B i o g r a p h y (by Craig Harris)
Patty Griffin is one of the most promising singer-songwriters to come out of the Boston/Cambridge folk music scene in the past few years. Although her two albums have been sparsely produced, Griffin's poetic lyricism, bluesy alto vocals and melodic guitar picking have aimed directly at the deepest emotions of her listeners. The youngest of seven children, Griffin grew up listening to her mother sing while doing housework and her grandmother's family singing on the front porch at night. In addition to listening intently to The Beatles, Griffin was fascinated by the music of Bruce Springsteen and Rickie Lee Jones. Although she acquired a fifty dollar guitar and began writing songs at the age of sixteen, Griffin gave little thought to a career as a musician. After living in Florida for nearly two years, Griffin moved to Boston and was married. While her husband encouraged her to perform, Griffin spent most of her time as a waitress. When her husband announced that he "didn't want to be married anymore" in 1992, Griffin found herself on her own and began to perform in Boston area coffeehouses. She quickly attracted attention to her well-crafted songs and gutsy vocals. After Griffin's over-produced demo tape reached the ears of a talent scout, she was encouraged to re-record it with just her guitar and voice. Within six months, the re-done demo resulted in Griffin being offered a recording contract with A&M. The tape was later released as Griffin's debut album, Living With Ghosts, and inspired comparisons with recordings by Tori Amos and Alanis Morisette. Griffin's second album, Flaming Red, was released in 1998. Four years later, Griffin appeared with a modest acoustic effort entitled 1,000 Kisses. While touring in support of the album in 2002, Griffin documented behind the scenes footage for a future DVD collection. A Kiss In Time, which appeared in Octoiber 2003, included coverage of the tour, interviews, and two full-length videos. A separate disc capturing Griffin's live stint at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium coincided the package. Artists such as Lisa Germano, Emmylou Harris, and Buddy & Julie Miller joined Griffin for the recording of her fourth album, Impossible Dream, which appeared in April 2004.
Moses Let Him Fly Every Little Bit Time Will Do the Talking Mad Mission Poor Man's House Forgiveness You Never Get What You Want Sweet Lorraine You're Not Alone
Flaming Red One Big Love Tony Change Goodbye Carry Me Christina Wiggley Fingers Blue Sky Big Daddy Go Now Mary Peter Pan
Rain Chief Stolen Car Making Pies Be Careful Long Ride Home Nobody's Crying Tomorrow Night Mil Besos Reprise (Instrumental)
Little God Boston Perfect White Truth What You Are Silver Bell Driving Sooner or Later Top of the World Sorry & Sad Making Pies Mother of God One more Girl Standing
Love throws a line Cold as it gets Kite Standing Useless desires Top of the world Rowing song Don't come easy Florida Mother of God Icicles falling
You'll Remember Stay On The Ride Trapeze Getting Ready Burgundy Shoes Heavenly Day No Bad News Railroad Wings Up To The Mountains (MLK Song) I Don't Ever Give Up Someone Else's Tomorrow Crying Over
Angels Are Falling I Do Believe Regarding Mary Ruby's Arm Sandinista Shells The Best Is Yet To Come
Living with ghosts
Moses
Diamonds, roses,I need Moses To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain I don't necessarily buy any key to the future or happiness But I need a little place in the sun sometimes Or I think I will die Everywhere is somewhere And nowhere is near Everybody got somebody With their wine and their beer So I'm just this tragic figure In the corner over here With an empty apartment And a best friend who is queer Everytime I see him he smiles And he tells me how well he's walking these miles But he never ever asks a single thing about me If I die, he'd hear about it eventually Diamonds, roses, I need Moses To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain Everywhere is somewhere And nowhere is near Everybody got somebody With their wine and their beer So I'm just this tragic figure In the corner over here Go home to an empty apartment And call a best friend who is a queer Diamonds, roses, I need Moses To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain To cross this sea of loneliness, Part this red river of pain
Let Him Fly
Ain't no talkin to this man Ain't no pretty other side Ain't no way to understand the stupid words of pride It would take an acrobat, and I already tried all that so I'm gonna let him fly Things can move at such a pace The second hand just waved goodbye You know the light has left his face But you can't recall just where or why So there was really nothing to it I just went and cut right through it I said I'm gonna let him fly There's no mercy in a live wire No rest at all in freedom Of the choices we are given it's no choice at all The proof is in the fire You touch before it moves away But you must always know how long to stay and when to go And there ain't no talkin to this man He's been tryin to tell me so It took awhile to understand the beauty of just letting go Cause it would take an acrobat, I already tried all that I'm gonna let him fly I'm gonna let him fly I'm gonna let him fly
Every Little Bit
It's funny how a morning turns a love to shame Disguised and disfigured and you thought I tasted like rain There's nothing here but a shadow nothin here Now you know Now you know Now you know Now you know There's nothin here but the shadow And now you know I spit, I spit in the eye I tear, I tear out my heart And I scatter the bits I stay unseen by the light I stay untold by the truth I'm sold by a lie By this I am able in all of my travels To make these memories quit But tonight I clearly recall every little bit I can chew like a cannibal I can yell like a cat I even had you believing that I Really really like it like that But there was never a moment Not a moment Now you know Now you know Now you know Now you know You ever got within a hundred Million miles of my soul I spit, I spit in the eye I tear, I tear out my heart And I scatter the bits I stay unseen by the light I stay untold by the truth I'm sold by a lie By this I am able in all of my travels To make these memories quit But tonight I clearly recall every little bit You left open the window till the morning And the winter walked in Reality fired her wooden bullet Splintered under our skin They say I'm walking on freedom This is freedom Now I know Now I know Now I know Now I know I still don't blame you for leaving,baby It's cold living with ghosts I spit, I spit in the eye I tear, I tear out my heart and I scatter the bits I stay unseen by the light I stay untold by the truth I'm sold by a lie By this I am able in all of my travels To make these memories quit But tonight I clearly recall every little bit
Time Will Do the Talking
You were so cruel I hated being your fool So I got a little bit more mud on my face But the years will bring a bigger scheme of things And make a pretty memory out of my disgrace I don't believe there is such a thing as saying too much There are those who like to look and Those who ain't afraid to touch Oh baby don't you know that the Time will do the talking Years will do the walking I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out Time will do the talking Years will do the walking Time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Well we dig our heels in And wonder who's gonna win Who is gonna win it or wear it out I change the lock on the door Or learn how to take a little more I can outrun all of the devils there But never the doubt Try not to throw all your money into 20/20 vision For the world won't wait on politics or indecision Oh baby don't you know that the Time will do the talking Years will do the walking I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out Time will do the talking Years will do the walking Time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Can you hear the voice inside you It calls you back to where you belong Can you see the one beside you Who's been standin' there all along Baby, well you were so cruel I hated being your fool So I got a little bit more Mud on my face But the years will bring The bigger scheme of things And make a pretty memory out of my disgrace The time will do the talking Years will do the walking I'll just find a comfy spot and wait it out Time will do the talking Years will do the walking Time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Time will tell you baby what you can't hear now Mad Mission
We were drinking like the Irish But we were drinking scotch Bartender turned on a movie Everybody turned to watch And every single eye was gleaming As he reached the final scene Well, at least mine did Here's lookin' at you, kid It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions Not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission Sign me up I think I've seen the look before,yes, It's kind of non-commital It says come hither, baby But then he's hard wood to whittle It says it don't mean a thing But still, somebody does He'd like you to join the club that likes to say there's no such thing as love and It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions Not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission Sign me up Sometimes you find yourself Flying low at night Flying blind and looking for Any sign of light You're cold and scared, and all alone You'd do anything just to make it home It's a mad mission Under difficult conditions not everybody makes it To the loving cup It's a mad mission But I got the ambition Mad, mad mission Sign me up Sign me up Poor Man's House
You know you've done enough when every bone is sore You know you've prayed enough When you don't ask any more You know you're coming to some kind of understanding When every dream you've dreamed Has passed and you're still standing Mama says god tends to every little skinny sheep So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep Nothing is louder to god's ears than a poor mans sorrow Daddy is poor today and he will be poor tomorrow Hey that's the poor man's house Everybody get a look at the poor man's house Everywhere they went before must have turned them out And now they're living in a poor man's house There's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven They got a lot of wine and fish up there And the bread's unleavened They got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack Lots of missing toes and fingers And scars upon their backs Daddy's been working too much for days and days He doesn't eat He never says much But I think this time it's got him beat It isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever Your daddy's poor today And he will be poor forever Tey that's the poor man's house Those kids are living in a poor man's house They walk to school with the soles Of their shoes worn out And come home in the evening to the poor man's house What are you chopping that wood for Why are you growing that corn Mama's sewing a brand new shirt and You're wearing the one that's torn I guess it's for some one elses kid who wasn't born In a poor man's house Hey take a look at that house Everybody we're living in a poor man's house Seems like everywhere we go they find us out Find out that we've been living in a poor man's house Forgiveness
We are swimming with the snakes At the bottom of the well So silent and peaceful in the darkness where we fell But we are not snakes and what's more We never will be And if we stay swimming here forever we will Never be free I heard them ringing the bells In heaven and hell They got a secret They're getting ready to tell It's falling from the sky Calling from the graves Open your eyes, boy, I think we are saved Open your eyes, boy, I think we are saved Let's take a walk on the bridge Right over this mess Don't need to tell me a thing, baby We've already confessed And I raised my voice to the air And we were blessed Everybody needs a little forgiveness Everybody needs a little forgiveness We are calling for him tonight on this Thin phone line As usual we're having ourselves one hell of a time And the planes keep flying right over our heads No matter how lond we shout "Hey, hey, hey !" And we keep waving and waving Our arms in the air But we're all tired out I heard somebody say Today's the day A big old hurricaine Is blowing our way Knocking over the buildings Killing all the light Open your eyes, boy, we made it through the night Open your eyes, boy, we made it through the night Let's take a walk on the bridge Right over this mess Don't need to tell me a thing, baby We've already confessed And I raised my voice to the air And we were blessed It's hard to give It's hard to get It's hard to live still I think it's the best bet It's hard to give and I'm never gonna forget But everybody needs a little forgiveness Everybody needs a little forgiveness You Never Get What You Want
You first found me in my holding pen Stopped to take a look and stuck your finger in I bit one off and you came back again and again Then the nice people let me out one day And you told me how to act and What to say But you never get what you wanted that way You never get what you want You never get what you want and I don't think it's my fault You never get what you want, do you baby? Everything's always such a mystery Including your sad little history Do you still think someone should take responsibility and pay Ever since I've know you you've walked that walk You've broken all the records Now you've broken all the clocks And everytime it breaks my heart to hear you talk this way You never get what you want You never get what you want and I don't think it's my fault You never get what you want, do you baby? Everybody's been sad, everybody's been tragic Whole lot of hard times, whole little bit of magic These bitter bitter fruits and these endless hallways They're killing us baby We gotta walk away, walk away You never get what you want You never get what you want You spend your whole time thinkin 'bout why I'm so deranged Well honey, why don't you think about that for a change? You never get what you want You never get what you want Your whole damn life You never get what you want Not your whole damn life You never get what you want And I don't think it's my fault You never get what you want Do you baby Sweet Lorraine
Sweet Lorraine the fiery haired brown eyed schemer Who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers Who knew that sunshine don't hold up to dark Whose businesses fail Who sleep in the park Lorraine who spoke of paintings in Paris And outlandish things to her family just to scare us whose heart went pokin' where it shouldn't ought Whose mother could only sppit at the thought of Lorraine, sweet Lorraine Her father her father would tear out like a page of the bible Then he'd burn down the house to announce his arriva1 Her mother was working and never was home Lorraine carved out a little life of her own Lorraine started working, Lorraine went to school Her mother threw stones at her on the day that she moved Now isn't that a very strange thing to do For someone who never really wanted you Lorraine, sweet Lorraine Her daddy called her a slut and a whore On the night before her wedding day The very next morning at the church Her daddy gave Lorraine away Lorraine, sweet Lorraine In the battle of time in the battle of will It's only your hope and your heart that gets killed And it gets harder and harder lorraine, to believe in magic When what came before you is so very tragic Lorraine, sweet Lorraine Lorraine, sweet Lorraine You're Not Alone
She sees him laying in the bed alone tonight The only thing a touching him is a crack of light Pieces of her hair are wrapped Around and 'round his fingers And he reaches for her side For any sign of her that lingers And she says you are not alone Laying in the light Put out the fire in your head And lay with me tonight One of them bullets went straight for the jugular vein There were people running , a flash of light Then everything changed Nothing really matters in the end you know All the worrys sever Don't be afraid for me my friend One day we all fall down forever She says you are not alone Laying in the light Put out the fire in your head And lay with me tonight The wedding date was June just like any other bride She loved him like no one before And it was good to be alive But sometimes that can slip away as fast As any fingers through your hands So you let time forgive the past And go and make some other plans You are not alone Laying in the light Put out the fire in your head And lay with me tonight You are not alone Laying in the light Put out the fire in your head And lay with me tonight
Flaming red
Flaming Red
Took a walk around the block Bought a candle it was Flaming red flaming red Thought a thought then I forgot so I sang a happy song In my head in my head Wore my red shoes Wore my red shoes again Getting worn out from All of the wandering Worn out and holy Holy as Jesus Me and my red shoes Nothing can please us Stupid girl She was dressed like She deserved everything that she got bloody pumps Dead girl Hey, world Thanks a lot Thanks a lot Wore my red shoes Wore my red shoes again Getting worn out from All of the wandering Worn out and holy Holy as Jesus Me and my red shoes Nothing can, nothing can please us Flaming red (x8) Walkin' in my red shoes and I Get so worn out walkin' in my red shoes and my Soles are torn out Walkin' in my red shoes and I'm Holy as Jesus and I'm Walkin' in my red shoes and Nothing can, nothing can please us Flaming red ( 12x )
One Big Love
Let's take a ride to the seaside We can go out swimming in the high tide Just wear your shorts and your long hair Don't forget the lawn chair Everybody's gone to the movies Everybody's gone and its groovy They went to the one about the big war I didn't, I'd seen it before I guess I'm taking my chances Giving up the ring throwing in the gloves I guess I'm taking my chances Trading in my things A couple wings on a little white dove And one big love, one big love Everybody do like a Monkey If you want to go on and be funky No need to talk like a hero Talk a walk count down to zero No sense defending your honor Just go on and kiss him if you wanna Everything before is gone or is going somewhere I guess I'm taking my chances Giving up the ring throwing in the gloves I guess I'm taking my chances Trading in my things for a couple wings on a Little white dove And one big love one big love I don't know where we are And I don't care And now we're out of gas And riding on air And one big love, one big love
Tony
Does anyone remember Tony A quiet boy, little over weight He had breasts like a girl When I wasn't too busy feeling lonely I'd stare over his shoulder At a map of the world He always finished all his homework Raised his hand in homerooom He called the morning attendance With the pledge alligence to the gloom Hey Tony, what's so good about dying He said I think I might do a little dying today He looked in the mirror and saw A little faggot starin back at him Pulled out a gun and blew himself away I hated every day of high school It's funny, I guess you did too Its funny how I never knew There I was sitting right behind you They wrote it in the local rag Death comes to the local fag I guess you finally stopped believing That any hope would ever find you Well I know that story, I was sitting right behind you Hey Tony, what's so good about dying He said I think I might do a little dying today He looked in the mirror and saw A little faggot starin back at him Pulled out a gun and blew himself away Hey Tony whats so good about dying, dying Hey Tony whats so good about dying, dying Hey Tony, what's so good about dying He said I think I might do a little dying today He looked in the mirror and saw A little faggot starin back at him Pulled out a gun and blew himself away Pulled out a gun and blew himself away Pulled out a gun and blew himself away Tony...
Change
Dog comes howling up behind you Sinks his teeth in your leg Tells you how now things are Going to be a little different And he takes you down a peg You make him ashamed for you He buys you a new dress Because you make him ashamed for you He'd like you to took your best So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh And the dog bites down a little harder Somewhere out in the wild wild west That silly little thing that we tossed, tossed, tossed Somehow we don't talk about nothing else but that Silly little thing that we lost, that we lost, that we lost And now there's no name for you Come to find out none of that shit was even true But now there's no name for you I understand that we lost that too When you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh And the dog bites down a little harder Change Man said "Woman I'm a little tired of you" And she said "Don't leave me baby I'll do anything you want me to" And he said "Can't you do something About the mess around this place" She said "Anything baby, anything, I'll cover my face" You make him ashamed for you He buys you a new dress Cause you make him ashamed for you In your nakedness So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh So you change oh oh oh oh oh oh Change And the dog bites down a little harder
Goodbye
Occured to me the other day You've been gone now a couple years Well, I guess it takes while For someone to really disappear And I remember where I was When the word came about you It was a day much like today the sky was bright, and wide, and blue And I wonder where you are And if the pain ends when you die And I wonder if there was Some better way to say goodbye Today my heart is big and sore It's tryin' to push right through my skin I won't see you anymore I guess that's finally sinkin' in 'Cause you can't make somebody see By the simple words you say All their beauty from within Sometimes they just look away But I wonder where you are And if the pain ends when you die And I wonder if there was Some better way to say goodbye
Carry Me
Maybe they come by land Maybe they come by sea Maybe they've already come Maybe they come by me Slipping into the twilight I ride the broken wave tonight An old song on the radio You knew a long time ago An old song on the radio Going out over the ocean Maybe it's World War I Maybe its World War III Maybe it's Vietnam Maybe we're on TV Falling into the tall grass Melting into the tall grass Spilling out over the lip and Into the ocean Into the ocean Carry carry carry me Over the ocean, over the ocean Over the ocean, over the ocean Over the sea Maybe I've come so far Maybe I'm on my knees Maybe I'm dead or alive Maybe I'm dead or alive Maybe I'm none of these Just an old song on the radio Someone put on a long time ago Going out over the ocean Over and over the ocean Over and over the ocean Over and over the ocean
Christina
If you had the real thing how would you tell Liars can say it all just as well Every single word you've heard in vain Baubles of gold, stars in your hair Reflections that told that they were not there And the diamonds on your cheeks have turned to flames And up in the air they would write your name there But love would fall to pieces in the rain Who would know better than you A hundred love letters and none of them true Christina, Christina It's a wondrous world of ridiculous things With nothing so rare as the love that it brings In the silence of a smile that understands A piece of the action, pieces of gold Everyone's paid well and does what they're told For the simple daughter of a simple man And up in the air they would write your name there Their love will fall to pieces in the rain Who would know better than you A hundred love letters and none of them true Christina, Christina Christina, Christina
Wiggley Fingers
I'll never be sad, I'll never be lonely I'll never be hungry and I'll never be homely Never make a noise when I'm kissing a boy Amen amen Old John Paul is keepin' a tab In his big red folder At night he is dreaming Of hollow candle holders Big is the weight of the world on his shoulders Amen amen amen amen He's keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to himself And he sees you keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to yourself Cause he's always keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to himself Always keeping those dirty little, hey Shakin' the tree baby You should be shaking the bed You know you're rocking the boat baby Should be rocking your head While the family's watching 60 minutes instead Amen amen amen amen amen You're keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to yourself You're keeping your dirty little, hey You're keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to yourself You're keeping your dirty little, oh yeah They'll send you flying right out of St. Francis Xavier With a note to your daddy about your unspeakable behavior And who in the hell is gonna be your savior now Everyone says love is a labor So I guess you go call a sex line If you want to love your neighbor, baby I'm standing right here and I'm just getting safer and safer Amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen You know I'm always Keeping my dirty little wiggley fingers to myself I said I'm keeping those dirty little, hey Keeping those dirty little wiggley fingers to myself Keeping those dirty little, oh yeah They'll send me flying right out of St. Francis Xavier With a note to my daddy about my unspeakable behavior And who in the hell said I need a savior anyhow I got the dirty little wiggley fingers I got the dirty little wiggley fingers I got the dirty little wiggley fingers I love the feeling of the wiggley I love the dirty little wiggley I love the feeling of the wiggley I love the dirty little wiggley Dirty Little Fingers Yeah
Blue Sky
The farther I come the farther I fall Whatever I knew it was nothing at all Nothing at all, just making me small Smaller and smaller I fall back Sooner or later with a view from the ground Chasing the race and the races run you down Sooner or later with a view from the ground And a tear in your eye You say baby why can't we fly Into the blue sky High Into the blue sky Be my singing lesson Be my song When I tell you I'm falling You tell me I'm strong You say trees have grown tall birds have flown high Higher and higher Goodbye goodbye goodbye I'll fly over a rainbow I'll be sun kissed Sail around the planet Venus And send a long letter Way back home That says all that I know All that I know is the blue sky High in the blue sky The farther I come the farther I fall Whatever I knew it was nothing at all Trees have grown tall, birds have flown high Higher and higher Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Big Daddy
We're rocking big daddy How bout that How bout that Here he comes again Me and my friends We all laugh at him Cuz he's so funny Warm and fuzzy We're rocking big daddy How bout that A celebration! A celebration! He caught a little fish He had one wish Daddy We're rocking big daddy A celebration! A celebration! Please throw the little fish back
Go Now
Here's your moon Here's your stars Go now Go now Here's the sun Here's the birds Here's you are Go now Go now Got a stellar reputation As the star that never fell As the train that left the station As the secret that no one could ever tell Here's the lamp Here's the landing We might never understand it Go now Go now Here's the trees red and gold Here's the snow Here we go now Let's go now I was waiting for the leap year And got caught out in the rain Singing like a sparrow Always planning my narrow escape Here's the morning shining on us Here's the twilight upon us Here's the moon Here's the stars Here I am Here you are Let's go now
Mary
Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes You're covered in rain You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud Of another man, who served the world proud You greet another son, you lose another one On some sunny day and always stay, Mary Jesus says Mother I couldn't stay another day longer Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place Mary she moves behind me She leaves her fingerprints everywhere Everytime the snow drifts, everytime the sand shifts Even when the night lifts, she's always there Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruin You're covered in secrets Your'e covered in treetops, you're covered in birds Who can sing a million songs without any words You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud Of another man, who served the world proud You greet another son, you lose another one On some sunny day and always stay Mary, Mary, Mary
Peter Pan
Hey, Peter Pan I'm going home now I've done all I can Besides I'm grown now I'll think of you all painted with the night You sit and watch from somewhere As one by one the lights go out I wrote a note to tell you how you matter When the rain came down All the letters scattered And washed away Drifted off to Never Where you'll be safe from me now forever I believe you now when You say that this will hurt So I don't have to go and Play with you in the dirt now Hey Peter Pan I'm going home now I'm all grown up Your on your own now I'll think of you all painted with the night You sit and watch from somewhere As one by one the lights go out
1000 Kisses
Rain
It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart Beating close to mine Pounding up against the stone and steel Walls that I won't climb Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep You think that you're gonna drown Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep With all this rain falling down Strange how hard it rains now Rows and rows of big dark clouds When I'm holding on underneath this shroud Rain Its hard to know when to give up the fight Two things you want will just never be right Its never rained like it has to night before Now I don't wanna beg you baby For something maybe you could never give I'm not looking for the rest of your life I just want another chance to live Strange how hard it rains now Rows and rows of big dark clouds When I'm holding on underneath this shroud Rain Strange how hard it rains now Rows and rows of big dark clouds When I'm holding on underneath this shroud Rain Strange how hard it rains now Rows and rows of big dark clouds When I'm still alive underneath this shroud Rain Rain Rain
Chief
Chief had been out of the army For 15 years or more He was still marching up and down that street Just like he was a-walking a war They called him the chief because he was Indian It was a name they said behind his back In the summer he'd march without any shoes Until the soles of his feet turned black 'til the soles of his feet turned black His hands wouldn't work the machinery Cause his brain told him what to say It's a hell of a life But its somebody's life Up and down the street all day Honey, I've been put through the paces Like a dog running on a track The wheels keep on going as fast as you get there You don't ever get to go back I don't really know what I'm doing Just watching myself in some play And the actress looks like she wants to go home And lie in bed all day Yeah lie in a big bed all day Her hands wouldn't work the machinery Cause his brain tells him what to say It's a hell of a life But its somebody's life Up and down the street all day Well I wish that you could see me when I'm flying in my dreams The way I laugh there way up high The way I look when I fly The way I live The way I fly Chief got out of the army Jesus went to live with the poor I'm still marching up and down that street I don't know what I'm doing that for I don't know what I'm doing that for I don't know what I'm doing that for
Stolen Car
I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house on out on the edge of town We got married, swore we'd never part Then little by little we drifted from eachother's hearts At first I thought it was just restlessness That it'd fade as time went by, and our love would heal In the end it was something more, I guess Tore us apart and made us real I'm driving a stolen car Down on Eldridge Avenue Each night I wait to get caught But I never do She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote When our love was young and bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel one hundred years old I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black And I'm telling myself It's gonna be all right I drive by night And I travel in fear That in this darkness I will disappear
Making Pies
It's not far I can walk Down the block To TableTalk Close my eyes Make the pies all day Plastic a cap On my hair I used to mind Now I don't care I used to mind Now I don't care Cause I'm gray Did I show you this picture of my nephew Taken at his big birthday surprise At my sister's house last Sunday This is Monday and I'm making pies I'm making pies Making pies Pies Thursday nights I go and type Down at the church For Father Mike It gets me out And he ain't hard to like At all Jesus stares at me In my chair With his big blue eyes And his honey brown hair And he's looking at me Way up there On the wall Did I show you this picture of my sweetheart Taken of us before the war Of the Greek and his Italian girl One Sunday at the shore We tied our ribbons to the fire escape They were taken by the birds Who flew home to the country As the bombs rained on the world 5am Here I am Walking the block To TableTalk You could cry or die Or just make pies all day I'm making pies Making pies Making pies Making pies
Be Careful
All the girls in the Paris night All the girls in the pale moonlight All the girls with the shopping bags All the girls with the washing rags All the girls on the telephones All the girls standing all alone All the girls sitting on the wires Who one by one fly into the fire Be careful how you bend me Be careful where you send me Careful how you end me Be careful with me All the girls standing by your beds All the girls standing on their heads All the girls with the broken arms All the girls with the deadly charms All the girls in the restaurants Pretending to be nonchalant Funny girls on the T.V. shows Close your eyes and they turn to snow Be careful how you bend me Be careful where you send me Careful how you end me Be careful with me All the girls working overtime Telling you everything is fine All the girls in the beauty shops Girls tongues catching the raindrops All the girls that you'll never see Forever a mystery All the girls with their secret ways All the girls who have gone astray Be careful how you bend me Be careful where you send me Careful how you end me Be careful with me Be careful how you bend me Be careful with me
Long Ride Home
Long black limousine Shiniest car I've ever seen The back seat is nice and clean She rides as quiet as a dream Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down Ain't nothing left at all in the end of being proud With me riding in a race car, and you flying through the clouds I've had some time to think about you And watch the stone set like a stone I've had some time to think about you On the long ride home One day I took your tiny hand Put your finger in the wedding band Your daddy gave a piece of land We laid ourselves the best of plans Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed Forty years of things you wish you'd never said How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red I've had some time to think about you And watch the stone set like a stone I've had some time to think about you On the long ride home Headlights staring at the driveway The house is dark as it can be I go inside and all is silent It seems as empty as the inside of me I've had some time to think about you And watch the stone set like a stone I've had some time to think about you On the long, on the long Oh the long, on the long On the long ride home
Nobody's Crying
Well he jumps in the taxi, headed for the sky He's off to slay some demon dragonfly And he looked at me, that long last time Turned away again and I waved goodbye In an envelope, inside his coat Is a chain I wore, around my throat Along with, a note I wrote Said "I love you but, I don't even know why" But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well Swinging off of those gates of hell But I can tell how hard you're trying Just have that secret hope sometimes all we do is cope Somewhere on the steepest slope There'll be an endless rope and nobody crying. Well a long night turns into a couple long years Of me walkin' around, around this trail of tears Where the very loud voices of my own fears Is ringin' and ringin' in my ears It says that love is long gone Every move I make is all wrong Says you never gave a damn for me For anything, for anyone But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well Swinging off of those gates of hell But I can tell how hard you're trying, Just have that secret hope Sometimes all we do is cope Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope And nobody crying. May you dream you are dreaming, in a warm soft bed And may the voices inside you that fill you with dread Make the sound of thousands of angels instead Tonight where you might be laying your head But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well Swinging off of those gates of hell But I can tell how hard you're trying Just have that secret hope Sometimes all we do is cope Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope And nobody crying. And nobody crying, Nobody crying
Tomorrow Night
( Bob Dylan )
Tomorrow night will you remember what you said tonight Tomorrow night will all the thrill be gone Tomorrow night will it be just another memory Or just another song that's in my heart to linger on Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast And you willingly surrender to me, but darling will it last Tomorrow night will you be with me when the moon is bright Tomorrow night will you say those lovely things you said tonight Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast And you willingly surrender to me, but darling will it last Tomorrow night will you be with me when the moon is bright Tomorrow night will you say those lovely things you said tonight
Mil Besos
Silver Bell
Little God
Good morning, little god I see you've come for me again With a noose between your teeth You are not my friend Pouring little cups of tea Humming a little tune You sit across from me And fill my little room Little god Smoke is in the air From your little cigarette You tell me to throw the fight You go and place your little bet Shake, little god Shake your little fists All the strippers think you're odd But you leave the biggest tips Little god Where, oh, where Did I leave myself today On the bed, in the chair Did I send myself away On a sleepy afternoon Will I be returning soon Laugh your little laugh Stomp your little feet They talk behind your back All these people that you meet They say time is running out And you don't know what to do And I hear them talk about Another place to live but not with you Little god Little god Little god God You've got to do better than that You've got to do better than that You've got to do better than that Better than that
Boston
I went back to Boston Back to the city you're lost in I went back to the place without you, facing the stone Walked around Harvard Square The runaway kids are still hanging out there And I took the red line all the way Across the River Charles Some things try and try And they never fly And they never fly You reach up from the waves And find that you're only waving goodbye Went walking in Boston Over a bridge I used to walk on I was looking for my heart That I'd flung into that sea of stone, stone Boston said you need not apply For your license to fly Hey young lady don't be so surprised You know you're not alone Some things try and try And they never fly And they never fly You reach up from the waves And find that you're only waving goodbye It was Memorial Day I went to where you lay There were thousands of people Just like you in a giant graveyard You came all that way Looking for the sky And got a slap in the face You had a desperate need to be loved You just got put in that place You better know your place, boy Some things try and try And they never fly And they never fly You reach up from the waves And find that you're only waving goodbye Only waving You're only waving You're only waving You're only waving goodbye Goodbye
Perfect White
Heaped from a snowy white mountain Slipped down a snowy white hill Came from a water fountain Water was sweet until Sunshine on a shiny ocean Sunshine on a shiny bay I opened a tiny shutter and Sunshine blowing me away And I don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing about Perfect white girls that wear gold and I'm very busy I'm very very busy baby I'm very very busy becoming invisible Why would you want Why would you want to disappear School is a women Ask any woman that's sitting here And I don't a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing about Perfect white girls that wear gold and If you kiss their asses long enough They might let you kiss their asses If you kiss their asses long enough They might let you kiss their asses So here I come in a river my hips Here I come with my big red lips Hidden now a newfound friend Cause I'm never going back again And I don't a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Don't know a thing Know a thing La la la la la la la...
Truth
You don't like the sound of the truth Coming from my mouth You say that I like the proof Baby that might be so I might get to the end of my life Find out everyone was lying Look like you are not afraid anymore I say that I would rather die trying Oh swing me way down south Sing me something brave from your mouth And I'll bring you pearls of water on my hips And the love in my lips All the love in my lips This time when I swung the bat And I found myself laying flat I wondered What a way to spend a dime What a way to use the time Aint it baby? Now I looked at our reflections In the window walking past And I saw a stranger I think we're just so scared all the time That's the main reason why The world is so dangerous Oh swing me waw down south Sing me something brave from your mouth And I'll bring you pearls of water on my hips And the love in my lips All the love in my lips You don't like the sound of the truth Coming from my mouth You say that I like the proof Baby that might be so Tell what's wrong with having a little faith In what you're feelin in your heart Why must we be so afraid And always so far apart
What You Are
All the ladies, on the lake they start to dance It's been a long time, dont you wish you had the chance What do you wish you were? Do you wish you were the silence on the moon? Nobody knows but maybe you will be soon I used to think the sidewalk was the way Always waiting for my lucky day Over and over every patch of gray One day inside me i was lucky anyway... What do you wish you were? Do you wish you were the light of every star? Nobody knows but, maybe thats just what you are All night count all the singing stars Alright is where you want to know you are What do you wish you were? Do you wish you were the light of every star? Nobody knows.. but maybe thats just what you are Nobody knows.. but maybe thats just what you are Nobody knows.. but maybe thats just what you are
Silver bell Silver bell Yeah that's the name of the old motel You were traveling when they fell Down on a bed at the silver bell How you been I'm doing well I hear you're digging a hole to hell How you been I'm doing well Meet me tonight at the silver bell I hate to tell you baby, This is home The wallpaper is A color called sea foam Pull down the shades a little and you've Got yourself a prison cell Every night the wicked wait Down at the silver bell Silver bell yeah that's the name of the old motel I did a stupid thing I even tried Feels like a hundred bees are Stinging me from the inside Don't know just what to do Don't know just who to tell So I'm telling you to meet me Tonight down at the silver bell Silver bell Yeah that's the name of the old hotel I hate to tell you baby, This is home The wallpaper is A color called sea foam Pull down the shades a little and you've Got yourself a prison cell Every night the wicked wait Down at the silver bell
Driving
Driving and driving Thinking about you Keep the car in the lines What else would I do I look straight ahead Lock all of my doors So tired of driving Don't wanna drive no more Driving and driving Fast forward rewind Every morning and night Every day of my life Thinking about you Hugging that curb I think of jumping the skyway But I don't have the nerve I (?) don't have the nerve Oh by the way, did I tell you what you do to me One way or another if gets me home Driving and driving There's nothing on the radio There's an accident ahead Everyone is moving slow Police cars everywhere There's an ambulance too It looks pretty bad As I make my way through And I creep past the wreck and I think about you I got a pain in my neck and I think about you I got a tape in my deck and its broken in two I'm driving and driving Driving and driving Oh by the way, did I tell you what you do to me One way or another it gets me home Oh by the way, did I tell you what you do to me One way or another it gets me home
Sooner or Later
Sometimes you fly so high You really need to fall You think you wanna die You need to cry alone (?) You don't feel anything No sorrow no danger nothing Someone was asking you Where do you wanna go You didn't seem to care You didn't seem to know You never ask for much Just wanna feel the touch and the chill Sooner or later, sooner or later you will Sooner or later, sooner or later you will Sooner or later, sooner or later you will The snow is coming down Outside the motel walls You feel a little chill You need to cry is all (?) The night is moving slow And you're just so tired, I know So be still Baby be still Oh yeah Sooner or later, sooner or later you will Sooner or later, sooner or later you will
Top of the World
I wished I was smarter Wished I was stronger I wished I loved Jesus The way the my wife does I wished it'd been easier Instead of any longer I wished I could've stood Where you would've been proud That won't happen now That won't happen now There's a whole lot of singing That's never gonna be heard Disppearing every day Without so much as a word Somehow I think I broke the wings Off that little songbird And she's never gonna fly To the top of the world Now To the top of the world I don't have to answer Any of these questions Don't have no god to Teach me no lessons I come home in the evening Sit in my chair One night they called me for supper But I never got up I stayed right there In my chair There's a whole lot of singing That's never gonna be heard Disappearing every day Without so much as a word Somehow I think I broke the wings Off a little songbird And she's never gonna fly To the top of the world Now To the top of the world I wished I'd had known you Wished I had shown you All of the things I Was on the side But I'd pretend to be sleeping When you'd come in in the morning To whisper goodbye Go work in the rain I don't know why Don't know why Cause everyone's singing We just wanna be heard Disappearing every day Without so much as a word Somehow? Gonna grab a hold Of that little songbird And take her for a ride To the top of the world Right now To the top of the world
Sorry & Sad
You used to make me so mad Make me so mad I was almost glad why you make me so mad And if I wasn't still mad Probably feel sad Sorry for you So sorry and sad Nothing was ever free But you still had me You didn't want, evidently And if there was no trace Of anything real Would you feel safe enough to feel? Sad, sorry and sad Think it's disappointment, boy The only friend you ever had Was that you never got famous Makes a good distraction In case you start to feel bad about your Undiscovered genius Makin' everyone so mad You used to make me so mad Make me so mad I was almost glad why you make me so mad I really don't have time Believe that I had Swallow the pill Of your bitter end Sad, sorry and sad
Mother of God
All you kids get out the back door I've never seen her this bad before She took all her favorite things down from the window And broke 'em all over her clean floor It's Saturday at the mansion The oldest boy walks with a slouch The young ones are wild in back of the house And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer When I was little I'd stare at her picture And talk to the mother of God I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move Like she was trying to say something to me When I was eighteen I moved to Florida, Like everyone sick of the cold does, And I waited on old people waiting to die I waited on them until I was Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor One day I won't live here anymore Someone will wonder who lived here before And went on their way I live too many miles from the ocean And I'm getting older and odd I get up every morning with a black cup of coffee And I talk to the mother of God Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer... Can wait a long time for an answer
One more Girl
I took off my iron smile Because I found it weighed me down Tomorrow when the world wakes up I'll be in another town You don't know what you want At this moment you think it's me so you Move your hand across my knee Turn me into some novelty Yes I'm one more girl on the stage Just one more ass that got stuffed in some jeans Just one more day that you don't find true love No, you don't know what it means Did you ever take the time to Think about who I might be Where I've been or What I'm thinking or Who I love or what I see One more girl on the road that You might pass on your way home Someone's sister, someone's wife or Just some bitch who's probably Got no life and yes I'm One more girl on the stage Just one more ass that got stuffed into jeans Just one more day that you don't find true love No, you don't know what it means One day we'll be a pile of ashes For the best of time, it passes So take your hand off my knee Do you know what it means to be One more girl on the stage Just one more ass that got stuffed in some jeans Just one more day that you don't find true love No, you don't know what it means
Standing
I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow of the hill Feel the fear everywhere Hope it don't get me killed I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow walking blind I've been unfair & unkind Turned away from your suffering far too many times Now I'm standing in the shadow walking blind Sister, brother, there's a fire on the hill And it's burning like a lantern Making all this time stand still I'm standing, I'm standing, I'm standing I'm standing, standing, standing Mother, I am weak but I am strong Standing in the darkness this long But in the deepest darkness I listen to your song Mother I am weak but I am strong I'm standing, and I'm standing, I'm standing I'm standing, standing, standing, I'm standing Standing in the shadow of the hill
Impossible dream
Love throws a line
Let's write a story of a title wave We run out of luck We run out of days We run out of gas A hundred miles away From a station There's a war and a plague Smoke and disaster Lions in the coliseum Screams of laughter Motherless children A witness and a bible Nothing but rain ahead No chance for our survival Just before the flood comes Just before the night falls Just before the blood runs Into the valley Just before my eyes go Just before we can't go any further Love throws a line to you and me I heard someone calling me from very far away Sister oh sister did I hear them say? Prisoner of this endless story of pain You hold the key Try to find the way And just before the flood comes Just before the night falls Just before the blood runs Into the valley Just before my eyes go Just before it all blows to pieces Love throws a line to you and me Love you better pick up your pace If we're gonna win this race Love we're running out of time Pull yourself out from behind
Cold as it gets
To the end of the Earth, I'll search for your face For the one who laid all of our beauty to waste Threw our hope into Hell and our children into the fire I am the one who crawled through the wire I am the one who crawled through the wire There's a million sad stories on the side of the road Strange how we all just got used to the blood Millions of stories that'll never be told Silent and froze in the mud Silent and froze in the mud I know a cold as cold as it gets I know a darkness that's darker than cold A wind that blows as cold as it gets Blew out the light of my soul Blew out the light of my soul I dream in my sleep, I dream in my days Of some sunny street not so far away Where up in a window a curtain will sway And you and I'll meet down below You and I'll meet down below I know a cold as cold as it gets I fight a war, I may never see one I live only to see you live to regret Everything that you done Everything that you done Everything that you done
*** Thanx a lot to Jonathan for this one ***
Kite
The Sunday after there was laughter in the air Everybody had a kite They were flying everywhere And all the trouble went away And it wasn't just a dream All the trouble went away And it wasn't just a dream In the middle of the night We try and try with all our mights To light a little light down here In the middle of the night We dream of a million kites Flying high above the sadness and the fear Little sister just remember as you wander through the blue The little kite that you sent flying on a sunny afternoon Made of something light as nothing Made of joy that matters too How the little dreams we dream Are all we can really do In the middle of the night The world turns with all of it's might A little diamond colored blue In the middle of the night We keep sending little kites Until a little light gets through Standing
I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow of the hill Feel the fear everywhere Hope it don't get me killed I'm standing in the shadow of the hill I'm standing in the shadow walking blind I've been unfair & unkind Turned away from your suffering far too many times Now I'm standing in the shadow walking blind Sister, brother, there's a fire on the hill And it's burning like a lantern Making all this time stand still I'm standing, I'm standing, I'm standing I'm standing, standing, standing Mother, I am weak but I am strong Standing in the darkness this long But in the deepest darkness I listen to your song Mother I am weak but I am strong I'm standing, and I'm standing, I'm standing I'm standing, standing, standing, I'm standing Standing in the shadow of the hill Useless desires
Say goodbye to the old street that never cared much for you anyway And the different colored doorways you thought would let you in one day Goodbye to the old bus stop frozen and waiting The weekend edition has this town over-rated You walk across the baseball green The grass has turned to straw A flock of birds tries to fly away from where you are Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend I can't make you stay I can't spend another ten years wishing you would anyway How the sky turns to fire Against the telephone wire And even I'm getting tired of useless desires Everyday I take a bitter pill It gets me on my way For the little aches and pains The ones I have from day to day To help me think a little less about the things I miss To help me not to wonder how I ended up like this Walk down to the railroad track and ride a rusty train With a million other faces I shoot through the city veins Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend You wanted to be free And somewhere beyond the bitter end is where I wanna be How the sky turns to fire Against the telephone wire And even I'm getting tired of useless desires Say goodbye to the old building that never tried to know your name Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend You won't be seeing me again Goodbye to all the window panes shining in the sun Like diamonds on a winter day Goodbye, goodbye to everyone How the sky turns to fire Against the telephone wire It burns the last of the day down And I'm the last one hanging around waiting On a train track and the train never comes back And even I'm getting tired of useless desires
*** Thanx to Macarena who corrected a mistake *** Top of the world
I wished I was smarter Wished I was stronger I wished I loved jesus The way the my wife does I wished it'd been easier Instead of any longer I wished I could've stood Where you would've been proud That won't happen now That won't happen now There's a whole lot of sinners That ain't gonna be heard Disppearing every day Without so much as a word Somehow I'm afraid I broke the wings Off that little songbird And she's never gonna fly To the top of the world How To the top of the world I don't have to answer Any of these questions Don't have no guide to Teach me no lessons I come home in the evening Sit in my chair One night they called me for supper But I never got up I stayed right there In my chair There's a whole lot of singing That ain't gonna be heard Disappearing every day Without so much as a word Somehow I think I broke the wings Off a little songbird And she's never gonna fly To the top of the world How To the top of the world I wished I'd had known you Wished I had shown you All of the things I Was all these are But I'd pretend to be sleeping When you'd come in in the morning To whisper goodbye Go work at the rain I don't know why Don't know why Cause everyone's singing We just wanna be heard Disappearing every day Without so much as a word So how? Gonna grab a hold Of that little songbird And take her for a ride To the top of the world Right now To the top of the world Rowing song
As I row, row, row Going so slow, slow, slow Just down below me is the old sea Just down below me is the old sea Nobody knows, knows, knows So many things, things, so So out of range Sometimes so strange Sometimes so sweet Sometimes so lonely The further I go More letters from home never arrive And I'm alone All of the way All of the way Alone and alive You just have to go, go, go Where I don't know, know, know This is the thing Somebody told me A long time ago The further I go More letters from home never arrive And I'm alone All of the way All of the way Alone and alive
Don't come easy
Red lights are flashing on the highway I wonder if we're gonna ever get home I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight Everywhere the waters getting rough Your best intentions may not be enough I wonder if we're gonna ever get home tonight But if you brake down I'll drive out and find you If you forget my love I'll try to remind you And stay by you when it don't come easy I don't know nothing except change will come Year after year what we do is undone Time keeps moving from a crawl to a run I wonder if we're gonna ever get home You're out there walking down a highway And all of the signs got blown away Sometimes you wonder if you're walking in the wrong direction But if you brake down I'll drive out and find you If you forget my love I'll try to remind you And stay by you when it don't come easy So many things that I had before That don't matter to me now Tonight I cry for the love that I've lost And the love I've never found When the last bird falls And the last siren sounds Someone will say what's been said before Some love we were looking for But if you brake down I'll drive out and find you If you forget my love I'll try to remind you And stay by you when it don't come easy Florida
A couple of young girls went Sailing down A1A Into the arms of Florida Sailing down a highway Singing their heads off Protected by the holy ghosts Flying in the ocean Driving with their eyes close The night wants to kiss you deep And be on his way Pretend he don't know you the very next day Isn't it hard sometimes Isn't it lonely? How I still hang around here And there's nothing to hold me You slide down into the seat From twelve hours on your feet And get the tide to wash you away For thousands and thousands of days And someone you never meet Signs a check you get every week You try and you still can't forget All the strangers that you have met The night never owed you nothing anyway Makes promises that he never intends to keep every day Isn't it hard sometimes Isn't lonely? How I still hang around here And there's nothing to hold me Every time, every year The travelers come and go You see them landing with their pale wings And flying back to the snow And the summer comes marching in With his heavy boots on Kicking along the blacktop Sidewalks of A1A The young girls in their bare feet Cigarettes smoking Looking every which way Wishing and hoping And you want the night just to let you sleep And be on his way Wrap you up in some cool sheets And have nothing to say Isn't hard sometimes Isn't it lonely? How I still hang around here And there's nothing to hold me Mother of God
All you kids get out the back door I've never seen her this bad before She took all her favorite things down from the window And broke 'em all over her clean floor It's Saturday at the mansion The oldest boy walks with a slouch The young ones are wild in back of the house And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer When I was little I'd stare at her picture And talk to the mother of God I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move Like she was trying to say something to me When I was eighteen I moved to Florida, Like everyone sick of the cold does, And I waited on old people waiting to die I waited on them until I was Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor One day I won't live here anymore Someone will wonder who lived here before And went on their way I live too many miles from the ocean And I'm getting older and odd I get up every morning with a black cup of coffee And I talk to the mother of God Something as simple as boys and girls Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world Something as hard as a prayer on your back Can wait a long time for an answer... Can wait a long time for an answer Icicles falling
Tonight I sing soft and low Just like the moon Over the snow I hear icicles falling in the dark We're just like anyone else We just want a little bit Of sun for ourselves And a little bit of rain To make it all grow Maybe a minute or two To get lost in the glow of love There's always someone throwing matches around Waving the shiny new knife The first to run when the house burns down I've seen it everyday of my life I must confess there appears to be Way more darkness than light I want to fall like a pearl To the bottom of the sea There no one will find us tonight Tonight It might look pretty bad We might lose everything We thought that we had But shadows will pass Smoke, it will clear If something survives of us around here I'll be glad 'cause I know I was lost in the glow Of love
Children running through
You'll Remember Maybe one day, along the way You'll remember me, on this island Smiling at you, how I used to Maybe one day, you'll remember And it won't be sad, to think of all we had All unhappy ends could be behind us then Maybe one day, along the way You'll think of me, and you'll be smiling Maybe one day, you'll remember Stay on the Ride Little old man, little old man staring down the road Waiting on the bus, it's getting kind of cold Bus finally gets there, he's got nowhere to sit down And the driver said, "You can stand right here behind me or wait for the next one to come around" And the old man says, "That's okay, I'll stand I might look like a little old man to you But I've been riding this bus for years and years and years I don't even know where it's going to" And the driver says, "You don't know where this bus is going to?" Old man says, "No, I don't, do you?" Driver says, "You don't know where this bus is going to?" Old man says, "I just want it to get me through I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere Staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere Bus is rolling along, outside it's looking kind of strange There earth is shaking, the clouds are breaking Everything is blue, where it was gray A thousand red birds fly, over fields of snow Driver looks back in the mirror for the old man "Where did he go? where did he go? Oh, there he is Hey, old man, you still don't know?" And the old man says, "No, I don't son, but I'm happy to go I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere I'm staying on the ride, it's gonna take me somewhere I was born with no name, knowing nothing, still I don't Somebody said, You need a name, I'm gonna give you a name And I said, No, you won't" "You can let me off here, son, thank you for the ride" And the driver said, "This is the middle of nowhere, sir," He pulls off to the side And the old man says, "It might look that way to you, son, maybe it is" Then he says, "Stay on the ride, it's gonna take you somewhere, Stay on the ride, it's gonna take you somewhere"
Trapeze Little pink dress, hanging by her knees Just overhead on the old trapeze In the old tent tonight, spotlight going ‘round One of these nights, the old girl's going down Hallelujah, the old girl's going down She started with us on the back of a horse Just seventeen and already divorced But she took to the air with the greatest of ease Like she was born to be gliding on the old trapeze Some people don't care, if they live or they die Some people want to know what it feels like to fly They gather their courage and they give it a try Then some guy broke her heart and how her heart it did ache So she went to the tent of the lady of the snakes Who gave her a potion and she drank it in After that, her heart never ached again After that, her heart never ached again Some poeple don't care if they live or they die Some people want to know what it feels like to fly They gather their courage and they give it a try And fall under the wheels of the time going by Little pink dress, hanging by her knees Just overhead on the old trapeze In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round One of these nights the old girl's going down Yeah, one of these nights the old girl's going down Hallelujah
Getting Ready Oh, baby, I'm getting ready I'm getting ready to let you go My hands shake, my heart's unsteady Oh, how I once loved you so I know all the magic's gone Wish I had a magic wand I would put a spell on you You would see it as I do Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go Oh, baby, you were my drug And I was just your cigarette I was nothing you could be proud of I have lost my self respect, self respect I have lost my self respect Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go Baby, baby, I got no traction I'm just waiting and waiting for your reaction And so I try a new direction I'm gonna give myself a resurrection I'm getting ready, I'm getting ready Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go Oh, I'm getting ready to let you go
Burgundy Shoes We wait for the bus that's going to Bangor In my plaid dress and burgundy shoes In your red lipstick and lilac kerchief You're the most pretty lady in the world Sun The bus driver smiles, a dime and a nickel We climb on our seats, the vinyl is cold "Michelle ma belle", a song that you loved then You hold my hand and sing to yourself Sun The leaves are green and new like a baby Tulips are red, now I don't miss the snow It's the first day I don't wear my big boots You hold my hand, I've got burgundy shoes Sun
Heavenly Day Oh heavenly day, All the clouds blew away Got no trouble today, with anyone The smile on your face, I live only to see It's enough for me baby, It's enough for me Oh, heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day Tomorrow may rain with sorrow Here's a little time we can borrow Forget all our troubles in these moments so few Because right now, all that we really have to do Is have ourselves, a heavenly day Lay here and watch the trees sway Can't see no other way, no way, no way Oh, heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day No one at my shoulder, bringing me fear Got no clouds up above me, bringing me tears Got nothing to tell you, I've got nothing much to say Only I'm glad to be here with you On this heavenly, heavenly, heavenly day Heavenly day, All the trouble gone away For a while anyway, for a while anyway Heavenly day, Heavenly day Heavenly day
No Bad News Don't bring me bad news, no bad news I don't need none of your bad news today You're a sad little boy, anyone can see it You're just a sad little boy, that's why you're carrying on that way Why don't you burn it all down burn your own house down, burn your own house down Try to cure your own disease And leave the rest of us, there's a lot of us, leave the rest of us Who want to live in peace, to live in peace I'm gonna find me a man, love him so well love him so strong, love him so slow We're gonna go way beyond the walls of this fortress And we won't be afraid, we won't be afraid and though the darkness may come our way We won't be afraid to be alive anymore And we'll grow kindness in our hearts, for all the strangers among us Till there are no strangers anymore Don't bring me bad news, no bad news I don't need none of your bad news today You can't have my fear, I've got nothing to lose, You can't have my fear, I'm not getting out of here alive anyway And I don't need none of these things, I don't need none of these things, I've been handed And the bird of peace is flying over, she's flying over And coming in for a landing
Railroad Wings He took a silver train, all the way to Maine On the way to everything, Railroad wings There's things you don't know you know I thought anger told me what to do With emptiness chasing me On the border I found you You should have heard her sing, Railroad wings This emptiness has followed me like a cold, blue sky And it has not been easy for you There's things I'll never tell you til the day I die Things I done, I can never undo, hiding everything, Railroad wings All these years along, the lights are growing dim I hear you sing your song in the next room And as far as I can tell, most everything means nothing Except some things, that mean everything Railroad wings Railroad wings
Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) I went up to the mountain Because you asked me to Up over the clouds To where the sky was blue I could see all around me Everywhere I could see all around me Everywhere Sometimes I feel like I never been nothing but tired And I'll be working Till the day I expire Sometimes I lay down No more can I do But then I go on again Because you ask me to Some days I look down Afraid I will fall And though the sun shines I see nothing at all Then I hear your sweet voice Come and then go Telling me softly You love me so The peaceful valley Just over the mountain The peaceful valley Few come to know I may never get there Ever in this lifetime But sooner or later It's there I will go Sooner or later It's there I will go
I Don't Ever Give Up I'm no kid, in a kid's game Did what I did, I got no one to blame But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up It's all I got, it's my claim to fame I'm no fighter, but I'm fighting This whole world seems uninviting But I don't give up, no, I don't ever give up I fall down sometimes, sometimes I come back flying Liars are lying, airplanes are flying Love isn't here, love isn't here But it's somewhere You turn to forget me, but something won't let me Love isn't here, love isn't here But it's somewhere I'm not clean, I'm not washed up This dream I don't ever give up I don't ever give up No, I don't ever give up
Someone Else's Tomorrow Have you ever been baptized, in the cool winter water On a Sunday morning, when the sky was gray We filed out of the churchyard, so cold it was silver To gold, tan, and blue cars, and the cars drove away And all the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way Tell them they've had their day, It's someone else's tomorrow The tall and the tiny, ships on the water Smaller and smaller, floating away Will never return now, all wooden and burned down They echo and groan now, in their salty graves And the memories fade, send the ghosts on their way Tell them they've had their day, It's someone else's tomorrow Someone else's tomorrow
Crying Over Light it up, baby, light up that fire 'Cause I don't know what's gonna save me, from the cold now And these sorrows, I'm crying over And these sorrows, I'm crying over Embrace me, embrace me with your kind love It's all I've ever wanted, all I've ever dreamed of In all of this dreaming, of silver and gold Is something to break this, winter so cold And these sorrows, I'm crying over And these sorrows, I'm crying over We go straight for the thunder, straight for the rain Love leaves a mark and, life leaves a strain Back in the saddle, again and again Millions of eyes, and none of them friends You better light it up, baby, light up that fire Cause I don't know what's gonna save me from the cold now, And these sorrows, I'm crying over And these sorrows, I'm crying over Crying over
Downtown Church
House Of Gold ( Hank Williams Cover ) People steal, they cheat and lie For wealth and what it will buy Don't they know on the judgement day That their gold and silver will melt away I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave And know that my first soul was saved Than to live in this world in a house of gold And deny my God and doom my soul What good is gold and silver, too In your heart's not good and true Sinner hear me when I say Fall down on your knees and pray I'd rather be in a deep, dark grave And know that my first soul was saved And to live in this world in a house of gold And deny my God and doom my soul
Move Up Well, I believe in my soul And I'm going on home Halleluiah, oh lord, I'm moving, move up When this life is over I'm going to stick my sword in the sand I'm going to go on home to Jesus Over in glory land I'm moving to the sky In a heaven on a high Well, all my life I want to know Is why my Jesus loved me so Yes, oh lord, I'm moving, move up I'm going to move up to the sky To my home on a high I'm going to see my loving mother I'm going to see my father too I'm going to sing with the angels Tell them how I made it through Well, I'm going to move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory After a while One of these mornings And it won't be very long They're going to look for me down here And I'll believe I'll be going on home I'm going to walk with my father Settle with the son Tell him all about this world That I've come from I'm going to see my loving mother I'm going to see my father, too I'm going to walk around in glory And spread the news Well, all my life I want to know Is why my Jesus loved me so Yes, oh lord, I'm moving, oh lord Move up, oh lord Move up, oh lord Move up, oh lord Move up, oh lord I'm going to move, move, move, move, move Move, move, move, move, move Move, move, move, move, move Move, move, move, move, move I'm going to move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory Move on up in glory After a while Little fire My friend, come stand beside me Lately, I'm feeling so lost If I came and washed the stones of the path away And a hot sun turned the mud to dust Calling the sheep in for the evening There's a voice, calls above the howling wind It says come rest beside my little fire We'll ride out the storm that's coming in My friend, you know me and my family You've seen us wandering through these times You've seen us in weakness and in power You've seen us forgetful and unkind All that I want is one who knows me A kind hand on my face when I weep And I'd give back these things that I know are meaningless For a little fire beside me when I sleep All that I want is one that knows me That can hang on my face when I weep And I'd give back these things I know are meaningless For a little fire beside me when I sleep Death's got a warrant You can't hide You can't hide You can't hide Because you don't know how God's got your number And he knows where you live Death's got a warrant for you You can't hide You can't hide You can't hide Because you don't know how God's got your number And he knows where you live Death's got a warrant for you You may run to the rock to hide your face The rock cried out ain't no hiding place God's got your number And he knows where you live Death's got a warrant for you You may run around till you lose your soul Heaven won't be your home You can't hide You can't hide You can't hide Because you don't know how God's got your number And he knows where you live Death's got a warrant for you If I Had My Way ( Peter, Paul & Mary Cover ) If I had my way If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down Tear this building down You read about Sampson and from his birth The strongest man that ever lived on Earth One day old Sampson was walking alone He looked down on the ground and he saw an old jaw-bone He swung it over his head, swung it over his head When he start moving ten thousand was dead If I had my way If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down Tear this building down Sampson and the lion got in attack Sampson joined up on the lion's back You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw Sampson he got his hands around the lion's jaw He ripped that beast till the lion was dead The bees made honey in the lion's head If I had my way If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down Tear this building down Delilah was a woman so fine and fair She had a lovely good looks and a coal black hair Delilah came down on Samson's mind First he saw a woman of the Philistines She set down on Samson's knees Tell me where your strength lies if you please She spoke so kind, talked so fair Samson told "Delilah cut off my hair, Shave my head, clean as your hand And my strength will be like a natural man." Took old Samson by surprise They picked up a stick and then they punched out his eyes Backing down to the judgment hall Chained him to the stone cold wall They left him there 'til his hair turn brown Strength to tear that building down If I had my way If I had my way If I had my way I would tear this building down Tear this building down Tear this building down Tear this building down Tear this building down Coming Home To Me Anytime you say it with heart Anytime you're falling apart When you're washing the sheets And each stranger you meet When there's somebody waving goodbye You're coming home to me Just remember You're coming home to me It's a world full of barrooms and alleys Of blue nights and red river valleys When you feel like a shirt and a tie Or like dirt Or a light that no one can see You're coming home to me Just remember You're coming home to me When you get to that place That's just under the stars Hanging over the tree, island over the sea (?) When you get there you'll know That's as far as you go When you get there you'll see You were already free When you get there you'll la la la la la When you're lost and you're found Then you're found and you're lost When you're dancing with no one around You're coming home to me Just remember You're coming home to me Wade In The Water Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's going to trouble the water Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's going to trouble the water See those children all dressed in white God's going to trouble the water Looking like the children of the Israelites God's going to trouble the water The river Jordan is chilly and cold God's going to trouble the water It chills my body but not my soul God's going to trouble the water He going to wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's going to trouble the water See those children all dressed in red God's going to trouble the water Looking like the children that Moses led God's going to trouble the water If you get there before I do God's going to trouble the water Tell all my friends that I'm a coming home too God's going to trouble the water He going to wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's going to trouble the water He going to trouble the water He going to trouble the water Wade on the He going to trouble the water He going to trouble the water Never grow old ( James C. Moore ) I have heard of a land On the far away strand 'Tis a beautiful home of the soul Built by Jesus on high Where we never shall die 'Tis a land where we never grow old Never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old Oh never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old In that beautiful home Where we'll never more roam We shall meet in the sweet by and by Happy praise to the King through eternity sing 'Tis a land where we never grow old Never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old Oh never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old When our work here is done and the life crown is won And our troubles and trials are over All our sorrow will end All our voices will blend With the loved ones who've gone on before Never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old Oh never grow old, never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old 'Tis a land where we never grow old Virgen De Guadalupe Adiós, oh Virgen de Guadalupe Adiós, oh Madre del Salvador Desde que niño nombrarte supe Eres mi vida, eres mi vida, mi solo amor Adiós, oh Virgen madre querida Adiós refugio del pecador Eres mi encanto, eres mi vida Dulce esperanza, Dulce esperanza, en mi dolor Adiós, oh Virgen de Guadalupe Adiós, oh Madre del Redentor Ante tu trono siempre se agrupe Todo tu pueblo Todo tu pueblo, lleno de amor Adiós, oh Madre, la mas amable Aquí te dejo mi corazón Adiós oh Virgen incomparable Dame, Señora, dame, señora tu bendición I Smell A Rat
I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You'd better watch out I smell a rat, babe You won't tell me where you been Whiskey running all down your chin I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You'd better watch out I smell a rat baby You come stumbling down the hall Bump your head up against the wall Knock down drunk and that ain't all I know you been having yourself a ball I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You'd better watch out I smell a rat baby You come stumbling down the hall Bump your head up against the wall Knock down drunk and that ain't all I know you been having yourself a ball I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby You'd better watch out I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby I smell a rat baby Yeah Waiting For My Child I was talking to a lady a few days ago And these are the words she said If you see my child somewhere As you journey here and there Tell him I'm waiting for my child to come home I am waiting and waiting for my child to come I'm waiting and waiting for my child to come If you can't come home Could you please send me a letter A letter would mean so much to me Oh my child may be somewhere On his sick bed With no one there to rub his aching head Oh my child may be somewhere In some lonely jail With no one there to go his bail If I only knew what town my child was in I'll be there on that early morning train And no matter what's crime Lord you know that this child is mine That's why I'd be waiting for my child to come home I am waiting, waiting for my child to come I am waiting, waiting for my child to come If he can't come home Could he please send me a letter A letter would mean so much to me I am waiting, waiting I am waiting and waiting I am waiting for my child to come home
The Strange Man A Samarian woman Came running to the city To talk about the man she saw She took her pitcher Went to the well Water she intended to draw The stranger she met there She didn't know where he came from But when he told her Every sinful thing she had done The man at the well Blessed my soul and go on Her friends asked her "Do you know that man?" She said "No, I never saw him before" They asked her "Did you get his name?" She said "He didn't tell me and I don't know When he spoke, my soul caught on fire And I'll remember that day 'til the day that I die He stopped by Blessed my soul and go on The stranger was next seen in our city He was standing off an angry mob Defending a women who'd been caught In the very act of adultery For pity and mercy she sought He said "Ye who is without sin cast the first stone" And when he raised her from the ground All her accusers were gone He gave her a smile, waved farewell and moved on The crowd asked her "Do you know the man?" She said "No, I never saw him before" They asked her "Did you get his name?" "He didn't tell me and I don't know But when he touched me I felt the power from the arms And I ain't gonna do no wrong He stopped by Saved my life and moved on I met that same man I met that same man When I turned my eyes away from fear He opened up his arms and he took me near Oh I found the power My soul caught on fire He stopped by Blessed my soul He stopped by Blessed my soul He stopped by Saved my life And moved on
We Shall All Be Reunite
( Alfred Karnes ) Where is now my father's family That was here so long ago? Sitting 'round the kitchen fireside Brightened by the ruddy glow We shall all be reunited In that land beyond the skies Where there'll be no separation No more marching, no more sighs Some have gone to lands far distant And with others made their home Some upon the world of waters All their lives have chose to roam We shall all be reunited In that land beyond the skies Where there'll be no separation No more marching, no more sighs Some have gone from us forever For with us they could not stay They have all dispersed and wandered Gone away, so far away We shall all be reunited In that land beyond the skies Where there'll be no separation No more marching, no more sighs We shall meet beyond the river In that land of pure delight Where no sickness or no sorrow Will our joys there ever blight We shall all be reunited In that land beyond the skies Where there'll be no separation No more marching, no more sighs No more marching, no more sighs All Creatures Of Our God And King ( Francis of Assisi ) All creatures of our God and King Lift up your voice and with us sing Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou rising moon, in praise rejoice, Ye lights of evening, find a voice! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou rushing wind that art so strong Ye clouds that sail in Heaven along, Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou rising moon, in praise rejoice, Ye lights of evening, find a voice! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou flowing water, pure and clear, Make music for thy Lord to hear, Alleluia! Alleluia! Thou fire so masterful and bright, That givest man both warmth and light Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
American Kid
Go Wherever You Wanna Go You can go wherever you want to go Go wherever you want to go Fly up to the moon and say hello now You can go wherever you want to go You don't ever have to go to war no more Never have to go to war no more Wear them boots or swim that icy shore now You don't ever have to go to war no more You can get up on some sunny day and run Run a hundred miles just for fun now Heartaches and yesterdays don't weigh a ton now You can get up on some sunny day and run I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You don't ever have to pay the bills no more Break a sweat or walk a worried floor now Working like a dog ain't what you're for now You don't ever have to pay the bills no more You can go wherever you want to go You can go wherever you want to go Go to where the time's wound all the way down Put a penny on the track and wait for train sounds Tell your ma you're coming back before the sun's down You can go wherever you want to go Please Don't Let Me Die In Florida Please don't let me die in Florida I don't care about my name If you catch me dying in Daytona Throw my bed onto a train I was born in Indian summer In the south, long ago And those dirty streets cried out for rain And this is what I know And the rains came and they only stopped Just in time for snow And the icy cold filled up my shoes And this is what know Please don't let me die in Florida I don't care about my name If you catch me dying in Orlando Throw my bed onto a train Well, I went to war to fight the Japs When the war was over, I threw my cap Just as far as you could throw a thing I went home and gave my girl a ring I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I put the highways and the blacktop down Turned the prairies into the towns And those hills gave way just like a wedding gown I put the highways and the blacktop down I don't need to see no mirror I ain't never going to see my own face Just a reflection of somebody Who's going to leave without a trace Roll me over those hills so golden brown Let the night come in and lay my shroud I never been to California-i-a Maybe that's where I should end my days Don't let me die in Florida I don't care about my name If you catch me dying in Orlando Throw my bed onto a train Ohio Meet me in the evening, where the river is low Meet me on the waters of the Ohio No lines, no lines, the river is a river, not a line My blood is the water and it's darker and deeper than time If the hounds are howling, then you cannot hide My friend, I will meet you on the other side No lines, no lines, the river is a river, not a line My love is the water and it's stronger and deeper than time I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Meet me 'neath the moon, under the singing tree If you are the first, stay there and wait for me If no one comes by morning and the sun is a-rising red If no one comes by morning, please forgive me, my friend For I am dead Wild Old Dog God is a wild, old dog Someone left out on the highway I seen him running by me He don't belong to no one now He dropped him out on Ninety-Three Mange was setting in on his hips and on his knees Between the highways running north and south Pulled on over and we put him out Willie said he was old and going blind Mama told me how she didn't mind When Willie kicked him with his shoe He just climbed on in, just like he knew God is a wild, old dog Someone left out on the highway I seen him running by me He don't belong to no one now I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake It's lonely on the highway Sometimes a heart can turn to dust Get whittled down to nothing Broken down and crushed In with the bones of Wild, old dogs Wild, old dogs He dropped him out on Ninety-Three Tall grass was waving there just like the sea And he tore off running like we'd set him free Just disappeared right in front of me God is a wild, old dog Someone left out on the highway I seen him running by me He don't belong to no one now He don't belong to no one now Mom & Dad's Waltz I'd walk for miles Cry or smile For my mama and daddy I want them I want them to know Now I feel My love is real For my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so In my heart Joy tears start 'Cause I'm happy And I pray Every day For mom and pappy I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake And each night I'd walk for miles Cry or smile For my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so I'd fight in wars Do all the chores For my mama and daddy I want them to live on Till they're called I'd work and slave And never rave For my mama and daddy Because I know I owe them my all In my heart Joy tears start 'Cause I'm happy And I pray Every day For mom and pappy And each night I'd walk for miles Cry or smile For my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so I love them so Faithful Son Oh, my god, I cry in fear Afraid you have forgot me here Afraid you haven't gotten long Your quiet dove and faithful son I went to work, I worked all day When I wanted to run, I stayed I kept the promises I made I kept the promises I made Little children came and grew Moved away and never knew Who I was or who I am Well, they never knew this lonely man I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake When those mornings came, stiff with rain I thought the sun would never shine again With the sleeves of my old raincoat stained With the salt of my own tears And I never would tell you then So I never will tell you now All the things that break an old man down The real truth is I don't know how Oh, my god, I cry in fear Afraid you have forgot me here Afraid you haven't gotten long Your quiet dove and faithful son Who's seen the loneliest of days And fought the dirtiest of ways With the man inside who would have run away From the promises I made Highway Song Stars fall out of the sky, my love One by one as the years go by One by one all the ghosts of the night Whisper my name and fly away I don't wait for the return I don't wait for the return Across the miles, a goal return Reaching for into the night In the dust of this highway song I whisper your name and fly away I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I will wait for your return I will wait for your return I will wait for your return I will wait for your return That Kind Of Lonely Well, this heart has turned a corner Every room is in disorder Now the nightingale won't sing for us We scared her away Well, you ask of me the question Didn't wait to hear the answer Your eyes were following the dancer Falling down a flight of stairs Every strand has come unwound Every heart is all worn down Everyone in this room wanted to be Somewhere else So tonight I find the key And drive away a little early It's the last time I want to be That kind of lonely There's a scar below your left eye It fades away as you get older It isn't like you never told her What kind of man you really are I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I don't know why it's so surprising Now the sun is almost rising Yes, it's certainly in the morning When the moon's still standing tall Every strand has come unwound Every heart is all worn down Everyone in this room wanted to be Somewhere else So tonight I find the key And drive away a little early It's the last time I want to be That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely That kind of lonely Lonely Lonely Irish Boy Well, I danced in the arms of a black haired girl In Scollay Square after the war And I drank to get drunk, and sank and I stunk like a drunk on a subway floor And I never did marry Cathy O'Shea She met another and they went their way To the wind you're a toy Just a drunk irish boy Just a face in the crowd I'll be back around To show you all something someday There are some things that must remain secret You can find no good reason to tell There's too many men telling their secrets these days And I'd like to tell them to all go to hell I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake So I never had dreams, and they never came true As far as you know anyway To the wind you're a toy Just a drunk irish boy Just a face in the crowd I'll be back around To show you all something someday Glory be, glory be, to the highest of trees We used to climb, my brother and me High on her limbs, two laughing hyenas Over was Struckberry's cemetery To the wind you're a toy, just a thin irish boy Coming back home from the war Just a face in the crowd Just a drunk and out loud Just you try looking down 'Cause I'll be back around To show you all something someday To show you all something someday Get Ready Marie Well, she was a pretty good looking young girl And she kissed me in such a way But to get anything, she said show me the ring The way they did in those days Well, I never thought too much about it If I was the marrying kind But any young man worth his salt or a damn Has other things on his mind Get ready, Marie, get ready, Marie Get ready for dreams to come true Get ready, Marie, get ready for me There's so many things we can do Well, I awoke drunk from the night before On the morning of my wedding day And the best man said, “Man, the best thing to do Is just to keep going that way” I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake But my pretty young bride wasn't laughing When I tripped and fell down the aisle And though I was a pain, still no one could complain That I wasn't wearing a smile Get ready, Marie, get ready, Marie Get ready for dreams to come true Get ready, Marie, get ready for me There's so many things we can do No, this isn't the end of our story No, our marriage stuck like a habit But I had a good hunch, when she kissed me a bunch She could do other things like a rabbit Like a rabbit Get ready, Marie, get ready, Marie Get ready for dreams to come true Get ready, Marie, get ready for me There's so many things we can do Not A Bad Man I am not a bad man I want you to know I signed up when I was nineteen Now I'm twenty-four years old There's ghosts that follow me around Things I've seen and did I am not a bad man Just an American kid I bet you see a stranger When you look at me When I look in the mirror I know that's what I see I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Got some pills to get my head right But they don't work so well So I drank a little more tonight And here is where I fell I bet you see a stranger When you look at me When I look in the mirror I know that's what I see I just want a little sleep now A sleep that's silent as the snow But I am not a bad man I just wanted you to know Gonna Miss You When You're Gone I'm going to miss you when you're gone I know you don't believe that, you're wrong There's going to be some rainy Sundays Wishing one day I'll see you again Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself But I know you're headed somewhere else And now the secrets that you keep will be the things I'll never know Doesn't matter either way, I'll still miss you when you go I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I'm going to miss you when you're gone I know you don't believe that, you're wrong There's going to be some strangers laughing through the hotel walls And I'm going to wish your footsteps will come walking down the hall And the moon will be high, bright as a pearl Shining through my window on the dark side of the world And I'll be thinking of you, dancing somewhere The way you were back then, with the moonlight in your hair And I'm going to miss you when you're gone I know you don't believe that, you're wrong There's going to be some rainy Sundays Wishing one day I'll see you again When I'll see you again
Servant Of Love
Servant Of Love I long to live I long to live by the ocean Carry me away I'm a servant of love Wave after wave Till my spirit was calling Wave after wave Till the sea came to me I long to live Long to live by your ocean Moved by the waves No one can see Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot Flying close to the ground Held by your silent Words from the deep Calling to me Calling to me Calling to me Calling to me Calling to me Calling to me Call We are just children Shadows and moonlight Just little children Hiding in the dark Holding your hand Containing our laughter Floating away Dazzled by the sparks I long to live Long to live by your ocean Carry me away I'm a servant of love I'm a servant of love
Gunpowder Here we go, easy flow The setting sun is sinking low Watch it now, wait for the flash You got the view if you got the cash A little powder from the gun On everything and everyone Shooting doves out of the sky I just like to, I don't know why Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot Robbing cradles and the graves Just realistic, not depraved Yawn and stretch, my little cats I'm the water in your taps I'm your sidewalk and your street I own the bones, own the meat Own the thoughts you ain't had yet My little fish caught in the net My little fish caught in the net A little powder from the gun Nothing but a blazing sun Draining all the rivers dry I just like to, I don't know why I just like to, I don't know why Voices down an empty hall You'll never see me at all You will never see my face And then my kids will own this place And then my kids will own yours, too If you were me, wouldn't you? A little powder from the gun Little soldiers run and run Silver birds up in the sky There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye There's nothing that escapes my eye Good And Gone I'm gonna make sure he's good and gone I'm gonna make sure he's good and dead Good and gone, good and dead Tonight before I lay my head I'm gonna make sure he knows his place Wipes that smile off of his face Find a way to lay him low I know some things that he don't know Rich man has his money What can a poor man claim? What can a poor man call his own? Pawns of another rich man's game Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot He lights a fire to distract From all the things that we have lost Fiery fingers point and blame And burn into a fiery cross Something so old and on the brink Somewhere so cold and set in stone It's easier than you would think To break him down and break his bones Take his joy that carried on Tear after tear, dawn after dawn To take him from the ones he loved And who loved him, and make him gone Hurt A Little While It might hurt a little while Hurt a little while It might hurt a little longer Than a little while But one of these days I'm gonna smile again One of these days I'm gonna smile One of these days I'm gonna smile again One of these days I'm gonna smile I might cry a little while Cry a little while I might cry a little longer Than a little while But one of these days I'm gonna laugh again One of these days I'm gonna laugh One of these days I'm gonna laugh again One of these days I'm gonna smile I might need a little walk I might need a little talk I might need a little help For a little while Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot I might need a little care All my friends were there I might need a little love For a little while I might feel a little weary I might need a new theory I might feel a little bad For a little while But one of these days I'm gonna shine again, shine again One of these days I'm gonna shine One of these days I'm gonna shine again One of these days I'm gonna smile Smile Smile Smile 250,000 Miles Oh, where is the daughter that I carried? Gone to where the desert meets the sea Far from where our family's bones are buried Where mother moon walks arm in arm with me A lady's maid for ladies who are waiting She paints the toes, prepares a stranger's tea What came before she must forget or bury Or carry deep inside her silently Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot The red lipstick faces in the alleys Their echoes and their shadows wind and wind My daughter lives in still a deeper valley And I fear I am running out of time Oh, where is the daughter that I carried? Gone to where the fears of men obey While mother moon hangs silently but is waiting Two hundred fifty thousand miles away Two hundred fifty thousand miles away Made Of The Sun There's a place deep in the woods that I remember Melting snow was falling from the trees Before we even knew there was December Silence only broken by the breeze Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot When the world was only you and your warm arms I'd look for you, you were the favourite one Your yesterdays poured into my tomorrows And the songs you sang were made of the sun And the songs you sang were made of the sun You said everywhere you look the world is changing Everywhere the water's closing in Something deeper still is always rearranging Something's lost, something new begins While I dream of you, we're sitting near the window Laughing, bathing in the winter sun If I had to choose one moment for forever My friend, I tell you, that would be the one Everything's Changed Everything in the world has changed Everything in the world has changed Find someone who knows your name So hot and bright and loud and strange Wind came knocking in the night Wind came knocking in the night Home is just a satellite Wind came knocking in the night Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot There ain't nothing coming down the muddy river Just an oil slick and the smell of fear I heard strange music coming down the muddy river The last night before these years Rider Of Days Riding past the sun Heading over the hills I know everyone They remember my name I am but a rider A rider of days Just passing through this town The sun on my face The dreams you were dreaming With me at your side I am dreaming them all now The night opens wide Once again we are flying You in my arms Once again we are flying We come to no harm Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot My darling, I miss you And I always will I dream of you always Hill after hill I am but a rider A rider of days The sun and the clouds How they dance and they sway And reach for the shadows Heading over the bay In a little while, I'll be on my way There Isn't One Way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way You wanna have a little style? Keep the kindness in your heart Let it be the place you start Let it be your best friend Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot You wanna have a little style? Keep the kindness in your heart Let it be the voice you hear Hear it whisper in your ear There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way Even if you're hurting, be a friend Try to do the best you can You might feel a little stronger If your heart is unchained The world is untameable And so it shall remainable You have to bend and unbend Again and again and again There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just you in your heart And the part you gotta play There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way Make your way with little harm For everything is charmed Everything is alive Or it once was Be thankful for the sun Be thankful for the blues For the gold in your ears For the holes in your shoes You will never ever, never ever Come this way again Be in awe, my friend 'Cause it's amazing There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way There isn't one way There isn't one way There's just your way for you And that's the right way Noble Ground I can fool myself like any fool can do Forgetting which ones are glass or jewels Nights of shattered pearls and rules And no one without blame No one without blame I can live the life that's been written down Or fight the urge right to the ground Right to the ground I stake my claim My claim to noble ground I squandered nights in silence When singing was the cure One day it turned around and looked at me The beauty that endures Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot Behind the eyes Beneath the stars Below the walls No, no, never far Shining, shining, shining On and on again It's very, very quiet In this early hour It's only me, it's only me And the night-blooming flowers Staking our claim To noble ground Staking our claim To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground To noble ground Snake Charmer I'm coming for you, coming for you Yeah, I'm seeing all the signs First all the little humiliations And then you were reassigned But I'm the snake charmer, snake charmer And it's going to be fine We're gonna trick it up, pick it up Grow it up, show it up good Shake it up, bake it up You don't even know it, but you should But I'm the snake charmer, snake charmer And it's going to be good Going to be good Going to be Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot I'm coming for you, coming for you Something deeper than a mine Maybe it's time you stopped pretending That you knew it all the time I'm the snake charmer, snake charmer And I'm gonna make it shine We're gonna pick it up, stick it up Grow it up, show it up good Shake it up, bake it up You don't even know it, but you should I'm the snake charmer, snake charmer And it's going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good Going to be good
You Never Asked Me I don't believe in love like that anyway I would have told you that if you'd have asked me The kind that comes along once and saves everything Between a woman and a man But I'd have died trying anyway I might have told you that if you'd have asked me I'd have died trying, tried everything Until the day refused to return Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot I should have seen it from one hundred miles away I should have beaten the odds of it any day But I never could keep all the wolves at bay Snarling and a-growling It was an exercise in catastrophe It was a dance of destruction It was the daze of futility It was the flight of fragile wings Ambulance drivers and gravediggers Mislaid fortunes growing bigger and bigger Polar ice caps below and above Conquered and claimed and ruined for love As we glide along all the bends of time Falling for little tricks of the mind With memories of Eden now so far behind And the taste of melting snow I don't believe in love like that anyway The kind that comes along once and just saves the day I think of it more like the rocks the waves chip away As they become the sand And I'd have told you that if you'd have asked me We might have saved ourselves the disappointment Yeah, I‘d have told you that if you'd ever asked me And the day did not return Shine A Different Way I'm gonna let it be the field The one that rain forgot I'm gonna let it be the summer I'm gonna let it be your face The one that ran away I'm gonna let it be forever Again a copy paste, i'm tired of robot I'm gonna let it rain and hail Gonna let the rusty nail No longer hold this world together I'm gonna let it be the sun In more ways than one Shine a different way tomorrow Shine a different way tomorrow I'm gonna let it be the moon Let it play the tune The one that keeps repeating I'm gonna let it be your will Let it have your thrill If that's what you are needing I'm gonna let it start again Gonna let it chase the wind With my arms stretched out before me I'm gonna let it look at me As I am sleeping in the dark And love me like a baby I'm gonna let it be the sun In more ways than one Run out of its horizon I'm gonna let it be the night For I have had my day Dancing at the back door I'm gonna let it hear the prayer No matter who is there No matter who is listening I'm gonna let the dream tell me What it has always known The moonlight and the glistening The moonlight and the glistening The moonlight and the glistening waves
Patty Griffin Mama's Worried Mama's worried all the time She tells everyone she's fine But she's hurting bad and worried so She don't want no one to know There's a rumbling below I don't see, an unnatural glow People with nowhere to go And nothing in their eyes We ain't seen daddy for a while He walked away, his worried smile Was the memory he gave to me We don't know where he's gone And mama's worried all the time She tells everyone she's fine But she's hurting bad and worried so She don't want no one to know People in their stylish clothes They look at us and turn up their nose A hunger deep inside me grows And then it goes away She starts singing in the morning She works and sings all day Singing sad, singing low All while the worry goes away And mama's worried all the time She tells everyone she's fine But she's hurting bad and worried so She don't want no one to know River Isn't she a river She doesn't need a diamond to shine You can't really have her But you can hold her for a time Takes an army just to bend her Be careful where you stand her You can't hold her back for long The river is just too strong She's a river Arms made out of silver Moving in a crooked line Carrying some dreamer Off into the end of time You don't need to save her Or teach her to behave Just let her on some line Ever-changing and undefined She's a river You can ride easy when she's slow Run across her when she low Follow wherever she goes She's a river Run for cover when she's mad Drown in her tears when days are bad Don't you ever forget it though She's a river Isn't she a river She doesn't need a diamond to shine So people call you clever But she's been a here a long, long time And she's seen so many faces And places down the line She's been left for dead a million times Keeps coming home, arms open wide Ever-changing and undefined She's a river She's a river She's a river Where I Come From Where I come from It's a land of many islands Two rivers run to the east and to the west Wanted to run far away as I could as fast as I could get No matter where I've been Can't escape who I am or forget Where I come from Paint is peeling all the time Winter's long, gets into your boots The river runs high and wild High and wild in the springtime Stories come through our faded little town When the sun shines Veterans The veterans of all the past wars Sit outside on a Sunday afternoon The mills closed down long ago So we're way past unemployment A good bad joke somebody told on our town For their enjoyment The September sun Colors boldly flying Pretty reds, orange, gold, and brown Most beautiful as the light is dying Most beautiful as the day goes down Hourglass The hourglass never really runs out of sand You get to the end and you just turn it upside down again It's like a book where the story never ends The plot keeps turning around I was dancing with my eyes closed The music had me in a trance Six o'clock in the morning came around I was the last one at the dance Boy, it takes a stiff upper lip A turned-up collar and some very strong hips A strong will for when the money slips And they ain't calling you a lady now A sister told me some time ago There's no reward for lost sheep You better learn to look sharp Keep it in the lines Don't go swimming where the river's too deep But I knew all along that that just wasn't me I was swimming in the river with the ghosts and debris Shouldn't a person at least try to be free Instead of giving up and just pretending to be The morning leaves you in a strange place Dirty mirror and a stranger's face Nowhere to run, too late to back out of it Might as well stick around and take a crack out of it I heard it said many times that life is a dream But it ends up dreaming of a crazy machine That's been choking out the love Killing too many dreamers And I just want to tear that old machine down Ask me what what I would dream of in this place I dream of a forest where we could all meet face-to-face Where love could be love And dreams could be dreamers Dreamers dreaming of love and its many wonders Dreamers dreaming of love, one more time now Dreamers dreaming of love Had a Good Reason I guess you're never gonna come back for me, ma With a suitcase of pretty dresses and shoes One for you and one for me, ma And perfume for the ladies looking after me too There was a chair beside the door I wished you'd walk through Wearing your sad eyes and frown You'd stand beside me and we'd wind the Victrola And sing along together Make the sweetest sounds I used to think it might be who I am Maybe who I am wasn't right And I'd wonder if you missed me the same way Lonely day after lonely night But I know you must've had a good reason You had a good reason, alright I guess you're gonna never see me a-shining All the lines of people winding around the block The world is mine, and it's a microphone in my hand Singing with a band, ma, the toast of the town Sometimes I think I see you out there a-smiling Your pretty sad eyes singing along And all at once I'm a bird with no ceiling A voice and a feeling like I'll never come down I used to think it might be who I am Maybe who I am wasn't right And I'd wonder if you missed me the same way Lonely day after lonely night But I know you must've had a good reason You had a good reason, alright Bluebeard Maiden said "I'll marry you I'll be yours and I'll be true I'll consent to be your bride All my days, at your side That is how I live my life" Maiden no more Her mother and her sister warned The man, he was not natural born His eyes were black and his beard was blue But the maiden saw her own love true There was nothing they could do Maiden no more The man gave her a ring of keys Professed his love down on his knees Said "Everything I have is free But this one door and this one key" He said, "Don't you look in there Or I'll kill you cold and dead, I swear" Gave her such a weight to bear Then the man, he rode away Then the bride went wild night and day Only to find she wanted more She had the key, she found the door Chain and blood was on the floor A stain that was not there before Maiden no more Maiden no more Maiden no more Maiden no more The man came back to take her life To cut her with a cold gray knife To lay her there with all the rest Blood and bones and faded dress To cast her to the deep darkness But the man with his intentions stated Found he'd underestimated The forces of the sea and the sand The light and the life of the land All rose up with a hundred hands All rose up and killed that man All rose up with a hundred hands All rose up and killed that man Maiden no more Maiden no more Maiden no more Maiden no more What Now I came to the sea older than I was before Looking for a love that may not come again I came through the clouds On a pair of melting wings Much too late, tired and falling There was no moon at all in the sky tonight Sometimes the moon has no strength to shine her light She falls into the sea and lays her secrets there But only for a while, she's just stalling Now I called to the sea and I said, "Here I am" Hour after hour loud as I can I said, "Tell me, tell me, tell me old friend Where to, what next, what now Where to, what next, what now" Take me to the sea of things that are no more Wake me tenderly from all my dreams Sing me lullabies from the ocean floor Far away, far below, and falling Far away, far below, and falling Far away, far below, and falling Far away, far below, and falling Far away, far below, and falling Far away, far below, and falling Luminous Places Life flows out of these luminous places Love lies down in the deep of the sea Falls out of the sky in millions of pieces on me I've been over these highways For years in the dark Criss-crossing the land like a stitch on the wound Rolling through the night while millions were sleeping Under every phase of the moon Under every phase of the moon The wind blows down hard in the night The ghosts of the brave and the damned Howling their song, locked in their fight Over every inch of this land Over every inch of this land And they say what is lost will be what is won What is done will be done and undone again They say don't think for a second that you won't become One more voice on the wind One more voice on the wind All that I am is a dream that I had One morning so early and blue It flew over the river and the freezing bus stops On a song that I sang to you On a song that I sang to you Love flows out of these luminous places Love lies down in the deep of the sea It falls out of the sky in millions of pieces on me Coins Thought I was rid of you once For a couple coins on the table Forgetting when you left that day You were young and angry and able I'd hoped I'd seen the last of you No more would I fetch or cower But when I fed you for a tip that day You were young and hungry for power Then a chill came on a beam of sun Natural as a cancer You would never stop 'til all was won The young man with all the answers That shape of love on every face The ghost of loss inside you Everyone else was just as lost And it's sad because you never knew Now history is on your side Who am I to deny it? A fiefdom for your fragile pride And who would dare defy it Then a chill came on a beam of sun Natural as a cancer Bow down to the lord and son To the man with all the answers Boys from Tralee We came across the ocean for the price on the passage Came across the ocean for one English pound We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town Hunger did surround us, came on like a black sea Everything it came for, rotten on the ground Food was had for money, and as we had none All the world around us came a-tumbling down Four boys from Tralee going to a factory In a place a foreign man called Ontario Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea Without home or family, nowhere left to go One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him Before he took his last breath, they tossed him in to drown If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land Four boys from Tralee going to a factory In a place a foreign man called Ontario Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea One of them four boys was me, I wanted you to know The Wheel Here's a song about sitting in a dark room Losing track of your mind Here's a song about sitting in a dark room, yeah Knowing you're really lost this time Knowing you're really lost this time Here's a song about the rain Coming down in sheets and sheets Here's a song about the rain Coming down in sheets and sheets Water rising over the rooftop Water sinking into the ground Everything that I see around me Is drifting away or falling down Here's a song about a man About a man I never met Here's a song about a man, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah About a man I can't forget Choked to death by a policeman Said he could not catch his breath Choked to death by a policeman For selling single cigarettes Here's a song about a wheel Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Set in motion so long ago now No one can remember how Rolling, rolling over the ages Wheels of war keep rolling on Numbers and no names on the pages Who is weak and who is strong Who is weak and who is strong Who is weak and who is strong Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Here's a song about a wheel Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around Wheel keep a-going 'round and around What I Remember Here's what I remember It really was that tender The day that I gave my heart away The day that I surrendered Here's the thing that I recall Never had that much at all And I never knew until the fall Before I never cared at all Started to know what they mean Everything is just a dream A string of memories and steam And disappearing days Life is a foreign land Impossible to understand Once we had the precious bird in hand And let him slip away Here's the thing I recollect The place was a little derelict You added poison to the wine I told myself that it was fine You said this is just the way things are As long as anyone remembers when I started to agree And then I started to remember Just the Same Nothing could ever make me love you less Though I confess I've tried and I've wished I could We weren't the worst and we weren't the best And just beneath it all, maybe a little good A million words that lost their way Desperate to climb the silent walls To touch the heart of something true And say we're just the same after all Maybe we're just the same after all Crawling out of the wilderness It's just the wild hearts, all we got left We're just as lost as we were before With a desperateness that's hard to ignore I can't decide which scares me more The iron will or the lonely call The feeling that we've been here before And that we're just the same after all That we're just the same after all Nothing could ever make me love you less Though I confess I've tried and I've wished I could Made of stardust and loneliness And so many things I never understood I told myself we were not the same That I would rise and rise and never fall I told myself we were not the same But we were just the same after all Yeah, we were just the same after all
Tapes Get Lucky Maybe you'll get lucky One more time Maybe all the stars of the universe will Shine for you One more time One more day Maybe you'll get lucky along the way Or maybe you'll fall Right into the street And melt and be forgotten Underneath the feet of time Another rainy day Or maybe you'll get lucky along the way Some days you hear the music and the song Some days you feel abused And like maybe you were wrong about everything Wrong about everything We can talk about the things no one really knows Or go and sit out on the front steps and let it all go One more time One more day Maybe we'll get lucky along the way Maybe we'll get lucky along the way One Day We Could Well the fog rolled in on Atlantic City So you could see no moonlight at all But the chandeliers are so bright and so pretty And big as a house I hope they don't fall One day they could You never know One day they could You never know Ching ching ching go the slot machines As we made our way down to Wan Fu's Buffet Me and José got three hundred between us Whatever we make, he says, we'll put away One day we could You never know One day we could You never know Hang all your hopes on Atlantic City Outside the ocean roars in the dark We'll live or die on this in between place But tonight you can even see the boardwalk I love him so much it hurts me inside José with the far away look in his eyes And a trouble so deep you'll never get in I put my head on his shoulder and hold him so tight One day we could You never know One day we could You never know One day we could You never know Strip Of Light Early in the morning there's a long strip of light Stretching out across the bedroom floor There's some dust in the corner and an old pair of boots Lying next to the clothes that you wore Got an ache in my head, a cloud over my bed So dark and mean I think it's gonna pour Know I've wasted years where there was no love before So I won't waste your time anymore So don't talk to me like I don't even know my mind Or what it is that I am speaking of Well you may be right, I'm getting way past my prime But I still never want any of your love We can talk day and night about who is wrong or right But the problem is that baby you're a bore Know I've wasted years where there was no love before So I won't waste your time anymore Cause I've wasted years where there was no love before So I won't waste your time anymore Don't Mind (feat. Robert Plant) Your lips say Who's gonna kiss me Your eyes say Look my way I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do Your arms are Making an easy chair Waiting and waiting Just for me to get there I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind no no The world is so full of near misses And not nearly enough of our kisses All day long I've been beating the drum Stop over baby get next to me some I don't mind if you do I don't mind if you do I wanna be the one patrolling your border I wanna be the one taking your order I wanna be the one next to you in the corner I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do Baby I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I if I I don't mind if I if I I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do I don't mind if I do Sundown When the sun goes down It really goes down Never stops or hesitates Or ever turns around I guess I've stopped searching For you in the dark Oh my old friend This is what they call the end This is where the rainbow bends Across the sky When the sun goes down It makes the shadows tall And the fireflies get up and fly And the night birds call And that's almost everything I know About it all Oh my old friend This is what they call the end This is where the rainbow bends Across the sky Little Yellow House There's a little yellow house Where someone used to live Even after a fire almost Burned it down once A little yellow house With a cross on the door Where someone used to live who Don't live there no more Someone used to live who Don't live there no more There was no sign of a struggle Of a fight or of foul play Looks like they just got into their car Drove themselves away Left everything they had Just as it was Without so much as a word to Anyone of us Without so much as a word to Anyone of us Sometimes I dream that I'm the one who is driving away And I don't know where I'm going but it's a long ways away Going down some country road with the hay growing tall And the beautiful trees in all the colors of the fall All that I need is right with me here And I drive and I drive until I disappear And I drive and I drive until I disappear Then I remember all those promises I made All the ones depending on me And so here is where I stay Night Night, you come and cover me Cold coffee spills all over me It's only hours till the day You make it look so far away Night, you come and sing the songs Of birds that have no eyes Of birds that never fly Of birds that tell me lies And the night and I go hand to hand Breast to breast, woman to woman The night and I go quietly We go softly Or screaming all the way Night is watching from the tower Turns on the electric fence The night can make you disappear Without a trace of evidence Night is like judgement Where nobody speaks on your behalf And you hear yourself calling out loud And you hear the night laughing back And the night and I go hand to hand Breast to breast, woman to woman The night and I go quietly We go softly Or screaming all the way Night, you know how I forget It's only hours till the day It's so hard to remember that It's hard to see the night that way Kiss Of A Man The strangers came The strangers went To my daddy's bar The floor was cement And wet all the time It never got dry Nothing but the smell Of old beer and rye Mom and daddy and me We lived in the back The door wasn't But twenty-five feet from the tracks And trains would roll by All day and all night Rattle them bottles And shake all them lights And the strangers would come and the strangers would go Talking too fast or walking real slow Sometimes they'd say, hey, pretty girl what's your name? Why don't you come here and be pretty for us? Then my daddy would make like he'd reach for his gun And those boys would shake or hush up and run Now some of those boys I noticed them too Looking at me But there was nothing to do When daddy stood watch Big, mean and sober Like a wall so tall No one could get over Sometimes at night under the sheets I'd cover myself from my head to my feet And wait till my mama and daddy went to sleep And though I was awake, dream a dream so sweet Dream a dream so sweet though I was awake Dream a dream so sweet, all of me ached Close my eyes and pretend on the back of my hand What it would be like The kiss of a man Forever Shall Be Oh my heart's a dry and empty sea For wanting that which will not be Won't you bring your loving arms to me? To me Have the world take over for us now Take the time away and wind it down Go to sleep, dream of a golden day And let time carry us away Oh your eyes were like the deepest sea So clear and beautiful to me As it was and forever shall be Forever shall be
Non Albums Tracks
Angels Are Falling ("To Leslie" OST) Save my soul love ran through the night Lost in the woods and found Jesus Another morning, another regret Cursing the demons lying in bed Angels are falling down on me Angels keep falling down on me Chasing the pavement, hide in the cracks I been here so long, don't know how to get back And down this road, not gonna lie Can't even tell you how many times Angels are falling down on me Angels keep falling down on me Windows are dirty, I can't see a thing I don't know if this life goes anywhere You tryin' to be good, yeah you tryin' to be real Try to pretend that I know what I feel Angels are falling down on me Angels keep falling down on me Angels keep falling down on me Don't walk away, you can count on me
I Do Believe (originally by The Highwaymen) In my own way, I'm a believer In my own way, right or wrong I don't talk too much about it It's something I keep workin' on I don't have too much to build on My faith has never been that strong There is a man there in that buildin' He's a holy man, they say He keeps talkin' about tomorrow While I keep strugglin' with today He preaches hellfire and brimstone And heaven seems so far away I do believe in a higher power One that loves us, one and all Not someone to solve my problems Or to catch me when I fall He gave us all a mind to think with And to know what's right or wrong He is that inner spirit That keeps us strong In my own way, I'm a believer But not in voices I can't hear I believe in a lovin' father One I never have to fear That I should live life at its fullest Just as long as I am here
Regarding Mary Mary, Mary, Mary Mo ma ma mo Mary, Mary, Mary She comes swinging in With her tire iron She hits everything in sight When she gets flying And in the end no one survives No, sakes alive They all die She hates the morning She hates the light She hates the darkness of the night She hates herself most of all oh She can't walk She only crawls and What we gonna do about Mary When there is no getting out of your own way oh What we gonna do about Mary I wish that we could send her away Mary, Mary, Mary mo ma ma mo, Mary, Mary Mary... We go walking sometimes Where she can't follow When we return It's her drink we swallow And everytime we feel so hollow We wonder will we see tomorrow And it isn't easy And it isn't plain We try to lose her, but she remains and so Maybe we will all go insane oh Just like Mary yeah Just like Mary well Just like Mary yeah Just like Mary oh Mary, Mary, Mary, mo ma ma mo,Mary, Mary, Mary... And this life we had and This little slice Were words she just sacrificed And if this keeps up This cold cold rain oh We will surely lose our way What we gonna do about Mary When there is no getting out of your own way oh What we gonna do about Mary I wish that we could send her away Mary, Mary, Mary mo ma ma mo, Mary, Mary Mary... Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary Mary, Mary, Mary, mo ma ma mo, Mary, Mary, Mary...
Ruby's Arms (Tom Waits cover / Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits LP) I will leave behind all of my clothes I wore when I was with you All I need's my railroad boots And my leather jacket As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms Although my heart is breaking I will steal away out through your blinds Soon you will be waking Morning light has washed your face And everything is turning blue now Hold on to your pillow case There's nothing I can do now As I say goodbye to Ruby's arms You'll find another soldier And I swear to God by Christmas time There'll be someone else to hold you The only thing I'm taking is The scarf off of your clothesline I'm walking past your chest of drawers And your broken window chimes As I say goodbye I'll say goodbye Say goodbye to Ruby's arms I'll feel my way down the darken hall Out into the morning The hobos at the freightyards Have their fires burning And Jesus Christ, this goddamn rain Will someone put me on a train I'll never kiss your lips again Or break your heart As I say goodbye I'll say goodbye Say goodbye to Ruby's arms
Sandinista
( With Charanga Cakewalk / The Pilgrim - A celebration of Kris Kristofferson )
Sandinista, you can hold your head up high You have given back their Freedom You have lived up to your name Sandinista, may your spirit never die Hold the candle to the darkness You're the keeper of the flame Sandinista, keep believing in the dream The truth is stronger than the shadows Keep it shining in your eyes Sandinista, may the soldiers disappear May your children live forever May their laughter fill your lives Sandinista, los fuerzas de la oscuridad Nunca pueden extinguir La puridad de tu llama revolutionara Con su terror y sus mentiras Con su dinero y sys maquinas La libertad en tus ojus El amor caliente en tu corozon Son fuerzas mas poderosas Que las armas de la guerra Sandinista, you can hold your head up high You have given back their Freedom You have lived up to your name Sandinista, may your spirit never die Hold the candle to the darkness You're the keeper of the flame
Shells The hole in her chest is for the lost little lamb That was on his quest, nobody gives a damn In silvery days of silence they go Now they've lost their ways, the little lambs in the snow These are not shells of the sea These are the shells of the sky They took my baby away from me No one has ever told me why They chewed him and spit him He never knew what hit him No little kisses goodbye Shells, shells, shells I won't stand to ask for God's mercy I can't stand anything anymore They were only making angels In the snow in the middle of a war The blood of these lambs speaks of the darkness And the blood of these lambs speaks of the rage Yes the blood of these lambs is rolling to the sea It's writing your history on every single page Shells, shells, shells Tear at the table missing a child Must have gone past, the river is mild I go to the sea, I follow the tide I hold seashells to me and I hear the sky These are not shells of the sea These are the shells of the sky They took my baby away from me No one has ever told me why They chewed him and spit him He never knew what hit him No little kisses goodbye Shells, shells, shells
The Best Is Yet To Come
( Best Is Yet to Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman / Ambrosia Parsley Solo ) Out of the tree of life, I just picked me a plum You came along and everything started to hum Still it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come Yes it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come The best is yet to come, and baby won't it be fine You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine Wait till the warm-up's underway Wait till our lips have met Wait till you see that sunshine day You ain't seen nothing yet The best is yet to come, and baby won't it be fine The best is yet to come, come the day you're mine The best is yet to come Come the day you're mine Oh come the day your mine I'm gonna teach you to fly We've only tasted the wine We're gonna drain that cup dry Wait till your charms are right, for the arms to surround You think you've flown before, but you ain't left the ground Wait till you're locked in my embrace Wait till I hold you near Wait till you see that sunshine place There ain't nothing like it here The best is yet to come, and baby won't it be fine The best is yet to come, come the day you're mine The best is yet to come, come the day you're mine The best is yet to come, come the day you're mine