cruelty: its cruelty

cry: the cries

cup: the golden cup, your empty cup

curb: the curb

curve: the curve

D.C.

damage: the damage

dance: a dance, the dance, one dance, the dances

dancehall: dancehall

danger: the danger, your dangers

dark: the dark

darkness: the darkness, the cavernous darkness

dawn: the dawn, the naked dawn

day: these days, my days, a warm and windy day

daylight: the daylight

deal: the deals, some deals

death: a death

debt: a debt

debut: her debut

deed: our deeds, all wild deeds

defense

deliberation: these sad deliberations

deluge: the deluge

democracy

den: the den

design: the designs

desire: my desire, your desire

desperation: the desperation

destruction

Detroit

dew: the smoggy dew

dignity: her dignity

direction: the directions

disappointment: the disappointments

disaster: the human disasters, disaster

disco

disdain: this disdain

disguise: the disguise, no disguise

disregard: such disregard

distance: this distance, the distance

dollar bill: the dollar bill

door: that barroom door, the door, an open door, slamming doors, any door, closed doors, the armoire door

doorway: a doorway

doubt: a doubt, my doubt

dove

drawer: a drawer

drawing: the drawings

dream: a dream, this dream, my dreams, the fitful dreams, his dreams, each other's paint by number dreams, her shining dream, a homeless child's fitful dreams, those dreams, the dreams, the dream, some dreams, dreams

dress: their dresses

drive: this canyon drive

drugs

drum: the drum

dutiful: the dutiful

ear: my ear

earth: the earth

east: the east

edge: the edge, the smoking edge

eight track: eight tracks

ember: an ember

emptiness: your own emptiness

end: the end

energy: the energy

England

eternity

evening: the evening

exception: the possible exception

expectation: the abandoned expectations, life's expectations

eye: your eyes, their eyes, my eyes, your eye, an eye, my baby's eye, the farway eyes

fable: the fables

face: her face, the faces, your smiling face, your upturned face, their angel faces, your sweet face, my face, your face

fact: a fact

failure: my failures

faith: my faith

fall: the fall

famine: famine

fantasy: a fantasy, his fantacies

fashion: the fashions

fate

fault: what faults

fear: the fear, your fears

feast: a feast

feather: their feathers

feature: the features

Fedco

feeling: the feeling, that magic feeling, their feelings, that feeling

fence: the fence

fender: his fender

few: the precious few

fiction

field: your bright fields, so many summer fields

fight: the fight, some ancient fight

film: films

finger tip: my finger tips

fire: the fires, a fire

fish: the fish

fist: a fist

flame: the flame, the flames, candle flames

flesh

flight: that morning flight

flood: the flood

floor: the floor, the desert floor, the floors

flower: strange new flowers

food

foot: my left foot, my right foot, their feet

football game: the football game

footprint: footprints

footstep: your footsteps, a child's footsteps

force: forces

Ford: a flatbed Ford

forgiving

forty-five: my forty-fives

fortune: your fortune, their fortunes

fortune cookie: your fortune cookie

fountain: a fountain

fragment: the fragments

frame: their silver frames

freedom: my freedom, his freedom

freeway: the freeway

friend: my friends

friendship

fright: your fright

frontier: the frontier

fuse: a fuse

fury: her fury

future: the future, their future

game: a game

garden wall: your garden wall

gate: the gates, Sleep's dark and silent gate

generation: the generations

genius: the genius

ghetto blaster: ghetto blasters

ghost town: a ghost town

glare: the rockets' red glare

glass: your glass

glasses: our dark glasses

glimpse: all these glimpses

glitter: the glitter

glory

glove: a glove

glow: love's bright and fragile glow, the comforting glow

God: God

golden ring: the golden ring

government: a government, these governments

grace: the grace of God

greed

ground: on a higher ground, your ground

grove: orange groves

guarantee: any guarantee

guest: a guest

guitar: that last guitar, that free guitar

gun: guns, a gun

half: half of me

hall: the hall

hand: her hand, a cruel and senseless hand, my hand, his hand, a hand, that strong but gentle father's hand, their hands, your hand, his right hand, your hands, good hands

happiness: your happiness

Happy Days

hate

hatred

head: my own head, your head, its knobby head, my head

headline: the headlines

health: your health

heart: in some strong hearts, my heart, their hearts, each other's heart, the heart, a desparate heart, two hearts, our hearts

heart beat: our own heart beats, the heartbeat

heartache

heartbreak: its heartbreak

heaven: the heavens, Heaven

height: the heights

hell

Hermosa

highschool: your highschool

highway: that highway, the highway, highways

hill: that hill, those hills

hillside: a hillside

hip: their hips

history: your sad history

hold out: another hold out

hole: the hole, a hole, other holes

home: my home

honey

honor

hood: the hood

hope: your hope, his hopes, my hopes, hope

horizon: that far horizon, the unbroken horizon

hospital: the hospital

hotel: a hotel

hotel room: our hotel rooms

hour: the hours, the final hour, those empty hours, the darkest hour

house: your houses, a house, the house

Houston

hubcap: a hubcap

human race: the human race

hunger: your hunger, hunger, a God-sized hunger

hurricane: the hurricane

hurt: the hurt

I-19

idea: no idea

ideal: the high ideals

illusion: my embattled illusions, love's illusions, illusions

imagination: my imagination

inch: inches

ink: the ink

innocence: such a clever innocence

insect: the insect

interest: their business interests

it

jeans: her jeans, their designer jeans

job: their jobs

journey: the journey, their journey

joy: its joy

jukebox: the jukebox

June

justice

killing floor: the killing floor

kind: some kind

kindness: the kindness

kitchen: their kitchens

knee: my knees

knowledge

L.A.

L.A. river: the L.A. river

ladder: a crackling ladder

land: the land

lane: the fast lane

language: every language

laundry: my laundry

laugh: your little girl laugh

laughing: the laughing

laughter: your laughter, the laughter

law: the laws

leaf: the Autumn leaves

learning: the learning

legal tender: the legal tender

legion: legions

lesson: my lessons

lie: the lies

life: my life, your life, my whole life, the life, our lives, their lives, two lives, life, a good life, this life

light: the light, the changing light, the morning light, each flashing city light, those lights, the hard light, the dawn's early light, the police light, the carnival lights, these lights, light, the lights below, the flickering light, the failing light

lightning

limo: their limos

line: the line, a fine line, a broken white line, that New Jersey line, the bottom line

link: the missing link

lip: their lips

list: a little list

living: a living

living room: their living rooms, the hundred million darkened living rooms

load: my load

load-in: the load-in

loan: a loan

loneliness: the loneliness, this loneliness, a long distance loneliness

longing: the longing, the crazy longing, this crazy longing, their longing

look: a look

loss

lot: a lot, the lots

love: your sweet love, the love, the perfect love

love light: your love light

loving: your loving

loyalty

luck

lunch: my lunch

machine: the vast machine

madness

magazines

magic 8 ball: your magic 8 ball

magnitude: the magnitude

Main

manhood

mansion: the mansion

mantel: the mantel

map: the maps, my maps

market: the market

mat: the mat

mating call: the mating calls

meadow: meadows

meal: meals

meaning: some meaning, whatever meaning

meat: the meat

megaton: megatons

memory: my memories, memory, your memory

message: this message

MGM

middle: the middle

midnight: the midnight

might: all my might

mile: all the empty miles, a mile, the miles, a thousand miles, miles, about five miles north, three thousand miles

mind: my mind, her mind, your mind, minds

minimum wage: that minimum wage

minute: the minutes, twenty minutes

miracle: the miracles

misfortune

missle: missles

mist: a silver mist, the mists

moment: this moment, the moment, a moment

money: the money

month: a month

moon: the moon, the Culver moon

mop: the mops

morning: the morning

Morroco

motel: this rolling motel

motel room: old motel rooms

moth: the moth

motherland: the motherland

motion: the motions

mountain: the mountains, the purple mountains

move: your move

movement: the movements

movie: a movie

music: the music

mystery: the mystery

name: her name, your name, some name, security's name, the lover's name

nation: the whole alternative nation

nature

neck: her neck

need: their needs

net: nets

New Jersey

news: the evening news, the news

night: another night, the night, all night, the approaching night, the violent night, the deepening night

neighborhood: my old neighborhood, your neighborhood

nod: a nod

noise: the noise

none

noon: noon

north: the frozen north

nothing

number: your number

occasion: some occasion

ocean: an ocean, its oceans, the human ocean, the deep blue ocean

one: the one

one-o-one

opening: the opening

operation: a simple operation

outlook: your outlook

page: the pages, the printed page, pages, pages torn, pages burning, faded pages

pain: love's pain, no pain

palm: the palm

paper: the papers

parade: his own parade

paradise

Paradox: the Paradox

part: a part, your part, some other part

party: a party

pass: my pass

passageway: a passageway

passion: the passion

passway: your passway

past: the past

path: our path

pay-per-view: a pay-per-view

peace: this peace

photograph: some photographs, a photograph

piano: my piano

picture: a picture, the picture

pier: the pier

pitch: at a fever pitch

piece: the pieces

place: one place, the places, that place, no place, our place

plains: the plains

plan: a plan, plans, all your plans, their plans, my beautiful plans

playground: the playground

pleasure: whatever pleasure, the pleasure

plow: that Gospel plow

pocket: pocket

point: a point, that point

policy: the government policies

pool: a pool

Portland, Maine

position: position

possession: possessions

poverty: the poverty

power: the power, power, powers that be, the higher power, the infinite power

power supply: their power supplies

planet: this planet, the planet

prayer: your prayers, a prayer

pride: my pride

prison: this prison

profit: their profit

progress

promise: the whispered promises, the promise

promised land: the promised land

pup: a half-grown female pup

purpose: a higher purpose

push and shove: the push and shove

question: my odd questions, your questions

quiet: the quiet

R & B

race: the race, a race

radio: your radio

rage: this rage, the rage

rain: the rain, this rain

rainbow: the rainbow

ramp: them ramps

rat: the rats

ravages: the ravages

reality

realization: a realization

realm: the realm

reason: the reasons, a reason, no reason, some reason

recrimination: all these recriminations

redemption: your own redemption

reef: the unseen reefs

refuge

region: regions

regret: the regrets

religion

resignation: the resignation

responsibility: my responsibility

rest: the rest

rhythym: a rhythym

ribbon: a ribbon

ride: a ride

right: the right

ring: my ring

rivalry

river: a river

road: the road, the roads, that road, road, that low road

roar: the roar

rock and roll: that rock and roll

rocket: the rockets

room: the room, all this room, the rented room

rouge: the rouge, the Rouge et Noir

row: a row

ruby: a ruby

run: the run

running light: your running light

rush: the rush

saddle: my saddle

safety: the safety

sand: the sand

satellite: a satellite

Saturday: the Saturday

scale: a scale

scar: the scars

scene: those typical Hollywood scenes, scenes, rural scene

scheme: my well thought-out schemes, my schemes

school: love's pain and heartache school

score: the score

scream: the screams

sea: the sea

seabird: a seabird

seagull: the seagulls

search: the search for the truth

seat: the seats, a front row seat

second: a second

secret: its secrets, a secret

security

seed: a seed, some seeds, the seeds

sense: the senses

set: two sets

seventy-eight: your seventy-eights

shade: the shade

shadow: the shadow, shadows, the store front shadows

shallow: the shallows

shape: some shape, the shape

share: its share

ship: the ships

shipment: some weapons shipments

shirt: a shirt

shit: the shit

shoe: my shoe, no shoes, their shoes

shore: the shore

shot: one more shot, the old shot in the dark

shoulder: my shoulder

shout: the shouts

show: the show, so many shows, a TV show

sickness: the sickness

side: that highway side, the dark side, your side, the troubled side

side street: the sidestreets

sidelines: the sidelines

sight: such a fine sight, the sight, the sights

sign: the signs

silence: my silence, the silence

silhouette: two silhouettes

Silver Eagle: this Silver Eagle

sink: the kitchen sink

singing: the singing

siren: the sirens

situation: the situation

size: the size

skill: the skills

skin: my skin

sky: the open sky, the empty sky, the endless sky

sleep: Sleep's, any kind of sleep

sleeve: my sleeve

smile: a woman's smile, your weary smiles, the mystery smile, your smile, a smile

smoke: the smoke

snow: the snow

soil: foreign soil

sole: the soles

something

song: the song, songs, my songs, those songs, my song, your siren song

sorcery: your sorcery

sorrow: your sorrow, our sorrow, my sorrow

soul: homeless souls, my soul, the soul, his gypsy soul, the countless souls

sound: the sound, that hollow sound, a joyful sound, the gentle sound, that sound, into the sounds, a single sound, every human sound, his own sweet sound

source: the source

south: the sunny south

South Africa

space

specter: the ghostly specter

spin: the latest spin

spirit: your spirit, my spirit, our spirits

stage: the stage

stand: your stand, a stand

star: a star, his star, the stars above, stars

stare: a generation's blank stare

start: the start

state

step: own steps, your own steps, the steps, another's steps

stereo

stillness: the stillness

stone: a stone, the stone

story: a story, the stories, my story

stick: a stick

star: the stars

strand: the strand

street: the street, those city streets, a half darkened street, the broken streets

street light: the street lights

strength: our strength, the strength

stretch: the stretch of road

stroke: the stroke of noon

struggle: the struggle

style: a ragamuffin style

sun: the sun, this morning sun, the gray morning sun, an angry sun, the setting sun

sunlight: the sunlight

sunrise: the sunrise

sunset: the sunset

Sunset Boulevard

surprise: such an empty surprise, the surprise

system: the prison system

table: the tables

tabletop: the tabletops

tale: tales

talk show: the radio talk shows

task: the tasks

taste: a taste

tear: my tears, those tears

tenderness: your sweet tenderness, the tenderness

term: the terms

there

thing: the things, all those things, a thing, the next thing, things, every dead and living thing, one thing, one of the hardest things, so many things, all the fine things, the little things, the beautiful things, a precious thing, the things I need, so many good things, things I've never known, good things, the prettiest thing

thought: some thought, the thoughts

thrill: no thrill

thunder: the thunder

ticket: his own ticket

tide: the human tide

tights: your blue leopard tights

time: no time, all the times, the time, a time, many times, so many times, these times, a long time

tire: my tires

tone: quarter tones

tool: the tools

tower: your towers

town: the town, another town, these towns, in your town, this cardboard town, the towns, this old town, this divided town, a small town

toy: your toy

trace: a trace

track: a track

traffic light: the traffic light

trick: the trick

trouble

truck: the trucks, trucks, those trucks

truss: them trusses

truth: the truth, a truth, truths

T.V.: the T.V.

t.v. screen: the t.v. screens

t.v. tray: t.v. trays

twilight zone: the twilight zone

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uncertainty: the uncertainty

understanding: some understanding

unhappiness: our unhappiness

unison: that unison

USA: the USA

use: a better use

USSR: the USSR

vacancy sign: my vacancy sign

vacationland

van: the van

Versailles

Veteran's Park

video: the video

Vietnam: Vietnams

view: the view

violence: the violence

virtue: virtues

vision: the vision, my vision

voice: her voice, your voice, voices, your true voice, the voices, another voice

vote: the vote

vow

waist: your waist

waistline: her waistline

walkman: a walkman

wall: your walls, the walls, this wall, this bedroom wall, some wall

wanting

war: the next war, some private wars, your war, covert war, the information wars, the latest war

warmth: the warmth

warning: any warning, their last warning

washing machine: a washing machine

Washington

watch: a watch

water: the water, the waters

wave: a wave

way: a long way, the other way, which way, her wild ways, every way, their way, my own way, the way

weapon: the weapons

week: a week

well: the well

west: the west

whatever

wheatfield: the wheatfield

wheel: your own wheels, my broken wheels, the wheel, my wheels

wild: the wild

wilderness: this wilderness

will: the will, the iron will, their wills

wind: the wind

window: the windows, the window, any window

window pane: each store front window pane

window sill: the window sills

wine

wing: the brave and crazy wings, their tired wings, your restless wings

wink: the wink, a wink

Winslow, Arizona

wire: live wire, the wire

wisdom: the wisdom, another kind of wisdom

wishing well: a wishing well

word: the words, some words, all these words

work: bad work

world: their world, a world, a better world, a cold world, the same world, this crooked world, all the world, this torn up world, the world, the only world, the whole world, one world

World War Three

yard: the yards, somebody's yard

year: the years, my early years, the troubled years, a thousand years, the broken years, years

youth


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